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The daily worker., 1927-03-15

the limit fixed by athe emergency
rent laws. He was instructed to
browbeat the members of his own
race, in ignorance by his oppressors
Of the southern cotton aristocracy
He succeeded, and conditions in the
Black Belt became intolerable, as
they have continued until this day.
Fifty dollars month! Don't for
one moment think that the rooms
there are worth half that amount.
described, to a limited extent, the
slums that are prevalent in the Sec
ton. The report Of the State House
Commission, made recently, verifies
that description, and even adds to it.
Race Prejudice Lowers Wages.
And the average wage of thirty dol
lars is another illustration Of the
black mans burden. Racial prejudice
has made jobs scarce for the colored
man, forcing him to do menial work.
Even when he does that work, he is
paid less than his white brother. Har-
lemites are only able to pay their
exorbitant rents by Growing into few
rooms and renting the remaining
ones to boarders. And everyone in
the family, father, mother, brother
and sister, must work.
On the east side, where the average
wage is $24, the average rental is
$32. Unemployment if included, would
make the average wage much lower.
And all. the workers are not en-
ployed the whole year round. Yet
every month the landlord or his
agent is on the job, his itching palm
upturned on level with his pockets,
and he gets his rent. If he doesn't, he
gets warrant, and the family is put
on the sidewalk. Expenditures for re-
pairs and improvements are unknown
to him.
One renting agent showed me how
a landlord doubled the price of his in
vestment in six years on a four story
shack. This is being done throughout
the section.
Rich Man Not Hit by Shortage.
The fact that in Washington
Heights and Inwood, the strongholds
of the bouregoisie, only 26 per cent
of the monthly rent is spent for rent,
is highly significant. Here apart
ments are leased by the year, not
rented by the month. The figures
show that it is the poor man, not the
one who is we'll off, who is hit by
the housing shortage.
This is the story of Manhattan, told
not on the platitudinous terms of
Rotarian after-dinner speech, but in
the plain, concrete and startling fig
ures of wages and rentals. Every
visitor to these shores Sharacterizes
New York as the city of Hustle and
Hurry" l wonder if they realize that
New York workers are forced to
hustle and hurry, in order to make
enough money to exist on.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
By WILL DE KALB.

Manhattan is the most cosmopoli-
tan Of the five boroughs that COM
prise Greater New York, and it is
here we find the greatest number of
housing evils.
In the community survey, con-
ditions were analyzed in ten districts.
1t is important to note that each one
of the ten districts had a situation
peculiar to itself. 1t is also impor-
tant to note that in the ten sections,
which include the filthiest slums in
the city as we'll as the finest residen-
tial cen.ers, the percent of wages
spent for rent range from 25 per
cent. to Al per cent-and that in
most cases, the largest figure applies
to the poorer sections, and the small
est TO the richer.
Manhattan Workers Most G0uged.
The average weekly wage in Man
haitian is $37. The average rental
is SAT, ten dollars more, which is 81
per cent of the wage. This is the
largest figure in the city, with
Queens a very close second.
The statistical table of wages and
rentals in Manhattan, which follows,
proves very conclusively that the
rent-gouging landlord not only raises
the rents to the highest possible fig
IRE as matter of economic principle,
but in settlements where people of
one race or nation gather to overcome
racial prejudice, he raises the rents
beyond that limit as an extra pre-
MUM.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15


People who have read George
Bernard Shaw's satire, "Pygmalion"
in book form. and those who intend
TO view it at the Guild Theatre during
the week March 21 to 27. for the
benefit of THE DAILY WORKER.
will observe that the famous Irish
playwright has described Eliza Doc
little as a bashful, prudish girl. who
hangs towel over the mirror in Pro-
fessor Higgins bathroom because
she thinks even the most private ex-
fosure of her figure was wrong and
indecent. And yet, as critic has
remarked, Miss Lynn Fcntanne who
portrays the part Of the flower-girl,
plays with shameless bare legs in the
second act.
Eliza, according to Shaw, shrunk
from nudity's free and easy ways and
even had mind to break the look
ing glass that reflected her ankles
and calves Nevertheless, without
sanction from stage directions, Miss
Fontanne undresses Eliza from the
knees up and downward cavorts her
self about in the brazen revelations
If long, loose kimona. Little doubt
is expressed in the thought that if
Shaw saw his carefully moulded pro-
duct, Eliza, showing her modest
shanks to Broadway under the au-
spices of the Theatre Guild, he might
severe his relations with that institu-
ton and form a new alliance with a
more conventional producer.
Readers of The DAILY WORKER,
who will see "Pygmalion" during the
benefit week will have ample oppor-
tunity of forming their personal i'm
pressions as to whether the Guild has
stepped off the beaten track by
making Eliza's legs bare in the
second act or not.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
2 IOwans Dead, 9 iii
From Trichina Poison
After Eating Sausage

