The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 4

age Four ‘OLICE HELPED SANGSTERS: JAIL MANY MILITANTS wis Men Wear “Pa- triotic” Ribbons (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail.).- everal hundred hired assassins of 1e treacherous Lewis machine, emed to the te displaying red. hite and blue ribbons, symbols of oen-shop loyalty, marched upon the ank and file Miners’ Convention ere at Pittsburgh, slugging eating the delegates mercilessly ith the aid of the local and state olice, who entered th hall and roke up the convention. Police and Thugs Together. The police and the hired thugs of 1€ corrupt Lewis machine arrived multaneously at the convention all, While the police drove the svera] hundreds of delegates as- ambled from the hall, the paid wugs of Lewis met them at the dors or on the street with clubs and la¢kjacks, felling the marked lead- *s of the rank and file miners Calamere, progressive organizer, as the first attacked, being beaten nd kicked while the police looked a,» He was left unconscious in the riddle of the street, his head beaten 1th a bloody pulp, while the thugs ortinued their bloody deeds. The atire street outside the hall was a loody mess, marked by <the uncon- rigus forms of progressive leaders. alamere and others were rushed to ae, hospital. Calamere’s condition 3 reported to be critical. Frank Sepich, progressive of east- m O'%», was also badly beaten, ut he managed to get into one of ye. rooms of the convention hall, here he was later found in a semi- onseious condition by the. police. is, head was cut open in several lates by blows from the Lewis angsters. Sepich was also taken > the hospital. While the fight was going on out- id@ the police searched the hall for aetleaders. Tony Minerich, young vader of the progressive miners, vas located and immediately ar- ested. He was roughly handled by ne police and when taken outside > the waiting police patrol a blood- hirsty yell arose from the hired ewis thugs who swarmed on the idewalk. Police Help Thugs. The police did not arrest any of ae Lewis thugs, but actually helped aem in tne slugging and carried he felled leaders to the patrol vagons. There was much excitement and onfusion when the rush was made pon the hall. The Lewis thugs rere marked by the “patriotic” rib- ens of red, white and blue. The uthorities and the thugs attacked verybody who wore delegate rib ons and who did not carry the pa- riotie emblem. It was reported that many inno- ent onlookers received blows from “he clubs of thugs. The city is full f “ten dollar assassins.” All mect- ng places of the progressive miners re watched by these thugs and by he police. Many more arrests are expected $ police are combing the city for nown progressive mine leaders. Indications are that the rank and ile miners will go through with the onvention and will assemble again n the convention hall tomorrow. FRANK HENDERSON. 3aptist Home Official Turned Money Over ‘“Movie-Struck” Girls ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 11 (UP). —Seme of the missing gold from soffers of the Southern Baptist sme Mission Board was showered bn two movie struck girls by Clin- jon S. Carnes, missing treasurer, nolice believed today. Thomas Howell Scott, one of the ‘receivers for Carnes’ interests, said shat two contracts had been found in the treasurer's private safe. They stipulated that Carnes was to fi- fhance the quest of Sonja Norida and {Maimie Lois Griffin for moving pic- ture honors. In return, when suc- ess was theirs, the two girls were 40 pay him back, plus interest. b : Hi | ‘Damaged Ship in Tow * BOSTON, Sept. 11 (UP).—The three masted lumber schooner Lin- in, reported in distress after col- iding with the Boston Collier Sew- all’s Point six miles south-southeast of Cape Cod, was enroute to Boston jin tow today. | Indications were that none of the ; Uineoln’s crew had been injured and ; that the schooner, while badly dam- aged, was in no danger of sinking. "PO RITS FOR MELLON. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11 (UP).— The Awminum Company of Amer- sa declared its regularly quarter dividend today of $1.50 on preferred stock payable October 1, to stock- holders of record September 15. * "lOONER IN DISTRESS. BOSTON, Sept. 11 (UP).