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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
! OF northern round whites and Si.65-
l.T5 on Idaho RussetS.
Fever String Beans this Snring

OF northern round whites and sl.65-
Its on Idaho RussetS.
Fewer String Beans this Spring
The intended planting OF string
beans in three early shipping states
are only 1900 acres compared with
$4,000 last season. Most OF the re-
duction Is in Florida where only
1900 acres are being grown this
spring. Shipments from Florida in
creased rapidly the past week to
100 cars or four times as many as
a year ago. Jobhing prices were
S2.00-4.00 per seven-eightS bushel
hamper.
Onions Slightly Lower
Though shipments Of onions were
very moderate, only 800 cars COM
pared with $40 during the same Pc
Rod last year, prices began TO show
q slight weakening in some sections.
Medium sized yellows in western
New York returned s4.70-5.00 per
100 Id. sack with large stock at
S5.25. Western Michigan sales we're
few in number and held around
$3.50 while the western slope OF
Colorado reported a range OF $3.50
4.7O. Host jobping sales Of New
York yellOws were within a range
Of S4.50-5!00 as against m~idwestern
stock at ~S5.25-5.75. Western Va
Iencia type cnions brought $500
500 in terminal markets and white
stock sold at S5.50-6.5c. Imports
were limited. only rs carloads from
Holland. Is from Chile and q few
from Spain and Italy. The 10 ID.
sacks OF Dutch onions ruled $5-25-
5.35 in a. few cities; Italian stock IN
100 10. sacks brought S5.49-5.50 IN
New York ard the general level for
Spanish onions was $2-50-2.75 per
crate.
New Cabbage Active
Movement OF new cabbage con-
tinued to increase. About $50 cars
were shipped Of which $40 came
from Texas and 200 from Florida.
The I. o. b. price IN southern Texas
fluctuated considerably. After reach
ing top Of 5000 the market sagged
again to Sl6.o0-18.00 per ton, with
barrel crates at s1.25-i.5o. City
dealers got mostly s4000-50.0o a ton.
Barrel crates from Louisiana were
jobbing in Cleveland at s225-2.50
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
ROTARY HEARS
SCHOOL PLANS
Harbert Davenport Tells of
Need For Buildings In
Weekly Meeting

The plans Of the Brownsville
school board for enlarging the
school facilities TO care for an I'm
usual increase in scholastics under
the new school age limit Of 6 to II
instead Of 2 TO II. were outlined be-
fore the Rotary club Wednesday
by Harbert Davenport, member Of
the school board.
Mr.. Davenport said that a bond
issue Of S75,C00 Is proposed, to be
used in the construction Of q one
story building on the site of the
abandoned grammar school at
Seventh and Madison streets, and
for q new six room building in the
extreme eastern part Of the city.
The material OF the old grammar
school would be salvaged and used
in the new construction. The old
building has been condemned as
unsafe.
3. &. Gersdorf Of the San Antonio
Rotary club. representing the Inter-
national Exposition and Livestock
show TO be held in San Antonio. in
troduced II. Hassell. 22-year old ma
gician OF San Antonio. Mr.. Hassell
entertained the Rotarians with q
number of mystifying tricks.
M. l.. Love explained to the Ro-
tarians the proposed Sl0.0 900
foundation OF international Rotary.
"A. Wayne Wood and Charles
Burton were elected delegates to The
forty-seventh district convention.
and George White and M. l.. Love
were named alternates. The con-
vention will be held in Houston
March %.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28

When your little ones are half
sick, out-of-sorts, they car seldom
tell you what Is wrong. You have
TO read their symptoms IN order TO
choose the right medicine. III,
when you kiss them. you detect I'M
pleasant breath, you have a sure
sign that the bowels are sluggish;
that the stomach Is sou and bill
ious,
For n child constipated. feverish,
languid, fretful, waEeful at night.
lacking appetite and subject 70
colds and sore throat. you will find
a reliable remedy In California Fig
Syrup. It is the finest laxative In
the world for children. Little ones
previously always half-sick, fretful
and backward through sluggish
bowels and poor digestion. take q
wonderful turn for the better and
thrive amazingly when the bowels
have been helped back to healthy
regularity by an occasional dose OF
California Fig Syrup. Millions OF
mothers have proved its merit and
have been relieved Of farther worry
and anxiety from their child's con-
stipation.
III you have a child bothered like
this or one who Is subject 10 fire.
uuent bilious attacks and sick
headache, save the little one this
suffering. and yourself constant
anxiety by giving California Fig
Syrup. Get a bottle today. All
drug stores.
California Fig Syrup has been
trusted by the Worlds mothers for
over 80 years. That is why the
word california" should be en-
phasized when buying.-Adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28

