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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
old WORKER WHO
WAS FIRED KILLS
SELF IN DESPAIR
Youths at Less Pay
Replace Adults
a. a WorL.er CovespOmdemtl

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, ~eBy MailD =
How the capitalistic system of So
ciety throws workers on the scrap
heap as it does with used out
machinery was again gruesomely il
Illustrated in this city, today.
To make both ends meet, Mrs
Mary Scum, So, did homework by
day. Her husband, Harry Scum, was
a baker, when he could get the job.
Since last Christmas, however, he
worked only two days. He is 81 and
the bosses need younger men to work
under their speed-up system.
Fire Old Workers.
When Mary Scum arrived in her
little home from her long and tedi-
Gus days work, she went straight
to her bedroom.
Here she found a note from her
husband which read; Dear Mary,
When I went to work this morning
they told me they had taken on a
younger man in my place. When you
read this I'll be far away. Every
thing in. the house l leave to you"
This last sentence referred to the
few little belongings, chairs, bed,
etc.
Mary thought the note was joke,
but going into the bathroom she saw
her husbands body hanging by the
neck in the doorway with short
length of rope.
Constantly Unemployed.
Since last Christmas, until two
days ago, a period of nearly seven
months, Harry had been together
with thousands of his fellow work
ers searching YEARLY and in vain
for work. Finally, two days ago,
he secured employment on Dau-
phin st. in bakery.
Despair Ends in Suicide.
For two days his troubles were
apparently ended. But yesterday
when he entered the bakery to start
his days work, the boss told him the
job was no longer his.
Scum went home, wrote the note,
drove NIL il the wall near the
bathroom door, got a ro,, VII Oh
he put around his neck, fixed the
rope to the nail, climbed up a ladda4,
stepp a CT and thus erd3d perma-
ne1tly hi win search for employ
rent in the alleged prosperous
ULned States
&C. RABIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Mine Relief-Defense
Pictorial Out Soon

F PITTSBURGH, July IA four
page tabloid size relief-defense pic
torial will be off the press by the
end of this week. New pictures of
the strikefields, picket lines, bar
rack life, the militant women pick
cts who were tricl5ed into the jail
in st. Clairsville, Ohio, prominent
strike leaders, Laura Calegari of
Elm Grove, w. Va, and her two
babies the courts threatened to take
away unless she gave up her picket
line activities all will be seen in
the new pictorial. New feature
stories and first hand news from
the industrial battle 'front.'
The pictorials will sell for five
cents apiece. Order your supply for
the National Miners Relief Defense
Week.. July 22nd to the goth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
MA.
"1he Actress at the Capitol
Based on Pjuero',s ''Inglawney'

