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Evening star., 1928-11-19
EMPL0YE is ARRESTED.
Thomas I. Brant Faces Charge OF
Fund Embezzlement.

Thomas I. Brant, 36 years old, of the
600 block of H street, today was ar
rested and charged with embezzlement
of $3,100 in cash and book of stock
certificates from Ficklin & Co., Inc.
Bond Building Brant was treasurer of
the company. police say.
A week ago Brant. 1t is charged
went to the bank with which the firm
did business and is said to have with
drawn S3,100 on deposit there and de-
posted it in other banks.
Brant told detectives he transferred
the account in an attempt to better the
affairs of the company.
Evening star., 1928-11-19

S. c., December 5, Keeney: South
Florida, at st. Petersburg. January II,
Keeney; Southern. at Port Arthur.
Tex, December 5. Waldorf; Upper
Mississippi. at Kosciusko, Miss. Decem-
ber 5. Jones: Washington, at Baltimore.
March 20, Johns.
Evening star., 1928-11-19
INNOCENT MAN MOBBED.
Unarmed Moslem Mistaken for
Bomber at Indian Leaders Funeral

Bomber at Indian Leaders Funeral
LAHORE, India, November IS P).--
A supposed bomber who was mobbed
by the crowd during the funeral Sat-
urday of Lala Lajpat Raj was disclosed
by the police yesterday tc have been a
simple, unarmed Moslem, who COM
planned bitterly of the loss of many
rupees, shaken from his pockets by the
rough handling.
While the funeral of the Nationalist
party leader was proceeding to the
crematory word got about that Euro
pean disguised as native and heavily
armed was following the procession.
The excited crowd attacked the Moslem
until the police came to his protection.
Evening star., 1928-11-19

Washington Post, Society of Ameri-
can Military Engineers, will meet at the
Army and Navy Club tomorrow at 1890
pm. The speaker will be Col. C. B.
Robbins, Assistant Secretary of War.
His subject will be Industrial Mobili-
Zation'
Evening star., 1928-11-19
ARGUMENTS BEGUN
IN ANDERSON CASE
Trial of State Hospital Nal
feasance Charges Enters
Second Week.
By the Associated Press.

by JHe ASSOClhbeu EAeSS.
RALEIGH, N. c., November 19.-
Attorneys arguments will be started
today in the trial of Dr. Albert An
derson, superintendent of the State
Hospital, charged with malfeasance IN
office, as the case continues on its Sec
ond week.
Indications are that the case will go
to the jury late Tuesday or early
Wednesday as Judge W. A. Devin.
presiding, said Saturday that If both
sides seemed disposed to use the full
time allotted fer argument. ne would
hold a night session tonight in order
to finish arguments tomorrow after
noon.
Pre-emptory Instructions.
Pre-emptory instructions as to GER
tain of the Is counts in the bill cf
indictments will be asked by both sides,
it was indicated Saturday, and three of
the counts were eliminated by agree
Evening star., 1928-11-19
AIR MAIL LINE OPENS.
Service Between Chicago and
Evansville Is Started.

CHICAGO, November 19.-Air mail
service between Chicago and Evansville,
Ind, started today.
The Interstate Air Lines, Inc, began
the service in conjunction with its air
passenger service between the two cities.
The company will maintain a schedule
calling for one plane each way daily
between Chicago and Evansville, with
stops at Champaign, ILL.,, and Terre
Haute, Ind.
Later the company plans to extend
the service south to Atlanta. with an
other route extending from st. Louis to
Louisville via Evansville.
Evening star., 1928-11-19
WILL EXPLATn CHEST.
EIwood Street to Speak Before
Monday Evening Club.

