The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 4

ue Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1928 Movie Union __FAKERS DROP THE FIGHT AGAINST | THE OPEN SHOP $20,000 Per Year for Two Officials (By a W r Correspondent) LOS ANGELI talif. (By Mail). —Accor nation publis! and re- ican Fed- ed in cert tern pa printed in local eration of Labor the Los Angeles Citizen, m of the In- ternational Union of ge Em- nd Motion Picture Pr d the salaries of t ident and secretary at their con- ome time ago in De- vention held troit. Th y of president Cana- van was raised to from $1 $20,000 per year, and that tary en (not the A. president) from $7,500 to Another A of L. Betra A couple of years ago the Citizen and t A. of L. officialdom here elsewhere made a lot of noise “demanding” a closed shop, ete., in the motion picture industry. A ke was planned and the date set to “force” the is But, after a number of conferences with the boss: the tion picture game, such as Will Hays, chairman of the (Teapot Dome) republican central committee in 1920 and now of pana and tsar in movie- was dropped, like by the high-salaried the above-mentioned ponement of the s 1, And, while idle in all lines of :, mechanics, workers and alike, some of those “who work so hard to better the condi- fons of the rank and file” are get- ting their salaries raised from 66 to 166 per cent. Increases Steam-rollered. Numbers of workers here are wondering when the rank and file will take matters into their own hands. They claim that the salary increases are steam-rollered thru the conventions without the consent of the majority of the membership. P. RINDAL. WILL HOLD RED. NIGHTS IN N.¥ Tammany Attacks Fail to Halt Drive | The last five weeks of the Com-| munist election campaign will be} Vlazed in red thruout the working- class districts of New York City. Beginning with Friday, October 5 end up to and including Saturday. November 3, every Friday and Sat- urday night will be a Red Night in some ction of the city where workers live. The Red Nights will take the form of many Communist campaign meetings all concentrated in the one section of the city for that one night. Automobiles and small trucks with Red campaign banners and streamers floating will be used to| transfer speakers who are through at one corner to another Red plat- form, At a specific time all the meetings but one, at the most prom- inent corner of the section, will con- jclude, and all the Red campaigners vill gather at that one corner for a huge wind-up rally. The attempts of Tammany fas-| cists hiding under the name and spread-eagle emblem of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to stop by strong- arm methods the holding of Com- munist open-air meetings, linked ur ‘vith the action of the mayor of Yongers in refusing the Communist eampaigners permission to hold an open-air meeting, and the desperate attempts made by officials in Ohio and elsewhere to keep the Workers ‘Communist) Porty off the ballot by hook or crook furnishes conclusive evidence of the dread with which the capitalists parties regard the spreading of the Communist work- neclass platform among workers The two most flagrant examples of ‘he use of Tammany-controlled pro- fessional patrioteers are the assault of the Communist speakers by the so-called Veterans of Foreign Wars in Astoria, L. I., and the attempted assault of Red Campaigners by the same disciples of the Tammany tiger at the corner of 50th Str--* axa oth Avenue, in Ray Ridge, Brooklyn. As a result of the assault in As- toria, the Workers (Communist) Party now holds large and enthusi- astic weekly meetings at the scene of the attack. and the same in Bay Ridge. Despite such attempts to stop the spread of the Communist reed among workers of New York the Red Nights meetings will be larger, more numerous and more en. fhusiastic this year than ever be fore, judging by the response of workers at the open-air meetings being held thruout the city by the Red Campaigners. | Among the sections in which | workers in large masses will Haten to the Red Campaigners on Red) Nights, are Bronx, Harlem, down: town Manhattan, Astoria, Boro Park (which takes in Bay Ridge), Williamsburg. Brownsville and East New York. In the larger sections, such as the Bronx and Harlem, more than one Red Night will be ar- Saanged. are artists Alleged Sewer Grafters Who Knew Too M The trial of Maurice Cc scancal prominently into v mo. ew again altho therg lly, ex-borough pr uch ident of Queens, is bringing the sewer graft ‘ s believed to be no danger that the big politician will be convicted