The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1929, Page 2

cage 1Wu WALL ST, BUILDS PRIVATE YARDS ; FOR WORKERS IN NAVY YARDS Big 10,000 Ton Gralsers Now Fakers, Pals of Government Officia For W WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—The} first of the 10,000-ton cruisers the Wall Street government is building for the coming war, r gram of 15 auth 3 last year, will launched This cruiser, the “Indianapolis,” is yeing constructed at a private ship- yatd in Camden, J. The second cruiser under the pr qram of 15 is being built at another private shipyard at Quincy, Ma While the warships are being built xy private shipyard magnates who btained the contracts through lob- N. sying and influence with Navy De- partment officials, thousands of Navy Yard workers in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Island, Calif., a are being laid off. * Portsmouth, Mare other navy yards * WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 yard workers throughout the try have been shown once that the fact that the A. F. officials are government only means that the misleaders will not help the yards’ workers to gain Navy coun- again of L. the uw YORK RIDAY, DEC EMBER 13, Subway Union Gains ' (Continued from Page One) tion. It was formed by members of Local 63 of the International Tun- jnel, Compressed Air and Subway Workers when they split away from | the corrupt A. F. of L. local in pro- test against its continued sabotage renk and file strike activities. “Sentiment is growing in favor of Under Construction: A. F. L. | the new union, pledged to a program Do Nothing f class struggle instead of class WAR SHIPS IN DENIES RAISE of the GAIN AT CANTON OVER REBELLION Tokio Manchurian Status Isadora Duncan is the “Diana,” now at the Longacre The- atre. Out of the town the play was known as “Isadora,” but shortly be- fore its Broadway showing the name was changed, although no effort is “Concerned” at central character of Irving Kay Davis’ play, | orkers collaboration,” Marcel Scherer, or- made to hide the fact that it is ganizer, said yesterday. | ae PRIS based on the life and loves of the ter conditions. “In our campaign we have exposed |, (Continued poe Page One y oe psec dancer. Secretary of t the Navy Adams has | the A. F. of L. officials as agents into the struggle and Chiang Kai-) It is difficult to adequately judge “ che Navy Warde work, /of the contractors, Our series of |Shek is trying again to defeat op- a play such as this immediately | led that the Navy Yards work- mass meetings as part of the organ- position by the famous “silver bul-jafter seeing it. It is not a good for 1980 co unheeded. N. P. Ali, ization drive will aim especially at let” method, namely, of bribery of | play. Neither does it do justice to | ) go unheeded. organizing*men on Long Island and Secsrnatiepat. oF Diet tt eran | Beobklyn jobs. Whether the British-Japanese blue) Those who are familiar with the = latated tat he “bitterly “Negro workers are showing a|°8 outbid American imperialism, | stormy career of Miss Duncan will issappointed” at Adams’ during. | particularly lively interest+in our |Temains to be seen, certainly they find themselves well acquainted The claseccollaboration policy of campaign work,” Scherer added, |aVe made America pay through the | with the plot. While it does not Aah Ratt Mauch “and they are demonstrating their 708 in the last several months, us- follow exactly the life of the dancer Department s thus again | eagerness to wage a united fight | UAlly having their militarists accept (certain changes being made for been proven in t avy yards’ | With their white fellow workers in|the bribes America gives througi dramatic effect) in substance it is work i for the | their service on leading committees. | Chiang Kai-shek, then double-cross an accurate portrayal of her life bosses, but not the workers, Our headquarters are continually Chisng the next week, pa es and sorrows. A delegation of A. F. of Le fakers, | visited by Negro and white workers |"e2tly as humiliating for Secretary m Green, will, true | anxious to join up and get behind | mson as the more public rebuff | added, Mary Nash plays the role | Living Corpse,” neaded by V to the fight. policy of crawling before the bosses, call on Hoover to “re- Four Negro workers will be dele- consider Secretary Adams’ ruling.” | gates at the Metropolitan Area While the A. F. of L. officials | Trade Union Unity League Confer- have been boasting of their friend- ship with the government officials, and crawling before them, the navy ence Dec. 24. The union’s demands include rec- ognition, control of the job condi- ards have suffered lay-offs and/tiong through councils including intense speed-up. __, | tepresentatives of all workers on The Metal ‘Trades Industrial | the job, and these wage scales: League, affiliated with the Trade Laborers and muckers, $7.50 day; timbermen helpers, ,$8; blast- ers’ helpers, $9.50; carpenters, $13; Union Unity League, plans a cam- ist paign for the navy yard workers. Communist Activities Industrial Registration. All industrial organizers and all ection organizers are instructed t complete the r tion of all embers. The > are not as ‘eeist should di por f the T.U.U.L trial Department. e - of BE. N.Y. Open Binatora, 5 A welcom Workers School Students Hike. To the of N. will be held § a the ural Hist All exception must win hold i lay, Dec. 1 Union §4q., roon ome. tion cominittee and election of dele- Bates to the section conference. Youn, Sectton, nn Ito help lay the plants for spreading | Class will be held on Wednesday, ty A orn. Org Deo. 11 at the Union Headquarters, (and circulating the Working Wo: lay, Dec 131 W. 28th St. Bring your fellow |man, for getting 5,000 more sub- | Senter, All must be | Workers: ee ow |seribers, for building this paper into | - duc challneaer aaa aa Renefit for Striking Window Cleaners a powerful mass organ, Metal Workers Fraction (diss eee the eee eens re es “Will hold a meeting Friday, Dee, | film “ivan the ‘, ‘as 18, at 8 p,m 26-28 Union Bd. All| canged at a r | .The Central Executive Committee foyee Bstend, ‘ by the WLR a ™"of the United Council of Working i Section 4 Membership. ; |Class Women, in a statement issued is Sun at 10.30 a. m, at the! ; ‘ + seetion hendquarters. There’ will he Jem “Progressive last night, calling upon all councils L report on the membership drive, nea 3d MegasY. to send delegates to the District Hartem ¥.C.1. Drive. J Convention of the International La: {Oa Saturday, Dec, 14 at 26 7. 1151 | Newrine Lecture “to, Office ibor Defense, to be held on Sunday 3». m Admission 35 cent “ aed ge | we orkers, 0 t | aT velcome On on )p.m. at/morning, Dec. 15 at 10 a. m, ai Bea ea . spate is Bre ingiaa °"4 Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving} bership in N. J. svt YER ® oly Tues- |, The subject will be“Where Is Civil- l Wes; | zation Going St.’ There will be a report on the Wablenre bance Genk Jeni x He enin Me The Jugo- t adison Sauare show its solidarity with the LL.D. 3 p. m. today Shoe Workers Drive (Continued from Page One) port, Fred G. Biedenkapp, union} general manager, told how wide-| spfead protest against the state | move to smash the union because of its “Communist leadership” forced} representatives of the state Labor Department to deny all knowledge | of the union-breaking letter sent by} Con¢iliator Charles W. Wood to em-| ployers having agreements with the | “Independent.” | However, while official disclaim-| erg are made, bosses are attempting | to act on the government instruc- tions. Against these shops the! union is directing its main activi-) ties and will develop its mass tie-up | through progress made in these) fights. | A membership meeting of the | Ridgewood section will be held to-| morrow at headquarters of the Mavkay strikers at 28 Porter Ave.,| corner Grattan St., Brooklyn, at | p.m. he DAYBREAK COSTUME DANCE given by the STELTON MODERN | SCHOOL TONIGHT WEBSTER MANOR 119 EAST 11TH STREET Tickets: In Advance, $1.00 | at Door, $1.50 On Sale at All