The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 5

AMEE Oe > RO SS ACERS STEERER SN AE TESS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 193% SMS Five CHANG —— THE — ‘WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD EW YORK STATE has as pretty a racketeering’ case going on as one might wish. It is a classic that illus- trates with a searchlight how bourgeois democracy works. Briefly, it seems that an influential Republican poli- tician, an upstate Methodist, father and patriot, was be- ing paid $3,600 a year by the Associated Gas and Electric Company. This gentleman, Warren T. Thayer, was a State Senator, and also chairman of the Public Service Commission, which is supposed to “regulate” gas and electric companies, and see that they don’t steal too much from the people. A letter was put in the record which this people’s Senator had written to the gas company, thanking them for their regular check, and humbly inquiring whether his services had been satisfactory. The Senator is on trial. We predict he will be acquitted. Some- times one set of capitalist politicians sends another set to jail on graft | charges. It is a way of removing a rival racketeer and taking over the spoils. Bourgeois democracy has broken down so badly, however, that I believe the Senator will not be punished. Besides, he has a wonderful defending lawyer, the same Senator Lusk who has been notorious for | years as & Red-baiter and fascist. The main line of the defense is, that some bad Bolshevik framed up the good Presbyterian father, patriot and Senator. The Bolshie | disguised himself as an électric and gas company, bribed the Senator, who took it all as an old patriotic custom, a tradition among Senators. But this time it was the Bolshies. And they took the Senator's letter of thanks and treacherously turned it over to the G.P.U. and the G.P.U. bribed a democratic politician, and the whole thing is a plot against the American flag. That’s the defense Senator Lusk will (or ought to) put up. It is about as sane, truthful and logieal a defense as the case he made against the school teaehets in his red-baiting days. . . . . “Easy Come, Easy Go” IN THE boom times of capitalism, when all the middle class, high and low, was in on some of the “take,” this kind of governmental grafting went unnoticéd. “Easy come, easy go,” was the happy-go- lucky slogan of the white collar class. Today, when the white collar breadline stretches from coast to coast, there is resentment against the grafters. Not much, but enough. It is this resentment that kicked out Tammany Hall, and that has elected “reform” administrations in other cities, As the depression deepens, it is certain that these “reformers” will in turn stand exposed. Most of them were brought up in the same nursery as Senator Thayer, and have the same habits. The faith in bourgeois democracy has broken down in most of Fhrope, and is rapidly breaking down in America. And this is one of the mass-sentiments that the fascists seize in their propaganda. Both Hitler and Mussolini claim that they have removed graft frorn government. Which is only another of those large brazén lies with which these racketeers fool the people. Hitler ahd Goering and Goebbels, the wholé pack and swarm of the Nazi leaders, have been pérsofally enriched by their “revolution.” Hitler, a former Clerk of some soft, is now a milliOhaite, as aré his chief aids. Every Nazi leader is a busy business man, with a cut in scores of private enterprises, The system works much in the same manner as the one out own gangsters operate here; the Nazi leader picks out a going concern in his district, calls on the boss, and declares himself a partner. That's all there is to it; the guns do the persuading. Mussolini’s gangsters work in the same manner. That goggle- eyed blackshirt and loudmouth was formerly a Socialist blacksmith’s son and a poorly-paid journalist. He is today admittedly a million- aire. Italo Balbo, formerly a white collar pauper, is also 2 millionaire, as are most of the keymen in Mussolini’s machine. What Fascism Brings ITS despair with bourgeois democracy the middle class turns to fascism. And this is what it gets. But to destroy graft, you have to destroy capitalism. Since fascism and Nazism are only the same old capitalism in & military uniform and wielding the coward’s dagger and whip on thé masses, it is to be ex- pected that graft will remain. Communism is the only answer to graft in government and in