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enthusiasm for both theories than
events at the time Of Franks writing
would seem to justify, but as COM
pared with the dukedoms of the Holy
Roman Empire, where "men run
shouting over the fields" at night to
keep the sacrosanct-noble game
from eating their lowly but necessary
corn-Frederick and Washington
might both be said to be radicals. The
right to make a revolution is defend
ed in the play, not of course the
right to revolt in Prussia or in Amer
lea.
The scenery is wonderful, Mary
Ellis as the princes lady is a regular
Dresden china dolly, except when, on
account of the hoop-skirts, she looks
like haystack made of buttercups.
Faucet, the English envoy, is most
realistic, especially when he accuses
the prince of cheating him on the fol-
lowing counts: substituting mere boys
for grown warriors, giving them rot
ten and ragged uniforms, providing
them with old guns last used in the
Thirty Years War, stealing the SOL
diers' pay, and issuing straw boots
instead of leather. On the other hand,
the prince makes out a case that sup
plies bought of the English for the
soldiers were worthless. Diplomacy,
if this be true picture of the ITS
brand, has not changed much in the
last $50 years.
-r 'i9 ' " G
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Missions Recruited Scabs for T. Strike Worker Correspondent Charges
Knit
Goods Mil to
Lay off 900

CHESTER, Pa. (By MaiD.-The
Aberfoyle Manufacturing Com
pany, manufacturers of mercerized
goods have for the past ten years
had a company union in existence.
They purchased large farm in
the country known as the Aber-
foyle Country Club. In addition to
the reguSlr insurance the employees
have been expected to belong to
this club and pay fifty cents per
month.
Not long ago the Townsend
Street Mill was closed and, it is
reported, moved to the south.
For the past four months the
two largest mills of this concern
have been operating on four days
per week after laying off one
third of their help.
A news item in the local paper
reports the closing down of 500
looms and the discharge of 100
workers.
| have received the information
from three sources that 500 looms
and 900 workers are to stop this
week.
A further cut of one day re-
duces some to three days week.
All the work is piece work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

of a German princeling, introducing
only two (minor) characters, who are
not either ministers of or to Ellis
Serene Highness," it yet gives an i'm
preston of mass revolt, of treason
and sabotage, and winds up with
boost for the rights of man. 1t is
all done with the general air and
movement of a minuet.
Piderit, played by Basil Sydney,
soft voiced, urbane, but capable Of
emotion, is a secretary to His High
ness, and brother of two of the twelve
thousand subjects of the prince, whom
his serenity is selling at so thalers
apiece as cannon fodder to the British
torys. -Piderit uses the seal of the
princes lady love to send a message
to the king of Prussia. Frederick of
Prussia is the personal hero of Bruno
Frank, and Frank implies that pure
humanity compels the king to inter
fere with this traffic in human flesh.
Actually, Frederick did interfere,
somewhat belatedly, if we remember
our history, on the grounds that he
was raising German soldiers for his
own use, not for sale abroad.
But it makes a good play. The
messenger of the king of Prussia, a
colonel, played with zest and inspira-
ton by Lumsden Hare, stalks into
the noble man-monger's court at the
last minute, just as the twelve thou
sand sold out troops are starting a
Notwithstanding it wrong by
throwing their rifles into the river.
Frederick's colonel sprawls comforta-
bly, all over the princes excellent and
beautiful furniture, twirls a sword
twice as long as any seen so far in
the play, sneers at the princes min
listers, jeers at the princes angry pro-
tests, and tells him that Prussia just
needs any. kind of a pretext to wipe
him off the map. Then by way of
further insult he carries off to safety
the sabotaging secretary, also the
princes mistress, also the secretarv's
two brothers. The only reason the
prince doesn't choke to death on the
spot is because he has quenched the
rebellion by pretending to call off the
deal with England on his own account,
and is busy with his minister devising
new taxes upon the twelve thousand.
The play is shot through with the
notion of Franks that there is some
thing in common between the Decla-
ration of Independence and "enlight-
ened despotism." There is much more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Promoter EnSlaUeS
JObIeSS Men and Women
(By a Worbor Correapondent.)

