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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
YOUNG WORKERS
SLAVE IN BOURNE
STEEL co. PLANT
Wages Getting Less
Every Week
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, (By MaiD.-Con-
ditions are hell for the workers of
Bourne Fuller Steel Co. This
shop is nothing but cellar where
workers are piled to produce riches
for the bosses. The shop is always
full of smoke and fumes. The
machines are broken and old. We
workers sweat a ten and II hour
day-when it pleases the boss. Also
when it pleases the boss, he ships us
home in the middle of the day. Our
wages are rotten. They're getting
lower all the time. Many of US
can't even make $50 week! And
the workers who do the more skilled
work get the great sum of $50 a
week. But-they get this only when
they work a full week, and are
speeded up to the limit.
The company is getting rich on the
sweat of the workers. Right now
it is worth S1S,790, 100! This doesn't
belong to the workers who produced
it, you bet. 1t belongs to the slave
driving bosses who pay us low wages
and make US work like hell.
If we were organized we wouldn't
have these rotten conditions. 1t is
only by uniting to fight that we can
win!
Young Workers Slave.
There are many young people
working in Bourne Fuller. These
young workers are in the shop be-
cause the bosses pay their parents
such low wages that it is necessary
for the boys and girls themselves to
go to work to help support the FAM
lily. The bosses welcome these young
workers with open arms!
Young workers work a 10 and ~
hour day. They're even hiring them
to work nights, which is the worst
possible thing for young workers
Some of them get 35 cents an hour
Many of them get even less! These
are starvation wages!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
By q Worker Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Ohio (By MaiD -
The Israelites did not slave as hard
under the Egyptians as their de-
scendants in the matzo bakery of
the Manischewitz Company in Gin
cinnati. The irony of it is that the
matzos are intended as a reminder
during the Passover feast, as a
memorial to the Jews that their
forefathers were slaves and that they
must never tolerate slavery in any
form.
The "Rabbf'-Slave Driver.
Manischewitz has the title of
rabbi" although that is known to
be simply for advertising purposes.
Jews are so accustomed to reverse
one with the rabbinical degree they
do not question his connections,
political or economic and thus some
of latter day prophets are getting
away with pious frauds Of the most
contemplate sort.
The matzo slaves work for one
hundred and fifty pennies a day
there really is no other way to make
a dollar and half ($1.50) appear
as small as in this place. The Israel
ties in Egypt had to gather straw
for their bricks, here the slaves
must augment their earnings with
four or five hours of outside work
to make a bare living. Old men
slave for this aims house dole while
Manischewitz donates thousands to
Palestinian drives" and endows
synagog steeples with money he has
stolen from the sweated labor Of
his slaves at the ovens.
The holy" Task of Slavery.
The Jews are cheated both ways.
Those that work in the plant acquire
merit at the "holy" task of baking
the sacred" unleavened bread.
Those that buy it pay from II cents
to 20 cents per pound. This high
way robbery can be better apprecia-
ted when one learns that ordinary
flour and plain Ohio River water
are the sole ingredients of the "holy"
matzos for which the Jews pay so
handsomely.
One family man of my acquaint-
ance, with three small children and
a sick wife is sick from worry over
his pligl... He recently got "raise"
of So week and still he is an OBJ
ject of charity for it is. absolutely
impossible for him to exist on the
starvation pay.
An important item in "Rabbi"
Manischewitz's racket is his ostenta-
tons and openhanded hospitality to
visiting rabbis. His home is a sort
of hang-out for the great and the
near great Of Judea and every Jew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Once Again Cleveland Carmen Warn NU Orleans Strikers "Watch Mahou
MITTEN WILL
keep WORKERS
IN SLAVERY
Takers Have Agreed to
Sell-Out

