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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Neighborhood Play
house to Produce
Again in NJ ay

The Neighborhood Playhouse, un-
der the direction of Alice and Irene
Lewiston, will make it's next produc-
ton sometime in May, or one year
from the date of its closing. These
performances, however, will be given
not at the Theatre on Grand Street
but in larger uptown theatre. The
early experiments out of which the
eighborhood Playhouse grew con-
ceraed the combination of choral
movement, speech and songs and were
termed festivals. These as well as the
ballet pantomime were always included
in the yearly repertoire and came to
be termed The Lyric Bill. Under this
designation were such various produc-
tons as "Salut au Monde" white
Peacock" "The Arab Fantasia" "a
Burmese Pwe," and the "Ritornelle." "
In all these productions, because of
the size of the theatre, less emphasis
was placed upon musical expression
than was desired. This year SYM
phonic music will be the basis of the
production. The Neighborhood Play
house is cooperating with The Cleve-
land Orchestra under the direction of
Nikolai Sokoloff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

The writer talked with one victim
of greed and lust today. He stood in
line at Harris last evening but was
so weak from days of hunger that
he was forced to leave the line. There
were about 400 others to partake of
the "nourishing" repast.
The Holy Union Mission on 9Th
Street feeds the workers every other
day four pieces of bread and a half
bowl of soup. | attended the Mission
today and found that IT'S workers
were receiving gods" blessings and
soup, but countless others arrived to
find that the eleventh hour had passed
and the doors were locked.
If you steal here, you go to Jail.
Ii you beg, you go to jail. If you
sell from house to house and have no
license, you go to Jail. If you step
inside a place to get warm, you are
given one-hour floater, which means
that you must leave the city at once.
Only one thing is legitimate, you can
go to church on Sunday and thank
god" if you can walk.
Houses of Tin and Rags.
Shelter from the cold winter rains
consists of ragged huts, shacks con-
structed from grocery boxes, pieces
OF tin and rags gathered at the city
dumping grounds. Men live under the
butements of bridges. The better
off live in muddy auto camps where
they pay fifteen or twenty cents day
for the privilege of pitching their
tents. Whole families live in this
way while in all parts of the city
hundreds of houses are vacant.
-Four men were arrested yesterday
because. they lacked a few cents on
the price of their breakfast.
This picture of misery is framed
in luxury, for California is the home
OF many millionaires and of the
wealthy in general.
FRANCES M. DICKEY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
SOUTHERN union
DELEGATES MEET
AT CONFERENCE
Discuss Organization to
Fight Open Shop

GREENSBORO, N. c., Feb. 5
(FP). - Renewed impetus to the
unionization of southern workers Is
being given by the Piedmont Organ
izing Council. The second meeting OF
the council brought to Greensboro 10
delegates from 16 trade unions in
Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, High
Point and Winston Salem. The FEB
ruary meeting of the council at Wins
.ton-Salem is expected to draw nearly
$50 unionists from the nine leading
Piedmont Carolina cities.
Organization of new union at
Durham resulted from the first meet
ing of the council and organization OF
one in Greensboro will result from
this second session. Labor Legislation
will be the main topic for the third
council meeting.
Urge Organization.
Necessity for organizing workers
in the machine and auto Industries OF
the south was stressed by George W.
Marshall of Washington, D. c., rep
resenting the Init. Machinists' Assn
Ed Crouch, vice-president of the To-
bacco Workers Init. Union talked on
organization of cigarette makers and
other tobacco workers in WINSTON
Salem and Durham.
Alfred Hoffman, southern repre-
sentative of the American Federation
of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
and organizer of the Council, talked
on immediate plans for consummatlng
unionization of groups in several CIT
les of North Carolina. He discussed
the southern hosiery situation in some
detail. Most of southern hosiery IS
seamless and not directly under the
jurisdiction of the full fashioned I'M
ion, But more and more full fash
toned plants are coming south. Inc
United Textile Workers, OF winch the
full fashioned federation is an au-
tonomous part, has jurisdiction over
seamless workers.
John A. Peel, president of Durham
central labor union, was renamed
president of the organizing council.
Marcus F. Sauls, Greensboro typo
graphical union, was renamed secre-
tary. Ed l.. Crouch, tobacco workers
of Winston Salem, is vice-president.
Alfred Hoffman, of Durham, is ad-
visory director. Representatives Of
these unions attended the second con-
ference: typographical, marble settlers,
BARRIERS, carpenters, bricklayers, plum
bers, molders, machinists, auto me-
chanics, stage employees and motion
picture operators, electricians, railway
clerks, painters, hosiery and struc-
tural ironworkers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
CALL FOR CLASS
PARTY IN LETTER
FROM new YORK
Rank and File Must Aid
Own Political Power
FOR A LABOR PARTY.
(By a Worker Correspondent

