The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1928, Page 4

Fy Page Four POLICE CROOKS EAT NO PRISON DOUGH IN WEST Los Angeles Grafters at Large, Active | {By a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By Mail). | The Bradford Baking Co. made s| contract with the police commissi-| , rec for 120,000 Ibs. of} bread at the price of 3.8 cents aj yound. This was to be used in the geles city jails months, Filled. t Hoover is no longer | food a nistrator of this country the hooverizing of prison rations i roing the same, to si in the of th of unem ployed tarve outsid to each pris- pect to 00 to 3,000 jail- birds (many of w! 2 workers jailed or res) even during the th: No Jai] Bread for Police Crooks. | ¢ At t sion of the police comm Gollu the new > same s sion, sioner member, comm complaint by f the Piggly Jo., that the to | ernment foreign ¢ complaint charged that two | nati Brings “Good-Will” to Imperialist Plunderers THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES AY, NOVEMBER 27, 1928 t (sho Adjutant General’s Report Tries to Hide Enormous U.S. Army Ac. ording to the annus M “domestic | 4 officers and enlisted n the army only, and | ay forces, nor the! , which numbers ap- nolice officers, who had been accused 3 fa million. The re- of robbing one of the stores of the by saying little about any sol- company many months ago, had|diers but those on active service, been let off with a light fine and re- | tried to give an impr on that “the instated. The commissioner stated|army is now less than 150,000 that the two and not re-i Here is one man’s word against | in been fired | strong.” According to Wahl the active list on June 30, 192% had on it 12,112 of- snother’s, so these “law and order |ficers and 121,185 enlisted men. The artists’ or not be on the|veserve corps has 14,824 enlisted local pclice force at the present |men and 9,765 offic There were time. enlisted and re-enlisted during the Anyhow it was admitted that they ‘urglarized a store, an act classed as | ¢ felony. of being sent to jail, like other crim- inals, and forced to eat the 3.8 cents a pound ja‘l dough mentioned above. 250,000 Police Graft. During a vice crusade by a morn- ing paper a few months ago, the ‘ongue of chief of police James E. Davis slipped a little. He admitted in a moment of anger that “that man,” a police captain, “made a quarter cf a m n as head of the vice squad.* The promised investigation of this particular graft did not material- ‘ze, and such an outcome undoubted- ly pleased the chief, the captain and the rest of the city hall gang, in- eluding Mayor Cryer, who, during the dedication of the new city hall, made himself ridiculous by charac- terizing Los Angeles as a_ graft- proof city. Rumor Mellon May Be | Pried Loose From His Prohibition Sinecure WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Presi- dent-elect Herbert Hoover is work- ing on a plan to transfer prohibition enforcement from the treasury to the justice department, it is learned from his friends here. It is expected hoover will include the recommendation in his inaugural j address, following it up with a recommendation for legislation to his new congress, for congress must authorize the transfer if it is to be made. Federal district attorneys thru- out the country now largely direct the activities of agents gathering up evidence. But technically the agents are under the tre: partment where they were by original Vol Andrew placed m, Secretary of the himeelf a large owner ries, and therefore, on the face of it, interested i at the doubting that Hoover is ing ahead to announce the re zation, potitical theorists here are speculating as to reasons for the ap- parent s! at ion, and whether it indicates s d of rift in the inner circle of ial magnates proh finar which runs the republican party. Factory Wages Drop in Past Five Years Wages of ilictory workers | not increased in the last five y despite a rise in the cost of and a great increase in produc Even the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, in the i sue of the weekly bulletin published by its research department admits this. | The bulletin gives the present av- erage wage of a factory worker as about $ much the same as in 1923. Since then the cost of living has increased 1.2 per cent, so that | veal wages have shown a drop. It | states, “This indicates that, save toe an increase in employment, the po- | sition of wage-earners has not ae | | proved much since the business de- 22, although there in pression of 1921 has been considerable productivity increase MAY INCREASE IRONWORKERS' | HOURS. | LONDON, (By Mail).