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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Say Bellevue
Hospital Help
Is Worst Paid
by a Worker Correspondent

10y u w OfbST COfT6SpOUuSHt'J
Bellvue Hospital is the greatest
hospital in the city. Many workers,
men and women are employed there,
The orderlys do some of the hardest
work. Their working day consists Of
eight hours. For this a man orderly
gets $45 month. A woman orderly
gets $3.50. The men orderlys get
their board.
The workers are speeded up by
their .overseers. Many of those who
get these jobs are down-and-outs.
They woEk until they save up some
money and then they quit.
The women orderlys have to
change as many as as beds day. Let
me tell you that this is no easy task.
If they get done early they are given
some more work to do.
All the workers are constantly
threatened with dismissal. Some are
fired every week.
The nurses also work very hard and
in long shifts. All this is in the
greatest city in the world. Yes, our
city can spend millions of bucks a
year for all kinds of European nobility
and our own workers cannot even be
well paid.
The labor movement should raise
its voice in behalf of these men and
women. JOSEPH GAIT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
FORM MIL WAUKEE
JOBLESS COUNCIL
Ask Federated Trades
to Aid Relief
By a Worker Correspondent

(BY q Worker Correspondent
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, (By Mai).-
Several meetings of the unemployed
have been held in this city in the
course of the last few weeks. A Mil
waukee Council of the Unemployed
was organized.
Make Demand.
A delegation from one of the mass
meetings of the unemployed went to-
the session of the city council with
resolution requesting:
THAT city appropriates such sta
lions for the relief of the unemployed
and their families.
2.-That free municipal lodgings
and kitchens be opened.
3.-That the council request the
manufacturers to abolish all overtime
work and shorten the work day. 49,.
4.-That representatives of the I'M
employed and other Federated Trades
Council be put in charge of managing
the relief stations and relief estab-
lishments.
The delegation of the unemployed
was not allowed to the council cham
Der. The resolution was referred to
the committee on finance, which will
meet next Tuesday.
A meeting Of the unemployed was
called subsequently and aldermen of
four adjacent wards invited to appear
before the meeting Tor the discussion
on the unemployment problem. Only
one appeared, promising cooperation
in securing the necessary appropria-
tions. The socialist alderman who
was among the invited did not appear.
There are two socialist aldermen on
the finance committee, which consists
Of five members.
Petitions are now in circulation en-
bodying the demands of the unem
ployed and signatures are being col
lected. These petitions will be pre-.
sented to the city council in order tc
substantiate the demands of the un-
employed.
A communication was addressed to
the Federated Trades Council re-
questing them to be represented at
the Council of the Unemployed re-
questing a hearing for representa-
tive OF the council before the next
meeting of the Federated Trades
Council and that committee on I'M
employment, which was elected by tn,
Federated Trades Couneil som
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
COL ORADO PLANE
WORKERS TRAPPED
in BLAZING TOMB
Inward Swinging Doors
Pen Them in Flames
(Bg Worker CorrespOndemtl

by a Worker Correspondent
ENGELWOOD, Colo, (By MaiD -
On the Goth day of April, young and
adult workers left their homes for
work at the Alexander Plane Co.,
thinking of nothing but a hard days
work ahead of them under fierce ex-
ploitation. The workers thus started
to toll. Everything was going alo-I;
fine, the women were sewing, while
a few feet away from them the men
We're spraying airplane wings with a
high explosive mixture, cello>se-
nitrate.
In, the next room men were up
holstering seats, and the carpenters
were busy building frames when sud-
denly a crash was heard and the
whole building was in flames Men
and women rushed to the doors, but
the doors swung inward and they
couldn't get out in time to save them
Selves thus. resulting in the death of
II and serious injury to others.
&fn1ner employee: of the Alexander
firm told coroner's jury that he
refused Ito let his wife work in the
dope rQonll, because it was too danger
Gus to her life and health, because the
company would not supply the proper
ventilation and make proper exits in
case of fire. ~ was fired for doing
So" he said. Another worker testi-
fled the company "docked" him a
year ago when he went home to
change his clothes after rescuing two
comrades from former explosion
and fire, Another worker testified
that fumes in the dope room often
overcame workers. The dope was al
lowed to drip to the floor where it
collected in pools which were a con-
slant menace to the workers because
of the dope's high inflamability.
Carl B. Moseley, % years old, gave
his own life while trying to save the
lives of three fellow workers. After
coming out of the inferno he saw his
fellow workers struggling with some
timbers which caved in on them. He
rushed back into the blaze in an eff
fort to free them, but failed and lost
his life as did, his fellow workers he
vainly tried. to save.
Workers who had been working at
the plant realized the fire menace
and asked the officials to provide fire
exits and improve conditions at the
plant, were fired for making these
demands.
The tragedy clearly shows that it
could have been avoided had the
workers been organized. They could
have forced the officials to improve
conditions at the plant, they could
have forced them to move the
women's sewing room into another
building, instead of having them in
the same room where the men are
using the spraying apparatus. They
could have forced the company to
prevent this disaster.
Let this be lesson to other work.
ers to organize and improve their
conditions.
H. SINGER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

