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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
For a Workers Theatre

We do not blame the average worker for not
needing the theatres that exist Of course, we are
fully aware of the existence of good" plays: those
of Shakespeare for instance, once in a while, or
those Of Shaw, other "highbrow" author.
But aside from the fact that man of the masses
cannot thrive long on such "heavy' menu (can
WEI must not forget that such performances
are only GASES in the midst of a vast theatrical
desert all full of the sands of little incidents in
the life Of the propertied classes, presented in
polished conventionalized fashion for the after
dinner entertainment Of the propertied class
es, or strewn with the bones of high" tragedy
mostly of an unreal and therefore unconvincing ma
ture. Why should the structural iron workers be
interested in the fact that society lady is crav-
ing for a male friend to drink tea with while her
husband is in his business office? Why should the
bricklayer shed tears over the fate of a great
bootlegger and master burglar losing both his for
tune and the arstocratic girl he loves? What
share can my neighbor Jack the locksmth, have
in the plight of the duchess who is wearing paste
diadem while her genuine jewels in the pawn
shop? What have my friends, the cloak, suit and
skirtmakers to do with this idle, empty, stated and
unimaginative world of tailored gentlemen and per-
fumed ladies whose lives pass in peanut emotions
and flat pleasures.
Now my neighbor Jack is by means stupid.
He is an alert fellow of about thirty-eght. He is
union member of long standing and loves to tell
about strikes of former years He has an instinc-
tive dislike for the "boss," the trust and the
politician though you would not class him among
the conscious workers. He is of rather hooking
bent of mind, and when one of the female middle
class inhabitants of the neighborhood passes by his
shop window, he Fuckers his face into malicious
grimace He is not reader of books or papers,
but he loves to talk to his shop mates and is OF
q highly companonable nature He is keen on
"stories" yarns" adventure and this is what draws
him to the "movies," which he has sense enough to
consider Of no Importance. Can we not draw this
Jack and hundred thousand other Jacks and Maries
and Sades, more or less advanced into theatre
which would both hold their attention and elevate
them to higher plane of mental life?
All depends upon what the theatre would offer;
1.-The first prerequisite is a theatre pulsating
with the realities of life surrounding the worker,
theatre bold enough to look America in the face
It is Characteristic Of bourgeois art to shun cruel
and crude realities, to gloss conflicts. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
By WALT CARMON

good baseball teams attract pupils. The colleges
that graduate successful major league ball players
are regarded real seats of learning.
Patriotic exercises at ball games numerous
casions make baseball mighty good for the govern
nent and the politicians. So well has it worked in
America that in the imperialist invasion Of our
neighbors the baseball bat has followed the bayonet
and the bible. In the Philippines, Panama, Mexico
and Cuba, baseball is supplanting bull-fighting.
Cubans have become proficient at the game, a
number of leading major leaguers from Cuba.
The centuries-wise old church also knows the
value Of baseball Church leagues are feature
of baseball interest in all cities.
IF organized labor has overlooked baseball, the
boss has not. Every factory, where welfare
fares well in lowering wages, has its ball club.
spirit is built up to support "our boys" family
spirit" that breeds loyalty to the boss is bred thru
the workers interest in the sport. Wage slaves
turn out in thousands Con their own time) on Sat
urday afternoons and Sundays to cheer for "our
team" "Our team" helps us to forget our wages
and our hours. Every city has its industrial
leagues. Professional and semi-pro players are put
on soft jobs so they can add to the glory of the
company club. Baseball is good for the boss.
It's high time for organized labor to make base
ball good for the workers. After all, it's great
game Thousands play it, read about it and speak
of it daily Interest in the game, participation In
the sport, these be used to stimulate interest
in the problems of labor. Labor leagues be
organized among workers sports clubs. Control
of the bosses teams can be secured to ally them
with workers sports organizations. The interest
of workers can be secured to support their
sports to the benefit of labor. Until now baseball
has been the monopoly of the enemies Of labor
The recent organization of Workers National
Sports Alliance, involving thousands of workers. is
a good first step to break this anti-labor sports
monopoly. 1t is worthy of labor's support.
AS to professional baseball-who will win the
pennant this year? Ask another The answer
is-baseball business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
By MOISSAYE OLGIN