—TIronwork- ns fear that bosses will increase the | 3-hour day in changi®f their works trom the three shift to the two stem. But they are in no danger | born Americans. not show whether these were round- ed up the, iscal year ended in June 55,600 men f whom 6.7 per cent were not native Wahl’s figures did n American protectorates or foreign born wor! of the can cities. Of the newly enlisted men 1,148 were handed over to strengthen the Philippine Scou! which rule in those the gendarmerie capitalist mainta lanes. Holy Roller to Give Saxaphone Sermon CHICAGO, Nov. 26 While 100 saxaphones theme, Paul Rader, Chicago Evangelist, will deliver a radio sermon thanksgiving morning on “Jazzamania.” “The largest ever assembled” notice unnouncing program. The Evangelist holds that the “Savage Sex,” as he calls it, is per- sonification of the “modern mania for change, unrest and dissatisfaction.” Influenza Kills 14 in Los Angeles Epidemic LOS AN Fourteen (UP).— moan a band press unique saxaphone says the Rader’s LE deaths 26 (UP). Angeles Vov. Los in during the past week from an epi- demic of influenza were described today by the city health bureau as “comparatively severe.” The week brought 35 350 new cases of the disease, increasing the total te more than 1,3C0. The health bureau ordered persons with intense colds be kept from schools and the- atres. RAISE FOR BILL POSTERS. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 26.—Or- ized bill posters here and in neapolis have won a wage in- se of $2.50 a week. The 8-hour and 44-hour week have also been won. cr day \ —¥" “y A DYNAMIC DIRECTOR | Hisenstein’s Early Training Secured as Director of Workers Theatre in Soviet Russia | @ERGIE M. EISENSTEIN, leader} school. for soon Eisenstein begins '% of the dynamic school of motion pounding away on the psychological pictures in Soviet Russia, producer | #spects of drama. Gradually, he be- of “Ten Days That Shook the World” | comes a proselyte of the materialist | {was born in Riga, Russia, in 1898,| Philosophy. He studies history and making wn in inset) of Colombia, is M en route from New York to Bogota, Colombia, the son of a civil engineer. His) youth was the conventional one. Early his father had sent him to) school, he entered the Institute of | Civil Engineers in Petrograd. Mathe- j maties and architecture occupied his | time, but the freedom from the di- rect influence of his parents permit- | ted him to indulge in something which had always had a peculiar, fascination for him: the circus and) the little experimental theater. | Eisenstein never considered his in- terest in these subjects seriously. | | But. later, while studying the period | lof Leonardo de Vinci (the period of | ‘the Renaissance), he began to apply) his architectural education to the design of the theatre. During this! jveriod he gained a new enthusiasm, | the Japanese thektre. In Civil War. | { j j one of those “good-will” flights, TEXAS WORKERS FREED IN COURT Anti-Lynching Leaflets Caused Arrests HOUSTON, wv. 26.—The cases of Harry Lawrance and L. J Kelly, members of the Worker (Communist) Party here, were closed when a jury found them guilty of the charges made against them of “disorderly conduct” and “disturbing the peace.” Lawrence and Kelly were ar- rested on the night when Berjamir Gitlow, who ran for vice-president | on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket during the recent elections, addr d the workers of Houston. They were distributing leaflets in front of the meeting hall, protest- ing against the lynching of Negroes. When first arrested they had been charged with “vagrancy” also, but the charge was obviously so ab- surd that it was removed even be fore the trial. Since their arrest defended by the Defense. have been ional La- they Interna bor khs living in Afghanistan have appealed for exemption from the king’s order ‘that all in the country wear hats. They contend it against the tenets of the Sikh reli- gion to wear hats. Sikhs wear a distinctive turban. KABUL, Afghanistan, (By Mail).|™ When the civil war broke out in ussia, Eisenstein, then about nine-| for 3 Days, |teen. joined the engineering corps of the army. He was at the front) for a year and during this period, according to his Russian biographer, LYNN, Mas Nov. 26 (FP).