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New Britain herald., 1928-12-12
PASSED WORTHLESS CHECKS

Willimantic, Conn.,. Dec. F P)-- Raymond A. Jacobs. 23, of Stafford Springs, was bound over to superior court today on a charge of passing three worthless checks drawn by himself on q local bank. He had six other checks written out, the entire nine calling for $235. Jacobs represented himself as having been employed at Connecticut Agricultur- al college.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-12

However, before the start of the present season, it was whispered abroad that Ives was planning to sell as a result of a controversy he had had with the owners of the rink in Meriden.
 Under his management, the Ma rooms have won two championships in straight seasons and they are conceded an even chance to win again this season.
 Only one player was banished from the game in the Industrial league because of personal fouls last night and he met with that eX- perience a few minutes before the close of the last game.
 Last nights games were unusual ly clean. The Corbin Cabinet Lock team for instance, failed to make a personal foul through the first half and for two minutes in the second half.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-12
Speaking
 of Sports

Reports from Springfield. Mass. state that the Bees. an independent basketball team recently formed there, will play the Renaissance Five of New York. colored champion quintet of the world, there tonight. Both quintets are familiar to New Britain basketball fans.
 The colored five is we'll known here. 'Cappy" Kicks, Jenkins. Har- old Mayors. George Fiall, Eyre Saith, Hillin Slocum and Walt1r Sanders. A report earlier made that Sanders has left the team, has been denied.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-12
FOOTBALL Is THE CHOICE

Thirty-nine of the 45 players or the Florida university football squad voted football as their favorite sport. The six other votes were divided on basketball, baseball and swimming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Boss
Stole Job for
LiquoyGlver
(By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich, (By MaiD i'm
Dept. 7, metal polish, of the Turnsed
Manufacturing Co., on the night shift,
the foreman is known as "Ben Alias
Whitley" He seems to have an UNI
quenchable thirst for liquor, and per-
mits this condition to determine his
relationship with those coming under
his jurisdiction. The workers fearing
the stability of their employment to
be of short duration seek to protect
their interests by supplying Ben with
liquor and thereby winning his ia
vor. The number of such workers is
seven but the system is rapidly ex-
banding.
A young worker spent ten hours
time on a banana handle for the
Chevrolet car, but the job required
more time before it was completed.
The same young worker because of
sickness was unable to report for
work the following two nights and
upon his return found that his job
was missing. Upon investigation he
learned that Ben has taken the job
and given it to one of his favorites
(who was keeping him supplied with
alcohoD who finished it in one hour
and one quarter and upon Ben's ad-
wise claimed credit for the whole job.
This eliminated the young worker
from all credit Consequently the
young worker who was so brazenly
cheated of his toll went to the gen
eral foreman, Charlie Moore, and pre-
sented his grievances. The solution
and adjustment made by Moore was
to split credit for the job equally
between the two.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
KELLOGG URGED
TO BLOCK LOAN
N. Y. Bankers Ready to
Hand Rumania Cash