—The “oston Navy Yard reported tonight - had been informed by the Chathar, ‘ation of the Radio Corporation of America that the Schooner Linc 1 is in /istress six miles south, south- _ raat) Cape Cod Light, we i i Worker Corresp aera ondent THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESD Y, SEPT. 12, 1928 Tells of % Mothers Forced to Take Children to ‘ { abe kd : — my, x? , ee and from School w___ SHANGHAI MENTO SLAVE FOR STEEL “Machinal”” at the Plymouth an DELIVER PHONE TRUST +) YEARS: Hopkins Play I BOOKDIRECTORIES From 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. for $2 (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON (By Mail)—I am a Bostonian ard T hed a fa‘r taste of the “prosperity” that exists there. Being out of work for several ‘months I thought I would try a big- ger city. And the capitalist press Mothers of children in public school 50 in Brooklyn are refusing to send their children to school tells us daily what a remarkable recause the authorities insist on placing the children in schools where they will have to walk long emount of prosperity we have in distances thru dangerous traffic. Similar situations exist in many parts of New York City. Above, this country. Why, even Coolidge working women in the Broome and Domenick St, section, forced to accompany their children’ to P. S. says so. I therefore felt sure that 38 in order to protect them from the heavy traf fic. since Boston had nothing for me, U. S. GOVERNMENT certain’y I would have good luck in IS TEACHING MURDER By PEDRO GOTAY LOPEZ. The United States has established throughout the different states, a very effective system of military training. The primary purpose of these military institutions is the teaching of mass murder to the younger generations. The students that enlist yearly in the G. M. T. C. or R. O. T. C. form a very important part of the long chain of lackies at the service of Yankee imperial- They are the servile clas h, in a future war, will be obliged to defend the capitalist pi- rates of America. In these camps the raucous poli- ticians of the White House turn out yearly a large number of prepared is declared for them, the enslaved class in modern society. For the rich war is business. That is why it is easy for them to preach war. But where are you, class-conscious fathers? It is for you to fight these| ev: Train your sons to fight the| society criminals, hiding between piles of golden dust in their sumptu- ous palaces of Wall Street and Washington. Let the young genera-| “ tion learn the evils of war when it is against the working class. Let them know that the only war in which they should take a hand is that which will try to liberate the| workers from the oppression of| world imperialism. After learning the truth, if they have any brains,| BRITISH ARE FOR Defends Anglo-French War Treaty at Geneva thought, the British minister is pre-!1 was merely a paring the way forrother.pacts and|out for a job. treaties, | British naval pact, under cover of New York, “Lady Prosperity.” Fere I spent more than three weeks looking for lady prosperity until gone day I read an ad, “Men wanted to deliver telephone’ direc- tories; paid daily.” Several ad- dresses were given. I went to 5ist St. and 11th Ave. As I neared the place a man grabbed me by the |shoulder and shouted, “Here is an- cther one.” Another man came to ;me, asked me my name and address, without bothering“to learn whether passerby or actually MILITARIST PACT Continued from Page One similar to the Franco- At that point I felt that Coolidge was correct. There is prosperity. “good-will” and “peace.” It is sig-/ Why, they actually shanghai men nificant that neither in the speeches|t. work, so great is the demand. of Briand or Cushendun was there a single reference to a plan for com-| address, they told me to start load- plete disarmament as proposed by |ing the truck. 7 asked how much I the Soviet Union/except when the| would be paid. former, in an extremely belligerent |lars and one and one-quarter cents, tone, yesterday referred to the “the-| They explained my wondering, say- After they took down my name and They said two dol- men, taught to be unconscious Sake : : jatrical gestures” of the Soviet|ing that I would be paid two dol- mechanical slaves. They are fed they wulligerel agent by Pirates | Union. jlars for the day and one and one- with imperialist shallowness and.|°! capitalism and the debased re- Py eee quarter cents for each old book re- hence, like damned slaves, are un- able to rebel against their yellow masters. The military authorities maintain that their chief motive in estab- lishing these camps is the teaching| of citizenship. But what kind of Lured by the brilliancy of a mili- tary career I myself was once a student in the R. O. T. C. of the University of Porto Rico, a senior candidate in the C. M. T. C. of Fort} San Cristobal, a member of the Na-| tional Guard and, later on, of the Reserve Corps. And to my own sat- isfaction I unmasked the so-called teaching of citizenship in military camps. The military text-books used in the C. M. T. Camps and uni- versities say that the object of mili-| tary training is to fight battles. In| other words, to murder our prethren.