— Eisenstein obtained his “sentimental James Philip Taylor, 21, dropped ; education, building fortifications and | unconscious on the street after go-| spreading barbed wire.” Let his bio-| ing jobless, hungry and cold for) grapher continue: three days in Boston. “The civil war When revived in “the hospital he | Eisenstein decides to go to Moscow. | explained that he had not eaten for | Nobody knows him. He knows no- three a nor slept indoors for | body. But during the first day he four s. The hospital announced becomes acouainted with the leaders | the young werker had fainted Of first workers’ theatre, the Prolet- exposure and starvation. cult, where he becomes supervisor s of settings, assistant director and. in a small way, dramatist. Among his first assignments is to drama-, tize and stage Jack London’s story, |“Mexicalia.” The adaptation is suc- cessful and draws attention to the peculiar art of Eisenstein. A year) vasses and he joins Meyerhold, the) leader of the revolutionary theatre in Russia, but Meyerhold does not vrove radical enowgh in matters of the theatre, and he leaves. Heads Proletcult. “Returning to the theater of the Proletcult, Eisenstein is at once) placed in complete charge. It begins to take on a new life and new color under his direction. He stresses movement, the circus, acrobats and MACHINE REPLACES 100 satire. He takes Ostrovsky’s clas- sical comedy and produces it in the RICHMOND, Va Mail). —. sees hee Al form of a cireus bufoonade. The ch-digging machine, used on Vir- | Agta * ginia road construction work, has |<uccess of this production strength. replaced! 100 workers: <with: three! 1 auaniatle work should Bermone 3 ns | tage. r a = m | “Although completely absorbed in BOATMEN, IMPERILLED. his work, Eisenstein still finds time] BL FFALO.—After being adrift|to study the work of the current on two barges all night in a biting| theorists. He becomes acquainted | gale on Lake Erie, three Cleveland) with and an adherent of the reflex- boatmen were rescued when their} ological school of Prof. Ivan Pavlov. boats were washed ashore. His work shows the influence of this! Jobless Young Worker, ,, Hungry by* Collapses on Street is ending and Bigger Profits for the Canadian Pacific The Canadian Pacific Railway will earn about $14 a share on com- mon stock this year, according to an announcement by E. W. Beatty, president of the road. Last year the road earned $12.08 a share, in- dicating an increase of about 16 per cent for 1928. It is not on record that Beatty announced even a fraction of a per ent raise for the workers who pro- duced all this increase in wealth. art objectively, rather than subjec-| tively.” RE | :Under these influences, Hisenstein | set out to produce “Anti-Jesis.” ‘The | action of the play takes place in a gas factory, and Eisenstein attempt-| ed to remove the artificial aspects inherent in the theater and recreate the play as a fusion between artist and public by recreating the life of the factory. But Eisenstein found) that, while to a certain extent re-| moving the theater from itself was possible, in order to go further he would have to leave the theater €n- tirely. He wanted to be closer to life—to the plants, the masses, the streets. A cursory study of the cinema had convinced him that only in that medium was complete and ‘absolute detachment from artifici- ality possible. Turns to Cinema. In 1924, Eisenstein completed his first motion picture. It was “Strike” and in it he attempted to tell the story of the Collective Young Work- er in the new Russia. It was his first “mass” film and the one deci- sive departure from the cinema tech- nique of the period. The crowning point of this genre arrived in “The Armored Cruiser Potemkin,” his sec- jond film, produced in 1925. In it, |th@re were no individual heroes— the mass becomes the and the hero at once. “Ten Days That Shook the World,” now showing at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, which he completed in 1927, is in one respect, a continu- ation of this tradition. But in this film he also attempted to experi- ment with a completely new kind of cinema technique. Eisenstein de-| clares: “The intellectual cinema must be an entirely new form and create at the same time a synthesis of all the varieties of the cinema— emotional, pathetic pictures; actual newsreel and the absolute film.” Eisenstein’s meaning will probably be clearer when his agricultural individual epic, “The General Line,” which he is now completing, is released. In it, he is striving to capture the pathos and momentalism of the everyday life of the masses. Apart from his work as a director of motion pictures, Eisenstein is teaching the theory and practice of direction at the State Technical In- stitute of the Cinema in. Moscow. He is also head of the Cinema Di- vision of the Psycho-Physical labo- ratories organized to study the re-) actions of the spectator. In addition he is preparing a number of books on the cinema and interestine him- self in sound movies, in which he f Read and Spread.the Werker ‘ (THE ORGAN OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE) On Sale at All Newstands In New York and Vicinity Buy an Extra Copy