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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
Unemployed
Are HOQxed
IN Saskatoon
(By a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
SASKATOON, Canada (By
MaiD.-About 400 laborers after
rumor was spread around that
there was work at the Canadian
Northern Railway depot, marched
in body to the c. N. r. depot,
where according to a "tip," they
were to get. jobs on extra gangs.
The bosses of the G. N. R. told
them there was no work for any
of the laborers. The men were
foreign-language speaking work.
ers, who had been attracted to
Canada by lying advertisements
spread on the other side that
there was plenty of work in
Canada. This was done in a col
fusion between the bosses and the
foreign governments. The foreign
governments wanted to reduce
the number of unemployed in
their countries, and get rid Of
them by sending them to Canada.
The bosses know, that with thou
sands of unemployed workers
here, it would be easier for them
to cut wages to the bone.
The men were pretty sore when
the c. N. R. boss told them there
were no jobs. Many of them told
me they had had nothing to eat
for days, and were unemployed
since they were fooled into COM
ing over here. One said he had
had farm job which he had kuit
because they would give him no
food for several days. They have
to work 16 hours a day for $40
a month on the farms.
The police then broke up the
crowd of workers at the depot.
This shows how conditions are
here.
CANADIAN NORTHERN
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
5 More Hungarian
Communist Workers
in Prisons of Vienna

VIENNA, (By iD.-Today a
further Hungarian Communist was
arrested, making in all five arrests.
In violation of the regulations which
provide that an arrested person
must be brought before magistrate
within 48 hours, the prisoners are
still being detained. A similar vio-
lation of Austrian law was the fact
that the process material was today
shown to the leader of the Buda-
pest police Schweinitzer who ar
rived in Vienna today. 1t is clear
that the whole action was carried
out at the request of the Hungarian
police. The Austrian police admit
that all the arrested are guilty of
is false registration, the penalty of
which is AZ hours arrest. The bour-
geois press is utilizing the affair
for a furious campaign against the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
PICKETINC is
4 "CRIME" TO
BOSSES COURT
Food Worker Writes
from TOmbs
By a Worker Correspondent.

THE TOMBS. by MaiD.-I am
writing from behind prison bars and
have 20 days more to look forward
to. All around me are stick-up men,
confidence men, pickpockets, drunk
ards, dope-fiends, etc. l am trying
to figure out what l have done to
be locked up with these hardened
criminals, and treated the same as
they are.
A Crime"
l went out on strike seven weeks
ago to try to better my conditions
and that seems to be a crime in this
GLORIOUS land of the free" l
thought was doing what l had
right to do yet here l am in the pen
after being slugged by the cops and
gangsters of the bosses. The judge
who sentenced me said that work
ers have the legal right to picket.
That was all that I did. The courts
make a mockery of the law. The
judge admitted that wages and
hours in the cafeterias are terrible.
But he robs us of our right to fight
for better conditions. l suppose he
thinks that we should pray to God
to give us higher wages. He knows
that no boss will hand you the g.
hour day and decent wages on a
silver platter. You have got to
force bosses to grant better condi-
lions thru strike led by union.
There is no other way.
Keep Up Fight.
A few months ago I did not think
this way. l was a 400 per cent"
American worker believing all the
bunk that President Hoover and the
capitalist papers told me about this
country and the bosses. I thought
that if l worked hard and saved my
wages l would get my chance to get
out of the exploited class. But that
is a lot of applesauce.
You workers that are still out of
jail should keep up the fight. AS
the l. W. WIS used to say, we are
in here for you, and you are outside
for US. Show the bosses and the
courts that workers can fight for
their rights. If the strike is still Oh
when l get out l will be back on the
picket line with you.
"A COOK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
After Day Of Slqveyy-The
Dance Hall for Working Girls

