The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928 Packing House HAna,OTS If you happen to be a worker and a picket you know that you can’t look at a cop with an e sion that might faction or you are liable to posited in a calaboose charged with violation of any ordinance the num- ber of which the con happens to re- member, from inciting to riot. to eommitting a nu e. However, if you happen to have political pull you can causua bump off your enemies and get nothing worse than eulogies press, In Chicago, where the papers hold up their editions for the daily killing, Benny Zion has just be shot to death. Benny was killed be- cause he was wanted as a witness in the killing di Bernado. Di Bernardo was killed because he was wanted as a witness in the killing of Octavius Granady and so on. In Chicago if you have only dimly seen @ shooting through the corner of your eye you had best go home im- mediately and st putting your affairs in order. Devout Double-crosser In defense of the clerical axsassitt- ation of Obregon by a devout Cath- olie church-goer a bishop recently said the church wasn’t responsible because every member of the Cath- elle Church didn’t also send a bullet into Obregon’s heart. Of course a nun gaye Toral the idea of the kill- ing; a bishop promised to make him a gaint; and a priest said God would take care of him mighty handsome after he died. From this it might be eathered that Tora! was at least in- fluenced by the church. Such poppy- cock! When a priest bludgeons an tgnorant church-goe« into turning over his all he does tt In the name af the church, althouch the money ‘x spent on an Individual belly. Above ts Mora y del Rio, Archbishon of Mexico, who has now chented Tornl out of his promixed bliss after denth by xavine he will have to pay = visit to purentory. ce Shameful tactics on the part of God Almighty have just been noted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. George W. Blakely, a sexton, was) ringing the bell to call the workers to his church, where he intended to tell them, as usual, that if they put enough in the collection plate God would cooperate with them in the matter of more wages and shorter hours, when ‘suddenly the bell fell down and killed the sexton. *s The eqality of opportunity for which America is supposed to be famous actually exists only among those citizens who occupy the ceme- teries. And even to attain this equality members of the working and capitalist classes make use of divergent methods. For instance last week Barney Depoka, who had been hunting for a job for 20 days stood in front of a Child’s restaur- ant watching the girl jacks. He fell down, at last, starved to death. On the other hand any doctor will tell you that the princi- pal cause of death among the rich is over-eating. Train Worker killed in Canton Collision * M. C. H. CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 29 (UP).— “ One trainman was killed and another injured today when a passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, bound for Chicago, crashed into a large casting which was projecting from a freight train on a parallel track. R: D. Shreeve, 35, of Pittsburgh, fireman on the passenger engine engine, was fatally injured. He died a few minutes later. Charles Greese, 36, engineer, also of Pittsburgh, was injured. He brought the passenger train to a stop after the engine had struck the casting. PREPARATION FLIGHT LAKEHURST, N. J. Aug. 29 {UP).—The U. S. naval dirigible Los Angeles left the naval air sta- tion today for a short training flight over New Jersey. There were 48 officers and men aboard, in com- mand of Lieutenant-Commander H. V. Wiley. SEEK LOST PLANE PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug. 99 (UP).—Coast guard patrol boats entered Discovery Bay today to search for the missing Vancouver- Seattle airplane which is thought to have sunk Saturday with either six or seven persons aboard. STRONG EARTHQUAKE FELT SAN SALVADOR, Aug. 29 (UP). —A strong earthquake of prolonged ition was felt early today. was reported. turn flap} EB In- | were greatly alarmed, but | > STAGE PROTEST ON SYNDICALIST LAW OFFENSIVE Police Seize Many at) Sacco-Vanzetti Meet | (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY (By Mail).