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The Washington times., 1928-11-28
CONGRESSMAN IMPROVES

LANCASTER. Pa, Nov. 28.-W.
w. Griest. dean Of Pennsylvania
Congressman, who has been con-
fined to his home several days on
account of illness, ''had a very
good night and his condition re-
fleets decided Improvement" it
was stated at his home here. Hope
is entertained that he might be
able to 20 outdoors by the end
Of the week, 4
The Washington times., 1928-11-28
Chicago Youth Held
AS Marine Deserter

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. %
Q.N.S0.-B. Vincent Schwartz, son
of a prominent Chicago family, is
held here under arrest as a de-
serter from the United States Ma.
rine Corps, it became known yester-
day.
Schw ritz, who says his father
is an official of film exchange
in Chicago, declared he could not
stand the restraint imposed upon
members of the Marine Corps and
decided not to return to the Lake
Forest Naval Station when his
furlough expired JulY Is.
The Washington times., 1928-11-28
Mouse EIectrOcutiOn
Sets Off Fire Siren

NORRISTOWN, Pa, Nov. %
Six hundred people were awakened
at Barren Hill when O. mouse was
Crawling into an electrical box
in the basement OF the Barren Hill
the mouse was shocked
to death and many residents also
were shocked, for the electrocution
set the fire siren blowing.
The Washington times., 1928-11-28
PERUVIAN ROADS
c. / REPAIRS

LIMA. Peru, Nov. 2S.-The re-
claiming. resurfacing and building
Of 1000 miles Of motor roads In
seven years is not had showing
for one OF the worlds most noun.
famous countries. Today Peru looks
back on this accomplishment as one
of the highly important features Of
her progress. But President Leguia
isn't satisfied He calls for more
roads, and his sentiments are
echoed al over the country by pro
gressive citizens.
$500, 900 to Be Spent
Let rs spend $500 900 more in
the next three years, say the Peru
Wan officials In substance. This
sum win add connecting links To
the roads already In operation and
thereby open new regions to ex.
plOitatiOn. to the sheepman, the
plowman, the mine operator, the
immigrant from Europe. In addi.
tion to the several millions Of dol.
lars above noted, $500, 900 .has been
provided in the governments bud
set and this sum Ii to come from
the general revenues, while the
A0L eOL A<AA404A1( ~ pkONHQCus sUY q ia
tiona1 loan. On some OF the new
roads a system OF tolls has been
established and from this source a
constantly increasing revenue Is de-
rived.
1O,5OO Vehicles Operate
Today there are In operation more
than 1O,5OO motor vehicles IN the
country. and some of the traffic,
particularly on the eastern slopes
Of the Andes, is through the prime
val wilderneses, which until recent
years was Travelled only by the
mule and llama caravan. For in
stance. the motor car service from
the Oroya railroad to the 'staIl
timbers of Tarma" II working mar
vels in the progress Of that interior
region.
OF course. in Lima, Calloa and
other coastal cities. the splendid
new boulevar1s and suburban high.
ways and the extension of some Of
these roads far into the country are
notable. These new traffic routes
are opening added delights for the
tourist as well as for the citizen,
and at least some Of the more leis.
urely visitors to Peru are motor.
ing in the heights Of the Andes,
where they behold awe.inspiring
scenery second to none in the
world.
The Washington times., 1928-11-28
WOMAN DIES Ar DOCTORS

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Nov. "a
Mrs. Annie e. Merry. IS years old,
was taken suddenly i'll while riding
with her son, Augustus, and family,
and died in the waiting room of DR..
Mark G. Roberts office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

rows to the mouth of trough and
then dumping the barrows' contents
when they would abruptly turn and
go for another load. At length the
tobacco-spitting individual remarks,
"Well, boys, accidents are bound to
happen ON these jobs but this one
sure was a terror. We were put
ting up huge wall on a rush job
few months back, and you know
how these cement-truckers are.
Well, when we took the boards
away from the hardened concrete
darn if we didn't see a pair of
palms wedged into the concrete. A
poor devil had fallen in the chute
and had been buried alive in the
concrete WALL"
He spit tobacco-juice again, then
remarked, "Yep, that building had
living monument-and he's still
there"
Our stomachs seemed to battle
dangerously with the food we had
previously eaten as we gloomily
walked back to the office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
RED HOT RIvETS
.ENDANCER LIVES
AT TRIMBLE CO.
Foreman Sees Nothing
So Awful in That

