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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-31
The WOman's Day

Following in the wake of the s.
year-old cigar-puffing prodigy and
Yu Vawn Something or Other who
said, Eat, eat. eat!' at the tender
age of week more or less, comes
Lillian Mae Gaze, 5, of Evansville,
Ind. who can play on the piano any
piece which she hears. It's funny
how notoriety given one prodigy re-
suits in = perfect epidemic of 'em.
II there's one thing a parent can't
stand it is having its child's light
hid under a bushel.
IS SHE "AVERAGE WOMAN?"
One hundred and ninety-nine club
women Of Pennsylvania recently
filled out a blank designed to show
what sort of women the middle-class
American woman was. Right at
the start, something seems wrong.
|, for one. am not utterly convinced
that a states club woman would be
representative of that states mid
die class" Still they might be.
NOT ALARMING
The 1876 married women had 374
children, just two each and a few
over. Twenty-seven of the number
had continued some form of outside
employment since their marriage;
lbs kept house and 152 owned their
own homes: 100 owned and drove
cars; 1873 had gardens; only Is
smoked; l29 called themselves "te-
totalers"; only 6 admitted to playing
cards for money; lag favored censor
ship Of movies. All in all, it doesn't
look IS II all the modern woman
alarmists knew just what they were
talking about.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-31

ENDS SLEuTHING CAREER
London. July 31-"The Nemesis
Of the Toughs" has retired from
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

The fellow worth while is the man with a smile when his garter comes down in the mid- dle of the aisle.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24
TRANSFORMATION.

Today never knows what to- morrow will bring. This is an adage peculiarly applicable to this day and age. Never were conditions in general so topsy- turvy and so subject to change without notice. The progress of evolution has assumed the pro- portions of revolution. Change was formerly likened to the hour hand of the clock-there is a continuous movement but it is imperceptible to the hu- man eye. But today change is comparable with the second hand. All are sensible to the changes going on in the world today.
 Only a few years ago the gen eral aspect of the average com nnunity changed little from year to year. Then the erection of a new building was an event. In this up-and-going age the average community is a foreign land to the old resident who has been sojourning elsewhere for five years. A building is a boom no more unless it is a matter of millions.
 Every village and town should have a set of before-and-after bird's-eye views. They are a sure-cure for communal dis satisfaction. While the com munity is changing constantly, it takes a decade to effect a complete transformation. So a photograph of Main Street of today placed side by side with a photograph of Main Street of ten years hence will afford that startling but satisfying contrast which reassures the booster and knocks the props out from under the omnipres- ent malcontents. Millionaires begin as market boys and mess engers. Great cities grow out of a general store and a church.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

Male: A person who thinks he is a great help around the house because he doesn't leave
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

constitutional amendments, or
 made obedient to the predict ions" of goosebone weather prophets.
 There have been times when one has hoped the amateur forecasters had guessed it right, and this is one of them if their predictions are for an early spring and long, hot sum- mer.
 Wherever March is the peri cd of transition between cold and warm weather, the state of the weather and the pros poets for an early spring and long summer are the most inn portant topics of daily discus sion. Even Wall Street is deep ly concerned with every pass ing sign of spring. It hopes for warm days likely to speed up business, and it is certain that after the hardships of winter prices of speculative securities will rise with the warming sun.
 When spring comes, the farm CT buys his seed, fertilizers and machinery; people begin to think of new and larger ward robes; automobiles are in de- mand; housekeeping suggests new furniture; building con- struction and other kinds of outdoor work receive a new impetus. Together they make the wheels of industry turn faster, keep the stores busy, in- crease railroad freight load ings, lessen unemployment and increase the national wealth.
 As lawmakers have no means of meddling with the weather, the weather seems always to adjust itself to a just and fa- miliar average over long per iods and to be fixed by natural conditions. This fact and the fact that for several years spring has been tardy and sum- mer below par lead one to ex- pect an early spring and a real old-fashioned summer this year.
 A good March toast should in- clude a there's to" for just enough rain for the crops and not too much to spoil vacation pleasures.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

