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The Washington times., 1928-04-14

they are talking fashions, and that isrt his Lam
guage. Sue is wearing q handicapped crepe
colors. Cherie wears bouclette sweater with
modernistic stenciling and . pleated skirt
Dina's crepe sport frock IS . riot Of modern
hand-painting. It just shows what . hand
painter can do once he gets well started.
The Washington times., 1928-04-14
Larruer Makes Restitution

Marslles lawyer beuueathed $4,000 lunatic asylum
codl following explanation: have earned
money who their lives quibbng ana
fighting lawsuits"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16

Needle Worker! Get collection
list MT the headquarters of the Nee
die Trades Campaign Committee, IS
Union Square, Room 202, and collect
funds for the election campaign of
the Workers (COmmunist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
N ew PlayWrights to
Open Sc son With
Singing Jailbirds."

A reorganization has taken place
"A within the New Playwrights The
atre. En- 10 Basshe has been chosen
executive director; Paul Sifton and
Edward Massey have been elected to
the board of directors. The theatre
will open it's third season about De-
cember LIST with a production of Up
ton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds, T"
which will be performed at the Pro-
vincetown Theatre for four weeks,
BeSehe announced yesterday.
"The third season of the New
Playwrights Theatre opens with a
radical change of policy and with
new blood" said Basshe in his first
statement. Last season we sched-
Fuled four plays to follow each other
at intervals of five weeks in our own
theatre. AS an experimental theatre
we must work on each play until
the original intent of the playwright
stands revealed on the stage. This
tldl iilOillOho hNJ uobAiCII ICquAIcS
many weeks of coordinated effort
on the part of director, actors and
technical men.
Therefore this season we shall
devote all our energies to one pro-
duction as long as it seems necessary
moving from our workshop and re-
hearsal hall at 1873 West 18th Street
to theatre only when we are salts
fled that the production is as good
as can be made.
eve have been labeled the only
revolutionary theatre in America.
We shall continue to be this in our
selection of plays, and in their set
ting and direction, never forcing
however, an unsuitable method or
technique upon a play. The New
Playwrights Theatre is not commit
ted to any school of radical propa-
ganda, but will strive to produce
vital plays by American dramatists,
giving mass expression to contempt
rary social forces.
"New actors, new technical direc-
tors, and new management will
from now on handle the productions
of the New .Playwrights Theatre
The original founders of the theatre,
John Dos Passos, Francois Edwards
Paragon, Michael Gold and John
Howard Lawson, will serve in an
advisory capacity.
"Our second production this season
will be Dos Passos' Anyways, Inc"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16

cop to shoot the innocent by
standerl
1t was this shot in the arm that
brought Mrs. Whiteman to Mrs.
Oranges house to look after her
husband. 1t was this shot that sent
Molly Russell's sweetheart to prison
to make the way clear for young
Mr.. Whiteman, who was rich and
knew the alphabet. And it was this
shot that broke down the powers of
resistance of the miserable Mr..
Whiteman to such degree that he
consented to return to his wife, with
weeping and crashing of teeth. 1t
was-well it was some shot.
The best acting was committed by
Walter Connolly as Stanley White
man, the husband. Next comes Edna
Hibbard as Molly Russell, the lady
detective. Her words were tripey
tho. 1t wasn't her fault. Then
Robert Montgomery horns in as Ed
ward Whiteman. He pleases the
crowd. Margaret Lawrence has the
guests hoping that Mrs. Whiteman
succumbs to stroke and that sounds
like a compliment.
The cast on the whole is good
but strangled by a play that does
not know where it is going but ends
because it cannot go on forever.
It. j. OFF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
TRICK BONUS IN
.RErTMH nm Ou0D
ME | HI UUs OHUE
Anglers WORKERS
Organize Into Union to
Fight Bosses
(By Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, III. (By Mail -Su-
per Made Cook Ware Corp, con-
Germ manufacturing aluminium ware,
is employing about $50 workers,
moulders, sheet metal polishers and
miscellaneous helpers. All of the
workers were urorganized up to re-
Gently.
The piece-work system was in OPP
Grafton, and the sheet metal polish
ers, who are highly skilled class
Of workers, were earning up to
$1.10 per hour.
Recently the company hired an
expert" to speed up the workers
for the greater enrichment of the
company, and the "expert" put in
operation the following scheme:
He organized the workers into
games, so that one would be COM
PEELED to drive The other, and as an
incentive for the workers to speed
up on the job he established the
system of "bonuses." 1t is of par
ticular interest the way in which
the "bonus" is offered. The price
per piece which was formerly paid
was left unchanged, but rule was
established that the workers may
not earn more than 80 cents per
hour. ANYTHING they make above
that must be divided, fifty per cent
going to the company and the other
fifty per cent to the workers in the
form of "bonus."
Plainly, if the workers are to con-
tinue earning $1.10 per hour, as they
formerly did, they must produce to
the amount of S1.40 per hour, the
other 80 cents going to the company.
At the same time, however, they
are to believe that the company is
giving them 80 cents per hour as q
bonus.
The contemplate action of the
companys expert" has aroused a
pIOCeSI Ou IllS pdlt VI Iiic cHect
metal polishers. They have organ
lied into Local No. 6 of the Sheet
Metal Polishers Union and refused
to accept the wage cut and speed
up system under the guise of
bonus. The workers understood the
real aim Of the company and re-
fused to allow the company's action
to go unchallenged. The result was
the lockout which the company de-
clared upon the sheet metal polish
ers on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
The strikers must stand solid and
fight the attempt of the company
to turn them into slaves. They must
demand the abolition of the gang
system. They must make it clear
to the company that they will not
stand for any wage cut under the
guise of bonus, or under any other
scheme.
1. FEINGOLD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
SMITH COMES TO
PACKING TOWN
Bosses Hold Aloft AIS
= Banners

