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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
TRUFOOD BOSS
BROTHER JOINS
PICKET LINE
Walters, Mattresses on
3 Weeks Strike

(By a Worker Correspondent
A large crowd was witnessing the
latest developments of the walters
strike of the Trufood Restaurants.
Henry Saser, the brother of one
of the owners, was arrested for
picketing. Previously he made a
statement for the labor press in
which he said that his sympathy is
with the strikers and if his brother
would refuse to sign a settlement
he himself would join the picket
line of the strikers.
On Wednesday, July II, he APP
peared on the picket line with a
large placard 1t read as follows:
"The Demands of the Strikers are
Justified" The other side read:
"The proprietor of the Trufood is
my brother-My Sympathy is with
the Strikers"
The strike of the mattresses and
walters is entering its third week.
The bosses still refuse the just de-
mands. which are nine instead of
thirteen hours work per day for the
walters, eight hours per day for the
mattresses, ten and fifteen dollars
per week for the mattresses instead
of seven dollars per week and twelve
dollars per week for the walters in
stead of twelve dollars.
N T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
S 7 RIK E.!
sTo All Shirt Makers in Perth Amboy:
SUPPORT THE STRIKE IN THE JACo co.

sTo All Shirt Makers in Perth Amboy;
SUPPORT THE STRIKE IN THE JACo CO.
ORGANIZE 1000 FOR SHIRT MAKERS UNION IN PERTH
AMBOY!
We the workers in the aco Co, strike against
is impossible factory
against the
SHRT-WORKERS! All of you have received a
who if the
against it. The have all received
not organized into a union.
STRIKE AGAINST THE WAGECUT 1 we go QUIT bosses
will have to listen and give demands.
WE DEMAND:
1-RECOGNTTION OF OUR UNION THAT WILL BE
PROTECTED AGAINST FURTHER CUTS
mo wAGE-CUTl
3-AT LEAST $40 FOR EACH WORKER
4-JOBS BACK TO THOSE WORKERS WHO WERE FIRED
WHEN THE CUT CAME!
5-S-HOUR DAY. 44-HOUR WEEK
6.-NO PIECE Work.
JOIN THE STRIKEl!
DON'T BE YELLOW!
UNITED OUR DEMANDSl!
JACO COMPANY SHOP COMMITTEE
$685. STATE ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

seven years and today we can esti-
mate its membership on all coasts
at not more than two hundred and
fifty, in this respect being surpassed
by the International Seamen's Union
of America, affiliated to the A. F.
Of L., who at least have a member
ship of $500, out Of about 125,000,-
900 workers actually engaged in the
marine industry.
Neither did Thompson mention
why the M. t. w of the l. w. w.
lost membership of $4,000, which
it had in the years of 1928 and 1924;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
SUB WORKERS
ARE VICTIMS OF
EXPLOITATION
Union Man Forced to
Earn Boys Wages
by a Worker Correspondent

tDB " Ofh6f COfTSSpOHuenJj
The foundation and subway con-
tractors of this city have an organ
ization for mutual protection. The
executives had a meeting recently
to devise some means for prevent
ing the night-watchman from SELL
ing their gasoline and oils to the
taxi drivers and other auto owners.
They have also been selling other
materials to the small contractors.
1t was suggested by an outsider
that if these companies paid their
workers a living wage they would
not have to become thieves in order
to secure an existence. If these
contractors paid living wage they
would have all their men be reliable
and honest and would not be engag-
ing illiterates, drunkards and ex-
convicts, which types have never
been union men and never will be.
The A. F. of L. needs this kind
of men so that they may shake the
bosses down, as Brindell did. I'd
like it explained to me why the A.
F. of L. union man turns his work
over to man who is widely known
as a strict non-union man and works
with non-union help on a union job.
You will find man working on
18th st. as a night Waterman, who
claims to be a socialist" and a
union coal miner from Pennsylvania.
How can this man be working Id
hours day and seven days week
for boys wages and yet call him
self union man? He is a good
sample of the A. F. of LIS method
of lettering the conditions of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

