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, 1927-05-04
THE CODY BRoNC
Edited and contributed by the Cody
High School
SENIOR CLASS PLAY
PROVES GREAT SUCCESS

The Senior Glass play Miss
Somebody Else proved a success
from every standpoint. Every
character was well portrayed and
Jane Carlow ably took the part
of the leading lady. Her Irish
brogue was inimitable. Freda
Worst received a generous laugh
from the audience every time she
came on the stage. Earl Cogswell
was splendid as the hero. Doris
Downing was a petite little French
maid. Louise Hardin was a giddy
little flapper. Dallas Scholes was
a perfect crook.
Everyone did his best and the
play was certainly a credit to the
Senior class and to the high school.
A special feature of the program
was a Russian Comedy dance by
ten girls. They were trained by
Miss Kollmyer and both their cos
tunes and the dance we're most
effective.
Much credit should be given to
Miss Shriver who made the play
such a uccess
, 1927-05-04
CLARK FORK

Mrs. Alice Trumbo is working
at C1ark for a time.
Mrs. NJ. Doyle went to Bear
creek Thursday by stage returning
the foIloming day.
Eli Marlin is just recovering
from an attack of measles.
WILDER Bum and Chris Weather
man. have been doing some needed
repair work on the bridges and
roads from the state line to Clark.
Word was received this week of
the death of an uncle of Mrs. H e.
Simpson whom died of spotted fe-
yer this being the seventh death
in Mrs Simpsons family in the past
yea The sympathy of the Clark
community goes put to the family
at this sad news.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Hopkins
motored to Belfry Tuesday. Mrs.
Hopkins called at the w. e. Hogan
home on her return.
Leola Hogan has been confined
to her bed for two weeks with 1
nervous break down. At this writ
ing she is improving some.
C. A. C. Snow has been quite
poorly. He spent several days in
Bear creek. The past week under
the doctors care.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. b. Turmoil mo-
tored to Billings Monday.
Miss Nora Luttrell is spending
the week end at the A. D. VIII
kinson home.
Willard Hogan motored to Red
Lodge Tuesday to attend the funer-
al OF his cousin, Mr.. Mamie
Schrader. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Hogan.
Mrs p Johnson and Eric Alanko
motored TO Red Lodge Friday.
The party at Pioneer school
house given by Miss Helen Peter
o Friday night was well attended
and all report a good time.
, 1927-05-04

Bryon Wogoman is working on
his homestead these days.
, 1927-05-04
THE BELL OF BARCELONA

The Belle OF Barcelona" under
the direction of Miss Reeves. is to
be presented Friday, May the 9Th.
The a s is as follows:
Margareta de Montero. Elizabeth
Thurston; Harold Wright. WILDER
scholes; Senior de la Vega. Orlando
Major; Mercedes de Montero,
Louise Hardin; Emilio. Basil Nor.
rison; Patrick Malone. Opal Rector;
Martha Mathilde Ayres, Florence
James; Pedro. Van Howell; Mar
celia, Carla Wagar; Senior de Mon
tero. Mary Gonion; Senior de Mon
tero. Paul Starr; Anita. Ruby wor-
rell;Don Juan, Donald Snyder; Don
Jose. Ben Newcomer; Captain Col
ton. Jack Pierce; Chorus. Spanish
Students. Marines.
Admission will be so cents and
Is cents and there viii be no re-
served seats.
, 1927-05-04
CRANDALL

We believe that spring has fin
ally arrived. the snow is going fast
water running, blue birds and rob
bins singing, the gophers and bears
out. so We are hoping spring is
here.
Mt and Mrs. Author Braten are
the proud parents of a baby girl
who arrived Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. P. Dodds were
recent guests at the Braten home.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Wogoman Were
recent guests at the Alexander
home.
Mrs. Marvin met with quite an
accident one day last week falling
, 1927-05-04

on the ice. hurting her back quite
badly. Mrs. Oliver was called to
her rescue and took care of her
while Bert carried the mail.
Ed. Warren has been at the Oh
liver ranch a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder are expected
in Thursday.
, 1927-05-04
SNAPSHOTS

A track meet, between Valley and
Cody. will be held Wednesday after
noon at three o'clock on the Cody
athletic field.
, 1927-05-04

Reverend Upton has been chosen
deliver the class sermon on May
18th, at the Methodist church
, 1927-05-04

