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UP the Negro worker replied that he
was incapacftated for eight days with
no pay. This worker was one of
number unloading fat car OF lumber.
A switch engine backed against it,
throwing this worker to the ground.
The cable on another car broke Just
as it was hauling up lumber. The lum-
Der struck the worker, breaking his
jaw in two places as well as his arm.
He was laid up in an hospital for six
weeks. The doctor told him he would
not be able to work for six months.
The claims agent of the railroad
sent for him, while he was in the
hospital. He offered him SIS as a
final settlement. When the Negro
worker refused to accept, the claims
agent told him he would have him dis
charged from the hospital and thrown
into the street. He was put out Of the
hospital.
The worker, Of course, had neither
money nor home.
When employees Of the Seaboard Air
line come to stores to do their shop
ping their foremen are with them. The
foreman does the purchasing with
their money which he carries in his
own pocket. .ig4..
Owing to-. the fact. that they have
been refused opportunities to go to
primary schools many of these work
ers cannot figure out the cost of two
or three small articles. The foreman
does this for them and returns to
them, at the end of the week, what he
considers is due them.
Subdivision Head Exploits Negro.
A landowner started development
of subdivision of swampy land far
removed from the city. The Negro
workers doing this work had to live
there. After weeks work they would
receive their pay. Invariably they re-
turned to the city never to 60 back.
This held up rapid development of
the subdivision. So in order to make
them stay the landlord adopted on old
but effective plan. He would send a
worker to deliver bottle of bootleg
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the working class districts and the
summer months she spent in the thick
woods Of South Western Ukraine.
In the Golden" country she works
in living tomb for a starvation wage,
standing all day long on her feet. She
forgot the color of the sky and the
shine Of the sun, and in addition to all
that, that ignoramus Of a supervisor
keeps abusing her. He scolds her for
the most trivial things and is SO rude
in his manner, she would not have
talked that way to the maid in her
fathers home, she said.
Learns from Experience.
NOW" she cried, II understand
what 1t means to be proletarian and
what is meant by exploitation. I'm
ready to crush those exploiters. There
is not any evil thing / would not in
fict upon the bosses. Now I'm not
only a socialist, I'm even a bolshe-
vik."
Eyes" | thot, You are not the only
one who has lead the life OF a parasite
in your native country and in the
golden land" came to the understand
ing Of what is right What the boil.
shevlks could not do by agitation.
American capitalism will accomplish
by exploitation" ~aesf b.
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CLOAKMAKERS
MAY STRIKE IN
MONTH OF June
Governors Committee
Exposes Conditions
BY eoLDlE cHIBkA
Worker Correspondentl

NEW YORK, May 1O.-Two reports
have recently been issued by the
bureau of research, which the special
governors committee has established,
showing that the average cloakmaker
earns $3.50 a week in the sub-manu-
featuring shop and $50 in the inside
shop.
The cloakmakers have been en-
ployed 37.4 weeks in the inside shop
and 1855 weeks in the submarines
turing shop during the year of 1925.
This research bureau is under the
supervision of Professor l.. Rogers.
The reports have been prepared by
the main statistician, Morris Coltchin.
These reports have been issued after
a long and careful study of condi-
lions in the cloak industry.
Only a minority of the cloakmakers
are employed in the inside shops. The
majority of the trade receive the low
wage of $3.50 a week working in the
sub-manufacturing shops.
The investigation committee agrees
that there Is a tendency for condi-
tons to become worse.
At the last hearing before the gov
ernor's committee in Albany, a few
weeks ago, the industrial council Of
the cloak manufacturers stated that
the workers are soldering on the job.
The reports now show that the neces-
sary cloaks are made by the workers
in % weeks. The rest Of the year,
the cloakmakers are unemployed and
condemned to starve with their fam
lilies.
The cloakmakers, $4,000 to 10000 in
number, expect a general strike in
New York this June. Their agreement
expires then.
The cloakmakers know that just as
in other industries it will only be
possible to better conditions by using
the workers most effective weapon
against the bosses-the general strike.
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BY KATE WoLoDARskY,
Worker correspondentl