Elwood Street, director of the Wash
ington Community Chest, will deliver
an address on the development of the
chest in this city and tell what part
social workers and others interested
may play toward making it success, at
a meeting of the Monday Evening Club
in the Y. w. c. A. Building, Seven.
teenth and K streets, tonight at o
o'clock.
A buffet supper will be served to club
members at $50.
Evening star., 1928-11-19

The average span of life of the glass
milk container is 16 trips to the con-
sumer. In New York City districts alone
about 85,00O,000 of the bottles have to
be replaced annually.
Evening star., 1928-11-19

Sixteen boys selected by the Church
of England Council of Empire Settle.
ment are on their way to New Zealand
to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

Beatrice Elliott, soprano, will give
a recital at Engineering Auditorium
night, February 9.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Michael Gold Thanks James
Cannon for ReUieV of Play

telligent review Of my play that mas
yet appeared. ] was grateful and
delighted TO see how he penetrated to
the real theme of my play, which is
an attempt to show in story form
the transformation of the American
proletarian Negro from an easy-going
agricultural serf to bewildered cog
in the industrial machine.
"Hoboken Blues" was printed in the
American Caravan" an anthology OF
modern American writing which ap-
peared about six months ago. The So
GEOLOGY behind the play was clearly
indicated in the stage directions there.
Comrade Cannon has not read the
printed version, l understand, but
with MARKHAM insight he found his
way to the real theme. Bourgeois
critics don't know how to make these
interpretations-they are trained on
ly in surfaces and in cheap wise
cracking.
Another thing 1 feel grateful for
is that a responsible Party leader
should have taken time from his busy
whirl of duties to review seriously a
play. This is the kind of thing that
makes one want to go on writing.
There is too much of a tendency in
our movement to treat literature and
writers as a kind of childishness. In
Soviet Russia, in Germany and Eur
ope generally the responsible Party
leaders do not take literature SO
lightly. 1 am glad to see there is a
change going on here, too.
Again 1 wish to thank The DAILY
WORKER and other friends for un-
Outstanding what I tried to do in my
play. 1t is almost hopeless battle
writing labor plays in America. N
Broadway theatre will put them on
and all those who hope for an Amer
lean labor theatre must be alert and
rally to the support Of any attempts
that spring up in this direction.
And they must not expect too many
great things at first, but must give
such a venture time to mature, tc
find itself. All Of US who work II
any field of the labor movement II
this country are engaged in a pioneer
task where hundred failures may o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Screen Notes

Frederick and Fanny Hatton have
written special story for Reginald
Denny's use are eff 1 Were Rich,"
Disturber." Two other stories for
Denny's use are "Is L Were Rich"
by Max MARGIN, and Gladys Lehman's
latest script. "Out All Night"
Paul Leni has completed his spe-
cial production of Victor Hugo's
classic, "The Man Who Laughs" The
film will shortly have its first pub
lie showing in New York.
SCAR Iva nthe Terrible" a Soviet
production, is to be seen at the Cameo
Theatre following the engagement OF
the British production, "The Battles
of the Coronel and Falkland Islands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
APPRENTICE IN.
PRINT SHOP IS
MISERABLY PAID
Finds Little Time to
Learn Trade
lBy a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail) -
My position is typical of many young
workers who were compelled to leave
the bourgeois schools young. Their
only recourse is to apprentice them
selves to trade or business or to
such general work as running errands,
etc. When you apply for work as
shipping or receiving clerk, employ
ers invariably demand experience
notwithstanding the low wages these
workers receive and the obvious
simplicity of their duties.
am now employed in large union
printing shop outfitted with several
linotype machines, two large COM
posing rooms, a newspaper press, and
several cylinder and job presses.
These presses are kept running for
long hours turning out tremend-
Gus amount of work. The rent is
comparatively low. Without any
doubt, the profits are tremendous.
My employers contention in pay
ing my miserable wage of $12 per
week is that I am afforded an OPP
portunity to learn the trade. l have
since discovered that this opportunity
is mythical, for l am kept working
at high speed delivering finished
jobs.
But, while the low wage is the
errand boys grievance against his
employer, he has still another grlev-
ance peculiar to errand boys, and
that is against some of his fellow
workers. He is the means whereby
a certain backward type of worker
satisfies his stupid desire to display
authority. He is carefully watched
not only by the foreman, but by
these workers to see that he is con-
stantly busy. Suspicion is attached
to every move he makes. He is given
many duties never meant for errand
bows and the manner in which orders
are given him is often brutal. To
protest would be foolish, for the
errand boy is always wrong and the
foreman knows that young workers
who can do his work are the cheapest
and the least difficult commodity to
procure in the labor market.
E. N, Apprentice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
tor. The DAILY WORKER:

Editor. The DAILY WORKER:
/ want to thank The DAILY
WORKER for printing the fine re-
flew of my play, "Hoboken Blues,
and Comrade Jim Cannon, for having
written this review.
Ths. .,.,argeois press has hated the
New Playwrights' Theatre from the
start erd their so-called critics have
come to all our plays in the spirit
Of assassins. Just as capitalist re-
oorters will describe a radical meet
ing by saying that all the speakers
nave long hair, are wild-eyed and
foam at the mouth, just so do these
critics describe our plays as childish
amateur efforts. They never discuss
the real merit of the plays, or the
tendencies revealed in them. They
try to kill us with ridicule.
Anyone who has seen some of the
Broadway trash that these critics
praise, and who has likewise seen one
Of our productions, which these critics
are so scornful of, will know at once
that deep and violent prejudice is
operating here-a class prejudice.
The New Playwrights' Theatre is
not Communist or even a 100 per cent
labor theatre, but it has been the
nearest thing to it in this city so far.
The reception it met is sample of
what any other attempt at a labor
theatre will meet. Just as these cri-
tics used to call Jack London and
John Reed and similar writers, mere
propagandists," just so have they
sought to stifle and suppress our
theatre with their contempt.
They have almost succeeded in this.
They have managed to keep away the
general public from our plays, for
most people are sheep, and believe
everything they read in print.
l am glad the labor press has raj
lied behind us. We have had critical
reviews from labor papers, but all OF
them have taken us seriously. Gun
audiences have been mostly labor
unions and clubs, and unless the bour-
geois critics kill us off entirely this
year, we ought to have something
that will be closer to a real labor
theatre by next year.
Comrada Cannon wrote the only in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

Workers, Fight
Boss Brutality
With Your Pens

More than 100000 men and
women are tramping the streets
of every American city looking
for a job. The sufferings of these
unemployed workers is increasing
with every day Of prosperity"
Cold and hungry, with dependent
families, the unemployed stink out
of the offices where the bosses in
their power have just sneered,
"No, we don't need you"
AS new scores of workers join
the unemployed ranks daily, the
conditions of the workers who
happen to have jobs grow hourly
more insecure. The bosses use the
iobless as a threat to the employed
workers. Wages will be cut, hours
heightened inhumanly, shop con-
ditions disregarded, and every eff
fort made by the bosses to hire
the starving unemployed as scabs
to smash the organizations of la
Dor.
In these conditions the voice
of the workers must be heard in
militant protest. Worker Cores
pondents in all parts of the coun-
try must take up their pens to de-
scribe and protest against the SUI
ferings of all sections of labor.
Every day brings some outrage of
the bosses that demands exposure
to all workers. The best way
they can keep track of the attacks
of the bosses is thru the letters
YOU send The DAILY WORKER.
A letter a week from every Cores
pondent is our slogan. Send your
name so we can keep in touch
with you. We will protect it in
every possible way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
5000 Wait for
Work at Ship
Yard; IL Hired

PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail -
Being a DAILY WORKER read
er, l wish to call your attention to
the Cramp Ship Yard where over
5000 men have applied for work.
1 don't believe they hired a dozen.
l only wish that The DAILY
WORKER could come here and
take some pictures or else send
some of its good speakers here.
The paper should also be dis
tributed.
"A WORKER.
EDITORS NOTE - Free dis
tribution of thousands of copies of
the DAILY WORKER will take
place in Philadelphia in the next
few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
WANTS SEAMEN'S
INSTITUTE OPEN
TO JOBLESS men
Crimp Hang-out at
Present
81 a Worker Correspondent

NDy q W OFheF COTTeSpOHU6tttJ
! have just stopped at the Sea-
mems Church Institute on % South
Street, this city, and I am here to
say that this institution is a "hell
hole" for seamen. They charge you
from 35 to 65 cents a night for bed,
and if you are not in by midnight, you
Fan stay out even if you have bought
q ticket.
This Seamen's Church Institute is
run by a British sky pilot named
Mansfield. The institute is said to
get most of its money from the
Standard Oil and many British ship
pers, so that in turn it could be used
as an agency to get crews for the
tankers and freighters Of Standard
Oil and other shipping owners. These
ships are so lousy and their officers
so brutal that the Seamen's Institute
is the only place they can get crew
from. And even then the employ
ment department at the Institute
won't of course tell you what kind Of
a ship they are sending you to, but
tell you that it is a swell ship, a
floating paradise, by God" But
after you get on the rat-hole, its too
late to do anything, for they send you
aboard as the ship is about to sail.
In the l. r. 7. subway strike a
little while back, l applied at the
employment agency, and where do
you think they wanted to send me?
To scab on the subway workers. No
wonder the seamen say the Seamen's
Prostitute" Chats what we call it,,
is backed by big corporations.
You can see a poor jobless seaman
beaten up nearly any day at the Sea-
mems Institute. But that does not
stnn Rev. Mansfield. the car Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
~ DRAMA IN
Tchuvash National
Theatre

