The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 4

Four Servicemen Are Called Upo n to Learn DAILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929 MILITANT STAND isenstein, Noted Soviet Film \MPERIALISTS OF Director, Not C oming Here QF JOHN PORTER U.S, HAVE BIGGEST Soldiers Forced to Stand for Hours: at “Attention” Lessons from Court-Martial of John Porte: PA. GUARDSMA TELLS OF GRAF THE projected trip to America cf} MARGARET ANGLIN | j S. M. Eisenstein, the noted Rus-| _ a Beas | ( sian cinema director responsible for| (2 2) | hn the Sovkino films, “Potemkin” and| “Ten Days That Shook the World”, | will not materialize, according to information received this week by the Film Guild Cinema on the oc- casion of its revival of “Potemkin” | Communists Fight for Ex-Soldier A demand for the immediate, un- conditional release of John Porter; Eisenstein will not come to Amer- from the military prison at Fort] ica because he is terrified by the| Leavenworth is contained in a reso-| “talkies.” Sound and sound effects lation adopted by the Sixth National| he does not mind; as a matter of Convention of the Communist Party. | fact he will employ them in his} } The resolution hails the heroic Com- | forthcoming productions. He is busy munist position taken by the former | Studying sound at studios in Berlin. soldier, who preferred to face years But the talking motion pictures, to at the West 8th Street Playhouse. | MILITARY FORGES \Pretty Girl Officers | Lure for ROTC WASHINGTON, March 28.—The | United States actually has a larger | number of men in its armed forces | than Great Britain or France, ace | cording to the official figures given | |by Congressman Ross A. Collins, a member of the sub-committee on ap- propriations, which handles military bills. FROM SMALL PA ‘Hot Dog Banquets’ fc Servicemen Even though the National Guard |men receive only about one doll |per week, they are not exempt fro | the graft of the officers, and mu of this small pay is taken away fro |them in various ways, according ja letter from a member of the N tional Guard in Philadelphia. | The letter from the Nation pi in an army jail rather than desert/ Eisenstein, is a hybrid art and he “Small Army” Pretense. Reais ae Guardsman follows: \ the cause of the workers, and calls/ Will have nothing to do with it, The American government has This picture shows the 107th Regiment sta::ding at attention in “full dress” at the Seventh | For the past year and sev ‘ upon the armed fortes “to learn the though the regular American pro- | | made a pretense of having one of| Regimental Armory in New York. Servicemen frequently are forced to stand stiffly at “attention” months I have been a member * lesson of Comrade Porter’s experi-|ducers are making him every in- the smallest armies of the powerful for long periods of time while being “inspected” and at various formations. They are not permitted Company C of the 108rd Enginee I ences; to organize within the mil-/ducement to come. imperialist powers by means of its " itary units and to prepare for a; LEisenstein’s position is based on united fight together with the whole) the theory that, rightly considered, reserve system and National Guard. The figures given by Collins do not to make the least movement, and must show that they have become Wall Street masters.. This form of “di workers in uniform for the next imperialist war. mere automatic robots for the cipline” plays an important part in preparing the young of the Pennsylvania National Gua) There are many flowery promis made to the young workers to g working class against American im-| the stage and screen are two en- include the navy, marine corps, aise a Sie ROR EEC CS ONS ae ee. them to join but none of them a m. tirely different worlds. The “talkie” jnaval reserves, cadets, and many| A ¥ e carried out. HD wexcTation “follows: invades the stage and is, therefore, other military organizations. The r|Servicemen Invited top Nl : | We are told of the good times tI |! The Sixth National Conven- |®) Wtong. Hach has a personality statistics given by Collins include vt i Vort aM ey oe guards haye, but no mention is mac : SU egy bme tenable Me {861,898 officers and men and 110,,| |W: ily Worker 7 ANF Ge the Peet HAE the’ ested F BA a A eterna cee lc ab pesean etch etein Srecuet 000 members of rifle clubs supported| n | quel Dae Wise “Ha oa se affairs come out of our pay. revolutionary greetings to our val- | explaining his attitude, “has a ‘mass’ | by the war department, se COAST ARTILLERY \ dais mmwenepes (i as hey FOR SERVICEMEN | Fines tae) Genndaee: fs iant Comrade John Porter, now in- |personality which demands to be total of more than 770,000 who re-| lesa : Bats : oe | i ‘. We ss “1 1° ” - rie repul liter bras which devotes a section every week No mention is made of the dril he carcerated in the Fort Leaven- handled and developed in a bold, ee ee to the interests of the servicemen, | we are put thru, or of the march : worth Military prison by Ameri- | personal way. Crowds must be} under diection seid nfo Sede neral . and opens its pages to letters from , e | in the various parades. Also no mei i can imperialism, for his partici- | used, but used to carve out a mass ment, The navy, marine corps, and General Maneuvers for |%4,opens its x marines and na jpavage Treatment of |* eer anutisiane ation in the leadership of the |of stirring historical facts and| other official and semi-official mili- cae * letter gumenateen FY rea: cae Eee Cras ey ners ee om iD P fae ae t t ‘ iby irs ime tional guardsmen. The Young Natives, Soldiers The off: have many ways New Bedford Textile strike. gaat eed ee jad Galliag probable: Would Meine the: te rte | Worker, official organ of the Young| besa ae o | getting graft out of us. Inmy ou |} oe Worki aaa | “In ‘Potemkin’, for example, the A poi ge ‘ ine Wovkens fst) Lauer a5 Ba aed ia ae UAE | tit wi ar and a half civ iS It is not accidental that at this in. 19.500 ton cruiser, the maés of | play titled “Security”, which opened | $700,000,000 for War. the first time in the history of the | hear is n the |. Since Roosevelt stated “I seized | (2% iat id i; time the capitalist class has sing- led out Comrade Porter for especi- ally severe persecution. He sym- bolized the growing unity between the soldiers and the workers in the factories. Particularly in this period of war preparations, in- evitable because of the developing rivalries among the imperialist countries and the preparation for sailors at 55 kopeck a day, the $50,- at Maxine Elliott's 000 a year commanding officer, the | night. ‘MEN CAGED IN /ALCATRAZ PRISON lesser officers who treated the men like dogs, and the immense crowd of sympathizers in Odessa, all formed our stage. All this was un- trained, but highly efficient ma- terial. We broke it up to convey the impression of historical events Theatre last | In the “regular army,” there are |188,555 officers and enlisted men and more than 60,000 classed as | “civilian workers.” The National Guard has 18,942 officers and men, the organized reserves 114,824 \of- ficers and 5,416 enlisted men, and the reserve officers training corps 127,141. Last year, 34,515 attended American army, every mobile unit | :<rests of the young workers in the Ys y | armed forces. 2 a re eae a the ral All servicemen are invited to write Staves oH Make a: practice smacch..”|jatterd telling Gf tHefr “experiences The intensive war preparations | and conditions for the Daily Worker are shown by the plans for coast ar-| and Young Worker. No names tillery maneuvers announced by the| be published when this is desired. war department. Two anti-aircraft | Mail should be add r n sed to the regiments will march to Fort Story, Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Sa pe Panama,” the American imperialists | have been brutally dominating the workers of Panama with a huge gar- rison of troops stationed in the Canal Zone. A short time ago the American troops were called upon to shoot down the workers of Panama in their own capitol city because they few luxur we get in camp an for our entertainment. Every onc | in a while we have what the officer jcall.a “banquet” to which we are a lowed to bring our friends. Banquets Joke. These banquets are huge joke: Hot dogs and coffee is served on poc tables. Then the officers approac : i and happenings on a colossal scale.” th rere 4 raining | 2» Where maneuvers will be held.) ¢, Nat Kaplan (editor of Y: dared to strike against the intoler- our friends and try to get them t Ne pee ener umom de the Not only the masses of sailors, | eee eae gape? Training | the regiments going to Fort Story | Worker), a pa testh St New able housing conditions and the high | join. They meet with little succes: | capitalists fear any fraternization | Fisenstein explained, but the ship The military establishments men-|27¢, the 61st from Fort Monroe, Va..| york City. ie Iranians ~ |however, as the guards all war between the armed forces and the | itseig was broken up and its wonder-- New Torture Methods tf 2 and the 62nd from Fort Totten, N.| their friends not to fall for th workers. Despite attempts of the govern- ment to induce Comrade Porter to repudiate his Communist position, ful properties, its gigantic masses of machinery, used to strengthen or! weaken the action of the story.| | Never has a big ship been used so Introduced tioned are maintained at a total cost |of $328,338,815, Expenditures for |the navy and other war prepara- A letter received by Paul Crouch | tions bring the grand total to more than seven hundred million dollars | Y. The 63rd regiment, which is sta- tioned on the Pacific Coast, will go Baker Loses Life Thru to Capitola, Calif, for target prec: Bread-Mixing Machine tice. However, the soldiers are partial- ly aware of the true purpose of | their occupation of Panama and the |most inhuman methods are being officer’s bunk. | For the past six months we hav |not even had one of these affair |'This means that about a hundr even offers of a sentence of one | yecctin} : : f thar Meee wideonneran | Y ; al | used to keep the soldiers in submis-|2hi° means, that, about a hunds : & ly to serve the acting. Art| from another former prisoner