toes, the combined output OF twen-
ty-two fruits and vegetables de-
creased during the week of 1910
cars. For the same period last sea-
son, the total was only 14,560.
Early Potato Acreage Reduced
Growers in the early potato states
apparently viii carry out their pre-
vious intentions OF reducing their
combined commercial potato acre
age about 30 per cent SO that the
paintings in these early areas may
be only 1924 o acres, compared with
$4,000 last season and 100000 acres
in 1927. Sharpest reductions are
noted in Alabama. Mississippi and
California, though Virginia, the
largest state shows a probable re-
duction of % per cent and the Car
olinaS about 20 per cent. Florida
has about 22,0c0 acres in potatoes
this year as against 30.350 last sea-
son. Hastings section reports a re-
duction OF one-fourth and first ship
ments n expected by March 20.
Severe weather in some Of the
northern REGIONS and the weakness
of the market tended 10 reduce po-
tato shipments sharply last week.
Only AGO cars moved, OF which
Colorado furnished 400. Idaho ITO.
the north-central region only 1000.
New York and Pennsylvania togeth-
er 365 and Maine 1900 cars
Only slight changes Of prices oc-
cured. but the whole situation
showed little strength. Western
New York shippers still got soc per
100 lbs. OF round whites and sacked
Green Mountains returned 75c III
northern Maine. The range in the
north-central states was 65-70c but
western Nebraska advanced a bit on
Bliss Triumphs TO 70-75c. A wide
range of 55c to si.00 prevailed in
Colorado shipping districts. South
ern Idaho strengthened slightly on
Russet Rurbanks to 65-80c. Florida
potatoes we're moving nor actively.
% cars were reported during the
week. Cleveland dealers quoted best
Spaulding Rose at $500 per barrel.
New York dealers reported Cuban
crates at s2.75-3.O0 and Bermuda
barrels st s9.e0-9.5o. Old stock ad-
vanced slightly in the Chicago caFlot
market TO 30c TO si.00 per 100 lbs.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
A GiUv these
~ energetic SEEDS
a GhAnce IN your garden

ENERGETIC seeds take no more dig
ging, or raking, or caring for in a
garden, than seeds that are not so
full of the spirit to live. But think
of the difference at harvest timel
The energetic seeds withstand dis
ease better = grow better and
stronger = produce more vigor-
ously and more a~bundantly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
PENNSYLVANIA MEET
TO BE FRIDAY, MAR. 8


HARLINGEN. Feb. 28.-An-
nouncement Of plans for q meeting
OF former Pennsyivanians now liv-
ing in the Valley has created wide
interest. according to Judge G.. Lor-
imer Brown, who Is assisting in
plans for the dinner.
The meeting is 70 be held at the
Women's chamber Of commerce
building here On March 3 a dinner
viii be served at $50 d. N. and this
will be preceded by a get-acquainted
session.
These who intend to be present
are asked to communicate with
Judge Brown, Baker building. or
with Rev. II. Schaffer. 610 z. Jack
son street. G. 3. Richey. Box $50.
Harrington, also may be notified.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28

and the general range OF | 1-2
bushel hampers OF Florida pointed
type cabbage was s1.O0-2.00- Only
Ito cars Of old stock moved and
nearly all Of them were from New
York state. During the same week
last season shipments were $50
cars. Too few sales we're being made
I'm western New York TO establish a
market price, the I. o. b. range on
Wednesday was lower az $35.O0-39.O0
per ton. City sales Of New York
and northern Danish type were
mostlv at $40 .O0-5nO0 per ton or
s1-75-2.75 per 100 lbs
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
MERCEDES HAS NEW
EXCHANGE
Especial to The Heraldl

MERCEDES. Feb. 28.-The Rio
Grande Valley Telephone Co. has
cut over the local exchange to a
common battery system. giving
Mercedes n OF the best and most
modern exchanges in the Valley, Of
ficers state.
Offices OF the company also have
moved TO a new building erected at
the corner Of Fifth and Missouri
avenues.
A formal opening will be held by
the company in the future.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28

