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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-04
Wise Cracks
Wrong This Time

Wrong This Time
CFrom Stray Stories)
Barker Observation-Disclosures new
hat. When will you cease these
useless purchases you make under
the pretext they are cheap?
Mrs. Barker-But this one
wasn't cheap.
Smiles
(From the Toronto starr
AS luxurious as a new gasoline
station.
AS brief as the fame of 3 trans
atlantic flight.
As hurried as a bank robbers
exit.
AS rosy as q mining prospectus.
AS vague as a gentlemen
agreement,
Mice new hat you have there.
Yes; it fills q long wanted
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-04
Kind Hearts are Near

(From the Howard (kan.) CouranD
This isn't such hard, cold
world. Every time company
drives up in front of your house,
the neighbors are all sorry for
you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
GUM SH AN DIN C

You spend three dollars for a ban
quet ticket.
Ten dollars for railroad fare,
Just to bid farewell
To big general,
Or the nations ambassador.
Do you know what they are in
China?
They are beasts
Consuming the blood of the toilers.
They become bloated and fat.
They murder the workers.
They are satiated.
Now they come to America,
Just for sport and playl
Why give them feast
Instead of blows?
You Gum Shan Ding
You have no brain!
1t was Young shi-kai
Who invented the Chinese Liberty
Bond"
Ten years have passed.
This system is still in vogue
To kill the workers.
This in these generals mouths is
sweet,
In their hearts a cruel dagger.
You are looking for saviours-
But these are traitors.
Liberty Bonds?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
ACTORS IN WAR
ON JOB SHARKS
by Federated Press)

Actors Equity Unions next cam
paign for protection of theatre
workers will be the outlawing of I'M
scrupulous employment agencies
preying on actors. With the u. s.
Supreme Court throwing cloak of
legality about these harpies through
declaring unconstitutional New
Jersey job agency law, the union has
decided to make a fight on them
that will center all its energy.
Employment agents have de-
manded 10 per cent of an actors
wages for his entire engagement,
despite provisions in the New York
law limiting job sharks to 5 per
cent of the first 10 weeks pay.
Claiming to be personal represen-
tatives" and managers" Of actors,
they have defied the state law. Ac-
tors in "AbiePs Irish Rose" which
ran for years in New York, were
mulcted of thousands through the
10 per cent rale-off
Producers Involved in Graft.
Often the agency splits the 10
per cent fee with the producer for
whom the actor was obtained. In
this case the producer indirectly
cuts the actors pay In at least
one instance the agency and the
producer turned out to be one and
the same person. Others demand
bonus in addition to the 10 per
cent for the duration Of the en-
gagement. These agencies point to
lost lists of actors seeking jobs and
hint that the bonus will get the job
seeker preference.
Equity has outlined four provi-
sions to protect members:
1. Agencies dealing with Equity
members must be licensed by Equity
.. They must have standard con-
tracts.
8. Agents will be limited to 5
per cent for 10 weeks.
! a. The title of personal repre-
! sentative shall be bona fide and not
merely a cloak for an ordinary job
/ agent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Smashing ARTICLES and
Photos in Labor Defender

A picture of Mooney with his wife
and mother in the courtroom reminds
us that it is now twelve years since
this militant labor leader was put
behind the prison bars. An article
accompanying the picture states that
the international Labor Defense
plans a world wide campaign to
free Tom Mooney.
THERE are pictures of the Anti
Imperialist demonstration in Wall
Street on July 3, when several Com
munists were arrested for demon
strating against Wall Streets war in
Nicaragua. A short article on the
raid on the Communist convention
in Bridgeman six years ago.
Elmer Smith writes of the eight
members of the IW.W. who have
spent eight years and a half in
Walla Walla prison. This is the
famous Centralia case. Smith has
rendered heroic service in their be-
half and the LID. is pushing the
work of securing their release.
Albert Weisbord writes of the
New Bedford strike. Splendid pic
lures accompany the article.
Paul Crouch, once a military pris-
oner, writes about the case of John
Porter, who is confined in the mill
tary prison of FIT. Adams, R. l. He
deserted, became vice-president of
the New Bedford Textile Workers
Union, was arrested and given
prison sentence.
Charles Yale Harrison contributes
an excellent story of the class strug-
gle. entitled "Red Flag"
The lynching of a Negro at Hous-
ton, Texas, on the eve of the demo-
cratic party's convention, a story of
the activities of the LID. for six
months by acting Martin
Abern-a splendid record by the
way, "Voices from Prison." and
other subjects are treated adequately
and readably-in the August number
of the "lsbor Defender
The circulation of the Labor De-
fender" is now $4,000, according to
Walt Carmen, business manager. 1t
deserves to be 100000 and l have no
doubt but that it will be before
many years.
A worker could not put dollar
to better use than by subscribing to
the Labor Defender" The sub
scription price is 81 a year. 1t is
published at 80 E. 18th St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Workers, School Opens
Courses In Capital

