The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 3

y \ / ] DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1920 wage ‘Three Many Attempted Desertions from Ame SERVICEMEN TRY TO ESCAPE FROM ARMY IN PANAMA Deserters Taken from Ship at San Diego ‘March 29, 1929. Editor, Daily Worker: T have just read an article by George Pershing in the Daily Worker, and I wish to back up his statements. Although I was. stationed in Hawaii for some time, an incident happened before I reached Hawaii that showed me that there is some- thing wrong with the army. Three Dozen Deserters. After we left Panama to go to Frisco, on our way to Hawaii, I got slave driving Governor to talking with a number of sol- diers and it turned out that they were deserters from the army in Panama who were trying to get away from the service. There were about three dozen of them on the boat. But when we reached San Pedro a squad of “M. P.” (Military Young Workers Being Trained for Imperialism | These ‘soldiers, recruited f armed by the bi | investments of Morgan, and for only country ruled by the wo m ses to crush strikes of wor GUARDSMEN BILL FOR CLUB OF DENVER OFFICERS Servicemen Work With Pick and Shovel When I joined the 45th Divisional Tank Company here in Denver, I heard nothing about any club, but when pay day came, I found that there was a club. A We lined up to pass in front of ng class, are trained and 8, defend the foreign use against the Soviet Union, the and peasants. the work N. C. Guardsmen Retuse to ; | Be Used as Strike Breakers ! | if mill owning and of North Carolina, has called the N. C, Na- tional Guard out to guard the prop- erty of the criminal mill-owners |who have driven their workers to such extremes of exhaustion that | they have at last turned and are on | strike for their just demands. | Even the chauvinistic New York Max Gardne Police) came on board. Everybody | Times can find no evidences of vio- was iined up. They called the rolls and caught all trying to desert, showing that the army knows that | these men will desert and that they ere trying to get away on all boats. Hard Labor for Soldiers. Then Pershing writes about sol- ciers working. diers the civilians. the army (excluding officers) about $25 a month. this (in Hawaii) we were compelled to send our laundry to the govern- ment laundry for $1.25 a®month. Then we bought anything in the post exchange, where charged sky-high prices, its are going to buy pool tables, we were record piano rolls (so the “C. 0.” told us). Then to top if all we were told that all the money we saved on our clothing allowance would be to our credit. Bw& they invented something new. We were made to draw more clothing out on the pretext that our clothing was ‘Then, to everybody's sur- prise, there appeared on the bul- letin board, about a month later, just before pay-day, a lést of men (about $14 of the company) who in some cases as high as $30 for a) worn out. owed the government money, $21 a month soldier. I will write some more about the | Practically all of the enlisted men conditions in Hawaii and about the “beautiful” city of Honolulu (I vis- | ited it every night, being in Fort | Armstrong). Please put this in the Daily Worker and Young Worker. A SOLDIER. POOR LIGHT FOR WORKERS. Employers are so anxious to save money on lighting that only half the industrial workers in the coun- try can see clearly what they are doing, Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness intim- ated in an address in Jersey City last night. Lack of proper lighting not only injures the workers’ eyes directly, but causes many accidents he said. In Hawaii the sol- unload transports alongside Then, about the pay, it is extremely hard for a private to rise, because the average pay in is Now out of The prof- jence in this strike. Picketing is | orderly. Goy. Gardner is Mil] Owner. But slave driver Gardner wants this strike broken. His own mill workers to the south of Gastonia jare liable to assert th ights and then Gardner would not get his usual fat dividends. And too, he | must protect the other mill owners who selected him for governor of North Carolina. He has called in his | subservient tool Capt. Arthur Fuller ; with the National Guard and per- \haps to shoot down the strikers, as | was done a year and a half ago in | Colorado where the National Guard and State Troopers cold-bloodedly murdered eight miners marching in a peaceful parade on the state road. Looks for Promotion. | Max