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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
By MARTIN MORIARTY.

1T was still dark just before seven
o'clock and the blue lights that
cast no shadows but made blue-lip-
ped ghosts out of the punch pres
sers cleaned in the windows of the
plant. At seven two men swung
open the big iron gates, and the
group of unemployed strolling up
and down the sidewalk stopped for
a moment to watch the gates open.
FORD was busy. The new model
had arrived.
1t was cold and the wind blew
from the Detroit river. The job
hunters rubbed their ears, stuffed
lunches under their arms and thrust
their red hands deep into their coat
pockets. They listened to the dreary
whistle of the ships siren on the
river "Yeah, heard they were
hiring this morning"
A few workmen passed the gates
and the unemployed looked envious.
The crowds got bigger. At 7.16,
they were pressing through the en-
trance, the men throwing open their
coats to exhibit numbered badges to
the gatemen. The guards watched.
At first they had time to catch fleet
ing visions of tired faces above
numbered badges. Then the street
cars, iammed tight with workmen,
pulled up at the end of the car line
near the gates, and the gatemen
saw only numbers on shining metal
against a background of greasy
cloth 939, 954, 967, s06-"Hey,
where's va badge? No, you amt
goin' through here. March right
back and get it."
Sitting on unfinished car seats
and the benches overlooking the
river, youngsters of 10 wise-cracked
bald-headed veterans of the curtain
department. They talked about the
local vaudeville, the prospects of
more overtime and the women 4. /.
"Sure, we'll go there Friday"
In the shop, full of shining black
cloth and electric sewing machines,
the voices of 9S1, 997, 873 .
sounded strange and irreverent, as
homogeneous as the slaughter of leg
show girls on the altar of church.
Maybe it was a church, preaching a
religion of production, dedicated to
the manufacture Of curtains, altar
cloths of the Ford, where the wor-
shippers prayed, prayed hard with
their hands, prayed without ceasing
at the lrine Of the new model
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
The Coming British Elections
BY Fred Ellis

various liberal leaders is going on.
Although big increase is certain.
no one really believes in the "abso-
lutte majority"
The Communist Party is holding
its conference in November and is
preparing the first big test<for its
new policy in the municipal elections
the same month, when undoubtedly,
many seats will be won. Twenty
candidates are now in the field for
the parliamentary elections next
year, and the successful Party fight
at Aberdeen when 2,618 votes were
polled and the Communist came
ahead of the liberal, has proved that
big support awaits them.
Aberdeen also showed that no real
test of it's strength can be made so
long as the Party is confined by or
ganizational weaknesses to a limited
number of constituencies. The Cen
eral Election can only be General
Rehearsal for the Communist Party.
whose real Importance will be felt
at the election following that. The
most important result of Aberdeen
was that where formerly there were
10 Party members, there are now
60, and the independent fight of the
Party is undoubtedly going to build
up it's membership III the coming
years of political instability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08

challenges the programme at ALL
willsnot do so on fundamental is
sues.
1t is unlikely that the question of
collaboration with the liberals will
be discussed at the conference, but
it will be in all minds. Snowden is
the chief protagonist of the liberal
supported labor government on a
strictly liberal programme. He has
dropped the surtax entirely out of
his financial policy for the future
labor government and openly states
the labor government will look for
revenue to death duties, income tax
and land values, the three pillars of
the liberal administration from 1906
1915. Snowden is making a deliber-
ate bid for the premiership and
would undoubtedly be the man most
acceptable to the liberals.
Openly, the labor leaders are talk
ing of an absolute majority" at the
election. Secretly there is no doubt
that a great deal of intriguing with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
The Jobless Wait and Hope in the Cold and
River Wind