Slavery,
Referring to Communist activi-
ties against imperialism in China
md Nicaragua, Thompson says that
they should let foreign imperialists
exploit the masses In those eoun-
tries until they become industrial
rroletariats, before organizing them
on revolutionary basis, thus show
ing that the I. w. w. can be placed
in the same category as the social
list" party, evolutionary, instead of
revolutionary.
The save-the- union movement is q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

of L. with it, or that in this pres
ent strike Of the New Bedford tex
tile mills we see something big APP
pearing on the horizon as result
Of the activities of the Communists
in these two fields,
He also referred to the Interna-
tional Seamen's Club program for
forming marine workers. progress
sive committees as failure and as
a dual organization, but King"
Thompson might bear in mind that
the marine transport workers of the
I. W. W. has been in the field for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

not word was said as to why the
1. w. w. refused to affiliate with
the Red International Of Labor
Unions in 1921, and we can readily
see that today it is only a national
organization without any support
from militant labor in other parts
of the world.
The |. w. w. is a rank and file
organization, he declared, but we
must remind Thompson that the
only time the l. w. w. amounted
to anything was when the late Bill
Haywood was debating the policies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17


lys of the land.
found in the great, free America
as l travelled over it, institutions
that are called work-houses and re-
form schools, penitentiaries, poor
houses and orphans homes. Here
you find what America really is.
Is it free? 1t certainly is not.
State Farm.
If you should venture down south
to Georgia state you would see a
state farm controlled by your gov
eminent. On this farm there are
5000 prisoners. 1t is known as a
turpentine farm.
The inmates work IL hours a day
and gather sap from the trees. This
is made into turpentine and then
they extract a higher oil known as
oil of juniper and from the pro-
ducts come tar and rausam.
The inmates are men caught by
railroad "bull" or are picked up by
regular police for vagrancy and are
fined 800 or sentenced to IL months
and 20 days to Jail. They most often
do not have the money and are,
therefore, sentenced to the farm"
They are shackled, at this farm. to
a ball and chain on their ankles.
With this on their feet they are
unable to run away.
If the inmates do anything wrong
they are tied to whipping stump,
bound hand and foot to it and are
beaten by one white and one Negro
inmate who are threatened with
beatings themselves if they do not
beat their fellow inmates and sew
erely at that. The punished man is
beaten by long leather trace to
which bar of lead is attached. The
two men used in inflicting the pun
ishment are always the strongest.
Working Out" Clothes.
Many serve as much as three
years before they are granted their
freedom. Here are some of the
reasons. Shoes and clothing are
necessary, to last the IL months and
20 days since it is hot as hell there.
If money can be had then every-
thing is o X. But no one has any
money and so in order to get the
clothes ordered in a commissarv
they allow time to be added to their
original sentences for them. This
is known as working out their
clothes. Ninety days are added for
pair of shoes, which are not at
all good.
If a man takes sick he gets the
"black bottle"
The majority of the men here are
northerners and fasteners. They
travel down south for a Job and land
in the farm for IL months and 20
days and often more than that.
Does dear old AL Smith know
about this? I'm sure he does. Do
Hoover and Coolidge and all the
priests and salvation armyists know
this? They do. Why don't they do
anything about it? It's because
this is capitalist country and be-
cause religious institutions are for
poisoning the minds of the work
ers and not for helping them.
These capitalist birds sing where
is My Wandering Boy Tonight"
Yes, he's to be found in such in
stitutions as the Georgia farm, for
lack of job, or else he's 6 feet
under from drinking the black bot
tie given him while he was sick.
No Aid To Workers.
None of these guys will help any
workers. They'll only fool them
with ideas about becoming president
some day. Repeat the constitution
to any judge in Georgia today and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
2hlada BARRIERS Demands Sold Ont by OdQaom Correspondent Rgbo,
HANdOmTS