w ~ N''SS' WI fSoEcfCk6ILtsI
LOS ANGELES, Calf, (By NALL.
"A fake promoter, NJ. Lippner, sold
jobs to impoverished men and women
in proposed Big Bear lake hotel.
The sale of stock was included in the
job contract.
Housing his victims in a squalid
shack, at the lake, Lippner forced
them to haul water and wood as part
of their employment" pending the
hotel construction. After keeping
them there a few days, it is alleged,
he discharged" them and announced
the employment contract as void.
The labor-skinner is in jail. A
complaint charging fraud will be
filed against him in the courts today.
The unemployment situation is so
acute in this oasis of abundance"
(the words of Mayor Cryer) that
workers are ready to do almost any
thing to escape being sent to Jail as
"vags."
To eat and charge it up to tie
mayor, is advocated in some quarters.
L. p. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
CosSackS Break Up
Meeting of Miners Children
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

\OV u w OTh6T COITSSpONUGWC.j
AVELLA, Pa. (By MaiD.-I want
to tell you what happened in our
small village last Saturday. Fannie
Toohey came down to organize the
children. She had just written the
children's names and addresses and
had collected them and was saying,
"Well, children" when all at once,
without warning, in came three cos
sacks. One of them took Phillippi
out to a store to telephone to the
sheriff while two stayed to watch
Fannie so she couldn't talk.
One of the cossacks asked Fannie:
"What is this ?" "a union," was the
answer. mo it's not" said the cos
sack. Then he said to tell the chill
dren to go. So what could she do?
She had to tell the children that the
meeting was adjourned.
While this was going on in the
hall, the other cossack, who had Phil
lippi, was calling the sheriff. The
sheriff's answer was: "You received
your orders this morning, so what
more do you want?"
So the children left. Fannie Too
hey and Phillippi come over to stay
with us. Fannie left US some work
ers' songs and they're sure hot.
Hope we have mass picketing here
soon, and may we 1--WE will win.
May The DAILY WORKER be al
ways fighting. d.
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-tance to the classes as soon as you
are unable to make payments on
your course And the school is asso-
ciated with collecting agencies that
will make you pay by any possible
means if you have a cent.
The DAILY WORKER exposed
some of the worst frauds among the
trade schools year ago. The laws
are very lax in regard to them and
it is very easy to start school"
1t is time that the whole rotten graft
was exposed for what it is, colossal
capitalist swindle.
FORMER STUDENT"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
MOtOrman Hurt in Crash

James Bowers, motorman, of 1870
Washington Ave, Mariners Harbor,
and three more workers were injured
when the trolley car he was driving
crashed into truck in front of the
United States Gypsum Cos plant at
357 Richmond Terrace; New Brigh-
ton, Staten Island.
The motorman, suffering fir o m
decorations of the head, was taken to
the Staten Island Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
JEFFERSON

Monday to Wednesday, George
Whiting and Sadie Burt; Lou Krugel
and Charles Robes; Two Southern
Girls (the Misses Rocklitz and
Moore); other acts. On the screen:
Sailors Wives" with Mary Astor and
Lloyd Hughes. Thursday to Sunday,
1.-The Patent Leather Kid" starring
Richard Barthelmess. Vaudeville bill
including Frank Wheeler and Dorothy
Sands in "For No Reason At ALP;
other acts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
STATE OFFICIALS
PLAN new BURDEN
FOR POOR FARMER
Law Would Ruin
Many, Is Charge
. by a Worker Correspondent J


ROYALSTON, Mass, (By MaiD =
I am enclosing two clippings of the
House Bill 319 which came up las
week. l wish you could write little
article about it from our class point
of view.
1t affects me not personally, as l
am just day laborer with no land.
You see l have to work hard and have
family to care for, but in Fitchburg
[ obtain The DAILY WORKER and
other literature. And perhaps we
workers have psychic sense like
animals for away back in these ham
lets there are three of US who realize
that it's to you we must look for
leadership.
This is talk I had with one Of
the poor farmers about the alleged
increase in the value of lands. The
farmer said that to a certain eegree
this was true, but as taxes were so
high and prices so low, almost all the
little farmers had to increase their
mortgages so that they were no bet
from the soil for lack of money to
buy fertilizers. He said that the pro-
posed board (board to zone the state
highways in order to preserve their
natural beauty and entice tourists to
spend money in Massachusetts, as is
stated frankly in the enclosed clip
pings: Ed would be composed of APP
pointed men who know nothing of the
poor farmers conditions.
81 am a middle-aged man." he said,
farming is all 1 know and they will
demand expensive fences and build
ings and we make so little. Hun
dreds of the little fellows will have
to give up. / never allowed billboards
on my land, have kept it as in my
childhood, tho l need the money. |
love the land, but soon will have
to give it up. God will care for me-"
You see the village church had him
full of dope. l tried to show him the
class struggle instead of fight be-
tween the city and the country.
A LANDLESS LABORER.
EDITORS Notwithstanding to
the House Bill 319, which is reported
IN the clippings sent us by this land
.ess farm labOrer, 500 feet on either
side of all Massachusetts highways
would be under the absolute juris-
diction" of a newly created Division
of Planning. 1t is expressly stated
that the farmers could build mo
building, garage, henhouse or dog
Kennel, no walk or Tense" within the
500 foot strip. No farmer would be
permitted to advertise single pro-
duct he might have for sale without
first getting permit from Boston.
The possibilities of graft are enor-
nous and would place new yoke on
the neck of the -burdened poor
farmer. "This act would apply to vii
lage as well as outlying land where
ever the state road passes thru the
same"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Children Refugees Live
In Cavern After Flood

