The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929 { United T. extile Workers Union Tries to Intimidate Workers Into Taking Wage Cut LAY OFF MAN IN SAL EMM Sen tie SL T W rorkers Pyenae Up i in 1 Underground Construction WORKERS ARE MISTREATED IN CITY HOSPITALS “Whispering Galley” a Blood and Thunder Mvstery Play PHIL BAKER blood and thunder mystery play| called “The Whispering Gallery” is now at the Forrest Theatre. It was written by two Englishmen, COMPENSATION ACT IN COLO, If FOR THE BOSSE ; — | eee Percy Robinson and Terence de| ae Misleaders Sell Out the Food, Treatment Is of Mamey, and rumor has it that it is) $7.83 for Possible Lo Sgeaaes ‘ha | : quite a success in the British Isles.| fE ' Fighting W orkers | Worst Kind If it will duplicate here, only time or yes will tell. (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) The play is sure to send cold (By « Worker Correspondent t want to the mi t the } prod I recently visited a friend who is a patient in Lincoln Hospital, New York City. The above city: hospital is located at 141st St. and Concord Ave. in the Bronx. I asked him how they were treat- shivers up and down the spine of the overwhelming majority of the audience, and those who like that kind of thing will call the present opus one of the best ever. There is no doubt, it is the equal of most of the plays of this class and un- doubtedly will be a mild succes: FREDERICK, Colo, (By Mz —The compensation laws of C rado are a joke. Working in mines, which is a hazardous ocev tion, results in frequent injuries deaths. Nevertheless, the coal c panies have nothing to whine o for they do not have to worry c cas 1 $ SESS S jing him. “Very poorly,’’ he With mystery and detective stories the financial cost of broken lir 2,100 worke At left, workers digging at the end of the new cubway tunnel under the Kast Kwer between |answered, “the patients, who are the rage, a play such as this, should amputated or ground to bits, or anzed in Fulton Street and Cranberry Street, Brooklyn; at right, a finished portion of the tunnel. Construc- |P0or, are neglected. They should clean up. Well written, with a other injury that affects the « Now the | tion is being rushed, which means that the workers are being speeded up and their lives endangered |have some specialists here, but the| superior cast and good direction. diggers. The industrial comrf organize tl re than before. city wants to save money. The even those who usually do not care} sion and its state compensation 1: wage-cut _|wards are overcrowded and un- for plays of this character, will jtake care of that for the coal ¢ not making e¢ we leverybody will get to work and|Sanitary.” be able to spend an enjoyable eve-| }panies and shark insurance c must accept a big apo toy ee Ne ae G t G “s peel ate Lethe : 4 : ning. Whon it is all over, the critic- | | bines, Ps. pamper! change our society a little. Maybe| The food is poor, and my friend a2 ee plore profit came! ugene el rea 0 | little caleulus, geometry, a pencil |told me that he could eat little of it, theatregoer will admit that it was) Ks Many cases affecting individ $180,000 3 and five sheets of paper in the|it was so bad. In private hospitals, fog nonmerinesat that: The rioted comedian has an im-| coal diggers prove the robbing of Under the reor will be ELI B. JACOBSON. The prosperous American bour- | geoisie like a golem—a_ huge, well-stuffed sinewy body but hous- By is ers who now | at will w Sophomore—Gets Ridiculous | anyhow? |his simple-mind hero, Rube Light, hands of the future Einsteins will without our knowing it, and quite | undramatically and “drily” and “unpoetically,” reveal to us life’s et, Meanwhile there’s work to be done. But O’Neill prefers to play— What causes it, makes it, what does it consist of? At least, is greatly worried about it. So wor- patients who can afford to pay high rates, get the best of treatment, food, Maybe we shall never know | etc. They also get entertainment, ete. But only workers come here. I asked my friend if they at least gave the patients in Lincoln Hospi- tal some kind of entertainment. ' All the stock in trade devices the mystery play are used, phos- phorescent hands, sliding panels, | mysterious voices and sudden dark-| ness, which are all utilized to good) advantage. Of course, every char-/ MINERS HURT IN CAGE CRASH. the new Shubert revue, which was ushered in at the Majestic Theatre last night. of portant role in “Pleasure Bound,”| industrial victims. A typical exan is a miner, Nick Spanas, who » seriously injured in the eyes and consequences no one can foretell. any rate, the miner fulfilled regular conditions of appealing ,compensation. After several we run 12 lo ve to run 20} * . ; + » sth ge acter is at one time or another sus- | Z A ee ing a disproportionally low level of ried, in fact, that he performs all) to be sure, with ideas, to be sure,| “, ROTHERHAM, England, he received word from the insura looms. Ot s now running | intelligence. Resting comfortably sorts of antics, kneels before the| with borrowed ideas, but play he|, “Nothing at all,” he answered. perted ot te eas ae the He AGN OMe ik iglan : diy te eile aa Wall-aa thar State. Ind 16 looms will have to run 22 looms.) 