The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 4

CO a ee ere eee Bromeon . | Pane Four ‘ } DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928 La Follette Act Proves Itself Futile for Seafarers, Seaman Correspondent Writes MISLEADERS OF MILK TRUST IS Theatre Guild Production of NEAR STARVING, L$. U. MUST BE ORGANIZED TO ce apne Due Here Dee 31) Wonken FINDS REPUDIATED FIGHT FARMERS ELECTIONS IN 3 NO PROSPERITI’ Militant Mew Union Is Cooperation, Under the “Caprice” by Sil-Vara, formerly LEATHER UNION Lynn Fontanne, Ernest Cossart,| Futile Search for Work Weed Communists, Need IN “THE YELLOW PASS” Armored W; atchdog of U. S. Imperialism called “Playing at Love,” is com-) pletely cast, according to announce- *Douglass Montgomery, Lily Cahill,| Geneva Harrison and Caroline New-; Exposes Myth Call on Membership to ; comb, Poa (By a Worker Correspondent) ; (By « Worker. Correspondent) n Correspondent) | adit: oO P. F The play will be given its first| f The I men’s Union | MILWAUREE, Wis. (By Mail). | ust S, P. Fakers showing at the Hollis. Street ‘Thea-| One always reads in the capital- Wisconsin dairy farmers are begin- tre, Boston, Monday, December 17, | ist press about the prosperity in the 000 for the Continned from Page One appropriate: Tastion cot Ta vs ning to feel the unchallenged nd will come to New Y United States, but I cannot see it. cle > n : nee i bes strength of the big milk trust which workers in very close co-operation | weeks later, opening 2 eae I have been out of work over a ede re Sea: put throug has recently invaded the state. They \n th the employers are Shiplakoff’s lat ahs Guild Theatre. _Shaw’s ais month and up to date I have had = Ree Aa have taken over all of the biggest d St Sha haa ctheiaclereel | chief weapons to check the attempt | “Major Barbara,” the present occu-| 20 luck whatsoever. Bu jow that dairies and creameries. This means | tne peasant heroine in the new So.| oe re erent bulk of the membership | pant of the, Guild, will then be| I was in the city of Bridgeport The U. S. S. Texas, flagship of the scouting fleet, which is now in drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard undergoing repairs. As a new war draws near, special pains are being taken to keep armored watchdogs of American imperialism in good st the peasant heroine in the new Sov-|to usher in an honest militant lead- | kino arte, 5 ta now ‘ership of the Pocketbook Workers crowding the capacity of the Cameo \U : i Thee | nion. | Word has the I less ely use- batting the men have es not be. All that the farmer is no more his own | boss, as he always thought he was. The farmers are still ignorant of the fact that the milk trust is now well organized against them and the | moved to another theatre. for a few days and I “interviewed” EY |the masters, but of no avail. In the | been received that | following places of slavery, U. M. C. Ethel Barrymore has fully recoy- | Bridgeport Brass, Singer Sewing) Machine and the General Electric, as ¢ hip owne F thes Unserupulous Bareaucracy. This election group cannot and|ered from her temporary illness. lieve in x ft bal Sapper oli know AUSTRALASI ANS A STIR workers. will not bind the leather goods | She resumed her role in “The King-|I had to submit to a physical exam- that t * he boss is fu ihiacdeoné-ot the: tient aE workers that at the head ef the | dom of God” at’ the Wilbur Theatre| ination. And here is the verdict tle fie x, a eo Prickianes dttiat by ees fi rend aaa Pocketbook Union stands a most un- | in Boston Monday night, and will! that all handed down to me: Your The shipowner h 1 ae 2 isi DEC AR AF GP Ev abe Dyeg D IO: scrupulous bureaucracy turning the | continue there this week. The play| eyes are in bad condition, your lungs whip over the honest fare: South Pacific Labor nm World Arena i oun ry as | OENTRALIA MEN anization into a company union. | will open in New York at the new|are weak, heart trouble. Ot} In order that the seamen might 4 In the vicinity of the city the av- a OEY ‘This election cannot conceal the fact Ethel Barrymore Theatre, on Thurs-|{hings- that they said to me whe break the yoke and stop the ship- Ieee Ss erage price of milk is about $2 per that the discontent of the members | day evening, December 20, and not in Latin or Greek, I do not kn¥w ewner from wielding the lash of low By PPTUS Press Service. was for long isolated from the world 100° for the three and seven-tenths | pai :3 growing as a result of the fail-|on December 17, as announced. which, for my knowledge of