NEWHALL, Cal, March 49,
Emerging from the chaos Of the st.
Francis dam catastrophe, Louis
Rivera, II, walked into Newhall to-
day, leading by the hands his sister,
Belle, 10, and brother, Francis, g.,
whom he rescued from the turbulent
flood Tuesday and sheltered in San
Martinos Canyon for three days and
nights.
The three children, half starved,
still wore their night clothes which
were in shreds.
Seven other members Of the family,
including the lads mother and father,
persisted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Paris Commune Meeting
In Washington, March %

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10.
"A Paris Commune celebration will
be held Friday, March % at $3.50 p.
IN. at 1887 Seventh ST., N. w. under
the auspices Of the Young Workers
(Communist) League Speakers repre-
senting the Young Workers League,
the Workers Communist Party and
the Young Pioneers will address the
meeting. A musical program has also
bnan arranged ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
PREACHER OUT TO
Get 80 JOBLESS
Men FOR SUBWAY
Observation-Disclosures
Rather Starve
(By a Worker Correspondent


Being unemployed I am lately do
ing a hell of a lot of walking. The
other day I walked into THE All
Night Mission" at Bowery. l sat
down. I started a conversation with
one of the workers. Here is his story.
'For a long time I have been I'M
employed. I was so broke that had
nothing to eat. In order to make some
money l went to work as strike
breaker in one Of the Pennsylvania
mines.
Conditions are very bad there. The
savages of Africa would not even
stand for it. The food that was served
to us was very unsanitary. The pay
was very low. We were promised
$500 per day. By the time our fare
and other expenses had been deducted
we had not a cent to our names. After
working there for one month did not
have enough money to buy a shirt for
myself.
"The strikebreakers are in a he'll
of time. Many Of them would like
to escape from the mines, but they
are unable to do so. l decided to
escape and by LUCK 1 did get out of
there. l hoboed my way till I came
to New York.
Coming to this city, 1 had no
place to go, since | had not a cent to
my name. I came to this mission. l
was given a piece of hard bread not
fit for a dog. The coffee tasted worse
than mud water. Before 1 had re-
ceiyed that, l had to pray and listen
to sermons for a couple of hours.
"After the meal the preacher came
over to me and said, My boy, where
were you born?'
In the U, S. A. replied.
How long have you been unem-
ployed?' he asked me.
"'About five MONTHS 1 replied.
"'Well, said the preacher, q have
a good job for you. You will get
there plenty of money and good
meals. The work is not very hard
"Then I told him that 1 am willing
to take the job and asked him where
the job was.
"The preacher then told me that
he had to supply fifty men to the I.
r. T. I refused to work as a scab
since learned my lessons in the
Pennsylvania mines. am disguised
as a strikebreaker. l would rather
starve now than go to work as a scab.
Upon hearing this, the preacher
said that it is the duty of all good
Americans to see that strikes are pre-
vented because many innocent people
suffer as a result of strikes.
Il wish I'd never known these mis-
sions. 1 would have been better off"
For couple Of minutes l kept
quiet. Then I gave him a leaflet in
reference to meeting of the uncm-
ployed. He took it and read it. He
promised to come and he kept his
word.
At the unemployed meeting he told
me, "From now on I never will go
scabbing any more"
Fright, buddy" I replied. And we
parted.
This is true story without any
fiction.
The Unemployed Council ought to
do something to these so-called mis-
sion stiffs. A little propaganda will
put them in their right place, in the
ranks of all the workers.
j. O.'S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Mining Most Hazardous

BOSTON, March 18.-Mining is
the most hazardous industry, accord
ing to report issued by the Nation
al Industrial Conference Board. 1t
mas an accident rate of 184.76 to a
thousand workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
Defenders a.
TIM DAILY WORKER

