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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
UNORGA NIzED,
WORKERS ARE At
BOSSES MERCY
Fired Because Son
Struck at Loray
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
GASTONIA (By MaiD. - The
workers are at the mercy of the
bosses without a union. I know be-
cause l have worked in the mills for
the last seventeen years. I came
from Union, S. C. seventeen years
ago, and have never had as much
money as l did when I left the farm
there. The employment agent told
my wife and myself that we would
get 81 per day each for our work
while we were learning. We worked
two weeks, but got no pay on Satur-
day night. ! went to the superin-
tendent and complained and he told
me not to worry, he would see that
we got our pay. We worked an
other week-still no pay. When we
had worked a month-we finally
got $11.75 for our combined 60 days
work. Then l quit and went to
work in another mill at $1.15 a day,
for 55 hours work a week.
STEADY wage Cuts.
During the war l came to Gas
tonia, hearing of the high wages
paid by the Manville-Jenckes Com
pany in the Loray mill. During the
war time l got fairly good wages,
S28.4S per week for 60 hours. But
since then things have been getting
worse all the time, wage-cuts, the
stretch-out and speed-up system,
and high cost of living. For the
past few years 1 have made an
average of $13 week and I was
better off than most of the other
workers at that.
We are supposed to work II hours
but really it is ~. At noon we
double up, one half of the crew goes
out and the other half keeps the
machines going, doing double work.
Then they come in and the second
half goes out the same way. But
they refuse to pay for this extra
time when we do double work.
Fired Because Son is Striker.
My son worked at the Loray mill
and went on strike. l was working
at the Myrtle mill. Without notice,
my son was evicted one, day while
he and his wife were away. They
came home to find their door broken
down and all their furniture gone.
We found out it was locked in
storage. He came to live with me.
The foreman of the Myrtle mill
came to me a while later and told
me that he had orders to fire me.
He said, Il hate to have to let you
go because you have been as good
a mill hand as 1 have had in long
time, but the super says you are
member of the union and your son
is a striker"
The mill had only been working
) days week then and l got $3.50
week, so started big garden.
| had to in order to get enough food
to live. When l was evicted from
tn company house 1 lost all that
! had put into the garden, seeds,
tools and labor.
The speed-up and stretch-out sys-
tenn has been put in and it sure
works a hardship on the laboring
man. When you finish your days
work you just want to lay down and
die, you are so tired. Too tired to
get any enjoyment out of life. Also
it is impossible to save anything
for rainy day, or for old age, or
to do anything for your children.
There is no extra pay for overtime
or for the extra work done by the
stretch-out.
The National Textile Workers
Union is the union for US. It has
proven this both in the strikes in
the north and here. The leaders
have fought with US and gone to
Jail with US and we will stick by
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

"Alcohol," directed by Teuike, I'M
der the supervision of Semashko,
Peoples Commissar for. Public
Health and Prof. D. Fursikov, is a
scientific film showing the expert
ments made in the institutes of
Pathological Physiology and for the
Study of Nervous Activity, attached
to the Communist Academy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Daisy Mcdonald
Dear Mother:


Will write few lines
life fine. Hope N Y.
have in Gasonia left Hope we
have got Tell Mrs. Drew will be
r. NJ have been Pha Wednesday yesterday
to n Y and spoke last night The
of bees couldn't hardly yesterday
the cafeteria spoke Of had worker pictures
around Clarence Townsend Philadelphia
New York glad many people know Tell
the kids said Good bye" Will time vet
And hope the people sticking solid working
ought to- sent telegram got
It, SO will close have to speak tonight Goodbye Solidarity
to al,-Emer Mcdonald
Mother:
received letter this morning had meet
ing farewell for the delegates dele
gates had to speak and
south the strike and how they arrested the
just took haircut and after get the few things
they buying I'll be set to
am leaving today at p NJ the Cunard going
the Mauretana.
There be when we leave and will
write and tell all about it ship across
Give regards to all the comrades Young Pioneers
Solidarity all,
ELMER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
16 Gaomia Strikers

Gaston strikers You depend lis workers
much but out to do part don't how
all the of the world like do
the others will be freed The South
gether and strike and defense
and strikers.
AS have said before, the South wants don't
the kebreakng United Textile Workers Union
High Shoals N. c., let the good Help
Gastona stFkers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
What the Film Directors Are
Doing in the Soviet Studios

I Attest news from the Sovkino
IL film studios in Moscow states
that Maxim Cork has given his con-
sent to the filming of his story,
"The Buckles" The production will
be in the hands of Alexander Hoch-
low.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

While at work taking films in the
country Soviet kino expeditions
carry out extensive cultural work.
Thus during the two-months soiourn
OF the group under the direction of
Kurdum, plays were performed for
the peasants in the village Berezan
(kiev district), lectures given and
films shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Urtzev, author of the children's
film "Torn Sleeves" has finished a
film about the promotion of woman
workers to responsible skilled work
and the impermissibility of jealous
competition between working men
and women. The film is to be titled
Unnecessary Hostility"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

To Daily Worker:
could could tell H. Himpshie
write But together
defend the Gasonia Strikers Fred Beal shall not die!
SAM COSTNER High Shoals
This signed by the lis workers of High Shoals
Sam Costner the
High Shoals mills Shoals N.
NOT DIE!
We would like this published your Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

FREDERICKSBURG, author of
"Ryazan Women" and 'The Shin
ing Town" is producing "The Propa-
ganda-Lorry,' showing the part
played by theatrical workers in the
civil war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
NEW FRENCH PICTURE AT
FILM GUILD

The Film Guild Cinema beginning
today will present the American
premiere of "6hx11," French
film, the first work of Jean Epstein.
The leading roles are enacted by
Suzy Pierson, Edmond Won Dazzle,
Nino Constantine, and Rene Ferte.
On the same program will be pre-
sented "At the South Pole" film
record of the Scott Antarctic Expe-
dition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Gast0nla Pioneers Are Not
Behind Parents IN Mllltuncy

In the flaming of the
workers. the children of whom shaved the mills
be left behind They formed branch the
delegates to the Soviet Union along
CATION Read of his letters his
of the most militant of the Gastona strikers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Swiss Flight to u. s.

MADRID, Aug. 9.-Three Swiss
airmen arrived here from Paris at
8 p. M, en- route to the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Other news from the same source
states that, U. Tarich, author of
"The Wings of a Serf," "Tsar Ivan
the Terrible" "Bulat Batir" and
'The Captains Daughter" is pro-
ducing "Ten Doomed Men," founded
on incidents in the history of the
Soviet revolutionary struggle of the
Russian and Polish proletariat with
the autocracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

High Shoals North Carolina another of the mill
the called Workers Union to
them That the High Shoals
the class struggle the southern
two letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

After every revolution marking a
progressive phase in the class strug-
gle, the purely repressive character
of the state power stands out In
holder and holder relief.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Sovkino has embarked upon the
filming of "The Quiet River Don,"
by M. Sholohov, a proletarian au-
thor who enjoys much popularity
in working-class circles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
FOR SALE

3 rooms, furniture and machine-aII
for $4,000; will subIet. Bargain. Leav-
ing city Immediately. Stuyvesant 1870,
evenings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

On Saturday August II, the first
American showing of the latest Sow
kino production Prisoners of Life
will be shown at the Film Guild,
This film will introduce the work
of two new directors, D. Posnanskij
and Alexander Strischack. The lead
ing role is played by Emma Cesar
skowja.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
(By a Worker Corresponds

HIGH SHOALS N. c. (By MaiD-After reading Gastona
my the workers duty to defend the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

"Night Club" an adaptation Of
aKtherine Brush's new book, to-
gether with "The Pusher-in-the
Face" and "Skyscrapers," will be
the chief attracti' MS at the Little
Carnegie Playhouse this week.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
HOWAR PLANS
APARTMENT.

Plans have been filed at the Dis
trict Building for another downtown
apartment building to be erected on
the site at 2115 Pennsylvania Ave.
N. W., by A. Joseph Howar, at an
estimated cost of 100000.
Designed by David A. Stern,
architect, the building is to be. an
history structure with limestone
and brick facade, and reinforced
spandrel construction. The build
ing is to be fireproof throughout,
containing all modern appliances
and two high speed electrical eleva-
tors
The building will contain 12O
apartment units. ranging in size
from one room, kitchen and bath,
to two rooms, kitchen and bath
with dining aleove. The site has a
frontage of 70 feet on Pennsylvania
Avenue with a depth of 1SO feet.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
Washington State Votes
To Control Tax Question

The Washington State legislature
at its latest session passed a pro-
posed amendment to the State con-
stitution giving the legislature the
power to classify property for tax
purposes.
Washington is the second State to
take such action recently The North
Carolina State legislature has just
passed an amendment providing for
legislative classification of property
for taxation. Such action is urged
by the National Association of Real
Estate Boards as the first step in
undermining State tax systems so as
to bring about a more equitable in
eidence of taxation.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
Building Permits

John P. Neff. to erect two-story
brick and tile building, 2503 Fulton
ST. N. W; estimated cost SIG, 900.
Northeast Motor Company, to
erect one and two-story automobile
show room, 91G Bladensburg Rd.
N. E.; estimated cost 100000.
Isaac Goldenberg, to erect one
story brick store, TIA K St N. W.;
estimated cost $500.
c. H. Lassiter to erect two-story
frame dwelling. 4452 Douglass St.
N. E.. estimated cost. $2,675.
H. r. Howenstein to erect eight
two-story brick dwellings, TOLLS
Seventeenth st. s. E.; estimated
cost, $4,000.
S. E. Plan to erect two-sto"y
frame stucco dwelling, 1907 Rhode
Island Ave. N. E.; estimated cost,
$1,000.
Carl Fl. Schoening to erect two
story frame dwelling, 240O Perry
st. N. E.; estimated cost, $500.
A. Joseph Howar, to erect eleven
story brick and tile apartment build
ing. 2115 Pennsylvania Ave. N. w;
estimated cost, $400, 900.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
D. c. REALTORS
IN NATIONAL
AD CONTEST

r.. Bates Warren has been
appointed chairman of a special
committee to represent the Wash
ington Real Estate Board IN
national real estate advertising Goa
test to be held in Boston June
rs, in connection with the annual
convention of the National Asso
citation of Real Estate Boards. It
Was announced yesterday by Ben
T. Webster, president.
While similar contests have
been held before this is the first
time the local board has been
entered. Mr.. Webster added
Under the rules issued by the
national association any individual
realtor is eligible to participate In
the national advertising contest
through its member board. Each
board entering the contest will set
up an exhibit featuring the out
standing advertising of its in
dividual members. and a jury of
impartial advertising experts will
judge the merits of all the copy
displayed and winners in the con.
test will receive individual awards
in each group.
The advertising will be displayed
In sections covering the different
branches of the real estate business
such as brokerage, mortgage and
finance, cooperative apartm ants,
property management, and farm
lands. The content of each group
will consist of copy dealing direct
with or advertising these paltic-
ular branches of the real estate
business.
Single as we'll as series of
advertisements of individual realtor
firms which have appeared IA
newspapers between June /, 1923
and June l, 1929, will be admitted
in the contest.
The Washington display will en-
brace home building, brokerage,
mortgage and finance, property
management and cooperative apart
ments. The local committee, ac-
cording to the new chairman will
select the most attractive adver-
t1sements appearing in Washington
newspapers during the past year
in these particular branches. They
will be mounted on uniform card.
board sheets and forwarded to con.
vention authorities in Boston early
in June. The display will occupy
a large space in the Statler Hotel,
which has been designated as con.
Ventton headquarters.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
HOTEL BONDS
OFFERED

Harry Wardman. president of the
Hotel Annapolis, Inc, yesterday an
nounced a $1,950,000 first and re-
funding issue Of 6h per cent
coupon gold bonds on the Hotel
Annapolis, History structure front
ing on Eleventh, Twelfth and H
Streets Northwest. The issue was
underwritten and is being offered
by Colonial Bankers, Inc, with Of
fices in the Investment Building.
The bonds are dated April /, 1929,
and are offered in maturities from
five to 20 years, with interest
coupons payable semi-annually at
the District National Bank, accord
ing to the announcement. The
issue is secured on the land and
building, including the going busi-
ness of the Annapolis Hotel.
The hotel structure is of rein
forced concrete, faced with tapestry
brick and limestone. and contains
400 rooms, $40 baths and II torres.
The two upper floors Of the Iuild.
ing are rented as unfurnished apart
ments.
In addition to Mr.. Wardman,
other officers of the Hotel An.
napolis. Inc, are: James D. Hobbs,
treasurer; Thomas F. Bones, vice
president, and Hubert r. Quinter
secretary.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
AID
!. DRIVE BEGUN

Specific questions arising from
changes in the real estate business
are made the basis Of Is syndicated
advertisements prepared through
the advertising committee of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards for simultaneous display
throughout the country.
The service described in the series
include: Savings plans for home
buying; information on price levels;
the advisability Of leasing or buy.
ing certain properties at certain
times; real estate investments;
guarding against obsolesence of
property; the protection of resale
values; the most advantageous loca-
tions for various businesses; factors
which are of real merit in home
buying: giving vacant property
earning power; technicalities of real
estate law; Zoning laws which may
hazard or protect the value of the
property; finding the right tenant
in sub'leasing; making property pro-
ductlVe; the problem of when to
sell; figuring the net worth. of prop
erty and solving problems of bust
ness expansion.
The boards of Houston, Tex.
Westchester county, New York,
Hamilton, Ohio, and Cincinnati
Ohio. have already arranged to have
the series appear in local papers
IN those cities, it was announced.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
Dotted Line Contract
Kno1Un ir, 5000 B. C.

Fifteen hundred years before Christ ancient city Of
Nuz recently evacuated in Mesopoamia it against the
law to sell the land but Nuzn attorney figured
out way to get around the statutes ~. ...-
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
Seek Regulation of
Highway BillbOards

That scenic beauty directly across
the river from Washington is not
to be marred by unsightly advertis-
ing is indicated by the action of the
alexandria, Arlington-Fairfax, Va,
real estate board in the appointment
Of a signboard committee who are
to endeavor to secure, through the
Arlington county board of super
visors, some regulation of the loca.
ton Of signboards along the public
highways.
The board decided to consult with
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards for assistance in deal.
ing with it's problems of billboard
advertising. This latter organiza-
tion has for some time favored some
regulation of billboard advertising,
and has been compiling information
on the subject for a special con-
ference on outdoor advertising
which will be a feature of it's an.
nual convention, to be held June
rs to 2S. in Boston, Mass.
Births, Engagements. MaPriaKe 9,
Deaths and In MemOriam appear daily
on the last inside page. last two columns.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
Optician Leases Floor
Of Insurance Building

A five-year lease for the first floor
OF the National Union Insurance
Building, 91S F st. N. W., has been
executed between DR.. William Perau,
optician, and the insurance organi-
zation, it was announced yesterday
by the rental department of Weaver
Brothers, which handled the trans
action.
The lease begins April 1 and in.
wolves total rental OF approximate
ly $4,000. Extensive interior re-
decorating is in progress at the store.
which is approximately 20x75 feet.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23

Authority to erect three apartment
houses at a total estimated cost of
$1,150, 900 were the outstanding
projects in the building permits
issued during the week by Col. John
w. Oehmann, District Building In
spector.
M. and r. B. Warren are to erect
a five-story apartment building at
5000 TiIden st. N W., at an esti-
mated cost of 100000; A. Joseph
Howar is to construct an History
apartment structure at 2l15 Pennsyl-
vania Ave. N. W., at an estimated
cost of 100000, and the Southern
Construction Company is to erect an
eight-story apartment building at
208-10 Massachusetts, Ave. N. E., at
an estimated cost of $250,000.
Building permits were issued as
follows:
Nicoli Riggieri to erect two-story
front addition to store and office
building and remodel and repair ex-
listing portion, 3115 Fourteenth st.
N. W., estimated cost $1,000.
w. F. Jackson to erect two-story
frame dwelling, 1851 Eskridge Ter.
N. W., estimated cost $4,000.
Alex F. Ridell to erect two story
frame dwelling. 2O04 Franklin st.
N. E., estimated cost $4,000.
D. G. Priest to erect tWo-story rear
frame addition, 3418 Rodman st. N.
W., estimated cost $1,40O.
Einar Christensen to erect two
story brick and cinder block dwelling
5522 First st. N. E.. estimated cost
$4,000.
M. and R. B. Warren to erect five
story brick and concrete apartment
building. 5000 Tilden st. N W., esti-
mated cost $500,OOO.
Claflin Optical Company, to re-
pair fire damage, 922 Fourteenth st.
N. W.; estimated cost, $4,000.
D. D. Ball. to erect two.story
brick and tile apartment building,
733 Sixth st. S. E.; estimated cost,
SIT 800.
L. E. Breuninger and Sons, to
erect two-story brick dwelling, 1874
Iris st. N. w; estimated cost,
$12 900.
Clyde. c. Bowles, to erect four
two-story. brick and tile dwellings,,
1927 Sixteenth st. S. E.; estimated
cost, $4,000. ...
c. r. Weitzell, to erect two.story
brick dwelling, 1852 w st. S. E.;
estimated cost, $4,500.
Southern. Construction Company,
to erect eight-story brick and con-
crete apartment building, 20S-10
Massachusetts Ave. N. E.; estimated
cost $3.50, 900.
Cooley Brothers, to erect five two
story brick dwellings,, 2227-35 Thirty
eighth st. N. W.; estimated cost
$25.
o. T. and N. A. Carr, to erect
two-story brick and tile dwelling,
1850 Rittenhouse St. N. W.; esti-
mated cost $1,000.
Super Construction Company, to
erect one-story addition on trans
former building. 3O46 X st. N. W.;
estimated cost $4,000.
G. W. Chase, to erect one-story
brick dwelling. TOT Elder st. N. W.;
estimated cost $4,000.
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
FIRE MONEY WASTE

