The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 4

Page Four After | Waiting Days in Sea OVER 100 OTHER MEN FOOLED IN SAME MANNER Demand Pay, Shoved Down Gangway (By a Seaman Corre ondent) 1 endless Board, unem- body States standing amidst a ed seamen who r to the counter eve called out, like wolves, I was at 2 job on a shin. Th to pass a doctor’ other hour Jed with und I had examination. An- spent waiting for the doctor examine m The examination consisted of getting your family history and then being shipped room like a slaughter. The specification pass this horse was a physique like a pr fighter. I managed to pass him after a lot of pounding and got an O. K. slip. Then I was instructed to see Joe (the fink) shipping master. I was to report aboard the . George Washington with my clothes for. the Chief Engineer. This was Saturday morning, and the chief engineer told me to come aboard Monday 8 a. ™m,. Monday I was aboard bright and early full of expectations of the job, but to my dismay I found over 100 other seamen waiting for the Same job. The engineer in charge eame and looked us all over; we all made a dash to him with our slips. He calmly waved them back and \ nroceeded to pick the huskies out. | He hired 20 men. I was not one of }them. Then we were told we were not. wanted and when ‘I began to de- mand my wages for waiting two dgys for the job I was roughly pushed down the izway. Now I ‘am back in the pping office of the United States Scabbing Board, Worced to go thru the same process ‘ order to get a job. These condi- {ns would be remedied if the sea- impe. were organized in the Marine ile @ers Progressive League, the ferew fighting union on the water- here,t, ©: ing’ it, into the doctor’s sheev goin the necessary to dos —J. F. G. used by the various nations: of the “Canada, " It is, understood that the ration 42 ———— BY U.S, EMPIRE ' Board Reports Canada ; and Others Object | (Continued from Page One rf continent. = Canada, the commi pointed 5 | out, is complicating the situation by holding out for one-half of the fre- + quencies, but the United 4 A gentleman’s agreement was ten- ) tatively arrived at between the ® North American nations at a con- * ference here iast August, the terms of which have never been made pub- | of distribution was to be four to the } United States for one to Canada, Cuba 4nd Mexico. The te de- partment, it is learned, still is await- ing word from Canada on the orig- be avoided, there must be an under- sists that it, by virtue of greater me) I | inal agreement, Before this valuable spectrum is Standing as to the channel to be “population, is entitled to more than Most To United States. distributed to the multitude of com- mercial applicants, it was stated, Nhe commission must consummate | § the intercontinental agreement. It also ‘must decide, the report x ) Said, ag to the policy that wil! gov-| | 9m the allocation. Manifestiy, the } commission related, all of the appli- j, ¢ants cannot be satisfied and it must 4 differentiate between the character of Services that will be allowed in ejthis virgin field. G And anyone realizing the pc and commercial importance of monopoly of the best frequencies in radio will realize that that mon- CK missal Faces Men Who Refuse t) (By a Worker Correspondent) The Meter Corporation of 23 W. ard St., New York City, employs 3) workers in its shop, at wages of 88 to $40 a week, but mostly the named figure. The bosses of company have offered stock to Hworkers in order to keep them s dand prevent them from pro- Nagainst their conditions. at $100 a share, $s are supposed to Most of the siopoly wiil be established they have heard that they missed if they do not buy a. M. “Sing, A ne from now be You Jailbird, Sing!” Singing Jailbirds,” ng played at the New Playw: 7. W. organi the play by Upton Sinelair ights Theatre. The scene shows zer, in “the hole.” “ rch for Berth, oy tS “CHARITABLE” “Red” Adams, the I. W nging Jail- irds” has been hailed by nearly all critics as the best'production the Theatre ha given. CARPENTERS LOCAL 2090 MUST ELECT MILITANT |compared to one so-called man who, | by appearance, sets himself up as cal 2090 of the United Brotherhood|a “model of virtue” in everything, | of Carpenters of America, for the| and no doubt sets himself up as a| office of Business Agent. This be-| spiritual leader and advisor to lead ing the case, it is well to po:mt out|the flock, and, strange to say, but a few ts as to the elements in- not surprising, that he does carry volved and the q ions of the weight with such of the member- men who are aspiring to this very|ship whe do not yet understand his important position, This, indeed is|motives of underhandedness, and |vitally important to the member-|are modest enough to follow blindly a Worker Correspondent) ngain the fight is on in Lo- AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928 af SOCIETY HAS | Ry WORKER JAILED = |He Was Active in Aid- ; | ing Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent) When in Cleveland, jobless, and without a penny, I was compelled by necessity to seek the aid of the Jewish Social Service. I had then been without work for 4 months. I found ‘out that there were muny other workers’ families in the same |plight as T was, and I wished to |help them, so I kept advising them to demand aid from this so-called charitable society. At this period, | fim, “The Yellow Pass,” now show- |I was active in the attempts of the ing at the Cameo. 