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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13
Another victim of
City Neglect in X-Ray
Blast in Ohio Hospital

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 12.-
The "yellow death" that swept thru
Cleveland clinic 27 days ago taking
the lives of patients, nurses and doc
tors, is still active. The blast was
caused by the neglect of the hospital
officials and failure by city officials
to inspect the X-ray storage room.
Its latest victim is DR.. Jack Swat
ford, member of the clinic X-ray
staff, who died in the clinic hospital
yesterday.
Under treatment until week ago
he was released, apparently well on
the way to recovery. Later he suf-
fered a relapse and was taken back
to the hospital.
Five other patients are in Clinic
Hospital under treatment. The con-
dition of all is reported serious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13
CREED OF BOSSES
CAUSE OF STRIKE
OF CIGAR SLAVES
Wages Of the General
Cigar Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., (By
MaiD The plant of the General
Cigar Company here has been tied
up 100 per cent by us, and all the
men are in the strikers ranks Two
truckloads of strikers visited the
Perth Amboy, Carteret, and South
River plants of the General Cigar
Co. to spread the strike.
Strike 100 Per Cent Effective.
The strike at the General Cigar
Co. became 100 per cent effective
when the men who had remained in
till June joined the strikers. All
the girls and women workers num-
bering about 800 came out and the
men numbering 200 also. The strik-
ers are standing firm.
Bosses Greed Caused Strike.
The cause of the walkout was the
bosses desire for more profits by
lengthening the hours of work. Some
time before Christmas of last year
the bosses cut the wages of the
handmakers (cigar makers) from IS
to 66 IL cents per hundred. At the
time of this wage cut given to the
handmakers the bosses promised to
rescind the wage cut "when business
picks up"
Bosses Increase Hours.
The strike broke out on Friday
two weeks ago when the boss at
tempted to make the machine max
ers work a half hour longer by
starting the juice Z a. m. instead
of 7:15 M, the regular starting
time, and by taking fifteen minutes
off the lunch hour, which up to now
was three-quarters of an hour. All
Of he machine workers walked out
that Friday afternoon demanding
that the boss reduce the work-day
from nine and a half to nine hours
a day instead of increasing it half
an hour as he wished to.
Boss Sarcastic"
Since the wage cut of the hand
makers wages given before Christ
mas a committee representing the
handmakers demanded of the boss
three times to rescind the wage cut
since the company is very busy now.
Monday morning when this commit
tee demanded the increase the man
ager of the plant, Strauss, answered
the workers that, eff you can't live
on your wages don't eat chicken
every day, eat potatoes, beans and
rice. Give your children dry bread,
the baker sells plenty of it. Don't
wear silk stockings, don't buy silk
umbrellas, and don't buy all those
automobiles"
Slave Wages Paid.
Monday morning the handmakers
joined the strike too, demanding
the wage cut of Is cents per 1000
cigars packed, made previously, be
rescinded.
The machine workers now get at
the most, with the bonus, 10 a week.
Many receive S13 and S14 a week.
The handmakers get 66 IL cents per
100 cigars and average $50 a week.
Bunch makers get 80 cents per 1000
punches and average SIS to $1S a
week. Packers get 25 cents per
1000 machine made cigars packed
and 30 cents per 1000 hand made
cigars packed. They average S14-
S15 a week. The strippers for a
PIP hour day get So to IS a week.
Some make as low as 25 cents day
sometimes.
GEN. CIGAR SLAVE.
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manded by the workers in order to
get them to produce lumber at top
speed.
The Sell-Out.
In the days following the war the
inevitable betrayal occurred. The
Four Ell advocated overtime, after
which the eight-hour day became a
dead letter, and wage cuts with in
creased production per worker by
speed-up and efficiency methods.
Today merely the framework of the
Four Ell organization exists, always
potential danger to the lumber
workers. The Four FL has main
tanned a so-called membership by
means of intimidation.
In the Four Ell plants the employ
ers deduct automatically the dues
of Is cents each month from the
wages of the workers. The few sup
porters, workers in the most skilled
and key positiono or management
men attend meetings; the mass of
workers do not know that the Four
Ell functions and are indifferent or
definitely hostile to it. Four Ell
publications have abandoned all pre-
tense of interest in the workers, and
devote their attention to the prob
lens of the industry from the point
of view of the best interests of the
bosses.
A Sham Champion.
The slogan of the five-day week
offers the Four Ell the opportunity
to come to life again as the deceit
full and sham champion of the work
ers' interests. Already such a re-
formist sheet as the Tacoma Labor
Advocate, organ of the Tacoma Cen
trail Labor Council, Tacoma, Wash
ington halls the announcement as
follows:
Regardless of the purpose back
of the 5-day week plan in the lum-
Der industry, it has one good fea-
ture which commends itself to the
workers generally and that is that
the feasibility of the 5-day week is
conceded by the employers them
selves and no matter what stand
the Four Els may take in the mat
ter, with the vogue of the 5-day
week there must come wage ad-
Justment because the minimum now
paid will demand it."
Thus the workers are misled into
believing that the scheme holds
some benefits for them and the il
fusion which the Four Ell is spread
ing is perpetuated by the American
Federation of Labor officialdom.
Aim to Halt Unionism.
The attempt to revive the -Four
Ell is largely due to the desire on
the part of the lumber interests to
prevent union organization, senti-
ment for which is rapidly growing
among the lumber workers in the
northwest and agitation for which
is being stimulated by the T. U.
E. L. They also seek to prepare
the ground for the regimenting,
suppression and intimidation of the
lumber workers in preparation for
the coming war when lumber will
again play an important role. The
class-conscious militant workers in
the industry who repudiate the Four
ii will recognize the snare in the
new slogan. The masses of lumber
workers must resist the misleading
and dangerous propaganda which
the Four Ell will use to fight union
organization and to serve as a tool
for the lumber bosses to intensity
the exploitation of the workers in
the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13
WOMAN CIGAR
SLAVES Brave
Show Boss What They
Think of Him
By q Worker Correspondent)

