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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
HOOVER NAMES COOPER

Washington. Sept. 16-P)-Wtllis
L. Cooper OF New York was MOI
mated by President Hoover today
be director OF the bureau Of foeei
and domestic commerce in the {
partmcnt Of commerce.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
FLAMES TAKE STEMS Gar

the car and garage Of Adam Stein.
farmer u miles northwest Of Man
dan, causing . loss Of $500. Stein
and his family were In Mandan at
the time Of the blaze and no one was
On the farm. II Was said. The loss
y poftly cuyeged " Insurance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
JOHNSON'S BROTHEr DEAD

Word Of the death at Mcdlord, Wis.
of August Johnson. brother Of Alfred
johnson, Mandan jeweler. Wa re.
ceived here this morning. Efforts
were being made to locate johnson
who LEFT yesterday on q hunting trip.
The brother died Saturday night, &C.
cording to the telegram received. It
did not state cause Of death.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
COUNTY HEALTHY

With only one case Of Z commune
cable disease In the county, Dr. =. \.
Bunting. county health officer. be-
licves Morton the healthiest county
IN the state as far as sickness Is con-
cerned. The doctor said the single
case. which Is diphtheria. Will be re-
leased from quarantine soon.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16

The highest waterfalls in the world
arc the Kaictcur falls, TAI feet, In
British Guina.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
RAILROAD BUILDS AT SUNNY

With shipments Of livestock and
other commodities on the increase At
Sunny, three miles west Of Mandan.
new stockyards. loading platform,
water tank and section house will be
erected at that place. It has been m.
nounced here BY the.Northcrn Pacific
railroad.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16

Mr.. and Mrs. 7. e. Murphy. accom-
panied BY their son George. returned
to their homo In Valley City 6atur-
day. George Murphy, who has been
spending the summer In Mandan. Will
attend the Uniyesstty q lsosth Dako-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16

Miss Josephine Hess entertained at
4 bridge party Friday evening honor
Ing Miss Mary Brown, who leaves the
latter part Of this week for 81. Paul
to attend st. Cathertneis college. Four
tables were in play. and honors went
to Miss Vivian Luther,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
MISLEADERS' SOFT JOBS
iusEE
gHoW Governor Rewards Union Officials

so far as could be learned, will re-
main in the office. He has received
no word of any change from Spring
field"
This man Leven was editor of the
fake labor paper, "The Vermilion
County Star" He draws $35 week
from them. Then he turned this
paper over to former Governor
Small and was appointed assistant
superintendent of the Illinois State
free employment bureau. From this
he got $40 week, and as he is also
local supervisor here of the county,
he was holding three jobs. Last
week the new governor removed him
from bis state job. His partner, M.
j. Barry, was a vice-president of
the Blacksmiths Union, but since
the 1922 strike he has lost out with
the union and holds this job oppo-
site to Leven.
Their other labor misleader friend,
Molyneux, is in the southern part
of the state selling undertaking sup
plies. This Leven and Molyneux
have always worked together.
That fake labor paper, the Vermil-
ion County Star, is forced on the
miners in this locality and the whole
membership don't want that sheet.
MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
OMPENSATION'
STARvES PAPER
Mill WORKERS
Few Dollars for Hurt
Mass. Toilers
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

MONROE BRIDGE, Mass, (By
MaiD.-In the paper mill I work,
during this past week, two workers
have been injured while at work.
Joom Swenson had his arm broken
last night when he slipped into the
winder. The night before that, New
man Gardner had his foot broken
from falling core. These two work
ers will be paid up for periods of
many weeks before they will be able
to work again.
What I wish to point out to work
ers reading the Daily Worker is how
these injured men, hurt on the job,
are to exist on a living standard;
for even in this so-called advanced
State of Massachusetts their COM
pensation will net them barely $13
a week and they will get that
meager sum only after the lapse of
week.
The cost of caring for their in
juries will be borne only up to the
sum of $75. 1t is to be remembered
that these workers are not the low
est paid either. 1t means that work.
ers with minor injuries are forced
to let themselves go on working tho
they suffer and are handicapped. For
instance, this morning Wilbert
Wheaton was badly scalded by steam
but he continued to work.
Only real social insurance can
solve the problems of these workers
and the entire working class. 1t
is obvious that the so-called indus
trial compensation is entirely in
adequate.
The subject of social insurance
surely ought to be a big point for
the Trade Union Unity Convention
to take up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
;Surbass Leather Workers
Fighting for Their Union

