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Evening star., 1928-02-29

Members Of National University Chap
ter Sigma Nh Phi. national legal fra
ternity. will hold a smoker tonight at
the chapter house. 1855 @ street. DR.
Charles r. PcrElcr. dean Of the school
of economics and government Of Ma
tional University. Will give short talk
on international law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
BIG PROGRAM AT
DEFENSE affair
Workers of All Trades
to Attend Carnival

The huge sports carnival and JAM
boree Of the Joint Defense in Star
light Park next Saturday will be a
demonstration of solidarity on the
part of the militant workers of New
York with their comrades among the
cloakmakers, furriers and dressmak-
ers who have been framed up by the
bosses in cooperation with the right
wing
Workers Of all trades will gather
to view exhibitions by hundreds Of
the leading worlingclass athletes of
the city. The program includes pa
rade OF all the athletes, boxing,
wrestling, gymnastics, pyramids, o
moonlight swimming contest, fancy
diving, soccer games and music by the
Hungarian Symphony Orchestra.
The organizations that will take
part will include the Scandinavian
Workers Athletic Club, the Greek
American Athletic Club, the Workers
Gynnastic and Sports Alliance, the
Metropolitan Womsn's Soccer League,
the Bronx Workers Gymnastic Club
and the Young Pioneers.
The admission will be so cents and
all the proceeds will go for the de-
Tense of the nine needle trades work.
ers who have been sentenced to serve
from two and half to five years for
strike activity,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
KILL 81 MEXICO
REACTIONARIES
Federals Rout Counter
Revolutionaries

MEXICO CITY, June 29.-Twenty-
six Observation-Disclosures have been
killed and an unknown number wound
ed in fighting which took place be-
tween government and counter-revo-
lutionary forces at Mulita in the state
of Guanajuato. The battle lasted
three hours.
Five of the counter-revolutionists
were captured and executed by a
drimhead court martial Immediately.
The federal troops are reported to
be pursuing the counter-revolutionary
fugitives. No federal casualties are
reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
OUTWIT POLICE;
HOLD MILL MEET
IN FALL RIVER
Paid Hall Closed, 5000
Meet on Open Lot

FALL RIVER, Mass, June 29.-
Despite elaborate preparations by
the police force here to prevent the
Textile Mills Committee from hold
ing mass meeting of the textile
workers, a successful meeting at
tended by about 5000 workers was
held yesterday under the joint aus
pieces of the Textile Mill Committee
and the American Civil Liberties
Union.
The meeting was held on an open
lot after the owner of the largest
hall in town, the Casino, had refused
to open his doors to the assembled
workers because of police intimida-
ton, despite the fact that contract
for the hall had been signed and was
in the possession of the sponsors of
the meeting.
Led by James Ried, organizer of
the 7. M. c. here, and by representa-
tives of the American Civil Liberties
Union, the thousands of workers
were led from the hall to the lot
that had been prepared beforehand,
thus catching the police completely
eff their guard.
After an Introductory speech by
the Civil Liberties Union speaker,
Rev. Smith o. Baxter gave a talk in
which he declared the meeting a free
sneech fight and turned it over to the
Mills Committee chairman, Ried. AL
bert Weisbord, head of the National
T. NJ. c., a Portuguese speaker and
Ried then conducted the meeting to
a successful conclusion before the
city authorities had time to decide to
break it up.
Every mention by the speakers of
the necessity of the Fall River work
ers to begin struggle to regain the
wage cuts they had suffered, by join
ing the general strike of the New
Bedford workers was met with the
greatest enthusiasm.
Toward the end of the meeting
hundreds attending the meeting
surged forward to stand in line and
wait till they were signed up as
members of the Textile Mills Com
mittee unit.
The union leaders announced that
another mass meeting would be held
in the same lot, which can accommo-
date 7,C00, on Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
HIGH DEATH Rate
In AUTO INDUSTRY
Toll Heavy Because Of
Speed-Up
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
big scale industries, the council says:
Apparently the increased seri-
BUSINESS of accidents during the last
few years has been the direct result
Of the increased intensity of indus
trial activity during that period.
There are, however, forces inherent
in mechanization itself and in the
consequent speeding up of industry
which have direct tendency to in
crease the seriousness of accidents"
Earlier government figures place
the average annual accident rate in
the auto industry as 315 for every
10000 workers. This means that
about one worker in 30 is injured.
at least to the extent of causing re-
corded temporary disability, every
year. This figure includes about
three deaths. 40 permanent disabii-
ties and 272 temporary disabilities
for every 10000 workers annually.
In addition there are the almost
daily minor injuries, small cuts and
bruises that are patched up in com
Pany first aid stations and hospitals.
A student who worked in the
Chrysler plant last summer found
that despite all safety rules, "the
number Of minor accidents such as
splinters, scratches, bumps, ETC., is
alarmingly large. Even those ex-
perienced in their speeded work grow
careless or suffer because of a defect
in material or equipment" This
student estimated that there is at
least one cut per worker per day and
that the dangers of infection are
very great because of the materials
they are required to handle.
Employers are interested in acct
dent prevention purely from the
standpoint of production. AS the
safety director of the General Mo
tors Co. puts it: "Our increased pro-
duction has paid for all our safety
work and it has done lot more-it
is about time we got at it. Other
wise we will have more stringent
laws"
The labor movement, in other
words, might secure legislation that
would raise the compensation rates,
thus interfering with profits. The
employers safety movement, though
often saturated with humanitarian
phrases, is basically an outgrowth of
labor's struggle for compensation
measures. 1t is sustained in the fear
that labor may become more power
full and secure more legislation
harmful to company profits.
Workers in many Detroit plants
complain that accidents are due to
speed-up methods employed which
render caution and care almost i'm
possible. 1t is also observed that the
largest percentage of accidents oc
cur in the last hour, or hours, of
work, thus indicating the influence of
the long working day--or working
night--on the accident rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
textile STRIKERS
TO MARCH today
Will Parade in Spite of
Police Threats
Continued on Page Taool