THE Tchuvash National Theatre
4 made its first bow to the public
following the October Revolution.
The pioneer in this work was the
Tchuvash actor-manager, I. S. Maxi
Koshinsky, who organized the
first dramatic performances in Kazan
under the auspices of the Soviet OF
the province of Kazan. Since then
the theatre has grown and developed.
The Tchuvash national stage now
nourishes in all the towns.
An impetus to the development Of
the national art was given by the
formation of the autonomous gov
eminent of the region. The centre
of culture and art was then estab-
lished at Tcheboksaki, the Tchuvash
capital. A national theatre, a musi-
cal school and a central museum
were formed-al within few
months.
During the famine period of 1921
the theatre had hard shedding, but
it soon recovered and today it occu-
pies prominent place among the
theatre of the U. S. S. r., havino
developed fine group of players
and making the theatre popular
among the masses.
The music school too has made
splendid progress. Quite number
of comrades have been trained and
wealth of folk-music uncovered and
collected.
During the last two years, due to
the efforts of the artist emeritus
Maximov-Koshkin, four films were
produced, dealing with Tchuvash his
tory and national life and struggles
of the past. These have since been
exhibited both in the Tchuvash re-
gion and in other parts of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
POLITICIANS IN
CHICAGO FORM A
TEACHERS union
Labor Party Vital to
Defeat Machine
2u a Norker Co1respondent.)


CHICAGO, (By MaiD.-A brand
new union has been formed in Chi
cago since the election of our kind
hearted mayor, Big Bill, and in very
advantageous place, too, for someone.
In the public schools.
Political Clerks.
At the beginning of the year, the
school clerks who had always been
teachers of some experience, were
transferred to class rooms, and a
brand-new political set of clerks in
stalled. These were girls just out of
normal school. The waiting list of
unassigned teachers was so long that
some of them had to substitute for
two years before getting a position.
These girls were told to apply for
clerkships in the schools. This they
fastened to do. They were also told
that if they were wise they would
first see the republican captain of
their wards. Those who did got
slip of yellow paper, an appropriate
color. The maids with the yellow pa
pers got the positions, on condition
that they join the new union.
The Thompson school board evil
IDENTIFY believes in unions of sort.
Why SHOULDN'T they uphold unionism
when John Walker of the Illinois
Federation of Labor is backing the
Thompson machine?
S29 privilege"
Yes, indeed, every new clerk must
join the union and pay an initiation
fee Of five dollars, plus two dollars
a month, total of twenty-nine dol
lars a year. Not one young lady de-
INJURED. Why should she complain?
The republican machine must be oiled.
Just what the new political COM
pany union will do remains to be
seen. 1t seems quite certain, how
ever, that it won't put up any fight
against the republican machine, the
school board or the Thompson plan
of revenue for the schools, which is d
bond issue that will mortgage the
schools to the bankers for years to
come.
In the meantime, the Chicago Fed
Grafton of elementary teachers is con-
tinuing a clean fight to force an
equitable valuation and assessment
of Chicago property. The state tag
commission has ordered the publica-
ton of list of all properties and
owners in Chicago and the amount of
taxes, in plain English, and not as
before in legal language that no one
could understand.
Labor Party Need.
The board of assessors is very late
in making the assessments this year.
IN fact they were never so late be-
fore. The Teachers Federation and
the other organizations backing up
the tax fight have a block in the city
which they intend to show up as a
test case. The assessors are doing
their best to find out its location Sc
they can "fix" it up properly for in
spection. They are also requesting
that all action on tax matters be de-
ferred for four years when the next
valuation will be made. They claim
that it is too late this year to do any
thing to equalize taxes, but every
thing will be o. K. four years from
now.
If only we had Labor Party to
take the lead in such casesl
"A TEACHER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

