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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Workers of All Races
at Solidarity Dance,
Harlem, on Friday Mite

Negro, white, Chinese and Japan
csc workers will be represented at
the Inter Racial dance which will be
given at the Imperial Auditorium,
100 w. 129th St., Friday evening.
The Negro Champion, the Daily
Worker and Vida Obrera, organ of
the Spanish section of the Commu-
mist Party, will share proceeds of the
event. Cyril Briggs, editor of the
Negro Champion, reports that the
committee in CHARGE includes Latin,
Negro and white American workers.
The dance will "bring white and
Negro workers, as we'll as Chinese
and japanese workers together on
a platform of working class solidar-
Iity," the statement issued by the
committee declares. John c. Smiths
Negro Orchestra will provide dance
music. Tickets may be obtained at
the offices of the Negro Champion,
1859 w. 133d St.; Spanish Workers
Club, SIS w. 18th St., and the Work
ers Bookshop, 26 Union So.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

to speak, darkness descended upon
the mems toilet. The usual white
light in the toilet was replaced by
a very small red light, the one COM
monty used at fire exits.
The workers in the shop well
guessed that it was just another vile
scheme on the part of the bosses,
under the pretext that some Of the
workers read their newspapers there.
The workers protested against
this cheap stunt of the bosses, but
to no avail. One of the workers,
with little more daring, made the
bulb disappear from its socket. The
bosses went one better, they put in
another bulb, the same size, but
painted black with ink. By the same
magic, also this bulb disappeared.
Being short of small bulbs, this time
they have put in larger bulb also
painted up thickly with ink.
Must Organize.
The workers in the shop are lear
ming their lessons of capitalist
slavery. Not only are they deter
mined to get more light in the toilet,
to demand to be treated like human
beings and not like swine in the
pig-sty, but they are also beginning
to realize that what is merely d
dream with the Socialists" is their
only salvation, and that they must
help make it reality; that they
must follow the only revolutionary
workingclass party, the Communist
Party, under whose leadership the
working class will wipe the face of
the earth clean of all exploiting
cockroaches and spiders.
"A MILITANT WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
"S0clalist" Turned Hat Boss
Sh01Vs True Capitalist Coloys
by a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
1t is the usual thing for Social
ists," when they become bosses, to
try to equal, if not surpass, all the
out and out open-shop institutions,
in their drives for so-called greater
economy in production" which to
the worker means more wage cuts,
longer hours, less pay, ever greater
speed-up, squeezing ever more pro-
fits out of the flesh and blood of
The workers.
The bosses of my shop (there are
three of them), The Trucikan Hat
Co., 40 w. 3Sth ST., belong to the
same category of Socialists" At
least two of them profess to have
been dreaming Chats about all they
have been doing, l guess) at times
in the remote past of a time when
capitalism will be no more, when
there shall be no more exploiters
and exploited, oppressors and OPP
pressed, when men shall once and
for all be free, when, in word, to
him who works shall belong the
earth; but, true to form, their past
dreams do not stop them from de-
vising efficiency schemes by means
of which they hope to increase the
exploitation of the workers, that is,
to squeeze some more profit out of
the already pale flesh of the workers.
The Mad Drive.
The latest stunt on the part Of
my bosses shows what extreme the
bosses especially the cockroach
manufacturers, to which class my
bosses belong-will resort to in their
mad drive for more profit, to "get
rich quick"
Suddenly, out of the clear sky, so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
EISENSTEIN SENSATION AT
LITTLE THEATRE

