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The Washington times., 1929-05-09
VA. SCIENTISTS
PLAN MEETING

sTAUNToN, Va, May 9.-It is
expected that SEQ persons viii attend
the seventh annual meeting of the
Virginia Academy Of Science, to be
held at staunton Military Academy
tomorrow and Friday.
Friday there will be formal
review of the cadet corps Of the
military school, attended by the
guests of the academy. Following
dinner there will be a program Of
entertainment in which students
from the Mary Baldwin College. the
Manch College of Music and the
military academy will take part.
Addresses at the Friday evening
will be made by Col. Thomas II,
Russell, president of the Staunton
Military Academy, DR.. Ivey F.
Lewis, of the University of Virginia,
and DR.. William NJ. Brown, presi.
dent OF the Virginia Academy OF
Science.
The Stonewall Jackson Golf course
will be open to those attending the
meet, and Saturday there will be
motor trip to the Grand
Caverns, Grottoes, Va, arranged
by the Staunton Military Academy.
Outstanding scientists Of the
state will - "ers before the
eional meetings.
The Washington times., 1929-05-09
l4,000 TO VISIT
WAR GRAVES
LISTED

Records Of $4,000 Gold Star Moth
hss and widows of Aasrica's soldier
dad in Europe, have been receivea
ct the cemetsrial division Of the War
Department and will be investigated
IN preparation for the pilgrimage to
the eight cemeteries. There are ap.
proximately $4,000 women In the
United States eligible for this pill,
grimage which viii probably begin
early in 1880. Present arrangements
are to divide the pilgrimage into
three sections.
The bill passed at the last session
Of Congress provides that every
widow who has not married since her
husbands death, and every mother
Of soldiers and sailors buried in
Europe, will be permitted to make a
visit to the grave Of her loved one
at the expense of the Government.
Each person entitled to make the
pilgrimage will receive an invitation
from the cemeteFial division as soon
Rs authorities have approved the In
Vestigation reports.
Many of the women, War Depart
Nnent officials believe, have seldom
left their own communities. Invita-
tions will reach every section Of the
country, and almost every nation
atty of the civilized world. as many
OF the soldiers and sailors buried in
the six cemeteries of France, the one
In Belgium and one in England. were
of foreign parentage.
The trip ~ to be made on first
class steamers with first class ac-
commodations. from start to return.
All expenses are to be paid by the
Government from the time the widow
or mother leaves her home until she
returns
The Washington times., 1929-05-09
Staunton's Business
Corner Invaded
By Bees

sTAUNT0N, Va, May 9.-There
was a ''hot time in the old town
when a swarm OF bees for nearly
half an hour held possession at
one Of the busiest corners hers.
just where the visitors" came
from 40 one was able to say.
One man remarked. They may
be honey bees, but they certainly
are hot"
Resorting to an old-time meth
cd. Marvin Armstrong began to
beat on a tin pan and at the
same time ring a COW bell. but
the insects paid little heed.
Finally the bees settled on an
automobile parked near the cor,
ner, after passing cars had taken
In several--with fesults unknown.
The Washington times., 1929-05-09
CLUB NAMES DELEGATES

RIVERDALE, May g.-Fhe cur
rent Topics Club has named Mrs.
Luther Munson. Mrs. John Harlan
and Mrs. w. E. Bennett as dele
gates to attend a meeting of the
County Federation of Women's
Clubs to he held in Mt. Rainier,
Nav o.
The Washington times., 1929-05-09

White House Eyap. Milk. 8 tall cans 2Sc
BOrden's, Pet, earn. Milk. tail can 1Oc
KeIlOgg's Rice Krispies .....2 pkgs. 2Sc
Post TOaStIeS ................ .Phg' oc
Libbys Apple Butter ......... can lac
Quaker Maid p.;:: .;:s Beans. .....S cans 2Sc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
Red Specialists End
Sabotage By Enemies