The man who isn't sure of his ground will take water every time.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

An open mind is all right, says Eddie Haddon, if you know when to close your mouth.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

 An open mind is all right, says Eddie Haddon, if you know when to close your mouth. Many a woman regrets that she didn't have the training of her husband from the time he was a child.
 Usher (to cold dignified lady): "Are you a friend of the groom?"
 The Lady: Indeed, no! I am the brides mother"
 No man has a right to make fool of himself unless he is without relatives or friends. Some people won't like talk
  ing movies-too much compe- tition on reading the sub titles. Automatc traffic signals are hardly a success. They cannot express an opinion of the driv- CT who disregards them. Bride (after wedding) :: "Did l appear nervous during the ceremony, Clara?"
 Bridesmaid: "A little at first. dear, but not liter George had said, 'Yes'."
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24
:. THE ETERNAL TOPIC.

Mankind is not grateful for all kinds of weather, but it is grateful that it cannot be reg ulated by law, or altered by
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24
Just for Fun

Little girls are punished for making faces. But not when they grow up!
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

As to the much-praised ant, he doesn't produce. Anybody could enjoy industry if it con sisted in taking
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24


 man with a smile when his garter comes down in the mid- dle of the aisle.
 One of the advantages of be- ing a free born American citi- zen, says Oren F., is that when you want to do anything you can go right ahead without asking anybody-except your wife, the police, your boss, your life insurance company, your doctor, and the neighbors.
 People who live in summer suits should go south for the winter.
 Mary" admonished the hard-pressed Hyder husband as he eyed the milliner's bill, Eff you can't learn to pass a hat, I'll soon have to-"
 With drug stores multiplying as fast as corner groceries, that schoolgirl complexion seems likely to decorate little sister for a generation or so.
 "The up-to-date girl does not cry" says a critic. No: Look at the price of face powder!
 1948 Mother: Say, didn't give you permission to go around the world last week. You'll be going to Mars for dates at this rate. For a month now, you can't go farther than Paris for 8 weekend"
 Only one thing you can tell by some watches is what time it isn't.
 Speaking of typographical er- TOT, we ran across this one the other day, Newspaper Pants for Sale" The man who isn't sure of his ground will take water every time. Male: A person who thinks he is a great help around the | house because he doesn't leave
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

It is computed that man has made some 32,647,Ss9 laws. And has not yet managed to improve on the Ten Command ments.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

his towels on the bathroom floor.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

Kill time and it will send back ghosts of poverty to haunt you.
Hyder weekly herald., 1928-03-24

Many a woman talks to her. self while her husband is pres ent but she does not suspect it..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
FARMERS LOSE HEAyu.y

OPHEIM, Mont, Aug. S.-Heavy
losses by farmers southwest Of
Opheim and Glentana are reported.
This is due to the recent severe hail
storm in these vicinities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Man, Wife Get 2 Years
for InterRace Marriage

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 8.-Mott
Hamilton Wood and his wife, Mary,
are serving two years in the Vir-
GINA State Penitentiary 70 violation
of the Virginia Racial Integrity
Law" At the time or their
marriage Wood himself did not
know that he had trace of Negro
blood" and that according to the
Virginia authorities it was a terri
BILE crime for him to marry one 100
per cent white.
Wood appears white, has straight
hair and blush gray eyes. He lost
both legs while working on the Nor
folk and Western Railway.
Prisoner No. 1880, in other words
Mary Wood, victim of legalized
southern prejudice, has been i'll
much Of the time since her i'm
prisonment ten months ago.
Governor Byrd, who recently
visited the prison, listened to the
story of this outrage, but made no
comment, except to ask if Wood had
received credit for the time spent
in Jail while awaiting trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

would not have the 44-hour week
if it were not for this strike six
years ago. And we know that long
work days mean more product piling
up, and more layoffs.
DAILY" Worries Bosses.
Already we see the bosses in the
National Biscuit Company becom-
ing very much worried over the dis
tribution of the Daily Worker
and the lectures, which the Workers
Party is holding every week. Dur
ing the last weeks lecture, just out
side the factory, all the bosses were
walking nervously around near the
windows, listening and looking pale
The manager of the factory paced
from window to window like wolf
in cage. That shows they know
what union means for the workers,
and they are watching every mo-
tion toward forwarding an organi-
cation that would prevent the bosses
from having their way all the time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
72 Hours for 1888
Per Week in South