medical} wages, rotten food and working! ‘The contradicting interests of the /#bor movement. The affiliation to| test milk. Only about one out of Tabor Men Intensify jure on the part of Shiplakoff’s ad-| John Henry Mears announces that! terms is limited, conditions, and or the sea- nen to get higher wages, good food, abolition of fines and logging, the right to leavea s and wher p when he pleases e pleases, and that he n the at cost price, that support of militant transport work- ars in foreign countries, the Ameri- can seafarer must organize himself into a new union which is not tar- ed by the hands of the slimy, grafting, crooked betrayers of the working class, who make up the of- ficialdom of the A. F. ee Fin Green, Fur i Hugh nd the s the d like r, and it reet govern- The bureau- ll Street governr a dog following it does what the Wa it ment. bi to do. cratic officialdom of the Int tional Seamen’s Uni will never organize the seamen of America. It ent nas degenerated into a 100 per company union and all seamen who | ere interested in an honest militant, organization must get to- gether and form a new union. J. S. M. British Follow U. S. Plan of Exploitation by Weekly Installment LONDON. Dec. —The British Drapery Trust, the installment house Drage and the Daily Express thru Lord Beaverbrook have com- bined to follow the example of American installment houses and ex- ploit workers in the more efficient manner of weekly or monthly ex- tractions. Following the amalgamation of the Drapery Trust and Drage’s, Ltd. the Daily E. gan to boost the installment business by carrying double column hymns to the installment sharks on its front page. It appeals to its readers to adopt installment buying and achieve “prosperity” by becoming customers of the new combine. Lord Beaverbrook specializes in exploiting the newly-married couples , by offering them furniture on the installment basis, netting a good in- terest and then taking the furniture as soon as the purchasers fail in a payment. Daily means build- ation for a mass arty in this country. Building the the fo! Communist 500 press immediately be-| COPIES— greatest imperialist plunderers, the United States, England and Japan, are interwoven on the Pac’ The problem of markets inte: ies, | makes a tight knot of the contradic-! tions between these countries and brings to the fore the “military problem,” i. e., war for hegemony on the Pacific, The Pan Pacific Trade Union Sec- retariat (PPTUS) was founded at the Pacific Trade Union Conference, held in May, 1927, in Hankow. The initiators themselves, the delegates {from the Australian Trades Union| il, which includes Tasmanian did not succeed in being pre- sent at the conference (the Bruce} conservative government took good; care of this), At the conference,| however, there were nine national movements represented. The Aus- tralian Trades Union Council subse- quently adopted all the decisions of the conference and affiliated to the PPTUS, The Pan-Pacific Werker. In view of the distance to Aus- tralia, the Pan-Pacific Trades Union Secretariat adopted a decision to publish q special Australian edition of its organ, the “Pan Pacific Worker.” The ten issues published up to the present contain several, burning | interesting articles on themes of Pacific labor. The labor movement of Australia has for decades been stewing in compulsory arbitration. The bour-| succeeded by| geosie there have means of slight concessions through the arbitration courts, in educating a whole generation of well-intending trade union bureaucrats, who, hav- ing’ specialized in jurisprudence, rep- resent the interests and “lead” the! struggle of the working masses. . . before the arbitration judge Instil Capitalist Ideas. They have succeeded in instilling in the working masses the belief that the arbitration courts are “im- partial,” the workers were wont to explain rejection of their demands by the unfavorable attitude of the given judge or the inability of their representatives to prove the justness of the workers’ demands. They further succeeded in poison- ing to a great extent the class-con- sciousness of the working masses with the idea of the harmfulness of the class struggle and the salutari- ness of the settlement of disputes between labor and capital by dea tration. The labor movement of Australia ,0O of the Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 the Pan Pacific Secretariat is the first big step towards coming’ out on the world arena of struggle against capital. The Australian working class is