The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1928, Page 4

Page Four HAN«OxnTS anda of the ugh the letter power How the lying pr power trust was State of Nebra: the following lines { M. f Horace trust pr federal “Pre ‘women’s Dax federation of today and ant of state clubs was in gave me a wide-c orsement of utility public speak r clubs comprising some than 20,000 women in Nebraska. “But what the hell am I going to do about it? Wish I had women speakers scattered geograph- ically over the state.” 20 clever His difficulty passed and he flooded the state with propaganda. Which shows that the bourgeois woman can do a man’s job any day in the gentle art of corruption. In Print Again * * Above Al strating his fitness to be President Smith is shown demon- of the United States by riding in a tally-ho at Sea Girt, New Jersey, Z even though he has already proved his superiority to Herbert Hoover by auctioning off a bale of cotton. Al has told the working class, on his honor, that if he is elected Miners Se —> SOLE EVIDENCE CAME OF BOYS WHO SAW FIGHT Men Given Workhouse for Defending Selves (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— | A few months ago in West Browns- Mike Mattey and his father, acting as pickets, the younger |Mattey and his father tried to stop George Harbody from entering the mine of the Lilley Coal and Coke Company as a scab, When they ap- proached the scab and’ appealed to him not to take the bread out of the mouths of the miners and their |families he struck at one of them | with his dinner bucket and tried to jattack the other by assaulting him with his fists. In this encounter the scab got the beating of his life. He then went before squire H. L. Swartz at Centerville, Pa., and had warrents sworn out for five miners, three of whom happened to be pass- ing by at the time and who had nothing to do with the fuss at all. The squire heard only the evidence of the scab and upon his lone evi- dence held the five miners for the grand jury in Washington, Pa. When the case came before the grand jury the only evidence the grand jury had was the evidence of two boys who happened to see the scab get beaten up and did not know anything as to the reason why he eaten as they did not know or hear Mattey and his father make the plea to the scab not to be break- ing the strike and helping the coal companies to smash the miners’ union, Judge Erwin Cummins of Wash- ington, Pa., when he was passing sentence on the five miners told them that “the Save-the-Union movement is part of the Commun- ist scheme to steal union organiza- tions and make them Communist,” the judge declared. “It is closely al- Iv | w THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YO RK, MONDAY, SEPTEMDER 3, 1928 ‘— coe 1VES; Overhaul Engines of Byrd Plane | Dean G. Smith, one of the pilots accompanying Commander Richard Byrd in his antarctic flight, is pictured with his plane, the Floyd Bennett. The plane is tri-motor, all metal and was manufac- tured by Fords who are backing the expedition. | AUSTRALIAN UNIONS | FACING BIG TASKS By J. RYAN Several matters of importance to the working class of Australia have occurred recently. The most im- portant are: (1) the passing of the anti-trade union act by the federal! government; (2) the marine coo} strike; (3) prosecutions against prominent. trade union ieaders: (4) cleavage between Australasian Council of Trade Unions and bu- reaucracy of the Australian Worl ers’ Union; (5) campaign of capi- talist press in alliance with A. W. U. bureaucracy against the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Secretariat, and (6) the All-Australian Trade Union Congress. After Scab Assaulted Them, Correspondent Say shops of Reading as to what they have gained from the “socialist” ad- ministration, he looked at us and replied: Gained? like hell, we have! They (the “socialists”) never promised us anything and don't give READING WORKER TELLS “JOYS” OF Hopkins “Heavy Traffic” at the Empire Thursday us anything. What do we make in the P. and R. shops, working like) “Heavy Traffic,” a new play by hell? he continued, Working at| Arthur Richman, will be presented | fifty cents per hour. And when|by Charles Frohman at the Empire | work slows down, we work three to! Theatre on Wednesday. Mary Bo- four days a week, but they keep land plays the featured role. Other running steady the gang of loyal| players include, A, E. Matthews ; f slaves. Where are the “socialists”? | and Reginald Mason. Wages No Higher Why don’t they organize us? Why | ¥ " dont they see that the work is div-| At the Hammerstein Theatre,| (By a Worker Correspondent) ided equally among the workers? | “Good Boy,” a musical comedy with | READING, Pa,, (By Mail).