evolved novel picketing plan, alter
mating pickets to be at the plant all
day and mass picketing whenever the
occasion warrants.
The Surpass leather workers are
demanding 25 per cent increase in
wages, abolition of overtime, no lay
off in slack season, equal distribu-
ton of work, and d. hour, five day
week and union recognition.
The pickets are under the COM
mand of captain and this helps
to develop leadership and give all
the strikers an active part in the
strike.
Conditions at the Surpass are
worse than in any other plant in the
city and when a slack season occurs
the men make hardly enough to ex-
list being laid off, etc. The Surpass
Kid Co. pays from 20 to 80 per cent
less than any plant in the city.
The A. F. Of L., seeing fat jobs
in sight for the misleaders have is
sued a pamphlet calling on the
leather workers to join the union and
advocating cooperation with the
bosses, who cut the workers wages
and force the workers to work like
slaves under terrible conditions. The
workers in the leather industry here
can see how the bosses Cooperate"
with the workers by arresting and
throwing five leather workers into
Jail for giving out leaflets-the A.
+ of L. takers will not be arrested,
as they are the bosses friends.
Today in Philadelphia the leather
workers are organizing into the
Leather and Shoe Workers Indus
trial Union, for the GLACIERS, stakers
and seasoners have been sold out by
the United Leather Workers in
strikes. The U. L. w. has never
tried to organize those who were
the most exploited and oppressed in
the industry.
Leather workers, you belong in the
Leather and Shoe Workers Indus
trial Union, which is based on shor
committees, with leaders who cannot
and would not sell out their fellow
workers. Craft unionism divides the
shoe workers and leather workers;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26


him and says, mournfully, Lousy"
This, only one of the many pages
in Murray Anderson's Almanac"
(Erlanger's Theatre) is indicative of
the entire mood of the production.
Skit follows skit, song. follows song,
-tableaux, dances, screamingly
funny scenes pile up through the
evening with a rich carelessness,
lavish of number. Many of the
jokes are stale and rehashed, some
of the songs vary only slightly from
others heard in the not-too-distant
past, but the Almanac" in it's en-
tirety towers above the individual
pages. 1t is inspired vaudeville.
The production, subtitled "a Re-
vusical Comedy" purports to be a
revue and burlesque of the stage of
yesterday, today and tomorrow"
covering the half century from 1880
to 1890 1t fails in this, because of
the many distracting and irrelevant
scenes included. It's only unity lies
in the recurrence Of theme songs,
and the repeated appearance of the
same actors and songsters and
dancers on the stage. Trixie Fri
ganza, Fred Heating, Jimmie Savo,
Roy Atwell, Eleanor Terry, and
Eleanor Shaler, together with Billie
Gerber, Charles Barnes and Helen
Thompson, the poppy and appealing
songsters, monopolize the goo d
pages of the almanac" Their con-
tribute IS alone save many of the
uninpired. and rickety songs and
comedy pieces from downright in
effectiveness.
The almanac" may well be in
spired vaudeville, with skits and
scenes by Peter Arno, RUDE Gold
berg, Reginald Marsh, Wynn, Noel
Coward, and Paul Gerard. Tower
ing skyscrapers rotate dizzily on an
ample stage, while the chorus and
it's leaders go jazz-mad. On the
top of skyscraper Jack Powell per-
forms on the drums SO quickly that
one can scarcely see the drumsticks.
Curtains rise and fall in quick sue
cession, revealing sometimes a
u iquely conceived scene, I'M
expected, and sometimes an ordinary
Broadway vaudeville scene. But the
tumble is so varied that it seldom
lacks in entertainment.
Especially good is Jimmy Savo,
the dog-eyed, pseudo-tragic COM
edian. His antics kept the audi
ence roaring whenever he appeared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
F ARMERS ARE
Debt SLAVES
IN N. DAKOTA
Are Rapidly Becoming
Dispossessed
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
DOUGLAS, N. D., (By MaiD.-
There is plenty of evidence that the
small farmers are rapidly becoming
dispossessed, something which the
capitalist press does not say very
much about and if it does mention
it, it is, of course, the farmer him.
self who is mostly to blame for the
bad situation he is in.
Here is a concrete example of the,
situation in the farming section. In.
Blackwater township, M C L
county, North Dakota there are So
farmers and only about of these
own their land free from any en-
cumbrance, all the land except ten
quarter sections is mortgaged. One
third of the land is said to be
owned by the farmers, but it is
ownership in name merely, while
the remainder, or two-thirds is
owned by bankers, insurance com
panies and spectators. One-third
of the farmers are tenants and their
number is increasing.
Farmer Slaves to Debts.
The farm mortgage debt in this
township is about 100000 and the
chattel mortgage debt and other
debt of the farmers is at least
100000, making a total indebted
ness of this township of 100000. A
township is six miles square and
contains SO sections, each having
$40 acres. This picture is not at
all overdrawn but is very typical of
the average township over wide
areas in the Northwest.
Need Left Wing Leadership.
The farmers here have no faith
in Hoover and his farm board but
they are still at sea as to the line
they ought to follow. Economically
they cling for the most part to or
CARNATIONS like the Farmers Union,
and politically they side with the
Progressives. However, they are
not very strong for either one Of
them. Given a left wing leadership
many of them will undoubtedly fol-
low the new path-the path that
leads to the total abolition of the
capitalist system and the complete
emancipation of all who toll upon
the land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
Tail Young Workers on
Cross Country Hik e

