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

i Officials of Clean Four One of GANGSTERS OF RIGHT WING IN TERROR ROLES | | Members Are Lured to Meet by Ruse (By a Worker Correspondent) . | would be a “special meeting to take id Dyers British Min aA i Families DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUA RY 11, 1929 Unio Facing Starvation n Steam LESS THAN HALF “UNION SCALE IN ~ INTL TAILOR 60. ‘Hillman Clique Aids | Rotten Conditions (By Worker Correspondent) jvich firm, and they certainly are Roller Through “Vote of Confidence ‘Two Davs of the Revolution In the Great Soviet Film 'HE intimateness and the so grounded character of the Soviet aged in slavery. He bowingly ad- moving picture art are brought out| mits the officers of the White Army jin their full power in the Amkino| after ‘the Red Army had withdrawn, | production “Two Days,” now show-| only to find that his master’s son | ing at the Cinema Guild. had betrayed his own son who was hiding in the village; his master’s |son with all the selfishness and mis- erly meanness of the nobility only shoved him away when he begged |for the life of his son. And when In the hands of the Soviet cinema directors moving picture technique becomes a fine-edged chisel with which to develop the contours of an picture ia’ recognized as the pest {18 2° longer a servant, he becomes proved too much even for this man| GAS OVERCOMES WORKERS ON | BIG PLANE PLAN ‘Negroes Exploited t | Construction Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) Airplane plant here, which is bei | The officials of the Cleane If ever there was a rotten place | historic epoch. In the “End of St-/ 10 sinds the body of his son hang.| PUFFALO, N. Y., (By Mail) Dyers’ Union, in order to draw a to work in it is the International | Petersburg” and in “Potemkin” the) i,> in the orchard, the revolution| Workers are being scarificed' da, big crowd to the meeting here re-| | Tailoring Co. at 12th St. and Fourth | mass significance of the revolution | } 3. at last reached the old man, He| it, the construction, of the. Cur cently, said that the meeting |Ave. This is a big branch of a} is portrayed in masses; the moving | ; j | up the question of reinstating the expc‘led members into the union.” Fooled by this announcement, 300 | members attended the meting, in- stead of the usual 40. In: of taking up the question of reinstating the expelled members, the ary officials opened the mee’ an attack on the expelled. ead knocking hell out of their 250-300 workers to make their profits. | Wages here run from half down to Jone-third the rate of other shops. | |Girls and young fellows are’ taken jon for almost nothing and the whole rate is lowered. Girls on special |machines, such as felling and but- ton-holding, average the miserable sum cf $16 to $17. Girls would get | medium for picturing mass move-|®, fighter in the Red Army. The | mente: dnetall: sete sweeping cand | © ite army officers in the mansion creative moods. Where the indi-|#%¢ his deadly enemies. He sets Siduab doudsoaciee dial eacucn only as! fire to the mansion and locks all the |the expression of a mass will; ey doors. It is clear and unadulterated = revenge, the’ same spiri i |a worker or peasant, as a soldier ior | pee) te uae io ei we | sailor, he is not one, he is many. | a | | they seized arms and cudgels and In “Two Days” is done what was | belabored their masters out of Rus- |done for the epoch of Czar Ivan,| sia. The old servant realizes that |the Terrible. While in Potemkin| the whip and the gun, which his built by the James Stewart C | struction Corporation. To pour ec | crete for the flooring, during t | cold weather, they resort to the u | of salamanders. They keep the « | air out by using canvass and keepi all roof ventilators closed, with t result that five or six workers ha been and are being prostrated dai | overcome by gas generated by t i Slanders. has t F ; be oe a Britis he am oe Se ee rcen tia ee |and Petersburg masses were made| masters used so effectively before, | Salamanders. oer cfra as read, has broug 0 th rily lives ington, near inion scale, mel 0 be i s y, in Czar Ivan e' re ivly, One worker was so stiffene A letter from Efrat was read, iS potehael Hove we nie Gala cheated, | tell their own story, in C can be used even more effectivly d f rs 7 / slandering the members who a Sy fees, 1 and Two Days, the individual occu-| and more constructively by the| Was unable to pull rubber boots o were on the executive board of the Soz yj thern vs Lync h SEE Union conditions are