Insurance companies have COM
piled statistics showing the inn
portance of guarding against home
fires. According to the figures
within the past ten years, enough
money has been wasted, on the
average, in fire losses to pay for
101 900 one-family houses at the cost
of construction prevailing in the
year 1926, or to pay for all the new
residences erected in Sc of the prin-
cipal cities of the United States the
same wear,
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
u. S. Wealth Estimated
More Than Half Realty

According to a recent rennrt Of
the United State Department of
Commerce, the estimated wealth Of
the nation Is placed at 1920. .804,-
100000; and of this amount $176,-
AIS. 1000, 900, or So per cent is repre-
sented by real estate.
Showing the relative value of real
estate in comparison with the total
wealth of few of the largest
States, statistics below prove the i'm
portance of real estate as the funda-
mental basis of credit and the back
bone of the nations prosperity:
Total Wealth Real Estate
The Washington times., 1929-03-23
REALTORS URGE
BOULEVARD
PLANS

Northern Virginia realtors and the
officials of Arlington and Fairfax
ccrlties should recognize without
delay the Importance of planning
for the future development of the
area to be traversed by the Mt.
Vernon Memorial Boulevard, Gard
ner L. Boothe, II, told the Alex.
andria, Arlington, Fairfax Real
Estate Board at the recent dlrrer
meeting held at the Belle Haven
Country Club, south of Alexa11ria,
Va.
It must be borne in mind, ne
asserted, that the Mt. Vernon Boule.
ward is of national memoria.
character, that it is impro bable
officials in charge of construction
will approve communicating roads
ot a description not in keeping with
the magnificent scale on which the
boulevard is planned.
PrOmptltude Urged
Applications and plans for such
communicating roads should be
made Immediately, he said, in order
that provision can be mad. for
those approved before the boule yard
Is built
Plans for connecting the boule-
ward with the Belle Haven develop.
ment on the other side of Hunting
Creek from Alexandria entail the
building of a 100 foot roadway &C.
cording to Boothe, with land.
scaping treatment to harmonize
Nu,ifh fhut Af fhn Hn.aInVyo I'd Tn nI
probability the same treatment will
be required for ell communicating
roads. he concluded, although to
his knowledge no other applications
for communicating road provisions
had been filed with the engineers.
Belle Haven being at present the
only developed community close to
the boulevard.
The board elected Mrs Pear!
Sharpe. of Cls rendon. to active
membership. and Clarence r. Ahalt
Washington attorney, as honorary
member and counsel. --
Race for Banquet
A plan to increase attendance
through the efforts of competing
teams under the leadership of
Gardner l.. Boothe II. for Alexan.
dria. and C. w. Clever for Airing
ton and Fairfax counties was
adopted, the losing team to ban.
quet the winning team at the close
Of the year.
A change in meetings from two
dinner meetings each month to a
luncheon and dinner meeting
monthly was decided upon. the
next meeting to be a luncheon at
the George Mason Hotel. Alexan.
dria, March %.