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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
'DIXIANA" PREMIERE TONIGHT
AT GLOBE THEATRE.

Radio Pictures long-expected
"Dixiana" has been definitely set
to open at the Globe Theatre at
$3.50 this evening. The principal
players include Bebe Daniels, Ev-
erett Marshall, Wheeler and Wool
sey and Dorothy Lee. Everett
Marshall, Metropolitan Opera bari
tone, is making his talking picture
debut in the film picture. Bebe
Daniels, too, has a singing role.
Wheeler and Woolsey, the come
dams of "Rio Rita" and "The
Cuckoos," furnish the comedy. Jo-
seph Cawthorn and Jobyna How
land are also seen in important
roles.
The locale of the film is New
Orleans, during the Mardi Gras of
1910, with Bebe Daniels as the
chosen queen of the famous fes-
tival. The carnival scene is par
TALLY shot in technicolor. Bill Rob-
inson, renowned tap dancer, will do
his famous stair dance. Members
of the cast are to be present at
this evenings performance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
! Labor and Fraternal

LID. Picnic
Sept. 7. Pleasant Bay Park Get
your ticket now.
Cbina Soviet Night
Friday, Sept. -. z y. m: at Man
Chinese program. Admission So cents
in advance. Volunteer TO sell tickets,
apply Chinese Vanguard, &c Union
Square.
YorkviIle Open Forum
At $50 e. .S1st st. Beginning FRI
day, Sept 5, every Friday at $50
Der Of Executive Committee. TUT. L.,
on The Problem of Unemployment
Admission 10 cents.
League street Meet
Thursday Sept. 4, 14th st. and
University Pl: 1850 D. m
Inter. Racial Dance
At 30S Lenox Ave. Saturday, Sept
G. Benefit District Functionaries
School.
Plumbing Workers
Meet Thursday, p. m. at 13 w.
18th st.
Lecture, Council 10 U.C.W CIV.
Friday, $50 y. m. at 241 u. y4th
St. Brooklyn. Get off at suffer Ave.
station.
The Unemployed Council of the Of
flee Workers Union will meet on FRI
Ave. and 23rd St, the same place
as the last meeting which resulted
in the brutal beating and arrest Of
four Of the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
UNITED NEEDLE
WORKER MEETS
N.T.W.I.U., Registered
Members Form Front

NEW YORK.-The conference
for mems clothing workers, called
by the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union to meet Saturday
noon, at Stuyvesant Casino, is to be
a real united front of organized and
unorganized, of the rank and file
in the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers and the members of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union for a smashing fight against
the piece work, the race divisions,
the cut wages and speed-up, the di-
vision and exploitation of the
tailors.
The call sent out by the Indus
trial Union, announcing the confer
ence, explains it's program:
"The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union is carrying on the
campaign for Unity among the
tailors. The Industrial Union
worked out plan of organization
which will unite all tailors in the
shops into struggle against wage
cuts, speed-up, piece-work, reorgan-
izations and unemployment. The
tailors in every shop must come
together and organize a shop COM
mittee which is to lead the struggle
of the workers in the shops. Build
ings having more than one shop
must organize a Building Commit
tee. In the sections where the
mems clothing shops are, the cloth
ing workers must organize free
markets, there the tailors of the
shops are to come down and to-
gether with the unemployed mobil-
ize and organize for struggle
against the bosses and their agents.
Send Delegates!
"This is only part of the pro-
gram of organization for the tailors.
The full program of organization as
well as plan of action and acti-
vities will be reported by the lead
ers of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union at the conference
to which all shop committees are
to send delegates. Tailors, meet in
your shop now, organize a commit
tee and send your representative
to this conference!"
On the same day, Saturday, Sept.
6, a similar conference of cloak
makers, is called by the Industrial
Union, to meet in Irving Plaza Hall,
at p. m. The cloakmakers are as
badly exploited as the tailors. They
have been as badly betrayed by the
international Ladies' Garme en- t
Workers as ever the tailors by Hill
man of the amalgamated. They
have been swindled by fake strikes
and by sell-out agreements Ivy the
company unionized I.L.G.W. The
cloakmakers of the Industrial Union
call to their fellow workers, unor-
gained or misorganized, to come
in body to this rank and file con-
ference, and plan united struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
HOW CAPITALIST JAILS
ARE USED TO TORTURE
AND HARRASS WORKERS
Most Prisoners Are Unemployed, Sick or Aged
Workers Who Have No Jobs
Rich Revelers Who Are Arrested for "Disor
derby Conduct" Are Apologized To