for. las Your Shopmate! JOBYNA RALSTON In “The Power of the Pres showing on the Broadway Theatre screen this week. Excavation Workers Suffer From Fatal Lung Sicknesses More than half the rock drillers, blasters and excavators suffer from fatal pulmonary disease, resulting from inhalimg vock dust, according te a six-months stacy made jointly by the y York Tuberculosis and Health of Physicians and Surgeons. This disease, called silicosis, is on the increase, owing to the rapid increase in the number of workers engaged in this type of work. 20-mile water tunnel through New York City will lead ETAOIN SHR York City will need 5,000 men for six years and the new subways to be built and under way, in addition to much building excavation, will vapidly increase the number of men suffering from this sickness. Few or no s feguards are given these workers, and even the poor substitute for wrecked heath, work- men’s compensation, is alcking be- cause of the hypocritical excuse of the difficulty of diagnosis and the long latent condition of the sick- ness. KILLING INVESTIGATED. BALTIMORE,\Ma., Nov. 26 (UP). Conflicting stories as to the fatal shooting yesterday of Thomas J. Beatin, 21, when he called on his wife at the apartment of Frederick Ledbetter, 26, were investigated to- day. believes lies the future of the me- dium, Eisenstein has from the first condemned the dialogue form, be- lieving that sound effects accom- ying a film is the ultimate goal. ociation and the College | The | HEBREW CHARITY HAS NO HELP T0 GIVE SICK MAN ‘Worker With T. B. Is Sent Elsewhere (By a Worker Correspondent) It happens that I, an American born and an ex-serviceman, am suf- fering from pulmonary tuberculosis. I went to the United Hebrew Char- ities (the faith ‘in which I was born), to get assistance. I did not want financial aid but I thought they might be able to send me to the Otisville Sanitorium. They were very sarcastic and told me that people like me belong to Bellevue and furthermore that they do not help sick bums. Now I should like to know why there are such organizations as this in existence, I don’t happen to be a bum as I work every day for my bread. There was a young man at the | Charities who happened not to be | sick and he also did not receive any help from that institution. They told him to go to the Salvation Army’s woodyard where they would take care of him. —B. B. May Pension Favored Canal Zone Workers WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Old ‘and used-up workers in the Panama Canal Zone are to be retired on pen- sions—maybe. A _ retirement law will come up before congress when & meets in December, which, if passed, will benefit a small section of the canal zone workers. The law is designed to aid chiefly skilled workers and straw-bosses. Only American citizens will be eli- gible for the pensions, the large number of foreign-born workers in the Panama Canal Zone suffering the usual fate of old workers—the scrap-heap. MAIL FLYER KILLED. WEST LEBANON, 0., Nov. 26 (UP).—Pete Johnson, 21, air mail pilot, was killed today when his plane ran into a storm and crashed. The flier apparently had lost his way in the storm. John’s body was in the wreckage when it was discovered near here. Be THE THEATRE Presents | > Major Barbara GUILD i a Thursday < GUILD . 8:30, Mats, a 230 | Strange Interlude | John GOLDEN Ae sth of B'way KVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 se THEA. W 4th ST ERLANGER SHEA. w sain st Mats., Thurs. & at 2:30 George M. Cohan s Comedians with POLLY WALKER in Mr Cohan's Newest Musical ’ Comedy “BILLIE”: J Phea. JOLSON Evs. fat, Th, & Sat. Guy operre DE WOLF ROBERTSON _MYRTIL HOOPER 1 @ musica! romance of Choptn 7th Ave. & 69th St WHITE LILACS FAY BAINTER JEALOUSY” with JOHN HALLIDAY | MAXINE-HLLIOTT'S ‘Thea. W. 39. St. Mats. Thurs. & Sat.’ Eves. 8:40 We demand the immediate re-~ moval of all in all | trade unions against the member- ship of Negro workers and equal opportunity for employme: wages, hours and working con tions for Negro and white workers, ARTHUR HOPKINS presents “HOLIDAY” y Philip Barry hea., W.45thSt.Eves.8.30 Mats. Wed., Fri. & Sat. civic REPERTORY '48t..¢thav. ’ Eves, 8:30 500; $1.00; $1.50, Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “La Locandiera. . Mat., “Cradle Son: ve., “Peter Pan a new comed: PLYMOUTH BRITISH BIG PARADE? rz! The SOMM Remarkable Film Record of one of the crucial campaigns of the Great War. N MARTIN BECK THEATRE, i 45th St. 8th Ave. Eves, 8.30. Mats., Wednesday and Saturday. Special Matinee Thanksgiving Day. Continuous Noon to Midnight. “TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD”. Pop. 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