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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
NEGRO LAUNDRY
LABOR POISONED
Overcome by Fumes of
Escaping Chlorine

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 49,
Escaping fumes of deadly chlorine
gas from a faulty cylinder in the
Tolman Laundry at Sixth and c
Streets recently overcame a large
number of the workers as the gas
spread through the building after
the safety valve blew off the 200
pound storage tank. More than 200
workers, mostly Negro men and
women, slave in this laundry for
starvation wages, averaging less
than SIS a week, and work more
than u hours a day, days a week.
This is true not only of the Negro
slaves in the Tolman Laundry, but
in dozens of laundries in Washing
ton, where over 1000 Negro work
ers are forced to slave more than
81 hours a week, for wages less
than SIS week. Most of these
laundry slaves are Negro women.
Always In Danger.
The escaping gas, due to the
faulty equipment supplied by the
bosses, is a serious danger to the
many hundreds of low-paid laun-
dry slaves. The chlorine gas is
used in the landries for bleaching
purposes. Several of the Negro
workers are still in hospitals, and
were made very seriously i'll. There
is no trace of any union for the
laundry workers in Washington.
Even if the white, reactionary labor
takers wanted to organize the laun-
dry workers, which they do not, for
these reactionary officials, many Of
whom are members Of the Ku Klux
Khan openly, would refuse to allow
the Negro workers, who are the
worst exploited of the southern laun-
dry workers, join the union. These
misleaders are always coming out
in the capitalist press of the south
with attacks on the Negro workers,
I calling them "scabs," when as a
matter of fact no worker is more
willing to join fighting union than
the exploited Negro worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
Otis ELEVATOR
SPEEDS UP ITS
SLAVES IN N. J.
Four Men Must Share
One Locker

(By a Worker Correspondent
HARRISON, N. j., (By MaiD.-
The Otis Elevator Co. has five diff
ferent shops in it's plant in Harri-
son. 1t has a machine shop, car
shop, cab assembly, paint spraying
shipping and a few minor depart
ments. There are about 500 skilled
and unskilled workers shaving here,
The speedup system is fierce. The
slaves are timed on each job they
turn out for the day, and as part of
the speedup process they are given
premiums" This varies according
to the size of the regular wages.
The worker who gets higher wage
gets less premium, and the worker
who gets lower wages, is told he
will get higher premium" if he
speeds up.
Eight men are given one double
locker, or four men to each. The
company has just obtained newer
lockers of cheaper type, in this way
being able to pocket more profits.
These lockers are not large enough
to place four overcoats in properly
The company runs cafeteria. 1t
is poorly supplied with benches and
tables, and workers are often COM
PEELED to sit on the cold cement floor
or even to go without lunch.
ARNOLD"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
(Bu a Worker Cotrespondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).-
Conditions among the textile work.
ers in the northeastern section of
Philadelphia, that vast neighborhood
known as Kensington, have reached
such pass that numerous private
Charitable" organizations, inactive
for over decade, since before the
war, have now deemed it absolutely
essential to "do something"
Unemployment, part time employ
ment and wages to married men
with families to support as low as
SIG per week have made existence
a difficult problem to the workers
: in the textile industry.
So that even one or two of the
capitalist newspapers could not ig-
more the situation, and one of them
admitted in a small, isolated news
item headed "Soup Kitchens Open
in Kensington," the truth---in a
. fashion.
However, this sort of aid can only
slightly alleviate the abominable
general conditions. For anything
with semblance of permanence the
workers must organize.
The workers Of Kensington, Port
Richmond and Frankfort can now
see for themselves plainly where the
nAmerican plan" is leading them,
has already led them to. To the
doors of starvation, to charity.
In this, the largest textile center
in America, the weavers must join
the National Textile Workers
Union, strike for shorter hours, full
time employment and living stand
ard of wages.
Only by vigorous methods aimed
against the source Of the misery of
the bulk Of the populace of Ken
sington, the wealthy and ever in
creasing Weather owners of the
numerous mills Of this city, the
parasitical slave drivers who al
ways seek 70 lengthen hours, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
"A Day With Tolstoy"
Opens at Film Guild

