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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

with bourgeois sentimentality over
the seamen.
The same is even more sickeningly
true of the second episode. The sea-
men find Smitty queer, suspect him
of being Germany spy, catch him
with box which they think contains
a bomb, and open it to find the love
letters of the incoming penitent. The
men realize their mistake and the
curtain falls in the midst of the
soft atmosphere of a Greenwich VII
lage studio, where some long-haired
artist" has just confessed his love
to the chambermaid.
In the third episode one of the
seamen dies from a fall. His buddy
stays with him to the last moment
listening to the dying words of his
friend. And the last vision of Yank
is lady in black dress. The scene
is boring and coated with sentiment
tally. The bourgeois audience must
have liked it.
The fourth episode is the best of
the four, being the least sentimental
and the most realistic. 1t takes place
in a dive on the London waterfront
and shows how sailor, just paid
off and ready to return home to
Sweden to his farm, is shanghaied
for the cruelest of all ships that sal
the sra. Again the Swede is made
sentimentally unreal.
O'Neill, however, has added some
thing to the bourgeois stage-a
stifled sense Of reality and turn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Girl Worker Is Burned
When Benzine Ignites

Grace Gracco, 16 years old, of 154
E. 106th St., was badly burned yes
terday when benzine with which she
was cleaning dress became ignited.
She Is employed by Charles Armour
and Bros, dress manufacturers, who
occupy part of loft in the oath
floor Of the Lefcourt Manhattan
Ruilding at 1412 Broadway.
After an alarm had been turned
ln, the young girl worker was
treated for injuries by a physician.
Though she will recover from her
INJURIES. the physician said she will
= dlsfigured for life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

"Like the German capitalists.
ended by their crowned murderer
Wilhelm, so the capitalists Of all
ther countries are wnEing n war
My for the division of the profits
II the capitalists, for world rule.
hundreds of billion Of capital have
been invested I'm profitable com
Germs. bringing to the peoples
death. hunger, disilIusionn,ent, bar
barism, and to capitalism scandals
ously high, insnne profits" From
speech By Lenin in Leningrad.
Lenin memorial meeting, january
TO- in Madison Square Garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

peal for transportation workers to
fern a union under militant leader
ship, the same SORT of leadership
that organized the National Miners
and Textile Workers Unions.
Such a union would take in all
workers connected with transporta-
ton, such as taxi drivers, chauf-
feurs, motormen, conductors, guards,
shopmen, trackworkers, etc. Per-
sonally, I know many workers who
will never under any consideration
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Lure WORKERS
TO STARvE IN
ARIZONA CAMPS
Sick Workers Die Like
Rats in Desert
(By a Worker Correspondent

tDH u W VI bCf WI boPOftNNftb/
PHOENIX, Ariz., (By MaiD.-
Arizona is fake as far as getting
a job is concerned, and cases of
here are heartbreaking. AL
though the weather is mild, it is so
cold at night that it freezes bucket
of water solid. For a couple of
hours day it is little warm, but
not like the fake ads which entice
poor consumptives, sick and in most
cases broke, to come to Arizona for
their health if they have any T. B..
germs. The cold will freeze them,
and if they have any money the
cockroach business men will steal it.
Even if the workers are able to
work, they can't get work. In Ari-
IONA is a line of second hand stores
run by the descendants of Jesse
James and Captain Kidd. These
leeches wait for a worker to come in
to sell his tools and clothes. If any
worker wants to buy the finest and
best of tools-come to Phoenix,
Ariz. The camps are full of families
broken in health, and their money,
tools and everything gone. One sees
them walking along the desert miles
and miles in the cold, $500 to 5000
feet above sea level. Some die like
rats, pie ,ding, begging for lift,
hundreds of them, men, women,
sometimes families with children,
sometimes Is, 20 miles between
houses.
At night they camp along the side
of the road-no shelter from the
bitter cold, not even water, as even
if there was any they could not get
it. What water runs in the rivers
is not fit to drink, and what comes
from the wells you must buy-they
won't give it to you.
Arizona has no industries as yet,
but when she has the workers lot
will be awful. The wages paid just
now are $3.50 day for labor ten to
twelve hours, and $3.50 for machin-
lists, ten to twelves hours day and
jobs not to be got. Here one sees
also a reminder of the world
slaughter for capitalist democracy
large veterans hospitals, hundreds
of young men, former specimens of
health, now pitiful wrecks, suffering
from poison gas attacks obtained
during the war, with the terror of
T. B. clutching them.
If any 100 per cent young man or
father or mother wants to show
their patriotism let them come and
see the effects of the last mass muir
der here. Let them see men in their
prime, coughing, splitting their lungs
out-this is their reward for fight
ing for their capitalist masters and
exploiters.
/ am going to leave Arizona and
become one of the hundreds walking
home across the desert, broke and
hungry, unless I get a job. If l get
a job, well, / eat. If not, well a
Communist learns from past expert
ence wha. skipping meals means.
w. C. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Booth, With Grip on
Salvation Army Cash,
Says He Won't Resign