"Ten Day That Shook the World"
a remarkable realistic film version
of the last ten days of the Russian
Revolution is now playing at the
Little Theatre. Directed by S. M.
Eisenstein the young Russian gen.
ius who was responsible for "Potem-
kim" the picture of the revolution,
is heralded not only as an artistic
triumph but as a thrilling, dramatic
historical document.
Eisenstein was placed in COM
mand of the whole city of Leningrad
for the making of this film. The
streets, buildings, citizens were at
his disposal. This is the first time
in the history of motion pictures
that any director was granted this
privilege. The breath taking events
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
LOCCERS FIND
PROSPERITY
IS The BUNK
I.W.W. Is Dead in the
Timber Woods
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail) -
Lumber workers prosperity in the
so-called prosperous Northwest is
mostly bunk. Most of the bunk
comes from the lumber kings, who
advertise all over the country.
/ am working in the prosperous
Northwest over seven years and the
conditions are getting rottener and
rottener from day to day as see it.
Piece Work, Blacklist
Piece work, blacklist, and clearing
house make the workers. conditions
unbearable. The wages by the day
are from $500 to Sc.
Mostly piece work and bonus work
is the rule. The piece worker may
make rs cents or 81 day more, but
he does two days work in one. The
board and bed and hospital-for
these you have to pay $3.50 to $1.75
day.
The hours per day on most jobs
are eight. From camp to camp ten
to eleven hours a day.
/. w. w. Dead
There is no labor organization of
any kind in the woods. The /. W..
w. are practically out of existence
as far as the woods are concerned.
A few ex-members are found of
both factions of the |. W. W., also
many sympathizers, and members of
the Communist Party.
The militant lumber workers want
a militant program. On this kind of
program they can be organized and
will be organized.
Every militant lumber worker
Knows that in order to abolish piece
work, the blacklist and he clearing
house system, and gain better hours
and sanitary conditions, they must
organize into a practical and mill
tant union.
BILL w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
NE:AvERS WAC
ARR: DoCKED
LEAST ExCUS
Deductions Make |
Wage Simmer

(Ba q Worker Corresponds
WILKES APRE, Pa. (By ]
Il have just lost my job. I W
for two years in the Wilkes
Weaving Mill, as a weaver.
Saturda~ The boss called me I'M
office and locked me S1.00 !
defect in the silk, again on M,
/ was called into the boss p1
room and told | owed the con
q dollar. The worst of it is tina
we only make $18 and $40 a
while before we could make SO
S35. Then too, ] used to have
looms to care for, but lately
been given four. In spite of
whenevc- the weavers have an
fects in the material, they are
ed.
When the boss told me I mus
him the second dollar in two d;
put On my hat and coat. If Pm
to owe anyone money at the
Of the weet it won't be the Dos
jim
P, S.: We have no union il
mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
TOSCANINI TO CONDUCT
TEEN WEEKS NEXT SEAS

The Philharmonic announces
Arturo Toscanini will end his s.
with the concert of Monda7 eve
April /. A foreig ntour of tn
Scala opera company necessi
the return of Toscanini to Mills
the middle of April. After his
services with La Scala, which
this year, Toscanini will be fir.
devote practically all his time t
Philharmonic Orchestra, whicl
has chosen as his medium of Elk
sion. For next season, therefor
has agreed to give sixteen wee
New York, conducting all of the
certs during that period.
The Philharmonic has succl
in procuring the release of the
liant young conductor Gle.
Krauss, from his concert and OF
tic activities in Frankfort so
he can remain for the last two v
of the season and conduct the
certs from Thursday evening, /
q through Sunday afternoon, I
Id
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Sell. OUT ON
COMP NSAT!ON
Takers Accept Law the
Bosses Wanted
by q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
RALEIGH, N. C. by MaiD ~
The misleaders of ne North Caro-
lima State Federation of Labor sold
out the workers of North Carolina
by dropping the fight for a real
compensation law, and accepting a
compromise" compensation act
from the bosses in this state.
The compromise" compensation
law calls for a maximum of S18 a
week, a minimum of 81 a week, and
$500 as the total award for death
in cases following accidents.
An injured worker can have 1T
the most ten weeks medical and sur
gical treatment.
Workers of North Carolina, don't
be satisfied with this compensation
act. Fight for a real one, even
though the state federation takers
have dropped the flight they
claimed to have been putting up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Startling MeV Soviet Film
Without Characters, Captions