the production of the necessaries of life. Not even the most rabid hater of the Soviet Ution has been able to say that any wholesale grafting exists there. Occasionally a belated Spécimen of the old capitalism is turtied up, but he 1s quickly cured of his bad habits. He does not repeat. The leaders of the Soviets are bitterly honest men. It is because they até the representatives of the working class, & class whose historic mission tt is fo destroy the whole grafting money and business system that 1s ruining the human race, The fascists and Nazi leadets would be fools if they didn’t graft and enrich themselves. Wealth is the only mark of success under the loathsome system fot which they murder and torture rebels. But a Communist leader would be a fool if he were tempted to graft. For under this system, personal wealth means nothing, is not a matk of distinetion, but a handicap. The true riches ate within, in 4 — sélfiess devotion to the task of building a free new working class world. ‘When My Free Days Comes...’ Writes | Charlie Weems, Scottsboro Defendant Birmingham, Ala. Jefferson County Jail, Deat Comrade: ‘Your letter was received today and which had enclose $2 and was very glad to get it and also think you and all of the comrades worked for it. And I do believe that all of the comrades would enjoy reading a nice letter from each one of us poor innocent Boy's and I would like to write them all but I am not educated enough to de so, But I hope that they won't think hard of mé for not doing se, But IT hope when my free day cothe I will be able te explain everything that they have done for me and will do everything I can to show my appreciation, and please try to send me the shoes early as possible for Mine aren’t any good. Send size 10, please, Sir, and give all thé comrades my best wishes, Comradely yours, (Signed) CHARLIE WEEMS, Baer hoe Harmonica Band ‘Thibault, Baritone; Sopra: TUNING IN 1:00 B. Ed eee atl Resumé Backstage Music: VES Mock, Soprano; Edgar bys-wABe-Mnury Sell commentator 9:30-WEAF—Ed Wyfh, Comedian WSE—Duchin- Orenetra Balkin Ww. Duchin Orche repose ‘symphony Resume Prick Wae—ames nv ig re ns. Wear gene and Gi a Glea’—Bketeh Che toaieay: tuas-WORBiidio, Aus Woeceencos for Miunteipal Officials | 10:60-WEAF- rae Me coh a —Mayor J. Boyd Thatcher of Al- Wor aay bany, A. H. Hall, Ditector Buréau Woe Dole and ane Sor of Training, Conference of Mayors Ea, Smith; Gale Page, ag; WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh kins, Humor 7:30-WEAF—Eddie and Relph, Cometians WoR-—Footlicht, Benoes WABC—Serenaders Orchestra 9:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch viJZ—Ithaca Colléze Choir WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator WABC—Gray Orch.; Tusopnigié and Budd, Comedians; Connie Boswell, Sones 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. B. Réad 19:30-WOR—Johnston Orchestra Wi%—American Friends of the He- £:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra raw University at Palestine: WOR—Gtofe Orch.: Frank Parker, at udah L. Magnés, ‘Tenor; Betty Barthel, Contralte Chancellor; Roser Ww. Straus, WJZ—Man From the Morgue—Sketeh Felix M, Warburg; Chorus of #0 WABC—Troopers Orthestra Voices SF WABCToice (of Bzperlenes WABC—Contlict-—Sketch yne King Orchestra 10-45-WABC—Sastame \YWCA Rank and) Pay] Peters, Revolutionary ‘File Backs Fight for Labor’s Rights | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Over- whelming the national leadership by supporting a program calling for jthe right of labor to organize, | shorter working hours and higher | wages, the delegates here at the na- | tional convention of the Young | Women’s Christian Association ex- | pressed the growing sentiment) | among the members for participa- | | ment insurance, the right to organize | and better working conditions. The | A resolution endorsing birth-con- | trol legislation and calling for wide | dissemination of birth-control in- | formation was passed with no op-| | posing votes, to the surprise of even | the committee presenting the res- olution. | organization supporting any gram of social change and telling | | is more effective than group action.” In the vote that followed, | overwhelmingly defeated, the group voting to continue supporting social legislation as an organized body. The rank and file delegates at this | convention reflected the sentiments of the membership to engage in | active struggles for better condi- | tions. The program of “sweetness | and light” advocated by the leader- eed is being rapidly Sicntanas Oath “To Suiihcn: Out Communist Teachers” Planned for Chicago (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 14—A bill to “smoke out any Communists or other persons who flout. the flag | that protects them,” from public} | troduced into the Illinois Legisla- |ture, and similar action by the | Board of Education of Chicago was planned last Tuesday. teachers in New York City, that Chicago teachers will receive | two weeks back pi SCHOOL NEWS TOMORROW | ‘The regular weekly feature, | “What's Doing in the Workers | Schools of the U. S.,” which ap- | pears on this page every Tuesday | will be published tomorrow. | WHAT’S ON ‘Tuesday SKLAROFF lectures on ‘Religion in the | ren Union.” FSU. Pelham Parkway 2179 White Plains Road, Bronx; 8:50 1p. in. | HENRI BARBUSSE Br. LL.D. will hold discussion on “Role of the LL.D. in the Revolutionary Struggle.” Max J. Mer- |paum will lead discussion; 884 Columbus | Ave. near 103rd St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. UNIT 10 Sec. & will hold Open Unit Meeting jointly with Br. 121 1.W.0. at 608 Stone Avé., 8:30 p.m. Discussion on “The Communist Party and the Mass Or- ganizations.” Ali invited. | | Wednesday | pmBATE—Resolved that the League of | Nations, World Court and Diplomatic Pro- | cedure Cannot Avert War. Speakérs: Clark M. Eichelberger says it can. Clarence Hathaway fays it cannot. Town Hall, 118 W. 43rd St. Adm. 500. nai, Saat meeting, all delegates, Friday, May 18, 8:30] p.m. Room 203, 50 E. 13th St. All Red Honor Rolls, greetings and ads must be in at this meeting. Philadelphia FRANKWOOD EF. WILLIAMS, M.D., lec- turés of “Mental Hygiéné in the 0.6.8.R and thé U.S.A.” Tuesday Eve, May 15, 8:15 p.m. at Boelal Service Building Audi- torium, 311 8. Juniper St. Auspices Pen | and Hammer. ERMAN Fascism démagogically celebrated May 1st as “National Labor-Capital Day.” At Tempel- hof Field, Hitler told the German Capitalists that “German industry hhas formally had to pay millions of marks for quarrels and dissension . the total loss of national in- come through strikes and lockouts was huge ... the economies saved to industry thereby are enormous. It is only a very small sacrifice when the employer is called upon to pay his help a day’s wages for a day which is to be the symbol for overcoming class-conflict.” Hitler took credit for “inspiring his peo- ple,” yet he got a very lukewarm applause from the workers who as- sembled on the field through fear of losing their jobs and terror. But it takes American “business ability” to go Hitler one better. In “Happy Valley” or “The Valley of Opportunity,” as the place is called, a. better show was put on. In “The Valley of Opportunity” I talked to Workers who did not have even the price of a copy of the Daily Worker. It i8 located in Broome County, up- state New York, where Binghamton, Endicott, Johnson City and Oswego are bunched together. These ate shoé manufacturing towns compris- ing the Baronetcy of Endicott-John- son Shoe Company, of which George F. Johnson is the reigning monarch. In these company - dominated towns the “lebor-capital coopera- tion” schemes introduced by the corporation are many and varied. This year, the day before May Day, the company put on a show, which, while not comprising as meny workers as Hitler's show, out-did the Nazi in its demagogy. Besides being paid for this day off, sandwiches, coffee, hot-dogs, and lemonade was given free to as many as could get to them in the scramble. Hitler thé piker told his hostages to bring their own. From morning till midnight of *Monday. April 30, Endicott City was astir with the largest crowd that ever gathered in this city or section iof New York State. The highways | the delegates that “individual action | | mendous she was} jthe blazing steel mills. | tion in the struggle for unemploy- | convention took place last week. Braddock from Pittsburgh where I| | “Braddock” on the Pittsburgh street Mrs. Cleteland Dodge, wife of the | cats, I remembered the mutilated | millionaire auto manufacturer, at- | face of Fannie Sellins as it appears | tempted to stem the rising tide by | |in Foster's book on the great strug- | presenting a motion opposing the} |gle which he led against the Steel pro- | Trust. Fannie Sellins, an organizer, | school teaching positions was IN-/ was in 1926, just a few months after | | Following news of the struggles of | when I was getting fed up with an | an-| office job and the life of an intel- | | nouncement was made Wednesday |lectual in New York.” possibly by the|in Germany Peters had seen the | | other papers. | | | 1923, and was among the first to get | At the time Peters had organized a | knowledge of the life of workers in Playwright ==. = Ses ads al Years in Industry uve Author an Insight Into Workers’ Struggles r By SENDER GARLIN Sunday morning in the win- | ter of 1931 I took the car to! | was working on ger,” the paper of Miners Union. Braddock was associated in my mind with the Great Steel Strike of 1919 led by William Z. Foster. | Always, whenever I saw the words “The Coal the Dig- National had been beaten to death by steel company thugs during that tre- strike which brought more than 300,000 workers out of |_ PAUL PETERS | work on a wharf in New Orleans. He worked as a freight checker with an all-Negro crew, and much | jot what Peters saw and heard on | | this job later went into “Stevedore.” | Sometimes he and the men worked | |36 hours at one stretch, Peters re- | I got off the car in Braddock, jlooked at the address in my hand land walked to a low, freme build- ing just off the main street. Up some rickety stairs I met the land- | lady of the rooming house who told me that my friend hadn't yet re- turned from work. | lated. “Why don’t you try to get him| After ten months on this job Pe- | |some easter work,” she pleaded. “He |ters moved on to Pittsburgh where | |eomes home from the mill, type-|he got a job at the Carnegie Steel | writes for a littlewwhile, and then |Co. (Edgar Thomson Mills) of the falls asleep over his machine.” lu, 8, Steel Corporation. It was here | The landlady was telling me|that I saw Peters once more after | about Paul Peters, whose play|a brief acauaintance in New York | “Stevedore” (written in collabora- | City in 1926. | tion with George Sklar) is now be-| “I worked first in the brickyard,” ing presented to worker-atdiences | Peters told me. “TI got 44 cents an | in New York City. pesto on this job. At the end of one | |week I was ‘promoted’ to repair- | ICHAEL GOLD and Joseph|man on a blast furnace. I got 45% Freeman first influenced him as|cents an hour, and I put in 10-1114 | |a radical writer, Peters told me. “It | hours a day. Later I worked as a| ‘slagger’'—a third helper—in an| the New Masses began publication. | Open-hearth furnace.’ “Mike was always saying that a| “What I really wanted was to ret | writer should go out into industry, |a@ job on an open hearth, where the | | and his advice came just at a time | the engineer in charge, and gave | him a line of bull. But after look- | |ing me over, he got a little suspi- | | lous and offered me an office job, | which I of course turned down.” | Peters worked in the steel mill for | nearly a year. During all this time | he made notes on his experiences | and impressions, but the job took | So much out of him that he got) very little time for actual writing. From Braddock Peters went out to a Wisconsth farm where he| | worked as a hited man for $15 a} month, Altogether he had forked | in industry for nearly five years. Aided Scottsboro Fight An insight into labor defense | As a free-lance newsbaper man first Hitler beer-cellar “revolt” in the reports out to the United States. | small syndicate of his own and was sending dispatches to the Christian | Science Monitor and about a dozen | TVE years in industry have pro- vided Peters with first-hand | sented a unified front. were made with weapons | every part of this country. And knowledge has gone into his writ. ing. His first job was on a Tide- water oil boat, which took him to Central and South America through \ cages, and particularly the persecu- | $ tion of the Negro masses, was gained by Peters asa result of a year's work as publicity director of the International Labor Defense. He spent some time in the South in connection with the Alabama Su- preme Court appeal made by de- fense attorneys Brodsky and Cham- lee. Peters sent up dispatches to the Daily Worker which later were published in a pamphlet called, “Eight Who Wait in the Death Cell.” More recently, in 1933, Pe- ters was attive in organizing white collar workers on C.W.A. jobs. the Panama Carnal Zone. He jumped the boat at San Pedro, Cal., and got a job in a construction camp in the St. Francisquito Valley as a laborer. Nearly Killed on Job “We were building a power unit right at the edge of the desert, and a few days after I started on the job the dam