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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
What Is the Department Of Labor?

Secretary of Labor James Davis foe of the for
egnbon workers. the principal speakers at the
r of L. convention His department of the government
agencies placed the disposal of the bosses every day IN
year assist them by bounding forelgnbon worker
suspected of loyalty to his class.
Another section of the government machinery the bureau
immigration also always the disposal of the BOSSES Mill
activity for union organization IN unorganzed industries
opposition labor offcado sympathy with or membership IN
Communist Party sufficient to bring the threat OF dep
tatiOn
The appearance of Secretary the A F. of
L. convention principal speaker signifies the united front
ofcadom and department of the government which
is efficient agencies of American capitalism
nothing abstract in this community of interest 1t
immensely practical working agreement and is powerful
weapon hands of both the bosses and the trade union
Against left the BOSSES the bueaucras
and the department of labor unite
A Washington dispatch to the Salem MassO News for
Sept categorical that the United States
department labor time has been backing the consera
elements of American labor in their campaign to RID ther
ranks of Communism.
The dispatch obviously official character states that
the influence labor department lis vigorously put behind
whether of capital labor which fighting Com
un there is close cooperation between the Cancellation
of the labor department and the departments immga-
ton bureau in handling this problem.
every intelligent worker has long known, the official
publicity agent of the department of labor admits in almost
many that the labor department conciators gov
eminent spies under another name.
Organzed labor continues this official Dispatch some
times buwark capital against Communism For
organized Labor ocadom and have the third
factor in the united front of reaction.
But there is factor altho its role is minor
within the circle of general socialist party leader
ship The dispatch from which have quoted has this to
about it:
h conservative employer may regard socialist with deep
distrus the department will back socialist against Red
any day. "
It is not surprising in view of these admissions to
Secretary the Los Angeles police department and
A L. ofcadom, cooperating in failing Communist work
seang Communist delegate from the office workers
union.
Actually of course the whole upper the labor
leadership is American mperaisms department of labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
~ DRAMA IN
The NeU Plays

PORGY folk play by Dorothy and Du Bose Hayward will
Monday night at the Guild Theatre presented by the Theatre
Guild In the McClendon Wilson, Evelyn
Ellis Georgette Harvey George Moore Jack Carter and Percy
Yerwayne.
CHAUVESOURIS" Monday night Cosmopolitan
ire with Nckoh Balieff in his famous role of past
THE O'CLOCK GIRL" at the Street Theatre
and music by Bert Kamar Harry Ruby Mary
and Oscar Shaw featured
SYNTHETIC SIN" comedy by Haon
will be presented the Fory-ni Theatre Monday
evening with Dorothy Burgess Allan Birmingham Peggy AL
enby, Helene Snnott Louis barclay Vaare Vaare
the
THE 18TH HOLE" golf comedy by Craven, be pre-
Cohan Theatre. In the Craven Mary Kennedy, Kitty
Kelly, Marion ABBOTT, Homer Barton Roy Cochrane John
wood Robert Wayne Adora Andrews and Charles MacDonay
JUST FANCY" musical adaptation by Joseph Santley
ude Purcell of the A. E. comedy Suppose"
scheduled for Tuesday night the Joseph
Meyer and Philip Charig composed Robin
supplied the lyrics The players include Raymond Hitchcock,
Ivy Sawyer Mr. Santley, Eric Bo Mrs Thomas Whffen, H.
Reeves-Smith, Marguerite and Gill and John Hundey
WHITE LIGHTS" James comedy
premiere the Ritz Theatre Tuesday evening Gerald
Smith is the author of the book and Fred the
In the Rosale Claire, Lee Donnely Ash,
Margaret LANCE, James Barrett Mole ODoherty.
THE MATRIMONIAL Bed comedy, will be presented by A
Woods at the Ambassador Theatre Wednesday The
play comedy three adapted from the French of T.
Mrande Mouesey-Eon by Seymour Hicks,
playing it for the past year London John Murray
Vivian Oakland featured the which includes May
Vokes Lennox Pawle Lee Patrick, Kenneth Hill Clay
Clements.
THE SPRINGBCARD" comedy by Alice Duer Miller, will
Wednesday the Mansfield Theatre by Charles L.
Wagner with Sidney Blackner playing the chief role
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
Tenth Anniversary Preparations