! Indeed the management, instead
of excluding the DRINKS, welcomes
them, for they are the heaviest buy
ers of stag tickets. These sell at 20
cents apiece and entitle the holder
to a dance with any professional
partner" who may strike his fancy.
And besides, the box-office finds it
easier to short-change a booty ''pa-
iron" than one who shows up cold
sober. The girls cut on the dance is
10 cents, so that, to make $500 a
night, the highest possible wage, she
has to endure 20 dances, paved over
by all sorts of rowdies, suffering
under obscene talk, putting up with
the insulting advances of drunks
and pimps.
Doesn't Dare Refuse.
Sometimes girl is given "tip."
She needs it badly enough, "god"
knows, but if she takes it her part
ner considers that he has bought the
right to "see her home" On the
other hand, if she turns it down
there is the danger of being reported
for "discourtesy" and fired off the
job, which, miserable as it is, helps
keep her in food. The dance hall
boss, holding this threat over her
head, slowly but surely eggs her into
prostitution. He knows full well
that once his dancing slaves get a
reputation for being good COM
pany" and "fast steppers" his dive
will attract whole herds of dissolute
stays. Therefore it is a sound bust
ness policy to drive the young wom-
en- over the brink of so-called ode
cency" without delay.
The brutal system of making them
dependent on dances rather than
paying the girls a straight salary
is the direct proof of this white
Shaving policy. On a good" night
dancing instructress" may earn
50 but her average wage is far below
that figure. 1t is not uncommon for
her to wind up the nightly ordeal
with profit" of less than so cents.
One slave recently had only two
dimes to show for her 6-hour stretch,
an average of 1-2 cents an hour.
Under such conditions a dance hall
serf having no daytime job would
be absolutely forced into prostitu-
ton. And to the greater advantage
of the boss.
Usually the Parkway closes at
one O'Clock in the morning, provided
a crowd of after-theatre parasites
does not stagger in at the last min
ute, in which case the young workers
are kept on the job until two or
later. Then, footsore and half-dead
with WEAKNESS, they drag them
selves home to grab a few hours of
sleep before taking up the mill grind
at 7:30 the next morning. Such is
prosperity" in the haunts of the
good time"
N. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
B O O X S

LET TOMORROW COME. By A. j.
Barr. w. w. Norton & Co. $3.50.
Nothing much written about
prison life is worth reading Hate.
despair, shame, resignation, utter
futility; these the major emotions
engendered by the sadistic treatment
accorded guests Of the state" are
hardly the stuff fine writing is made
from. Convicts face too harassing
an actuality to unbiasedly do any
authentic literary work. This fact
added to the vicious censorship en-
ployed in the bastiles is largely re-
sponsible for our prison informa-
ton coming from such sympathetic
sources as, 'The Saturday Evening
Post" Editorials in the N. Y.
World" and learned tones from the
pen of Lewis Lawes present warden
at Sing Sing.
Grim Haven, by Robert Tasker
serving time in San Quentin Peni-
tentlary sincere book on prison life
misses the mark because of the
authors lack of understanding and
interest in the economic forces which
put the crap" in for the "so-called"
criminal. 1t narrows his view solely
to personalities losing the wide SYM
pathy necessary in dealing with So
cieties' outcasts.
A. J. Bars challengingiy titled
LET Tomorrow Come" is the cream
in the froth that has emanated as
yet from SO sour an institution as a
penitentiary. Reminiscent of hell
hole in the middle west that played
notorious host to O. group of class
war prisoners during the late war
it is a corking combination of art
and propaganda ESQ dreaded by the
aesthete). Propaganda on prisons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05

GNE of those plays that you Won
" der why the playwright ever
wrote, and then wonder twice as
much why the producer ever went
to the trouble of putting it on the
stage, is now at the 49th st. The
atre. 1t is called Decision" and is
by Carl Henkle.
The first two acts are uninterest-
ing to an extreme degree and only
by last minute rally in the last
act is the play able to receive any
favorable consideration.
1t seems that Nancy Lane, who
lives in a suburb of Worcester,
Mass, has been mothering the two
orphan children of her dead sister
for the last ten years. She has
starved herself and made sacrifice
after sacrifice so they could be
brought up in a regular petty-bour-
geois manner.
Then one day, like a flash out of
q clear sky, an announcement is
made that some uncle had died and
left the children three-quarters of
million dollars and little Nancy the
other quarter of a million.
The small country house where
Nancy has been living for all those
years without ever seeing anything
except the little pussy cat that ap-
pears in the first act, suddenly be-
comes as crowded as a Bronx eX-
press at seven in the morning.
All the relatives of Nancy come
and tell her how she should invest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
CHILDREN OF 8
SLAVE IN MILLS
OF so, CAROLINA
At Times Work Weeks
for Nothing
by a Worker Correspondent