theatre as it exists is therefore worlds apart from
the robust colorful countenance Of life The theatre
is the shadow of ghost either Of emotion adj
venture. workers theatre must throb with the
full and deep heartbeat Of the world we live in,
the country we are building, the historic epoch we
are traversng.
Lazy objection will say: "Ah, you want the
atre Of propaganda" We viii reply with Lunachar-
sky: "God save from play which is strike
bulletin in five acts" We do not want theatre
which makes direct propaganda for this or that
"cause" We do want a theatre that will make the
worker broader and more humane man and there
by enable him to be better member of his class.
We do not want propaganda, but we do not want
shutting out everything that is not "love "sex
appeal" among the bourgeoisie its intellectual
adjunct. We want to a world which also in
cludes the working masses, world in which Gary,
Ind, Lawrence, Mass and Passaic, N. j., will take
their legitimate place. We want theatre that will
discover America, its present big industrial heart
its rural toilers all the land, its grandiose
past Westward discovering and conquering a con-
tinent:) back to its origins in dramatic revou-
tionary upheaval. We wish America por-
trayed in a new theatre-America, beautiful and
hideous, sweating and seeing visions, mean and
full of enormous spiritual possibilities and we want
the toer to occupy in that America the place that
is his in the scheme of things.
"A second prerequisite is to present all this
in a manner that will be comprehensive to the
masses The bourgeois theatre does not know SIM
pcity. The bourgeois theatre is making up in
elaborate phraseology what it misses in contents.
The workers. theatre must proceed from the as
sumption that there is nothing in the life of hui
man beings that cannot be made accessible to the
masses We do not propose to sacrifice art to
popularity We propose to return art to the dig
nifty Of simplicity and truth. BY giving to the
masses such pieces as dwell upon things close to
the heart of the Masses and by remaining truly
artistic, e.. finding a form adequate to the ma
terial, we can attract hundreds of thousands nay,
millions who at present feed on atrocous trash
The question of the playwright for this new kind
of drama presents the least difficulty, inasmuch as
the theatre actually molds the dramatist, and the
economic law of supply and demand is particularly
applicable to the theatre realm where there is an
overproduction of playwrghts. Given an actual de-
mand, the new play will soon make its appearance.
CONTINUED next week)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
The Baseball Business

paying generous dividends. Recently the owners OF
the franchise of the New York Club refused an
offer of million for their interest. Babe Ruth
(who lends his name to prison-made goods despite
the protests of organized labor) is paid salary
of $4,000 for three years-greater than that re-
ceived by the president of the United States. Ty
Cobb and Iris Speaker, each will draw over $4,000
for this season in which they will likely play less
than hundred games.
Being a big business now, baseball is put ON
big business basis. Labor-hatng Judge lands is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

guiding its destiny. The
ball parks are scab built
and scab operated. Judge
Lands, whose salary has
just been raised to $685.
900 a year, will see that
they continue that way.
Rowdyism on the playing
field is being ruled out
it's bad business. The
newspapers speak of the
higher plane on which
the game is run today.
This year rs college men
are in the big leagues.
AS a mark of its higher
intellectual plane land
higher admission prices)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

of the leading clubs in
the American and Ma
tional Leagues. The pro-
fit will be handsome. The
attendance at the ball
parks during the year
will increase with a win
ming team. The World
Series is a little gold
mine. Last years seven
games had an attendance
of 328.051 fans who paid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

a PA1@VfSOOH
Baseball is no small coek-roach business!
DEING a business professional baseball is run
- by business ethics" This doe not mean that
pro baseball is necessarily crooked. 1t does get
badly bent. In fact, gambling and general dis
honesty have been part of baseball since its birth.
From 1843, when the Washington Club of New York
first organized baseball team, until 1867, the
game rapidly gained in popularity. But at the same
time its bad features were already evident. One
authority tells "In spite of its popularity the
game acquired certain undesirable adjuncts. The
betting and pool-selling evils became prominent and
before long the game in thoro disrepute. 1t
was not only generally believed that matches were
not played on their merits, but it was known the
players themselves not above selling contests
At that time many Of the journals of the day fore
told the speedy downfall of the sport"
That was over 60 years ago. Today we have big
ger and better gamblers The scandal of few
months ago and the scandal of the "Black Sox' Of
1919, got more attention from the average worker
than the scandal of Nicaragua the scandal of
American interference in China.
THE National League organized in 1876. In
/ 900 the American League was born. Today hun
dreds of professional and semi-pro organizations
dot the country Baseball is flourishing business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