Gardner will doubtless en- |deavor to prove to the capitalists to |whom he looks for promotion that ‘he is as good a labor smasher as is bloody Adams of Colorado. | May Shoot Fellow Workers. The North Carolina National | Guardsmen may be called upon at jany moment to shoot down their |fellow workers in cold blood in an | effort to break the strike. They are beginning to see the strike-breaking |role of the National Guard. They | know that they are being used f a dirty job they do not like. It is their duty to defend the cause of the |strikers and not the mill owner |in the Guardsmen are worker Guardsmen Must Aid Strikers The North Carolina National Guardsmen must refuse to be tools | of the mill owners. If they refuse |to be used against the workers, the strike will not only be won, but the mill-owner, Gardner, will think | twice in the future before he calls | out the National Guardsmen for use | as strike-breakers. |The workers in the North Carolina National Guard and the’ textile| strikers must unite and fight to- gether against the bosses—their common enemy. | LONDON, (By , Mail). —James | Rogers, a road laborer, was killed when a bus ran him down, at W minster Bridge. Will Show Krassin Film at Philadelphia PORES tomorrow afternoon, Philadelphians will have an op- portunity to see one of the greatest film releases sent out of the U. S. S. R. “Krassin—The Rescue Ship, the official motion picture document taken aboard the now-famous Soviet | relief expedition, will be shown for the first time in Philadelphia, at the Film Guild Cinema, 1632 Market |. Street. The film tells in vivid and graphic form all that took place from the moment that the chunky Soviet ice- breaker left Leningrad until she picked up every living survivor of the ill-fated Italia and nosed her way back through hazardous ice- floes and proudly steamed into Leningrad. Taken by the official Soviet cam- eramen, Bluvstein, the films relate in detail every thrilling episode in this saga of Russian heroism and chivalry. The spectacular flight of Boris Chuknovski, the “Red Eagle,” is shown in all of its phases. How the powerful Soviet ice- he enormous, thick ice-fldes, is also Yet crushed her way through shown. Time and again one sees her lift her steel-shod bow up over the thick edge of the arctic ice, come down with a shattering crash on the ice—and another short path, some- times only a few yards, is made for the rescue shin, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, noted Arc- tic explorer who spent five and a half years in the waters north of Baffin Land, lauded the crew of “The Krassin” as “noble and heroic, actuated only by humanitarian and international chivalry.” The picture has been hailed by European critics on its Berlin showing as “a proletar- ian epic of the North.” “Two Days,” another Soviet film, which created quite a stir here and abroad, is being shown at the Film “uild today for the last time. Guild Cinema | MRS. FISKE RETURNS. | The noted diva is now appearing | in a revival of Harry James Smith’s | comedy, “Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh,” | at the Klaw Theatre, | STRINGWOOD ENSEMBLE) AT PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY.| The Stringwood Ensemble will make its fourth appearance this Friday evening at the Washington Irving High School under the aus- pices of the People’s Symphony Concerts. The program prepared for the last concert of the season follows: Trio B Flat Major, Op. 11, by Beethoven; Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74, by Dvoray, Scherzo, from | Quintet E Flat Major, By Schu- mann; Orientale by Kroll, Andante Con Moto, from Quartet No. 1 by Borodin; Sketch on Two Jewish | Themes, C Minor, Op. 24, by S.| Prokofieff. 4 | I t- the company commander. He pushed | our government checks across to us and we signed them. He pulled them back again and wrote us an- other check on his own personal ac- count for a smaller amount. “What's that for,” I asked. The Club,” I was told. Officer “Subscribes”—Men Pay. The forty-fifth divisional Tank company has a “Club.” And how. Two years ago, when this “club” was started, it was put up to the men as a fine thing for the guard WAKENING OF SOLDIERS BEGINS se eeG to have a privately owned picnic Servicemen Write 0} cround, and “maybe” we would ‘ret Dail rker | money for a club house. The officer v Wo ee | subscribed a hundred dollars to start | By J. H. STEELE jit. That hundred is still subscribed and never