by a WORKER Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By MaiD.-
The W. F. Trimble and Sons Com
pany of Pittsburgh does not worry
very much about the lives of their
employees. The laborers are forced
to work in such places where they
are always liable to get killed or
seriously injured.
The following took place at the
site of our employment. The labor
ers, while working on the ground,
noticed that there were a number of
workers riveting directly over
them. Red-hot rivets were being
thrown to the men at work, many of
them falling to the ground, where
the laborers were at work.
When the attention of the fore
man was called to this terrible state
he merely smiled and said that if a
worker was killed there was nothing
so awful about that. Besides the
burning rivets falling down upon
the laborers, planks were also pulled
down after the construction of
concrete wall. Here, too, the lives
of the workers were endangered,
but the superintendent was not af-
fected by this danger.
This has been going on for quite
long while and the workers did
nothing to change these conditions.
A LABORER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
The origin of the Movies---
First Motion Picture IN 1888

IT is not impossible that some form
Of motion picture was known to
the ancients. Titus Lucretius Carus
at least IS years before the Chris
tian era wrote:
In the year of A. D. 100 Ptolemy,
Greek philosopher wrote a series
of books on optics in which he not
only described persistence of vision,
but also piece of apparatus in the
form of a revolving disk with spots
upon 1t, which demonstrated this
phenomenon"
Whatever knowledge the ancients
may have had of motion pictures,
however, is too remote and too far
buried in. the murky depths of the
past to be of more than momentary
interest in the history of cinematog-
raphy.
Motion pictures came to be a fact
in 1888 when there was a social de-
mand for them. w. G. Horner,
patented "Zoetrope" or, the wheel
of Life,p which consists of hollow
cylinder turning a number of slots
around the interior. Between the
slots appear a series of pictures
representing successive stages of
such subject as a galloping horse,
and as the cylinder is rotated one
sees the horse apparently in mo-
ton. The pictures were drawn by
hand, until the year 1877.
In 1872, Edward Muybridge, an
Englishman, made photographs of a
race horse in motion, which were
used for theatres where the mobiles
went. 1t is true that, compared to
motion pictures of today. the results
were crude, but they were pictures
in motion, nevertheless.
Recent years marked a complete
period of transformation to new
era of motion pictures. At this
time we see them popularized to
such an extent that for the ruling
class they become a weapon to in
sure their political. power. Because
the motion picture is so delicate
and effective a weapon it can be
used as a valuable propaganda.
This type of propaganda must be
counteracted. We must have pic
lures of real life. They must serve
for the education of the masses, to
raise their cultural and moral level.
Our work in motion pictures in the
future will greatly be done not in
the studio, but on the field, in the
mills, mines and factories-where
the masses live and struggle.
N. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Short of food and drinking water.
On pitch dark nights we would
gather under the forecastle head
and discuss means of lettering our
conditions. We were not afraid. All
for one and one for all became our
slogan. He'll ship, indeed.
Pig-head, as we called the priest
like captain, is Every free" with the
Delaying pin during the day and
with the gun at night. Why should
he fear? Hasn't he a large body
guard, comprising ten apprentices
future ship owners, drawn from the
middle classes of England?
The ships cook almost poisoned
the "old pig" with some arsenic.
The cook was no bourgeois-like
the captain. And he was just plain
sick of him as the rest of us were.
PETERSON.
Ito Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
CREEK TERROR
is DESCRIBED

BERLIN (By ail-Reports re-
ceived here recently give the best
picture of the INSCRIPTIONS provo
cation methods Of the Greek police
during the last strike.
One day a rumor was spread by
the press that "the stubborn strik-
ers are seeking those willing to
work and setting fire to their
dwellings," The evening after the
home Of a strike breaker was put on
fire and his wife threatened with
murder. AS she called for help a
night Waterman and two gendarmes
came, who took up the pursuit. y
Then there appeared two more gen
darmes, who did not at once grasp
the situation and earnestly went
after the miscreapt.
When the ones who set fire to the
house saw that their arrest was
forthcoming they shot and killed
the Waterman and wounded the two
gendarmes who had tried to arrest
them. The first two gendarmes
were not even touched.
The next day the tobacco worker,
X. Jordanidis, was arrested and
charged with the burning and
shooting. Although he proved that
he was not there, he was kept in
prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
CEMENT HARDENS
AROUND WORKER
DROW NED IN IT
Only Palms Stick Out
On Finished Job
(Rn q Worker Correspondentl

