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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
STEEL BOSSES
AFATTEN ON Toll.
ll0F MILL SLAVES
Safety First Signs Are
a Mockery

babBy Worker Correspondent.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (By MaiD
"A few weeks ago I came here
from another steel slave town,
bLorain, looking for a Job. So I
went to the Republic Iron and Steel
Sos When l got there / saw oppo-
site the employment office a big
sign with the following: safety
first 70 enjoy the fruit of your la
nor" So that morning they hired
about IL workers after they took
their names. They sent US to the doc
tor, for a physical examination,
where we had to wait from Z o'clock
to IL o'clock, because the doctor was
too busy to see us. In the time
that we waited, I counted over 40
workers who came to the doctors
office as result of being injured
on the job. That is the fruit of
our labor-we come out of the mills
with our hands, legs and other parts
of our bodies crippled for life, and
many of us lose our lives in the
steel mills. These safety first"
signs hanging all over the mill GER
tainly are hypocritical.
The conditions in general in the
whole steel industry for the workers
are real example of tyranny.
We slave from 8 to IL hours a
day. The wages are "A cents an
hour at the most. For our day and
night slavery we never get more
than $500 a month. Yet the steel
barons, who stay hundreds of miles
away from the mills, in some lux
urious offices, and never get any
where near the mills, make their
millions from our slavery every
month. Fellow-workers, the only
way for US to end this is to or
ganize for better conditions-to or
ganize ourselves into a fighting
union. Let US workers be prepared
to resist when they want to kill us
off like sheep in the coming imper-
ialist war, and do as the Russian
workers did in 1917.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
Brooklyn Gas Company
Cuts Cost But Leaves
Wages and Price Same

The Brooklyn Union Gas Co. has
discovered new way to make prof.
its. Charging the consumer $1.15
per 1000 cubic feet of gas, the COM
pany has the gas made by the Kop-
pers Co. at So cents per 1000 cubic
feet, which is 6 to 61a cents cheaper
than Brooklyn Union could make it.
The saving in cost price will be
divided between Koppers and Brook
Ign Union Gas Co.
Another Mellon Company.
Koppers is a concern controlled by
Andrew Mellon and his brother, R..
B. Mellon of Pittsburgh. Among its
extensive holdings is a new by-prod-
ucts coke oven plant, now nearing
completion. The company explains
that by reason of its operation of
coke oven plants all over the coun-
try it is in a position to market the
coke, coal tars and ammonia prod
ucts of coke oven operation. "Real
economy of coke oven plants is in
their continuous operation, so with
Brooklyn Union taking the gas out
put and Koppers moving the other
products this most economical opera
ton is possible"
In triumphant announcement
Brooklyn Union Gas Company ex-
plains that this is economy for both
companies. The idea of reducing
the price to the consumer, in view
of the reduced cost, has never APP
parently occurred to either COM
pany. Neither has it made the
slightest move toward raising wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
State Employment Man
Warns of Hard Times,
Growing Worse in 1929

Every one should ralize that it
takes more than a ballot and an
election to make business better. We
should be careful that our demands
as individuals should not create an
embarrassing situation that will re-
suit in dissatisfaction and turmoil
among the workers in our industries
in 1929" He cautions workers to
"observe strictly the rules of econ
omy" next year, in an ominous
warning of hard times ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01

That corporation managers take
advantage of the situation they Gre
ate is delicately limited in the finan-
cial journal. eff such corporation
manager personally buys the stock
at a low figure when assets have
been hidden in one way or another
in the reports, he is guilty of a
breach of trust"
Two instances, reported to Fed
Grated Press, of companies conceal
ing profits, not from stockholders
but from the workers, illustrate
managers efforts to cut wages while
the corporation increased its gains.
Names are withheld, but the facts
are reported from reliable sources.
Fool Employees.
A corporation director, in an in
terview with the press, boosted of
the company's profits just reported
at directors meeting. The presi-
dent was angry, and called him
down, saying, "We should not re-
veal our profits to the public at this
time. We are just negotiating with
the workers for wage reduction"
A mill manager kept telling the
workers, Every day we operate it
is a loss" A stakeholder let the
cat cut of the bag, revealing that
the company had declared an IS per
cent dividend out of the years prof
its, just at the time it was intro
ducing a new wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
BEAN PICKERS IN
FLORIDA HAVE
HARD SHEDDING
Get Only 81 a Day, and
Work 3 Days a Week
r8y q Worker CorrespondenrJ