This is a free country but in i
some are little freer than others
Among those who got a big slice
when liberty was passed around are
the public utility corporations. They
have the privilege of appearing in
The schools and telling Johnny and
Mary that the workers never could
operate the utilities successfully
and that the American system is
OK. even if papa is too poor tc
give them a dime on Saturday night
to go to the movies.
%
The methods by which the cor
porations obtain these results are
clearly shown in a letter from R
r.. McGregor, assistant director of
the Illinois committee on Public
utility Information, to J. B. Sheri-
dan, director of the Missouri COM
mittee:
More recently we have adopted
the plan of having a third party
organization make the arrange
ment with the schools. In strict
! confidence the Illinois Chamber of
+. Commerce handled it for us dur
/ ing the last summer. We, of
( course, paid the bill. We try to
A. keep away from announcing the
! talks to have anything to do with
public utilities, our last talks be-
ling on the government of bust
ness.
SIN placing speakers before
schools the job is most complete
I when you make arrangements
with the speaker who should be
an educator of the highest stand
ing, well known and accepted
throughout the state"
This is freedom Of speech under
capitalism. o course if a poor work
or wanted to depy the statements
If the public utility hireling he has
he freedom to go out into the
woods and explain his position to a
crowd of poison ivy and locust
caves. But unless he has the back.
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
and the spare change to bride the
tates' leading educator he wouldn't
make connections with the public
chool audience.
Emerald, the class consciow ant
says: America imports $500 LOCI
oorth of diamonds annually from
South Africa and New York ferrg
gorkers toll 19 hours in q roa0 on
undays."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

of the organization and when Hay
wood went to the Soviet Union the
]. w. w. started to go haywire.
The emergency split also helped its
downfall to a great extent.
The 1. w. w. today is not the
|. w. w. of yesterday, and our re-
ply to Thompson is to step aside
and let something big take its place
in the freeing of the American
workers from capitalist exploita-
ton, and that is the Workers (Com-
munist) Party of America.
BLACkIE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

he will tell you politely to forget
it since it was dead and buried when
jefferson and Tom Paine died. The
declaration of independence also
died with these men, the learned
judge says.
But there are many scissorbills,
lickspittles of the capitalists. They
say they are getting by when they
don't even always get mission flops
and hardly ever can beg enough for
coffee an. They expect pie in the
sky, but l for one would prefer it
on earth.
Well, this is only very little
bit Of what | have seen and exper-
fenced. But you can bet III write
more about this glorious United
States that beats up workers when
they want to do something for
themselves.
JOHN VIM. FITZGERALD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
Two French Workers
Trapped in Cave-In

PARIS, July 1.-two Italian
workers, trapped alive when the
walls of tunnel near Bramans Sa-
vote caved in Friday night, were
fed milk through a 20-foot rubber
tube late today when rescue work
ers had established communication
with them.
The men are Joseph Massiglio
%, and Joseph Peccos, 26. The
French women who were trapped in
the cave-in died of injuries.
The two survivors complained of
cold and hunger when the rescue
party first established communica-
ton with them.
The bodies of the victims of the
collapse had not been recovered late
tonight because of the great danger
to workers who were attempting tc
reach them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

1. w. w. is playing such an insig-
nificant part in the American Labor
movement today Thompson's eff
forts to confuse the minds Of the
audience, showing the Workers
(Communist) Party in the role of
the old bourgeois political parties,
and in many cases referring to the
Workers Party as labor politicians,
was laughed at by the audience,
many of whom understood the role
it is playing in the struggle for the
liberation Of the workers and farm
ers from the yoke of capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

failure, Thompson maintains, not
mentioning the fact that this move
ment has drawn thousands Of or.
ganized miners, as we'll as morgan
lied, from the reactionary Lewis
machine, and Is organizing them in
new miners union with a militant
program and leadership.
The Passaic strike was led to the
slaughter by the A. r. Of L. reac-
tionary offieialdom, says Thompson,
but little does he know that the
militant rank and file workers who
led that strike went into the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
'olice Can Do Nothing
In Hobo Jungle"

BURLINGTON, la. (FP).-The
9ck Island jungle in Burlington is
5ntrclled by an ex-hobo who rented
small piece Of land adjacent to the
rs. He uses part for his shack
gerden. The balance he devoteF
Jungle, equipped with tables
'rg pans and others things dear
4 travelling DO. Since it is priv
property, neither the railroad
l,a nor the city police can drive
: CHESTS out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
(By a Seaman CorrespondontJ

