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Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
Arcadia Theatre. Wilmington

The author of "Beau Geste" has
furnished another story of the French
Foreign Legion and lists it as "Beau
Sabreur." It too has been picturized
and will be exhibited at the Arcadia
Theatre, Wilmington for the entire
week Of April End. Fray Cooper is
Beau Sabreur" the fighting member
Of the most fascinating and myster-
ious Of all the military bands of his
tory. Cooper is one of the newer
stars of the armament and has had a
record of success in all of his en-
deavors. Evelyn Brent plays opposite
him in this mystery adventure in the
eternal sands of Northern Africa.
Noah Beery and William Powell who
were in "Beau Geste" are also "among
those present.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
New Dover Opera House. Dover

Monday and Tuesday Success has
not spoiled Buster Keaton. His tastes
are exceedingly simple, and when he
completes the days work at the studio
he goes home and stays there. Bus
ter's wife, the former Natalie Tai
madge, is a sister of Norma and Con-
stance Talmadge. They have two
children, Joe and Bob. Buster always
hastens to explain that the youngsters
names are Joe and Bob, not Joseph
and Robert. They were chistened Joe
and Bob, and the KeatOns insist that
the boys always keep those names.
The Keaton boys had never seen their
famous dad making a picture until
college was produced. While the
company was on location at Balboa,
California, filming the boat race
scenes, Mrs. Keaton took Joe and Bob
to the seaside town over the weekend.
They saw Buster capsize racing
shell manned by famous college oars
men. The youngsters screamed with
delight, and Joe yelled: "Do it again,
Daddy, do it again" And Buster,
dripping wet, had the boat righted,
and he "did it again" to please his
sons.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
The Everett Theatre. Middletown

Monday and Tuesday we invite you
to take trip abroad with US to Paree
All Cook and Kit Guard are in the
party. Believe US the gang is all
here and the picture is titled 'The
Legionnaires in Paris" It's the story
Of side splitting spree with two Pals
in Paree! These two American dough-
boys surely offer you more excitement
more thrills, than you can even think
of. A side-splitting comedydrama
Wednesday and Thursday we take a
great deal Of pleasure in presenting
the most talked about picture of the
year, William Haines in "West Point"
You will like this picture better than
any picture you have seen in years.
That's saying something, but never
theless its true. Joan Crawford is
supporting in this picture and under
no circumstances miss seeing this one
Of a thousand pictures that will please
everyone. Friday, Adolph Menjou in
his latest picture "Serenade.' An
other picture with this popular star.
Saturday, the Prince of the Saddle,
Ken Maynard in "The Devils Saddle
a real red-blooded American picture
that will make you stand up and cheer
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28
Screen and Stage
The Strand Theatre. Smyrna

Friday and Saturday-Clara Bow in
"Hula!" If that sign on theatre
marquee doesn't hold forth promise Of
an interesting evenings entertain
ment, you've never seen one! If we're
to believe all we hear, the interesting
evenings entertainment will be more
than fulfilled! Why? Well, consider
these facts First, the star! Clara
Bow-the meteoric TT girl! She's
never been better than she is right
now! If you saw her in "Mantrap,"
Children of Divorce" kid Boots, /"
'It'' or Rough House Rosie you too
are one of her admirers. You can't
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28

help yourself! Give Brook is Miss
Bows hero. Arnold Kent is psuedo-
villain. Arlette Marchal, Agostino
Borgato, Albert Gran and Maude
Truax all appear to advantage. And
the hula which justifies the title. Clara
does it-and how! If you don't be-
lieve this don't dare miss "Hula!"
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28

1t has been learned with regret, that
Rev. w. I. Mcclure, pastor of the
Odessa Friendship Circuit NJ. E.
Churches, has ben transferred to the
New Jersey Conference, and will leave
in the near future for his new charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcclure and family
will be missed by all their friends.
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28

William Haines with Joan Crawford and Edward Sadr1
of the most entertaining productions ever offered ia
We grant that saying lot but you say m
about this picture and then have YOU liked
Tell to the Marines if you crazy him in % N
Slide wait until you him in West Point Hanes as N
fresh, young plebe who thinks girls and football m
tary training, he hands you thousand laughs thousand
You get up cheering Bring all family Added att9r
Comedies and News Reels Admission, 25 and Soc
Smyrna times., 1928-03-28

