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New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
SLAYER PROTESTS
 INNOCENCE IN CASE
BeitZel Graves Solitude as Exc.
 CutiOn Hour NearS

San Quentin State Prison, Calf, Aug. ? (UP)-Russell St. Claire Beitzel of Philadelphia hid his emo- execution for the staying of his execution for the staying of his paramour, Barbara Mauger, drew near today.
 Prisoners who had been sent out to work for couple of hours were ordered back 10 their cells so all would be quiet around the prison when the man who ended a clandes- tine romance with a bullet walked Up 13 steps to the gallows.
 Beitzel protested his innocense in an even voice when Warden James R. Holohan went to his cell in the death hous. He continued to refuse to see visitors.
 The condemned man again blamed his plight on framed evidence told the warden. in the confidential tone he has used for several weeks, that Miss Mauger is still alive,'
 The girls body was found in the ravine of a Los Angeles park and Beitzel was convicted after short de- liberation by the jury.
 He had concentrated his mind on the study of Spanish while here, all the time expecting a reprieve from the governor. But the state executive sent word to him through Warden Holohan that such action could not be expected without new evidence, and that was lacking.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
City Items

Mary Fanion has brought suit through Nair & Nair against A. S. Petrauslas for S200 for rent. The writ was served by Constable Fred Wrinkle and is returnable in the city court the third Monday in August.
 Anthony Montanile, through Nair & Nair, has brought suit for S250 on a note. The papers were served by Constable Fred Wrinkle and the writ is returnable in the city court the third Monday in August.
 The meeting of the board of ad- justment. scheduled for August ' has heen postponed until September 4. according to announcement made to- day by Clerk Thomas Linder.
 Rev. Walter J. Lyddy of St. Mary church will return to this city on August 10 after spending a three weeks vacation.
 Rev. John J. keane of St. Josephs s church will leave Sunday for a two weeks vacation in Canada.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Woman Jumps Off
 Government Steamer

New London. Aug. R}-Mrs. Rose Sinnott, about 70. wife of Thomas J. Sinnott. civilian plumber at Fort H. G. Wright. Fishers is land, committed suicide late yester- day by drowning after leaping into the waters of Long Island sound from the government steamer Ma thaniel Green. on which she was travelling to Fort Wright after visit ing her husband in a local hospital. Her body was recovered.
 Mir. Sinnott has been ill for sev- eral months and it is believed that worry over his illness, as well as her own physical condition, and the bur den of debts that have piled up since he was stricken, caused his wife to become mentally unbalanced and led Ter to take her own life.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

leader and a liason officer with the Christianity of the outside world, the shrewd Philippians have confined the Aboona's power entirely to the spir- itual field. The second powerful church official. the Etchequie, who has charge of all church property and church finances is an Ethiopian. as is the third important church of ficial, the High Priest.
 4The Etchequie has manifold re- responsibilities, for between a quarter and a third of the land is the prop erty of the church Much of it is leased out, and its revenues must be collected and managed. The typical Abyssian church building. a round stone or mud structure with conical matched roof, is to be found on ev cry hand. Probably tens of thou sands of them exist in the country. There are also numerous monasteries and fewer convents. The monks and nuns are celibates; but the priests may marry once, and are, in fact,
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

the people. and of the Judaism that preceded the present religion. One of the surprising results of the former forces is the use of cere- monial drums in the Christian serv- ice-great barrellike affairs Of sil-
 yer with stretched skins held in place by copper hoops. Ancient Judaism
 shows it's influences in the cere- monial dancing of the priests, and in the installation in the Holy of Holies of each church of the Talbot
 or representative of the Ark of the Covenant. The origin of the pray ing sticks used by the Ethiopian
 priests is not clear.
 'The only important break in the system of appointing Aboonas from Egypt occurred in 1894 when, as a
 result of the work of Jesuit mission aries, the Ethiopian king offered his submission to the Pope and Jesuit priests were given all positions of h.
 fluence in the church. The people
 were so incensed at this abandon
 ment of the traditional form of
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
STEIGER STORES BOUGHT