THE Film Guild Cinema on West
9Th st. is showing this week Us
premier of a new Soviet picture by
Eugene Deslaw, a director of the
Ukrainian Kino Trust (Vufku)
This picture is one among other
things, the latter including a Charlie
Chaplin revival, German (Ufa)
circus picture which revamps eva
riety" with Hollywood treatment
and happy ending, and an animated
color satire on Hiawatha.
The important part of the pro-
gram is, of course, the new Soviet
picture. 1t is entitled "The March
of the Machine" and is without a
character or caption. 1t is short
film, an experimental attempt to
show machines in motion. The result
is very effective, due to the fine
cutting, unusual camera angles,
lighting and superimposing of shots
upon each other.
Railroad tracks filmed from a
speeding train, with intersecting
tracks, cranes, derricks, mixing ma
chimes, acetylene torches, steel fur
naces, electric saws, and all sorts Of
unusual machines succeeded one an
other, shot from all sorts of angles,
at times up side down, in daylight
and with the spotlight on them.
The picture is typical of the sort
of work that is going on in the Sow
let Union today. 1t was the Soviet
directors who discovered and devel-
oped cutting, or mounting as they
call it, and it is they who have
brought it to it's present advanced
stage, as we see it in such master
pieces as those of Pendovkin and
Eisenstein, and in a number of other
Soviet films. AS Eisenstein has said,
"Mounting--the interlacing of close
ups, of side-views, to ,-views, bot
tom views-is the most important
part of our work. The Russians cut
dozen times for each time the
American director cuts, and the re-
suit is a great speeding-up in the
tempo.
The picture ends with a remark
about the destiny Of mana query
as to whether he is to be the master
or slave of the machine. 1t sount !,
like typical bit Of American moral
izing and was probably inserted
here. In this country, as in every
capitalist country, the machine en-
slaves men, but in the Soviet Union
the workers are masters of their
machines, as of everything within
the country.
The writer has seen the elabora, :
labor protection measures in the
Soviet factory-guards around mo-
tors, belts, pulleys, etc., as well J
nurses, doctors, rest rooms and rest
periods during the work day, etc.
In the workers republic, the ma
chine has been mastered, but the
American worker cannot look at
such a picture without remembering
that these machines, which act as
though animated, are his Franken-
stems.
"The March of the Machines" is
interesting as laboratory expert
ment, but it hardly seems likely that
| the future of the cinema lies in this
direction. In longer picture it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
A FLOATING HELL-HOLE
Seaman Says Water Leaked Into Shit

vestris. He will reveal the brutal
exploitation of the crew, while the
officers and wealthy passengers
held feasts; the unseaworthiness
of the ship, described as a floating
hell-hole.
mo matter how tightly the port
holes are shut, the water still
leaks thru" is one Of the facts
revealed about the Vandyck by
this correspondent.
Do not fail to read this sensa-
tional revelation of brutality on
the of c--'ritation of the sea-
men going on side by side with the
rcvels Of the parasite passengers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
MATTRESSES MUST STAND INSUL

a. m. to p. M, that is five hours
a day.
Full time is from IL a. m. to 8
p. m.-wages being SIS to Sc
week, 10 cents an hour the aver
age.
All for 10c An Hour.
For that 10 cents we have to
wash mirrors, tables, chairs, and
polish all the silver, besides which
we have to clean Strawberries,
grapefruit, and in some places
clean string-beans and peas, and
make salads, etc.
After all this is done we must
do the regular work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Doubled for Cord Fabric Waves Eaarnbon A Says Corresponds


If you are out of work and over
%, you have to die, or become
crook, or something else.
Must Form Fighting Union!
These are the conditions of the
New York mattresses. We must
get together and form a fighting
union, led by the Communist Party,
that fights for the rights of the
workers. Is it stupidity, blindness,
or fear, that we do not do this?
say, let's do it; I mean all of
us, all the $4,000 mattresses. So
let's get together and form
fighting union to get us out of
this mess.--N. Y. WAITRESS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

by a Worker Correspondent
A charge made by seamen on the
Vestris, the liner on which the
Lamport-Holt Co. sent over 100 to
their death. was that the port
holes were in such poor condition,
that they could not be shut, and
the sea came thru, causing the ship
To list, IN the result disaster.
In tomorrow's worker corre-
spondence section, the Daily will
print the first part Of a letter
from seaman correspondent who
shaved on the Lamport and Holt
liner Vandyck, sister ship of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

