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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
The Trial of Mary Dugan'
Latest Of Talking Pictures

THE flood of all-talking pictures
continues. The latest, and, incl
dentally, one of the best of these
opuses is 1.-THE Trial of Mary
Dugan," which opened at the En-
bassy Theatre on March %.
The picture, as pictures go, fol-
lows the successful stage play
closely On account of the advantage
Of having been adapted for the
screen and directed by Bayard Veil
Ter himself, who is the author of
the original play.
Featured in the cast are Norma
Shearer, Lewis Stone, H. B. Warner
and Raymond Hackett.
At this late date it is hardly
necessary to dwell on the plot of
such a recent and well-known melo-
drama that has played in this coun-
try from coast to coast. Briefly, it
relates the story Of a Follies girl
whose paramount is murdered in her
apartment, suspicion naturally fall
ing on her, and the ensuing trial
in which, after series of dramatic
events, the heroine's own brother
takes charge of her case and brings
It to a successful conclusion.
The picture undeniably holds
ones attention with the exception
that as it is given without pause
with practically all the scenes taken
in a court room between the wit
ness chair, the judges bench and
he lawyers table, the restricted
camera focus tends to produce a
form Of monotony at times, although
he "shots" have been cleverly d.
.ected to avert just this.
Norma Shearer, as the heroine,
gives an absorbing performance.
Lewis Stone, as the attorney who
rirst defends her, is quite excellent.
Il. B. Warner, as the prosecuting
district attorney, gives a splendid
of hectering role.
Raymond Hackett, as Mary's
,rother, undoubtedly fills his role
rs it is supposed to be portrayed,
tut somehow his youth and acting
n general are not altogether con-
yincing at times.
In minor roles are Lilyan Tash-
nan, Olive Tell and Adrienne DAM
lricourt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

a flat So. This notorious slaughter
shop has hard and fast rule
against paying any Of its slaves
more than $40 a week, no matter
how much they drudge or how
skilled the work they do. Then
the rates were cut one-third.
Bosses Licked.
AS soon as the straw boss an
nounccd this new outrage, every
girl in the department dropped
her brush and made ready to go
home. At the door the chief crimp
himself fell on their recks; bus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
Special MIL
| Workers PAGE
Next Monday

The first Of the Special worker
correspondence pages in the CAM
paign to double the number of
subscribers to the Daily Worker,
will appear on Monday. 1t will
be worker correspondence page,
by, for, and of the textile work.
ers of the United States. Dis
tributions of the Monday issue
of the Daily will be made in the
various textile centcrs.
Among the features will be
worker correspondence from the
Massachusetts, textile centers, the
scenes of the recent great strug-
giles led by the National Textile
Workers Union; a letter from a
southern textile worker; worker
correspondence on the Cleveland
rayon strike, together with photos
by worker correspondents: fac
Smiles of leaflets issued by the
awakening southern textile work
ers in Gastonia, N. c., and a leaf
let issued in the Cleveland rayon
strike, calling for fight to the
end on the mill bosses, for living
wage and better conditions.
Many thousands of this issue
will be distributed among the
textile workers of this country.
Workers in other industries,
make this campaign for doubling
the number of Daily Worker sub
scribers a success, by bringing
about special worker correspond
ence pages for your industry, and
thus, thru distributions, spread
ing the Daily broadcast among
the workers in your industry.
To do this, you must send in
enough material on conditions in
your industry, to make possible
a special page. And send in pho
tos, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
POOR WAGES IN
PULLMAN COUCH
IN LONG ISLAM
Workers in Long Islam
Shop Must Organize