in| ““" | i ilit: The railroad regiment of the coast | ” S ae pr aeey cf and ninety-five dollars: hay month instead of two and a half | tany played its part as a means of| Alcatraz recalls the former methods | P*™ puritan tar an i aad artillery will move its batteries by|, "SEY CITY, ee eee ee wane sea aits ie ae Well | their Way ne We eee years, Comrade Porter remained | intensifying the expression. Photo-|of torture in the military prison, Militarist Propaganda. rail from Fort Eustis, Va. to Fort |‘¢ Toprock, baker, was found Street-Washington dictatorship. Sol-| “Very few of the boys even rejo! firm in his loyalty to the working class, saying at the court martial, “T am sorry that I deserted from the army. I wish I had remained and w the other soldiers over from the bourgeoisie to the cause of the working class.” This stand has won him the most brutal tor- graphy from a new angle also helped bef to build up a new and monumental film. | |DeMILLE’S “THE GODLESS: GIRL” AT CAMEO THEATRE | TOMORROW The letter follows: Dear Paul: I have been a prisoner at the | “Rock,” Alcatraz Island, Calif. My ore a more psychological but no less savage system was introduced. The subtle propaganda used by} | the government to lure young work- jers into the military service and prepare them for imperialist war is| revealed by Congressman Collins,| who admits some of the psychologi- | cal methods for deceiving the |dead in his shop today, killed by a |bread-mixing machine. He had |bought the shop a few days ago, jand was cither unfamiliar with the |machine or it was unprotected by BIBLE SHARK DISCARDS WIFE. "2°48. | His arm was caught and crushed MINEOLA, N. Y., March 28—|to the shoulder. He was able to Story. Its maneuvers will be held during May, together with those of the 51st regiment, which is coming from its station at Fort Monroe. diers are imprisoned in stockades for the petty crime of having a shoe | string break; they cannot obtain a | pass to leave the post without going |through yards of “red tape.” Sol- diers cannot wear civilian clothing and they are constantly spied upon |and driven to slave work with picks and there is general discontent. | There is much more to tell tha this letter gives an idea of. Ma: write you some more about thing | later. —YOUNG GUARDSMAN. conditions are steadily becominy tures in prison. Another year of prison number was 11461, my crime | yee ate, Mieunane imperial-| wieming H. Revell, bible and hymm-| pull himself free from the crushing |and shovels in the malaria infested | worse and no one is permitted t this prison hell faces him, Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Godless | “refusing to participate in a war|Discussing the Reserve Officers | °K publisher, of Great Neck, L. I.,| gears, breaking a three-inch iron | jungles of the tropics. A soldier in| speak at public mer enes on Here) The Sixth National Convention | Girl” in sound and with talking se- waged to make the world safe for| Training Corps, Collins says: | Was divorced today from Mrs. Mar-jcasting in the machine, and crawled | the colonies must work from 12 to| mention the. outrageous treatmen > of the Communist Party greets | quences, will open at the Cameo | ‘ae 9; P ay fi ion C. Revell of Flushing, L. I. The|to within a couple of feet of the|14 hours a day on a salary of $21.00 | imposed upon the Panamanian peo t the heroic Communist position | Theatre this Saturday. With the in-| 2¢mocracy. ‘ retty Girl Officers. proceedings were kept secret. telephone, where he was found dead. | Per month and also pay from this) pe by the United States imperial ’ taken by Comrade Porter and re- || stallation of sound equipment-in the} In January, 1920, Executive Of-) “I cannot give the congress the | wage, all courtmartial fines and for | ists. i solves to mobilize the workers and ‘| Cameo, this theatre will become a|ficer Johnson and Commandant number of girls who are given this : | government property he might dam-| The Panama Canal was obtaine: soldiers for unity in a struggle to | talkie house, featuring long run/ James B. McDonald devised “coffin” | particular training because their|and social value rather than its; “We are carrying on a very elab- | age, Panama is like all other col-| by fomenting a revolution in Pan : force the military authorities to | specials and talkie shorts. | like cages to force me and others to! number was not furnished to the| Probable military usefulness.” orate program in training our men | onies in one respect, namely, that) ama and then landing of U. § t release him from prison. “The Godless Girl,” was written for | Submit to military authority. Four| committee, but usually pretty girls Parades and Displays. |and women for military duty, and | not one soldier would remain in the! troops who seized the country a : Organize In Armed Forces. the screen by Jeanie MacPherson, |C@@eS were placed on the side of |are chosen as officers and sponsors| “The big parade for boy cadets) we are spending a great deal of | colonies were it possible for him to| the instruction of President Roose i We call particularly