(BY q Worker Correspondent
OMAHA, Neb,, By MaiD Al
Smith, the candidate of the vets,
spoke here recently. During the
noon-hour, his automobile process
sion toured the stock yards section.
Some Of the plant conference board
Company union) suckers and dog
ging bosses at Cudahy's held aloft
a banner in praise of the candidate
of their exploiters. But at the plants
of Swift and Armour there were no
workers visible. Even capitalist poll
tics cannot be allowed to curtail
profits. The slaughter house slaves
have hardly time to bolt their dinner
and jump back to the job.
But one of Armour's workers pro-
vided fitting commemoration. of
Smiths visit. While the foe of "pro-
hibition" was addressing his audi
ence downtown, the police discov-
cred back in South Omaha in one
of the miserable dwellings, that
house the hired hands of the meat
trust the body of Fred Stumpfmaier,
his head blown off by shotgun
charge. Suicide while under the in
fluence of liquor" is the police YER
dict.
The rest of the cutters in Ar
mour's hell and the whole of the
packing house slaves of the indus
try as we'll could find more fitting
words to explain the incident.
Let them read from the platform
of the Workers (Communist) Party
the following quotation:
Alcoholism is one of the most
terrible social diseases of capitalist
society. Alcoholism is caused by
capitalism itself. Insecurity of life,
the monotony of standardized fac
tory work, the low cultural level of
the masses and desperate poverty
are the reasons for this social dis
ease. The struggle against alco-
holism is part of the general strug-
gle against capitalism. Only the
overthrow of capitalism will sweep
away the despicable bootlegging in
dustry and the equally despicable
corrupt, hypocritical capitalist pro
hibition enforcement"
jim LACEY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
nud Police Break Up West Virginia Workers Communist Party Election Me-
Possession Is the Sad Story
of a HQYQssed Husband

