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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
NAIL ORDER men
SPEED WORKERS
Low Wages at "Start"
Still Stay Low
(By O. Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Nd. (By Mail).-
When Montgomery Ward, one Of the
largest open shop mail order houses
in the United States opened in Bal
timore, Nd, in 1925, the excuse gwen
for low wages that were being PAID
to the workers was that the company
was just beginning business in that
city.
Twelve dollars a week -~~s offered
to thour- nds of the young workers
for 9 1-2 hours of work-speed-up
works to $50.
But time has not changed the con-
ditions. Twelve dollars is still the
wage, with the lure of a raise if one
remains faithful.
All workers, boys and girls, are
forced to carry large bundles Of
catalogues from department to de-
partment, and from floor to floor.
No consideration is given to work
ers' physical strength.
r''>rt Lunch Hour.
The time for lunch a ted Is "a
of an hour, in which the workers
have to buy their lunch, no permis-
sion being given to leave the COM
pany quarters.
In the first year Of its existence
in Baltimore, the plant conducted a
business valued at $170,000,000. This
work was done by about 5000 work.
ers at the average wage of $12.
Speed Workers.
Speed-up usually exists in plants
where machinery Is used. Here, the
greatest number of workers do not
work at machines, but the speed-up
is just as intense. Floor ladies keep
individual charts, and check up care
fully on the amount of work done
by each girl. Every worker must
fill, fold, and enclose certain num-
Der of enclosures, or she is told that
"she is close to being fired"
Montgomery Ward tries to think
that, as one Of the largest mail or
der houses in the country, it is safe
and sound. Mr.. Rosenwald, head of
this company, tells his workers that
he made his first 81 600, 900 by hard
work and eaving. If he were in the
inside, working with the workers, he
would see that - is just plain
"boloney." ELLEN LEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
ACIDS IMPERIL
HEALTH OF GIRL
BATTERY SLAVES
Low Wage; Rats and
Filth in Shop
An q Worker Con.espondent.l

| (By a Worker Correspondent
am girl of seventeen and work
1)r the Advance Battery Corporation,
50 Pearl St., Brooklyn, N. Y. work
al radio batteries, and you can under
stand without my telling you that
it is very difficult work. l am just
going to tell you few facts about
the conditions.
This is a large place on the fifth
floor. We have an elevator which
takes us up to the floor where l
work. 1t is smoky place with an
acid odor that has bad effects on
people. We have Spaniards, Ne
groes, Porto Ricans working here.
The wages are especially low for
this dangerous work.
/ finish the batteries by tka use
Of paste put on the boxes. There
are cells in batteries, plus melted
coal and wax, which leaves pieces of
the coal end wax on the table. !
work on small sizes and large num-
bers; in other words it leaves a lot
of dirt. Some people get asthma
from this work. The windows are
dirty, the rlace has never been clean
ed, and rats, big ones, run around
on the pipes.
There is dressing room. There
are four toilets which are clogged
up and cannot be used. Cae big SIM;
which water rats visit is for an
average of forty to fifty girls, and
only about six can really get under
it. The girls lockers are also full
of rats. When luno'' hour from IL
to 1890 comes around we have to
eat lunch sitting on the tables upon
which we work and which are COW
cred with wax and coal that we use.
write and explain to you in a
rough outline the conditions of some
hard working people who work under
slavery conditions, and l hope that
this will mean something toward bet
tering conditions.
GIRL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
"SHIRAZ" AT 55TH STREET
PLAYHOUSE

The 18th Street Playhouse is pre-
senting this week new importation
from abroad, "Shiraz," an all-Hindu
production. "Shiraz" tells the old
Indian tale of the Emperor Shah
Jehan and how he came to build the
Tai Mahalat Agra. 1t was pro-
duced by British International Films
in India and directed by the German
director Franz Osten. The adapta-
ton as we'll as the supervision was
made by two Hindu scientists, Him
ansu Raj and Niranjan Pal.
"The Cohens and Kellys in At
lantic City, is the current film at
traction at the Colony Theatre this
week. George Sidney, Mack Swain,
Vera Gordon and Kate Price appear
in the principal roles. Nora Lane,
Cornelius Keefe, Tom Kennedy and
Virginia Sale complete the cast.
The stage program includes
Walter O'Keefe as master of cere-
monies and Sammy Kahn leading
the Colony Melodists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
Kuomintang Congress
Has Bare Quorum; One
Group Scores Packing