IBB q WORKER Corresponding
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (By MaiD =
This is poor place. Most of the
people are farmers. The farmers
here do not make anything.
worked on a farm here for a while,
picking beans. 1t is too dry here to
raise anything much. They get
about 100 hampers of beans from
three acres. One acre ought to
bring that much. They get So a
hamper for beans and when you fig
ure the seed, fertilizer, etc., they
make about IA cents clear on a
hamper. There are no jobs here
any place. know there is no use
Of going north, because 1 know
there is nothing there, either.
might as well starve here. A lot
of people here used to make a liv-
ing by fishing, but the last storm
blew all the fish houses and boats
away. There are no fishermen here
now.
Bean pickers make about 81 or
S1.25 day. In good beans, they
may make about SO a day, but they
only can get work 2 or days a
week. II. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
Talking Movies Provide
FakeJobSharksChan
(By Federated PresS)

Talking movies have brought in
new crop of fake job sharks prey
ing on would-be actors at $50 to
$3.50 throw. At least 20 of these
schools are busy in the New York
theatre district training people in
a few lessons to enter the "talkies. u
Promises of jobs are verbal and
nearly always ignored. All the stu
dent gets is the experience and a
monograph record of his talking.
We demand the immediate ADOLF
ton of all vngrnncy laws; protec-
ton of unemployed workers from
arrest on charges of vaRrnncy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
French Find Coal in
Conquered Moroccan
Territory, Near Iron

CASABLANCA, Morocco, Dec.
30.-French engineers have dis
covered extensive coal deposits in
the territory recently subjugated by
the largest mobilization of French
troops since the great war. The
presence of iron ore gave the i'm
petus to the conquest of Morocco,
but the new coal beds near these
iron mines make the French empire
here doubly important.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
NEW DEADLY GAS

LONDON, Dec. 3O-(UP)-The
well-known chemist, Hilton Jones,
announced today the discovery of a
new gas, so deadly that it would
make war international suicide"
Jones said the gas causes death in
stantly with the slightest inhalation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
BOSTON 81" MEN GAIN

BOSTON (By MaiD-Workers on
the Boston Elevated Railway have
won one weeks vacation with pay.
The average wage of 97.S cents per
hour remains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01

FORCED TO WORK SUNDAY.
CHEROKEE, Ia. (By MaiD-Post
office employees were forced to
work on Sunday for the first time
last week. The workers threaten
action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01

be overcome as the company had
yielded.
The committee, which is prepar-
ing the congress to take place next
May, at which the Latin American
Trade Union Confederation will be
organized, has been complimented
on its work for practical labor
unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
TREE GIVES MILK.

PUERTO BARRIOS, Guetamala,
Dec. 31.-A tree yielding palatable
milk has been discovered here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01
2 KILLED IN CRASH

YPSILANTI, Mich, Dec. 81
(UP)-Edward Wilson, %, was
killed and his companion, Raymond
Hochrein, 81, was injured probably
mortally this afternoon when a
Michigan Central freight engine
collided with their auto at cross
ing here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Biennial Student Contest
Here Announced for April

