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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
BOSS BILLS FOR
STR|KEbREA kINC
Mass Protest Meet in
Chicago Tonight

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 5 (By MaiD
Carrying out the demands of the
Manufacturers Association and
other industrial interests here, the
Illinois State Legislature today re-
jected the law providing for the
eight hour day for women in in
dustry. At the same time it carried
the new bill authorizing the organi-
cation of State Police, under which
strikebreaking and all forms OF
anti-working class repression are
rendered easier.
Both bills will be protested at q
mass meeting called by the Com
munist Party at the Northwestern
Hall, North and Western Ave. to-
night. William F. Kruse, district Or
ganizer of the Party, and Sam Ham,
mersmark will analyze both laws as
instruments of the manufacturers
organizations used in their fight for
wage cuts and speedup under the
plea of "simplification of production
in industry"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
FILM GUILD CINEMA TO PRE-.
SENT EMIL JANNINGS
REPERTOIRE

Commencing this Saturday, the
Film Guild Cinema will present an
Emil jennings repertoire season for
period of three weeks to be de-
voted to wide selection of his best
European and American films.
The schedule for the first week
is: Saturday and Sunday, June s
and 9, "The Way of All Flesh;
Monday and Tuesday, June 10 and
II, Faust" with Jannings as Me-
phisto and Camilla Horn as Mar
guerita, directed by T. w. Marnau;
Wednesday and Thursday, June II
and 10, passion" with Jannirgs as
Louis XIV and Pola Negri as Ma
dame DuBarry, directed by Lubitsch,
and Friday, June ID, "Street of
Sin," directed by Maurice Stiller.
The second week, commencing
Saturday, June Is, will start with
"The Last Laugh"
A feature of the Emil Jannings
season will be an essay contest in
two prizes of S25, which will be Of
fered for the best 200-word essays
on (1) Has Emil Jannings Created
Better Work in Europe or America d?
(2) Which of Emil Jannings' Char
acterizations is His Best-and
Why?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
1odv West Virginia Coal Miners Strike Against Wage Cut Says Work
Laemmle's broadway Well
Acted But Is MOnOtOnOuS

HARL LAEMMLE at last presents
"the one and only Broadway !"
in Universal movietone form at the
Globe Theatre, The "speaky" was
adapted with full dialogue from the
Jed Harris stage success by Philip
Dunnipg and George Abbott. 1t is
a Paul Fejos production, embellished
by special songs by Con Conrad,
Archie Gottler and Sidney Mitchell,
all in extremely reminiscent vein.
The cast boasts of two members
of the original play cast, Thomas E.
Jackson, as the detective, Dan Nc
Corn, and Paul Forecast, as Mel;
Verdis, the night club manager.
The plot follows that of the stage
success closely, except that the OPP
portunity for excessive padding has
not been avoided, with the result
that much of the crispness Of the
play has been lost in cumbersome
back-stage details, which, however,
the hinterlands will undoubtedly rel
ish.
broadway" is announced as a
million dollar production. Possibly
it is, considering the big price that
must have been paid for the picture
rights, but, on the other hand, sell
dom have we seen a feature picture
that offered less variety Of shots
with many repetitions that toward
the end cause the performance to
lag in pace.
At this date it is not necessary
to discuss the plot of Broadway"
which may be considered the top of
the school of night club plays and
pictures that have deluged the mar
ket ever since Jed Harris registered
his success with the play.
The leads are all portrayed well,
Evelyn Brent and Merna Kennedy
standing out as the two principal
women and Thomas E. Jackson as
the detective dominating many of
the scenes in which he appears.
Glenn Tryon, as the song and dance
man, does not equal Lee Tracy in
the stage success.
On the strength of its name and
reputation, broadway" should
achieve a passing success, but we
predict that the real earning power
of the picture will be found in the
provinces, not in New York or the
other big cities that saw the play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
CUTS And more
CUTS FOR WOMEN
IN FISHER BODY
Accidents Are Result
of Speedup
by Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Mail).-
The conditions of the women in the
Cleveland Fisher Body plant are
getting worse every day. Constant
wage cuts, lay-offs and speedups.
A couple of months ago the rate
was cut on every operation, thereby
making it necessary for the womer
to produce more in order to make
the former wage. Right now they've
got time study man on the job
again, which means that the women
will get wage cut again. They
know that as long as the women are
unorganized they can enslave them
to the extreme.
How long are you women going
to stand this? Unless you get Or
ganized and tell the bosses what you
think of their efficiency" methods
there's no telling what they'll do.
10
A few days ago polisher's piece
rate was cut and in order to make
as much as before he was forced to
speed up his production. In his
speed he was less cautious and
piece of material was caught in the
polishing machine, whirled around,
struck him and broke his arm. Next
morning another worker was putin
his place, and the accident was re-
peated. nj
The bosses are not interested in
the safety of the workers, only from
the standpoint of production, for
more production means more profits.
The only way the workers can
stop this murderous wage cutting,
speed-up and these accidents is thru
organization.
CLEVELAND AUTO SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
lingo Tells Business
Men of Aviation Plans
for Imperialist War