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, (By MaiD -
For the last few months all that
us office help had to do was glance
out of the window to see our new
annex getting up. Slowly it grew
from a flat foundation to a great,
tall giant towering above all the
buildings within radius of per-
haps mile or more.
|, The first glance led one to be-
lieve that the building was going
up rather slow. But upon closer
observation one could see workmen
below and above and everywhere,
like busy bees, each one doing their
little mite. And soon we see an
other story added to the last. Now
the new building stands, a specimen
Of modern engineering and concrete
wonder.
Still the bosses are driving their
help around putting the finishing
touches and making improvements
within and without.
A few of us clerks sat languidly
smoking away the time until the
whistle would blow and bring us
back to the stuffy room in which
we shaved eight hours per day for
six days in the week.
We glanced up and down at the
elevator shafts and machines and
winches and pipes and bricks and
cement. Occasionally one of us
would break the silence by remark
ing about the chances that this or
that workman was taking.
Along comes a thick-set fellow
and, seeing us, lazily edges over
our way, meanwhile splitting to-
bacco juice to his side as he asks
US for the time.
Hearing us remark about the
danger of working on construc-
ton like that he says, "Well, fell
lows, we're kina brisk with this job
here but-we only had few mis-
haps the most serious one being
when that elevator shaft loosened
on top and came crashing down.
Gosh! you ought to. see those devils
down here rum"
For while he started at a few
workers wheeling cement in bar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Gems 0fLearning

w I. Clemens, assistant secre-
tares Greater New York Federation
4 Today all the lead
ng universities include courses in
-eligion and religious affairs on
heir schedules. Columbia has been
? leader in this movement under the
Erection of DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler. During the last two wears
oFty courses on religious subjects
have been organized or Morning
ide Heights" The capitalists won't
neglect this construction of one of
its best weapons.
Charles B. Robbins, assistant Sec
Fetary of war:-"No one who looks
with an unclouded vision on the his
tory of the world and on the pres
emit attitude of the nations toward
each other can believe that the day
Of world peace has arrived or is
approaching. 1t is something to be
hoped for and prayed for, but not
something to be expected, for many
generations to come. With the pres
ent state of feeling of mankind to-
ward one another throughout the
world, the best way to avoid war
IS to be prepared to meet tin case
it should come-but never by word
nr act to invite aggression" The
''est way to end war is by war--the
war that will free the working class
from its exploiters.
Nervous Nellie Kellogg, secret
ary of state: "There is nothing in
he American draft of an anti-war
treaty which restricts or impairs in
any way the right of self-defense.
That right is inherent in every SOW
ereign State and is implicit in every
treaty. Every nation is free at
all times and regardless of treaty
provisions to defend it's territory
from attack or invasion and it alone
is competent to decide whether cir
cumstances require recourse to war
in self-defense. If it has a good
case, the world will applaud and not
condemn it's action. All modern
capitalist wars are aggressive and
all can be made to appear defensive.
If you pull your gun and kill some
one you can always say you saw
him reaching for his hip.
Roy Owen West, appointed secret
,ry Of interior to succeed Work: 81
will familiarize myself for the great
office for which have been chosen"
Tn.a couple of weeks there won't be
one method of graft in the great
office with which he won't be ac-
quainted.
Joseph r. Mutt, banker of Cleve-
and, treasurer of the G.. o. p:
Another question concerns where
It scomes from. feel sure that
Chairman Hubert Work will not ac-
cept any improper vouchers. :.
No subscription has been requested
" accepted where any reasonable
question could be rightfully raised
issto the doner or the amount of the
subscription" The only money
that's turned down is made of wood.
The G. O. p. treasurer is not that
sind Of Mutt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
STAGE HANDS SEEK
NEW WAGE SCALE

