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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Chicago Worker. Party
Bazaar to Be Held at
Center Dec. %, %, "a

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 18.-All ar
rangements for the Workers (Com-
munist) Party bazaar, to be held at
the Workers Center, 2021 w. Divi-
sion St., on Dec. %, 90 and "a, have
been completed and only few minor
details remain to be carried out.
Fractions of the Young Workers
(Commun.st) League are preparing
entertainment for each night of the
bazaar. Food will be prepared and
served by the various nationalities,
according to special selection of
dishes by each nationality and in
accordance with the special customs
of each.
The entire membership of the dis
trict is being urged to push espe-
cially the collection of articles and
donations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Chicago Workers to
Have 4-Day Bazaar

CHICAGO, ILL.,. Dec. 19.--The Chi
cago district of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party will hold its am lal
bazaar at the Workers Center, 2021
w. Division St., for four days be-
ginning Dec. Fl.
The first night the Finnish mem
bers will take charge of the bazaar,
and on succeeding nights the Jewish,
Lithuanian, South Slavs, and Czechs.
The last night, Christmas Eve, a
special children's program will be
given, on the pattern of those of the
Russian Komsomols young COM
munists), with the Pioneers in
charge.
All Chicago Workers Party men,
bers are asked to bring prizes for
the bazaar to their next nucleus
meeting. and all tickets out must be
settled for at the bazaar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
0ykve Miners Face Dismissal They DO Not Buy Shares Cooperate
The Viking Is Only Mildly
Interesting Color Picture

THE main offering on The new pro-
gram at the Embassy Theatre is
a Technicolor picture, entitled "The
Viking" with Pauline Stark and
Donald Crisp playing the leading
roles.
Other "talky" bits that embellish
the show include Vincent Lopez
playing several of his we'll known
selections; Lowell Sherman in a
short comedy, and Cliff Edwards,
better known as UEelele Ike.
The main virtue of the picture,
which is based on "The Thrall of
Left the Lucky" is that it shows a
decided improvement in color pho
Biography although there is still
room for much finer differentiation
of natures tints. The general color
runs to brownisn cast throughout
its length.
The drama itself is only mildly in
teresting, as it depicts a series of
events in narrative form, not held
together sufficiently by underlying
emotional conflicts. Briefly, it tells
the story of the Morse explorer,
Left Ericsson; his ward, Helga, and
a captured English nobleman, AL
win, on their first trip of discovery
to the New World. At the end the
picture IS focused on the old Stone
Tower IN Newport, r. l., which is
still mystery to scientists.
The best performance in the cast
is given by Anders Randolph as
Eric the Red, with Donald Crisp as
Left Ericsson almost as good. Paul
ire Stark as Helga has the advan-
tage of much of Wagner's Ring
music by the theatre orchestra to
assist her characterizations but Lee
Roy Mason as Alvin was hopelessly
miscast and does not look the part
he portrays. In fact, the actors
makeup strongly suggests the ia
nous photograph of Cosmo di
Medici at the Pitt Palace in Flor
ence.
To sum up, "The Viking" is only
a $3.50 photoplay with its chief in
terest on the color side.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
FORCE WORKERS
TO PRAY FOR THE
MAGNATE'S SOUL
But Pay Is Docked for
Time Spent in Church
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
PITTSFIELD, Mass. icy MaiD
General Electric Co., the largest
factory in this city, which employs
about 5000 men and women, has
adopted new exploitation system,
the so-called premium system"
This system is a piece work method
In the Radio Department women
are paid $1,000 week while learn
ing, for two weeks. After that they
are given piecework, and by doing
their utmost, make only $500
week. None of the workers are or
ganized, and the Co. employment
head John Chesney sees to it that
no "agitator" gets in.
Recently E. A. Jones, head of the
Paper Making Machine Co. died. He
"loved' his slaves so much that he
allowed them to work overtime for
straight time, and when he died, the
slaves, who made his millions were
told to go to church. Some of them,
who have been working ten years
and more, thought they might get
some money after his death, but,
when their next pay day came,
they found out that they were
locked for the time spent in
church! After a week. E. A.
Jones will was published in the To-
cal reactionary Berkshire Eagle.
Most of his two millions went to
his wife, to the Y. NJ. C. A., churches
and missionaries, and to some of his
officials, who had plenty. But for
the slaves, who worked, nothing.
For his house servants he left $500
for each year of service, with the
remark that no one should be given
more than $1,000 though he may
have shaved for him all his life.
-PROLETARIAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Ey ART SHIELDS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, (FP)-U.
S. Steel is leading a revolution in
mining methods that is changing the
oal pits of alabama into mechan-
;zed plants. At Wylan Mine No. s,
one of the corporations most modern
properties, the eoal is brought to the
surface by a half mile Of conveyor
belts.
"When | went to work here in
1880 you had to be a practical
miner" said an old coal digger, "and
YOU got out clean lump coal for the
1omestic trade. Now all you got to
do is to shovel and lots of that. They
iont care about lump coal any
nore-it's burned in an iron
furnace.
1870 Tons a Day.
The old miner who picked out four
or five tons of coal in day is
aghast as he sees the production Of
4 mechanical scraper in the Ruby
nine Of Alabama By-Products Co.
n a 9-hour shift crew of four, as
listed by a shot firer and timber
nan, loads 100 to 100 tons. The
craper operates in an S0-foot room,
-cooping up 1.500 pounds of coal at
time, and heaping up two-ton
car in three SCOOPS.
Even where natural conditions are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Put Machinery to Work
IN Alabama Coal Mines

