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SAN BENITO
LANDRUAI-BRUC

AIlIlOuIlCGLl6L Oh CIlS WcQQlng OF
Miss Mabel Landrum, daughter OF
Mi. and Mrs. r. o. Landrum Of
Uvalde, and Paul w. Bruce Of San
Benito has been received here by
friends. The wedding was solemn
lied Saturday evening, April 6, at
s o'clock at st. Marks Episcopal
| church in San Antonio. At the
marriage service the Rev. Rolfe T.
Crum, rector, officiated. The bride
was given in marriage by her father.
Miss Doris Landrum, sister, was the
brides sole attendant. Jack Bruce,
of Houston, the bridegroom. Miss
Imogene Tate of Uvalde sang pre-
ceding the marriage. service.
At the wedding dinner were the
small group of relatives and friends
who witnessed the wedding. This
delightful affair was held in the
dining room of the Gunter hotel.
Among the guests were Mrs. James
D. Ward, Miss Maxine Bruce and
Lambert Landrum Of San Benito;
Mrs. Pauline Good of Browns
vile; Ted Foresight of Harrington,
and Jack Bruce Of Houston. After
about three weeks in which they
will spend their honeymoon, Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce will return to San
Benito to make their home.
SURPRISE PARTY
Thursday afternoon @ Gertrude
Price was surprised at her homo
when eight of her friends came from
school and helped her celebrate her
birthday anniversary. Cecille
Thompson held high cor at the
games of bunco. The girls were
taken to Sobre las Olas where din
ner Of Mexican foods was enjoyed
about 6 o'clock.
RECTOR HONORED
Saturday evening -.lrs. w. Everett
Johnson entertained vestrymen Of
All Saints church at dinner at her
home honoring the Rev. Mr.. john
son on the occasion of his 72nd
birthday anniversary. Mrs. Charles
A. Strong and Mrs. w. D. Holland
assisted the hostess Vestrymen who
were guests included j. L. Perkins,
Charles Strong, Raymond Slaugh-
ter, Charles Greenslade and w. d.
Holland.
ENTERTAINS CLUB
Mrs. Claude Atkins entertained
members of the two-table Wednea-
day Bridge club at her home In
Valencia park Wednesday afternoon,
April 10. Pink and red roses pre-
dominated in decorations through
out the home. A delightful after
noon was spent at the close OF
which Mrs. Fred Wedegartner won
the prize for high score. Delicious
refreshments Of CONCEALED salad,
crackers, frozen angel food, nut wa
ferS and coffee at the close of play
ing. The next meeting, which will
be Wednesday, April II, will be held
at the Yacht club at Point Isabel.
DINNER PARTY
Tuesday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Ned G. Rigsbee entertained a small
party at dinner at Sobre las Olas
honoring Mr. and Mrs. i. l.. Hutch
liSOn of Tulsa, Okla. MIR. and Mrs.
Hutchison are spending some time
Hooking over the Valley section and
may decide to locate here.
NURSES BANQUET
Monday evening about 80 gradu-
ate nurses, members of the Gradu-
ate Nurses association, district Il,
were entertained with a banquet at
Sobre las OlaS cafe at their month
~ meeting in San Benlto. Hostess
es for the evening were Harrington
members Of the association. The
7. r. Riggs Nursery company Of
Mercedes donated flowers which
were used for decorations for the
affair. Plans for Valley members
attending the national convention
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Oliver Swinnea, who received nan,
dainty and useful gifts. Upon ar.
irving Mrs. Swinnea found a baSsi'
net and gifts at the door, a mos
agreeable surprise. After the open
ing Of the gifts bridge and AZ games
were enjoyed. Mrs. Hope Grimes
received the prize for bridge Gu
and Mrs. G. @. Stokes of Elsa the
prize for the AZ cut. Spring flow.
ers were used in the house decora-
tions and tally cards we're Sugges-
tive Of the happy occasion. A veg
table salad course was served. The
honoree received lovely gifts from
Mrs. j. Scott Robertson of San Be
nito. Mrs. C. G.. Stokes Of Elsa
Mesdames Hope Grisem, Ray Hart
ness, Fl. w. GudmanSon, L. 0. Gar
rett, G. p. Clark. Roy Hough, Eu-
gene Vaughan, Hugh Watson, d. r
Mauldin, Harold Harrison, Lynn
Wright, Monte Walker, Misses No.
cha Ramsey and Norma Stanford
were Weslaco guests.
PICNIC SUPPER
The Business and Professional
| WOl1lC1l - C1G6 ia fCG4aOO CA4JOyCO
a picnic supper Thursday evening
at Llano Grande lake. Those who
attended this pleasant evening were
Mrs. j. H. Head, Mrs. Wave Steb-
bins, Mrs. H. A. Holloway, Mrs. N.
p. Wimberly, Mrs. Byron Hutto,
Miss Joanna Pope, Miss Evangeline
Valdez and Miss Lucy Muckleroy.
At che luncheon of the club this
week Mrs. j. Fl. Head, president Of
the club, and Mrs. Clifton Daven-
port we're selected as delegates to
the state convention at Temple May
lib.
Mrs. Gilbert Ramsey Of Weslaco
and Mrs. L. M. Vigness of Mercedes
played two piano duets at the Schu-
bert program Monday which was
an annual luncheon Of the Music
club. The selections played were
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony"
and March"
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Beinke left
Tuesday eevning for iowa where
they will spend the summer.
Mrs. r. C. Wolfe Of Waco is ex-
pected soon to visit her daughter,
Mrs. j. T. Darwin.
Mrs. John Bennett and baby son,
John Ballard Bennett, arrived home
Wednesday from the Edinburg hos
pital.
MI. and Mrs. Leslie Surginer of
Floydada arrived the first of the
week to visit Mrs. Surginer's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Gound.
F. 0. Richereek arrived home
Tuesday evening from several weeks
business trip to Canyon and Fort
Worth. He visited his daughter.
Mrs. j. e. E~ichelberger, in Wichita
Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. M. Sutphen ex-
pect to move next week to Edcouch.
D. r. Kirkan was called Tuesday
evening to Amelia, Ohio, because Of
the death of an aunt, Miss Clara
Kirgan. Funeral services will be
held Friday.
A. l.. Bromby Of Sulphur Springs,
vegetable inspector, is here for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. H. Y. Tarpley left Monday
evening for San Antonio where she
will attend the Methodist Women'S
Missionary conference.
j. A. Felker and daughter, Miss
Elsie Felker, of Toledo, Ohio, who
have been visiting their daughter
and sister Mrs. Harry Stebbins, for
the past two months, left Monday
evening.
Misses Jean Van Vliet and Cath
crime Rives accompanied Mr.. and
Mrs. G. I. Haven and family of
Edinburg to Point Isabel for the
weekend.
Frank and Ed Rooster were called
to Boskwick, Neb., last week on ac-
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CLUB