60 THEY TOOK this old play out
of the cannery, busted it off a
little, put a few nice faces in it
and made a movie out of it, As a
result you can see Pinero's we'll
known play "Trelawney of the
Wells" ss a movie called "The Ac-
tress" this week at the Capitol
theatre.
1t has all the virtues of unlim-
tied American movie resources: fine
photography, a capable cast headed
by the beauty Norma Shearer, some
good direction and lavish costum-
ing. And all this is wasted on a
lot of English poppycock that is
aimed to prove that despite all their
shortcomings and idiosyncrasies, the
upper clawses" are not so bad
after all.
The story is of stage people. The
little actress with a heart of gold
falls in love with young blond of
the near-nobility who's got spunk
all over though by the looks of him
you never would have guessed it.
For blood will tell - blood is that
way. Anyway, the old grandfather
was at the bottom of all the trou-
BILE. But once a gentleman, always
a gentleman. When he realizes that
the cute little actress is no gold
digger, but loves the young noble
blond nobly, he contributes his
blessing and little money besides.
Blood always tells. The story
goes to prove it and it goes to say
also that even poor working girls
can marry nobility. 1t doesn't leave
the field restricted to the Wander
bits and the Astors. Could anything
be sweeter? It's propaganda. An
atrocious, sentimental sticky kind of
class propaganda, too. Made for
the most gullible, clarifying the til
tied upper classes" throwing the
sop of hope to the simple, that they
too can enter this supposedly ex-
cluslVe charmed circle, some day,
perhaps
Ralph Forbes, one of the newer
of the handsome Harrys, is the full
blooded blue-blood. Owen Moore has
a prominent part and so have such
well-known movie people as Vir-
ginia Pearson, Roy Darcy, Gwen
Lee, Lee Moran and others.
The usual program of Cap I'll
presentations is on the bill: Walt
Roesner and his orchestra, dancers,
singers a d it should be ADDED, a
tfeatre so corl on these hot days,
that it's worth the price of admis-
sion to get into the rest rooms to
-ead a book. w. C.
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away. This is not the night shift,
but those who start work early In
the morning. When at 5 p. m. you
see a crowd coming out of the build
ings, don't imagine they are very
lucky, being let off early, because on
another day, when it's their turn
they must remain at work late.
Last March l was working in a
big French Pastry Company on 47th
st. Upon hiring me the boss said
that l was to start in the mornings.
l was surprised and did not know
when l was to leave at night.
soon found out was led to the rear
of the building where the cashiers
and bookkeeper's office is, dungeon
with no air and no daylight, with
the stencil of the bakery products to
breathe. There I noticed a cot. I
soon learned that the last book
keeper worked day and night and
that at night he had the privilege to
lie on the cot whenever he felt ex-
hausted. The work included shaving
Saturdays and Sundays also, in order
to retain that $50 per week. Noe a
cent extra for all this overtime
There was seldom any Steamboat.
Efficiency"
I contracted a beastly cold. After
some three weeks of work there, a
new manager came in with some of
his efficiency schemes. In fact they
knew only one-reducing the wages.
He hired two eighteen-year-ol chill
dren, a girl ard a boy, at S14 per
week and laid me off. from this
place l drifted to Wall Street.
The v~y same system that pre-
walls in the mines is found in office
work livery bit of the days
work is postponed and overburdened.
The bookkecpers are overtaxed with
voluminous books to take care of. A
minute check-up of their work is
constantly made. They have a few
"boss patriots" who speed up at
maniacal pace. If you cannot keep
up with them out you go. These
patriots" get tap on the shoulder
and a nice smile from the foremen
for their speed.
As to the general clerical work,
every operation is timed and one is
told how much he is to do and when
it must be done. The slaves race and
try to beat each other to show the
boss how good they are. Anyone in
poor health lie simply out Of luck.
Such people are most of the time
walking around the ring looking for
that sign dob"
Such is the case Of the white-collar
slave. Will eny Wall Street Ledger
Jockey answer me to the contrary?
AN OFFICE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

PISA, July IL (UP).-Min. ster of
Fi-ance M sconi ar Mir ster of
EeoHomy Martelli tcck the oath of
office yesterday at King Victor l4n-
maluc-'s sunmaf l"dze 1T San Roc
SORE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

Out of t1oenty brands of popu-
lar politicians, Old Iron, the can
inc, IN spite of being blindfolded
leith tlco thickuesses of mosquito
netting Immediately picked ont Al
Smith, sho10n above, on right, on
account Of his delightful aroma
Of Tammajly corruption.
B. ]. Mullaney publicity director
f the Illinois Public Utilities Com
nittee, says:
eve are trying to promulgate
the idea rapidly among the news
papers that public utilities offer
a very fertile field developing
regular, prompt-paying custom
ers advertising columns of the
newspapers. When the idea pene-
trates the United States, unless
human nature has changed, we
will have less trouble with news
papers than we have had in the
past.
The capitalist newspaper is q
prostitute who would never descend
o a discussion of morality. But
'rice? That's business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
PHANTOM Pilot
RUNS E!RPl=kkE
To Be Used in Bombine
Raids

PARIS, July 10 (UP).-A "phan-
tom pilot" created by Max Boucher,
French war flier, has been secretly
tested at the Istres Aerodrome, it
was revealed today. The tests were
successful. The phantom pilot" is
constructed of steel and provided
with muscles which respond in
stantly to controlling apparatus on
the ground, permitting the plane to
be Unanswered through any PAGES
desired.
Extensive details of Boucher's
creation were published today by
La Petite Journal which said the Sc
cret tests had been conducted for
many months during which the ex-
periments were completed with
great success.
Today's tests revealed the "phan-
tom pilot" could go through regu-
lar maneuvers and bring the plane
to earth at a speed of sixty miles
per hour without the slightest
shock. Experts of the aeronautics
division who conducted the tests for
the government were reported as
highly pleased with the perform
ance.
1t was predicted that control Of
the mechanical pilot from a dis
tance of 100 kilometres would be
possible soon. The control is es-
tablished by signals and system of
stabilizers which work through the
automatic pilot.
The government probably would
make use of the phantom pilot"
in bombing plane raids, it was said
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Nv CLARINA MICHELsON


Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
LENINGRAD, u. S. S. r. (By
MaiD .-The many buildings of the
metal foundry, the Red Putilov
Works, stretch along the "Street of
Strikes" in Leningrad. A river runs
through the property, there is a
large park and tracks run criss-cross
between the many buildings. Here
10000 workers make tools, cars, en-
gines and tractors. The workers of
Putilov have always been militant.
In 1905 the demonstration led by
the priest, Gapon, upon the Winter
Palace to demand justice from the
Car was started by a strike in the
Putilov Works. Throughout TIE
revolution the Putilov workers were
in the front rank. And now, when
the Workers and Peasants govern
nent needs tractors, it seems APP
propriate that they are being made
by Putilov workers. 1t is 100
per cent union shop. Of the $4,000
workers, 1000 are "activists," men
and women, engaged in committee
work, dues collecting and other &C
tive work; 1900 are communists
and $500 comsomols, members of
the League of Communist Youth.
Wages Higher
During the World War there were
as many as $4,000 workers in this
great foundry, but after the war the
plant was shut and not reopened
until 1924. -Four years is short
time for many achievements, but
here are some of the accomplish
ments Of these 10000 metal work
ers, through their union, the Com
munist Party nucleus, and the Co.
operative, with the help of the gov
eminent.
Wages are in every case higher
than before the revolution-this year
they are 16 per cent higher than
last year. All the workers get two
weeks vacation with pay and the
men who work in the melting de-
partment get four and even six
weeks. They work only 6 days out
of every 8. The women get 2
months leave before and after child
birth, with full pay. They get $15
to buy necessary things Cor the baby
and receive 81 a month for nine
months after the baby's birth. The
plant still operates on an 8-hour
day, though in a few departments,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
USSR METAL WORKERS"
v ADVANTAGES GREAT

where there are two shifts, the late
shift is 7 hours.
Youths Work Only 4 Hours
There are 200 apprentices" from
16 to Is years old who spend d
hours in the factory and have .
hours for theoretical training. About
$50 young workers of 16 and II
years also attend the three-year
course in the factory school, 4 hours
factory work and hours school
work. The workers of both these
groups get paid and as they all
belong to the union they also re-
ceive full union benefits. There is
also a tnree-year evening technical
school for workers of 81 and over
who become lower grade engineers.
Besides this, there are classes in his
tory, courses on the labor move
ment, political classes, classes of all
kinds, and many workers are sent
to the universities.
Cultural Advantages
In the center of the grounds is
a book store, where about 100 books
are sold daily-S0 per cent are books
on technical subjects, although Toll
stoy, GorlSy and other novelists are
popular. The new Soviet Encyclo-
pedia of 20 volumes, costing $3.50, is
in great demand, and for this and
other books the workers can get long
credit terms. Newspapers and
magazines are also sold here. The
Pu 'ilov workers get out their own
printed paper every two weeks and
in every department there is the
usual wall paper N1l-,en by the
workers. Once a week each depart
ment receives a visit rom the agent
Of a circulating library, who delivers
cooks and takes ORDERS in the half
hour allotted to- this -4n- sonae,~of
the departments there are "Red Cor
ners," where there are radios anG
tables where the workers eat their
lunch and make their tea. At the
same time, artists and speakers fire.
1uently come to entertain them. Il
every department one sees notices
o. excursions, notices of lectures and
debates and many accident-preven-
ton posters. The workers have
their own library, a club, theatre,
a kino. bath house, a restaurant
and fine chemical laboratory.
Fine Homes for Workers
On the streets near the foundry
crowding out old wooden buildings,
are many new stucco apartment
houses, with large windows, bal
comics and gardens; homes for the
workers, built by the Cooperative
and the city. Nearby is a beauti-
ful new building, "The House of Gull
ture." pat up by the Metal Workers
Union and other unions of Lenin-
grad. to celebrate the tenth ami
versary. Here is a hall seating
1000, where the finest Leningrad
plays are often produced; 2 kinos,
each seating 300; 2 concert halls,
each seating 500; a reading room, a
smoking room, chess room, bill
lard room, a buffet--over 20 rooms
in all. This House of Culture is
used each evening by over 5000
workers-workers from the Red
Putilov Works and other workers of
the district. Across the front of the
building a huge red banner reads:
"Withcut books there can be no edu-
cation. Without education there can
be no Communism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
AMERICAN SAILOR
PREFERS LIFE ON
ship OF SOVIETS
"Bolshevism So Good
Would Die For It"

