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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
New Ka7esser Play Tonight,
EuQ the Fifth Set for Aug. "a

John GOLDEN'S Initial produc-
. ton OF the season, eva the
Fifth" the joint work Of Kenyon
Nicholson and John Golden, is
scheduled to open at the Little
Theatre, Tuesday night, August %.
Claiborne Foster will play the
leading role.
Russell Hicks and Arvid Paulson
are the latest additions to "Goin'
Home" Brock Pemberton's first
production of the season.
Michael Kaliesser will present his
new play, "He Understood Women"
at the Belmont Theatre this even
ing. The cast is headed by Peggy
Allenby, Hilda Spong, Frank Bond
and Allen dewitt. Mr.. Kallesser
and Frances Lynch are the authors.
Anton Heindl has been engaged
to conduct the orchestra Of the
operetta, 1.-THE Dagger and the
Rose" the musical version Of THE
Firebrand," which has just gone
into rehearsal.
Myron C. Pagan has completed
the cast for 1.-The Great Power his
rev play which will open at the
Adelphi Theatre. Philadelphia,
27, and have its New York
pre-, ere at thu I,lt6 Theatre, Ser
TENDER 10. Minna Gombell will
head the cast, which also includes
John T. Doyle, Alan Birmingham
Conway Wingfield, Nelan Jap,
Jack Leslie, Edmund Elton, Paul
Stanton and Helen Joy.
Claiming Pollock's "Mr. Money
penny" begins rehearsals this week,
under direction of Richard Boles-
lavsky, opening in Philadelphia,
September %, and at the Liberty
Theatre, New York, on October 49,
The company Of 60 includes Hale
Hamilton, Donald Meek, Margaret
Wycherly, Catherine Dale Owen,
Ruth Nugent, Frank Sylvester and
Robert Vivian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Gems cleaning

Thomas Craddock Hughes, at
torney-"Many supreme court JUS
tees undoubtedly have stock in the
marlborough Transit Company and
yet this company has a contract
with the city. You can carry the
situation to any absurd lengths you
like. Another reason why the court
is not opposed to a seven cent fare
is that he usually rides in a packard.
Henry H. Klein, attorney-"Per-
haps the Grand Jury may investi-
gate the deaths of Mr.. Phillips.
II have no doubt the investigation
will develop that he made $6,0000 900
out of Queens sewer contracts.
have reason to believe that Phillips
put up 100000 in gambling ven
lures at Saratoga and elsewhere
He had twelve safe deposit boxes
ten months before he died, in which
his assets and securities were de-
posted. When some of the boxes
were opened in the search for Phil
lips assets, l have been informed
notes were found in his handwriting
stating You can go to hell This
is the usual attitude of grafters in a
capitalist country.
VIM. Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor
"We shall deal with each situation
as seems best, and we shall d.
everything possible to protect Amer
lean wage earners against the de
signs of Moscow, which are entirely
revolutionary, and which W,
thoroughly understand" Outside o
class collaboration what Bill Greer
thoroughly understands could b,
placed on the figure az of lady,
wri7 watch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
URGES SUPPORT
OF YOUTH MEET
IN SEPTEMBER
Young Workers Must
Back Conference