At the beautiful country home of
Mrs. George w. Mccain, members
Of the Pennsylvania club held a
play in which Miss Florie Stockey
was the star performer. Others
participating In the play were Mrs.
Morgan Sherer, Mrs. Joe Spears,
Olive Jones and Mamie Lilies. Sew
eral musical numbers we're rendered
by James Salter after which
Blanche Taylor gave several pleas
ing solo dances. At the close Of
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in Montreal this summer were dis
cussed during the evening. The
next meeting will be held in Yves
laco in August. Miss anna Shafer
and Miss Lucy Williamson were the
San Benito members present.
CIRCLE MEETS
Tuesday afternoon Circle No. One
Of the Methodist Missionary soci-
ETY. of the Methodist church met al
the home Of Mrs. M. w. Morris
Mrs. Alice Dunn, who was study
leader was assisted by Mrs. Ryan
Mrs. j. z. Thomas, Mrs. Sophia
Phillips, Mrs. r. w. Burgess, Mrs
Frank Roberts, Mrs. 0. Z. Williams
Mrs. z. L. Ramsey, Mrs. Jack Por-
ter and Mrs. W. @. Place. Study
Of the book of Luke was completed
In the absence of the chairman
Mrs. Henry Parks the meeting was
presided over by Mrs. j. e. Thomp-
son. At the home of Mrs. Ryan al
608 North Sam Houston boulevard
on April % the next meeting will
be held.
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CONFERENCE