Bridgeport, Aug. ? LPS-Accordine 10 an announcement made today, Peter Levitt, chain store owner Of Boston will take over the owner ship of four dry goods places on August 15 The new stores include Steiger- Poole company of Bridge port, Curran Dry Goods company oi Waterbury. Poole Dry Goods com pany of Springfield, and the Steigei'- Chick company of Port Chester, N y.
 The reported purchase price was S90O,O00.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
encouraged to marry. Old Customs Afnect Abyssinian
 Christianity


 ''To the layman Abyssinian Chris tans seem to have much in com mon with Roman Catholics and with Greek Catholics; much less with Protestants. They are particularly punctilious in regard to feast days and periodes. Lent is observed rigor- ously, and on the final two days no | food whatever is eaten. The, chief difference has to do with a rather | abstruse matter of theology which can hardly be comprehended by the average semi -barbaric Ethiopian whether Christ had two natures, the divine and the human; or only one. the divine. The Abyssinians and the Copts uphold the latter thesis which was denounced as heresy by d church council in 451.
 More interesting to the observer from the West are the influences on Abyssian Christianity of the bar barrie surroundings and customs of
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Christianity that they rebelled. killed the king, and expelled the Jesuits. The connection with the Coptic church was immediately restored and remains today"
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Mir. and Mrs. Ralph V. Farrel of Huntington, w. Va. formerly Of New Britain are visiting relatives in this city. Mrs. Farrel is a native New Britain girl Mir. Farrel one time was boys secretary Of the loca! Y. NJ. C. X.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Bremen ROut Rats
 Without ''Pied Piper"

Westboro, Mass, Aug. ? (UPl -Outnumbered IS to and boasting not a single "Pied Piper" 200 fire fighters waged fierce war fare on an attacking rodent army, 800 strong, on an aSh-strewn battlefield here today.
 A brilliant victory was recorded for the firenen when the rats re- treated to nearby swamp.
 The rat attack came while the firemen were fighting a dump fire.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
HARTFORD DRIVER HELD,

Middletown, Aug, ? LP-In a find ing made public today Coroner L. A, Smith holds Abra ham Nicholson Of Hartford responsible for the death on July 2S, Of John A. Carl. soin Of Cromwell. Car,s-n and his wife were walking home on the. highway when Carlson was struck by van operated by Nicholson. He died on the way to Middlesex hos pltla. Mrs. Carlson was uninjured
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
weeks at Clinton beach.

Miss Edythe McKnerney of Grand street and Miss Mary Longhrey of West Main street will spend the next two weeks in New Hampshire.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Mrs. Clara Baehr of 425 West Main street is visiting at the home of her daughter. Mrs. H. A Brinton. St. CroiX Cove, N. s.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Misses Lucy Williams. Aurora Masso and Woltrmira Karbonik will spend next week at Fall mountain.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Miss Margaret McCourt of 273 Chestnut street will spend next week in Mount Vernon, N. Y, visiting relatives.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Mrs. Clara F. Crandall of 1o7 Dwight street will sail tomorrow for England.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Personals

Mrs. J. A. Mccarthy and children, Clifford, Jack and Janice of Hamil- ton street, will spend the remainder of the summer at Clinton Beach.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

It is estimated that there are A. 900 thunder storms occurring daIly on the earth.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Mrs. J. Grennerod and son. Ray mond, of 39 Brooklawn street will
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Misses Betty and Linea Johnson of Mill street spent the past two
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

spend the month of August at Proxi- dence and Newport
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Miss Elizabeth Gordes of Monroe. street will spend the weekend at Block Island.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

The National Education associa- tion, the largest teachers organiZa- ton in the world. was organized in the United States in 1857.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
AN EXTENSIVE DUCK

London, Aug. 2.-Probably the highest price ever paid for duck was that paid for specimen of the Labrador duck. classified tion almost as rare as the famous great A. specimens of this duck are said 10 be alive and the price paid for this one was in excess of S5,0o0. It originally inhabited the north coast of America.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