5, voluminous check book cushions, dynamo, prays for it, in true An-| prefers. It is much easier. We who are patients in public a ihe fats a Shore PR eae ers narrowly €8-/ trial Commission telling him In order to put that over they try dreyev fashion, literally begs to it| /hospitals are workers,” he said. bloody cut throat. |caped death when a pit cage crashed case was settled, and that N it can afford to play about with The third act, though placed in The play contains two murders. to bribe the we them | « A ‘ ; |“When we get sick or are injured, t Treeton C icti culture” and the soaring things of | to deliver up its secret to him, but! most realistic setting, the d | i at Treeton Colliery, to the bottom | Spanas, the victim, wh a measly unts 0) the “spirit” and the “soul.” ‘With/ the dynamo merely hums and wars| room, transforms the characters of|W¢ 8% forced to go to public hospi-/In the prologue, Martin Condell’ or. shaft, All of the miners were his eyesight, gets fees 4 Beene 80 the pace at| separd to things intellectual it is a/on like the hairy ape and leaves our| acts one and two into shadows of |t%s where we receive the worst] murders his wife, Thirty years later). critically, Carcleseness (of $783. which they ave to fo. sophomore and its Great God Soph-| Reuben as baffled as ever. symbols. As one lady next to wep oole Se aa cane The slay is devoted to ealeine! of the company is blaied: 5 —A COAL DIGGER apne the, car Toom for instance.) Gmore ig Eugene ONeill | ithe Temptcéds |said: “This is a very deep and great My friend, who is a union man, (0) tty of the second murder.| ere are emplo; mm the| It is no secret that apart from y play. I don’t understand it at all.”|Said that the hospital workers are | Kaye is unusually good as the pri- ALBERTA PRINTERS GAIN 5 a wee department g ae s official and public professions of Meanwhile his sweetheart wishes The actors are superb when|0Vverworked, have long hours, and which of course, is directly con-| dated wih tha Deak, | vate detective who solves the mys- CALGARY, Alberta (By Mail) The plan calls for c down the z et to marry him. His flesh aches for| e - ‘ department to 29 and will pay $18 th, ‘the god of ihe Route ae has hers. Not only is our hero simple} O'Neill “gives , them, a chance. Es. | 8re ppariy pales While the habit of attempting to DAs Osher members of the cast | Commercial shop printers have » Bee dia tiie asoul: moc sete been and is especially now-| ined but he is also single tracked | Pecially Claudette Colbert as Ada) The hospital is an old one, and| guess the guilty one has become |°°° Frank Fayne and Bertha Bel-|an increase to $1 an hour. The Mes ceria th, tar eee ys—money. Likewise it is not yy. iust have no other interest but Fife, and Dudley Digges as her|should be demolished and a modern the style ,since mystery plays ana rate was 96 cents. ae “apres : pgiicke week secret that the greatest producer of 41.54 Gf probing the secret and mean. @theist father. They surely do/one put in its place. When I left! books have been so successful, it| eat ra ee: 2 a patakes seh, money is the machine—driven by ing otalite Sus sweetheart waxes sttuggle heroically against the pa-|my friend and I took elevator down. ig quite difficult to pick out "the | Das cee week - ugha iar y, by the dynamo. It cuite Mephistophelian and tells the ‘etic Poetry. And they actually | Altho it is supposed to hold 30 peo-! guilty person in this play. Those | A dj \ aa Wye 5 Ee Pee veadan| Would be consequently quite to the! Gy nemo that she and not the dynamo Succeed in preventing us from|ple, the operator closed the door who are honestly successful in nam- VCS aoe ere cachery. Man are Point to say that the real god of Vin" snocced in having him. And @ushing at their symbolic “utter-|when there were eight in it. “This ing the murderer, can call them- Ervloyed itis noum cow and are|the bourgeoisie is of course the| <1. is right, So right that our hero | 22¢eS”. which is no inean ogeabs all it can stand,” he said. While sclyes first class