(By a WORKEE Correspondent
IN Coney Island, the local chamber
Of commerce is conducting a mem
bership drive taking place between
August LIST and August 18th.
The campaign for more members
is in full swing. Show cards have
been placed in many establishments
all over the Island, urging the bust
ness men to join the organization.
So far, the response has been very
pleasing" because the business
men realize that there is more
strength in an economic organiza-
ton than in Individual action.
Local newspapers arc supporting
the movement. In this way business
interests are more advanced than
our Official" labor movement. m
stead Of admitting them, they are
throwing out members who have
been trade unionists for years. No
attempt is made to organize work
crs into trade unions. Some of
these workers would join eagerly at
any time
Most of all, the youth is neglected.
Such liberal" institutions as the
Brookwood Labor '(?) College pre-
tend to organize the young workers.
When actual proposals are given,
Brookwood is deaf, dumb and blind
to them. This was clearly shown at
their conference which, was held in
May, 1928.
However, some labor organiza-
tons are earnest in organizing the
young workers and Working
Youth Conference will be held in
the latter part of September for
this purpose in this city.
All progressive labor organiza-
tions should support this confer
ence. The bosses are strongly or
gained, why can't we workers be
organized also? This Working
Youth Conference will be big
move towards that direction and
trade unions and unorganized young
workers should look to it as such,
support it and build strong the la
Dor movement by organizing the
youth who work in the factories.
-CASSELL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
MEETING PROVES
SUCCESS ALTHO
ARRESTS FOLLOW
Young Prisoners Sing
Labor Songs in Jail
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
ROCKFORD, Ill. (By MaiD.-Ten
Y IN Workers (Communist)
League members, eight boys and
two girls, attending the Workers
Training School in Rockford, Il
linois, were arrested while holding
an open-air meeting on the night Of
August l.
The chief of police had refused
to give the League permit and as
soon as the meeting was started
two big-bellied cops came up and ar
rested the speaker. Indignant, one
League member after another got
up on the soap box, the crowd of
300 all the while cheering the speak
ers and booing, ieering the officers
who were placing the boys and girls
under arrest. After six speakers
had been jerked off the box and
placed under arrest one of the Off
GERS made the remark, Where in
the h are they all coming from?"
Finally the riot squad was sent for
and the meeting was dispersed.
The ten League members were
raced over to the police station, a
crowd Of League members and SYM
pathizers following the patrol
wagon to the city Jail.
Upon the request of the prosecut-
ing attorney the sly-faced Judge
continued the case until 2:30 in the
afternoon. The ten boys and girls
were released on collective bond
of two hundred dollars. In the aft
ernoon, after walking nearly two
miles to the police court under
torTid sun and waiting in the stuffy
court room for. an hour, the Judge
did not show up and TIE case was
again continued until the next day
at nine o'clock a. m. The prescott.
ing attorney still needed time to
build up his weak case. The group
he represented evidently were afraid
the ten speakers would slip through
their hands and be acquitted. So
they asked for time.
The newspapers were very Gin
dignant" about the Young Workers
tCommunist) League daring to hold
an open-air meeting in defiance of
the law" They used three-inch
scare-lines on front pages, reading
Police Stop Communist Meeting"
'Ten Pinks Land in Jail for Soap
Boxing"
At this meeting nearly one hun
dred copies of the Daily Worker
were sold
On the morning of August 8, the
case finally came up for trial. The
League members demanded Jury
trial. However, each of the Jurors
summoned were members of the
American Legion, chamber OF COM
merce, ex-soldiers, etc., and were
rrejudiced from the start. They
promptly brought in the capitalist
verdict of guilty" and each of the
boys and girls were fined the maxi
mum.
They arc appealing the verdict.
In the meantime the Young Work
ers (Communist) League is going
to hold open-air meetings every
Wednesday and Friday nights until
August 26, the date the Training
School ends.
WORKERS STUDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Killed by Guard for
Carrying Whiskey

A U. S. customs guard, James
MacGurkin, is in Jail, while his
father is. trying to raise the $4,000
bail, on a charge Of murder in con-
nection with the killing of a Ho-
boken longshoreman, Leo Boise,
when he tried to escape with two
bottles of whiskey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
MACHINES REPLACE MEN.

MESABA, Mimi, Aug. Sour
hundred and ninety-nine men must
be thrown out of work by the in
stallation Of each 350-ton shovel in
the Mesaba iron mines. These
shovels can do the work of 500 men.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
American Ideas in Africa

The lynching rope and the torch,
purely American inventions to vent
race spleen, have been carried to
South Africa to keep native labor
ers subdued, according to a Reuter-
news story.
In Greytown some time ago a mob
of whites, foiled in their efforts TO
mete out summary vengeance on
two natives said TO have been desc
Grating graves in the town cemetery,
turned on the officers of the Indus
trial and Commercial Workers I'm
ion, a native labor organization, and
set fire to the buildings.
After finishing this job a part OF
the mob motored to Krantzkop, 20
miles away. and burned the union
offices there.
Race prejudice in South Africa.
like race prejudice in every other
region of the world, has the same
basic economic motive, slavery and
exploitation of human labor.
South Africans catch natives des-
ecrating graves and make of 1T a
chance to curb labor organizations.
When this type of white man can
not import labor to exploit he goes
where 1t is and exploits 1t. Eng
lands far-flung battle line in At
RIGA, India, Egypt; Americas in
Haiti, South America and the Phil
ipines; Belgium and France is in
Africa; all mean machinery to
squeeze the profits out of labor.
r5a l. nj hatrnd !
anywhere in this world; there would
be no wars between nations If some
men did not have a determination
to contriye means to keep other hui
man beings in slavery.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30

