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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
JOHNSON MOTOR
BRIDES SPIES
WITH HIGH PAY
Pick Out Stranger Who
Is Broke
(By a Worker Correspondent

(Bg q W0TRer correspondent
WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, (By MaiD.--
The Johnson Cupboard Motor Com
pany makes policy of hiring stool
pigeons to spy on the workers. and
report their actions to the super
visor OF labor, w. D. Garsline. When
worker comes to the employment
office and makes out an application
for work, Garsline tries to find out
rhe history and financial condition
of the applicant. When he finds that
the applicant is stranger in Wau-
kegan, has no friends, and is broke,
he figures that here is just the fell
low to do the dirty work, and sends
him home with the promise that "if
we need you for work we will call
at your rooming place with an auto
mobile" A few days later Garsline
calls at the applicants home. Know
ing that this unemployed worker is
broke and has no friends, Garsline
is sure that the fellow will do any,
thing for any kind of a job. At the
psychological moment Garsline
sings the news, 81 will give you
job and pay you a higher starting
wage than we ordinarily pay. You
will be safe, and you will only have
to do a little special investigation
work. and nobody will knvw about
it except you and l." If the man
says yes, Garsline starts explaining
The type of special work" that is
to be done.
Garsline himself is only cog in
the wheel of the johnson Motor
Company, which is one of the worse
open shops in the country. He gets
a salary of about $4,000 a week, but
he is trying to please the big boss
by crushing any sentiment for or
ganization and trade unionism in
the plant; and as a resulet get pro-
motion for himself.
However, the workers at the John
son Motor Co. are militant and are
ready to fight for a trade union, de-
spite the yellow-dog contract that
they must sign before they can get
the job. j. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Mrs.. BROWNS Body
By A. B. MAGIL.

Mrs Browns body found
Five miles from the spot
Where she was drowned
She wasn't angry any more.
She lay very still,
Floating in with tin cans, pieces Of woods, weeds
trailing,
( AndIa thin rain Walng.
wind was blowing when Mrs. Brown went under.
up and down.
bird flashed against the sky
Ears nose, mouth, were swathed with thunder.
Now she wasn't angry any more.
Freddie wore a new velvet suit at the funeral
\Presented with the compliments of the ladies of the
- Charity Society.
He was crying very hard, poor thing.
And Edna looked just too sweet
Tn her new white dress with her hair washed and
combed out neat
Charlie sat on chair, looking stiff and brave
While little Mr.. Brown just skunk around the house,
Trying his best to feel at home.
Everybody was so sympathetic .,.. ..
And rich Aunt Lizzie came down
From her country home and cried very m
And took
Charlie and Edna and Freddie Brown
Back to the country with her.
They had never seen so many trees and flowers and
things
So much greenness and color shooting up thru the
ground.
It was all so lovely here
Fifty-five miles from the spot
Where Mrs. Browns body was found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
(By a japanese House Cleaner in
California;

OdllI0rnld.)
The enforcement of the new
Mikado, held in the city of Kyoto
last month, was one of the means
to Cypress the working class and the
poor peasants, to dull their class
consciousness and to make the exist
ence and dictatorship Of the capital
lists and landlords mysterious by
means of the ancient ceremony.
The ruling class exploited for this
purpose the workers and poor pea
SAINTS by more than sixteen yen, to
be raised by tax burdens provincial
and village). And, Furthermore, the
reactionary Tanaka government
spent two million yen for the special
telephone system of the police and
we are told that ten million yen, in
Guiding two million yen mentioned
above, was spent for the so-called
protection of the emperor"
The workers were thrown out of
work for three days during the cere-
mony and forced to celebrate the
enforcement though they were
facing starvation. According to the
Proletar;an News, the expenditures
for the affair were bigger than the
wages of one million workers for
one week in Japan. If we consider
the poor peasants whose average
wage is twenty yen a day 90 oents),
one million and a half peasants
should work over forty days for
nothing to carry out this ceremony.
In a word, it is a class character
istic to make the ruling class mys-
FERROUS and to avert s-conscious-
ness.
A Strange "Benevolence."
Owing to the so-called "vast and
boundless benevolence" of the Mi
kado, the ennoblement confering Of
rank and the act of amnesty were
ordered by the reactionary govern
ment.
1t goes, of course, without saying
that only capitalists, landlords and
their agents who depend upon the
labor of the exploited and find one
means of legalizing their rule in the
ceremony, were deeply impressed
with these orders.
Our five hundred and fifty COM
raGes of the Japanese Communist
Party are being prosecuted and con-
victed in secret trials of a class
court. The famous "vast and
boundless benevolence" of the Mi
kado does not reach to the wet and
dark prison in which hundreds of
cur comrades are prosecuted. On
the other hand, the famous robber
congressman and others in the
prison are moved "to tears" by the
act of amnesty coming from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
BOSTON WORKERS
TO Give FIESTA"
Will Defy Barring of
Colds Play