The approaching Tenth Anniversary of the Boshevk
the Soviet Union finds the workers and peasants
the of attack by the mperast bgands of the
Since in the late fall of 1925 the malignant
of reaction have been striving openly to
military attack against the Soviet Union.
the decade of revolution three distinct stages dis
cerned in the reactonary struggle The first the actual
armed the part of British French and American
Imperialism aided by motley of white guard military adj
This crushed before the iron battaons of the
Red Army The second of low diplomatic
intrigue when the willy diplomats tried to achieve by subranean
what they could not then achieve openly Lenn him
self proved to the adrot manipuators of capitalist diplomacy
that of the poearan revolution their masters
followed by the third PERIOD characterised by long
range policy whereby Britain took the lead attempt to so
and destroy the revolution is toward the contamination
the drive against the revolution that the
energies of of the abest spokesman of Imperialism
directed.
Thus the approaching Tenth Anniversary celebrations aside
that they mark the close of the first decade of the
revolution douby significant nasmuch they impose
the workers the task of convincing the broad
masses working of the threat of world
svolved in these conspiracies.
Throughout the world the workers will celebrate this great
historical In the United States the Workers Communs
Party preparing for whole week of intensified activity in
an effort create the minds of the determination
ever fight against the Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics,
and merely refuse to fight but actively to challenge with
all their might the mperas government that dares take
against workers and peasants 1t is not
remain neurahat is the road of pacifsm form
of service to Imperialism
Tenth Anniversary celebrations must be of such char
notice the mpera consprators that in
against the Soviet Union they will also have second
war against their working at home. If the working
of the mpera countries take decisive stand they will
be able stay the hand of the and on the approach
ing Anniversary the should dedicate themselves
the task of making impossible the realization of the plans
against the revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10

lead to chaos. l should favor, at the
very least, THE RETENTION OF
THE ARMY TO DEFEND THE
FRONTIER and prevent internal
civil war"
Russell is himself an imperialist.
He shows it by such phrases as "some
day the Indians will be sufficiently
civilized to be left to themselves" and
by speaking of British atrocities in
India as "the oppression of a few
agitatOrs," etc.
I IKE more open imperiahsts of the
IL type of Baldwin, Russell feels that
the Labor Party leadership is es-
sentially loyal to the empire. Russell
says so in so many words:
IF and when there is another La
Dor Government, it will not do half
as much as l have suggested. The
majority of the leaders Of the Labor
Party are keen imperialists who
would at the most slightly relax the
severity of political persecution in
India. They privately favored the
dispatch of troops to Shanghai this
year, and were reluctantly forced in
to public opposition by the pressure
of the rank and file. They will al
ways accept the judgement of British
officials on the spot. in preference to
that of any one else"
"The only thorough-going OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
Bertrand Russell DlsrObes
Ramsay Macdonald
Independence the British Phil
nadver
Bares Agentof IMPERIAL

ponents of British imperialism are
the Communists. :"
DLEASE remember that Bertrand
Russell has been a candidate OF
the Labor Party, that he is one OF its
strongest supporters and that he sees
nothing discreditable in the Labor
Party leaders being imperialists, and
therefore sees no reason why he
should not tell the truth about them.
But for the more slippery Mac
Donald the Russell statements will
prove very embarrassing. So far he
has been able with some little success,
to conceal his real subservience to
British Imperialism by abuse of the
Communists, the left wing, Commu-
mist international and the Soviet
Union.
pUT he will not be able to explain
- away the categorical statements
of Russell, who, without any thot of
doing so, has rendered a great SER
vice to the labor movement.
We shall take great pleasure in
dispatching a certified copy of Ber-
trand Russell's article in The For
ward to the Communist Party of
Great Britain and to the National
Minority Movement. @
We are sure that our British COM
rades will know how to use it to the
best advantage.
Evening star., 1927-04-30