(Reprinted from the first Living
Newspaper in the English language,
Chicago.)
About twenty out of a few hundred
inspectors employed in Mandel Broth.
ers' department store are stationed in
the packing room in the third base
ment. That place is living tomb,
tho the superintendent insists that the
third subway is the best spot in the
house" An odor OF underground
dampness and deafening noise of
machinery strikes one the moment he
gets down there.
Hell" In MandeI Bros.
The working crew consists Of for
eign-born, Americans who are being
Disseminated against by the bosses
and the privileged few who rule over
their .co-workers. The following lit.
tie story will complete the picture Of
Mandeps packing room.
When the supervisor assigns an in
spector Of one Of the upper floors to
the packing room the rest OF the EN-.
ployes alphabetically say: "Poor
girl. she Is being sent to the HE'LL"
On one Of my frequent visits to the
"helle ! met young woman who re-
Gently came from Russia to escape
the Bolshsviks. This woman had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS
FROM THE SOVIET UNION
MARIUPOL PORT
INCREASES ITS
TRADE RAPIDLY
BY IVAN EREMEITcHIk

MOSCOW, U, s. S. R., May 10. -
Since last year Mariupol port has con-
siderably revived, Where half destroy
ed ships were formerly standing
where the only thing being construct
ed was dock, now smoke is waiting
up from scores of foreign and Russian
steamers, while old vessels are being
repaired. Eight huge cranes with a
capacity of 80 tons an hour have COM
menced work.
Great scoops filled with coal are dis
charged with a rumble into the gaping
hold of some foreigner" Under a
network Of electric wires one hears
the incessant murmur OF electric mo-
tors which have replaced the man
power of dockers. Wagons roll, carts
creak. Powerful mechanical leaders
charge the steamers with grain rythm-
lcally, people hustle along the gang
ways, the hold ofsthe steamer is rapid
ly filled with golden wheat.
Trade Grows Greater.
The trade of the port is growing.
This year 235,000 tons of coal have
been exported (last year $4,000 tons) A.,
$1,000 tons of grain whilst altogether
205,00O tons will be exported Gas
against 10000 tons last year, No
less than rs foreign steamers have ar
rived and departed with cargoes
whereas last year there were only %;
at the present there are 16 Italian,
Greek, and other steamers in the port
which win bear away our Soviet coal
and corn to foreign ports.
And at eventide when the lamps are
lit up, and when the lights Of the
town glimmer in the hills in the dis
lance, the port workers slip off to
the clubs and theater from which the
foreign seamen cannot even be driv-
en- out with a7stick," as the saying
has it.
Seamen Greets Soviet Union.
Foreign seamen who have come to
Russia for the first time are bewilder-
ed, but afterwards, as was the case at
the opening Of the metal Workers"
Club, a seaman from a British ship,
Comrade F. fell on his knees be-
fore the Red banner and embracing
it, said in his lown tongue-"At the
first call of the workers l shall march
against the capitalists. l greet the
Soviet power, envy the workers of
the Soviet Union. The Red Flag lives
in my tormented heart and l kiss it
with tears"
Not whisper could be heard in the
hall. His words went to much to the
heart that they will long remain in
the memory of those who heard him.
Those who have already visited
Russia before say to us-"How rapidly
you are building. Last year it took
months to load our ship and now
and the speaker gesticulates with
establishment.
Yes, we are building. We are get
ting stronger -. and the smoke
rising up from the 16 steamers load
ing in our port every day is a proof
Of this.
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travelled thru many countries till she
reached the Golden one" the United
States Of America. Here six months.
she could hardly make herself under
stood In the English language.
When ] met her she was excitedly
telling something to the boys and
girls who worked near her. They did
not UNDERESTIMATE ne word of what
she had said and her excited outburst
brot forth smiles which they exchang-
ed with each other. could not re-
main Indifferent to the woman's
trouble and asked her in her own
language what had happened.
A torrent of words flowed from the
woman's mouth. She forgot that the
boss was standing near, she forgot
about the danger Of losing her Job, the
words were choking her and she
poured them out.
Belonged to Russia Bourpeolsie.
The woman was a dentist by pro-
fession. Raised in a well.to-do family,
she had the opportunity to take up
cultural studies in addition to her pro-
fession. She liked languages best and
thanks to that there was no environ
ment in which she did not feel at
home. fgifl
Needless to add she had never ex-
perienced physical labor, nor subord.
nation. She always lived far from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Avella Miners Hold
May Day Meeting
BY a Worker Correspondent.

