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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
WORKER IS A DOG
TO HOSPITALS OF
CAPITALIST U. S.
Sent as Public Charge
to Slaughter-Hou

by Worker Correspondent
When I, a worker, suffering from
tuberculosis, went to the Fedora
ton of Jewish Charities in New
York City, few weeks ago, and
asked that they have me sent to
either the Otisville or Ray
state sanitarium, this organization,
which asks the workers to give from
their hard-earned money to help
support it, told me that people like
me belonged to Bellevue, the city
slaughter house, and that they do
mot help buns out" Just because
l was worker, they called me a
bum. This is an organization that
seeks support to "a;d the poor of
New York" And this is how they
aid the worker. 1 did not come there
seeking charity, but to get them to
refer me to state tuberculosis
sanitarium, because this is the only
way q worker has a chance of get
ting to a sanitarium. But they
called me a bum and sent me to
Bellevue.
After the Federation of Jewish
Charities had shown me that they
we're not out to help the worker, l
went to the Board of Health, at 505
Pearl ST. l was not seeking char
ity, but that which I was entitled
to, admission to enc of the New
York state sanitariums, which are
supposed to be in existence for the
treatment of any tubercular person
who canrot afford to pay the huge
fees that the private san,tariums,
which are only for the rich, charge.
They referred me to the City of New
York tuberculosis Hospital Admis
sion Division.
There a doctor gave me a few
taps on the chest and examined me
no further, as if he had no time to
examine a worker. I asked that l
be sent to either Otisville or Ray
brook, which are supposed to be
run for cases like mine. mo-" said
this political flunkey of doctor,
"you are too far advanced to go to
a sanitarium." Which was a lie.
After being treated like a dog at
this city clinic,I talked to roughly,
was given slip, referring me to
Metropolitan Hospital, on Welfare
Island, which is notorious as "one
Of the worst slaughter houses among
the big chain of city slaughter
houses which go under the names of
Hospitals" On this blank l was
referred to as a proper public
charge" A proper public charge"
when l had come there to obtain
what was mine by right-admission
to state sanitarium. But no, If
had political pull of course would
have been sent to Otisville or Ray
brook. But, being a worker, what
was told amounted to, go, you
cog. and be thankful that we even
send you to that slaughter house
of Metropolitan Hospital"
That is the treatment given to
the sick worker in this paradise of
capitalism. / told these political
flunkeys that l would rather die in
the street from tuberculosis than be
sent to g city slaughter house,
where l would be fed the rottenest
food, receive the rottenest treat
ment for my illness, be kept a pris-
oner and be allowed to die like dog.
3. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Interstate Commerce
Commission Asks for
Power Over Mergers

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The In
terstate Commerce Commission re-
port today asks for more powers in
dealing with mergers of railroads,
the ultimate aim being the grant
ing of arbitrary control over merg-
ers, so that the board can allow
the min certain cases and reject
them in others. They ask now that
no mergers at all be allowed with
out the commissions consent.
The report states that during the
preceding fiscal year, cases of ac-
lidents to employees coming under
its supervision amounted to 1924
deaths and 28,157 injuries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
WORKER CAUGHT
TB IN BELLEVUE
HoSPIT AL JOB
Is Shunted to Another
Slaughter-House

by Worker Correspondent
Seaview Hospital in Staten Island
is one of the hospitals run by the
City of New York Welfare Depart
ment, where the workers or MEM
bers of their families are sent when
they are so unfortunate as to have
tuberculosis. tuberculosis is one of
the easiest things in the world to
get for a worker who is cooped up
all day in sweatshop. But | am
4 worker who got tuberculosis by
doing work right in a hospital,
where | was porter. ! had to
clean up the messes which would
turn the stomach Of anyone. Bloody
tandages, filled with green and yell
low pus, and salves soaked with
matter which came out of wounds;
| had to clean up the vomitings OF
patients; I had to clean floors COW
cred with the sputum of patients
suffering with tuberculosis and even
venereal diseases.
And I did all this for $40 month
and food and quarters. The food
was vile and full of vermin. The
quarters were filthy, old, and fire
traps. We got the same food served
to the patients, who are all poor
workers who cannot pay for pri-
vate hospital. So I got T. B. work.
ing in Bellevue.
l reported the clinic for eXamina-
ton. After waiting for hours, and
being barked at by the registrars
and nurses with political jobs l was
finally given the once-over by q
doctor. When | claimed that |
caught the disease while working in
Bellevue, he said, Nothing doing"
He refused to make out any slip
certifying to my having contracted
7. B. on the job, so / was thus
eypped out of any chance of col
lecting compensation under the
Workmen's Compensation Law. /
would have gotten SIS week under
this law for few weeks; small
enough.
/ was kept in a Bellevue ward
few days, where 1 was seen by a
doctor once only. l was lucky, for
other patients never saw a doctor
while l was there. Then I was
shunted off to Seaview, another city
hospital. The same story. Rotten
food, rotten treatment, neglect. /
got no better, in fact, worse, after
few weeks, so l left.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
New Issue Treasury
Notes to Stop Loans

WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.-The
Treasury Department today an
nounced the offering of $500,000,-
900 worth of treasury Indebtedness
certificates in two series both dated
and bearing interest from Deem
Der Is, 1928, at the rate Of Az per
cent One series for months and
the other for q months.
This is an attempt to tighten
federal reserve control by "sapping
up" loose cash now used for call
loans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Buys 800 of a Boxer;
Sport Is a Business

The deal by which Anthony J.
Drexel Biddle, Jr., millionaire sports
man, became part owner of Rene
De Vos's contract was completed to-
day when Biddle paid $4,000 for
SO per cent interest in the Belgian
middleweight.
Biddle purchased thirteen and one
half per cent of the contract held by
Lou Burston, De Vos's manager, and
the other 16 2-3 from De Vos him
self. Jimmy Bronson, chief second
to Gene Tunney in both his fights
with Jack Dempsey will represent
Biddle.
DeVos is an s to favorite over
Hudkins to win Monday nights
bout.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
RIVERSIDE

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday-Vanessi; Leo Beers;
Emory Namely; other acts. Feature
photoplay-"The Avalanche" starr
ing Jack Holt. Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday-Freda and Palace;
z e Ida Santley; Yesterthoughts;
others. Feature photoplay-"Love
Overnight starring Rod LaRccque.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
'$25, 900 Bail Set for
Stealing l Lone Hat

Although charged with stealing
only one hat, in this era of pros
perity. three men were held in bail
of $4,000 for grand robbery COM
plants in the Harlem Court. The
three men, all of whom are Ne
eroes, molested Frank Josephs and
relieved him of bis top-piece. If
YOU don't steal lot in this coun-
try, you can't get by.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Negro Teachers Are
Vastly Undergrad

RICHMOND, Va, (By MaiD.-
Forty-three Virginia counties pay
Negro teachers less than one-half
the salaries paid to the white teach
ers, and Negro children attend
schools under unsanitary and un-
healthful conditions, in frame
shacks, it was revealed at the an
nual meeting of the Virginia State
Teachers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
BOOST SALARY
OF PRESIDENT;
MANY J0BLESS
Misleader Is Head of
Iron Boss League
(By a Worker Correspondent