Baseball is logically the Great American Game.
There's good money in it. Who'll win the pennant
this year? The owners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

the newspapers tell us Of a roughneck who quit a
team, because unlike in the old days, he could not
borrow a chew of tobacco from any Of his team
mates! Baseball has become high-priced, high
paying heightened business indeed. 1t is skillfuy
advertised. It is cleverly kept before the public
and Is now as securely established commercial
product as a Ford or Wrigey's chewing gum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

BASEBALL is rightly called the National Game.
ID II IS thoroughly woven into American life. The
American youth plays it on the streets and in the
schools The boy who doesn't know who discovered
America can tell you who led the American League.
The man in the shop who does not know the name
of the president knows the names OF all the lead
inc major league ball players. High schools with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

total admission of $1,207,S64 That's mo
Baseball is no small coek-roach business!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Odd Lots of Furniture

(z) Kitchen Cupboards, golden
oak finish; panel doors. Sold reg
ularly for s22,5o. Fri $3.50
az White Enameled Broom
Clio Closets sts 50 Sold Tri rsgql at $3.50
O White Enameled Kitchen
Cabinet. with porcelain table. Sold
regularly for s45. Fri 600 7S
day at. 49,.
(5) Five-piece Breakfast Suites,
consisting of porceiain-top table
and four chairs; gray enameled.
Sold regularly for STATS
$24.50. Friday at.
Cd Baby Carriage. Lloyd make;
grey enameled fiber reed; corduroy
lined: Sold , regularly $3.50
90 Davenport Tables, mahog-
any finish; two 4S-inch size and
two 60.inch size. Sold regularly
for $3.50 and s1s.75. $3.50
N Secretary Desk, Governor
Winthrop type; serpentine front.
Sold regularly for $500 GO
Friday at .............
90 Cane Panel Wing Chairs,
with springfield cushions uphol-
stored in Jacquard velour. Sold
regularly for $40. $24.75
a. Dressers, walnut finish on
gumwooa =. Sold e,,i, reg y, $22.5O
Goldenbrrg's--Furnit Store
tAcFOss the Street"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Gloves

Goo Prs.) Women's Novelty
Cuff ChamOsuede Gloves, with en-
broidered backs and turn-back en-
broidered cuffs: assorted colors and
sizes; SEC value. Friday 40
at .s.g.-..5..
use Prs.) Women's ChamO-
suede Gloves, two-clasp style; Wear
Right make; contrasting color EN-
broidered backs, 79c value. 400
Friday at ..............
GoldenberE's-First Floor.
Charge Accounts Invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Knit Underwear

Boys FIeeced Union Suits, high
neck and long sleeves, ankle length
pants; ecru color; slight ir- 2Qc
regulars of soc values. ...
ChiIdren'S Knitted Waist Suits,
high neck and long sleeves, ankle
pan pants; i broken rob , sizes; irresu' 43c
Misses Part-wooI Union Suits,
slightly soiled from handling. GI
Former s1.s5 value. Friday at
Women's Medium-weight Cot
ton Underwear, separate garments;
broken sizes; perfect quality.
Regular $1.00 values. Friday Or
at. each Observation-Disclosures.
GOldenberK's-First Floor.
Charge Accounts Invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
$3.95, $3.50 and $4.98
Colored Umbrellas
$500

.Women's Colored Silk and Gloria
Umbrellas, all perfect quality and
in the popular ten-rib style, with
amber tips and short club ends.
In green, purple, red and blue,
with wide satin and fancy striped
borders. Handles of carved and
enameled woods, finished with silk
cord loops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
IaceS