—The first attack of the packing house! bosses led by Armour Company against the packing house workers | has been successfully beaten back. The Workers (Communist) Party nucleus in the Armour plant the following day issued a statement to the workers all the packing houses explaining to them the mean-| ing of the attack upon the Com- munist Party and the arrest of Communist speakers who were ad dressing a meeting of the Armour workers. The statement of the nucleus was enthusiastically greeted, At the Cudahy plant the bosses called up the police station, asking to arrest the distributors of the leaflets. However, when the two policemen came they failed to ar- rest and stop the distribution due to the fact that the workers in spite of the rain surrounded the distribut- or asking for the leaflets More Persecution. + When Hugo Oehler got out from prison, on August 22, he was invited to speak at a Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ing by the International Labor De- fense. Tha meeting was held in Shawnee Park at A:mourdale. The police surrounded the meeting and after Oehler was through the police arrested him and thirteen more per- sons. Among the arrested were the secretary of the I. L. D., E. B. East- wood, Dr. Nelson, S. Youkum, Sam Kassin, Matthew Cushing and a half dozen of packing house workers. The police also arrested two mothers with their children and only after a vehement protest on the ground that thg children were sick did the police release the mothers. The ar- rested were brought to the city jail/ and placed under $500 bail on the charge of vagrancy. One of the mothers who was originally arrested made the following statement: “T have listened to the speeches telling the wrong done to Sacco and Vanzetti. I did not believe all of it could be true. The raid of the police at the meeting convinced me that everything is possible, I never believed that in democratic America the police would hold up a public meeting and rather kidnap than ar- rest so many people.” The police surrounded the meeting | for a two-fold purpose: | Police Are Armour Spies. First it was in line with the pol- icy of the Armour Company to in- timidate and terrorize the workers and thus keep them from organiza- | tion. Second, the Armour and other companies are anxious to spot the| members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party nucleus of the packing houses. Particularly were the police anxious to discover Armour work- ers. However, they failed miserably. The workers are as defiant as ever. The terror of the company failed to intimidate the workers. When the Armour Company dis- covered that its campaign fell flat it began to further conspire against | the workers. Thursday the assistant | county attorney issued warrants for | Hugo Oehler, Dr. Nelson S. Yokum, B. Eastwood and Sam Kassin under the Kansas State Syndicalist |Law. They were released on $500 bond each. The International Labor Defense is calling a conference of all labor, | fraternal and liberal organizations |for Friday, August 31, at the Musi- |cians Hall, 1017 Washington St. —M. C. of MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. |29 (UP)—Experts predicted today that the wheat yield will be 150,- | 000,000 bushels. Prospects were ex- cellent in all states. LONDON, Aug. 29 (UP),—Pilot Sidney Stevens was killed in the crash of a royal air force training plane at Abu Sueir, Egypt, the gov- ernment announced today. Workers Fight Back FUNDS TO SUPPORT RED DRIVE URGENT No urgent appeals for ten-dollar and fifty-dollar contributions come from the headquarters of the demo- cratic and republican parties. The | plutes don’t bother with “chicken feed.” The contributions come in big wads. A $50,000 donation from a DuPont for Al Smith’s campaign or a $20,00 donation from a Lamont for the Hoover treasure chest worth a front-page story, but even those big sums are lost in the $20,- 000,000 kitty that the two parttes of plunder and pillage are collect- ing for the greatest vote-buying campaign in the history of the United States. The Workers (Communist) Party is collecting a $100,060 fund to carry the message of the class struggle to the exploited mass It is a lot of money in the eyes of the working class. But it is not so much after all. A Tammany grafter could make as much on one juicy sewer contract. And a republican burglar could make ten times as much from the proceeds of an oil deal. Rousing Campaign. But to the Workers (Communist) is Party it means a rousing campaign | that will cover the industrial and agricultural areas of the United States with propaganda, by word of mouth and literature. There are hundreds of Communist sympathizers who can afford to con- tribute ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollxs, perhaps one hundred dollars, and there may be a few that cfn write chacks