tBB q WOfheT 'COfTeSpOHdeHC/
BOSTON, Dec. ia move is
under way to give a workers pro-
duction of Fiesta" the drama of
the Mexican revolution by Michael
Gold which was suppressed here last
week on orders Of Mayor Nichols
and Police Superintendent Crowley.
The story of this suppression is
just another one of the long line of
arbitrary acts which are making
Boston the "great American TRACE
dy." The play "Fiesta" was chosen
by the Harvard Dramatic Club for
its annual production this year.
Three performances were given in
Cambridge, and another was slated
for hall in Boston.
On the last night in Cambridge,
three policemen appeared with note
books, and kept their ears cooked
for sedition, sex and anti-clerical-
ism. They found all three present,
and reported this to the Boston au-
thorities.
Mayor Nichols, after the police
report, decided to suppress the play.
He said it was immoral. Maybe
the facts which one paper printed
about Mike Colds having been ar
rested on the Sacco-V anzetti picket
line last year had lot to do with
his decision.
The wife of President Lowell Of
Harvard, who helped murder Sacco
and Van.etti, probably Started the
whole f,acas. She is one of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
BOSS IS0LATES
DRESS WORKERS
Prevents Solidarity of
Slaves

P. M, where 1 am employed, is
considered one Of the largest dress
jobbing houses in the world This
firm produces and sells millions of
garments year. The stock is made
by contractors. We make the
samples and duplicates. The work
ers are divided into departments and
categories, such as the dress de-
partment; the children's dress de-
pertinent; the finishing department;
the shipping department.; nd the
office staff. Each of these depart
ments is conducted by department
head who exploits his subordinates.
The employers are thus distribu-
ted into various rooms which are
partitioned off by metal walls, so
that enc group Of workers IS isolated
from the other. The result of such
division is disastrous to the inter-
ests of the workers, but it is very
favorable to the interests of the
employers. Instead of solidarity,
there exists constant discord and
distrust to each other; in place of
s-consciousness, departmental
consciousness and loyalty to the en-
ployers is highly developed. The
passive attitude and dissatisfaction
is the main evil that is prevalent in
this place. They do not consider
themselves as common" workers.
Particularly the shipping clerks and
office workers are averse to any
form of unionism or radicalism.
These workers receive between six
teen and twenty-eight dollars a
week, for six days work. In the
busy season which lasts for about
six months or longer, they work
until 10 or IL o'clock at night with
out extra pay. In return for this
loyalty, they are promised a chance
| for promotion if they will work hard
enough and will be conscientious
enough. They receive their SALARY"
on Friday when all big chiefs re-
ceive theirs, whereas we common
workers" get our wages on Tuesday.
These, however, are not the only
departments where the workers lack
class-consciousnes. In the children's
dress dept we work two hours long
er, and receive between f: and
twelve dollars per week less than
those in the dress dept. Yet the
workers seem quite contented. The
few of US who protest against con-
ditions, and do not bow to the whims
of the designer or pattern maker,
are branded and Disseminated
against. Only intensive propaganda
could change the theology of these
workers.
A. L.
(By a member of the Worker
Correspondence class in the New
York Workers SchoOl.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
JOBS SCARCE
IN CALIFORNIA
Get Job or Go to JAIL"
Says Judge
(Bg a WorIcer CORRESPONDENT