Adolph Menjou and Kathryn Carver the irresistible II
ian, who achieves world fame because of beautiful m %
and who, when he has reached the top forgets her p
down. he goes unt-but that's why "Serenade proves n
than just another movie. Aesop Fables Pathe Review t
Admission Is and 35c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
TORONTO BOSSES
ORGANIZE A KHAN
Call It Christian Cru
SADIE" on Labor

TORONTO (By Mail).-The bust
ness men of Toronto have formed a
committee to organize fascist or
ganization to be known as the "Can-
adam Christian Crusade" The
mayor, Mcbride, said that he was
fright with" the fascists.
Foreigners" said Mcbride,
should not be allowed to come here
and undermine the religious views
of the young people. The police and
l will aid the organization in max
ing speakers give their addresses in
English"
Toronto has a growing industrial
population, and part of the workers
are of French extraction, speaking
French by preference. One main
purpose of the new league is con-
sidered to be the creation of hard
feelings between English-speaking
and French-speaking workers, and
the persecution and wedging off
from the main body of workers, if
possible, of all foreign-born work
ers.
The Canadian Communist Party
and left wing labor organizations
will ruthlessly expose the activities
and real ideals of the Canadian
Christian Crusade"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Coalition Government
Breaks Fight of Ruhr
Metal Workers Union

BERLIN, Dec. 5.-The infamous
social-democratie government lead
er, Severing, minister of the inter-
Tor, arrived at Essen this morning
and negotiated with the employers
spokesman, General Director Voeg-
Ter, and with the trade union Off
Gals behind closed doors. The re-
suits are kept secret.
The Berlin "Tageblatt" declares
that Sevcring's decision will be pub
lished in two weeks. All bourgeois
papers corroborate this statement
and declare that the employers in
tend to punish the metal workers,
whom they locked out, by reducing
the number employed and in addi-
ton by demanding that those who
are given jobs work Sundays with
out extra pay during December.
The social democratic newspapers
pretend that the struggle ended in
a victory" but the chairman and
vice-chairman OF the Metal Work
ers Union, although social demo-
cratic bureaucrats themselves, adj
NIT openly that the struggle is de-
feated and work recommended be-
cause otherwise the coalition gov
eminent would have collapsed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Blacklist Terror Welded by Bosses Hide the Fact that Many Ships Are Fault
IsQdoyu Duncan Dance Festival
at Manhattan Opera, Dec. 27

THE Isadora Duncan Dance Fes-
tival which is to be held in the
Manhattan Opera House has just
announced a postponement of the
opening date to December 27.
Miss Irma Duncan, adopted
daughter of the great dancer, who
is now the director of the Isadora
Duncan School of Moscow, U.S.S.R.
is coming here with twenty-five
prize graduates of her famous in
stitution for the sole purpose of
participating in her foster moth
er's testimonial, through special
permission of the Soviet Minister
of Art and Education. Immediate
ly after the Manhattan appearances
Miss Duncan and her company will
take part in similar dance festivals
in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Wash
ington, Philadelphia and Baltimore
after which they will return direct
to Moscow.
Four different original programs
of the classic and type will be pre-
scented by Miss Duncan and her
company during the New York en-
gagement. The Duncans will be
supported by a full symphony or
chestra and assisted by several
prominent American interpretive
dancers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
100 PERCENTERS
nRn TEAnuEpc
u n u sETVEg&EEV
OF new HAVEN
Can't Give Opinions Of
u. S. Officials
(By a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (By Mail).
The teachers of New Haven from
now on will not be allowed to ex-
press their opinions about the char
acter of the officials of the govern
ment of the United States.
The first step has already been
taken in this direction. Miss Mary
G. Moody, high school teacher in
New Haven, was officially repri-
manded by the Board of Education,
which was presided over by the
mayor of the city, for alleged Gin
discreet" remarks about the charac-
ter Of Alfred E. Smith and his wife.
1t is rumored that in the course
Of a discussion with her pupils
about personalities and characters,
she remarked to the effect that Mr..
Smith is not an angel, that he likes
his drinks TOO we'll and that he likes
to kiss other peoples babies too fire.
quently!
1t was unanimously decided by
the fossilized body, officially known
as the Board of Education of New
Haven, that rules shall be drawn
up to prohibit all New Haven high
school teachers from discussing
"any controversial topics"
New Haven went democrat in the
last election, for the first time in
many years, and this is the first act
Of enforcing the democratic rule"
III New Haven. c. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Gold, Garlin and Magil
in Symposium at the
Bronx Workers Forum

