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

Four DFFICERS USE FIRE HOSE ON DAILY eee 'W YORK, Rae APRIL 19, 1929 Imperialist Display as Dead Fingoist’s Corpse Reaches Gevdana ——— | Torture Prisoners in Small Cells and Spray Soldiers with Formaldehyde i HORSE STALL FOR. Scan’ 's Demands Will MEALS IN QMT.0,| 2e Stressed in Big Campaign suo y WRITE in Hawaii SERVICEMEN As part of the anti-militarist cam-| 16. Abolition of general ace h paign during May and June, the| mart: | T0 THE DAILY { RANK AND FILE CAMPS IN N, Y, Young Workers Communist League| 17. Regular furloughs for all L — | is planning to se the present |servicemen without discrimination | , ! i | conditions existing in the armed for- inclusive of those in the colonies, Te Rai aR ; Nearly Drowned In} Men Pdinged An Severe |ces, and to mobilize both “> civilian|with pay in advance, Right of Only Paper of Rank | : | 5 workers and the servicemen for a/ servicemen in colonies to spend fur- i Cold Cells Drilling struggle against the autocracy and jloughs there if they wish to do so. | and File : | | brutal oppression of capitalist mili-| 18, Non-interference of officers | ct . i Editor, The Daily Worker: | Editor Daily Worker: tarism. lin personal affairs of ser vicemen, | The Daily Worker is the only daily E I have read some of the letters from soldiers and have been very nuch interested in the things which | Being in New York last week, I Picked up the Daily Worker. As I The servicemen come from the! ranks of the working class : 1 most | unfolded it I noticed an article was | of them were forced into the service including right to marry without officers’ consent, ete. 19. newspaper in the United States de+ jfending the interests of the men fm Right of all servicemen to uniform. At all times the Daily they said about the conditions in signed by “A FORMER ©, M. T. C. | by economic necessity, by unemploy-|wear civilian clothes at any time |, A . 4 ae arty. I was 8. soldier and was) |STUDENT.” Being a former C. M. | ment, in addition to the false claims |when off duty. {Pcrnse Sights fOr ee Nap vicenen stationed in the Hawaiian Islands |T. C. student myself I was very | made by recruiting officers. The} 20. Election of non-commissioned | their struggles against the harsh at Schofield Barracks. I am out of} interested in reading this article. | | Young Workers Communist League | officers by the enlisted men. treatment they are forced to endure, the service now and so can tell facts After reading it over I decided £01 considers it as much a part of its No Use Against Strikes. and its pages are open to their about the army without as much play of Wall Street imperialism’s armed fist skin the body of Myron | Write this article. | task to defend the interests of the} 21. No use of armed forces inj opinions. danger of being sent up for twe ussador to France, reached Cleveland, Herrick’s home town. I was working in a Tin factory | servicemen in the armed forces as|strikes at home or in the colonies.| Every Friday a_ section of the vears as I would be if I were s n the army. I would like to tell you of some things I saw whi I was in the Hawaiian Isla the offi- cers make a practice of bringing Plan Anti- Militarist Drive i in n Mav and June ae Syracuse and I was one of the |“good boys” in the factory. I came refused to work overtime for sup- | Per money, (35 cents), whenever the foreman asked me, late to work very seldom and never | |much as the young workers in the factories. The demands for servicemen for which the Young Workers Com- | munist League will fight in its cam- paign follows: Refuse to act in strikes! Refuse to be a policeman for the bosses! Support your fellow workers in their struggles for better condi- tions! |Daily Worker is devoted to letters from servicemen, articles on their problems and news of importance. |In the future, letters will be pub- lished from soldiers and sailors of Great Britain, France, Germany. ooze into the post and drinking it! By PAUL CROUCH. a sees militant: satiate one is not sufficient to conduct Revolu-| Ashed to Join C. M. T. CG 1. Fifty 3 t a ; Refuse to act as a policeman for Mexico and other capitalist coun- in their quarters. They usually have| All young workers are called capitalist militarism must | tionary propaganda in the armed! he morning in June 1928 T was tae fella Wages a Se, or | Wall Street! |tries; and letters from Red Army n a car of their own or a hired car UPON to partic n the anti-mili e d. Our slogan of con-| forces in the same way that We! called in the “no admittance office” cant ee 4 bik pas’ toe ae Support the colonial workers