NANKING, China, March II Gu.
P.)--The Third National Congress
of the Koumintang opened here to-
day with 211 delegates present.
HUI Han-min presided at the open
ing session, which convened at 1890
A. M.
The Congress is not expected to
proceed without some difficulties.
Members yesterday issued a mani.
festo charging that the Nationalist
Government had packed the Con-
gress with its own delegates.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-(U.
P)-Dispatches to the State De-
partment from China are disturb.
ing" Secretary of State Kellogg
said today.
The workers and peasants of
China, under the leadership of the
Communist Party, continue to per-
feet their organization and control
large areas in the interior. The
Kuomintang congress partially re-
fleets the various militarist leaders,
who will soon fight each other, all
observers agree, and against all of
whom the workers and peasants are
opposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
MISLEADER SEES
that FOES ARE
kept FROM WORK
Dues Will Soon BeMade
Higher
(Bn a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
l will try to write about condi-
tons as they exist in local three of
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers.
This union is run exactly as Rus
STA under the car was run. No one
is allowed to express himself at the
meeting; If you try to even talk,
they will not allow you in at the next
meeting.
There are 600 or more electrical
workers, members, kept out in this
way. There are cops al lover il
uniforms and the Industrial Squad
in plain clothes at every meeting.
All this is conducted by Sugar
coated Pill" Breach, with the aid of
his machine. This Breach used to
say to the O'Hara faction, which
was once ruler, and which he ousted,
'sCall of your cops" But he does
not call off his cops.
Under his committee of 100, he
used to lecture to his gang of ours,
"Anyone who is against us, when he
is working, get him off the job" In
other words, see thai Broach's enc
mics do not work at all.
The night when he wanted $4,000
or near that amou he would not
let in the militant members for fear
he might be questioned about what
was to be done with such an amount.
When jobs come in at the office.
here is how they are given out.
Hundreds of mon are in small
room, milling around, holding up
their cards. The official gives out
IT, Job to the ones whose card he
grabs. To get job here is like
rloying the horses.
There are great amounts of city
work going to non-union men. Take
for instance the subway work. Of
al the labor engaged in it, possibly
only 10 per cent. are union men.
here are only about forty union
c'cl clans on the whole job Speak
ing as one acquainted with subway
elee seal work, / know that this job
should take abour 500 mon fer at
lcast three years work.
The power-house in Brooklyn
schools being done non-union. Most
went non-union. There are five
cf the officials are democrat peanut
politicians and the rest are repub-
Trans. and Think for certain poll
f. q favors there is very little fight
for this work by the officials Of the
union.
The dues are going to be Increased
- 50 per quarter sccn, and possibly
laere. Out of abcuts, 600 men there.
are 1900 out of work. Proach says
there are only 200. Instead of rid
inr in Nash sedans and the best of
Fulimans, and earning at least ST.
coo a year in rain shine, let him
trudge the streets and offices, look
in-g for work for at least one week.
4 job is very hard to get between
the months of November and May.
The average wage is around $25 to
S35 4 week.
/ say to Breach, call off your cops,
allow free speech in the meetings,
allow every member in good stand
ing into the meetings.. Your rule is
doomed, and you know it.
ELECTRICAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
zach and Clique Has Police Industrial Squad Hand mdae Man
Meet the Prince" Msibed
Ray.t0 Amuse Bouyge0ise