A literary symposium of unusual
interest will be held Sunday evening
at 8 o'clock at the Bronx Open
Forum, 1880 Wilkins Ave. Michael
Gold, editor of the New Masses,
Sender Garlin and A. B. Magil, both
of the Daily Worker, will take part
in the symposium.
Gold will discuss the modern
drama and will point out the social
trends in the drama of today. Gar
lin will talk on various contempt
rary literary critics, including Van
Wyck Brooks, Ludwig Lewisohn
Haywood Broun, H. L. Mencken and
Y. F. Calverton.
Magil will discuss modern revolu-
tionary poetry and read from the
work of several poets including his
own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
CR0AT Fascist
KILL WORKERS
Brutal Crime Record
in Laibach
(Ped Aid Press Service J

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. - Be-
cause of an inner conflict in his or
ganization the former leader of the
Laibach Orjuna Organization OF
Yugoslav Nationalists), PERTH, was
killed by his intimate enemies on
Sept. of last year. PERTH, how
ever, left his memoirs, in which a
number of various crimes were
brought to light, all of which were
!. committed by the Laibach 0rjuna.
including various murders and tor
lures. We present here the facts
concerning the murder of the Com
munist miner, Fakin, which took
place June l, 1924:
"My companions then led Fakin
to an inn where they began to beat
him. One split soap-water into his
mouth, upon which he got the
cramps and ground his jaws with
out even saying one word. He kept
mum to the very last moment of
his life. From the inn they took
him half dead in a carriage. The
girl student of Trbovlje proposed
that his head be cut off and that
ne be cut into pieces. Since time
was flying and the miners might
come at any moment, it was decided
10 carry out the death sentence on
Fakin, which, among others, Beris-
az Andjelinovitch, volunteered to
do. Immediately after Fakin was
killed with a revolver"
In the same memoirs it was fur
Their related that Fakin was killed
by the Orjuna-leader, Mako Kran-
jetz. Kranjetz has already been ar
ested in connection with the muir
i II PERTH.
The newspaper "Hrvat," which
published the memoirs Of PERTH,
writes:
.'Today it is said, however, that it
is very-doubtful that trial on all
these deeds will ever result. In
this case the highest state officials
may be complicated. On these
grounds energy will be used to ST.
lence the affair, all the more SO
since the police are determined not
to carry the investigation to an end
because the whole affair is tied UP
with military espionage in Italy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Increase Production
in Soviet Textile
Industry for 1929

MOSCOW by Mail) The press
publishes data concerning the plan
of development of the textile indus
try in the U. S. S. r. during 1929.
In 192S-29 it is proposed to pro-
duce 2,9OS,000,000 meters of cotton
stuffs increase of almost 6 per
cent in comparison with 1927-28),
104,000,000 meters of wooden cloth
increase of 7.8 per cent?, 177,000,-
600 meters of linen cloth (the same
as last year,, and 1871 million
meters of silk stuffs (increase of
nearly 60 per cent?.
The general number of workers
employed in the textile industry
reaches 100000 or 5000 more than
last year.
The sum of capital expenditure
for the textile industry in 192S-29
will amount to 201.S million rubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
HOLES CAN Be
HAMMERED THRU
BOATS PLATES
Safety Last, Profits
First, Say Owners