faced with the task of reorganizing the trade union movement on an! industrial basis, the task of con- solidating its ranks, the task of abolishing the arbitration system, and over the head of its apostles, of setting up a united front to give a set-back to the developing offen- sive of capital. For Internationalism. In the face of these tasks the “Pan . Pacific Worker” takes on especial importance. The magazine is conducting a fight against race prejudices, widely propagating the idea of internationalism—which is especially distasteful to the leaders of the Labor Party and the trade union bureaucrats, who defend the idea of “White Australia.” It may be said that in this respect that it played a central role in the decision passed by the Emergency Trade Union Congress of Australia (July, 1928) to retain its member- ship in the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. .This decision was a blow to the trade union bureaucrats and a still greater blow to the Ams- terdam International, which has re- cently intensified its not indecisive courting of the Australian trade union movement, This decision is of itself of great political importance. Bureaucrets and Government. The magazine has calted forth the anger and dissatisfaction of the re- actionary trade union bureaucrats, | a vivid example of their mood being the declaration by Mr. Gibson, a delegate from Melbourne, to the Emergency Trade Union Congress, ‘with regard to the composition of the PPTUS:...“It consists of three whites and a_ conglome! of various Asiatic tril having un- pronounceable names, who have the audacity to determine upon the Union Council.” policy for the Australasian Trades Union Council.” A few words on the “freedom of press” enjoyed by the Left press, including the “Pan Pacifie Worker.” According to the laws of the coun- try (The Crimes Act) the incitement of hostile feelings between the vari- ous classes of the subjects of His Majesty, which might threaten peace...is punishable by three years imprisonment. fifty farmers is allowed such a high | test. Out of this they deduct from fifteen to twenty-five cents per 106 for hauling, which nets the farmer less than four-tenths of a cent per quart. In the spring of the year the poor farmers go to their churches and pray to the lord for rain and {| better crops. Then they contribute | their hard-earned money for these good crop creameries. But can you tell me what is the | use of all this? The bigger and better crops you vet the less you receive for them. ‘Shen where is your gain? But there sure must be some way. i We have a word in our dictionary that will teach us how we can gai! The corporate interests, big busi- ness, Wall Street, the milk trust, the meat trust and many others have found it and use it and have succeeded with it so far. Co-oper- ate! Whorever there is co-opera- | tion there is power. In writing | from experience as a dairy former and a dairy worker in this city, I snould iike to make a few sugges- tions, If you want any help you must help yourselves. Don’t depend on big business to come to your door | and offer you any justice. You must organize all your little farming communities into one big unit. This must be organized with the help of the Communist Party, so as to get the co-operation of the vorkersqin the city. The Communist Party 1s the only Party not capable of any falsehood and which is not an agent of the capitalist class. The Commun'sis are putting up a hold fight to bring this government into the hands of the workers and farmers. The workers fought and gave up their lives supposedly for freedom. Now we must demand it. But if we have no co-operative pow- ers our demands are only to be laughed at. So let us farmers and workers stand together and co-operate and we will see who will laugh last. Weer aeCe (EDITOR'S NOT -The above piece of Worker Correspondence is printed in the Daily Worker because ‘of its militant quality.) | JOIN WORKERS RELIEF _ AND HELP WIN STRIKES The abbreviation LL.D. is well! known in America among the class} conscious. workers, but the ebbrevi- ation W.I.R. is little known. What does it stand for? Workers Inter- national Relief, | This is an international organi: tion, for example in Germany it is jealled I.A.H. | beide-Hilfe) and is under Comrade Willy Munzenberg’s capable leader- ship. It was the W.LR. that rallied to the support of the’ Europears workers during the famine years,| aiding the Russians, In America the organization existed first as the Friends of So-| viet Russia, later as the