MEET the Prince" now showing
IVA at the Lyceum Theatre, is an
other of those insipid, empty-headed
and empty-mouthed entertainments
to keep the rich bourgeoisie amused
Lacking all originality, sweetly
coy and Economically insipid, 1t is
meant for people who have plenty
of idle hours for amusement and
who do not want their brains taxed
too much.
It's plot is an old one. A British
bourgeois family awaits a prince, who
turns out to be an impostor but also
the husband of Jenny Ford, going
under the name Of Mrs. Bulger. The
thing ends beautifully" and every
body is happy. Milne, the author OF
the play, gets just enough satire in
it to amuse the self-satisfied audi
ence. Royalty comes in for its trite
panning and the traditional English
man of "here-I-am- take-me- or-leave-
me" is also poked a. little.
Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis,
playing the leading roles, give
smooth and "endearlng" perfor-
nance. The old lady sitting in back
Of the reviewer said to her Wal!
Street husband: "Oh, this is ex-
crutiatingly funny and so very NICE
The reviewer, however, is some
what thankful that once in very
great while he gets an opportunity
to see something like this. 1t serves
as an insight into the emptiness of
the average upper bourgeoisie and
what he takes for his mental food.
But once a year is about enough.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
WAGE CUT FOR
TIN CO, SLAVES
All Unorganized; Get
ITO Percent Slash
I'm n Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
ELWOOD, Ind. (By MaiD.-The
wages of the workers of the plant
of the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Co. here have had their wages
cut from to 10 per cent.
The American Sheet and Tin
Plate Co. is branch of the United
States Steel Corporation. There are
several thousand slaves in the plant
here and all are unorganized.
The reason given by the bosses
for the wage cut was that freight
charges have been increased by the
railroad companies.
The workers here, being morgan
lied, they are not able to fight the
steel trust, without any militant to
lead them against this powerful
company. If these workers were or
ganized they would be able to take
steps to fight the wage cut. The
A. F. of L. claims to have a tin
workers union, and a metal trades
division or some such name. But the
A. F. of L. officials avoid this town
Ike the plague. Maybe there is a
financial reason, if you get what ]
mean.
The steel trust has stool-pigeons
here, and the police and officials of
the town are at the call of the COM
pany. Any one heard mentioning
"union" in the shops Of the Amer
lean Sheet and Tin Plate Co. is
fired.
Hoping for fighting Steel, Sheet
Metal and Tin Plate Workers Union
led by the Communist Party.
CAM.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18

There are other social groups
! (viz. Galician Center, Vasco, etc.
that also bid for power and influ,
ence among the Latin-American mas
ses of this country, but they have
not yet developed from their region
al stage of development.
In order to outbid their formid.
able Asturian opponent, the U. B. E
and c. H. A. block, have just recent
ly addressed personal communica.
ton to all Spanish fraternal orders
in and outside the city, calling upon
them to attend a meeting just re-
Gently held at the House of Spain
for the purpose, SO they said, of
discussing ways and means of build
ing or buying the much needed Span
ish hospital-emphasizing the fact
of course, that the preliminary step
in the direction of building same
was for all concerned to amalga-
mate (under their banner, of course)
into an all powerful social grouping
1t was plain enough. The big
fish wanted only to eat up the small
ones and the only thing in the world
they had to do to "amalgamate" was
to simply turn over their respective
treasures and register their men,
bers with the block.
All for one and one for ali, but
the lucrative jobs were still to be
held by the block officials.
The meeting was called forsWed-
nesday, Februaryo-27, and was at
tended by approximately SO dele
gates representing about a dozen or
more fraternal societies from the city
and the suburban counties.
But the worse was yet to come.
They neglected, as was to be ex-
pected, to send an invitation to the
real and genuine representative of
the Spanish working class, the Span
ish Workers Center, the year old
and strong organizer of the Latin
American workers here in New York.
AS the meeting claimed to pertain
to the welfare of the Spanish speak
ing population of New York, the
Spanish Workers Center, the undis.
puted champion of all Negro and
white Spanish workers, elected at
their last meeting a delegation COM
posed of four workers and instructed
them to attend the conference.
On Wednesday evening after all
delegates with proper credentials
had been admitted to the hall where
the meeting was about to be held.
a general CONSERVATION ran through
the gilded assembly room as the
chairman of the meeting, Francisco
Mayans, (also president of the
block) was told that delegation
from the Spanish Workers Center
had uninvitedly and unexpectedly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
oCHRAFT JOINTS
Are SLAVE PENS
WorkersGet Statehood;
Fired for Accidents

