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

DIRTY WORK IN STRIKE IN 1905 ‘Always Worked With F Company (By a Worker Correspondent) UPhe next thing our scab-herding | tgoss, Frank Hedley, will tell us is betat we can now work hard and in w few thousand years own the Inter- eporough Rapid Transit Company. Didn’t they put old “Paddy” Con tHolly on the board of directors aiVhat more can a boss do for four- seeen thousand men who in their mearts want to be union men than e° promote the head of the fake com- pany union! Maybe the traction torkers don’t know who Paddy Con- grolly is and why this new move was vut over. Well, just ask us! Well, just think back to 1905, you told timers. Do you recall a strike thf that year which the officials of whe B. of L. E. and the Amalgamated trelped to break. Connolly grew out Nf the filth of that strike. Some tlay he was a strikebreaker brought teere from Chicago. I have heard ine was one of those imported by the tB. of L. E. Im any case his later Ppecord speaks for itself. After the I. R. T. broke the 1916 ‘trike they put in a company union. "After about a year we find Connolly Wt the head of this outfit. Always Svorking with the company. In 1919, We called a fake strike to get a fare ©neréase—called the strike over the ®ompany wires and had his company “ion find those men who did not %o out on “strike.” * “The tail can’t wag the dog,” says Sonnolly every time the men seek “2 increase in pay and bring it be- sore the general committee, meaning, yi eourse, that the workers have no sower against the strong company. shat’s right as long as they are in ghe. company union. : Connolly helped break the motor- ymen’s strike in 1926, helped defea¥ he'fake organizing efforts made by sl he’ Amalgamated last year. € What does the present move of snaking him a director mean? it Weal know that it is part of the tinterborough’s increaséd fare move. whe company is trying to present a tilean face to the so-called public: s00d- to its help, etc. d Tell it to your friend, Jimmie Walker, Mr. Hedley, not to us! It’s ahe kind of stuff our cake-eater dnayor pulls off on the poor deluded fyorkers who still follow him. We tised to trust Jimmie too, until he out it over on us during the 1926 ¢trike. Company union, all around, fammany Hall, Hedley, Quacken- Oush, the democratic party, Al @mith, the republican party, all one wunch, f£ You've got to fight for what you zet. Don’t we know it! And how! We will say the last word, not Hed- Tey or the politicians. This is elec- Hion time. No sensible traction @orker should vote the way of the Bompany union. Vote as you strike! € —MOTORMAN. ——— | Reactionaries Try | < Return to Mexico i eral t MEXICO CITY, Oct. 2 (UP).— qovement is underway here to ob- Yain repatriation for Adolfo De La Auerta and Jose Vasoncelos, as well fs several other prominent exiles, it was learned tonight. } The campaign was started in con- Section with plans to permit them to participate in the next general election in 1929 and although no of- | Gicial action has been taken it is ‘anderstood that the anti-reelection- ists and other groups are exerting sonsiderable pressure to win permis- sion for their return. BRYN MAWR, Pz., Oct. 2 (U,P).— ‘Leo Goodreau, 19, Villanova football star, died at 2:18 p. m. today from a broken neck he received in a serim- mage Friday afternoon. lendon, acting foreign s _ THE DAIL LY Wi ORKER, NEW a LORE, WwW # ESDAY, OOO OR 3, 1928 Ww. orkers Lives E wmenwored In Derrick Wreck } { r | | | f A st Shore Railroad derrick was lives of a number of workers, when a train struck it at iteraen, N- J., recently. eae ee the arrival of a relief de lerailed and turned nearly upside down, endangering the FORM TRUST T0 FIGHT WORKERS , |Men Must t Organize to | Fight Combine (By a Worker Correspondent) Speaking about trusts, we may add another one, which was recently formed, it is called the General Bronze Corp. The object of the newly formed trust is not only to control the prices of the bronze products and to crush their com- petitors, but also to control the of their employes. busy in the bronze line now and mechanics are badly needed, when a bronze worker is applying for a job he is offered a price that is less than a laborer is getting. The only favor that the bosses are go- Above, the wreck GREEK WAR PAGT IN NEGOTIATION Yugoslavia Desires Saloniki ractured Skull After Attack by Jail “Dick” KANSAS cr Y, Mo. Oct. 2 (U.P)—Tom Kelly of New York City in a serious condition at al Hospital here, suffering a fractured skull said to from haye been received at the Wood- land BELGRADE, Oct. 2.