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The
Workers School in this city has
opened two new classes, Elementary
MARKHAM Economics is taught every
Saturday at 8 o'clock at SIT 18th
St., N. W. The "a B c" of Com
munism" and other text books are
used. Those who are not Com
munists are also invited to attend.
A class in Leninism meets every
Tuesday at the same address. All
workers are urged to attend either
or both of the mentioned classes.
In them they will learn how better
to carry on the class struggle
against their exploiters, the capital
list class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
BIZ II. r. TSIANG.

By H. r. TSTANG.
You Gum Shan Ding!
You were born without conscience!
You spent a thousand dollars,
Appropriating to yourself
A strange father.
So willing you are to forget
The place where you were born.
When you are on the golden shore
of America
You are without worry,
No longer being poor.
Your chief concern
Is to manage with all your wealth.
Don't talk about China!
Il am a rich merchant.
No more 'fatherland.'
| am an American citizen"
Yet there are worries.
That is too bad.
Face not so white,
Nose not so high.
When / pass by
All men call me
"Chinamanw "Chinaman!"
You Gum Shan Ding!
You are worth not more than a
pennyl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Lilly Patch is Disease
Hole Where Miners Line
L1lIIy

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, July 27.-The
~ Lilly patch" adjoining the Hill
man Coal Company mine is perched
on stills, high above the creek. Now
that the heavy rains are deluging
the valley, the water rises and floods
the shacks. These company houses
are old, dilapidated, flimsy wooden
shells. AS the water seeps in thru
the windows and between the boards,
the rain leaks from the roof cracks.
The Lilly mine was completely
closed down when the. strike began
sixteen months ago. The operators
have not even attempted to open the
mine with scab labor, so there are
no picket lines there. The union
ceased sending relief to this camp
two weeks ago. Only the National
Miners Relief is warding off starva-
ton.
In the center of the patch" Jack
Srader, leading rank and file strik-
er, lives with his family. The house
is bare-even the little clothing they
possess lies on newspapers, on the
floor. Sixteen-year-old Margaret
lies proppcd up against the wall. She
is suffering from tubercular bones.
Eight-month-old julius is tossing
about on a pillow, while his mother
attempts to stop his coughing with
home remedies. There is no money,
so the doctors refuse to come. There
are five other little children to take
care of, and feed.
When Jack Srader first brought
his family to West Brownsville a few
months before the strike began, he
bought a house-full of furniture on
the installment plan from the Zim-
norman Furniture Company. Then
the strike came, and when the wages
stopped coming in, payment had to
stop. Last week the truck from the
furniture company carried away the
stove, chairs, beds and all. Mrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
By T. ]. O'FLAHERTY.