Theatre Guilds earlier successes.
The Acting Company, which is be-
ing enlarged, will also be divided into
two sections in order to make the ex-
tensive tour and to fill simultaneously
the productions planned for New
York. While one section of the COM
pany is touring, the other section will
be playing in New York and vice
versa.
This tour will include eight weeks
each in Chicago, Boston and Phila-
delphia and four weeks each in Balti-
more, Washington, Pittsburgh, Gin
cinnati and Cleveland, total of A
weeks. In addition the Guild will send
out "Porgy," "The Doctors Dilemma, "
"John Ferguson" "Ned McCobb's
Daughter" and "The Second Man" as
its attractions. No decision has yet
been made on the touring of ''Strange
Interlude." Claude Rains is one of
the latest additions to one Of it's COM
panies for next season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
SAYS INSTITUTE
RECRUITED SCABS
Seamen's Church Pastor
Did Dirty Work
by a Worker Correspondent

Several weeks ago 1 was unem-
ployed and destitute, and applied to
the Social Service Department of the
Seamen's Church Institute, for relief.
l was told that hospital cases were
the only ones that received relief at
the time, although the unemployment
situation at the waterfront was very
bad.
AS turned to go out, the reverend
Compton (chaplain) called me and be-
gan to question me. One of the ques-
lions was whether 1 had ever had any
military training. l answered that I
had. He asked me where, and 1 re-
piled that I had gotten it at the Cit
liens Military Training Camp.
He then summoned man that
looked like a subway inspector, who
asked me whether l would like a job
working on the subway, saying that
would have to stay in a watch-tower
on the platform with a machine gun
in front of me, and watch for trouble.
The pay, he said, would come regard
less of whether there was strike on
or not.
| had been under the impression
that the job was regular job at first,
but when he mentioned guns and the
subway-yards, l knew that he was
recruiting scabs for the strike. re-
fused to take the job, whereupon the
chaplain refused to give me aid. He
pushed a button on the desk, and two
plainclothes men appeared in the Of
flee and forcibly elected me.
The office was heavily guarded and
| realized that it would be futile to
say much there, and so I was forced
to ship out of New York on the same
day, on boat run under the rotten
est conditions.
When | returned to New York, sew
eral men told me to write to The
DAILY WORKER, knowing that the
truth would be published, and sin
cerely hope you will do SO.
H. V. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Bosses Forced
Men to Lie in
EmglewO0d Fire
by Worker Correspondent

(bY q Worker Correspondent
DENVER, Colo, (By MaiI Tile
number of deaths resulting from the
explosions and fire in the dope build
ing of the Alexander Industries Inc.
of Englewood has reached eleven.
The coroner's inquest and subse-
quent Investigations have shown that,
altho danger of fire was always i'm
minent in this building, almost no
attention was given to exits. There
were two doors to- the building, one
of these was partly clamped shut, the
other was often INSTRUCTED by the
piling up of materials, completed air.
plane wings and so on.
The windows, which were higher
than usual from the floor, had boards
running across the top and bottom
and a rod thru the center. The
materials used in the work, ether,
banana oil, etc, are highly explosive
and nalodorous. In fact the dope
building was such an obnoxious place
that the office clerks took turns at
running errands to that part of the
factory.
Employees testified to the existence
of these terrible conditions at the
coroner's inquest. The next day the
names of these same employees APP
peared on an affidavit absolving the
officers of the company from all
blame and voicing their confidence
in their employers.
This surely must give all the work
ers food for thought when we have
to give even our lives for our Jobs.
H. u. z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

