The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 4

Lad, Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928 p, Is the Lot of Elevator Operators, Correspondent Writes FREE CENTRALIA Comedy “Elmer the Great” Is AFL MISLEADERS. VICTIMS, DEMAND @ ‘8c¢” Znsigh!_ Into Character pat pay TICIANS Wage Slavery, Speed- NEED A STRONG UNION TO FIGHT AGAINST BOSSES: Man Killed, Woman Injured by Rail in Bridge Kept in Disrepair SYLVIA LENT H RE’S the boob baseball player presented in all his hilarious | completeness. And it is not bur-| lesque. It is a keen, realistic in- Hours Long; Prey of Employment Sharks (By a Worker Correspondent) Tt is not very long since the Daily Worker first came to my attention. T have since realized of what great | importance th: American working class. paper is to the It is only too bad that so few workers know about it. Tam what you may call a drifter. I have no real trade of my own. Since I left school I have done many different things for a living. Now +I am driving an elevator in New York and to me comes the} idea, why couldn't the elevator boys organize a union and make the boss give them such wages and condition: as to enable them to live decently. When are the elevator boys going to realize that the bosses cannot run their buildings without the elevator boys? Bad Working Conditions. Our working conditions are in- deed deplorable; long hours, low wages and a speed-up system (in office buildings especially) is our| lot. Besides that we have prac- tically no rights of any kind while on the job. For the slightest little thing, and sometimes no reason at all, we are fired. And then for a long time we walk the streets or fall prey to the employment sharks. I spoke to a number of boys and they seem careless and indifferent. They have no faith in a union of elevator boys. Yet I have a strange feeling that if. an honest man, a strong leader, could arise and bring the message to these boys (and also girls) he could make them realize that if all the elevator boys, por- ters, cleaners, all-around mechanics, ete., would unite into a union then the most skinflinting boss could be made to understand that we, too, are human beings. Workers’ Paper. Come, you boys and girls who have anything to do with running a building, whether on the elevator, or mopping the floor, or firing the boiler, or tending to the steam en- gine in the engine room, we now have a paper of our own, a work- ers’ paper. It will help us get to-| gether. This is the only way we will get anywhere, Write to the Daily Worker. Let us see how many there are that heard the mes- sage of our paper. | Our bosses are piling up big/ money out of the rents. It is we} who toil and sweat to bring in their | fortunes, which they squander away | for leisure, luxuries and all the good | things of life. And, in return, what | do we get? It is quite a common thing to stay on the job for 10 to! 12 hours a day for the princely sum of $18 to $20 per week. In a great many cases $16 for a 12-hour shift, @-day week, is quite the highest we ean ever hope to attain. Mr. Editor, I know practically | nothing of what Communism means, but if that thing which you preach | im your paper is treason to our) country, then let us read it even| more. I know, and I feel certain, | that if all those who run the build- | ‘ngs of New York City could be got- ten together into a union, an indus- trial union, not only of elevator | boys, but a general building-run- | ners’ union, we would be a mighty! power, and such that the bosses would have to (whether they want to or not) take us into considera- tion. | But who is going to lead us? How are we to do it? posed to do the organizing? ELEVATOR BOY. ‘Int’] Red Aid of Austria Demands Complete Amnesty (Red Aid Press Service) VIENNA, (By Mail).—On the oc- easion of the tenth anniversary of the existence of the Austrian Re- -uhli-« the authorities pronose to grant a general amnesty. Political grisoners will also be included. Up to the present it has not been pos- sible to learn anything of the terms of this proposed amnesty. In November when the amnesty will be granted, only three political prisorers from the July days will be left to benefit from it. The Red Aid of Austria demands that the | amnesty shall abolish all the effects of the previous sentences and that all officials who were dismissed from | the state or municipal service in con- _ sequence of the July events shall be reinstated. The Red Aid also de- mands that the amnesty shall in- clude women serving terms for vol- untary abortion. 5 Killed, 4 Injured in Auto, Train Crash -MASSAPEQUA, L. I, Sept. 30 | WP).—Five persons were killed and - four others injured, one seriously, when an electric train of the Long Nsland Railroad struck an automo- ‘ile at a crossing east of here late driver of the car, loetel, 12; Mildred Stenhol, 16; gmar Stenholm, 19; and Eleanor blin of Hempstead, L. L Who is sup-| Madeline | Photo shows Anna Fraskenberg, severely injured by a guard rail knocked from the Williamsburgh Sam Gersho said. Bridge by an quto. administration, it n, 18 was killed by the rail. Bridge was kept in repair by Tammany r The Revolutionary Role of the Worker By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ORKER CORRESPONDENTS differ from professional journal- ists in that they are part of the la- bor and revolutionary movement and fight actively in the struggles of which they write. The wider the activit: of a worker correspondent in