(By a Worker Correspondent
The Schraft's Company operates
tea rooms throughout the United
States. In New York City they
have over twenty stores and en-
ploy more than 5000 workers. /
have worked in Schraft's for five
years. The workers are not organ
lied. They are supposed to work
eight hours a day, but they are
forced to work much longer. They
should have half an hour for break
fast and a half hour for lunch, but
they get only fifteen to twenty
minutes because they have 20 ere
lieve" some one. During lunch the
workers have to walk several flights
and wait in line with a tray for
their food, which is usually stale.
They are supposed to get s1.40
worth of food for the day, but they
do not get that much. A small bali
of potato, coffee or soup, and a stale
piece of cake is the portion for a
meal.
Treated Like Slaves.
The supervisors treat the workers
like slaves and fire them withou.
reason. One of the girls was work
ing on sandwiches and was fired be-
cause she put little more ham than
was usual on a workers sandwich.
In another instance, a woman was
working on dish machine and got
burned. She was home several
weeks but could not afford to stay
home any longer. Upon returning
to her work few days later, she
met with another accident. This
time somebody dropped a tray on
her sore foot, and it became badly
bruised. Again she had to stay
home. When she returned to work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
TAKERS ISLANDER
THE Progressive
RPEN'TER union
Kemf, Hutchinson Tool,
Lies in Magazine

by a Worker Correspondent
In an article. Communism" in
the Monthly Carpenter" organ of
the Hutchinson gang, Frank Kemf, a
recording secretary of Local Union
298, ISLANDERS the progressives and
members who were expelled from
the union by the reactionaries.
Kemf holds one or two jobs in the
District Council besides some other
incidental offices.
He was present at the national
convention of the Carpenters Union
at Lakeland, Florida. with MANY
more associates Of the Hutchinson
machine, where they had a good
time, and there got their orders from
the higher ups of the Hutchinson
dynasty.
Against Members.
This vassal, kemf, knows the con-
ditions in the trade. Kemf and COM
pany would not retain their Jobs
one hour If the membership were
ever allowed to have free expression
at the locals and elsewhere. Natuz-
ally the active members had to IL
driven out of the organization so
they could not show the rottenness
of the officials and the deplorable
conditions in the trade.
The officials are afraid to face
the truth and admit the facts pointed
out to them. But the progressives
will go on with the slogan "An or
ganization for all the workers of
the carpenter trade, shorter week
day and free political action"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
Spanish Fascists Fail to Keep
Worers from Exposing Them
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
Ever since the building up of the
Spanish Workers Center by the mill
liant Spanish workers of New York,
the Spanish fraternal and benefit
societies are having a pretty tough
time making both ends of the rope
meet.
Members are leaving them in dis
gust. And who blames them? Have
not the capitalist-minded senores
promised them for years a panacea
in the form of a hospital or san
atorium in the country, and have
any of them ever kept their prom
Use?
Latin-American workers of New
York that for years were fooled can
no longer IL led to believe that these
organizations will ever make good
their promise. This is one of the
main reasons why the high-salaried
officials of the near-bankrupt social
and benefit groups are raising the
cry for united fronts" when not
actually wanting amalgamation.
Wants To AmaIgamate.
The membership within these fra
ternal orders do want amalgamation,
because they realize that their inter
ests can be best safeguarded and
defended thru more solid unification.
But the reasons that motivate the
high-hatted governing boards of
those organizations to amalgamate
are altogether different and can best
be ascertained by the fact that the
recently merged societies, the Union
Benefica Espanola, Spanish Bene-
fit Society and the Centre Hispano
Americana, (Spanish-American Fra
ternal Society were beth heavily in
debt before becoming a unified
block.
The Centre Hispano Americana
that in the yesteryears harbored in
it's bosom the Cream of the Spanish
aristocracy" and later became a
mass organization, Boosting of a
membership of $500 in 1926, has
now become pauper organization.
lucky to hold onto a membership of
500. The Union Benefica Espancla
the one time pride of the little Span
ish colony at Fourteenth St., barely
records in it's books a dues-paying
membership Of 800.
Fascist Agents.
Both of the social groups above
are largely influenced, if not actu-
ally controlled, by the fascist agents
of Primo de Rivera in America. Both
of them discriminate against Negro
workers. These two groups, now
combined into one, are making des-
perate and frantic efforts to regain
their lost position, by circulating the
same bunk that for years made them
famous, namely, the age-long slo-
gan, the building CT a hospital for
their members.
On the other hand, we have the
Centre Asturiano, the New York
branch Of the Centre Asturiano de
la Havana, that also bids for the
hegemony of the Spanish speaking
people. This center is backed by
Cuban and Spanish capitalists and
two American banks at Havana. Our
membership, says the president Of
the Asturian, is now increasing to
enormous proportions, due to the
fact, says he, chat in cur program
we make for the building Of sana-
forum in Long Island
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
$40 MORE PER PHONE.