| So that the very government that. in a cynival output of fakery and sheer irony, is trying to outiaw war teaches murder to the youth of} Fleet St. America, “the land of the free.”|Bklyn—Bimba, Moore, Rosemond, And they called this citizenchip. _| Midolla. Imperialist Bandits. Yes, dear comrades, the right kind| of citizenship that the imperialist) bandits want to instil into the hearts | of the young men. The dirty fakers; say that capitalism is right, slavery a sane institution, and that the gov- ernment at Washington is the best that man, aided by his capitalist god, can devise. (They say all this| in their soporifie lectures on citizen-| ship). They take great pains to! make the young soldiers understand that when a war breaks out every citizen should enlist in the army of the imperialists, ready to die, like a good boy, for the millionaires of Wall Street. All that is opposed to this curious kind, of citizenship is| foolery and downright treason. And who is hired to teach this grandiose lesson? A priest. I the authority of a minis this well-paid faker teaches murder. Rebellion against militarism, say) the holy wiseacre, is rebellion| against the Almighty. Thus making| of their poor God a big millionaire, hater of the working class. Camp life is spent in bayonet training, machine gun and rifle fir- ing, trench warfare, ete. The pro- gram itself unmasks «the feigned pacifist attitude of the degenerate| mass murderers and their puppets FRIDAY. Elizabeth, N. J.—(Smith and In the universities this program is! National Biscuit Co. (noon).—| Elizabeth Ave.) Markoff, R. enlarged. Students are obliged to Ballam, Wilson, B. Gussakoff. Duke. enlist in the R. 0. T. C. even in| Bristol and Pitkin, Bklyn.—Rago-| Bryant and 174 St., Bronx—Ben violation of their creeds. They are in, Chernenko, Castrell, Jim Cork. Gold, V. Cibulsky, Wortis, Leo hand&d like a herd of cattle. The militarists believes that the students should be guided by their cicerones to save them from the abyss of knowledge and hence from becom- ing alert and rebellious. But in spit~ of this they rebel and throw away the bunk forced on them by priests Now we can see the far-reaching effect of teaching the philosophy of class-consciousness to the young. Class Struggle. Hand in hand with the teach’ of class strugele. The shall minded imperialists are preparin- | their greatest and, perhaps, final outbreak of thunder. It is very eas” for them to declare war. They d¢ not suffer. They have not to mourr after the event for they keep their sons in easy jobs, far away fror the roaring of cannons. They hav- newspapermen to preach the por murder the poor, to fire them with a flame of insane patriotism. Cap'- talist editrs, like politicians, gain | millions in the big business of mak ing war. And they are so debaso as to trade with the life of mor They do not care. It is the noo who do the fighting, hungry nentine; it is poor women and -'* ‘dren who are starved to death, Wa WORKERS PARTY © citizenship ? i ligious class that, in the name of a ,| millionaire god, teach the young the} destructive principles of mass mur-| der. | Big Five—Britain, France, Belgium, Powers Meet; U. S. Absent. turned. What could be sweeter? I followed the men into the ware- me | ware. GENE Ea pet, 11 (UE) The louse aud found ihe herding of at Italy and Japan—met with Germany _today to discuss Berlin’s proposals |reetories that they loaded contained |14 books, Brooklyn edition. To say for evacuation of the Rhineland. ments of Lord Cushendun of Eng-| |land and was attended by Cushen- the least, it was very heavy. We loaded several trucks with from 8,000 to 4,000 books in each. | 22 Flights Up: The truck to wh'ch I was attached The meeting was in the apart- - T [dun, Foreign Minister Aristide | went to the dress district, ‘The truck [Beene erence sora Wiristet|remained at one certain place. In Speakers Will Cover Entire City TODAY. 2nd Ave. and 10th St.—Goliger, powers directly concerned had con-| sented to Caplan, | evacuation with Germany. Joe Cohen. Union Square—Hendin, Ross, B. Gussakoff, M. Stone (Pion- eer)., Wilkins and Intervale, Bronx— LeRoy, Alkin, Jessie Taft (Pioneer). Eagle Pencil Co., N. Y.—Frank- feld. 7th Ave. and 131st St.—R. Moore, Pasternack, Kagan, O. Pas- sikoff (Pioneer). Scialoja, Italy; Mineichiro Adachi! Japan, and Chancellor Hermann | the pl Mueller, Germany. tached to the meeting, which started | order to deliver the directories we often had to walk several blocks to is ace and there go up to the ; |22nd floor, or something very sim- The greatest importance was at-| ilar. Now and then, after some 4 § searchirg, I managed to fi It was the first time the | directories to sie eine a ; At noon 1 noticed that no one Rhineland | was knocking off for lunch. Lasked i |the foreman about lunch and he an- The, way for the meeting was|swered to go right ahead and eat at 5 p. m. discuss the paved when Foreign Minister Gus-|if you wish. I asked some of the \tave Stresemann of Germany visited | others why they Paris for the Kellogg treaty signing.