Interna-| tional Workers Aid and finally adopted the international name, i workers and farmers gathered to- \for these working class fighters. The | tional ate Campaign ; SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 12,—145 delegates from 60 organizations of gether to consider methods for carrying on an intensified campaign for the release of the eight Centralia | ivictims at the Labor Temple, Seattle, Washington, on December 2. The | Centralia workers have served more |than nine years in the penitentiary |at Walla Walla as a result of a vici- ous frame-up by the lumber in- terests. The conference was called | under the auspices of the Centralia; Liberation Committee. a broad com- i mittee representing all elements in- terested in a movement for freedom committee was organized six months ago at the initiative of the Interna- Labor Defense, Seattle} branch and has drawn the labor and \t liberal elements into this movement. | The conference was opened by Charlotte Tobes, Secretary of the D. and also of the Centralia Liberation Committee. Many Speakers. The following speakers. jconference by the |eommittee: George Vanderveer, at-| |torney for the Centralia victims; | Elmer Smith, a Centralia defendant; sive Farmers: W. T. Morris, presi- dent of the Tacoma Central Labor | Council; and Carl Brannin, Interna- tional Labor Defense. The I. L. D. speaker however showed the necessity for greater {pressure by the masses, more propa- gathered for a three-day confer- ganda and the building of a power- |ful mass movement that will force the official agents of the lumber in- terests to free these men. Resolutions were adonted at the conference greeting the Centralia | victims, calling upon the governor and the parole board to grant an im- \mediate unconditional pardon, out- ilining a plan of action, demanding \the release of Mooney, Billings, John Porter and all class war prisoners and the reveal of the Criminal Syn- | \dicalism law. More Publicity. The plan of action called for an jintensified campaign of publicity, | mass meetings, petitions, resolutions, | ¢ delegations to the governor, the rais- | ing of funds and the selection of a | delegate from each organization , [present to serve on the Centralia | |Liberation Committee. | A resident executive committee of |7 members were elected by the con- ference as follows: Carl Brannin, Federal Labor Union; M. J. Miller, Carpenters No. | list; John O. Kennedy; Seattle La-| [bor College; A. Winton, Painters | Union No. 300; Louise Burke, | United Council of Working Women; | Charlotte Todes, International La-| bor Defense and F. W. Shorter. | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn now in| ministration to enforce the agree- the members to register their vote | in the’ name of militant unionism and union democracy for the foliowing ‘candidates. The Progressive Leather | Goods Group calls upon the mem- bers to vote against Shiplakot!, who | the business agents who are the} cogs. of the Shiplakoff machine. calls in this election. nothing but a fake to cover up their grabbing schemes with a gesture of demoeracy. tion of $60 tax or where it concerns \trade and organization policies or | decisions made at the last conven- zeferendum was taken. organizer at a time when no organ- jization policies were discussed and |the administration itself has none |to offer, the clique aims to show among | that there is democracy in the Pock- | others, were invited to address the ¢p00k Workers Union, while in re- arrangements | ality there is none, Professional Drys -to Wm. Bouck of the Western Progres- | Launch Another Party | debate took place in the hall of the (Internationale © Ar-| used in all the English speaking | Portland was also invited to speak | countries, the Workers International |at the conference, but she was un- Relief. |able to attend due to ill health. In Germany, Scandinavia, earcdi| pune his latest production, the comedy | | “Brothers,” starring Bert Lytell,! will open at the Forty-eighth Street! Theatre on Monday night, Decem-} | ber 24, ment ywith the bosses. The Progressive Group calls upon | The Yiddish Folks Theatre is con-| |tinuing its run of “The Eternal | | Mother” indefinitely. Micha and | Lucy Gehrman portray the princi- | pal characters. Performances are given Friday, Saturday and Sun- | day, with matinees on Saturday and) running as manager, and against | [are not getting very much pay for |cheir labor and some are not work- jing at all. Call On Militants. The Progressive Group further upon the members to