concluding part of
training specialist Higher Technical
concludes the series of letters published the weeks
worker and correspondents the Soviet Union These work
s and ] are eager hear fro" workers and
They wish the American workers in reply
letters send them They wish to exchange letters with
the conditions the Soviet Union and the American industries
Write them today Send letters the worker correspondence
department of the Daily Worker We will forward them to the Soviet
workers.
Soviet workers? This possible but must make certain by
sending letters to the workers of the Soviet Union them
into sending letters to the American workers.
The figures below show the which the labor
these figures it necessary upon
Moscow Higher Technical School represented the past
Moscow Technical School.
and of the largest higher institutions of learning
1928 the number of all the students of this school $780, The school
had and has faculties mechanical chemical and
good reputation having produced weraned engineers
luton trained the children bourgoe upper
the ntegntza that close to the burgeos The school enjoyed
the patronage of the imperial house hence called imperial"
The first the did permit working
Immediately fill this prevented
by the economic conditions the and the civil
the ended the youth study
Already by 1927 the percentage
and of peasants cent In 1928 the
43.1 and of peasants per
The increase the of workers continuing
further.
The admission the fall 1873
per cent of and M per cent of peasants The rest rs cent
workers Faculties
The great majority of the students admitted in 1928 graduates
Of Workers Faculties These faculties which every
center genuine They by
for admission higher institutions learning
To the workers faculties admitted exclusively
ants who have had industrial experience factory
peasant farm not less than The
tuition learning without upon faculty.
and they admitted also the first to get state
scholarships, free lodgings and books
To End Sabotage by Bourgeosie.
By enrolling the labor
learning the point where repetition
the OF deliberate damage the the
impossible The graduation of specialists
abes the to fill the places occupied by engineers
the factories and mills with its the
socialist reconstruction Together with those specialists have
taken the side of the petarat they will
the country still rapidly.
With fraterna greetings,
v ARKHIPOV Student of Moscow Higher
Technical School, Chemical Faculty Freshman
Year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
Jobless In Salt Lake
City Robbed By Sharks
In Employment Offices
Bv q Worker CORRESPONDENT.

ny w OfhtT correspondents.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (By
MaiD Every time a worker ap-
plies to the law he finds out that
the law is made to use against him.
This happens all over the U. S., but
in Salt Lake City a worker can be
robbed and the law will say that
it is fine.
There are some employment agen-
cies, the worst of which is Strokes
Agency, which cheats the workers.
They tell everything good about the
job, make a worker pay So or more
for chance to make $3.50 day of
s hours. When the slave is on the
job he finds out he has to work
IL hours instead of s day, and
that the conditions are rotten, un-
like the "fine" conditions clearly
written on the employment agen-
cies' ticket.
This happened to me at the En-
Agency and happens every day to
many workers. Refusing to work
and trying to get the money back is
impossible.
Here are the names of four other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

urday and Sunday and on April 20
and 30, this year, include Richard
Strauss Symphonic Poem, "a He
ro's Life" (Ein Heldenleben). HUI
bert Raidich, of the Royal Opera,
Brussels, plays the role of the hero,
Other roles will be played by
Charles Weidman, Sophie Bernsohn,
Ruth Florenz, Bat-Ami, Paul de
Pont, Benjamin Zemach and Felicia
Sorel.
AS the Folk Scene, Georges Enes-
co.'s "Rumanian Rhapsody, No. l."
will be played. A fantastic number,
Charles Critics "The White Pea
cock" which the Neighborhood Play
house presented in 1927 at the Play
house in Grand St., will also be
given.
Ernesr Bloch's symphony, "Israel,"
which aroused enormous interest
when the Neighborhood Playhouse
presented it year ago, will be
given this year on April 20 and 80.
Again the massive setting for which
10 Davidson sculptured the model
will be shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
SILK AND SLAV Err Y
Wilkes Barre Workers Want q Union

lative of the boss, he gets a job as
foreman even when he knows moth
ing about the silk.
The silk is the worst out in the
mill. Sometimes we have to work
during dinner hour to put them up
and they count them twice night.
If we have over As or so ends, he
gives us hell. We run five machines
for $50 and now they are going to
give the workers six machines for
S32 a week.
The workers would like to join
a union, but they're afraid to lose
their jobs because work is poor here.
That's the reason why the boss
scared the others out of the union.
The fellows need union here badly.
The organizer is trying hard to or
ganize the Leon Ferrenbach mill.
Her name is Clarina Nicholson Of
the National Textile Workers Union.
EDWARD GATES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
THOUSANDS ARE
DISpPL. AGED IN
ABERF0YLE Mill.
Machinery Makes Men
Jobless
(By a Worker Correspondent