WASHINGTON, March 26 (FP).-
Representative Emanuel Celler of
New York, in a letter to Secretary
of State Kellogg has challenged KEEL
logg to make good his professions of
sympathy with the pogrom victims in
Rumania by blocking the S60,000,oO
loan to Rumania which New York
bankers, headed by Blair & Co. now
propose to grant.
Celler informs Kellogg that the
Federal Reserve Bank in New York
is expected to join in the so-called
sterilization loan to ''this most
bureaucratic and most madiaeval gov
eminent in Europe" He reminds
Kellogg that the state department
urged the Chase National Bank not
to expedite loan to Soviet Russia
on the ground that the United States
government opposes the Soviet form
of government and the Soviet policy
of attempting to "subvert"t Amer
lean government.
Atrocities Cited.
"Rumania, running true to it's his
tory" Celler wrote, "has made of it.
self, as result of pogroms and mas
sacres of minority populations DUR
ing the last few years, a pariah
among nations. We, in America,
stood aghast at the recent atrocities
at Observation-Disclosures which we
thought the postwar treaties had
ended forever"
He quoted from Secretary Hays
threatening letter to Rumania in 1902
under similar conditions of massacre
and said that Kellogg had replied to
a protest year ago by claiming that
the Versailles Treaty made Rumania
responsible in these matters to the
League of Nations. Celler concluded
that America could not thus evade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Unemployed IN
delbhia
Elect Council
by c Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By MaiD
"A very successful meeting of the
unemployed of this city was held to-
day at 531 N. 7th St. About one
hundred and fifty people crowded
into the small hall and listened at
tentively to the speakers, Geo. D
Evans and Mike Toohey, who were
among those arrested several weeks
ago for attempting to hold such a
meeting.
Fully half of those present were
Negroes, and practically every one
registered as member of the unem-
ployed council, and an executive COM
mittee of fifteen was chosen to work
out plans for the council and call
future meetings.
DAILY WORKERS were distribu-
ted free Of charge and the local agent
made an appeal to the audience to
support this paper as far as they
were able, it being the only one in
this country that expresses their
class interests.
Several policemen and plainclothes
men were present but made no dis
turbance in spite of the fact that
no permit for the meeting had been
applied for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
SAvACELY TREAT
MEN AT BANANA
PIER; NO union
Called Mussolini Dock
Conditions Are so Bad
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

by Worker CorreSpoadent.)
Pier 26, East River, is known along
the waterfront as 'Mussolini's dock"
1t is called so because the labor con-
ditions on this dock are worse than
on any other pier in the city. The
workers are savagely exploited.
All workers are hired twenty
minutes before working time. Most
workers start work before schedule
For this they are not paid.
The foremen and others in charge
are strong guys" The workers are
not allowed even a minutes rest.
Smoking is prohibited and it is for
hidden to go to the toilet during work.
ing time. Eight hours at a stretch
constitute a days work. No time is
allowed for lunch. Those workers
who happen to have sandwiches with
them have to hide and eat them in
some corner. Those who have no
sandwiches have to eat bananas, since
they are not allowed to go out and
buy something to eat.
If any worker should happen to go
to the lavatory during working hours,
he has his check taken away from
him. He is not paid for his work.
Sometimes worker loses as much
as five hours in this way.
When you protest against these in
human conditions you are beaten up
by the company thugs a la fascist.
If you complain to a cop, he tells
you that it is not his business and
ignores you. The police ignore all
complaints which are made by the
workers. These cops get many
presents" from the pier owners. The
police never embarrass the dock
owners.
This dock is non-union. To better
conditions we must organize into a
union.
"A BANANA CARRIER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27