LONDON, Jan. 16. General"
Bramwell Boothe today refused abb
solutely to step down from his posi-
ton as head of the Salvation Army.
The grand council Of the ARMY"
had asked him to resign.
The present situation leads to a
fight in the courts, if Booth per-
sists. As head of the organization
he controls millions of dollars worth
of property. 1t was to get control
of this great treasure that revolt
against him was engineered by his
sister, Commander" Evangeline
Booth, Of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
BLACKLIST FOR
MILITANT COAL!
MINERS OF PA.
Need for Free Daily
Subs Is Great
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
YUKON, Pa, (By Mail).-Because
I took a leading part in the fight
of the miners for living wage and
decent conditions, / am now black
listed all over this section. In the
lact four weeks l started to work
in four different mines. Each time
| was dismissed, and no reason was
given. Each time the foreman IN
the mine told me he did not know
why l was being fired. This is hap
pening to other comrades who fought
with all their might for the miners.
The hines around here are working
three or four days week, and the
average pay is SIS for two weeks.
In no case is it higher than $40 for
two weeks.
The miners of this little town
have been most active in revolution
airy activities. At present conditions
are so bad that they cannot help in
the struggle financially.
The miners here have always read
the Daily Worker as the only Eng
lish speaking daily paper that fights
for the workers. But we are unable
to subscribe to the Daily now, for
we have no work and no money.
We find it very hard to go without
our fighting paper. 1t is very hard
for me that circumstances force me
to go without the Daily, as / have
been a reader of it since it's birth.
So please send me the Daily Worker.
M. J. B.
EDITORS NOTE: The need for
free subscriptions for the miners
is very great, as the letter from
the above worker correspondent
shows. Workers are urged to aid
these miners who have fought for
years by sending in subscription
for a miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Murdered ex-White
Guard General Was
Soviet Instructor
(Wireless Bu Inprecorr J

MOSCOW, Jan. 15.-The ex-
Wrangel General Slashtchev, MUIR
dered here yesterday by a man
named Kohlenberg, who declared
that the assassination was in ven
geance for the execution Of his
brother by order Of Slashtchev in
1920, was an instructor in the Mos
COW Military School.
He had been permitted to return
to the Soviet Union when he showed
that he regretted his counter-revo-
lutionary past, and would work 10y
ally with the Soviet Government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
by a Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN (By MaiD.-In spite
of the increased earnings of the
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co., as
reported in the papers, it is harder
than ever for the subway workers
to get the time that is rightfully
coming to them. The company
forces its time-keepers and dispatch
ers to do everything possible to
snatch away what the men are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