(By Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, (By MaiD.-"If
you have a job by December "a, /
will turn you free"
So spoke Municipal Judge William
G. Baird to Hyram Christensen. The
testimony showed the prisoner cash
ed $25 bogus check in order to
provide food for his starving wife
and children.
But to find a job in this city of
abundance" is almost as difficult
as to locate needle in a straw pile.
Even the monthly Southwest Re-
view, official organ of the Chamber
Of Commerce, admits that jobs are
down and stocks up.
Therefore this christmas gift"
proposition is nearly as uncertain of
realization as the prosperity" prom
ised the workers by Wall Streets
efficient starvation expert, Herbert
Hoover. L. P. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
MAKING WORKERS PAY
FOR MZKADO CEREMONY

vast and boundless benevolence"
of the emperor.
The "benevolence" of the Mikado
arrested more than one thousand
militant workers and poor peasants
before the ceremony and kept them
in prison all the month of Deem
Der for the protection Of the en-
peror."
We believe this is only one por-
ton of the Sacrifices" by the chen
evidence" of the Mikado and the re-
dictionary government against the
workers and poor peasants. We are
told the Tanaka government planned
to arrest and prosecute seven thou
sand workers before the ceremony
Demand Open Trial.
The tank and file in Japan is de-
handing the open trial of our COM
rades. The peasants have just en-
tered the period of struggle against
The landlords and are demanding the
reduction of the land tax. The mill
tant Workers-Farmers Party is be-
ing organized again through bitter
struggle by which the unity of the
workers and farmers against the
ruling class is being solidified. The
workers and poor farmers realize
the real nature of the Chinese Rev.
olution and support it and defend
the Union of Socialist Soviet Re
publics against the imperialist war
danger.
At this serious period, what sig
nificance has the estate ceremony"
about the emperor? We can re-
ahze how the vast and boundless
benevolence" was applied to our Ko-
rean comrades and brothers by the
Japanese ruling class, which MUIR
dered so many of them.
The masses facing starvation,
however, could not be forced to cele-
brate this enforcement even by Sc
we're oppression and brutality. There
came out big and powerful move
ment during the ceremony demand
ing:
Full wages for three days with
out work!
One hundred per cent increase OF
wages for the transportation work
ers during the ceremony!
Against the enforced 'contribu-
ton!
Release all class prisoners!
Down with oppression by the
government during the ceremony!
Immediate relief for unemployed!
IN Toxic, Osaka and vicinity,
Fukuoka and other industrial dis
tricts, the workers fought bitterly
ana obtained part of the demands.
Of course, this bitter and powerful
struggle goes on even after the
ceremony.
They saw the betrayal of the So
cial democrats in the past, the So
cialists are nothing but one part of
the machinery of the capitalist class
against them. Even at the time of
the ceremony, they realized the re-
dictionary nature of the social dem
ccrats as, for example Suzuki fla
nous Japanese Gompers), Abe and
others who Frustrated themselves
before the enforcement.
The Japanese workers and pea
SAINTS realize that it is only the
nucleus who can fight the capital
ist and the landlord to the end. that
Is, can establish The dictatorship OF
the proIetariat under the leadership
Of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
SLAVERY GETTING
WORSE IN Lower
anthracite PITS
Lewis Officials Just
Draw Salaries
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
MINERSVILLE, Pa, (By MaiD.
The conditions of the miners in
the lower anthracite are getting
worse day by day. The contractor
,aystem is employed by the coal
barons in order to squeeze more
profits out of the miners. 1t is a
game of winner and loser, and the
miners are always the losers, be-
cause the coal companies pay for as
much coal as is produced by the min
ers, and in case the coal comes bad
the miners work hard and get mis-
cradle wages. The result is that
the miner is working hard and has
to rush the laborer who works I'M
DER him under the contractor sys-
tenn in order to make some wages.
Now the coal operators have de-
cided that they can still cut down
rhe expense on the production of
coal. In every gangway of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Co. mines the
company used to have a mule and
driver to shift and take cut the
loaded cars. Beginning last week
they took out the mules and fired
the drivers out of the Pine Knot
Colliery located near this town. The
result is that the miners will have
to do the work of the mule, driver
and the miner combined. There is
no organization here at present to
lead the miners to fight against
the increase of the exploitation. The
Lewis gang of District held a
convention here about six weeks ago
when they reelected the same good
ooys" as officials. Not a word was
mentioned about the Worsening Of
.1he conditions and the increase in
the speed-up of the miners of this
region. The activities Of the Lewis
officials consist of drawing pay and
expense money regularly out of the
sweat of the miners. Brother miners,
let us join our brothers in the BIZ
luminous fields who are fighting
under the leadership of the National
Miners Union against the increase
in the exploitation of the miners.
S. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Produce Earth"
in Cleveland