tor in local musical endeavors next
year when he returns from his Sum
mer home in the North, was honoreC
with first place on the program. Mrs
Wayne B. Wheeler, one of the most
energetic and we'll known of estab
lished soprano singers of Washington
sang Mr.. Scotts THE Voice in the
Wilderness" with color and convic
ton Later she also sang for its first
time performance his recently com
pleted Love Is a Riddle" a melo
dious light concert number, especially
good for an encore song. She also
sang his familiar and excellent song
THE Winds in the South" and, as
encore, The False Prophet" another
of his songs.
Mary Apple, young singer, whose
mezzo voice is very lovely and fresh
in quality, sang Mr.. Scott's ITO An
Old Love" and THE Secret"--the lat
ter being her most effective number.
Herman Fakler, a baritone, who has
unusually good stage presence and
sings with excellent enunciation and
intelligence in Interpretation, made
one of the hits of the evening with
his soft, effective singing of Mr.
SCOTS Romeo in Georgia. a clever
comical number. and Mrs. Maley' S
TN Follow You" a ballad that was
so well sung that the audience gladly
welcomed its repetition as an encore
Mrs. Maley's pretty and timely
choral number, Breath of Spring"
was sung by the Chaminade Glee Club,
under the direction of Esther Linkins.
The club later showed especially good
phrasing and attack in Mr.. Holer's
Triumph of the Dance" and reached
their best in enunciation and shading
of tone under Mr.. Scott's direction in
his song, THE Old Road" the final
number.
Mrs. Wheeler sang two light, at
tractive songs by Mrs. Maley, and
Miss Apple sang her "In a Garden
Wild" They are very pretty num-
bers, but there is nothing of the mod
ern movement in music exemplified in
them.
Mr. Holer was represented most
ably by the group of violin solos
played by Helen Belt, who, in spite
of the dampness, got good and lifting
tones from her instrument. The
Romance" was not particularly in
dividual; Caprice in A Minor" dedi-
Gated to Miss Belt, was much more
interesting in the way in which the
piano and violin interchanged the
melody for the counterpoint and pro-
vided a well-knit, unified work.
though a trifie long for the lightness
Evening star., 1927-04-30
COOLIDGE TO HEAD
FLYERS RECEPTION
1000 Guests Invited to Greet
Goodwin AviatorS on
Arrival Monday.

Final details in the plans for the re-
ception of the Pan-American good will
flyers when they arrive at Boiling
Field at o'clock Monday afternoon
were being arranged today.
Their arrival here will bring to an
official close the 1S,500-mile flight from
san Antonio to Washington by way
of the South American continent, a
pioneering adventure second only to
the Army's world fight.
Washington's distinguished resi-
dents. headed by the President and
including large number of delegates
TO the Third Pan-American Commercial
Conference, which opens Monday, will
participate in the reception, together
with the public and virtually the entire
commercial aircraft industry, which
also on Monday opens up the IAN
America Aircraft Show" the largest
and most extensive demonstration of
American aeronautical products ever
assembled at one point.
Details concerning traffic and mat
ters involving the handling and plac.
ing Of the large crowd anticipated in
addition to the / 900 invited guests
of Secretary of War Davis, occupied
the attention of Army airmen and the
police today. Plans for receiving Mai
Herbert A. Dargue and his seven air
men and brief exercises concerning
their presentation to President and
Mrs. Coolidge, members of the cabinet
and other notable persons present also
were receiving attention.
The most enthusiastic persons in
the large throng which will await the
arrival of the airmen will be the wives
of five of the flyers. They are Mrs.
Dargue. Mrs. Ira c. Eaker, Mrs B. S.
Thompson. Mrs. Charles Nick. Robin
son and Mrs. Ennis c.. Whitehead.
The airmen rested at Langley Field,
Hampton, Va, today, having arrived
there yesterday after a two-and-a- half
hour hop from Wilmington, n. c.
They are enthusiastic over their long
and successful flight, their joy over
being home once more shadowed only
by the loss Of two of their number in
collision near Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1927-04-30
NJ II SIC
ANOTHER COMPOsERs, CONCERT

AS John Prindle Scott, the charming
individual who is one of the most sue
: cessful of American song writer's to-
day, remarked last night, "The Amer
lean composer certainly is coming into
his own in this generation At
Fourth Presbyterian Church, where
Mr.. Scott was one of the three guest
composers especially honored, the ca
pacity audience, in spite of the in
clement weather, bore out his remarks
convincingly. The other guest COM
posers were Florence Turner -Maley of
New York and Karl Holer of this city.
All three gave short speeches of greet
ing and also acted in the capacity of
accompanist for some of their mum
bers as sung or played By local soloists
Mr.. Scott, who has been visiting in
Washington for several weeks and is
already greeted as a possible vital fac
Evening star., 1927-04-30

poses the match, so throughout the
first act the lovers are separated and
their duet, "All Joy Is Gone" was
particularly lovely.
In the second act, in a dream,
Maminka sees the battle of SpriRg
(Marjory SMITH and Winter Jane
Whaler) and rejoices over Spring s
triumph. An old Irish woman
(Madelon Sherman sang her May Eve
Song well. People from other coun-
tries come into Maminka's S dream and
sing Spring songs Of Ireland, Poland.
Hungary and Italy. Maminkas heart
is softened by the vision, and in the
third act, she prevails upon Fatinek
to give consent to the young lovers.
The entire cast of 65 made a colorful
Evening star., 1927-04-30