The Ferry's Seeds that you can
buy today at the "store around the
corner" are surprisingly energetic.
WHATS more, they are fresh. What
is most important, they are pure
bredl These Ferry's Seeds came
from plants that measured up to
the Ferry standard in size, color,
favor, productivity - plants that
haze handed their inheritance on.
They are pedigreed seedsl-in
the strict sense you mean when you
say arace-horse is pedigreed. Their
parents, grandparents, great grand
parents - all were of fine true
stock, without an inferior strain.
Doesn't this mean something
to your garden9 Send for the
Ferry's Seed Annual to plan what
you want. Remember that Ferry
makes thousands of tests a year to
determine the trucness of every
seed you now can spill into your
hand from a bright Ferry packet.
Garden facts in the Annual make
it far more than a catalog. Address
d. M. Ferry & Co., Dept. H.,
Detroit, Michigan.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-28
WHEN THE LAW ERRs

HULL. Eng.-Four-year-old Janet
Stayne was summoned for not
sending her child TO school" When
she appeared in court the case was
indefinitely adjourned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
CUT WAGES IN READING
Slash Over rs Percent for MIL SLAVES

A cut has been made at the Kitz-
miller plant, at Fourth and Elm
Sts., from % cents to % cents per
dozen.
When the Iris Mill bosses called
on the girls to come back after the
ten-day lay-off at the reduced
wages, hut one girl responded, on
Monday, and Tuesday afternoon
there were but three girls back. The
bosses statement that poor business
was responsible for the cuts was
lie.
Not counting noon lunch hours,
the girls at the Iris Mills work 10
hours day. However, in order to
make a days wages, many Of the
girls snatch a hasty lunch and then
spend their time getting extra tops
ready and mending stockings which
are defective.
The work in the mills is nerve
racking. Everything is piece work
and " the mills where the machines
are of an old type the tasl,s are
straining and exhausting. The fore
men are paid bonuses for pushing
the work hardest and making the
speed-up greatest. Most of the girls
and women in the Reading mills can
last only couple of years before
they are worn out and have to quit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Miriam Hopkins Gives Fine
Performance IN Play 'Fzight"

AN unborn baby is the cause of all
"A the rumpus in "Flight" by Susan
Meriwether and Victor Victor now
playing at the Longacre Theatre. A
comedy Of life among the idle rich,
it is very amusing at times, also
having it's full quota of dull mo-
ments.
Cynthia Larrimore, the flapper
daughter of an unhappy married
couple has affairs with several
bright young men in her social set.
Richard Scofield, also known as
"Scoofy" is outclassed by Terry
Hamilton, who likes Cynthia to the
extent that he is willing to marry
her. The girl does not know her
own mind and is on the verge of ac-
cepting the proposal when John
Hill, a vest pocket edition of Char
lie Lindbergh appears on the scene.
= seems that his airplane is wrecked
near the Larrimore country home.
Cynthia goes for a ride in the
airplane with Hill and on their
landing Cynthia gives herself to the
bashful boy. at was as though we
were husband and wife" is the way
Hill puts it. He then proposes to
Cynthia, and when she tells him
that there had been other men be-
fore him, goes away broken-hearted.
The flapper is also broken-hearted
and for six weeks lives in trance.
She then receives a letter from the
airman stating that he realizes that
he was foolish and will be with her
again shortly. Cynthia then discov-
ers that she is to become mother,
but does not know whether the
father of the child is Hamilton or
Hill. She determines to test the
aviator's love for her, using the
fact that she is pregnant as the
basis for her test. She invited both
Hamilton and Hill to her house and
then announces that she is going to
have a baby. In dramatic speech
she states that she has doubts as
to who is the father, her old lover,
Terry, or the bashful aviator. Hill
is again shocked and leaves the
house, but returns in a few moments
and the play ends with everything
happening as expected.
While the play is well written and
has several odd twists, it is not diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Safes of Employment Sharks
Bulge with Stolen Money
fBy Worker Correspondent

fBy Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail
The gyp slave-markets are deriv-
ing rir-roaring trade in gold-brick
jobs. AS prosperity" (meaning I'M
employment) increases and the want
ad columns gradually shrivel up,
Iserfs out of work hoof it to the Ia
bor-shark in greater and greater
droves. His office is the last stand
this side of the soup kitchener
starvation.
Locally, there are seven whole
sale employment agencies" and any
number of fiy-by-night joints, their
safes fairly bursting with Doodle
swindled out of needy and credulous
workers. If the victims got run
for their money the racket would be
vicious enough. But in most cases
$40 or $40 banknote is swopped
for the smooth promise of job, and
that is the end of the matter.
The big slave-traders occupying
costly suites of offices in the down.
town skyscrapers prey especially on
the white-collar workers. "Open-
ings" for all sorts of workers. from
office boys to mechanics and pat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

