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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
HIm of TaWam0 Indians
Shows JOYS Of Communism

The film now running at the Fifth
Avenue Playhouse, named for some
reason "Red Majesty" and being the
pictorial record of an explorer named
Harold Noice, is we'll worth seeing.
1t is not majesty" at all, but the
film of chance scenes on a voyage
up the Amazon and Rio Negro
rivers, to a spot in the edge of the
Andes where the Tariano Indians
live. Half the picture is taken up
with river steamers and rubber COL
lection, done by poorly paid or
peonized Brazilian Indians, and the
other half, introduced with short
lecture by Noice himself, shows
some Indians who haven't been en-
shaved yet.
Boy, what a life! Next to Com
munism based on machinery, give me
primitive Communism. These fell
lows spend their time making liv-
ing in just the way that l always
hoped to take vacation. They live
in big community houses made in a
fine artistic manner with logs and
lattice work and palm leaves. The
picture shows the building of a new
house, about twenty feet high.
Everybody works; there are no dead
heads or idle bosses. When it is
built, they call in all the other viii
layers for miles around, sling the
babies up in hammocks under the
ewes and hold grand party. The
women spend weeks making beer
enough.
The men spend most of several
hours a day hunting and fishing, and
go swimming in the rapids the rest
of the time. The women put in part
of the day raising manioca, from
which a variety of food is made. The
raw pulp is full of prussic acid, but
these Ignorant savages" have
learned the chemical process, all by
themselves, ages ago, for removing
it and making a palatable and
nourishing flour Of the substance.
The photography is unusually
good for what must have been very
bad conditions, dampness, a long
canoe trip in which to transport the
machines and films, etc. The pic
lures of naked natives standing on
crags and shooting fish with the bow
and arrow, swimming valiantly
through white water" and at work
in the forest are what you might call
inspiring-though not conducive to
good work pounding typewriters in
an office.
Go and see this film and en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
WESTERN BELLE 4
SEAMEN SERVED
Sinking FOOD
Captain Slug Men
Who Kick ~.
(By a Worker Correspondent

After being a reader of the Daily
Worker for quite some time l have
decided to write this letter.
We seamen working on the Gulf
Line ship western Belle" especially
down here in the black gang, have
the worst conditions possible. We
have to shovel coal into furnaces
seven and half feet high. The grub
is like garbage.
We used to get sinking meat
mixed together with potatoes which
were full of worms. The fellows on
the ship could not stand it any
longer so four of US went to the cap
tain to demand better food.
The captain came out of the cabaa
with large iron dinner bell in his
hand. When the fellows told him
what we demanded, he hit three of
the fellows over the head with the
bell and knocked them out. Later,
not wanting any trouble while we
were at sea, he separated them to
make it look better. 1t still has the
same stink anyway.
We seamen are rapidly becoming
class-conscious and ready to fight.
urge all seamen to read the Daily
Worker and the Young Worker, and
to join the Marine Workers Progress
sive League.
SEAMAN CORRESPONDENT. {
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Argentine Libertarians
Sending Delegation On
Study Trip to u. S. S. r.

BUENOS AIRES, May S.-The
"Alianza Libertaria Argentina" an
organization of Argentine anar-
chists sympathetic to the Soviet
Union and opposed to the other Ar
gentine anarchist organizations,
which are attacking the Soviet
Union, has decided to send a dele
gate to Moscow to study conditions
there.
The "Alianza Libertaria Argen-
tina," called generally in South
America the Observation-Disclosures"
consists mostly of those anarchists
who left the pure" anarchist trade
union federation, the F. o. R. A., to
join the U. S. A, in which the Com
munists are also members. They
counterfeit to an extent the anti
Soviet propaganda of the "pures"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
OAKLAND auto
WORKERS KNOW
REAL SPEED-UP
Chevrolet Plant Is
Disease Trap
by a Worker Correspondent


OAKLAND, Calf. (By MaiD.-
About 1000 workers, mostly youths,
are employed in the auto industry
in Oakland. The Durant and the
Chevrolet plants are the largest and
the Chevrolet employs about 1900
alone.
All these workers are unorgan-
lied. unorganized, we are exploited
to the limit in the Chevrolet plant
here. Our working conditions are
miserable.
We work nine and ten hours a
DAY in closed, dusty place with
out any ventilation, which hurts our
health. In the wood department,
due to the speed-up system, the
workers are compelled to keep a
mouthful of greasy, breed
ing nails all day long.
In the repair department the
speed is such that but a few work
ers catch up with all the lines.
Finishing is done mostly by cleo
trio and air buffers, which is also
very unhealthy work, because most
Of the filing dust enters the lungs
while heating.
In the whole body department
piece-work is used and by this sys-
tenf the workers themselves are
forced TO drive each other on to
faster work. If we work too fast
the boss thinks we are making too
much and cuts the price almost in
half.
Some days we work 10 or IL
hours. One day we work very fast
and make an average of 65 cents
an hour, and other days we work
very slow and wait for hours for a
job to come and then we make only
IS cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Green Advertises
Golfers. Which Has
Shut Out Union Men

by a Worker Correspondent
! wish to call your attention to the
fact that William Green, president
of the A. F. of L. spoke recently on
the radio over station WIZ, on the
Collier Radio Hour.
Perhaps you don't know that the
strike of Golfers union printers is
still on; union printers are locked
out. 1t seems rather unusual, or
maybe it is usual for Green to
come out in the open and advertise
a scab publication as he does. He
spoke on cooperation" I and other
union men would like little CO.
operation, but not the kind he is CIV
ing to a notorious anti-union firm
like Golfers.
UNION WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
FANCY Names
HIDE DUMPS
Ca feteria Workers
Determined
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
The cafeteria workers went on
strike to improve their living con-
ditions and abolish the 12-hour day.
This is the slogan of the Cafeteria
Workers Union of the Amalgamated
Food Workers.
I can't find sufficient words to
describe the conditions Of the cafe
terra workers. Some of these cafe
terias are under such fancy names
as "Truefood," Paradise" "New
Way" Blossom" etc. But you
find the opposite when you work
there.
The workers in "Truefood" get
garbage. The Paradise" is really
hell hole for the workers. In the
New Way" the workers are treated
like slaves Of the 18th century.
In this strike we have met the or
ganized resistance of the bosses, the
terror Of their hired gangsters and
police brutality. We have been
thrown in the Jail by the dozens
for picketing.
In spite Of all this we intend to
go ahead with the strike, determined
to win our demands. We will picket
the cafeterias every day.
II. p.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Stand All Day.

No one could sit at work, the bos-
ses logic for this was, that had the
tables been lower, the girls would
want to sit, when sitting the hands
are not so free and therefore stand
ing is more profitable as far as
speed-up is concerned.
l worked as a candy packer; the
candy came down on the belt; each
candy had to be put in a candied
paper cup, and then placed in the
box. Each girl usually had three
or four candies to put in the box
in this fashion. All the time the
belt moved and in order to get in
your allotted number of candies, you
had to work fast.
Work In Lunch Period.
If you miss candy, the floor
lady knew that it had been you,
for you had one certain kind of
candy to insert and this kind was
to be placed in a certain place in the
box.
Often the girls spent the last half
of their half hour for lunch prepar-
ing the cups for the insertion of the
candy so that they might not fall
behind in packing and not receive
a bawling out from the forelady.
The dippers work piece work, as
a rule, no matter what time we came
to work, five or ten minutes earlier
than the work demanded, that is,
earlier than z a. M, we always
found most of the dippers at their
places working. When we left, at
$50, If we did not have to work
overtime for a half hour or more,
we always left the dippers working.
They worked piece work and the
greatest wage achieved by the most
experienced dippers was $22 to $25
a week.
1t was on the basis of this that
the factory soon moved into larger
plant. Profits are plentiful when
workers are so exploited. ssastfa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
IN
CHEVROLET IS
GROWING FAST
Speed-up Is Murderous
In Detroit
by Worker Correspondent

DETROIT (By MaiD.-I work
nights st the Chevrolet Gear and
Axle Plant, No. 2. We have to
work 111a hours night for 45 cents
an hour, with 80 minutes for lunch.
We work on the last process of fin
ishing up the axles on the produc-
ton line. Then the axles are
shipped by freight to the various
points in the country.
The work here on the production
line is heavy. Very few mon re-
main here for more than six months.
The bosses main concern is speed
up. The first night that I worked
here we put out 800 axles, and the
speed-up is so great that on the
sixth night the rate of production
increased to 1,400 axles night.
This is an increase of 800 axles, or
a rs per cent increase. At the same
time less men were being employed.
The men here are boiling hot with
discomfort. All of the time they are
complaining among themselves about
the long hours and low wages. But
the worst thing here is the speed
up.
Speed Up Worst Evil.
This is the thing that kills the
life out of them. When we get
through with our liz hours a
night we can just hardly stagger
along back to home. And, when we
work such long hours, we have no
chance to do anything but go to
work, come back 70 sleep, to wake
up only to go back to work again.
Speed-up is the curse of the auto
workers. They hate the ruinous
speed-up system even worse than
wage cuts. At the same time, the
bosses are carrying on their CAM
paign of slashing our wages eveI
more by making one worker do the
work formerly done by two, and by
rationalizing the industry even
more.
The workers here at Chevrolet are
ripe for organization, as they are
everywhere in the auto plants of
Detroit. Departmental strikes are
taking place here in Chevrolet every
day, but the bosses are able to "set-
tie" them by maneuvers and prom
Uses that are never carried out.
CHEVROLET WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SLAVE DRIVING
AT ADLER SCREEN
Workers Get 500 for
so Hour Week
(Bu q Worker Correspondentl

wy " ~ Whof SOJfccPOHucHJ/
The Adler Screen Works at 1904
Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn is at
present open for few weeks. The
season started in March; before that
in the winter a different crew of
workers work on weather strips for
the boss.
There are 10 workers employed
making screens for the boss. Only
young workers are employed, and
Adler speeds them up. The work is
more than 10 mems work. One work
er does screening, two cutting and
sandpapering lumber, one nails
moulding, two are gluers, three
painters, and man working inside
and outside the shop.
The workers make $40, except the
carpenters, for so hour week. The
boss gives US a daily lecture, telling
us we must double the number of
screens we make. Good workers
can't be kept there; what Adler
wants is obedient slaves. The men
work for a few hours and either quit
or get fired for talking back" to
the boss.
To get a drink you must get il
in the toilet, in the washing basin
The last man at lunch time must
wash the basin up. What is needed
in this industry, which, tho small,
is not young, are shop committees te
protect the workers.
..f.. II Il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Ruined Union
Marks LezUis
Traces MOhiO
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
LOGAN, Ohio (By MaiD. - The
Lewis machine has brought the min
ers in Hooking Valley, from the
strongest of organized mine sec
tions, to one where the open shop
is king.
Betrayed by Lewis and Co. into
giving up their long strike and 60
ing back non-union on the promise
that work would be plentiful on a
SIS day scale, even on this starva-
ton scale they found they were
fooled, for little work was to be had.
The mines are putting up shutdown
notices all along the line.
Loading machines are cutting
down the forces also. Modoc mine
No. PSI is closed for good. The Sun
day Creek mines, which employed
hundreds of miners, are on half
time, and soon are to close down in
definitely, it it said.
HOOKING MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
GANG ANGERED
POISON FUMES
ARE INHALED BY
FOUNDRY NE N
Bosses Train Sons To
Be Slave-Drivers
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-Condi-
items in the Crane Plumbing Supply
Plant are terrible. The boundaries
are so terrible that no living things
could exist there except humans.
We have to go there and inhale eli
kinds of poison to make our living
and shorten our lives for the bosses
profits.
Is Do Work of 100.
The foundry workers in the Crane
shops can hardly see each other
through the dense smoke. They are
installing more and more labor
saving machinery every day, throw
ing hundreds out of work. For ex-
ample, in the core room, there used
to work 100 workers; now 25 men
are doing the work of 100. Before
they used to make cores and dry
them; now they are making wet
cores ard do not dry them. Moul-
GERS making moulds and core-moul-
ders all work piece-work.
Speed Slaves Up.
They don't get piece-work rates,
however, so they are not making
more under piece-work than before.
The idea was to speed the workers
up.
If the worker is very fast, they
let him have from $40 to $45 a
week, but he has to work like hell.
If a worker is too "slow" for the
bosses, he is put en- such work that
he has to quit.
Train Slave Drivers.
The bosses are always behind the
workers. speeding them on. All
these big bosses have sons in school,
and as soon as these sons are fin
ished school they bring them to the
shop and train them as slave
drivers.
In Department /, E-5, they are
training three of these young slave
GrlVers. Snre they are real slave
drivers. They have the power to
discharge the workers.
The Crane workers would be
trong for a fighting union. They
ave had experience with the A. F.
Of L. takers. In 1920, the A. F. of
l.. drew the Crane workers on
strike, collected dues, taking as high
as SO from them, and then, after
collecting $4,000, they told the
workers to GO back TO work. The
workers remember this, and many
are afraid of any union, thinking the
same may happen again. But a
real union can convince them of this,
led by the Trade Union Educational
League. CRANE SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
PulbCo. Runs
TQbQueSe Ont
OfB. c. TOaUu
(By a Worker Correspondent

PORT ALICE, B. c. by MaiD.-
Fifty japanese workers of the Brit
ish Columbia Pulp and Paper Com
pany here have been forced to leave
this town by the open shop company,
because they were union men. 1t
was great hardship for these work
ers to suddenly have to le>ve town,
as they all had families.
The company owns this town
lock, stock and barrel, and is backed
up by the legislature of British Co.
lumbia, in Vancouver, in doing what
ever it pleases. They have the right
to run any workers out of town,
simply because the workers are ac-
tive in the union.
The wages are very low among
the open shop workers here, who
have as rule IL hour day.
PULP WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

in South America, where the anar-
chists still have some influence in
a few countries.
The Federal Committee has pub
lished declaration of the delegate,
Vidal Mata, which says in part:
at is with much feeling that I
am undertaking the, journey to Red
Russia. There can be nothing
more exulting for a revolutionary
militant than to be the guest of a
country redeemed from capitalist
slavery and take part in the fervent
enthusiasm of proletariat occupied
entirely in the task of constructing
a new social order. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
JanitOrs of City
Hall In Los Angeles
Ask Wage Increase
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Cal, (By MaiD.
City Hall janitors, lat strong, are
demanding SIS per day, or $1.30 a
month, which is the pay received by
city laborers. The jaintors at said
'graft-proof" institution of invisible
municipal government are now paid
500 month the first year, sos the
second year and $115 the third year.
"Dust-eating" is one of the few
occupations Negro workers are per-
mitted to have. Scrubbing, busting
and polishing, ETC., is dirty work.
Many of the jaintors lost their
jobs, few months ago, because the
civil service commission was not
satisfied with their knowledge con-
nected with the "3 Rs"-Reading,
Riting and Ritmetic. The real rea-
son, however, was something else,
others claim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SLAVES OF CANDY CO.
Faster, Faster" Cries Baltimore Boss
(By a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
'You may eat all the candy you
want in the factory but you may not
take any home, that was the slogan
of the bosses of the Baltimore Candy
Co., Baltimore, Nd, and that easily
became the slogan of the floorlady
of this factory. At one time girl
was punching her time, just before
leaving, when few candies fell out
Of her purse.
At once all the girls were called
together and told to line up at the
door and were thoroughly searched
for the golden treasury chocolate
candies. Following this incident,
the method of searching was prac-
ticed quite often without warning.
At this rate many a girl was
found having committed the "crime"
of trying to take two or three can
dies home. The punishment for this
act was either being fired or a de-
duction in wages-what usually hap
pened was the deduction Of a GER
tain sum, surely more than the cher
ries cost, from the wages of the
girl.
work Fasterw
Every day from seven in the
morning until $50 or $50 in the
evening this floorlady was present
urging the girls to work faster, al
ways with the cry of "if you cannot
work faster than this, you will have
to leave" Very seldom did one of
these $12 week workers have the
nerve to answer her with the few
words of "being tired"-there was
usually punishment for this too,
that of being fired.
The operations were many, some
Of the girls dipped the candy, others
put the ready candies in the box,
others had to carry the trays full
with hot, wet candies from the can
dy dippers to the packers, still
others had to carry the boxes from
the tables to the wrappers. IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

courage people to take more pic
lures like it before the rubber COM
panies come down on the last of
these untapped labor markets and
put the Indians on an eighteen-hour
day.-V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
DRIVERS MAY STRIKE.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, (By MaiD.-
Following the discharge of IL union
men, replaced by non-union men, 500
garbage handlers employed by the
Walkers-Stratum Co., of this city
have threatened to strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
LOW WAGES IN KNIT GOODS.

WASHINGTON, (By MaiD.-An
average wage of S98S.86 a year, or
S19 week, is reported for the work
ers in the knit goods industry. This
includes the knit underwear indus
tries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
HODCARRIERs ORGANIZE.

PUEBLO, Colo, (By Mail). -
Hodcarriers here have formed into
union, and will fight for an S-hour
day and better wages and condi-
tions. ai,as1gl r3sdeo1A fa6sSlaxrnISShlt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BRING BELT TO WINNIPEG

BRING Belt To WINNIPEG
WINNIPEG (By MaiD.-The belt
will be brought to enslave Winnipeg
workers, when Henry Ford con-
structs his new plant here. He has
announced his intentions to build
plant in st. James, suburb of this
CITY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

For Six.Hour Day for Under
ground Work, in Dangerous Occu-
pations, and for the Youth Under
49, ~ ~, o. & II x ~ Is 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Long Live the Revolutionary
Struggle of the Oppressed Colo
NAL Peoples!
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MOVING PICTURE STRIKE
MINERSVILLE, Pa. (By MaiD.-
Moving picture operators here are
on strike against poor working con-
ditions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-02-08

CisseI, II. Hardy-West NJ of
Lot 9, Block M and Improvements
Easley's Subdivision" as described
in deed recorded in liber 408.
folio 308. Taxes, interest and
costs, $500.0s.
Chase, Volney o. and Frances
G.-Lot 4, Block and improve
ments, "Smiths Addition to Silver
SPRING" as described in deed
recorded in liber 424, folio 312;
liber 434, folio 214. Taxes, in
terest and costs, $145.53.
Chewing, Arlington Hot @,
Block 10 "Smith's Bird. Addition
to Silver Spring." az described in
deed recorded in liber 434, folio
65. Taxes, interest and costs,
Chase, Volney o. and Beverly
M. Coleman - present owner,
Ardnave Development Corporation)
Lot 2, Block B and improve
ments, "Smith's Addition to Silver
Spring." as described in a deed
recorded in liber 424, folio 312;
liber 444, folio 1872; liber All +,
folio 108. Taxes, interest and
costs, $144.37
Confer, Joanna-(P present owner
Ardnave Development Corporation)
tion) Lot Block and i'm
provement "Smith's Addition to
Silver Spring." as described in a
deed recorded in liber 424, folio
%; liber 444, folio 3; liber 458,
folios 273 and 274; liber 40, folio
108. Taxes, interest and costs,
$146.73.
Caddington, Ward w. and Mable
North 1-3 Of lots 10 and 20.
Block J and improvements "Silver
Spring Park" as described in a
deed recorded in liber 438, folio 382.
Taxes, interest and costs, $103.15.
Cordell, John Paul and Dorothy
Elizabeth.-East "a Of lot 10,
block N, as described in n deed re-
corded in liber 444, folio 1877.
Taxes, interest and costs, 1919.
Davis, William f.. and Inez NJ.
Lot 81, Block 3 and improve
ments, Lees Addition TO Silver
SPRING" rs described In deed
recorded in liber 1923. folio ITO.
Taxes, interest and costs, SCOTT.
Dillon, Chas. E.-Lot 35, Block
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-02-08

3 Jordan and Smiths Addition 10
Silver Spring." as described IN =
deed recorded in liber 422. folio
272. Taxes, interest and costa
$31.6s.
Davis, Thomas M. and Annie M.
so feet north of the south 80
feet of lots 10 and IL, Block G,
and improvements "Easleys Sub
DIVISION" as described in a deed
recorded in liber 424, folio 442;
liber 434, folio All. Taxes, in
terest and costs, $97.07.
Diver, Harry and Mary M
West v of lot II, Block r, and
Improvements, "Silver Spring
Park" as described in deed re-
corded in liber 43S, folio 1856.
Taxes, interest and costs, $22.90.
Eslin, Henry C.---Lot, IL, Block
p, and improvements, "Silver
Spring Park" as described in a
deed recorded in liber 318, folio
172. Taxes, interest and costs,
$89.22.
Edwards, Enoch B. and Matte
D.-North 100 feet Of lot 10,
Block G, and improv m n s,
"Easleys Subdivision" as described
in deed recorded in liber 434,
folio 1l2. Taxes, interest and
costs, $S1.2S.
Gray, Harold and Edith Baker.
Lot 10, and center l-3 of lot 20,
Block T and improvements,
"Silver Spring Park" as described
in a deed recorded in liber Ala,
folio 416, Taxes, interest and
costs, $l0l,70-