Finn. Wkrs Club, Scotia, N. Y. $500
H. Anklowitz, New Bruins, N. J. 300
S. Ponce. New York City. ..... 200
H. Brink, New York City. ... LOO
G. Metoru, Rock Springs, Wyo. 1850
j Kotraros, Rock Springs, Wyo. 500
G. Morphis, Rock Springs, Wyo. 500
S. Kehayas, Rock Springs. Wyo 200
A Friend, Flushing. NJ Y. LOO
J. Cerwenka, Chicago, III. 49,. 800
Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N.Y.45.96
Jugoslav Workers Club, Pitts
burgh, Pa. ............... .25. 90
7. Fl. Cottey, Parsons, Kansas. 300
B. Bitker, Lansing, Ohio. LOO
L. Villas. New York City. $3.50. 100
F. Ortiz, New York City. LOU
G. Fleurant, New York City. :. 100
t. Shamatovich, Bridgeport, Con.1.00
p. Hecun, Bridgeport, Conn. LOO
rIothers' League of N. E., Brock
ton Branch 1000
Schpebelen Family, Phila., Pa. 800
A. Kozakoff, Wilkes Barre, Pa. 500
J. Burke, st. Pete, Fla. 800. 200
r. f. Mountford, Wyndel, B. c.. $50
E. Szalkay, Toledo, Ohio. ...... so
s Szalksy, Toledo, Ohio. ....... 80
w. Szalkay, Toledo, Ohio. ..... so
g. Reinis, San Francisco, Cal. >. 200
4 C. Mershon, San Fran, Cal. 100
M. RAPPORT, Petaluma, Cal &C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
" DRAMA II
DISCIPLINE AND
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

sCTWELVE THOUSAND" at the&
1 Garrick, is an adaptation from
Bruno Frank, of the story of the in
reference by King Frederick II of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

Prussia, c all e d
Great, - with the
sending of Hes
SLAMS to put down
the rebellion of
English colonists
in America. The
play is a quaint
little thing. Never
once deserving the
self same room in
the summer palace
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

E. Weiser, Passaic, N. J.....1.00
T. Pichler, Canton, Ohio. 800
S. Rosenthal. Canton, Ohio. .....100
G. Anspake, New York City. 100
NJ. Shapovolov, Riverside, Cal. 800
f. Guenter, Santa Cruz, Cal. :. 500
C. Carlson, Santa Cruz, Cal. !. 800
H. Graun, Santa Cruz, Cal. 200
J. Sosko, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. -. 200
A. Chowske, Detroit, Mich 80. 100
II. Fuller, BALTIC. Md .....500
Polish I. l.. d., Newark, N. j.. 800
0. Baum, ALAMEDA, Cal. 800
G. A. Tobey, Oakland, Cal. 200
Mrs. G. Kastliski, Palmer, Mass i 90
]. Urgalinac, Palmer, Mass. -. 800
G. Represan, Chicago, Ill 200
Bunin, Bunin & Co., N. Y. c.. 1000
J. A. Cooney, Toledo, Ohio 800
M. Gerst, New York City. 49,. 1000
Lithuanian Liter. Society, 9th b.,
Phila., Pa. 500
Br. 81, Sec. 5, Bronx, N. Y. .20.o0
G.. Arven, New York City. 1000
j. Lemsen, (col.) Bridgeport. .3CO
J. Potemkin, Curtisville, Pa. 200
I. P. Lenley, (eol.) Phila, Pa. 1855
w. Beck, Bronx, N. loo
w. c. l.. A., st. Paul, MINI. 100
M. Almond, Detroit, Mich. ..3.0G
a. Santell, Atlantic City, N. J.1.0'
Workers P. Unit, Schenectady. 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19
MITTEN FIRM TO
DROP OLDER men
Philadelphia Taxi Co.
Drives Employees
(Bg a Worker CORRESPONDENT