upon the |The picture at times borders on the| the disciplinary battalion part of the |and uniforms are provided for them|Where girl officers turn out to| money in popularizing the military | escape. velt. Panama is a great strategi armed forces to learn the lesson | weird, and there are scenes which| Prison, the same side where the|from some source, strut their stuff’ is becoming avidea. . .Of course, it must be a No labor organizations are per-| position for domination of all Latis E ef Comrade Porter's experiences, are reminiscent of “Metropolis”. The | dark solidarity cells are located and} “These girl officers are frequent-| community event in many places) mitted that many of these citizens’! mitted in Panama except those con- | America and the seizure of th 1 to organize within the military ly installed with much pomp and|and, of course, the Regular Army is 1 cast is headed by Lina Basquette, where the entrance to the dungeon military trainees are encouraged to | trolled directly by the bosses. All | country transformed the whole Ci units and prepare for a united | Marie Prevost, George Duryea and) iS+ |ceremony and public display; they glad to pull off these events. |be in these units by Regular Army/ persons accused of radicalism are ribbean area into an “America ’ fight together with the whole | Noah Beery. I would appreciate very much if |lead parades and participate in re-) “You should see some of these | management for propaganda pur-| immediately deported. | Working | Mediterranean.” t working class against American you could give me the following in-| Views and preside on social occa-| gala parades and reviews held by | poses only. imperialism. The workers, united | sions, conduct personal inspection of | our civilian training units—for the| “Many of these are having a most} inl with the servicemen, must turn the coming imperialist war into a war for the overthrow of American imperialism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment. * * Porter Tortured by Army Czars. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, Maxch 28.—The military authorities here are continuing their efforts to break the militant sprit of John Porter. The army officers refuse to permit him to receive most of the hundreds of letters coming from workers all over the country, and ‘will not let him write letters regard- jag the brutal treatment to which he is subjected. The officers, however, are-much worried by the many letters to Por- ter, which show that the workers are beginning to realize the tremen- dous significance of the case. “Wild Bill” Morrow. Colonel William (“Wild Bill”) Morrow, the Commandant here, de- mands that the guards use the most savage methods against Porter. Mor- row demonstrated his servility to the true spirit of capitalism and his hatred of Communists and all soldiers with courage to think for themselves, while Commandant at the Alcatraz military prison, where Peul Crouch, Walter Trumbull and George Pershing, soldier members of the Hawaiian Communist League, were confined. * Porter was sent here by War De-} rertment, which knew the record of “forrow. According to usual proce- Cure, Porter, who was court-mar- “ialed et Fort Adams, R. I., should have been sent to Governors Island, “ut the army officers wished to re- “wove him as far as possible from) “'s fricrds and comrades in the) “ast, and counted on the cruelty of “Morrow to break his revolutionary | epirit. Always Loyal to Workers. The latest information received “rom Porter shows that the hopes of the cfficers are in vain. In a message to the workers, he declares} that nothing can remove him from _ the working class and that he would _ vather give his life than betray the _ workers, Porter asks that the cam- naien to force his release be intensi- _ fied and that the brutality of army prison methods be exposed. ‘La Traduccion,’ Tampa panish Paper, Tells of Daily Worker Drive TAMPA, Florida, March 28.—“La Traduccion,” a newspaper published here daily in the Spanish language, carried on the front page in its is- sue of March 21 a three-column ar- ticle reporting the successful con- clusion of the drive to Save the Daily Worker, in which $18,396.44 was raised, It describes the campaign of the Communist Party organ and quotes the manager of the Daily Worker on the significance of the drive. It will be recalled that the tobacco workers in Tampa rallied very ef- fectively to the Daily Worker dur- ing the drive and sent in substan- tial contributions. “La Traduccion” frequently pub- jlishes editorials from the Daily | Worker and other “Daily” items of |interest to the workers of Tampa. |Worker Esperantists to ‘Meet in Leipzig Aug. 9 LEIPZIG, March 28.