in the $17,000,000 fraud. Above, William D’Olier, sanitary engineer, John Phillips, contractor, and William Redmond, bookkeeper, all of whom knew too much and are now dead- Worker Correstondents Are Active in the Soviet Union S. R. (By Mail)— MOSCOW, U. S. The worke tribute more o newspaper i t Union are known as W Peasant Cor- responden’ Rabkors and Sel respectively). Rabselkor Movement in the U. S. R. is quite voluntary, there being no elections or appointments of Correspondents, no restrictions, and no particular encouragement to Communists to engage in this work; on the contrary, an effort to at- tract the greatest possible numbers of non-party workers and peasants to contribute to the daily and periodical press. This is essential in order to get the fullest and widest view of the aspirations and living and working conditions of the toilers and thus be able to attract ever new elements and wider masses to participate in our constructive work, Ss. 400,000 Correspondents. The Rabselkor movement is grow-| ing at a very rapid rate. Thus, in| the course of two years it has jn- creased from 217,000 to nearly 400,000 (115,607 Rabkors; 192,788 Selkors, and 73,344 Red Army Cor- respondents—Voyenkors). A prominent part in this wide semi-literary movement is played by women. The number of women con- tributing to the general newspaper press is about 14 per cent, which is an increase of 4 per cent since the beginning of 1927. The percentage, however, is much higher in the spe- cial women’s press, which has reach- ed a fairly large development. At| the present time there are 18 wo- men’s journals with a circulation of | about 400,000, to which more than| 7,000 Rabselkor women contribute. | Furthermore, there are the Yun- kors (Youth Correspondents) and Dyetkors (Child Correspondents)" with the resne-tive newspapers for the Youth and Pioneers. Wall-Newspapers The training of these Worker and Peasants Correspondents is carried on by the various circles organised both in connection with the general press as well as the wall-newspa- pers, which constitute the first school, as it were, for Rabselkors. It may safely be stated that at the present time there is not a single fac-| tory or office, not a single village without its wall-newspaper. In Moscow city alone there are well over 1,500 such wall-newspapers, each of which reflects the social, economic and cultural life of the workers or employees of that parti- cular factory or office. Further,| the wall-newspapers also voice the | general sentiments of the worker or employe on this or that policy of the government or of the Party. At) these Correspondent training circles | are delivered lectures on all current | topics which are accompanied by discussion, so that the outlook of the Rabselkor is broadened and he begins to handle the facts described by him in a more conscious manner, bringing them into conjunction with the general policies of the country. The chief importance of the Rab- selkor movement lies in its social aspect, as a growing and powerful movement which helps in ascertain- ing the aspirations and require- ments of the masses of the people, and at the same time in enlisting new public wi n all branches of the constructive work. The move- ment is guided by its own journal “The Worker and Peasant Corre- spondent.” There are also Rabsel- kor journals in the provinces. From time to time Rabselkor conferences are convened, both national and lo- cal. The number of Rabselkor clubs are also increasing and there is quite an extensive literature. The Rabselkor movement plays a particularly , important role in the conduct of the various campaigns that are organized from time to time, as for example—the campaign for economy, the campaign for the lowering of commodity prices, the combat against bureaucracy for the rationalisation of industry, etc. Aid Proletarian Industry. Considerable economy in indus- trial management is frequently ef- fected as the result of practical pro- posals submitted by the workers) through the press. Particularly effective proved’ the industrial surveys carried through 1927. Thus, in Tver, there were carried out industrial surveys in a number of factories. The staff members of the local newspaper went to the factory and addressed, The “Pi over 20,000 people. The survey was} the assembled delegates and visitors end of the line and as one man came| confined to the dying department, by ‘Spontaneous cheers and enthusi-| out he said, “Only one will get the 1,940 workers (out of 5,000 in the Stic applause were plentiful at the) job.” the workers on the