institute, from leading the seamen
who are staying at the Institute in
the prayers on Sunday in the big
chapel to thank Jesus for "all the
blessings we enjoy"
There are more seamen out of jobs
freezing along South and w e t
Streets than ever before. Every day
a few hundred more seamen are
added to the unemployed, walking
he streets near the East River and
Hudson River waterfronts. What |
say is this: Turn the Seamen's Insti-
tute over as free shelter for the
jobless seamen!
B; A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Railroads Try to Shift
Cost of Flood Repairs

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. - That
several railroad groups will attempt
to shift the cost of new spillways to
be erected as result of the recent
Mississippi flood became known to-
day when a delegation of officials of
the roads operating in the flood area
visited President Coolidge. The
bridges and other works are estimated
to cost $7O,00O,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
BRAKEMAN INJURED IN FALL

JERSEY CITY, Feb. 28.-Samuel
Fisher, 81 a brakeman of New York
City, received serious injuries of the
spine when he fell from the top Of a
freight car in the Pennsylvania R. R.
yards here yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
WORKER HURT IN COLLISION

UNION CITY, Feb. 28-Raymond
Gallitin, 33, of West Orange, was
severely injured when an auto col
lided with truck Of the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company which he was
driving yesterday. The worker is
suffering from conclusion of the
brain and possible fractured skull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

expected in ratio to one success. We
must have patience with ourselves,
and faith in the future. Only one
thing is certain-that whatever hap
pens to us today, follies, mistakes
and failures, our feet are set surely
on the path of the future.
Frater1 ally yours,
MICHAEL GOLD.
Evening star., 1928-04-19
OCEAN CALM lULLED
FLYERS FEARS BEFORE
FOG BLANKETED COURSE

continued from First page1
Evening star., 1928-04-19

and our course corrected when neces-
Sary.
We are now approaching the coast OF
New Foundland, and estimate We are
now only about 400 miles from land
when directly IN front of us and spread
ing as far as the eye can see 10 the
north and south. is the great. dreaded
fog pank.
A strong southeasterly gale Is also
encountered and darkness is approach
ing as old sol, our faithful guide
throughout the day, is slowly disap-
pearing behind the fog.
Can't Escape Fog.
An endeavor is made to climb over
1t. TO keep the great guiding beacon oi
the heavens in view as long as possible
As We knew, the compass is not very
helpful owing to the great difference
in magnetic variation over short dis
tances on this difficult stretch Of the
journey
IT is no good The fog merges into
the w-hanging heavily charged clouds
We decide to go down through the
fog and sleet and at last. when about
so feet from the surface. the raging
billows of the ocean. lashed 10 fury
loom up beneath us. We are now al
the mercy of our compass and instru-
ments.
A leak in the oil system Is discovered
which does not add to our peace OF
mind. We are up against serious trou-
ble-fog, sleet. bowling gale and a
leak in the oil system just at the point
where we desire favorable conditions.
There IS nothing 10 do but grind our
teeth. grin and forge on ahead into
the west. hoping that terra firma will
soon loom up in front.
Peril From Ocean.
Flying so close TO the great surginr
waves, many great downward bumps
are encountered which all but precipi.
tate our sturdy little craft into the
merciless sea.
II Is now black night II Is too dam
gerous To remain too near the surface
so We climb to 1000. 1000. 1000. ) 900
5000 feet, where the cold is intense
We are still In the fog and sleet Nor
even the twinkling of helping star can
be seen in the armament
We strain our eyes in the hope of dis
cerning the rays OF a friendly light
house which viii give lis the longed-for
information that We are at last over the
land. Nothing appears.
We continue. watchful at the con-
trolls. ever forging ahead into the west
We are becoming fatigued and at times
drop off 10 sleep from sheer exhaustion
for a fraction OF second only. 70
awaken with Jerk 10 appreciation oi
our position
1t Is all SO deadly monoton0uS. The
/ very instruments are grinning and max
/ ing faces at us as Ii 70 say how fruit
| less are our endeayors,
Al last our determination is rewarded
| The thick fog disappears behind anc