was held last night by the Textile
Mills Committee in the union head
quarters. More than five hundred
Polish workers attended. Turnout
the entire duration of the meeting,
and especially after it was adjourned
scores of Polish strikers swarmed
around the committee signing up new
members of the Textile Workers
Union of the Textile Mill Committee.
Despite the special Polish organizers
imported by the A. F. of L. union
they have never as yet succeeded in
holding so large a meeting. M. Pele-
Ear spoke in Polish after the Textile
Mill Committee leaders and addressed
the meeting.
Police Sergeant Mccarthy yester-
day morning tried to halt the eff
fectiveness with which the picket
ing is now being done. After the
lines from the North and South End
had converged, strikers began form
ing in double file, to start a picket
march to other mills. This attempt
OF the police failed, however, when
the workers continued to march. The
police are seeking to stop the march
ers by declaring the picket lines a
parade"
A. Gensalves, one of the picket
leaders ordered to break up the
parade" was arrested later on a
special warrant issued against him
This is the fourth time he has been
placed under charges of "peace dis
turbance."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
Fiesta For Mine Relief
PlannedBy Spanish Club

The recently organized Pro-Miners'
Relief Committee Of the Spanish
Workers Club Of New York City has
arranged q tea-party for Saturday
evening. Tho party will be held at
tho club rooms, IS West 18th st.
Workers and their wives have been
invited to attend this fiesta, which
according to all present indications.
win be boomerang"
Although no charge will be made
at tho door, all those attending have
been urged to donate whatever they
can TO tho cause of the striking
miners, which is also the cause of
tbs entire American working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
Form Textile Research
Institute For u. S. S. r.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-An in
stitute for textile research has been
established in the Soviet Union, ac-
cording to information made public
by the Soviet Information Bureau
here.
All state colleges will place their
laboratories at the disposal of the
Institute during the time special re-
search laboratories are built for them
Every phase Of cloth making, from
vegetable, animal and chemical fibres
down to the manufactured piece of
clothing, will be Investigated and inn
proved on by the institute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
Jefferson City
Shoe Workers
Go on Strike

