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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

One Of the most important provisions
of the act is section 10, which was in
troduced and ably fostered by Senator
Robinson of Arkansas. 1t requires the
Engineer Corps to make elaborate sur
ve,S of all the big tributaries of the
Mississippi and their aff1uents, in order
to ascertain whether or not it is feasible
to construct a system of reservoirs on
said streams or any of them to control
the local floods thereon, assist naviga-
ton, benefit agriculture, aid in develop
ing electric power. and to determine the
effect of said reservoirs, If constructed
on the floods of the main river. These
surveys are being made as rapidly as
possible, and reports on some of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

in their views as to the necessity for
greatly enlarging and strengthening the
levees, extending the reVetments in
order to prevent the banks from caving,
and constructing the Bonnet Care spill
way for the protection of New Orleans,
and work on these phases of the project
is being prosecuted actively. Much con-
troverSy has existed over Gen. Jadwin's
plan for immense floodways through the
Boeuf and Atchafalaya Basins without
paying compensation for fowage rights
a. provided in the BILL and work on
these two f1oodways has not yet begun,
pending further investigation of num-
Der of difficult questions connected
Herewith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

Florida produces many varieties of
rare and delicious fruits which are not
brought to the Northern markets in
great quantity but come rather as lux
uries. Among them are mangoes, avo-
cados, papayas, guavas and japanese
persimmons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

said a rousing reception by 5000 RUS
slams marked the arrival there Of :Ju-
Illus Rudy, new manager Of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, and NJ Simanovsky
and Tsai Yun-Sheng, conferees, respec-
lively, OF the Soviet and Mukden gov
ernments at the Khabarovsk confer
ence. 1919
The trio left this morning for Muk-
den to confer with Chang Hsueh-Liane.
Governor of Manchuria. They were
returning from Khabarovsk, Siberia,
where protocol between China and
Russia for the control Of the Chinese
Eastern Railway was signed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

their Congress has already done, to be a
national one of supreme Importance to
the general welfare and to insist that
it be solved as rapidly as the best engi-
neering skill, supplied with ample funds,
can complete it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
RUSSIANS ARE PLEASED
WITH RAIL AGREEMENT
New Chinese Eastern Manager
Given Rousing Reception
by 5000 at Hardin.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, December 27.-Rengo News
Agency dispatches from Hardin today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Revolt ON the Volga" to
Haze Premiere ON Saturday

Revolt on the Volga," the latest
Sovkino production, will have its
American premiere at the Film
Guild Cinema next Saturday. The
film is a stirring drama of an up
rising among Tartar peasants
against the regime Of Catherine the
Great. It's Authentic atmosphere
and historical accuracy is assured
by the fact that Jurij Taritsch, the
director of Scar Ivan the Terrible"
directed "Revolt on the Volga."
The story revolves about Bulat-
Batyr, a Russian robin Hood"
Some situations call for a cast of
5000 natives, many of whom are
descendants of the original Tartar
insurrectionists. Other famous char
acters depicted are Pugatchev, the
peasant Gear" and General Potem-
kin, the favorite of Queen Gather
inc. The scenes are laid in the re.
gion of the Ural mountains and or
the River Volga.
On the same program, the Film
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

cent wage cut for all it's plants in
Oshawa, Canada. The General Mo-
tors is afraid CT another strike
there, SO has not put the wage cut
in effect there as yet.
All the foremen in the Detroit
General Motors Corporation plant
got the new time schedule, which
was to go into effect Monday. Feb.
rs. 1t has not been put into effect
yet. Why do the bosses hesitate?
The only thing holding back wage
cuts at this time is a fear Of labor
trouble. The strikes in Fisher Body
plants 81 and 80 and in the Oak
land-P Pontiac plants, as well as the
organization Of the new local of the
Auto Workers Union in Pontiac ac-
counts for this hesitancy.
AUTO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Keep the workers from forming
united front against their real enc
mics, the Steel Co.
The spy system IS also used in the
steel mills. The company employs
many stool pigeons to spy on the
workers and report any talk that is
heard about organizing.
Due TO ' vicious speed-up sys-
tenn, which is used in all the de-
partments, there are many acct
dents, and when a foreign-born
worker is injured the company al
ways tries to find way to induce
him to sign papers and get
"hooked" on any compensation
which he has coming to him.
Steel workers, the only way we
can fight against long hours, wage
cuts, the speed-up system and mis-
cradle conditions is to organize our
selves into a strong militant union
like the new National Miners and
Textile Workers Unions, which will
fight for the workers. The only
Party that fights to organize the
workers into powerful industrial
unions is the Communist Party.
The only paper which every steel
worker should read is the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
ISRAEL" AT YIDDISH ART
THEATRE THURSDAY.