finale. singing "Marenka'' Several
curtain calls were demanded by the
audience.
roles well. The choruses were well
trained and enjoyable. Between acts
Alice MacLean and Cora Sponsler
sang numbers attractively. The gem"
of the evening was the Austrian duet
by Miss Newton and Miss
Holtzscheiter. A group of girl re-
serves from Hine Junior High School,
who won the folk song contest Tues
day, sang two of the operetta hits"
most creditably between the first and
second acts. The operetta was ar
ranged by Eva Bentzner, utilizing
authentic folk songs from the collec-
Evening star., 1927-04-30

honor his memory. Tentative plans,
fostered by some of the luncheon !
clubs. call for erection of monument
and Identification of the giant spring
where the chieftain's bones repose.
The chieftain got his military title
by wearing n discarded army coIoneIs
uniform. with a cavalry officers sword.
Evening star., 1927-04-30
WILL HONOR POCATELL0.

POCATELL.O. Idaho, April 80 CP).-
Although Gen" Pocatello, Shoshone
Indian chief after whom the city was
named, never relaxed his hostility to
the whites, steps are being taken to
Evening star., 1927-04-30

tion published by the Woman's Press
Marie L. Moran, director. and Imogene
Ireland, musical director. received
bouquets.
Evening star., 1927-04-30

Plates and vases hurled in moving
picture comedies are made of plaster
of paris.
Evening star., 1927-04-30

of it's melodic content: the ''Berceuse, -
played for the first time in public and
just completed April IS, has an at
tractive, unusual treatment of the
lullaby type of melody in its opening
bars. later it lapses for a bit into
rather commonplace chords and
pretty climaxes, but toward the end
it pulls up again into the unusual
and ends with real charm.
The concert, given for the benefit
of a crippled seamstress, was highly
successful both from entertaining and
financial angles, and more than S100
was netted for the benefit. II. +.
THE Y. w. c. AS "MARENKA."
The usual stumbling blocks of an
amateur production were noticeably
lacking in the initial performance of
''Marenka," an operetta with CZeChO-
slovakian background, at the Y. w. G.
A last night before an enthusiastic
audience. 1t was presented by the
Girl Reserves of the senior high
schools. The performance began
promptly and ran smoothly through
out. 1t will be repeated tonight.
The overture of "Marenka" melo-
dies. presented by the trio, Evelyn
Bissig. pianist; Fritz Maile, violinist,
and Roland Jones, cellist, at once
created the atmosphere of gayety and
simplicity appropriate to a Central
European festivity. The opening
scene was a May-eve in Czechoslo-
vakia with boys and girls arranging
the May pole. Two typical houses
added much to the background The
colorful costumes were charming and
the lighting effects especially pleasing.
Gay songs and dances followed.
The hero of the little plot, HonZa,
sung by Norvelle Newton, is in love
with Marenka Una Holtzscheiter), but,
being poor, is frowned upon by Ma
minka--Janet Macdonald, who plays
the mother. Similarly Fatinek U<ath-
ryn Townsend), HonZa's father, OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19
Warren Proposes More Pay for HgherUps; No Increases
for PatvOInen
for PatrOInlen.

Commissioner Joseph A. Warren of the New York Police
Department considers the granting of increased the higher
officials of his department essential keeping the morale of
the force In his budget estimate the Commissioner makes
provision for increases for $4,000 paromen and patrol
women stating frankly that his policy is to keep all increases
down.
salary asked by Commissioner
follows Chief Inspector from $500 $780, Deputy
Chief Inspectors from $4,000 to $1,000 nineteen Inspectors from
$4,000 to S6000 Commander of Detective Division from $40
$6000 fifteen Deputy Inspectors from 81 500 $4,000 ninety
four Captains from 81 900 $4,000 SAP eutenans from $4,000
$780, 250 frsrade detectives from $4,000 $780, 962
sergean from So 900 to 00 Chief Surgeon from $4,000
81 000 Deputy Chief Surgeon from $4400 $4,000
Considerable dissatisfaction being manifested among the
rank and file against this unfair discrimination shown toward
the members of the force who burdened with the hardest and
dageeabe tasks This dissatisfaction deepened by the
fact that the patrmen of this city, have been subjected to the
rigorous demands during the last few months during which
time their vacations withdrawn and had to work fire.
queny for "a hours stretch in connection with strike duty
and the Vanzet demonstrations The patromen be-
ginning the fact that they have bear not only the
of the wogmen of the city for their strkebreang and
anabor activity but also the contempt Of the city authorities
when it the payment of salary increases The idea of
strong union affiliated with organized labor beginning to
meate the minds of the intelligent patromen the force
possible remedy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19