and |soldiers will be of great interest. ») and when they come into the post, | tarist campaign during May and verting the imperialist war into a fight for the interest of young!cnd was asked to wait there with pay | ) the M. P. at the gate does not dare ee June conducted by the Y Wo war must be made clear, workers in the factories, {nine other young workers for the} commissioned officers, {peasants in their fight for freedom! Servicemen! You come from the is in the working class. Your pla to search their car for booze as he ¢S (Communist) League. This cam bers of the League should) One feature of our campaign must toss. We did not know what it was! .2° Dollar per day food ration for’ Defend the Soviet Union! class, straggle ‘by theislde-of your 5 does enlisted men. They often have Paign will have as its major aim the campaign for eliminating | be a renewal and intensification of | aly ehout. Some of us thought we all servicemen. Election of _those NalionhtcReeeative Committee. | fellow workeratio Tie Daily Workes 1 parties at which I have seen many | ‘he intensification of the struggle pacifist tendencies remaining the fight for the immediate and un-| werg getting a raise or that we in charge of mess and inspection of Young Workers (Communist) |belongs to both civilian workers : of the high ranking officers of the #&ainst the war danger and the mili- | within our own ranks. In order to| conditional release of John Porter, were bi _ ;commissary accounts by the men. % ? : 5 i post so drunk that they acted like y men, flirting with other of- including th lucted by t introduction of tary preparatio: propaganda co: the he war ie gov- mili- do this, the League must make a careful study of the present inter- national situation and the role of ing advanced to a higher de- and the significance of this case/nartment, A few minutes later the must be made clear to the masses |},o<5 walked in with his private sec- 8. Government allotments to de- pendants in addition to servicemen’s League. and to the workers in uniform. Read |the newspaper of the working class and write for its pages! wives and dancing in the t i n t n i Much of our activities will be retary and told us that we were P@y- Imperialis Flier v: servi vho wri ; most disgusting manner. When we| tary training into the sch in- | American imperialism, as well as) centered around our fight against | + ecommended by the foremen to go | 4. Tailor-made uniforms fur- D t tore Daly “Worker "are het vane : were on guard around the officers’ | creases in the armed for he more elementary problems of|the Citizens Military Training |p a month's vacation with tro \nished free. Laundry and all necea. ee \ quarters, we often took a peek at| armaments, Citizens Milite our attitude to militarism. One of Camps, as an outstanding example weeks’ pay to the C, M.T.C., Platts- |sities to be furnished free. airy the things that went on at these narties. Life of Servicemen. Enlisted men get a different deal, | hough. They are searched -horoughly when they come into the very ing Camps, etc. Special workers in the armed for on behind a pacifi ke screen and one of the most important task efforts must be made to reach the young The war preparations are going the most ious of the sources of oacifist errors is underestimation the war danger. , | anti~ elf, that it has nothing to do with of | Some workers have an idea that mands, against militarization of the ilitarist work is a field in it-| youth, against military appropria- | of the militarization of the youth. Our anti-militarist campaign in all fields—for our servicemen’s de-| burgh camp, because we were “good |boys.” We signed papers which his |secretary filled out and thon we | were told to get prepared to go the foliowing week to camp. tions, for the release of Porter, Horse Stable for Meals. 5. Maximum guard duty of 8 hours daily, including guard duty. Abolish K. P. 6. Abolition of K. P., civilian employes to be hired by the gov- ernment for this work. Address: Daily Worker, 28 Union Square, New York, or Y. C, L., 43 E, 125th Street, New York. Demonstration for post and a pint of “Oke” (Hawaiian | of the anti-war campaign is to ex-| industrial work and the everyday against the CMTC—must be car-| as wen smma ty cami na were | t No restrictions fa passes for Release of Porter iquor) is enough to send them up| Pose both the wees pretenses of ruggles of the young workers.| ried into the factories and trade) grossed in a heavy soldier’s uniform, |Servicemen off duty. In New York. May 11 n for five years. Many of the men the government, including the Kel ng is more remote from the unions, Also, the idea that anti-l We also received a rifle, bayonet,| 8. Abolition of restricted dis- ? 