LYNN, Mass6G Aug. 25.-Three
youthful hitch-hikers, whose travels
thus far have taken them through
parts of New York, Canada, Maine
and Massachusetts, were homeward
bound today after truancy charges
against them had been dismissed in
district court.
a The three, John S. Henry, 10; his
: sister, Mary, 20, of Reading, Pa,
and Dorothy L. Lorah of Glen Falls,
n. Y, set out from the latter COM
munity Sunday with total resources
of 81. Arrested while bathing at
Lynn Beach yesterday, they were
forced to spend the night in jail be-
cause of inability to furnish bonds
their total finances consisting Of so
cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
by a Worker Correspondent

.-- by Worker Correspondent
I'D DANVILLE, III. (By MaiD.-En-
@closed is clipping regarding two
of our labor leaders" of the past
that had been connected with the
c. z. /. strike here in 1922.
EDITORS Motel: The clipping fol-
lows:
-.-."Rumors to the effect that Frank
! A.. Leven, assistant superintendent
Of the local office of the Illinois
State Free Employment Bureau,
had been asked to resign, were cur
rent on the streets Tuesday. Mr..
Leven, when asked by representa-
tive of The Commercial-News
stated that he had voluntarily sent
in his resignation several days ago
to take effect Aug. /, and that he
had received notice from the depart
ment that the resignation had been
accepted.
"Mr. Leven is just now winding
up the affairs of the office and will
devote his entire time in the future
to the Vermilion County Star, the
local labor paper of which he is edi-
tor. He was with the free employ
ment bureau for a number of years.
IN, J. Barry is in charge of the
Wonl office as superintendent and,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
SLAVERY AT
The BELT IN The
CAL. CANNERIES
Low Wages and Work
Is Seasonal
by a Worker Correspondent

OAKLAND, Cal. (By MaiD Low
wages are paid the women workers
in the Nelson Packing Co. plant
here. The trimmers are on day
work and get SO and quarter cents
per hour. This work is speeded up
by means of the belt system.
After the peaches and other fruit
come out of the lye bath which re-
moves the skins they are brought out
on belts and the workers must keep
up with the speed, trimming bad
spots, etc.
Canning is on piece work land the
pay is somewhat better, but the
floors are always wet and the work
ers' clothes get wet with the water
and juice. Also, all the other work
in the cannery is wet in spite of the
rubber aprons furnished. The work
ers' clothes are spoiled thru getting
damp and stained.
Some men also work in the can
neries. They are the machine men,
checker boys, etc. Some make forty
cents an hour and consider that good
pay. The majority of the cannery
workers are Portuguese, Spanish and
Italian.
Seasonal Work.
Canneries are open only three to
four months a year. All of the
cannery are unorganized. The recent
little strike in the Nelson Packing
Co. shows that if the workers were
to organize, their conditions would
be bettered, as the bosses fear that
tying of the experienced force (who
come into these canneries every
season. would place them in tight
position, because this is the work
that spoils if not tended to seven
days week.
The cannery bosses are claiming
that young girls make the best work
ers because they have "coura sc" moi
to complain much of sore hands and
because they learn much more quick
ly. These young girls come in to
work during their school vacation
to earn their clothing money. Thus
more and more of the youth is drawn
into this employment. Naturally the
women workers who have suffered
went through their lives and who
now, upon getting home from work
have to tend to homework, washing
scrubbing, cooking and countless
other tasks, are liable to understand
their conditions and object more
quickly to their slavery.
Organization of the cannery work
ers will start soon. The low stand
ard of living is teaching the cannery
workers slowly but surely that they
must awaken to their conditions and
fight for the betterment of them
ANNE ALDEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
g under compressed air. The laborers