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. s.
Cottonseed oil mill workers, most of
whom are Negroes; have been re-
ceiving miserable pay for long
hours work, it is gathered from the
report of survey of a number of
mills made by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Department of La
Dor for 1927.
The workers have been working
~ hours a day on the average,
which makes a total of 72 working
hours per week since they work six
days per week. Extremely lower
and out of proportion with the
amount of working hours the work
ers received only $15.53 per week
wages.
No additional pay to the regular
rate was given for overtime work in
all mills with but three exceptions
The workers comprised three
groups. They were Negroes, who
numbered 1913; Mexicans, 1873 in
number and 1852 whites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
I'll. Working Women
Denounce Imperialist
War at Federation Meet

CHICAGO, H., Aug. THE
Chicago Federation of Working
Women's Organizations held a sue
cessful anti-war meeting Saturday
in North West Hall. This was the
first of a series of meetings that
are being arranged for the coming
season where working class prob
lens will be discussed.
Edith Rudquist the organizer of
the federation was the principal
speaker. She outlined the causes of
imperialist war, told of the propa-
ganda machinery that is being pre-
pared to lure and misinform the
workers of the true nature of the
struggles, and the impossibility of
peace under capitalism. She said
that the programmes of the Women's
Peace Society, and kindred pacifist
organizations were mere nonsense
because they appeal on humani-
tartan basis and forget that the
causes for war lies in the class basis
of capitalist society.
Urge Aid For Miners.
Ida Rothstein told Of her expert
ences in the Southern Illinois coal
fields, and urged intensive work for
the relief Of the miners. Anna David
spoke on the coming elections and
the roll of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, urging all to partici-
pate and to vote for the working
class candidates on the Workers
(Comunist) Party ticket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Boiler Company
Conditions Are
Vile; Pay Lou
by Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. ]. (By
MaiD The conditions at this
Prospect Boiler Company is of
the worst type to be found in this
section. Besides working ten
long hours per day, some times
more, the workers here make all
types of tanks, gasoline, water
and oil burners, stacks, breech-
ings and chutes; all kinds of
welding and repairing, some out
of-town jobs, for which the work
ers who are assigned to do this
kind of work very seldom gets
paid for it, unless he fights for
it. He doesn't even get extra
time. Several workers got
cheated this way already.
The workers here, especially
the boilermaker helpers, get only
40 to As cents per hour and the
boilermakers (only a few get
rs cents per hour. The machine
welders get from so to go cents
an hour.
The company does not have
sufficient supplies Of tools to
work with.
Here sanitary conditions are
also very bad. The lavatory is
very filthy; the, wash basin is
unfit to wash in; no towels are
furnished or soap for washing.
Besides there are no lockers to
put their clothes in for over night
or for period Of day.
This company is so greedy for
their profits that the workers
are compelled to chip in among
themselves to have ice for drink
ing.
Recently this company laid off
more than half of their force and
practically all the night shift.
When in full swing there are
usually about 40 workers en-
ployed here. The reason for lay
ing off, the officials claim, is that
the company lost 80 per cent. of
orders from steady customers
and too much production of tanks
laying around the yard now.
HARNOID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Foster and Gitlow

As the candidates of the Workers (CommunsD Party
stand for the emancipation of the proetarat from the
slavery of capitalism from the horrors of imperiast
war, unemployment and poverty work and vote for
Communism Read The DAILY WORKER Read the
National Platform of the Workers (Communis) Party
Write for it to the National Election Campaign Commit
tee, AZ East 125th Street. New York City, Ten cents
copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
SILK BOSSES PAY
Is CENTS AN HOUR
Girls Get l Cent Less;
40 IL Hour Week