testants will be judged together, while
the male and female voices will be
Judged separately. there being different
prizes for the winners In each group.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for prizes
for winners in the local contest.
Entrance fees for the younger or stu
dent entrants have been reduced from
81 TO So. The entrance fee for young
artist musicians remains at se. This
amount must be submitted with the
off1cia; application blank when II Is
filed.
Teachers or prospective contestants
may obtain copies of all necessary lit
erature by writing to Mrs. Lovette. 1871
Connecticut avenue. washington, d. G.
Teachers are assured that the names
of their entries will be held strictly
confidential until three weeks prior to
desire ard so indicate in letters trans
hitting applics tionA
The purposes of TIE contest a:e 6is-
tinctive and beneficial, with special eI--
phaSis placed upon artistic creativeneSs
and inspiration. Primarily ths move
ment gives a definite and immediate
objective for students and in a con-
structive manner inspires them to
greater effort in artistic achievement.
The required list of vocal numbers
calls for the employment of the English
language exclusively, having in mind
the development of an American school
of opera. All vocal contestants are re-
quired to prepare three numbers named
by the Federation of Music Clubs and
to add to these one oratorio aria of
their own choice, each to be sung in
English. All instrumental contestants
must play three prescribed numbers,
and in some instances must play two
numbers of their own selection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

THE biennial music contest conducted
- by the Federation of Music Clubs
for student and young artist musicians
of Washington will be held during the
last week in April, according to Eva
Whitford Lovette, chairman of the local
contest committed The exact date will
be announced later 1t is planned to
have the District of Columbia entries
judged just before the Virginia, West
Virginia, Maryland and District of CO.
lumbia contest is held, early in May, at
Baltimore. Winners in the latter try
outs will be entered in the national
finals at Boston in June.
Teachers preparing pupils for entry
are warned not to delay too long in the
matter of filing applications. as such
action will facilitate the transmission of
periodic adjustments of the rules and
requirements sent out from national
headquarters. which are helpful to pro-
spective contestants. Recently the ex-
ception was made not to require organ
lists to play from memory. All others,
both voice and instrumental contest
ants. must perform without the help
of words or music.
The contest will be for two classes,
student and young artist musicians,
The former must be 16 years OF age or
over, but under "a, and the latter must
be 20 or over, but not more than 80, on
May 20, 1929. Furthermore, all en-
trants must have resided more than
one-half their lives in the United
States and must have had their entire
U. S. A. training during the 10 years
Immediately preceding the date of the
contest.
National prizes for the student mu-
stefan group total $4,000 in cash awards
and for the young artist musicians
$3.50 in cash. All instrumental con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
YEHUDI MENUHIN-FRIDAY.

Yehudi Menuhin, 1l-year-old boy
genius of the violin, whose phenomenal
technique has earned him tumultuous
receptions by audiences in New York
Paris and San Francisco, will be heard
for the first time in Washington Friday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in concert at
Polls Theater under the management
of Mrs. Wilson, Greene. He will be as
sisted by Louis Persinger at the piano
and from current indications a capacity
audience will greet this sensational boy
prodigy.
Yehudi Menuhin, who will be IL years
old in a. little more than two weeks
will open his concert with Vivaldi's
Concerto in G Minor, Opus T." ar
ranged for concert use and dedicated to
Yehudi by Sam Frankie.
Brahms Sonata In D Minor, Opus
1897; Saint-Saens' Concerto IN B
Minor, Opus 6l": Bloch's 'Nigun" (from
"Baal Shem'). Samazeuilh's Chant
d'Espagne" and Paganini's Il Palpiti''
make up the rest of the program.
Seats for the concert are on sale at
the concert bureau in Drops, 1900 G
street northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Prague Teachers Chorus
Officially Welcomed Here

A itinerary which extends as far
north as Canada, as far west as
Nebraska and south to Havana, Cuba,
has been arranged for the Prague
Teachers Chorus which comes d.
rect from Prague, Czechoslovakia, fot
two months concert tour of the
United States, which began yesterday
in Boston. More than 80 concerts will
be given in all.
After the first concert in Carnegie
Hall, New York City, the chorus will
appear in the Library of Congress in
Washington Tuesday at the invitation
of the United States Government,
through the chairman of the Division
Of Music, and Carl Engel, its director.
The reception which will be given the
next day for the Teachers Chorus will
be the official welcome by this coun-
try to the visiting musicians, and will
be an elaborate affair, to which many
important people of Washington have
been invited. In New York the Czech
teachers will meet the foremost musi-
cal people of the city through events
which are being planned by George G.
Gartlan, superintendent of music in the
public schools.
After concerts at Yale and Harvard
universities and attendant social festiv-
titles. the chorus will sing a second time
IN New York and will then start north
fer appearances in Canada and in
Buffalo, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Opportunities for Students
In Federation Contests