importance of submitting proposals revealing de- fects in the factory and suggestions; Applaud Speeches atthe iob, each applicant was admitted for the etterment of management, i ing of production, ete. Such was carried through at the an Cloth Mills” employing department) took part in the survey and 2,217 proposals and sugges-| tions were submitted, hundreds of | which have already been carried out. | Again, at the “Proletarian Works” | in Briansk province, 10,788 (out of 12,000) workers participated in the| survey at their factory and made several thousand proposals which | are now being carefully examined | and investigated by the adminis- He hurried off to the subway sta- tration. Takes Care of Family. | tion. I am waiting for tomorrow, The results of these activities! Jn enumerating the decaying) but no word has come. speak for themselves. In White hulks left of some of the %o-called| —J. E. M. Russia a proposal made by a Rab- kor has led to an economy of 40,000 | roubles; in Serpukhov, upon the suggestion made by Rabkors, the| automatic spindle has been intro-| duced, the resulting economy of which can well be realised by tex- tile workers in Manchester, Brad- ford and other British textile cen- tres. | I, AMDUR. COLLEGE PROF IS POWER TOOL Alabama Univ. Teacher Headed Bunk Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. (uP).| ~-Publicity activities of Alabama power interests have been directed by Professor J. S. Thomas of Ala- bama University, who, at the same time, retained his position in the university, it was charged before the Federal Trade Commission to- day. While director of the utility bu- reau, Thomas said, he made numer- ous speeches in the state urging in- dustrial development. He wes billed as a representative of the university and his connection was not disclosed, Thomas admitted. He also had done considerable research for the power industry, he explained. Approximately $1,000 a thonth was spent by the utilities in main- taining the publicity committee dur- ing the time he was its head, Thomas said. A report submitted by the south- eastern division of the N. E. L. A. said 50,000 pamphlets, letters and other literature have been mailed out during the year to a selected | list. “We have not overlooked the Pub- lie Service Commission and have maintained friendly relations with all of them as well as their staffs,” the report said. MINER ARRESTED IN RELIEF WORK Released After Protest by Defense Body PITTSBURGH, Sept. Stepka, a coal miner of Republic, Pa., was arrested here for soliciting money for the defense and relief of the miners in the Pittsburgh dis- trict. While out collecting he was accosted by a coal and iron police- man oy the name of John Elliott, who, without any authority, took the collection lists out of Stepka’s pocket and arrested him. The coal and iron policeman took him before Squire Davidson of Re- public and after hearing the police- | man Stepka was fined $10 and costs. | The act was challenged by Sub-dis- | trict Organizer Rodrequez of the} Pittsburg district, International La- | squire that this was the kind of a been looking for; the squire then the money to pay the fine and costs. | Stepka was told not to go back | to the squire’s office and not to pay| Played by the women strikers in} any fine, and to report to the I. L. | Passaie and New Bedford to realize) | | D, and the Civil Liberties Union it | he was further molested by the po- lice or the squire, | & WORKERS CHEER TALES OF STRIKE Textile Meet Utterances that were received by two days’ convention sessions that) | resulted in the formation of the new National Textile Workers’ Union of} America. Some of them follow: “A. J. Muste, former minister of| the gospel, but now head of the Brookwood Labor College,” said) Jim Reid, the union president, “was in at the burial ceremonies of the MaMahon’s U. T. W., when that took place at their last convention.”