erature. Sometimes the charge is
changed for the sake of variety to
"rioting" or Indictment to riot"
etc. The charge doesn't count. Any
old charge will do to get the work.
ers behind the bars.
Only poor are arrested for dis
orderly conduc:." Only the poor
are arrested for theft. The big
thieves Of the bourgeoisie are never
called thieves. When any pretense
is made at indictment it is called
embezzlement. Through their law
yers long complicated statements
are made and they nearly always
go free. Sometimes a goat is needed
by the big grafters higher up; in
that case they let one of their own
go for few weeks just to show
that even the rich are punished by
the majority of the law.
So it is the poor and suppressed
workers who fill the jails to over
crowding throughout the country.
The families of the prisoners are in
the same class. Most of the pris-
oners and many of the visitors are
beginning to understand that there
is no justice for the workers in the
courts of the capitalist class. l
have spokne to many of these
poor men and women. "There is
something wrong" they say; my
husband was a good man, only he
took a drink once in a while and
they gave him six months-and l
can't get a job and everything is
so high-what's this world coming
to when poor people can't even
eat?"
Another says; ~ have to leave
my baby with a friend and go to
work. | work at the five and ten
and l don't even make enough to
keep myself bucks. My
husband over in the pen is asking
for a dollar a week for cigarettes
and stamps, but just can't afford
to give it to him. He got sent up
for stealing an automobile with
some other fellows; they were all
out of a job. He was always steady
till then"
A tired colored woman worker
speaks: 81 don't know what he got
in there for. He don't know him
self. He got into an argument
with the landlord on account of the
rent and the Judge gave him six
months. No, / didn't get a lawyer;
how can a poor woman like me get
a lawyer?"
Yes the jails of the U. S. house
only the poor. The rich murderers,
grafters, bootleggers, prostitutes,
gangsters, embezzlers and what not
get away with it.
What else can be expected under
the rule of the SO owners Of the
United States?
So there are no jeweled and satin
clad crooks lined up waiting for
passes to visit the prisoners. The
swell crooks are gambling in the
Riviera or horse-racing at South
Hampton, or going to meet the
queen in London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
court" ASKS
SOVIET TO PAY
Lena Goldfield's Outfit
Gives Itself Decision

LONDON, Sept. "A self APP
pointed Arbitration court" COM
posed of two lackeys of the Lena
Goldfields corporation, o Y
Ordered" the Soviet Government
to pay the company $65,000,000 be-
cause the Soviet Government ended
a concession contract, due to the
violations by the foreign concession
lists.
fhe Soviet Government from the
very beginning refused to recog-
nize the rump court, as the all con-
cession's law of the Workers Re-
public had been violated, and by
the terms of the contract itself it
had been annulled.
Frustrated in their counter-revolu-
tionary activity and sabotage, the
Lena Goldfields corporation got two
highly paid lawyers together to
order" the Soviet Government to
pay for not allowing the foreign
imperialists to continue their ex-
ploitation on their own terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Mass Demonstrations
Against Fascism in
Poland On Sept. II

The committee for the struggle
against Polish fascism has Just
issued call for mass demonstra-
tons in solidarity with the Polish,
Ukranian, White-Russian and Jew
ish workers and peasants in Poland
and for the defense of the Soviet
Union.
The demonstrations will be held
on September II, at 8 o'clock p. m.
One of the meetings will take place
at Manhattan Lyceum, 66-6S East
4th St., New York City. The other
meeting will take place at Finnish
Hall, Is West 10th st.
Speakers will address the meet
ings in English, Polish, Ukrainian,
Jewish, Russian and Finnish lang
uages. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
BY VAN VEEN