(By Worker Correspondent
The conditions prevailing in tn
Pullman Couch Furniture Co.
Long Island City are so rotten tha
it is a wonder any worker was abb
to stand for it till now.
Here is a scheme of the bose
which some Of the skilled worker
could not recognize. While he doe
not treat US in the way he does tt
pieceworkers, he is keeping
workers divided, so in time of stril
he can use one group against IT,
other. Furthermore, the bos
knows very we'll that if the skille,
end unskilled workers unite and or
canize our shop committee in tn,
Pullman Couch Co. he will be force
to pay higher wages and Civ
shorter hours,
Brothers, why do we work hour
a day, 40 hours a week, instead o.
as in the union shops in our line,
5.day, A0-hour week?
We workers in the Pullman Coucl
shop are unorganized. While other
workers, in the needle, textile ant
coal industries, have been fighting
against low wages and poor condi
tions, we have been making no fight
against low wages, long hours and
piece-work. We, the workers of the
Pullman Couch Co., must organize
ourselves into a union and must or
ganize a shop committee in which
workers from each section of the
shop will be represented.
Wages in the Pullman Couch shop
are very low, when you consider the
long hours. Wages range from
about $55 to $50 a week. The sec
ton workers, who are working at
piece-work, get, in season, from $50
to $50 a week.
Young Workers Condition Wors
The section workers, who al
young workers, are much the worst
off, for they work on piece work.
For instance, those who make the
arms get So cents a pair; those who
make the backs, get 20 cents each;
those who make the davenports,
receive few cents more; those
who put the chairs together set rs
cents to 81 for each.
Brothers, I know that you are not
satisfied with these wages. I know
that many Of you have complained
that wares would be better if the
piece-work system were abolished.
This can be done only if you young
workers organize yourselves into a
solid group and unite with all other
workers in the shop, regardless of
his or her occupation. AS long as
we are divided, on the basis of cur
occupations, we will never succeed
in lettering our conditions.
Here are the demands we should
make:
A shop committee must be or.
ganized in which all department;
are represented.
A 40-hour, 5-day week Of work.
Minimum wages for section work.
ers.
Wage increase to day workers.
Union wages for skilled uphol-
sterers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

tering, bull-dozing, sniveIing,
wheeling, he tried to get them to
return to their benches. I'm
losing money hand over fist" he
whimpered. Would you take the
bread out of my MOUTH"
The young workers only jeered
at this whopper and refused to
give an inch on their demands.
Finally the boss had to agree to
take them back at the old rates.
Shortly afterward all the girls
employed in the lacing DEPART
mcnt were swindled out of a days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
iom isIeadery Cleveland Carmen Are Vcmzed by Boss Schemes
OF DAYS WAGE

most of the windows broken, the
shop sinking like burnt rags, and
the heater out of commission. 1t
was a cold and windy day; icy
drafts blew thru the place, but the
bosses would not allow their serfs
to leave and forced them to
work in street clothes. Many girls
took sick as result. One caught
the flu and was laid off up for a
week. She was fired, for another
hard and fast rule of this murder
mill is that no slave must be sick
for longer than one day.-N. e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

pay. The company was bound to
make up its losses" somehow.
(There is really no profit to speak
Of in the making Of lampshades.
The bosses carry ON the business
for the good of humanity, Hand
decorated shades that sell in the
department stores for IS and $40
cost every bit of five cents to pro-
duce)
So the less found fault with a
batch CT work turned out by the
laccrs. 1t made no difference to
him that these scrfs, who tell 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

hours q week for IS, were on sal
airy, he locked each Of them 81
just the same.
They did not follow the example
of the militant stencillers but SUBJ
mitted to the bare-faced holdup.
They are unskilled workers with
families partially dependent on
their earnings and jobs are scarce.
Then enc night recently the
Maid-Rite loft caught fire. Fire
men put it out.
When the slaves chowed up for
work the next morning, they found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
NEW EXPL0ITER
OF WORKERS IN
baldwin SHOPS
Get Ready for War in
Phila. District
(Bu a Worker Correspondent.)