Now comes another captivating
and illuminating story about the
genius of black people. John w.
Vandercook, a young white man,
witnessed a lynching a few years
back and became so impressed with
the injustice and unfairness of the
white people in dealing with their
darker brothers that he set out to
find out all that he could abou.
these quiet, inoffensive people. He
set sail for Africa and beat his way
into the jungles of the bushmen in
Surname and after an exhaustive
study put his findings down in his
first book. "Tom Tom" was the cap
ton that Vandercook gave to his
maiden effort. 1t set scientists and
propagandists to study and received
a profound reception all over the
world. In that book he attempted to
show that the natives of darkest
Africa had made astonishing strides
in the development of the subcon-
scicus mind. He also proved that
Africans were clean, Intelligent,
honest and Industrious. Having won
such signal success with Tom Tom
young Vandercook set out for the
island of Haiti where the immortal
Toussaint and Dessalines held sway.
For two years this young author
dug deep into the history of the
black republic and he now submits
to the world the results of his eff
forts and calls his book BLACK Maj
esty."
This book. in fascinating narra-
tive style. weaves the history of Hal
Il. L'0verture is stripped of all his
trappings and decorations, his heart
throbs are made audible to civiliza-
ton. Dessalnes is torn loose from
all of his military genius and his
tough and enduring fibre is thrill
ingly presented. The trickery, de-
ception and perfidy of Napoleon
are revealed without reserve and
then the author unveils his hero
Christophe, the first king of Haiti,
slave, a stable boy. a soldier, q
| diplomat, a planner, dreamer and
builder-Christophe, who proved
juTt what genius lay dormant under
black skins.
After Napoleon had double
crossed Toussaint L'Overture ant
hurled him into his dungeon OF
death, and after the fighting, but
ignorant, Dessalines had attempted
to guide the destinies of Haiti only
to be slain by insurgents, Christie
phe comes along and attempts tt
stabilize the little island.
According to the author, who
gives a complete reference of his
authorities, Christophe, notwith
standing the fact that he was bare
! ly able to write his name, stabil
lied his government. He introduced
a system of currency with gold a!
the standard, he forced the natives
to develop their farms, he bull
schools, churches, streets and sur
rounded himself with men of higl
intelligence. He opened up trade
relations with foreign nations ant
made Haiti healthy, wealthy and re
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Cole Blease

Cole Blease, senator from South
Easolina, says that he is friend OF
the 7hlack people. He is another OF
those Soethern intolerants who claim
that IA Negro is all right in his
place" He is one of those southern
scouudrels who sain some years ago,
according to report that II circum-
stances were such, he Would lead a
mob. Blease is no mans frjegd, He
is incapable of administering JUS
tice to an underprivileged class. HIS
vision is ciouded with racial anti
pathy High principles and fair
dealing are beyond his knowledge
and when be talks about being our
friend he fills US with disgust. One
of the reasons that the South has
not caught step with the onward
march of civilization is because men
like Blease and Helm are allowed
to sit in the high places. Such men
in the senate reflect against the
sound judgment and coed sense of
law-abiding. God-fearing Southern
Christians.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Pickens Would Lead a
Party of Eight to Russia
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
A six weeks tour In Russia, GOV.
ering the whole country from the
North Sea TO the Black Sea, from
Leningrad to Odessa, Is offered al
an expense of $1,000 il party, of
eight can be secured. Every door OF
every institution in Russia will be
open to such a party
| will be willing to lead a party
OF eight on such tour. leaving in
mid-July and returning after mid
September. Every detail of the tour
will be prearranged and will meet
the fullest cooperation and most en-
thusiastic welcome from the Russian
people.
DO you want to go? II so, get
into immediate touch with me. eth.
er through the Associated Negro
Press or my New York address.
The most .nteresting social study
In the world today If not the most
interesting social experience in al,
human history is Russia.
VIM. PICKENS
a2Sl6 sth Ave New York CITY
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
AFriend from Southland