Miss Olgra Srogi will spend the. weekend in N W York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

ing to harsher aspects of life. But
at most he only has an inkling of
the life of his seamen, and hints in
some of his plays at some power
of penetration. But his plays are
amateurish in the sense that they
are only surface plays, skin-deep
and coated with bourgeois romanti-
cism, which as he develops becomes
more and more pronounced, until it
ends in the inevitable decadent mys-
ticism, sex and the problem of the
self.
The plays are produced with very
realistic stage-settings, which far
from helps the play along since it
makes the hopping lover look all
the more foolish. The characters
are highly idealized into types one
reads about in books and in plays
such as these but which one rarely
ever meets. The last scene, with
it's touch of burlesque, is the best
acted of the four.
G
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Plan Unusual Program
at Harlem Revels on
Tuesday, January 22nd

An unusual program has been ar
ranged for the Harlem Revels Soil
darity Demonstration Dance, which
takes place next Tuesday evening,
Jan. %, at the Renaissance Casino,
138th st. and Seventh Ave. under
the auspices of the Negro Champion
and the American Negro Labor Con-
gress.
Heading the program will be the
Hall johnson Negro Choir, interna-
tionally famous for it's fine interpre-
station of the Negro spirituals. The
choir will be under the personal
direction of William Gassner.
Others on the program are Doris
Rheubottom, song bird of the Al
hambra; Elizabeth Welsh, one of the
most popular members of the cast
Of "Blackbirds"; and Paul and
Thelma Meeres, tango dancers.
Tickets for the affair are on sale
at the Workers Book Shop, 26 Union
Square; New Masses, 80 Union
Square; Tattler, 1896 Seventh Ave;
and Negro Champion, 1859 w. 133rd
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Radio Commission Asks
Another Year to Shield
Monopolies 1t Made

WASHINGTON. Jan. 16 (UP).-
Commissioner o. H. Caldwell of the
Federal Radio Commission voiced
opposition to bill which would ex-
tend the life of the Radio Commits
sion one year when he appeared
today before the House Merchant
Marine Committee. He proposed
that the commission should auto
matically expire March a and its
work be taken over by the Com
merce Department.
x
The Radio Commission has made
it's main purpose the creation of
vested interests in the best wave
lengths by assigning them to big
trust like corporations of broadcast
ers. When inventions for transmit
ting power by radio are perfected,
these best wave length monopolies
will be of untold value. The smaller
companies Disseminated against are
suing in the courts and violating
the regulations, and the commission
is now asking another year of life
to enforce it's rulings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Duncan Dancers Here
for Another Week in
Interesting Program

So great has been the interest in
the Isadora Duncan Dancers that
they have POSTPONED engagements in
ether cities and are now appearing
during this week in New York City.
The performances are being given in
Wallacks Theatre, And ST., west of
Broadway. This is a SMALL init
mate theatre, where these remark
able young dancers from Moscow
can be seen at better advantage.
The Duncan dancers are appear
ing every evening this week with
matinee performances today, Satur-
day and Sunday. A program in
GLIDING several numbers never per-
formed before il being given. The
program also includes the famous
Impressions of Revolutionary
Russia" which made such chit" at
the Daily Worker anniversary and
at the other performances of the
troupe. Tickets are being sold at
popular prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
O,Meil,s Plays Of the Sea at
the Pn0ulmcet0Wn PLAYHOUSE

S. s. Glencairn, Four Episodes of
the Sea, by Eugene O'Neill, now
showing at the Provincetown Play
house, makes you wonder how
Eugene O'Neill could ever have been
called a great playwright, even a
bourgeois one. These episodes are
taken from his four plays, "The
Moon of the Caribbees," GIN the
Zone" Bound East for Cardiff" and
"The Long Voyage. Home" all
earlier plays, and supposedly more
realistic, closer to the life of the
workers on the sea than his later
ones. In these plays many critics
today see the promise of budding
genius which was later to flower"
etc.
These could be called O'Neilps
healthier plays, not so mystical, SO
much a part of bourgeois decadence
as his "Strange Interlude," but still
full of that ungrounded pessimism,
and hopelessness of one who is a ro-
mantle suddenly come into contact
with life and unable to grasp it and
tackle it. The play reeks with the
psychology of the petty-bourgeois,
and sentimental one into the bar
gain.
The first episode shows the crew
getting drunk, and enjoying girls
brought on board from one of the
islands in the West Indies. THIS
scene is very unconvincing and
stilted and is entirely spoiled by the
my lost northumberland forget
you-so-let's- drink" character of Smit-
ty. What we say here holds good
for the other three episodes
O'Neill does not weave his plays
about the life of the seamen, but
gratis on them some sentimental,
extraneous matter which he makes
the central point Of the play. There
is nothing in the life of the seamen
that he is sufficiently impressed by
to make the central theme. Instead
he puts some mollycoddle aboard,
and appeals entirely to bourgeois
audience with strains of parlor love,
extremely idealized feelings, and the
extraordinary. True, he has back
ground of sailor life--but that is
only seen as a background, not
grasped intimately, nor comprehen-
sively. His character Smitty, swoon-
ing with love memories, is like
Eugene O'Neill himself, swooning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
Starvation, Great
Unemployment in
Big Italian Port