broke: more than 400 workers were killed. I was among 50 men who escaped because we were working up above the dam.” Later Peters worked with a con- struction gang which blasted out the debris and started building a IT IS about life among Negro stevedores in New Orleans that “Stevedore” treats of, and Peters’ Interview | Drama of Negro-White Unity Is Based on Actual Incidents cient because, as Peters explains, ‘$t dealt with the Negro problem from the race angle rather than from a Marxist approach.” In working together on “Steve- dore,” Peters and Sklar hammered out every line of dialogue and every line of stage action together. “Such things as are described in the last act of ‘Stevedore,’ where Negro and white working men band together to fight off a lynch mob have happened, not once, but many times in the South,” Peters told me. “Since 1913 there have been three important strikes on the wharves of New Orlea where the action of ‘Stevedore’ laid All three is | strikes involved brickbat and pistol |Clashes between company guards and longshoremen; and all three strikes were broken by strike- breakérs, known as ‘rabbits’ in the ‘front of town’ along the river -le- vee. The sifnificant thing about these strikes, however, is that Ne- gro and white ‘dockwallopers” stood shoulder to shoulder in the battle ‘A British Fabricates Model of * WHAT MARX REALLY MEANT. By G. D. H. Cole. New York Alfred A. Knopf. $2 Reviewed by DAVID RAMSEY M*. G. D. H. COLE British author who a wide variety of subjects from economics to the doin) mysterious fictional crir sleuths. He has now is a prolific turn: fertile imagination to fabricating a 1934 model Marx, more conditions brand-new suitable to present-day than the original. His pose is to take us “beyond the Communist Manifesto to a later formulation of Marx's doctrine.” The result is a book that rejects the body of Marxist theory and tac- ties for an eclectic hodgepodge of doctrines lifted from the the Technocrats, the revisioi and other similarly good Marx sources. It is & book designed to distract the growing attention paid Marxism atid its revolutionary solu- tion for the crisis of capitalism. The success of Mr. Cole’s efforts can be against injunctions and physical gauged by the reception his work | attacks.” has received at the hands of the Long before this time, however, | Information Service of the Federal back in the eighties, Peters points out, New Orleans was the scene of impressive parades of black and white, who joined together and for @ time paralyzed the city because certain leading employers refused to deal with organized Negroes. Unity in Bogalusa “More spectacular,” Peters con- tinued, “was the big lumber strikes in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1919. |“Sinee a large percentage of log- gers and lumberjacks Ne- groes, white union men that they had to organize their black fellows to win the strike. This | attemnt was resisted by a horde of | armed guards. A white organizer | were steel is actually made, so I went to| named Lum Williams was killed | for defending Sol Dacus, leader of the Negroes.” Peters tells of a similar incident which occurred at the saw mills of Brabow, La., whites, Italians, Mexicans and Ne- groes struck together saults upon the Negroes in the customary | attempt to split this united front | over the race issue, white workers joined the battle and helped drive the company guards off.” mastitis: tiv 'ONCERTED action by gto and white union mén has | eaenetne been a phenomenon of | Southern coal strikes, the revolu- | tionary playwright declares. “Ken- | tucky miners, during the great strikes in Bell and Harlan counties in 1980-31, quickly abandoned their | prejudices and fought together; and | there is one instance recorded in| Harlan county of a local of mixed Negro and white miners, the presi- dent of which was a Negro. A fre- | white was: statement made by during the strike quent miners “We'll brother the black miner as| well as the white.” It is much harder to get Negroes to scab than it was in the past, Peters says. realized | ¥ | author's role. where in 1913 native | and pre- | “When as- | both Ne-| Council of Churches. This weekly organ hailed it as “a scholarly, yet popular exposition of the philosophy of Marx.” Tt went on to point out that, ac | cording to Mr. Cole, Marx was not f& materialist. In fact we must speak of him as a “realist” rather than as a “materialist.” The wholehearted acceptance of Mr. Cole's perversion of