THAT Edward Whiteman would
finally return to the roof of his
ministering wife, and turn the back
of his neck to a devoted and reason
ably taciturn mistress was clear
from curtain rise to anybody who
knows that the great American box
office must have virtue, unless it
wants to risk the attentions of the
police or the wrath of the voluntary
reformers.
And thus it happened at the Booth
Theatre where Possession, a semi
comedy by Edgar Selwyn, presents
living picture of the attempt of a
middle-aged financier to seek I'M
derstanding and companionship from
a woman other than his wife with
whom he lived under a condition of
armed neutrality for twenty-five
years.
Regardless of the social category
in which we must place Mr. White
man, and scanty tho our sympathy
is for the high moguls of money, the
excellence of the acting at times Sc
duced our attentions from the reali-
ties of life and we could see a poor
fat human being trying to snatch
few years of comfort from life
before handing over his body fol-
transportation to the nearest army
of worms.
If Margaret Lawrence is not al
ready married she had better pick
out another role, because dare say
the most hardy bachelor in the audi
ence even if making more than SEE
week, would never put a ring or
her finger after seeing what she die
to the harried husband in the play
She was the histrionic Mrs. White
man and played opposite to Walter
Connolly, her stage husband wher
that solace-seeker was not playing
opposite and with Roberta Beatty
who had the job of acting as a mis-.
tress would act towards a solvent
middle-aged gentleman. Miss Law
renee succeeded in making a nuisance
out of herself and everybody in the
audience was inclined to shed a teal
when poor Mr.. Whiteman, broken in
spirit, was induced by his son and
other considerations to return to his
connubial letters.
Here is the story: Mr.. Whitemar
fled from his wife Anne to Edythe
Grange, rather exotic individual
who knew what she wanted. Mrs
Whiteman did not like it at all
Having secured possession of letters
that Mrs. Grange had written to hel
husband before he left her home
Mrs. Whiteman decided to sue Mrs
Grange for alienation of affections
In the meantime Mrs. Grange hired
detective agency to steal the epist.
| les and the plot almost succeeded. A
bright and plausible lady detective
figures in the play. She is Edna
Hibbard, and as Molly Russell in the
story she finally marries the rich
mans son. The play might have
ended otherwise but for the fact
that in fit of jealousy Molly Rus
sells sweetheart, also a detective
shot old Mr.. Whiteman while gun.
ming for his son of whom he was
| jealous with good reason. How like
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
Force Auto Slaves to Join
Bosses Savings Plan Scheme
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail) "A
rumor was floating around the city
among the crowds of unemployed
workers in front of the shops
Chevrolet arc bring" I arose
bright and early the next morning,
and stood patiently waiting in the
long lire on Holbrook avenue. After
two hours, the employment office
opened, and, as l was up close to
the front, l got a job. They told
me I had to work nights for 65 cents
an hour. Then the business started
Of becoming a standardized G. M. c.
employee. l was first med .cally ex-
Iamined, and then spent an hour
wandering from office TO office, be-
ing interrogated by white-collared
employees and filling out forms. On
one occasion l was handed a form
to sign in triplicate, and after l
had done so was roughly informed
that l was now a member of General
Motors Payday Savings Plan, and
that five dollars a week would be
deducted from my wages, which l
might possibly be able to collect if
l gave them notice about a month
ahead Of time. 1t was then noon
and l was told to go home and come
back to work at $50.
The Night Shift.
Though l had hired for lathe,
| was put on punch press. Pro-
duction in this plant is speeded up
to the limit. Every hour they come
around to find out how many pieces
you have put out in the last hour,
and, if you drop below the standard,
foul-mouthed foreman threatens
you with the can. | was told that
they expected new men to make pro-
duction after the first night. Dur
ing the night l hurt my finger, and
before ! could go to the doctor
had to hunt ali over for my fore
man 10 get pass. Luckily, how
ever, was not badly injured. When
I finally reached the hospital there
were two men waiting outside ahead
Of me, and two more came and
joined tho line while I was waiting.
The lunch hour at midnight lasts
As minutes, and half an hour before
lunch time the foreman came around
and told me I could only have Is
minutes for lunch, as they were in
a hurry for the stuff and for this
extra half hour l would only be
paid straight time. This happened
nearly every night. I bought a
newspaper and not having time to
read it brought it into the shop
with me and left it in my coat
which l hung on the rack. was
warned against doing this by one
of the workers, who said it was
against the rules. Each morning
after having completed the twelve.
hour shift, the Waterman snoor
comes around to see that you don't
leave your machine before the bel
rings. No easy regulations fol-
night men around this dump.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
Horrible Housing
for India Workers

BOMBAY, (By MaiD. The
housing conditions in the slum areas
in the principal cities of India are
extremely unsanitary. A recent re-
port of the Bombay Government
shows that 70 per cent of the popu-
lation of the city live in one tene-
ment dwellings without proper sani-
tary arrangements. Workers are
huddled together in cramped sur
roundings in which Westerners
would not even keep their dogs. La
bnrers IN Bengal and Madras live
under no better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
GAS BOMBS, RIOT
STICKS, RIFLES
ARE HELD READY
Same Took Place at
Nearing Meet
"a a Woke Correspondentl