|to eat. The optimism which had prevailed | hungry, and Flatbush Ext., in German circles since then, how-| didn’t have a cent to their names. ever, was dimmed considerably as to- | 4 day’s conference started, by reaction to Briand’s assembly speech of yes- | they were so tired. terday. The French diplomat dis-|T asked the foreman when we quit. missed in blunt terms Germany’s|He answered he would tell us when |claim that she is disarmed while the| to quit. |former allies are not. were not going out Some said they weren't while others said that they When five o’clock came I thought |that my shoulders would come off, At five-thirty I began to speak to the’ He insisted) men and asked them whether they Ith Ave. and 137th St.—Wright, | that Germany has a, highly trained | didn’t think that we had already Grace Lamb, Williams, Ed. Welsh. | 2my of 100,000. |done enough work between 7:00 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. and that there Passaic, N. J.—Baum, Blacker, Ida Starr. Evelyn Newark, N. J. (Negro meeting)— | Lyons. Clayton and Broome St.—Georgej Padmore, R. Duke. TOMORROW. 138th St. and St. Ann’s Ave.,| Vern Smith, Wm. Frank, Suskin, D,| worry but call it a day. us quit. The Bronx—Blake, Shapiro, M. Smith (Pioneer). 40th St. and 8th Ave.—Powers, | Shafran, A. Harris. 25th St. and Mermaid Ave., C. I. Sisselman, Sumner, Suskin, Chal-| upski. Steinway and Jamaica Ave., As- toria,“L. I—Vera Bush, McDonald, | Rock, Mueller, Heder, Harfield. | Allerton and Cruger, Bronx—Nes- sin, Primoff, Spiro, Wm. Margolis, Severino. Stone and Pitkin Ave., Bklyn.—| Ben Lifshitz, Julius Cohen, Louis Mikels( Pioneer). | 106th St. and Madison Ave.—Cod- kind, Green, Ed. Welsh. Frishkoff, Taft, Yusem, G. Welsh, C. Silver- | Per man. man (Pioneer), | Napoli. 1st Ave. and 79th St. N. Y.— Auerbach, Rolfe, Lustig, Lloyd, Spiro. 5th Ave. and 110th St.—Reiss, Margolis, Severino. | Moreau Lloyd, I. Zimmerman, Cruz,|W@S no use doing more since even |the commission was at that late Varet and Graham Ave., Bklyn.— | hour not more than sixty-three cents They said that if we should quit we wouldn’t get any money at all. I told them not to Four of 50th St. and 5th Ave. Bklyn.— | Kuhl (Pioneer), A. Harris. Market Plaza, Newark, N. J.— Bert Miller, C. Martin. others kept on werking. Attack on the Miners’ Convention by AIRED; 100 OLD 'WorkersMustOrganize | to Fight Bosses (Bu a Worker Correspondent) GARY. Ind, (By Mail).—The wvorter Geodmen is an old man. He| js 57 years of age. He has been| working for the Tnited States Stee’) Co~noration for the last 82 years. | He has been employed in differ-| ent plants of the corporation, The poor slave worked as a scab in the| great steel strike of 1919 in the). Gary steel mills. Two years ago the eommoration presented him with a steel medallion in recognition of his n=timwona service for the U.-S. S. Corporation. Since then hé has been working in the police force (in the steel mil] volice force!). As such he worked| last year in August day and night! to protect the company’s property from the Reds! You remember that at that time our Comrades Sacco |and Vanzetti were murdered by the jbosses. All his life this man has been trying to satisfy the bosses, | thinking about his pension of $50 a |month, which the company is sup- |posed to give to every worker who works for 20 to 30 vears continu- ously for the U. S. Steel Corpora- |tion. For he did not know that the |steel mills are here not to pension | but to rule the workers. A couple of weeks ago he was dis- charged. No reason at all was given. He was simply told that he is un-| able to work even in the police force. It is true that he is a physical wreck. No mah can work for 32 years in that hell and be strong and hanlthy. After he was discharged the com-! pany sent spies to his house to get the medallion from him so that he |eould not prove his continuous ser- vice. | He is scared to give his case to the Gary lawyers. He is sure that ‘every one of them is one way or an- jother in the service of the corpora-) tion. | Last week he had to beat it from Gary. He went on his sister’s farm in Ohio where he hopes to regain his health and to find some lawyer who will win the $50 a month pen- sion for him. That is a story for the steel work- ers to study. We must know that in- dividually we are unable to get even When they came back for another | ioad I talked to them again. When six o'clock came all of us had quit, | against the foreman’s will. We weren’t