Marxist philosophy by an influential church | “{ntelligence service” explains the His function is to distort Marx and spread misconcep- | tions of Marxian theory and tac- | tics. In typical anti-Marxist fash- ion, Mr. Cole sepatates Marx's method from his conclusions. This enables him to emasculate the revo- | lutionary content of Marx's doc- trines and to arrive at a set of weird and contradictory conclusions | of his own. After describing how impossible it would be for the work- means, he proceeds to contradict imself by saying that there is still “a real possibility of capturing the} State machine, as far as it can be | captured as the result of a parlia- | mentary election, on the basis of a | policy t that is not mainly social re-| form, but constructive socialism.” The best hope for civilization, Mr. Cole beliéves, lies in building So- Philistine New 1934. Marxism” for a new understanding of Karl Marx, attempts to separate Marx’s method from his revolutionary conclusions. For, as Marx him- self pointed out, the conclusion to be drawn from his analysis of capitalism is that it can be de- stroyed only by the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalistic State and the establishment of the dic- hip of the seers wrote, and have written about hi m.” One of the,first ess 1 steps toward a living unde jing of what Marx means is to thrust aside the literary obstacles built by mis- directors like Cole to block the way to the revolutionary line, and to participate in the strt theo- retical and practical, of the work- ers and their tested allies time is short, but recent develo} ments indicate that many are learning this lesson. If enough learn it, the workers will have little cause to addle their heads trying to find a formula to please the mysterious Mr. Cole. since that problem will be solved in the only satisfactory way—by elimination— in the process. Stage and Screen “Come What May” at the Plymouth Tuesday; King Drama Opens Thursday Richard F. Flournoy’s new play, “Come What May,” dealing with an American family over a period of 30 years, will have its premiere on Tuesday night at the Plymouth Theatre. Hal Skelly and Mary Philips head the company “Invitation to a Murder,” & Mmys- tery melodrama by Rufus King, is scheduled for Thursday evening at the Masque Theatre, Gale Sonder- gaatd. Walter Abel, Humphrey Bo- a | rt, Cherling Oliver and Jane Sey- ers to secure their ends by peaceful | 27%, Cherlt mour head the cast “The Shining Hour,” Keith Win- ter’s play at the Booth Theatre, celebrated its 100th performance on Saturday. Gladys Cooper, Adri anne Allen and Raymond Massey. play the leading Toles. “Pinafore” and “Tr ini by Jury” ot Majestic Tonight r Hilbert Sullivan’ cialism by an alliance of the prole- eee ere = Snaeee as tariat and professional classes thru | terrial hy Jury,” will begin a return “peaceful and constitutional means.” It veek at the Ma~ If the proletariat does not recog- | CN&agement of one week at the Ma jestic Theatre this evening. John nize the strategic importance of the new professional classes and does not bow to its demands, then the | professionals and ‘technicians will |go fascist. They will “bend the | capitalists to their will, substituting | for -the concentrated control of large-scale capitalism the control of an authoritarian State, speaking | in the name of the wider body of | | property owners and industrial ad- | ministrators and technicians.” The “During the famous | history of the past year in Germany} steel strike of 1919, over 20,000 Ne- | is the best answer to this twaddile. groes were picked up in Southern | It is Fritz Thyssen and the Chemi- towns by steel scouts, and shipped | cal and Dye Trust who are in the Cherry, Herbert, Waterous, Vivian Hart, William Danforth, Roy Crop- per and Vera Ross head the cast. On May 21 the troupe will bring back “The Mikado,” with Frank Moulan playing the role of Ko-Ko. “Barber of Seville” at the Hippodrome This Evening “Barber of Seville.” will open the seventh week of grand opera at the Hippodrome this evening with Dorothy Chapman, Barotti, Ghigi, Nino Ruisi and Testamala in the leading roles. Other operas of the | Peters 5-DAY MAY Festival and Bazaar. Final | Power plant. His next job was in a knitting jmill near Knoxville, Tenn., which manufactured cotton underwear. worked there ten hours a day for $16 a week. His work was not in textiles, but as a pipefitter in connection with the sprinkler system which was being built. Peters hung on to this job for three months and then went to “Happy Valley” were choked With ttaffic. About 30,000 marchers, including 19,000 Endicott-Johnson and 3,500 Inter- national Business Machine Co work- ers were in line, while 75,000 specta- tors looked on. Every business con- cern, every church, society, the American Legion, Boy Scouts and Missions were in line. Doctors and nurses of the company-owned hos- pital, children, teachers and attend- ants of the company’s schools and playgrounds were on parade, while the factories, schools, and other places of business were closed for the day. ‘cae ME CORDON of Endicott police and State Troopers on motorcycles Jed the parade, followed by thirty troopérs on speckled horses. About 25 bands and 70 floats of various descriptions and the 104th Field Artillery, N. Y. National Guards- men, with its héw motorized equip- ment lent color to the march. Every float characterized in one way ot another the “Class-harmony” fos- tered by the most paternalistic of all corporations, which is known for its so-called policy of “fair play.” This, as the company-controlled Binghamton Sun put it, was an “ex- Pression of gocd will and mutual understanding, contrasting sharply with the May Day demonstrations of discontent common throughout the world.” William Inglis, described as “one of the guest newspapermen,” im- ported to write the songs of praise in the press for the company, in an editorial in the Stn, summed up the motives of the corporation stating, “The demonstration was ah extta- erdinaty evidence that the tan who treats his fellows as his friends, deals with them as he would have them deal with him, reaps his rich fewatd. Endicott-Johnson has been reaping profits lately on or- ders for low-priced shoes that were diverted from the New England shoe strike area. How ciéverly the boss utiliaed every occasion to put over this subtle ‘co-operation” propaganda is instanced when George F. Johnson, experience in that southern port | have provided the vibrant stuff | which helped create this play of Negro and white unity. |__“Stevedore” is based on “Wharf | | Nigger.” an earliex play by Peters. |Some of the characters and some |of the plot incidents in the present | |play were lifted from the earlier seript which, howéver, was found by the Theatre Union to be defi- By Sid the “Host,” was called on to make a speech. “No speech,” said George, “The parade expresses it all. Any- one who doubts now that labor and capital can work togethér as friends, can never be cofivinced.” Hungry? See the Circus! The parade was started with an 18-bomb salute to George F. John- son. In the afternoon baseball and golf was played by proféssional jteams with stats imported for the joceasion. Cameratnen for newsreels and newspapers made photographic and sound records. There was dancing on the George F. Johnson Pavilion. At the En-Joie (Endi- cott-Johnson) Health Park a crowd of 50.000 was entertained by a 15- act circus, performatices by rough- riders of the state troopers and in the evening a national salute of 101 anti-aircraft shells opened the most extravagant display of fire- works. The followitig day the Endicott- Johnson “Wotkets Daily Page” in the Binghamton Sun (the company has a special page daily for special propaganda), carried two solid pages of pictures of the floats and feature stories and editorials of the hip-hip-hoorah variety. One float depicted a worker in overalls and a@ capitalist well-groomed in formal business dress clasping hands. The local paper rémarked, “or as it is truly pictured every day in the year in the trivle cities.” About an hour after I had read this rotten lie I steod in a small crowd watch- ine two young workers being ar- fested in Binghamton by five of the E-J controlled cops on a charge of not paying for hot dogs they got at a stand on the main street. * & 'HE company slogans on the floats read: “N. R. A. George's F.'s| idéa, 1916." “Pay Day for May Day | {Ts George F.’s Plav Dav.” “Canital- Labor Equal.” “The Scout Factory 100 per cent Lovel to You.” “Jus- tice, Labo mae Capital.” “A Wotld of Jovy.” f in the Heart of the Sole Tannéry.” “The Great Guerd- | jan of Labor “Roosevelt's New Deal Has Always Reeth Geotee F.’s Square Deal.” “George F., the Man That Built and Keeps Three Cities |ture of George F. as a target for | |F., he has a damn tough job in| | languages and nationalities. week are: “Martha,” in English, on in locked freight cars into the! saddle, and