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, June 29
The strike at the Tweedie Footwear
Corporation factory here was in full
swing last night when the striking
workers issued a statement to the
effect that they would continue their
struggle until the company agrees to
meet their demands.
The workers went out on strike
when new clock system was installed
at the local factory last week. When
they learned that the new system
would reduce their wages from So to
Sc each week.. a storm of protest
arose. At a meeting held the same
evening, the workers voted unani-
mously to demand the reinstallation
of the former system. When their
demand was refused the next morning,
they went on strike.
The same day a statement appear
ed in the Daily Capital News, the
Jefferson City business-controlle pa
per, signed by w. R. Tweedie, vice
president of the corporation, asking
every loyal employee to return to
work" This failed to have any effect
on the determination and morale of
the striking workers.
The next day the following notice
appeared, occupying quarter page
in the paper: Factory jobs open; an
opportunity for those who want good
steady jobs making shoes at good
prices. Inexperienced and experience
ed apply now at Tweedie Footwear
Corporation" 1t was signed by W.
Wheeler, Superintendent of the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
MORE CHARGES
AGAINST porter
Forced to Shovel Coal
10 Hours a Day

Continued from Page One)
terday in his cell at Fort Adams
prison, Newport, R. I. Crouch re-
ports that Porter reiterates his stand
in admitting his desertion, though he
regrets not having stayed in the
army to convince other soldiers that
the army was the greatest enemy of
the working class.
Confiscate Check
Porter is a member of the Young
Workers (Communist) League, and
a check sent him by the Boston dis
trict of the League for organization
work was confiscated by the army
czars.
Isaac Shorr, retained for Porter's
defense by the international Labor
Defense is preparing the case for
when he comes before the court mar
tial scheduled for next week. Por-
ter's jailers refuse to give the check
either to him, or back to the League
1t is believed that they intend to use
it as evidence in the trial
Crouch reports that conditions in
the prison are extremely bad, but
are many times worse for Porter, He
is compelled to work 10 hours a.day
for seven days a week shoveling coal.
The mother sister and sweetheart
Of Porter visited him in his cell in
prison yesterday. Though they came
from New Bedford especially for
this purpose, they were permitted to
see him for only ten minutes with
on officer standing watch over them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30

Child labor has its problems, too
for the efficient. up-to-the-minute
mill superintendent. Just how tc
make the kids produce has engaged
the study Of one cotton mill manager
who. yelled under the initials, K. Q. b.,
gives the benefits Of his researches
into speeding up Juvenile workers to
readers OF Textile World, standard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
NOBLE ART OF EXPLOITING CHILDREN
Textile Barous Perfect Technique OF Sweating Child SLAVES

trade paper. In an article entitled
Management Of Operatives, he sug-
gests:
ut requires a great deal of diplo-
macy on the part of the spinning
room oyerseer to bring all his help
up to the same standards of eff
cheney, due to the fact that most of
them are children. Children do NOT
respond to the requirements of svs-
tematic work as readily as grown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30

ups; and as they have a will of their
own and want to set their own stand
ard they are not SO easy to train to
obey orders.
"They have to be constantly
watched or they will go from bad to
worse in order to make more time
for play or rest. The overseer should
never give up until he gets them to
where they will give him a good days
work with a minimum of trouble"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
JOIN WITH CLASS
MANUF ACTURER IN
HOLDUP OF TRADE
Get $500 to $4,000 From
Hundreds of Firms