months ago, finally makes it's report
which is long overdue Also that the
Federated Trades Council cooperate
in the securing of relief action by the
city council.
One Of the late meetings of the
unemployed was held at the front Of
the city employment office, about
200 unemployed were present. The
meeting was successful and caused {
great deal, Of discussion.
A letter was ordered to be sent by
the Unemployed Council to the Co
operative Society in Waukegan with
the request for their assistance il
relief work. The issuance of bull
letin on the unemployment question i.
being contemplated, also calling o.
conference of labor organizations
on the question of unemployment.
MORGAN. \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
OHIO OPERATORS
TRANSPORT SCADS
Strikebreakers Refuse
to Live in Shacks
Especial to The Daily Worker.)


WHEELING w. Va, May g.
Strikebreakers at work in the mines
in Dillonvale, Piney Fork, Tiltonville,
Dun Glen and Yorkville are unwill-
ing to live in the houses provided for
them by the coal operators near the
mines in which they work, travel
from here to their places of work
daily on the Wheeling and Lake Erie
railroad.
The unwillingness of the scabs to
live in these towns is attributed to
the miserable housing provided by
the companies and to persistent mass
picketing demonstrations of n e
strikers in these localities The price
of daily railroad fare, which under
ordinary circumstances would be
$1.50 for a round trip is reduced to
one dollar by special arrangement
with the railroad passenger agent.
The fare is paid, presumably, by the
strikebreakers themselves.
Heavily guarded on the inside by
company guards, and by United States
marshals at stations in Ohio, the train
bears it's daily load of strikebreakers
from here. Unwilling to lose a sub
stantial part of their weeks earn
ings to the railroad and to make the
tiresome journey daily, large num-
! bers of the strikebreakers desert con-
tinually.
Mass demonstrations at every town
where the train stops to discharge
crews of scabs have been staged ever
since the coal operators. inaugurated
the new method of "scab herding.' y
Frequently the trains carry only half
grown city boys who have never seen
the inside of mine, but. who are
persuaded by the scab procuring
agencies to pose as miners in order
to persuade the strikers, that their
militant picketing has been inef-
fective.
The. new efnethod %, supplying the
stricken mines with scab labor is be-
lieved by the miners in Eastern Ohio
to be the last desperate effort on the
part of the operators to counterfeit
the effectiveness of the mass picket
ing which swept scores of stricken
mines in the territory clean Of strike
h~os, 1<1rrs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Broad0ay Briefs

Sunny Days" is now in it's last
week at the Imperial Theatre. The
production goes to Buffalo for week
and with Chicago to follow.
Congratulations, "ar new play by
Morgan Wallace, scheduled to be
shown here later on, will have it's
initial presentations Friday and
Saturday of this week in Asbury
Park. Lawrence Shubert Lawrence,
nephew of Lee and J. J. Shubert, is
sponsoring the production.
"Skidding," a comedy by Aurania
Rouyerol, will open at the Bijou The
atre Monday night, May 81. The cast
will include Marguerite Churchill,
Louis Carter, Clara Blandick and
Charles Eaton. Hyman Adler and
Marion Gering are the producers.
The all-star revival of "She Stops
to Conquer" will be presented by
George c. Tyler at Erlanger's The
atre on May IA. The engagement is
for two weeks only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Maybe Reported Them
When They Did Not Pay

Because he was known to have oc-
casionally reported violations Of the
health laws, Bartholomew Phillips
SO, of 1901 Fort Hamilton Parkway,
a former board of health milk in
spector, was acquitted Wednesday Of
taking a $500 bride from the Nor
risania Stock Farms, Inc, despite the
fact that witness testified that he
had seen the money paid. Phillips is
still under indictment, however, on q
imilar CHARGE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Postmistress Guilty

Mrs. Fellah J. Quinlan, former post
mistress. at East Northport, L. l.,
and republican appointee, has plead
ed guilty before Federal Judge
Bryant to an Indictment charging her
with stealing mail She was fined
1915 and sentenced to one year and
three months Imprisonment, opera
ton of the jail sentence being sus-
pended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
AeA Hosiery Co. Imports Drunken Subs Factory Correspondent Writes
DRAMA
ORA Ma
Theatre Guild Planning
Tour for Coming Season