AVELLA, Pa, May 10. - In Avella
approximately LOO miners are out of
work. 400 are working two days a
week. Avella is a small mining town
with no other industries. The Workers
(Communist) Party and the Young
Workers (Communist) League held a
meeting at which several hundred
miners attended. There was great en-
thusiasm at the May Day meeting.
Comrade Papcun member of the ma
tional executive committee of the
Young Workers (Communist) League
spoke at length on the British strike.
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"whiskey' to another camp. On the
way a man with a sheriff's badge
would overtake and arrest him.
Then the foreman would appear.
The man with the badge would release
the worker in return for 5000 paid by
the foreman and the worker would re-
turn to the. camp to work out that
amount. over him, of course, would
hang the threat of jail if he ran away.
Child Labor.
Child labor is common in the South.
Little Negro girls ten years of age do
domestic work in homes of people
from eight in the morning until eight
at night, the weekly wage running
from 81 to $40 a week without room
or board.
Little Negro boys, of the same age,
work as ice wagon helpers from $50
in the morning until 4:3O in the after
noon every day in the week, including
Sundays, for less than $40 a week.
The, Negro worker. however, is not
the only person exploited in Tampa.
Workers, Conditions.
Street car. operators of "one man
cars" for, example. get AZ cents an
hour for a 12shour. day every day in
the week. When an effort was made to
organize them is men were summary
discharged. sHw sa
The cigar. industry, the most i'm
portant single industry in Florida, is
completely demoralged.
The average cigarmaker makes SIS
a week despite, the fact that the cost
of living Is murai higher than in the
larger northern cities. The cigar
makers are very poorly organized.
Civic employees are no exception to
the rule. City iaborers received a cut
in wages with a threat that If they
did not speed up they would receive
another cut OF 1870
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Being -stenographic report of great (?) Madison
Street debate between Pike and Ike (ho if they
aIke?) photographs stolen from Bill Chopper.
PIKE: "Didja hear about it Ike?"
IKE: "Yeh- know it. The Reds at it again."
PIKE; AT -man, they're sendn' people to Rooshia
prize Can va beat it7" y tttt
IKE: "Yeh-and the government was foolish enough a
couple years ago to send them there FIR nothn."
Pike "And they're gvin' away book of cartoons with
every years sub to their paper"
eminent"
PIKE; sure and they're also gvin away fancy bust
RI gNin all bust alrigh-rght in the eye That's Ike
always fr the government"
IKE; That's too. Say, loan two-bts for coffee
and sinkers will ya?"
PIKE: Can't-I'm broke"
IKE so m hungry too. And they say the get all
the eats they want in Rooshia. cripes-it's helI'
PIKE; The more you talk the hungrer get. Say. maybe
it amt so bad in Rooshia."
IKE "WeI-maybe II aint" sl8
PIKE: Yeh-and the Reds here gon send some lucky
sim to Moscow rdn the cushions all the way with round
trip meal ticket to work Can you beat it?"
IKE " always said ke-them Reds is liable TO do any,
thirg!" ~ " w any,
At this point cop urged them long" which
convinced both Ike and Pike that this is free countrv
eve IT you do have to pay for lunch,
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Twenty-Six Years Around Barber Chair
By M. PERLIN, Worker Correspondent.

English chaso)
is thireight
old his father
could the in his
fifteen
a full fedged barber.
heightened Morrison
tweni the rich people, until
az sick with tuberculosis.
wndfeld santarium
Chicago The BARRIERS, taking
give a bed.
twenty
six ~
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South Bend Holds
May Day Celebration
By a Worker correspondent