HOPEWELL, Va. (FP).-Tubize
Artificial Silk Company, with its
huge mill at Hopewell, Va, CAPT
talized at S10,000,O00, is paying its
men spinners and twisters % cents
an hour. They work in alternating
shifts each week, from 7 a. M, to 8
p. M, and then from II p. M. to 7
a. m. At one time spinners were
paid for overtime, but now they get
their straight % cents for all Sun
day and overtime labor.
S11.SS a Week.
Girls working in the finishing
room, beating ont artificial silk,
classifying It and putting it into
models get one cent less than the
men spinners. At 25 cents an hour,
their 401a-hour week brings in
$118S.
The girls get their jobs through
answering ads in the farm journals.
Down from the hills and back coun-
try they come, utterly ignorant OF
industrial life, unaware of unionism
and unable to bargain with the boss
even on an individual basis. They
get rooms in the company dormitory
for So week. There they are su-
pervised and spied upon by a com
pany matron. Morals is the excuse
for this spying, but a girl who talks
unionism and gets caught at it loses
her job without delay. Lights go
out at 10 p m. in the company and
a girl has as much control over her
private life as child of three.
Company Stores.
Rent and meal tickets are de-
Quoted from the weekly checks. The
new girl worker gets no money at
all for two weeks, the company
holding back one week. All payment
is by check, never by cash. The
checks are good at the company
store, where the girls are required
either to buy some goods or pay a
fee for the privilege Of getting hard
cash for their piece of paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
UNION NEEDED BY
NABISCO LABOR
Action Must Be Taken
Against Speed-up
By Worker Correspondent

Nablsco workers are beginning to
discuss the problem of organizing.
The distribution every Wednesday
OF Daily Workers before the entran-
ces to the factory and the speeches
every week have aroused the inter
est of the workers.
Your correspondent heard some
OF the workers recently arguing that
it is impossible to organize the
National Biscuit Company workers
because "our work is not trade.
and If we walk out, the company
will easily be able to replace u.s..
Year to Learn Speed-up.
However, in every such discus
sion, others are ready to point out
that the biscuit company worker is
not so easily replaced. We all know
that a woman must take six months
to learn packing, and learning the
speed-up rate the company requires
will take year.
: The dough mixers also need no
less experience than the oven men.
Then there are many other jobs
around the shop which are morgan
lied, even though they belong to
what are usually called the skilled
trades; we have carpenters, machin-
lists, drivers, painters, electricians,
etc. working in our midst.
Strike Won in Ten Minutes.
In every such discussion, too,
some workers will remind the others
of the unorganized but successful
strike of the girls in the Sixteenth
Street factory in September, 1922.
This strike won the half day Satur-
day, within ten minutes. The bos-
SEES were afraid to let the strike
spread, and granted the demands
before the strikers reached the door
on the way out. 1t shows the bos-
ses' fear of general strike. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

HANdOuTS

Fifty school children listened to
an address Of Park Commissioner
Walter Herrick and then went
through Central Park picking up
paper and banana peels. These are
excellent tactics for Tamany Hall.
Persuade the kids they're having
a lot of fun and then add a score
of,names to the padded payroll for
park cleaning and pocket the differ
cnce.
Everybody knows that capitalist
newspaper editor will relinquish his
honor for four column ad. James
B. Sheridan, of St. Louis, power
trust propaganda, told the Federal
Trade Commission about newspaper
editors who handed over their honor
and never got the ads. He was
speaking of the editors of country
newspapers and referred to them as
Goods Fools" Th& used power
trust propaganda and kept out pro-
tests against boosted power rates on
the promise of getting ads which
never arrived It's getting so a capt.
talist editor will have to Have a Gus
toner slip the money under the
door before he opens it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
LAUNDRY WORK
is HARD GRIND
Twenty Thousand Now
Unorganized
~ q Worker Correspondentl