Village Shops and | Workers Book Store +, Liga All \Labor and Fraternal terror banquet at § the Working Woman Mobilization | 2 apg daaealeana mata, ae eane will be held. All work- | . * * * ing women agents, representatives | 2 Secretaries | d to send out mail for “Dec feat sted Ceorahvon Sarees [te unions, fraternal organizations, | 5 Miseucsign ot the Ree: | 5th St. and Irving Working class |mass women’s organizations, work- | blasters, $15. The men are also fighting for abolition of Sunday work, compul-| sory insurance paid by the city Organizations against accidents and sickness and/ the generals oppc he got from the Soviet Union. ing, Ka bassador the understanding with material for Homeric the Japan Society held at the Hotel Astor. moment having it Kai-shek and his Nanking “gover ment” speech said |cordially the United States to the markets of the Far |that we have no cause to be rivals.” ng Nanking. the great dancer. of the dancer, and while perhay * not the best fitted for the role, A Japanese Joke. ’ gives a fairly satisfactory perform- In New York on Wednesday even |8nce. Somehow, something is lack- uji Debuchi, Japanese am-|ing in Miss Nash's performance. What it is, discover, as Davis’ play. Jean's life was full of mystery and | disappointment, so is the play that | is based on her life. is just as difficult to what is lacking to Washington, furnished laughter, at a banquet of While n is at this very Chinese militar- | assaulting Chiang underlings * # on all sides, Debuchi in that Japan “welcome cludes its series |Hall concerts of chamber pnext Friday night. East, believing nteers Wanted, N.T.W.U. ee | minor. % Scone ee eeigal, eonk | an unemployment fund controlled by tn. Gomeades should | the workers, Tokio “Concerned,” but Not Enough. ng the day time TOKIO, Dec. 12—Japanese au-|Bellas Hess Gyp Fy thorities, who have supervised the Working Women The Communist Party, New York District, is calling a working wo- man’s anti-war conference for Sat- at the WIR Office, Room 511, phone Al- * 4 + Camera Club. 1 Club is going to ribition soon Work- d to send in pictures of St. u Chinese white guards in thei Soviet frontier up till he time when | the Red Army swept them back |and penetrated Manchuria in pur- urday, Jan. 4 at 2 p. m. at Irving | Suit, are expressing Plaza Hall, Irving Plaza and 15th|What they say is the “poor reports’ All fraternal organizations, or-|0f what is going on in western Man-| Wednesday, she supposes, goes on| ganized and unorganized shops, and | churia, where the Red Army ad- sts and Russian | attacks on the | i militar’ (Continued from Page One) paid for only two days. When he |inquired about it the fore-woman ar papained that “they probably do not pay for Wednesday,” and that “concern” |the next week. After wi orking there ers Homes, labor sports, ae Workers Prizes will be awarded sympathetic groups are urged to| vanced. | for three months he discovered that ,the ten best pictures. Send all | elect two delegates to attend. Japan has some Japanese “sub-| the week begins on Thursday morn- rkers Broadway. * e { aye | Mobilize against the speed-up, lagainst unemployment, for the de- ie fense of the Soviet Union, and |against imperialist war. Ww * the Labor « Dang fuspices a the Defense, York- cing after tecture, janti-war sontérancs eee . raamauet “roniaht. | On Tueaday, Deoaibar 17, ab 8} fendants will)». m., at 26 Union Square, a Build | organizations are to nd delegates, * lers’ clubs must be present in order ork= Comrade nate. Mor are Wanted to ‘oin the group at once. Comrades (young men women) who have rood f nd a sense of rhythm are » for the group, The next re« 3 at Irving Plaza, Pl, Saturday, sharp. Bring h rv Dec, t 2.80 p. your bathing put. m. Build the United Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up—in the Industries! ere School has enabled non-registered workers interested in organizational rE roblems to attend the sessions held n * Workers School Sports aturday, Dec. ed ‘to the L. § ker room ig open every Pris , Saturday and Sunday. * .# at 2.30 Ches: Rehearsal Fretheit Singing Society Will take place at the co-operative “American Trade Union Problems,” colony, the Bronx, Friday Dec. 12 at| under directorship of Robert Dunn. 8.30 p.'m. New members welcome, | Price 25, cents. ° hd Geo. Mink, secretary of Marine Darey Lesture tn, Brons Workers League will be. the next On the new revolutionary move-| lecturer this Monday, Dec. at 7 p. m. on sation 3 ranéport Industry and Trade Uni ‘ Gantonia Branch 1.1.D, ment in China, at 1330. Wilkins Ave. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 2 p.m. Pada Progress © Barhers Meet. At 6, Plaza on Sunday, Dec, iI have 8 meeting on ‘Tuesday, 15. at 10.3008, m, at Joth St and Irv: | De 6 p.m. at 1179 Rroadw ing PL AN barbers invited. Noaain 3 Will’ speak on the new policy of the LL.D. Lecture tn Brighton Beach. ie 4 y N, Slater will be held on Sun- Leather Goods Workers Meet. | day, Dec. 15, at 2 p,m. at 2901 Mer-| A. mass His? of leather goods | maid Ave. ‘The subject will be the| workers will be hel under the aus | T.U ices of the Trade Unioh Unity L. program BE, PR.) Class in Trade Union Problema. By special arrangement, the Work- In eague at Astoria Annex Hall, 645 BH, 4th St. room 8, tomorrow at 3p. m. p.m. ee ee eee ene enc enoeno eee TONIGHT AT 7:30 Gastoaia and Anti-Terror Banquet TO GREET FRED BEAL, CLARENCE MILLER, JOE HARRISON, RED HENDRYX WM. McGINNIS, GEORGE CARTER and LOUIS McLAUGHLIN AT STUYVESANT CASINO, 140 Second Ave. | AN ARTISTIC PROGRAM Violin—Piano—Banjo. Selections of New Revolutionary Music. | Negro Spirituals—Revolutionized ..PAULINE RODGERS | | | | Workers’ Songs JAMES PHILLIPS, Noted Baritone Revolutionary Poems ................VIKTOR PECKER Court Scenes........FRED BEAL and RED HENDRYX and a DINNER that will be a treat—$1.25 per plate. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE New York District NEW YORK CITY si tii iyo BROADWAY eee a eee: jects” border towns, among them several hundred Koreans, who are undoub-/|as in the busy season they employ | Send your | tedly very, happy | to escape from| many girls, and when the rush is| | delegates to the irae) womans | Japanese ‘ “concern” over their wel- Since the Chinese generals who | all for the bosses. {hurried eastward at the time the} |Red Army advanced, somehow lost| where the bosses are taking advan- their entire armies and arrived ab-| tage of the workers because we are | solutely alone at Harbin, Japan does | not organized. not disguise its “concern” |state of things west of the Khing-| every week to discuss how to im- | han mountains. Manchuli, which used to be in Man- | money—the churia, and it claims that few of} meets every month to discuss how jhis telegrams arrive, that the one| to exploit the workers more, how to | | which came today But the workers | | Moscow” them anything they wanted to know. | In view of the report at the time | |the protocol was signed between the, Japanese-backed ment of Manchuria and the Soviet, that the Red Army would retire if and when Mukden carried out the terms of the agreement it signed, | | able to fight against the treacherous the guileless “surprise” PL, pointed out the role of the I.L.D |the Japanese at learning, according | is strength! in all the struggles of the working |to report, that the Red Army still |holds @verything west of Hailar, | Hogs Company! Our organization is called upon to | ¢an be discounted a great deal. doubtedl: by sending delegates to the conven- | press tion, and attending the banquet and|den puppet to carry out the terms| Union Square, Room 202, in time for to bring the council banners which | @greed to, Tokio authorities might) the next issue. | is to take place on Friday night, | not have to worry so much about | Dee. 13, at Stuyvesant Casino, Sec- what the situation is in western | ond Ave and Ninth St., at 7.80 p. m.