(By a Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash.,' (By Mail).-l
write this Just before we sail for
Vladivostok on the S. S. Apex, re-
Gently bought by the government Of
the Soviet Union.
Soviet Employ Liked.
Just a few days ago l was on the
beach here, had been for a month
and it might have been months mor~
if it wasn't for the Bolshevias Iu&
whom 1 am now working under the
following conditions. Seventy-five
doilars for three watches; first class
grub; plenty of vegetables and cof-
fee; time in the middle of each
watch; smoking at the wheel.
Everybody here is comrade, none
of this Mr.. and sir stuff.
The captain, who has been to the
Soviet Union before with another
ship which the U. S. S. R. bought in
1924, knows what conditions are on
the Soviet ships. He suggested
that we form a soviet on this ship
so we are sailing with a ships COM
mittee in control, composed of one
A. B. (able-bodied seaman), one
oiler, the captain and the mess-boy.
Proud of Bolshevism.
We have just received the Soviet
flag from Amtorg RUSSIAN Ameri-
can Trading Coz. | am sorry that
l have no time to tell all that I would
like to as we are taking on stores,
and what stOresi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

w. A. Johnston. Chief Justice of
he Supreme Court THE thing
hat wins in politics is integrity"
Why, Mr.. Johnson, you know better
han that.
Edward Martin, Chairman of the
pennsylvania Republican State Com
nittce Members Of the party who
are playing or place will be ex-
,ected to line up four-square for the
whole ticket" They will. Republican
,oliticians are not so much inter-
.Kted in what they support as what
hey get.
81,
Glenn Frank:-'It is our weak
tess that we consider the nations
Sfimarily as units OF power, measur-
az them by a common standard
he standard of military and econ
bmic power" Glenn Frank heads a
University in Wisconsin that sup
I,orts a Reserve Officers Training
sorps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

"Oh Ma aoho is the yo1ng mani"
"Thafs Robert ". La Toilette,
the most radical man loho euer
fought a battle for the rich far
mers."
"Nop
"He's the big hero of the little
business men,"
"You don't say"
SHE'S trust buster from Wis
consin."
"Yeh. What party is he n?"
"The republican party"
ooh does it believe in Dustin
the trusts?"
"No the trusts greU stronger
than ever under Coolidge"
''WeH Ma if La Toilette 1Oants
to bust the trlsts 1ohy is he in
the party that builds them2"
"Adolph don't 1oipe yon' chin
on your sleeve 1t calls the flies"
Twelve young ladies from CIR
ichools will spend a couple of aft
srnoons studying New York tene
nent houses to determine once anC
or all the cause Of poverty under
he auspices of the Charity Organ.
cation Society. They will Their
iivulge their solution of the prob.
en- in a three hour examination
ctis will be a good example of the
Unequal distribution of the worlds
iumcr. These twelve examination
,apers viii be in the hands of one
hammer. while Handouts has tc
curry iithcr and yon for a bit Of
IN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
ca llision Reported
by Ship; No Damage

LONDON, July II (UP). - The
Royal Mail Steam Packet company
informed the United Press today of
receipt Of radio message from
lie liner Demerara, saying the ship
h bccn involved in a collision off
"A IN but was entirely safe and
was proceeding to Lisbon.
The ship, bound for South Amer
lean ports, was due at Lisbon today.
In reporting the collision, the liner
did not say what damage if any, it
had incurred or what ship it col
Lied with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Australian Grafters
Charged With Bribery