Chinese, DucheSse and Venice
Allover Laces, IS and SO inches
wide: pretty floral de-
signs; S2.49 value. Fri @1 90
day at $1,000.
Chantilly Laces, in paris, white,
cream an decru; 3 to inches wide;
large assortment of pat
terms; 79c value. Friday go
DIT
Crochet Laces, inches wide;
assorted pat terms; loo 80
Value .,.......s.s. ..s..s'
Swiss Embroidery Flouncings,
Is inches wide; ruffied or hemstitch-
ed designs, Former 7sc 1Qc
value. Friday at. ....... S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Handkerchief

Three-piece Bedroom Suite,
consisting of dresser. vanity and
chest of drawers; Huguenot walnut
and gumwood combina ton; shaded
and decorated. Original four-piece
suite sold regularly for $40
$3.50. Three pieces for. ..
CO. Dressers and 90 Vanities, of
walnut and gumwood combination;
dustproof construction: IS inch
case, with large mirrors.
Sold regularly for SIS. Fri Ga
day at. ................. O
10 Golden Oak Chiffoniers,
with mirrors and six drawers. Sold
regularly for $3.50. S16 S0
Friday at ........
90 Junior Floor Lamps, with
metal bases and georgette shades.
Sold regularly for 1915. Cd %
Friday at............ PT' ~
(l0) Bridge Lamps, with georg
cite shades and metal bases. Sold
regularly for ss.sS. Fri 1898
(1) ) #. 3 in. Solid Mahogany
Poster Bed. with heavy posts;
molly Stark" model. Sold
regularly for $50. Friday @2S
dL
"a #. 3 in. Poster Bed, COM
bination mahogany; futed posts.
Sold regularly for $35. CIT Sn
Friday at.
(I0O) Bedroom Rockers, with
cane seats: mahogany and walnut
finishes. Sold regularly for $3.50,
$40 and $3.50. Friday @1 90
at ..............s....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Art Department

81 Hand-embrOidered Vanity
Sets, three pieces in set; embroid-
cred in bright colors, fin
ished with narrow laces. zoe
Friday at. ..-...........
acc and soc Stamped Goods, IN
GLIDING card table covers, vanity
sets, rompers, towels and CSc
curtains. Each.
1oc and Csc Art Laces, Zoe
white, cream and tan. .Yaro.
3oc and 49c AlI-linen Doiiies,
lace trimmed; square, round, oval
and oblong; white and col. 1Qc
ored laces. Each. .........
4Sc Lace-trrnmed Scarfs, I'M
sshed with lace on each end; 0Sc
regulation length. Each.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Floor.
Charge Accounts Invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Soc to ST Jewelry
Choice 29C

Odd lot of Jewelry, including
Bead Necklaces and Chokers, col
ored Pearl (mfd) Festoons, chill
dren's Mesh Bags, Bar Pin
Brooches and numerous novelties
of which we have only limited
quantities. Well made pieces OF
heavy gold and silver plated
metals.
(ioldenberg's--First Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-20
Notion Oddments

Fancy Carriers, all colors;
trimmed with flowers; 7Sc
26c value .............
Assorted Lot of Novelties,
Including pin cushions, work
boxes, infants coat hangers,
needle books and sew
ing sets; 39c and soc Zoe
values ..,.....'......'
children's Perfect Under
waists, assorted sizes;
attached garters; sec 1Sc
values ................
Isle Elastic, white only;
12-yard pieces; soc C5c
value ................
Assorted Lot of Notions,
including Hooks and Eyes,
Collar Bands, S h o . LAces,
Hair Nets, Hat Wire. Bias
Seam Tape and Pin
Sheets; sc and 10c values. %
each ............'
Miscellaneous lot of Notions,
including Berry Pins, Reddy
Pins, Needles. Collar Buttons,
Safety Pins, Sn ps. Skirt
Hangers, Baby Bibs and Bias
Seam Tape; 1oc and 12c 80
values, each ............
GoIdenbergs---First Floor.
Charge Accounts Invited.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
STOCKS IRREGULAR;
DEALINGS HEAVY
Usual Week End ReadiuSt-
ments Give Mixed Tone to
Exchange Trading.


