The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 4

Four Lewis Mach e and in DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1929 Gover Tory MEN HOAXED BY BOSSES’ PROFIT SHARING SCHEME © To No Happy New Year for Coal Diggers (By a W GLACE Bs a Scotia (By Mail) —The miners of this section are placed in a position of desti ondent) tion by the trickery and false y The latest in prepa ses of the tory government of No at Glendale, Cal. This is the Scotia, with the assistance of t stretch. They can be shipped district execut the United Mine Workers, put over the Bomb Workers and Peas ions for war in the air. first of an all-steel fleet that will be able to cross the conti ] to Europe and bomb Moscow using a European city as a base. can fly to Latin-America, without a stop, and let loose their deadly bombs and gas. __. (CALL POLICE TO DISPERSE JOBLESS MEN 'Hire 50 Out of Shiver- ing Line of 1,500 (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE (By Mail).—A good illustration of employment conditions in Baltimore under the much boosted administration of our “labor loving” N Broening, the Mary jleader of the Hoover “prosperity” Dirigibles ants From Steel et TT The first all-metal dirigible went thru successful tests nt at one Or they or yland most treacherous agreement ever framed up. They had as their bait the “great” bonus which the ers were supposed to get at Christmas time by accepting the profit ing scheme, but at Christr time they found themselves without work and By THURBER LEWIS “DAILY” GIVES HOPE | TO WORKERR OF U. S. campaign, was seen here when in answer io an ad by the Behner and Merritt Wrecking Co., who are raz- Jin digestible form the picture of | capitalism that they feel in theiz everyday lives, the problem of the | “power” of the capitalist press re- cedes into the background so far as the workers are concerned. ing the site of what was formerly the River View Park, preparatory | The main line of demarcation be- |'° Shel Dit Ne IGE een ow on vecee nment Reduce Nova | | Picture shows family of Nelson B. Rehmeyer, who was slain be- | cause of the supposed magical properties of his hair wh | 7 feet under the around. In many of the backwoods sections of the | country the workers and farmers are kept in ignorance and religious | superstition by the capitalist class so that they will not they slavery. Left to right: Rehmeyer’s daughter Beatrice, 13, his wife Alice, and Florence Edna, 24, another daughter, Scotia Miners to Victims of Mellon’s Religion Starvation BOSSES’ COURTS: IN PHILA, JAIL YOUNG PICKETS Had Demonstrated for | Colombia Strikers (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.—The capitalist courts of this city are well known for the “tender mercies” of their brand of alleged justice meted out to workers or sympa- when buried se out of Workers Prepare for | Annual Labor Defense Bazaar in New York Preparations have already been | started for the big annual bazaar of the New York District of the Inter- thizers of the working class. Proleteos Membership Elects Its New Board of Directors for 1929 membership meeting The most recent case involves two young members of the Young Pio- neers, Sam Silver, 15, and Harry Blackman, 13. These two boys participated in the Anti-Imperialist League demonstra- tions against the United Fruit Com- pany and in solidarity with the king workers of the plantations The annua of the Workers’ Cooperative, “Pro- letcos,”” attended enthu- siastic, was held in the Workers Cen- and w without the bonus. Sta ‘ion stares thousands of Nova ia That comical farce, “The Front miners and _ their es in the|Page,” is now tickling the risibles face. There was no “Christmas |of the white-collared boys and the cheer” for us here in Glace Ba, Christmes Day, and this is no happy new year for us. The capitalist napers throughout Nova Scotia re- fuse to print a word about the thou- ds of miners and their wives and children starving right in their imidst. The miners now see what the result is of electing tory tools. They make all kinds of fake prom- ises around election da Get rid of the crook-ridden United Mine Workers and the Lewis official: and a fighting union. There are 1,100 miners employed by the Do: ion Coal Company at No. & Mine in New Aberdeen. Every winter brings unemployment and tarvation. Last week the miners aad only two days of work and from that amount there was deducted ‘ent, etc., and so most of us went ‘ome with a dollar or so after hav- ng had only seven shifts in the hree weeks previ on in Indoor ney Feb.9 Sports U Athletic Tou DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 10.