By q Worker Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., (By
Mail) when the workers of the
hand room in the General Cigar Co.
plant in New Brunswick were going
on strike for an increase in wages
and for shorter hours, Rothfuss, the
head mechanic who goes to all the
General Cigar Company factories,
tried to stop US from going out.
He started to curse at us and
everything. The girls and women
workers who had lunches and
oranges showed him what they
thought of him cursing at them by
throwing their lunches and oranges
at him.
When the work was slow for three
months we worked until 3 p. M,
making only $40 and SIP week.
Now that the company has a lot of
orders they don't want to keep their
promise of taking the 71-2 cents
wage cut back, which they handed
us before last Christmas.
Girls, there is only one way to
win this strike for better conditions,
wages and hours, and that is for all
the General Cigar workers to stick
together.
GIRL STRIKER.
Build Up the United Front of
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(Bu q Woke CORRESPONDENCE

by a Worker Correspondent
The elevator operators of the
factory building of 270 West 3Sth
St, New York City have received
an order imposing the Jim Crow
law upon the Negro workers who
work in this building.
While the Negro workers are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13
CONDITIONS
lower our standard of living.
IN THE BUILDING

EDITORS NOTE.-Workers in
this builling, and all workers in
other factory buildings are urged
to write in of any cases of race
discrimination such as the above.
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SCOT My Orders. I"

But the operator insisted Il
don't give a damn, I got orders
not to take up any colOred people
and l don't want to lose my job on
account of you"
This is the Jim Crowism that
prevails even in the so-called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13

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, 1929-06-13

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
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1t rs the ultfmnte MIN of this
work ("Cnpitnl") to reveal the
economic law Of motion of modern
sOcictyy-Marx.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28

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20 Retayation.
81 HISTORICAL period.
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IS Feigrs
81 Pson6ln.
90 Printers measures.
80 EKca.ated underground.
40 ItaliaR feminine name.
- MourFain nymphs.
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90 Measured.
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% Positxe poles.
DOWN.
1Tstb,sAry of the Brahmaputra
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BEDTIME STORIES By y. 1 BTReEsSl