NEW YORK, April THE usual
week end readjustment of speculative
accounts impaired an irregular price
trend to today's stock market. AS
on most previous days this week,
many issues were being bid up to new
high levels at the same time that
others were being forced below their
previous low records. Trading was
largely professional In character. with
the days sales running moderately
above 1000 shares.
United States Steel common touch
ed another new high record at l70ss,
but heavy profit taking forced 1t back
to 1863 for a small fractional loss on
the day. Baldwin, Commercial Sol
vents e, General Motors, Foundation
Co. and National Lead. which We're
strong earlier in the week, all yielded
to 3f4 points on realizing. sim
liar losses took place in FoN Film.
United Cigar Stores, A. VI. Byers and
Pullman. .."...
Several of the oils, including Mar
land Standard Oil of New Jersey, Sin
clair and Midcontinent sagged TO new
1927 lows on reports of further
downward readjustment of crude oil
anu SdSOiIHS pt itcS, = PAL liCuidlly aii
the far West. Net declines, however,
were limited to fractions in most
cases.
Short covering operations brought
about sharp recoveries in a number of
recent weak spots, notably American
Wooden preferred, Continental Baking
preferred, Studebaker and Wilson q
Co. preferred.
General Electric responded to re-
ports of large current earnings by
crossing 80 to n new peak price for
the year. Eastern Kodak, Allis Chal-
mers, Continental Insurance, Fidelity
Phoenix Insurance. Central Leather
preferred, Freep0rt Texas. Otis Ele-
vator and Public Service of New Jer-
sey also sold at the years high prices.
Pennsylvania was the feature of the
railroad group. touching 61 the
highest price In nearly Is years.
Erie common crossed 81 to the high.
est price in 20 years and Rock Island
common and Norfolk & Western sold
at the highest prices IN their history.
Chesapeake & Ohio was heavy, pre-.
sumably in reflection of the Interstate
Commerce Commission rejection OF
a demurrer by the road to dismiss a
petition Of minority stockholders in
the lease case. The forty mint h
pamphlet report of the c. & O., cover.
ing operations in 1926, disclosed net
income of $29,294 ,802. an increase OF
50. $685. or nearly ASIA per cent
One of the best February reports to
make its appearance was that of the
Norfolk & Southern, which showed
net income of S51 ,7S1, as against S36.
099 in February, 1926.
Evening star., 1927-04-03
COTTON IS STEADY;
PRICES CO OLOWER
Better Weather in South Fac
tor in Slight Drop in
Values.

by Ine Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 1.-The cotton
market was quiet today. with prices
slightly lower under selling supposed
70 be encouraged by reports of bet
Ter weather in the South. July sold
,ff to 1923 and closed at 14.24, the
general market closing steady at net
eclines
The opening was steady at a decline
4 2 to points under Southern and
Ocal selling. Liverpool made fairly
steady showing, and there was some
foreign trade buying here which alb
sorbed offerings, but demand tapered
off on slight bulges, and the market
eased slightly in the forenoon under
comparatively small offerings
May declined to 1903, October to
14.47 and December 70 1856. net dc.
clines Of 3 to points, and the close
was at about the lowest
Clearing weather in the South was
considered responsible for part OF the
selling, but the volume of business
was too small to suggest the develop
ment of any fresh sentiment or any
material change in general conditions.
The amount Of cotton on shipboard
awaiting clearance at the end of the
week was estimated at 1T 900 bales
against 12.000 last year. which was
I6Edlueu as pOlnLlIlR 10 continued luIl
exports, but. which appeared to have
very little, If any. effect on the mar.
ket.
Private cables said some continen-
tai liquidation had been absorbed by
trade calling and covering in the Liv-
crpool market and a limited demand
for cotton cloths in Lancashire from
the home trade and exporters.
The report OF the Department of Ag
riculture on boll-weevil survival is ex,
pected at the opening on Monday.
There was very little discussion to-
day as to it's probable showing, but
uncertainty as 10 it's reactions on the
market may have had a tendency to
restrict fresh business