—The Michigan District of the Labor Sports Union, in conjunction with *he national office, will conduct an indoor athletic meet for the middle states, in which athletes from the states of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and a few other surorunding s' ‘yill participate. to all labor clubs, organizations and individuals wishing to participate in the meet. The meet is being arranged on a Sroader scale thar ever. The La- bor Sports Union is making arrange- ments to accommodate the largest array of athletes in this meet, and entries for the meet should be sent m immediately to the secretary, Toseph Kissel, 311 Frederick, De- eit, Mich. The following list of events will ‘Ye the schedule for the meet, for which prizes will be given in three ‘lasses and especial attention of the ‘iubs is called to club competition Wrestling in all classes, boxing, apparatus tri-event, soccer dribble, 440-yard relay (men and women), and free-style gymnastics (men women, clubs), basketball (men and girls), high jumping (standing, men), running high jump (women), standing broad jump (men and women). The meet will be run off in the Finnish Labor Temple, 5969 4th t., Detroit, Mich., on Saturday and day, Feb. 9 and 10. must be in before Feb. 3. ‘atin Lackeys of U.S. Must Stick Together, HAVANA, Jan. 10.—The Cuban nment has received a message rom the Cuban embassy in Mexico , to the effect that the Mexican ‘ jorities under the new regime “f Portes Gil will “energetically” ish the Cubans who, at a demon- tion some weeks ago, expressed their feeling toward the Yankee Jackeys who constitute the Cuban overnment, by wiping their feet on Cuban flag. CAIRO, Jan. 10.—Oil discoveries We been made in the Libyan Des- ~ west of Alexandria, in British itory (Egypt). The government led. The extent of the sup- are not known yet. Entries | igh school girls of Chi glorification of the c go with nical press s s and ¢cus chuckle and the gasp at the dis rd of the ha hoiled managing editor of the aminer for all social graces and pol} ical “ethics.” They take seriou: 2 propaganda of the play which i summed up in the phrase “the in- )dependent power of the press.” The raps it takes at Hearst’s Examiner, the Tribune and the afternon papers uve really love taps. It idealizes journalism for journalism’s sake. And views the press of Chicago as influencing politics. Money Kules Papers. The correct formulas are “jour- nalism for advertising’s sake.” And the press and politics are in the same pot and both are stirred by Sau Insull, power magnate, Geo. M, Rey- nolds, banker, James Simpson, mer- chant hing, Joseph T. Ryerson, steel haron and the other masters of Chi- cago’s slave pens, If politics in Chicago are rotten to core, the press is no less so. The tory of journalism in Chicago, p by step with its corrupt poli- has been marked by thuggery, ribery and graft at every stage. From long before the time when the old Tribune, Post, Record and Inter-Ocean shrieked for the blood of Parsons and the other Haymarket victims down through the strike- Lreaking press-orgy of the Landis uward days, the press of Chicago has been the very exemplification of terror against the working class. Incited War on Negroes During the war the Tribune ad- yoeated lynch-law against the dis- senters; at the time of the race- yiots all the papers covertly incited the frenzied mobs against Negro workers; during the steel strike they called fur the rushing of troops to Gary; they have always been first to demand injunctions in all strikes; they asked for the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti. It may seem trite to say these ngs. We all know that the press is the instrument of the bosses against the workers. But the trouble is that the 6:30 am. elevateds and the 5:30 p.m. street cars are white th Tribs, Examiners, Posts, Jour nals, Newses and Americans. The only bright spot in the field of daily journalism in Chicago was the existence beginning five years ago of the Daily Worker which chal- lenged the capitalist press here for threa yea: The needs of the Com- munist movement required the mov- ing of the “Daily Worker” to New York. It is, of course, doing the \same service there that it did here and its national edition is bravely trying to keep up with the require- |raents of the movement elsewhere, including Chicago. It is natural that when the