THE Theatre Guild is planning an
extensive tour for next season ac-
cording to the announcement sent out
yesterday The repertoire for the
Theatre Guild Acting Company on
tour has also been selected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

One section OF tine
company will play
"MolnaI's comedy
The Guardsman"
and Shaw's "Arms
and the Man." while
another section will
play O'Neill's MAR
co Millions" a n d
ar. U. R." the Ca
pok play, the latter
being planned as a
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
l. etters on Election
Drive Sent to Units

A letter of the greatest i'm
portance, dealing with the election
campaign and the mining campaign
has been mailed to every unit from
the National Office. Your unit did
not receive it if we haven't got the
raddress Of your organizer or sec
retary.
\ FIJI in this blank and mail it to:
43 East 125th ST., N. Y. G.
Dist. Sub Dist. .........
Section. Sub Sec. Unit. :.
Name -........-'............'.
Address ........................
City ............. State ..x......
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
.-.-..=.=.-.In EOsrybodys confidsnes..=..=....-.=
THE GATE POST
BIZ Harold Phillips

The witching days end in March Winter still
one shaggy makes brave piece Of being important
Poomacs frosng air bugle sounding the soldiers
call.
stray pedestrian qucens his
city, SILENT potential Giants shoulder when
they sleep.
Why enemy again gates plotting
bones? More widows making?
No sugar Tuesday, meat Thursdays?
That picture is slightly askew The Fox Thear ushers
being assembled for nose-counting and dismissal.
Right dess" "Front!" Anderson, Bigewater"
etc. etc.
The press ceremony
while the paucity who
bugle EITHER This been corrected the
who musern nightly will undergo humiliation
responding to Mess Call under the duson the chaatan the
other end Of the horn is blowing taps.
Varetys eagerness take unwarrand pokes the Keith
cult with E. F. Abee, compliments its ardor
but not its honesty.
Kehs matinee prices ladies
Variety ITO that competition, Fox
with huge capacity advertising the matinee price for
the ladies'
prices the balcony and IS the
you by father confessor that
lady the price will still be IS cents for the first floor
Lindsey the Alexander Of the hustngs
urdier The debating with
"Companonate Marriage the topic has vanquishd
to
negative side of the
There ample rhyme to the judges apprehension
ST. That's what he Washington
the who opposes him not only chance licking logic
but with patry $780, Gate
$4,000 barely meeting expenses.
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
Fleeing, Fleeing
Is Fame for the
Film VaInp

In the race for fame who is
the winner, the good girl of the
films or the bad girl the heroine
or the vampire? 1t il 4 mooted
question Some declare that the
bold, defiant, wicked damseIs
receive more notice and hence
are in greater demand by pro-
ducers Of motion pictures than
the gentle sisterhood.
At ia well-known Hollywood
club recently q small group of
motion picture directors discussed
the subject but came to no agree
ments. There were plenty or
examples among the film stars
to prove either side OF the argu-
merit. 1t was decided, therefore,
to ask the opinion of some actress
who had done vanp roles as well
as those of heroines. Eve
Southern. playing one OF the
feminine leads in THE Gaucho.
now In its second week at
I.oew's Columbia, filled the re.
quirements and the point Of
the controversy was referred to
her.
One at the outset must real
ize that the public il tickle, 2
said Miss Southern. Though
this statement is bromide, it Ii
none the less true. A little
while ago sirens were unusually
popular, but now the vamp
vogue IL waning, it seems to me.
kipling's harpy has been left at
the post by the fIapper and
athletic girl
The portrayer OF wrong doing
and violence naturally compels
attention, but does che hold it?
Does the public love her best?
by no means. In the long run
such constructive activities as
those Of the Wright brothers
or Lindbergh will get more pub
licity. ! will even back the
Smith brothers."
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
Dick and Sue