—The| Why dont they stop the prosecu-| book by Otto Harbach, Oscar Ham- workers of Reading needn’t worry|tion against those who mention merstein 2nd and Henry Myers and any more. Their low wages, long | unionism in the shops? |musie and lyrics by Herbert Stoth- hours, insults from the bosses and) They claim as a government they |#rt, Bert Raimer and Harry Ruby, foreman and others, means nothing | have to protect the property and in- | Will open on Wednesday night. The in comparison with the fact they |terests of the employers as wall and, |Cast is headed by Eddie Buzzell, have elected a “socialist adminis-|therefore, cannot interfere in the Borroh Minevitch, Helen Kane, Dan tration”, The workers of Reading business of the boss, we tried to ex- | Healy, Barbara Newberry, and Sam should sre happy: Mr. See: is a) plain to the already excited worker. | Hearn. mayor; Mr. Maurer is a councilman.) « " “ The yellow Forward should oan coc ae tects ue “Machinal,” a drama by Sophie ately proclaim to the world the vie- | Gevil can they protect me then? Treadwell, opens Thursday evening tory of “socialism” in the U.S. hey can’t protect both of us, can ,at the Plymouth Theatre, produced Chase Me—I'm a “Socialist” they? Is that why we voted the| by Arthur Hopkins. Principals in Why all that stuff about Revo-| “socialist” ticket, to protect the|the cast are: Zita Johann, Jean lution, class struggle, strikes, civil) boss? Do they protect the boss in| Adair, Clark Cable, George Stillwell “SOCIALIST” RULE Union No Stronger; war? Who wants all that? Who) the Soviet Union? What we need to|/#nd Charles Kennedy. needs it? (Certainly not Hilquit.)|do.” he shouted, “is to kick the hell| ; Who in the world discovered all| out of the bosses as they have done| George Kaiser's newest play “The these words? |into the U. S. S. R., and not promise | Phantom Lover,” _(“Oktobertag”) It’s all these damn Bolsheviks} him protection. These guys here in| will open Tuesday at the 49th Street that want all that. Respectable; Reading are too darned polite in| Theatre. The cast includes: Edith “socialists” don’t need all that.|dealing with the bosses”. The|Barrett, Louise Mackintosh, Rom- “Socialism” can be achieved in Am-) worker was all excited. We gave |ney Brent, George MacQuarrie, Da- erica through peaceful means. |him a copy of the Daily Worker, | vid Newell and Cameron Clemens. How? ‘Very simple; by the ballot. and promised to come to see him the | The only thing the worker need do| next day. is vote the “socialist” ticket, and | ministration do to improve the con- CLARKE SILVERNAIL Is back in the cast of “The Silent House,” playing his old role of wily Ho-Fang, in the melodrama at the Shubert Theatre. CHOPIN OPERETTA BASED ON LIFE OF COMPOSER Sigurd Johannsen’s play, “Cho- pin,” which will be known here as “White Lilacs,’ was adapted from the German by Harry B. Smith. It ..+-“socialism” will be here. A fact? Why look at Reading, the “socialists” tell us. For a considerable time the bu- reaucracy of the Australian Work- vorced from the rank and file of the union, has been fighting the Au- stralasian Council of Trade Unions. The A. C. T. U. made rtures for out all that nonsense of class-strug: gle, ete. list” administration in peace and unity, but its efforts were jst”? And Mr Maurer, the council- scornfully rejected: on the excuse| man? ll this is very fine. But are| that the A, C. T, U. is affiliated| the workers of Reading. satisfied | with t Fan-Pacific Trade Union with their conditions? Do the work- Secretariat and is therefore dom- inated by foreigners. The real rea- son is that the constitution of the ; , the present so-called “socialist” | A. C. T. U. will not permit the A./one? Have the number of trade] W. U. officials to control the or-/ unions increased since the “social- ganization. An intense and ists” took office? scurrilous cam- ditions been bettered? Look at/of a woman, a workers wife who) « crs’ Union, which has become di-' what we have achieved there, with-| tells her story in the Reading Union- Don’t we have a “social- | Reading? Who is the mayor, if not a “social- ers feel any difference between the, old democratic administration and Have their con- What about Another example of how the ditions of these poor workers. Noth- workers feel and live under thé|ing, Absolutely nothing. They feed ,, “socialist administration” is a letter|the workers with the illusions of adheres to facts in all the more im- portant phases of the story. Jo- hannsen drew his information chief- ly from George Sand’s novel, “Incre- tia Floriani,” which she based on her experiences with the composer, “George Sand, so Vie et ses Oeu- vres,” by Wladimir Karenine, and The | “Frederic Chopin as Man and Musi- Elect us and we will give you \t everything”. - | ist, of July 15. sai | But you cannot fool the workers A Machinist's Wife. — all the time. The workers of Read- She writes: Would you like to/ing demand deeds and not words. | know how it feels to be a poor man’s |They demand organization. et Nee other people would) workers of Reading demand the | cian,” by Frederick Niecks. ike to know too. ee | “socialist’s” action. They are begin-| The score by Karl Hajos is inter- Se uaend is bs maine ~ ning to realize that the Stumps and | persed with hh of Chonin's coms jearns fifty-two cents an hour. |Maurers and the rest of the bunch | rosition, including the Nocturnes in amounts to a few cents over $28) are too cowardly to ae | u ime. | put up a mili-/C¢ Sharp Minor and E Flat, the \per week, when he works full time. [Waller ln G Ghee Mae ae j holid, hs | tant fight for the workers. Re Li ares Mela lagat ‘e"| ‘The workers of Reading will have| Minor, two ballades and the Second aes ee Wiles i |to make a step further and under- Scherzo, In the instrumentation of fe DAY He SEU are is. ‘tucks that |Stand that their emancipation can|Chopin’s piano pieces Hajos has ad- we Reed ane fifty-two cents. | Come only through the doing away|hered carefully to the composer’s : lied with the Third International| . Towards the close of last yearthe paign has been, and is still being unemployment? During the winter the industries are oneal senitaliat system of | score in harmony and rhythm, Any resident he will pass a lot of laws | Sunday schools where Communism federal government introduced an| waged against the P. P. T. U. S. by Wo Claas’ Struggle, 0 No. Reading and West Reading have) society, and the establishment of a)period of “White ilesay” whte o help them out of their difficul-|is being taught to children are be- amending arbitration bill into par- the capitalist press and the A. W. U. But let’s hear what the workers been laying the ‘higher’ priced MAS one Ih ie wate. bavpes ers have eae ie ig san Ree ae es at the expense of the rich even| ing held regularly in parts of Wash- liament. This bill proposed that officials. — : |themselves have to say. In ques- Chinists off, sometimes in bunches| Cay cnet tae aL ‘ hough the millions of dollars now |ington County. strikes, boyeotts, picketing, incite. A special All-Australian Trade tioning a worker of the P. and R./f fifty, and employ the next day | iis : “I have in my possession litera-/ ments to strike, etc., be made il-| Union Congress was convened by the new men at from forty to fifty | being raised for his campaign are intended This sort of idiocy sounds Hlegal, and that the unions be com- pelled to accept any wages and con- ditions for their members that the arbitration court judges cared to give them. Parliament ratified the measure and it is now law. A. C. T. U. in order that the above mentioned questions could be dis- cussed and a common policy arrived at regarding future action. The con- gress met on Monday, July 16, and was the largest congress that has yet Marine Cooks’ Strike. been held. A determined effort was A dispute between the Marine | made by the capitalist press to coerce Cooks’ Union and the ship-owners |the delegates into attacking the left over an additional cook for one ship | wing, but fortunately the campaign ture used in these schools that teaches hatred of the American gov- ernment and seeks to overthrow American institutions.” This was the burden of his charge in passing sentence. He thus showed in an unmistakable manner that it was not for beating up the scab in self-defense that he was sending cents per hour. | Ng 4, Since he cannot get any extra, no | a i Well night (which he should not be com- ar pelled to do after a hard day’s lab-| .. or) the only thing left to do is for| me to get a job. | “But how can I go to work when I have two boys of three and five years of age to care for? ee Se ge is Unemployment is exceptionally ‘oming entirely from his prevalent in Australia at present. According to the government statis- tician the percentage of workers un- |employed is 11.2, which means in |round figures about 180,000, out of a total population of six and a quar-! \ter millions. Unemployed demon- strations are taking place in every victims. ike good sense to the remarkable brains of the A. F. of L. official- tom and the New York State E. itide Committee has’ endorsed him. Above Al had just taken off his tat to cool himself when, by good Mats, Wed Sat EXTRA MATINEE LABOR DAY SCHWAB and MANDDL's MUSICAL SMASH “Sten” THE LADDER IN ITS REVISED FORM? CORT Thea., W. 48 St. Evs. 8:30 hance, he happened to drive by a group of newspaper photographers. Bruce Reynolds, who describes himself as a writer, has just re- turned’from Russia where, he says, ‘old greasy clothes from a citizen,” and lived the life of the proletariat for as long as three weeks. After this elabor: study of life in the U. S. S. R., Bruce re- turned to the U. and says that Russia is a country “Upside down, standing on its head. It’s a coun- fry upside down all right compared to capitalist countries but it’s the one country that’s standing on its teet. ae bought ea a Duke Minus Dukedom This snapshot shows the “Grand Duke Alexander of Russia” in an mbarrassing moment. The “Grand Duke” had just speared a snipe on the beach at Biarritz, France, when vho should walk up but Mme. Letel- Her to whom he is shown explain- ng that he always did have a habit of dropping things. He dropped everything in Russia one day and shipped himself out without leaving « forwarding address. Even today he is better off than most of the sarasites who scurried off like flies efore a flyswat. He’s managed to horrow a little from his friends, for instance the cap and pants he not from a pal who had a big pull with the Salvation Army. He also » gets a few dimes by selling inter- | giews he has had with the dead czar hy spirit communication. The czar ‘Yells him he'll be back in Russia in a couple of weeks, now, when the S. S. R. will break up. The czar that such madness as the ‘hers running their own govern- mt and getting what they pro- certainly can't last forever. them to the workhouse but by reason of the fact that they were reported to him’as members of the Save-the- Union movement. —H, H. Kentucky, Washington Want New Mine Union PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2.