Especial To The DAILY WORKER
CHICAGO, June pa million
dollar a year union official and en-
ployer graft combination was dis
closed here yesterday when the fed
eral grand jury indicted two glass
manufacturers and three officials of
the Chicago Giaziers' Union in a con-
spiracy to control the industry.
The graft deal which extended
over the entire glass manufacturing
and distributing trade in Chicago
and vicinity involved primarily
Charles Pheiffer, president of the
union, Timothy Rice, business agent,
and Frank C. Harris, one of the di-
rectors of the organization. How
many others are implicated has not
vet been disclosed.
On The employers side the princi-
pal figures are George H. Myers,
millionaire president of the George
Fl. Meyers Glass Company and an
officer Of the Illinois Glass Dealers
Association, Benjamin Beris, who is
also president Of the American Glass
Compan.'
High Finance.
While charged with conspiracy to
violate the Sherman Antitrust law,
these union officials and employers
are known to have participated in
much more direct manipulations than
is indicated by the charge.
Over a score of manufacturers
we're compelled to pay annual lump
sums each of from $500 to $4,000
yearly, for "strike insurance" and
premiums on being permitted to
manufacture their articles. In other
cases q bonus Of $25 was eXacted
from each dealer on every cabinet o.
similar article produced.
In addition over fifty wholesale
dealers in kitchen and bathroom sup
plies, and scores Of members of the
Illinois Glass Dealers Association
were compelled to pay correspond
ing tribute. Over a million dollars
year is believed to have been the
weld to the ring.
The refusal to install the products
prescribed by the ring or the failure
to pay tribute or "strike insurance"
p,fs met with the immediate calling
of strike by the union officials.
his method usually brought stub
tCrn employer to terms.
At tire same time the workers in
the trade are known to receive little
or no protection against discrimina-
ton by the bosses. They are gang
controlled and in many instances
work far below the union scale.
The exposures among the officials
of the Chicago unions are expected
to follow. 1t is known that corrup-
ton here as in other large cities, es-
pecially among the building trades
unions, is rife.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
CHILD LABOR IN N. Y.

Nearly $4,000 boys and girls under
16 years Of age were released from
full-time school attendance in New
York State end were granted employ
ment certificates during the year
ending August, 1926, according to
figures recently compiled by the New
York Child-Labor Committee in CO.
operation with the State Education
Department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30

Children of the Poor Make the Best of the wetern Heat

Photo shoes q
groatp of poor chill.
dren IN the city
making the best OF
the suoelteri,pg sam
mer heat. The Chill
dren of the poor can.
not go to the country
to escape the heat
thousands are forced
to share the fen
Fairgrounds rovi-
ded by the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-30
ARREST ALLEGED spy.

BERLIN, June 29.-Captain Lem
bourn, Danish army officer alleged
to be a French military spy, has
been arrested at the Danish border
and brought to Berlin for examina-
ton.
Evening star., 1928-10-07

GEORGE C. TYLER announces that
~ he has arranged with Gordon
Craig, son of the great Ellen Terry, who
Is acclaimed as the great English mas
ter of scene and pioneer in the modern
stagecraft, to present his production Of
Macbeth" in which Margaret Anglin
will be Lady Macbeth and Lyn Harding
viii appear in the role of Macbeth In
Philadelphia late in october.
Macbeth" will be Mr.. Cratg's first
production for the English-speaking
stage, his genius hitherto having found
its scope in the Continental theater,
notably in Scandinavia, Italy, Germany
and Russia.
Edward Gordon Craig was born in
1872, went on the stage in 1889, played
for eight years in Sir Henry Irving S
company, gave up acting in 1896, and
began the study of stage management.
In 1904 he produced Otway's Venice
Preserved" in the Lessing Theater, In
Berlin. In 1895 he designed and exc
cuted scenes and costumes for pro-
duction of Electra" for Nine. Duse,
end in 1906 he created for her pro-
0UCtion of IbsenS "RoSmerSholm" in
Florence
In 1908 he founded the Mask, a peri
odical devoted to the art of the theater
and published in Florence. This jour-
nal has abounded in his beautifully i'm
aglnative designs and drawings.
At the invitation of the directors OF
Evening star., 1928-10-07
Robinson CrusOe" Coming

Under direction of Mrs. Harriet
Hawley Locher, director of the public
service and educational department of
the Stanley Theaters of America, this
English-made feature will be shown on
days best suited to neighborhood audi
ences, which are Fridays and Satur-
days because of the liberty given school
children on week ends
Robinson Crusoe," first of the Fall
and Winter series of educational films,
VIII be shown at the following theaters
on the dates named: Ambassador and
Avenue Grand Theaters, october 6;
Apollo and Tivoli Theaters, october 13;
Colony ard Home Theaters, october 10,
and Chevy Chase and York, october 90.
This feature will be shown in con-
junction with the regular program of
those DAYS.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Notes of the Stage and Its People.