Richard Walling is the juvenile
leading man in Walking Back"
Sue Carol has the juvenile lead.
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
Wings Planted the
Germ He Can t
Resist

just what that indefinable thing
Is that keeps those who have the
aviation hug" in the air, no one
vet has been able to say, hut
nevertheless. once in the air,
always In the air, Is the general
order of things.
william Wellman, who gave to
motion pictures the first realis-
tic air picture ever made, Wings.
made the statement following
completion of that picture that
never again would he attempt to
produce another aviation picture.
+. Monk Saunders. the author of
Wings, heard the remark and
casually told Wellman that he
had in mind another story along
similar lines.
For three weeks he beseiged
II. n. SchulbeFg. associate pro-
Queer Of Paramount, for permits
sion TO make the picture Schulz
berg knew WelIman had the germ
OF q great idea, which was backed
up BY his experience with
"Wings. and after considering
the matter gave word to Wen.
man TO start
Once more Wellman was I'm
command OF the air. The finished
product il entitled THE Legion
Or the Condemned" and Ii now
on the screen at Crandalls Metro.
politan.
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
MOrOccO's Flaming
Sun Harnessed
And Tanned

In one climatic condition Nor
COCO stands peculiarly alone. At
no other place on the globe, &C
cording to lens experts. is the sun
light so Whitley intense as \
Morocco.
with the scenes OF 1.-THE Forbid
den Woman" which Paul Il. Stein
directed, laid almost in its entirety
in Morocco, q problem confronted
the cameramen prior to the film
ing. "A Moroccan city had been
constructed at the studio, but how
were the photographers to dupii.
cate the brilliant Moroccan sun
light in their scenic effects?
Through the medium of stock
shots OF Morocco the camerameh
were enabled to study the exact
lighting. Following this investi-
CATION they took test after test,
until. through certain exposures
and special development of the neg
alive they obtained exactly the
same effect.
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
A Lighter Hearted
Pauline Will Be
On View

Pauline Lord, whom the
Theater Guild last year recognized
as Americas foremost actress,
has always wanted to play
comedy, just as Ty Cobb has al
ways wanted to be a pitcher.
When, on Monday evening, she
starts George G.. Tyler's all-star
revival of She Stops to Con-
quer" off right by speaking David
Garrick's famous prologue before
the curtain OF the National
Theater, she viii be nearer
comedy than she has ever been in
her life before. Garrick's spar
king couplets bear little relation
to her past roles, and it will be a
tragedienne who dons knee
breeches and a powdered wig in
one of those masculine masquer-
AIDES that the eighteenth century
liked so well.
To think back over Pauline
Lords active past is to chronicle
a stage life OF woe and tribula-
ton Her nuttering hands.
puzzled voice, and .hapless poses
marked her out from the begin
ming for trouble on the stage as
the sparks fly upward. The role
in which she first came to
marked critical notice was that
OF the little waif I'm '.The Deluge,
the only woman in the crowd of
men expecting momentarily to be
overwhelmed by a flood. AS
Dagmar in Samson and Delilah."
she had to crawl In abject terror
from the wrath OF Jacob Ben
Ami's samson. More and more.
a. tragic roles came to her, she
wanted lightness, particularly
since she confesses that she can
not act until she feels restless and
unhappy.
And those later roles In which
she took New York by storm
grew blacker and deeper. When
Arthur Hopkins first starred her
and sent his first night audience
staggering out into Broadway
stunned by the magnificence OF
her performance, it was a. the
tortured heroine of Eugene
O'Neill's Anna Christie"
The Washington times., 1928-03-17
Lariat King Says
He Can Outspin
Will Rogers

The Beau Brummel Of cowboys,
Tex Mcleod himself. sporting
evening clothes from London i
smartest tailoring establishment.
returns from three-year session
IN London vaudeville. revue, ana
night club and. again a.twinkle in
the Keith Albee armament. will
appear at B. F. Keith's this new
week.
Mcleod has been called En-
ropes Will Rogers. for London
looked much more favorably upon
this rope spinning wag than
npon the more caustic comic Mr..
Rogers, whose f1ippancies regard
dnR divers institutions dear to the
British heart were ardently re-.
scented or misunderstood
hut, explains the genial Tex
himself, there are. really some
Important distinctions. For in
stance, there are several more
numbers IN wins income than in
mine. His stories are better, but
can beat him spinning rope!
sWhile I was In London 7
lassoed i pretty little dancer
named Marjorie Tiller. she's 4
niece Of the late old John TilIer
himself, the man who synchronized
and standardized that important
theatrical item, the chorus girl.
Marjorie has been dancing since
she was q small piece, and il
ever there were q first-class rep
resentative OF TiIler perfection
IN dancing. she Il 1t. She is APP
pearing with me this season. I've
taught her to spin the rope .
little. too