Trixie Friganza, who appeared in
partnership in several of the skits
with Savo, was equally satisfying.
Later, when this partnership was
broken, both managed to sustain
their high showmanship in solo and
leading acts. Fred Heating, master
of ceremonies, warmed the theatre
to the different pages of the CAL
manac" before every scene with his
"magic," and pleasing stage per-
sonality. The surprising element of
it all lies in the fact that the CAL
manac" remained good in spite of
many mediocre and incompetent
scenes. The story of "The Young
King" by Oscar Wilde, evidently
introduced into the production as
self heart balm by John Murray An
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
has when he goes out.
Rats, Reaches and Meats.

The Arnold Brothers packing plant
is alive with rats, mice and cock
reaches crawling all over the sausage
meat. This plant is located on West
Randolph St., Chicago. 1t is fierce
place to work in. Most of the
makers of sausage pay below the
stockyard scale of wages. The stock
yard meat combine and packing trust
will not allow any packers 10 pay
their employees one cent above the
scale paid in the stockyards. But
they can pay as low a scale as they
can get men to work for.
All the stockyard refuse that can
not be sold directly over the butcher
counter such as meat from the pigs
feet, heart, trips, and what not, goes
into sausage for the workers to eat
and get sick from. In this letter
Il will follow it with other, telling
of conditions of the workers), I will
tell how pork is handled in the re-
frigerators.
Refuse in the Meat.
In cooling, refrigerating and freez-
ing pork it is cooled thru the moist
air refrigerating process. The air
is cooled by fans forcing the air
over refrigerating coils and sheets
of water to cause the air to be
heavily laden with moisture or
water.
This watery air is absorbed by the
pork meat products, making them
weigh heavy.
Pork sausage is chiefly made of
refuse pork fat and heavily laden
with fine ice in the making ard pigs
feet meat and other refuse.
There is more money in pork
sausage, pork meat and all kind of
sausage than in any other kind of
food products manufactured. Mil
lions of dollars are made in a few
years.
PACKING WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
SPEEDUP MAKES
SLAUCH IN
INFERNO GREAT
Bosses Try to Blame
I. Crane Men
By a Worker Correspondent