JERSEY CITY, N. j., by
MaiD .-Some time ago the Inter
national Iron Workers Union held
e convention, and Theodore (Czar)
Brandle, boss of the building trades
union in New Jersey, millionaire
Insurance man, banker, and one of
the main spokes in the Hague
democratic graft machine in Jersey,
had himself elected as delegate.
His pals and fellow grafters and
nisleaders, Delaney, Newman, and
O'Brien, also had themselves elected
delegates. They hired a private car
for the trip. They had a wonderful
time at the convention-on the
hard-earned wages of the iron work
ers. They came back telling of the
wonderful time they had. At the
convention they were instrumental
in raising the salary of the grand
president $500 more year. When
car Brandle came back, 10 and be-
hold, he raised the monthly assess
ment FIRM 81 to SO. And more
than half of the iron workers, my
self included, haven't been able to
get lick Of work for the past three
months. That's the kind of crooks
we have in charge of the Ironwork-
ers' Union.
Teddy, as Brandle's intimate
friends, the politicians and the open
shop bosses of New Jersey call him,
has been able to control the build
ing trades of New Jersey for so
many years because he has all the
thugs, all the police, all the corrupt
politicians, including Mayor Hague,
the arch-crook of them all-behind
him. Brandle has helped Hague to
rise from a corner saloon hanger
on (snd l remember seeing him
thus) to a multi-millionaire who
owns a good part of the real estate
of Jersey, and several chateaus in
France besides. And Brandle has
not let little Teddy grow poorer
while Hague was getting rich.
Brandle has sold out nearly every
strike of the building trades in the
northern part of New Jersey. He
always appears at banquets of the
open shop bosses associations,
where he makes speeches saying
that he does not believe in strikes,
and where he pats the bosses on
the shoulders, and they pat him in
return-with the only pat that talks
to Brandle-cash.
Brandle was presented with the
office of president of the New Jer-
sey Iron League, the association of
the open shop bosses of New Jer-
sey, early this year, at a salary
higher than $4,000 a year. "We
are rewarding Teddy Brandle for
the splendid services he has rem
dered the iron construction indus
try, by preventing all industrial I'M
rest, and keeping harmony between
the iron employers and employees"
SO said the construction bosses at
the banquet given to Teddy when
ne was made the president of the
structural iron bosses association.
When the housewreckers of Jer-
sey City wanted to organize into a
progressive and fighting union,
Brandle personally supervised the
wrecking of the union. He brought
in men from New York, who were
xno@Tn to have acted as scabs, to
scah on the Jersey housewreckers.
He supported the scabs against the
strikers of the Goldberg Wrecking
Corp, a few years back. Whenever
representative of the rank and
file Of union wants to call on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Two Workers of Crew
of Five Saved After
Yacht Burns, Sinks

MELBOURNE, Fla, Dec. 8 U,P).
Two men, out of a crew of five
who manned the yacht Aero when
it burned and sank nine miles off
the coast Wednesday night, have
been rescued.
Leslie Royal and Edward San
tinover, the survivors, told a tale of
hours of hardship'and horror in the
water after the ship sank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
BROADWAY

The Four Camerons; Hal Neiman;
Frank Mullane and Ghretta;
Charles Sergeant and Burt Lewis;
and Paul Jordan. Feature photo
play-"The Red Dance" starring
Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Vaudeville Theatres
PALACE

Rae Samuels; Henry Santrey and
his orchestra, with Harry Seymour
and Mary Koran; Fannie Watson
and Kitty; Russ Brown and Jeane
Whitaker; Homer r. Mason. and
Marguerite Keller; Lew Castleton
and Max Mack, and Sandy Lang,
with Emeralde Sisters and Patti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Bund Building Trade Union Boss Mems Pay Pleasure
Wings Over Europe" OPENS
at the Martin Beck TONIGHT

A NEW Theatre Guild production
IL "Wings Over Europe" will fea-
ture the openings of this week-no
less than five in number.
"Wings Over Europe" which
opens at the Martin Beck Theatre
this evening is the third production
this season. This play will mark
the Guilds occupation of the Beck
Theatre.
The cast is headed by Ernest Law
ford, Frank Conroy, Alexander
Kirkland, Hugh Buckler, Joseph
Kilgour, Grant Stewart, Robert Rem
del and A. P. Kaye. The play is
by Robert Nichols, one of the
younger British poets and Maurice
Browne, whose Little Theatre in
Chicago years ago, gave that move
ment its name.
Another play scheduled for this
evening is Tomorrow" by Hull
Gould and Saxon King, which will
have its postponed opening at the
Lyceum Theatre.
"Sign of the Leopard" London
success by Edgar Wallace, will open
tomorrow at the National Theatre.
Campbell Cullen who played the chief
role in the London production, will
be seen in the same part here.
Other players include: Flora Shelf
field, Elsa Shelley, Warren Will
liams, Murray Kinnel and Thurston
Hall.
David Belasco will bring his
newest production Nina to the
Belasco on Wednesday night. Len
ore Uric is the stsr of the play
which is an adaptation of Ferenc
Molnar's "The Red Mill.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

SCRANTON, Pa, (FP).-Meter
workers federal labor union 1S045
has been admitted to the Central
Labor Union. It's members read
water meters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

Orgarize the uU"rga nizrd! or.
ennixe new unions In the unOrgan-
lied Industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
French and British
to Hammer on German
Preparations at League

PARIS, Dec. 9 (UP).-Political in
terest in the 53rd session of the
League of Nations Council at Lu-
gano will center almost entirely on
war Preparations problems. The
council agenda will be of secondary
Importance, observers believe.
French and English delegates are
expected to spend most of the time
concentrating on Foreign Minister
Stresemann of Germany, in an at
tempt to bring the German view
point around to what the former
allies describe as more realistic
attitude on settlement of repara-
tons"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Capitalist Delegates Gloomy.