Wonder when the Seniors viii
have their Sneak Day?"
, 1927-05-04

The Senior graduation announce
ments have arrived.
, 1927-05-04

Try our classified column. You
Will find 1t pays.
, 1927-05-04

Gladys Horner. of the Glass OF
rs who has been teaching at the
Two Dot school, is confined at
home because of illness. The Nor
NAL Training girls are substituting
for her at her school.
, 1927-05-04

Mr.. Hampshire has been put of
school for a few days because Of a
cold.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20
.BALT0. BAT Ties
BLUE LAWS

BALTIMORE, Sept. 20.-Members
of the Liberty Defense League.
holding rally at Beadle's Park,
Middle River, passed resolutions
declaring war upon all blue laws,
including the more stringent OF the
Sunday observance statutes and
ordinances.
A new effort to test them in
court is to be considered.
Former Representative 10 h n
Philip Hill, President John g. Cal
Ian of the league and others spoke.
The basis of action, the speakers
explained. was a legal opinion rem
dered to the league by attorney
Paul Boyd Mules. This reviewed
the history of blue laws in Mary.
land ais far back as 1928, when the
first statutes against work on Sum-
day were enacted.
Tells OF Arrests
Mr.. Mules, discussing the man.
ner in which the professional base
ball parks manage to run Sunday
games while motion picture houses
are not permitted to operate, said:
Legally they have no right to
operate, but prior to 1922 the own
ers of the baseball clubs had the
courage to open their parks on sew.
eral occasions, and they or their
servants and employees were
promptly arrested.
Several grand juries or petit ju-
ries. however, refused to indict and
convict them. The Police Com.
missioner of Baltimore thereupon
ceased the arrests and several cit
izens, including Robert L. Graham
and others, petitioned the City
Court for q mandamus to compel
the Police Commissioner to continue
to arrest.
This mandamus was denied and
the case was taken to the Court Of
Appeals where the lower court was
sustained
Mr.. Mules advised that il mem
bers Of the league should open a
motion-picture house or q bowling
alley on Sunday they would I'M
doubtedly be arrested, but would
have the right to demand trial by
jury and, in the event Of conviction,
the right Of appeal.
The league decided to consider
ways to test the law along these
lines IL proprietors of q picture
house and bowling alley could be
found who would cooperate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20

arrested for violation of parole ana
escaped.
Warden Lawes received a letter
from a friend OF FREDERICK, asking
what consideration would be shown
tor a voluntary surrender. The war.
den got word to the writer that he
would not dicker with an escaped
convict, but added that fugitive
who surrenders usually receives some
consideration
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20
Refuses to Help Convict
Spouse She Has Accused

LANCASTER, Pa, Sept. 20.--
Three months ago Mrs. Alice Ket.
Ter told the police that her husband.
William Keller, and William
Schwebel, friend. robbed the
Sensenich coal office while she
stood on watch outside.
She refused to testify III court
against her husband, ana denied
the former allegations on the ground
that she was drunk when making
them. A jury freed Keller. but
both the wife and SchwebeI were
convicted.
SchWebel was sentenced to from
two to four years In prison, ana the
sentence Of Mrs. Keller held under
advisement. Every previous con
fession made by the woman was
repudiated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20
Driver Is Badly Burned
AS He Saves q Tractor

NoRRISToWN. Pa, Sept. 90
While Simon overly. of Upper
Hanover township. was driving a
tractor and threshing apparatus
along the road. he discovered that
his trousers were ablaze. He left
his seat and tried to beat out the
flames. and then saw several cans
Of gasoline on the rear Of the
tractor burning.
Unmindful Of the danger, Overly
directed his attention to saving the
tractor and threw the gasoline cans
away, but was badly burned on the
arms and legs,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20
Famed Hunting Guide
Ends Life With Gun

TONS RIVER. n. J., Sept TO-
Benjamin Saunders. of Forked
River, one Of the most famous hunt
ing guides on Barnegat Bay. com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself
in the throat with a shotgun.
Saunders was so years old and
had been in i'll health five months.
A broomstick was used to fire the
gun.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20
Sing Sing Fugitive
Voluntarily Gives Up

NEW YORK. Sept. 2O.-James
FREDERICK, 26. who escaped from
Sing Sing keeper in Grand Central
Terminal 19 months ago, win be re.
turned to the prison today.
FREDERICK was convicted in Brook
lyn in 1922 of having received stolen
property. fIe was lparoled, but later
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-20