"A Day With Tolstoi" opens to-
day at Film Guild Cinema.
IA Day With Tolstoi" is the name
of a special added attraction which
will be shown, commencing today at
the newly-opened Film Guild Gin
elma, SO w. Eighth st. The Tolstoi
film is being shown in conjunction
with the latest Soviet film 1.-TWO
Days" which is proving extremely
popular with militant workers in
New York.
The film is factual record of his
daily life and was made in 1908 at
Yasnaia Poliana, and its showing to-
morrow is the first public showing
in America since the films were
taken.
The picture was brought to Amer
lea by Symon Gould, director of the
Film Guild Cinema, by arrangement
with Tolstoi's daughter, Tatiana
Lvonvna.
The picture will have an indef-
mite run.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
BROACH ADJUSTS
AGREE MENT TO
SUIT the BOSSES
Strikes Out Part They
Object To
I(Bu q Worker CORRESPONDENT

(By a Worker Correspondent
While the electricians are pushing
their fight for the 40 hour week,
and the same pay as that for the
Id hour week, there is a sentiment
among the other building trade
workers for the 40 hour week, which
is beginning to spread rapidly.
In the agreement of the union and
the masters there was a phrase
struck out by the faker Breach, the
electricians union "czar," which
calls for the same application of the
40 hour week to be automatically
enforced by the other trades within
80 days. The masters saw that thru
that phrase it would be so healthy
for them. The masters association
first thought of expelling the cleo
trician bosses, so that if the cleo
tricians did get their demands, it
should not be linked up with the
entire building industry. But, as
Breach struck the phrase out, they
are now bit more at ease.
Now, will the masters Associa-
ton allow the electrical workers to
receive their demands? They will
not, by all means. That would mean
general shakeup, because this 40
hour affair has been going on for
years and the bosses don't feel any
too charitable. When at the present
moment there is unemployment not
only in the building trades, but in
all industries, you can be assured
that the bosses take advantage of
such incidents.
The present scale of the electri-
clans is supposed to be S12 a day
and if I should say that one in 100
got that scale l would be over
estimating.
/ If we watch the situation closely
we will find how crooked a role the
"A. F. of L. officials will play in
this matter.
/, "All these unions are only COM
pany unions that are controlled by
the bosses, they merely have their
union takers as go-betweens. The
electricians and the other building
workers should not expect anything
from their present leaders"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
DeQdGy Play I1gacheuS Building Workers Fight for 4Oom We
Subway, Another Artistic
Revolt and Good IN Places

"Dear Jesus, don't make me ride
in the subway any more!" That is
the modern maiden's prayer, accord
ing to Elmer Rice, author of "The
Subway" now at Theatre Masque.
Jane Hamilton utters this bitter
wall, crouched on a shadow colored
cushion, which the audience isn't
supposed to see, playing, or, just
then, praying, the part of Sophie
Smith, a filing clerk of unbelievable
simplicity for New York in 1929.
For all that the cushion obtrudes
itself, and that the characters are
caricatures, there are some good
moments in this Subway"
In spite of the ancient plot of the
shrinking violet, plucked by wan
dering philanderer, tossed aside, and
swiftly whitening to death, an an
omolous stupid plot for such scenes
and satire as fill the play, some
level thrusts are made at the rota-
rian gods.
The first scene is in the filing
room, the room where the third
copies are filed, in the Subway Con-
struction Co. The junior partner is
there to show his publicity man
some points mot a window in the
place, nothing to distract the atten-
ton of the girl, artificial light here,
sir, always the same, absolutely
pure, fresh air, etc"
In this scene works Sophie Smith,
and finds that the drawers, in spite
of the absence of windows and air,
are full of dust.
Here her boy friend, another clerk,
abandons her, fixing rapturous eyes
on that good job" in Detroit, for
which he has been preparing thru
correspondence school: "Opportu-
nifty waits for no man." "delay is
dangerous for while YOU wait, some
other and INFERIOR man may take
YOUR CHANCE"
Here is the artist who finally gets
her, after coming into the office to
make an illustration for the pub
lieity dope. He takes her to box
seat in a movie-an excellent scene.
The beam of light to the picture,
supposed to be where the audience
is, catches their two faces and
brings out the play of emotion.
Jane Hamilton and Edward H.
Viewer. who does the artist, have
learned something Of the motion pic
ture art of facial expression-in this
scene it does not seem unreal. Jane
Hamilton is enc of these actresses
who can weep real tears, too.
However, after moment of re-
atty the play slants into caricature
once more-the little filing clerk
says: ooh, he touched me again lin
a strange interlude aside), and the
artist says (same way), "Ah, she
has soul! No. no, leave her alone!
Has she soul?"
The publisher, who announces that
he is getting out a magazine,
"Tripe," with just enough hot sauce
to make the boobs think they are
Knowing" happens to be the imme-
diate cxecutioner of Sophie. When
he takes the artist away from her,
fer a JOB in Europe, she jumps un-
der subway train. 1t is fitting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
WHITE RUSSIA Halls
10 YEARS OF SOVIET