A handful of men followed the
clerks to the office. The others
watched for the next call. Ed left
the lines and tried the staff office.
He saw the personnel man. No, they
had nothing open for production
clerks. They usually gave those jobs
to the men who worked in the shop.
He would have to see Mr.. Reidy in
the office near the main gate for a
job in the shop. The personnel man
gave Eda pass to get through the
main gate He answered few ques-
tions. He was hired Jesus, it
took ten minutes to dope out all that
again. He could see the time clock
as he took more strips.
He was one of four on a bench.
Every Is minutes they were given
strips of black cloth about four feet
long. Four fasteners had to be fixed
in the strips. They inserted the four
pointed fasteners, reversed the strip,
fitted the points in covering plates
and clinched them by covering the
plates with a little punch and hit
ting the punch with a hammer.
The boys bent their heads over the
strips. You could dawdle over each
for full minute and half if you
were sure,a shop-bull wasn't watch
ing. But from 7.30 to IL, and from
1890 to 7 1.-TWO hours overtime--the
new modeD the bench was a tumble
Of fasteners and strips and strong
fingers. Push in fasteners, reverse
cloth, "Hey, Mac, take look at the
clock when you get chance y,
fix plates ;. whats that? Jesus
Christ, the times going slow, gimme
the punch" :. one, two, three, four
punches and the strips fixed.
"Say kid, this is the softest job
I ever bad and va don't getcha hands
greasy either"
Sometimes Ed got moved to long
bench alongside the windows where
you could see the rum-runners' boats
cutting across the river. You could
sing to yourself on the job, too, and
for novelty hit the punch with the
hammer rhythmically and keep time
with the tune. 1t took three minutes
to sing "Pie in the Sky" and that
wasn't bad song. Sing it twice,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
By w. M. HOLMES (London)

With the beginning of the autumn,
all parties are furiously pushing
ahead their preparations for the
general election in May or June, and
we are entering phase of intense
political activity.
National conferences of conserva-
tives, Liberals and Labor are shortly
to take place and will lay down the
plan sof campaign for the election.
The conservative party is likely to
be exclusively concerned at its con-
ference with the thorny question of
safeguarding industry, very strong
minority being in favor of the wild
est extension of this scarcely yelled
form of protection.
Tactics.
The liberals will be chiefly exer-
cised on the question of their tactics
after the election, for no one ex-
poets them to do much better than
hold their present position, with per-
haps the addition of a few seats in
rural constituencies. With them.
therefore, the question of whether or
not their support shall be given to
a conservative or labor government
is of first class Importance. There
seems little doubt that the left wing
of the party, whose views are ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08

AT 725 the straw boss took out his
"A watch and looked restless. He
had been a sergeant in the British
army for Fl years, and still retained
the military scowl. He compared
the times of his watch and the time
clock critically.
One minute before the half hour
the first bell rang. The men jumped
off the benches and walked to their
stations. Strips of cloth were in,
serted in the sewing machines.
Shears were thrown on the table.
Cushion workers spit out chewing
tobacco and grabbed handful of
tacks. They put the tacks, in the
mouth and with the tip of the tongue
pushed few out onto the head of
magnetized hammer. The shop
sweeper reached for his broom -
when the clock licked the half hour
it was necessary for every move
ment to be a productive movement.
The bell rang. The straw boss pull
led the SWITCH. and 200 electric need
les stabbed out the stitches on 200
strips of cloth one, press pedal,
two, pedal, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine :. chalk up first
ten, front curtains, roadster model.
The punch press banged little metal
buttons into square strips of cloth,
rear curtains, touring model. Ham
mers clinked, hitting punches, fixing
fasteners in front curtains. Cushion
workers reached for the second
mouthful of tacks. Ford was busy
The new model had arrived.
WHEN the machines started Ed
F" Vallin began his second day in
the curtain department. In the shop
he had no drag. He was new
conner to the town, and didn't belong
to the Knights Of Columbus or the
Orange Lodge. But he'd had a good
break, and got a job just before they
stopped hiring :.
Five hundred men had stood in
line opposite the gates. Two clerks
Games out of the office. Punch
pressers, sewing machinists, cushion
workers" "Sure, I'm a sewing
machinistl"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
Ford Is Busy" Speed, Speed, More Speed