by q Worker Correspondent
Over twenty thousand workers
are today working in the laundry
industry under the most inhuman
conditions imaginable. While the
owners are making millions of dol
lars annual profit from their wage
slaves, the workers are virtually
starving.
The workers put in 10 to IA hours
of strenuous toll per day, sometimes
sixteen, with an irregular period of
twenty minutes for lunch. It is
estimated that each worker handles
about five tons of clothes per day
Poor Quarters
Most all of the plants are located
in old dilapidated buildings which
need renovating; there are few
windows, usually small; many of
the pants are located in cellars and
when one enters he needs to be
careful for fear of humping his
head against the ceiling. Almost
in all, without exception, the floors
Of the laundries are flooded with
water, six inches deep, ard the
workers must wear rubber boots
and rubber aprons. They also have
to be very careful that they do not
poison their hands and bodies from
the chemicals and blues that they
put in the washing of the clothes.
The average wages Of the laun-
dry workers ranges from 50 to $50
per week. Many workers are not
given a full weeks work, but are
only put on when the place is over
burdened with work, usually during
the beginning Of the week.
Women Exploited
The girls and women who work
in the mangle room have to stay in
rooms poorly ventilated, with very
few windows and where the humid
ity reads 81, with temperature as
high as 105 degrees Farenheit.
Almost every worker is suffering
from one or more of the industrial
diseases due to the long hours, high
humidity and temperature, damp
ness, diseased clothing and lint dust,
which affects the lungs and nos
trils.
From many medical examinations
Of the laundry workers it has been
found that almost every worker suf-
fers from high blood pressure, due
to the strenuous work, long hours
and unsanitary conditions.
Widows, Minors.
The greater percentage of these
workers are Negroes and married
women who have TO work anu help
their husbands support their fam
lilies Many of these women are
widows and have to support their
children on the starvation wages.
Besides the intense exploitation
Of these wage slaves, the laundry
bosses hire professional thugs and
sluggers to terrorize the workers.
Many d case has been reported of
workers taken up in a room and
slugged into insensibility
A. L. SUSkIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
MINE
is UNINSPECTED
ASDEATHLOOMS
Reveal Collaboration"
as Murder
a. q Worker Correspondentl

POWHATTAN, 0. (By Mail).-
The Powhattan Mining Company
some time ago imported 375 Negro
strikebreakers from all parts of the
country for the purpose of operat-
ing the mine open shop. These men
were brought in by Paul Arcal, who
received $50 for the use of his
truck and 81 a head.
The scabs have not been very
civil to the native population. espe-
cially when they discovered that the
city authorities would protect them
in every way. This is the time when
strikers have no rights. There have
been nightly brawls in which the
police were SUPP osed to step in, but
they did not do so. On the con-
trary, strikebreaker attacked two
young girls, but the case was dis
missed.
The scabs were told by the wife
Of one of the militant miners that
they would receive protection for
the time being, but later they would
see what would happen.
Now it is happening. The same
Paul Arcal is now trying to circu-
late a petition among the foreign
born miners in which they are to
demand that the scabs are to be
sent out of the city. This the for
eign-born miners refuse to do. They
say that Arcal brought them in.
and now he can get them out again.
The .Powhattan mine has taken
back its men, but on the following
basis: Each man is required to buy
d share of stock costing $500. They
have been checked off five dollars
each pay until lately. Now the men
do not know whether they are be-
ing checked off, or what they are
earning altogether. They have to
accept the pay that is given them,
and they do not know whether they
are being paid 4, or dollars a
day. They only know that they get
so and so much pay, and that is all
there is to it. Whether it is on the
cooperative basis Of 60-40 or the
1917 scale, they have not the slight
est idea.
One thing, however, they do know.
The Powhattan mine is very dan
gerous mine. Not long ago, a man
was killed and his body was placed
in a box-car until leaving time.
Then the body was taken out, while
the miners climbed in to go homo,
and was taken away.
The men working in this mine on
the so-called cooperative basis, be-
ing stockholders" have no protec-
ton of the workmen's compensation
law. The mine is not inspected, and
if there are any men injured, that
is their bad luck.
So it goes in the mining camps,
low that John Lewis has destroyed
the union. WAYNE.