—The Yugo- Avenue police station last slav government, without the coop-| "ht. Ree ea eration of the Da‘matian-Croatian Lieut. J. S. Eads, in charge of the station, said Kelly bumped his opposition group, is now considering Dm, sai head against his cell when he was a pact with Greece which would provide for an open passage to the d with a fit. Kelly told hos- sea thru the Greek port of Saloniki Pital attendants that a detective in case of war, it struck him with the butt of a pis- those close to Serbian off tol. cles, The difficulty of negotiating a pact between the two governments lies chiefly in Venizelos’ recognition of the Albanian kingdom, a virtual protectorate of Italy, and the pact recently concluded between Greece and Mussolini, which is considered as being directed against Yugo- and her interests in the Bal- is rep: by ial cir- FAKERS MOVE IN Reactionary Union for kans. . ° ° The opening of Saloniki to Yugo- Gov’t Arbitration slavia is possibly the only condition : which will induce Belgrade to form) PARIS, Oct. 2.—Following the an agreement with Greece. “Yugo-|joining of the textile strike by. the Communist unions yesterday, which created a general textile strike in Northern France, officials of the Central Operatives’ Union decided | today to try to force a settlement of the wage dispute by taking it to ar-| bitration under the existing French law. The reactionary union pfficials | also decided to propose a law to parliament which will provide for the extension of the present arbi-| tration law to all strikes. The Communist leaders of the strike denounce this move not only as one intended to break the present strike, but also a move to betray| any general strike movement in the future on the part of the workers. slavia is practically land-locked, for its ports on the Adriatic are ren- dered ineffective by a range of mountains. Saloniki is the only port which will give access to the sea and will provide a base for tary transportation in case of war. ATHENS, Oct. 2 (U.P).—The newspaper Eleftheron “Vima today said the principal difficulty over a Greco-Yugoslavia amity pact was centered in the question of the free passage of Yugoslav war material through Salonica in event of war. ae eee LONDON, Oct. 2—The British and French governments have ap- proved the Italo-Greek pact, accord- ing to a statement issued by Veni- Bence paren ye zelos, prime minister of Greece, aoa ray ee TODAY. after an interview with Lord Cush-| ROME, Oct. 2 (UP). — Final ar- rangements were completed today for the wedding of Gene Tunney and Miss Mary Josephine Lauder, Amer- ican heiress. The ceremony will be held tomor- row at the hotel De Russie. TRIPLE TRAGEDY. BRISTOL, Conn., Oct. 2 (U.P). retary. Attempt to Appease U. S. on Naval Pact PARIS, Oct. 2 UR)—The Coun-| cil of Ministers today decided unan- imously on the necessity of pub-| eo. shooting bie div u Huhine the details of the naval. ac. | After shooting his divorced wife and “\his five year old daughter with a cord with Great Britain but only| ison Howard Andrews, Al, Bris | after Britain has agreed. tol, The British have been approached | ‘0 1°" j formally on this subject. Peeters man ideas ‘Man Near Death With! FRENCH STRIKE blew his own brains out with presented radio stations to Guate- jing to do their workers now is that |they are giving them a chance to work overtime, but this only means that they are lengthening their working hours and undermining the health of the workers, and at the| same time the bosses are piling up big profits. Some of the workers fall for the overtime proposition and fail to see that through organization they prong accomplish a great deal more. DOCK STRIKERS TQ MASS PICKET | ‘Australian ( Gov't for | Shipowners, Charge | Organization is Needed. MELBOURNE, Victoria, Oct. 2) It is true that while working over- (UP). — Maritime and transport time the bronze worker is making workers’ unions, at a conference to- an extra few cénts, but this will not |day, decided to fight the shipowners! improve and will not change his Jand extend the present port strike,| conditions. What the bronze work- now only partially effective. ers really need is to shorten their | Militants dominated the meeting work day and have a few dollars be the Melbourne Trades Hall. Aj more in their pay envelope, in order sub-committee was designated to re-|to make a decent living, and this | port on a plane by which all workers | will be achieved only through organ- | would be instructed to refrain from) ization. taking out licenses under the trans-| A move in this direction has been | port. workers’ act. “Councils of ac-| started, many are joining the union, ition,” state. bit too slow. We are sure that if Strong picketing forces will be! the bronze workers would be so slow organized and electrical and other on the jobs for the bosses they workers would be instructed to be| would be fired. ready at all times for any necessary) Let those who did not join as yet action, speed up a little and we will be able Every union man will act as a!to use out the opportune time, the member of a disciplined force to|}husy time for our advantage. | distribute ‘strike literature among Why: should the bosses get all the | British seamen. bacon? Join the union, fellow} The motion said the transport) pronze worker, and demand your | workers’ act was iniquitous and share also. a ROSE ROSENFELD. AGAINST U, S, OIL. had aligned itself with the nee | jers to break up the unions by sisal | labor. British Hand Is Seen Against Standard where the workers met today and| resolved to fight shipowners to the} BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 2. (U.P) end and to oppose the taking out of —-The Chamber of Deputies Com- licenses under the transport work-| mission which has been studying the ers’ acte contract of 1919 under which the | Recently there have been serious| tropical Oil Co., a subsidiary of the clashes between strikers and police Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, and volunteer laborers. The strike operates in Colombia, has recom- | | MELBOURNE, Victoria, Oct. 2| (UP).