a mockery | pies the center of the screen only| masses against the masters. He| Another worker had to perform tl union and were first expelled for “brie Ah) Vi | i i here. No open-shop could be worse. | as a reflector of the mass move-| also takes a gun, and as the last and | Peration for him. One died. . fighting the misleaders. The rest of the expelled, Efrat said, were “mis-| led,” and would be taken back if Neg ing to School | MINE KILLS 3 The workers say: “We put up a good fight in 1924, and the leaders sold us cut.” Fellow workers, who |ments around him. The individual is used to bring the audience into) the most intimate contact with an supreme token of his complete revo- lition he shoots a white officer who j attempts to escape from the burn- | Mostly Negro workers are bei: | exploited in this work, for 45 cer {an hour. These rotten conditio they would come to the union and (By a Work t) ne hen only will he re- is responsible for our bad condi-| historic event. The most outstand-| ing building. have been completely ignored | | apologize for criticizing the official-| JALLA tions? The boss and the bosses’| ing quality of the Soviet cinema is} He runs off along the road to join | the Buffalo capitalist press. T |, dom. doubt many v tar state,” we | +, |agents, the Hillman gang. Fight its ability to take what is close to|the Red Army. But dawn finds him) Workers of the James Stewart Co |, Weintraub, the chief reactionary |travel from P’ into Plenty of Gas Despite | the fakers! jthe hearts of the Russian masses | dead on the countryside, with his| Struction Corporation must organi | misleader, asked the members to ATi via egro la- | PROGRESSIVE WORKER. | 2nd express it so intimately and di-| hand tightly grasping the gun. _| into a fighting, militant union give him a vote of confidence. Im- mediately a henchman of the fak- ers jumped up and made a motion on § a trip are r and of capitalist inj Work is and asked for Bosses’ Assurance coe \ BOWER, W. Va., Feb. 10.—The by labeling as dangerous No. 8 ALBERTAJOBLESS rectly that one actually feels hearts beating and voices calling on the | screen. —S. A. The ~roletariat of each country | better their conditions. Capitali | legislators and city government o | | ficials will do nothing except mal | | is brought out not only the drama : ; 2, + | West Virgini | 4 ’ muni*¢, of » first of all settle | i i iti ¥ ; to express confidence in the admin-|¢TY: Ms Bani Antonio, ; Waees eens ak and oee cd |: In the eventts of two days in the| scaceuss with din orem bonreconices [eee cos omnes } istration. No one else was allowed Mexicans. I|got three workers killed yesterday | | life of an old servant. of a nobleman| K: —G. BARRON. to speak. When one member moved that there be a closed ballot, Wein- matter, traub thundered at him, “Who are/| the you? Where do you work? How d me he could t 1 some Mex- nim what he paid. mine here as non-gaseous. This “non-gaseous” mine blew up while GROW MILITANT | and human suffering of a social | revolution, but also its all-engulfing | impetus and its unequaled power to long do you work?” worst form, Bs day Tesi Sim ‘ aha © Seana aie | cenibletely ee a ALS 3 = Marne eee bama and y on that. clearing it of debris, ani ree of | 0 | Revolution is the starkest reality Be cant ras cuowots to intimidate all) Recently, in “ve know he men are missing. They are Voge a agg re omg ed | 4 ater ay Pe tejaw | Was openly murd t, but a Mex-/|7,. vis, Marvi be ogy 00 on Farm $$ mulated servitude of ovis ————_—_—_— of the right wing officialdom were whatsoever. ‘Three prised athow wae) ee ? Events have a terrific force, and in|] Best Film Show fe Baty for Tans S'€S)' pumped into his ck ie | The men who escaped were near| (By « Worker Correspondent) | the case of this old servant, the last || In Town daed Mitent. wad Bescavay OW & ly - e, twelve xpect a job, so told the|one of the entrances. STRATHCONA, Alberta (By | *¥° days of his life marked a com-| : Resent Steam Roller. cans took a Negro will be surprised on) The state mining department, ‘afail,) Unemployment in the prov- | Plcted transition from one society |1) 4 wericaNn NEWEST SOVKINO ¢ Now that a motion of confidence) 7") 0 & St" = 1 want to live on/ completely controlled by the coal jnee of Alberta is qpettitigg waree |e Shotber, One: Gey © Tere ¢ PREMIERE has been steam-rollered thru, the members are more disillusioned than ever, Few will come to the future meet- ings of the union, seeing that the of- ficials are playing the same old cynical game. Now that the officials