The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 4

Page Four Ben Stolberg By GEORGE PADMORE. I was not surprised to read the Stolberg in the ” (official organ nkers), of one of who ew York Tin of the Wall Street | cay, Jun petty | What r but he is hardly the ucratic Green and Matthew are all a bunch of capi- ittles and opportunist of true, than differs from Green and ly in style’ He i, deceptive as a n this way de union aid and of the same must be fought ruth- eal revolutionary leaders ng class. be asked what justi: took some Howard University, 3. the largest lege in the incident ations when portant political pecially at this treach: us M Stolberg belongs is laying the basis for action which means another at- tempt to deceive and corrupt the American workers. Because of the necessity to expose these “Progres- sive” hypocrites at once, ™ want to let the workers know to what type Stolberg belongs. While Stolberg was lecturing at the university, he was asked to answer certain ques::.ns. A man by the name of M. Nurse took the floor and after pointing out the strong Points and weaknesses in Stolberg’s address invited him to express an opinion on the political future of the Negroes. Nurse suggested that since 95 “per cent of the Negroes in america were within the ranks of the working class, it was to their interest to identify themselves with, and support the only working class party—the Communist, and not to he republicans, democrats, , Who were the capitalist representatives. When Stolberg heard this militant state- ment from a student in a group whom he thought were all politically backward, he became indignant and immediately got up from his seat and attempted to reply. Instead of facing the issue he became abusive and called Nurse a “Red” and “Com- munist.” Nurse at once retorted that abuse and libels would not help him out of the difficulty; what the stu- dents demanded was a showdown on the very basis of the assertion that Stolberg himself had made, “that Negroes were largely members of the working class.” Despite every effort to get Stolberg to answer the question put, he refused to commit himself, but began to abuse the Communist Party, saying that the leaders were all a bunch of crooks and good-for-nothings, etc. Nurse, who by that time had won the entire sympathy of the students for the the time , to which gang “Progressive” Misleader, Is Expos ; reply was: “The N has im- | ed took, told Stolberg '$ pre- f the h Negro was @ pared to follow the leadership o Com Party rather negad something al Stolberg’s 3 should e the republi d demoerati ies and turn to the third Progressive, which he w tempting to organize to get Stolber s about the last presidenti the Negrces’ vote other “progressive: +] Muste, O , Victor Berger, man Thom: ete. hat al- thou; under way to call a conference (which has since been called) he did not believe that the effort of in Ame third party” oukl ever meet with ”” (bold face mine—G. atement, publicly expressed e students at Howard s the def n who tod ler of the An Stolberg might nc amount of statement. A the leadership scious of the tained in_ his party thira under of liberals doomed to r would eve al hopes tions to such a coterie of gades as the present leaders of the Progressive Labor group. New Leadership Among Negroes. The working-class students ar Howard who heard Stolberg will never forget his evasive answer to the challenging question put to him s by the militant youth, Nurse; and m among this group will be ny who will continue to expose these fake| “progressives” berg, the petty-bourgeois liberal, |whose only interest in addressing Negro students was to fleece them of $75 for an hour or two of bun! Stolberg by his acceptance of from poor students shows that he is | 7 one of the worst degenerate intel- lectual prostitutes masquerading as a “friend” of the working class in America, Let me y to Mr. Stolberg, that as a worker and a member of the |most oppressed and exploited racial minority, that we Negroes, have had enough misleaders both white and black. That the time has come for the Negro workers to take the leadership into their own hands, for the scheme of so-called Conference for Progressive Labor Action of | which Stolberg is a part, is nothing else but another attempt to mislead the Negro and white workers wi a lot of empty phrases about “m jtancy” and “independent” political action, We, the workers, will never again |permit ourselves to be misled by hypocritical lackeys of the capitalists like Benjamin Stolberg and his henchmen, We have had enough of |the Greens, the Wolls, the Norman | Thomases, the Mustes, etc. We will | continue to rally to the only genuine | revolutionary party of the working |class, the Communist Party of | America. “Hot-Mill” Job in Tin Plate truth con- |r petty-bourgeois-oppor- | I y as Nurse did to Stol- |. Scene from the a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1929 “Village of Sin” | 7 Sovkino’s “The newest release, Vil- ' lage of Sin,” show- ing the old and new conditions of village life in the U. S. Ss. R., will be shown at Theatre e Cameo beginning today. “The Last. Laugh” Heads Jannings Repertory second week of the Emil Jan- r s Repertory at the film Guild c tinues this Saturday ival of “The Last w of the shortness of Mor > has unique actions receivea and its ¢ s since produced s 1s chief of ¥ dway” is now enjoying a the Monday, and Tuesday Guild Ciner i y present ’ based on to “The Last Laugh” the Film enting two same program, The New York Stock Exchange” and “Graveyard Epitaphs, Series B.” FIX NEW LAW 10 SUIT LANDLORDS Tenants League Bares Fake Maneuvers ~° short films on the The passed on Tuesday aldermen, was yester fake emergency rent by the board of amended by the board of estimate to make it} }even less effective as a protection | for tenants against rapacious land- lords. By -this amendment the law appl: only to tenants paying $15 a room or le: Tho this leaves the poorest tenants still nominally pro- tected, there are thousands of work- ing class families thruout the city | paying more than $15 a room who will now be completely at the mercy of the landlords. The amended bill now goes back again to the board of aldermen, The amendment was adopted ad- mittedly as the result of agitation film- | Il, directed by Lubitsch will be pre-| sented. law, | ‘The Constant Nymph’ Continues at Little Carnegie The Little Carnegie Playhouse an- n es that the first week receipts for “The Constant Nymph” broke all previous box office records except that of “The Passion of Joan of ’ at that theatre. The picture be retained for a second week. is the English film which v voted the outstanding British production by the London Film} Week It was adapted from) Margaret Kennedy’s _ well-known novel and play by Basil Dean (who produced the dramatization in Lon- don and New York York) and was supervised in its production by Basil Dean. | The cast includes Ivor Novello as Lewis Dodd the composer and Miss Mabel Poulton as Tessa. It was filmed in the locales set forth by the story—in the Austrian Tyrol, the original Karindehutte, and including an actual Waldfest (or “village festival” | Village of Sin” at Cameo Theatre The newest of Russian films to be released here, “Village of Sin” | will open at the Cameo Theatre for the week today. The picture has the unique distinction of having been | directed by a woman. Her name is Olga Preobrazenskaya. She britigs | to the cinema a sound theatrical ex-! perience and a thorough schooling} in modern film-production, Madame | Preobrazenskaya was a member of | the celebrated Moscow Art Theatre and later worked with the masters of the Modernist Theatre, Meierhold and Tairov, Her first attempt at direction began in 1916. She later joined the staff of the State Film Institute of Moscow, dividing her time between teaching and produc- ing. In her art theories Madame Preobrazenskaya cleaves to the *practical common sense traditions. Her credo is expressed in the fol- lowing few words: “The methods and principles of my work are based on the conviction that every art and particularly the | art of the cinema calculated to ap-| peal to the average person, must} first of all be clear and understand- | able. A work of art which im-| pressed only the chosen few is| either ahead of our time or much be- [hind it. At any rate it is not suited for the needs of our day. My school- | ing at the Moscow Art Theatre as well as my work in the realm of the | |“Durban” now in port. i The Young Workers Develop | a Theatre in the U.S. S. R.| I the spring of 1928, Moscow was |ertoire, the theatre has resort to| visited by a troupe of players |new dramatic forms, making use of | from the Leningrad Theatre of |methods from all theatrical schools | Young Workers. ne performances | that m be found suitable. Enor- | given out at that time, and the en- | mous made of music, and, as suing Pan-Union Conference on Art |the theatre grows, this increases, | and Youth, aroused wide interest in| In its search for new methods, the the young Leningrad Theatre. |theatre has been the most ardent In a very short time the TRAM, |supporter of the genuine technical these youthful players call them- {reconstruction of the theatre. Con- selves, and the pioneer in this mat-|tinuing the experiments of Meyer- ter, had many followers, and soon |kold, the TRAM resorts to various | there were as many as a hundred | ways of using light, and makes wide Young Workers’ Theatres, scattered |use of dynamics in scenery, of the | throughout the Soviet Union. jradio, the Termenyex. What is TRAM? In the words} The new theatre naturally de-| of one of its organizers, it is “A | mands a new technique from the ac- new social formation, combining the |tor in@smuch as the center of a play | elements of the circle and the school is no longer the acts of the hero, but | with those of the theatre and mass |rather situation which forms human work.” jbeings, the artist has to help to dis- The history of the TRAM is the|Play and elucidate the situation. history of the difficult and complex |The TRAM has trained up many progress from amateur “playing at |‘alented players for its boards, cop- cting” to serious performances, | With the greatest conviction and taking their material from every- determination with this difficult | day life. This material is used with | task. a generous creative scope and free- Actors Work in Factories. dom. The theatre is not swamped| The results achieved by the TRAM | by isolated facts of little importance | could only have been achieved thanks | in themselves, it is no mere co::tcm-|to its internal order, all work being | porary chronicle as is often the | carried on on the princfple of true | e with our theatres; it makes|self-activity. The technical side is | use itself of the facts instead of closely bound up with social work, | being ridden by them, When cir-|indeed, ‘the two are indivisible. The ances require it the theatre; TRAM is a closely-knit Young Com- with the times, turing from|munist League collective for art| pect of life to another, pre-|work, in which the producer/ the senting for consideration several composers, the artists, the dramat- | Ways out,” sometimes even offer-|ists and the “leading personages” of ing alternative ends to a play. the troupe, are all equally members | Social Significance of TRAM. 9d equally responsible, | Naturally such an approach which| Another feature of TRAM is its is, by the way, the social signifi-|¢lose connection with industry. Most cance of TRAM performances, de-|of the actors and other TRAM work- mands special technique and meth-|¢TS ave also working in factories. ods. And the young theatre devel-|Only 12 persons, the most gifted, ops these methods more and more|Were promoted last year to work with each performance. It employs |¢ntirely in the theatre. | all theatrical means for the most| The Leningrad TRAM occupies an vivid and convincing setting of the important place among the Lenin- | questions touched upon. Not limit-|grad theatres and its performances ing themselves to the ordinary rep- are “sold out” a month ahead. ATTACK BRITISH | 7° New Pays | “BORROWED LOVE,” a comedy | by Bide Dudley, will be offered at IMPERIAL AIMS the Times Square Theatre on| | Monday evening. Mary Fowler, | teas | Barry O’Neill and Richard Gor-| a don are the chief players in the guay Communists, cast. | Hit Fleet Visit MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (By}| Mail). — The Communist Party of} Uruguay and the Young Communist } C Uru “KEEP IT CLEAN,” agrevue, pre- | sented by Will Morrissey, will | open Wednesday night at the/| Selwyn Theatre. In the com- pany are Jimmy Duffy, Midgie} League of Uruguay have issued a} Miller, Amerique Neville and| leaflet, to the sailors of the British Jim Harkins. The book and fleet, which is coming to these lyrics are by Morrissey and waters, as an answer to President Duffy. The music by James Hoover's recent tour of South Amer- Hanley. ica. The leaflet was recently dis- | tributed to a squad of 50 sailors who went ashore, from the Cruiser| M ALE COMRADE—Party member preferred—ean have entire sum- mer vacation at camp without cost alling Ambassador 2291 after 4 The sailors pocketed the leaflet,| BY yeaying, Amba after reading the headline: “Down| with Imperialist War! Turn your guns against the imperialists!” The | lieutenant in charge, in rage tore up| Lectures and Forums | the leaflet handed to him. | ‘The “Durban” is leaving for a trip| | into the interior of Uruguay, touch-| INGERSOLL FORUM | ing the towns of Paysandu and Fray | Sete a pau ol de a haat Benito. In the latter, there is an on 0 Ne ¥- 0. English meat packing plant, employ- | SUNDAY BVENINGS ing 2,000 workers. Steps are being taken for distribution at these points SUNDAY, JUNE 16 RADIO - KEITH - ORPHEUM CAMEO THEATRE, 42nd ST. and B’WAY Beginning TODAY! —First Time at Popular Prices— VILLAGE?SIN Sovkino’s Remarkable Film of Village Life in Soviet Russia! “Good Story” Thea. 44th, W. of Bway) Shubert Evenings 8:30 Mat.: Wediesday and Saturday 2:30 The New Musical Comedy Revue Hit A NIGHT IN VENICE BASIL of MARGAF NOVEL DE. the CONSTAN NYMPH THRA., W. 45th St. Evs.|f peeves See ee MOROSCO "Ei" Matinees: "Wed, Reais Carnegie nit Wes Thurs, and Saturday, at 8:30. L bith Street JOHN DRINKWATER’S Comedy Hit — it is the ultimate aim of this reveal the on of modern work to economic law of mo BIRD IN HAND) sce Unity Camp. Cooperative Summer Home for Workers WINGDALE, N. Y. — TEL. WINGDALE 51 New York Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVENUE Telephone MONumeni 111 and 0112 (Capital”) Friendly Atmosphere Fresh Food Bathing Rowing, Fishing Sports Entertainment Cultural Activities Hiking 5 Tents $16.50—Bungalows $17.50 Our busses leave every Wednesday at 2 p. m. Friday—6:30 p. m. Saturday—1:30 p. m. from 1800 Seventh Avenue, corner 110th Street, New York. CHILDREN’S COLONY 4 for children from 5 to 10 years of age. Supervision of experienced leaders:—Comrade Torrent in charge. You Owe It to Your Class to Read @ But—What to Read? Here is a list of inexpensive literature that will make you more fit to carry on the revolutionary struggle. Revolutionary Lessons—Lenin .. Heading for War—T. Bell. |cinema lead me to the conviction F that artistic realism is the only ef-|'® the sailors. | CLEMENT WOOD Ten Years of the Communist International 10¢ by a powerful group of landlords. | fective method of depicting millieu Factory Kills Penna. Worker By HORACE B. DAVIS. |begin in the hands and feet and CANONSBURG, Pa., (FP).—Mait| extend later to the center of the Shamich got a job in the Standard|body. It is customary to give a Tin Plate Co. mill at Canonsburg.|hypodermia injection to sufferers. It was a hot job in the hot-mill, as Matt’s doctor gave him an injection heater’s helper. Short lengths of| containing morphine, but the cramps black-plate were lying in the re-|in the feet continued and gradually heating furnace, getting red hot; it/ got worse. Other doctors were called ee was Matt’s job to pull them out one at a time, using a pair of tongs. Then he swung them across the floor to the rolls anf into the rolls. With a bang and a clatter the plate would go through to the catcher on the other side; he would catch it with his tongs and pass it back over to Matt, who would send it through again, and so until the plate was a sheet thin enough to be tinned (in another mill) for tin cans. Matt was not used to the hot work, and did not understand about the hot-mill cramps. He did not speak English well and could not learn from the other men easily. Because he was inexperienced, he exposed himself too much at the fur- nace, and exerted himself too much at the rolls. Cramps Get Him. “He got a headache and went to - doctor, who told him he needed eye-glasses, but Matt scorned eye- glasses. He got very tired, and then abs day in December the cramps be- It to get him. it was about 6 o’clock on the 4 to 12 shift. He ate a pepper, accord- ing to the custom of hot-mill men, in order to keep his stomach warm; “put he felt worse. His mates told him to lay off, but he was afraid of what the boss might say. He had in the coal mines and had gone Ps Fi gta srescreboaii Fy the Standard did not start until July ~ 80, 1927, and had lasted only a few months. The family still had its house to pay for, and he needed money for his wife and two children. He kept on working, 15 minutes on and 15 minutes off, until an hour before quitting time. Then he went home. His wife sent for the doctor. The hot-mill cramps are so pain- ful that when they are bad a man cannot stand them. He would die of pain if not relieved. The cramps f strike April 1, 1926; his job with | in; but Matt died within 24 hours after leaving the mill, Wrong Certificate. One of the doctors phe pet been | summoned was the-company doc- | tor. The workers’ believe that he | signs death certificates in such a | way as to relieve the company of | embarrassment. The certificate read: “Death from acute endocar- | ditis and acute nephritis.’ The | company doctor also arranged for | an autopsy and obtained the ser- | vices of an out-of-town physician who professed to find that the endocarditis had had its beginning some time previously. The widow applied for workmen’s compensation and took the case be- fore the Workmen’s Compensation |Board; but the board decided against her. Matt Shamich, it ruled, had not died of an “injury or accident sus- tained while at work.” The case is closed. Mrs. Shamich and has been told she will go on |the list behind the others, and may expect something in a year and a half. She has debts of $300. The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compen- sation law does not cover occupa- |tional diseases, Bladder Catarrh Best Treated by Age-Old Method Santal Midy capsules—India’s age-old relief —act promptly with grateful soothing effect | ee alien ares and painful elimination, | They aid old folks to gaincone _ yin», | troloverfrequent night rising. Genuine only bear signatureof_ | Dr.‘L, Midy,noted French physician. sp. All good druggists have ANTAL) M1 DN ee has applied for a mother’s pension | Exploiters Present. Representatives of chambers of commerce, merchants’ associations, real estate boards and other exploit- ers’ groups appeared yesterday at the board of estimate and voiced opposition to the new law. They} |are, however, not particularly wor-| ried since the law will protect the tenants about as much as a cotton overcoat protects the body from the cold. Tenants who get rent raises will have the privilege of hiring expensive lawyers and proving to the satisfaction of the landlords’ courts that the landlords are de- |manding more than a “reasonable return” on their investment. Polite representatives of various mild welfare and community or- | ganizations were also present to |plead with the capitalist politicians to pass the bill. The only spokes- man for the masses of defrauded | working class tenants was Solomon |Harper, of the Harlem Tenants League. Harper had an altercation jwith Mayor Walker and was the only one to expose the machinations | by which working class tenants ‘have during the past few years been sys- |tematically cheated by capitalist | politicians, Tenants League Rallies Workers. headquarters at 285 W. 129th St., | regardless what the henchmen of VIA LONDON—KIEL CA 175 FIFTH AVENUE The Harlem Tenants League, with | Visiteseeecoooees Soviet 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $ 385. Sailings Every Month INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bldg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 CHICAGO—See as for your steamship accommodations—MOSCOW and the mode of living of a com- |munity. This method I employed in | the direction of ‘Village of Sin.’” Minneapolis Street’ Becomes Boulevard for | ‘Rich; Named Kellogg’, | ST. PAUL, Min., June 14.—Third | Street, St. Paul, a street inhabited by workers, who are forced to live in dilapidated buildings, will be transformed into a boulevard for the wealthy and renamed Kellogg | Boulevard, for the retired Wall St.| secretary of state Kellogg, who has | returned here to practice law. Kel-| logg gained a huge fortune as a} corporation lawyer here before en- tering the service of Wall Street in official capacities. Tammany Hall may do, is continu- ing to mobilize the working class |tenants of Harlem, both black and | white, for a real struggle against | predatory landlords. A special meet- ling of the League will be held next | Monday night at the Public Library at 103 W. 135th St., at which of- ficials of the League will advise tenants on how to organize house committees and rent strikes to fight rent raises. NAL—HELSINGFORS AND NEW YORK, N. Y. “ || “RELIGION ABROAD” || ADMISSION 25 CENTS POPE-PRUSSIAN TREATY. 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