WHEELING, w. Va, (By MaiD.
The coal barons and steel kings
Of West Virginia continue to show
their power and dictatorship by
sending police to Elm Grove, break
Up a meeting of workers and arrest
ing two speakers at a political mass
meeting held under the auspices of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
Using the same tactics as they did
the night before at Warwood, where
they broke up a meeting of Scott
Nearing, the police terrorized the
hall owner and citizens with threats
If arrest and a display of arms.
The police told the committee in
charge that the meeting would be
broken up and that the Workers
fCommunist) Party could not hold
meetings in West Virginia. The
ommittee, however went ahead with
the meeting and as q result, the
chairman of the meeting, Frank
Henderson, and the speaker A. Car
reno, campaign manager from Pitts
burgh, were arrested.
Police Terrorize Crowd.
A large crowd gathered for the
meeting, but they were terrorized
by the police and dispersed About
4 hundred entered the hall and sew
rral hundred gathered outside to see
what would happen as police armed
with gas bombs, rifles and riot
ticks paraded up and down in front
If the hall and others entered the
hall to arrest all who took part in
the meeting. Henderson, the chair
man, opened the meeting with police
1T his side He did not get far be-
FORE he was placed under arrest.
garreno followed and he too was i'm
/ Fediately arrested. Then the police
ordered the crowd out of the hall
and dispersed it outside. Hender-
lion and Carreno were taken to
Wheeling and later released under
Bond.
While waiting for bondsmen at
She police headquarters the follow
ing scene took place. A local news
PAPER reporter defended those ar
rested and argument started be-
-ween a policeman and the reporter.
The argument would have resulted
n action but the chief of police in
terfered. When the bondsmen n
rived and the speakers were re-
eased, the chief gave the police who
broke UP the meeting cigar for
their good work in breaking up the
meeting"
H F
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
Shoe Workers Attend
Mass Meet in BROOKLYN

Hundreds of workers employed in
the shoe industry in New York at
tended a mass meeting called by the
Independent Shoe Workers of
Greater New York and Vicinity at
Lorraine Hall, Brooklyn, Thursday
everin~, Many of the workers joined
the union. - "a
Ben sold, militant leader of the
furriers, addressed the meeting, ex-
planning the terror tactics of the re-
dictionary officialdom which had
worked against the workers in many
trades, especially the Nolan-Fitz-
gerald gang which had wrecked the
formerly-militant Shoe Workers
Protective Union several years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
Record of Strikes
i'm Japan for 1923

TOXIC, (By MaiD According
to the investigation of the Home
office, labor disputes in japan dur
ing the first six months of this
year totalled 371 cases, involving
1921 persons. During the corre-
spending period of last year the
number of strikes amounted to 562
INVOLVING Asp persons, showing
this year a decrease of 80 per cent.
The decrease was caused by, (a)
severe government suppression of
militant trade unions, (b) crushing
of strikes by armed force, (c) gen
eral industrial depression-which
all combined placed the workers in
Instantaneous positions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16