80,000 unemployed workers to de- mand aid from the city authorities. The Jewish Social Service heard of jmy activities for the unemployed and starving, so they threatened to have me arrested and sent to the Cleve-| land City Hospital for the Mentally | Unbalanced, and detained me there for 8 months. After that I thought | I would leave Cleveland, and try New York City in my search for | work. I was unable to find any for awhile. When I went to the Jewish Social Service in New York City, I found that they had received my Anna Sten, who takes the part of he peasant woman in Sovkino's new LEWIS AND BOSS CUT AVELLA PAY New Strikes Coming If Policy Is Continued AVELLA, Pa, (Bp Mail).—Al- | though operating a large number of “record” from the Social Service| 15° biggest mines in the Pittsbacch from Cleveland. When they learned | iics.iet the, Pittsburgh Terme that I had no relatives or friends in| (Striet, the Pittsh ; New York City, they threatened to | ©°#! Co. has singled out one of its have me sent to another Mental Hos- | °Petations for a ten per cent wage pital. They did this because they cut and this goes into effect imme- haw Kwan jnle helpless position. diately, according to notices posted eH. S, [at the F. and W. mine at Avella, APPLY FOR Pa., which is operated by this com- JOB; RAFFLE IT “Stocks Up,” Jobs Few, | Says Paper oy However, the men employed at the mine feel differently about the matter, and a fight is in prospect |on its threat. Short-time work and starvation earnings are already the jrule here, in fact, it is the rule all over the district, and a new star is imminent in the mine fields. This latest wage cut, which re- duces the pay of day men from 34.75 to’ $4.2 chit (By « Worker Correspondent) | ; man eee ee iy LOS ANGELES (By Maii).—A ners from 85 cents to 75 cents a raedical man advertised in a Los|ton and machine runners from 11 |about as original, in construction! _|er Dorman’s admonition re the Seaman Is Hoaxed by U.S Shipping Board |. in Yellow Pass ‘Sign of Leopard,’ at National Is Facile Murder Melodrama ‘GROP G00D, BUT FARMERS LOSE Non-Partisan League Is in With Banks | |THE new play that opened at the |" National Theatre this week, “Sign of the Leopard,” is one of |the detective and murder stories | that the facile Edgar Wallace turns | | out in England as often and as eas-) \ily as Owen Davis here. It was) and execution, as Fire Commission- nearest exit. It was somewhat of a pleasure to! have everything work out exactly) (By a Worker Correspondent) as one expected—it was unneces-| SANISH, N. D., (By Mail).—Tho sary to wriggle the tail of the/the crop in McKenzie County was smallest nerve cell connecting with| good, the farmers are not making the brain. Only here and there | anything. In many ways the crop stale prohibition or newspaper |is a loss instead of a gain, because joke broke the calm. of the very low price. The farmers Many of those who had come to|are at the turning point. They have see and hear a real imported play|had enough of capitalism and are must have been thrilled, for at regu-| mote and more seeing that only a lar intervals one could hear awed) workers and peasants government whispers inquiring what this or that englicism meant. This despite | things that is also noticeable is that a vocabulary appended to the pro-|the so-called “progressive” "and gram. 3 | “radical” Nonpartisan League lead- | The tale briefly is one of crook| ers are working hand in glove with meeting baffling detective and al-/the banking and business interests most losing his fiancee to him./for the division of the political | Later the dick helps the girl’s uncle | spoils of the country. to shoot the villain, chivalrously | realizing that pays. ae sil | | piness would justify the slip of the). |trigger finger. ‘Crouch and Hall to A high priced brother, silent au-| ° i | tomatics, sly reporters, whiskey and | Speak in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec., 16.— —A. K. |sodas, and all the secretive grim-| |aces of a detective story are scat- \tered fullsomely through the play| Paul Crouch, secretary of the All-| will do them any good. One of the | ATTEMPT T0 ~ DESTROY RED VOTE IN OHIO Town Authorities Are | Caught in Act (By a Worker Correspondent) |_ CINCINNATI, Ohio (By Mail). — I wish to call your attention that I |live in Highland County, 0., Allens- |burg, East Dodson Township. I went home on election day to vote |and my wife also voted the Work- jers Party ticket, so I was sure of |two votes for the Workers Party, |but next morning before I left I | went to make sure they had counted the votes. I found on the report- |ing sheet only one vote, so I got |busy right away as soon as I got |here and wrote to the attorney gen- eral. He forwarded my letter to the secretary of state to have it in- | vestigated, and so finally we had | our two votes officially counted. We have Jived there about a year and |by next election there will be quite la number of others to vote Com- | munist. | T. HAMANN. ‘Ford Negligence Kills Belt Slave DETROIT, (By Mail).