ITENU CUNF EhENOE
yeslaco girls who are attending
Girls Reserve conference at
Hondo, Friday, saturday and
aday are the following: Cabinet
bnbers, Misses Dorothy Ford,
by Bristol, Verna Ruth Compere,
Mary Jane Yates, president OF
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PHILADELPHIA Murder Mills of "Cd@ Plush Co. Pay SLAVES Coolies Wag
'fCon1e to Us, and See Our
Life," Say Soviet Workers

following Worker correspond
American Workers.
Dear Comrade, American Workers:
We then will how live in the
U.SSR. and in how building free Socialist state.
We do that there certain
all try get rid of them.
We not the laws which the bourgeois
sound proposition of workers for the better
of Socialism,
We proud to meet the foreign workers guests and shall
them of what have done and what intend
in the future
The menhe and the other satellites the
the aptac The traitors of the workers and
deavour lie about the U.SSRR.
We do not hide anything American therefore there
necessity for issue lies 1t that
expected therefore ration limited
This ration which kilograms
sufficient and there
transferring of poorest peasants
the villages into Coecive These Colectves will be supplied with
agricultural machinery tractors and fertilizers.
We have lately erected number of factories coal electro
stations. Our heavy industry is growing
1912 became political refugee escaped
the police Through Lbau
dull for me in New York.
But though there short time nevertheless learned
thing about the methods of American ship learned
bind workers for mode by of that before
the end of the contract there possibility the
With Communist greetings, shaking hands with
" N. ROJKOV
The Guard of the Factory.
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FOYewlen in American Ry.
EXPRESS Get SCab Rewards

of these was president of the union
when the strike was called but
stayed on the job and scabbed dur
ing the entire time the men were
out.
Also there is group styled work
ing foremen, about eight at each de-
pot, who secured their jobs as a
reward for doing scab duty. This
job of working foreman was created
at the end of the strike and pays
$1,000 more per month than car
leaders and markers wages. A work
ing foreman is on duty s hours and
does manual labor as well as over
seeing others. In some industries
he would be known as pace setter.
Agents, bot, day and night, work
IL hours and are paid nothing for
overtime. Their wages run from 90
cents to $1.20 per hour, according to
the size of the depot, the lowest fig
ure being received by night agents
in small sheds, the highest pay 60
ing to day agents in larger sheds.
1t can be seen how the company has
dispensed with the eight-hour-day in
dealing with its agents and foremen,
at the same time leaving the impress
sion that they are receiving good
wages.
Ito Be Concluded.)
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Crosby Gaige, in his announce
ment of his plans for the season
stated that so far these are six IN
number. The plays are:
"a Lady Descends", by Garnett
WestionWeston and Carrot Fort.
This is a drama and may open his
season. $50 Help Me God" by Maui
rine Watkins, author of Chicago
and "Revelry", drama about an
actress, with the Weston-Forb opens.
Then will follow, "One Beautiful
Evening" by Vera Caspary, first
play by the author Of the novel
"White Grip. 1t has an all-women
cast. "Bad Girl" by Vina Delmar and
Thomas Mitchell. This is to be a
dramatization of Miss Delmar's book
by Thomas Mitchell. Somehow" by
Robert R. Presnell and Thomas Nit
chell. A comedy in which Mr.. Nit
chell will probably have the leading
role, and new play by S. N. Behr-
man, as yet unnamed. Helen Hayes
will play the leading role in this
comedy.
The cast of "Little Accident" head
ed by Thomas Mitchell left for the
coast yesterday, where it will open
in San Francisco, to begin ten
week engagement on the coast. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-29
Bauerle COPPER Workers
Take Lines IN Their Hands