the class struggle, the greater will be the field covered by his reports. At first the worker correspondent will find it hard to gather material. As a worker, or- dinary, daily events of development of the class struggle are familiar to him, He expects these things as the routine of working class life and sees no news value in them. Much to Write About. It is this outlook’ of the worker that makes it hard for him to write or speak. He is not inarticulate be- cause of lack of words, but because he has been taught by capitalism to look upon the thousand and one tyrannies, inconveniences and hard- ships inflicted on the workers as of little importance—things to be en- dured without .comment or com- plaint. The countless risks of industry, the accidents to and deaths of work- ers, even great disasters taking a huge toll of working class lives, quite often cause less excitement among the workers than among the liberal middle class. Why is this? Because among ‘the workers, deaths and accidents are common things to be expected as part of the price paid for being allowed to work. This is the idea drilled into the mass mind by capitalists and especi- ally by capitalist journalism. The death of the wealthy idler will get the first page and a streamer head- line, but the death of a worker is either not mentioned at all or given a half dozen lines. A Class Enterprise. Journalism is recording and ex- pressing opinion on contemporary events. Journalism, like everything else in capitalist society, is a class enterprise. Journalism is the day by day list-| © ing of the facts of industry and poli- tics and an analysis of those facts. Journalism is therefore a class af- fair just the same as politics, indus- try, art and education. The ruling class puts its stamp on journalism just as it stamps every other form of social activity. It can even be said that more than in any other form of social expression are the class lines apparent in journal- ism. Not only does the clearly class |character of the capitalist press be- come -obvious to the class-conscious worker, but the most casual obser- vation shows that every division and sub-division of the social organism has its journalistic expression. The capitalist press itself shades off into innumerable organs of sep- arate groups—employers’ and bank- ers’ associations, trade associations, clubs, special organizations for sup- have pression of the workers, their own publications. all Red Hammer and Sickle with To Quantity lots 125 for $100, Correspondents 1 MILL STRIKERS’ The middle class has countless journals which cater to and express Sete the opinions’ of some particular) Will Continue Struggle group. fi Church newspapers and magazines Against Sell Out are legion. | De In addition to these journals} “Teil the good comrades and fel- speaking openly for some vested in-|low-workers that we will fight the terest, there are the special propa-|® per cent compromise as long as ganda organs of the ruling class—| Your organization will send us re- each with its own field. lief,” writes a New Bedford textile All of these journals are anti- Striker, according to Fred Bieden- working class in character—some of kapp, national secretary of the them frankly so, some of them thinly Workers International Relief, 1 cisguised with the veil of humanitar-| Union Square. ianism, and “social welfare.” Solid Against Sellout. Then there are the official organs! “The workers up here are solid of the trade union movement and its against a sellout various sections and affiliated bodies! gang, and as lon formally opposing the capitalist our wives and kid but actually ruled by the ethics andthe letter reads. swayed by the prejudices of capital- ism, iz as we can feed is we will hold out,” “We have been out for six months now and if we can stick it out for another few weeks |we can win our original demands.” The trade union press of the Aid Letters Broadcast. United States is not a labor press| To meet the pressing calls for re- (with a few negligible exceptions). lief from New Bedford and Fall It is in reality an aid to capitalism River the Workers International with its warfare on the Communist Relief has broadcast tens of thou- Trade Union Press. OF COAST LABOR Labor Defense Gives | Full Support (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, (By Mail). The Seattle Central Labor Council, at its meeting on May 2, adopted a resolution calling upon Governor Hartley of Washington to grant an |immediate unconditional pardon to the Centralia I. W. W.’s who have been confined to prison for nearly nine years. The resolution, which will be submitted to all local unions for similar action, marks the begin- ning of a concerted campaign by labor to win freedom for these inno- cent workers, victims of the capi- talist frame-up system. A plea for pardon was presented to the governor and the parole board in 1926. At this time seven of the jurors made a personal plea for the release of the I. W. W.’s. completely repudiating their verdict at the trial. The prosecuting attor- ney himself has requested their pardon. The governor, however, has taken no action on the petition de- spite the overwhelming evidence |presented pointing to the innocence |of the men. | Like all good capitalist politicians he has his ear to the ground for | votes. He will be a candidate for re-election in the fall and is looking to his own political advantage. The | workers of Washington have noth- jing to expect from this member of tic lumber ring which was respon- sible for railroading the I. W. W.’s to jail in 1919. | The hope of freedom for the boys jlies in the persistent and enevgetis efforts by labor throughout the state and country, by continued agi- |tation for their release, by mass | meetings, demonstrations, and every other effective means of arousing by Batty and his | state and nation-wide sentiment in| dal of 1919. their behalf. | The International Labor Defense | of Seattle will gives its fullest sup- | port to the fight for the release of the Centralia prisoners. —N. W. C. WILL ORGANIZE TWO COMMUNIST CAMPAIGNERS THE VOTE COMMUNIST STAMP Printed over a background formed by the of Foster and Gitlow tastefully wo: be posted_on envelopes, letters, . 