When the real history of heroic
action on the part of white men
and women who have stood four
square for justice for Afro-Ameri-
cans in this country is written some
Of the most conspicuous examples
will hail from below the Mason and
Dixon line.
1t must be admitted that the
first SO years of Negro progress fol-
lowing slavery came because white
men and women, North and South,
more numerous in the North but
no less heroic in the South, rose to
utinsual heights of humanitarian ac-
tiohsz--
2 Dying. perhaps, of cancer in the
Memorial Hospital. New York City.
is one OF these men, Joseph c. Man
ming. former Afabama legislator.
because OF his@ 5utspoken and
answering championship of the
rights of colored folk according
TO The New York News, rManning
is virtually an exile from his native
Ku Klux Khan ridden state. p
Few colored folk know what it Is
to meet the dreadful derision of a
mob of their own folk. The fact Is,
few of us can summon the courage
to point out the faults of our own
group, much less suffer martyrdom
from those of our kith and kin.
But Manning, driven from the
South, carried on in the North, and if
ever q sense of gratitude should rise
In human breasts, 1t should rise for
men of the South who faced South
ern injustice in our behalf.
Manning does not need charity
but his book "The Pot and the Ket-
tle." in which he discusses Ku KluS
and the lynching of the 18th amend
ment. should be read by at least
$4,000 of our group. II would be a
fitting tribute to a friend from tht
South.
The cost is 81 by mail from ]. A
Horizons, New York, publishers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Georgia Woman Writes
, OF Pitiful Conditions

Editor of The Enterprise:
Our people in this county and
many other counties in Georgia are
in critical condition for schools
l have seen little girls years OF
age have to walk to school three
miles and more In rain and cold
II is a pityful sight. The white
children are carried on trucks. The
colored men. the preachers and the
teachers who go from here to the
state convention say they are going
to see what can be done for the
betterment of the Negroes. When
they get back they say they had a
fine time and heard some of the
best speakers they ever heard
They never say: Let us put ON q
rally and raise 500 for school pur
poses" but send all off to colleges
and foreign missions.
The churches here are growing
cold on account Of ignorance. Ii
you would come here and look and
see the conditions you could no,
help but feel sorry for the people
After the children finish the sixth
or seventh grades the parents arr
not able to send them off to school
Some of them say there is no need
for education for colored people.
Some of the white people offered
to help in building a good schoo
building for colored children, bui
our men were tco ignorant or lazy
to take the offer.
We need home missionaries who
are able to see the need of the
people in the way of education
oh. II we could get up and out Of
the dust that settled in the South IL
1901 We could have some prudent
men and women.
MISS EDNA DENHAM.
farrott, Ga.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Fancied Facts

Have you a pencil in your pocket
which you believe is lead pencil?
There is nc such thing as a lead PEN
Gil. The so-called "lead" is a mixture
of graphite and clay. But to call it a
lead pencil is a common mistake and
is just one of many which boys and
girls make every day. Here are some
others:
King John of England did not sign
the Magma Charta, because King
John could not write. Nor did Mo-
manned write the Koran, for he, too,
was unable to write, and was forced
to dictate all of the Mohammedan
Bible to scribes who could use pen.
Westminster Abbey, London is not
an abbey at all and has not been one
for several hundred years. 1t is a
cathedral.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Look and Learn

Right questions in an examination
would seem easy, wouldn't they?
And these questions below are so
short that you can answer them in
just a few words-that is, If you
can answer them at all.
L. Where is the Bay of Biscay?
2. What is topaz.
8. In what year was George WASH
ington born?
a. In what sport is the word
"chuker" used?
S. Who wrote Robinson Cru
soe?"
6. Who was the first woman to
swim the English channel?
Z. Where was Abraham Lincoln
born?
8. What city is the capital of
Peru?
Answers
/. Off the coast of Spain.
2. A semiprecious stone, usually
yellow in color.
8. 1882.
4. Polo.
5. Daniel Defoe.
s. Gertrude Ederle.
7. At Nolin's creek, near Hodgens.
vile, KY.
8. Lima.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
What's a Radical?