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MINSK, White Russian Soviet
Republic by MaiD.-In connection
with the tenth anniversary of the
White Russian Soviet Republic, the
celebration of which took place on
Dec. 30, the local press published in
teresting material relating to the de-
velopment of the republic.
-Four languages. namely, White
Russian, Polish, Jewish and Rus
sian, are recognized as official state
languages in White Russia.
There are 81 national minority
Soviets in the republic, including %
Jewish, 10, Polish, Is Russian, 5
Lettist, 2 Ukrainian and German
Soviets.
Industrial Growth.
White Russia began to be indus
trialized only under the Soviet
power In addition to the extension
Of the existing factories a number
of new industrial enterprises are be-
ing built, including a timber COM
bine, earthenware, leather and match
factories, farm machinery works,
large power station, etc. The
gross output of White Russian in
dustry in 1929 is valued at $50
million roubles, against 120 million
roubles the previous year. The cap
ital investments in industry in 1927
Is reached the sum of 1920 thou
sand roubles, exceeding the invest
ments for the two preceding years
taken together.
The number of workers employed
in industry has grown to 45 thou
sand, compared with 20 thousand be-
fore the Revolution. Together with
the building and transport workers
the number of industrial laborers in
the republic is about $4,000, the to-
tai population being in the neigh
horhood of five millions.
Electric Power.
The electrical industry has beer
developing with particular speed
thus while in 1915 the average con.
sumption of power per head of pop,
ulation was only 90 kwt-bours, II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
union TAKERS
AID THE Use OF
SCABS ON JOB
Delegate and the Boss
"Smoothe Things"
by a Worker Correspondent

(BU q Worker correspondent
What is the plumbing trade COM
ing to? On all new work under
union control the entire system is
broken down. The machine officials
Of the A. F. of l.. are not assisting
the members of their trade union by
seeing that union conditions are up
held on the job. Whenever such a
lob is reported by a militant worker,
the delegate sees the boss of the job
and conditions are smoothed over.
Ny boss is a Brooklyn master
plumber, but has his work in Queens.
Half the time I am waiting for him
to call me to work. There are only
two sets, we work three weeks and
then rest a month. All for the
munificent wages of $500 a day as
plumbers helper. The first job
was held up every few days because
of scabs working with US, such as
the fathers, electricians, plasters
and roofers. Finally the job was
stopped because my boss could not
get his payment from the builder.
At present I am waiting for my
boss after months vacation. The
roughing was just finished when
the Building Trades Council stopped
the job because all the workers ex-
cepting the plumbers and helpers
are scabs. 1t is possible for my
boss to finish the job with nom
union help plumbers ST and help
ers $50 as the scabs in the other
trades have finished their work.
What is needed to remedy this con-
dition is a militant job steward sys-
tenn in the building trades.
M. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14

1927 it reached 5.5 kwt-hours. The
abundance of peat marshes with
plenty Of high-grade peat insures
the further speedy development of
the identification of White Russia.
In addition to the Ossinovskaia CEN
trail electrical station, which is to
be completed in 1880, the Soviet of
Peoples Conmissaries of the U. S.
S. R. has recognized it necessary to
embark at the end of the five-year
period involved in the present plans
upon the construction of a second
power station to work on peat fuel.
In Agriculture.
Upon agriculture, the principal
hrarch of the rational economy of
White Russia, the local government
spent 20 per cent of it's budget in
1926 and it appropriated 40 per cent
Of its budget for the same purpose
in 1928. The government, together
with about 1000 peasant land i'm
provenent co-operatives, is engaged
in draining million hectares of
swamps, which will be turned into
fertile fields and added to the land
now titled by the White Russian pea
santry.
Education.
The secondary schools comprise
T2 per cent of the children of school
age in the republic. Prior to the
revolution there was not single
university in White Russia; today
there is an Institute of White Rus
sian Culture, which will be reorgan-
ICED into White Russian Academy
OF Sciences on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of the republic;
there are also the White Russian
University, the White Russian Ag-
ricultural Academy, the Veterinary
Institute, etc. The White-Russian
government is now engaged in the
erection CT special university build
ings and a university town, at a
cost of million roubles.
-Four newspapers and seventeen
magazines iii the White Russian
language are published in Minsk
There are four state theatres, three
CT them performing in White Rus
sian and one in Jewish.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14