2 have been sentenced to such terms | J088 pact, and “disarmament” con- | f Are this false conception. Our militarist work is only for the youth | ..q knap-sack which weighed about tricts for servicemen. u and higher for this. When they are waiting for the transport to take them to Alcatraz, they are kept in he “stockade” at Schofield Bar- racks until just a few days before transport sails. The “stockade” has an evil reputation among sol- ferences, and the efforts of pacifist societies. It must be made clea: that in reality the pacifists wo hand in hand with the militarists. The program of the Communists for militarist activities must be ked up with the other work of the League. an | worker should participate actively Our fight for the rights. of the|in our campaign against capitalist Eee must be intensified. It| militarism and the war danger. must be combatted. While the youth 15 ds. irst we is most active in this field, every or 20 pounds, At first we | thought that we would have a good |time by going to shoot birds on the lake, but we were mistaken. The next morning we had to ger up at were dug deep and then filled up! Long ditches were dug, much “Jonesy” Entertaining Comedy 5:50 and before we had a chance to dress and wash we had to be in the | 9 Use of salute only in line of |duty. 10. Servicemen not to be re- stricted from any part of military |reservation and to have free use of jall recreational facilities, including tennis and polo, at present the ex- elusive sports of the officers, A mass demonstration to de- mand the release of John Porter from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and to pro- test against the present militari- zation of the youth and present war preparations, will be held in Union Square, New York, on the liers. It was formerly so well 4 % = Gining 100m, (the boys called it a 4 : afternoon of Saturday, May 11. known that Colonel Pistol was sent| like trenches and are then filled up horse stable), for breakfast, If some| 11. No compulsory special duty The demonstration will be under by the war department to get infor- | #841n. one was not on time he lost his | Without agreement of servicemen. i mation about it. What he found was never told to the soldiers of- When a prisoner told the officer that he was sick, he was either not Now Playing at Bijou Theatre breakfast and did not eat until din- 12, Right of union men joining |service to retain union affiliations. the auspices of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, Com- ner time. munist Party and militant trade q ficially but it didn’t need to be. We listened to or else given a big dose)... : ———| After tent inspection we had to|Right of all servicemen to join ‘i kmew all about it before he came) of castor oil and put to work again. | JONESY” an amusing comedy by EVA LE GALLIENNE. drill on the field with our rifle, |utions of their respective trades, ee workers ate arged to a and found it out. We knew because | One prisoner broke his wrist and Anne Morrison and John Peter bayonet and knap-sack until some| _ Right To Vote. Ai many of us had spent time there.|when he tried to have the doctor pee ad laying at ele as of us fainted. When a boy fainted| 13. The right to vote for all serv- Wale ab thes lad: tuip Mpebicaencie: eesee “Little Joe” Rock. take care of it, he was given a dose | Theatre, is based upon a series o! his partner next him had no right | icemen. |not alone upon international capital, ki There is a large rock in the “Bull °f castor oil. He couldn’t work with pe ee ee ne ne to pick him up or bring his water,| 14. The right to join labor and! Harold Bromley, world war avia-| ¥Po" 1 es see ne tk vy Pen” of the stockade which has the, MS hurt wrist and received a bad|the Pictorial Review several years and he kad to lie there until a cor- |Plitical organizations and to hold! sor, who will attempt to fly from hable on the force of small industry, ( on of “Little Joe.”