8 hours day, days week in a
little booth 5 by feet in the sub
way.
Since the Amalgamated and the
A. F. of L. are unwilling and unable
to organize the traction workers of
New York, and since the Daily
Worker is always in the fight
wherever the workers interests are
affected and now is the time for
traction workers to organize, l wish
to publish thru the "Daily" the ap-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
,piom Steel Co. Kuov What Real Slavery BzO2 Hours Week


ever again sign up with the A. f.
of L., but yet are willing to join
real union, which will fight for their
interests and not desert them, as
the Amalgamated has SO often done.
Come on, you workers of the l.
f. T., B.-M.T. and taxi drivers, let's
get busy; send your letters to the
Daily Worker so we can start to
build the strongest union New York
ever saw.
BUTTON PUSHER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

1t IS now time that the transit
workers were organized into fight
ing union. There is a law in New
York State supposed to prohibit the
bosses from forcing the working
women to slave more than As hours
week. Yet the slave driving BIN.
T. is permitted by the law to work
the ticket collectors So hours each
weak. What good is the law? 1t is
good for the company, but not for
working women, who are cooped up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
PHONE BOOTH OWNERS OR.
CAME.

CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (U.P.).-The
Telephone Users League, which will
handle public complaints and opin-
ions on service and rates in adjust
ment Of differences relating to tele.
phone matters, was organized her,
today. The organization is an out
growth Of the protest made by drug
stores and hotels against the reduc
tons in revenue placed in effect by
the phone company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
WILL DYNAMITE ICE JAM.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, Jan. g6
(UP)--Preparations were being
made today by Niagara Falls auth
critics to break up a massive ice
jam in the Niagara River between
Queenston, Ont. and Lewiston, N. Y.
The authorities indicated that dyna-
mite would be used tomorrow to
tear away the huge blocks of ice
that have caused the river to rise
four feet above the docks Of the
Canadian Steamship Company and
the wharves of the Queenston plant
of the Ontario Hydroelectric Com
rany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
CHURCHMEN NOW SHOPPERS.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 49,
A plan to make every Protestant
Church member in Rhode Island an
active informer in the governmental
prohibition enforcement system has
been adopted at the first annual
Rhode Island state citizenship con-
vention,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

"The Party n the vanguard Of
the working clnss."--Lenin. Attend
the Lcnin memorial meeting. JAM
nary ~. in the Madison Square
Gardens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
VIOLATE CHILD LABOR LAW.

NlOLAIE CHILD LABOR LAW.
JERUSALEM (By MsiD.-Altho
a child labor law was enacted in
Palestine year ago, violations, al
lowed by the government, are so
numerous, as to make the law a
laughing stock among the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Cold Drives Workers to Bosses Helpmates

With the temperature houering beow freezing point charity
capitalism because protects the capitalist class from the
aoorng organizing fighting
weak coffee Above Urba Ledoun posing for picture e
took haze smile his face) ohle handing
unemployed cokers Tub Zeros
charity organizations the tools of the bosses binding
their organization against
EN- (which keeps them unemployed and hungry.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
DRUNKEN
lKalispeII Interlakel

Two men who We're in a stolen
car that ran into a group Of school
children. killing two and serious
Iy injuring two others, are to be
prosecuted on manslaughter
charges. Along with them will be
accused as an accessory the man
who sold them the liquor which
put them in the irresponsible con
dition that caused the deaths OF
two innocent youngsters.
1t is to be hoped that this is
no mere gesture on the part Of
Chicago authorities. For the mo-
ment there is a wave Of righteous
Indignation that such a tragedy
should be possible. But Chicago
seems to have had the idea in the
past that those who engaged in
the booze racket, either as whole
salers or retailers, not re-
sponsible to anybody for anything.
They were a law unto themselves,
or it was so understood.
Much depends upon tie outcome
of this attempt to prosecute the
booze seller. The final result will
show whether or not it is possible
for the law to reach behind the
actual guilty persons and punish
the one who made a profit out of
the tragedy.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21

effective, we'll and good. If it
proves ineffective, then that fact
will have been established and we
will be that much closer to a real
solution of the farm problem.
There is some basis for the con-
tention of the Grange that the de-
benture plan would simply be Civ
ing back to the farmer a small
percentage of what the tariff
takes away from him. If the west
ern senators are not able to force
some drastic revisions in the new
ariff bill we believe they would
be fully justified in trying to at
tach the debenture clause to the
tariff measure. Aside from the
uestion of economic soundness.
however, the fact remains that
President Hoover would probably
veto any measure that came to
lin with the debenture plan at
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
WILBUR ADVOCATES
NEW INDIAN POLICY
-(Bv Sec'y. Charles Gordonl