"Nobody's Girl" a musical show,
opens this week in Hartford, with Belle
Marvenga, Roy Cropper, John E.. Young
Nanette Flack and John Park.
The second production of the New
York Theater Guild this season viii be
wings Over Europe" from the Joint
Nichols It calls for an all-male cast
and will be put in rehearsal shortly
after that organization launches
Faust" which is promised for this
week.
Zelda Santley, known to vaudeville
audiences as Little Miss Everybody, "
is to have the leading feminine role in
1.-THE Squealer." This will mark her
first engagement on the legitimate
stage.
With the conclusion of their engage
ment in "Jarnegan" Richard Bennett
and his daughter Joan will forsake the
stage for the screen again. They have
been engaged by Warner Brothers to
appear in a talking picture, as yet not
selected
Sigmund Romberg is completing the
score for a new operetta, an adaptation
Of Three Poor Little Girls" Ger
man play by Hermann Feiner and
Bruno Hardt- Warden.
Lynn Harding and Basil Gill arrived
in New York last week, and George G.
Tyler will shortly start 'rehearsals of
Macbeth" The Gordon Craig designs
for the settings are already in the
scene painters hands.
The Actors Theater Group of New
York is searching for permanent the
ater for it's productions. The first pres
entation for the season, Exceeding
Small" by Caroline Francke, went into
rehearsal last week under the direc-
ton of Rachel Crothers. 1t opens at
New Rochelle the 18th of this month
Soon after the revival of 1.-THE Vel
low Jacket" on November 7, MIR. and
Evening star., 1928-10-07

Mrs. Charles Coburn will rehearse
"Falstaff," by James Plaisted Webber,
based on Shakespeare's topper, with mu-
sic by Porter Steele and lyrics by Brian
Hooker.
Rosalie Stewart presented "The
Final Fling" comedy by James
Forbes, in Atlantic City last week.
Harry Davenport, Hale Norcross and
Leo Stark are recent additions to Jane
Cowl's new vehicle, THE Jealous Moon,
which will have It's initial performance
in Baltimore october Is. 1t will prob
ably be seen in this city week later.
Danger" described as a mystery
thriller, by Tom Barry and Maurice
Marks. opened in Springdale last Friday
night. George Nash and John Marston
appeared in the featured roles. The
cast includes Isabel O'Madigan. Elaine
Temple, Leneta Lane and Pat O'Brien
Lew Cantor Is the producer.
Jealousy" Is not to be shelved after
ALL AL Woods, who gave the play q
tryout recently, announces that he has
placed John Halliday under contract to
play the other featured part With Fay
Banter. Mr.. Halliday played the lead
ing role In "The Spider"
"Congai," Helen Menken's new pro.
duction, sponsored by Sam H. Harris
will open in Philadelphia october %
Reuben Mamoulin, who staged "Porgy
and Marco Millions" last season, Is
staging "Congai," which will play the
smaller cities for several weeks before
attempting Broadway.
Recent news from London Is to the
effect that Good News" has become a
success over there, although its start
gave cause for doubt.
The tour of the Dempsey show, 1.-THE
Big Fight" will begin in Boston on Oc-
tober IS. Engagements will be limited
to three days In many cities, with one
week as the longest engagement.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
Gordon Craig $ "Macbeth''

the Moscow Art Theater, he visited
Russia in 1910, and being invited to
choose any play he might wish to pro-
duce, he selected Hamlet" which was
PLAYED more than 400 times.
His school for the art of the theater
in Florence was extinguished by the
World War. His most recent produc-
ton was Ibsen's THE Pretenders," at
the Royal Theater, Copenhagen, for
Johannes Poulsen, the great Danish
actor.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
WHERE was Robinson's Crusoe's

WHERE was Robinson's crusoe's
Island?
The question is as controversial as
that as to the locale of the bullrush
plantation where Moses was found,
In this and European countries there
are film producers concerned only with
producing films of an educational ma
ture, and obviously the premises on
which these pictures are based must be
undeniably authentic.
Tobago, in the British West Indies,
is settled upon by British producers as
the authentic locale of Robinson Cru
soe's adventures and in the vividly in
teresting picture, Robinson Crusoe,
which all Stanley-C -Crandall neighbor-
hood houses will shortly show, this set
ting is officially given.
Evening star., 1928-10-07

Authoritative announcement that the
Warner Brothers have acquired control
of the First National Picture Corpora
ton did not materialize, as promised
last Wednesday.