by VAN fEEN
NEW YORK.-Anyone who goes
to the department of corrections to
obtain a permit cannot fail to OBJ
serve that the lire waiting or the
passes are poverty-stricken and
crushed. Here are no well dressed
madams from Fifth Ave. mansions
with their maids and poodles. Here
are not to be found business men,
ladies' and gentlemen of leisure. No
fine cars are waiting outside to take
them over to Welfare or Rikers
Island pens, or any other cars eX-
cept the street cars and subways.
In this line waiting for permits
to visit the prisoners are poor work
ers, men and women, young and old,
colored and white. Most Of them
are desperately poor or out of work.
Their faces are scanned with care,
overwork and fear.
They line up at the Tombs or at
Welfare Island, downcast, le-
draggled, hungry; jobless, evicted,
despairing. Most of them are so
filled with the propaganda Of tie
state that they feel ashamed to be
where they are. The state teaches
them that prisoners are criminals
and in the eyes Of the officials the
visitors are not much better. Small
wonder they looked crushed.
And what are the crimes of the
inmates of the penitentiaries whom
they go to visit twice a month for
a short half our barred from the
prisoners by heavy iron screens?
They are for the most part guilty
only of poverty. Their crimes are
the theft of a few cents or few
dollars; taking a drink and getting
caught; out of job and arrested
on suspicion" with no one to go,
bail or to defend them. There are
many cases particularly among the
Negro workers where the victim
found himself beaten and arrested
and given anywhere from six weeks
to six months on any old charge.
Many of the prisoners were just
hard up and trying to find the price
of a meal, or eating in a chop Joint
without paying the bill.
Among the women prisoners may
be added the poor street walkers.
The rich prostitutes, like the rich
Lootlegger and the rich grafters get
away with it. Of course besides
these are the narcotics and con-
firmed alcoholics, but all belonging
to the poor. The narcotics of the
bourgeoisie don't go to jail. They
stay at home under doctors care or
they go to expensive sanitariums.
Disorderly conduct applies only
to the unemployed or homeless
worker; of course it applies to
strikers and all militant workers
who resist by any means the OPP
preston of the bosses. Of course
it applies to all arrested strikers
and to workers who distribute leaf
let's calling for organization. 1t
applies to those who sell the Daily
Worker or other working class lit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Lower Bronx LID.
Meets This Evening

The international Labor Defense
Branch of Lower Bronx, will have
a reorganization meeting on Thurs
day, Sept. A, at 8 p. M, in the Non
Partisan Schulz Building, 2O61
Bryant Ave, Bronx, N. Y. All of
the former LID. members of this
branch are urged to attend this
meeting and help put the branch on
a proper functioning basis. Also
all members of the Workers club,
which meets in this section are in
vited to attend this meeting of the
LID. branch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
"Siegtnled'' TO Be Presented
By Clinic RebertOrv Theatre

The Civic Reportory Theatre an
nounces the American premiere of
"Siegfried," by Jean Giraudoux, on
Monday evening, October Is.
Jacob Ben-Ami will have the title
role, played in France by Pierre
Renoir; Miss LIE 'Gallienne will play
Genevieve, played in France by
Valentine Tessier. Egon Brecher
will also have an important part.
"Siegfried" was first produced in
Paris at the Coincide des Champs
Elysees in 1928 and proved the hit
of the season. 1t ran for year.
1t is modern story against the
background of Germany and the
frontier of France directly after the
world war. Jean GiraudouX, the
author, is one of the best known
writer's of the contemporary French
stage. The English version, which
Miss LIE Gallienne will use, is the
work of Philip Carr. Max Rein
hardt may produce "Siegfried" in
Germany during the coming winter.
The Civic Repertory Theatre
opens on Monday evening, Sept. 20,
with Romeo and Juliet" Five
new plays will be produced during
the season. These are, besides
"Siegfried," "The Nobel Prize" by
Hjalimar Bergman, "Alice In Won
derland," "Grauch" by Gordon Bot
tomley, "Ardvorlich's Wife," also
by Bottomley, and Ibsen's "Ros-
mersholm." In addition to the new
productions, the revivals of last
year will be included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
FAKE JOB
LINE TO JOIN TUUL
Workers Are Disguised
With promises"

Hundreds of workers came out of
the jobless job line before the fake
city employment agency yesterday
afternoon to hear the militant mes
sage of the Trade Union Unity
League and to support it's demand
for social insurance as against the
bosses program of starvation and
suicides for the unemployed workers.
The following speakers held the
attention of the jobless workers:
Comrade Ciprini, who opened the
meeting; Comrade Guido, who
stressed the struggle of the young
unemployed workers; Comrades
Williams and Primoff, who empha-
sized the necessity of Negro and
white workers uniting in the COM
mon struggle against the bosses;
Comrade Murphy, a seaman, who
exposed exploitation in the marine
industry, and Stone, a discharged
post office clerk, who told of the
speed-up and graft in the post Of
flee.
About two hundred workers
marched to the Unemployed Council
headquarters after the meeting, and
took part in a lively discussion. A
worker who was a member of the
socialist" party denounced the
leaders of the bosses third party
and pledged himself to join the
Communist Party and become an
active fighter for the working class.
Numerous workers joined the I'm
employed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Today in History of
the Workers