BRIDGEWATER, Iowa, March IA.
Two farmers in this vicinity are
dead and nine other persons are seri-
ously i'll with trichina poison. con-
tracted from eating summer sausage.
The dead are Ed. Raasch and Dali
las McDermott.
Those i'll are Raasch's brother.
Paul Raasch, his sister Mrs. Pearl
Schultz, her husband and their three
childen, and Raasch's uncle, Herman
Raasch and his wife. Wilbur Gerlach
of Cumberland also is a victim of the
poison.
All are reported by physicians to
be in critical condition with the
exception Of Gerlach.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Ben Gold to Address
Hungarians; TO Rally
Forces for Struggle

Hungarian needle trades workers
will review the situation in their in
dustries and make plans for the con-
tinuation of the struggle against
right wing labor takers Thursday
evening at the Hungarian Home, $40
East S1st Street.
Ben Gold, furrier leader, and a
representative of the cloakmakers'
joint board, will address the meeting.
Hungarian workers, who constitute
one of the most militant elements in
the left wing movement. will reor-
ganize their forces for the fight for
the preservation of their unions.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Last of Famous Boats
Saved in Quick Rescue

WOODS HOLE, Mass, March a.
The four-masted schooner Alice Pen
dleton, last of the once famous fleet
of Pendleton sehooners, had close call
early today to joining those that have
gone to Davy Jones locker, when she
grounded off NaushOn Island, below
Tarpaulin Cove light during a heavy
fog.
Coastguardsmen from the Woods
Hole station pulled her off at high
water. No damage to the vessel was
reported.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Aimee Finds An Angel.

TAMPA, Fla, March 14.-"If the
amusement of humanity is important
enough to bring into existence an inn
mense system like Keith circuits, the
salvation of humanity should be inn
portant enough to warrant a plan
such as ] suggest" said Il. Howard
Cadle here today in discussing a pro-
ject Of sponsoring a $l00,000,000 re-
vival circuit with Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson, noted Los Angeles evan
gelist, as head.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Wage and Rental Table.

(total) .... .S37 SAT 81
Forty-one per cent Of the North
Harleinites' wages are paid out for
rent! Fifty dollars a month is the
average rental What are the un-
DERIVING causes that result in this
tremendously large figure?
Negroes Pay for Isolation.
North Harlem is the largest Negro
community in the north. All the
Negroes that were forced, by eco
nomic depression, to migrate north
from the south, are isolated by racial
prejudice in this section.
Before the section changed from a
predominantly white status to one
predominantly black, the average
rental was thirty seven dollars. The
moment apartments came into de-
mand by the inflowing horde of coll
ored people, rents began to climb,
white tenants were forced to leave
by the rent-greedy landlords, and the
fifty dollars rental came into vogue.
Measures were taken by North
Harlem landlords, who are for the
most part white people, to keep the
colored man isolated above 125th
Street. The section was too small to
accomodate the large number of
Negroes coming to New York, so
apartments became scarce. When the
Negro tenant desired repairs or inn
provements, he was told to "get out
if he didn't like it."
Colored agents were employed by
the white landlords, and given in
stractions to raise the rents up to
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Work to Free McCrax.

WASHINGTON, March Ia. - A
petition bearing the names of 142 Of
the $50 members of the Indiana leg.
islature was presented to President
Coolidge today, requesting a pardon
for Ex-Governor Warren I. McCray
of Indiana, now in Atlanta federal
prison. Gov Ed. Jackson concurs.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-After an
intensive organization campaign
among the studio workers Of Los An
geles, who embrace 10 per cent Of all
the workers in the motion picture in
dustry, plans for strike were sud
denly called off by the New York
headquarters of the international
unions involved with the announce
ment Of an agreement made with the
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Teller On Way Back
To U. S.; Not True
| He Has Been Fired |