ROME, (By Mail).-In the great
war harbor of Pola ten thousand
workers were formerly employed,
there are only about a thousand at
work at present. The highest wage
for qualified workers is 20 Ira per
day and for unqualified workers
about 6 Ira day. 1t is reported
that a further 900 workers will be
dismissed in the near future. The
majority of the working class in
Pola is unemployed. The possibility
of emigration is very slender.
Amongst the peasants there is also
great poverty. The fascist demon
strations are boycotted by the whole
of the population. Approximately
so people took part in the memorial
meeting in connection with the
march on Rome. The next day the
workers in the factory were exam
ined by the chief of the local fascist
militia as to their reasons for not
appearing. A number Of workers
were dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
FRANCE BUSHES
naval BUILDING
Chamber Adopts Bill
for Is Warships

PARIS, Jan. 16.-The construc-
ton of 10 new warships and the
expenditure of 9S9,000,000 francs
for this purpose to be distributed
over q period of four years, was
authorized by the French Chamber
of Deputies today.
The French government immedi-
ately notified its naval bases to pre-
pare for the rapid construction of
the warships.
The program provides for the
building of one 10,000-ton armored
cruiser, six torpedo boat destroyers,
six cruising submarines, one subma-
rine mine-layer, two oil tankers and
two dispatch boats. The type of
warships are in accordance with the
plan of naval construction in the
Anglo naval pact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
DECLARE BURKE
IS OIL CO. man
Say Standard Involved
in Indian Frauds

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.P.).
1t was the general opinion in
Oklahoma that the Standard Oil Co.
was behind Indian Commissioner
Burke, Merrick A. Whipple, Tulsa,
Okla. attorney told the Senate In
dian Affairs Committee today.
Whipple said he judged from con-
versations with Senator Pine, re-
publican of Oklahoma, that the SEN
ator wanted Burke out of office al
though he never heard a direct
threat made against the Indian Com
Burke, charged along with former
Secretary of the Interior Fall with
fraud in the disposal of a million
dollars worth of oil lands belonging
to an incompetent Indian named
Barnett claimed today before the
senate committee that the whole
thing was a frame-up by Senator
Pine to get" him.
Assistant Federal Attorney Selby
of Oklahoma stated several days
ago in the committee that he had a
grand jury ready to indict Burke,
Fall and others, when the Secretary
of the Interior Work conspired with
Attorney General Sargent to quash
the case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
CARPENTER Misleadey Tries
to Take Away Mems Jobs
BIZ a Worker Correspondent

In an attempt to strengthen his
position as a graft office holder,
the new business agent of Local 791,
Of the Carpenters Union, Brooklyn,
1.-THE local from which Rosen was ex-
PEELED for being left winger), is
planning to sacrifice 40 innocent
workers, by preferring charges
against them and having them
thrown jobless out on the streets.
Here is what happened. Two weeks
ago the Abraham Strauss Depart
ment Store in Brooklyn called up the
E. H. Hamburger Co., 139 Emerson
St., Brooklyn, for men to do a reno
waiting job, such as removing count
ers, etc., the work to be done after
5 p. m. After the work was done,
the business agent, who is reac-
tionary, stated that he would bring
charges against the men, for work
ing overtime without permit. Why
did not this labor faker tell us about
our not being allowed to take the
job without permit, before the job
was begun, for he knew all along
that the men were going on this job.
The reason is, because this self-elect-
ed faker wanted to make himself
strong with the outside carpenters,
by exterminating the inside n n
(those who work in the shops>,. He
wants to get his own gang in the
jobs which he wants to take away
from the men in the Hamburger
shop. This faker could have stopped
the job before it was done, but he
preferred to throw US on the street,
to make his politicians job stronger.
The charges will be brought up this
Friday, Jan. 18, before the District
Building Trades Council. Each man
faces a $50 to 5000 fine, if the
plans of the misleader succeed.
This business agent is not truly
elected by the rank and file of the
union. but put himself in office this
way. He notified only a handful of
his followers when the election was
to be held, and the rank and file at
large was not told of it. Thus he
was elected"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