With the expiration of local
agreements between the Stage
Hands Union and Syracuse theatres
on August 81, the stage hands in
tend making a demand for an in
crease in wages of $40 to SIS per
week.
A committee is now working with
the cooperation of the other thea
trical unions toward that end. The
new wage scale will raise the wages
of carpenters to $50 for a six-day
week, with 500 additional for Sun
day work. Other workers, now re-
ceiving $45, would receive S55.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
DESPITE FINES,
PERSECUTION,
MEN FIGHT ON
Alessandroni Is Called
Injunction Judge

| by a WORKER Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
What happens to Philadelphia work
ers when they insist on picketing
during strikes The judges, who
feel that they are possessed of die
tatorial powers, and who ignore the
very rights supposed to be given to
all "free" Americans by the "con-
stitution"-" care" of those in
telligent, class-conscious and mill
tant workers struggling for their
class.
Recently officers and members of
the Philadelphia Branch, No. /,
Local 7O6, of the American Fedora
ton of Full-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers were arrested and brought
before Judge Alessandroni who
has become notorious for his batting
CT the workers of Philadelphia.
Mite Months Solidarity.
The union has been conducting
strike against the Federal Knitting
Company, Cambria and James Sts.,
in the heart of the great Kensing-
ton textile and hosiery factory dis
trict. This strike was declared on
October 81, 1927, almost nine
months ago, but the strikers have
remained firm picketing the shop
daily and refusing to return to
work.
This fact has greatly peeved not
only the manufacturers, but also
their faithful lickspittles, as Ales-
sandroni.
So when the union men appeared,
Alessandroni saw his opportunity,
and issued an injunction, sweeping
in its nature, against the strikers.
But Ficketing Continued.
He also lectured the strikers,
warning them against this kind of
alleged unlawful" conduct such as
picketing.
He labelled picketing as "interfer-
ence with other workers"
However, militant workers are not
easily frightened by Ware gangsters
of the Alessandroni type.
So the picketing was continued
until today, when the manufacturers
saw to it that the police took action.
Accordingly, Frank Dolan and
Frank Murphy, two of the striking
pickets, were arrested. They were
taken before Judge Martin, Court
of Common Pleas No. 5.
Judge Martin is just as faithful
to the powers that be as Judge
Alessandroni. The charge against
Murphy and Dolan was setting at
defiance court injunction, and
therefore contempt of court.
Corrupt Courts.
So Judge Martin fined each of
the strikers 500 and lectured them,
telling them they would be sent to
jail if they continued their "unlaw-
full" conduct.
1t is such decisions as rendered
in these cases by Judges" Ales-
sandroni and Martin that makes all
workers more and more contemptu-
GUS of the courts, that makes all
workers realize that the courts, un-
der present American democratic"
capitalistic society, are merely in
struments for the protection of
few rich and powerful people, and
instruments for the oppression of
the workers who have to toll daily
for bare existence.
&C. RABIN. ]
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
BUILD REAL FIGHTING TEXTILE JJNIO]

touched another new locality and
drew our crowd from the workers
of nine mills that are located in the
"Flint section" There was crowd
of about $500 workers, the chief
of police, 25 patrolmen and one pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
UNION IN FALL RIVER CITY CALLED SUB CELLA

forth with his bulls" read a letter
he received from the owner, saying
he does not wan any labor meetings
on his lots.
With drawn clubs they chased the
crowd off The T. M. C. organizers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

textile industry. When we succeed
in organizing this place we have
the foundation for a real fighting
union. New Bedford is already as
sured as the ground floor of this
industrial edifice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

The speakers last night ware jim
Reid and Bill Sroka of the IT. M. c..
organizing staff, and Fred Beal of
the New Bedford union. Peter
Hagelius, also organizer in Fall
River was chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

and many of our local live wires
then had the workers and marched
them to another place, gathering
workers as we go and hold the
meeting, with good success.
This town is the sub-cellar of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

BALL RIVER, Mass, (By Mail)
The Textile Mill Committee to-
night has put over its eighth public
meeting for textile workers. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
troll wagon present.

troI wagon present.
This was the first meeting that
we succeeded in opening and fin
ishing on the same lot. The chief
usually terrorizes the owner at the
last minute, and then he marches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Friday night we are scheduled to
break into the north side where
there are many mills in which it is
rumored that the chief holds shares
of stocks.
"ADAM SHUTTESHUTER."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
kdea Hosiery Strikers Struggle Long Months Mil Correspondent Writ
HANdOuTS