MEXICO CITY, March 1i.-Man-
uel c. Teller, Mexican ambassador
to the United States was on his way
back to his post at Washington to-
day, following his weeks sojourn
here, during which time he con-
ferred with President Gales and
Foreign Secretary Saenz repeatedly,
presumably concerning Mexican
American relations. When Ambas-
sador Teller first left Washington
for here IL was freely reported in
the United States that he had been
recalled. ~
The daily worker., 1927-03-15

CLEVELAND, March ID. - The
movie, Breaking Chains, which
gives the story of the revolution Of
1917, and the reconstruction period
following, will again be shown in
Cleveland on Thursday, March II, at
the Duchess Theatre, 570s Euclid
Ave. at which it was originally
scheduled.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
BOSSES WEAPON
AGAIN USED BY
THE RIGHT WING
Italian Workers Served
With Injunction

Pursuing their policy of using the
methods of the employers against the
workers in their efforts to gain con-
troll of the union, the forces of Sig
manism have resorted to another in
ladies served.
The chairladies of the two largest
Italian shops have been served with
injunctions, obtained by Luigi An
tonini, car of the Italian Local SO,
restraining them from collecting the
dues of the workers. Ida Isacoff and
Maria Costa of the H. Rentner shop
at 40 Seventh Avenue and Jenni
Grassi of the Sheer Fanton shop at
229 West 36th street were the chair
ladies served.
Injunction Habit Growing. q.
These injunctions follow closely
upon another action in which Antoini
attempted to restrain all officers and
business agents of the Joint Board
from calling meetings, issuing leaf
let's, collecting dues, or in any way
assisting workers in their fight
against the corrupt influences Of Sig
manism.
GAS the revolt within. the Italian
locals against the mal-administra-
tors in office grows greater, they re-
sort to such means as an injunction
to attempt to check it," said Louis
Hyman, manager of the Joint Board,
and one of those enioined.
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Variety of Bad Conditions
Observation-Disclosures
CosmopolitanofB Boroughs
Negroes GOuged BY White Landlords Who
Exploit Race Prejudice; Upper Classes
Pay Least Percent

The and rentals IN Manhattan compared in toddys
article By WW de Kalb housing Investigator for The DAILY
WORKER TonoroaOs summary oU review conditions IN the
The daily worker., 1927-03-15
Pickets Arrested.

Louis Rosenthal and Esther Kush-
ner were arrested at 336 West 36th
street during picketing early Monday
morning and charged with disorderly
conduct. They paid So fine in JEFF
ferson Market Court. Rosenthal who
was resisting attack when arrested
was beaten by his assailants, accord
ing to eye witnesses.
Gangsters were noticably absent
from the cloak and dress center at
the Monday morning picketing. In
the fur district, however, they
threatened workers, and C. Yanowitz
was attacked at goth street and Sixth
avenue and was later arrested. He
was fined $40 in Jefferson Market
Court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-13
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG

The secret of keeping young is to feel
young-to do this you must watch your
liver and bowels-there's no need Of
having a sallow complexion--dark rings
under your eyes-pimples-a bilious
look in your face-dulI eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness comes from
inactive bowels and liver.
DR.. Edwards, a well-known physician
In Ohio, perfected a vegetable COM
pound mixed with olive oil as a substi-
tute Tor calomel to act on the liver and
bowels, which he gave to his patients
for years.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are gentle
IN their. action yet always effective.
Ihey bring about that natural bOuy-
nncy which all should enjoy by toning
up the liver and clearing the system Of
impurities.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are
known by their olive color, lac noe
and Observation-Disclosures.
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LEASE VALUABLE
APARTMENT SITE
Court Realty Company to
Build at Meridian and 18th.

The Court Realty Company will
erect a $1,5OO,OOO apartment and
business building at the southeast
corner of Thirty-Eighth and Merid.
ian SITS, it was announced today. A
ninety-nine-year lease was obtained
on the property late Tuesday. Ed.
win G. Kemper, company president.
said the lease was obtained from the
I. "A. Wynne estate, of which
Thomas N. Wynne, a son, is trustee.
Rentals to the estate will total
100000. Construction of the build
ing will be started when the widen.
ing of Meridian st. is completed and
the corner zoned for business.
Plans for the Structure are being
drawn. 1t will be seven stories.
brick or stone and of Gothic archi-
lecture. The first three floors will
be given over to business rooms and
shops and the remainder will be
apartments.
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l. A. C.. SWI NJ
81 Clubs, Colleges Enter
Saturday Tourney.