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, June e.
That air fleets will be the country's
"first line of defense in the next
war" was the declaration of Lieu
tenant Colonel Harold E. Hartney,
commander of the First American
Pursuit Squadron in the World War,
speaking before a district meeting
of the Exchange clubs here recently.
The Exchange clubs are composed of
local business men and Col. Hartney
talked frankly about plans for the
next imperialist slaughter.
Transportation is the keynote of
big business, and aviation is the
answer to swift and sure transpor-
tation," the Colonel said. He also
praised members of the Exchange
for their "airmindedness" and for
their work toward the advancement
of aviation throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Office Workers Union
Continue Drive; Will
Hold Dance Wednesday

The Office Workers Union is con-
tinuing its intensive organization
campaign through the summer by
holding open-air meetings on Tues
days at 26th St. and Madison Ave.
and Thursdays at 33rd st. and Park
Ave. AS result Of these meetings
and the mass meeting held few
weeks ago, office workers are
eagerly joining the union and becom-
ing active in carrying on its work.
Roof Garden Dance.
On the roof of the spacious Heck
scher Foundation, at Fifth Ave. and
104th St., overlooking Central Park,
the Office Workers Union will hold
a roof garden dance Wednesday,
June IL, at $3.50 p. m.
All office workers are invited to
come. The union is making all ar
rangerents for an enjoyable eve
ring. A generous supply of refresh
,nents will be provided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
BLINDFOLD WAY OF PAY
Fisher Body Cut Wages 4O9o IN Year

envelope show that some workers
working full time on the same work
average So to SO day more than
others. What's the matter, are they
dumb in the payroll office or is the
company trying to build up its spy
system in the shop thru bribing some
workers at the expense of others?
We think it is mostly the last, be-
cause besides general confusion and
no statement it appears that some
workers on the same work SYSTEM
atically get more than others every
pay day.
Wages have been cut 30-40 per
cent since. last year. When we're
properly organized thru our shop
committee we will put stop to this.
FISHER SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
PLAN BIG drive
TO FREE CANTER
Poyntz, Reeve Confer
in Boston Monday