4 fBy a Seaman Correspondent
James P. Thompson, the recog-
ruzed king of the I. W. W., spoke
-le- 2 small gathering of about sew
enty-five people recently at the
corner Of Whitehall and South SITS.
After listening to about one hour
and a half Of his TRADE against the
Workers (Communist) Party, we
can readily understand why the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
SENTENCED TO DEATH

TOLEDO, o., July 16 (UP).-
Charles Hoppe, former Toledo chauf-
feur, who kidnapped and murdered
7-year-old Dorothy Szelagowski
several weeks ago, was sentenced to
death in the electric chair today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
4 KILLED IN CLIMB

GENEVA, July 16 (UP).-Four
Frenchmen were killed today, when
they attempted to climb Breithorn.
The men were without guides. The
accident was said to BE- The worst n
mountaineer history in this district
within the last % years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
choirs.

choirs.
Volpe will conduct a symphony
orchestra of fifty musicians at the
postponed concert, which is sched-
uled for next Saturday night at the
Coney Island Stadium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
PRISONERS SLAVE IN
GEORGIA STATE FARM
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENT. }

(By Worker Correspondent
have had fifteen thousand mile adventure u. S. A.
which writing will tell America
found it in travels in the highways O the land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
Man browns as Many
Are Saved in Flood

PHILADELPHIA, July 16.-One
man was drowned when the Porl1io-
men Creek, swollen by heavy rains
during the last few days, over
flowed its banks yesterday into the
Perkiomen Valley, north of here.
Scores of summer campers were
rescued from tents and bungalows,
many of which were carried away
by the floods.
The man who was drowned was
William Bloomer, 81 years old, who
lost his life when he set out with
two friends in canoe to explore
the flooded area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

convince the firms that It pays to
have a handful of union men, and
then advertise itself as union con-
Germ. friendly" to labor, while
grinding out greater profits by con.
stantly speeding up the workers
and pairing down their pay en-
velopes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
GREETs IMPERIALISTs

ROME, July 16 (UP).-Premier
Mussolini was to receive today a
delegation of 100 Italian industrial
lists, residents in France, who are
touring the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17

Emerald, the class consciow ant,
says: america imports $500 LOCI
,oorth of diamonds annually from
South Africa and Ne10 York ferry
oorkers toll 10 hours in roa0 on
undays."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

Strauss" both achieved brilliant sue
| cess In the role of the Trojan beauty.
Rivalry between them was artistically
! intense and Judgment was. for the
most. withheld. Suffice to say. each
/ achieved A great triumph. second only
| to that of the composer himself. Mime.
Rethberg sang at the Dresden world
premier, June g. and Nine. Jeritza at
! the Vienna premier. five nights later.
! June II.
! Both artists sang the famous role be-
/! fore the most distinguished audience
| of opera directors, critics and news
| paper writer's. singers. musicians and
| social celebrities assembled in the past
decade at a premiere abroad. June 6,
| in Dresden, Rethberg was superb. mag
nificent. June III. In Vienna, JeritZa
gave a brilliant performance in the
same role, with Strauss himself con-
Quoting the occasion being the COM
poser's forty-sixth birthday.
/ Keenest interest now attaches to the
promised premiere of THE Egyptian
Helen" at the Metropolitan Opera
House In New York City In November.
It Is not yet known which OF these
great artists will be chosen to sing the
opening night. But no matter to whom
the good fortune falls. Washington au-
diences will hear both artists here very
shortly afterward. for Nine. Jeritza will
sing here February ID. and Nine. Reth-
berg will sing March s. In concert at
the washington Auditorium. presented
here for the first time after their
European triumplls In The Egyptian
Helen" by the washington Cooper
| alive Concert Course. under the local
management of Or. Harold NJ. Dudley
and committee Of well known WASH
| ingtonians.
The civic and welfare feature of the
course, too Is OF special interest to
Washingtonians and numbers of
established social and patriotic agencies
are expected to cooperate in the plan.
20 per cent OF the sales proceeds going
to their benefit. The fact that the well
fare association Of the ONCE of Public
Buildings and Public Parks In the Ma.
| tional Capital will benefit from all tick
/ cts sold at the Government newsstands,
through the cooperation of Capt. nj.
H. Parsons. chief OF the association.
both stabilizes the project to the city
and insures keen interest among the
thousands OF music-loving clerks of the
Government whose hours in general
prevent their attendance at most of the
| afternoon concerts held In the city In
| the Winter season. Reservations can
| now be made. but no ticket sales will
begin till after August |.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
Charles Klein's Great PLAY.
IF you belong to the last generation.