Read also the reports of the New
Bedford Strike, of the Textile Work.
ers Convention which organized the
National Textile Workers Union, the
Canton-Ohio steel strike, and many
other articles, including the latest
activities of the Australian labor
unions, fighting an anti-strike law,
the Pan Pacific Trade Union Sec
retariat, fighting wholesale murder
of uniOnists in China and other in
ternational events.
Buy October Labor Unity from
Workers Bookshops, T. U. E. l.. Of
fees, Workers Party offices, or from
LABOR UNITY, 2 West 18th St.,
New York. 20 cents a copy; Is cents
in bundles; 81 year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
EXPLOIT THOSE
Who FIGHT FIRES
FOR UNCLE SAM
Worker Is Cheated in
Pay Check
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Calf, (By
MaiD.-A fire fighter, who is room
ing in the same place as this CORE
spondent. saws that he helped to pull
two dead bodies out of the fire ir
the San Bernardino Mountains last
Saturday.
What Price Workers Lives?
Part of the story of the fire has
appeared in the papers. The re-
ports, however, deal mostly with the
loss to property Idle workers are
plentiful in California and the loss
of the workers lives is generally
considered a matter of minor i'm
portance.
The dead men, as we'll as two
others, seriously injured, were all
Mexicans, according to nv infor-
mant. One of the fire victims has
been identified as Matthias Cacon
Cor Cachon). The other not posi-.
lively identified, is believed to be F
Romero. Both the men were mem
bers of Joe Sherman's gang of fire
fighters.
came back a few days ago from
the Ridge Route highway where
| fought fire like hell in the pay OF
Uncle Sam. But, instead of being
cited for bravery, I found my check
was S1.05 short, a sum representing
three hours forced scab work in the
interest of the plunderbund.
No Identification.
The most important point in this
connection is that the records of the
fire fighters are kept in a disorderly
manner. In my case, for example, a
man put down, 81. P. Rindal, Los
Angeles" Nothing more. The same
was done with the rest. Suppose my
body was burned beyond recognition,
which was the case with both Mexi-
cans mentioned above, how could my
relatives or friends prove my iden-
tity? In many cases, the names
were not even spelled correctly, es-
pecially many of the foreign born
workers.
A free description of every fire
fighter ought to be recorded and
each man given a metal badge with
number on it, something the fire
could not destroy. The present sys.
term, or rather lack of system
makes it very difficult for relatives
Of dead workers to collect damages
Other cases of dead, unidentified
or missing men have been reported
in the papers, but details are gen
orally lacking. They do not like tt
write, more than they have. to about
such things. Workers lives are
cheap on the fire lines, as well a.
in war, mines, mills and factories
And the bosses, for whose interests
the workers are forced to struggle
and die, keep we'll behind the danger
Numerous workers have been re
ported more or less seriously injured
in the last couple of weeks. But
the whole story of thousands Of
thousands of men, engaged in fight
ing fires on at least ten fronts, from
lower California and Mexico to the
northern part of this state, will
never be told.
And the flames are not out en-
tirely.
L. P. RINDAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
HASSELL' FLIGHT
ENDS WITH CRASH
Plane En- Route to- Sweden
Wrecked Six Miles From
Start at Rockford, III.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCKFORD, H.. July 26.--After
getting away TO perfect start at dawn
on It's projected flight from Rockford,
H., to Stockholm, Sweden, the mono-
plane Greater Rockford made a forced
landing 26 minutes later in cornf1eld
six miles from the airport and on the
opposite side of the Rock River from
the take-ofT.
A wing was cracked and otllhr dam
age done as result Of the landing,
caused. the pilots said. by too heavy a
load. with resulting inability to gain
altitude. AS result future plans for
the flight today were indefinite.
With the plane lying nose down, its
engine in the ground and the left wing
ruined, six miles west of Rockford,
Pilots Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer
we're taken back TO the airport.
Neither Man Is Hurt.
Neither HaSsell nor Cramer was hurt
Hassell declared he would try 1t again.
but it was believed that another at
tempt, even II the plane were repaired,
would be out of the question, and flight
IN new plane was considered exceed
ingly doubtful.
After their original take-off the flyers
headed West, but were unable TO make
the altitude necessary To clear the hills
OH the opposite side of Rock River,
Hassell's wife said that he was greatly
disappointed al the forced landing, but
added that Cramer seemed In good
spirits She herself said she was both
disappointed and relieved.
ABOUT 5000 people thronged the field
as the flyers took off. Hassell'a wife,
who did not plan to come to the field,
was there at the last minute to bid
her husband farewell.
Several out~of~tOwn planes circled the
field and bade the flyers good luck as
they hoped
When quarters of the way down
the runway, the plane left the ground
at 44a am, central standard time.
The Chamber OF Commerce committee
sponsoring the proposed flight called
meeting for today 10 consider the sit
uation.
1t was reported some of the hackers
wanted 10 send the plane back To the
factory, have 1t rebuilt and make am
other attempt. However. Hassell has
said the fight would have to be made
before August since after that the
Arctic conditions would not be salts
factory.
Mo effort was made this morning
toward removing the wrecked plane
from the corn field Cramer was home
asleep and Hassell had returned to the
Rockford airport, but refused to tell his
plans,