GASTONIA, N. c., (By MaiD.-
l wish to write of conditions in some
of the mills in South Carolina, in
which I have worked before going
to the Manville-Jenckes Loray mill
here. My first place in a mill was
in Clinton, S. C. My boss was E. E.
Smith. went in on the morning of
June 6, 1914, and l asked him what
l was supposed to be making. He
said, "You are making nothing right
now" So l went to work and had
worked three weeks when due to
the rotten treatment I had run-in
with the foreman, and being excited,
l threw weight at him. I missed
him and hit the clock and broke it.
The boss said, Look here, you
little devil, that is going to cost you
something, am going to dock your
pay" I said, 81 don't see how you
can dock my pay when you have
paid me nothing since I have been
here"
Fights FvIvmau.
The boss then said he was going
to pay me rs cents day, and locked
me the first 81 l made. A week later
the foreman began to beat little
orphan working in the mill, slapping
the child's eye, and being an orphan
myself, 1 couldn't stand for it, and
L hit the foreman. was only 10
then, and the child was 9, so you
see the ages we work in the mill.
l left there and went to Chester,
S. c., where l worked on a farm.
The next mill job l had was in the
mill at Rockhill, S. c., where the
wages were less than 81 a day and
the hours IL day. Little children
worked there, too. After that l
worked in the Aragon Mill, where |
was taught to run drawing. There
l was forced to work three weeks
for nothing. They said they could
pay me nothing, and as was doing
the job and the boss was getting
the pay 1 quit.
Then l worked at the Manchester
Mill at Rockhill, S. c., where the
wages were 81 day. The condi-
lions were awful there, same as in
the other South Carolina mills. Low
pay, long hours az day., nothing
but slavery.
l next worked in the speeder room
at Lancaster, S. c., getting only rs
cents day, or $3.50 a week. There
learned to run frames and they
gave me set of frames. l ran them
about a year at $3.50 a week, but
could not support my family on
this. These jobs showed me a union
was needed.
p D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05

can become maudlinly distorted if
hammered out with heavy hand.
Eased to the reader in the terse, we'll
balanced form Barr employs the
most stylish of the literary stylists
might even raise a supercilious eye
brow and concede mot so bad"
Racy songs of the "Wobblies,"
the jargon of the 'pete man." Mons
trous rats emerging from sewers
desperate for bite of the decaying
human flesh in the sinking tanks,
the screaming excitement of the
building of the "battle ship" as a
direct action protest, the handsome
latin murder singing LA Paloma"
to the casual stunning of his
guitar after imposition of the death
sentence, the heart breaking picture
of men legs shackeled stumbling to
the train that carries them to the
"big house."
1t is there. Beautifully, brutally
there. A singing indictment of the
use that the masters put their power
to. This is no apologize "softy'
CLOSING over the sordidness of life
in a Jail with herman adventure
stuff. The author of this book has
been through the mill. The snarl
of his words ring, true.
Literary high lights of the realis-
tic school need no longer try to
"break into the can for two week
search for local color. "There is lots
of color and a number of finely
drawn sketches in "Let Tomorrow
Come" that makes the average book
on crime so much Beatrice Fairfax.
ABE MOSCOW.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
SOLIDARITY IN 3 RIVERS
Mill Strike Won by Sticking Together

and what is more the other depart
ments of the mill went out in SYM
pathy and because of shortage of
work. A union meeting was called
but the bosses got so scared they
gave in on all the workers demands
and gave increases instead Of cuts,
stopped speeding up, and were only
too glad to open the mills for work
again.
The workers returned victorious
after week of strike. They are not
blind to the fact that the National
Textile Workers Union got them
their victory. Seeing the workers
determination the bosses had to give
in. If all the workers understood it
is not enough to have union help
only in strike, but that it is neces-
sary to organize now the conditions
in the mills would be different.
$4,000. ~. MILL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
ENSLAVE GIRLS
IN CORRUCATING
HE'LL IN WEST Va.
Bosses Try to Crush
Workers Efforts
by a Worker Correspondent