ORA MA
Cd r A MAJ
REINHARDT CALLS GEAR
IVAN BEST PRODUCTION

THE Sovkino film, Gear Ivan The
Terrible" starring Leonidoff and
the Moscow Art Players, which is
now in it's third week at the Cameo
Thec.re for it's first New York run,
is continuing to receive high praise
from prominent personages. Max
Reinhardt, who saw the film at an ad-
vance showing, writes:
'In my opinion, Gear Ivan the
Terrible ranks high among the best
motion pictures of our times. In
pictorial effectiveness, histrionic
power and compelling truth of char
acterization it has hardly ever been
equally. The historic perspective is ex-
traordinary, the handling or the tempo
may we'll serve as a model. Arts
tically, technically and culturally 1t is
instructive in the best sense of the
word. Anyone deeply concerned in
the progress Of screen art beyond
mere entertainment must hope that
this work of art will not fail of its eff
feet on account of the somber colors
which are implicit in its theme. His
tory has given this car the Dynamo
of "The Terrible" and thereby has
passed a judgment which cannot be
seriously revised by subsequent en-
bellishments."
European critics and the press on
the continent did much to bring the
film before the general public. Here
are two items of enthusiastic praise:
'In Gear Ivan The Terrible our
Soviet brothers again show how re-
markable can be their art of the cine
ma. Where their 'Potemkin' proved
them the greatest masters in work
ing with mass effects and mass
rhythm, Ivan The Terrible shows
their supreme ability to create sharp
pointed individual personalities
against background of authentic and
intense atmosphere" So writes Rote
Fahne, of Berlin, of the Sovkino pro-
duction.
Not only has the radical press of
Europe hailed this important motion
picture, which possesses the unfor-
gettable portrait of Gear Ivan by the
great Leonidoff, but the conservative
press as well has acclaimed this as
one of the greatest pictures of all
times and one which reaches the
peaks of the art founded by "Potem-
kim"
L'Humanite of Paris writes: "'Czar
Ivan The Terrible evokes. with rare
power the significant traits of the
tragic and barbarous atmosphere of
the Russia of the sixteenth century.
The dramatic sequence is presented
with a rhythmic expression and the
amazing scenes project with vigor-
Gus sincerity the life and time of Ivan
The Terrible"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
TAXIDRIvER IS
TERRORIzED BY
new YORK COPS
Police "Ste al" Days
Earnings in Fines
(By a Worker Correspondent

Seeing that you have been print
ing stories from taxidrivers | think
1 can take a chance to write one too.
In the first place I got to put in
II hours day to make 5 to 6 dol
lars day. l have to work every
day, Sundays and holidays included
And when I go home I always think
that l went too early, that I could
have made a little more. But have
a family and they need my attention
a little anyhow.
Three years ago there were 10000
taxis in the city. Now there are
10000. How can we expect to make
a living? The cab companies can put
up as many cabs as they want to,
in order to compete with each other
and because so many workers are out
of work they can always get enough
help and exploit them to the limit,
of course. The companies never lose.
It's always the drivers who get
"gypped.V
This is in reference to one of our
enemies, the companies. And now |
want to say something about another
rotten enemy, and that is the police.
After working for hours like hell,
for no reason at all we get a ticket
and there goes our days wages and
sometimes two and three days wages.
Imagine how we feel then? We're
always worried about customers, and
when we get them, we got to pay
every cent to the police.
There is never a day in which l
would not like to spit in cops face.
l wouldn't mind paying the fine. I'd
even borrow money to pay just for
satisfaction's sake. But you know
how it is. I'd loose my license,
wouldn't have any means to make a
living So what can do? At any
rate I want you to know that our
worst enemy is the police. For the
least little thing, most often for no
reason at all, we get in an argument
and if we open our mouths, there
goes the ticket.
6TAXT"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
COTTON GROWERS
EESLAvE:W ERS.
IN CALF ORNIA
Keep Serfs Unorganized
With Race Hatreds
(By a Worker Correspondent