~ q w OfHeF COTTeSp0HueHt/
CHESTER, Pa, (By MaiD -
Naturalization the installation of
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
new machinery, has displaced more
than 1000 workers in the four mills
of the Aberfoyle Manufacturing
Company here.
The Aberfoyle, Arasapha, High
land and Thurlow mills have had
their forces cut by more than so per
cent within the past year and half.
Added to this, the speed-up, and
low-wages make this vast plant a
slave-market. Worst of all is the
company union here, the crassest ex-
ample in existence of the fawning,
bootlicking, tool of the bosses.
The company operates a large
country club estate, under the "con-
troll" of the company union. Here
the several thousand workers are in
vited to spend their Saturdays and
Sundays playing ball or drinking
soda water or watching movie-pic-
lures instead of asking for a raise,
or asking the company to tighten
the speedup.
Most of the toilers work only four
days week, and wages are pitiful,
rarely reaching the fifteen dollar
mark for the majority.
But the Aberfoyle ball is held
annually, to blind the eyes of the
workers and make them believe they
are having a good time.
At the last ball, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lord, owners of the plant, led the
march, and Immediately afterward
left for Bermuda to rest up from
their labors.
And the rest of the workers went
back the next morning to the stuffy,
Gathering looms to earn the mag
nificent sum of SIS a week so that
Mr.. and Mrs. Lord can enjoy Ber-
muda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
Mayo Corporation
Rules Roche ster
Town In Minnesota
lBu q Worker Correspondent

ROCHESTER, Mimi, (By MaiD.
In this city of the Mayo Clinic
and Kohler Corporations the labor
officials are reactionary. Union Of
ficials of the fighting type are
scarce. The union meetings are like
prayer meetings and fear of the
corporations is stamped on every
face. A few of the home guards,
who by scabbing or by crooked
means have worked into the favor
of the bosses are trying to smother
every militant note that is sounded,
by yelling "Radicalism, Bolshevism."
In this town anyone with audacity
to express an opinion of his own is
called a radical" A "Bolshevik"
is one opposing the policy of the
Mayo Bros. Corporation. The Mayo
Corp. is bitterly anti-union. This is
shown by the fact that M. Schwartz
and Co. are given the building work
of the corporation and worse scab-
herding outfit than Schwartz would
be hard to find.
%. s. C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
PAY CO. union
OR YOU'RE FIRED
ON SOUTHERN RY.
Shopmen Are SpeedeC
Up By Railway
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS (By MaiD.-I want
to call your attention to the railway
shop conditions in the railway shops
here. When you apply for job the
first question asked you is, care you
a union man? If you are, we don't
want you"
If you pass this your life history
is taken and if you ever attended
union meeting you are not wanted,
for you would not do for the Shop
Association.
Should you be hired, the following
happens. You pay association dues,
for if you were to rebel on this 1t
would mean a reduction of forces
would let you out.
Then the speed-up system is ter
rible and if an organizer should
speak to you it would mean your
Job. What is needed on the Missouri,
Pacific and Southern here are some
aggressive organizers to put pep in
the boys, to make them see that we
are really the railways slaves.
SOUTHERN R.R. SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