7 gramis, shop papers, bulletins, sto PF? VOTE COMMUNIST stands out. Ric: Cat be sold anywhere for a dime. Book of eighty stamps, $1.00. Can be resold at 10c per page of eight stamps. 55 books for $50; 90 for $75; National Election Campaign Committee WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 43 East 125th Street Party, its espousal of imperialism, |*ands of letters to unions, fraternal | its catering to ignorant prejudices, organizations and to individual | WORKER SPORTS its imitation of capitalist journalism Workers, calling attention to the | t and its middle class doctrine of need for food and clothing during | “equality of opportunity and iden-|the next few weeks of the strike. | tity of interest.” Mass Sports Planned in Cleveland (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 27— Several young workers of this city, disgusted with the capitalist sport clubs, are anxious to organize a Workers Sport Club, Such an organization would wel- come all young workers and stu- dents destined to be part of the “The need of the New Bedford The socialist press joins with the and Fall River textile strikers is official trade union press, apologiz- great,” Biedenkapp said yesterday. ing for capitalism, praising its par-|“We are sending food and clothing | liamentary system and fighting the|as fast as we get it to the strikers | Communist Party as well as every|and their families. Every dollar! revolutionary tendency in the work- sent to us is an added help in fight- | ing class movement. ing the 5 per cent wage compro- There remains the Communist) mise.” press and it is for the Communist Pillar 0 | press we organize and train worker correspondents. f Church | be Our eae a ra Stole $1,000,000 one class. A feature of such a e ~Communist ss, lik x . club would be mass ticipation i Communist Party for which it) WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 1. UP—| rreets instead of a email mnbn speaks, stands forth as the only clear Officers from Atlanta, Ga., were| challenge to the capitalist press and @XPected here today to take Clinton| the capitalist class. S. Carnes, defaulting treasurer of| clubs, The Communist Party is the most the Southern Baptist Mission Board,| Those of ‘a Wile. eis Waegas intelligent, resolute and disciplined|to Atlanta to face charges of m-/to organize this Workers S GI |section of the working class, The|bezzling more than a million dollars| cal! on all young workers iaeaverte 4 Communist press is the most mili-)in church funds. iu mina hiksa\ haesall (banat | tant of all the labor press. Winnipeg police said Carnes had soccer, ete. to join with us inves | To the Communist press the work-|@rranged systematically to conceal| real workers’ sport club, Any young Jers and the working class are al-jhis identity. Labels had been torn| worker can obtain information by writing to Nathan Robbey, 10129 |ways right, It never apologizes for from his clothing, it was said, and| North Boulevard, Cleveland. performing and the rest watching, as is the custom of capitalist sport \the working class or attempts to re-|all matter bearing his name had concile the class conflict. Instead it|been destroyed. |sight into character. The brilliant performance of Walter Huston makes a mental-child swagger and enfolds himself before you as real as next month’s rent. | The play, “Elmer the Great,” by | Ring Lardner, based on his famous | “You Know Me Al” stories, is just | another collection of nonsense. It becomes a fine thing because of the clearly defined character, many splendid lines that made these rol- | |licking stories famous, and again, | jand above everything, because of | |that remarkable performance by | | Walter Huston. | It doesn’t matter whether you know anything about baceball. | You'll like the play, anyway. But! if you do know the game, and espe- cially if you have been among ball players, Elmer Kane (Elmer the Great), better known as “Hurry” Kane” will make you chuckle every time you think of him in the next five years to come. “Hurry” Kane, animal-like, loves his food and his sleep, and his efforts to think are so awkward they creak. He is so gloriously egotistic, so oblivious to ridicule, yet so likeable in all his clod-like qualities. The plot is absurd. There’s love element in it, of course. Our hero must, also, whether you like it or | not, end up with wealth in his lap and gorging himself as before, but now on mushrooms under a glass and on egg benedictine. There’s some hooey about the honesty of the “great American game,” too. But there is also the amusing an- swer in the fact that this great |“sport” of baseball, when presented {on the stage, has its very plot based on the crookedness of the gamblers that infest