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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11

Two DAYS of the Revolution
In the Great Soviet Film

THE intimateness and the soil
grounded character of the Soviet
moving picture art are brought out
in their full power in the Amkino
production 1.-TWO Days" now show
ing at the Cinema Guild.
In the hands of the Soviet cinema
directors moving picture technique
becomes a fine-edged chisel with
which to develop the contours of an
historic epoch. In the END of st.
Petersburg" and in "Potemkin" the
mass significance of the revolution
is portrayed in masses; the moving
picture is recognized as the best
medium for picturing mass move
ments in all their sweeping and
creative moods. Where the indi-
vidual does occur he occurs only as
the expression of a mass will; as
a worker or peasant, as a soldier or
sailor, he is not one, he is many.
In 1.-TWO Days" is done what was
done for the epoch of Gear Ivan,
the Terrible. While in Potemkin
and Petersburg masses were made
to tell their own story, in Gar Ivan
and Two Days, the individual occu-
pies the center of the screen only
as a reflector of the mass move
ments around him. The individual
is used to bring the audience into
the most intimate contact with an
historic event. The most outstand-
ing quality of the Soviet cinema is
its ability to take what is close to
the hearts of the Russian masses
and express it so intimately and di-
rectly that one actually feels hearts
beating and voices calling on the
screen.
In the events of two days in the
life of an old servant of nobleman
is brought out not only the drama
and human suffering of a social
revolution, but also its all-engulfing
impetus and its unequaled power to
completely change the individual.
Revolution is the starkest reality
and can sweep before it the accu-
INFLATED servitude of centuries.
Events have terrific force, and in
the case of this old servant, the last
two days of his life marked a COM
pleted transition from one society
into another. One day loyal serv-
ant to his master, serving him even
after he has fled before the Red
Army advancing in the Ukraine;
out of habit and a lifetime of servi-
tude obeying his last commands,
burying his dead pup and conceal
ing his riches; remaining in the
after all the others have
fled; sleeping in his garnet although
there was a palace full of beds for
him to sleep on; concealing the mas
ter's son, whom the master himself
did not even take the trouble to
save. Grudgingly giving way to the
Red Army Battalion although his
own son is it's commander; repri-
them for sleeping on the
masters sofa; unable to forgive his
son for being a Bolshevik, although
he takes all the insults of the mas
ter's son who accepts the old mans |
bed and all his favors as his tradi-
tional right
But the events of revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11
(Bu q Worker CoryespoNdeNtl


DALLAS, Tex. (By Man).-
doubt many workers would like to
travel from Philadelphia to Phoenix,
Arizona, via a secondhand lizzie.
The sights to be seen and the trials
on such a trip are many in this
land of capitalist injustice and mis-
cry.
Southern hospitality" does not
exist for the Negro, or, for that
matter, for the white worker. For
the Negro workers, conditions are
exceptionally bad. Slavery in its
worst form, chattel slavery, exists
in Alabama and Mississippi.
Recently, In Alabama, a Negro
was openly murdered for no cause
whatsoever. Three bullets were
pumped into his chest. In another
case, twelve 100 per cent Ameri-
cans took a Negro youth and hanged
him to tree. Of course, there was
a reason--the Negro youth knew too
much, or, in the words of these ig-
norant lynchers, he was a "smart
niger" He was intelligent; that
was mis- only crime. How these ex-
ploiters hate education!
Negroes Made Poems.
Although I happen to be an
American-born white worker, must
confess that American liberty and
the constitution are not worth q
damn to the white workers, and
much less to Negro. In the South
here the Negro can't votepoan't go
to school, is a chattel slave and woe
to him if he persists in going to
school.
In Louisiana, I asked a slave
driver how much he paid his Negro
help. He laughed, and said: "Pay
our niggers! You all would sure be
surprised how we do pay them"
Well" he said when I asked him
to tell me more, I'VE all hire our
niggers to work a patch of cane
and he comes to the commissary for
his supplies for his family"
1--WE give him what he wants, eat
ables and clothes, charge him like
hell, and he goes into debt when
crop time comes, and he can't pay.
Then we all own that nigger-he
can't move"
I suggested a man can't be jailed
for a debt. He said "a Negro amt
man." We would lynch him if he
objected.
Then I noticed Negro girl GO
ing to school. l asked him what
happens if a Negro becomes edu-
Gated and learns something of his
rights and objects to what happens
to him. well" the white man said,
1--WE have cases where the young
sters learn, and we get rid of that
kind, believe me, even if they own
money. Because that damn fool
niger would spoil the rest"
This is what they fear, and they
fear it from the black as we'll as the
white workers-education. The Ne
gro must pay to go to school, pay
for his books. No bus to take him
to school, his road is hard. But he
will awake and fight alongside of
his white brothers against these ex-
ploiters and help destroy the cause
of all our misery-the capitalist sys-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11
CANGSTERS OF
RIGHT WING IN
TERROR ROLES
Members Are Lured to
Meet by Ruse
by Worker Correspondent