Five plays make up the repertory
-hedule for this week at the Yid-
"sh Art Theatre. Representative
dramas from past seasons as well
IS two of this years productions
will be given during the week.
Tonight Maurice Schwartz will
present his new version of Jacob
Gordin's "God, Man and Devil" and
on Wednesday night Peretz Hirsh-
hein's Screen Fields" On Thurs
day evening Israel" a benefit per-
Torrance for Ben Xvi Baratoff, one
Of the leading members of the per-
-~eHnat acting company, will be
given.
Tho theatres most recent success,
Scholom Aleichem's "Stempenyu, the
Fiddler" will be the bill on Friday
light, twice on Saturday and twice
on Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Miners OF Jones and LQMgAm Va Co. Get Wage Ont OF Soc Day Says W0
Takers WORK
With BOSSES
District Council and
Owners in Cahoots
By a Worker Correspondent.

By a Worker Correspondent.
Perhaps the fact that the carpen-
ters are making below the prevail
ing scale of wages in all city jobs
is something new to the readers, but
it is nothing new for the members
of the carpenters (dis) organization.
Charles Johnson, president Of the
Dock Builders Local 1456 and o wit
ness of the brutal attack on Morris
Rosen on the boat going to the Car
uenters Union Convention in Lake
land, Fla. now charges the district
council officials with being influ-
enced by the city administration not
to enforce the present wage scale
at s12 day.
1t is also noted that the intended
strike to enforce the wage scale was
defeated in the district council, and
no action taken, and the greasy
boys of the executive board shelved
all action.
Takers Work with Bosses.
These misleaders never seriously
considered making any move on be-
half of the carpenters on city jobs
or the carpenters in any shop or fac
tory. No union scale is paid in the
great majority of places in this
city; the organization is absolutely
disregarded so long as the district
council works in harmony with the
bosses association. The district
council would never dare or think
of calling a strike or make seri-
Gus move on a large scale to enforce
the rules of the carpenters union.
"We've Got Ours"
They figure, "Why call a strike,
why enforce union conditions. why
alleviate the intolerable conditions
of the carpenters; we have got
ours"
While the members are suffering
under the present unemployment
conditions, and try to pay their dues,
fines are imposed in increased num-
bers from $25 to 5000 or more.
The reactionary officialdom does
nothing for the men. sits tight in
their district council, and every
thing moves like clockwork for the
bosses, even though one reactionary
like Johnson makes a protest"
against the dealings of Halcket-
Wilson and Co. A way is found by
these reactionaries to compromise,
to sell out.
Shake the Takers Off!
Progressives are suppressed I'M
der the threat of being expelled and
the lay members are scared or too
disguised to say anything or act
for the time being.
The Hutcheson machine is run
ming smoothly for the time being,
but the rank and file carpenters will
gather their strength and shake
these leeches off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Steel Bosses Try to Create
ILL., Feeling Between Workers
by a Worker Correspondent.)

by a Worker Correspondent
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. (By
Mail) The Inland Steel Co. is one
Of the worst exploiters of human
labor The workers in the steel
mills are supposed to be enjoying
an eight-hour day, but there are
many departments in which the
workers have to work 10 and 10
hours per day.
The wages range from % cents
per hour (that is the amount the
youths who labor in the bolt and
livet department receive) to 81 per
hour, which the bricklayers receive
On an average it would be about
~ cents per hour, and you cannot
live half decently on this wage. We
have all been reading about ''pros-
perity," but the steel workers who
make AZ cents and SO cents an hour
do not get any of this prosperity"
The only ones who are enjoying
prosperity are the handful of para
sites who own the mills. They are
making millions Of dollars out of
the blood and sweat Of the steel
workers.
There has been a wage-cutting
campaign which is done in a very
clever manner. The bosses know
that if they reduced the wages of
all the mill az once the workers
would revolt. So they cut the wages
of one department at time. The
bosses always keep the workers
divided. They always create a bad
feeling between workers Of differ
ent races and nationalities, so as to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
BOSSES FIRST
SPREAD RUM0R
OF increase
Men HoaXed, More Pay
Cuts Expected
By q Worker Correspondent.