Especial to the Daily Worker
BOSTON, June Outlet Stuart
Poyntz, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, and Karl
Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender,
monthly organ of the /. L. D., will
arrive here on Monday to confer
with district leaders Of the I. L. d.
on the nationwide campaign for the
release of Harry J. Canter, active
local militant.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, secretary of
the International Labor Defense and
Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor De-
fender, official organ of the I. L. D.,
will be in Boston on Monday to con-
fer with district leaders of the l. l..
D. with regard to the nationwide
campaign which has been instituted
by the I. L. D. for the release of
Harry Canter. Canter is now serv-
ing a term of one year imprison-
ment in Deer Island because he car
ried placard in Communist Party
election campaign demonstration
last fall, bearing the words Fuller
Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti."
Canter declared to the court and in
statements made from prison that
he takes nothing back, and that he
considered Fuller the murderer of
Sacco and Vanzetti, as the instru-
ment of Massachusetts, justice and
of the, capitalist class which burned
them to death because they repre-
sented the working class.
The I. L. D. will soon issue
pamphlet on the Canter case. A
campaign will DO carried on which
will include nationwide Sacco- Van
zetti-C anter protest demonstrations
in August, on the third anniversary
of the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
LEWIS MACHINE
COAL MACNATES
FRAME Up Miner
DuncanWood Worker
Is Imprisoned
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
BELLAIRE, Ohio, (By MaiD.-
The Lewis machine has again come
forth with betrayal. In this case
it happened to be one of the many
frame-up for which the bosses and
the capitalist courts are infamous.
In the little mining camp of Dun
canwood, where the Sommers mine
of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Co. is located, Teddy Jackoski took
an active part in the mine strike
and was out on the picket line every
day. This the bosses and their tools,
the state marshals (whom Cover
nor Donahey said were in the strike
areas to feed the children of the
strikers but who carried ass and
blackjacks in order to do this) took
note of and they were anxious to
get rid of him at any cost.
Frame-Up.
Their chance finally came when
one morning little trouble arose
between the mine superintendent and
the pickets, and when the state mar
shals stepped in and stopped it, it
was found that somebody had crown
ed the super with a brick and of
course he said it was Teddy and the
governors nurse maids proceeded
to carry out their bosses orders and
arrested Teddy on the charge of as
sault with attempt to kill.
At a trial before justice of the
peace he was bound over to the
grand jury under bond of $4,000
which was furnished by his friends
who were fortunate enough to own
their own homes.
Takers Betray.
The United Mine Workers officials
in Ohio promised Teddy and the
strikers that they would furnish law
yers for Teddy and carry the case
to the highest courts of the country
if necessary, but what happened
When the case came up to trial
Teddy and his friends found that
there was no lawyer there to defend
him, and when his fellow strikers
went to the U. M. w. A. lawyer he
told them that if they would raise
$1,000 he would defend him but that
the U. M. w. A. had nothing to do
with the case. The result was that
Teddy was sent to Jail for five to
Is years.
/. L. ID. to Rescue.
The Lewis machine, bosses and
the courts were in for surprise,
for the National Mine Workers
Union told the International Labor
Defense about the case and the case
was appealed and Teddy will be
out on bond soon.
The miners of Duncanwood and
the entire Eastern Ohio as well are
answering the frame-up and guard.
ing against further betrayal by the
Lewis-Hall machine, by joining the
National Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
"THE CONSTANT NYMPH' TO
HAVE SPECIAL SHOWING
TONIGHT

Michael Balloon, managing direc-
tor of Gainsborough Pictures, pro-
ducers of the film version Of Mar
garet Kennedy's "The Constant
Nymph," has Just arrived here to
attend the American premiere of the
picture this Friday evening at the
Little Carnegie Playhouse.
The London Film Weekly's GER
tificate for "The Constant Nymph"
the best British film Of 1928
was awarded to "The Constant
Nymph."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
WILL HONOR IMPERIALIST.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, June g.
Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary
of state and ambassador to Great
Britain, will receive the degree OF
doctor of laws at st. Lawrence Uni
versity June II. While here Secre-
tary Kellogg will visit his birth
place, Carrys Mills in st. Lawrence
county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
(By Worker Correspondent
1,r rvFrAND Ohm fRy Mall

(By q Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By MaiD.
On pay day the Fisher Body plant
becomes Curiosity Shop" The
method of paying here is known as
the "Blindfolding system"
The workers are "blindfolded"
and are expected to take what they
get and ask no questions. Aren't
we entitled to a statement showing
how our pay is figured?
The workers on the bailer are do
ing some Of the heaviest work in
the shop, working ~ hours day.
They work piece work as a gang
and the total amount earned is sup
posed to be divided equally. But
some of the "curiosities" Of the pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

Imperialism is, at the same time
the most prostitute and the ultim-
ate form of the State power which
nascent middle-ciass society had
commenced to elaborate as n means
of its own emancipation from feud-
aIism, and which full-grOwn bour-
geOis society had finally trans
formed into means for the en-
slavement of labor by capital. -
Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
FIGHT PRIESTLY
CO., NOTORIOUS
MURDER PLANT
Demand Wage Cut Be
Rescinded
(By a Worker Correspondent

MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va, (By
NaiD the exception of the
Panama Mine, all the other three
mines located in Moundsville, which
is twelve miles south of Wheeling,
walked out spontaneously and in a
body in a protest strike as a result
of a wage cut put over by those
robbers, the mine operators. They
also struck against the other miser-
able conditions in the Moundsville
mines.
Demand Cut Be Rescinded.
Immediately a strike committee
of class-conscious and militant min
ers was formed, and proceeded to
Wheeling, where are located the dis
trict headquarters of the notorious
labor-hating Priestley interests of
Cleveland, mine owners, the same
murderous concern which some time
ago buried alive As miners in Par
nassus, Pa, on account of the COM
pany's criminal neglect in failing to
maintain the proper safety precau-
tions.
The committee came to Wheeling
to demand of the head superinten-
dent that the wage cut be with
llrawn, but it was like trying to per-
suade tiger not to suck more blood
of its victim.
Threaten More Cuts.
This beast of the Priestly Co. told
US that not only must we accept the
wage cut but also prepare for an
other wage cut in the very near fu-
ture. He told the miners to make it
snappy" because he couldn't be an
noyed with questions Of this nature,
and ordered the men out of his office
before he had them thrown out.
In a conversation about our con-
stitutional rights (non-existant, of
course), to organize and strike, this
tyrant said the constitution is moth
ing but scrap of paper as far as
the company's profits are concerned.
After this complete failure we de-
cided to go to the manager of the
company stores to demand that he
reduce the prices of groceries, meats,
and tools. Needless to say they
charge double the price of every
item they sell, and of course we
met with the same fate there again.
This paid servant of the bosses alb
solutely refused to consider our de-
mands.
Hold Mass Meet.
The only thing left to do, which
should have been done in the begin
ming, but the workers have to learn
from experience, was to hold great
mass meeting in which Bob Sieber
and Andy Plechaty of the National
Miners Union of Ohio district spoke
urging the miners to organize a To-
cal of the N. NJ. U. and fight the
daylight bandits and wholesale muir
derers who park on the miners necks
not in an individual and unsystem-
attic manner but in an organized
struggle.
IA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

Reap the benefits of the May
Day demonstrations by getting
into the Communist Party work
ers who participated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

Our own age. the bourgeois age.
is distinguished by this-that ii
has simpIified class antagonisms.
More and more, society is splitting
up into two great hostile camps,
into two great and directly contra
posed classes, bourgeoisie and pro-
Ietariat.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

The working class cannot simply
lay hold Of the ready made State
machinery, and WELD II for its own
purpose. This new Commune paris
Commune). breaks the modern
State pOwer.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

WANTED bookkeeper experienced
in camp office work for
Camp Kinderland. Write Immediately
to COmrade M. Spector. 500 9Th Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
A Soviet Workers Vacation
The Diary of q Trip to the Caucasus
Continued

(This is the second installment
of vivid account by Russian
worker in one of the government
offices in Moscow of a vacation he
took last year in the Caucasus.
Horse stealing seems to have been
q sport as well as a necessity. The
main causes for it were-women
This is how she explained it to me.
The Osetenians are very vigorous
and active, but there was no outlet
fer their energy. No sports except
horse stealing, no libraries, no the
aires, etc. The only important thing
in the town was dance. There
every young man could show his
beautiful body. They are very
graceful in those most attractive
robes. But for that a beautiful ma
.tlonal costume was necessary, and
"a silver Caucasian belt. There was
also a need for a beautiful black
horse with silver harness. If one
was poor, he could not afford all
these things. So he used to steal.
The Soviets have declared this a
great crime, and, funny enough,
they get the support of the very
same girls who would not make
friends with horse stealers. Of
course a great struggle ensued be-
tween the thieves and the supporters
of this ancient tradition and the
Soviets. Of course the Soviets won.
My neighbor made a very charac-
teristic remark here. She said:
"What pity such splendid ener-
getic young group of people had to
be destroyed. Surely no coward or
weakling would risk horse steal
ing" Suppose she would have
liked to have them as supporters of
the Soviet.
Tomorrow at 4 a. m. we have to
get up for breakfast and start off
right into the mountain range. We
hope to make as kilometers tomor-
row and reach the Tsey glacier. 1t
will be hard fight, so l must have
good sleep. Therefore, good
night!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
bELL.AS-HESS CO,
.SPEEDUP GROWS
GREATER DAILY
System of Rotation for
Slaves
By a Worker Correspondent.