—Or- ganization work in Kentucky is booming. Powderly, Browder, Hill- side, Beech Creek, are already lined up with the movement to build a new miners union. When William Duncan, Lewis’ local “boss” comes to the mass meetings with armed gangsters, with the handles of knives sticking out of their belts and draped on their fat stomachs, the men simply laugh at him and go on with their plans for more and more mass meetings, organizing more locals, electing delegates. “You've done your share, Dun- can!” they tell him. “You've wrecked what was left of the U. M. W. of A, in Kentucky. Now we're doing this job. We are going to build an honest, militant miners’ union, and a thousand Lewises and Duncans can’t stop us!” Even in far off Washington the men are on the job. “You bet we'll have delegates at the National Min- ers Convention next month!” they write. “Just try and keep us away!” PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2.—“The men in West Virginia sure are be- hind the New Miners Union!” one organizer says, “T asked one fellow how things were, and he told me that the boys earn enough to buy bread, but they got to send to the old country for enough to buy meat! It’s about had a fighting union!” resulted in a general strike of ma- | rine cooks, thereby throwing thou- sands of other marine workers out of work. Because the cooks ig-| nored other unions and played a\ lone hand in the dispute, there was | much disorganization; _ eventually | ‘the cooks were defeated. | The secretary of the Brisbane | branch of the Seamen’s Union and the secretary of the Brisbane Water- | side Workers’ Union were prose- \euted and heavily fined for engag- ing in a strike. In New South Wales, J. S. Garden, secretary of the Labor Council of N. S. W., was arrested and charged with incite- ment to murder because he made the following statement regarding | the marine cooks’ strike: “The new methods adopted in| | strike strategy are different than ‘the old methods. The old method | was that once a thing was declared | ‘black’ the trade union movement should dissociate itself from it. Tac- tics now are different insofar as if |seab cooks man the vessels our tac- tics may change, and we may sup- ply union men even though scab cooks are aboard. Accidents, how- ever, occur in the best regulated families. The new cooks will not he very good sailors, and wiil have to go to the railing occasionally. They may iose their balance, in which case the water is damp, the sea is deep, and dead men tell no tales.” The case was postponed until next week. It is probable that Comrade Garden will be jailed, mean- while the Laber Council has dis- tributed thousands of leaflets and stickers in order to prepare the was not successful. Congress in Discussion. « Congress discussed the anti-trade union Act, and decided to assist in every way possible any section of the trade union movement that fell foul of its many penal clauses. A long and acrimonious dise occurred when the marine cooks’ dis- pute was reviewed. There were charges and counter-charges of scab- ber: and cowardice. Congress finally decided that the cooks’ demands were justified, and complimented them on their splendid fight, but considered they were in error in not conferring with other unions or with the central body—the A. C..T. U. So that a similar situation shall not arise in the future congress adopted resolu- tions that will compel craft and sec- tional unions to confer with kindred organizations before embarking on strikes, and if the dispute be of a national character, with the A. C. T. jas Delegates were so incensed against the reactionary officials of the Aus-| tralian Workers’ Union that, by an overwhelming majority, they decided that the time had gone by for over- tures. It was decided to conduct an energetic campaign among the rank | and file of the A. W. U. so as to un-| mask its leaders. By an overwhelming majority (92 to 36) congress endorsed the affilia- tion of the A. C. T. U. to the Pan- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. This is particularly gratifying in view of the vicious propaganda of the capi- talist press and the A. W. U. bureau- crats. An attempt by the right wing to throttle the “Pan-Pacifie Worker” ion vorkers to take action to procure his release. (which is published by the A. C. T. U.) was also crushingly defeated. X i 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. TEE EEN TELM NEE PT MEN LT eee srl The Right fo, Live. Mts. Wed. & Sat. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. State, particularly in Western Aus- | tralia, where the police were called) “We want justice. We want ay out to protect the “Labor” premier | living wage for a man who puts his OOD NEW with GEO. 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