BERLIN, Dec. 9 (UP).-The Ger
man delegation to the League of
Nations Council left for Lugano to-
night. DR.. Gustave Stresemann,
foreign minister, headed the delega-
ton.
The attitude of the delegation
was gloomy, although DR.. Strese-
mann hopes to clarity numerous
questions in connection with war
Preparations revision in his CONVEX
sation with Aristide BRAND and
Sir Austen Chamberlain. Sources
close to the foreign minister said
he was bitterly disappointed by re-
cent blows to the "Locarno spirit"
which he interpreted as calculated
to undermine the position of his
government in reparations settle
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
FUNCTIONARIES TO
HOLD MEET FRIDAY
Will Elect Delegates to
Convention

A special. functionaries' meeting ito
elect delegates to the national nom
mating convention to put forward
the presidential ticket will be held
on Friday, May IS, at 500 p. M,
at 10S E. 14th St., Room 49,
Prior to this meeting the units
will consider securing delegates rep
resentatiye of the various trades ard
sections Of the movement, as well as
fraternal delegates from the shops
and from organizations in sympathy
with the movement.
Following the national nominating
convention the District will hold a
state nominating convention to put
forward the state ticket, at date
which will be fixed by the District
Executive Committee at the next
meeting of the Executive Council
All functionaries are urged to take
note of this meeting and have this
matter discussed in his unit and
bring recommendations in his unit
regarding the delegates to be elected
to the national nominating conven-
ton.
Special attention is called to the
meeting in Mecca Temple to open the
national nominating convention which
will be held Friday, May rs, at 8
p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
DENY INJUNCTION
in COOKS CASE
To Continue Picketing
of Five Restaurants

An injunction prohibiting the Cooks
and Assistants Union, Local 325,
Brooklyn, from picketing five cafeter-
las affiliated with the Cafeteria AS
ISOLATION, was denied yesterday morn
ing when the case was heard by
Judge Dunno in the supreme court,
Brooklyn.
The union started picketing the
five restaurants last week. Tempo
rary injunctions We're Immediately
served on the union officers and were
in effect until the case was heard yes
terday. Picketing will be resumed at
once, it was announced last night.
The five restaurants effected by
the strike are: The Parkway, 1888
Pitkin Ave, The Present, 1888 Pit
kin Ave, The Mayflower, AIS Suffer
Ave, The Cameo, Pitkin and Roeka-
way AYES, and the Pitkin, 1879 Pit
kin Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
problems of Working
Women ourseTOnight