(By Sec'y. Charles Gordon)
In the Saturday Evening Post
of June Sth is an article by Ray
lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the
Interior, which is of outstanding
interest to every resident of an
indian reservation and every citi-
zen of the United States. 1t is
Untitled Uncle Sam Has a New
indian Policy" Ponder over the
opening sentences. The American
Indian should be self sustaining,
should be brought to full respon-
sibility for himself. should be
freed of his government %wardship.
should be merged into the indi-
vidual life of the nation. The
administration of his affairs should
be decentralized, the name of
his education revised, the Indian
agent, with his abnormal powers.
should cease to exist. The Indian
Service should become one of the
- EHOlCo VI SONtl HlIicHL WHICH
will steadily become less import
mt. In % years it practically
Fave ceased to exist"
In conversation with Frank H.
Livingston. superintendent of our
schools here. he remarked that
The records of Indian pupils in
the schools under his supervision
we're good, and equal to those of
white students. The Indian has
shown a proper capacity to make
Use of and assimilate education.
they are also adopts in learning
manual trades.
The secretary condemns the
reservation" idea and all that
'ertains to it. He even says "The
.overnment has doggedly chung to
me idea, which on the face of it
GEMS a correct one, but which
as failed through the decades in
ctual practice. < = = Farming
n the reservations is largely a
allure. The Indians lease the !
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21

good lands to white farmers who
succeed on them but the Indians
do little farming themselves" He
advises that Indians get away
from the reservations and stay
away. He wants them to get EN-
ployment elsewhere and become
active members of the communi-
ties where they may be.
He is against the theory of re-
turning the young educated In
dams to the reservations to exert
an eleyating influence h e T e.
Those of us who live on a reser-
walton know how this works out
the old order prevails-it is too
strong for the returned student.
Voluminous reports on Indian
matters have been published for
years. 1.-The Problem of Indian
Administration 1.-THE report refer
red to by Miss Connolly in Good
Housekeeping now on my desk
through the courtesy of Senator
B. K. Wheeler, a book of $40
pages, is very instructive, but the
tremendous change in Indian poll
cies indicated by Secretary Wilbur
in this Post declaration ear only
be grasped by residents of a reser-
At present the Bureau of
indian Affairs is a kingdom with
n a kingdom" It's power and in
luence is colossal. Such bureaus
work strenuously to perpetuate
heir existance. 1t is my hope
hat Secretary Wilbur will not
uccumb to adverse influences but
viii be able to carry out the
'olicies outlined in "Uncle Sam
las a New Policy"
No reflection on Indian superin-
endents as a class is intended in
lese few lines for many of them
re of fine personality and admin l
ability. {
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
THE DRUNKEN DRIVER LAW

CHaVre DAILY News
The late legislature passed a Law
%forbidding the driving of cars by
intoxicated drivers. 1t is a law
that was needed. The law is quite
stringent and among other things
provides for cancelling the driv-
er's right to operate a car for
specified periods.
The law gives the authorities a
new weapon that may be used to
good purpose if they will. The
menace of booze and gasoline is
a real one and there should be
no difference of opinion as to the
desirability of putting a stop to its
common appearance.
To drive a modern a is not
rated as a difficult task, but never
theless with the tremendous speed
and power such cars possess, the
desirability of a driver having full
control of his own muscles is not
to be questioned. Nor is it even
debatable that alcohol even in
moderate quantities slows up the
nerve reactions. The driver is
progressively less certain and sure
in his command of his car in pro
portion to his indulgence in alco-
hol at the time.
There should be no liberation of
the drinking driver and the auth
Orities of other states, without re-
gard to the general question of
prohibition. have become increas-
ingly stringent in haling the
alcoholic driver before the traffic
court.
What a man may do to himself
with alcohol in privacy is very
:onceivably not of direct interest
others. But when a man is on
he road with a speedy vehicle
With possibilities of danger as the
modern automobile, it is of con
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
A FooTHoLD FOR FARMING