| Manchuria. Drive for 5,009 New Members. around Manchuli and other | ing. This particularly helps the bosses joff all extra help is fired. Saving fare and gain the status of Soviet |a day’s wages on several thousand | | citizens. | girls a year is nota bad income at | This is just another instance! The bosses of the at the| National Bellas Hess Company meet | It has a consul at prove their business and make more Board of Directors | was sent “through | make more profits. and didn’t seem to tell| of the National Bellas Hess Com- pany do not meet to discuss their problems and for this reason do not! know how to run their business. Fellow workers! Learn from bosses. They are organized and for that reason are strong. Only by | organization wilh we workers Mukden govern- feigned by | schemes of the bosses. Organization | Workers of the National The next number Un-| of the “Bellas Hess Worker” is now y, if Japan will only ex-| being prepared. Rush your 2 concern in getting its Muk-|¢o the “Bellas Hess Workers 26-28 FURNISHED ROOMS 133 Bast 110th St. Heated rooms: large | and «mail; all improvements: near sub- way. Tel. Lehigh 1890, Organize Shop Nuclei. | Enlist Your Shop Mate in the | waNv ROOM, REASONABLE RENT, with comrades; have 9-year old child. Call Caroline Scollen, Stuyvesant 4552, WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET NEW HOTEL NITGEDAIGET, Beacon, N. Y. The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers and baths on every floor. Will positively be ready for Christmas ‘WINTER SPORTS—Skating and Sleighing to your heart’s content MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Price same as in summer—$17 a week. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731—862 NEW YORK TELEPHONE: ESTABROOK 1400. 0090000000000 in Just as Isadora Dun-| the | There is very little that can be/own translation of Tolstoy’s The Lener String Quartet con-| of fine Carnegie jreceive his first New York recital music | Monday evening at Carnegie Hall. | The program |The program includes the Mozart includes the Cesar Frank Quartet /Sonata in A major, No. 9; Schu- |in D and the Debussy Quartet in G|mann’s Arrabesque, Brahms’ Varia- Workers’ Wages} be} Bellas | tales | | | | ee NANKING CLAIMS “Diana” Does Not Do Justice MILL BOSSES to Work of Isadora Duncan CUT OFF WATER NN. G. STRIKE Will ‘Evict Leaksville Textile Strikers the National Textile Worker: has cut off the light and water the company houses occupied by the strikers, and will proceed immedi- ately to evict them. While still in these houses, the strikers are forced to ca water up hill for a considerable distance. Two of the strikers’ babies are sick with pneumonia, and eviction s their death unless lequ secured soon. The need for aid is increasi The Workers International Relie: 949 Broadway New ¥ork City, asking for contributions to save lives of the Leaksville strikers, win their strik in hi “The one of the new ven- | who is appearing in tures of the group at the 14th Street Playhouse. he and Music Notes Alma Simpson with her Rondalla sandizaga, the sextet of Spanish | musicians. from Salamanca, will give a second recital at the 48th Arrest Organizers. GASTONIA, N. C., Dee. 12 Fred Totherow, Southern agent fe the Daily Worker and the Labor De- me preats Thestrevon Sncry eveuIti a ndek arrested yesterday in| rete en ., |the renewed terrorism of the South- | Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist, will |e.) bosses against the militant (Continued on Page Three) Our own age, the vourgeois age, fs distinguished by this—that 11 has simplifiic class antagonisms, More and more, society t» splitting up into two great hostile camps. into two great and directly contra. poxed classes: hourgeoiste and pro- lefnrint—Marx pares tions on a Theme of Paganini and | the Liszt Rhapsody, No. 11. Two| numbers of Debussy and two of Al- | beniz. “AMUSEMENTS -> something new in ion —Daily Worker, “Here is real! movie prod 2nd Big Week! erin 5 worthy to st i of ‘The Pe Werata wel eonsin it TE 9 “Most effective of the recent Russian films. FIRST AMERICAN SHOWING Post. THE NEW SOVKINO MASTERPIECE BABYLON Founded on the Dramatic Episodes of the Franco-German War and the Paris Commune. SEE= Paris in the wild enthusiasm of the first days of the The Lheatre Guild Presents Miny of France Don't malay thie marvelous flim? “GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH” By ROMAIN ROLLAND PITKIN || PARADISE GUILD W. 8% Bem ea Vitkin Avenue Grand_ ‘Concourse Brooklyn IVIC bpripinagedig Ak Are th Aye. ves, 8:30, Mats. ‘Thur. Sat.. 2:30 Set eS e130 EVA Le GALLIENNE, Director Tonight—“THE LIVING CORPSE” | vom, PETER PAN” Tom. Night—“Would-He Gentleman” JOLSON’S Thee. Soth St. & ath Ave. 8:30, Mats. Thur, & Sat. THE MERRY WIDOW By FRANZ LEHAR Popular Prices—$1 to $3 Stage Shows—Both Theatres from CAPITOL THEATRE, BROADWAY ANNUAL |Costume Ball of the MORNING REIHEIT THE ONLY WORKERS JEWISH DAILY IN AMERICA will take place on Saturday, December 14 at ARMORY HALL Lexington Avenue and 25th Street TICKETS 50 CENTS HAT CHECK 50 CENTS Tickets at the Morning Freiheit, 30 Union Square WINTER IS COMING MANY UNEMPLOYED AND NEEDY WORKERS will have to be supplied with warm clothing by the W 1. R. lect and send clothing to WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF STORE 418 BROOK AVENUE, PHONE MOTT HAVEN 5654 Qther atations nt i490 Medford St. Will Shop, 249 B m Hench A rary 204th St): Local W. 1. K., 799 Brondway, mba; ther my t Finnish Workers lab 15 W, 126th Sty iy mn aziy National ant R., 140 Brondway, Room 512, New York. -TRACHTENBERG TO LE CHARLOTT. Dec. 12.— The Leaksville Woolen Mill, at Homestead near here, whose 200 | wkers have been on strike for weeks now under the leadership of Union, | TURE. support The significance of the given to the socialist party by the bourgeois press end whole groups of reactionary and liberal organiza- tions, as the “logica®’ third party; snirit with which these traitors openly collaboratans: with the bosses in the present in- dustrial conflicts, are some phases of the lecture to be given this Sun- day, at 8p. m., at the Workers’ School Forum, 28 Union Square, by Alexander Trachtenberg, member Central Committee Communist Party. the eager are See— “IVAN THE TERRIBLE” AND “The New Industrialization of Soviet Russia” Benefit Performance for the WINDOW CLEANERS UNION Tonight at 8 o’clock LABOR TEMPLE lith Street and Second Avenue Auspices: York Workers Interna- 799 Broadway. Local New ational Relief, ‘or All Kind of Insurance” ([ARL BRODSKY Murray Hill 5550 7 fast 42nd Street, New York ue ce cine commana iS ‘Telephone: Patronize No-Tip Barber Shops 26-28 UNION SQUARE al flight up) 2700 BRONX PK EAST | (corner Allerton Ave.) Cooperators! Patronize SER OT CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Frances Pilat MIDWIFE 351 E. 7/th St, New York, N. Y. Yel. Rhinelander 8916 —MELROSE— . VEGETARIAN Dairy RESTAURANT Comrades Wilt Always Wind tt Pleasant to Dine at Our Place. 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx (near 174th St. Station) PHONE INTERVALE 9149. RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVEi UE | Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. i Strictly Vegetarian Food HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. Phone: UNIversity 6865 Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E.12th St. New York ee All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx DR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Keom 803—Phone: Algonquin Not connected with any other office Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGRON DENTIST 249 BAST 115th bd Second Ave, New DAILY EXCEPT eae we telep ppointment Telephone! Lehigh 6023 DR. MITCHELL R. AUSTIN Optometrist 2705 WHITE PLAINS AVENUB Near Allerton Ave. Bronx, N. Y. TEL. OSTABROOK 2631 Special Appointments Made for Comrades Outside of the Bronx Cor. Hotel & Restacrant: Workers Branch Workei Ww. hos Cleele Bo Business meetings held hard first Monday of the eee 8 Kduentional m iFie—the “yard Monday of the ‘month, ut} Bourd meetings-every | Tu iuen jock. fternoon at 6 o’e! biel jngeeteys One Union! Join and Comm. 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