detectives, who iectting AO a week.) The. plan| oye Which is the truth, and| 5-2. three mortal bullets into her ment, to them and no fault of going down, a nurse said to him, aye more alert than the ordinary rd ig eek alls eee ives andi BPH: Gate: requires little mental exercise to} alluring body, to put temptation out O’Neill’s. {“1¢ you took a few more on the eleva-! sjeuth. of $i5 a wee : ome; thts auact tal een a , of the way. "Then he jumps on to! Shakespeare would have called the |tor we'd all be in the hospital—as ‘The part of Martin Condell, also Y ent alone they plan to fire 60| Dut O'Nefll, the Great God Soph-| tn, iynamo, embraces it, hut cat and| Ply “Much Ado About Nothing.” | patients. that of his son Robert, is played by A habl, ‘ot Film! Biter omore, takes this very capa snake that it is, the dynamo stings| | Ls | This is another example of the Hugh Miller. Harry McNaughton, Remar able Soviet wm! s s _| theme and stands it on its head, with | and kills him. Like the Master! TIFLIS, U.S. S. R. (By Mail).— | city saving money at the expense of| portrays the stage version of the These are facts, not gos They | the result that ha becomes ludi i id i i were part of the prop to the| tr 5 thet Te stately No Builder (Ibsen) aiming too high, he A floating hydro-meteorological sta- the working class. \stupid Englishman; while A. P./ 6 99 union made by J. Foster Smith, the) sophomore ever takes himself ludi-|‘* Petar pepe ase mee tion has been established on the | agent of the company. hidty. ao ‘etermine what 1S Sevan Lake, Soviet Armenia, where | teary + ey more childish, the theme or the pa-| : i | The fir al ting of the Bright Thought. thetic poetry in which it is couched research work is being carried on | Bekatinbusly.: At caaelaeare rial In fact, O’Neill is struck by a)Chants and ecclesiastical hocus | With the participation of the Acad ° ' 0 5 J Sh ' | : ote eee 2 po wonderful idea, Jehovah, Christ’ pocus are all right in a church. But emy of Sciences. The station has ght ing business agent John .-O'Con-| SotGiner guch pode we don't wor-|teraranster, migmnity dat ewer alten Toni ° ne Special Showing! jf) nor of the United Textile Work began to in late the workers by| tellinz them some workers will ac-). cept the cut and will not fight. In] this way he covered up his own re- fusal to fight. He asked that the Executive Board be given full pow- ers to act and got what he wanted. Now, what have they done? The did was to call in Science and what he contemptuously calls material-! ism have dethroned them, . Electri-| city has practically displaced them all. And since man simply must worship, since man is governed by “a primitive religious instinct” driv- ing him on “to find a meaning for, life’ and especially “to comfort”| his “fears of death,” O’Neill decided ship any more. equipped with instruments automatically registering the amount of rainfall, the force of the wind, the Have Other’ Troubles. temperature and humidity of the Personally the meaning of life, air and the evaporation of the water troubles me very little. There is too | Surface. much misery and too many great! ‘This is the first attempt to estab- things are happening that are far lish a floating hydro-meteorologica more interesting and truer. Maybe|station not only in the U. S. S. R a room. wherein electricity is gen-| erated, only “deep thinkers” are ca- pable of accomplishing. The Greatest News Reel Ever Filmed! “KRASSIN” Special Added Attraction: “A Day with Tolstoy” A Wufku-Amkino Production aah hhh hh hehehe Tue Russian “Last Laucn” A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion between the Whites and the Reds—caught in the chang- ing tides of the Soviet Revolution! vvvvvwvwvwvwvvwvv ACCLAIMED BY from Philadelphia. They call him a “union engineer.” I believe the real name should be aj “sell out expert.” They split up the} workers into departments and are| having meetings th them trying life’s meaning will be evident when! but anywhere in the world. oo an actual and authentic film-record of the famous Russian writer taken in 1908 when he was eighty.. showing the great world figure in the intimate as- »|to do something “big” and sat down} {and wrote “Dynam.”—a work | which O’Neill admits deals with a “big subject.” | The big subject is of course the| attempt to find the meaning of life The Epic of Proletarian Heroism! ReEvoLuTionaRy WRirTeErs!, “Powerful Tragedy”, says Moissaye Olgin “Unforgettable* ways Melach Epstein of “The Fretheit” To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH FOUGHT to break down resistance. 