The Central Trades and Labor
Council called the mass meeting
which was held at Cooper Union Sun
day. The ostensible reason for calling
this meeting was to decide haw to dc
away with injunction, but the real
reason was to convince the rank and
file of the necessity of combating
militant trade unionists by terming
them Bolsheviks or un-American.
President Sullivan of the State
Federation of Labor, in an interview,
claimed that the big industries are
trying to break the trade unions.
His suggestions are that the workers
counterfeit these attempts by bring
ing pressure to bear on their repre-
sentatives.
The outstanding reasons OF the
absurdity of rallying around old pollt-
zeal parties are:
"a Because they represent and
work in behalf Of the capitalist class,
which is Numerically opposed to the
working class.
(2) Because the capitalist repre-
sentatives sanction the killing of
workers in Nicaragua.
(3) Because they allow the big in
dustries to starve, club, and kill
workers in Colorado and Pennsylvania
without protest.
And until the working class forms
a united front politically these afro
cities will continue to exist. The only
possible way to combat the owning
class effectively is to have Labor
Party that will work solely for the
interests of the working class.
HENRY BLOOM.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
New York
Seamen's Institute Exposed.
(By a Worker Corresnnndentl

Last night | saw worker beaten
into insensibility by policemen at
the Seamen's Institute, rs South
Street, near the East River water
front. Three teeth were knocked out
Of the workers mouth. l myself was
barred from the Seamen's Institute
this morning. was coming for my
mail when policeman grabbed me
and took me up to the third floor of
the Institute, where they have a po-
lice department. They asked me all
sorts of silly questions, and treated
me as if l was criminal.
Seamen are almost daily beaten up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
ouegs Labor Told by Worker Correspondents Turnout United States
- DRAMA. IN
Broadway Briefs

Four openings are scheduled for
this evening. They are: a revival of
MRS. Danes Defense" at the Cos
mopolitan; "Atlas and Evas' at the
Mansfield; "Meek Mose," Princess
Theatre and "Parisiana" at the
Edyth Totten.
Warnings Pennsylvanians, with
Fred Waring, director, are the head
liners at the Palace this week. Mar
jorie Moss and Georges Fontana re-
main second week at the big play
house. Others on the bill include
Edith Meiser; Tom Mcleod, with
Marjorie Tiller; Medley and Dupree;
MAJ Gruber; La Van and Doris, and
the Serlany Troupe. 49,,
Ruiz and Bonita, with Gel-Mann
and His Quartette are at the Hippo
drome this week. Sylvia Clark; Eddie
Alexandria and Ole Olsen; Del Chain
and Lou Archer; Marion Mills and
Marie Goodwin; and Five De CARLOS
are other acts. The photoplay is
Patsy Ruth Miller in "South Sea
Love-"
and So To Bed" James B. Fa-
CAMS comedy about Samuel Pepys,
reached its one hundredth perform
ance at the Bijou Theatre.
While "The International" by John
Howard Lawson is playing nightly at
the New Playwrights' Theatre, the
next production, "Hoboken Blues
by Michael Gold, is rehearsing under
the direction of Edward Massey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
UNI: MP OYMENT
AND BRUTALITY
IN CALIFORNIA
Jobless Men Forced to
Take Bitter Charity
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
The writer of this article went to
California on the first of October last
and has already witnessed enough
suffering on the part of the workers
to fill a book
California pro duces unlimited
quantities of fruit, vegetables,
poultry, beef and dairy products. Here
are all the things necessary to make
the people comfortable, healthy and
happy. But the workers here, as else
where, cannot own a thing beyond
their labor power, because the in
significant wages paid them do not
even permit them to live, much less
save money with which to buy homes
or other necessities.
Now that all work in the orchards
and fields has finished, now that the
crops have been planted and har-
vested and stored away in the store
houses and cold storage plants by the
hands and brains of the toilers of
California, how do the workers fare ?
Sacramento alone has between 5000
and 1000 jobless, homeless men and
women, hungry and in rags.
The animals of the fields are at
least sheltered from the damp freez-
ing nights, for do not think that we.
have warm sun every day. Yes, the
animals have a commercial value and
the workers have not, because at this
time of year the workers can not be
profitably employed.
Face Starvation.
So, the workers >of California face
starvation in the streets. Thousands
of men walk aimlessly up and down
End Street in Sacramento and stare
at the polished black boards where,
when times are better, few jobs are
displayed for sale.
If a job really comes up, horde
of humanity rushes for it and, before
the agent has finished writing, the
job is taken. In times of such keen
misery no one asks what the wages
are, or the hours, or the conditions.
1t is not ethical" for a city to
have bread line, instead we have
respectable community chest" The
funds from this, however, do not go
to the starving, they go instead to
cheap mulligan joint, Harris" on End
Street which feeds the sufferers.
Two Crusts and Bitter Coffee.
The men and women line up in the
alley and are handed two pieces of
dry bread and cup of black unsweet-
end coffee. You don't have to be in
prison to be on bread and water in
California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

