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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
AUSTRALIAN UNIONS
FACING BIG TASKS

For a considerable time the bu-
reaucracy Of the Australian Work
ers' Union, which has become di-
vorced from the rank and file of the
Union, has been fighting the Au-
stralasian Council of Trade Unions.
The A. c. T. U. made overtures for
peace and unity, but it's efforts were
scornfully rejected on the excuse
that the A, C. T, U. is affiliated
with the Fan-Pacific Trade Union
Secretariat and is therefore dom
mated by foreigners. The real rea-
son is that the constitution of the
A. c. 7. U. will not permit the A.
W. U. officials to control the or
eanization,
An intense and scurrilous cam
paign has been, and is still being
waged against the P. P. T. U. S. by
the capitalist press and the A. w. u.
officials.
A special All-Australian Trade
Union Congress was convened by the
A. c. T. U. in order that the above
mentioned questions could be dis
cussed and a common policy arrived
at regarding future action. The con-
gress met on Monday, July Is, and
was the largest congress that has yet
been held. A determined effort was
made by the capitalist press to coerce
the delegates into attacking the left
wing, but fortunately the campaign
was not successful.
Congress in Discussion,
Congress discussed the anti-trade
union Act, and decided to assist in
every way possible any section of the
trade union movement that fell foul
of its many penal clauses.
A long and acrimonious discussion
occurred when the marine cooks dis
pute was reviewed. There were
charges and counter-charges of scab-
berry and cowardice. Congress finally
decided that the cooks demands were
justified, and complimented them on
their splendid fight, but considered
they were in error in not comforting
with other unions or with the central
body-the A. C. T. U. So that a
similar situation shall not arise ir
the future congress adopted resolu.
tions that will compel craft and sec,
tional unions to confer with kindred
organizations before embarking or
strikes, and if the dispute be of {
national character, with the A. c. T
U.
Delegates were so incensed agains
the reactionary officials of the Aus
tralian Workers Union that, by al
overwhelming majority, they decided
that the time had gone by for over
lures. 1t was decided to conduct al
energetic campaign among the ranl
and file of the A. w. U. so as to un
mask its leaders.
By an overwhelming majority c.
to 36) congress endorsed the affilia
ton of the A. G. T. U. to the Pan
Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. Thi
is particularly gratifying in view o
the vicious propaganda of the CAPT
talist press and the A. w. U. bureau
| Gratis. An attempt by the right VIM
to throttle the "Pan- Pacific Worker
(Which is published by the A. C. I
lU.) was also crushingly defeated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
HANdOuTS

How the lying propaganda of the
power trust was spread through the
state of Nebraska is suggested by
the following lines from a letter
Horace NJ. Davis, former power
trust propaganda revealed in the
federal trade commission records:
president of state federation of
women's clubs was in today and
gave me a wide-open Endorsement
of utility public speaking for clubs
comprising something more than
10000 women in Nebraska.
"But what the hell am l going to
do about it? Wish I had 20 clever
women speakers scattered geograph-
ically over the state"
His difficulty passed and he
flooded the state with propaganda,
Which shows that the bourgeois
woman can do a mans job any day
in the gentle art OF corruption,
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ministration do to improve the con-
ditions of these poor workers. Moth
ing. Absolutely nothing. They feed
the workers with the illusions of
ELECT us and we will give you
everything.
But you cannot fool the workers
all the time. The workers of Read
ing demand deeds and not words.
They demand organization. The
workers of Reading demand the
socialists" action. They are begin
ming to realize that the Stumps and
Maurers and the rest of the bunch
are too cowardly to put up a mill
tant fight for the workers.
The workers of Reading win have
to make step further and under
stand that their emancipation can
come only through the doing away
with the present capitalist system of
society, and the establishment of a
Communist one, as the workers have
done in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03

George Kaiser's newest play "The
Phantom Lover" ("Oktobertag")
will open Tuesday at the 49th Street
Theatre. The cast includes: Edith
Barrett, Louise Macintosh, Rom
ney Brent, George MacQuarrie, Da-
vid Newell and Cameron Clemens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
READING WORKER
Tells JOYS" OF
SOCIALIST" RULE
Union No Stronger;
Wages No Higher

(By a Worker Correspondent
READING, Pa, (By MaiD The
workers of Reading needn't worry
any more. Their low wages, long
hours, insults from the bosses and
foreman and others, means nothing
in comparison with the fact they
have elected a Socialist admins
tration". The workers of Reading
should feel happy. Mr.. Stump is a
mayor; Mr.. Maurer is a councilman.
The yellow Forward should immedi-
ately proclaim to the world the vic
tory of socialism" in the U. S.
Chase Me-Pm Socialist
Why all that stuff about Revo-
luton, class struggle, strikes, civil
war? Who wants all that? Who
needs it? Certainly not Hilquit.)
Who in the world discovered all
these words?
It's all these damn Bolsheviks
that want all that Respectable
socialists" don't need all that.
Socialism" can be achieved in Am
erica through peaceful means.
How? Very simple; by the ballot.
The only thing the worker need do
is vote the socialist" ticket, and
80. Socialism" will be here.
A fact? Why look at Reading,
the Socialists" tell us. Look at
what we have achieved there, with
out all that nonsense of class-strug-
gle, etc. Don't we have a social
list" administration in Reading :?
Who is the mayor, if not Social
ist"? And Mr. Maurer, the council
man? All this is very fine. But are
the workers of Reading satisfied
with their conditions? Do the work.
ers feel any difference between the
old democratic administration and
the present so-called socialist"
one? Have the number of trade
unions increased since the Social
lists" took office? Have their con-
ditions been bettered? What about
unemployment?
No Glass Struggle, o No.
But let's hear what the workers
themselves have to say. In ques-
tioning worker of the P, and R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
Kentucky, Washington
Want New Mine Union

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 2.-Or-
ganization work in Kentucky is
booming. Powderly, Browder, Hill
side, Beech Greek, are already lined
up with the movement to build a
new miners union. When William
Duncan, Lewis local "boss" comes
to the mass meetings with armed
gangsters, with the handles of
knives sticking out of their belts
and draped on their fat stomachs,
the men simply laugh at him and go
on with their plans for more and
more mass meetings, organizing
more locals, electing delegates.
You've done your share, Dun
can!" they tell him. you've
wrecked what was left of the U. M.
W. of A. in Kentucky. Now we're
doing this job. We are going to
build an honest, militant miners
union, and a thousand Lewises and
Duncans can't stop u.s."
Even in far off Washington the
men are on the job. "You bet we'll
have delegates at the National Min
ers Convention next MONTH" they
write. Just try and keep US away"
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1.-THE
men in West Virginia sure are be-
hind the New Miners Union!' one
organizer says.
II asked one fellow how things
were, and he told me that the boys
earn enough to buy bread, but they
got to send to the old country for
enough to buy meat It's about
time they had fighting union!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
Hopkins 'Heavy Traffic"
at the Emblyg Thursday

Heavy Traffic." a new play by
Arthur Richman, will be presented
by Charles Frohman at the Empire
Theatre on Wednesday. Mary Be-
land plays the featured role. Other
players include, A. E. Matthews
end Reginald Mason.
At the Hammerstein Theatre,
Good Boy" musical comedy with
book by Otto Harbach, Oscar Ham
merstein End and Henry Myers and
music and lyrics by Herbert Stoth-
art, Bert Rainier and Harry Ruby,
will open on Wednesday night. The
cast is headed by Eddie Buzzell,
Borroh Minevitch, Helen Kane, Dan
Healy, Barbara Newberry, and Sam
Hearn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03

"Machinal," a drama by Sophie
Treadwell, opens Thursday evening
at the Plymouth Theatre, produced
by Arthur Hopkins. Principals in
the cast are: Zita Johann, Jean
Adair, Clark Gable, George Stillwell
and Charles Kennedy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
By ]. RYAN

Several matters of Importance to
the working class of Australia have
occurred recently. The most i'm
portant are: ~ the passing of the
anti-trade union act by the federal
government; (2) the marine cooks
strike; (3) prosecutions against
prominent trade union leaders; az
cleavage between Australasian
Council of Trade Unions and bu-
reaucracy of the Australian Work
ers' Union; (5) campaign of CAPT
talist press in alliance with A. w. U.
bureaucracy against the PAM Pacific
Trade Union Secretariat, and (6)
the All-Australian Trade Union
Congress.
Towards the close of last year the
federal government introduced an
amending arbitration bill into par
lament. This bill proposed that
strikes, boycotts, picketing, incite-
ments to strike, ETC., be made IL
legal, and that the unions be COM
PEELED to accept any wages and con-
ditions for their mombers that the
arbitration court judges cared to
give them. Parliament ratified the
measure and it is now law.
Marine Cooks Strike.
A dispute between the Marine
Cooks Union and the ship-owners
over an additional cook for one ship
resulted in a general strike Of ma
rine cooks, thereby throwing thou
sands of other marine workers out
of work. Because the cooks ig-
nored other unions and played a
lone hand in the dispute, there was
much Reorganization; eventually
the cooks were defeated.
The secretary of the Brisbane
branch of the Seamen's Union and
the secretary of the Brisbane Water
side Workers Union were prose
cuted and heavily fined for engag-
ing in a strike. In New South
Wales, J. S. Garden, secretary OF
tho Labor Council of N. S. W, was
arrested and charged with incite-
ment to murder because he made
the following statement regarding
the marine cooks strike
"The new methods adopted ir
strike strategy are different thar
the old methods. The old method
was that once thing was declared
black the trade union movement
should associate itself from it. Tao
tics now are different insofar as i
scab cooks man the vessels our tao
tics may change, and we may sup
ply union men even though seal
cooks are aboard. Accidents, how
ever, occur in the best regulated
| families. The new cooks will no
be very good sailors, and will hav,
to go to the railing occasionally
They may lose their balance, il
which case the water is damp, tn
sea is deep, and dead men tell NJ
tales"
The case was postponed unit
next week. 1t is probable tina
Comrade Garden will be jailed, mean
while the Labor Council has dis
tributed thousands of leaflets an
stickers in order to prepare tn
workers to take action to procur
his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03

But let's hear what the workers
themselves have to say, In ques-
tioning a worker of the P. and R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03
Miners Sentenced As PQssy After SeQb Assaulted Ihem CORRESPONDENT

shops of Reading as to what they
have gained from the socialist" ad-
ministration, he looked at us and
replied; Gained? like hell, we
have! They (the "socialists") never
promised us anything and don't give
US anything. What do we make in
the P. and R. shops, working like
hell? he continued, Working at
fifty cents per hour. And when
work slows down, we work three to
four days a week, but they keep
running steady the gang of loyal
slaves, Where are the Socialist" ?
Why don't they organize us? Why
don't they see that the work is div
ided equally among the workers?
Why don't they stop the prosecu-
ton against those who mention
unionism in the shops?
They claim as a government they
have to protect the property and in
terests of the employ ers as well and,
therefore, cannot interfere in the
business of the boss, we tried to ex-
plain to the already excited worker.
What, he shouted. "They have
got to protect my boss? How the
devil can they protect me then?
They can't protect both of US, can
they? Is that why we voted the
socialist" ticket, to protect the
boss? Do they protect the boss in
the Soviet Union? What we need to
do" he shouted, sis to kick the hell
out of the bosses as they have done
into the u. S. S. R., and not promise
him protection. These guys here in
Reading are too darned polite in
dealing with the BOSSES. The
worker was all excited. We gave
him a copy of the Daily Worker,
and promised to come to see him the
next day.
Another example of how the
workers feel and live under the
socialist administration is letter
of a woman, workers wife who
tells her story in the Reading Union
list, of July Is.
A Machinist's Wife.
She writes: Would you like to
know how it feels to be poor mans
wife? Maybe. other people would
like to know too.
"My husband is machinist and
earns fifty-two cents an hour. 1t
amounts to a few cents over $2S
per week, when he works full time.
This week was holiday, and some
times there is a sickness, so then
the pay is smaller.
apparently he is lucky that
he is earning just fifty-two cents.
During the winter the industries of
Reading and West Reading have
been laying the higher priced ma
chinists off, sometimes in punches
of fifty, and employ the next day
new men at from forty to fifty
cents per hour.
"Since he cannot get any extra, no
night (Which he should not be COM
PEELED to do after hard days lab
orr the only thing left to do is for
me to get job.
"But how can go to work when
l have two boys of three and five
years of age to care for?
The Right TO Live.
1--WE want justice. We want a
living wage for a man who puts his
five days a week in any shop. We
want wages to house, eat, dress In
comfort. We would like, too, an
inexpensive car, so we could see
something of our country. But
what have we? Not even a living
wage. We have appalling debts
and the fear of what should happier
to us if the wage-earner should ever
become real sick"
Many more examples could bt
cited, but the above mentioned vii
do for today.
And what does our socialist" ad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-03

Above Al Smith is shol0n demon
5trdting his fitness to be President
Of the United States By riding in q
tally-ho at Sea Grit, Nel0 jersey,
suen though he has already proved
his superiority to Herbert Hoover
liz auctioning off a bale of cotton.
Al has told the l0orking class, on
lis honor, that if he is elected
resident he loiU pass a lot of Ia10s
help them out of their difficuI-
les at the expense of the rich eUen
hough the millions of dollars HoaU
being raised for his campaign are
coming entirely from has intended
0ictims. This sort of idiocy sounds
Ike good sense tn the remarkable
brains of the A. F.. of L. official
1om and the Ne1U York State E1ec-
sttte Committee has endorsed him.
Above Al had Just taken off his
Rat to cool himself 10hen, by good
nance, he happened to driUe by a
group of newspaper photographers.
Bruce Reynolds, who describes
himself as a writer, has just re-
turned from Russia where, he says,
ne bought, "old greasy clothes from
a citizen" and lived the life of the
proletariat for as long as three
weeks. After this elaborate study
IF life in the U. S. S. R., Bruce re-
turned to the U. S. and says that
Russia is a country Upside down,
standing on its head" It's coun-
try upside down all right compared
70 capitalist countries but it's the
one country that's standing on its
teet.
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News or PERSONS AND EVENTS IN SOCIAL WIIIRL OF WASHING
DINNER w 1T II
DIPI ONATIC
GUESTS
Art Federation to Fete
British Envoy Other
Parties

The British Ambassador Sir
Esne Howard, will Be the rank
ing guest 1t the banquet to be
given this evening IN the bathroom
OF the Mayflower BY the Ameri.
can Federation 81 Arts at the
Conclusion OF its nineteenth 4 =.
nuaI convention. which has been
in session at the hotel since
Wednesday.
At Kentsdale
rha Ambassador 81 chile. Don
carlos Davila. was the ranking
guest at the dinner which Mr..
and Mrs. Lyman b. Kendall gave
last evening ct their home. Keiltn-
dale. in honor Of their guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. PendIetOn Rogers.
Of Tuxedo, N. ri; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Reed. Of tuxedo. and MT.
and Mrs. Allan WellEnan, OF New
York. There were rs guests RI
dinner and d number Of others
were invited for dancing after.
ward.
The minister Of Albania Faik
KORUNA, was aIHS IdNhAtAB 1850
at ii dinner given last evening BY
Representativ and Mrs. George
h. stobbs oE Massachu setts AZ the
Mayflower, when the other mem
bers 81 their party included Rep
resentative and Mrs James S.
Parker. Represent and Mrs.
Frederick M. Davenport. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. S. wallace
Dempsey, Representative = q { II
Nourae Rogers. Dr.. alld MrA
George BIax esIee VQ Worcester z
and the solicitor General ana
Mrs. william n. Mitchell.
David r.. Houston, former Score
tary Of Agriculture, and Mrs. Houn.
ton. OF New York. are now in
washington ana are guests ct the
MayfIoWer. Mr.. Houston II presi-
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and 1t Ii town Tor their
thirteenth annuaI meeting which
will be held At the Mayflower On
Friday and saturday.
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Con itution Day

The Minister OF Norway ana
Nine. BacnIzs win entertain ut
dinner or Monday evening In the
Chinese Room Of the 1GayflOWer.
There VIII Be forty guests.
Yesterday the Minister and Nine,
Bachke were hosts at reception
from to o'clock at Wardman
Park Hotel where they make
their home, to the members Of
the Norwegian colony In Wash
ington. The occasion was the
celebration Of Norway's Con-.
stttution Day. I
The Minister Of Egypt and Nine.
Sanay Pasna went to Louisville
XIV. yesterday to attend the
derby. and will return to Wash
ington on Monday.
The Minister Of Bolivia, q. Diaz
dc Medina, ana George de la
Barra, first secretary Of the lega-
ton, are nj the Ambassador Hotel
In New York for y few days.
Former Senator and Mrs. VIII
liam M. Calder have arrived at
the willard from their home in
New York and expect to remain
several days here. They were.
hosts informally at dinner in the.
Crystal room last evening.
-
Mrs. Ray Ovid Hall will be At
home on Monday afternoon from
3 to s o'clock at her residence
in o street, when there will be .
private showing Of her paintings
Of Greece and Turkey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hight have
gone 70 Louisville. KY, for the
weekend and while there are at
tending the Kentucky Derby At
Churchill Downs a. the guests Of
the Governor Of Kentucky.
Mrs. Frederic w. RhineIander
ana Miss Maud Leland, OF New
York, are in Washington for few
days and are staying at the May.
flower.
DR.. y. M. Fulton. of ithaca,
M. r.. IL at the Grace Dodge
Hotel for an extended stay. Mrs.
al Al. Fulton u with him.
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NOTES OF SOCIETY

~ IN
Reserves, members pf the Happy
Hours club. of the Fillmore Graded
school. wearing their attractive
uniforms 81 white and blue. win
line tie entrance and the aisles
om taS gateway to the grassy
sass, with Miss Louiss McKirdy.
their president. II their head.
Another large group of reserves,
the presidents of all
Girl rye clubs .fia the city.
lisae0 oS is Catherine English.
viii serve as fishers Tor the per-
formance, and stil1 another group.
with Miss Frances Brantley a.
Chairman viii sell balloons and
Lemonade during the afternoon.
The event, which ii attracting
much interest III over the city, is
being given aa q benefit for the
1898 maintenance fund of the.
Young fgonen's Christian Assucia,i
tion ~ the Girl Reserves OF Wash
ington, all of whom are woFk king
heart and soul for its success
one hundred girls will appk 9 in
the cast, under direction oe Miss
Inogene B. ireland and Mrs. Alice
sigworth Morse, Of the Y. w. ca.
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Va, to remain over the W4ek-emas
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