With entries from thirty-seven
clubs and colleges Of Indiana and
Kentucky, the swimming meet to be
held Saturday at the Indianapolis
Athletic Club promises to be keenly
contested.
Prelims will be held Saturday
morning with the finals in the eve
ming. A. A. u. rules will govern.
The Evansville Y. M. c. A. has
entered team in the 200 yards re-
lay and the Gymnastic Union Of In
dianapolis and the 1. A. c. also will
contest in this event.
Baumgartner of Evansville and
Murdoch Of De Paw University are
entered in the diving competition in
which Buck Mildner Of the I. A. c.
heretofore has held supremacy.
According to pep" Krantz, State
records are expected to be broken in
the so, 100 and 22O yards free style
events. T. f. Murray is in charge
of registration of entries.
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FAILURE
IN ARM EFFORTS
FACED SQUARELY
Members of Council With
out Illusions Over Third
Collapse.

BIZ United Press
GENEVA, April 13.-No illusions
remained among members of the
League of Nations preparatory dis
armament commission today rela.
tive to the failure of that body to
achieve its purpose, which was the
preparation of convention for
worldwide disarmament to be sub
mitted for consideration at forth
coming league disarmament confer
ence.
The commission will remain in ses-
sion until tomorrow, engaged in aca-
demic discussion, and will reconvene
later to approve it's report. But that
report will recognize that unani-
nous agreement has been impossible
on virtually every fundamental
point. The league council will meet
June 10 and after being officially in.
formed of the commissions inability
to obtain unanimous agreement the
council probably will merely refer
the report to the September meet
ing OF the league assembly.
Great Effort Futile
Following the failure Of the
leagues effort to create d vast struc-
ture of pacts Of mutual guarantees
and the failure Of the Geneva proto-
col for arbitration, security and dis
armament, the present failure of the
disarmament commission marks the
defeat Of the leagues third great
effort to lay a foundation for perma-
nent peace.
Speaks for United States
Hugh S. Gibson, United States
minister to Switzerland, made SUI
preme effort today to conciliate the
American position as a non-member
Of the league with the leagues plans
for disarmament. Gibson said that
if all other league members desired
league control in the supervision OF
the enforcement of any disarmament
convention which might be agreed
upon, the United States, although
fundamentally opposed in principle,
would not oppose such a. program.
This, Gibson explained was on con-
dition that the United States be
eliminated from the machinery of
such control.
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Dodge Maintains He's
Harold, Not Horace

BIZ United Press
HONOLULU, April 13.-The man
believed to be Horace F. Dodge, when
he sailed from San Francisco a week
ago after an airplane chase from Los
Angeles has arrived here upon the
liner Wilhelmina and insists he is
not the son of the late automobile
magnate.
my name is Harold Dodge" he
told the United Press, and the
liners passenger list was advanced
in support of the statement.
Harold Dodge said he was from
Hollywood and had frequently
Travelled under various aliases be-
cause he so resembled Horace Dodge,
both ill name and in features, that
he was frequently mistaken for the
latter.
Thus far Dodge has made no eff
fort to communicate with Mrs.
Horace E. Dodge, who came here
last month after filing suit for di-
vorce in Detroit. Mrs. Dodge, by
the way, said she doubted that her
husband would come to Honolulu.
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American Company
Raided by Mexicans

BIZ United Press
MEXICO CITY, April 13.-An
American company, the Mexican
Corporation" was among several
firms in the town Of Fresnillo, State
of Zacatecas, sacked by a rebel
band, official reports said today.
Public Offices were sacked and
some public buildings burned.
Twenty-Five rebels were killed in
a clash with mounted police in the
State of Colima.
Rebels attacked a Laredo-Mexico
City train eleven miles south of San
Miguel Allende, in the State of
Guanajuato, injuring several passen-
gers before a Federal guard drove
the bandits to the hills.
Ambassador Sheffield protested to
the Mexican government against ar
rest and detention of Americans
without formal charges. Several
Americans have been held incom-
municado recently.
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REAL ACTION
orthComing Says Helen
WiIIS-Entered in Meets.