In case you get sick while work.
ing there is no place to sit down.
In some places / worked in during
the two hours off between meals
we had to put papers on the floor
and lie down on the papers in or
der to rest our bodies so we could
he able to work during the next
meal.
While looking for a job, as our
sister from Chicago says, the bos-
ses take only the pretty girls; she
forgot to add, you must go dressed
stylishly and look like free-for
all. Otherwise you are out of
luck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

By q Woman Worker Correspondent
On reading the Daily Worker |
was glad to see in the workers
correspondence a letter from
worker in my own line-from a
waitress in Chicago.
/ know that the terrible con-
ditions she described are not exag-
gerated in any way. / also know
that in New York City the con-
ditions are a thousand times
worse.
The wages in restaurants range
from $3.50 to So per week for part
time, the hours being from 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Correspondents Tell Day Came to Plants

Describing the coming of the seven
hour day to Soviet tentile factory,
q acorker' correspondent of the So
0iet Union says: Decentralization
aOas introduced. In capitalist coun-
tries many 1Oorkers 1Uould haze been
throlOn out on the street IN oul
factory the seOen-hour day followed
production increased, and rational
ization and the seUen-bour day gaze
employment to 400 qOorkers." Thu
letter, and many others from Sovie'
tcorker and peasant correspondent
q0iA soon appear IN the Daily Work.
en-. These workers Dish to hear from
American aUorkers. Photo shows
aoorkerS in a state plant in the Cau-
cdsus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

The lower middle class, the small
manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the
artisan, the peasant. all these fight
against the bOurgeoisie, to save
from extinction their existence as
fractions of the middle class. They
are therefore not revolutionary, but
conservatfve.-KarI Marx (Commu-
mist Manifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
LOSES SUIT

BUFFALO, N. Y, March IS CUP
"A supreme court jury was dis
missed today by Justice Samuel j.
Harris after failing to reach an
agreement in the $4,000 damage
suit brought by Frank Bronson.
garage proprietor. against the town
of Brant for the drowning of his two
daughters, Glenna and Gladys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

What we have to go thru in or
der to keep job is undesirable.
We have to stand all kinds Of
abuse from anyone who feels like
annoying either with hands or
dirty talk.
Must Stand for Insults.
Customers ask for dates" offer
money, you can guess what /
mean. If we don't submit to any
of these annoyances we are apt to
get fired. While running our legs
off to please the boss, and sell
food, if we should happen to fall
and hurt ourselves, the manager
and boss start hollering and call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

would become tiresome. But insofar
as it shows what can be done with
machines in motion, it enables di-
rectors to realize the dynamic pos
sibilities Of machinery for their pic
lures. In his first picture, Strike"
Eisenstein got fine effects from
whirling machines, and in "Potem~
kin" "Ten Days." again.
Other Soviet, and some French
and German directors are beginning
to awaken to the use Of machinery
in motion, and in the far distant
and dark future it is possible that
Hollywood may see the light.
"A. G. RICHMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

you all kinds of names, saying,
you god-damned fool, can't you
sec" stupid. etc. All because
you slip On their greasy floor.
There is no room, hardly any place
to change your clothes for work.
Must Dress In Cellar.
In most places you have to go
down in the cellar where rats and
mice run about; often the ground
is wet and thick with all kinds of
dirt.
Sometimes the manager and
boss come down while you are
changing clothes and try to grab
you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

The Dictatorship of the Proletarint
war Of the new class against Its more
powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie,
whose power of resistance increases
tenfold after its overthrow, even
though overthrow in only one coun-
try.-v. i. Lenin ("Left" Commu-
nfsm).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
IMpERIALIsT FLIGHT.

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala,
March IS (UP).-Captain Ira Eaker,
U. S. army flier enroute from France
Field, Canal Zone, to the United
States, left here at 1880 a. m. today
after a 25-n1inute stop,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
FAVE INVESTIGATION

TPENTON, N. j., March IS (UP),
The investigation into the alleged
rambling conditions in Hudson
county was resumed today by the
McCallister committee # the state
assembly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
GRAFT JOB AIDS.