—A plan to extend the pres- jent seaport strike to every dock probably will be discussed Wednes- | jday at a second meeting of mari-| time and transport workers’ unions. | The meeting is scheduled to be| held in the Melbourne Trades Hall) has been in partial effect for sev- mended that the government cancel | eral weeks. the contract and execute a new con- Soe tract of the basis of the new oil legislation now before the congress. |Mexico Donates Planes Officials of the Tropical Company According to an Associated Press bee exnressed) (surprise. BG dispatch from Salvador, the Mex- commissions reported action, point- lican government has ordered the | construction of four airplanes for | presentation to Guatemala, Salva- dor, Hoyduras and Costa Rica. Mexico has also recently built an operating in Colombia for nearly ter |money in development of its prop- dj erties. wages and the working conditions | The fact is that, although it is| will be formed in each federal jut the move as it seems is a little | the | ing out that the company had been | years and had spent considerable | BRONZ: BOSSES George Jessel Is Almost the Whole Show in “War Song” | VAR 'SONG,” at the Na-| le is called an American play, and so it is, being based on the drafting of a young Jewish boy to save lar and the fication of American imperialism. Eddie Rosen is a bright young lad who made good in Tin Pan Alley, but | made good in Tin Pan Alley, but | | before he has a chancé to marry a millionaire’s daughter a la Irving | is taken away from his piano and his doting mother and pitchforked into a uniform which does not dwell | easily on his sensitive skin. monotony in the military training camp, but, fortunately for him, his | captain likes to get cockeyed occa- | sionally, on which occasions Edd‘e | ships him home and saves a few of |the captain’s cigars for a dry day. Private Rosen’s frequent infractions of discipline make life miserable for the officers, but he always manages \to escape severe discipline owing to his charming disposition. Cannon |fodder, please take notice. Young Mr. Rosen finally gets to | France, where his friend, Captain Conroy, gets killed. This is not so good for Eddie. He spends most of his time in the guard house. A villain enters the piece in the | person of Bob Elkins, a second lieu- tenant, who seduces Eddie’s sister. avenge his sister that Eddie walked right into a German nest and got captured. In the Teuton dugout he was introduced to Mr. Elkins, who wandered hither, too. The Germans, who looked spick, span and prosperous, treated their | prisoners with courtesy. There was |nothing of the “Hun” about them. Well, it is ten years since the war, and American imperialism has other “Huns” to deal with. The threatened clash with Bob| Elkins did not materialize, but Ed- die ‘learned from Bob that his mother died, which climaxed his lit- any of woes, his sweetheart having | married a gob who was kicked out | jof the navy because he was flat- footed and who served his country | | hoofing for the benefit of the more. husky heroes whose arches had not | fallen. The curtain falls on Eddie as he leaves for a prison camp chanting a prayer for his dead mother. “The War Song” is anti-war in a harmlessly comital way. The satire is modified with comedy. It is sat- urated with the cynicism of the |petty bourgeois intellectuals who |feel uncomfortable in the straight- |Jacket of modern capitalism, but |laugh it off rather than fight it off. The fact is, though they gag at the |robotism of capitalism they fear the | Eddie Rosen proletarian revolution. |was snatched away to war just as [he was beginning to prosper. Too bad. But for the exploited working class who have no hope of prosper- ity under capitalism there is only Bladder Santal Midy Effective-Harmless mala, FLIES IN NEW PLANE. PARIS, Oct. 2 (U.P).—Juan De la Cierva made a flight of 20 minutes today in his re-conditioned autogiro |plane, which was repaired after being smashed in a recent landing. that De la Cierva announced he would fly his plane to Br morrow at 10 a. m., with Valenciennes. 