FRANCES GUTELIUS, junior chair
man of the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs, has distrib-
uted the annual junior contest bulletin,
issued by the national federation, to
local teachers and others interested.
This contest is held annually in each
State and the District of Columbia, the
winners being entered in district con-
tests.
The purpose of the contest is to af-
ford younger students an opportunity
for public appearance under important
conditions; to inspire them to greater
effort in artistic achievement through
the stimulus of competition, and to give
publicity and credit for merit.
1t Is hoped that teachers and club
leaders will embrace this opportunity
for the young people and arrange to
enter those qualified in accordance with
the rules given in the bulletin.
The contest covers a wide range of
instruments and subjects, from piano,
stringed and wind instruments and
voice to group contests for hymn play
ing, band and orchestra, chorus and a
number of appreciation tests.
The last week of April has been
chosen as tentative date, the exact
time and place being announced later.
Miss Gutelius also has announced a
meeting of all old and new leaders of
the Junior Federation of Music Clubs,
to be held in her studios, at Dupont
circle, Tuesday, January Is, at pm,
to discuss plans for the fourth annual
concert of the Junior Federation.
Mrs. Mary Ware Goldman, 100 Twen-
ty-first street, vice chairman, gladly
will furnish any further information
desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
No Concert Tomorrow by
Philadelphia Simfonietta

THE fourth concert, originally
l. planned for tomorrow night, in the
series of the Washington Cooperative
Artists Course, DR.. Harold M. Dudley,
manager, to be given by the Philadel-
phia Simfonietta Orchestra and two
Washington Soloists, Charles Trowbridge
Tittmann, basso, and Weldon Carter,
pianist, has been Cancelled, according to
announcement issued the middle of last
week.
Although large audiences attended
the first three concerts of the series,
given, respectively, by Josef Holman,
pianist; John Charles Thomas, baritone,
and Paul Whitemans Jazz Orchestra,
it is stated by the manager of these
events that the public support was in
sufficient for him to be able to continue
the series planned. Therefore, in addi-
ton to the canceling of tomorrow's
event, the other concerts likewise can
Celed for later in the season include
concerts announced to feature Nine.
Jeritza, Elizabeth Rethberg, Sophie
BraSlau and Zimbalist in joint recital,
and Richard Crooks and Emanuel zet-
lin, also in joint recital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
HENRY HADLEY-TOMORROW.

Misses Rose and Otillie Sutro, re-
Gently established in Washington music
circles, and we'll known for many years
both in this country and abroad as
interpreters of two-piano music, will
present the second in the series of three
morning programs at the Washington
Club at IL o'clock tomorrow.
In presenting these programs two
features are dominant. The first Is
that only works by American COM
posers are presented. with the COM
poser himself appearing. The second
feature is the informal, salon style
of setting for the audiences most COM
Portable enjoyment of the music. There
are arrnchairs and davenportS grouped
socially together for the occupants
chatting before the program. Palms
arranged around the grand piano In the
bay windows. further remove any sug-
geStion of severity in the setting. Misses
Sutro grant inspiration for this lat
ter idea to the famous salons OF
Nine. de Stael in Paris of older days
and that of the Metternichs, In Vienna
Misses Sutro hope to do their part in
centering American art interests in the
National Capital and would like even
tually, with the proceeds OF such con-
certs, to create fund for the pub
lication of works by American COM
posers.
The composer of the morning tomor-
row Is Henry Hadley, whose works
range from songs for solo voice to
large choral works and operas (the last
mentioned having been performed by
the Metropolitan and Chicago Onera
Companies). Mr. Hadley also Is well
known as a conductor and has won
praise from audiences and critics here
in Europe and in South America. He
has been associate conductor OF the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tomorrow Mr. Hadley will give a
piano version of his orchestral suite
ballet of the Flowers" Mrs. Hadley
professionally known as Inez Barbour
will sing two groups of her husbands
songs. including "BerceuSe," "Colloque
Sentimental" Moonlight" "Rosen,
my True Love-" Time of Parting,
IF You Would Have 1t SO" and
20 Hermit, oh Veery!" Lamar String
field, a younger American composer
conductor of the Asheville Symphony
Orchestra in North Carolina, and win
ner Of the most recent Pulitzer prlze
for composition, will play group OF
Mr.. Hadley's flute selections. mcluolne
"Intermezzo' from his opera, Cleo
patra's Night: prelude" from suite
Ancienne," and "Valse Brilliante."
Cards may be had from Misses
Sutro, 1880 California street, or at the
cI,ih tomorrow morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
National Anthem Contest
Closes February |, 1929