and you got six minutes. Three
songs, repeated, every 20 minutes.
And if you sang in slow time you
could get surprised by the quitting
bell at noon before you were thru
with the chorus.
Or you could count the strips
slowly. One, fix fasteners i. two
!. % meant half an hour. Look
hard at the black strip and forget
about the river and the guy working
next to you. Look hard at the bright
fasteners and wonder how long they
would keep that shine after the car
was in use. Stare at the black strip
and forget about counting. Kill three
minutes and go to the toilet on the
other side of the shop. 1t was a
pleasant walk.
"Hey, you took three minutes over
that last strip. If you wanna stay
in Ford's you'll have to work faster
than that"
He looked up and saw the military
scowl.
A SYMPHONY Of footing car horns
IA and ferry boat sirens and clinking
dinner pals greeted 938, 976, 954 /.
as they left the gates. On the OPP
posite side of the road was vacant
lot, parked with flivvers, belonging
to the firmly established citizens of
the border cities who worked in the
plant. Some waited for the street
car or walked across the railroad
tracks, passed the "You Have Seen
Ford City-Watch Us Grow" sign
and boarded the bus.
The others walked. There was no
talk as they trudged up the Walker
vile Road, dinner pals swinging
rhythmically to the beat of heavy
shoes scrunching on the snow. They
would get home, scrape their shoes
carefully outside the rear entrance,
and flop on the couch in the kitchen
for Is minutes before the wife hust-
led them down the basement to wash.
Then they would eat, losing them
selves in the Border Cities Star"
while the woman made fruitless at
tempts to tell them how they paid
the taxes in the morning, the strug-
giles Of the "Mick" family next door,
not one of whose members had been
able to locate steady job in the
Ford or any other plant since their
arrival from Glasgow slum two
years ago, and to ask them about the
chances Of getting boardwalk fixet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
Communist Party Puts 20 Candidates i'm Field
for Big Test
for Big Test

pressed in the influential "Manches-
ter Guardian" are the majority
Whether they will be able to win
over the party machine and fund.-
which are firmly in the hands OF
Lloyd George is a matter for some
doubt.
The Labor Party Conference at
Birmingham is to be concerned ex-
clusively with its programme, to
which no amendments are allowed
The l. l.. P is to move the reference
back of certain sections, but it is
unlikely that they will press the
matter to vote and in any case
they would be certain of heavy de-
feat.
SOlidly to Right.
The conference will be solidly to
the right and it is doubtful whether
any revolutionary voice will succeed
in getting heard. The opposition of
Maxton will be confined to the limits
of the l. L. P. fraction, and if it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
A M A N w AS KILLED
By NICHOLAS TARNOwSKY

CITdnst1ted from the UErdln1dn)
A man was killed.
This news l found today
In the columns of a-bulky paper,
Hidden away in a corner
Of page twenty-four.
He was coming from work
To wife and children
With dreams of decent living
But under car wheels
He went into oblivion. .
A man was killed
| read in type so SMALL
In a papers most obscure corner
And on the front page:
Society leaders dog
Sick from overlooking,
And nursed by doctors" !. E.
And the whole big page
Articles, articles about the dog,
And dogs picture in plentyl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
rom the sidewalk to the entrance Of

from the sidewalk to the entrance Of
the house before the spring thaw. -
The pages Of the Border Cities
STAR rustled "Yeah, they laid
off hundred in the assembly shop
today. We may be on four day
week-temporarily, one of the time
keepers told us. After the elections,
he said, the whole plant would be
kinda busy. Lots of overtime, after
the. elections :. What's that? No,
guess, we'll stay home tonight
figured on going to bed early.
The alarm clock rang at 6.15. At
twenty-five after the wife listened
for signs Of life in the bed room.
"Jim, the coffee's gettir~ cold, it's
twenty-five after !. ""
Christ, I'm tired -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

Wellington Rankin has been accused of
attempting to arouse prejudice against cor
porate interests in the state. In his speech,
opening the campaign, at Glacier Park, he
made it very plain that he was for giving
our big corporations just and fair treat
ment. lie praised their worth and the i'm
portant part they play in our economic life
and protested only their political activities
asserting that if they would withdraw from
political affairs the people would accord
them just treatment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

Spinacll-2nd, AlDertina MOller,
Daglnar.
Peas-1st, Mrs. Carl Wollen, Out
look; End, Mrs. Aage Andreaseui
Medicine Lake; 3rd, Mrs. Ole Boz
Dagmar.
Beets list, Mrs. A. w. Marsh
Plentywood; End, Mrs. NJ. E. Larsen
Reserve; Srd, A. NJ. Thumberg, Re
serve.
Corn-1st, Mrs. Feter Feldt, West
by; End, Jcns Olsen, Dagmar; Srd
Mrs. Bernau, Antelope.
Yellow Beans-1st, Mrs. Emil Han
SEN; End, A. T. Larsen, Antelope; Sd
Albertina Moller, Dagmar.
Green Beans-1st, Albertina Mol
er, Dagmar; End, Mrs. C. A. Hedges
Plentywood; 3rd, Mrs. Geo. Buzzard
Outlook.
Tomatoes Albertina Mollel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

stillmaker, Westby; End, Mrs. Chas.
King, Plentywood; Bird, vince CyDui-
ski, Plentywood.
Crab Apple Jelly-Mrs. ). /: Cor
nelius, Redstone; End, Mrs. A. +.
Barnes; 3rd, Mrs. Hans Rasmussen,
Plentywood.
Currant Jelly-1st, Mrs. G. M.
Thumbery, Reserve; End, Mrs. Chas.
Grant, Outlook; 3rd, Albertina Mol
Ter, Dagmar.
Barnes, Redtone; End, Mrs. A. W.
Marsh, Plentywood; 3rd, MRS. Chas.
Grant, Outlook.
Wild Plum Jelly-1st, Mrs. A. F.
Barnes, Redstone; End, Mrs. George
Wheeler, Plentywood; 9rd, Mrs. Al
bert Engelke, Homestead.
Gooseberry Jelly-Mrs. Chas.
Grant, Outlook; End, Mrs. J: II.
Thorsen, Antelope; 3rd, Mrs. Peter
Feldt, Westby.
Pork-1st, A. t. Larsen, Antelope;
End, Mrs. CA. Hedges, Plentywood.
Beef-1st, Mrs. VIM. Hess, Ante
lope; End, Mrs. Chas. Grant, Out
/, look
Carrots-1st, Mrs. G. w. Marsh
: City; End, Mrs. Plambeck, Antelope;
3rd, Mrs. Chas. Grant.
Oatmeal and Rocks-1st. Mrs. Us
/ car Wagnild, Outlook; End, Mrs
Nels Olsen, Outlook; 3rd, Mrs. Der
nau, Antelope.
Sugar Cookies-1st, Albertina Mol
+ len, Dagmar; End, Mrs. A. K. McKen
zie, Medicine Lake; 3rd, Mrs. Bake
l. we'll, Medicine Lake.
/. Girger Cookies-1st, Mrs. c. K
n, Mckenzie, MeilciIe Lake; End, Mrs
Bernau, fA0telore; 3rd, Mrs. OSca
n Wagnild, Outlook.
n. Jelly Roll-1st, Albertina Mollel
d Dagmar; End, Mrs. c. w. Peterson
n. Plentywood; 3rd, Vince Cybulsk
r. Plentywood.
- Yellow Sponge Cake-1st, Mrs. A
,. Rehmer, Antelope; End, Mrs. Me-
j Olsen, Outlook; 9rd, Alice Peterson
Westby.
r. Angel Food-1st, Mrs. P. Cornell
.. us, Redstone; End, Mrs. Zimmerman
Plentywood; 3rd, Mrs. Geo. Wheele
IS. Plentywood
81 q, White Fruit Cake-2nd, Mrs. F.
Spoklie, Westby.
N Cake DoUghnuts-1st, Mrs. Ra
Sc nnussen, Plentywood; End, Mrs. Bak
70 well, Medicine Lake; Bird, Mrs. Ne
70. Olsen. Outlook.
N Raised Dougnnuts-2nd, Mrs. Bak
N well. Medicine Lake.
White Bread-Mrs. o. M. Johnso
Doulcy, End, Mrs. T. Thorstvs
> Raymond; 3rd, Mrs. Ole Void, On
w look.
W. Dark Bread-1st, Mrs. J. ]. Nc
an gan, Archer; End, Mrs. T. ThorS
no. .vedt, Raymond; 3rd, Mrs. Rasmusse
,ao Plentywood.
= Plain Rolls-1st, Mrs. Bakewe
~ Medicine Lake; End, Mrs. C. X. N
Kenzie, Medicine Lake; 3rd, Mrs.
cd K. Larsh, Antelope.
Fancy Rolls-1st, Mrs. Peter Hol
rit- Westby.
An Filled Cookies-1st, Mrs. w.
Stillman, Westby; End and Bird, NJ
on: Bernau, Antelope.
Ike; Cococanut Macaroon-2nd, Mrs.
. P. Palubickl, PlentywoOd.
AIS Nut Cake--2nd, Sue Clark, Al
lope.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