for one thousand each and not starve. If there be such, let them come across now and take their dividends in the satisfac- tion of helping to bring nearer the day when this world will no longer be an exploiting hell, the paradise of the parasite-owning class and an inferno for the ex- ploited producing classes. Aid Drive. The National Election Campaign Committee bases its appeal for funds on the comparatively small contributions of the many. If the thousands of members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and the scores of thousands of sympathizers would contribute directly or indi- rectly $5 each, we would not bother our readers with any more election fund appeals, but our campaign ac- tivity would show the result of the financial stimulus. Thero is in front of the writer as he click the typewriter keys a pile of contributions at least one foot high. They all came in the Jast two days. cent, if we are to make the kind of a campaign we want to make. Lack of money is always a shackle on the limbs of a revolutionary party, and ithe Workers (Communist) Party is| ting against them by barring them no exception. Substantial Proof. Money can be collected for the Communist Campaign Fund without much trouble. Here is some proof: Comrade Kobel. of the Estonian Workers’ Club walked into the head- uuarters of the National Election Campaign Committee, at 43 East 125th St.. a few days ago and walked away with a subscription list and ten books of Vote Communist stamps. Today he walked in with $19.50— $9.50 on the list and the balance the proceds of the sale of the ten books. When he left he carried with him five subscription lists and 25 books of Vote Communist stamps. The South Slavic fraction in Younestown, Ohio. sends in $10 for ‘the Comneunist Election Campaign This shows that the financial | ° - igi |tide is rising. But its tempo must | iM& @ Waiver to their rights under ‘be increased several hundred per | the state workmen’s compensation with a note saying that this is only a beginning. Jack Kizer from the National Home for Disabled Soldiers in| Leavenworth, Kansas, manages to | collect a dollar now and then for | leaflets, posters and stamps. | And a worker who has been un- | employed for six months sends $2, saying: “This is my contribution to the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund. Although unemployed for six months, I send this as the ‘duty’ of a class-conscious worker in the food industry.” A Hungarian worker, who remem- bers the role played by the Work- ers (Communist) Party in the tex tile strike of Passa‘c, sends $5 for| the Election Fund. “Please find enclosed $2. I would send more but I am an old man now. I spent my best years in the I. L. P.” (Independent Labor Party of Great Britain), writes a veteran from Cleveland, Ohio. Auto Worker. And a speed-up worker from the | Studebaker plant in South Bend, In- |diana, donates $2 to the campaign and sends $3, for campaign plat- | forms. “Maybe I can sell some of | them,” he says, “and send a little more money later. I have been col- lecting and donating some to the Miners Relief, and it hard in the Studebaker shop for one man to al- ways keep on with some agitation and not get canned.” Contribute Now! | Only a few of the hundreds of letters received each week can be published because of lack of space. ‘Young and old, native and foreign- | born workers are realizing the im- | portance of the Communist cam- | paign, and they are contributing to! | make it as effective as possible by helping to supply the financial sinews of war. | | Contribute now to the $100,000) Communist Campaign Fund. Make }all checks and money orders pay- able to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treasurer, National Election Cam- paign Committee, 43 East 125th St., New York Ci City-wide Strike of Taxi Drivers Looms; Union Meets Tonight | Continued from Page One consider the system of compelling them to speed up their cars in order to get more passengers an@ of sign- |act in case of injury or death, A vigorous battle will also be} ;Mmade against the Hack Bureau, | | which, they charge, is discrimina- | |from “cruising” on Fifth Ave. and | the theatrical district. | | “No group of workers in Greater | |New York face greater hardships | lin making a living than the 50,000, taxicab chauffeurs who operate the | 20,000 cabs in twenty-four hour ser- | | | (By a Worker Correspondent) Armour Compa STEEL STRIKERS ‘Six Face Deportation Hag Charges CANTON, Ohio (By Mail).— Though but a little more than a week old the strike of 400 chippers |and 100 grinders of the Central Al- loy Steel Company of Canton is ex- periencing some of the that 1s usually meted out to work- ers who dare to strike against the miserable wages and terrible con- ditions which the employers try to force upon them. Fifteen of the strikers. already face charges ranging from suspi cion to deportation. Thus the mill owners are trying to intimidate the strikers and expect to bring them back to work. However, when the bosses had brought about twelve arrests and the men were charged and released on bonds the highest of which was set at $500, they began to think that something: else must be done. As one of them said, “these damn strikers get out of jail just as fast as we put them in.” So they decided to order higher bond. When three men were brought to the police sta- tion Friday morning on “suspicion” because a scab said he was afraid they might beat him up, the judge ordered them charged and set bail at $150 each, But no sooner had they been taken down stairs to the lock-up when one of the company cops appeared in court, had a con- versation with the judge and imme- diately the bond was raised to $1500. This, the bosses thought, would keep them in jail and discourage the others. But the mill owners for- got to take into consideration the fact that there is an I. L. D. and that the I. L. D. functions in smaller cities like Canton just as well as in the larger cities. The I. L. D. got on the job and in a few hours the men were again at liberty and went straight from jail to their strike meeting elated over the fact that an organization of workers which they had never heard of before arranged to sign their bonds, thus allowing them to get back on the picket lines. —F. C. 100,000 Workers in Haiti Face Starvation PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 29.—Following wide devastation due to a recent hurricane in Haiti, over 100,000 workers and peasants are faced with starvation. All ani- mals and crops were killed by the terrific storms sweeping the coun- try. The resources of the Haitian government, drained by United States imperialist interests and the Borno administration, are insuffi- cient to help the people. AIDS SUGAR BARONS. HAVANA, Aug. 28 (UP).—Presi- dent Machado today signed a decree permitting Cuban sugar centrals to sell the remainder of their 1927-28 crop to any country of the world, in- stead of to the United States alone, the only restriction being that the sugar for countries other than the United States be sold through the Sugar Export Corporation, a govern- ment organization. RENEE Sean TEMPTING “PROVIDENCE.” LONDON, Aug. 29 (UP).—The Prince of Wales attempted a new form of thrill today. With his brother, Prince Henry, he paid a surprise visit to the Rugby wireless vice here,” declared Charles Kroll, | | secretary of the union, yesterday. SEARCH FOR FLIERS. CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 29. (UP). —Wesley L. Smith, superintendent of the National Air Transport Co., left here in a Douglas mail plane early today for Ithaca, N. Y., to take part in the search for Edward P. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo airport, and M. M. Merrill of Mine- ola. S=as NATIONAL PLATFORM of the WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY THE PLATFORM of the CLASS STRUGGLE 64 Pages of Smashing Facts—Price 10 cents NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Workers (Communist) Party of America 43 East 125th Street, New York City Make checks and money orders payable to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treas. el station and climbed the towering mast. It is 850 feet high and re- puted to be the tallest in the world. FRENCH VILLAGE BURNS. MOUTIERS, France, Aug. 29 (U P).—Fire destroyed 26 houses and 21 barns with their contents in the village of St. Martin de Belleville last night. Sixteen families were made homeless. The loss was 1,000,- 000 frances, brutality | Be a Worker Correspondent! | ABR DEFENSE ‘Goin Home’ Splendidly Acted: HELPS CANTON and Well Presented at Hudson ANSOM RIDEOUT’S “G Home,” a play about relationship | ‘tween the Negro and white races,| is now at the Hud- son Theatre. It has a fine first act, in which the problem is posed. Israel Du__ Bois,| acted by Richard Hale, is a New Orleans Negro, servant to the, white land-owning | Powell family, who has been stranded in France in 1914, R be ie a has joined the Barbara French Senegalese) Bulgatov battalion, and) among those wild| fighters, as yet filled with a spirit | of savage