WHEELING, W. Va, (By MaiD.
The Wheeling Steel Corporation is
an independent concern ranging
about fifth in its line. This slave
driving corporation is worth about
$125,OO0,OOO.
1t operates twelve plants within a
radius of 20 miles in this district.
Over 10000 steel workers slave in
its plants. The net profits of this
company were over $19,000,O00 in
1928, according to the company's
own statement.
King of the Valley.
The Wheeling Steel Corporation
dominates this part of the Ohio
River Valley, exploiting mercilessly
workers around this part of the
country. The workers, especially
the Communist and other militant
workers of this section have had
many bitter experiences of its reac-
tionary, anti-labor drives, especially
during the last presidential election
campaign. Half dozen Of our meet
ings We're broken up with several
arrests of our speakers, including
Scott Nearing, by the lackeys OF
this open shop corporation.
In spite of the huge profits and
the tremendous expansion of its new
plants in Steubenville and Wheeling,
the workers of these plants are suf-
fering all sorts of privations and
miseries.
No Union.
Needless to say there is not YES
tige of union left since the big
strike of 1919. The steel slaves are
compelled to work long hours and to
accept wage cuts. The conditions
are unsanitary and inhuman.
The working hours are different
in every plant, each having its own
system. In no plants, however, are
the hours less than 10 a day, and
in some of the Wheeling plants the
hours are as high as Is a day.
Young Girls Slave.
Wages are as low as 25 cents an
hour for unskilled labor, especially
in the Wheeling Corrugating, where
about 1900 young girls are employ
ed at low wages. The sanitary con-
ditions are also Of the worst descrip-
ton. Dining rooms and toilets are
IN the same room.
In the Martins Ferry plant just
across the river from Wheeling the
steel magnates are. scared to death
on account of the activities of the
Communist Youth League and the
Communist Party. AS a result of
this fear two League members lost
their jobs and several Party mem.
bers were fired.
But these measures did not dis
courage the Communists from issu-
ing more shop bulletins calling on
the steel slaves to form shop COM
mittees, to organize the toilers to
resist the speedup system, the wage
cuts, to fight against the prepare
ion for new imperialist war.
NICK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
Berlin Policemen
Seize Pamphlets
Scoring Brutality

BERLIN, (By MaiD To-day the
political police in Berlin confiscated
all the remaining supplies of a PAM
phlet issued by the Communist Party
and bearing the title "The Bloody
May Days in Berlin" The pamphlet
contained a terrible description of
the police brutalities in Berlin du-
ring the first days of May. The
pamphlet was issued in an edition
of $4,000 copies and was practically
exhausted, having sold like hot ca
kes, so that the police haul was
very poor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
E. F. ALBEE.

Baclsnova, star Of program, ap-
Fearing both as the vaudeville head
liner in person and also on the screen
as the star of "a Dangerous
Woman" which is the feature photo
play. Supporting Baclanova in "The
Farewell Supper" is Nicholas Sous
sanin, Paul Decker and Ivan Mari.
Others include Corinne Tilton, the
Norman Thomas Quintette, Block
and Sully and Broken Toys"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
TRY FASHIONABLE DOPEsTER

LOS ANGELES, June 4.-Dr. 1.
Jesse Citron, fashionable Beverly
Hills physician, pleaded not guilty
to charge of issuing false narcotics
prescriptions to Alma Rubens, film
actress, in federal court today.
Ruben's purchases are said to have
helped swell Rothstein's fortune.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
S1ST STREET.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday,: Jay Dillon and Betty
Parker; Harold Yates and Cooper
Lawley; feature photoplay, ga DAN
gerous Woman" starring Baclanova,
supported by Give Brook and Neil
Hamilton.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Feature photoplay, Square Shout
ders," co-starring Louis Wolheim
and Junior Coghlan; vaudeville pro-
gram.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
STATES ARGUE RIVER RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, D. c., June A.
Whether the waters of the ella
River in Arizona shall be added to
those of the Colorado in determining
the total to be divided among the
lower basin states will be decided by
commissioners from Arizona, Cali
fornia, and Nevada who opened for
NAL negotiations for tri-state COM
pact today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
(By a Worker Correspondent