Continued from Page One)
Then applauded for five minutes
thereafter; still not satisfied they
cheered.
Struggles Ahead.
1--WE are here again for struggle"
Weisbord began. "The workers life
is one continuous battle. You who
have attained to the consciousness of
the working class, will understand me
when I say that there will be no let
up in the struggle as long as the CAPT
talist system exists"
"The first step in the solution of
unemployment" he went on, sis the
same as that which faced us two years
ago: Organization. Without organi-
cation, as we have learned so
thoroughly, we can do nothing.
Secondly, we must put aside all
wrong notions as to who will help us
in this situation. No one but our
selves can do anything for us. We
must make demands upon the en-
rloyers, upon the city officials, upon
the officials of the government, upon
the high-salaried labor officials, that
they begin definite action for the re-
lief of the unemployed"
Enemies to be Faced.
After reviewing the events in the
bitter struggle lasting for over a
year, ard showing in detail the part
played by the city officials, the Pas
sale Citizens Committee, the labor
officials of the A. F. of L., Weisbord
continued. "Thus we see that we are
faced by the fire of the employers
and their government before US and
by the knife-thrusts of the enemy la
hor takers in the rear. But the time
has come to make them act. Let us
make demands upon them. The bosses
said that if you would only go back
to the mills, good times would come.
Let us hold them responsible for these
good times The city officials claim
TO represent all the people. Let us
demand that they open kitchens for
the hungry.
'Our Demands"
"We say to them: No evictions for
the unemployed; begin construction SO
that we can obtain work; throw open
the schools and public buildings for
lodging the unemployed. We demand
that the government provide sub
stantial sum for relief from the ex-
cess profits Of the rich, millions of
dollars of which are now being re-
turned to them; we demand from the
labor takers that they take a cut in
salary, that they put up a real fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
OverwOrk Is Fatal