(By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA by MaiD.-
Plenty of proof that laws are created
to be broken, so far as the bosses
are concerned, can be gotten in the
office of Baeuerle and Morris, cop
persmiths, in North Front Street.
First there is a building "or-
Ginance" on the books which "pre-
scribes" separate toilets for male
and female workers in all shops, Of
fees and factories. No matter if
the force consists of only one male
slave and one woman, they must
have distinct closets wherein to
yield up the wastes of nature" But
the above firm like all firms with
enough graft in the till, is an ex-
ception to the Claw" Its "office
building" is a tumble-down house
dating from the so-called "revolu-
tionary" days. Five men, female
stenographer and the woman who
does the cleaning, use the one dark
and dirty 'privvy" (privvy).
The building itself is so shaky
that when anyone walks across the
second floor it "gives" likes the deck
Of a ship in a rolling sea. The Gin
spectors" must get juicy slice of
hush-money for passing this one.
Then the attic, contrary to every
''rule" and regulation of the fire
marshall, is cluttered up with paper,
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discarded wooden patterns and other
inflammable stuff. There is no fire
escape and the winding wooden
stairway at the rear of the "office"
is so dark that matches have to be
struck to see up and down it. The
one fire bucket, the only "protec-
tion" in the place, is empty except
in winter when it is used to catch
the drippings of a leaky steam
radiator. AS the "steam heating
system" homemade (also against
the law to save plumber bills, is
not worth a damn; the boss keeps a
roaring log fire burning in the open
fireplace Of his room on cold days.
The room being about the size of a
prison cell, his deck is charred from
the blaze, it is wonder that he has
so far failed to burn the house down.
In defiance of the 8-hour claw"
for women workers, the steno-
grapher is made to work 9 or 10
hours a day.
One small office housing z people
flouts capitalist claws" at a
swoop. How many do the big boys
get away with? In Philadelphia
alone there are hundreds of slaugh-
ter shops like the Baeuerle and
Morris office, where the workers
take their lives into their hands
every time they report for work.
IN. BIOREN.
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International Red Day
and the Working Women