RIPLEY, Calf, (By MaiD.-The
condition of the agricultural workers,
share-croppers and tenant farmers, in
the cotton belts of California is any
thing but ideal. The Tightening of the
money market this year has hurled
many of the small proprietors into the
ranks of the landless and dispos-
sessed.
''Glorified Over Seers"
Much of the land is farmed by the
absentee landlord system, the agents
or lessees being interested in squeez-
ing the tenants and securing a maxi
mum of return for minimum Of
outlay. Even where the landlord him
self is in residence he usually drives
the tenant and his family like slaves
since his land is mortgaged up to the
last dollar of it's value and the land
lord is little more than a glorified
overseer.
Much of this land was originally
filed upon in quarter section blocks by
small proprietors seeking a home in
"the land of the free" 1t is all
desert land and must be irrigated to
be of any value. Therefore in order
to secure water, the farmer has
mortgaged his land. Hence a poor
dirt-farmer who originally possessed
land, but no water, now owns water
rights, but no land. And ownership
of land is more and more becoming
concentrated in the hands of few
big landholders and mortgage holders,
who resell it to the young hopefuls.
Share-Cropping.
IS Since there is practically nothing to
do after the cotton is picked, the
worker with a family is almost forced
into share-cropping proposition or
starvation stares him in the face. He
pits his pitifully small savings and
the labor of his entire family against
the landlords land
The tenants savings are usually
exhausted about May or June and
from then on, until October he is on
the frayed edge of semi-starvation
For the western landlord, unlike his
southern brother, refuses to furnish"
the tenant. These tenants are I'M
organized, have no protective organi-
cations, and must fight as in
dividuals.
These deplorable conditions are due
in part to the fact that a majority
of western cotton tenants are whites,
coming from the south who absolutely
refuse to have anything to do with
Mexican or Negro tenants. Many
white cotton-pickers even refuse to
pick in the same fields with Negoes.
The landlords are quick to take ad-
vantage of this situation, as it keeps
the poorest elements of the popula-
ton in competition with each other
for jobs and a chance to enter the
slavery of share-cropping. Both the
Negroes and the whites from the
south are more race-conscious than
class conscious. The owners are
thoroughly class conscious.
JOHN H. OWENS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
SOCIALISTS EAT IN
SCAB CAFETERIA
Refuse Food Workers
Aid in Organizing
by a Worker Correspondent. }

The Roy Cafeteria is located at
East Broadway and Rutgers St., New
York City. The cafeteria is non
union. The conditions in this place
are very bad. The workers work be-
tween eleven and twelve hours per
day. Sometimes they even work a
few hours extra without any pay. A
week consists of six working days.
In case it's busy the workers have to
speed up.
This concern is near the Forwards
building and it is patronized by many
socialists, who claim to be good
union men. When you tell any of
these gentlemen that the place is non
union, if they don't ignore you en-
tirely, their usual reply is, mind your
own business" Among them are or
ganizers and intellectuals and other
high shots" of the S. P. Some OF
the Strong guys" who beat up pro-
gressive workers are recruited in this
place.
Sometime ago the Amalgamated
Food Workers asked these socialist
gentlemen for support in unionizing
the place. They replied that they
had no use for the Amalgamated be-
cause it is "too radical"
This is how socialists who claim to
be good union men help to organize
labor by patronizing non-union con-
Germs. All progressive workers
should expose them as labor fakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Won't Re-enter League

RIO DE JANEIRO, March &c. -
Brazil will probably never resume
full activity in the League of Ma
tons, it is stated here in regards to
the non-committal reply sent by the
Rrsilian government 70 the leagues
appeal for renewal of league men,
tership by the Latin-American re-
public President LUZ has said that
he opposes any change in policy dur
ing his administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Broadway Briefs

The Theatre Guild will shortly place
in rehearsal a play by Sil-Vara, a
Viennese critic and journalist, tenta-
lively called playing With Love-"
Richard Bennett will play a leading
role and Robert Milton will direct the
play. This will be the sixth and final
production of the Guilds current
season.
Sam Lowett has accepted for inn
mediate production, "The Alimoniacs,"
new play by Daniel N. Rubin, author
of "The Night Duel" and Women
Go On Forever"
John Golden and Edgar Selwyn are
planning a new play for production
entitled ely By-Night." 1t will make
its first appearance in Atlantic City
April 2. "Fly-By-Night" is written
by Kenyon Nicholson and John Golden
and the cast is headed by Thomas
Mitchell.
Robert Barrat, recently with
Francine Larrlmore in Chicago" has
joined "a Lady for a Night" the new
Chamberlain Brown production now in
rehearsal.
Helen Chandler, now playing in
"The Silent House," will play the role
of Regina in "Ghosts" at the Ibsen
memorial performance, to be held this
Sunday at the Martin Beck Theatre.
"a Most Immoral Lady" is the title
of a comedy written by Townsend
Martin which has just been bought
by Brady, and Wiman.
Tuesday evening at Carnegie Hall
a special concert for the benefit of the
Musical Department of the American
Academy in Rome and of the National
Music League will be given. The pro-
gram, which represents six nations,
will be interpreted by the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra under five
conductors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Porto Rico Appeals