$1,000 slaves of Endicott-Johnson
will take part.
Communists Lead Workers.
True to the tradition as the leader
Of TIE working class against the OPP
!ressors, the Workers Communist
Party here is leading the fight
against wage cuts and rotten con-
ditions and is making every effort
TO organize the Endicott-Johnson
workers into an Industrial Shoe
Workers Union.
The shop paper, the "Endicott-
Johnson Workers. Voice." organ of
the Workers (Communist) Party
Nuclei in the Ell. factories, is very
enthusiastically received by all the
workers. This paper urges the
workers to fight wage cuts by
strikes, and sympathetic action by
other departments when a depart
ment strikes. 1t also calls on the
workers to organize into a powerful
Shoe Workers Industrial Union which
will unite all the 1900 WORKERS in
to one organization and unitediy
struggle against wage cuts and for
the improvement of conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

ltern-nlakers, are listed in their
newspaper ads, which sometimes run
to half column each. The bulk of
their swsg, however, is taken from
young clerical workers, bookkeep-
ers, stenographers, multigraph OPP
orators, Junior clerks and the like,
One and all, the mythical "situa-
tons" offered pay fabulous wages
lin print). There's reason. Be-
fore a sucker is so much as given
the address of prospect" he or
she has to fork over so per cent of
the "fee'-the larger the salary, the
bigger the rake-off. One weeks
wages is charged for any job worth
s25 or less. The fee for work in
the s25 to $50 class is one-third of
one months earnings. Thus, $50
job, if there was any such thing,
would be knocked down to the lucky
slave for paltry $40.
Vocational engineers" as these
stick-up artists like to call them
selves, always talk in big figures.
Say you are a stenographer who has
worn his soles to a fine brown lace
stalking work. At last you wind up
in the den of labor-shark. You
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

general bride and smoke screen has
now been reduced to bare pittance.
Having reached a height of S24G.4f
in 1929, last years bonus was
s23.92. This applies only to 1880
employees. The company is discrim-
mating against new workers in its
employ less than two years. THIS
is the smallest bonus paid out in
ten years, and all indications point
to it soon being wiped out.
Better Times Ahead"
From his vacation home in Fler-
ida, free from care anil worries,
George F. Johnson, one of the own
ers, in message published in the
company controlled Binghamton
Sun, spreads the soothing oil by
promising "better times" to the En-
tt-Jobnson slaves, whose wages
Art being cut every day.
eve are going to Lave better
days, and, I hope, better work and
wages. And so let's pull together,
and express loyalty and confidence
in harder work." he says.
This hypocrisy is being answered
by many workers who are taking
the lead in fighting wage cuts and
worsening Of conditions. The work.
ers have answered this hunk by re-
fusing to accept wage cuts and or
ganizing department strikes which
will develop into genera! strike in
the near future, in which ali of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
by Worker Correspondent

WV " W W hCf AOfTCcPONQCHt/
READING, Pa. (By Mail).-A
general reduction of wages in the
knitting mills of Reading, which has
4 socialist administration, has
been made. The girls in the Iris
hosiery Mills at 1877 North Tenth
st. were invited recently to return
10 work after a Today lay-off at
prices ranging up to cents dozen
less than was previously paid.
The former prices for black work
were 80 cents a dozen for knitters.
The price nov offered is 20 cents q
dozen, a reduction of over 26 per
cent. This will amount for the girls
to a reduction of about $1.20 day.
The loopers at this plant also suf-
fcred cut of two cents a day.
The other mills in this city are
also reducing the workers. wages
right and left. At the Gucnther
Mill at Court ard Tenth Sts., cut
from 70 cents to % cents has been
made in the girls wages One girl
there was told she sought TO be
damn glad to get % cents even, be-
ause down south they are doing
he same work for IL to Is cents"
The girls have to work themselves
10 the bone to average IL to IA
dczen per day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