Mrs, Aimee Semple Mcpherson
notorious evangelist of Los An
geles, who some time back spent a
few week-ends with her radio OPP
orator and came back to town with
the story that she had been kid
mapped, was in a beauty parlor the
other day getting some needed at
tention. She was told that her
mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, in
Seattle, had issued a public state
atent reviving the scandal of her
Grip with the radio enthusiast. Mrs.
Mcpherson said: This kind of thing
IS unkind, But in the sacredness
which belongs to mother love l shall
suffer in silence" These are sweet
words. A few months ago when
Mrs, Kennedy was her daughters
manager, Aimee used all the words
N the vocabulary of an expert mule
driver to get her to release her hold
on the money bags.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Saue this copy Of the Daily for
one Of the 10000 traction workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Vice-President Lyman P. Ham
~1ond of the Electric Bond and Share
ompany, part of the US. power
rust. in his survey report of the
hilippine Islands says in effect:
Let the Filippinos revise their land
nd corporation laws so as to permit
ae Introduction of U. S. capital and
Management" He doesn't mind
ow heavy the door is that the Phil
7pines throw up against u S. capt.
alists so long as they leave. it I'M
ocked.
The republicans have chosen Pros
Gritty and integrity as their cam
aaign issues. The latter will be
rouehed for by ALDER B. Fall and
hesformer by any member of the s.
,00'eG0 unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Campers have already done some
thing toward the communicating of
2ropertysif you can judge from tow
els they bring home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Zone For All.

At sea. Water, water, every
where; but not drop to drink"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

It was as though papa had let
mama take the family bulldog out
Fer walk when Thomas Cochran.
PARTNER of J. P. Morgan visited Pre-
ident Coolidge at Brule with Secre-
airy Wilbur in leash.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-09
Golden Bears Eliminate
Canada to Enter Finals
GEORGE K0JAC
BREAKS RECORD
American Olympic Team Mem.
Der Splashes Way to New
Worlds Mark

Amsterdam, Aug. 9.-CF-Georg.
Kojae Of New York, member Of the
United States team, won the 100.
meter back stroke swimming cham
pionship today. Walter Laufer Of
Chicago was second.
The Americans made it 1928, as
Paul Wyatt Of Uniontown, Pa, fin
ished third. Kojac's time was /
minute 8 LIS seconds, a new worlds
record.
In . sensational upset, Albert To-
rilla Of Argentina won the 4OO-meter
free style championship. Andrew
Charlton Of Australia was second.
Andre Borg Of Sweden third, and
the Americans, Clarence Crabbe,
Austin Clapp and Ray Ruddy, fourth,
fifth, and sixth, in that order.
Zorilla's time was minutes 1 3/5
seconds, new Olympic record. He
came up fast in the last half of the
race to win, as he was third, behind
Borg and Charlton, at the halfway
mark.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-09
MUDHENS FALL,
BEHINDLEADER
1927 Association Champs .Ap.
pear Hopelesslv Out of
1925 Race

Chicago, Aug. a.-&5-Casey
Stengel and his veteran crew Of
Mudhens, who gave Toledo its first
American Association pennan. last
year, seem hopelessly out Of the
1928 race.
With the season almost three
fourths completed and with two
thirds Of their remaining games
away from home, the Nudhens were
10 full games from the leading In
dianapolis Indians today.
The last severe setback to Casey's
pennant hopes was handed out yes
terday by Milwaukee, which ended
its 1928 appearance at Toledo b. de-
feating the 'tengelites in a double
header, 3 to 2, and to 2. The Hens
outhit the Brewers IN the first game
but nullified this advantage with
four errors. In the second, Jack
Lelivelt's men outhit and outplayed
them.
Two big innings, the third and
fifth, finally gave Indianapolis a
triumph to 4, over Minneapolis.
The victory saved the Indians first
place for the time being at least.
Today, Minneapolis was a full game
behind them. 1t was the final ap-
pearance of the Millers at Indian
apolis and ended the five-game
series, to l, in favor Of Mime
apolis.
Columbus returned to its winning
ways over Kansas City again yester-
day, beating the Blues, 6 to 8, The
victory pushed the Blues five games
away from first place and Columbus
to within one game from the seventh
place Louisville Colonies, who were
idle, st. Paul also had a holiday.