SYDNEY. Australia, July II
British United Press) Three for
mer aldermen were charged on state
government summonses today with
being concerned in the alleged pay
ment of big brides by a British firm
interested in city contracts.
One of the men was charged with
accepting $4,000; a second with
taking S37,500, and a third with be-
ing implicated in certain acts al
legged to be connected with accep-
tance of brides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Three Plead Guilty
in Ball Pool Graft

Matthew S. Dugan, J. ]. Kelly,
and Sam Cohen, all of Albany,
pleaded guilty today to an indict-
ment charging them with participa-
ton in the Albany ball pool.
The three were scheduled for trial
today and entered their plea to the
court after a short conference with
their attorneys before the trial be-
gan.
They will be sentenced today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
HANdOuTS


The son of John D. Rockefeller
Jr., has been given a job at $40 a
week. If he proves capable at the
time he's 80 his old man has prom
ised to give him S42.5O week to
get married on.
Senator Norris said yesterday: 81
am chock full of fight, with no place
70 fight He is standing out on
No Mans Land and doesn't know
there's war going on.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-16
TROLLING TOWN IS ELIMINATED
 FROM FORESTS
Port Alexander Taken Out of Tongass Forest Sur
 vey to Be Made Soon

Port Alexander, ono of South eastern Alaska's trolling centers is eliminated from Tongass Ma tional Forest and restored to the public domain in Presidential Proclamation signed by President Coolidge on March 22, it was an. nounced today by Gov. George A. Parks. The transfer was recon mended by District Forester c. H F1ory as means of facilitating development of the settlement which has started there.
 A survey of 4 the eliminated i tract. comprising 6347 acres, will be made as soon as possible by the Public Survey Bureau. Az soon as the boundaries are defin itely established, it will be pos sible for residents of the eommun. ity to apply for a townsite allot- ment.
 There are several business houses operating in Port Alexan, der and large number of trolling boats make headquarters thers during the fishing season. All buildings have been erected under special use permits issued by the Forest Service. It will be pos sible in the near future for owners to obtain patent to their holdings
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-16

NEW YORK, April 16-Uneasy lie the heads that wear the crowns in baseball for there are nearly 100 other athletes trying their best 10 knock them off.
 Harry Heilmann. of Detroit leading batsman of the American league, has established a program of leading his fellows at the bat every other year since 1921 when he was at the top for the frs, time. He repeated in 1923, 1925 and 1927 and while to be consist ent, he should stand aside in 1928, he has been hitting as hard as ever in spring training.
 Paul Waner, the National league leader, reached the ambi- ton of the swatsmiths on his second chance at the title, after having made good start on his first appearance in 1926
 The home run championship by common consent belongs to Babe Ruth. He hit the record breaking number of 60 last season. There was a tie between Cy Williams and Hack Wilson ill the National and Ruth hit as many homers as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-16
he pair of National leaguers.

the pair of National leaguers.
 Opposed to such swatters as these in this years renewal of the eternal battle of hitting against pitching will be such sterling pitchers as Larry Benton of the Giants and Waite Hoyt of the Yankees, who led their leagues last season in percentage of games won.
 Dazzy Vance, the strikeout king and Bob Grove. the leading fan ner of the American league, have seemed even faster than before this season and there is no req. son to believe they have lost the cunning which enables them to send batsmen back to the bench for drinks of water.
 All the holders of the miscel laneous records are back to de fend their titles. George Sisler the base running monarch of the American league, has changed uniforms but this will not keer him from stealing any bases he finds lying around loose.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-16
 MYSTERY FEATURE IS AT PALACE TOMORROW

Hail to the Menace Manl No moro i5 the villain forced into ob- livion. He may be hated and hisscd. but certainly he is not overlooked. Nowadays. the hero is forced to guard his laurels well, or the menace man will walk away with them.
 Some of the best picture steal CTS" on the screen today are vil- lains. For instance, Lon Clancy, Ernest Terrence, Wallace Beery, William V. Mong and Lionel Bar rymore are certain to stand out in any picture in which they ap- pear.
 The last-named screen artist providessa full share of menace in Paris at Midnight" Francis Marion's new Metropolitan pic. ture which comes to the Palace Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday