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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
COPPER BOSSES
BLACKLIST ALL
MILITANT men
Anaconda Cuts Wages,
More Cuts Coming
By a Worker Correspondent.

BUTTE, Mont, (By MaiD Butte
is copper mining town; they claim
that this is the richest hill on earth
In this town there are thousands
of men out of employment, the work
ers who are working are working
under the most deplorable conditions,
it is mostly all contract work.
Cut Cooper Wages.
Previous to June LIST the miners
were receiving $5.75 per shift, about
nine hours. On June LIST the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company an
nounced a cut of 25 per cent, cut
ting the wages from $5.75 to $3.50.
Gradually the wages will be re-
duced to the minimum. Under the
contract system the miners make
around seven dollars per day, work
ing conditions are very hard, a lot
of miners quit because they cannot
make any money. To make seven
dollars or more one has to slave very
hard.
! About the unemployed. When the
workers wish to go to work in the
mines he first must go to the bosses
headquarters, call the Butte Mu-
tual Labor Bureau, and give them
your life history. They ask a lot of
questions, some are quite direct.
No Militants Wanted.
do you believe in unionism?
Are you a Communist and do
you believe in their principles?
One must answer these questions
il the negative otherwise you will
be unable to go to work in the mines.
Also you must give them references
for two years; where you worked,
how long you worked, why did you
quit, etc.
And to prove that their system
j; well organized, they look up all
Of your references. One mistake, out
you 60, and you cannot go to work
ia Butte. When a worker answers all
these questions, they give you a
rustling card, then you can rustic
the mines for work, without this
card you cannot get job. This card
does not get you a job; you have to
box for a job long time perhaps.
Rustling for Work.
The rustling hours at the mines
are almost at the same hour, II
a. m. A worker can rustic but one
mine day, and there are sixteen
mines in all that are working, and
u rustic all of them it will take two
weeks or more, for some of these
mines are long way from town.
Butte is strong union town; al
rlost all the trades in this town be-
l,ng to union, everyone except the
miners. There is no organization
there. Furthermore if you try and
talk unionism, there are always
stool-pigeons around to tell the boss,
and then you are blacklisted from
working in the mines.
Eventually the miners will be en-
lightened, then there will be very
strong union there, one Of the
strongest in the country.
j. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Takers keep
White LUGGAGE
WORKERS DOWN
Refuse to Act to Make
Conditions Better
BIZ a Worker CORRESPONDENT

!
When Norris White, the, wealthy
leather goods manufacturer, took
over the factory of the White Lug
gage Co., New York, four years ago
he called the workers together and
delivered a speech in which he prom
Used the workers steady employment
and ''fair living"
When the promises were not kept
and the workers from the shop COM
planned to the union officials about
the conditions there the answer was
that the shop is in an experimental"
stage and the firm should "be given
chance to establish itself firmly"
The Rush and Layoff Method.
t Now the workers of the White
Luggage Co. see that the crush"
and layoff method of operation is
actually adopted for the shop. The
workers are called in to work and
the crush" game begins. The shop
is filled up with suit-cases, boxes and
bags, and the layoff is on.
Another rush begins and again a
Ilayoff. The workers constantly are
forced to increase their production
but at the same time their earnings
are constantly decreasing. The exc
cutives of the White Luggage Co.
give much attention to adopting
modern efficiency methods in pro-
duction and figuring of costs but
seem wholly to forget the workers.
Renewing" the Agreement.
There is an agreement between
the union and the firm which ex-
pires the first of June year after
year; the office of the union sends
the firm a letter reminding it about
the expiration, and back comes a
letter acknowledging the receipt Of
the letter and stating that the old
agreement stands.
The workers of the White Lug
gage Co. as an organized body have
right to insist that before the re-
newal of the agreement shop meet
ing should take place, at which a
discussion about formulating de-
Imands should be the order of bust
ress, and representative commit
tee of the workers of the shop should
be chosen and a conference with the
firm arranged.
The Misleaders' Excuse.
1t is more than certain that the
demands of the workers from the
shop to take a stand and act to i'm
prove their conditions will be met
with excuses and the usual answer
will be given that the firm, eff
troubled too much from the union
will give up the business"
How can we succeed in organizing
the luggage industry when the work
ers of the most important shop can
not come out and show an example
of better conditions in union shop?
Only by reorganizing our forces
and the establishment of militant
shop committees in all shops con-
trolled by the union can we hope to
get out of the wilderness that ex-
lists for the workers in our trade.
WHITE LUGGAGE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
CANCEL JERSEY RECOUNT.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., June 49,
The fusionists decided today to can
cell the recount of the vote cast here
N the commission election May II
asst.
After the Board of Elections had
counted 337 Of the 239 districts in
the city, William E. Decker, counsel
for. the fusion candidates advised
Charles Stoebling, clerk of the
Board, that he was preparing an APP
plication for an order to Supreme
Court Justice Kalisch to stop the re-
count. The fusionists were beaten in
the election by the forces of Hague,
democratic car. Both tickets were
he bosses states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Workers News corkng Oakland Cali
forn connection with the strike which started the Fisher
Body Atho this regularly issued in Detroit
the of the industry the special extra issued solely for
the Oakland workers. thousands of workers The
fighting of the Fisher Body strikers broadcast
all the workers the Bay Cities and the effect the
the fighting Auto Workers Union
This the united
Workers Union with militant II of
that nightmares
A few of the strikers demands
l. Eight hour day-40 hour week.
p Abolition of piece work. Sc day minimum
g. Time half for time. Sundays and holidays double
time.
L. Recognition of the Shop Committee and the Union
5. All strikers replaced job without discrimination.
Equal for and workers doing regular work
T. Tools be furnished by the and special working
clothes required for special jobs.
Special safety devices esprators goggles gloves and masks
to be furnished by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

being shipped there from the Erie
Employment office on the Bowery,
New York. The railroads runner
took the gang, including me, over
to Edgewater via the 125th st.
ferry and then on the George Road
bus to their trackmens' gang,
reaching there Sunday afternoon
about $3.50 p. nj.
AT 4:30 the supper gong
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

sades Mountains connecting the
waterfront on the Hudson with
Little Ferry on the main line of
the Erie.
We were called about 9:45 p.
m. and checked in about 10 p. M,
but we could not start work right
then as several trains were to
pass thru leaving smoke and gas
in the tunnel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

this garbage and for board. This
was certainly overcharging the
men-and mind you the chief of
police of the Erie Railroad was
running this camp for his own per-
sonal profit.
The Erie has its own police
force, and they treat the men like
dogs. 1t was night work in the
tunnel that goes under the Pail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

sounded. During the time / was
there l found the meals abso-
lutely devoid of any nourishment,
the food being old and overlooked.
The coffee was so much dishwater,
the milk skinned, the eggs the
cheapest that could be found in the
vicinity.
They charged us IS cents a
meal-S1.O5 a day was charged for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

WITH THE SHOP PAPERS

WE had expected the shop be coming fast enough by
w make the shop department of the Daily Worker
t0ice-aa0eekat but the shop not coming
they should be- What's the trouble iOh of comrades in
charge of getting out shop papers?
ERES hy shop should not be sent in
to this department. Wake comrades getting out the
packing papers, plant papers,
papers, Don't to the shop department
real established department.? Wen bet you do but youv
snap into nd the shop papers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

We went in at IL p. m. We
were to raise the track and lamp
the ties. '~
The tunnel was still full of gas
and smoke, and almost unbearable,
almost choking us at times.
At about 2:30 a. m. we got some
sandwiches of rotten meat and
well, gee whiz, it makes me SO dis
gusted and mad / could skin some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

wages. All the railroad camps rob
the workers, and they are usually
run either by some official of the
company or someone related to an
official. The food they serve you is
lousy and the hunks are awful, you
can hardly live in them for the
filthiness.
THE RED PANTHER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
BIZ a Worker Correspondent

(Bg a Worker Correspondent
/ got broke and got in such
condition that l had to take the
first job that came along. l found
that the Erie Railroad wanted men
TO slave on their road near Edge
water, n. j.
So over to Edgewater l went,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

body alive.
The work was under awful con-
ditions. Water would drip from
the ceiling of the tunnel into our
ears and while we were working.
For this work we were paid SO
cents an hour for nine hours work
a highland that don't count de-
auctions. Needless to say all the
track Iaborers on the Erie on I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Wanted-Some Hnmor!

THERE'S which nearly all the shop papers
improved-humor
augnstock of the boss the strawbo and make him feel like the
cheese he really that's effective
among workers the notice.
this their house the of which fool
the willing like
this
"Bi Whooss Department walking
Main Street with Rose the Axle
Rose, whens the wedding coming Off"
Stuff like
purpose brings the personal Mentioning
shop would of worker trouble
dirty especially mentioning
will a of good
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
New Films Produced for
Release Turnout the JSSR

gave the following Appreciation: 81
applauded "Clown Georges Bene-
fit" with all my heart, for it at
the same time amuses and moves
and absorbs. The simple drama
leads one naturally from laughter
to horror, from joking to heroism.
Just as the juggler in "The Paris
Madonna" offers the divinity his
tricks as his only riches, Clown
George, on becoming soldier of
fthe revolution, offers it, with splen-
did insolence, his acrobatic dexter
ity and mimic powers. This film
deserves to become popular"
Kurdum's film, "Djalma," has
been shown to thousand workers
at the Kiev Central Metal Work
ers' Club. This is the first full
length film released by the Kiev
Vufku works and shows the struggle
between the old and new life in
Soviet village.
A model picture house for Vufku
educational films has been erected
in Odessa, with museum, library
and recreation rooms for games and
other cultural diversions for those
visiting the picture house.
Georgian Goskinprom, in its re-
lease of "The Cloud Refuse" pro-
duced by Berishvili, shows the pic
turesque localities of Georgia and
Upper Tushetia. 1t describes the
relations between the "old times"
and youth in the village and the
victorious struggle of the latter for
the new order of things.
Another picture by the same or
ganization, "Verkhom ma Holtye,"
shows the struggle of the poor pea
santry in a Georgian village with a
group of "kulaks," setting up a
pseudo collective Farm" The pic
ture is composed of material taken
from life.
New Giskinprom educational films
include: "a Days Work in Kara
chai," Georgian Health Resorts"
"Chavka" (tea industry, "Dagc-
stan" and "Tushetia."
The latest Armenkino films have
shown the abandonment of the old
theme and tendency to choose rev.
dictionary subjects. Such have been
Barhudarov's "Pyat Yablochko" and
Amo Rek-Nazarov's blouse on the
Volcano"
Another important film by the
same group is being produced on
the life of Soviet Kozatstan. It's
subject is connected with the prob
lem of irrigation, which is of great
Importance for this republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

II General Line" which was re-
leased by Sovkino two months ago,
las proven quite popular. This pic
ture is quite a new departure for
Eisenstein, whose two films "Po-
temkin" and October" portrayed
exciting scenes of revolution and
civil war. "The General Line is en-
tirely devoted to the development
of cooperative village industries,
and, while it includes many striking
pictures and much imaginative de-
tail, is scarcely likely to make the
broad general appeal of the two
other films.
"The New Babylon" another Sow
kino release, is spectacular film
of the Franco-Prussian war and
Commune epoch. The producers are
Kozintsev and Trauberg.
E. Ivanov-Barkov, having finished
"The Blast Furnace" film version
of Lyashko's novel, has begun upon
a new picture-"Judah."
"The Living Corpse" "a film YER
sion of Tolstoi's novel) has been
finished in Berlin, together with the
"Prometheus" film, and is now be-
ing shown simultaneously all over
the Soviet Union.
Protazanov, producer of "Three
Thieves" "The Forty-first" and
"The White Eagle" has begun to
work upon a new picture entitled
1.-THE Meeting"
Barnet, producer of "The Girl
With the Hat Box" is working up
on "The Mexican" founded on a
Jack London novel. Negotiations
are going on between the Mczhrab-
pom film and the Mexican govern
ment with regard to opportunities
of taking landscape films in Mex
leo.
"You Mustn't Go Into the TOWN.
has been shown all over Moscow
and Leningrad. The theme of the
picture is the drama of a Soviet
scientist who finds that his son is
a member of the White Guard.
''Rivals" is film of the remote
Votsk district, where there are still
remains of pagan life. The descrip-
ton of the struggle between the
active supporters of the new con-
structive life and village reactionar-
les is of great interest, and the pic
lures of Votsk holidays and festivi-
ties are of ethnographical value.
"The Descendant of Chingis-
Khan" ("Sturm uber Asie), pro-
duced by Vsevolod Pudovkin, is hav-
ing an enormous success in Ger
many, where it is being shown in
Berlin, Munchen, Leipzig, Erfurt,
Hamburg, Dresden, Dusseldorf and
elsewhere In the Capitol, Berlin's
biggest picture house, it was shown
amid loud applause, and the best
German critics have hailed it as the
highest achievement of Russian
kino-art. Pudovkin, who attended
the first release at Dusseldorf, was
greeted with storms of applause.
Vufku has released a new film,
"The Mechanism of Normal Birth"
a scientific film made under the di-
rection of G. Pisemski, professor OF
gynecology. The process OF birth
has been photographed and the slow
motion method employed. With the
aid of the latest technical improve
ments the condition of the foetus in
the womb has been established. The
latest Zelgaim theory of the rota-
tory movement of the foetus is Wv
idly proved.
Henry Barbusse, on seeing Solov-
jews "Clown Georges Benefit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Communists fight on behalf of the
immediate aims and interests of
the working class, but in their
present movement they nre also de-
tending the future of the move
ment.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Long Live the Revolutionary
Struggle of the Oppressed Colo,
NAL Peoples! q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Henry Barbusse, on seeing Solov-
Jews "Clown Georges Benefit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Conditions are Fine-for the Boss!