.. This rock is| eating before the officers found ‘ago. The play is more of a farce poral or seargent took care of him, | meetings. Wavonle Wasks 16 ors. Jadsun, mf i ig eS io i ieee “d-Kind of lava,| that he really had a broken wrist. than a comedy. Full of. nonsense, Every day such cases, 20 or 30, hap-| 15: Free speech and the right of ? i 2 ” I gives birth to capitalism and bour- pe formed of a very hard:kind of lava-/ s nevertheless, it has been so well 2 on the drilling field. Th t | |servicemen to select their own read-| to further excite the war prepara-| geoisie, spontaneously and on a large re it was used as a means of breaking No Tobacco. ame : ver bi bore- penea on rilling tie ena , . + scale—V. I. Lenin (“Left” Commu- : eee at genes os written that it never ecomes bore 12:30 we went for the rotten din-| ling matter. tion air-mania. Slee. the spirit of an “unruly” prisoner-| ‘Phe prisoners in the stockade were some—more than can be said for d 8 i A mallet made of hard wood and! , * ner, Many of the boys misse their | s Reig abet eight seas not allowed to smoke and could not, most of the plays in this category. Burien because tiny were too ctired , : aie reales Pt dle have anything to read. They were} Wilbur Jones, known to his play- to go to the norse stable to eat. The | b given to the prisoner. The handle) supposed to work only eight hours, | mates as Jonesy, returns to his home feet SE Ube day was taken apwith ed with a short heavy piece 1 ri est 0! e day Dp he which’ chide and but many of them are made to work | town and starts trouble. He sells his other forms of drills. This is how i Lee Hibs * d to 220m early morning until Jate at father’s car, gives his folks the im- ‘i ‘ ‘ we spent the whole month. ¥ oy no Prisoner Aad +0 night, long after the sun has set. | pression that he is going to marry | ia iS Rotten Food. iff the mallet above his head and i nd does a lot of other| Director and leading player of the 7 ae then strike hard at the rock. Each) This place was under the rule of {1 Gcvsss ane Coes & Teh OF reat Civic Repertory Theatre, now in its| The foods consisted of stinking g time the mallet was raised, the piece; I. B. Smith. He had many of the| D&A, Dold things i final week at the Fourteenth Street |°&s, bread and butter and “lemon- | e ef iron pipe fell along the handle and gave him a nasty rap on the snuckles. The rock is well out in the} open and there is no shade near it. While I was there, many men fainted while going through this torture and some got sunstroke. When this hap- pened, water was thrown on them and as soon as they came to, they were made to continue the punish- ment. Torture Cells. Another form of punishment at} the stockade is the “Stand-Up Cells.” These are just large enough for a) man to get into—like a telephone booth. The top is movable and when the prisoner was placed in the cell this was lowered to a few inches} shorter than the prisoner. He could not stand up straight because ihe top is too low and he will hurt his head against the spikes in the top if he tries to press against it. The walls are also full of spikes and he cannot lean against them. He must remain in a crouching position all the time he is left in there. One man was forgotten in one of these} cells over night until he was missed | by the guard relief and he was in| such a bad condition that he had to| go to the hospital. Use Fire Hose on Prisoners. Sometimes the stockade officer feels like getting back at a prisoner | because of cat calls or swearing at q=- CUO ———mmenvenvencemcanie | Cannon — passe tt Century Byes, 8:50; Mats. Thurs.&Sat. him from the dark cells. The fire | HEAR! HEAR! paces fo gl sing. A Comedy by Sil-Vara hose is taken out and cold water is {men tell him that they would wait for him on the mainland and kill him when they saw him. It was | said that one of them really did kill him, but I don’t know how true this is. This place at Schofield is now opened again for prisoners —AN EX-SERVICEMAN. |HughesTakes Money of ‘Both Sides; Tells City ‘to Drain N. J. Rivers branches of the Delaware River, in New York State in spite of refusal of consent by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The water is to be brought to New York City. The board of water supply sees | counsel for the I, R. T. From each according to his eas pacity, to each according to his | needs—Marx, |no anomaly in its using Hughes as its attorney, while at the same time | stitutes a defense of the action of | the ex-governor and ex-secretary of two coast guard patrol boats in | state is fighting the city as the) sinking the Canadian rum smuggler deal of worrying in the old home- stead. The entire plot is too intricate to be told in detail. Suffice to say everything turns out satisfactory in the end, which is to be expected in the play. Such plays are written only | to amuse, r>t to make one think. It does the former so well, that it is not difficult to forget its lack of im-| portance, The cast is a good one. The title role is played by Raymond Guinon. Those who saw him in “The Cradle Snatchers” will not be disappointed with his present role. Others in The board of water supply at aj the cast include Nydia