September 4, 1s33-Baltimore
city central trades union organ
lied. 1S91-Tennessee legislature
voted down bill to abolish convict
lease system. 1S94--12.500 New
York tailors struck against task
work system. 1920 - Railroad
workers of Erfurt, Germany,
destroyed munitions shipped for
war against Soviet Russia. 1928
Berlin "Rote Fahne," COmmu-
mist organ, suppressed for calling
for building of workers defense
hundreds. 1926-5,000 workers on
government railways of Colombia
and longshoremen struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
FALL TERM OF
WORKERS SCHOOL.
Don't Fail to Register
At Once

The fall term of the Workers
School, the central school of the
Communist Party, will open within
three weeks. Registration for the
many carefully selected courses,
which are of immediate interest to
all revolutionary workers, is now
on at the office of the School, 1928
Union Square, fifth floor.
An especially heavy registration
is already indicated in the trade
union courses, and such courses as
Fundamentals of Communism,
MARKHAM Economics, Organization
Principles, Principles of MARKHAM
Leninism, Program Of the Commu-
mist international, History of the
American Labor Movement, ETC.,
which are indispensable to active
revolutionary workers. The same is
true of the courses in Russian,
Spanish and Esperanto. Capable
instructors have been procured by
the Workers School for all these
important courses.
Some of the feature courses t.is
year are: Earl Browder's course in
Problems of Socialist Construc-
tion," NJ. ]. Olgin's two courses in
History OF Glass Struggles Since
1889" and capital, by Marx, Vol.
l." Max Bedacht in History of the
Communist Party U. S. A. Leon
Platt in History of the Communist
International" A. Landy in "Dialec-
tic Materialism," and j. Minded in
History of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union"
The Workers School urges all
workers not to delay registration.
Classes will be limited this year in
order to assure the maximum per-
sonal attention of the instructor to
each student. Call at the office of
the School. 1t is always open. The
director will be glad to discuss your
educational plans and problems
with you and will assist you in Sc
Letting the proper courses. Regis
ter NOW before classes fill up!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Harlem LID. Section
Conference Tonigh t

The Harlem Section of the Inter-
national Labor Defense will hold
Section Conference of all branches
in Harlem on Thursday, Sept. 4,
at p. m. in the Spanish Workers
Center, 26 West 115th St., N.Y.C.
The purpose of the conference will
be to organize section of the LID.
in this territory and take steps to
put the branches here in proper
function basis. All comrades, func-
tionaries on LID. branches in Har-
lem, are urged to attend without
fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Brooklyn Vote Com
munist Club Meet

The first meeting of the Vote
Communist Club organized by Sec
ton 6, Communist Party, will be
held Friday evening, Sept. 5, at 8
p. m. in the Communist Party Sec
ton headquarters, GO Whipple ST.,
corner Broadway, Brooklyn.
Ali workers who agree with the
election platform of the Communist
Party, or who want to become ac-
quainted with it, and all those work
ers who understand the necessity Of
building strong revolutionary
movment, must attend this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
CHANCSHA is
NEAR CAPTURE
New Militarist Govt
Formed in Peking

NEW YORK.-Despite the ar
rival Of 1900 government reinforce
ments, "the capture of Changsha
again by the Reds is considered by
foreign observers to be a matter of
days" according to special cable
dispatch to the New York Times
Tuesday. Since most Of the Nan
king troops are unpaid and mutin-
Gus, whether the reinforcements will
constitute a negative or positive
force for the Marking parasites still
remains to be seen.
In the meantime, the formation of
new government is announced in
Peking, with Yen-hsi-shan, the Shan
81 war lord, as chairman, Feng Yu-
Hsiang, the Christian general and
the cleft" as we'll as right Kuomin-
tang leaders as partners. The Jap
anese imperialists have definitely
put the stamp of its approval on
the government ty allowing three
representatives of the Mukden clique
to take IN ttlee of the most import
ant ministerial portfolios of the gov.
eminent. The notorious DR.. Well
ington Koo, very handsome fellow
destined to play the role of cater
ing to the imperialists in fairy
fashion on behalf of whatever mill
tarist masters he would be serving
at the nlo;nent, has again emerged
as the minister of foreign affairs.
The following period in the rela
tons between the old Marking gov
eminent and the newly formed
Peking government will be a period
of intensified civil war as we'll as
competition for better opportun.
tiles OF serv'iis the imperialist mas
tiers. To put the matter plainly,
the so-called Diplomacy of either one
of the two governments will in no
way be different from the maneu-
vers of two prostitutes, vieing each
other for the leasure of their mas
tiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Sections 2 and 3
Holding Dance Sat.

Saturday, September 6, Sections
2 and 8 will hold joint entertain
ment and dance at the Food Work
ers Hall, 16 West 21st ST., for the
purpose of raising funds for the
Functionaries Training School.
A lively program has been ar
ranged, with dancing, movies and
other entertainment. Admission rs
cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Section Six WOmen's
Red Election Rallies

Section 6 of the Communist Party
has devoted Friday night, Septem-
Der 5, as Woman's Red Election
Night, by arranging five rallies,
where workers will hear the voice
of the revolutionary working
woman in this present election cam
paign.
The central demonstration will
take place at Grand St. Extension,
Brooklyn, TO begin at $3.50 p. m.
Other rallies, all of them starting
at 1880 p. m. and ending $3.50 p. M,
then march to Grand st. Extension,
will take place at Cook and Morrell
Sts., Grand and Robling Sts., Ora
ham and Debovoise Sts., and Fleet
and Myrtle AYES.
All class-conscious workers, and
especially the working women, are
called upon to participate in these
rallies.
=
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Red Dance in Negro
Harlem This Saturday

A Red Dance will be given Sat
urday night, September 6, at 308
Lenox Ave-, for the benefit of the
Functionaries Training School in
the district. Good music and tasty
refreshments are promised. All
workers invited. Admission 35
cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
LID. Calls For
Volunteer Workers

Volunteers wanted to assist with
office work. Comrades are urged
to report at once to National Office
of the international Labor Defense,
so East 18th St., Room 430.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Communist Activities

Y.CL. Bronx Section
Comrades in LY.D. program come
for rehearsal today at p. m.
Outdoor meetings before I.Y.D. af-
fair: Unit 1, 163rd st. and Prospect
Ave; Units 3 and 4, 14gth st. and
Prospect Ave: Units and 6, 163rd
st. and Southern Blvd: meetings
from s to ., then proceed to Central
Rally, 149th st. and Prospect Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
SECTION 7 MEMBERSHIP MEET

All comrades of Section Z must be
present at the membership meeting
tonight at As Bay 2Sth St., Brook
Ign. A representative from the dis
trict will give report on very i'm
portant organizational questions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mOnd. in prison foI fighting
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04

CREMONA, 1taly.--Women with
children in their arms, Joined the
unemployed demonstrations here
for Work or Bread" The police
brutally attacked the workers dem.
onstrating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
Fire r. X. Shopmen.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Sept. 3.
The Milwaukee r. R. shops here
have had constant lay-off of men
resulting from the economic crisis.
On Aug. 20 another 200 men were
laid off from car and machine de-
partments. The takers of the
Brotherhood Union" have approved
this, and it is expected that in the
near future there will be another
lay-off in the same shop.
The Trade Union Unity League
has held shop gate meetings and
also issued special leaflets to the
workers in the Milwaukee shops.
The workers of the Milwaukee shop
are learning that the A. F. l..
unions are nothing but company
unions and that the only militant
organization is the Railroad Indus
trial League, which is affiliated
with the T. U. U. L., and they are
joining up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
NEGRO REVOLTS
At JOB CRAFT
Cruel Fleeing of the
Unemployed

INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, Sept.
3.-Hundreds beseige the employ
ment office Of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co. here. The
workers still inside are "all popped
up" over a rumor circulated by the
management that they are going to
work four days a week instead of
three.
One "Steve" of the company's
employment department has been
selling jobs to Negro and Mexican
jobless workers for 81 each. The
men work couple of days and are
fired, without reason given. "Steve''
is now in the hospital pretty badly
beaten up. The story is that a Ne
gro treated in the usual fashion de-
manded either his money or his job
be returned to him, and when told
he couldn't have either, "took it out
of Stoves hide" The T. U. u. L.
is agitating for organized action
instead Of such spontaneous in
dividual revolts.