1t has been calculated that if the
advanced phone rate allowed by
Special Master Isaac R. Oeland to
the New York Telephone Co. goes
thru the courts, it will mean $40
raise in rates for each phone sub
scriber. 1t will give the company
$25, 379,566 more profits each year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18

The power of the bourgeoisie rests
not alone upon International capital,
upon it's strong international connec-
lions. but also upon the force Of
habit. on the force of small industry.
Of which. unfortunately, there II
plenty left and which daily. hourly.
gives birth to capitalism and bour-
geoisie, spontaneously and on n large
scalc.--v. j. Lenin cleft" Commu-
nism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
airy education
the remaining five were without

ceded in giving oneo the six
So writes farmer lent from of
Revouh is OF manyf
My had receives lemenar
finish his studies and he anomht My second while being the Red
high school,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18

Imperialism IA mt the same time
the most prostitute md the ultimate
fora Of the state power which has
cent r,iddIe-cInss society Ind COM
r,rnrcd to elaborate ms n mems of
ITS own emancipation from feudnl-
fSr-. md which full-grown bourgeois
society had finally transformed into
means for the enslavenient Of labor
" cnpftal.--Mnrx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18

they refused to take her back.
The reason suc,i conditions exist
is because the workers in Schraft's
are not organized.
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Letters from Soviet Peasant, Worker
CORRESPONDENTS to be TN the Daily Soon

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
BOND LIST F|RMER
AFTER BIG BREAK
Market Leaders Recover
Losses in Early Afternoon
as Buying Appears.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, october 4.-Many bonds
today made new low prices for the year
and others equaled this years low.
Although the high-grade rails and
utilities stood strong against the down.
ward tendency of the market, the de-
clineS were general in the rest of the
list. With the rally of the stock market
around midday, bond prices generally
came back.
The bear raid on the stock market
forced the selling of many bonds as
spectators sought money with which to
stem the flood of liquidation in stocks.
AS q result the convertible issues be-
fore midday all touched new lows for
the past two weeks, and some of them
new lows for the month. American
Telephone 412S, the most active, fiuc-
tuated rapidly, down 20 points from
last weeks high price at one time. In
ternational Telephone opened down 3
points. Both recovered the losses and
made gains as the stock market
strengthened.
Other convertibles to hit low prices
were Allegheny SIS, of both the 1914
and 1949 varieties: Atchison 4l2s, Amer
lean I. G.. Chemical 5l2s and Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron IS.
In the prime carrier issues and first
class utilities prices were generally
steady. An exception was General
Public Service 5l2s, down III points
to a new low.
In the rest of the list there were
many new low prices. Cuban Cane
Sugar IS were down Il. points. and at
a new low for the year. Chile Copper
SIS hit their bottom price for 1929. So
did Richfield Oil of California 6s.
Dodge Bros. 6s were sluggish, still hover
ing around the low price of the year.
Tennessee Copper is of the B series
were down points and at new low.
Foreign loans were very weak. Rio de
Janeiro els were at new low, and so
we're Argentine IS. German Central
Bank IS October, 1860 were traded
in at the years low price. Kreuger e.
Toll SIS and Lautaro Nitrate IS with
stood the selling fairly well.
United States Government issues were
unchanged in light trading.