staff was in Chicago and |the papers came hot off the press kere, that more interest would be taken in it. But interest in it mustn’t be al- | lowed to lag. We can’t have our own Daily here yet. Wehave got to go ‘on the theory that the national edi- |™ |tion is published in Chicago, Later | the theory can become a fact. The belief that you can’t buck the ‘power of the daily capitalist press | It has power, yes, | The power of mighty business in- | is a bogus one. stitutions (the Tribune does an an- nual business of better than $30,- | 000,000.00) and in the fact that its |news, sports, features, etc., are read everyone. But among the work- ers, the capitalist press is notorious- ly uninfiuential. This is especially | true of Chicago. “The World’s Great- | ested, and prospect wells will| est Newspaper,” the Tribune (on ac- vount of the thirty million), is men- tally spit upon by most Chicago D OPPORTUNITY for workers org: money on sell-outs, raine ‘am few blocks away from Union Sa business manager Street, Watkins 0588, r Napoli, ‘ent 14th NOW AT OUR NEW AND LARGE TI‘EATRE (Sheridan Square Subway Station) Spring 2772—5 Min. from B’w~ singing Jailbirds By UPTON SINCLAIR. New Playwrights Theatre Production directed by EM JO BASSit, NO WORKER SHOOLD MISS IT! — POPULAR PRICES. jzntions, unions and elubs nin dunuary. We are oni For details nee or cal) New Playwrights Theatre, of _ ais SNS bia baaapiiaupeitss foetal tween # capitalist daily and a work. Hlectrie plant there, 1,500 men national Labor Defense which will cay” The workers at the Stock.,ing-class daily lics in the class strug- | showed up, of which only 50 were again be held in New Star Casino, yds, Crane’s International Har- | #¢ itself. If the workers do not all | hired. 106th St. and Park Ave., on ch vester, South Chicago Steel Mills, | hail the appearance and five years’ ‘Phe day, Wednesday, Jan. 2, was |6-7-8-9-10. The first application for the real proletarians, victims of ra- tionalization and wage-cuts, these workers have the natural instinctive reaction against the capitalist press that we Communists are quick to ve in all their dealings with people nd institutions “across the line.” Our Strength Therein lies the weakness of these great advertising corporations be- coming less and Jess “journals” and | more and more advertising mediums. Therein lies the strength of the Daily Worker. Many of Chicago’s pushers of the Daily Worker complain that the fact that the Daily is a Communist or- gan makes it hard to press it upon workers. Of course, it would be easier if the Daily were a mere muck-raking sheet, contenting itself with exposing scandals, rapping the “high-cost-of-living” and generally comporting itself as an expression of the simple reactions of the mass of workers to Capitalism’s rottenness. | A paper like this might be made to approximate the million circulation | of the old “Appeal to Reason,” milk und water “socialist” journal of | “protest.” | A Class Paper | But this period has long since | passed. We are in the middle of a uch more complicated system of things. We are now at a point where the organ of the revolutionary party of the working class must guage its international in its scope, that pic- tures the downfall of capitalism, not contents on the basis of a struggle, as a reniote, vague picture such as the old “Appeal to Reason” had, but 4s a prospect of contemporary im- portance. And you may rest assured, that although they may not know, as we know, the terrible labor pains wrack- ing international imperialism, the contradictions making for the crisis | of capitalist economy—the workers in the stockyards, steel mills, coal | mines and car shops have very few | misgivings about their desire to per- petuate a system that means speed- up, “presperity” with a vicious back- fire, wage-cuts and unemployment. Will Learn the “Daily” Once they see that the Daily Worker fights first, last and all the time for their interests, tries to put | the difficulties of the class-struggle. jance of success for the work existence of the Daily Worker to the echo, it does not mean that the class struggle has been less in evi- dence. It means merely that the conscious expression of the workers’ side of the struggle has been coun- teracted by the thousand and one means, including their press, at the disposal of the ruling class. an extremely cold one; and the home of an unemployed worker is no haver. to rush to, particularly on a cold day. There was plenty of loose timbers