—Paul Ke- if the company does not back down | and they make pretty thin garnish-/ America Anti-Imperialist League, | lik, 40, a worker in the Ford auto ing. \will speak here on the significance | Plant at Highland Park, was killed So that, with an obvious play that of Hoover’s Latin-American trip,| ‘when a whirling belt slipped from is quite representative of the boiler-|and Otto Hall, organizer for the, its pulley. His wife and three chil- plate turned out by dramatic cor-|Negro Labor Congress, will talk on | dren have been left penniless. respondence schools, with acting to|his recent trip to the Soviet Union match, and bromidic comedy relief,|and its treatment of racial prob-’ lone is relieved when the evening’s|lems. The meeting will be held at The Daily Worker will be five years old on January 5. Workers from all parts of the country are entertainment comes to a close, | Liberty Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts.,,| ending in greetings. Have you —A.G. R. jon Friday, Dec. 21. yent in yours? If not, end 1 In ue —_——— : \| Vaudeville Theatres PALACE Phil Baker; Sid Silvers; Joe ee | Smith and Charles Dale, with Mario} . |and Lazarin; Lillian White; .Helen| Best Film Show C “Kelth-Albec O |Brown, with the Albertina Rasch Mf 10 oroqn AM E 2nd | Ballet; Ann Butler and Hal Parker: | 42nd Street and Broadway Big Week! | Victor. | ship at large, as it will be in this man’s hands that our future de- pends, | There are a number. of men in Local 2090 who really understand and know the tendency of laber and labor leaders, to which they have given a lifetime study, They have given careful thought as to the hap- penings at the recent convention, | which resulted in the expulsion of one of cur foremost fighters for | having had the courage to battle the reactionary elements at this conven- |tion. This local has among its mem- |bership some of this reactionary type, who, more than anyone else, not only permitted but were i ‘u- mental in bringing on the condition whereby such expulsion could have en place. And, so, these are the people, the very ones who: are as- piring to be and are in a way at the top, and would in all probability eon- tinue their dark and sinister work ting all efforts of n activities in behalf of all work- ers, which of course would be for! their own personal gain, never con- sidering how small or how fiithy it may be, so long as they arrive at their objective. | To combat such vile and unprin- cipled moves on their part it is not dis: a small matter for those of the workers who can see clearly and are in progressive spirits, but they must, as the need is great, to resist with united strength the moves of such selfish men who seek to be elected to Business Agent for no other reason but to gain their own selfish end. These kind of men, all e and class-conscious workers suld work against, and rightly so, for they deserve to be defeated. | This, bad as it is, is only mild! IN ANTHRASITE National Mine Union Needed to Save Men | (Special to the Daily Worker) glected nining companies in the an cite to make working here a very dangerous proposition. Here a list of recent fatalities and serious accidents, not a full list, but just ¢ that are well known, | Stanley Turi of 333 W. | Union St., Nanticoke, “Pa., died in the Nanticoke hospital from in- juries received when he was caught underneath a fall of rock in the No. 2 shaft of the Susquehanna Col- | lie ». He left his wife and four child This mine is known las very dangerous. -The company, lof course, is not interested in the safety of its employes, but in their, | product. Many of the miners in | this mine are, joining the National Miners’ Union. Michael Gurto, 34, of 3 Loomis in Mine No, 11 of the Susqueb-nna Collie Co. on the legs and ribs when he was true]. |defeat such henchmen with a black jeaught under a fall of rock in this |their resignations as a token that| hands, | United States in 1927 came from |number of pasesnger engineers em- He received injuries, Angeles newspaper the other day cents to 10 cents a ton, is believed for a woman to work in his office. | to be a move on the part of Lewis The next morning over 900 women | and his henchmen to create a situa- and girls of all ages appeared as | tion favorable to the establishment applicants at his place of business— of a real company union over which all asking for a chance to escape | they can exercise control and ‘to | starvation. |find out what the line-up is in the A number of letters and telegrams | strong local here of the National were