| textile unions still extant, Reid fur- ther remarked, “Tansey, president of the American Federation of Tex-| tile Operatives, has done well with his family. His son is now assistant treasurer of a Fall River mill. Not only that,” continued Reid, “but. in- vestigation will reveal that all the |earetakers of the public water, closets are former officiais of the! Ax BE POF | | Samuel Bramhall, veteran leader of the Lawrence textile strike of 1919, declared his exp@ience showed that “all notions that a union can be built or a strike won without a real scrap, where the workers al- |low no one to tell them where they! \get off at, not even the cops, ir) |nonsense.” This was received with] applause. | Strike Against Betrayers. | | “Workers know they are striking, | against the scab officials of the U | T. W. and the A. F. T. O., as well) as against the bosses,” declare¢ | William T. Murdoch, New Bedford |strike leader, and third vice-presi-| |dent, who was received with great | jenthusiasm. He made the reporter) |for the “socialist” weekly, “New, | Leader,” squirm by saying, “Social | \ists, A, F. of L. fakers and bosses/ all unite in sunporting the scab ‘re- | lief? agency of the politicians and) lin fi¢hting ours.” | | Eli Keller, the Passaic unior leader who now acts as organizer for the New Bedford strike commit- tee, declared that “Batty’s own men) | will align themselves with us when) |he tries to sell out the strike.” | | More Dirty Work. | “McMahon had such great fear. of the fighting character of the Pas- | saic locals that he conspired in |agreements with the bosses to dis-| miss mill workers who show them- selves to be staunch unionists.” This expose was made by Gus Deak, lat- jer to become first vice president of \the new union, in his discussion of | the corruption of the U. T. W. ] Philip Lifschitz, representing the |Knit Goods Union, formerly affil- jiated with the U. T. W., aroused the linterest of the delegates by enum- lerating the differences between the |personnel of the delegation at this _convention and the fat-bellied, cigar- puffing, bureaucrats attending the lconvention of the U. T. W. | Fakers Lose Membership. Jesse Troy, of the Fall River dele- gation, stated that “the A. F. T, O. |to which he had belonged for six }years had 1,100 members before the | advent of the T. M. C. and that now | the fakers can show only 150 mem- hare? Elizabeth Donnelley, the yonthd ful New Bedford organizer, who has i : | 25.—Mike | organized hundreds of children into | ] he strike clubs, declared: “We must counteract the labor-hating poison instilled into the minds of the chil- dren by organizing them to partici- \pate in the struggles of their work- | |e parents.” | vention for the Labor Sports’ Union, drew excited, enthusiastic approval | \from the young delegates by call- ling on them to organize labor sports | organizations to compete with the bosses’ sport clubs and welfare schemes. Fred E. Beal, New Bedford Tex- tile Union organizer, told of the suc- ‘bor Defense, who stated to the |Cess of the organizers in rallying the strikers and getting them to ig- |case the International Labor De-|nore the advice of Batty that the lfense and the Civil Liberties had | Workers “sleep instead of picket.” Ellen Dawson, elected as second |told Stepka to go home and collect |Vice president, after reporting on work among women, declared, “All that is necessary is to see the role that strike action is doomed unless the active support and participation of women is secured.” | the Canadian bank of commerce and| | Walter Burke, addressing the con- | » WORKERS NEED STRONG UNION Unemployment Serious Among Them (By « Worker Correspondent) An ad: “Superintendent Wanted” caused at least a dozen men and three women to form a line in front of the McMahon real estate office recently.. While waiting for the men in charge, the men and women, com- posed of whites and Negroes and representatives of at least half a dozen different nationalities talked of their experiences in job hunting Some of them were members of a union. One man said that the only men enjoying union wages and conditions were the officials. The man who made this statement had a union card trom the Plumbers’ Union. After the arrival of the boss on and gave his name, address and qualifications and was told that, if) he was selected, they would notify| him tomorrow. I was near the tail I smiled. Then he started telling me that the superintendants were organizing themselves into a union and said, “That will be a damn good thing for it will give us a chance.”| I asked him about this “prosper- ity.” He waved his hand and said: | “Tt’s all bull. The Smiths, the Hoo- vers and that b—— in the office are all against the working men”) CANADA BANK MERGER. TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 25 (UP). Despite widespread opposition against the forthcoming merger of| the Standard bank of Canada, the Canadian government will sanction it, Ottawa officials believe. STORM IN PORTUGAL. LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 25 (U.P).