Oh a Worker Correspondent
"When l attended my boilermak-
ars' branch meeting, both before and
after official business the Vetris
lisaster was the only topic Of dis
'ussion,' friend of mine, a boiler
maker in England, wrote me.
"The talk ranged not only around
The Vestris itself, but also the gen.
eral conditions in which ships that
have been drydocked for repairs are
allowed to go to sea. If a public
inquiry We're opened and witnesses
rom the Boilermakers' Union were
guaranteed against victimization,
stories would be told of the real
condition of many ship sailing out
Of London, and other ports, that
would cause wave of horror,
"When ship comes in for sur
vey, or to have damage repaired,
safety is the last consideration, and
eheapness and a quick job, so as to
get the ship earning profits again,
are first with the owners.
"There are scores of boilermakers
who go around with the surveyors
and point out what should be fixed,
but they are told, we won't bother
with that this trip
"In the spring of this year ship
was being repaired in London. The
riveters working on keel plate no.
ticed as they were renewing some
rivets that as soon as they started
liveting the other rivets, which had
not been condemned in the plates,
we're loose.
"The supervisor said, when this
vas brought to his attention, oh,
hats all right, the ship has good
tank top
"When the holder-up, inside the
steel plate, drew the attention of the
charge-hand to this, he was told,
Get on with your work, what the
hell does it matter to you
Scores of plates are passed,
Trough which holes could be
,nocked with a hammer. But the
boilermakers in the English ports
are terrorized into remaining quiet,
as there is a pretty severe unem-
ployment situation here in Eng
land"
There is nc doubt that the same
condition exists on this side of the
ocean, and that the American boil
ernlakers are equally terrorized,
both by their bosses and the fear
Of blacklist. c. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Austrian Employees i'm
Fight on All Fronts
to Get Wage Increase

VIENNA, Dec. 5.-The passive
resistance, or "strike on the Job" of
the postal, telegraph and telephone
workers. is making itself felt on the
communication systems of the ma
ton.
The parliament yesterday in ses-
sion tried to find some means to
compromise the struggle. The So
cial democrats occupy their usual
role of pretending to talk for the
workers, but doing nothing except
attempting treachery.
The union members are demand
ing that their trade union officials
declare an open walkout and
cease the futile tactic of "passive
resistance" but the bureaucracy re-
fuse to act.
The workers, to the number of
$4,000, are demanding an per cent
wage increase. They base their de-
mand on the fact that the cost of
living has risen 200 per cent since
the war, while their wages have re-
manned stationary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
AgnOstics to Demand
No Bibles in Schools
(By United Press.)

Fundamentalists' efforts to pre-
vent the teaching of the theory of
mans descent from lower animals
are to be countered by agnostics in
a campaign to prevent the. reading
Of the Bible in public schools.
Officials of the Free Thinkers of
America, an agnostic society, an
nounced today that they would be-
gin against the Bible within a fort
night. They intend to file suit
TO restrain teachers from reading
the Bible to their pupils.
The agnostics claim that reading
the Bible to school children is in
violation of the principle of, separa
ton of church and state, that por-
lions of the Bible are Immoral and
salacious," and that many of the in
cidents described in it never oc-
Cured except in fancy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
POLICE TRY TO
I'm GEk-Pk Mn
COAST WORKERS
Place Them in Class of
Criminals
by a Worker Correspondent