also received by the doctor. | Miners Union. | Each applicant wrote her name| The same thing is contemplated on a slip of paper and put it into a| at the other mines operated by the jhat for a raffle. A red-headed girl | Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., if it Needless to say, the progressive came out victorious, If she is not| works in this mine, and it goes with- side of this local, knowing ai! this, | Red, in another sense of the word,|out saying that other companies cannot, and will not, submit to such |she ought to be. | will follow suit, but there is’ fight procedure without attempting to| The monthly Southwest Review of | left in the miners yet. This is more counteract, and with the help of all/the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- the progressive members hope to|merce said, in effect, recently: put and keep this local on a solid|“Stocks up, jobs few.” foundation by electing a man, one L. P. RINDAL. whom they trust to the fullest ex- tent, one whom they know will be ful in carry'ng out the prin- s of true unionism and work- to the best of a man is Seidler; this man, who by his very own ac- tions betrays himself, a self-cen- tered, shrewd ifier of facts, | but all the more dangerous because of his qualities, for he could, and would for a consideration, be counted as one who would at all times betray the tiust given him with ease. This is the type of man who is aspiring for election and his name is Berenzy. them realize that they have not a thing to lose now but their misery, and that is plenty. AUSTRIA EXTRADITES _ WORKERS TO TERROR art (Imprecorr Press Service) NICARAGUAN JOB porters, and, above all, to the mem- oe bers in general, as he can be counted on firmly to advance labor with the trend of time. VIENNA, (By Mail).—Austria, Now in dve consideration of all | which for a time granted proletar- these facts, it is not difficult to un- jian political fugitives a certain derstand that it is necessary to band together for the good of the cause and show them that when the time arrives for concerted action we can \right of asylum, is now continuing | its recent fascist policy in all forms \of political servility towards the | terrorist governments of the Balkan | states. A court in Vienna has de- selves with a clean, upright order cided to hand over a Yugoslavian of things, and can look forward to| MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 16. | revolutionary named Anton Mavrak, betiaeing sae ves socially as well Ro eee fie ee of to the Belgrade government. as materially. running Moncada into office an ition i Kitogether, brothers: “work for |Zuarantecing, tha wan. haea oand | The extradition is to take place Seidler’s election as Business Agent, |canal for the Yankee imperialists |i" the next few days. Mavrak is a nd defeat Berenzy and his other with the help of 7,000 marines and| Well known worker in the Yugo- iring lieutenant sailors, Gen. Frank McCoy, presi- | slavian movement. dent and manager of the election board and his aides have handed in ENDED, DEPARTS Diaz Praises Rule of Imperialism past, and, by so doing, insure our- mine. pital. Adam Penchosky, He is in the Nanticoke hos-)| Wall Street’s work has been taken | leare of. | 35, of 78 North) They will depart for Panama to- Empire St. Wilkes-Barre, suffered | morrow, leaving the Yankee a broken back when he was caught under a fall of rock in the Hollen- took place in Agram (Zagreb) whereby collisions occurred between the strikers and strikebreakers. As im-|a result a -strikebreaker named perialist interests in the hands of | Stjepan Misic was killed. The Ppo- i 0 |the marines and the Nicaraguan lice made great efforts to arrest back Mine of the Lehigh & Wilkes- traitors who have surrendered body |those responsible and arrested a Barre Coal Company. He is now and soul to the striped banner of in the General Hospital and is ex-| dollars, pected to die any minute. : The United States government loysius Plochek, 20, of 53 West was fully assuréd that the Nicara- Chestnut St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., had) guen regime would not betray the|to involve leading officials of the al gers of his hand smashed |imperialists when president Diaz, in |movement. The police therefore hen caught between cars in the)his message to the new congress, | systematically tortured Konrad un- Dorrence mine of the Lehigh Valley! saw nothing but peace and pros-|til in his despair he made the neces- Coal Co. He is now in the General yerity for Nicaragua under the dom-| sary “confession” and declared that Hospital. This work is very dan-|jnation of the United States. His|the prominent comrades, Bartol, gerous and is done mostly by young speech could very well have been|Burcul and Anton Mavrak, had in- miners. ere |the identical one that Kellogg would structed him to kill the strike- Tlartin Smith of Fellow St., Bres-/have delivered to the new congress | breaker. lau, Pa., had his hand smashed when which had been ushered in with