end, for her whole family works on
the subway.
The play is one Of those intellec-
tual artistic reactions against the
whole industrial system, savagely
scratching at its more superficial
features, and failing to get at the
real difficulties. The heroines OBJ
lection to the subways is not that
they exploit labor, but that she i'm
AGNES all the men crowded against
her have designs upon her. V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
Conditions GroW Worse for
Textile Workers IN Phila.

crease the number of looms each
worker must work, and cut wages,
often firing" the worker to be re-
placed by child of 16, can anything
be accomplished.
&C. RABIN.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
POLICE WARN GOLD COAST
CAFE OWNERS TO BE DRY
Chicago Official Threatens to Pad
lock Cabarets if Set-ups Are
Provided.
BY the Associated Press.

by IHt A3SOClated PreSS.
CHICAGO, November 15.-Proprie-
tors OF 18 cabarets in Chicagos near
North Side-Gold Coast section have
Evening star., 1929-11-15
AWARD NAVY CONTRACTS.

The Westinghouse Electric & Manu-
featuring Co., located in the Washing
ton Building here, has been awarded .
contract totaling $11,461 for installing
the mechanical stoker for the centra
power plant at the Navy Yard, Boston,
Mass, the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department announced yesterday.
Contracts totaling $l59, 400 have been
signed for various construction jobs for
the Navy over the country.
The Arundel Corporation of Balti-
more, Md, was awarded the $130,000
dredging job at the naval operating
base, Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Va.
Evening star., 1929-11-15

of liquor conspiracy, said his office was
above reproach and denounced Federal
dry raid methods.
The Shoshone County official, arrest
ed yesterday with most. of the city
officials of Mullan, near here, said there
was no giant liquor conspiracy in the
Occur d'Alene mining towns.
The wholesale indictments by the
United States grand jury as Moscow
followed Summer liquor drive by Fed
eral prohibition agents, in which many
arrests were made at Wallace and
Kellogg.
Mavor A. J. Harwood of Mullan had
said after his arrest that the Federal
indictments probably are based on busi-
ness licenses, collected from Mullan
merchants; that these licenses were in
Evening star., 1929-11-15
BOYS SWIMMING POOL
REOPENED AT Y. M. C. A.
Athletic Unit Renovated and I'm
proved After Being Closed
for Short Time.

Reopening of the swimming pool at
the boys department of the Y. M. c. A.
at 1892 G street was announced yester-
day by John F. Bergner, associate di-
rector of the department.
The pool was closed a week ago for
renovations and improvements. The
pool has been painted white and made
more attractive in other ways.
Alterations and improvements to the
main clubrooms and installation of ad-
ditional equipment also are planned,
according to James G. Ingram, boys
director.
The work is in line with the policy
to expand the activities of the boys
department. The facilities of the boys
building are being made. available to
groups of working boys organized in
various commercial establishments of
the city. Messenger boys of the West
ern Union Co. have been assigned a
night weekly for recreation at the "Y."
This group Wednesday night were
shown a special safety" film under
auspices of the American Automobile
Association.
Members of Hi-Y Clubs of the vari-
Gus high schools have fitted up a coZy
clubroom as joint headquarters.
Meetings of the club members are held
there weekly.
Evening star., 1929-11-15

been called into conference with
Capt. Charles Essig of that police dis
trict and issued orders outlining what
they could and could not do in the way
of operating.
Essig, recently brought into the dis
trict with orders to clean it up, in
formed the gathering that no "Set-ups"
we're to be served, barred doors were to
be replaced with regular portals, open
at ali times, and proprietors would be
responsible for any liquor found in their
places of business.
Essig said he would demand padlocks
under the nuisance decision of Fed
eral Judge here last year, holding sale
of soft drinks for the purpose Of mix
ing them with alcoholic drinks to be
violation of the law.
Evening star., 1929-11-15
New Hops for Dancers.

