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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
Prepare to Smuggle
Liquor at Niagara

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 10.-Re-
ports from Bridgeburg, Ont, today
indicated the first rum fleet of the
season was preparing to land liquor
on the American shore.
Advices said that about Is fast
craft loaded with wet goods COM
prised the fleet.
1t was believed by guard officials
the fleet would attempt to run the
blockade in the Niagara River some
night this week. Coast guard and
customs boats have been placed at
strategic points along the river, it
was said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
Strike RESULT
OF SLAVE WAGES
Fight to End Miserable
Conditions
By a Worker Correspondent.

By Worker Correspondent.
We are fighting, thru our union,
for shorter hours, for better wages,
and will fight till we win these.
SIN unity there is strength" we
find written on the prison walls,
written by workers thrown in Jail
for mass picketing before the cafe
terias, from which the workers
walked out in a general strike to
fight for union conditions.
We are told that slavery has been
abolished, but right here in New
York City workers are shaving u,
IA and Is hours a day under the
most miserable conditions.
Only short time ago l worked
as an extra in a 39th st. cafe. After
l got thru with my three hours
work the boss paid me 60 cents and
took off five cents because he claim
ed l ate five cents more of food
than | was supposed to eat for
three hours work.
Another week l worked in a 44th
Street cafe. After 1 got thru with
my weeks work as a bus boy, the
boss gave me SIS, and took off SIS
for the employment agency. l was
left with $13 in my pocket for rs
hours work that week.
Most of the countermen in these
non-union shops get not more than
S25$30 a week for a 7-day week.
The bus boys get from $12 to $18
week, also for a 72-hour week, or
more. Now, Of course, this could not
go on any longer, and the result
was the present general strike.
j. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
StimsOn FOrcesHoward
to Retreat on Society
Front in Latest Clash

WASHINGTON, April 1O.-Sir
Esme Howard, British ambassador,
spent almost an hour today with
Secretary of State Stimson at the
state department discussing the
problem of Mrs. Edward Everett
CAMS social position as official
hostess of Vice-president Curtis.
Stimson stated that he refused to
intervene, which means that Sir
Esme Howard will have trouble
finding grounds for a graceful re-
treat if Curtis wins, as it was How
ard who sent out the first letter
saying that wives of ambassadors
would sit above the vice-president's
sister at functions.
The society front is the latest to
develop conflict between Britain and
U. s., and the combatants take them
selves very seriously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
FILTHY
CO N DITI0NS IN
SILvER'S JOIN 7
II Hours A Week for
$40
by a Worker Correspondent

ND9 " ~ N'fsN' W. " lSSft"N'"o/
For the past two years I have
worked as bus boy and counter
man at Silver's Cafeteria at 10th
St. and Seventh Ave. AS a bus boy
1 got $12 to start and SIS after the
first six months. Then l was given
counter mans job for $40 per
week. 1 work II hours a day, IL
days per week. The work is very
hard, and when l go home at night
to my little dirty room full of bed
bugs, 1 am otired l don't even
want to see movie.
''If Customers Could Sec"
If the customers could see the
way that their food is prepared,
they would never come back. The
kitchen is unsanitary. The floor is
always wet, covered with sips. When
the bus boy carries the tray full
of dishes back to the kitchen, all
the pieces of meat, bread and but
ter are saved. Hash, stew, bread
pudding, ETC., are made from these
scraps-and this is the kind of food
the workers have to eat. Do you
think that because we work in
cafeteria that we are allowed to eat
whatever We want? Not on your
life. We eat what is left over after
the patrons have had their lunch or
dinner.
No Time to Change Clothes.
l have seen the cook, with sweat
running off of his body, especially
in the summer, and running right
into the food he is cooking. Our
clothes act sopping wet from per-
spiration and stay that way all day
long. No time to change clothes.
No place to wash up. Speed-up, all
day and all night. When l was
green, once thought that l could
take an hour off and eat my meal
in peace and get little rest be-
tween meals. | know better than to |
try that now.
The towels we use are filthy. No
individual towels. l have seen a
cook take a dirty towel that had
been used by the workers and use
it to wipe off the grease from meat |
or an omelette. The bosses can't !
afford to give us supply of clean |
towels. Oh no. If they did, their
wives might not have money enough
to take trip to Bermuda.
inspection" Is Joke.
The inspection of the kitchen by
the Inspector from the Health De-
partment is a joke. He gets his
graft from the boss and doesn't
even look into the kitchen usually.
Every restaurant and cafeteria /
ever worked in was unsanitary. Not
fit to prepare food for hogs, let
alone human beings.
These are some of the conditions
that cafeteria workers have to en-
dure. Is it any wonder that we are
on strike, and will fight until we
win decent wages and the 8-hour
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

you should not be a coward but
you ought TO stick on your job and
within a short time everybody
will walk out in body and force
the acceptance by the bosses of
the S-hour day, better food,
decent wages, etc"
l stretched my hand toward my
friend and he assured me that the
day is not long when we'll march
in the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

Listen, you are very lucky" he
said. Il could not understand what
he meant. Then l saw his hand
moving into my pocket and he told
me, now go ahead to the wash
room and read it. Without an
answer / did as / was told and
when / read it, still wondering, l
lighted cigarette again and APP
preached my friend. well, he
told me how do you like it, now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

The power of the bourgeoisie rests
not alone upon International capital,
upon its strong international connec-
tiOns, but also upon the force of
habit, on the force of small industry,
of which, unfortunately, there is
plenty left and which daily, hourly,
gives birth to capitalism and bOur-
geOisie. spontaneously and on a large
scnle.-V. 1. Lcnin ("Left COmmu-
niSm).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
"ME FOR FOOD UNION"
Food SLAVE on Union Leading Strike

hours day for 6 1-2 days a week.
The pay is the lowest in any indus
try. We have no lockers for our
clothes. There is no ventilation and
the cellars are dirty as a dumping
ground. The mice play around the
food there.
l hear that there is a union form
ed to organize the cafeteria work
ers and better their conditions, and
also get cleaner and better food for
the workers and abolish the IL hour
day. Me for that union!
L. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

hand and after a few seconds,
smiling, he said: Have patience
and you will share this hell, too"
He spoke to the boss and / got
a job on the hot dishes counter.
My friend tried TO help me out so
] would not get stuck during the
noon rush.
Well that rush, let me tell you,
is worse than the foundries. When
this hell was over l felt my coat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

Imperialism is at the same time
the most prostitute and the ultimate
form OF the state power which mas
cent mfddle-ciass society had COM
menced to elaborate as means of
Its own emancipation from feudaI-
ism, and which fuIl-grown bourgeois
society had finally transformed into
means for the enslavement of labor
by capftal.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

and shirt and l found out that l
was soaked wet from top to bot
tom.
/ sat with my fellow workers to
eat the Goulash that was left but
my mouth would not open to re-
ceive the bite that my hand was
trying to put in.
l was dying for a little breath
of fresh air, for l was not allowed
to go out. | went down to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

to see such a palace with mirrors
and every kind of decorations; l
couldn't believe this was called a
cafeteria, Immediately l ask him
if there is any chance to get work
in this heavenly place where every
thing smiles at you.
He glanced at me with pity and
with his right hand pressing on
mine he wiped off the sweat from
his face with the elbow of his left
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

Well here we are, we are march
ing now on the sidewalk picketing
the Cafeteria with determination
to win all our demands, even the
representatives of the law, that
the "Daily Worker" calls cossacks,
are ready to use their clubs and
anxious to arrest us while we
peacefully picket.
-ARISTO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

cellar to take a smoke and dry
my wet clothes, there my friend
approached me and told me,
whispering, Il can see before you
tell me anything that you are
ready TO quit and starve rather
than stay here in this hell hole.
OF course l told him, what the
dickens do you think am slave?
That you are a slave there is no
doubt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

Something else, however. must be
snid of the other enemy of BOlshe-
vism in the working class movement.
1t is NOT sufficiently known abroad
that BOlshevisns grew up. formed,
and hardened itself in long years Of
struggle against petit-bourgeO'S rev.
OIutiOnism, which resembles, or bOr-
rows som ething from, anarchism.-V.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
By a Worker Correspondent.

By Worker Correspondent.
1t is time for me to speak about
the conditions in the cafeterias.
First, about the food the patrons de-
YOUR. We have to tell the custom
ers everything is fresh. But it is a
lie. Everything left over is used
another day. If meats are left over,
they are chopped up and served.
They give it French name, and
~ heads the bill of fare. Bread and
- Yer left on the tables is used
again.
The cafeteria workers work. IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
rBu a Worker CorrespondenD

CBy a Worker Correspondent
A few weeks ago / came from
Homestead, Pa, where / worked
in the Cafeteria of the Carnegie
Steel Mills, to look for work in
this town.
l had the address of a friend
and fellow worker and l did not
miss a minute to meet him in his
working place. What surprise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
WATERS At
The Bill TM0RE
ARE ROBBED
Tipping System Brings
Many Evils
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
Being unemployed, and walking up
and down on Sixth Ave, the nest of
the New York City employment
agency sharks, looking for a job in
= restaurant or hotel of any kind,
though l am an experienced waiter
of Is years, l found an extra waiter
Job at the Biltmore Hotel, for one
night in the banquet department.
The employment agency shark told
me that the job would be very good,
with plenty of tips. Therefore, he
said, l must pay more than 10 per
cent as fee. He charged me SO
cents for SO job. He told me that
I must be on the floor at p. M,
sharp.
A Parasites Party.
Well, I was. There were about
80 or 90 extra walters there. After
we had set everything, and the
parasites started to come in for the
party they were to have while we
shaved, the head waiter put sign
on the kitchen door, saying, "No Col
lection" that is, no tips must be
taken by us. If the committee in
charge of the party left any tips,
he would take care of it, the head
waiter said.
Now, the system of tips is of
course not wanted by the walters,
fer they are paid starvation wages,
because the boss tells them you get
plenty of tips. But, you must under
stand, we were only being paid So
for the night, and were told the rest
of our pay would come from tips.
By saying that he would take care
of the tips, the head waiter gave us
to understand he would divide them
equally. s
Well, we shaved for the parasites
from 5 p. m. to midnight, with moth
ing to eat, speeded up as usual to
be thru early, and to satisfy the
parasites so that they might feel
inclined to leave more tips. This is
what the walters are reduced to,
licking the boots of the parasites for
lips.
Headwaiter Disappears.
About 1870 p. m. we noticed the
head waiter had disappeared. We
asked the captains if we were going
to get the tips promised US. "Tomor-
row you will find out" they told US.
l went there IL a. m. the next
day for my wages, IS, for 7 hours,
and the "plenty of tips" that had
been promised US. The paymaster
gave me only the So, and l went for
the head waiter to get my tips. Of
course, it turned out, he said we had
nothing coming to US. He had kept
it himself.
This is not my first experience
being robbed by the head waiter.
Organize!
Walters, we must fight for our
rights, thru an Industrial Union.
Let's go, fellow walters, cooks, bus
boys, waitre ses, dishwashers,
countermen, etc. Down with the IL
hour day. Down with the employ
ment sharks. Down with the rob-
berry by the head walters. Let us
put an end to the tipping system.
Demand living wage, no tipping.
Join the Communist Party.-A
Waiter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

We have seen above that tie first
step In the revolution by the work.
Ing class il to raise the proIetariat
TO the position of ruling class. to
win the battle of demOcracy-KarI
Max Communist Manifesto)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

Mario Korenko, noted Russian
soprano, aoho will be the assisting
artist at the fourth and final con-
cert of this season of the Conductor
less Symphony Orchestra Thurs
day evening, April IS, at Carnegie
Hall. The program will be all-Rus-
sian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

THEATER ENGINEERS STRIKE.
PORTLAND, Ore, (By Mail).-
Twenty engineers of the Dufwin
Theatre here have gone on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11
PIANO TUNING

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-11

/ read in the Daily Worker that
the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Union is going to organize
these cafeteria slaves, and l hope
this letter will show how badly we
need a union to help us fight to
abolish these conditions. l have
Joined the union and am working
on a committee to organize the other
slaves in my shop. When strike
is called we will 60 out 100 per cent.
&c. z.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
CANADIAN PARK LIES
 ADJACENT TO ARCTIC CIRCLE

TORONTO, ont.-Fifteen thous- and tourists have visited the Prince Albert National Park since the park was opened by the Prime Min ister in August. 1928. The park is unique in many respects. It is TO miles north of civilization, the trail leading through virgin forest. The headquarters of the park are at Wakeslu Lake. from there adven- turous spirits can travel right to the arctic circle, portaging from one lake to another until the Great Slave Lake is reached. and thence the Mackenzie River. The park is as big as a European principality.
 The summer cottage there was presented to the Prime Minister by the various cities of Saskatchewan. each of which furnished a room. Mir. Mackenzie King has already occupied the cottage.
 site for an airplane landing has been constructed and several transcontinental fliers have used 1t. Tn the future airplane service will convey visitors to the camp headquarters. It will also provide a starting point for arctic flights.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
RASMUSSEN LINKS
 ESKIMO AND STONE AGE

COPENHAGEN-In lecture given before the Geographical So- ciety here, Dr. Knud Rasmussen, the arctic explorer, said: "There is every proof that the Eskimo race inhabited a much greater part of Europe than at presents for in the southern part of France there has been found needles of bone, i'm plements and weapons, the same as those used among the Reindeer Eskimo at the present day"
 Tt is quite possible that the Els kimo race is of the stone age, ex- isting about 100000 years ago, and moving between the Vecera Valley in the south of France and the Pyr- enees Mountains, to the north, where they finally settled, owing to climatic changes"
 Dr. Rasmussen has made an ap- plication to the Danish ministerium for further investigations to be made on the subject. He pointed out that the question is especially interesting for England, Norway, Sweden. Russia, Japan and China, also for the United States, Canada and Newfoundland, where there is every proof that conditions have been the same. Canada, he said, bod onarceIv touched the subject except around Hudson Bay, but the old hunting huts along the north coast of Siberia, would form many a link in the chain of evidence.
 The lecture was well attended and many prominent people of Copenhagen, and ambassadors ana ministers from various legations were to be seen.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
Regarding Telephones

The first telephone exchange in the United States was established at Bridgeport Conn.,, in 1878.
 Americans make five to 15 times as much use of the telephone as do Europeans.
 A ''one way" telephone has been recently installed in the interior palace at Tokyo for use of the Emperor. The telephone is so ar ranged that it operates only when the transmitter is lifted, with the result that while outgoing calls can be handled, no incoming calls can be received.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
Canada and the Liquor Problem

Ontario. highways are among the finest in Canada. and her byways have long been considered trails of loveliness. Today the great roads and little roads of Ontario are lit- tered with empty bottles, whiskey and beer bottles by the hundred thousand. And you needn't take any ones word for it; you can start counting almost anywhere. But it Is not safe to walk out there when so many drivers are slipping Ontario government liquor. Nor is it neces- sary to go out to the highways and byways at all. You can see the empty bottles in hotel rooms and corridors. in office and garage, in bar nand bin.
 The thing has become a danger and a nuisance. It has been going on for sometime, getting steadily worse. At first we blamed it on the tourists, but we now know that the tourists couldn't account for one twentieth part of the empties, even at the border. "The Kings High way" is the grand old title 0nta- rios Premier recently revived for the roads, and Ontario's government is making these highways a byword among the people and a danger to the travelling public by its ever in- creasing flow of liquor under the guise of government control"
 The people of Ontario should know that their province is selling $50, 100000 worth of liquor a year. Is 1t any wonder that tens of thous- ands of youth are being added an- nually to the list of drinkers? Is it strange that motor accidents are in- creasing at an appalling rate? Why should anyone be surprised to find a few hundred empty bottles along mile of the Kings Highway Re printed from New Outlook (Toronto)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
SECRET THOUGHTS

Hon. H. c. Baldridge, Governor of Idaho, says:
 That your secret thoughts are consciously or unconsciously re- flected in your actions. The thoughts you harbored years ago made you what you are today. Your situation and condition a few years hence will reflect the habits of thought you are cultivating now.
 If this great truth could be in- delibly impressed upon the minds of little children, society would be benefited immeasurably.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
COPIES OF PEACE PACT
 FOR CANADIAN SCHOOLS

VANCOUVER, B. CA plan to hang a copy of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact in every school room in the Dominion has received the in- dorsement of the Premier. W. L.. Mckenzie King.
 The Premier, as Minister of Ex- ternal affairs. said he would under take to provide copies for any prov ince wishing them. Under the law the matter rests with the provin- cial authorities. Mir. King said he would be glad to see copies of the pact in all churches as we'll.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

The Chinese Minister in London, Dr. W. Chen, is found of relating a story concerning a well-known so- ciety woman who patronized a Chinese laundry recently estab- lished in Soho.
 One day she called in person to lodge mild complaint. and, think ing the owner only knew pidgin English, she tried 1t on him:
 "Me no likee my washee blought home Fliday," she said. 'Why you no blingee washee Thursday"
 And the suave Chinaman replied: Madam, I regret it was not con- venient."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

Monogrammed stationery. in any of the fine lines as made up In the Sentinel printing plant. does nor make a cheap Christmas present. hut it does make one of the most pleasing and delightful presents that one can give for that amount of money spent. Personal station erv from s2.5O a box and up.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

Word from the Kuskokwim says that preparations are being made to operate the Gaines creek dredge next year. A Takotna merchant has been asked to submit figures for hauling 400 cords of wood along the working line of the dredge. It is estimated that amount will last until diesel engines are installed next summer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

Henry Bahrenburg, who has a very promising quartz property near the Brenner workings at Gird- wood, recently obtained some very encouraging returns on samples sent out for assay, and he is putting some of his ore through the Bren- ner mill for further testing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26
Gold and Silver Coins

It has been found that gold coins do not have the wearing qualities of silver ones. A silver coin can be exchanged about 3,250,O00 times before the image is worn away, while the gold coin will survive only about 100000 changes of ownership.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

When I was thin and underweight, To me my mother said; Eat a piece of Shonwald's bread Before you go to bed" I followed my mothers advice, And ate Shonwald's bread every
 night. You ought to see me now
 certainly am fat sight!
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

Why spend hours baking when in a few minutes shopping at the American Bakery you can procure just what you want at no effort and at just about the same cost. Snecial orders solicited.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-12-26

If you want to see the niftiest thing ever put out for shaving com fort and economy, drop into Ed crigwire's for demonstration or the Kriss Kross razor sharpener'