THE competition for new national
- anthem, made possible by the
sponsorship of Mrs. Florence Brooks
Aten, who offered first prize of $4,000
second, of $1,000, and 10 prizes of
500 each, with honorable mention, will
close February l, 1929.
A nationwide response has been re:
ceived following the initial announce
ment published last July. More than
1000 persons interested in poetry and
song have returned cards requesting
further information concerning the final
anthem competition closing the first OF
next month. From At States, 1905
competitors contributed poems in the
preliminary contest for words only
which closed October Is.
Already 1911 composers and poets
have submitted both words and music
for the final competition. This is open
to all American citizens. either native
born or naturalized. If any of the prize
winning anthems are the composite
work of two persons. one composing the
words and the other the music. the
amount of the award will be divided
equally between them.
All anthems must be In the hands of
the chairman of the board of judges
February /. On or before April Is the
manuscripts will be judged and prizes
awarded according to merits. regardless
or whether or not the prize winning
anthems are worthy of national adon-
ton.
The judges are Lambert Murphy,
tenor, formerly of the Metropolitan
Opera Co.; Reinald Werrenrath. BARI
tone: Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, critic and
lecturer on music. and Witter Bynner,
poet and playwright, president of the
Poetry Society of America.
All communications should be ad-
dressed to National Anthem COMPETE
ton, room 1908. 342 Madison avenue,
New York City
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Quick Courtship.

IF the time element means anything
- in the art of love making, girls arc
getting a "break"l
Whereas courtship in the days of
mother was stretched out over a period
of neutrality-suspicious. years-now one
can get first-class romance over a
course of three week ends.
The authority for this statement
is none other than Elinor Glyn, noted
novelist and dean of romance at Miss
Worlds Finishing School.
Here is what she wrote Clara Bow
Paramount star:
Can real endurable love be born
over period of three week endso !
should say certainly, because, If the
vibrations Of each person are in per-
feet harmony, love is a matter of
the first glance. If the ilarmonies are
imperfect, love may grow and the diff
ference adjust itself"
That's what she told Clara Bow and
that is what she has written into her
original screen story Three Week
Ends"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Artists to Appear in
Franco-Beleian Festival

ELENA DE SAYN, director of the
~ festival of music by three outstand-
ing French and Belgian composers, to
be presented at the Willard Hotel Janu-
airy 18 and 81 and February Is, an
nounces the following as the list OF
artists ticipating-members of the
Societe des Concerts Intimes:
Miksa Merson, pianist; Josef Barbe-
cot, baritone, with Mrs. Roberts at
the piano; a quartet composed of Miss
de Sayn. first violin; A. G. zanoff, sec
ond violin; Lydia Brewer, viola; and
Watson Baumert, violoncello; Armand
Gumprecht, fiutist; Suzanne Savoy,
harpist; Francis Shull, flutist: William
Loving. oboe player; Richard Nation
clarinetist; Eugenia Cherniavskaja,
pianist; Mary Couch, pianist; John
Stcne, contrabass, and Robert Car
bauh, Xylophone player.
The events are all under the special
patronage of the Belgian Ambassador
and Princess de Ligne.
Tickets are on sale at the Willard
Hotel Social Bureau. Seats will be re-
served and tickets mailed without extra
charge, upon request. by Miss de Sayn
ll7o6 x street northwest