(Bu a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By Mail.) -
The constantly increasing dissension
within the ranks of the local bour-
geoisie, in which the big dogs are
being eaten by the bigger dogs, bear
ing out the MARKHAM principle of ac-
emulation of capital in the hands
of the very few, has reached the
notorious Baldwin Locomotive Works
the hated open shop industry near
Philadelphia.
This industry, which raked in gil
gantic profits during the war per-
iod, and has been declaring divi-
dends on their earnings since that
time, is being torn from the unwil-
ling fingers of the Samuel A. Vau-
claim group by the Fisher-C utten
interests.
A period of intense struggle oc-
Cured within the ranks of the stock
holders and the big sharks, with the
billions, pushed out the smaller fish
with the millions.
New Slave-Driver.
As result, Vauclain, endorser of
the open shop system that made of
Baldwin's a hell to work, where the
ambulance changed it's bloody way
along the walks many times daily,
will be deposed from his post.
In his place will come George H.
Houston, Of New York, henchman
of the Cutten-Fisher group of Chi
cago. He will come to this section
with new stock in hand, a new
program of naturalization, of that
the workers may be sure.
Baldwin's, The American Locomo-
tive Works and the American Steel
Castings Corporation have merged
their millions to construct the S15,-
100000 buildings of the General
Steel Castings Corporation, at Ed
dystone.
Baldwin, everybody in the Phila-
delphia- Chester district knows, has
also acquired the buildings of the
old Eddystone Ammunition Works,
which worked night and day during
the war building shells to kill mil
lions of workers. No work goes on
in these former munitions buildings.
but they are lying in ominous silence
waiting for the war sirens to blow.
Why this tremendous underground
activity? Why the little publicity
to the plans of these industries?
Airport In Hog Island.
The workers in the Chester dis
trict are beginning to wonder. News
came today also that the old Hog
Island Shipyard site, where several
hundred freight carriers were thrown
together during the world war to
carry food and munitions to the al
lies, will be taken over by Philadel-
phia, and huge airport will be con-
structed.
In Delaware county, Immediately
outside of Philadelphia, there is a
little Ruhr, with steel foundries,
Ford's plants, shipyards, textile
works, locomotive works, Westing-
house Electric Company, ETC., etc.
All ready to be converted in a
minutes notice to the construction
of wartime materials.
And the airport at Hog Island to
safeguard this district. The prep
arations for war are being carried
on with tremendous fervor by the
industrialists in this section.
We must not forget the Du Pont
powder interests directly across the
river from Chester, on the New Jer-
sey side.
When war breaks out, the capital
lists will awake to discover the fatal
effects of their brutal overconfi-
dence.-J. C. EDEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
Western Union Boy
Killed by Truck

Jack Puryanshy, Is, a Western
Union telegraph messenger of 1881
st. Marks Ave, was killed yesterday
when he ran his bicycle into the
side Of truck. The rear wheel of
the truck passed over the boy, kill
ing him instantly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
By a Worker Correspondent.

By q Worker Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Pc. (By MaiD
The slave-drivers of the Maid
Rite Lampshade Co. went on a
wagc-slashing rampage recently.
First, the stencillirg department
was put on piece rates in the hope
of squeezing more work out of
girls already speeded up to the
breaking point. But after a few
days it was seen that the young
workers were averaging S11
week, where previously they made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