IF you belong to the last generation.
you must remember the great revival
Of Sheridar's The Rivals" and the
elder Mrs. John Drew. sloriouSly
srandiloQuent as Mrs. Malaprop. with
what a manner she told her niece
that she was "headstrong as an al
legory on the banks OF the Nile" and
refused personally 20 have "aSperSionS
cast on her parts of speech"
II vas Mrs. Drew'S son who became
the dean OF American actors, and IL
was her daughter George who mar
ried that brilliant and erratic genius
Maurice Barrymore. and became the
mother of Lionel. Ethel and John. The
first of the tito. Lionel. plays the lion"
in the Warner Bros. screen revival OF
Charles Klein's famous play. The Lion
and the Mouse" which Is one Of the
current weeks attractions.
Mr., Barrymore. q worthy descendant
of the royal family" OF the American
stage. is said TO give A mastery per
Torrance as Ready Money" Ryder, the
lion of the financial world. who ruins
the aged Judge Ross. In revenge for an
adverse decision
Ryder's son later meets Shirley, the
judges daughter. and the two young
sters set about reinstattng the Judge In
public favor and changing the rcaring
lion into a lamb.
Strong drama. Splendidly played. Il
The Lion and the Mouse"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
Will Hear
Prague Teachers Choir

WASHINGTON is to be one of the
cities privileged to hear the
Teachers Choir Of Prague, czechosIo-
vakia. on its nation wide tour early In
1929. according to an announcement
just made by Richard Copley. associate
with M. H. Hanson, manager OF the
choir in this country. The Prague
Choir also Is scheduled for a concert in
January at the Library OF Congress at
the invitation Of the Government
Carl En2el. An Official reception will
be given for the choir January q.
The Prague Teachers Choir Is known
all over Europe as one OF the finest
choral organizations In the world and
as the group which won the grand prize
at the Paris international choral COM
petition In 1912 over 1000 competing
organizations. II is composed Of so
men. all of whom are teachers or pro-
fesSors In schools and universities In
Czechoslovakia. 1t is estimated that
more than 100000 people have heard
them on the Continent and in England.
During the 30 years of the existence of
the group they have given over 500 con-
certs exclusive OF the many times when
their singing has made up part OF an
other program. They have appeared In
England alone 80 times. This will be
their first American trip
Prof. Metod Dolezil has been the con-
dtictor OF the organization since 1921
and is known In European musical cir
Giles as the "Toscanini OF choral music. !"
DR. DoleziI Is a profound musician. a
pupil OF composition OF Vitezslav Novak,
eminent Czech composer.
The Prague Teachers Choir has prob
ably sung before more crowned heads
than any other individual or group Of
artists In the world The royal family OF
Rumania entertained them at Castle
Sinaja.
Among the countries where the choir
has been enthusiastically heard are Eng
land. France. Belgium. Germany,
Sweden, Norway, Austria. Denmark,
Rumania Jngoslavia and Switzerland.
The itinerary of the Teachers Choir
is almost completed and extends from
Montreal in the north to Nebraska on
the west and AZ far south as Havana,
Cuba. Both Yale and Harvard VIII be
visited and also the universities at Ann
Arbor. Mich, and Madison: Wis more
than 40 concerts will be given In all,
The first New York concert will be
on January 7, and the second on Janu-
AIRY 10, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto
win be the Canadian cities 10 hear the
| choir. After the recital In Buffalo VIII
| come the first Chicago concert, Jann-
airy 20.
| Bookings have been made i0f the
/ Teachers 10 sing In Milwaukee, Detroit
/ Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Dayton and GIN
! einnati After the second Chicago date
| will follow concerts In Cedar Rapids
| and Des Moines. Iowa Omaha, Nehf
J and 81 Joseph Mo, February III and
10 will b. The two concert DAVIS In Ha-