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Each pamphlet carries a plate with the All orders must be accompanied by payment | candidates for Pres- the National Nomin- 5TH STREET “king and country,” the king | in this case being the Yankee dol- | country the private | ranch of Mr. Morgan, the personi- | Berlin, the war breaks out and ho Eddie dislikes the discipline and} It was as a result of an effort to} “NOW AT THE MASQUE. | Barbara Bulgacov who play's the only female role in “Goin’ Home,” | Ransom Rideout’s vivid play, | which has taken up new quarters at the Theatre Masque Monday. | one way out, and that is the over- throw of the capitalist system that | breeds war. George Jessel, as Eddie Rosen, gives a splendid performance. He is almost the whole show. Clara |Langsner, as his mother, is excel- jlent. Edwin Jerome, as Mr. King | foe the Y. M. C. A., is a louser, if | |such a term is permissible (of course | | Mr. Jerome is only a louser in jus. tice to the Y. M. C. A.), and Charles | | Wilson, as the periodically cock- |eyed Captain Conroy, is the cats— dumb, but good-natured. As an anti-war play it is no great shakes, but it is full of fun. T. J. OF. Bete big sheepmen of Wyoming had a litle war with the big cat- |tlemen and out of this business im- |fair between a big cattleman’s |daughter and the bright young men | who was chief scout for the sheep- | men. pi is as good a way as any other to liquidate a war. Tt was also a good enough excuse | for John Willard to write a play | | which in due course found its way to the Republic and may later on meander to the cinema lots of Hol- lywood. It is our custom not to devote much space to a worthless play and |this is surely one of them. The jsheepmen and cattlemen, it is true, are as busy with their guns and with modified oaths as the boys and girls ‘n the racketeering plays that now adorn Broadway, but somehow or other the gats don’t click con- vincingly and the swear words of the cow and sheep boys have not near the conviction of the “city | room” jargon that crowds them in| on the “Front Page.” But for the presence of Roberta Arnold, as Dorothy Hampton, the | Vaudeville Theatres | |hroglio there developed a love af-| nnolly, 5 Fis he Company Union Stool- Pigeon, Has Long Strike- Breaking Record PMPORTED FOR | MACDONALD GAGS WAR BLABBER AT 1. L. P, CONGRESS Attack’ Communists at I. L. P. Meet Continued from Page One enforced his specious remarks with a resolution critical of the govern- ment’s foreign policy, particularly insofar as it involved the Anglo- French naval agreement. | MacDonald’s address and resolu- |tion brought back to the conference the atmosphere of political mani- pulation, which left it for a moment with Kenworthy’s intrusion of the |war danger, but which character- ized the remainder of the session, The belief that labor leaders would be in a strategic position to form a government after the election —but only by cooperation with the Liberal Party—had been growing recently among responsible labor leaders. It had been so general that jit was leading to animated discus- sions as to whether, in such an event, liberals should be given seats \in the labor cabinet. | At the same time, the possibility of a liberal-labor arrangement for |defeat of the conservatives was re- | ceiving serious attention. This idea | was exploited by the right wing laborites, such as Phillip Snowden, |Hamilton Fyfe and H. N. Brails- ford, but was opposed by other ele- ments of the party. Liberal-Labor Party Combine. Hopes held by leaders of both {parties that Liberals and Laborites might combine in the approaching jelection received a dampening from George Lansbury, chairman of the Labor Party and president of the conference, who believes that his | Party will fare better if not in- | volved in an alliance with the rem- |nants of the Liberal Party. Lansbury further declared, in the course of his speech, “We welcome with the deepest gratitude the Rus- sian demand for total and complete disarmament.” In the next breath he asserted that no Communists are wanted in the Labor Party ranks. Under cover of his remarks, pro- posals were passed making Commu- nists ineligible as delegates to na- tional or local conferences of the |Labor Party. Communists are further forbidden to speak from La- bor Party platforms at public meet- jings. A sporadic attack on the partici- pation of the Labor Party delegates jin the Simon Statutory Commission |to investigate the government of In- |dia was quashed by MacDonald, again acting as official silencer. jheroine of the tale, even the press representatives would feel that they were done out of money. But Miss Arnold keeps the eyes open even |though the brain can afford to take la nap. AER AMUSEMENTS, Sh | -———______ av. SHUBERT Thee. 44.w.otB'way. 8:30;Mats. Wed.,Sat.2.30 ETTE DE WOLF) | ROBERTSON ON RTL HOOPER in a musteal romance of Chopin ‘CASINO Brue &B'way. Teves, 8:30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 MUSICAL COMEDY HIT LUCKEEGIRL CENTURY "ea. Central Pk. W. 62 St. Eves. §:30 Mat.: Wednesdays & Saturdays, 2:30, SUNNYDAYS ‘The Musical Comedy Sensation MACHINAL SES AEN VW. of Broadway cHANIN'S 46th St. Mvaninns at sce Mats, Wed. & Sat. Godb New with GEORGE OLSEN’S MUSIC. 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