3 x SCHEDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— pects of his daily activities Sco caawn en-|—and nothing less. Until that! AGAINST TREMENDOUS ODDS AND on his estate at Yasnain “Tremendous class btom Nhat 1 know abo ee dan| meaning is discovered all other| © RESCUED THE NOBILE CREW - - P| Pouana Oram cae 3 Sol Aves bjects are merely “little” and | ae: want such an inhuman speed-up and) }° 0S “ | THIS REMARKABLE PROGRAM PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY will fight against hardly scratch the “surface of 9 e | UNIQUE CINEMA OF REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN things.” Sacco and Vanzetti? A petty ephemeral subject about two wops. Cold blooded murder of hun- eds in India. A trifling affair. Misery, poverty, disease, exploita- tion, legal robbery, social revolution —immaterial, transitory subjects as unreal as the passing wind. 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 Arrangements, The same leaders who sold out the strike in New Bedford will now try to sell out the fight in Salem. A group of us got together and we are thinking of calling in a real union into Salem—the National Tex- ‘tile Workers’ Union. We know they are good fighters against the bosses and for the workers. We are sick Wants a Soul. and tired of the leadership of the! So O’Neill decides to imitate United Textile Workers. | Andreyev and knock at the gate of 2 knowledge—and presumably with Introductory Speech by the noted explorer film guild cinema 52-54 W. EIGHTH ST., West of 5th Ave. | 46-68 Direction SYMON GOULD Vilhjalmur Stefannsen Continuous Performance. Popular Prices. Daily 2 to 12 (Box Office Open 1:30 p.m.) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 (Box Office Opens 11:30 A. M.) —PHONE: SPRING 5095 CARNEGIE HALL, Tonight at 8:30 “In AIRWAYS, INC, John Dos Passos attacks boldly the of our Age and our America—namely, the class war. of the American workers awakening to class conscla jor problem Ca the play EB "GouD. New Playwrights Theatre, 133 W. 14th St., New York City Tickets: 50c to $2.00 at Box Office . iy eae * equally lamentable lack of success. ith-Alb: Pictures of Krassin O'Neill decided that fundamentalism | pp petapsee Rescue at Carnegie is all blah-blah. But atheism isn’t! Best Film Show A M E Ne BIG ;all there either. For instance, how} | In Town ‘pascal Mtsient bhiadsoay WEEK Hall Tonight | will atheism explain the spirit, the | soul, the longing for beauty, the de- sire to lie on dewy night-grass andj | stare at the enigmatic moon face? | And besides, what is this electricity. | CARNEGIE HALL SATURDAY at 8:30 DAILY WORKER BENEFIT PERFORMANCES Tuvrs., Frt., Sat., Eve. 8:30 p. M. FEBRUARY 21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2nd RECITAL OF MUSIC LEON THEREMIN RUSSIAN SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR Ether-Wave Music Inst-uments AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT DURING 1928 IN AMERICA Py BACH, BEETHOVEN, TSCHAIKOVSKY, IN PROGRAM: CHOPIN, PROKOFIEFF, RAVEL, ETC. The music ix produced solely by delicate and plastic movements of hands and fingers in the air without contact with the instruments! SEATS NOW ON SALE PRICES: $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 75¢ DEMATERIALIZED MUSIC NEW TONAL AND ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES ARTHUR JUDSON, Concert Management. An interesting sequence in “Kras- sin: The Rescue Ship,” the Sov- kino official motion picture of the Soviet expedition which rescued the ill-fated Nobile crew, is the part showing Madame Kollantai, Soviet § Ambassador to Norway, welcoming her countrymen on the Krassin with *he following words: “Our enemies say we are destroy- ws of culture and science. Your ‘eroism has disproved this slander. i Your task now is to do all that is nossible to rescue Amundsen and the Alessandri group. In the name of the Norwegian people, to you and to the Soviet government and, *o the entire Russian people, we ex- | tend our thanks and greetings. You jave shown the whole world that | on are brave and self-sacrificing | sioneers of civ iy The picturization of ‘this incident | orovides a stirring moment in this/ treatest of all news pictures, which | will have its American premiere | his evening at Carnegie Hall under | ‘the auspices of the Amkino, Vilhjalmur Steffanson, the noted Arctic explorer, will make the in- ductory address and pay his! e to the bravery of the Kras- crew and commanders as well to Boris Tschuchnovski, the now AMERICAN hk NEWEST AMKINO PREMIERE PRESENTATION “The L ASH otthe CZAR with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” DIRECTED BY I. A. 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