PHILA., Pa, (By Mai).-I am a
mechanic for large Philadelphia
taxicab company. l receive barely
enough to live on as we are one third
the regular working force. It's kill
ing US to do the work of the men who
were laid off. It's rotten cold and the
gas fumes are awful.
l will say that the boss certainly
knows how to drive you. He always
informs us that men are easier to get
than jobs and few are fired every
few days. This causes the others to
work like hell to hold their jobs.
This concern is about to be taken
over by the Mitten interests. When
this happens / know that lot are
going to the slave market as the boss
is telling the older and more inactive
to step on it as the efficiency expert
is expected. That means that the
older men who thought they had a
job after being with one master for
fifteen or twenty years will lose out.
I worked for the Mitten interests be-
fore and know they only use the
youngest and most active producers.
This shows that being faithful to
any boss don't pay since after the
worker has given the best years of
his life to the capitalist eXploiters he
is rewarded by being deprived of the
means of existence. AS a result of
this the older and more inactive
workers will scab and lower the stan
dard of living of all the workers. The
solution is common ownership of the
means of production and when the
workers decide to take them they will
discover that the oppressors are few
and the exploited and oppressed are
many. So, fellow workers, let's think,
act and organize!
Taxi Mechanic.
Editors Note: The Worker Core
spondent who sends us the above let
ter also encloses the following clip
ping from a Philadelphia paper:
The number of men who, apparently
becarse of unemployment, are seek
ing nights lodging in the central dis
trict station houses, has increased to
such an extent that the police are
casting about for some emergency
provision to meet the situation.
The house sergeant at Tenth and
Buttonwood Streets reported last
night that by 1870 o'clock, 1872 men
had sought and found shelter in the
unoccupied cells, in the cellar and in
every available square foot Of sleep
ing space not reserved for the thirty
two policemen of that platoon.
At Eleventh and Winter Streets, 96
were accommodated; at Fourth and
Race Streets rs, and at Twentieth and
Buttonwood Streets 223, who had no
funds to procure lodgings, were sent
to the st. Ignatius' House, at 2113
Vine Street,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-19

Boss brutality, official be-
trGydl haze failed to break the
spirit of the strikers IN the coal
fields. Coal and Iron cops, club
bing, gals, murder haze also
failed. The miners haze met
them all auth the same militant
fearLeSsaeSs that looks from the
face of the yo2eng miner IN the
Gbove picture. Miner corre-
SpOnde1ltS, aOrite The DAILY
WORKER the day to day condi-
tons Of yomr struggle.
Evening star., 1928-05-22

tite II due temporarily to the teething.
This usually spoils the appetite. Why
not Just accept II for the time being,
get the child out daily for several hours,
give cod liver oil. both as an appetizer
and because something Is wrong or the
child would be walking. and offer only
three meals day, milk at each meal,
and try not to make any fuss about the
non-eating. or you may set up a real
problem. / think 1t would be very wise
to have the doctor look the child over
to be sure he hasn't some degree of
ricketts,.
Mrs. E. r. n. writes: MY baby, 1875
months old, is fed by your feeding leaf
let She eats everything / give her and
nothing between meals. Why does she
void every Is or 20 minutes? She has
been put on the toilet since 3 months
OF age. Her urine tests were all right.
Can you help me2"
Answer--It is very common for chill
dren to void this often. Try putting the
child on the toilet at slightly longer in
tervais all the time; flrst is, then 90,
then 25, then 80 minutes apart. II she
is used to the stool think she will wait
and you will eventually train her to
stay dry until you do put her on the
toilet, or until she indicates that she
must go.
Evening star., 1928-05-22

the public admires game guy"
81 has nothing bat supreme contempt
fSe a ouitter. This may sound like the
Manning Of an inspirational article, but
MAn't. Most successful men have, at
SIC time during their careers, played
lx shots Many of those who achieve
Sncial independence never get their
4 aes in the papers. Cats may, in a
Il saaer Of speaking laugh at kings
q The discontinue of the latter quite
auentlv. A bootblack may hold n
stgage ON John Highhat'S donicile.
herS may clip coupons as weM as
q hair. -
M least one Washington barber of
on Acquaintance enjoys this coveted
indulcence He is as sharp as the razor
he plies He knows his groceries" as
t2le boys say.
Smartly dressed men sit in his chair,
the third from the front. He is Just
barber to them. and. as matter OF
fact, he doesn't own the shop. He could
purchase il If he cared to, but he would
get no thrill out Of his seeine his name
on the plate-glasS front. The only time
he ever had his name in the paper was
when he obtained license TO marry
the woman of his choice,
The other 6au while he was serving
us in a professional capacity, he told
the story of his rise to fams!ess for
tune. He plunged his small wages as
Evening star., 1928-05-22
Lnin of Pork.

Rub a five or six pound loin of pork
with -four seasoned with salt and pep
per, put In roaster and cook In a
hot oven for an hour. Open the roaster
and put around the pork raw sweet
potatoes peeled. II large. cut in quar-
ters. Put around also some small tart
apples well washed and cored but not
peeled. Finish baking the pork, when
the apples and potatoes will be done
also. Make brown gravy of the liquid
In the pan. turning off most OF the
grease before stirring in the -four. Serve
the pork on a large platter with a
double border OF the apples and po-
tatoes. White potatoes may be used
instead OF sweet.