independence, not realiz-| ing that they are pawns of French imperialism, has recovered to some extent from his feeling of humble{ subservience. Wonnded and retired from the army, Israel has married a French girl, Lise (part taken by the talent- ed Barbara Bulgakov) and runs a cafe in a seaport town, from which, just-at the end of the war, Ameri- can troops are disembarking for the voyage home. The general atmosphere is not bad at first. The drunken military police, cursing France and all future war, open the first scene. The wild- ly hilarious American Negro steve-| dores, dressed in uniform so that) they can he forced to work for army} wages in France instead of drawing} real pay, are caricatured and bur- lesqued, however. Still, there is a general feeling made apparent that war is done forever. and a general agreement that if there is another war, the thine will have to run with- out them. They sing “Over There”; meaning over there in America. They sing “Mademoiselle from Ar- mentiers,” only some verses of conrse, but it is a song which casts reflections on the personal purity and courage of the general officers of the A. E. F. They gamble, drink, and dance. Israel wants to @> home, but has) been afraid to tell his white French wife the real reason why he cannot. This woman, represented as en- tirely. venal, strikes up a flirtation with Maior Powell (acted by Rus- sell Hicks), commanding a battalion of Negro troops, who comes to the cafe to get drunk before embarking for America. When he finds she is married to a Negro, he shows her with a gory description of a lvnch- ing just what Southerners would do to any “black basterd” that dared to marry a white woman, and what they would do to her. His first re-| action is that she has been tricked| into a marriage with a “Nigger” and that he must save her. She is will- ing because she is furious at Du Rois for not telling her of the serv- ant status of Negroes in America. When the mator. coming out of Lise’s room to which she has rather crudely enticed him. really finds who has married Lise, he becomes |inst as determined to rescue Lise from his abominable miscegenation | taking the attitude that this vile and filthy French woman has trapped him, and is ruinine him. He is no \longer a “Good Nigger” but he is an old servant of the American mas- ter class, and the major will stand by him. Israel makes a gesture of man- hood, when he demands an account- ing of the maior of his relations to “my wife.” The major, still drunk, ‘is about to pulverize him, when Simba Sar (Clarence Redd), an old| ‘comrade in arms of Israel’s, cuts | to defend him. Simba Sar is the complete foil to the American Negro) slave. a fine upstanding barbarian, | rrond and courageous. After a fast! fight, he is about to cut the major’s | |throat for him, when Israel goes, slave again, and shoots, not the ma- jor. but Simba Sar. The contrast between the crawl- ing slave psychology of Israel and his fellows and the barbarie manli-| ness of the African is well brought) ‘ut, but with an emphasis of sym-| pathy and approval for Israel. | The last act shows the major “provine” over and over again (in wavs that would never happen in real life) that he has a right to be master; that he knows what is best) ifor the “Nigger” and convincing) PATRON coupon stating where you ings, etc. Address .. 83 FIRST STREET TO ALL OUR READERS: SSR NIRS SRNR ADVERTIZERS Do not forget at all times to mention that you are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this Name of business place .........cesccsscccssccccccccccccses AABTOER: 2. Sicha s deve cheeus bee bebenesessceNiTienseedstvne VOUr DAME soos i eiee sees Mail to DAILY WORKER IZE OUR buy your clothes, furnish- NEW YQRK CITY ny Terror, | ment of the PIONEERS AID STRIKING COAL MINERS RELIEF Worker Children Show Class Solidarity LUMBERVILLE, Pa. (By Mail). —When the news of the severe crisis that the miners are in at the present time reached the children in |the Young Pioneer Camp of Phila- delphia, everyone immediately be- gan to think as to what would be the best way of raising money to |help the miners and to show solidar- : |ity with them. Every suggestion | was treated with open arms, but it In “The Money Lender,” a new) was not until one worker’s child play by Roy Horniman which opened | got up and said, “Comrades, why Monday night at the Ambassador | shouldn’t we contribute at least Theatre. two deserts, that is all the campers ; {should miss the deserts from the even Jim. an American Negro sol-|two meals and the money that dier who has mustered up the spirit | would have gone to pay for them to desert, that the best thing to do} should be sent to the miners?” ieee Mee omega and P€ 8) As soon as this brief declaration place.” 