PARIS IN. A. N. A.).--A good many
glideS, hops and pas de chevaI" go to
make the new dance, the "Cakstone,"
sort of mixture of the Charleston and
the cakewalk. M. Poigt, secretary of
the national syndicate of professors of
dancing and professional dancers, in
vented the Cakstone because he main
tains that a whole lot of gayety left the
ballroom with the Charleston.
(Copyright, 1929, by North American News
paper Alliance.l
Evening star., 1929-11-15
Haven for Birds Set Aside,

A total of approximately 64o-square
miles of territory, known as the Beca-
guimac Game Refuge, has been set
aside in New Brunswick as a sanctuary
for game, birds and fur-bearing animals
Evening star., 1929-11-15
INDICTED SHERIFF
SCORES DRY RAIDERS
Idaho Official Declares His Office
Is Above Re
proach.

BY the Associated Press.
WALLACE, Idaho, November Is
Sheriff r. E. Weniger, indicted with
more than 40 others on Federal charges
Evening star., 1929-11-15

tended to relieve the bad financial con-
dition of the town, but that they we're
not protection"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Governor of Minnesota
And Staff Honor Guests

Many distinguished persons will at
tend the Minnesota inaugural reception
and ball at the Willard Tuesday at $50
pm. This Is only one of the many
specially arranged entertainments to
which tine visitors from Minnesota will
be welcomed during Inauguration week
Representative Frank Clague. chairman
of the State delegation in Congress and
Mrs. Clague, general chairman of ar
engagements, assisted by Senators and
House members and their wives, have
made up the inaugural program.
Gov Theodore ChriStianson and his
staff. members of the national Repub-
lican State committee, Mrs Manley L.
Fosseen and Senator Claude H. Mac
kenzie. members of the State Iegisla-
ture will be the guests in whose honor
the reception will be held. Distin-
guished persons invited in the receiving
line will include Secretary of State and
Mrs Frank B. Kellogg, Justice and Mrs.
Pierce Butler, Senator and Mrs Henrik
Shipstead and Senator and Mrs. Thomas
D. Schall, Representative and Mrs. WAL
ter H. Newton, Representative and Mrs.
Frank Clague, Representative Harold
Knutson, Representative and Mrs. Will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

liam Carss. Representative o. J.
Kvale. Representative and Mrs. August
Andersen. Representative and Mrs
Allen j. Furlow, Representative and Mrs
Godfrey Goodwin, Representative and
Mrs. C. G. Selvig. Representative Mel
vim j. Mass. Reprcsentative-elect and
Mrs. William A. Pittenger, Representa-
tive-elect and Mrs. Victor Christgau,
Solicitor General of the Department of
Justice and Mrs. William d. Mitchell
prospective Attorney GeneraD. ASSis-
tant Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Carl T. Schuneman, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner and Mrs
Johnston b. Campbell. Governor of
the Federal Reserve Board and Mrs
Roy A. Young. Federal Trade Commits
sioner and Mrs. Charles H. March, Pro-
hibition Commissioner and Mrs. James
NJ. Doran and Mr. and Mrs. George
Akerson.
Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl. chairmae of
music, assisted by Herman Fakler ilas
arranged the musical program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

cinnati are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
C. H. Deaton.
Mrs. Emma Hastings of Norfolk is
visiting Mrs. w. r. Taylor.
Miss Laura Yates has returned to her
home in Indian Head Md. after a
visit to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Carl.
Mr.. and Mrs j. A. Logan will return
today from a visit to relatives in Har-
risonburg
Mrs. Charles Loven and her sister,
Miss Hilda Fairfax, left last week for
Miami, where they will spend several
weeks with friends
Mrs. Henry Bragg of Richmond spent
several days recently with Mr.. and
Mrs W. L. Bragg and left to visit
friends in Washington.
Mrs. George File. Miss Josephine
Owens and Miss Grace Freeze we're
week end guests of friends in Balti-
more.
DR. C. L. Cope of Philadelphia was
the guest last week of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin o. Daue, on his way to Ashc-
vile, N. c.