rightly entitled to. One has to argue
always to try to get what he earned,
and there are so many complicated
clauses in the company union agree
ment that the company can easily
cheat the worker out of wages if he
does not watch his step. For the
least little infraction of any of the
hundreds of rules the subway work
er is taken out of service and-has
to see the boss, and often loses two
or three days pay besides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
PEKING WORKERS
HOLD FACTORIES
Demand Higher Pay in
Rug Mills

PEKING, Jan. 16.-Workers, en-
ragged at the refusal of the employ
ers to grant them wages above the
starvation level and at the unful-
filled promises of the Kuomintang
labor officials, have taken posses
sion of four rug factories here until
they should get the increase in
wages.
Military authorities, who have
hesitated to interfere due to fear of
making the Marking government
even more unpopular among those
workers still influenced by Kuomin-
tang officials, are now reported
ready to GUST the workers.
Students in the Picking University
are also in possession of the build
ings in protest against the govern
ment which has not paid the teach
ers and workers in the university
for months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17

"Let us take America, the freest
and most civilized country. Amer
lea Is n democratic republic. And
what In the RESULT We have the
shameless rule of a clique not of
milli0nnires but of multi-miIIiOn-
aires. and the entire nation is en-
shaved and oppressed. If the fac
tories and works, the banks and
all the riches Of the nation belong
to the capitalist; II, by the side of
the democratic republic we observe
perpetual enslavement of mil
lions Of tOi1ers md n continuous
poverty, we have q right to nsk |:
Where In all your lauded equality
and fraternity Far from 1t. The
rule of democracy In accomplished
by mn unauthorized savage band
TRY. We understand the true M
ture of sO-caIIed dem0cracies."
From speech by Lenin to Moscow
factory workers. In. 1918. Lenin
memorial meeting. January 10. in
Madison Square Garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
PROFITS SOAR,
But RICH FIRM
PLEADS POVERTY
Force Company Union
on Workers
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (By MaiD
Conditions for the workers of the
Dominion Iron and Steel Co. here
are inhUman. Human slavery in its
worst form exists here. The ordinary
day shift in the plants is 10 hours
/ day; on the night shift the men
have to slave II hours a day. But
rs a matter of fact, the men work
Il and even II hours a day on the
day shift, and 10 and IA hours on
he night shift. We are forced to
york these long hours seven days
week-making 81 hours at least
for the day shift and at least 1902
hours. q week on the night shift.
After day of day duty, the work
ers of the Dominion Iron and Steel
Company are so tired they just flop
down, But if the day shift men feel
like that at the end of the working
DAY, imagine what torture the night
shift men have. The work here is
the heaviest labor 7 have ever done.
We work in gas fumes, smoke, and
intolerable heat. The heat indoors is
unbearable, but the hundreds of
workers who have to work outdoors
are exposed to the elements, and
freeze in the winter. in the rain
they are drenched to the skin.
During the last two years, the
company's surplus has increased to
s3.70o,0 900. But the company claims
that the reason it forces the men
to work such long hours is because
It cannot afford to lower the hours
or pay better wages. The wages are
low, averaging under $40 week
The workers here have been forced
to join a company union. The of
ficers of the company union form
the "Norkers Council" The officials
of the "Works Council are of
course for the company, not for the
men. There is great dissatisfaction
here among the men with their con-
ditions end with the company union.
The men must organize into real,
l,onest-to-goodness fighting union.
*. D.