(By a Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mai).-
Once more we, the progressive group
of Division 268 Garments Union,
warn the courageous striking street
car men Of New Orleans to keep
sharp eye on our international Off
cials, especially our president, w. D.
Mahon, whose action in agreeing
with Secretary of Labor James J.
Davis to send the notorious strike
breaker, Thomas Mitten, head of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., to
New Orleans to "arbitrate" the con-
troversy existing there, means that
he has already agreed to sell the
carmen out.
This is the same Mitten who some
years ago broke a strike of the
Philadelphia street railway men and
then forced them to accept traction
company stock in lieu of wages.
This stock-selling scheme was con-
trolled by welfare fund which was
in the hands of a committee" of
the company's stool-pidgeons. Re-
Gently this Committee" traded the
entire transit stock of 221, 800 shares
for preferred" stock of the Mitten
Bank Securities Corporation that
controls the Rapid Transit Company.
This Rapid Transit stock, which the
carmen no longer hold, has since
scared to unheard of prices on the
local stock exchange following a
surprise" mellon cut by the Rapid
Transit directors. In addition, they
have also declared an extra dollar
dividend. Thus these workers have
been swindled out of about $2,215,-
900 by the Mitten gang. Had this
Committee" held on to the transit
stock the workers would have re-
ceived in dividends for 1929, includ-
ing the extra dividend, $1,107000,
instead of the Bank Securities Cor
poration dividend of y$775, $50, diff
ference of $332,25O.
1t is hard to imagine that our
brother carmen of New Orleans will
allow themselves to be tricked into
arbitration" by this soulless and
spineless president who has betrayed
the carmen of one city after another.
Only last year he went to New York
and helped the Tammany police stall
off the threatened strike of the trac-
ton workers Of that city. When the
New York men were about to walk
out on strike Mahon deserted them
by running away to Cleveland to
babble at an ice cream party held
by the wives and children of the
carmen of that city.
If the carmen of New Orleans
want to win their strike they can
only do so by mass picketing, by
breaking the injunction issued
against them, by displaying some
more of the militancy of the first
days of the strike.
CARMAN No. 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
STRUCTURAL iron
Takers AFRAID OF
LOSING FAT JOBS
Resort to Cursing at
Communists
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Nd. (By MaiD.-
About three weeks ago one of the
international officers, by the name
of Cation, who spoke at a meeting of
the Structural Iron Workers of the
Building Trades here, told of con-
cessionaires working in this city. He
said that Communists and all other
Reds" were spreading their propa-
ganda among the members of vari-
Gus organizations trying to spread
discomfort among the men.
Our Loyal A. F. of L."
He called them "rotten, filthy,
irreligious, unpatriotic and what
not" "They will not stop at any
thing in their efforts to tear down
our good loyal American Federation
of Labor and international unions
which have always fought for the
workers and got what they went
after. You men who are good union
men should live up to the constitu-
tibn and bylaws. If any of you
men know of any members who go
to the meetings which these Reds
hold or who read their papers, maya
zines, ETC., (they do not want the
men to become ss-conscious) you
should either report them to me, the
local union or the international Of
flee and we will see that he does not
and will not have his union card for
very long. That's that for every
one of you and l mean what / say.
l am here especially to do away with
the Red and Communist organiza-
tons because they can and would
tear down everything before them,
but they cannot build up again, the
rotten skunks and union busters"
The wages average from twelve
to fourteen dollars per day for an
eight hour day but considering the
high prices for food, clothing and
shelter, with no exception for acct
dent, sickness or unemployment this
is not much. Your job is not guar
anteed and may last only for a few
minutes.
Men of the building trades, wake
up and get busy. Send delegates to
the Trade Union Unity Convention
in Cleveland on August 81 and when
they return you will know how to
organize good, live, healthy union
where every member is on an equal
basis and l don't mean maybe,
either.
These International officers who
are sent around the country get the
small" amount of $500 per day
and $1,000 per day expense money
besides their graft which is called
miscellaneous expense" while the
members work like hell and become
cripples and old men at very
young age at this hazardous trade.
You do not get any more whether
you are million miles in the air
or on the solid ground.
STRUCTURAL IRON
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
GAUVIN TO BRING OVER TWO
FRENCH COMPANIES.