The officials of the Cleaners and
Dyers' Union, in order to draw a
big crowd to the meeting here re-
Gently, said that the meeting
would be special meeting to take
up the question of reinstating the
expc,led members into the union"
Fooled by this announcement, 800
members attended the melting, in
stead of the usual 40. Instead of
taking up the question of reinstating
the expelled members, the reaction
airy officials opened the meeting with
an attack on the expelled.
SANDERS.
A letter from Efrat was read,
slandering the six members who
were on the executive board of the
union and were first expelled for
fighting the misleaders. The rest of
the expelled, Efrat said, were "nlis-
led" and would be taken back if
they would come to the union and
apologize for criticizing the official
dom.
Weintraub, the chief reactionary
misleader, asked the members to
give him a vote of confidence. I'M
mediately a henchman of the fax
ers jumped up and made a motion
to express confidence in the admin
istraticn. No one else was allowed
to speak. When one member moved
that there be a closed ballot, Vein
traub Numbered at him, "Who are
you? Where do you work? How
long do you work ?"
That was enough to intimidate all
others, especially since the gangsters
of the right wing officialdom were
passing up and down the aisles,
ready for action.
Resent Steam Roller.
Now that a motion of confidence
has been steam-rollered thru, the
members are more disillusioned than
ever,
Few will come to the future meet
ings of the union, seeing that the Of
ficials are playing the same old
cynical game. Now that the officials
have a manufactured "vote of con-
fidence," will that put confidence in
the hearts of the union members?
Will that bring the union to life
again? Will that organize the I'M
organized who are in the majority
in the shops and. whom the union
tmisleaders do not want to organize
as not to hinder their exploitation
Of cheap labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11
New Playwrights Open
Dos Passes Play Soon

Edith Meiser will play the part
of Martha Turner in John Dos
Passes Always Inc.," which
opens at the Grove Street Theatre,
Feb. 10. She was formerly with
the Thatre Guild in the Garrick
Gaieties.
Winston Lee will play the part
of the aviator in the Dos Passos
opus. Mr.. Lee closed in Chicago re-
Gently in "The Shannons Of Broad
way"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11
Soccer League to Hold
Annual Ball on Feb. %

The annual ball of the Metropoli-
tan Workers Soccer League will be
held Feb. % at Laurel Garden, rs
E. 10th st. This will be the sec
end affair of this kind that this
workers sports organization has
held.
The ball promises to be a gala
affair, with the various clubs of the
Metropolitan W Workers Soccer
League present in their ma
tional costumes. Music will be fur
nished by snappy jazz band and
an entertainment program is being
arranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11

The rrOIetariat Of each country
munI.f, of course, first of NIL settle
matters with it's own bOurgeoisie--
Karl Mnrx Communist ManifestOl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
] was employed during the past
year by the firm of Milander and
Schwartz, $50 Eighth Ave-, and
simply because / objected to con.
tinuing working overtime night
after night, bringing up my total
number of hours to ga per week,
was laid off in the month of No
vember, and told that my services
were no longer required.
Now that the dress strike has
taken place he has written me, fol-
the purpose of scabbing.
Copy of postal card sent me and
copy of reply are sent to this paper
hoping that it will be a good ex-
ample for future militant workers to
follow.
"Feb. 5, 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-11

Kindly call in reference to work.
All "Yours truly,
y "Milander and Schwartz"
NY reply:
"Sir: am in receipt of your
srard and can assure you that it came
j ~ an opportune moment. | long
santed the opportunity to reYoach
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
HOMESTEAD LAW
REPEAL IS URGED
AnnuIment of Water Power
Act Also Is Suggested
by Hoover Aide.
BY the Associated Press.


Repeal Of the Federal water power
act and of the homestead law was sug-
gested today by Chairman Garfield Of
President Hoover's Public Lands Com
mission in q statement.
The question was raised as to the field
the commission should enter in its con-
sideration of a possible turning over Of
public domain to the IL Western States
within which most of the public land
lies.
Garfield said President Hoover had
asked q complete report on public lands,
and added, in his opinion, q recon-
mendation on the homestead and water
power acts might properly come within
the commissions province.
The water power act, he said, Is net
ut present In q satisfactory state Of
operation, its appropriation having been
insufficient for the proper carrying on
Of its work in disposing Of power sites.
He asserted homestead and timber
laws appeared to have outlived their
usefulness, and that the homestead law,
especially In its soldiers preference
phase had worked actual hardship.
Nothing is worse than to give land
preference to a man who is not a
natural farmer" he declared.
Other commission members also
criticized the homestead law, saying the
homestead In the States concerned Is
not an economic unit and has offered
false promises to settlers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
SETTLERS CUT Off
BY RAGING FIRES.
Blaze of Incendiary Origin
PeriIs Residents of Towns
in Oregon Hills.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GRANTS PASS, Greg, November IS.
"A mountain trail through forests
threatened by fire today was the sole
avenue of escape for ranchers and resi-
dents of small towns between Gold Hill
and Palmer Butte, Greg, where a forest
blaze of incendiary origin resisted hum
dreds of fighters and scared its way
toward the coast line.
United Ststes Forest Service ofncials
here expressed apprehension over the
position of families in the narrow val
ley leading into Gold Hill, and broad
cast a general alarm as meager news OF
the spread of the fires reached them.
Hundreds of men were fighting the
Gold Hill and Jack Creek fires and
scores Of others were pushing through
short cuts in the wilderness to aug
ment forces.
IncendiaristS Sought.
Ranchers, under the direction Of
James H. Billingslea, superintendent OF
the Siskiyou National Forest, were
searching for unidentified persons be-
lieved guilty Of starting the blaze.
The last line Of communication was
destroyed between Granite Pass and
Bookings. village of 200 persons.
which was swept by the advancing
Rouge River Valley fire last night, and
forest officials dispatched runners to re-
turn with information.
Famed by Brisk Wind.
Famed by a brisk wind which
shifted during the night, the California
Oregon boundary line blaze, which has
given fighters stubborn resistance since
Wednesday, was reported to have
City, Calf.
Although virgin forests Of the
district probably were saved by the
shifting wind, the flames threatened
several homes
Humidity was reported rising, but q
strong wind developed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
GUNMEN'S RELEASE /
ILLINOIS PROBLEM
New Law Threatens to Free
CAT Convicts in State
at One Time.
By the Consolidated Press Association.

BY the Consolidated Press Association.
CHICAGO, November 25.-What to
do with CAT convicted gunner Is an
immediate. question troubling the con-
science of Illinois officials. ..
These criminals, robbers and hold-up
men, who used guns in their depreda-
lions, are serving sentences under a 10
year to life law, enacted as an emer-
gency measure in 1919. In 1927 the
Legislature reduced the penalty for the
same offense to one of year to life.
Gunmen convicted during the years
of operation of the 10-year to life law
now are clamoring for relief.
The State Supreme Court recently
ruled that unless a pardon Is given the
men must serve minimum OF 10 years,
with no time allowance for good be-
havior. With paroles out Of the queS-
ton under the court Interpretation Of
the statutes, Gov. Louis L. Emerson Is
confronted with the problem created by
the cases.
Police Are Alarmed.
TO let out CAT criminals all at once
-l21 Of them from Chicago-would
create a problem which already has
brought expressions of alarm from
police and prosecuting officials, as we'll
as from judges. But to punish the
men who happened to be caught be-
tween 1919 and 1927 more severely
than the ones caught after that date
does them some injustice. The men
are reported to be displaying an ugly
mood because Of the apparent discrim-
nation.
Local officials say that past perform
anceS indicates that a large proportion
Of the men freed after one conviction
for robbery with o gun are soon back
at their trade. To turn them out
wholesale at this time Of year would
be particularly dangerous. In view of
this Gov. Emmerson Is expected to de-
eide upon some plan that will permit
consideration Of each case on its merits.
"It is an appalling situation" Judge
Michael l.. Mckinley Of the local SUI
perior Court, declares. while Justice
must be done, these men who are serv-
Ing penalties under severer law than
usual for robbery with a gun, yet the
claims of society are uppermost, and
society must have FIRST consideration.
Would Probe Cases.
II would like to see the parole board
take up the cases one by one, consider
their records, the promise of employ
ment for them and gradually release
them as they individually merit free
dom. To hold them all indiscrin1inately
for the full 10 years is to make them
suffer the more, and In a sense reward
the later convicts who got one year to
life and can be paroled at IL months"
Governor Enmerson now is struggling
with the problem Of dealing with these
Of gunner. If he lets them
out and crime wave develops, the re-
action might be severe politically. To
hold them raises a bad prison problem
because Of the attitude of the criminals.
Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
SEARCH FOR EIELSON
is CLOTHED IN SILENCE
Four Dog Teams Scout Shore Line
as Plane Awaits Turn
in Weather.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, November 25.-Shrouded
in the silence of the Arctic northland,
tho search went forward yesterday for
Pilot Carl Ben Eielson and his me-
chanic, Earl Dorgland, who disappeared
early In November after they took of
from Eller, Alaska, in an attempt to
reach the fur trading ship Nanuk, ice
bound near North Cape, Siberia.
-Four dog team parties were sent out
from the Nanuk to scout the shore line
in the vicinity of North Cape for the
missing flyers, but none Of them has re-
ported as yet.
A native dog team driver, who arrived
at North Cape Saturday after trip of
$50 miles from Kolitchin Bay, travers-
ing much Gof the country where the
missing plane might possibly have come
down, reported that he had seen moth
ing Of the craft.
Meanwhile, Pilot Frank Dorbandt,
who, with Eielson, was engaged in re-
moving passengers and furs from the
Nanuk, was reported at Nome as ready
to take of when the weather cleared to
conduct a search for Eielson from the
air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
BANDITS NOTE TO GIRL
LEADS TO GUN BATTLE
Sheriff's Posse Keeps "Date" and
Hold-up Gang Is Ambushed.
One Outlaw Wounded.

BY the Associated Press.
MUNCIE, Ind, November asa
note making a date" with a 15-year-
old girl led to a police ambush of a
Muncie hold-up gang and the fatal
wounding Of one of the bandits in
gun battle with police Saturday night.
The girls mother found the note and
appealed to the police. A sheriff's posse
kept the date" and when Angus Cox,
81, of Muncie, walked into the rendez-
vous in a deserted crossroads village
6 miles north of Hartford City, Ind,
shots were exchanged. Two companions
carried Cox away in an automobile,
dropping him in a dying condition at
the door Of the Grant County Hospital
at Marion. Ind.
The automobile was found early to-
day at Danville, Ill.,, bullet-riddled and
blood-soaked. Cox's two companions,
who are sought, are Albert Nickerson
and Irwin Jones, both Muncie youths.
The three, with Robert Warren, re-
ported under arrest at Dayton, Ohio,
are charged with a series of hold-ups
and auto thefts In six Indiana cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
TWO D. C. PHYSICIANS
CONVENTION SPEAKERS
International x-Ray Standardiza'
ton Problem to Be
Topic.

Two Washington physicians, DR..
Arthur q. Christie and DR.. Eauriston
S. Taylor, are expected to address the
fifteenth annual convention of the
Pathological Society of North America,
meeting in Toronto December 5.
A committee which DR.. Christie heads
will report to the convention the result
Of its study of several years on the cost
of medical care. DR.. Taylor of the
Bureau of Standards will deliver an
address before the some 800 scientists
and physicians on 1.-THE Problem Of
International X-ray Standardization"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
MEXICO COUNTING VOTES.
Revolutionaries Claim 1,7oo, 900
Plurality at Recent Election.

The Chamber Of Deputies committee on
computation of election returns prob
ably will meet today to begin final tab
ulation of votes in the presidential
election November II, which the Ma
tional Revolutionary party declares
swept its candidate, Pascual Ortiz
Rubio, into office by plurality Of over
10000
Once the committee has completed
its work, a joint session of Congress will
be called to officially announce the
winner and declare him President-elect
of Mexico. 1t is hoped to have this
meeting November 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25

washington Aef1e, FTaCernal OTueI
of Eagles, will meet tonight at Pythian
Temple. Old-time smoker.
Business and Professional women's
Club meets tonight, 8 o'clock, at the
A. A. U. w. headquarters, 1884 street.
Miss Mary Stewart will be the speaker
Business women invited.
Midcity Citizens Association will hold
O complimentary card party for its
members tonight, $3.50 o'clock, at the
Thomson School, Twelfth and l. streets
Max T. Pines, chairman.
night at the Gordon Hotel, 8 o'clock
All members urged to be present.
Nine. Rimsky-Korsakoff and Mrs
Joseph Goldberger will conduct La
CauSerio du Lundi' at the meeting Of
their group to be held tonight at the
Montello, 1901 Columbia road.
The farce, "a Pair of Sizes" will be
given tonight and tomorrow night by
the Mackin Club of Washington at the
auditorium of st. Paul'S Catholic
Church, v street between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. Proceeds for
benefit of church.
WIllCS Eagle SOullCl1, NO. =, is BIVlLlB
a card party at 2315 Twentieth street
tonight at $3.50 O'Clock.
FUTURE.
Loyal knights of the Round Table
will meet at the University Club to-
morrow for luncheon, 1880 o'clock.
A symposium on "The 1929 Scientific
the meeting of the Washington Academy
Of Sciences tomorrow night, Sis, at the
Cosmos Club.
Argyle Study Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Frank Burger, 1918 Della
field place, l o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
Civitan Club will hold its usual lunch
con meeting tomorrow, 1890 o'clock, at
the La Fayette Hotel.
Henry T. Blow School Parent Teacher
Association will hold its first luncheon
1890 o'clock at the school, Nineteenth
and Benning road.
Ad Club will meet tomorrow after
noon, 1915, at the National Press Club
for luncheon. Merle Thorpe, editor of
the Nations Business, will speak. His
address will be broadcast over WMAL
and Columbia network.
Thanksgiving dinner-dance will be
held at the University Club tomorrow
night. Dinner at o'clock; dancing
at 9.
Business Women's Council will meet
tomorrow evening at the Church of the
Covenant. Rev. Chesteen Smith. pastor
of Hamline M. E. Church, will have
charge of the devotional period Miss
Rebecca Dial, B. A., will give talk
on acknowledgements Through the
Voice"
Ladies' night" for the Ionic Club
tomorrow night. Dancing and cards
at 2400 Sixteenth street.
City Club members will hear Howard
B. Macdonald, international lecturer,
Thursday night, BIS, at the City Club.
He will give an Illustrated travelogue.
Butchers Local, No. 3eS, Of Washing
ton will hold its annual ball at the
knights of Columbus Hail, 916 Eight
zenith street, Wednesday evening.
Rev. DR.. George Fiske Dudley will de-
liver an address at a luncheon Of the
Lions Club in the Hotel Maydower
Wednesday afternoon, 1890 o'clock. Vo- |
cal solos are to be rendered by Mrs.
Deborah Lawson, accompanied by Mrs.
Grace Stanley Stevens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
CENTRAL UNION MISSION
APPEALS FOR CLOTHING
Supply of Wearing Apparel for
Needy Men Here Has Be-
come Exhausted.

The Central Union Mission has issued
an appeal for secondhand clothing to
be given to the unemployed and needy
men of the city who seek shelter from
the Winter in the mission building
The supply Of clothing which the
organization had on hand has become
exhausted.
All who wish to make donations in
the way Of any discarded clothing will
either send it to the mission at 6l3 G
street or telephone National 4349 and
the articles will be collected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
Operator Whose
S O S Brought Four
Ships Arrested
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated EreSSs
VALETTA, Malta, November
25.-The wireless operator on
the British steamer Baron FL
cho, who started four destroyers
rushing to his aid when he sent
out s o s calls last Thursday
saying an attempt was being made
to murder him, has been removed
in custody to the destroyer
Witch.
The master of the Baron Elcho
said the operator still maintained
everybody was trying to poison
him. He was found Saturday
night hiding in a ventilator.
The Witch, with the three
other destroyers that answered
the s o s calls, headed back to
Malta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
Cyclone Hits Argentina.
,y Cable to The Star.

By Cable to The Star.
SAN PEDRO, Santiago del Estoro
Province, Argentina, November U.s.
Many houses were blown over and some
DAMAGE to crops was caused by cy-
clone which struck Southern Tucuman
and Northern Santiago del Estoro Prov
ances Saturday. The cyclone was acs
, eompanied By hail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
Chile to Buy Two U. s. Planes.
BY Gable to The Star

BY Cable 70 the star.
SANTIAGO, Chile, November u.s.
Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila, at
Washington, was authorized yesterday
by the government to purchase two
Ford tri-motor planes for the Chilean
army. The planes are TO be bought by
funds donated BY the Darrell Guggen-
helm Fund for the Advancement Of
Aeronautics.