By Worker Correspondent.
CALIFORNIA, Penn. (By MaiD.
I am writing to tell IF what has
been going on at the Vesta Coal
Co. mines. These mines are located
on the Monongahela River, near
Brownsville, Pa, and are owned by
the Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor
poration
The miners of the Vesta mines
received great. surprise on March
Is. Things happened UNEXPECTEDLY
10 the great majority of the men.
Propaganda was started by the COM
pany about month ago that the
company would give 10 per cent
increase to all of the men working
IN and around the mines, ain spite
If its paying already a higher rate
than the rest of the coal companies
around here" as the company said.
Fooled by Company.
Almost every man, with few ex-
ceptions, believed that a raise was
coming and you could hear all over
the mine the praise of the fooled
miners for the company. for a prom
ise only. But March Is came and
Knocked all this bull out of the min
crs. as the foreman went around
and instructed all the outside men
md the laborers in ths mine that
they must work for so cents less
a day from March 16 on.
More Cuts Coming.
10 more praise for the company
after this. Those who have not yet
Gotten the cut know that they will
be the next ones to get it. This
should teach us never to believe
that one company is better than an
other; they are all alike and pay
BETTER only when the miners are or
ganized in powerful union that
viii force the company to come to
terms.
Now that the United Mine Work
prs is working hand in hand with
the coal operators, we must unite
ourselves in the new fighting union.
the National Miners Union, and
fight shoulder to shoulder not only
for higher wages but also to do
away with the whole capitalist class
and take over the mines and run
them on a real union basis for the
barafi+ of all tha uorkars
VESTA MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
VERNON SHOE
SLAVES Get
yellow DOG
Piece Work,
Poor Conditions
by a Worker Correspondent.

Dy q w 0fkef Correspondents.
After the officials of the corrupt
Shoe Workers Protective Union
sold us out to the bosses and broke
our strike three years ago, the con-
ditions in our shop, the A. Vernon
and Sons shop, Hendrix and Dumont
Ave-, Brooklyn, became absolutely
intolerable. 1t looks as if the bosses
are trying to make up for the time
when there were union conditions
prevailing in the trade.
5t-Hcur Week For Piece Workers.
Piece work has been introduced in
almost all the departments at I'M
heard of low prices, such as 25 cents
dozen for sticking, IL cents a
dozen for heel tacking, etc.
A week of 40 hours is the rule
for week workers at wages ranging
from $13 to SIS a week. On ac-
count of the very low prices that
the piece workers get they are COM
PEELED to work sometimes SO and 81
hours a week. This is especially
true about the stickers.
In addition to the above mentioned
facts, the short season, which is the
direct result of the ruthless ex-
ploitation and speed-up system prac-
ticed in time of season, the securi-
ties, ranging from s50-S2O0 for GER
tain workers, yellow dog contracts,
and compulsory shares make it alb
solutely impossible to make human
living.
Speed-up.
The speed-up system, and long
hours Systematically draw out the
life blood Of the young workers en-
ploved at the various machines and
make them cripples for the rest of
their lives.
Under pain of leaving your job,
you are compelled to keep your
mouth shut and cannot even utter
a word of discomfort with these
slavish conditions, because those
dirty stool-pigeons, in order to be-
come favorites of the boss, will in
form him of it INN ediately.
Join Militant Union!
Only on one condition can we Sc
cure for ourselves working condi-
tons which will enable us to make
living and at the same time re-
duce the number of hours, and this
is by joining the newly organized
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
and by putting up under its leader
ship a determined fight for a 40
hour week, and for a wage scale
which will enable US to make a de-
cent living in exchange for our
labor.
Only by being organized can we
put up demands and get them.
Down with the exploiters. For a
powerful Industrial Shoe Workers
Union.
SHOE SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
LAY OFF MANY
GAS WORKERS
IN PHI. abel phi
Spoilers On the Stree
Watch Meter Men
BIZ a Worker Correspondent.


PHILADELPHIA (By Mal).
Hundreds of workers ere due to
laid off by the United Gas Impro9
ment Co. OF Philadelphia.
Scores have aleready been Is
off at the pumping stations; pun
men, firemen, pipe-fitters. etc. ha
been laid off in the last month. Ty
weeks ago a large number of T.
office force were laid off. A larj
slash in wages and speed-up are
store for the meter-rcading gan
The company has checkers up {
the streets, who keep tabs on I'll
time required to enter q house az
read meters. The men are give
longer routes and whenever n cor
plaint is made the men are fired.
Large numbers of the meter reas
ers have been laid off and the e
ira work forced on those still {
the job. This also affects the wor
ers of the Philadelphia Electric CC
which is owned by the United G.;
Co., which short time ago W;
taken over by a holding colnpa1
owned by J. P. Morgan.
The workers are being laid z
to increase The profits Of this b
lionaire, Mayor Mackey of Philade
mia, and the putrid gang Of repu.
lican politicians are behind close
doors making new schedule 7
rates to increase the price Of 81
and electricity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

day morning while | was at the
wheel ] was asked to get the men
on my watch and together with
them wash down decks. So when
/ was relieved from the wheel /
went down to tell the men what
the mate wanted done and | adj
ded what l thought of washing
decks on Sunday, while on a two
watch ship, and how the icy cold
gale that was then blowing would
blow the wa err from the hose all
over us and how cold and miser-
able we would feel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Their answer came as one man:
IF you refuse we'll also refuse"
There was hell to pay on the
bridge for this. The captain
threatened to put me in irons.
When he saw that could not be
inundated he put me On look
out in broad daylight on the fore
castle head where / spent the rest
OF my watch.
He then refused to let me take
the wheel any more. The next
day we got into Boston. | was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
By a Worker Correspondent.

DETROIT, Mich. (By MaiD -
The General Motors Co. new sched-
ule calls for speeding up the men
about 20 per cent in every depart
nent. Take Chevrolet Plant, No. /,
Tor instance; the old-time schedule
for rear axle, through the Is depart
mcnts, all the way through the as
emily line, took approximately two
ours end five minutes. The new
time schedule for all these various
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

count that from our own time
below we have to eat our meals,
keep our quarters clean, wash
ourselves and our clothes.
Sleep is luxury on this ship.
There is no time to read, no time
to talk and get acquainted with
one another. AS soon as we knock
off we have to hit the bunk for
it's a gamble whether or not
wen get an uninterrupted four
hours of sleep.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
NEW AUTO SPEEDUP
Strikes IN Several Plants, TO Cut WAGES

operations is about an hour and Al
minutes. The average wage in this
department is 70 cents an hour.
Turning out 20 per cent more work
for the same wage means an aver
age wage cut of IA cents an hour
throughout the plant.
The General Motors Corporation
long ago decided on a policy Of cut
ting wages throughout all their
plants and subsidiaries, and several
months ago it announced a 271a per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Words fail me when / try to
describe the terrific speed-up at
which the seamen are driven on
this ship, so all l can say is that
it's the worst / ever saw.
The captain and officers are
all in the naval reserve, the cap
tain holding the title of lieuten-
ant commander of the naval re-
serve. The result of this is
series of rules on the ship. You
can't do this and you can't do
that, too numerous to mention
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

fired and according TO rumo
the mate called up town for tl
A. BIS and an ordinary seam
to replace my watch mates w
stuck witt. me.
Wages on the American III
waiian ships are $65 for quartz
masters and $50 mont. for
BIS. This company runs inte
coastal and has no foreign comp
tition, yet working conditions f
seamen are worse than any 9th
company. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
MINERS STARVE

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. (By Mail)
In Pike County, Indiana, there are
over $50 families of coal miners,
faced with starvation, because the
miners have been unable to find
work. They have no money to get
away to other sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

promised"
That is, if you worked eight
hours overtime you were given
a day off when the mate got
ready to g.yc it to you. Thus, it
nearly always remains a PROMISE
so Hours a Week.
Tying up and pulling out of
port is net considered overtime.
Straight time was 81 hours
week, but we average 90 hours a
week! and these are conservative
figures without taking into ac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