Before You're rs" Stupid
Comedy at Maxine Elliott

A RATHER stupid but at times
"A amusing comedy is now at the
Maxine Elliott Theatre. 1t is titled
Before You're 25," and is the brain
child of Kenyon Nicholson, remem-
bered mostly for his recent success
"The Baker"
The name of the play is based
upon quotation that reads: "lf a
man isn't a socialist sometime be-
fore he is rs he has no heart; if he
is a socialist after he is rs he has
no head" And the peculiar part
of it is the play has no reference to
socialism or socialists. 1t concerns
pink liberal who publishes an al
legged radical magazine called 1.-THE
Torch" and lives with woman
without being legally married. When
he is to become father, all the
excitement begins, due to the con-
servatism of his parents who de-
mand marriage ceremony. After
a great deal of intrigue the cere-
mony is performed by Unitarium
minister after the preachers of sew
eral other denominations refuse to
act in the matter when they are told
that the potential bride is pregnant.
If anything, the play glorifies the
Unitarian church, showing how
'liberal" and broadminded CD its
preachers are. So the radical, or
is it liberal writer, is respectfully
married and all is fine and dandy
in the end. While some people may
think that the play wants to take a
rap at socialism, or radical ideas,
I think that the playwright is not
interested in that phase of the mat
ter to any large degree. He wanted
to write smart comedy with plenty
of witty lines and has succeeded
fairly well. At least the play keeps
the audience on the alert most of
the evening and that is more than
can be said for many plays now on
Broadway.
The cast is unusually good. The
liberal (or radicaD, call him what
you like, is played by Eric Dressler.
Others in the cast include Josephine
Hall, Mildred Mccoy, Fritz Will
Jams and Ernest Glendinning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
by a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
WILKES BARRE, Pa. (By MaiD.
i have lost my job trying to or
anize a union in the mill called the
con Ferrenbach Silk Co. / got II
CLOVIS on the night shift to say they
you'd join the union, but then the
oss got wise and he canned me and
couple more and the other fellows
rot scared out Of it.
The night shift works from six at
ight to 6:30 in the morning. The
oss gives his cousin the best
aachines in the mill and the worst
,r the workers, and by the way, if
ny workers buy cars off him he
ives them a chance on good
,chine. Sometimes the boss lays
f workers who have worked there
ght years; they try to get rid OF
EN- and don't want them to work
i there any more. When a new
elbow comes, if he is cousin or re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
BACK TO Z HR.
DAY FOR SLAVES
IN FISHER BODY
Organize Committee
In Cleveland Shop
(Bn a Worker Correspondentl

DH u W OfpCI WI 100 HOhtSSftb/
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Mail).-
The Fisher Body slave pen in Cleve-
land boasts of squeezing from the
workers profit of TIA million dol
lars last year, as an inducement for
the workers to buy General Motors
stock. While the workers slave, Mr..
Lawrence Fisher, one of the plump
plutocrats of this auto body COM
pany, blossoms out into patron
of the arts" and spends two million
for paintings to adorn his walls.
To make these profits and beau
tiful paintings possible many thous-
ands of workers toll II hours day
for As cents an hour under gang
work" and speed-up conditions, that
soon destroy the health of the work
ers. The 8-hour system was tried
a few weeks, but finding their slaves
could not make their board and keep,
the bosses generously increased, not
the wages, but the hours.
SO we are again working II hours
day; add to this an hour or two
to get to the plant and go home at
night and we find we are spending
Is to Is hours a day for the para
sites profit.
But the workers are growing very
restless and militant. A shop COM
mittee is organizing the workers in
every department and aided by the
tyranny of the bosses, we shall
gather strength and unity and start
"slave rebellion" in Fisher Body
of Cleveland that will include every
worker in the pl a FISHER
BODY SLAVE NO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

chine Corp, where a large part of
the voting machines used in the
U. S. are made, the straw bosses
work Saturday afternoons and Sun
days systematizing the speedup sys-
TEN, for the workers there are really
working piece work on day rate pay.
One method was to take away the
stools the workers used on stand
still jobs. The workers made an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

workers who paid at the Emergency
for six weeks job at S. a day and
spent S. for transportation. They
were laid off three days later and
paid 81 instead of S.. Yet they must
keep quiet if they want to keep out
of Jail. They are John Wiemann,
Jack Lamo, Roy Batechor and w. E.
Faulkner.
1t all depends on US fellow work
ers. Organize and fight the capital
list system. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

lucky enough to find a new one, SO
cents an hour is the most he can
expect from any factory in the city
and the average is much less.
Fellow workers, we must unite
with one another regardless of
language, color or creed; we must
unite into industrial organizations
and join the party which fights for
us-the Communist Party. We must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

protest and most of the
stools were returned. This shows the
value of organized resistance to
these slave drivers.
At Salisbury Wheel Co. they have
a system of gang piece work. This
keeps the workers divided-creates
an unfriendly attitude among them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
FIGHT AGAINST
SPEEDUP, fines,
Will Be MADE
Disguised By Corrupt
Protective Union
by a Worker Correspondent