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Housing Scheme to
Net Large Returns
For Big Investors

Tammany's Board of Estimate,
without a dissenting vote, okayed its
own plan for wholesale "condemna-
ton" of east side Stun property, by
means of which the administration
favorites will be able to dispose of
low-valued property and receive high
prices from the city's treasury. All
this will be done by means of con-
domination proceedings soon to be
legalized by the Walker bill. For
purposes of camouflage this is known
as housing PLAN
After all these years Tammany
has suddenly become aware Of the
congested and unsanitary state of
affairs on Allen Street and vicinity.
This sudden awareness is manifest in
Walkers preamble presented to the
Board Of Estimate. 1t reads, where
as it is now generally recog-
nized that congested and unsanitary
housing conditions which exist in
certain parts of the city of New
York are a serious menace to the
health, welfare and comfort of the
people of the whole city;
Whereas such conditions have
arisen for the most part on those
older portions of the city which are
marked by dark, narrow streets and
by the absence of park, playground
and other open spaces and
so on.
Safe Bet.
Under the new law which makes
possible excess condemnation" pro-
ceedings, Paul Block, August Heck
scher and other capitalists will build
new tenement properties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Can't Exile Misher
But Hold His Bond:
Suit to Cancel Il
(By Civil Liberties Union)

The practice of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor in refusing to cancel
the bail bonds in the cases of nom de-
portable aliens is being attacked by
attorneys for the American Civil Lib
critics Union in test case involving
Tgnatz Misher, a Russian
Misher cannot be deported to Rus
STA because the United States does
not recognize the government of that
country. In the meantime, the bail
bond given for his appearance is be-
ing held by the government.
Proceedings have been brought
against the Secretary of Labor and
the Commissioner of immigration at
Ellis Island for the cancellation of the
bond furnished by Isaac Srorr and
the return of the collateral security
deposited with the bond The United
States attorney moved to dismiss the
complaint as insufficient in law.
Judge William Bondy of the U. S.
District Court denied the motion. 1t
now remains to be seen what the
government will do as it is considered
virtually impossible for them to deny
any of the allegations of the COM
plant. The government has been
given until August IL to answer and
it will not be known exactly what the
situation is until then.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
1000 At Tenth St.

Twelve hundred workers assem-
bled at Tenth st. and Second Ave.
and listened to speeches by J. Louis
Engdahl, editor of The DAILY
WORKER, Roger Franeison, Rose
Baron, William w. Weinstone and
Ludwig Lore. A Spesems was chair
man.
Engdahl pointed out that if the 49,
100000 workers of this country were
united they would constitute an ir-
resistible power. The weakness of
American labor is shown in part by
the fact that the leaders of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor are not in
the struggle to save Sacco and VAN
zetti.
Green and Woll," continued Eng
dahl, "are too busy fighting against
militant workers to help in the move
ment to save the lives of our two
comrades. The fight we now are car
rying on is not only to save Sacco
and Vanzetti but, also for Tom
Mooney and Warren X. Billings and
all imprisoned working class Lead
ers. 1t is part of the whole work.
ing class struggle against the capi-
talist oppressors.
Engdahl also told Of demonstra-
tions for Sacco and Vanzetti in the
Soviet Union, how in all European
countries monster meetings have
been held In every country except
the Soviet Union they have been for
Sacco and Vanzetti and against the
respective governments. In the
Soviet Union they have been for Sac
co and Vanzetti and for the workers
and peasants government of Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
AUTO LABOR CONDITIONS AS STATED IN HAND BOOK
OF u s. BUREAN ARE BAD AND GROW WORSE