In bourgeois soriety, living inho
is but a means to inerea~e aceu,niij
lated labor. In Communist society
accumulated labor is bat fneanf
to widen, to enrici:, IN promote sht
existence of the iaborcr.-1arl
Mcrx Communist Manifested
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Guild Cinema will present the Amer
lean premiere of Man Rays "Star
of the Sea-" James Joyce treat
ment of a Baudelairian theme, and
the first showing of ia Mutt Elec-
trique," a screen-sonata to the beau
ties of electric lights at night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Another characteristic feature
of this imposed military discip-
line is the captains frequent in
spection of the crews quarters.
This is not for sanitary purposes,
for when / saw him the other
day cautiously pick up book
from a bunk to read the title ]
knew that he was looking for
radical literature.
Refuse to Wash Decks.
He makes one round a day and
this at any hour of the day. Sun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

The fertile ooker ho es the following letter from the Soviet
qnrious from ere p0orks in the United States
He describes the coming the seuenor day to his factory and
Uorers being hrown the street Vhen ration
asaion measures adopted under capitalism the
the Soviet te~e factory receve higher wth the
increase of production and more ~okers 'Vore employed
Dear Comrades;
factory (DekOvkaia Factory of the I'd State Cotton Trus
employs 1000 workers.
Until the end 1927 the in weaving department
worked LOOMS the assistant foremen 40 and the spinning
three sides There $500 workers in the factory
In 1927 the Trust decided
by increasing the number of looms worked by At first
when this question was raised at the meetings before the workers they
argued against saying that sit will be difficult to work with
looms attend the will be reduced because the workers will
not be able much they earned before they could not
attend to the additional looms"
The Seven Hour Day.
After advantages change explained
the workers agreed the naturalization and December 1927
the factory adopted this SYSTEM weav15 LOOMS assistant fore
men-45 in spinning department
When the change adopted of the workers became
into the street but here they paid their for De-
eember and January and in January 1925 the factory began work
adopted system giving
to those displaced by the naturalization and hiring workers
So that fctory employees 1000 people he naturalization and
the sevenhour woray employment to 1400 workers.
Wages Higher
Now the work. despite
been reduced
Before the naturalization and the adoption of the sevenhour day
the
so o assistant foremen robes 40 copeks obs copes
weavers3 roubs roubles copks;
ubes 80 epes roubes 10 copek and roubes
cpeks roubes he figures haven't them
handy but the difference be just few copeks the
oher)
Conditions Improved
Thus the naturalization
hour day improved the material conditions
the productivity of the factory and
by reducing unemployment
We waiting for the time when
become the of their factories mills
the naturalization production for the purpose improving living
conditions of the workers
With fraterna greetings
" S. LIAMIN textile worker
The letter from worr IN the Soviet Union will
the Basin oho U tell living
conditions Ia the the Maud qchich
ors employing 5000 work The first part of the UM
appear
Coal miners the United States cyte
Soviet Union They
conditions section to ae Address letters
the YORKER Correspondent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
PRISONERS SLAVE.

s11hANNHI1N1H, 1hId', NDy MaIIT'
The State Convict Department Of
Alabama will build canning fac
tory at the state prison near At
more. Prisoners here are forced to
slave long hours under a system
whereby their labor is hired out to
companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
NJ. p JAILED FOR RAPE

OTTAWA (By MaiD.- y
Anger, Liberal NJ. P. Of Ontari
was found guilty of rape by Car,
ton County jury. He received
Jail sentence. Poor men arc So
fenced to death here for this Grim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
JOHN DRINKWATER'S "BIRn IN
HAND" OPENS IN APRIL.

Announcer'9nt was n'ade vester-
lay that "Bird in Hand" John
Drinkwater's latest play, will be
presented here early in April by
Lee Shubert, and that Mr.. Drink
water would come to New York to
supervise the American presenta-
lion. Mr.. Drinkwater has not been
to this country since he BROUGHT
ever his play abraham Lincoln" y
1920.
"Bird in Hand" is row current at
the Royale Theatre, London, where
It has been playing for over year.