BU United Press
BERKELEY, Cal, April 10
Helen Wills, artist and poetess, in
tends to do some real" tennis play
ing this summer, she told, the United
Press today.
e. Now that she has completely re-
covered from the illness which
forced her to give up the United
States women's tennis championship
last year, Miss Wills said she would
lay aside her pencil and her brush
and take up the racket again in
earnest this season.
She will leave for the east next
month, she added, and then sail for
England May IA with her famous
eye shade all ready for use in the
Wimbledon championships starting
June 20.
"Then I'll rush back to this coun-
try for the national amateur tour
nament and several Others" she de-
clared. 81 hope to play in the Wight
man cup matches, but the selection
Of the American team has not yet
been made, so l can't be sure about
. that"
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Amateur Baseball

indianapolis Sunday School League will
meet at the, EN- Roe Sporting Goods Store
at 1880 o'clock tonight. The first league
mas been complied and they now are work
ing on a second league. There is an open
ing Tor two Sunday school teams and any
one desiring to enter, Sunday school team
present at this meeting. Any one desiring
information. regarding the league should
get in touch with Carl C, Callahan. care
En- Roe Sporting Goods Company.
Indianapolis Cubs will hold an impor-
tant meeting at the corner of River Ave
and Ray, St.. All players are urged to at
tend. The Cubs would like to book games
with last city and State teams. Write
Ray klrk 1345 w. Ray ST.. or call Bel
mont 1004-M.
0'Hara Sans will meet at 1886 E. Six
tenth st. All players and tryouts are re-
quested to attend.
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RICH MAN FIGHTS FIRE
Pierre S. Du Pont Works With Hose
Companies Until Nearly Dawn.

BIZ United Press
WILMINGTON, Del, April 10
Pierre S. Du Pont, formerly head Of
General Motors, and reputedly one
of the richest men Gin the world,
turned fireman to save farm homes
from destruction.
Six fire companies, including the
one from Du Points Longwood es-
tate, were called out last night when
the $1,000 farmhouse Of Clark May
was being RACED by flames.
Du Pont was with his company and
directed hosemen in quenching the
blaze before it could spread to near
by dwellings, He remained on the
scene until almost dawn.
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SHIP TAKEN IN FIGHT
Norwegian Boat With 1000 Cases
of Liquor Held at Hoboken.

BV TUffcd Press
HOBOKEN, Z N. j.. April 10
Following a gun battle here today
the Norwegian freighter Fort
Gaines, with 1000 cases of liquor
aboard, and four members of the
crew, were captured by police. Upon
receipt of a mysterious telephone
call, two police launches were sent
to investigate. The Fort Gaines was
located and police planned to wait
until the boat should come within
New York jurisdiction. but n re.
Volver shot from the steamer
brought the police into immediate
action.
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HI-JACKER SENTENCED
Four Others to Hear Fate at Ham,
mond Thursday.
BIZ United Press

BIZ Uhtted Press
HAMMOND, Ind, April 13-Dan
Melloy, Gary, first Of the ring of
northwestern Indiana alleged hijacll-
ers to be sentenced in United States
District Court, today faced a year
and a day te.n in the Federal Peni-
tertiary at Leavenworth, Kan.
Jack White and Arthur Brook
man, former State policemen; Henry
B. Leboeuf, East Gary justice of
the peace, and Neil Norstrand, who
changed their pleas to guilty Tues
day, will be sentenced by Federal
Judge Thomas Slick Thursday.
George Melloy, son of Dan Melloy,
pleaded guilty to similar charges.
but was sentenced to one day and
released.
The six were indicted recently.
following an investigation into
dunes highway hijacl<ing.
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Six of the ten goods in the above
group are editors on the staff of the
1927 Arbutus, year book at Indiana
University, and the other four are
connected with the 1928 book. Miss
Crates and Miss GoebeI are associate
editors Of this years annual; Miss
FRANKIE, organization editor, and
Miss Underwood, assistant business
manager.
Miss Ensle is editor-in-chief of the
Arbutus for next year; Miss Cole,
Miss Brubaker and Miss Grim, asso-
ciate editors.
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BOARD SEEKS RULING
Park Commission to Learn Extent
of Its Power.

The city park board Thursday will
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of seeking a.
court ruling on its power to make
building restrictions on property
within 500 feet of a boulevard. John
z. Minor, board president; said to.
day.
The question of the boards au.
thority arose after Circuit Judge
Harry 0. Chamberlin cited Build.
ing Commissioner Bert j. Westover
ior contempt Of court for failure to
grant filling station permit to
frank Woolling at Thirtieth and
Meridian SITS. Westover finally is
sued the permit which the park
board denied.
j. Clyde Hoffman, board of zoninr
appeals attorney. plans to appeal
Chamberlin's decision to the SUI
preme Court.