adverse to machine operation the
new processes are often installed be-
cause experienced miners are not to
be had at the wages paid. Some of
the best miners would not be hired
at any price. They were blacklisted
by the hundreds after the 1920-21
strike.
Prison Labor
Modern mining began in this far
south field in 1906 when the Monte
vallo Coal Co. introduced the long
wall system. This system is not
invariably found in mechanical
mines, but it was peculiarly suited
to the Montevallo mine where con-
victs did the work till last July. The
convicts, shoveling in a line against
the long exposed coal face, could ta
kept under constant observation and
speeded up more effectively than
when they were isolated in separate
working places.
Alabama operators admit they
have not yet mechanized so large a
proportion of their miners as have
the company managers in Illinois,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia but
they are rushing efficiency changes
now. The field is dominated by the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and r. r. Co.,
U. S. Steel's subsidiary, and other
steel companies who together pro-
duce 40 per cent of Alabama's coal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
CAFE SLAVES
BEGIN Thinking
Grumbling Is Heard by
Workers

(BU q VORTEX Correspondent
There are about two dozen men
employed at the restaurant where
work. The women employees greatly
outnumber the men.
Most of the men speak Spanish.
After dinner about a dozen of us
retire to the locker room to rest for
half an hour. There my fellow
workers carry on a conversation in
Spanish, which to me is just a lot
of noise. They read the newspaper
LA Prensa." I don't know it's poll
cies or politics but believe it is con-
sentative.
I hear some prumbling. 1t is
directed at the bosses directly in
charge or at some fellow worker.
And some grumble about an extra
amount of work like they would
about the weather.
These workers are willing to work
at high speed and some of them even
run while working.
Recently I detected some radical
thinking among my shopmates. One
day as carried tray of glasses
to the water fountain, I warbled the
words: you'll get pie in the sky
when you die" A waitress asked
me if l had heard that song at a
Communist meetin~. Then she pro-
coed to inform me that she had voted
Communist in the last election.
r. L. GREER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
PLAY MACNATES
EXPLOIT Child
LABOR ON STAGE
Bosses Are Friends of
Politicians
(By a Worker Correspondeut)

(Bg q Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, (By MaiD THE child
labor cases that were pending
against the Marks Brothers Marbro
Theatre since last August blew up
when farce fine of S. for each
child illegitimately employed was
levied against the theatre. Charges
that the case was ''fixed" have been
made. The manager of Abbott's
Dancing School, which furnished the
child labor, is said to have admitted
the fixing" of the case. Due to
theatre advertising, the Chicago
paper refused to mention the case.
The Abbott Dancing School, man
aged by women, is said to be notori-
GUS for furnishing child labor to
the stage. The children are ex-
plotted by the theatre managers. The
child labor law violations mainly oc-
cur in the big motion picture houses,
which handle first run pictures, put
on stage shows, jazz bands, and
vaudeville acts. These are hooked
up with circuits which book acts to
travel in all parts of the country.
One of the worst offenders is the
powerful Publix Theatre Corp,
owned by Barney Balaban, of Bala-
ban and Katz. Balaban is a big
shot with Chicago politicians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Ex-Grand Duke Admits
He's Out for All Time