NILES, Ohio (By MaiD.-I work
in the hot mill of the Thomas steel
plant here. I work eight hours a
day, five to six day a week, getting
81, So and Sc a day. I also work
at the furnace during the winter
Work in an Inferno.
During the summer we suffer ter
ribly from the heat in the hot mill.
work in an inferno then. This
old and rotten building is always
full of dense fumes; there are only
a few small windows, but even they
are located far away from US.
The fumes irritate the throat and
eyes. In front of me there are three
open hearth furnaces vomiting blue
flames and filling the air with chok-
ing gas. The sweat keeps dripping
on to the ground. Quite often we
have commissions of the arms and
feet. I have worked in many places
but nowhere have ] ever found such
terrible conditions as here. The air
is not pure at all, always full of
dust.
24-Hour Stretch of Slavery.
The hookers work II hours u day,
seven days a week, and often d
hours at a stretch once every two
weeks. They are paid IA cents an
hhour. The workers in the dryer de-
partment work IL hours a day, and
on Sundays IS hours at a stretch.
They should get five times what they
do get for the long and difficult work
they do. The boss, Frank. in that
department is a pighead and always
forces the men to slave harder and
harder. "Come on, hurry up. you
are God damned crazy" are the
words always used by Frank.
At the slipping floor they work
10 and IL hours day, getting A
cents an hour. They don't get more
than five or ten minutes rest turnout
the whole day.
Bosses Shift Blame for Accident.
The crane man works seven days
week, II hours day and every
two weeks "a hours at stretch. He
is paid SO cents an hour. The hookers
get hurt very often, because they
are forced to rush and speed up,
and the bosses try to lay the blame
for the accidents on the crane man.
But it is not his fault at all, if some
one is killed, because the BOSS is
always insisting that he work faster
and faster. whenever l raise a
load" crane man told me. 81 al
most pray that no one will get hurt
because do not have time to lift
the load slowly as it will take three
times as long and the boss fires US
if we take time, and do things the
safe way.
We are all unorganized here. That
is why we have to stand for such
terrible conditions. We must organ
ize into shop committees, and form
the basis of a Thomas Steel Works
local of powerful, militant Steel
Workers Union.
L. n.
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derson, and meant to be a sincere
interlude in the midst of jazzy
revelry, was only half notch above
insipid and gaudy burlesque.
Several of the songs, notably Il
Can't Remember the Words"
Happy Ending" and Il May Be
Wrong" will probably be irritating
the pedestrian traffic along Union
Square in the very near future.
W. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD. -
The leather workers of the Surpass
Kid Co. are on strike under a capable
leadership-not like the takers who
call themselves leaders in the A. F.
of L. The strike promises to be a
short but interesting one. Workers
from other parts Of the plant are
responding and the whole plant will
be organized in short time into
the Leather and Shoe workers In
dustrial Union. The workers have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
SEAGOING BUCKET-SHOP

Passengers aboard the lined Ber-
engaria on her last westward cross
ing enjoyed the stock-ticker room
which had just been established.
1t was one of the most popular
places on the vessel, the parasites
said, but no one would estimate the
amount of business transacted by
radio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26

in an armchair and
scene reminiscent
of a Whistler por-
trait Mother
dear, how do you
feel ?" There is
an expression of
strained anxiety
on his face as
m o t h er (Trixie
Friganza) slowly
II L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
NATACHA NATTOVA AT THE
PALACE THIS WEEK

Ken Murray, comedian, returns to
the Palace this week heading his
own vaudeville revue in it's 1929-30
edition. Lou Holtz has been re-
tailed for a second week. Appear
ing with him is Irving Caesar, COM
poser of all editions of George
Whites Scandals" and other Broad
way musicals. Other attractions in
clude: Natacha Nattova, star of
dance; Ken Murray and his troupe;
The John Tiller Cocktail Girls;
Gladys Hunt; Foster, Pagan and
Cox; Helen and Milton Charleston;
Harry Webb and His Entertainers,
with Violet Maye and Pompy Chris
tian. Natacha Nattova is assisted by
Bogdan Ganjou and George Ganjou.
industrial union means solidarity and
c11oooco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
Murray Andexs0u,s Almanac
Is q Sparkling Revuslcal Show

"MOTHER," cries the solicitous and
NA loving son to the buxom woman
attired in the decorous and matronly
habilement of the nineties, who sits
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
by a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO by MaiD.-I will
write for the Daily Worker series
of letters telling of conditions in the
packing houses. In my first letter
l will describe now the sausage is
made, for / think all workers should
know this, as they buy all the poor
and filthy meat products.
In the Chicago Packing Co. the
head doctor and two other doctors
had to commit suicide to keep from
going to the penitentiary for many
years when caught receiving brides
from the owners for allowing them
to sell diseased, poisoned and tainted
meat. This proves what any kind
of factory inspection amounts to.
Murderers Go Scot Free.
1t is one out of a thousand of these
murderers that is ever caught selling
diseased and poisoned meat, sausage
and especially pork sausage that is
doled out with a chemical preserva-
tive to make it keep for weeks in
refrigeration.
This diseased meat caused ulcera-
ton and other diseases of the stom-
ach for the workers, for they buy
the poisoned meat, being unable to
buy any better meat.
l was working for Arnold Brothers
packers and they are the same rot
ten sausage makers as the rest,
They seem to think their sausage is
so good that every worker wanted
to steal some Of the stuff, for they
search every package that a worker