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. 5.-The
labor OF operating one-man trolley
car was blamed by his widow for
the death of Victor Braun, 43, from a
paralytic stroke. The Public Service
Corp. for which Braun worked as q
motorman laid off hundreds of work
ers in New Jersey when the one man
cars were adopted several years ago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Pennsylvania
Cops Halt Jobless Meet.
nv a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA police refuse to allow
the unemployed workers to hold a
meeting called to organize demand
for relief.
Fully cognizant of the deplorable
condition OF the workers OF Phlladel-
phia due to widespread unemploy-
ment. the Philadelphia Council OF I'm
employed was organized and hall
secured to hold a meeting. Circulars
were printed and distributed and a
nodce of the meeting sent to the
superintendent of police. The COM
nlU.ee was then told that the meeting
could not be held, to which the COM
lnIUtee replied that it would be held
u they would go to Jail trying to
mold it.
An effort was then made to see
she Director of Public Safety, but he
refused to be seen, passing the buck
TO the superintendent of police. The
committee then called at the office OF
Mayor Mackey and again the buck
was passed to the superintendent of
police, the committee being refused
an interview even with the mayors
secretary. This was no surprise to
the committee, knowing the contempt
that mayor Mackey must necessarily
have for the organized labor move
ment of Philadelphia, after the lead
ers had pusillanimously sold the labor
vote to the republican organization
in the mayorality campaign for the
endorsement of a labor leader as
magistrate.
Everything was set to take a. ride
in the patrol wagon when the good
lord got busy and spoiled "a perfectly
good party" by blowing about ten
inches of snow over the city, and
thereby provided an opportunity for
5000 of the army of unemployed
workers to earn few dollars, which
of course they took advantage of, and
as the Pluto sheets had announced
that the meeting had been called off
and postponed, nobody showed up
but the Committee and a half dozen
bulls.
Mayor Mackey is pious critter
and the heavenly gentlemen realizing
what an embarrassing thing it would
be to have lot of hungry citizens
congregating on the sabboth and de-
handing to be fed, with all of the
loaves and fishes locked up, con-
Guided to get busy and started a
peach of snow storm. All of which
not only provided a small part of the
unemployed with a few hours work,
but also afforded his honor an OPP
portunity to demonstrate his affec-
ton for the unemployed workers by
permitting them to stretch out their
weary bodies on the nice cool cement
floors of the City Hall to sleep, there
by enabling them to keep their
clothes dry which they could not
have done had they been obliged to
sleep in the snow outside. l wonder
if pious Harry would allow his dog
to sleep on cold cement floor?
Hundreds Sleep on Cold Concrete
When / walked through that CORR
dor last night and noticed the hun
dreds of workers stretched out on
the cold cement floor there arose in
my mind the picture of the COM
fortably heated, luxurious office that
some of these same workers had been
misled by traitorous labor leaders
into providing for Harry Mackeys
use when they voted to hire him, at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Colorado
Successful Meetings
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By worker correspondent
Two successful meetings have been
held in Denver during the past week
A well-attended meeting at Windsor
Hall on Saturday and a large Lenir
Memorial Meeting at the Labor Ly-
ceum Sunday.
Comrade Gitlow's splendid exposi-
ton of the principles of the Com
munist Party created marked i'm
preston and showed practical results
in many new applications for mem
bership.
The meeting for the unemployed
was attended by more than three
hundred jobless.
Relief work for the Colorado miners
goes steadily forward.
H. A. ZEITLIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

at the Seamen's Church Institute.
They have beds there from 35 cents
to $1.00 a night. If you are not in
by midnight they close the doors on
you even if you have purchased a
ticket for a bed.
This is further striking proof of
the brutal treatment of seamen by
the Seamen's Church Institute, which
was exposed in your paper on Jan. IL.
This institution, backed by Standard
Oil and other large exploiters of Ia
Dor, is a strikbreaking center run
under the guise of religious and
charitable institution.
p. r. GOVT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
WORKERS LIFE WORTH 1921

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. 5.-The
life of worker, who left wife and
several dependent children was val
ued at $6,121 in Compensation Court
here. Mrs. Smanuel Domico of this
city has been awarded that amount
for the death of her husband, who
was killed last December in the con-
struction of a theatre. What part of
that amount she will actually receive
is not known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
New Defense Bulletin

The latest bulletin of the New Eng
land District of the International La
Dor Defense, just issued, contains a
report of the third annual district
conference, report of the executive
committee, and financial report.
There is also list of the existing
branches and statement of the gen.
eral rules of the organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
JObless After Fire