himself unseen, for he was silent
Sammy has way Of managing to keep
out of sight. He is very clever at It,
despite his bright blue coat.
The hunter and his dog turned away
and went off through the Green Forest
Flip followed a little way, but soon
turned back. Sammy Jay, however, kept
always in sight. Sammy knew what that
terrible gun meant. He knew that If 1t
should be pointed at him he might lose
his life. So he kept his tongue still.
but he used his eyes. Presently he saw
that the hunter was going straight
toward q certain place where Jumper
the Hare was in the habit of spending
much time. If that hunter should see
Jumper and get a shot at him the
Jumper. Now Sammy forgot all about
self. He opened his mouth and began
to shrek.
Thief! Thief Thief" shrieked Sam
my Jay. And he knew that every one
who heard it would know instantly that
there was an enemy in the Green For.
est. He knew that each one who heard
it would at once be on guard. OF
course, he meant the warning especially
for Jumper.
Jumper the Hare had been doing
uI1QeT q SIIldlI 11eDllOCk UTeG. Lie III
slant Sammy Jay began to scream
Jumper was very wide awake, indeed.
His long ears stood up straight. His
big soft eyes opened very wide. He
knew that whatever the danger was 1t
must be coming from the direction Of
Sammy jays voice. So he looked and
listened. Presently he heard a rustling
of leaves. Then he saw the hunters
dog. Jumper didn't know that that
dog had been trained to look for birds
only. To Jumper a dog was dog and
the greater the distance between him.
self and any dog the better.
So with great bounds away went
Jumper the Hare. The hunter saw him,
but he was too far away to shoot. He
knew that his dog had not frightened
Jumper. He suspected that Sammy Jay
had. Already his chance to get Mrs.
Grouse had been spoiled by Flip, and
now his chance to get Jumper the Hare
had been spoiled by Sammy Jay. The
hunter was growing angry. He muttered
to himself as he tramped on through
the Green Forest.
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dog" isai& Sammy to himself. sis very
much excited about something. When
q dogs Is excited about something it is
USUALLY wArth looking into. think I'll
60 over tAere. Yes. sir. think I'll go
over thert. Perhaps something is going
ON thkre Ahat ought to know about.
I'll Ms OVER and have q look"
80 Sammy Jay few over to the Green
Forest; arst he was just in time to see
all that happened. He saw the hunter
with the yerrible gun. He saw the hun
ter's cog Aointing into a certain tangle.
He saw Ftp rush up barking furiously.
And hc sSw Mrs; Grouse whirr out on
near AncAlgh to shoot. But though
SAMMY sew all these things, he was
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ShmMy Jaw Does His Part.

Tint Barking Of Flip over in the Green
Foress chen he saved Mr.. and Mrs.
oroule lrom q hunter with a terrible Ie
heard Ssa BY W Was e Sammy 0ns 5ag
SamrAy as one Of the smartest of all
the lttlf people in the Green Forest.
Yes, Air, Sammy is one Of the smartest
of all tie little people in the Green
Forest. Ne is among the feathered folk
what RGsidy Fox is among the little
people who wear fur-quick-witted: j..
,SapAm9 was over in the Old orchard
as Ftp Eegan to bark. He cooked his
head srss to one side, then to the other
side l HI ewes began to snap. "That
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28

2 A kind of collotype.
Walked.
Period of existence.
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Fat.
8 Animation.
10 Turkish name.
IL Speak in peace.
IL Prejudice.
IA Active principle Of tobacco.
Is Derivation of q word shown by
analysis Of its elements: ABR.
10 Syro-Phoenician sun god.
% Stain.
% Relieves.
"a Watering places.
Is Diminished.
81 Masculine name.
% Places of combat.
20 Male sheep.
80 From now on.
81 Eagles.
33 Peculiar.
35 Unadulterated.
SO City in Hamlet"
80 Revolutionary adherent OF King
George.
Al UnctuouSly.
43 See suddenly.
A Malicious insinuationS.
As Italian epic: poet.
Al Tears down.
40 Grew old.
so Uncloses: poetic.
81 Hurried.
SO Initiate.
s. Receptacle for wine.
IS Lair.
Sc Japanese dancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21