WASHINGTON, July 81. - The
corps of organizers, now in Detroit
planning union strategy in their cam
paign to line up the auto workers in
the American Federation of Labor,
will find a handy statistical guide
book to labor conditions in the indus
try in the bureau of labor statistics,
wages and Hours in the Motor We
hicle Industry: 1926" just published.
In contrast to the problem of the
United Textile Workers in meeting
the union needs of a depressed, low
wage occupation, Smith and his coad-
tutors face one of the worlds most
vigorous and alert industries; with
wages substantially above the general
average. In 1925, the average male
worker made $36.67, against the gen
eral industrial average of about $50;
the bureau reports. .--
Wages Low. "'
What an auto workers union can
do for the 100000 men and women in
that field is shown however by COM
parison with the union level of hours
and wages in the United States.
Against the auto average of 72 cents
an hour place the union average of
S1.15 and against the auto average of
80 hours week place the union aver
age of 45. Even the ding men, who
smooth out defects in tenders and
hoods and are the highest paid of all
auto crafts, made only $1.03 an hour,
considerably lower than the average
union mechanics wage. Auto labor
ers, at the bottom of the pay ladder,
get only 81 cents an hour.
Unemployment.
There is sharply fluctuating en-
ployment in autos. That a worker
averages $3667 a week by no means
indicates that his yearly wage will
be fifty times that amount. Instead,
there is the disastrous Ford shutdown
of 1927, which has thrown at least
$4,000 men out of work. The bureaus
charts show other disastrous sinking
spells in 1922 and 1924, Seasonal I'M
employment is great, too, although
many big Detroit firms are keeping
their labor forces together in off sea-
sons by reducing the work week to
5, and 3 days. These fluctuations
do not appear in the bureaus en-
ployment graphs but they are acutely
apparent in the payroll curves.
Another disturbing factor which an
auto workers union can correct is the
tendency toward increase in hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Daily Worker Builders
Make Successful Boat
Trip to Michigan City

CHICAGO, July 31.-Three hun
bred and fifty friends of The DAILY
WORKER and the Young Worker
took the boat trip to Michigan City
Sunday, July 18th.
Comrade Ella Reeves Bloor and
Hammersmark headed the procession
from the boat to the park, carrying a
prize DAILY WORKER banner (red)
followed by Gil Greenberg, his wife
Lillian and a young army of Young
Workers who insisted on singing the
Red Flag in the city of X. X. KS
The older comrades followed behind
as usual
So well did some of our active COM
rades enjoy themselves that at least
half dozen said: "This is perfection
why live longer-after this the
deluge" and so fitting their actions
to their words, tried to end it all while
in swimming at Michigan City. A
few life savers, not knowing how our
comrades felt about the matter, pulled
them out in time to save few good"
votes for the convention.
Modest Paul Refs refused to act as
so after opening the meet
ing, by having the comrades sing the
International, Sam Hammersmark
had chance to give Paul credit for
the good work done by him, making
the excursion a success and, after
telling about the possibilities of a
DAILY WORKER Builders club, in
troduced Mother Ella Reeves Bloor,
who gave a short but inspiring talk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Depression Grips
All Massachusetts,
Unemployment Bad
By A. ALDEN.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 81
An industrial slump has hit Western
Massachusetts. In some cities about
a third of appropriation is on the
verge of starvation, the textile work
ers being the worst sufferers. In
Western Massachusetts, there is very
little organization in any industry.
Even political and fraternal labor or
CARNATIONS are few.
The city of Springfield this year is
its 10Th birthday in a
time of depression unparalleled IN rs
years. Mr.. F. Gatales, president of
the Central Labor Union states that
Approximately 10000 men and
women in the city are out of work
and cannot find jobs" With their de-
pendents this means about 10000 peo-
pie are affected. There are twice as
many more who are working on short
time and are thus unable to meet the
bare expenses of living.
Union Leader Protests.
81 am heartily sick of the false
and empty cry of prosperity Mr..
Gatales continues in a statement to
the Mayor, after outlining program
for providing work for the, unem-
ployed. 81 believe that the time has
come for the press and public to face
the fact that times are hard and to
seek for a solution to a real and
serious problem"
In Holyoke too, great depression
is felt. Holyoke is known as the Pa
per City because its predominant in
dustry is the manufacture of paper.
Workers are being consistently laid
off from the paper mills, and one
large company, the American Writ
ing Paper Company, is running ION a
4-days a week schedule. The Paper
makers Union has some organization
in several mills, but the bulk of the
workers are unorganized, and bound
by Swear contracts which do not per-
nit them to fight for improved con-
ditions. Any sign Of organization
amongst the workers results in i'm
mediate dismissal from the plant and
black mailing in the city.
Holyoke Textile Situation.
With the exception of some mule
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