MAX SHACHTMAN, editor of the
AVA Labor Defender" will do it or
you every time. This energetic
young proletarian journalist cont
nues to improve the official organ
of the International Labor Defense
each succeeding issue until one gives
up wondering when he is going to
get out number only just as good
as the preceding one. If / were
in his brogans l would worry about
the future, but then Max is not that
kind of fellow.
Be that as it may, the August
number is a knockout, to use the
language of Dempseyiana.
Leading off is the front cover
photograph of New Bedford strike
scene with cops, strikers, banners
and strikers children.
Next comes the inimitable Hay
Bales with his Looking at the
Month"; page of sketches that
go to the heart of current happen
ings in the class struggle with a few
strokes of his pen. Bales works at
the barbering trade in Salt Lake
City, supports a large family out
of his slim earnings and sends in
sketches to the Labor Defender"
and other radical publications in his
spare time. Bales is a first rate
satirical artist.
ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN,
Il veteran in the class struggle, has
an inspiring article on the execution
of Sacco and Vanzetti. eve Stand
at the Grave of Two Warriors" is
the title.
"We are not ashamed" she writes,
ITO stand at the graves of these war
riors with bowed heads, weeping at
their loss. But we stand there de
termined to vindicate them by our
redoubled efforts to topple over the
system of exploitation, robbery.
misery and murder that sent these
guiltless ones to a horrible death"
Pictures of Sacco and Vanzetti,
of workers viewing the bodies as
they lay in state and of the thou
sands marching in the funeral pro-
cession go with Flynn's article.
Arne Swabeck writes about the
miners strike, which has recently
been broken by Lewis after one and
a half years. He urges the workers
to support the National Miners Re
lief Committee and LID. drive for
funds for the relief and defense of
starving miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

Better throw your money into the
water,
For there at least,
1t will make musical sound.
Have you brain?
Use it!
You Gum Shan Ding
Be not angry nor sorry.
Pardon the sarcasm.
You are not alone.
All of us are fools,
All, except, of course,
Those traitors and mercenary gen.
erals!
We are fools all the time
Fools! Fools! Fools!
Oh, you fools, awake
Become as a spike,
Kill all who are not foolsl
Gum Shan Ding - A sarcastic
nickname given in China to those
Chinese who return from America.
The literal meaning is gold noun
tain fool"
Young shi-kai-The treacherous
president of China who accepted
Japan's twenty-one demands and
appropriated the proceeds of the
Liberty Bond" to make himself
emperor.
New York City, July rs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

Srader cooks her rations at neigh
boris home.
The water around the "patch" is
stagnant, and offers most produc-
tive breeding place for mosquitoes.
There's no sewerage arrangements
and the stencil of the creek and the
swampy land adjoining the creek
makes life almost unbearable in the
coal mine patch"
Hundreds of striking miners and
their families live in these huts.
Since the strike began, they have
been unable to pay rent. Now the
Hillman Coal Company is offering
the shacks for sale to miners who
are living for the most part on one
meal day.
"Who has the money to pay, even
if we did want to be tied down to
that kind of house?" the miners
ask. eff the houses belonged to us,
and we had to stay here, the bosses
would think they could get us to
take any conditions and as low a
scale they want to force on us"
Mines are opening everywhere,
and attempting to draw back their
former workers on an open-shop
basis. The men insist that their
only hope for organization, lies in
returning to the mines in a body
The National Miners Relief Com.
mittee is sending as much relief as
| it is able to the mining camps tt
save the miners from being starved
into accepting open-shop conditions
Destitution and hunger is wide.
spread; but the miners are still mill.
tant, after these months of strug.
gle.
All funds sent to the National
Miners Relief Committee at Gil
Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. will
Immediately be converted into flour
and potatoes and rushed to the
mining camps. Dollars will fight
] disease. Do your share!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
NeuS Room

Newspaper writing urd tales of how Jones killed
his wife with rolling pin (Sweet revenge reversal re-
versitore)
"Scarface All Capone enters cleaning racket"
Mother stranges only babe"
Copy Boyyy, where you hid inng)
Waiting for the deadline idly writing;
Nov the time for all good to the aid of their
party"
Dreaming of trimming stems at APs Petes;
Boozefghters because they too much.
Lmning today, dreaming of "mananna."
Fingers running idle keys giving an air of acute in
dustry,
Waiting for the deadlne, idly writing:
"Now is the time"
JAMES A. MILLER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
CROSS AND BATTLE-AXE
Steel Helmets Must Be Led By Christ

