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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
FURTHER WAGE
CUTS IN FISHER
BODY IN OHIO
Women's Conditions
Get Worse
by a Worker Correspondent


CLEVELAND (By Mail) THE
conditions of the women in this
plant is getting worse every day.
Constant wage-cuts, speed-up, and
layoffs.
A couple of months ago the rate
was cut on every operation, there
by making it necessary for them to
produce more in order to make the
former wage. Right now they've
got a time-study man on the job
again, which means that the women
will get cut again.
They know that as long as the
women are not organized they can
enslave them to the extreme.
How long are you going to stand
this? Unless you get organized and
tell the bosses what you think of
their efficiency methods there's no
telling!
That Investment Plan.
We are invited by the General
Motors to "save" our money and let
them invest it for us-and soon we'll
all be rich and can by million dol
lar paintings and spend our vaca-
tons in Europe. First, on the low
wages paid we have no change to
spare, paying the landlord, grocer
and other petty parasites. Second,
this plan is only an illusion and a
fraud to fool the workers and make
them think they own General
Motors, and keep them from or
ganizing for better conditions, OF
striking for decent conditions in this
slc--c pen.
Safety Bunkum.
A few days ago polisher's piece
rate was cut and in order to make
as much as before the cut, he was
forced to speed up his production
In his sped he was less cautious anC
piece of material was caught II
the polishing machine, whirlet
around, struck him and broke his
arm. Next morning another work
ers was put in his place and the
accident was repeated. His collar
bone was broken.
The bosses are not interested ir
safety of the workers, only from
the standpoint of production, fol
more production means more profits
The only way the workers car
stop this murderous wage cutting
speed-up and accidents is through
organization!
PressrOom Workers Fired.
Tuesday morning, on coming t.
work as usual, a bunch of Fisher
Body workers were lined up against
the Oil House in the pressroom anc
fired! Our contract requires us
to- give the boss two weeks notice
when we want to quit. When the
boss wants to fire US he does SC
without notice or any kind of hest.
tation, then holds and uses oui
money till the following regular pay
day. What good is a contract
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Union Fakers to Blame for
Painters Poor Conditions
by WORKER Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-I
will try to describe the conditions of
the painters. The conditions are ter
rible.
There are almost no union shops
in the trade. If there are any the
workers have no union conditions.
We are compelled to work under the
scale of wages. If some shops do
pay the union scale, then after the
season the workers are forced to
work under the scale.
Most Painters Unorganized.
What is this due to? 1t is be-
cause there is a big army of I'M
workers who are at any
time ready to work for lower wages
than the organized workers. They
work for so to 60 cents an hour.
Many Now on Piece Work.
1t has come to the point where the
bosses are giving out piece work.
This means that the painter has to
work from seven in the morning to
six and seven at night, and yet not
be actually working more than five
or six hours day.
Workers are working for from
S25 to $50 a week. 1 emphasize
again that this is due to the big
army of the unorganized in the
trade. Of about 10000 painters in
Philadelphia only about 1000 are
The union is affiliated
with the A. F. of L. to whom the
strike is as repulsive as it is for a
class conscious worker to scab.
Takers Stop Strikes.
When the more progressive
painters want to strike to better
conditions the labor takers come
with their collaboration policies and
stop the strike.
In 1926 a general strike of the
painters in Philadelphia was called
for an increase in wages from 81
to $1.1215 cents an hour. After two
months of the strike, after most of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
ProvinCeto1Un PLAYERS to OPEN
With Michael Colds Fiesta

THE Provincetown P lay hous C,
James Light, director, in state
ment sent out this week, announced
two of the five plays to be given by
this organization in it's removal from
Macdougal st. to the Garrick
Theatre the coming season.
The group will take charge Of the
Garrick on Labor Day, and the sea-
sons first production will be made
some time during the third week
in September. This first production,
as previously announced, will be an
ironic romance with setting laid in
Mexico, entitled Fiesta" by Michael
Gold, editor of The New Masses.
The second of the seasons plays
definitely agreed upon is a drama,
winter Bound" by Thomas H. Dick
inson. The author has been known
for over fifteen years for his works
on the contemporary theatre, such
as "The Case of American Drama"
"The Insurgent Theatre" "Play-
wrights of the New American Thea
tire" and his anthologies, "Chief
Contemporary Dramatists." He was
one Of the pioneers in the new move
ment in the theatre in the middle
west while he was associated with
the University of Wisconsin. "Win-
ter Bound" is his first play.
Among other new productions of
the coming season, Paul Green's fan
tasy, "Tread the Green Grass" is
still possibility as the third play
in the seasons schedule. The author
is at work on revisions in the orig
inal manuscript. E. E. Cummings,
author of Him." is at work on a
new play which he expects to deliver
shortly.
AS new departure, the Board of
Directors has requested the submits
sion to it of a scenario for an Amer
lean folk ballet based on ''The Cob
bier of Cod" the latest epic poem
by Percy MacKaye drawn from
legends of the Southern noun
taineers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

the bosses had settled, the vice-presi-
dent of the brotherhood came down
to "conciliate" and instead of con-
tinuing the strike proposed that the
demand be reduced from S1.121a to
S1.05 an hour. The master painters
who had settled began to pay S1.05.
When the bosses saw the union Off
cials were on their side they fired
union men and replaced them with
non-union men, paying as much as
they wanted.
No Union Conditions.
There are now almost no shops
with union conditions. The labor
takers, bosses tools, will not or
ganize the men. This would mean
taking in all, with nominal fees,
which would reduce the officials fat
incomes.
To show that they were doing
something" the takers came out
with slogan "a closed shop in
Philadelphia" The campaign was
carried on not militantly but by
negotiations with the bosses. This
is what the boss wanted: Being that
he employed GLACIERS, getting SIPS,
he wanted them to get not more
than painters, S1.05 (The GLACIERS
belong to the same district counciD
The misleaders agreed to this. The
GLACIERS had to struggle long to
gain back SIPS, after this.
Such are conditions in the whole
building trades industry, not only
for the painters. Therefore it is
necessary for the building workers
to join in a militant industrial
union, taking in all building trades
workers. Let's build up a Building
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
PAINTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

Our own age, the bourgeois age.
Is distinguished by this-thnt 1t
has simplified class antagonisms.
More and more, society II splitting
up into two great hostile camps,
into two great md directly contra
posed classes; bourgeoisie and pro-
letariat-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
ACCIDENTS ARE
FREQUENT TO
BULLET MAKERS
Remington Blasts Are
Concealed
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y q w 0rEer Correspondent
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (By Mail).
1t is about time that we workers
in the Remington arms and ammu-
milton plant organized ourselves to
fight for better conditions in this
hell-hole. The bosses of the Rem
ington ammunition plant, or as we
Bridgeport folks still call it, the
U. M. c., drive US like slaves.
Slave to Make Bullets.
We are sure busy turning our mil
lions of bullets every day. In turn
we are paid miserable wages. Then
our bosses hire people to shoot
down workers here and in other
countries to make more profit.
Well, we are not going to wait
till the bosses turn the guns on US
when we rise against the slavery at
the Remington plant. We have de-
cided to have our shop paper (Which
was mentioned in the Daily Worker
shop paper column recently against
our bosses exploitation of US.
Low Wages Paid.
Our wages here are as low as %
cents and rs cents an hour. Women
and young workers on the produc-
ton jobs cannot get more. All the
jobs are on piece rates. There is
not a chance to make more than Is
to 10 dollars week. AS soon as we
sweat enough to make a few extra
pennies our wages are cut-and
how! More production is ordered
for the same rates.
Adult men, machine hands, get 80
to 40 cents an hour day rate; skill
ed machinists, $3.50 cents. Hun
dreds of women workers work thru
lunch hour to catch up with the
bosses scissors.
Nine hours is the regular day at
the plant. But the bosses are
"kind," They "let" us slave 10 and
IL hour shifts $50 that we can make
a little money"
Shopping Around.
Aside from the terrible speed-uI
system of the piece rate jobs, new
labor saving machines are installed
week after week. Fearful driving
is the effect of these machines
Timesetters are shopping around al
day bounding for new chances Of
speeding up the workers. If you are
not fast enough you are fired.
Injuries Frequent.
AS the result of the speed-up in
juries are So frequent that women
and children passing by bleeding al
day long are no more news to any
one.
The bosses criminal negligence
has no limit. Explosions occur of
ten and are hidden from the pub
lie. Chemical fumes, dangerous acid
burns in the eyes, lungs and stom-
ach make workers here suffer.
Organize, that is the only way tc
end all this.
REMINGTON SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

with liars who are also labor
robbers? They respect US only
when we are organized. Get to-
gether into the shop committee!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Another Big Floor Is
Sure in India: Britain
Ruined Control System

BOMBAY, India, Aug. 26.-The
Indus River continues to rise, and,
since the Shyok Dam has broken, a
flood of disastrous proportions, cost
ing heavy loss in lives of poor pea
SAINTS, is believed certain.
There have been succession of
floods ever since the British govern
ment's military railroad embank-
ments and capitalist landlord irriga-
ton schemes wrecked the primitive
Indian village irrigation system, by
which flood waters were harmlessly
diverted into innumerable little chan
nels and brought under control.
The region to be devastated this
time is called "The Lind"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
WINCHESTER
ARMS LAYS
OFF SLAVES
Worker Hurt on the
Job Fired
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q WORKER Consequently
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (By Nail.
Hundreds of workers in the Win
chester arms plant here were re-
Gently laid off. Those still at work
find wages cut every time they re-
ceive pay envelope.
In the cutlery department hardly
two-thirds of the working force is
left. Even the gun department is
~educed in spite of the increased Or
ders from Washington. Only the
cartridge department works full
swing 10 turn out millions of bull
let's for the bosses war.
Wages Cut Right and Left.
Some workers are now paid as low
as % cents an hour. Piece rates are
cut so damn fast that we don't know
any more how much we are getting.
Workers are shifted from one de-
partment to the other, only to find
that they get less for the same job
than what the other fellow used to
get. Where the department is slow
or slack, the wages are cut imme-
diately. The fear of unemployment
keeps many fellows mouths shut.
Even the foremen and straw
bosses are no more satisfactory to
the greed Of the big bosses. Fore
men have no more say about pro
duction, Orders for new speed-up
come directly from the general Of
flee and special efficiency men are
in charge to put them into effect.
One worker shaved ten years in
the gun barrel department. One day
he got ruptured on the job. In the
Winchester hospital the doctor ad-
vised him to wear a truss.
But the rupture grew worse, COM
plicated by appendicitis. He had to
50 under operation. He could not
work for months. He received no
compensation from the company.
When he recovered he reported for
work. But the company stalled and
turned him down. He asked for a
Recommendation to get job else
where, but the bosses refused even
4 10 give that much.
ss"I guess the bosses, the doctor
and the law are all united against
he working man.
WINCHESTER SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
SUPPRESSED PAPER APPEARS.

REICHENBERG (By Mail). -
The prohibited "Vorwaerts" here
has appeared illegally, as also has
the prohibited "Internationale" in
Aussig. Both newspapers were dis
! tributed chiefly in the factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
MAUGHAMS CHARMING SIN
NERS" AT THE HIPPODROME

w. Somerset Maugham's drama of
married life, Charming Sinners"
is the feature photoplay at the Hip
podrome this week. The principal
players in this Paramount talkie are
Ruth Chatterton, Give Brook, Will
liam Powell, Mary Nolan and
Montague Love. The supporting
artists, recruited from the stage, in
clude Laura Hope Crews, Florence
Eldridge and Juliette Crosby. Robert
Milton, former New York stage pro-
Queer, directed. The latest Christie
comedy "Hints to Brides" will have
it's first showing on the same
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Byrd Men Freeze in
Flag-Raising Stunt

LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica,
Aug. 2G.-In a 20-mile wind and with
the thermometer at 40 degrees below
zero, the imperialist agent Byrd
forced his men to stand bareheaded
outdoors while the American flag
was unfurled to celebrate the rising
of the sun after four months of
darkness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

I don't pretend to know what it IS
all about in Major Barbara" be-
cause each individual on seeing this
play will have his own confused
thoughts.
Shaw still pokes fun at politics,
the church, love and even cannon
making but he is serious. There are
some gay laughs present but he
goes into definite Characterization.
The thing we are most concerned
with just now is not the merits Of
Shaw but the cast that is doing
Major Barbara"
The outstanding Characterization
in Major Barbara" is the work of
Dudley Digges as Andrew Under
shaft, the cannon manufacturer who
sells cannons to anybody just as
long as they want 'em.
Digges gives us such towering
and plausible Characterization that
Shaw does not worry one with his
long speeches and his rather con-
flicting opinions.
The Andrew of Digges is very I'M
derstandable and in less capable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

harmless as the recipe on the
wrapper reads. If you see Chas.
H. Fletcher's signature, it is
genuine Castoria. 1t is harmless
to the smallest infant; doctors
will tell you so.
You can tell from the recipe on
the wrapper how mild it is, and
how good for little systems. But
continue with Castoria until a
child is grown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
SMUGGLING OF
ALIENS CROWS
800 More Agents Asked by
immigration Bureau.

BIZ ScriDDs-HotcGrd NeiosDdDer Alliance
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-Con-
gress will be asked to provide funds
for employing 800 additional immi-
grafton inspectors, immigration
Commissioner Harry E. Hull an
nounced today on returning from
Canadian border inspection tour.
Hull said it is planned not only
to augment the immigration patrols
on the Canadian and Mexican bor-
ders, but to inaugurate an entirely
new force to decrease smuggling at
important seaports.
"a force to search all large in
coming vessels for stowaways is
needed and should be established, 3"
Hull said.
For New York alone the depart
ment chould have a force Of at least
twenty men to detect alien snug
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

hands 1t would just be another piece
of acting.
Digges brings definite under
standing to the role and this actor
throws a lot of light upon a rather
disturbing character in the play.
The Barbara Of Frieda IneScort IS
a definite creation. She is able to
depict the conflicting thoughts be-
tween the poverty of religion and
the poverty Of life. I rather think
that she plays the role as it should
be played.
Then we have the Adolphus Gus
ms of Elliot Cabot. Sometimes he
still has the habit Of Mrs. Fiske of
not talking distinctly but he is al
ways in character. Nice work with
that one exception.
Percy Waram is Bill Walker. You
will remember his work in the sec
ond act. Splendid. Jane Wheatley
gave a splendid reading of Lady I'm
dershaft, with the exception Of q
slip in the first few minutes of the
first act.
You can purchase Major Bar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
MILLIONS WILL
Be SPENT FOR
Cities WATER
AqueduCt 200 Miles Long
Will Tap Reservoir of
Boulder Dam.

BIZ ScriDDs-HotcGrd NetosDoDer Alliance
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.-Racing
against the future danger Of a wa
ter shortage, eleven southern Cali
fornia cities are beginning a survey
TO prepare for the most colossal do
mestic water project Of engineering
history.
This will be to tap the Boulder
Dam reservoir with an aqueduct 290
miles long. carrying more than
1000, OOO-acre feet Of water over
mountains and desert to the popu-
lous Los Angeles area and costing
upwards of $3.50 100000 The pro-
posed aqueduct will be fifty miles
longer than Los Angeles present
ovens Valley ditch"
Next month three engineers for
the metropolitan water district will
set forth to make a complete survey.
Already engineers under William
Mulholland have spent upward of
100000 on the route. Their sur
vey will be rushed, so that by the
time Boulder Dam is started the
aqueduct may be building stimuli
taneOusly.
So far only eleven cities are mem
bers Of the IN. w. D." They are
Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Burbank,
Cotton, Glendale, Pasadena, San
Bernardino Santa Ana, San Marine
and Santa Monica. Later other
cities such as San Diego, Long
Beach and Riverside may join.
The project, when finished In
about eight years, will care for
100000 population, four times the
present.
Los Angeles, with its fast-growing
population, realizes the danger of
delay in preparing for the future.
She has spent $15,OOOO0O in Owens
valley, buying up farms, and is pre-
pared to spend $1O,OOO,OO0 more to
buy up the towns.
BY careful management" this
supply will allow for normal growth
Of southern California cities for the
next eight years, when, it is hoped,
the new supply will be available.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

bara" beforehand with the convic-
ton that you are getting the real
Shaw.
AT English's tonight, Saturday
matinee and night.
Other theaters today offer: Buddy
Rogers in illusion" at the Indiana,
Say 1t With Songs" at the Apollo,
THE Isle of Lost Ships" at the Cir
Gle, 1.-THE Girl From Havana" at the
Lyric, Ann Corio at the Mutual,
Three Live Ghosts" at the Palace,
Fast Company" at the Ohio, and
movies at the Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

Cling attempts and smaller forces
are needed at every port on both
coasts where large vessels come in"
Hull said that the great increase
in good roads and consequent addi-
tional automobile travel has added
to the smuggling problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
SHAW HAS VERY BIG
IDEA THIS TIME
Dudley Dgges Gives Magnificent Performance Of
Andrew Understand in major Barbara at EngiSh'S.
BY MATTER D. HICKMAN

ERNARD SHAW Major Barbara serious problem
ID than he had "Pygmalon."
with life and
self Barbara" than other occasions
religion souls and to slaughter men
and to fight war wit Barbara"
Engshs York Theatre Guild its
conception problem Shaw dishes Major Barbara
a talk while exhibiting
his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
POWER EXPERTS MEET
World Conference at Berlin VIII
Attract Large Delegations.

BERLIN, Oct. 1.-THE opening
Of the world power conference, to be
attended by representatives of forty
seven nations, will take place here
from June Is to June 25, 1890.
Subjects to be discussed by the
nations attending are: Power dis
tribution and utilization; power re-
sources Of the world; water power,
and fuels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
PainIere Has Narrow Escane

BIZ Emitted Press
PARIS, Oct. 11-MiniSter of War
Paul Painleve figured in an auto
mobile collision Thursday night,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
ENGLISH ARMY Killed

Shorts Adopted as Popular Form OF
Dress by Soldiers.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE English
army is killed. Shorts have been
adopted by the army as a popular
form Of service dress. They are
cut SO as to allow about four inches
to overlap the top of puttee.
When the wearer sits they do not
get baggy at the knee in the same
way as do trousers. Hot weather
brought on this form of dress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

Are you prepared to render
first aid and quick comfort the
moment your youngster has an
upset of any sort? Could you do
the right thing-immediately-
though the emergency came with
out neutrality-suspicious. tonight?
Castoria is mothers standby at
such times. There is nothing like
it in emergencies, and nothing
better for everyday use. For a
sudden attack of collie, or the
gentle relief of constipation; to
allay a feverish condition, or to
soothe a fretful baby that can't
sleep. This pure vegetable prepa-
ration isSalways ready to ease an
ailing youngster. 1t is just as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

1t IS possible to make a worm
live twenty times longer than it
would otherwise have done by re-
peated process Of starvation.
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from which he emerged without In
juries. The automobile in which the
war minister was riding collided
with a taXicab.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

HadJi was the title given to any
Mohammedan who made the pill
grimage to Mecca.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11

Here is a nice picture of Frieda
Inescort as Barbara Understand
in Major Barbara" now at Eng
lish'S.