have a manufactured “vote of con- fidence,” will that put confidence in) , s,oriean born whit the hearts of the union members? | oonfess that A Will that bring the union to life] ine constituti in? Will that organize the un- gamn to the much, or, in the words of th norant lynchers, he v nigge' He w only ¢ ploiters hate Negroes Made Peons. Although Ih to ppen Ameri- kicks hell em and copies of the Daily on the news stand. I in- ut them there. The told me, O’Brien, the Com- ndidate for governor of operators is going thru the farce every day. “apportion- | » 999 out of work in the province, of “investigating” and ing blame.” years. \Ball to Assist Strike of ‘the Needle Unionists daily by the department. But the him to sleep on; concealing the mas- There are well over although the capitalist press and the The mine has been unworked for officials lie by saying only about 500 or 600 are out of work. The government employment ser- Workers Relief Gives 'vice is running a racket whereby the unemployed men get supper, bed and breakfast on a card stamped is government honeycombing the During the general strike of the yanks of the jobless with stool- ant to his master, serving him even after he has fled before the Red} Army advancing in the Ukraine; | | out of habit and a lifetime of servi- | tude obeying his last commands, | burying his dead pup and conceal- | ing his riches; remaining in the mansion after all the others have fled; sleeping in his garret although there was a palace full of beds for | ter’s son, whom the master himself “The LASH of the CZAR’ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” PRODUCTION did not even take the trouble to anized who are in the majority Gn eae Ob ; . — 1 es * | ARTH ib the shops and. whom the union jure the Negro car's votoweaals cp W. C. P. new industrial needle trades union, Pigeons and detectives. The grow-| save, Grudgingly giving way to the) Fay Bainter saxrve | presente SNS f misleaders do not Want to organize +. school, is a chattel slave and woe | ae ee ‘Local New York, Workers Interna- ing danger of the unemployed caused | Red Army Battalion although his | « Hacker O LID as-not to hinder their exploitation 4 ‘him if he p a: > Call for Next Tuesday (ional Relief, 799 Broadway, re-/the government to make the once: | own abe. je sts commander; repri-| [fy JEALOUSY ands ae ; of cheap labor. Sehaal z sponds to the situation with an ap-,Sion of bed, breakfast, etc., to the/manding them for sleeping on the ah chs 2 } cree eR an Protest Meeting eal to workers throughout New ten. But the government is trying | master’s sofa; unable to forgive his with wenes 8:50 | Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY : * AGE Rael dacicemas ecu vat * * York to buy tickets for the Workers’ to split our ranks through the stool- | son for being a Bolshevik, although | John Halliday Sep | PLYMOUTH Thea W. 45 St. Ev. 8.5 | ) *£axi Unionist” Is the iver how much he paid bis N ainst Jim Crowism 3 parmers’ Costume Ball arranged Pigeons. jhe takes all the insults of the mas- ———— Mats. Thurs, & Sat. 2.3 | \ Unionist,” organ of the Chauffeurs’ He laughed, Fighting Paper of the « New Hackmen’s Union The first number of the “Taxi Union of Greater New York, has! his su n protest against city which dis- egro patrons and the action of the 2 East 14th St, ing to serve three Negroes ago, has been called for for Friday, February 15th, for the benefit of the needle trades strikers, at $26 a month and at farm work |bed and all his favors as his tradi-| Wages are offered in the woods This is the first step in the cam- of $4 or $5 a month, The men are paign of the W, I. R. to win for the not accepting these. militant needle trades workers the same volume of support that was mobilized in defense of the great strikes of the miners and textile | ter’s son who accepts the old man's) (VIC REPERTORY 14st.stnay | Eves. 8:30 50c; $1.00; $1.50, Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2.3¢ | EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director |Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” | | tional righ.t | But the events ‘of revolution Tues. Mat. “Peter Pan.” “John Gabriel Borkman.’ / CASINO 28th St. & Bawa Tues, Eve, Needle Trades Ev, 8.30 Extra Holiday Mat. Tuesday. Theatre Guild Productions = EUGENE O'NEILL'S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. oa made its appearance and been dis-| “We give him : Feb. 12 4 | ew Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:30 5 i tributed to many of the 60,000 cab-| ables and clothes, charge him Tike all, 135 Bike nee roe The| Workers sak aaa oa q @ ae NEW MUSICAL COMEDY mir} AEA er oir HEH | men of New York. {hell, and he goes into debt wh is called jointly by the FEN SOO ee eect | BOOM BOOM | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY i i To be published every month, it crop time comes, and he can't pa Negro Labor Congress|‘@° Under the direction of Pauline| 4 vids eek dens | , | is the voice of those cabmen who|Then we all own that n srnational Labor Defense. | R°#¢"S announces that unusual fea-| | MacDonaias Tmette | CAP RICE | ; have realized that the only way to can’t move.” ndertook the defense of}; sins writers, acta and. wausl Cpe picks ceases ollacaaiiansaapilnibseaaceanaaaceneeis Asada | GUILD Phea.. w. szna 8 1/7 fight the fleet owners, speed-up, po-| I suggested a can’t | po and? thrée’ white | SO°RE Writers Actors. and must VVVV VV VV VV VV IVI V IVT VTS h babear i hea Dad at ys ae ves, 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sat Extra Holiday Mat. cians will take part. lice regulations on traffic, long|for a debt. He ‘Tues, | hours, little pay is by organization.|a man.” We would 1; It is a militant voice that is much | cbjected. | SHUBERT Evs. 8.30, Mats, and Saturday WALTER WOOLF | ested by Tammany po- r 2:40 | Saturday for picketing the ‘Tuer. Soccer League to Hold needed on the streets of New York.| Then I noticed a N i of. fe Maredd inne Workers o Farmers’ Musieattit © The Red Robe Wings Over Europe Its first number sets down the|MZ to school. 1 ve given suspended sen-- ANMual Ball on Feb. 23 Ha lato ue Coe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne ALVIN THEATRE |]. band st, of Broadway, Eves. 8:50, Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2.40 EUGENE O’NSILL'S demands of the new union, which) bappens if a Negr show that the union is really fight-|Cated and learns something of hi ing in the interests of the cabmen, |Tights and objects to what happer Té calls upon the drivers to enter|t® him. “Well,” the white man said, | the union and draw every one of) “¢ Pave cases where the young- | i appeared Monday | morning in Magistrate Jean Norris’ GOLDEN THEATRE ‘Tomorrow | (Sunday) Evening at 8:30 GRANDJANY and The annual ball of the Metropoli- jtan Workers Soccer League will be) court. | Ba ra _|held Feb, 23 at Laurel Garden, 75 snore he Spear t |e 1isth Su Aihie ell helthe cos: ative of the- Negro pickets, | Costume Ball — resi { id . :. =. . : the 60,000 men behind the wheel Stes lea:n, and we get rid of that | proyold Williams; of the white pick. ©nd affair of this kind that this| ; 5 into the militant organization. Ee asleaed iy ye pide ets, ‘Sol Horowitz; Jacques Buiten-| workers sports organization has PYTHIAN TEMPLE E ROY trange te ude kant, the defending atorney; and | S | Richard B. Moore, national organizer| .The ball promises to be a gala! of the American Negro Labor Con-| #ffair, with the various clubs of the| g Edward Welsh will act as| Metropolitan Workers Soccer It is full of correspondence from |; + ” pre ne | r would spoil the rest. cabmen, describing the condition oti a ig ‘wh: a we ie : ‘ are is is what they their work and calling for organiza-| sear it from the | tion. In fact, organization is the white workers 70TH STREET (EAST OF BROADWAY) FEBRUARY 15! In a program of music for HARP and FLUTE | Concert Manager: Dantel Mayer, Tne. | John GOLDEN Thee. buen RVENINGS ONLY AT well as the education, The Ne. * ; reed rE ai is League present in their na- oo of ate “Taxi Unionist,” | gro must pay to go to school, p jpneinans | tional costumes. Music will be fur- GD ©000000400000000000 CED oe Mt Oe ite Rages |for his books. No bus to take him| Pa i lnished by a snappy jazz hand and It is a paper which every cabman| to school, his road is hard. But he “T'wo Days,” Soviet —_| an entertainment program is being SALAAAAAAAAALAAAALAAAAA i should read. Every cabman should| will awake and fight alongside of also fill out the application for|his white brothers against these ex- | membership in the new union which! ploiters and help destroy the cause is on page 3 of the paper. of all our misery—the capitalist Militant Negro Dress Worker Retuses to Scab on Strikers ns revve a s3 wei - | 8th Street, will be held over for) (By a Worker Correspondent) you for the manner in which you | another week, according to Symon I was employed during the past! laid me off simply because I did not | Gould, director of the Guild Cinema. year by the firm of Milander and) condescend to work all night and| The