paid, but the enlisted men (Formerly in 27th Infantry, and a member of Hawaiian Commu- _ have paid their dollar a month reg- nist League.) ularly ever since. Letters 0 the Daily Worker from | “Pienies” With Pick and Shovel. service men in the colonies of United States imperialism prove that life in the United States army is as in- tolerable and inhuman as is the life of the workers kept in subjection by the army. These letters describe the life of the soldier in anything but the glow- ing terms used by the recruiting sergeant endeavoring to lure the hungry youth thrown out of employ- | ment by the damnable speed-up of American industry into a life of a mercenary soldier in the United States colonies of Panama, Hawaii, Philippines and elsewhere. Small pay, rotten food, tropical heat, deadly to one raised in the north temperate zone, together with | tropical diseases, leave these men permanent physical wrecks at the end of their three years’ service. When summer came the guard was mobilized for picnics on the ib grounds, These picnics con- sisted of pick and shovel details to build a golf course, shooting club, and a log club house. The men pitched in at the job, and under the direction of the officers soon had as fine a rifle and golf club as can be found in the Rocky mountains. Only Officers Use Club. Then came the use of the club. It is forty miles from the nearest town and only can be reached during the summer months by automobile. No more picnics were organized and when some guardsman could find a friend who had a car to take him lout to the club he was certain to find one of the officers with a gang jof friends ahead of him using the |place. This officer would always Many of them endeavor to desert, | ask him, “You won’t mind getting only to be picked up upon entering | off the course until we are thru ihe United States again. Some of | will you?” them, disgusted with American im-| Naturally, the Guardsman has to perialism, and realizing that noth-| hide the fact that he very much ing exists for them in this country | does mind indeed. | where they will have to dodge every | N. G. for Strikebreaking. sheriff for years as a result of hav-| ‘This “club” incident is just one ex- ing “gone over the hill,” go to Au-/ ample of the many things I have ralia or to Latin-American coun- | jearned about the National Guard tries, |since I enlisted. In another letter | The rate of desertion from the | I will tell how two officers are try- jcolonies would be much greater if | ing to make us into good tools for |it were not for tne isolated condi-| breaking strikes and keeping our tions of these colonies; Panama be-| fellow workers and ourselves en- ing the only one where any appre- | slaved to the bosses. ciable number of vessels touch on —National Guardsman, 45th Divis- which service men have any chance | ional Tank Company, Denver, Colo. tc escape from their three years’ | term. A few escape from Hawaii | . * mm spite of precautions of the gov- Pravda Hails Victory ernment. The imperialists keep these men in hand by playing upon racial pre- | judice and by telling them: “Oh, | ot 5 RS SHEL well, you should worry, you only| MOSCOW, (By Mail). — The have a couple of years to do—and | Pravda comments upon the splendid then you can go back home and be | Victory of the opposition in the fac- Factory Council Voting a hero.” tory council elections in the state These soldiers are waking up, as aru opera ee Poe The vi the increasing number of letters |‘O'Y Showed tha’ je masses more radical tha. their leaders and than the liquidators, This victory of the Communist |Party and the revolutionary trade union opposition was a splendid an- swer cf the work masses to the right wing liquidate +s and the con- ciliants, Pravda do-lares, The dele- gates to the Berlin-Brandenbrug district party conference were able} u 3 to assur ves i | day issued a justification of the y eee | policy of the party, as laid down government's action in quelling the| 1. the Communist International and outbreaks of students which Oc-lthe Red International of Labor curred recently in a number of) university towns, including Madrid, | Unions. Numbers of the student leaders are still in Spanish prisons. |prove, and it is only a question of | time until they recognize their class | interests and take a definite stand lagainst being used for the further exploitation of the colonial peoples. ‘De Rivera Justifies Student Persecutions MADRID, Spain, April 4.