through, however, because we had to put the old books, which were on the sidewalk, into the truck. At eight o’clock we were through. We were given the $2 per man, but | were told to return Saturday for} the commission. I can’t paint the picture as black as it actually was. They worked us like h- and then fooled us with that commission. But I’m no writer, so I can’t say it as I’d like. I just want to close with a word of warning to the poor suckers who like the sound of working on a com- | mission basis. It’s nothing more | than sound and you must work your | bedy out before you can scratch enough money with which you might buy a couple of meals. | Now I’m in Boston again and a} little gladder to be out of work} with people I know, not as it was| in New York. M.S. | JN, Machinal”, now playing at the | Plymouth Theatre, Zita Johann gives a portrayal of a young woman! caught in the meshes of a life to which she cannot accommodate her- | self; a weak woman always rebelling | but always finally submitting until in desperation she kills har husband, an | act that was appre- ciated by the audi- | ence but which led his executioner to| the electric chair. The play ‘is by| Sophie Treadwell | and both the author and the producer Zita Johann were successful -in presenting a picture of life that would not excite the admiration of anybody not having Rotarian blood in his veins. Hopkins departed from the_cus- tomary method of dramatic produc- tion by dispensing with superfluous scenery and depending for effect on the histrionic powers of the cast and the splendid lighting effect. The story in brief is of a young woman who was employed in an of- fice and was unfortunate enough to have the vice-president of the com- pany fall in love with her. Being the only support of her mother she marrried the giggling, complacent, success expert, | Later on we find her in a restau- rant or speakeasy where she makes the acquaintance of a singing sheik who boasted of the killing of an ene- my in Mexico with a bottle filled with little stones. She became en- amoured of the new acquaintance and accompanied him to his room, In the last act of the play she is on trial for the murder of her hus- band and is found guilty of killing him with a bottle filled with pebbles. She goes to the electric chair, thus breaking the usual precedent on Broadway, where the heroine is al- most always saved at the eleventh what is due us by the rules of the United States Steel Corporation. One by one we are exploited when we are healthy and strong, but when nothing is left in our bodies they throw us out. We must agitate, educate and or- ganize ourselves into a strong union and united we can get what is due to us—the steel workers. They are built by us and the time will come when they will belong to the steel] workers’ union. —S. W. ! Lewis Thugs s a Treat for Lovers of Expres- sionistic Acting IN NEW FAGAN PLAY Minna Gombell who with John T. Doyle in the latest Myrom C. Fagan play “The Great Power” which opened last night at the Ritz Theatre. stars hour by a pardon or the sudden turning-up of the real culprit. The play is produced in two acts and several scenes. It holds one’s attention from the beginning to the end and tho it may not be as big ®@ revenue producer as some of these productions that strike below the belt, it is well worth the cost of a ticket to those who cannot be satis- fied with dramatic hokum. The young woman-in “Machinal”, whether, her creator knows it or not reminds one forcibly of the fate of the middle class rebels against the grind of the modern industrial pro- cesses who resort to Mencken or poetry in their quest for an avenue of escape. But there is salvation in neither swamp. In fact they are doomed. (Here we shall leave them for the moment.) Be that as it may, “Machinal” is well worth seeing and if there be any members of the New Play- wrights Theatre solvent enough to pay the tariff or crash the box of- fice, they might learn a few tricks in the art of production that would save much floor space in Cherry Lane. The honors of the performance go in the order mentioned to, Zita Jo- hann, the yéung woman, George Stillwell, her killable husband, Chas. Kennedy, the priest (who by the way is a former altar boy and is now a perfectly good atheist) and Jean Adair, the young woman’s mother. The rest of the cast is good but too numerous to mention here. aT. J. O'F. CHANIN’S, W. of Broadway 46th St. Wyenings at 73 | Mats. Wed. & Sat. | SCHWAB and MANDEL'S ' MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW | with GEO, OLSE) and HIS MUSIC | IN 1TS REVISED FORM? | ‘Thea., W. 48 St. Svs. 8:30 CORT ‘its.’ Wea @ Sat Money Refunded if Not Satisfied jay. With Pi | a gg | John D. 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