(by O w Ofhef correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. s.
1--WE must have your finger prints
on our files, or no more chance to
earn living in this placep
That's what F. H. Williams. ex-
perienced store repair man, 623 W.
seth St. Los Angeles, was told when
he went to the Beverly Hills police
station to get a permit" to work
in that neighborhood, ruled over by
rich. idle parasites. Beverly Hills,
suburb of this city, is the home town
of Will Rogers, Lindbergh's part
ner as a "good will ambassador" to
Mexico and jester in & number of
capitalist sheets, such as the Los
Angeles Times, etc.
"But have been doing this work
for years, and can give all kinds of
references" Wiz ms answered.
The worker says that he has regu-
larly canvassed from house to house
to find his customers without ever
having to attain police certifica-
ton of any sort.
1t made no differenee-he either
had to supply the police with his
finger-prints, OF there was nothing
doine in the line of stove work.
Williams, however, didn't choose
to put himself in the criminal class,
nor to give in to the police finger
printing craze. He decided to let
the permit go until he found out
more about his rights in 'this high
brow corner of American "democ-
raey."
Williams wants to know when
house to house statesmen, plumbers
and scrub women. etc., are also go
ing to be required to file their fin
ger-prints along with jailbirds.
1t may be in order to mention in
this connection that those grafters,
more than 80 of them, who got away
with S40,000.000 from 10000 stock
holders (including many workers),
were not even finger printed-to
say nothing about their release as
free, respectable citizens. Some of
them, however, were re-arrested at
the time District Attorney Asa
Reyes was indicted by the grand
jury for bribery.
The police insisted on the finger
printing while Williams was work
ing on stove at the home of C. F.
Lundstrum, 219 North Palm.
Since Acting Detective Captain
William Hynes, head of the "Red
Squad" chased the local council of
the foreign born workers our from
the public library, May /, last, moth
ing has been heard from that anti
finger-printing organization-pub-
liely at least. In order to bring life
into it again, it has been suggested
to ask F. H. Williams, the stove ex-
pert, to accept the presidency of
said council. l.. P. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
DECLINE IN
union WAGES
Slight Decease Shown
in 1928

The upward movement of wage
rates for union workers in the
United States, which continued from
1918, appears to have reached its
peak in 1927, according to statistics
of the U. S. Department of Labor.
Reports for 1928 show slight de-
cline in the average weekly earn
ings of organized workers, due to
the fact that the gain in the hourly
rates were not sufficient to COM
pensate for the decrease in the
length of the average working
week.
OF the seventy-five trades COW
cred by the report, So showed in
creases in the average hourly
wages, as compared with 1927,
while % showed decreases. The
average hourly rate in 1928 was
S1.195, compared with S1.19 in 1927.
This gain of one-half cent in the
hourly rate, however, is offset by
the reduction in the time of the
working week. In 1928 the average
full time week for organized work
ers was 44.9 hours, compared with
45.2 hours in 1927. Thus the aver
age weekly wage based on an aver
age week of 44.9 hours at S1.195
per hour in 1928 would be about
$685., compared with $3.50 based
on ASP hours at S1.19 per hour in
1927.
Only Partial Figures.
These figures refer only to the
wages of organized union workers.
Wage rates for the great mass of
unorganized American workers are
much lower. 1t appears, however,
that the gains made by the organ
lied workers since 1918 have been
checked by the resistance Of the
employers in 1928. This, too, does
not take into account the fact that
in many partly unionized industries
like the building trades subtle forms
of wage cuts which do not show in
the figures prevail, such as indi-
vidual verbal agreements to work
below the union scale, to overlook
fines and deductions of pay, etc.
Neither does the government esti-
mate the sort of saving on the pay
roll effected by naturalization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Soviet BUSHES Relief

MOSCOW, Dec. 5.-Twenty-
five villages were partially sub
merged when the River Volga over
flowed its banks in the neighbour
hood of Astrakhan as a result of
the storm which swept the Caspian
Sea.
The peasants took refuge in boats
and on the roofs of buildings. Many
houses were destroyed and cattle
drowned. The Soviet government is
rushing all possible relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Prohibit Killing of
Sables in u. S. S. r.

MOSCOW (By Nail. State
Committee for Preservation of Ma
ture passed resolution to prohibit
the killing of sables everywhere in
the U. S. S. R. for three years.
This prohibition is net to be en-
forced in Camchatka, where a local
prohibition for killing of sables will
elapse this year, and also in the
Ussuryisk Province, where such pro-
hibition is impossible to fulfill ow-
ing to local conditions.
At the same time the State Com
mittee for Preservation of Nature
considers it necessary to organize
in many places special breeding
boxes for sables.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Persia Large Buyer Of
Soviet Oil From Baku

BAKU by Mail) During 1927
20, 39,405 tons of oil products have
been exported from Baku to Persia,
including 1887 tons of benzine.
The export of Soviet benzine to
Persia ias increased by over 90 per
cent ard the general export of
Soviet oil production by 1916 per
cent.
In comparison with pre-war the
1929 operative year gave an in
crease of export of oil products
from Baku to Persia Of 49.5 per
cent.