—Primo! JUGGLE EXPRESS TALK Though the American Railway | Express bought up all other com- | ee panies and then sold control to a/ Jewish immigration societies here syndicate of railroad companies, | state that 20,000 Jews, who intended juggling of express stock continues. | to enter U. S. in 1928 from Europe. | Adams Express yesterday bought were barred by the quota laws, and | 199,710 shares of American Railway that most of them went to Argen-| Eypress and now owns 75 per cent ‘ne and Brazil instead, where many | of all the stock. 20,000 JEWS TO LATIN AMERICA | ncan Army in the Cor PAY) agen re MEN IN UNIFORM ‘of Left Wing in Berlin) Army in the Colon ies, Soldier Declares DEFEND WALL ST. FOR 70c PER DAY Poem by Soldier Tells | of Conditions Panama, March 21, 1929. Editor, Daily Worke I am sending you a poem which I would like to have published in the Daily Worker. I think it will cive a little idea to the workers of the true conditions we are forced to endure down here. | Because of the persecution of the soldiers who expose the brutal tem here in any way, you cannot publish my real name. | ‘+. se A SUFFERING SOLDIER (By a Soldier tn Panama) Down where the beautiful Caribbean Reflects the tropical moon, | Ave seven thousand soldiers Brought here as Morgan's tools. Where groves of bananas and man- goes blue Gen. Gustavo Salina ¢ 0 in com- | Give forth their prolific yield mand of the air force of the Mex- | Are found outcasts of civilization— ican reactionary insurgents. He The pride of imperialist rule. learned to fly at Mineola, L. 1. TO AID SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKES |W. I. R. Opens Relief Campaign | | (Continued from Page One) | On the banks of the Chigress river | on strike, they find the need of im-|TWo thousand miles from home; | mediate relief necessary, Without | They climb the hills and valleys immediate aid, in the form of food, | With pack and heavy gun; starvation will become acute. The ; They try to sing a song mill owners hope that by starvation |And drown their woes with rum, | they will be able to drive the strik- Down to Colon on pay-day ers back to the mill and break the |To squander their meager wad, | strike. The bosses.must not suc- | They raise a merry time for an eve- ceed. The strike must develop and | _ning— result in a victory for the workers. | These forgotten The outbreak of strikes are a blow | Pack to the direct at the strongest section of month; the open-shoppers in this country. |Oh, my, how time does drag along A victorious strike means new | When one can’t find enough pennies [legions of organized workers in the |To furnish a man with fags. | militant labor movement in that sec- Sand fleas at night keep us jump- tion of the United States. | 2 Abstr | “Food must be rushed to the|/t’s all that mortal can endure; strikers immediately. Workers | OP hell, are we convicis | should at once send a contribution | ¥® S°“1ers on a tore aan j tc the Workers International Rejef,| —4 SOLDIER WHO KNOWS. which is co-operating with the Na- as . (onal Textile Rorkera Union in tate: “ELECRIC EAR” ing relief. Organizations should! An “electric ear,” devised in the |have as the first order of business | Burgess Laboratories at /Madison, at their next meeting the question | Wis. was tested here yesterday. By of making a substantial contribution | i#ht waves and recording devices, it A - | will be able to test the acoustic to the relief fund of the strikers. properties of auditoriums before “The New York Local of the W. | they are built, to enable changes in| I, R. has arranged tag days for | the plans to do away with probable | April 12, 18 and 14, The funds | TeVetberations. raised will be used for the striking Down here in hellish sunshine— | These slaves that men forgot, In hospital ward with terrible fever— The itch and the tropical rot Nobody knows that they are living, | No one would give a damn; Back home they are forgotten— se soldiers of “Uncle Sam. The soldiers in foreign service |Receive their meager pay, They guard the Wall Street billion For seventy cents a day. Down with the oppressed natives, | Down in the torrid zone, “sons of god.” camp for another CROWD SICK SAILORS. WASHINGTON, Apirl 4.