WASHINGTON, March IS (UP).
|-Northcutt Ely, of New York City
was amounted by Secretary of In
terror Wilbur today to serve as his
executive assistant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

of the Ten Last Days are dep
with the naturalness that only
genius of Eisenstein could ach.
Two hundred thousand extras
used in the making Of this pic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
JOBLESS. KILLS SELF

Phillip Stecker, %, strangled him
self in his furnished room at SOP
Fifth Ave-, Brooklyn, today. He was
jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

No sooner is the exploitation
tEie laborer by the manufactu
40 far at an end. that he rece
his wages in cash, then he is
upon by the other portions of
bourgeoisic, the landlord, the 81
keeper, the pawnbroker. etc.--I
Enrx Communist Manifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Advertiser wants connee

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
WrArHrR srNrNTARY

Barometric pressure was rather
high throughout the far Northwest
and moderately high over the east
ern states this morning, and rela-
lively low across the middle portion
uf the United States. Cloudy and
unsettled weather continued ~ Tex
rs and the southern Mississippi Val
ley with light 10 moderate rains,
while fair ~ clear weather prevail
ed over most of the balance of the
United States. IT was considerably
colder throughout the far North
west this morning. while tempera-
lures were seasQnahle elsewhere I'm
the country, except rather mild IN
the Gulf states.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
SUSPECT NJ in DEATHS
OF FOUR OTHER CHILDREN

CAMDEN. II. J.. Nov. 1i-lP-
Suspicion OF police that four other
children may have met the same
fate as 4-year-old Dorothy Rogers
and her brother, Timothy. 2. for
whose deaths Gladys May Parks.
s.. Is held III the Camden county
Jail on a charge Of murder. today
intensified Investigation Of the case.
Detective Sergeant Louis said the
woman had confessed she had used
the Rogers children i'm a blacknail-
ing scheme. He said the authorities
had found seven men who accused
her Of having demanded money OF
them after showing them the chill
dren and asserting they were theirs.
These men gave descriptions Of four
small children used which Shaw de-
clnred were entirely different from
descriptions Of the ROGERS children.
Miss Parks ended a widespread
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
MORE MEXICO
RIOTS FEARED
Shots Fired Bricks and
Stones Hurled in Po-
litical Clashes

MEXICO CITY. NOV. lip
1nls capital was apprehensive tcCA 3
q further clashes between adherents
q rival presidential candidates prior
70 nalloting next Sunday.
1hirteen persons, one CT them a
woman, we're seriously injured yea
terdhy IN ri0ting in the heart OF
the heart Of the city between rival
political groups numbering more
than 10000.
More than so shots were fired, and
bricks and stones flew thickly. Po-
ice We're unable to confirm a check
Of casualties in one Of the politi-
cal groups. which said three Of their
number were killed.
The army was urged not 70 turn
guns on the Mexican people on
election day and not TO become
criminals 70 enforce discipline" The
appeals said soldiers had a right 10
disobey their chiefs when orders
were against the law.
March TO Embassy
At n stage in yesterdays riot
ing a considerable group OF Vasc0n-
Celistas marched to the American
embassy where one OF their number
made e speech declaring blame fur
the clash rested on partisans OF
General Paschual Ortiz Rustic. can
dictate or the National Revolution
airy party. He declared false in
formation concerning Vasconcel0s
was being spread in the United
States. particularly as to his cana
bilities. and that Ambassador Nor
row should do something to counter
act IL. The embassy was guarded
by special police.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11

PARIS. NOV. 1i-fP- Against
the brilliant sunshine Of a perfect
autumn day Paris today celebrated
the anniversary of the Armistice.
II was in marked contrast to the
gray mist of eleven years ago.
Many thousands gathered at the
Arc de Triumpe where President
Doumergue paid tribute 70 the
unknown soldier and received
state dignitaries. members Of the
diplomatic corps and other not
ables. including general Pershing
and Norman ID. Armour.
He then : yiewcd a parade or
attachments of all Frances fight
ing forces. Earlier civilians paid
their tribute 10 the Unknown
soldier. "a ing the grave N a long
lir>. each throwing n flower mt the
tomb.
Georges Ciemenceau, Father OF
victory" was unable 70 attend the
ceremonies, but his c%ountrynen