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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
WESTIN CH0USE.
HAS new TRICK
TO DUPE LABOR
Trade School Is One of
It's Best Bets
(Bu q Worker Correspondent)

| by q Worker Correspondent
/ PITTSBURGH (By MaiD The
Westinghouse company has num-
erous schemes to procure and main
tain not only manual, but also men,
tai cheap labor The different
courses offered by the company; as,
the Trade Course, intermediate
Course, Night School Trade, and
Professional Course, all are calcu-
lated to furnish cheap labor.
The Trade School
The trade course given to boys who
have completed the grade school is a
four year course. The young work
er starts with the wages of about
| 20 cents an hour. He goes to
school about six hours week, and
the rest of the time he works in the
shop. He may be helper, or a
machine operator but he does the
work of an adult worker, when he
completes the four years course his
wages hardly rise to between 81
cents to 81 cents an hour.
Another trade course is given to
adults at the shop in the evening.
The men learn to operate the
machines at their own expense and
do the production work without pay,
thereby giving the company another
source of cheap labor.
The Intermediate Class,
The intermediate course is pre-
sumably to develop specialists. 1t is
given to the young men who have
completed high school. They are
started at 80 cents an hour and
promised to be taught trades which
will accelerate promotion. They are
rotated through the shop from one
department to another. They are
kept longest where they are needed
most. They are supposed to learn
many things by actual experience
but in fact, they do work which has
no connection with their intended oc-
cupation. They are helpers, truck
pushers, shop sweepers, etc. Upon
the completion of this two year
course, they may reach the height Of
SOC per hour and remain the source
of further cheap labor supply.
/ This schools offers several courses
and persuades many employees to
enrole. The promises of bright
future for the worthy students" are
many. Men and Women, working
hard all day, driven to exhaustion by
the speed-up system, without rest or
recreation, go to the night school
with the hope that the future will be
better. What is the result? A few
of these may get a position in the
desired trade, but improve their own
conditions very little, other serve as
a cheap source of semi-professionals
and are used to keep down the wages
and salaries of the skilled employees
The overwhelming majority of the
graduates of these courses are COM
pensated with more toll, exhaustion
misery, worry, disappointment ant
disgust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

also to safeguard their lives against
accidents.
These laws are seldom if ever en-
forced. As Berg, a sausage boss,
told me, 81 know how to handle in
spectors working for the govern
ment."
Buy Off Inspectors.
The sausage bosses buy off the
inspectors. Who pays for this brib-
cry of doctors and inspectors? The
workers, who become diseased from
the poison meat products
Boiled to Death.
In the Chicago Packing Co. on
Gross Ave-, the chief engineer was
scalded, boiled and burnt to death
while locked in the lard tank room
under what 1 would call most pecu-
liar conditions. Safety device? Yes,
they had a lock that locks this lard
room door so the engineer could not
get out, and he was cooked and boil
ed alive. He LETT his wife and chill
dren penniless and they could get
no damages from the company.
Destroying the Evidence.
One case was where a man got
his whole arm caught in a bacon
rind slicer at Mickelberry's country
made" sausage dump. Lord Nickel
berry al once tod me to take that
machine apart and into the basement
so as to avoid damage suit.
There was no safety device nor
safeguard of any kind. Many work
ers in these sausage factories are
manned thru no fault of their own,
but on account of the speed-up, and
lack of safety devices. The hurry-up
system forces you to turn out GER
tain amount of work or you are fired.
AS soon as some one is seriously
hurt a safety device is hvrriedly put
on that machinery and the boss will
swear that this man took off that
safety device. and will manage to
prove the same by some lickspittle.
The only way to end all this is for
the packing workers to organize into
packing workers union, ard finally
do away with the capitalist system,
OF greed and exploitation.
PACKING WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
New PLAYS

SOLDIERS AND WOMEN" play by Paul Harvey Fox and
George Ton will be presented by Lew Cantor tie Ritz Theatre
Monday night Violet Hemng Veree Teasdae Leonard Nude
Clifford Walker and G. p Huntley in the cast.
GREAT SCOTT" by Howard E. Koch and Edward A. Ed
wards Monday night at the Forty ninth ST. Theatre.
SWEET ADELINE" musical comedy, with book and lyrics
by Oscar Hammesen End and music by Jerome Kern will
Tuesday night at Hammersens Theatre Helen Morgan Irene
Franklin, Violet Carlson Robert Chisholm Charles Buerworh
and Robert Emmett Keane the principal players.
"THE COMMODORE MARRIES" comedy by Kate Parsons
will be Arthur Hopkins initial offering Of the opening
Plymouth Theatre Wednesday night Walter Huston plays the
chief role Others in the cast include Charles A. Brown Eda
Heinemann Ethel Inropd Eva Williams Harry Hugenot
Ida Kane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Phila. Workers Express
Militancy, Communist
Anniversary Aug. 31st