BERLIN, (By MaiD In Opplen
it was Steel Helmet day on July 2.
A leader of the Steel Helmets,
Seldte, delivered bloodthirsty war
speech, Numbered against the con-
stitution and the Communists, and
prophesized a hard battle for the
courageous Steel Helmets. The next
speaker was an evangelist leader of
the religion of the next life.
Sincerely, filled with the holy
spirit of evangelist confession, he
told the Steel Helmets that their
most glorious example is Christ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
"Cz0r han" Back at Came0---
P0temkln ON Same PROGRAM

THE Film Arts Guild announces a
return engagement at the Cameo
Theatre of Gear Ivan the Terrible"
the famous Sovkino production
starting today. "Potemkin" the epic
film-record of the Russian revolu-
ton of 1905, made by the same Sow
let institution, has been selected as
the companion film on the same
program.
Gear Ivan the Terrible" is a col
lection of sharply etched characteri-
cations against a background of
rather tense and gripping drama.
L. M. Leonidoff who is now TIE chief
actor of the Moscow Art Players,
created the role of Gar Ivan in this
remarkable Soviet film.
"In undertaking the creation of
the screen portrait of Gear Ivan
the Terrible" Leonidoff said in
recent interview, II turned to books,
objects close to Ivan the Terrible,
and in them l hunted for the spirit
that would unite me with the char
acter and the epoch l was to create
Cup to the present time I know
of only two recreations of that
epoch-"Tzar Dedor" of the Nose,
Art Theatre and the innumerable
drawings of Makovsky and the stag
ings of Bolshoi Theatre. l had to
approach the character with disre-
gard for the theatrical stamps that
had long become obsolete. In this
film Ivan the Terrible" is not an
old man, as he usually is pictured in
plays and drawings-he is about
forty years old. Contrast betwe~-
unlimited power and utter lone'i-
ness is the most striking feature in
the creation of this character. To-
gether with this, Ivan the Terrible
is far-sighted proprietor, mer-
chant haggling for every penny
when selling flax to foreign trad
ers. And during the whole life of
Ivan the Terrible brutalized des-
potic power borders with the an
guish of dull-and unhealthy soli-
tude. Having made clear to myself
the character of Ivan the Terrible.
| had to reproduce it on the screen.
GAS dramatic artist playing for
the screen only the fourth time I
encountered the same obstacles that
every dramatic artist has to over
come. Here the motto of Stanislav-
sky, Maximum Of internal. mini
mum of external was of great help
to me as no doubt it has been to
the majority of the Moscow Art
Theatre players. 1t is motto which
should be adopted by every movie
actor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
HUGE EARNINGS
FOR STEEL TRUST
(BA United Press

Bethlehem Steel Corporation in
the second quarter of this year
earned $1.50 a share on common
stock, compared with "a cents a
share in the preceding quarter, the
company reported recently The
regular dividend of $1.75 was de-
clared en- preferred stock, payable
October l to stockholders of record
September /. No action was taken
on common stock dividends.
Net income for the quarter ended
June 80 amounted to $4,529,328
after interest, federal taxes, depre-
citation and depletion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

that Christ is their leader, that the
Steel Helmets must wear the cross.
The Steel Helmets listened atten-
lively with their hands on their
daggers. When the imaginative
preacher pictured for them what a
fine figure Christ would make car
rying the battle-axe on a steel he'll
met, they burst into applause.
Will it never occur to a religious
diplomat to protest this use of re-
ligion? The members of the work
ing class know only too well the
meaning implied by the figure of
Christ bearing a battle-axe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
FOLR WORKERS INJURED

MALTA. July 81 (UP).-An Eng
fish second officer, Scottish cadet
and four shore workers were in
jured yesterday by an explosion
aboard the Scottish steamer African,
enroute from Venice to Danzig with
q cargo of Polish coal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

$147,738,211 IN U. S. TREASURY
WASHINGTON, July 27 (UP)-
The treasury net balance for July
"a was $147,73s,211.54. Customs
receipts this month to July &c were
S34,234,25
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
APPOINT COMMISSIONER

WASHINGTON, July 81 (UP).-
Appointment of Harvey V. Rohrer
of Seattle as assistant trade COM
missioner at Manila was announced
yesterday by the department of
commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