tt9 I" ~ W nv WI 100 pVftttCftt(
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
Inspired by the shoe workers of
Lynn and Haverhill, the shoe and
leather workers of Philadelphia
have succeeded in setting up shop
committees in many shops. In all
shops in this section workers are re-
soonding to the call sent out by
the Philadelphia Shoe Workers In
dustrial Unicn, SO N. Tenth ST., to
ioin the Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union and organize into
shop committees.
The necessity for a fight against
The speed-up and the fine systems,
and for higher wages and shorter
hours is so great that even the Pro-
tective Union has sent in organizers
r. ''aka . sham oroanizational cam
paign and betray the workers.
However. previous experiences by
the Philadelphia shoe workers with
the corrupt Protective Union Off
cials have made them realize that
they must organize into their own
union. This they have done, having
organized during the past few
weeks the Shoe Workers Industrial
Union.
Slave Conditions.
The conditions in the shoe and
leather factories in Philadelphia are
rapidly becoming unbearable. New
methods of speeding up the workers
are being introduced in every de-
rartment of every factory. Wages
ere being cut and method Of bare
faced robbery is the system of
special fines for so-called spoiled
work"
All the bosses have to do TO fur
Their cut WAGES is to say that so
much of the work has been
spoiled" and then take money out
CT the pay envelopes as "fines."
The bosses sell the "spoiled" shoes
and make money at both ends.
There is no standard of hours in
this industry. The 48-hour week is
considered a joke. Prices are so
low and fines so general that many
shoe workers find it necessary to
nut in many extra hours so that
their pay envelopes will at least
permit them to live during the week
to come.
Some of the workers say that
since they work in the factory, eat
IN the factory, and the hours of
labor are so long, they might as
we'll bring in beds and sleep in the
factory.
Many tricks are used by the Phila-
delphia shoe bosses to cut wages.
One is speed-up system based on
piece-work, and giving the best
work to those who are willing sheep,
thus dividing the workers.
Bosses Tricks.
Another trick is to change the
f.ame of the style of the shoe. Sim
ultaneously the price is changed for
work on the alleged NEW" style of
shoe.
The shoe workers of Lynn, Ha-
verhill and New York have shown
the way through organizations built
up and led by workers in the fac
tories, who have fought and won
better conditions for the workers.
And now the shoe and leather work
ars of Philadelphia, the lasters,
stitchers, vampers and cutters of
Philadelphia will unite into one pow
erful union Of the industry, to put
IN end to the speed-up, to fight for
higher wages, shorter hours and
tnion conditions in every shop in
Philadelphia.
All shoe and leather workers OF
Philadelphia reading this should APP
iy for information to the Phila-
alphia Shoe Workers Industrial!
Union, SO n. Tenth St., Philadelphia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
Wage Cuts.

At the Empire Case Goods Co.
another sander has been obliged to
leave, another victim of tuberculosis,
the greed of the bosses.
In the last year by means OF hiring
and firing and by direct cuts and
speedups the workers have been cut
from to 20 per cent in wages. If
a worker loses a job now and is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
RICHMOND NEGRO

RICHMOND NEGRO 789NU nj
RICHMOND, Va, (By MaiD. =
The infamous Jim Grove act, which
recently went into effect here,
caused j. B. Deans, a Negro, to file
a petition in the U. S. district court
to restrain the city from enforcing
the ordinance forbidding Negroes to
live in blocks where many white
people live. Deans recently bought
home in a residential district, and
may be forced to move.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

meeting, we had story of the rot
ten conditions which prevail in the
jamestown factories, the speed up
and bonus system. A thousand
Dailies were distributed.
Alliance Workers Driven.
At the Alliance Furniture Co. the
owners have recently had an eff
ficiency man or slave driver put in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
NEIGHBoRHooD PLAYHOUSE.

The Neighborhood Playhouse, in
conjunction with the Cleveland Or
chestra, of which Nikolai Sokoloff
is conductor, will present two pro-
grams of major symphonic music
for five performances.
These productions of symphonic
music with stage and orchestra,
which will be given at the Manhat-
tan Opera House this Friday, Sat-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

Demonstrate your solidarity
with the striking miners, textile,
food and shoe workers on May
Day, and against the treacherous
socialist party and the capitalist
flunkeys of the A. F. of l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25

He stood over all the WORKERS with
a time clock in his hand. If a man
took pinch of snuff, went to warm
his glue, or went to the toilet, the
efficiency man stopped his clock.
This resulted in lower piece rate
and greater speed-up.
Voting Machine Slaves.
At the Automatic Registering Ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-25
(By a Worker Correspondent

{ bY q " OThtF IOFTtSpONUtNIJ
JAMESTOWN, N. Y, by MaiD.
Here are some facts about the
rotten conditions of the workers in
this industrial city.
First, l would like to say that at
a recent big meeting at which Scott
Nearing spoke, the bosses announced
they would have spoilers at the