—The} | naval affairs sub-committee of the their families. Friends and evm=| Hours eigiaaaed ae tie | sathizer: ast | admitted in its re |Pathizers of the “striking textile | the naval hospitals are dangerously | workers must participate in the tag) overcrowded in Newport, Brooklyn Contributions for the strik-| and Boston, where the committee hould be sent immediately to | recently investigated. the National Oifice of the Workers sea es Helict “Recor (04/0 Caoght betweat tere freight eats nion Square, New York, We urge|in the Canadian National yards, action at once, as delay may be dan-| Gilbert Houligan, a switchman, was gerous.” killed. ass GIANT OPEN-AIR DEMONSTRATION | AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR i PREPARATIONS i | textile workers of the south as well es for the destitute coal miners and SASKATOON, Sask., (By Mail). * | on the occasion of the | 12th Anniversary of the American Entry into the War | SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH AT 4 P.M. 110TH STREET & FIFTH AVENUE Prominent Speakers. Auspices of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., New York District £ them have become farmers. 2 ‘Vomen’s Battalion at Work! to be seen at | Annual Concert & Ball) of the United Council of Working Women IN MOVING PICTURES at MANHATTAN LYCEUM) 66 East 4th Street on Saturday Eve., April 13 8:30 P. M. The Well Known DORSHA Dancers TONIGHT! noted dramatic Dee Remar & Alice Waxgeiser in STRAUSS. . ... . Waltz LHC. ss 4 Walte | LEVITZIS i ‘ Waltz Revolutionary Dances | ROSE WAYNER will give Dramatic Recitations | DANCING UNTIL 8 A. M, Admission 50c in advance; at door 75c | Get your Tickets at the council office, | 80 Kast 11th Street, — Room 533 | Refreshments naa | prepared by council | members, | HARRY DANA “The Soviet Theatre” at the WORKERS SCHOOL, 26-28 Union Square, 5th floor, at 8:15 P.M. Remaining lectures of series of 4 on Revolutionary Russian Drama, given as follows: April 12—The Russian Revolution Dramatized April 19—Soviet Problems Dramatized April 26—The World Revolution Dramatized Ticket for entire series of 4 lectures $1.50. ISN [7 Theatre Guild Productions (IVIC REPERTORY 4st.stnay. Fontght, “Katerina.” |Sat, Mat., Sat, Eve., THE STRIKE IS ON! ee STRIKE of the cafeteria workers in New York City’s garment center is on and The DAILY WORKER is in it. When Secretary Sam Kromberg, presiding at the great mass meeting’ held in Bryant Hall, Wednesday night, told the militant food workers that they could depend on the Daily Worker as an ally in their struggle, the spirited gathering rose to its feet en masse and cheered. The ovation was repeated when J. Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the Daily Worker, was introduced as the speaker immediately following the reading and unanimous yote taken on the strike resolution, inaug- urating the struggle Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. The adoption of the strike resolution was signalized by the singing of “Solidarity, For- ever!” many of those singing having joined the union but a few min- utes before. This is the spirit with which these workers in the food industry went into their strike on Thursday morning. It is the spirit that wins. It is the spirit that is winning for the workers in the needle industry, who are now giving their support to the cafeteria strikers. Engdahl not only pledged the strikers the support of The Daily Worker, but called on the strikers to become worker correspondents and contribute to the Special Food Workers’ Page to appear next Wednea day. e This strike, like all strikes, will bring more workers closer to their “Daily.” More workers, many who had never heard about The Daily Worker before will now begin reading it. We will do all in our power to get them to continue reading it after their strike is over. It is the task of all readers of The Daily Worker to utilize every strike struggle, every aspiration of the workers, to bring to labor's at- tention the fact that The Daily Worker is fighting their battles. 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TONIGHT! critic and lecturer, just returned from Soviet Union on Single Admission 50c at Office of the Workers Schoo! PHILADELPHIA THEATRES A SOVKINO MASTERFILM! “Two Days” An Amkino Release The Russian “Last Laugh” A tremendous tragedy of an old ma: between the Whites und the Reds—cau; tides of the Soviet Revolution . . . « Surrounded by a distinguished program of outstanding filme film guild cinema 1632 MARKET STREET (between 16th & 17th). — Phone, SPRuce 5258 Contin, Performance—Pop, Prices—Daily 1-11—Box Office Opens 12130 STARTING TODAY, APRIL 6TH: “KRASSIN: the Rescue Ship” + the remarkable Sovkino film of the famous Polar Drama fn the North