Dear COmrades-
suppose interested to know what housing we
with description car Whole families lived
acs and easements congestion
swearing and fights was only one patho the
saloon There they drank like forgetting vretche life
under the exhiliratng influence of vodka
After Revolution
took the power into orr own
hana We naturally began to move into the houses of the bougeois
who had fled and rowdg those housing
freedom of from city city, factories to earn
living Our metal industry most Of all absorbed peasants
for unskiled labor
particular 5oO workers were
employed 1900 people had lodgings and they for the
shelter at the mill and when winter they hung around the Mren
furnaces the boilers where it
The workers began to think about building houses.
Solving Housing Situation
little 81 work they
houdd spades and went to vacant lot to clear the and
bitches for the foundation First of all
and prophed the failure of the undertaking. But the workers
serious about it.
The Moscow City Bank that they really business gave
the workers the first loan of $4,000 rubles.
Building Cooperative
organized regular building cooperative which was
tive The share fixed at 25 ubs and rub During
they wo-story with square saen of living
organizers of cooperative moved But
they did not stop there.
By the end of 1925 number of other mills Joined
the Buhan factory the Smashe MILL Kasny Krasny
Put" Then we became real independent cooperative.
In the first days of December gave
saen of and 200 members of the cooperative
1926 the number Of members increased and there
rubls Then the present
4soy houses with 1881 saen of living By that time we
already had share capital of 3512 rubles 60 cpeks
This Soviet worker wishes with American
Forward letter to the worker correspondence department of the
The letter of the metal worker will be concluded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
RANK and FILE
paper WORKERS
SHOW MILI'rANCy
Pass a Resolution to
Recognize USSR
(Bn a Worker Consequently

(Bv a Worker Correspondent
The convention of the Interna-
tional Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper
Mill Workers Union held on March
;, 6, 7, 8, in the Mount Royal Hotel,
Montreal, Canada, showed aggres-
riveness and militancy on the part
IF the rank and file.
| At the opening, the convention was
addressed by Tom Moore, president
of the Canadian Trades and Labor
Council, with the usual business of
these reactionaries' taking a wallop
at the work of the left wing and
Communists in the trade unions.
This, however, was too much to
the dislike of the Canadian dele
gates, as was shown by the discus
sion that followed and the resolution
presented.
Vote to Recognize U. S. S. r.
One of the important moments of
the convention was the debate over
the recognition Of the Soviet Union.
Delegates Hyman Gordon, from local
LOT, New York, and Alex. Gibson,
from Port Arthur, Canada, took the
leading part in fighting for the &C
ceptance of the resolution. After a
long discussion the resolution was
passed overwhelmingly.
Fight for Amalgamation.
The delegates raised burning and
immediate problems from the floor.
Four different locals brought in
resolutions for amalgamation.
There are five or six craft unions
in one shop or mill. The delegates
felt the necessity of matchmaking
all these unions into one consolidated
Industrial Union. But the fear of
the reactionary A. f. of l.. machine
with its craft union theology weak
ened the chance for the resolution.
All these resolutions were defeated
but not until after a prolonged
struggle on the part of many mill
tant rank and file delegates.
For 40 Hour Week.
Not daunted by the defeat,
resolution calling for a 40 hour week
with no reduction in pay was intro
duced and carried. Two more
resolutions were introduced, one
calling for the organizing of the
unorganized.
Only fraction of the workers in
the pulp, sulphite, and paper indus
try thruout the U. S. and Canada
are organized. The delegate from
New York pointed out that while
there were thousands in the trade
in New York, only one shop had been
organized. He declared this can
only lead to the destruction of the
only local, unless the situation was
The second resolution demanded
the release of Mooney and Billings,
not on a humanitarian basis, but be-
cause they were class victims. Both
resolutions passed unanimously.
The convention in one of its ses-
sions was addressed by Matthew
VOL, vice president of the A. F. of
l.. In characteristic faker style.
he urged that the trade unions 90
into the insurance business. These
proposals of Woll were viciously at
tackled from the floor. All the pro-
posals of Woll were rejected.
The convention marked a step in
the aggressiveness of the rank and
file and their willingness to strug-
gle for militancy.
Pulp, Sulphite, Paper Worker.
we have seen above thar TIE first
step in the revolution by the vorl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
s1ST STREET

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday-Ben Bernie, with his
Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra; The
Wonologist; Florence O'Denishawn;
others. Feature photoplay-"The
Dummy" starring Ruth Chatterton.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Eva Shirley and Band; Mary Law
lor and Bobby Watson; Jim Toney
and Ann Norman; others. Feature
r'hotoplay--"The Speiler," starring
Renee Adoree and Alan Hale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
ARREST ARMY OFFICERS