most precious commodity in the
world, and not to be handed out reck-
lessly. He has the real common
touch when it comes to dealing with
crowds. He lies readily, consistently,
superlatively, and whether the oc-
casion demands it or not. 1t is a
difficult thing to do-to lie so
throatily and sincerely that it seems
plausible to the audience that the
rest of the characters believe him and
still not convince the audience itself
and lose the fun in the play. l don't
know how he does it, but he does.
Of course those who pay admission
at the box office of the Biiou are
kidded, too, almost as much as those
who are paid regular actors wages
for entering Doc Smalley's dime
museum. j. Daniel in his first half
hour at Mrs. Marshalls boarding
house sends girl to break ten dol
lars, and she has to go to three diff
ferent shops to do it. The audience
laugbs-such an incident is supposed
to be as obsolete as the shoe-top dress
and the Darling Nelly Gray" songs.
But anybody can prove that it isn't,
even tho money is cheaper now than
in the nineties: Just try it some
Saturday afternoon.
The medicine-show racket at which
j. Daniel and his friend Smalley are
adopts is said in the play to be obso-
lete in New York streets-but it
isn't. This is just the authors little
joke on the crowd. George Hassell
and Edward Nanary, who plays Doc.
Smalley, put it over nicely.
The plot is simple but it is a gem.
j. Daniel Tompson is a faker of de-
vious ways, trying to keep the re-
spect of his daughter and pass in his
theatrical board-place as the actor who
appears when Richard Mansfield is
sick. Smalley's wife lives in the
house, and after various attempts on
the part of other tenants to expose
j. Daniel as liar, does so accidentally
by discovering thru a rough and
ready variety of dick that Smalley is
her Astounding husband. She leads
the whole gang down to Docs show
and breaks it up, recognizing J.
Daniel in the Wild Mans cage. But
Daniel, tho temporarily stunned, puffs
out his enormous belly, and lies his
way thru the mess. Not only that,
but he keeps the show running while
Doc goes to the can: "Aint' l been
trimming suckers for forty years
now?"
All yes, he has. Even to the pres
ent day. If he wasn't medicine
faker who liked to live that way, tho
admitting it was no way to live, he
might have been president. Many of
his kind have done it.
The cast is all so good that it
would be favoritism to single out any
of them, except perhaps "The Great
Birdo," SO well and irascibly taken
off by Spencer Charters.
"Birdo," the whistler, is J. Daniels
main enemy, until he is bribed, white
ribboner tho he is, by a case of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19

and raising the class consciousness of
the American labor movement.
But upon one vital issue official
dom will not tOuch-the war danger
except by inference and innuendO.
1t will join in the GLORIOUS of the i'm
perialist wolf pack against the work
ers and peasants government of the
Soviet Union but it will not advocate
openly an armed offensive against it.
To do so would raise the whole
question of imperialist war and this
the Wolls, Greens and Lewises do not
want to raise just now.
Neither will they urge support of
the Chinese labor movement which is
the spearhead of the mass national
liberation movement for here too
would come up the role of American
imperialism.
With the whole imperialist world
being placed on a war basis as
rapidly as circumstances will permit
American labor officialdom will say
not one word against it as warning
to the American working class.
This will be the great crime COM
mitted by the Los Angeles Conven-
ton.
But
1t will be only preparation for
still greater crime: The support of
American Imperialism and the be-
trayal of the working class to the
blCOd-mad rulers when war comes.
Our party must use the A. F. of L.
convention to expose the black. role
played by labor officialdom, both in
the daily struggles of the workers
and the wider political struggles, to
the whole working class.
We must convince our class that
only by organization and struggle
carried on in spite of the sabotage of
labor officialdom can be built an
American labor movement that will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19

From Borneo in
that S C e n e is
George Hassel as
j. Daniel Thomp-
son, starring in
Connolly and Man
kiewicz' comedy
"The Wild Man of
Borneo."
The thing is a
riot. J. Daniel
Thompson oper-
ates deliciously on
the theory that
the truth is the