Horn" will be filmed on the original
settings of the story. the jungles of
Africa, has been made by Metro.
An expedition will leave California
in the near future, bound for West
Africa, where the perturbation of
this book will be made. w. S. Van
Dyke will direct.
Lionel Barrymore will have fea-
tured role in Lon Chaney's new
rring vehicle, "West of Zanzi-
r." This film will be directed by
Tod Browning. Mary Nolan, the
heroine of "Sorrell and Son" will
have the chief feminine role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

Beginning today the 18th Street
Playhouse will present Greta Carlo
and Werner Kraus in "Streets of
Sorrow" directed by G. w. Pabst.
This film will play on Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. From Tues
day through Friday, the Playhouse
will show Ernst Lubitsch's Forbid
den Paradise" with Pola Negri
Adolphe Menjou and Rod La
Beau Broadway" a new Metro
picture, co-starring Lew Cody and
Aileen Pringle, comes to the Capitol
Theatre today. The stody was writ
ten by Malcolm ST. Clair who also
directed it.
Announcement tha Grader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

Announcement that Grader
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-31
INFANTRY CAVALRY BATTLE
TO BE FIRST CLASS CARD

Lit. r. c. Andrews, in charge of the
boxing program to be staged at
Camp Harry j. Jones on Sunday
afternoon reported yesterday that his
men are all ready for the fights
They are to be pitted against the
champions of the 10th cavalry in the
various weight classes from light rc
light heavy.
fThe card will be staged at the
newly arranged stadium just west OF
the camp hospital and will start
promptly at 2:30. NO lineup Tor the
battles could be announced yesterday
as the men from the cavalry outfit
had not arrived and it was not known
here what fighters would be among
those in the excursion.
The cavalry wrecking crew IS ex-
pected early today for final workout
on the canvass where they will fight
tomorrow so that the names and
pedigrees of the fighters will be
listed for the benefit of the fans
The fights will be good. This is
guaranteed by the backing of each
man who enters the ring by his
regiment. None of them will fake
a fight or throw fight and the
card will be for the championship
of the military district OF Arizona i'll
each weight class
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-31
ECDOP &c Baseball Basketball, Boxing Golf Q D ORP T
Racing, Wrestinq Tennis, Etc ~ 0SAN-
|TY COBB CLEANS
UP ON MARKET
But WILL PLAY

NEW YORK, March 80 R9-Stories
that stock market on a base steal
ing rampage had enriched Ty Cobb
100000 and combined with reluctant
legs to bring about his retirement from
baseball were declared premature by
the Georgia Peach at his Augusta
home today
The holder Of more baseball records
than any other player makes it clear
that he still has enlisted with the
Philadelphia Athletics for the dura-
ton of the 1923 campaign and expects
to rejoin the White Elephants next
week.
Awaiting continued favorable reac-
ton Of Mrs. Cobb to minor opera
ton, Ty repeated that he had given
assurances to Manager Connie Mack
that he would play another year and
was prepared for his oath season un-
der the big top of baseball.
Cobb has. seen General Motors and
Coca Cola go up before when he was
riding with them and much of his
substantial fortune is believed to have
been amaSsed in baSe-hitting stocks.
The Georgian's legs are not SO Spry
as they were a decade ago, but they
still will carry him reasonably close to
where he wishes to 60
The players emphatic denial that
he has discarded his cleated baseball
shoes as part of his useful equipment
indicates that he will break some more
records in 1928. He does not even
have to get a base hit or steal base
to make new baseball mark. Every
time he goes to bat he makes record.
Connie Mack expects Cobb to prove
of great value to the Athletics and
will give him the right field assignment
with several younger men available.
Last season Ty hit .357 and finished
fifth in the American league.
He had determined in the winter
season to retire but was persuaded by
Manager Mack to play one more
year." Ty says he will go through
with his contract, and he should know.
Nevertheless it tired Ty starting
out on his oath year as a major
Lacquer The years have made him
weary of baseball and its travelling far
from home The games first playing
millionaire does not need the money,
and he has begun to fear he may
break his legs along with the records,
but he is still willing to take the
chance.
When he retires for good, it will be
for the good of opposing pitchers who
have been giving cheers as word came
of his exit, only to recall them when
Ty says mot yet"