vote “House Unguarded,” the new play | against the $100 out-of-town organ- | by Len D. Hollister ‘and Lester | jzer as submitted to a referendum | Lonergan, which Bernard Steele is} This referendum is | producing, will have its tryout per-| formances at New Rochelle this week end prior to its Broadway showing. The production is sche- | duled for this city the. week of Dec. | 81. The cast is headed by Lester | Lonergan and includes Kay Strozzi, ion or all these vital questions, no | Clark Gable and Mildred MacLeod. British Ship “Expert” Asks Vestris Probers Use English Whitewash If necessary, in order to keep. the Lamport-Holt Company and the U. S. Department of Commerce head, Herbert Hoover, from receiving the \blame for the loss of life on the sunken Vestris, more “investiga- \tions” of the present “investiga- tions” will be strung out until the heirs of the dead themselves die of old age, if the nlan suggested by the British “adviser” in the U. S. Com- missioner’s hearing is put into ef- fect. ence: This British adviser, Captain It was reported discussions would Henry McConkey, refused to give be held on the possibility of taking any reason for the Vestris sinking, drys from both the major political |siving the alibi that he had not had parties and forming a federal “pro- | ‘sufficient time for study,” and so gressive party” aimed along present on. In this attitude, he is follow- geperal lines of the prohibition | ing the precedent of all the supposed party. experts, who for all their alleged wisdom, claim that it is a complete ‘mystery. | The best McConkey could do was to suggest that “the findings of the "United States group be sent to the | British Board of Trade which will When it was a ques- With this referendum for a $100 WASHINGTON, ON, Dec. 12.—Rumors launched in the next presidentia! launched ni the next presidential campaign were current here today as leaders of the prohibition patty Youth Win Debate on Political Activity” BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail). )a debate on the participation of | | Sunday. ic lery very often. |the House of Commons resulted iy It is almost the same here in New Haven. I walked so much that I have developed callouses on my feet. Where is this so-called prosper ity? Where is it? I cannot see it, All I see is starvation, all about me, little children walking to school ‘mm ragged clothes, no overcoats vinched faces. I know that this i caused by hunger, Their parents The other evening two little chil dren asked me to take them some where to get them something to eat) for they were very hungry. !s that ign of prosperity? I can tel ryone this much, that I go hun. But I am used gc And I am-not alone on that cq) it. dition, At the present time jp writing I could partake of sokiq nourishment, And I don’t mear maybe. T am sure that I can tell wher the Coolidge “prosperity” is. It is in the hands of the master class, th¢ banks and so forth. But we, thd wking class, haven’t got any © t, and the only way we can get i is to do the following: Overthrow the capitalist system. And thd cu'ekest way we can do i that th workers of the world unite. ' JOS. MARRON. Claim Ford Influences Bank of Engiand Thry Place Given Directo 11—A LONDON, Dec. debate i certain members assailing Ford’ new European trust, which invol placing on sale 2,800,000 shares stock to nay for companies mi with the Ford Motor Co. Critic’ is directed against Ronald Kitsor director of the Bank of Englanc 4 # q end Thomas Davies, director of th! Suez canal for accepting position) \on the Ford board of directors, whic it is claimed, amounts practically t Tor bribing the Bank of England. members, partners of J. Pie: Morgan entered the row, on the youth in politics, the Young Work- | ers League of this city receited a | vote of 30 as against 3 for the Fine | Arts Youth Club, which was opened to youth activity in politics. The latter organization, The agitprop director of the Bos- ton district of the League, Ehrlich, ridiculed the arguments of his op- ponent that youth is an imaginative Best Film Show In Town AME 4ind Street and Broadway see Feonduee an investigation.” More of Ford’s competitor, Genera | whitewash, more stalling. ‘Motors. ¢ i Keith-Albee O NOW! PREMIERE creature and therefore a fantastic dreamer, unfit to take part in poli- | ties, He showed the source of po- litical discrimination against the youth, its exploitation and militar- ization, and the only solution for ‘this situation is class wolitical ac- | tion. DARING! By the Producers of “EN: unem- alism. 