~
The country has a so called
Farm Relief law at last. 1t is per
haps as good as could be hoped
for at this time. All reforms are
at first looked upon as radical
but many of them later are recog-
nized as practical and indispens-
able-the transportation of meT-
chandise by the federal postal de-
partment for instance.
The equalization fee plan was
thrown in the discard as cumber-
some and practically impossible.
The debenture, or protection
through bounty plan, was tabooed,
apparently by the power of invis-
able government. The debenture
policy was feared as an opening
wedge that might lead to full pro-
lection for the products of the soil
the same as received by the pro
ducts of the factories.
Agriculture is the country's
greatest industry. Given reason
ably equal opportunity with other
mammoth industries it might ac-
cummulate and control too much
wealth. Eastern capital was un-
willing to take the chance. This
is not intended as a critical slap
al eastern capital. Merely a phil
o~sophical comment on human ma
which is much the same in
whatever walk of life it is viewed.
Most people are reluctant to sur
render an advantage.
The Farm bill is not all that the
West hoped for, but is something
accomplished. 1t is still an un-
known quantity. Hoover is a
shrewd student Of his people, their
affairs and their temper. And he
is a vast improvement on his pred
ecessor in his recognition Of the
unhealthy and handicapped condi-
lion of the Western farmer. His
promised special session has at
given agriculture a decent
foothold in its struggle toward
.qualized opportunity.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
ATTEND MIDSUMMER FEST

Mr.. and Mrs. John Frederickson
returned Monday from Dagmar
where they attended the Danish
Midsummer Fest last Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. They report
a most delightful time. There
we're in the neighborhood of a
thousand Danes present from
northeastern Montana and 49,
visitors from a distance. There
several speakers who gave
addresses. Magister Rosenkar Of
Copenhagen is said to have given
unusually fine talks and addresses.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
THE STATUS OF AGRICULTURE
AL LEGISLATION

In view of the fact that the
Farm Bill has now been passed by
both houses of Congress, without
the debenture plan, and signed by
the President, the editorial below,
reprinted from the Montana Farm
er, although written before the
bill became a law. is~of timely in
terest as an en~lightening and fair
discussion of the subject.
The editorial in full follows:
The administrations farm relief
bill. which was reported with the
debenture provision eliminated by
the joint committee of the house
and senate at Washington, was
oproyed by the house on June II.
Following the rejection Of the bill
the senate President Hoover
allied congressional leaders to the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21
THE ROAD is NO PLACE FOR
RACES
(Havre Daily News)

We protest that the natural
pride of men in their cars is not
sufficient excuse for races be-
tween those cars ON a public high
way. A news item in the News
this week in regard to the time
made by two cars, whose owner
differed as to their superiority in
speed, vas interesting and the
thrill that the spectators took in
the race was natural enough.
But that does not alter the fact
the roads belong to the pub
lie and a race over them jeopar-
Lies the safety of those who
night happen to travel them.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21

Germ to everyone else on the road,
whether that man has been i'm
bibing of booze. 1t is time that
that phase of traffic conditions be
given close attention in this state.
The new law, specifically directed
at that evil, gives the officers the
%pporunity to curb it if they will
make the effort.
1t is well for the driver to re-
member too that he takes a
chance on meeting an unpleasant
penalty now, if he INDUCES in in
toxicants before or while driving.
The safe plan is to lay off the
booze while engaged in driving.
There is no penalty attached to
being sober while on the road.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-21

Martin Larson and son Clifford,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Holland and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Hell
land and Miss Dahl went to Wolf
Point where the children were
baptized by the Rev. Johnson.