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 3d.
Growing militancy and solidarity of
the workers here will be demonstra-
ted at the celebration Of the tenth
anniversary of the Communist Party
at picnic Schultezen's Park, 83rd
and Tinnicum Ave. Aug. 81. The
event will last all day.
Unions, fraternal and language
organizations sympathetic to the
Party will attend to participate in
the varied program of labor sports,
dancing and dramatics. Prominent
local Party members will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
men Shaved ON
DEATH TRAP FIT
! TO Be SCRAppED
Days on Lifeboats
After Ship Sunk
(By a Seaman Correspondent

by a Seaman Correspondent
I have just returned from a trip
on the Dollar Liner President Harri-
son, on which I worked, which picked
up the crew of the freighter Quinn
istan, regarding which the capitalist
press printed so much a few days
ago. The capitalist press printed a
lot Of bunk but they left out some
very significant facts about why the
Quimistan sank.
We were 1873 miles south of Sable
Island (which is 1000 miles from
Virginia) when, at 3.45 in the after
noon, the lookout man said that he
saw something on the horizon. He
reported to the captain, who, looking
thru the glass, made it out to be a
life boat. The Harrison changed its
course.
We picked up one life boat which
carried IL of the Quimistan crew and
the second mate. The mate told US
that there was another life boat in
the vicinity with IL more men and
the captain of the Quimistan.
Ready To Be Strapped.
We picked them up too. The crew
of the Quimistan was made up of
Russian, German and other nation
alities. The Quimistan, rotting away,
falling to pieces, had been sold to a
German company, and was being
taken to be scrapped at Genoa. She
was loaded with scrap iron at the
time she went down.
Plates We're Rotten.
The crew reported that they had
, been afloat on life boats for three
days. One of the crew, a Norwegian,
told me that the Quimistan's plates
were so rotten that he was able to
stick his finger thru one.
The capitalist press said the ship
had been or fire. This is not so.
A fire had been built on the fore
castle head as beacon.
The members of the Quimistan
crew had signed on at Norfolk,
wages to be $50 for the trip. This
would have lasted a month, if the
rotten hulk had not gone down.
Join the Marine Workers League.
The Quimistan illustrated what
rotten boats the seamen are forced
to risk their lives on-boats that are
fit only to be scrapped. The seamen
must all join in the one union that
fights to protect them-that is the
Marine Workers League, based on
ship committees.
DOLLAR LINE SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
1 DEAD IN BOILER BLAST

UNION CITY, N. j., Aug. 3d.
One may is dead and 2 men and 2
women are in a critical condition
as the result of an apartment house
boiler explosion and fire which drove
60 families to the street in their
night clothes here.
The dead man is Michael Sardone,
10, who was killed by the boiler
blast when he attempted to find the
source of escaping steam.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Fascists Give Worker
Is Cuts; Dies in Agony
Defense Fund Raised;
(Wireless BY InprecorrI

VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 30
Another socialist worker wounded in
the clash with the Austrian fascist
at st. Lorenzen died in great agony
last night. Physicians reported that
he had 10 cuts on his body from the
pickaxes and spades Of the fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Young Communists
At NJ e e t, Sept.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3O.-A
mass meeting to rally the working
youth of West Philadelphia for In
tcrnational Youth Day will be held
by the Young Communist League
Wednesday, September 4, at 8 p. m.
at 4035 Girard Ave. oss,s,s.. IN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31
Trie S to Justify |
Releasing Hague in
Big N. J. Graft Case

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 30.-Vice-
Chancellor John j. Fallon, who re-
leased Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey
City from the custody of the legis-
lature, today filed an opinion in sup
port of his action.
Hague was arrested on the order
of the legislature after he declined
to answer questions concerning his
financial affairs.
the supervision and the control of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-31

the supervision and the control of
Sovkino.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
UND0ES' WORK,
ARRESTED