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 5. - The
workers Of South Bend celebrated
May Day with demonstration that
started Sunday afternoon at o'clock
and lasted until 10 o'clock at night.
Speakers in English, Hungarian and
Lithuanian told of the significance of
May Day A dramatic sketch was pre-
scented by the Hungarian Workers
Educational Club.
J. e. Snyder, ably described the gal
liant fight of the $4,000 Passaic tex
tile workers against the textile bar
ons. He also brought out the need
of the industrial workers cooperating
with the farmers to fight their COM
mon exploiters.
AS the celebration was going on in
one room, in another workers were
bringing in their lists with money
they had collected for the benefit Of
the Passadc strikers. Many had spent
May Day collecting relief funds for the
strikers.
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UNEMPLOYMENT
INCREASES IN
INDIANAPOLIS
Chamber of Commerce
Hides Real Facts
BY a Worker Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 10.-The
Indianapolis chamber Of commerce has
organized booster club. The cham
Der Of commerce is getting alarmed
over industrial conditions in the city.
They are at their wits end to know
what to do to keep the residents from
leaving and thus adding hundreds of
empty houses to the thousands that
are now empty.
This body has started a national
campaign to advertise the city and
bring people here. They seek to make
a city h(ving population Of million.
Newspaper Publicity Bunk.
The out-of-town worker who reads
this bunk no doubt thinks that there
is a great boom and lots of work in
this city. Any worker who thinks of
coming here to secure work should
investigate little before changing his
residence. This newspaper bunk is
lot of rot.
Indianapolis is in about the worst
condition industrially of any city in
the country of its class and has been
this way for some time.
Real estate sharks and business men
are trying to do everything possible
to keep the people from a general
stampede to other cities. One firm
in the moving business moved the
household goods of fourteen families
to Cincinnati alone in one week.
Many Plants Idle.
Several large plants have been va
Gated and have been idle for many
months. Among these are the Mid.
West Engine Works plant. the Nation.
al Motors company, Cole Motor Works
and the Westinghouse plant Many
factories are only running part time.
The big Presto Light company has
been running only three days week.
The Beemis Bag company has been
working four days a week four hours
a day. This corporation has Is fac
tories in other cities. 1t employs TO-
600 workers in India where the jute
comes from to make the bags.
Lay-off Workers.
The Kingan Packing company dis
charged 300 workers and cut the
wages Of those remaining about 80 per
cent. 1t is said the Weidley Motor
Works will go out of business. The
Stevenson Gear company recently quit
business. Another large factory is
preparing to leave the city.
Dozens of empty houses stand
around every factory. Sometimes
dozen in a block
Wages Low.
These are but a few reasons why
wage workers should stay away from
Indianapolis. Unskilled workers get
as low as 20 cents an hour. Many
restaurants only pay $40 week for a
12-hour day. Some restaurants only
pay IS or So a week for dishwashers.
Wages are low but the cost of liv-
ing is just as high as 1t is anywhere
else. Many workers who have been
out of work for many months have
become respondent. Some have COM
mitted suicide. Suicide cases are very
frequent.
Despite these facts the newspapers
continue to shout to the workers that
things are fine and that they are get
ting better and better all of the time.
The inference is that a boom is just
ahead. The reader here doesn't notice
any signs of a boom and many are
getting hungry waiting for it to come.
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May Organize six Workers.

HAZLEToN, Pa (FP)-T Unit
ed Mine Workers Union and the Unit.
ed Textile Workers may soon be CO.
operating in a campaign to organize
the silk workers in the small towns of
this anthracite district. Most of the
local silk workers are the women rela-
tives of union mine workers.
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Open your eyesI Look aroundl
There are the stories Of the workers.
struggles around you begging to be
written up. Do Ill Send It inl Write
as you fiahtI
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Union Printers Hold
Baseball Tournament
in St. Louis, Aug. 21-27
BY a Worker Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 1O.-The
annual baseball tournament OF the
Union Printers International Base
ball League will be held in st. Louis
August Il to 81. Teams representing
twelve different cities in the United
States and Canada are to participate.
New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis, Bos-
ton, st. Paul, Washington, Toronto,
Pittsburgh and Detroit will be repre-
scented. The st. Louis games will be
played at the University of st. Louis
baseball field. An elaborate enter
tainment program is also planned for
the fans of the twelve cities.
"say It with your pen In the worker
correspondent page Of The DAILY
WORKER
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NEW YORK CITY
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Evening star., 1926-11-14