Westman, | private meeting in the Municipal | Spring Byington, Kate Mayhew and | Building received favorably the legal | Donald Meek, The play is staged by | opinion of its lawyers, Charles Evans | Earl Boothe. Hughes and John Davis, that the city | of New York can tap the upper | DEFENDS SINKING SHIP. WASHINGTON, April 18—The reply of the United States to the Canadian protest over sinking of the rum runner I’m Alone was de- |livered to the Canadian legation here, The State Department note con- in the Gulf of Mexico. The corre- | spondence ill not be made public | | yet, Secretary of State Stimson said | today. poured into the cells until the prison- | HARRY DANA on | Playhouse. ade” (made of cold water and sugar | with salt in it), in the mornin; for dinner and supper we got rot ten vegetables and “meat.” We call- ed it donkey meat because it was so | hard that we had to break two} kni eft vi Id cut it in half. | 4 {cream on two inches of pie. ‘any second degree murder. In Andy | ¢¢ us were laid up in the hospital | Mellon’s state, many people are kept |for many days on account of the | in ignorance and superstition to} fottan fooda make them work for less wages. Tr expect to write to you some 7 Ai in more, tne welfccommctonm independent | (Signed) A former C, M. T. C. movement of the immense major- | Patriot and now a Class conscious iye-Karl Mars (Commantst Manto | oun. worker. The company goes on tour Monday. WITCHCRAFT HARRISBURG, Pa., April 18.— Belief in witchcraft was advanced to- IN A PROGRAM OF and Dances Theatre Guild Productions Zi #6 ‘AMEL Through the Needle‘sEye MARTIN BECK wa 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs. Mats., Thurs. & Sat, 2 o Man’s Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould BILTMORE Theatre, w. 47th Street dit Sq. Garden a eae 2 and 8 NOW! Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined CIRCUS 10,000 Marvels including HUGO ZACCHINI “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE” Shot Through Space from Monster 12 Half Price at All Mat cept Saturdays & Sunda: CAPRICE PERFORMANCES ‘a Revolutionary Songs Du Isadora Dancers ncan ‘ ers are nearly drowned. Then they | Diettn ot Gemten Bee oe GUILD ‘Thea.. wo ozna se have to stay through the whole night | “i iet | 7 9 cae es ‘Agencion: Hives. 8:50 in their soaked cells and often catch | Soviet Problems Dramatized Mats, Thura._and Sat, 3: LAST WEEKS! EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Then. 8th EVENINGS ONLY AT B30 | |Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St.. West of Broadway Eves, 8:30; Mati Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest ai Fuanlest Revae | Pleasure Bound civic REPERTORY {iSt.sthay, including discussion of plays on “Soviets and Sex’, “Industrialization” and “Nep” TONIGHT at 8:15 P. M. at the WORKERS SCHOOL, 26-28 Union Square, N. Y. C. Next Week: “The World Revolution Dramatized. this time is bread and water. These things are done to the prisoners be- | seemoee-meceeem remem remvmnoen oem: _ ‘ause they have disobeyed some rules | of the stockade. | Sprayed with Formaldehyde. | be Another favorite trick was to| J spray Formaldehyde on the prison- ars. After one fellow was killed by a cold because the nights are chilly | by n Hawaii. ; There are dark cells in which men are left for weeks at a time and_ when they come out of them they are more dead than alive. The only | vhing that they have to eat during ARTHUR HOPKINS HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 fm | PLYMOUTH avats, Thurs. & Sat. 2.36 Eves. 500; $1.00; $1.50 Mats. Wed.&Sat., "20 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Today Mat., “The Cherry Orchard.” Tonight, “indy from Alfaqueque.” Sat. 0:30 sharp, ‘well BOXING 40 Fast Rounds of Amateur Boxing for the Eastern District L.S. U. Championship TONIGHT = Saturday = Sunday ut about this, : : TURD as APRIL 20TH, AT 8 P.M. a ure to “Potemkin” iis vidas Fa te esloe oe in the Progressive Hall, Prisoners Bah Sea’ MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE A The Rescue Ship 55th Street Playhouse EAST OF 7TH AVE. Continuous from 2 to Midnight. POPULAR PRICES. 15 West 126th Street, New York Auspices: Vesa A. C. ADMISSION 75c. as taking rocks from one pile | coating another pile of them in enother place. After this being done, ne rocks were carried back to the ‘place and piled again. Holes 6 A great Drama the Soviet Navy 5th Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth i. » Corner 12th St, Contin. 2 P, M. to Midnight Daily, Tickets on Sale at DAILY WORKER OFFICE, Room 201, 26 Union Square, New York City. POPULAR PRICES. lace AS