spinners and loomfixers who have a
union, the workers of the large tex
tile mills such as the Farr-Alpaca
and SINNERS Silk Mills are morgan
lied. The largest textile mills of the
city are the Lyman Mills, employing
HOO. Preparatory to announcing a
wage cut, they are terrorizing the
workers by threatening removal of
their mills to the South. Stockhold
ers are making widespread statements
about lowering the wage scale and
increasing the working week in or
der to save the industry for New
England. Any further increase of
work or decrease of wage will mean
greater hardship for the people, who
even now hardly average S17.00 a
week.
Workers Party Organizing.
In this atmosphere of deep depres-
sion there is only one encouraging
note. The mass meetings organized
by the Workers Party have been in
creasingly successful. A Sacco-van-
zetti meeting aroused a great deal of
enthusiasm amongst the workers, and
a branch of the I. l.. d. is in pro-
cess of formation. The slogan, "Or-
ganize the Unorganized" has become
a popular call at all workers meet
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

The 9-hour day is now the standard
in the industry and is becoming more
prevalent as the bureau indicates in
it's figure of SOL hours for the 1924
week against 50.3 in 1926. The first
big job of the union evidently will be
to hoist the standard for the 8-hour
day.
Bonus Graft.
Wages are calculated almost exclu-
sively on various sorts of bonus sys-
tens and incentives. A standard Of
production is set in which the work
er, in one system, gets 1 per cent
bonus for attaining rs per cent eff
cheney. The bonus rate steadily
climbs so that the worker gets 20 per
cent extra for 100 per cent efficiency
and 140 per cent bonus for 200 per
cent efficiency. Thus worker with
base wage of $50 would earn $50
if his work were 100 per cent eff
cient. Pay for overtime varies from
a straight time to one and one-half the
regular rate. .......- -
Wages Now.
The bureaus study was made two
years ago, on the threshold of the in
dustry's most significant development
into maturity with the growth of a
few great producers. The startling
rise of General Motors in the past
year as the dominant force in the
motor world with one of its products
outselling the ubiquitous Ford; the
shutdown and revamping of the i'm
mense Ford industries for a fight for
supremacy in the low-price field; the
liquidation of many of the smaller
independents and the fierce compe-
tition among the remaining compan-
les to keep a foothold against Gen
eral Motors: all mark the entry of
the industry into new period of
great consultations and maturity.
What this new era means for the
organization of the auto workers is
the problem confronting Smith and
his fellow organizers, representing
the A. F. of L. internationals. Can
they interpret the new trends, plan
union strategy and then carry the
war into the corporations camps eff
fectively enough to report the union
ization of the industry to the 1880
convention of the A. F. of L. If they
can, organized labor, and particular
ly the metal trades, will enter an
other great era of prosperity, rivalled
only by the war EXPANSION period of
1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Literature Distributed.

The meeting at Prospect Ave. and
163rd St. was attended by 1000
workers who attentively listened 10
the speakers. A great quantity of
literature relating to the case was
distributed.
The speakers were Leonard Abbot
Jack Stachel, Charles Krumbein, Sam
Nessin, D. Benjamin and Otto Huis~
would.
The following resolution was also
adopted at all the meetings and sent
directly to Sacco and Vanzetti.
eve hereby express our class
solidarity with you in your protest
against the secrecy enveloping the
investigation of your case by the
governors committee, and pledge
ourselves to do all in our power to
bring pressure to bear upon the gov
ernor for a public investigation and
retrial, because we are convinced Of
your innocence"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Mattresses Paid
S15 For Six Day
Week, Says Union

That Mattresses receive SIS a week
for a six day week and a nine hour
day was revealed by testimony sub
mitted by William Lehman, secra-
.tary- treasurer of the Walters ana
Mattresses Local /, at a hearing be-
fore the State Industrial Survey
Commission. The average wage of
walters is $40 week.
Because Of such low wages, he
said, walters and mattresses must
subsist ION the charity Of the public"
by accepting tips, to which policy the
union strongly objects.
THE union is opposed to tipping
and wants living wage said Leh-
man.
The union, according to Lehman,
had a difficult time in establishing
even the 500 and SIS basic demand.
There will be no support by the union
of any bill to abolish tips until
minimum wage scale is put into Ell
feet by law. To show in what light
tips are regarded by our food-serv-
ers, Mr.. Lehman told of a restaurant
on Second avenue having a mo tip
ping policy and paying S45 a week.
He said $50 union walters applied for
5 vacant places, showing that the
walters preferred to earn their own
living to having to depend on the
generosity of customers.