BAYONNE, N. j., Feb. 5.--About
80 girls were made jobless by fire
which destroyed a dress Liant and a
hotel. Many of the girls ,ost per-
sonal belongings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
Police Break Up Jobless
Demonstration at PQssalc

for unemployment relief"
Other speakers at the meeting
which was held under the auspices
of the Workers (Communist) Party
and the Workers International Re-
lief, were Emil CARLOS, district or
ganizer Of Passaic, Tom LaFazio, one
of the leaders of the Passaic strike,
Mary Alden, colored worker and
representative of the Negro Labor
Congress, George Perlman and John
Di Santo, two other leaders of the
Passaic strike. Di Santo acted as
chairman.
Action Begins.
Numerous workers spoke from the
floor. Resolutions were passed affili-
ating the body with the New York
Council of the Unemployed An
nouncement was made that the
Workers International Relief was
ready at all times to assist the unem-
ployed. A permanent headquarters
would be opened up Immediately, it
was announced. A resolution embody-
ing the substance of the meetings.
discussion was passed unanimously.
Considerable enthusiasm greeted the
sections advocating the formation of
a labor party and the recognition of
the Soviet Union.
At the A. F. of L. conference at
Moose Home, Matthew Vol, acting
president of the open shop National
Civic Federation, stated in his speech
that the employers of the country
were being impressed with the fact
that unemployment was common
problem" "The problem has been
shifted from the workers to the en-
ployers," he announced He did not
say whether the suffering and star
walton had shifted
"a thorough knowledge of facts"
was the faction" proposed by the re-
dictionary Thomas Mcmahon, presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers.
More Propaganda.
Mary Van Kleeck, director of the
department of industrial studies, of
the Russell Sage Foundation, which
has been conducting a countrywide
propaganda for anti-strike legislation
announced that the 'first step in the
solution of unemployment is the get
ting together Of the leaders in man
agement with the representatives of
the workers" Miss Kleeck omitted
to mention the bitter antagonism with
which the honest leadership among
some of the Canadian labor unions are
meeting the anti-strike law in force
in that country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

Anna Robenne with Anatole Villa
zah will be assisted by ballet and an
instrumental ensemble at their Sec
ond dance recital at the 48th Street
Theatre, Sunday evening, February
18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
MUSIC AND CONCERTS
1,IERTCAN OPERA COMPANY

LIST N Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH
GALLO THEA. Evgs. $40. Mats. 2i20.
54th, w. of B'vay. PHONE COL. 114O.
Mon, Wed, Fri. & Sat. Evg., Abduction
from seragIio. Tues. Ev., Mime. Butter
fly. Sat. Mat, Sunset Trail a. Pagliacci.
wed Mat. & Thurs. Eve, Marriage Of
Figaro.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01

over Box Elder creek on the south
ern border of Bowman county. No
county or federal aid funds are
available for the project and the
question to be determined is
whether the state can spend its
funds without aid from the coun-
ty or federal government. The last
regular legislative session appro-
priated $4,000 to pay the states
share of the bridge cost.
Plans for the structure have been
drawn by the South Dakota high
way department, which estimates
the cost at $4,000. On that basis
the two states could build the bridge
without county or federal aid. A
technicality in the law making the
North Dakota appropriation, how
ever, may bar this state from join.
ing in the project unless federal and
county aid are available.
A report by the bridge division
Of the highway department in
Dictated that contracts for the bridge
across the Red River at Grand
Forks may be let by the middle of
August. Plans for the structure
will be completed within {. month
but two weeks will be required to
print the specifications, a week to
obtain approval Of the federal
bureau of public roads and five
weeks for advertising before the
bids are received.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01
Rev. F. HI. Davenport
Faculty Member for
Summer Conference

Rev. F. H. Davenport, rector Of
st. Georges Episcopal church of
Bismarck, will be a member Of the
faculty at the First Annual Sum-
mer conference of the diocese of the
Episcopal church in North Dakota,
which will be held at Valley City
June IL to 20. Rev. Davenport will
teach a course on THE Synoptic
Gospels"
Dean H. S. Brewster Of Geth-
semane Cathedral, Fargo, is the ap-
pointed dean of the faculty and will
give a general course Of instruc-
ton each day. Other members chos-
en- for conference teaching are Rev.
C. II. Collect. rector of St. Paul's
church. Grand Forks; Miss Eliza
beth Beecher, educational secretary
Of the Diocese of Western Nebras-
ka; Rev. II. N. Tragitt, Jr., Of the
diocese Of Duluth; Miss Mildred Al
ley, Deaconess in training for