ficult to guess what is going to hap
pen next, most of the time. Also,
on occasions, the play drags and be-
comes very dull. The end of the
second act is the best of the play
and makes up to great extent for
the Inferior sections of the produc-
tion
The cast is much better than the
play. Miriam Hopkins plays the
part of the flapper and gives won
derful performance. Whenever she
is on the stage, the play radiates
around her. She is unusually con-
vincing and should be congratulated
on her superior performance. The
other members of the cast are
equally fine. John D. Seymour as
Hamilton and Donald Dillaway as
John Hill are adequate. Ernest
Glendinning, as Stephen Fairbanks,
is remarkably true to life, and next
to Miss Hopkins, is the outstanding
member of the cast. 1t is only a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
MORE LOOMS,
men MUST DO
OWN CLEANING
Make from So to $40 in
Weeks Work

(Bg Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By
Mail) In the weaving room of the
Acushne5 Mill the weavers do not
get much money for their work.
Some of the weavers are running
from two to ten looms and making
from SO tc $40 week, while speed
up is in force.
Many of the weavers are in the
mill not because they want to be,
but because the bosses want them
in the mill so as to make profits for
themselves. How much can weaver
make with only two looms to run,
with the wages they pay and with
a speed-up in addition? Especially
when he has family of five and
six to support?
sect the AK"
Not enough cleaning of the looms
is being done. Most of the weavers
are forced to clean their own looms
or they get "call-down" from the
boss, or "get the AK" which means
that you are fired-and no back
talk, either.
The bosses swear at you every
time you go to look at the cloth.
To end such slavery every fellow
worker, young or old, must join the
National Textile Workers Union
Every young worker should join the
Young Workers League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
DOCTORED Time
CLOCK ROBBINC
MILL WORKERS
Forced to Run from II
to 16 Looms
Oh a Worker CORRESPONDENT

by Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, (By
MaiD.-I will write of conditions in
the Sharpe Mill. In this mill the
weavers do not have much of a
chance to rest for a moment during
working hours. They have to run
from twelve to sixteen looms each.
After the strike was over I was Of
fered a chance to run twenty-four
looms. And you have to clean and
oil them yourself.
The cleaners here, they just do
the cleaning Of eight to twelve
looms. Over these looms you are
compelled to do your own clean
ing.
There are about forty-five young
workers here. The rest are all
older men and women. The young
worker has to do the dirty work,
such as cleaning looms and run
ming from twelve to sixteen looms
in addition to lot of overtime.
While was working here l had to
run 16 looms from six in the morn
ing till six at night and only MAX
ing (for such hours) about twenty
five dollars week.
Many times the bosses were seen
tampering with the clock, which
used to tell US what we make
week. If you dare look at the clock,
you have to fight a boss who not
only fines you but tells you that
you are damn Portuguese and that
you ought to be shipped back to the
country you came from. "The United
Staues does not need you," he says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
British Imperialist
Labor Commission to
Follow Simon in India

LONDON, (By MaiD.-The an
nouncement of the Viceroy OF India
that Royal Commission will be ap-
pointed to study Indian industrial
relations is regarded here as
clever bourgeois move to entrap the
labor leaders into still further CO.
operation with the process of i'm
perialist exploitation
The ex-speaker of the House of
Commons, Whitley, the father of the
Whitley Councils, is to be chairman
Of the new commission. The Whit
ley Council scheme is for industrial
Cancellation and has the approval Of
all reformist trade union leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
General Strike Gou Among the EndoH Johnson Shoe Workers


Two have to sleep and store their clothes in
space less than half that contained ordinary British third
class carriage compartment This also applies to such we'll
known passenger lines have worked the Cunard Dom
inion, and White Star
The the British ships practically helpless to
improve their conditions of the dishonesty of the
officials of the Marine section of the Transport and General
Workers Union who help the shippers especially the big
by knitting every effort of the to improve them
selves. j. BROUGHTON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

The worst But the other lines also provide pgses On the
Dollar Liners President Harrison President Garfield and Pres
dent Polk all of which have shaved seaman, the quar-
tiers for the bug and atrdden the bedohe
composed of thin under which you freeze in the cold
weather. the food is composed of spok and hard bread for
the most part and the average space allotted to is
about 120 cubic feet This smaller breathing
than that for prisoner in JAIL who gets about 500 cubic feet
On board the British ships which have sailed on such
Union Castle Line there only 100 cubic feet for