When q check signed by viii
liam p. Doing given to Elmer
Catlin in payment for electric
light fixtures was returned Cat
lin sent his employee. w. r.
Hayes, to the Brighton Hotel
where the fixtures were and
took them away.
This didn't seem at all proper
to Doing so he SWore out a war
rant for Catlin and Hayes and
had them brought up before
Judge Ralph Given at Police
Court charged with depreciation
of private property.
Defense Attorney M. M. Doyle
admitted the material facts but
argued that his client entered
and took the fixtures with bhe
color or right" and should not
be prosecuted.
The case was continued to al
low Assistant United States At
torney Charles r. Murray and
lawyer for the defense to file
briefs IN the case.
Doing on the stand admitted
that the check he had given fol
$69.75 had been returned, but ex
planned that he had promised tc
make it good before the first oi
the year.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
find DRY LAWS
HURT YOUTHS

Young people Of today are vic
tins of the prohibition law, the
Moderation League announced to-
day after a nationwide survey
of liquor conditions.
The ones that should most be
protected are the easy prey of
bootleggers and others who have
sprung up to reap a golden har.
vest since the advent of national
prohibition. the league finds.
Investigators for the league
found that prohibition is failure
as far as curbing drunkenness is
concerned, but many States. IA.
natically dry for years. are found
to be almost dripping wet,
although still voting dry.
The increase of drinking among
boys and girls in their teens is
admitted by friends Of prohibi.
ton, the league states. Jane
AddamS wrote during 1929 that
''the present generation seems tc
have settled upon the obtaining
and consumption Of illicit liquors
as its method Of defying the con
ventions of its elders"
The Washington times., 1929-12-30

CORPORATION COUNSEL
WILLIAM W. BRIDE. although
he neper does so, Is entitled By
Uirtue OF his past to call him
self Colonel Bride.
Bride tDGS a colonel on the
staff OF the goDerror OF Ne
brnskn from 1908 to 1910.
During the World War, he
SerUed as a captain IN the mill
tary intelligence dtvtsio1l.
Colonel Bride also serUed
once in the diplomatic SerDtce
of RunsaniG. He iDds counsel to
the legation here and Run1Gntr's
consul to Maryland. He Is q
resident OF Edoenroor, Bethesda,
Md.
Too many poor automobile
drivers on the streets of Wash
ington caused CLYDE M. NOEL,
1900 block New Hampshire
Ave. N. W., to forsake his
occupation Of hotel taxicab
manager and become a pioneer
in the field Of instructing candi-
dates for drivers permits.
Noel now has a flouriShing
business teaching new drivers
how to drive and guiding them
through the ''perilous" pro
ceSses of securing their permit
from hard-boi1ed inspectors Of
the Traffic Bureau.
He was formerly q telegraph
operator employed by the CheSa-
peake and Ohio Railroad at
Covington, Va. In 1918 he
came to washington and be-
came taxi manager for the
washington Hotel. going from
there to the old Ebbitt House
and to the General Automobile
Owners Association.
Noel is said to have made
an art out Of teaching would-be
driver to make the streets Of
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
BILL FOR SMALL
LOANS TO Be
PUSHED +.

Information that the office Of
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride is considering q new loan
and usury law for the District
Of Columbia may expedite action
by the House District Of Columbia
Committee on the recently intro
duced Bowman bill.
This bill, sponsored by Repre-
sentative Frank w. Bowman, tR.)
West Virginia, q member Of the
District Committee, would apply
to loans of $500 or less and is
described by its author as q
measure in behalf of the small
borrower" in temporary financial
need and without banking con-
nections.
Approved BY Committee
During the past session it was
offered by Representative Gil
bert, Kentucky, who is no longer
q member of Congress. 1t re-
ceived a favorable report by the
District Committee, but did not
come to a vote in the House.
The Bowman bill, according to
its author, does not necessarily
mean the return of the old-time
pawnShops which once existed
here, but it would authorize an
interest rate of mot more than
Sla per cent a month" on small
loans secured by ciattelS, en-
dorsements and similar assign
ments. However, 1t is provided
that If a small borrower is mar
ried his wife must sign the chat.
tel mortgage along with the hus
band.
Pawnshops Outlawed
Pawnshops have been outlawed
in the National Capital for sew
eral years. but several operate in
nearby Virginia and Maryland
territory and are well patronized
by needy Washingtonians.
With several dozen local bills
on its calendar the House Dis
trict Committee will begin meet
| ings as soon as Congress recon
venes. Among the pending meas
ures are the bills for increase iE
the pay Of firemen and police
men; the Macleod bill giving the
District a delegate in Congress
and the Bowman bill.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
SH|F 7
AFFECTS D. c.