WASHINGTON, (FP) March 26.
Porto Rico's legislature has cabled
the Porto Rican Commissioner in Con-
gress another appeal that commit
tee of Congress hold open hearings
on the political, economic, and social
conditions in that island which need
immediate remedy. President Cool
idge recently rejected a like appeal
to himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27

her responsibility, especially when by
control of financial favors she can
readily force the Bratianu dictator
ship at Bucharest to mend it's ways.
Minister Creziano, Celler declared
is mere shadow" while the die
tator is the substance. Disapproval
no matter how harsh, has never dent
ed the intolerance of the Rumanian
ruler. Coercion alone has protected
minorit;es against butchery in that
country. Accordingly, Celler urged
Kellogg to pay no attention to prom
Uses made by Cretziano, but to shut
off this loan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Bricks Fly in Harvard
After Negro Debate

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March %
Debating with Negroes can be
classed as an extra-hazardous oc-
cupation within the purlieus of dear
old Harvard. Bricks, bearing Ku
Klux Khan notes, were heaved through
the windows of the Harvard Liberal
Club for allowing a debate with Lin
coin University's Negro team.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
Only Candidate" Wins
Portuguese Elections

LISBON, Portugal, March 20
General Antonio Carmona, sole ''offi-
cial' candidate for the presidency of
Portugal has been reelected to that
office in an easy victory. Carmona
seized control of the government in
1926 by a military coup.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
The Shay Week

PHILADELPHIA. March 26-
From Boston to Washington the 5-day
week is being fought for and won by
union building trades workers. Four
teen trades in Baltimore, ranging
from carpenters and cement finishers
to sheet metal workers and steam
filters already have the short work
week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
TO DISCUSS IMPERIALISM.

WASHINGTON, March &c. = I'M
perialism will be one of the questions
discussed at the eighth national con-
vention of the National League of
Women Voters to be held in Chicago
April % to %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
IMPROVE TELEvISION.

Radio engineers have recently
pointed out that television, because
of the tremendous progress it has
been making, viii be within a year as
common a convenience as radio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
REED DRUMS UP TRADE.

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
second phase of Senator James A.
Reeds campaign for the democratic
presidential nomination got under way
today with Reeds departure on an
other speaking tour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
POLICEMAN AS KIDNAPPER

Charles johnson, formerly a bicycle
patrolman in Brooklyn has been ar
rested charged with kidnapping Agnes
Rawl, II, on April 30, 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-27

Sam Lowett has accepted for inn
mediate production, ''The Alimoniacs,"
a new play by Daniel N. Rubin, author
of "The Night Duel" and Women
Go On Forever"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-31

Hugh. Stevenson, pastor OF the
Bethany Church, Rhode Island
Avenue and Second st. N. w,
has approved the plan calling for
the erection of a community CEN
ter on church property at cost of
$50. 900. The Rev. M. j. Riordan,
of st. Martins Catholic Church,
announced an upper church above
the present basement structure
would be built within the next two
years at North Capitol and I SITS.
N. W., at a cost of $4,000.
The Episcopal Church of the
Advent, Second and u SITS. N. W..
will seek a new site and building,
due to overcrowding and the Luth-
eran Church of the Atonement,
North Capitol St. and Rhode Island
Ave-, will erect a new $2OO,O0O
structure
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-31
NEW CHURCHES
| To Be BUILT

A community development cam
raign. involving the outlay of $780,
600, was announced last night
by six pastors of Bloomingdale
churches, who addressed the North
Capitol Citizens Association in the
United Brethren Memorial Church,
North Capitol and r SITS. N. w.
Three new churches are included
IN the building project. The Rev.