]. A. Gauvin, who sponsored a
French musical comedy company
last season at Jolson's Theatre, has
returned from Paris, where he COM
pleted arrangements for the appear
ance in Canada and New York of
two French companies.
The first will be dramatic COM
pany, headed by the Partisan &C.
tress, Nine. Eve Fracis, with Ernest
Ferny as leading man. This COM
pany will present standard French
comedy dramas, among them a re-
vival of lie Duel" by Henri Lave
dan, and also give the premiere here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

of a new play by Georges Saunier,
LA Rose d'Angora," before its
Paris presentation. "L'Homme En-
chaine," by Bourdet will also be
staged.
Later in the season, Mr.. Gauvin
plans to offer a French musical
comedy company with Jane Mon
tango and Max Busy, both from
the Opera Comique. Its repertoire
is to include Monsieur Beaucaire,"
by Messenger; "Paganini," by Lehar;
"Venise," by Tiarko Richepin, and
"Chanson d'Amour," by Schubert.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Shipyard Union
Takers May Take
Compromise in London

LONDON (By Mail) .-Shipyard
employers here have refused the
workers claim for an increase in
wages of five shillings a week. This
decision was communicated to union
officials. A compromise offer was
made by the bosses of raises from
? shilling to five shillings, "for GER
tain classes" The compromise will
probably be accepted by the mis-
leaders. The men are eager for mill
tant action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
VIRGINIA IS 4
CENTER OF The
,sSYsAR INDUSTRIES
Rayon. Tobacco, Auto
There Too
a. a Worker CORRESPONDENCE

by a Worker Correspondent
NORFOLK, Va. (By MaiD.-In
my last letter told of the conditions
in some of the big industries in Vir-
GINA, the so-called Old Dominion
tate. will tell of conditions in other
Industries in Virginia in this letter.
In the Parker Knit Hosiery Mills
IN Portsmouth there are $50 work
SIS employed; young girls forming
he big majority. Here they slave
nine hours a day and receive the
grand sum of Sc to SO a week.
Ford Enslaves 1,400.
Then there is the Ford auto plant
employing 1,40O workers shaving at
the conveyer. The men here are
paid IS a day. Now to go a little
further we find Suffolk, Va, twenty
miles from Portsmouth, with its
speedup in the peanut manufactur-
ing plant, especially in that of the
Planters Manufacturing Co. In the
last mentioned plant there are about
2,400 workers employed, about
seventy-five per cent of them being
Negroes. The average wages here is
from $1.20 to $3.50 a day, the work
ers having ten continuous hours of
slavery day.
In the Tobacco Industry.
Richmond and Danville are to-
oacco manufacturing centers. Here
he workers all slave from nine to
,welye hours day. The wages paid
are the magnificent sum of $1.20 to
$500 day.
Stanton and Waynesboro have
only recently seen spontaneous
strike of woodworkers, and seven
hundred of the men struck. Hope
veil, Virginia is well known as the
cotorious slave center of the rayon
mills. Here the workers are being
laid from S1.EO to $3.50 a day, work
tng shifts of from nine to thirteen
lours day.
A Military Center.
Particularly important to remem-
Der is the fact that Virginia is the
military center of America, and that
Il is therefore one of the most i'm
29rtant states for the Communist
arty's anti-militarist work. In and
around Norfolk we find the naval
base, and Forts Custer, Howard,
Henry, etc. There is also an am
nunition depot-the warehouse of
imperialist war.
Must Redouble Work.
For these reasons / say it IL i'm
oortant and necessary that we rstab-
lish District Office of the Com
munist Party in Norfolk with we'll
unctioning Negro, T. Z. E. L. Youth
and Childrens' departments. This
| believe, will enable the Party to
carry on its organizational cam
aaigns IN Gastonia, Richmond, Dan
vile, Winston-Salem, ETC., and es-
pecially among the most exploited
sections of the working class, the
Negro workers.
Thus far only one shop nucleus
has been formed-in the Planters
Manufacturing Co., Norfolk. And
in the near future the Party will
issue its first shop paper south of
the Mason-Dixon Line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
FIGHT CONVICT LABOR.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (By
MaiD Grand Rapids Federation of
Labor has protested against the en-
ployment of prisoners in beet sugar
fields, claiming that the state con-
Wet contract labor law is violated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

Morganstern and Shorts modern
lied version of "a Temperance
Town" is playing in Jamaica this
week, prior to its showing on
Broadway. The play is taken from
Charles H. Hoyt's we'll known
satire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