PARIS, Dec. Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholaevich Romanoff,
cousin of the late car and pre-
tender to the throne of Russia, is
reported dying at the little town OF
Antilles, France. Before he became
too sick for active intrigues against
the workers and peasants govern
mert Of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics, Nicholas is reported to
have dismissed his royahst hangers
on with the sad assurance that
plans to conduct a counter-revolu-
ton in Russia with money supplied
by American millionaires had fallen
through because so many Russian
aristocrats had swindled so many
American millionaires with such
schemes recently that the Give
ones" in New York are tired of the
game.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Admiral Tells How War
Preparations Make Big
Profit for Capitalist

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS (UP).-
American business was enriched by
$67,000,000 during the year ending
June 80, 1928 as the result of 1927
contracts let by the navy bureau of
supply and accounts, Rear Admiral
Charles Morris, chief, reported to-
day.
AS the result of materials pur-
chased for aircraft construction,
modernization of battleships and
construction Of cruisers, Admiral
Morris reported, expenditures were
S13,000,000 larger than in the last
fiscal year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
by a Worker Correspondent

coy WOfbeF correspondent 81.
1 was helping an elderly woman
across the street when she asked me:
us this Twelfth Street,"
eyes, this is Twelfth Street" I
answered her, what number are
you looking for, lady?
81 don't want any number, I am
looking for a theatre on Twelfth
Street. Do you know where it is?"
1 only knew of one, which was sew
eral blocks up, on Second Avenue,
and l offered to take her there. "But
what is it you want at the theatre
now" my curiosity made me ask.
And then she related to me the
whole story and said:
81 don't want the theatre, I am
ooking for man who has a news
paper stand near the theatre, and he
said it was on Twelfth Street. He
is such an old man, and works so
hard, and he can't even make liv-
ing. He wants to make complaint
to the newspaper company for send
ing him bundles of papers that are
short. His wife is very sick, and
she can't go to stand there in his
place while he makes the complaint.
I am his next door neighbor, and I
want to help the poor people. He
thought it was heaven when he was
allowed to open the newspaper
stand there. For three elections he
voted for the republican party be-
cause they promised him that if he
votes for them they will give him a
permit to have the stand there
Every time he voted for them and
he went to their big offices, they
made fun of him and kicked him out.
But now that he got the stand, he is
too sick to work. and he has other
troubles too. The other day, the
newspaper company threw down a
package of papers for him. They
threw it in the middle Of the street,
and before he had chance to take
it, big truck came along and ran
over the papers, and spoiled the
whole package for him, and he had
to pay for it. When he told the COM
pany about it they said that he
should have run for the papers right
away. But how can the poor man
be expected to run if he can't even
walk"
Just then we reached the stand
where the old man stood. l watched
them greet each other, and departed.
But the woman's innocent cry of in
justice rang in my ears long time
afterwards. She knew nothing of
the ways and rulerships of the CAPT
talist society. She saw through her
! ignorance that there was something
wrong somewhere, she knew that
this world was being mismanaged.
She did not understand the cause of
it all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Union Teachers Object
Luskers' Propaganda
by Federated Press)

Union teachers have entered a
vigorous protest against the deal
made between the Allied Patriotic
Societies and the New York school
officials to loosen the 100 percent
ers' propaganda on immigrant
workers. The Allied Patriotic So
cieties, supporters of the Lusk laws,
are in charge of writing and putting
into the hands of parents a series
of lessons in English.
School children are to be taught
how to teach their parents to speak
English but the subject matter of
the lessons is left to this reaction
airy group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
FORD AFTER LITTLE FISH

DETROIT, Dec. 1S.-Henry Ford
has announced that in order to keep
control of the gigantic new European
Ford trust, of which the British
unit is capitalized at $4,000, 900, in
his own hands, no large investors
will be allowed to buy, but only
small ~householders, as the result of
a house to house campaign, if neces-
sary. Sixty per cent of the stock
is held by Ford and his partners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
2 Fishermen Rescued
Nine Miles Off Coast