Wellington Rankin is saying and proving
that Governor J. E. Erickson has failed to
keep his pledge, made to the people in
1924. He is quoting the identical language
used by Erickson and then showing that
in three and one-half years he spent S12,-
600, 025.76-a yearly average Of S3,6O2,O07-
76- that if he had kept his pledge the Ov-
erdraft would be 1857, 978. 51-instead of
S3,O65, on June 80, 1928. These fig
ures have been verified by the State Audi
tor and State Public Accountant.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

Dagmar; End, Mrs. Chas. Grant, Out
look; 3rd, Mrs. A. T. Larsen, Ante
lope.
Black Cherry-1st, Mrs. Nels Oh
sen, Outlook; End, Mrs. Geo. Lund,
Reserve; 3rd, Mrs. Nels Olsen, Out
look.
Gooseberries-1st, A. N. Olsen,
Dagmar; End, Mrs. Chas. Grant, Out
look.
Peaches-1st, A. w. Marsh, Plen-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

They talk about his "erratic" qualities,
abou this youth, his excess of zeal, aggres-
siveness and ambition as though they
were vices rather than virtues. They re-
fer in a deprecating way to his youth, but
hesitate to go so far as to say that he is
inexperienced.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

That is why Governor Erickson is talk
ing generalities; advocating the election Of
Al Smith and Sen. r. x. Wheeler. The
economic history Of the state for four years
7ast Is unpleasant history. Rankin is Civ
ing facts while the opposition talks about
his youth, his ambition and the college
from which he graduated. On the record
alone Rankin deserves your vote.
circulated by Republican State Central
Committee.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

tywood; End, Mrs. D. NJ 49,
Redstone. NJ Machines
Pears-1st, Mrs. A. Rebmar ;,
tywood; End, Svend Peteranleer Plen.
mar; Ord, M. A. Madsen. I Pns.oD Dag
Blue Plums-1st, ]. ? Tpps s9.r,e.
PlentywOod; End, Mrs N J. p Palubicki,
KedstOne; Bird, NJ. A. Mad 4. L0uGks,
RnuOar0-lst, Mrs. Peter 60.
CONTINUED on page Seven, ''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

The following is a complete list of
the prize winners at the Sheridan
County Fair held in Plentywood Oc-
tober 10-11-12.
Community Booth-1st place, Dag,
mar, silver cup.
All Pigs = Sow: list, Kenneth
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

So far the opposition has utterly failed
to bring forth any chrage against Rankin
that would have the slightest considera-
ton with discerning voters. His career
gives no valid ground for an attack that
would carry weight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

He is for road program that shall speed
up and maintain lateral as well as trunk
highway construction in every part of the
state and the construction of well built gra-
vel roads before hard surface links are at
tempted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

lie is careful, alert, honest, experienced;
he has fine vision Of the states present
and future needs. He will not go to sleep
ON til ejOb. He will be the Governor, un-
hampered, Embossed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

His platform is forward-looling. He IA
vors the establishment of more grain lab
oratories, the maintenance of schools and
colleges of the state on an efficient basis,
tn liberalization of the compensation laws
for worEmen-and, most important of all,
for an independent state government, To-
Gated at the capitol at Helena.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

He has been elected to the position Of
Attorney General, appointed Associate
Justic eof the Supreme Court, appointed
United States District Attorney and in
every one of these positions he has per-
formed cvreditably, capably.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-26

The campaign of the democratic news
papers against Wellington Rankin has de-
scended to silly small talk.
Evening star., 1928-12-03

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Evening star., 1928-12-03
OFFICES AND STUDIOS.

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THERE ARE FEW OUTSIDE OFFICES
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Evening star., 1928-12-03
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