December to travel in India until the
late Spring.
Miss Aida Henriques will sail for
Rome Wednesday, December l, to
spend the Winter. Miss Henriques
spent last Winter in Rome, where she
has many friends.
Mrs. j. Davis Brodhead will sail
Monday, December 8. to spend the
Winter in Rome.
Mrs. John Robert Ash will close her
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel
Tuesday and will leave for the Vir-
ginia Hot Springs. where she will re-
main until Christmas. She will then
60 to Buffalo, where her niece, Miss
Mary Pierce, will be presented to so
ciety on December 27, and, after
spending the holidays there, will leave
for Florida for the rest Of the Winter.
Mrs. f.. Sonneborn had as her guest
Tor the past week her sister.in-la law,
Mrs. A. Wiener OF Baltimore, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ash arrived
yesterday on the Rotterdam after a
months honeymoon in Europe and
are established in their apartment at
the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Ash
was before her marriage, on October
5. Miss Frances Halliburton Luna of
Dallas. Tex.
Mrs. Henry Jones Ford has given
up her apartment at the Calverton
and has taken one Of the residential
suites at the Chastleton Hotel, Six
teenth and K streets.
Miss Frances Jennings Davis,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William F.
Davis, who, with her mother, re-
Gently returned from Europe, where
they spent the Summer and early
FALL Is visiting her brother in law
and sister, Lieut.. and Mrs. Harry H.
Keith, U. S. n. Miss Davis Is a
graduate Of George Washington Uni
Evening star., 1926-11-14
Handicraft of Pupils
Feature School Benefit

Much interest has been shown in
the annual Pi Beta Phi bridge benefit
for the Settlement School at Gatlin-
burg. Tenn, to be held tomorrow
afternoon at the Willard Hotel. There
will be. in addition to bridge, a dis.
play of the handicraft of the school,
where all the old-time mountain in
dustries are being encouraged. Among
those who have reserved tables for
the event are Mrs. George w. Trow-
bridge, Mrs. Dale Drain, Mrs Robert
Yard, Mrs. John Beavers. Mrs. Rich.
ard Claughton. Mrs. Reginald Geare,
Mrs. Frank Nesbit, Mrs. p. D. Park
inson, Mrs. Otto Veerhoff, Mrs. Sid
ney Taliaferro. Mrs. Paul Lesh, Mrs.
Joseph Mcintosh, Miss Helen Eakin,
Miss Flora Johnson, Mrs. George
Smallwood. Mrs. Dewitt Croissant,
Mrs. D. K. Shute. Mrs. Alex H. Ok.
holm, Mrs. Clyde Asher. Mrs. Will.
sor& Compton, Mrs. Harry c. Grove,
Mrs George Clarke Ober and Mrs.
Karl Loos
Evening star., 1926-11-14

Continued from Fifth Page.)
Evening star., 1926-11-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. Nolan, who
have been with Mrs. Nolan's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar S. Adams, 325
Seventh street northeast, since their
marriage at the Cathedral in Balti-
more, July IL. will tomorrow go to the
home of his mother, Mrs Walter D.
Nolan, at 1882 Thirteenth street north
west, where they will be at home to
their friends.
Evening star., 1926-11-14
Mrs. Bisselle Entertains
For Prospective Bride

Mrs. H. T. Bisselle entertained
Thursday evening at her home at 1901
Massachusetts avenue for Miss Doro-
thy Overstreet, 1926 Buchanan street,
whose marriage to Mr.. Howard Lord
will take place Wednesday. Mrs. Bis
seues guests included Miss Marion
Drown, Miss Eleanor Judd. Miss
Louise Mcdowell, Miss Elizabeth
Hobbs, Miss Helen Houghton, Miss
Freed, Miss Mary Harrison, Miss
Frances Shea, Mrs. Floyd Baker. Mrs.
Ernest Martin, Mrs. Malcolm Graham,
Miss Kitty Bryant, Miss Helen Stouta-
myer and Miss Toussaint Dubois.
Evening star., 1926-11-14
Miss Francis Honors
Mrs. Paul p. Steintorf

Miss Virginia G. Francis enter
tanned at a bridge shower Friday eve
ming in her home on Varnum street
in compliment to Mrs. Paul Prentiss
Steintorf, who was formerly Miss
Dorothy G. Parker. Mrs. Steintorf
is the wife of the scently appointed
American trade commissioner of the
United States embassy in Toxic,
Japan, and they will leave Washington
for that country within a few days.
Other guests included Miss Anne
Boyle and Miss Bebe Boyle, Miss
Frances Fort, Miss Helen Myers, Mrs.
Lawrence w. Cain. Miss Elizabeth
Wilkins. Miss Nancye King and Miss
Katherine Francis.