ANGELSEA, N. j., Dec. IS U.D
"A coast guard patrol boat rescued
today two fishermen who had been
adrift at sea more than "a hours
in 30-foot motorboat with a dis
abled engine.
The rescued men are Jesse Little
and Richard Bartleson. Their wives
alarmed at their failure to return
home last night, asked the coast
guard to search. The guardsmen
found the men nine miles off An
glesea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Cal Makes Presidency
Pay; Saves Up $500, coo

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-It is
given out here by friends of "Cal,
The Silent" that he is also "Cal the
Tightwad." Whereas other presi-
dents blew in their salary on state
functions, diplomatic dinners, etc.
Coolidge has saved over 100000
during his term of office. He is
therefore, say his friends, in position
to retire to country town law prac-
tise, in case the steel trust does not,
after all, make him its president.
The 100000 is accounted for
from savings on the salary. Some
say he has recently acquired yet
other funds, from sources not stated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
RuMANIAN PARTIES USE GUNS

VIENNA, Dec. 1S.-Two clashes
between Rumanian Peasant Party
(the party Of land owning peasants)
supporters and followers Of former
Premier Vintila Bratianu, the lead
err of big landlords and capitalists,
were reported from Bucharest today.
A number of political opponents
engaged in fight near the capital,
the Telkomps agency reported. Re-
volver shots were exchanged and
several persons injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Boston & Maine Fires
s for Mediation Plea
(By Federated Press)

Members of the American Fed
Grafton of Railroad Workers have
appealed to the federal railway me-
diation board against union-busting
tactics of the Boston & Maine in its
Concord shops. Piece work rates
have been cut repeatedly, with the
aid of the Mechanical Employees
Assn, B. & NJ. company union.
When eight union men appealed
to John Davie, state labor commits
sioner, they were promptly fired.
Davie has censured the B. & NJ, but
he men are still jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
SUE HASTINGS MARIONETTES
AT MARTIN BECK

The Theatre Guild will present
four performances of Sue Hastings
Marionettes at the Martin Beck
Theatre during Christmas week.
The dates are December 26, 81, %
end 20 and the time is 1870 a. m.
The program will consist of
drama, peter Rabbit" and revue,
probably the first revue produced
in New York in years that didn't
cost, according to it's producers,
quarter of million.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
MISLEADERS BETRAY
FORT WAYNE. Ind. (By Ma

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (By Mail).
When the workers employed in
the construction of a department
store building were on the way to
winning their strike they were be-
trayed by union misleaders, who al
lowed federal conciliators to settle
the strike, the workers making only
partial gain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
WOULD BUILD SECRET WHITE
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON. Dec. IS. = A
country White House, surrounded
by trees, fields, fences and animal
life, where president can confer
with business men practically in
secret, was sought in bill intro
duced today by Senator Fess, Ohio
republican.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
EOMBERG BALLET SUCCESS IN
MOSCOW

Sig1nund Romberg, composer of
''The New Moon" received word
that his new ballet, america" was
given its Russian premiere in Mos
COW recently by Lima Marette and
her dancers. According to the cable,
the ballet was received with unceas-
ing applause, the dancers being
forced to return 20 the stage for six
teen bows. Miss Marette will. pre-
sent the ballet next in Vienna the
middle of this month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
VINO CARES If
KING IS DYING?
Another Puppet Will
Cypress Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent)