—A call to Esperanto speaking workers of all countries to participate in the Ninth World Congress of the “Sennacioca Asocie Tutmonda” (international Esperanto revolutionary organiza- tion) at Leipzig has been issued by the workers’ Esperanto headquar- ters here. It is expected that at least 2,000 Esperanto workers from practically every country in the world will come to the congress, to be held Aug. 9 to 12, for discussion of methods of using the interna- tional language for the class strug- gle. Former congresses have been held in Leningrad and Geteborg, Sweden, The organization of Revolutionary Fsperantists has been growing rap- idly during recent years, especially in the Soviet Union, where Esper- anto is taught in schools and work- ers’ clubs and has received official recognition in many fields. A large library of revolutionary literature has beer published in Esperanto, ard a weekly paper, “Sennaciule,” is issued in the international lan- guage. Free lodging will be given by Porter's sentence will be completed January, 1930. Leipzig workers to all foreign work- ers who come to the congress. | formation: Was anylody sentenced to the|P0Y cadets in some places, areal iron cages while you were serving | #% general billboards, advertising | your term at the Pacific Branch of |the glory of the Reserve Officers’| the U. S. D. B.? Training Corps. | Were the cages removed or were Horses Also Lend Color. they still in their places while you| “The young ladies are not the were at Alcatraz? Adjutant Gen-|only agencies used in the Reserve jeral Lutz Wahl replied on Novem-| Officers’ Training Corps for the |ber, 1928, that the cage form of| purpose punishment was discontinued, “not| training. Horses also play a large because the punishment was believed |part. There are certain schools that |to be severe, but rather because of| would probably not have a Reserve | the undue attention attracted to it] Officers’ Training Corps unit were |on account of misrepresentation as| it not for the riding horses that are to its severity.” provided for the amusement of these Yours, young men, “Riding is becoming very popular | socially, and most young men in |schools like to ride, and as long as In next Friday’s issue of the! they are able to ride a good horse, | Daily Worker, Crouch will reply to | furnished, fed, and equipped in a | these questions and will describe the \fine, splendid way by the United | present system of punishments and States government, they join the | tortures in the military prison at| Reserve Officers’ Training Corps— Alcatraz, which, he declares are ac- for the purpose of improving their tually. must worse than those men- | horsemanship. The horse is kept in | “a ESERSSGCARNSGRI A Alcatraz Prison Number 11461. 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We may ex- every means possible that the little | pect down through the years to see tots of the community will look for-|the demands made upon this con- ward to the time when they get big| gress grow until our military es- enough to participate in yet bigger|tablishment reaches further and and showier parades. | further into the life of our people.” The Same Address Over 75 Years 1929 POLITAN SAVINGS: ASSETS EXCEEDING $30,000,000 Interest starts the Ist of Each Month, Deposits made on or before April 3rd, draws interest from April ist. “ Interest for 3 months ending { Mar. 31, 1929, at rate of 41607, 1 i ver annum an all sums from te 85 to $7,500 hax been de- 2 (0) ge ee clared payable April 17, 1929, Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Banking by Mail, Society Accounts Accepted. |! We Sell A. B. A, Travelers Certified Checks MASQUERADE BALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “UJ ELORE” —Hungarian Communist Daily— Arranged by the UJ ELORE conference with the co- operation of the New York Hungarian organizations will be held Sat. Eve., March 30th 8 P. M,, at Central Opera House 67th Street and ‘Third Avenue TICKETS in advance $1.00; at the bor office $1.25. Tickets for sale at Uj Elore office, 26 Union Sq., Hungarian Workers Home, 350 East 8ist St. Tableau from the 1919 Hungarian Revolution | RNA is ooo | Theatre Guild Productions EUGE NEILL'S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. E 8:50 Mats., Thurs. & 0 SI.-VARA’S COMEDY | | CAPRICE : ) Thea. W. aund St GUILD Eves. 8:50 | , Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2:40 EUGENE O'NEILL'S | || Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea., 58th E. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ——— civic REPERTORY 148t,,cthav. Eves. 8:30 ector | rry Orchard.” | “Katerina.” | ‘The Would-Be Gentleman.” Farewell DA Revoluti 4 ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HOotcipa Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH 782: W: 45 8.51 Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.3! xtra Matinee Tuesday. |Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatr« 4tth St. West of Brondway Eyes, 8:30; Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:3( | The Greatest and Funniest Revue Pleasure Bound COMEDY Theatre, 41st S BE. of | Broadway. Eves. incl | Sun, at 8:50, — Mats. ‘Thurs. & Sat | Extra Matinee Monday | RUT H Draper Whe other classes Gecay and tinally disappear in the face of modern in dustry: the proletariat is its speci nnd eesential produet—Zarl May ist Manfesto). Pertormance! | ISADORA DUNCAN NCERS in a Program of onary Songs and Dances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES —_—=T