MADRID, April 2 (UP).-Many
arrests have been made among
Portuguese army officers charged
with plotting against the govern
ment, reports from the border said
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
Vaudeville Theatres
PALACE

Lester Allen and Nellie Breen;
"The Radio Revue" presenting Vim
cent Lopez and Band; Gladys Rice.
Soprano; "The interviewer Pair"
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare; Vim
cent Lopez and his Hotel st. Regis
Orchestra; "Kate" Smith, and 9TH
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
HIpPODROME

Bernie Cummins and his Hotel
Biltmore Orchestra; FL Brendel and
Flo Bert; "The Four Flashes; Max
Gruber's oddities of the Jungle;
others. Feature photoplay, Texas
Guinan in "Queen of the Night
Clubs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
Dark Cellars Under Gar:
USSR Workers Build Homes

Today we print the first Of letter from Soviet metal
worker in the Scrip Mo Factory worker cor
respondent tells of the wretched life of the
before the revolution and great
in housing for the workers in the Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03
GIVES CHURCH Joy RIDE

LONDON, April 2 (UP).-The
archbishop of Canterbury left for
Mediterranean cruise today aboard
J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair. He
will visit Athens, Alexandria and
jerusalem during months voyage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

We have seen above thot IL frs,
step in the revolution by the work
ing class is to raise the proletarint
TO the position OF ruling class, to
win the battle of dennocracy-Eor
Max Communist ManIfcstoD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-03

This Soviet worker wishes correspond with American workers
Forward letter the worker
Daily Worker will forward of
The letter of the metal worker will be concluded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

The Mexican government has retired
from the air mail business and will let
private parties handle such service
hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

ner" in neighboring States and In far
of lands Of arctic and equatorial
regions.
Washington's members of the Club"
have sent periodicals to local hospitals.
Gifts and greeting cards have gone also
to the Home for the Aged at Blue
Plains, and to the inmates Of the penal
institutions Of the District, which are
visited by the Episcopal city missioner.
gifts have gone to Virginia mountain
homes whose occupants will receive. be-
sides the books, monograph records
children's games and bright pictures.
Similarly, the Tennessee mountaineers
are the recipients of the periodical club
members generosity.
Find Way to Alaska.
Going beyond the immediate bound
aries of the United States, the clubs
gifts are finding their way these days
into the snowbound homes of Alaska.
Among the Alaskan recipients are DR..
and Mrs Grafton Burke at the Stuck
Memorial Hospital. which they have
made veritable life-saving station.
Fishermen and lumbermen Of New
foundland too, are receiving something
new to read. other gift bags are being
received across the seas in the land
of the original Christmas-in Bethle-
hem and Jerusalem. Bishop Campbell
and the Holy Cross fathers in Liberia
also are recipients of the club gifts
of reading matter, teaching charts and
other materials needed in their labors.
Gifts received recently in the South
Seas archipelago were dispatched by
the club members last June to insure
their arrival in time for Christmas at
that wee dot in the midst of ocean
wastes so far from beaten ship paths
The club is q frequent cheer con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
PERIODICAL CLUB
INSPIRED BY MINER
Reading Matter Is Sent to All
Parts of Globe by Or
ganization.

Forty-odd years ago Western miner
climbed to the top of shaky ladder
in his cabin to read through the CRIME
and yellow of time the printed words
on a patch of newspaper that was
tackled over a stovepipe hole
woman from the East saw him and
was curious.
Why he'd been doing that climbing
and reading stunt every day for so long
that he almost knew that bit Of former
news" by heart. He just had to do
it, he told her; it was the only printed
thing he had to his name, and if he
didn't read he'd go crazy.
The visiting woman was impressed
and today, the Christmas laden mail
bags which are bringing up at the end
of their long journeys by land. sea and
air to the four corners of the earth
contain vast quantities of reading mat
ter that has been gathered together and
dispatched by members of the Church
Periodical Club, an organization born of
the Eastern woman's compassion for