EN- 10 Basshe, producer of Upton
Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds," which
is now running at the Provincetown
Playhouse, is having his play
Earth" produced by the Gilpin
Players of Cleveland.
"Earth" was produced in New
York for the first time by the New
Playwrights Theatre in 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
MILLION BRITISH
WORKERS STARvE
w. |. R. Fights Bosses
Charity Fund

LONDON, Dec. 17.-More than
100000 people, comprising unem-
ployed miners and their families,
are in extreme distress and employed
workers all over England are COM
ing to their aid by contributing to
the special Christmas fund.
The Workers international Relief
is lending every assistance possible
by sending clothes, supplies and
money ard at the same time counter
acting the vicious propaganda of the
tory government, the royal family
and charitable organizations.
1t is very evident now that Bald
wins attempt to mollify the unem-
ployed workers and induce them to
accept continued unemployment
while he is busy reorganizing the
industry for the coal operators, his
meager doles and subsistence wage
are entirely inadequate and are only
a curtain to hide the fact that I'M
employment will exist as long as a
bosses government remains in
power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
HOW LABORER5 LIVE

SYDNEY, Australia (By Mail) -
AS many as 81 Italian laborers are
forced by slave wages to share 9
rooms in Sydney boarding houses.
Five rooms house % laborers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
NEW RAILWAY MERGER

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-THE
Sacramento Northern R. R. and the
San Francisco-Sacramento R. R..
have combined. The former is a
subsidiary of the Western Pacific.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
RAILWAYS MERGE

SAN ANTONIO (By Mai).-The
Texas Pacific Railroad interests
have acquired the Texas-New Mex
leo Railway by purchase of 100000
of common stock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

patronesses of the Harvard Ora
matte Club, but she resigned as
soon as she learned that the club
was to do this play by Gold.
The members of the club stuck to
their guns, however, and went ahead
with the -lav.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
WHITE RACE TO TURN BROWN

CHICAGO (By Mail,)-The white
race will eventually turn brown,
PREDICTS DR.. Morris Fishbein, presi-
dent of the American Medical As
ISOLATION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
civic REPERTORY l.st..sthAv

Soc; 81 90; $3.50. Mats. wed&Sat., $50
EVA LIE GALLIENNE. Director
Tonight, "Peter PAN"
Wed. Mat, "The Cherry Orchard"
Wed. Eve. "The Would-Be Gentle
man."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

(By member of the Worker
Correspondence class in the New
York Workers SchOOl.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06

VOTECHARTER
Election Call In Civ
Rule Change to be
Issued Soon


MERCEDES. June 5.-A muuic;nal
election. nj which voters will cast
their ballot on city officers, and the
adoption Of q new charter, which viii
change the form Of city government,
i expected to be called By the city
council within two weeks, It was an-
nounced following completion Of the
proposed new charter.
The charter is now being copied in
order 10 Be submitted 70 the city
council. according 70 = +. Kirk
natrick' chairman Of the charter com
mission.
III itS present form II win include
provision for maintenance q a cham
Der 81 through taxati0nl
II will create the office Of corp0r-
alton Judge, eliminate the zee system
in city court, and discontinue prac-
tice Of mayor acting as Judge III city
court.
The charter also specifics that per
manent improvements must re PAD
for with funds from bonds voted III
the citizens, and not warrants, an
the present five councilnen END
MAYOR will be supplanted by foui
commissioners and n mayor VIII
shall have the same powers as 2 CON
missioner.
The charter also gives the CITY th'
right 20 conduct such institutions a
municipal hospital. library, etc.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
Doctor at 83 Found People
Preferred His Prescription