ton. Make your laundering answer
to the attacks of the bosses upon
the standard of living of the work
ing class; let the demonstration
signify your determination to fight;
to carry on a relentless struggle
against imperialist war prepare
tons. Let US increase manifold our
energy and build the Trade Union
Center, to be established at Cleve-
land, August 81. The new trade
union center will form the nucleus
of tremendous mass struggles, for
the building Of new militant indus
trial unions and the only organiza-
ton of the unorganized masses of
workers, of whom the least organ
lied are the women. The new mill
tant unions are fighting for equal
pay for equal work regardless of
sex or color, for protective legisla-
ton for women workers.
Make the demonstration a proof
of our incorporating struggle for
the immediate release Of our fellow
! fighters in Gastonia.
Carry on the struggle in the fac
tories. Let the imperialists hear
the voices of the working women.
THE SOVIET UNION is THE
FATHERLAND OF THE OPP
PRESSED; PROTECT AND DE-
FEND THE SOVIET UNION.
CHALLENGE THE IMPERIAL
IST WAR PREPARATIONS BY
JOINING THE COMMUNIST PAR
TY, THE ONLY PARTY THAT
FIGHTS THE TRUE NATURE OF
IMPERIALIST WARS.
WORKING WOMEN, JOIN THE
UNITED FRONT OF CLASS
STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERI-
ALTSM, AGAINST IMPERIALISI
WARS, AND FOR THE DEFENSE
OF THE SOVIET UNION.
DOWN WITH PACIFISN
WHICH LULLS THE WATCHFUL.
NESS OF THE CLASS CON
SCIOUS WOMEN WORKERS.
REMEMBER THAT EVERY
FIGHT AGAINST CAPITALISM
IS A FIGHT AGAINST IMPERI
ALIST WARS.
FIGHT IMPERIALIST BOUR.
GEOIS WOMEN'S ORGANIZE
TONS.
FORWARD UNDER THE BAN.
NER OF THE COMMUNIST IN
TERNATIONAL FOR THE OVER
THROW OF THE CAPITALIST
SOCIETY.
49,.
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EXPLOIT YOUTH |.
INTERNATIONAL
HAND KERCHIEI
Operators Placed OF
Piece Work
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
The international Handkerchie
Manufacturing Co. which is a par
of the Sealpackerchief Co. is locate
at 18th St. and Willow Ave-, Bronx
They employ about 400 workers, tn
majority of whom are young girls
They do not take in anybody VIII
is over 35. The company under
stands that it is easier to expl
young workers than adults.
Operators on Piece Work.
The work is divided into severs
departments. The company opera
tors, who make up the majority
the workers, are piece-workers. L
one department they have the wori
arranged in such way that on
set is working piece-work. Tha
saves the forelady a job in driving
the piece-workers.
The week workers work AZ an.
three quarters hours week. TIL
piece workers work so hours
week. The week workers receiv
s14 and SIS week. The averag
wage of an operator is $1S to 81
week.
It is no wonder we get such small
wages and work such long hours
We, the workers of the Internationa
Handkerchief factory have no chanc
to let the boss know that we are no
satisfied with our conditions, as W
are unorganized.
Of course, to let the bosses know
about it is not enough. The Dos
will never raise our wages, o
sorten the hours of work of his owl
free will. More wages for us mean
less profit for him. He does no
consider us as human beings, VIII,
have the right to enjoy life, and W
cannot enjoy life with the low wag
we get.
The boss considers US as mean
|
by which he can make more an NOR
profit and he is therefore intereste,
in only one thing, to pay us as littl,
and make US work as hard as pos
sible. AS said before, to let tn
boss know we are dissatisfied is no
enough. There is way to compe
the boss to grant our demands. Thi.
can be done if we organize into al
industrial union. Then we can speal
to the boss in an organized way ant
make him understand that we cal
not only make handkerchiefs, bu
we can also fight for our demand
for more wages and shorter workin;
hours.
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the street shortly after delivering a
speech at Union Lot when car
drove up along side of me and some
one asked me to jump in. 1 refused
and out came Tom Gilbert and an
other man. Tom Gilbert swore at me
and I asked them if they wanted
to arrest me and Gilbert replied,
"No, you CD nigger-loving
s. of b! I want to kill
you" They proceeded to beat me up
but let me go when some people
whom 1 knew appeared.
Several nights later I was ar
rested as was every active union
member following the raid upon
union headquarters. I am now in
CASTOR County Jail. am one of
the fifteen charged with murder in
connection with the death Of Chief
Aderholt.
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By OLGA GOLD
(Concluded)

The capitalist governments are
feverishly mobilizing and propagan-
dizing the masses of women for
direct participation in the coming
blood bath, through the various ma
tional and local women's bourgeois,
patriotic, military and pacifist or
CARNATIONS. Secretary of War
Davis, recently called a conference
of representatives of national wo-
mems bourgeois organizations for
the express purpose of building the
closest coordination for immediate
war activity between these poison
Gus misleaders of great masses of
working women and the war depart
ment and the army and navy.
Mobilize the Women.
Working women forward to the
August LIST Anti-War Demonstra-
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(Continued