around there, and the men, many of them out of work for months, realizing that the chances of getting work anywhere else are ver: m, decided to remain there and build bonfires to at least keep themselves warm. Large bonfires were at once built, and when the company officials be- gan threatening and demanding that the men at once extinguish the fires and leave the park, the workers, who now were feeling somewhat comfort- able, refused. usual, the police e called and the 1,500 jobless men were forcefully dispersed P. STANTON. a booth has already been received from a group of neckwear makers. This group states that it is starting work immediately on a large variety of neckwear for the bazaar. Instructions have been sent out to the branches of the I. L. D. in the New York District to start work for the big bazaar. Sewing circles are being f ed and special bazaar committees elected to start collecting articles and to secure ads for the souvenir program and names for the Red Honor Roll. The I. L. D. bazaar this year is béeing planned on a larger scale than ever. Nearly 1,100 cases are being defended by the International Laber Defense thruout the country, in- cluding the 662 New Bedford strik- ers the Shiffrin and the Mineola cases. The bazaar will furnish funds for the defense of all these cases. Future is Ours Viewed in this light, the revolu- tionary working-class press is an anti-toxin that has on its side all| the forces of history. The power of the capitalist press rests in the; might of institutions and traditions | of an era coming to a close. The power of the revolutionary working- class press, the Daily Worker, has on its side the might of a giant working class, tugging at weaken- | ing bonds, a class destined to be the ruling class, as it is — ce U. S. Imperialists in rulis lass of sixth of the zs ee ° ete Sayeed Wire Connection With earth. All workingclass organizations that The difficulties confronting the | Reparations Agents weeks aaa Paper spreading of the Daily Worker are | with the New York office, 799 Broadway, Room 422. All such or- ganizations are also asked to send in the names of two delegates to serve on the Bazaar Committee. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The forthcoming reparations conference, despite its 2 so-called independent character, will b> the first international meetin class. The fact that the Daily Work- | hore governments in all parts of the| er is the organ of the Communist | world will remain in telephonic com- | Party is a definite help to its fu-| munication with their representa-| ture as a mass organ of the work- tives, | ers. It is an aid because the Com-| After a quarter of an hour’s tele- Cavalry drove off rebels preparing munist Party is the only party that phone conversation yesterday be-|t derail a passenger train near can lead the working class, give it |tween S. Parker Gilbert, agent-gen-| Aguas Calientes, the correspondent a program of struggle (the kind it |eral for reparations under the Dawes|of La Prensa reported today, An- And like those of the class struggle, they are tempered with the assur- MEXICO REBELS ATTACK TRAIN MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10. (U.P).— wants) and lead it on against its plan, at Washington, and Gilbert’s | other dispatch from Guadalajara enemy, the master class. \Paris office, assurance was given|Said eight rebels had been killed in This story began with “The Front jthat the American members would | ‘two encounters near Laurels and El Fage” because this play is an out- report the developments. | Quinto. standing present-day symbol, in| ter last Wednesday. Of the reports read, the greatest number conce: donations to labor organizations cluding a $500 donation to the Daily Worker on its fifth anniversary cele- bration. Secretary Polak presented the re- sume of the Proletcos’ activities for | the past year, stressing the gains made by the organization, especially in the cafeteria on Union Square. A di ion in which many members pated added constructive ss for next year’s work. | A new board of directors for the year 1929, composed of 21 members, was elected. | riisier ea | ithuanian Communist | soned for Life | sry Tribunal (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Lith- uanian military court sentenced Maria Chodosch to life imprisonment because of “anti-state activities.” nor Maria Chodosch is one of the ac-,. tive Lithuanian Communists, con- tinuing the struggle against the re- actionary regime and against the war preparations against the Soviet | ‘ Union, despite the extreme police brutality. BIG “DRY” SLUSH FUND. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 W, An amendment proposing to increase the appropriation for prohibition en- forcement by $50,000,000 was intro- duced in the senate today by Senator Harris, democrat, Georgia, and re- ferred to the appropriations commit- i tee. in Colombia. When the arrests took place these boys were separated from the other comrades and taken to the Juvenile Court. Since there are no laws in this te against demonstrations, they were held on the trumped-up charge of disorderly conduct, al- though it was perfectly obvious that all the pickets had conducted their demonstrations very or and peacefully, merely wal down the docks of the United Fruit Compa) and displaying Anti-Im- perialist slogans. At the Juvenile Court it was ap- parent that everything had been pre-arranged for dealing with the boys. One of the two arbitrators actually left the room in which the two boys were facing inquisitors and the other asked some questions per- functori!ly. He permitted the two boys to return home on their own recognition, intimating that a trial would be held by the court later. When the trial was held, Judge Bluett, with characteristic “fair- ss,” lectured the boys, told them y had no right to demonstrate for as the strike was no affair of theirs, and then sentenced them to jail until after the school holi- “lf you are in jail,” he ex- claimed,” you will not be able to demonstrate again. Jail is the best place for you during the holidays.” Sons of the rich, arrested on really important criminal charges, would |have been discharged through pull. {But intelligent young working class |boys, because they are members of |the Young Pioneers, are given a \harsh sentence and made to feel the might of the capitalist state. C. RABIN. Is spite ¢f its childish adulations, of all that is rotten, cynical and base in the capitelist press. It is some- thing of a sensation in Chicago. The supporters of the Daily Worker in Chicago can take a cue from it, The rottenness of the capitalist press here, a sidelight on the rottenness of capitalism, is one of the strengths of the working-class press. The go, strikebreaking, ten-edition-a-day capitalist newspaper offers no real competition in the eyes of the ex- ploited werker to a six-page Com- munist daily that gives leadership and hope to his struggles. AN es Best Film Show In Town “The End Kelth-Albee CAME 42nd Street and Broadway The Scarlet Veil of Mystery That Shrouded Russia Torn Away at Last. of St. Petersburg’ SENSATIONAL! Now | SPECTACULAR: |) = Theatre Guild Productions 2, SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE Mats., Thurs. and Sat. 2:40. Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St, West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:30, — Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2:30 BERNARD SHAW’S Major Barbara REPUBLIC ‘thea, w. 42 Matinees, re EUGEN Strange Interlude Joon GOLDEN Thea. 68th B. of B'way RVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 . R. WORKERS SEEK RAISE WELIINGTON, N. Z. (By Mail). Basie wage workers on New Zea- ond railways are demanding a wage increase of a shilling a day. LITTLE 146 W. 57th St 'ARNEGIE Noon to Midnight PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices 8RD SENSATIONAL WEEK “Lucrecia Borgia” with Conrad Veidt and cast of 50,000 Thea, 44 St.W.ofB'way SHUBERT ©vs. 8.30 Mats. Wed. and Saturday 1 WALTER WOOLF | Musica’ The Red Robe __With HEUEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea. 47th St. Evs. 8:30; Mats. Wed. and Sat. Chick. 9944 POPULAR PRICES! W.44St. By 8? dSat 's ERLANGER’S 2; GEO, M. COHAN PRE! Autivn VERMON?) By AE. THOMAS [remitirann SCAN AIVIC REPERTORY "48t.t1n4« 50c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.3 EVA LE GALLIENNE. Director | Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” | Sat, Mot, “Peter Pan.” Sat. Eve, “Phe Would-Be Gentleman, Sunday Afternoon January 13 BY PUBLIC REQUEST AND TO ACCOMMODATE THOUSANDS WHO WERE TURNED AWAY ( 3 Additional Performances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE 34th Street West of 8th Avenue ISADORA Company of 20, with IRMA DUNCAN DIRECT FROM MOSCOW Saturday Afternoon, January 12 Special Childrens Performance -75c--$1.50 Sunday Evening January 13 Tickets Now at Box Office and at DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, Room 201. i