The basis of treating sickness has
not changed since DIR. Caldwell left
Medical College in 1875. nor since
ne placed on the market the laxa-
tive prescription he had used In his
practice, known TO druggists and the
public since 1892, as DIR. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin-
Then, the treatment Of constipa-
ton, biliousness, headaches, mental
depression, Indigestion, sour stom-
ach and other indispositions that re-
suit from constipation was entirely
hy means Of simple vegetable laxa-
tives, herbs and roots. These are
still the basis Of DIR. Caldwells Syr-
up Pepsin, which is a combination
OF SIENNA and other mild laxative
herbs, with pepsin.
DR.. Caldwell did not approve Of
drastic physics and purges. He did
not believe they were good for hui
man beings to put into their sys-
en-. Ii grown people want 70 use
tL.S. no one can deny them the
privlis@, hut they should never De
given to children.
The simpler the remedy for con-
stipaticn. the safer for the child and
for yoi, and the better for the gen.
eral heath OF all. And as you can
get results in a mild and safe way
bv using DR.. Caldwel's Syrup Pep
sin, why take chances with strong
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
Weslaco Planning
City Development
Especial 70 The Herald

WESLAcO, June GA new pro-
gram Of expansion and development
for Weslaco is to be discussed and
adopted at a mass meeting that will
be held here within the next few
days, the meeting having been sched-
uled previously for Monday night. IL
was postponed on account of the rain
storm which struck at that time.
The definite date for the meeting
IS to be set in q day or two. accord
ing 70 L. 4. Bailey, secretary Of the
Neslaco Chamber OF Commerce.
The meeting has been called in or
der that plans for industrial and
commercial development Of the city
might be considered. The city has
purchased the five-acre tract former
ly used as n baseball park. and a spur
track Of the Missouri Pacific is to
he extended through it. The city
will be able at any time in the future
TO extend its industrial area on west
Of that site, according to Mr.. Bailey.
Weslaco now has q large cold stor-
age plant, and plans for a canning
factory, and other industrial struc-
lures are being worked out.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
KEiMC Back On
Air After a Law
OF Of Ten DAYS


HARLlNGEN, June 6.-kHMC,
Harlingen Music Co. radiophone, is
back on the air after an enforced ST.
lence Of ten days caused by the fall
ing OF a carpet tack into the gener-
ator armature Of the new trans
mitter during the process OF ~installa-
ton. The armature was burned up
through q short circuit.
Efforts to secure an armature from
Texas supply houses and stations
were unavailing and the electrical
equipment had to be shipped from
the Electrical Speciality company Of
Stamford, Conn.
During the lay-off KING has re-
vamped its studio and other general
improvements made.
The armature arrived Friday but
lightning burned out a radiation
meter. causing the station to remain
silent until Monday. KWWG, Browns
vile station, supplied q radiation
meter pending the arrival Of another
from the supply house.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
Many Laborers
Crossing River

Mexican lnborers are flocking to
the Valley in ever increasing num-
hers, according TO the records of the
Brownsville immigration office,
which show that over 40 were adj
mitted 1t this point during the
month Of May. with indications that
this record will be broken in June.
Most Of the laborers crossing at
this point come from the interior Of
Tamauliras and Nuevo Leon, payin~
their head tax with the intention Of
returning TO Mexico after the close
of the cotton picking season. The
majority ~G-nsist Of small parties of
two TO five.
Reports from Laredo indicate that
large numbers r $50 crossing at
that point, and many Of them arc ex-
pected TO work down to the Valley
for the opening Of the cotton season.
Reports have been spread through
out northern and central Mexico
thta the demand for cotton pickers
will be heavy in the I'm part Of
Texas this season. and these reports
are believed responsible for the
heavy emigration from the Mexican
interior.