suspicion with which I was regarded
when went to the old Boston Museum
as a young, fresh leading man where
so many names had become celebrated.
Susie Mason always had attended
the wardrobe. I remember was to do
Capt. Moleneaux In "Shaughran." Susie
brought me the coat of the uniform all
beautifully done up in cloth. The last
time this was used,' she remarked. 1t
was worn by w. J. Montague, the hand
soonest leading man on the American
stage. hope 1t fits you
Strangely enough, 1t did. So went
down and showed Susie myself. She
looked at me quietly. Clothes fit you
perfectly she said.
THAT was all. That was the attitude
toward all the younger leading men.
Mary HUMPHREYS, the leading woman,
and I were regarded as couple Of
young snobS Of no consequence. There
were so many older people in the COM
pany we had to behave ourselves"
Another reason Edeson thrills over
Boston" Is that his only child is there
19-year-old Roberta Edeson, who is
teaching physical culture at the
Brookline School, where she trained.
"She is a stunning looking girl" raved
her dad, land q terror. I brought her
up as an all-round athlete. When she
was 8 years old she was taught to
] ride her pony bareback. She became
a great horsewoman. Tom Mix claims
| she Is one of the best he knows.
| Roberta spends her Summers with
us when we 60 out to my ranch in the
valley. We spend most Of the time rid
| ing when she isn't going to dances and
| things. Mrs. Edeson and try to keep
! up with the child, but when she goes
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to the studio as an Indian, all accou-
tered in buckskins and cartridge belt.
No one paid any attention to me.
Il miss all that sort of thing, seeing
the players on the street wandering
about in makeup. Now you make up at
the studio and leave it all there when
you are through. I regret to see the
passing Of it. We used to have lots Of
fun.
Movies have gotten down to serious
business. And 1t has lost its surety
from the actors point of view. A con-
tract today doesn't mean but six months,
even If you sign one for five years.
With these amalgamations taking place
all the time, I don't know what Is 60
ing to happen.
"Of course. big salaries will be paid
to people as long as they have box-office
drawing power. The studios will always
bid for the paying proposition, but the
players life is shorter lived, his or her
appeal more transitory. Mary Pickford
has been the most wonderful Of screen
players"
But isn't there always demand for
the character actor?"
Eyes; If he can keep alive to the
changes of the literature of the stage
and screen, he can wander along the
rest of his days. Men like Terrence and
George Fawcett-there's always some
thing pleasant about seeing them again.
Audiences love them to death"
So many of his stage contemporaries
are in Hollywood that Edeson organized
the Masquers, a branch of the famous
Lambs Club. Every six weeks they put
on a play.
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The Snoring Picture c4lbum
BY Robert e. Sherwood.

bach, who buttonholed the great man
while he was trying out "Whoopee" In
Washington. The deal was then closed.
Mr.. Laemmle had paid Miss Ferber
$65,000 for SHOW Boat" in the first
place. He had spent one fortune on
the silent version of the picture. another
fortune on the talkie version and over
$500 for telephone calls to and from
Harry Reichenbach in Washington.
On top Of which Mr.. Laemmle had to
pay out $250,000 more to obtain the
right to use "Ole Man River" as the
theme song Of his film.
Although Edna Ferber's story has not
been treated with entire respect by the
makers of the picture, they have man.
aged to capture much Of its flavor
and movement and honest sentiment
and dramatic strength. They have pho
tographed an actual show boat on an
actual Mississippi and have there
fore given a feeling Of essential re-
atty to this fantastic background.
What Is more, they have realized the
magnifcence Of "Ole Man River" and
the picture reaches its greatest stature
in those scenes which show the Father
OF Waters rolling along to the accom-
paniment Of Jerome Kern's tremendous
harmonies. Harry Pollard's direction
is, In the main, spirited and wise.
Laura La Plante, formerly of the Sc
lent films, is admirable in dialogue and
In pantomime. When she sings, near
the end of the picture, those who watch
her throat closely will observe that she
is doing Richard Barthelmess. The
moving lips are her own, but the voice
that comes through them is the voice
Of an unseen ghost.
Similarly, when the droll Negro,
Stephen Fechet, MARBLES a ballad en-
titled Lonesome Road" one is aware
that he isn't really uttering a sound.
The ghost" in this case is none other
than Jules Bledsoe.
There is prologue to SHOW Boat"
which includes brief addresses by both
the impreSSarios, Mr.. Laemle and Mr..
Ziegfeld, and several numbers from the
musical show. Helen Morgan sings
"Bill'' and 81 Can't Help Lovin' Dat
Man." and her voice registers extraor-
dinarily we'll In fact, can't renen-
Der having heard any woman's voice
come through the ordeal Of microphone
and loud speaker so successfully.
Jules Bledsoe Gin person., with at
tendant chorus Of jubilee singers, rem
ders "Ole Man River" Not only Is the
recording superb, but the pictures that
go with it are beautifully lighted and
photographed.
(Copyright, 1927
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- OBERT EDESON is one Of those
charming people, man Of sa-
z voir faire, keen wit. An inter-
view with him, resolving into a
delightful reminiscent chat, Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
By Mayme Ober Peake.
back to school we have to take long