not by any means the! : bs edehate yr fe Pittsburgh area. Here they were | whitecollared puppets whom they | Wecscry niette “ba Grane housed in barracks within the con- | manipulate. ‘Thursday evening: “La Traviata.” crete walls of the steel mills and | et Friday evening: “Harel entices employed on the furnaces. HE doctrines of Mr. Cole repre-| to)" saturday afternoon: “Tosca,” : sent the ambition of a section| saturday night, and “Cavalieria TOMORROW: Petets describes | of the middle class to obtain con-| Rusticana” and “Pagliacet” on Sun- more actual incidents of Negro and white unity, comments on the | Soviet theatre, and tells of prob- Jems of a workers’ theatre, ney Bloomfield Happy.” “Gratitude.” “E-J Work- ers Are Sitting on Top of the World.” “It is May Day and We Want the World to Know That We Appreciate the Liberal Policy of the Endicott-Johnson Corporation.” The papers studiously refrained | from mentioning the fact that a group of youngsters at the En-Joie Health Park were using a huge pic- their stones and the picture was | completely destroyed while the fes- tivities were in progress. This sort of “gratitude” represented the real spirit of the E-J slaves. Nor did the local sheets discuss the affair in a manner showing in no uncertain | ways that if it were not for the day's pay this “happy family” affair would have turned out differently. In a discussion with a foreman whom I met on the street, hé said, | “Well, you gotta hand it to George trying to control so many different These actions keeps his help from orgta- nizing unions. He organizes every- | thing for them. It is true they | ain't makin’ as much as the press) says they are, but he's clever and) knows how to handle his men.” This | rather sums up the fascist motives of the company, to prevent the slaves from organizing. “He organ- izes everything for them.” So does | Hitler and Mussolini. On the following evening (May 1) T spoke to sevetal hundred wofkérs | of this “Happy Valley” at a May | Day meeting of workers, for workers and by workers. The exposure and) denunciation of these company | tricks met with loud approval, which | shows that the workers do under- stand the bosses’ demagogy. Good organization in the Endicott-John- son plants is needed now more than ever, The first struggles of the work-| ers for more wages and better con-| ditions will definitely convince ev-| eryone that, all the benevolent ges- | tures of ths corporation increases | its dividends at the expense of the ries that the flea will do anything workers, proving the truth of Maxim Gorky’s statement in one of his sto- for the ox, except get off his back. | | | menace to the security of the exist-| ¢¢ jing order. | activity that “open the door to a | of every worker.” cessions from the capitalists. At no! gay evening time are Mr. Cole and his ilk a os mee Stevedore” Cast at Theatre Collective Ball Tomorrow Night Nothing horrifies Mr.) Cole more than tevolutionary action It is Communist propaganda and real growth of fascism.” It is Com-/} munist policy that “divides the forces of the proletariat at a crucial) juneture, and a pause a ai wil be mentary Socialist victory.” we} tbe want to fight fascism, according +6 Bee et oe era tres Mr. Cole, we must fight the Com-| ivoning May 16. Many phomitent munists. If we desire Socialism, | artists até scheduler to 4 -. we muSt struggle to preserve capi- lamong them Bill Robinson, ee th talism. His words are: “The hope/ yoton, Mara Tartar, with Leigh of a constitutional victory of So- Whipper, from the cast of “Steve- cialism in Great Britain depends on! dore,” as master of ceremonies, British prosperity surviving long) actors and dancers from the Cotton enough for it to be won.” | Club Revue, the shock troupe of the It is no wonder that Mr. Cole, | Workers Laboratory Theatre and like other “Marxists” who strive | members of the cast of “Stevedore.” NEW YORK—A Theatre Ball, sponsored by the Theatre Collec- jtive and the “Vanguard,” AMUSEMENTS “A Pine Soviet )—THE THEATRE GUILD ‘presents— Satire. . . The plot JIG SAW has a meaning which A comedy by DAWN POWELL with is vital to the lives ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE —Daily Worker Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway a hee ai Eves. 8:40, Mat. Thur. and Sat, 2:40 very amusing politico. EUGENE O'NEILL Comedy teal Boviet picture. 11 me something new in lm AH, WILDERNESS! with bkoaGe M. 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