Prospective resignation of SEN
ator Frederic M. Sackett OF
Kentucky to become ambassador
to Germany. further complicates
an already complex situation in
regard to the personnel of the
Senate District Committee.
Sackett has been regarded as
one Of the most active members
of the Senate District Committee.
AS chairman Of the subcommittee
on police and fire. he is in charge
of the investigation of charges of
graft and corruption existing in
the local government and of con-
ditions in the police department
and the District Attorneys office.
Before the holiday recess,
Sackett had announced his sub
committee would get down to
serious consideration Of the
charges Immediately after the
reconvening of Congress next
Monday. His resignation prob.
ably will delay the inquiry.
Senator Wesley L. Jones, of
Washington, ranking Republican
member, and three other mem.
bers on the Republican side have
asked to be relieved Of assign.
ment to the District Committee.
These requests were presented In
view of the sl1ake-up of com.
mittees 1ecessitated by recent
changs In membership Of the
Senate.
The Committee on Committees
will meet next week to prepare
the new assignments. 1t is prob.
able that by that time Sackett's
future will be definitely de
termined and, If his post is
vacant, it win be taken into con
sideration in forming the new
committee slate.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
ReD. Boun,dn to Push District Small Loans Measure
GUARDS At JAIL
ARE ORDERED
CHANGED

Extensive transfers of guards
and TRUSTEES at the District Jail
were ordered today by Capt. M.
M. Barnard. superintendent Of
District penal institutions, as part
Of his plan to prevent any fur
ther bringing in Of liquor to
prisoners.
No liquor viii be brought into
the jail in the future even ''just
for friendship" Captain Barnard
predicted. Two days Of investi-
CATION disclosed no evidence Of q
commercial liquor traffic, he
said.
Prisoner Tells
He added that there would be
no discharges Of employees other
than the one already ordered.
Walter I. Malone. a guard who
was found to have brought a
half-pint to Jail.
A prisoner told authorities that
Malone had the bottle. Barnard
said. apparently feeling dis
gruntled either because he had
received none of the contents Of
the bottle Malone brought in, or
because he had not been given
enough.
Several TRUSTEES now employed
in the front office Of the jail are
to be transferred to other duties,
the superint said. Two Of
them on one occasion were seen
noticeably under the influence of
liquor, he stated.
Two guards who were suspected
Of bringing in liquor and were
questioned on the strength of
statements made by prisoners
have steadfastly denied the accu-
sations, Barnard said. One of
the prisoners who accused them
was sent to Jail on q liquor
charge.
Records Good
The records of both guards are
good, Barnard said, and he was
disinclined to doubt their word
on the strength of the prisoners
statements.
He added that many guards
who do small favors for prisoners,
such as making telephone calls,
commit minor breaches of regu-
lations and then the prisoners
ask greater favors. threatening
to tell on the guards If they do
not also oblige them In their
later requests.
Publicity brought by stories Of
liquor being taken into the jail
may mean extensive curtailment
of the liberal treatment which
has been accorded to prisoners at
the jail, Barnard said.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
SLAMS CAl ia People

washington safe for pedestrians
and themselves. The vast
majority Of his clients are
women.
His motto is Safety First"
and his principle is to learn
the fundamentals thoroughly.
Curbstone parking. he says, is
the hardest part of driving for
nearly everyone to learn.
To remind his many friends
and GcqudintanceS that he has
not forgotten them, especially
at this time of the year, GUS
A. SCHULDT. presiding Judge
OF Police Court. has sent out
Christmas and NeaD Year greet
ing cards printed in German.
These little iDeli-tDiShers are
printed In colors and olitteTin0
tinSel-du$t and bear the Ger
man fDords "FroehItche Wefh-
1tGchten und GlIectliches NeNe
JGhr," iDhich means, In Ameri-
can, Merry Christmas and a
Happy Net0 Year.
But the most significant part
about these little cGrdboGrds Is
the fact that they bear the
Judges signature In German
script. One OF these cards
reached John Russell Young,
the Stars representative at the
White House, q particular
friend of Gus Schuldt. "RUsS"
tDGs puzzled as to the meaning
Of the signature and the card
until, finally, one Of his iae,Ds-
paper colleagues told him that
the card iDns from Gus and
it .fDGS then that "RNSs" renlens-
bered that Gus plGyed the same
trick" on him last Christmas.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
Arrested 4 Hours After
Leaving RefOr1natory