(By a Worker Correspondent
The king of England is dying;
what of it? Hundreds of thousands
of people are dying every day in
the streets, in the shops, in the
homes. The king is only one of
these, but it's truly lucky for the
American press that he is dying.
So far this week, Lindbergh hasn't
been married, nor has Mrs. Snyder
been electrocuted, nor a Rothste in
been murdered. So the king has
obligingly become i'll at a time when
the world is most disconcertly peace
full, except for war or two, that
doesn't interest the great mass of
the American public.
The king Of England is dying.
The topic should be exhausted. Yet
it's the most important news this
week, without doubt. Details of his
exact temperature, his pulse, his
bedroom and blankets could only
take up half page. His royal fam
lily, his doctor, his doctors family
and few pictures Of his bedroom
slippers and dressing table, might
fill column or two, but how our
honored contemporaries manage to
fill pages about it every day, is be-
yond our understanding.
The king of England is dying
the dummy, the puppet, the petty
little figure head is passing away.
But what of it if he does die?
Another little puppet will spring up
in his place, the great affairs of
state, Catering to capitalism, ard
exploiting labor, will go on as be-
fore So again, we repent, why ex-
pend all that energy: The king of
England is dying; what of it?
LILLIAN KLEIDMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Forced to Suspend New
Gas Rates for Newark

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 1S.-A
threatened rebellion of housewives
has caused the Public Service Elec-
trio and Gas Company to permit
the very docile State Public Utilities
Commission here to suspend the
new gas rates, scheduled to go into
effect January /. The rates would
have raised the price on small con-
sumers and lowered it on large
ones using it for manufacturing
purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Rochester Traction
Bosses Get Dime Fare

ROCHESTER. N. Y. Dec. 49,
The New York State Railway Co.
has announced that the fares on all
street cars and buses in Roches-
ter will be 10 cents beginning Jan
uary l, 1929. At the same time the
company is planning to enforce yell
low dog conditions on the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
IMPERIALIST RECESS

LONDON, Dec. IS (UP)-Premier
Baldwin announced today that the
House of Commons would reassem-
bic January q. after the Christ
mas recess, which starts Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
MINERS DANGER INCREASED

WASHINGTON (By MaiD The
cold weather has added to the dan
ger of coal miners from, coal dust
explosions, the Bureau of Mines an
rounces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
BOSSES SCHEME
Will lead TO BIG
WAGE SLASHES
Rational Mine Union
Is Fighting Trick
(By a WorEer Correspondent

DN q ~ " htf NBf Go iSpftltN W
WHEELING, w. Va. (By MqiD.
Trying to convert the hot-bed of
union activities for the National
Miners Union in Eastern Ohio into
an incubator of "Cooperatives" -
the coal operators have been met by
the fighting spirit of the rank and
file miners led by the new union.
At Yorkville, Ohio, where the Wal
nut Mill Coal Co. has started a eco
operative" mine, the employees have
been given an ultimatum by the
company that if they do not become
stockholders they must accept a
wage slash. This ultimatum of the
cooperative" resulted in a lockout
Of all non-shareholders in the mine.
The Yorkville cooperative" mine
employs about a hundred men. About
forty Of these are stockholders and
the others are regular en- = wees.
On Saturday the non-shareholdars
were told by the coal company that
if they would not become share
holders their wages would be
slashed from IS to 40 cents a ton,
day labor from S. to $425 a day.
Even shareholders Joined the
others who were locked out from
the mine.
Want Militant Union.
At a mass meeting in Yorkv'lle
on Sunday many miners and other
workers unanimously agreed that
workers and miners cannot compete
with the big operators by startii;g
cooperatives. Many expressed them
selves by saying 1--WE will build a
trong rank and file miners union.
This is the only way to fight the
eoal operators. Join the National
Miners Union"
Nine shareholders resigned from
the company and joined the ranks
Of the new union. Observation-Disclosures
and shareholders who were tricled
into this agreement were, early
Monday morning, fighting this fake
cooperative at Yorkville. A picket
line was formed and "co-oporative"
mining proposition was explained to
the twenty or thirty men who en-
tered the mine to work.
Scoop" Tricks Workers.
This fake cooperative at Yorkville
in which many miners have invested
their last pennies and into which
they have been tricked by the coal
company, will sooner or later be
crushed by the company resulting
in the loss of money and free labor
by the coal diggers. The company
will step on the shareholders fore
ing them out of the company. In
ct they have already started this.
From the pay of all shareholders
twenty dollars was deducted by the
company to meet the expenses of
the company. One of the miners who
has shaved for two weeks was short
six dollars to meet the twenty dol
lar demand of the company. He had
worked for two weeks and only
earned fourteen dollars. Instead of
getting some pay on payday he was
forced to dig into his own pocket
to meet the twenty dollar demand of
the stockholders.
F. H.