5 ~ | was finished gigantic applause from The play closes on the note'struck| the assembled hundred campers by Israel, at about the time his|@@thered in the dining room made nerve leaves him: “Life is a deep| Clear their assent to the suggestion. river, nobody knows where it comes| Besides the money contributed from from or where it goes, and don’t you| the desert, the campers also. gave dare to swim against the current.” | money from their private spending The play is almost perfect master accounts. Totalling up to twenty- class ‘propaganda, ingenious enough| ‘ive dollars in all, the solidarity of to recognize the elements of justice| the workers’ children with the min- on the side of the oppressed Ne- | ers was announced. Some money was groes, and overcoming this evident| also contributed by adults from HERBERT CLARK | argument of the suppressed races by | Camp Huliet. a final exaltation of the master class| This action is not significant as virtues of the Powells and their| aid in the strike, especially in this kind. It is not a pro-war play, it crisis, but as an announcement of might be called almost a pacifist) the fact that the workers’ children preachment. It follows closely the are in the class struggle, and in it line of thought of the average Southerner, who was, on returning to America, quite outspoken in his regret that he had to fight the Ger-| Chicago Musicians mans instead of the “rotten French Niggah lovers.” Get Wage Increase Tt is so well presented, and so well acted that one hesitates to quibble) CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—Chicago over minor inaccuracies, such as the! union musicians today won a boost Negroes in the cafe singing a “Car-| in pay from $77 a week to $90. The ty Me Back” song (“Back to Ole’ Vir-| Theater . Managers’ Association sinia” in this case I think, anyway signed a two-year contract with the one of those pseudo-Negro jingles | inion. such as no Negro ever indulges in).|"fytra musicians and players in Some of the finer propaganda points) burlesque houses also won salary are of course, the tacit assumption | | creases that a French woman who would marry a Negro with the Crois de Guerre must be an ignoramus and a prostitute, the sympathetic treat- French commandant who helps the major take Israel back to America, though of course he “don’t understand Niggers,” and the story of the friendship of the major for his boyhood companion, even though a “Nigger.”—V. S. 1 KILLED, 6 HURT IN CRASH. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 29 (UP)—One person was killed and six other passengers in a sightsee- ing motor bus were injure@ near here late yesterday when the bus/that had injured his heart. rolled down an embankment after| Breece was at work when the collision with an other automobile. piece of steel entered his side, wu - ———— CHANIN'S46th St. W. of Broadway THE LADDER to stay. TOMBS ONE OF WORST JAILS. CLEVELAND, Aug. 29.—A_ spe- cal congressional committee today /named the Federal Cuyahoga Coun- |ty jail here, the Tombs prison in | New York. the Moyanensing prison, | Philadelphia, and the Omaha jail | the four worst in the United States. STEEL PIECES. BERWICK, Pa., Aug. 29.—Wil- liam Breece, 60, a punch press operator, was still alive after sur- | geons had removed a piece of steel Evenings at 8:25 Mats. yee. & Sat. *: SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. OLS. and HIS MUSIC HUDSON West 44 st. yes. at Kats- CAMEO 424 Now 8:30 B Mats, Sat. and Mon. at 2:30 | Albee — “Goin’ Home” “DAWN” With SYBIL THORNDIKE and on the same program “MEMORIES OF CONFLICT” HAVE You SEEN IN ITS REVISED FORM? Thea., W. 48 St. Evs, 8:30 Mts. Wed. & Sat. | Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. CORT Money “Vivid and unfailingly exciting.” —Alison Smith, World. | SEPTEMBER Communist IS OFF THE PRESS! CONTENTS: Hoover and Smith Accept the Nomination......BEN GITLOW Politics and the Fly-Hunt.........+...sseee006.M. J. OLGIN The Presidential Elections of 1928..........ARNE SWABECK «JANET CORK A Reply to Eastman’s “Marz, Lenin and the Revolution” | A. CHIK Notes on American Literature............JOSEPH FREEMAN Self-Study Corner (Tactical Questions in the Struggle Against War) Book Reviews | Obregon Assassinated.......ses005 WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY Correspondent Says