| A severe storm, accompanied by al driving rain and strong winds,| caused enormous damage in Portu- gal yesterday and today. Many dis- tricts were flooded. DYOTT REACHES PARA. PARA, Brazil, Sept. 25 (U.P). The Dyott expedition arrived here |THE Pl ir its ® hilharmonic Orchestra opens | eighty-seventh season on \Thursday evening, October 4, at Car-| negie Hall. Willem Mengelberg, be- ginning his ninth consecutive year, | will present a program consisting of |the Beethoven Coriolanus Overture, |the Mozart Divertimento, a first per- |formance of a march by Henry Had |ley, and the Schubert C-major Sym- | phony. Other novelties which the Dut conductor will offer later in the fa’ are the First Symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, fragments from Handel’s Alcina, Emerson Whithorre’s ™ |Morgana, a Toccata of Respighi, Three Tone Poems of Bucharvis, Die Tageszeiten of Richard Strauss, }a Hebrew Suite of Berezowsky, and a Suite of Alexander Tansman. Mr. | Mengelberg directs the Philharmo-| {nie from October 4 to the 14th in- | clusive, again from October 29 to| December 9, and finally from De-} cember 24 to January 13. Pi Walter Damrosch will appear as An American in Paris, the latest) opus of George Gershwin; and the symphony of Ernest Bloch which won the Musical America prize this | year. Sir Thomas Beecham returns to this country as guest conductor 18, 19, and 20. | inaugurates his second year here as, the end of the season, April 14. na Case. are: Sodhie Braslau, Yehudi Menu-} hin, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerald Warburg, Ruth Pierce Posselt and the Marmein Dancers, The Friday afternoon subscription series opers en October 5; the) Thursday afternoons on October 11;/ and the Friday evenings on October | PRINCE KILLS FRIEND. | FILIPSTAD, Sweden, Sept. 25.) (U.P)—Prince Bertel, third son of the| Crown Prince, was fined 500) kroner today for driving an auto- mobile without a license. The fine was assessed as a result of an acci-| automobile which the prince was} driving turned over and killed one of the passengers. The victim of IN SHIPMAN -HYMER DRAMA | Claudette Colbert plays an im- The Theatre Guild will use the for the four concerts of January 17,|Martin Beck Theatre for the presen- regular conductor of the orchestra) ber 1. on January 21 and remain~ through! Guild, it seems that the John Golden |Theatre, which it has under lease, The first soloist to a,pea with|is to be occupied by “Strange Inter- the orchestra this winter will be An-|lude” for a long period and that the | Other soloists to appear organization, having plans for at least seven productions scribers this year, will be in need of another theatre. The Theatre Guild has acquired Misleaders Raise Own Salaries, Men Jobless, Writes Correspon ‘ A p A RTME NT Philharmonic Season Opens Next Thursday at guest conductor from October 15 to|Portant role in the newest the 28th and from December 10 to|rama by Samuel Shipman and John the 23rd. Two new works are defi-/B. Hymer, “Fast Life,” coming to nitely scheduled for his programs: | the Ambasasdor tomorrow night. THEATRE GUILD TAKE OVER MARTIN BECK Arturo Toscanini) tation of Guild productions for a period of years beginning Decem- From the standpoint of the od dent NEW JINGOIST Carnegie BARTY STARTED IN CALIFORNIA |All ‘Reds and Radicais’ | Excluded | (Bu a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, Cali (By Mail).—Formation of the American | Party from which all “Reds ard jradicals” are excluded was an- nounced recently by Linn William | Price, national organization chair }man. The party, which has ite in- ception in Los Angeles, is dev: the promotion of true A jaccording to Price’s statcment. | In a letter, copies of whi been sent to thousands o: here, Price states that the party has |been formed to further and safe- guard the basic pyinciples of govern- | ment. The annoucement was given prom- melo- | ment space in the local ‘capitalist |papers and the talk is going round that it really is a fascist party |formed by the big bourgeoisie and |the reactionary theocrats here to crush and exterminate the militant | workers, . | THEATRE —D. W. GOODWIN. | TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 25 (U.P).— “Shipping fever”, or “hemorrhagic septicemia” has broken out among Ontario cattle at Bromley township, many cattle being killed. It is be- lieved the deaths were caused by |administration of a serum contain- ing live instead of dead germs. The government is investigating. a play by Paul Green, author of “In Abraham’s Bosom” and “The Field |God.” The new play is called “The House of Connolly” and is the story of a southern family. for sub- WALTER HUSTON w ELMER oun GREAT RING LARDNER’S AMERICAN PLAY 12. 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