entire inaugural program Schwartz, 589 Eighth Ave., and all day. | will also be retained for another ‘simply because I objected to con-| “I think you should be very much | week. The balance of the bill consists : ing working overtime night) ashamed to write me relative to re-|of the modernistic interpretation fter night, bringing up my total turning to work, of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of ber of hours to 64 per week, I) “You are an unfit person to work! the House of Usher,” Peroff’s ani- | laid off in the month of No-| for, because you continually play | mated Russian fairy tale, “The Frog | mber, and told that my services the part of a traitor, ill-speaking| Princess,” “Handa,” a ballet of love | no longer required. ‘one girl to the other; (re: Jenny, and life and Charlie Chaplins re- | Now that the dress strike has Margaret, ete.) |vived “One A. M.” | n place he has written me, for! “I am proud that I did not give \R —THE SOVIET FILM REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS ARE ACCLAIMING! “TWO DAYS”| A WUFKU-AMKINO PRODUCTION The Russian “Last Laugh” A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion betw: Whites and the Reds—caught in the changing ‘tides of the ay Soviet Revolution—introducing SAMCHYKOVSKI RUSSIA'S GREATEST SCREEN AC’ “A MERITED ARTIST OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC" exhibits ified Ii arranged. Revolutionary Film, Continued for Week | | “Two Days,” the latest Soviet) film importation which is now meet- ing with the enthusiastic approval of the militant workingclass in New | York and now playing at the newly- | AUSPICES: LOCAL NEW YORK WORKERS | INTERNATIONAL RELIEF | Militant Workers! Show Your Solidarity With the Needle Trades Strikers! SELL TICKETS! COME! —ADMISSION 75c Tickets on sale at Local New York Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway, Room 226 oe ) 1 | | | i 1 7 the class struggle during the revo- n «ingle individual. It has absolute fF an presentation of characters and netion 1s powerful tragedy in a human dtama of —MOISSAYE OLGIN, “Pwo Days’ ix the first Soviet film production whic! the struggle between old and new orders in the an individual.” “"TPwo Day iv a To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! SCHEDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— Airways, Inc. own it of —MICHAEL GOLD, n of class revenge whi workers purpose of scabbing. | you the opportunity to speak of me, Hi i: th y Aretooane bance aly hela pellbo The work ew Fiaywrights Open) of the three leading characters Copy of postal card sent me and as you did of Jenny, for I did not “copy of reply are sent to this paper | hang around. yping that it will be a good ex-| “I only hope that your shop has ‘| mple for future militant workers to, struck, thereby forcing you to ac-| Edith Meiser will play the part low. cept union conditio’ of Martha Turner in John Dos | “My husband censored me for not) Passos’ “Airways Inc.,” which leaving your sweatshop, the day you opens at the Grove Street Theatre, ndly call in reference to work, | insulted me by saying, “Why don’t) Feb, 19. She was formerly with “Yours truly, jhe keep you home, if he does not, the Thatre Guild in the Garrick “Milander and Schwartz.”|want you to work overtime?” | Gaieties. ss “Hoping that you shall soon have} Winston Lee will play the part am in receipt of your|the cause to again join the rank! of the ayiator in the Dos Passos an assure you that it came and file of the workers, opus. Mr. Lee closed in Chicago re- yrtune moment. I tone, ry Ol remain, _ | cently in “The Shannons of Broad- mits i y i way.” NATE intorget —-MELACH EPSTEIN, Editor “The Fretheit.” THIS REMARKABLE FILM PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY UNIQUE CINEMA OF REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN fi; ~FILM GUILD CINEMA . $254 WEST EIGHTH STREET, West of 5th Ave. d ‘ Continuous Performance: Popular Prices Daily 2 to 12 (Box Office Opens 1:30 P. M.) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 Direction, baad athena SYMON GOULD JOHN DOS PASSOS PLAY OF A GREAT MILL STRIKE Opening on Feb. 20 at the Grove St. Theatre Make $240 for the Daily Worker and the Needle Trades Strikers. Call Paxton or Napoli at WATKINS 0588 for Arran; Dos Passos Play Soon | “Feb, 5, 1929, ints, x a “In AIRWAYS, INC, John Dos Passos attacks boldly the major problem of our Age and our America—namely, class war. Thin is the play of the American workers awakei ‘6 ce Opens 11:30 A. M.) —PHONE: SPRING 5098 panat teeaepasns :