back to school we have to take a long
rest"
Following his significant stage sue
cesses, Edeson went to Hollywood origi-
nally for c. B. DeMille to do one of his
old plays, Call of the North" at
caused quite an instruction at the
time" he said, "for in the beginning Of
motion pictures the actors looked down
on the screen. Being a little shy of
funds, they stopped to work in pictures,
but they would hide under another
| name.
II did my first picture for William
| Fox in New York. He offered me a
| wonderful contract-that is, it was con-
! sidered wonderful then-to do a series
| of pictures. At that time he didn't have
much money. The first of the series,
The Girl I Left Behind Me- had a
stockade with only nine Indians. We
had to get film Of Indians from the
library.
IT did one of these things and said
to Mr.. Fox. I am going back to the
stage. I don't like this thing. I feel
much more comfortable in my own en-
viroment.'"
After his first trip to Hollywood, Ede-
son made occasional returns to the
stage, but when he came back to do
THE Spoilers" with contract for GER
tain number of weeks salary, II knew
I had come to stay" he said.
Concerning his early experiences in
Hollywood, Edeson gave an amusing ac-
count. II remember my first morning
| in Hollywood. It was Sunday and was
sitting on the balcony of the hotel. A
motion picture company had asked the
use of the front of it and were making a
scene with two or three men falling
down the steps and hitting each other
In the eve.
IT sat there looking at the thing.
Suddenly up drove one of those open
face buses, full Of soldiers carrying
spears. Out dashed man from the
hotel to get in. Hello. Bob he called
out, glad to see you!
Apparently he told the rest in the
bus who was. They stood up, saluted
me with their spears, crying, Hey, Bob,
welcome to Hollywood thought 1t
| was terrible.
Inside of week was walking down
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- HOW BOAT" has finally been
launched on the screen, and
\ its sponsor, Carl Laemmle, is
y entitled to SIT back and heaye

IN AOW BOAT mas nnaily peen
launched on the screen, and
its sponsor, Carl Laemmle, is
~ entitled to sit back and heave
a thunderous sigh of relief
For it is destined to achieve as NOV
ing picture the same success that Il has
already had as novel and as musical
comedy. This production cost Mr..
Laemmle great deal of money, but it
has cost him infinitely more in mental
anguish. Its preparation has been at
tended by one incredibly bad break after
another, and the fact that 1t has finally
triumphed may be accepted as an in
dication that there is, after all, some
justice In this world.
Laemmle and his associates decided that
their company, Universal, needed some
big, expensive super-features TO revive
its waning prestige. So they went forth
into the open market and purchased the
screen rights to the best-selling novel
Of that year, "Show Boat" and the
biggest hit Of the theatrical season,
Broadway"
Show Boat" was bought from Edna
Ferber long before F1orenz ziegfeld,
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
had converted 1t into a musical comedy.
However, the announcement and full
illliIlcut OI IIlelI pldIlS ldueU 70 annoy
Mr.. Laemmle in the slightest; he had
ample reason to believe that they would
serve to advertise the name of "Show
Boat" and thereby increase intellectually
the value of his property.
Then, however, a terrible thing hap
pened. AL Jolson's voice burst forth
from the screen, announcing the death
Of the silent drama and the dawn of
the noise era. Having made "Show
Boat" as silent picture, Mr.. Laemmle
discovered that he must remake 1t as
talking picture. Furthermore, he
realized that, although he held the
rights to Miss Ferber's story, he did not
hold the rights to Mr.. Kern's musical
score. And "Show Boat could not
possibly 60 forward without "Ole Man
River"
So Mr.. Laemmle started negotiations
for the rights - the show produced by
Mr.. Ziegfeld. For more than six months
these negotiations dragged on. Mr..
Ziegfeld, who hates to talk business,
could not be pinned down, but he was
finally cornered by Mr.. Laemmle's perth
natious representative, Harry Reichen-