The message of Marin was direct
appeal to the colony and to the
fraternal, benefit and political
groups therein, to come to terms, to
unity their forces on the basis pre-
sented by Mr.. Marin, to amalga-
mate, chat they may best repre-
sent the interest of the people of
Porto Rico in the U. S. A."
This editorial Immediately took
he form of personal communica-
ton addressed to all the Porto Rican
societies and political groups and to
all Spanish organizations thought to
De directly or indirectly interested
IN the welfare of the exploited is
.anders, calling upon them to send
delegates to their mammoth "patri-
otic" and "organizational meeting,
Just recently held at the Park View
Palace.
AS was to be expected, most every
wigwam-controlled Porto Rican
political group sent delegates to this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
STRIKE FOR UNION.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (By
Mail) Building trades workers
here are striking for the union scale
Of wages and union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
|-AMuIE M ENT(>

Remote Control" the new Jones'
Green mystery melodrama will open
at Great Neck, August 10, then play
Werbas's Jamaica and Werba's
Flatbush. Tie play is due here on
August &c. William B. Mack heads
the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
AIDING WALL STREET
=HoW MMnOz Marin Does the Trick

We continue the exposure of the
Porto Rican labor misleaders who
help Wall Street exploit the work.
ers and peasants of that island.
Munoz Marin is the arch misleader
now being shown up by our worker
correspondent.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-19
Elizabeth Citv
Case Battles
Leon Nowitzky

Leon Nowitzky, famous Norfolk
Slcuth who has solved scores of
crime mysteries and apprehended
the perpetrators. and whose name
strikes terror to the hearts of
criminals thruout Tidcwater Vir-
ginia and Eastern North Carolina
admits that Elizabeth City's re-
cent triple death mystery has him
stumped.
Repeated excursions to Elizabe h
City and painStaking investigation
Of the drowning of Oscar Amcs and
Nellie and Frank Powell in shallow
ccreS in Knobbs Greek on Satur-
day, June Sth lead the shrewd
detective only to blank walls.
Il do not believe that the three
children were accidentally drowned" ="
says Nowitzky. And I do not be-
lieve they were led or carried thru
the great swamp to the places where
they were drowned; I believe they
were taken in a boat and their
bodies concealed in the coveS where
they were found"
Rewards totaling $500 are now Of
fered for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the person
or persons responsible for the deaths
of the three children. 1t is begin
ming TO look as if the rewards will
never be claimed.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-19

knowledge of both common ana
statutory law. constantly violating
one law or another.
For instance it is pointed out by
P. II. Williams, Assistant Secretary
of the Budget and one Of the best
legal minds in the State, that ever
recent change in The assessments OF
real property in PaSquotank was IN
violation of law.
Under the law County Commits
sioners are authorized to sit as a
Board of Equalization every fourth
year to pass upon the work of the
uuadrennial board of assessors. In
off years the Commissioners have
no right to raise or lower real prop
erty values except in extraordinary
cases. If a fire destroys property
or an owner improves his property,
or if a realty owner should find oil
or minerals on his property, these
and a few other extraordinary con-
ditions would call for an equaliza-
ton of his real property values;
otherwise no changes in the quad
rennial appraisements is legal. The
last quadrennial appraisal of real
property was IN 1927; the next will
be in 1881. Any changes made by
Continued on Page Three
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-19

They tell me yolT girl has kick
ed you?" said the Soda Jerker to
his friend the Bank Clerk.
Not exactly, said the Bank
Clerk; the truth about it is, I kick
ed her when I heard it good and
straight that she called me dumb
bell"
And why did she call you a
dumb -bell?"
We'll. it was this way" said the
Bank Clerk: Il was up to her house
the other night and the lights went
out. 1 suspected it was due to a
blown fuse and I went out on the
back porch. found the fuse box, put
in a new fuse. and got the lights
going again"
And she called you dumb-bell?"
said the Soda Jerker. well, she
certainly named you; ever let the
lights 60 out on me and Jane and
I'll never waste my valuable time
fixing fuses; she'll never be able to
saw that I'm dumb-bell. why
vo,,'re as dumb as that EhringhauS
Streeter who sat on the back row
of the gallery in Loew's Norfolk
theatre sometime ago and winked at
the chorus girls; really, you're as
dumb as the old maid on Nortn
Road st. who thought a ColapCeS
auratus was an artificial limb
mo, I'm not so dumb" SAID the
Bank Clerk; II have simply reacheo
the age of discretion; women are
not the playthings for me that they
were when I was much more
voung and irresponsible than 1 am
now and when my salary WASH
large enough to interest them
ITS all right for you younger
b,,cks who are not making cncdgh
money to keep up Ford 10 play
fast and loose with every girl t9at
gives YOU a date; you can get away
with it; every damn thing you've
cot is your sex appeal and they eH-
meet nothing else of you; you can
have vour fling with 'em without
fear of being tagged after by them
for the rest of your life.
But my case is different; I've
worked up to a point where 1 nave
. respectable position and fairly
oon,fortabIe salary; wouldn't make
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-19