the; Bureul and Mavrak, however, run over by a motor in No. 11 mine|boom of marine guns. were living in Vienna where they of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal) The new congress is all set for| were arrested at the request of the accused of manslaughter. This capture was, however, sufficient for the police who wished Co. manipulation from above. The sen-| Yugoslavian government. Despite John McCormack, age 23, of ate is conveniently composed of 12) strong protests from other coun- Front Wantievel: hap Killed a|¢onservatives and 12 liberals, an| tries, Barcul was then handed over! days ago by a fall of rock in ideal. condition for pulling strings Truesdale colliery of the Glen Allen|#nd making the puppets jump to the Coal Co. jtune of “independent”* action. In See ae Pastiakle the house the conservatives have 24 CANADA IMMIGRATION LEADS |8eats and the liberals 19. to the Yugoslavian When the trial of Konrad took place he declared that the “confes- sion” which he had made had been |forced from him by bestial tor- tures and that the “conf@ssion” was nothing but a fabrication. Under the circumstances Bureul could not be sentenced for the cri®e but he was nevertheless, as is the custom in Yugoslavia, banished to a little out of the way village for ten yeers where his every movement is watched by the police and military, WASHINGTON, Dec. 1¢+—About | pyGINDERS SUFFER LAY-OFF one-half of all immigrants to the] WASHINGTON (By Mail).—The Canada, Over 73,000 Canadian im.|Ployed by U. 8, railroads has de- Canada. Over 73,000 Canadian im: reeveed from 18898 in 1988 to Ize nited States. 2 in 1928. Freight engineers de- 1 in number from 33,913 to migrated to the with the trai Fate, misieaders of bu- om | 20.549, ; ; ss true now than ever, because all of | “Gang War,” starring Jack Pick- For'a long time! the Belgrade government has sought | | for some excuse to get him into its! About: a year ago a strike| worker named Ivan Konrad who was not | authorities. | |Mario and’ Lazarin; Vvonne and) } DARING! | BROADWAY Feature photoplay at the road fl way is “Riley the Cop,” starring |} | Louise Fazénda, Nancy Drexel and |David Rollins. Frank “Shanty”, | Hogan and Andy Cohen of the New York Giants appearing in person; ! Jim and Marion Harking; Jim Har-| kins; Johnny Hyman; “Along 5TH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE Broadway,” featuring Margaret|¥ ccth st. & Sth Ave. — ALG. 7aot | Keir; and the Lathrop Brothers, | | with the Balzor Sisters. SENSATIONAL! Another Remarkable Sovkino Production “THE YELLOW PASS” By the Producers of “END OF St. PETERSBURG” Continuous Performances — Two to Midnight Popular Prices. PROFESSOR IVAN PAVLOV'S 73 as ° a “Gstemar —MechanicsoftheBrain” Rae Samuels, with Mildred Land; “— ‘Theatre GUILD Productions Wings Over EUROPE MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St. West of 8th Ave. venings $:30 Thurs, and Sat. 2:30 Major Barbara GUILD ‘hea. W. send st Eves. 8:30, Mats. Thursday -nd Saturday, 2.36 Retr RRL Us hala de Strange Interlude John: GOLDEN trea, oi) . of B'wa EVENINGS ONLY AT $30 Frank Jerome and Evelyn; “Hon-| ey”; others. Feature photoplay, | ford and Olive Borden. i} \ What will happen to him there it is unnecessary to state, The Bel-| grade authorities now wish to pre- pare the same or worse fate for} Mavrak. | Although the accusation on the; basis of which the request for the | extradition of Mavrak was filed, has completely collapsed, the Vienna) court has decided to grant the ex-| tradition. This fact has caused the | indignation of even a section of the | Vienna bourgeois press. The so- cial democracy, by the »way, takes | up a completely indifferent attitude | to the whole scandal. | The Austrian Ministry of Justice has now to decide upon the fate of Anton Mavrak. Should it ratify the decision of the court, then Mavrak will be handed over to the brutal vengeance of the Yugoslav- ian bourgeoisie. It is the duty of the international proletariat to pre- vent in the last moment this new breach of the right of asylum by the Austrian authorities. Mats, * ELECT REACTIONARY WASHINGTON (By Mail) — John B. Haggerty has been re- elected president of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Bookbinders, the board of directors announces, He has a reactionary record. R. R. TRUST GROWS PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16,—The Reading R. R. Co. has acquired con- trol of the Fort Reading R. R. Pivic REPERTORY 14st.sthav Eves. 8:30 | 50c3 $1.00; $1.50. Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.30 | EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director | Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” Tues, Eve, “Peter Pan.” LITTLE [146 Ww. ARNEGIE PLAYHOUSE | 7th St. Noon to Midnight Popular Prices “UNEASY MONEY— |THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF A BANKNOTE” Produced by KARL FREUND _ ERLANGER THEA., w. 44th ST. Evenings 830 — Mat. Wed. and Sat. at 2:30 George M. 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