A special late spring symposium
course in problems of Working
Women" begins at the Workers
School, 108 E. 18th ST., tonight at
8 80. This course will train women
workers. working class housewives
and active members Of working wo-
mems organizations for the i'm
portant tasks facing working class
women today in building up strong
wording women's movement in New
York City and in the entire country.
This course, consisting of six ses-
sions on six successive Wednesday
evenings, will be given by William
w. Weinstone, Jack Stachel, Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, Ray Ragozin and Rose
Wortis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
WORKERS PARTY
RALLIES MASSES
IN FARE STEAL
Resolution Cond ennis
Tammany Hall
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workers who are compelled to ride on
the lines affected, and
Whereas, this decision will mean
hat from S4O,OO0,000 to 100000, 900
additional will be robbed from the
workers of this city, amounting in
most cases to an additional tax of
approximately $50 a year and in the
,ase of thousands of workers, heads
Of households, to 500 year, during
period of great unemployment, and
Whereas, reports show that the
marlborough Rapid Transit Company
las Melted millions of dollars profit
each year through the exploitation
If workers and passengers and the
manipulation Of watered stock,
Whereas in spite of the exorbitant
profit, the marlborough Rapid Trans
t Company has consistently followed
a policy of exploitation of the trac-
lion workers, paying the lowest poss-
BILE wages, and maintaining most
nhuman speed-up system, the com
oany union scheme and intolerable
working conditions and crushing with
he utmost brutality, by the use of
hugs, spies and imported scabs, any
tempt at organization on the part
IF these workers, and
Whereas the Tammany Hayy adj
ninistration of the city and the Re-
publican controlled state legislature
nave worked in collision with the
marlborough Rapid Transit Company
BE it resolved by this mass meet
ng held under the auspices of the
Workers Community Party, District
No 2, that we condemn most en-
nhatically, as an act Of high handed
robbery against the workers of the
City of. New York, the attempt to
collect a seven cent fare and we de-
aland Of the city and state adj
2inistration, including the mayor the
7oard Of aldermen, the governor of
he state and the state legislature
hat steps be taken to maintain the
five cent fare, in protection of the
r1illions Of workers for whom this
additional burden would be an out
landing hardship. Be it further re-
Owed that we go on record con-
GINNING the Walker administration
nd the manner in which it has ham
lied the seven cent fare issue and for
ollusion with the traction barons to
put over the seven cent fare.
"Be it further resolved that we go
IN record in favor of Labor party
which shall fight for the maintenance
e five cent fare and for the or
ganizat.on Of the traction workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Z UNIONS IN FAKE
TEXTILE MERCER
Refuse Mill Committees
Proposal for Unity
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ers and the Textile Council as fake
analgamation scheme, since they re-
fused to consider the proposal of the
mill committees that steps be taken
for real amalgamation by uniting
all the unions in the textile industry.
Both the U. T. w, and the A. F. 7.
O. have on their exaggerated mem.
bership lists but a small number of
the total amount of workers engaged
in the textile manufacturing industry
the mill committees declare. They
conclude with the statement that no
mere merger of two so-called unions
which combined because of the U. t.
WIS desire for per capital payments,
temporarily waived because of the
strike, can result in real union when
the administration refused to consider
unity with the other unions, and also
refused to take up the problem of or
ganizing the hundreds of thousands Of
unorganized workers in New England
alone.
The proposals made by the mill
committees, which were rejected, are
that an immediate conference be call
ed of all unions in the textile industry
which should include representatives
from all textile mills, organized and
unorganized, so that concerted drive
could be begun for the organization.
of the approximately 100000 work
ers in the mills.
The New Bedford Textile Councils
seven locals have combined mem
bership of about 1000 workers, ac-
cording to their own claims. Only
five of these voted for the merger
Of the remaining two, one voted to
defer action and the other refused
to join outright.
In addition to the textile mills be-
longing to the Cotton Manufacturers
Association shut down by the strike
there is also a silk mill that was
closed down when it attempted to put
over a wage cut ranging from 10 to
rs per cent. The officials Of the Tex
tile Council recently held a confer
ence to settle this strike individually
When they brought the terms of the
! employer to a meeting of the work
ers, the workers voted unanimously
to remain out on strike till the mill
owner agrees to restore the previous
standard of wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Farmers Family of z
Is Burned to Death

Ell DORADO, Kans., May g.
Seven persons were burned to death
II their farm home north of here
last week, The origin of the fire is
still q mystery. Mr. and Mrs. Will
lam Oberst and five Of their six
children were the victims.
County authorities think that the
farm may have been robbed the
family slain and the house fired by
the burglars. 1t is believed that
Oberst had a large amount of money
in the house ct the time of the fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Cop Slabs Woman

Patrolman Harry Hansen of the
East 67th Street Station has been
arrested charged with having stabbed
and seriously wounded Mrs. Anna
johnson, of 846 72nd ST., Brooklyn
on Friday. 1t is charged that Han
sen stabbed the woman with a pocket
knife after a quarrel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

BUDAPEST, May S.-The case of
Baron Hatvany, former member of
the karolyi government, who was re-
Gently sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment and a fine of 100000
pengoes is before the court of APP
peals here. He is charged with hav-
ing DETAINED the honor of Hungary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
City Marshals Will Go
On Trial Friday

On Friday nine city marshals will
be tried in City Hall on charges Of
extortion and intimidation. This trial
will be the first of a series to be
carried out following investigation Of
their activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Increase in Negro
Workers Death Rate

Altho the death rate among white
industrial workers decreased during
the first quarter of 1928, the death
rate among Negro workers has in
creased. The combined rate is 81
deaths per 1000 workers.