THREE RIVERS, Mass. (By
MaiD .-In the mill here little
while ago the spooler girls went on
strike. They did not know how to
organize and many did not know
what a union was. Yet they knew
something should be done against
the speedup and the five per cent cut
in wages handed them, as it meant
more rapid grinding away of their
strength for starvation wages.
They left their jobs and held a
meeting to decide what they should
do. They asked for union organi-
zers. At first the boss threatened
to shut the mill and move it out
and stood large moving vans to
scare the workers.
But the girls were endsunted and
seeded to stick to their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
USSR Plans to Study
Agriculture Abroad

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail).-
The State Planning Commission pro-
poses to set up in foreign countries
network of special bureaus for
the study of rural economy abroad.
In particular such bureaus are pro-
posed to be opened in Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Italy, Denmark and
U. S. A..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
McFADDEN STARTS ANOTHER

DETROIT, Mich, June 4.-Det,
roit's fourth daily newspaper, The
Detroit Daily, a morning tabloid
published by Bernarr McFadden
made its initial appearance here to,
day. The executive staff of the paper
was recruited from McFadden's New
York and Philadelphia tabloids.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
Vaudeville Theatres
PALACE.

Helen Kane, former star of "Good
Boy" in a cycle of songs; Bill Rob-
inson; Harry Carroll Revue, featur-
ing William Demarest; John T. Muir
ray and Vivian Oakland; The Ran
gers, and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05

Not only has the bOurgeOisie
forged the weapons that bring
death to itself; 1t has also called
into existence the men who are to
WELD those weapOns-the modern
working cIass-the proletarinns.-
Karl Marx Communist ManifestO)s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05
JUVENILE STAR RECOVERING

JUVENILE STAR RECOVERING.
GLENDALE, Calf, June A.
Jackie Coogan child film star was
reported Receiving rapidly today from
an operation for acute appendicitis
performed Saturday at the Physi-
clans and Surgeons Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-05

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
TIMES CARRIER
TEST CLOSING

The Washington Times Salesman.
ship Week ends today.
During this period the carrier
boys have canvassed every house In
washington, and q fine showing
has been the result.
During this past week there have
been four boys who have topped the
city for at least one night. They
are Robert Charmsn, Of branch sta
ton No. %; Malcolm Carr, Of branch
station No. Is; Fred Dixon, of
branch station No. 6, and Alfred
Levitow, who has topped the entire
city for the past two nights.
The runners-up for the past night
were: John CARRIER, Edward Mitchell,
George Kelpy, A. Diver, Dutch
Ranscher, B. Barley, Franklin
Funkhouser, Willie Sheehy, James
Lloyd, Joseph Scherr, Robert Sokol,
N. L. Johnson, Milton Watson, Cal
win Richardson, Carlton Alexander.
Marvin Wright, William Berry,
Nelson Withers, J. Whole, Arthur
Morris, Harvey White, Richard
Stelzer, Earl Manuel, John Demerst
and Roger Thurston.
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
CONTEST.
NOW OPEN

Washington's biennial music con.
test opened this afternoon at the
First Congregational Church, Tenth
ana q Streets Northwest, under the
auspices Of the District OF Columbia
Federation Of Music Clubs. En-.
trants for the interstate contest, e
Baltimore, May I. win be selected.
Among the musicians competing
are Misses Betty Baum, Catherine
Birch. Virginia WI Cureton, Mar
garet d. Davis, Gladys F.. George,
Virginia Groomes, Edna M. Jones,
Ruth p. Miller, Mildred Sherier,
Augusta e. Cassidy, Catherine Nc
Eneany, Gertrude Meisel, Mary
Templin and Mrs. Edith NJ. WalIack.
Daniel Clark, Harold B. Cornwell,
Mortimer II. Davenport, Oscar lie.
vine, Grant W. Van Denmark, Harry
Cherkassy and Jacob So!1ol.
Judges are Miss Charlotte Klein,
Mrs. James shera Montgomery, Mrs.
Euby Smith Stahl, Mrs. Charlotte
Lipitt, Miss Julia Schellin, LaSalle
Spfer, George r. Ross, Edwin NC
Barnes, Josef Kaspar, Dore WalEen
and Sidney Seidenman.