(SOUttHNcU/
The wagon department of the
American Rwy. Express Co. is under
different management from the
platforms, is better equipped and the
men receive better wages and have
better working conditions. These
men are all members of the Team
sters and Truck Drivers Union.
This is not the same union to
which the platform men belong and
in the 1921 strike the wagon men
stayed at work. They voted to a
man to go out with the others but
were told by their officials to stay
on the job.
Made Foremen Through Scabbing.
We stated previously that there
is a boss for each seven men. Most
of these foremen have worked for
the express companies twenty years
or more securing their jobs under
the seniority rule. Most of them
are of low mentality. 1t seems that
only the toughest and most ignor-
ant survive long enough to rate a
foreman's place. The brighter and
more humane go elsewhere to work.
All foremen have worked through
every labor trouble that came up
during their term of service and
have been used to smash all efforts
of the men to better their condi-
ton.
There are few exceptions to the
seniority rule stated above. Three
or four men throughout the city
were promoted for Services rem
dered" during the 1921 strike. One
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HENDRYx, FROM
JAIL, Tells OF
POLICE TERROR
Shows How Strikers
Defended Tents
(Continued from PAGE One)

Continued from Page One)
after the birth of my youngest sis
ter. There were three older than
myself, the oldest being about IL
years old.
I was about five years old. My
father managed to keep the family
together and with the help of us
children and did his own house
keeping. I attended scholl for sew
eral years. 1t was a rural school
and l learned to read and write.
When 1 was nine years old my
father decided to leave the farm
and move to Fries, Va. Father went
to work for the Fries cotton mill
and it was not long before l got a
job as a doffer. About five years
later, fathers health began to fail
and he broke up housekeeping. The
family scattered and I went to board
with Tom Rokes, a friend of the
family. About two years later l
left Fries, Va, and went to Lunch
burg where l found employment
with the Luncyburg Cotton Mills.
A year later l went to Schoolfield,
decided to stay and got job in
the Dan River Cotton Mills. I had
been working here about a year
when 1 took a job in Roanoke and
it was here that I learned to be a
section hand.
1 did not stay in Roanoke long
and left for Cannapolis, N. C. While
in this town, l worked for about a
year for the Cannon Mills Co., and
another for the Caberous Co.
Slavery in Loray
In 1929 1 came to Gastonia and
located in the Loray Mill, leaving
their employ about eight months
later when I was offered better
job by the Trenton Mill. 1 remained
with the Trenton unit lseveral days
before the N.T.W.U. called strike
in the Loray Mill. I am offered a
job in the Loray Mill at ahigher
rate than l was getting at the
Trenton.
Refused to Scab
When l learned that the strike
call had been made l did not go
to work and did my best to help win
the strike of the Loray mill work
ers. I stood against the employ
men office and urged the workers
remaining at work to join those who
had come out on strike. / was asked
to help with relief work and spent
most of my time during the strike
travelling from town to town, COL
Letting money to feed the strikers.
l also helped to distribute relief and
was often entrusted with buying
provisions. During my relief activi-
ties l was arrested once. A group
of us were taken into custody at
Shelby but were released when we
explained to the police chief the
necessity of feeding needy workers
who were fighting for the right to
organize and, fight against the
stretch-out-, the low wages and the
long hours that had been forced
upon the workers in Manville-
Jenckes and other mills in Gas
tonia and other places in the South.
learned to speak at mass, meet
ings and used to speak to the meet
ings at the union headquarters on
North Loray st. was never arrest
ed for speaking. l was, however,
arrested because Of my speeches to
the workers from my stand near the
Manville-Jenckes office. The pre-
text was that / was obstructing ira
fife on the sidewalk. Of course !
was singled out of hundreds more
that were there.
One evening l was walking along
|
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FREE AUTONOMIST.

PARIS (By MaiD.-At the re-
quest of the public prosecutor Fa-
chot, the jury has acquitted the AL
SAGE autonomist Benoit who attempt
ed to assassinate Fachot. The &C.
quittal represents a part Of the new
pacific" policy of the government
in agreement with the bourgeois au-
economist leaders.