In our plant, the Bellas-Hess Co.,
we have an almost perfect efficiency
speed-up system. There is system
of rotation, where an article passes
from hand to hand, department to
department, floor to floor, continu-
ously without a stop. Articles are
counted, assorted, packed, shipped
and credited hourly. If there is a
delay or slackening it is Immediately
known in every section. The system
is one of automatic speed.
Demerit System.
The section head knows from rec
ords how much has been produced
every hour, and the character of
the work produced. Every time
there is an error those guilty must
sign error slips for each error. These
slips are dement's against the work
ers and withhold their increases.
Workers are continually harrassed
by those error slips in busy times.
1t is must shameful automatic
robotlike checkup. The speed at
which we work is most terrible. At
the end of the day we are completely
worn out.
This speedup is a part of the gen
eral speedup system that is now be-
ing used by the bosses everywhere.
1t is against this monstrous speedup,
against this naturalization process
which puts the workers completely
under the bosses heel, it is against
this oppression that the Trade Union
Educational League is calling the
Trade Union Unity Convention for
Aug. 81 in Cleveland, in order to
build a militant Trade Union Cen
ter to organize the unorganized
workers. To fight against the speed
up and against imperialist war.
by Worker Correspondent
The bosses want to direct our at
tention away from the very low
wages in our plant, Bellas- Hess, by
making US believe that they are do
ing wonderful thugs for us. They
boast of the lunch room we have
and of the low cost Of the food. The
cost of the food is now lower than
in any other restaurant with cheap
food. We get only three-quarters of
an hour for lunch. We must stand
in line for at least Is minutes to get
food, because of lack of help at the
counter. We have just enough time
to eat and rush back to work.
Try to Fool Slaves.
The dancing permitted during the
lunch period is joke, because we
have no time to dance (and
strength) after a half days work.
So that the dancing and rest room
are just make believe benefits, to
fool us workers into thinking that
the bosses are doing something for
US. 1t is impossible to wash, eat and
dress in three-quarters of an hour.
Every worker is entitled to be able
to rest at least Is minutes during
the lunch hour. We must get to-
gether, organize our shop commit
tees then demand from the bosses
better conditions of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Mizouri, Aug. s

MlZourl, Aug. 3.
We have just completed our first
really long walk of 80 versts or
more and have reached a nice little
place called Mizouri (sounds very
much like America). Here we are
supposed to have dinner and rest
till the next morning, but there is
a suggestion that we should proceed
to the next halt, as we are one day
late owing to the Kukullka being
out of order. The girls seem to
support that suggestion, much to
my surprise, but ask for a car to
follow them, in case it becomes too
difficult. The next stop is at the
Sanatorium on the Mountain Tsey,
about 20-22 versts.
After dinner. Decided that we
move further. Starting in an hour.
Again We'll be walking along the
River Ardon. Ardon means MAD
River" l am not quite convinced
that it is not our fault that it is
so mad. It's madness consists in
its furious swiftness. The river
rushes so rapidly, the cataracts are
so powerful and high that the noise
is deafening. I imagine that there
are about million tons of water
passing day within a distance of
about two yards. If that natural
free power could be harnessed, Ar
don could supply an enormous guam
tity of electricity. have seen lit
tie private flour mills and little
water power stations that are get
ting power almost without any ma
chinery and expense. Of course a
capital power station would require
great deal of money.
| attempted to swim in the Ardon
and was nearly carried away by the
stream, although 1 held on to a
stone. Still I had several good dips
| in the icy Unjust of the water comes
down from the glacier), sulphury
water. I imagine there are millions
of tons of sulphur all around.
Some of the hills-one of them
called "Black Hill"-remiRds me of
enormous, black, ancient (Indian-
Ilike) palaces. Unfortunately I had
no camera to photograph them
Mine is completely out of order, and
one of our group who had one die
not find them sufficiently interest.
ing to waste" precious film.
Natasha says I must finish writ
ing and have some food before We
start. / suppose I'll have to obey
her orders. Will finish when W.
get to Tsey Sanatarium.
Tsey Sanitarium, Aug. Q.
That was a difficult walk. thinl