EREs letter to the Red Rvet shop out by the Com
nucleus in the Midland steel plant in Cleveland
Conditions fine in this hehoe We only have in ~
the shift from to IS hours the day These
nice short hours of And OH high
here 40 hour day operations when
get that You bet conditions fine in this shopFo the boss! But
for the workers this rotten joint hell
owe figure about time workers the job to change the
conditions this hole and that's why putting this
show the conditions UNDER the starvation
Midland Steel point the only the
bosses change these conditions: Through organization
Not Bakero-But They've Got the Bosses "
ON the GriddIe.
TOT ROLLS sound like bakeybut there other kinds of
the Tinker Roller Bearing
Canton Ohio, tell you.
Hot Rolls is the of shop issued by the Communist
interesting bit
Pipe the Bloodhounds.
EDITOR, "Hot Rolls:
Everybody this plant knows that the bosses have their cellars
loaded with liquor The prohibition against workers.
If we don't drink we're efficient machines.
The whole plant full of SPIES of the spies smells
liquor the breath worker calls the have him arrested
It's wonder they don't hire boodhounds trail the
miserable conditions that
order be able
WORKER.
Send Those Shop Papers In, and Let All the Workers
Kno1V About Them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
MOUNTAINS


organized, and that is one reason
why their conditions and pay is so
bad.
THE RED PANTHER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

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, 1929-06-20

A model picture house for Vufku
educational films has been erected
in Odessa, with museum, library
and recreation rooms for games and
other cultural diversions for those
visiting the picture house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Protazanov, producer of "Three
Thieves" "The Forty-first" and
"The White Eagle" has begun to
work upon a new picture entitled
1.-THE Meeting"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

"The New Babylon" another Sow
kino release, is spectacular film
of the Franco-Prussian war and
Commune epoch. The producers are
Kozintsev and Trauberg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Another important film by the
same group is being produced on
the life of Soviet Kozatstan. It's
subject is connected with the prob
lem of irrigation, which is of great
for this republic.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-01-10
FAIRMONT "Y" WILL PLAY
OAKLAND A. A. TOMORROW
Game Will Start at S:15 In Nav.
lOr's Hall-Locals Will Travel
to Berlin on Saturday

After brief period of inactivity,
due to influenza and other causes, the
Oakland A. A. basketball team will
swing into action tomorrow night at
MAYORS Hall, Oakland, when it meets
the strong Fairmont Y. M. c. A. five
of Fairmont, W. Va.
The Fairmont team is composed of
practically the same players who lost
at Oakland last year 1920, but who
defeated the locals in the West Viz
ginia city 1925. They are out this
year to cop both games of the series
and will be at their best when they
come here tomorrow night. The "Y"
boasts such players as Schroeder, and
Turnkey and others. Oakland will
line up with Pollock and Killen at for
wards, McComas or Kahl at center,
and Nally and Hanst at guard.
The return game will be played in
Fairmont on Saturday., January 20.
Oakland A. A. will journey to Berlin,
Pa. on Saturday night to battle the
Berlin collegians. This team also won
from Oakland last year on it's home
court, 1910, but lost out in Oakland
later in the season 1929. Berlin will
be met here on Tuesday, January 20.
The game tomorrow night will be-
gin at S:15 with preliminary game
at 1870. Admission will be 25 and
so cents, and Oakland fans are urged
to come out and help the team. No
donations have been received as yet,
but anyone desiring to help out on the
numerous expenses may do so by
sending the donation to George Hanst,
manager.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-01-10
Train Connections
Senator Is NaylOr Named on
Eight Committees

Except for changes necessitated by
death of two members since the last
session of the State Legislature, and
the craftsmanship of two committees,
committee assignments for the 1929
biennial session, announced Tuesday,
show no change from those of 1927.
Senator A. D. Naylor, of Oakland,
was named on the civil service and
election reform, elections, fish and
game, inspections, railroads and can
ais, revaluation and assessment, san
itary and temperance committees.
Senator w. A. Gunter, of Allegany
county, was named chairman of the
Pensions committee and also men,
Der of the finance, insurance, judic-
ial proceedings, printed bills, super
vision of employees and rules COM
mittees.