Less than four hours after his
release from the Maryland House
Of Correction, Saturday. Phillip
X. McAbee, 1900 block Fifteenth
st. N. W., was "in again"
This time he was charged with
housebreaking and larceny Of
clothing and silver from the
Georgetown Preparatory School
on the Rockville pike. He was
captured by Montgomery county
police officers hiding under the
steps Of the school,
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
WILSON BIRTH
To De FETED

The seventy-third anniversary
of the birth of President Wood
row Wilson, and the tenth ami
versary of the League Of Nations.
viii be observed In q Joint cele-
bration Sunday at the National
Theater, beginning at $3.50 o'clock.
The anniversary Of the war
time Presidents birth was Sattlr-
day, and the anniversary of the
Leagues founding is January 10.
Members of the executive COM
mittee on arrangements are:
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, honorary
chairman: Frederic A. Delano,
chairman; Robert w. Wooley,
vice chairman; Mrs. Huston
Thompson, secretary; Admiral
Cary 8. Grayson, treasurer; Mrs.
Kate Trenholm Adams, Frank S.
Bright, Mrs. H. E. C. Bryant,
Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, DR.. II.
Barrett Learned and DR.. David
Hunter.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
GAYTON CHARGE
HIT BY RABBI

The statement OF Municipal
Court Judge Nathan Cayton, that
America is faced by a Jewish
crime wave Of serious proportions
is insulting to Jews and is not
based on actual figures and facts,
rabbi George Silverstone declared
last night in services at the
Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Four
teenth and Euclid Streets North
west.
Judge Cayton owes an apology
to the Jews iii Washington. 7
Rabbi Silverstone said, and de.
clared Clayton's statement could
not be substantiated.
The denunciation by Judge Cay
ton was made at special Cha
nukah services, Friday night, in a
speech at the Adas Israel Syna-
gogue, where he stated that a
problem comparable to some Of
the early emergencies in racial
history confronts the American
Jews.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
ACID IN + ACE
ENDS ROW

Refusing TO allow her husband
decide upon whether the furni-
ture should be stored or not, and
angered when he pushed her
toward the door when she refused
to leave their home. Mrs. Louise
, III. Smith. Is, of the 140O block
hF St. S. II, concluded her share
bftti1e argllrnent by throwing acid
lllI her husbands face.
She win be arraigned in Police
E,0urt today on charges of may
Item. preferred by police OF the
IHift,l precinct.
7zhe injured husband, Robert A.
Smith, of the 2400 block Fourth
Esk. Ne, viii not lose the sight
Of his eyes, physicians said. Ac-
c0rding to police, the couple,
who are estranged, met Saturday
Aligl1k to discuss family division
cf furniture. The man was all
f,r having it stored until some
fmtler time, but the woman
fyecanle angry at his proposition
ind then finally refused to leave
hiS home.
He tried to eject her and then
received the acid in his face.
cars 81 all types and models are
advertised In Times Classified used-car
N1ssWn = t. lf +
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
Forum Will Hear Talk
BY Wet Story Writer

Walter w. Liggett, author Of
the widely discussed article.
"How Wet Is Washington?" in a
recent issue Of the Plain Talk
magazine, will be the principal
speaker next Sunday at the meet
ing Of the washington Open
Forum, held at the winston Hotel,
Raoul Lizaire, charge d'affaires
of the Haitian Legation, told
Forum listeners Of conditions in
his native country yesterday. The
unrest and numerous rebeilions.
he said, are caused by conflict
between liberals and adherents 10
the old order Of things.
The Washington times., 1929-12-30
OneEye Can ndOnly
Bay Rum to Drink

The Nations Capital may be
wet. as some say it is, but it's wet
with bay rum, according to Will
liam Hammel, 54, of Baltimore.
Hammel, who has only one eye,
and that one for speakeasles, was
arrested and brought into Police
Court tor drinking what most peo-
pie put on their faces. u
He was released from the tolls
Of the law after Judge Ralph
Given had rebuked him and told
him to lay off the bottle.
''I imagine that this advice will
reach me this time, your honor" "
was the fluent answer of william.
Don't think you're fooling any
body by your glib tongue. If you
come ZIP before me again I'll ad-