'The only way to ployment ix to abolish e: SENSATIONAL !| Another Remarkable Sovkino Production {) “THE YELLOW PASS” | AMERICAN | | } D OF ST, PETERSBURG” Great Britain, in fact all over Eu-} rope, there is a membership of sev-| eral millions, affiliated . with the | W.LR. either directly or sop ot A Knock at Romantic Sufferers ‘Theatre GULLD Productions Wings Over ARTHUR HOPKINS presents “HOLIDAY” a new comedy by Philip Barry PLYMOUTH Thea.,W.45thst. eves. 4 EUROPE) ia helping German, Irish, British and| thra an organization, ra Mats. Thurs. & FIFTH BIRTHDAY Russian workezs. Millions of dollars} Every worker should become a By JULIA PELLMAN, came like a golden stream from the! member of the W.I.R. and should] | MARTIN BECK THEA. ||)‘ "451NSs 46th St. mee ca 45th St West of 8th Ave. || Evenings 8:30 } Thurs. and Sat. 2:30 || A hang for your cheery martyrs, workers of the whole world in res-| take part in the work of supplying! 4 , With the seven virtues graced. i ponse to the appeal of the Russian | clothes and food to all workers in Mats. Wednesday and Saturday SCHWAB and MANDISL’s | Mats. | from starvation, At that time the| advice and mobilizes the masses in} W.LR. established cooperative farms | struggle against the class injustices, | -DER A BUNDLE NOW F ributi v ‘ js 8 prea fe EOE : tribution on ii orkers and peasants of the Volga| times of need, ‘The W.LR. is the| We may suffer, but our virtues 5 CURR Ng a AT musical suas” © , the annin ersary of the only ret olutionary fight- | region, and saved thousands o: | iste ie? Cross. abe LL. L a Have a slightly radish taste, ‘ | M jor B b | OO D N E W ra ing English Daily in the world. We must make this j Peasants, workers and children! fends workers on trial, gives lega We may suffer, but our virtues | aj ar ara | _with GRONGE OLSEN'S mustC, | GUILD its, 30, Mats Anniversary the occasion for bringing the DAILY Have a vinegary taste. reached before. Price, Daily Worker Please send at the rate of $ NAMED ADDRE WorKER to thousands of workers that we have never This edition will have additional features, special nhotos and will be larger many times the present size. $10 per thousand. Order a few days in advance. 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. pusand, To arrive not later than .... 1 am attaching a remittance to cover same. copies of The DAILY WOKKER j and fisheries, all with modern ma- chinery and built up factories, con- | sidering this the best method of | Emblem of Workers’ International Relief as for example in the Sacco-Van-) zetti case, but the W.I.R. brings material relief to the workers in the |form of food and clothing, shelter | and medical supplies. Not as charity, workers and by the workers. Espe- cially in America is the W.I.R. ne- when the workers are face to face with many mass conflicts, For all information as to W.LR. write either to National office, 1 Union Square, New York, or to Chicago office, W.LR., 23 South Lincoln St. 182 MINERS KILLED IN OCT. WASHINGTON, (By Mail).—Ac- the United States ‘caused the death of 182 men, the U. S. Bureau of Mines reports, Most of these could| be traced to operators’ negligences but as solidarity, cooperation for the| | cessary, and more so now than ever! cidents in coal mines in October in! We'll give a blow | But we hate our Though we dare o ‘That give up, sad A hang for your cheery martyrs | | That go smiling to their doom, But net a wink for gloom; | We have a taste for happiness, But we don’t relish gloom. A hang for your pale self pityer. That like their persecution! We may be executed, : We don’t like us executed, . A hang for your sweet old slac’ , l’s not the aching that we like, Ve like the striking back. ‘To save tho aching we will ache For ail men, striking back. Thursday «nd Sa Strange Interlude Jono GOLDEN (thes. 68th Bavay fay. 230 for happihess, HVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 LITTLE 146 W. Sith St. (( anxeaie Noon to Midnight | PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices “UNEASY MONEY— THE AMAZING ADVENTURE er A BANKNOTE” Produced by KARL FREUND_ Mat. Wed. and Sat. at 2:30 George M. Cohan’s Comedians with POLLY WALKER ‘in Mr Cohan’s Newest Musical ‘om “BILLIE” execution! ur execution. and slack! NITE HS MITE HOSTESS VANDERBILT THEATRE _ ‘W. 48th St. Evs. 8:20 § _Mats. Wednesday and PERTORY 1 fivic REPERTORY '48t.0r 50c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director \roday—“The Cherry Orchard.” | Tomorrow Eve.—‘Peter Pan.” | militantly against the offensiv of the bosses,