Whenever a Negro insists that
the liberties guaranteed by the Con-
stitution be actually protected for
ALL citizens, regardless of race,
color or previous conditions of SER
yitude, there are those ignoramuses
in both races who call him "radi-
CAL"
The point we want to make is that
the word radical is a credit, honor
and compliment to anybody. A rad
ical is person who wants and
plans for better things in human re-
lations. A radical is a person who
strives to stamp out selfishness. A
radical is one who actually thinks
his own thoughts and expresses
them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Lessons In English

WORD OFTEN MISUSED
Don't say 81 don't know but that
they will attend" Omit "but.,"
WORD OFTEN MISSPELLED
Carne- lie.
WORD OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Colliery. Pronounce kol-yer-i, the
20" as in mot, "e" as in "her', 'i'
as in cit.
SYNONYMS
Unhappiness, misery, infelicity,
tribulation, desolation. despair.
DEMONSTRABLE. Capable Of
positive proof. "All of my claims
are demonstrable."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Tobacco Co. Pays Factory
Hands 15c to Csc An Hour
To the Editor:

10 the EDITOR.
Extremely low wages prevail in
the tobacco factories of Winston
Salem, N. c., which belong to the
Reynolds Tobacco Company.
We have labor union here, but
what 1t needs is pep.
The hands are being kicked out
every day in order to brighten the
union out of us.
The wages are rs cents an hour,
but as election is being discussed
we don't get to make but seven or
eight hours.
z Nc one has made Sc or 81 a day
IN these mills since 1928. The great
exodus brought some people who
raised their hands in the employ
ment office to work for Is cents
per hour, and were hired first.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Hubby Cannot Whip

HUNTSVILLE. Ala.--Judge Paul
Speaks has ruled that the Alabama
law permitting a husband to whip
his wife when he has justification
provided that he use a switch no
bigger than his thumb. is obsolete.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Operates Business in Alps

ST. NORTH, Switzerland, (ANP)
One of the expert skate sharpeners
in this popular winter playground Is
an American Negro who halls from
Alabama, hi The young man came
over as a valet ten years ago land
seeing the business opportunity tde.
cided. to locate. He was mastered
four languages.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Black Majesty
A Story About the Genius of Black People

spected. Christophe educated his
daughters and conducted his courts
with pomp and regal decorum. He
believed in the ability OF his peo-
pie and sought to build lasting
monument to the creative faculties
of his people. He sought to estab-
lish for them an enduring glory
and an everlasting evidence that
black men could build.
Christophe has passed on, but on
the slopes Of Haiti, overlooking the
sea, is the fortress that he built.
His body is buried there and his
memory has all but faded from the
fortress built by him to resist the
onslaughts of the French yet stands
like a silent sentry preserving the
glory of Christophe, whom Wander
cook styles "Black Majesty.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Letters to The Enterprise

Readers may write on any subject
they like. Usually $50 words arc
enough. Beyond that expect the edi-
tors blue pencil Reading maketh a
ready man, writing an exact man.
Sign name as evidence of good faith, 1t
Will not be published II you SO desire.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Notice Agents
and Correspondents

Beginning with our issue April
S The Enterprise will be published
on Thursday instead of Friday. All
news letters and articles for publics-
ton must be in our office not later
than Tuesday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Probation Post to v. u. Man

RICHMOND, Va.--W. Randolph
Johnson. Virginia Union University
graduate, has been appointed pro-
baton officer in the local Domestic
Relations and Juvenile Courts.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Mighty Good Stuff

My Dear Mr.. Wilson,:
You have been very good in send
ing me your paper during all the
weeks of my silence and want
you to know ! appreciate 1t. You
are getting out lot of moihty good
stuff. More strength to your arm.
Yours for all.
r. WHITAKER.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Candidate for Congress

INDIANAPoLfs, DIR. James r.
Norrel, Tuesday announced his can
didacy for the Republican nominal
ton for congressman ffsp this dis
trict.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Poor Biscuits; Pastor Shot

LOUISVILLE, KY. (ANP)---The
Rev. John Willis was shot In the leg
by wis wife, Thursday, when he
found fault with the poor quality
of her biscuits.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30

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Steady work. &c stamp brings
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