it. And that's quite real, \brothers, Even the play insists on |reminding us of the baseball scan- | And the play con- cludes, amusingly, with the busi- ness, I mean sport, of our hero | | exude dumbness so that'he lives and | counting his profits. The supporting cast, including Nan Sunderland as the sweetie, is a capable one, but serves only as a setting for the hilariously splendid characterization by Walter Huston. The baseball team is splendidly least. They look and they act like pall players. The atmosphere authentic, too. When the ham is ‘cooked for the late and substantial \breakfast of the great Elmer, the |odor of ham is in the air. With the price of ham these days a smell of it deserves mention, Baseball may be not @ sport but a business. It is neverthless also the business of thousands of Ameri- can workers. It belongs to our soil and blends in the life we lead. It’s as American as chewing gum, tab- \foids and Henry Ford—and here’s a is gM The talented young violinist will give her first recital of the season at Town Hall tomorrow night. is a comedy by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell, made from Dell’s novel, “The Unmarried Father.” Thomas Mitchell and Kay Johnson, with Clare Woodbury and Malcoln Williams head the cast. “Gang War” now at the Morosco will move to the Sam Harris. NAOUM BLINDER,: CONCERT MASTER OF BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY Georges Zaslawsky, conductor of the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, announces that he has selected the noted violinist, Naoum Blinder, as concert-master. Mr. Blinder made his deput as a soloist here last April, and also was a soloist at the ICOR concert Saturday. Following his New York debut he was invited by Frank Damrosch to become violin professor at the Institute of Musical Art. He appeared with the Philharmonic societies of Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa, Kieff and tai such noted con- ductors as Glazou- noff, Otto Klemp- qj erer and Oscar Fried. The first contra- bass will be Paul Ouglitzky. Mr. Ouglitzky, who is 1 Charkoff under ON SHOULDERS 'Workers Stay Away From Meet (By a Worker Correspondent) |} LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).— |The A. F. of L. in Los Angeles, in- | stead of the usual Labor Day picnic, jheld a “mass” meeting in Labor |Temple, where less than 200 people j were present (many of them slept , thru the whole meeting). The rank |and file showed good sense in re- maining away. What the meeting lacked in numbers it more than |made up in heavy weight on the |platform, where there were 22 men, |all of them without exception capi- talist politicians. These included 12 judges, members of the legisla- ture, lawyers, and one minister and |the lieutenant governor and district attorney elect. All of them were introduced in servile puffing eulo- gies. There was not the slightest hint in the whole affair of working class consciousness. A locai clergyman opened the show with a touching invocation. All were asked to stand up, and did— but one. Daniel Murphy, a capi- talist state senator, and labor faker, was the chief speaker. He railed as follows: “The workers in America get op- portunities such as are impossible in Europe; the strike and boycott weapon are obsolete; etc., etc.” The workers showed good sense in staying away, and I wish I had. The | meeting was an example of would- |be masquerading as friends of the | workers. Is it any wonder that the A. F. of L. is.a dying organization? The meeting closed with a puffing speech by Lieutenant-Governor Fitts, telling what a wonderful man | Senator Dan Murphy is, and how all classes loved him. This last state- ment is proof positive of treachery to the workers. It is impossible for all classes to love a capitalist poli- tician, even if he is a member of organized labor. What earthly good jis the A. F. of L. to the revolu- tionary movement. The A. F. of L. |rank and file showed good sense in staying away. | —ROB ROY. | SEEK KIDNAPPERS | NEW ALBANY, Ind. Oct. 1. UR) Authorities today searched for two E himself a promi- : nent conductor and|men alleged to have kidnapped two has | girls here and later engaged in a ; Sota ble eee: [pistol fight with Louisville, Ky., phony orchestra in Crimea and the/| Police. _ According to reports from Grand Opera House in Constanti-| Louisville, the girls were thrown nople, is a musician of high rank, | {70m the car there. Their identity a pupil of Glazenov. jis unknown. a Edward Kreiner will be the first| Orchestra and is now teaching at viola of the Beethoven Symphony. | Princeton University with Dr. Alex- Mr. Kreiner was for four years a| ander Russell. For six years he was play built around it, based on the 1 | member of the Cinci ; stories of America’s great humorist ie Cincinnati Symphony |associated with the Letz quartet. and presented in a fine piece of act- | ling. Even the combination does not | make any great advance in the, | American theatre. But it will give |you an evening’s first-rate enjoy- sea ment. Elmer at the Lyceum The- \atre is great. Ring Lardner created ‘him and Walter Huston makes him alive. 44,W.ofB'way.Ev. fats, Wed.,Sat.2.30 ODETTE DE WOLF MYRTIL HOOPER SHUBERT Th GUY ROBERTSON * * |“LITTLE ACCIDENT” | COMING TO MOROSCO, | OCTOBER 10 * in a musical romance of Chopin &B'way. Eves. 8: sce ip ‘i CASINO 4th Stay’ x: 30 “Little Accident,” “which — will | ————— . 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