The Commissioners in session SAT-
urdav afternoon, July 18th voted TO
remodel and enlarge the present
courthouse by building a three
storey addition on the rear at a
cost of approximately $4,000, to be
met by bond issue.
Capt. M. P. Hite, local architect
was employed to draw the plans tor
the improvements. And the Com
missioners turned around and ap-
pointed three of their members 10
act as a building committee to have
general supervision of the work. ID
receive compensation of $500 a DAY
and mileage for their services.
In the opinion of at least two OF
the leading lawyers. in Elizabeth
City, interviewed by this newspaper
this week, the action of the Com
missioners in appointing three
members of their own body to super
wise the construction of the court
house for compensation is contrary
TO law and the Commissioners are
indictable.
The three members appointed TO
act as building supervisors are
Chairman c. A. Ownley; Hillary
Cartwright and J. T. Williams.
The section of the North Carolina
Criminal Code which prohibits an
appointment of this kind is found
under Section 1888 of the Consoli-
dated Statutes. 1t is as follows:
Sec. 1888. If any person, ap-
pointed or elected Commission or
director to discharge any trust
wherein the State or County, City
, or Town may be in any manner IN
terested, shall become an under
taker. or make any contract for his
own benefit, under such authority
or be in any manner concerned or
interested in making such contract
or in the profits thereof, either prl-
vately or openly, singly or jointly
with another, he shall be guilty OF
misdemeanor.
OF course no one believes that the
Commissioners intended any wrong
! co,,ntv Commissioners all over
North Carolina are by reason OF
their inexperlence and lack of
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-19
TO
ENLARGEMENT
OF COURT HOUSE
Plan Ahead and Build Better
When Times Are Better
Says Wilson

"This Is no time for PasquOtank
County to try to sell bonds and
spend any considerable sum of
money in courthouse improve
mcnts',' in the opinion of Repre-
sentative ]. X. Wilson of the law
firm of Thompson G. Wilson. And
Mr.. Wilson voices the opinion OF
other prominent attorneys and
many leading citizens.
Pasquotank is sorely in need OF a
new courthouse and new jail. No
one disputes that; but the county is
already bonded almost to the limit;
both city and county taxes are al
ready oppressive; nearly $4,000 IN
real property was recently sold for
taxes at the courthouse door.
I'VE can afford to wait another
five years for a courthouse improve
mcnt." says Mr.. Wilson.
What we need more than a new
courthouse" says P. w. MCMILLAN,
lis a reduction in taxes
This is a time for retrcnchment
rather than a time for increasing
our county Indebtedness" says P
II. Williams, President of the Saw
ings Bank g. Trust Co.
The statements quoted are typical.
Mr.. Wilson voices a strong OBJ
lection to any attempt to meet the
County's need for larger court
house by building an addition to the
present structure. In our old
courthouse" says Mr.. Wilson, I'VE
have an almost perfect type OF
Georgian architecture. To build an
addition to this structure would be
only a botch and a makeshift with
which no one would be pleased.
Instead Of costing $4,000 as
estimated, an addition to the pre-
sent building would most likely cost
100000 before completed. Ano
then we would only have a building
that would have to be Ultimately re-
placed by a new and modern Struc-
ture.
"On the other hand we have the
municipality of Elizabeth City with
out a city hall, with its offices scat
tered all over town. Elizabeth City
needs a city hall. With a few minor
repairs and alterations the present
county courthouse could be made tc
serve as a City Hall. Let the city
acquire this property for municipal
uses.
Then let the County purchase oy
condemnation or otherwise the en-
tire square to Ine North OF tne
courthouse and lying between Colo
nial Avenue and Elizabeth Street
erecting a new courthouse and jail
on the property thus acquired. II
may be five years before we can dc
this, bu tive years is little time tc
wait for permanent improve
ment in which all posterity will hf
| interested"