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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
FURNITURE co.
PAYS g CENTS
DAY FOR WORK
And State Gets It-for
Prisoners Slave

by Worker Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Iowa (By Mail. y
The Iowa state law provides for the
state use only of goods made by
prisoners who are forced to slave
long hours in the jails of this state.
However, the Iowa Board of Control
entered into a five-year contract
with the Dearborn Company of Chi
cago, under which prison labor is
making furniture to be sold in the
open market. The state is paid 65
cents day for each prisoner. The
company is permitted to employ it's
own bosses to keep the prisoners at
work. In other words, the Dearborn
Furniture Co. is thus having it's fur
niture made by the cheapest paid
labor possible, for 65 cents a day,
ond getting IA or 16-hour day from
the prisoners. 1t is bad enough in
the Dearborn shops in Chicago, where
there is a 12-hour day, but here the
Dearborn Co. is getting IA hours or
more day out of the slaves making
the furniture, and paying only 65
cents day, none of which great"
sum goes to the men doing the work.
Also, the company does not have
to worry" about what conditions
the slaves work under, for naturally,
when the state of Iowa provides rot
ten conditions in the jails, what does
The company care? And no worry
about the workers getting tired of
their rotten conditions and wanting
to organize. Prisoners behind the
bars are dealt with by the state if
they organize.
The state of Iowa will furnish the
rifles and the police to put down
the workers for the Dearborn Co.
T. D. Prisoner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
"Ihe Earth Between MoW
Staged at the Py0uinCetO1Un

THE Provincetown Playhouse is
now presenting Eugene O'Neill's
one-act play Before Breakfast" and
two-act play by Virgil Geddes
called "The Earth Between"
Geddes' play is written in the
style used by O'Neill in his past
productions. 1t shows a great re-
semblance to Desire Under the
Elms" but lacking O'Neilps fine
method.
Nat Jennings and his daughter
Floy live isolated in the farm Sec
ton of some unnamed part of the
United States. Wilbur, cousin of
Jennings, and Jake are the hired
help" on the Jennings farm. Both
Of them have secret desire for
Floy, who has just reached the age
Of seventeen. Jennings, a widower.
jealousy guards his daughter from
the two men, and fondles her in
more than a paternal manner.
AS the result of an argument be-
tween Jennings and Jake, the latter
is banished from the farm house
and compelled to sleep in the hay
loft.
After sleeping in the loft for six
days, Jake is taken seriously i'll. He
dies, and on the day of the funeral,
Wilbur confronts Jennings with I'M
opened medicine bottles, which the
farm owner had kept away from the
dying man. Jennings RACES when
he is exposed, and orders his cousin
from the farm.
The final scene shows Jennings
end his daughter in the wheatfields.
The farmer is hugging her as the
curtain falls. 1t shows a decisive
leaning toward incest.
What the slow action of the play
does to make it seem tedious is
overcome by unusually fine acting
by several members of the cast. The
outstanding performance is given
by Carroll Ashburn, who portrays
the farmer, Jennings. Closely crowd
ing Mr.. Ashburn for premier honors
is the great performance turned in
by William Challee, who plays the
part of Jake. Bette Davis is mis-
cast as Floy, while Grover Burgess,
who played the leading role in
Singing Jailbirds," falters occa-
sionally in his part of Wilbur. Mr..
Burgess does not seem to be able
to vary his acting according to the
play he is in. Those who saw
Singing Jailbirds" will feel that
they are viewing the same play, as
the tone of the actors voice and
gestures are practically the same
as in Upton Sinclair's play.
Other members Of the cast are
Jane Burbie and Warren Colston.
Eugene O'Neill's one-act play has
a cast of one, who is none other
than Mary Blair, who has played
in many of Mr.. O'Neill's past pro-
auctions. Before Breakfast" is
one of O'Neill's earlier plays, first
produced in 1917.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
MANS ESTATE" PLACED IN
REHEARSAL BY THEATRE
GUILD.

"Man's Estate" by Bruce Gould
and Beatrice Blackmer, has been
put into rehearsal by the Theatre
Guild under the direction of Dudley
Digges. The settings will be de-
signed by Cleon Throckmorton.
Margalo Gilmore and Earl Lari-
more will play important roles in
the production.
Gale Sondergaard, who played the
role of Nina Leeds in Strange In
terlude" during most of January and
February while Judith Anderson was
i'll, has again taken over the role
because of the necessity for further
rest on Miss Anderson's part.
Fay BANTER and John Halliday
in Jealousy" is the current bill at
the Shubert- Rivera Theatre this
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

Takers SCoRN
MILITANT ACTION
Clerk Takers Go to the
Capitalist Courts
(By a Worker Co,yespondent.

(By q Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La. (By MALL.
Clerical workers on the Texas and
Pacific Lines, branch of the South
ern Pacific, are compelled by the
company to belong to the company
Union, although they are affiliated
to the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks. There is supposed to be an
act by Congress which provides that
the roads must permit their en-
ployees to select whatever labor or
ganization they want to belong to,
and that the railroads cannot COM
pei the men to join the organization
the railroads want them to join. Of
course, this law means nothing to
the railroads, especially down this
neck of the country, where the rail-
roads, especially the Southern Paei-
tic, make their own laws.
The logical way to bust the COM
rany union, and the way that many
Of the men want, is to simply refuse
to Join it. and go on strike if the
company insists on making the clerks
join the company union.
Takers Run to Court.
But the misleaders of the Brother
hood instead go to the capitalist
courts for help, the courts which
are always dealing body blows to
organized labor on behalf of the
bosses. They have gone to the Fed
eral Court of Appeals on the case.
If the Federal Court decides for
the railway bosses, then all the COM
pany unions of the railways will be
officially okayed by the courts. With
the company union, the clerks on the
Southern Pacific and it's branch, the
7. and P, have to stand for stool
pigeons and firing for still belonging
to the union.
Due to the incapability and also
the corruption of the Brotherhood
officials, the company unions on the
railroads in this part of the coun-
try grow like mushrooms. Espe-
cially in the South are the Brother
hood officials takers, for many of
them are Ku Kluxers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
Rayon SLAVES
PyiSOned as
Gates Lock
(By a Worker Correspondent

| by w GTheT COfTesPOftueHt(
WooNSoCKET, R. l., (By
MaiD Workers at the Woon-
socket Rayon Company's plant,
recently established here, have
TO carry cards bearing their
photographs, which they are
forced to show at the gates of
the mills before being admitted
for the days slavery every morn
| ing. I'll gates during working
hours are tightly locked, with a
guard in charge. No one can
be admitted to the Woonsocket
Rayon Mill without an identifi-
cation card.
The wages are starvation
wages, averaging less than $14 a
week. Working hours are Sd a
week. The workers are entirely
unorganized.
The Rayon slaves in this
Woonsocket Mill are now being
forced to remain in the plant, be-
hind the locked gates, all day,
and are not even permitted to
leave the mill premises to eat
their lunch, being forced to eat
| it right in the mill. This makes
them practically prisoners for 10
hours every day in the week. The
plant is not yet in full operation,
but about 400 to 500 workers will
be employed when it is.
Plans for a stool-pigeon sys-
tenn, and a fight by the Woon-
socket Rayon Co. bosses on at
tempts to organize the slaves
are being made. The officials of
Woonsocket are ever ready to go
to all lengths to protect the mill
bosses with police and every
other method at their command.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

the sidewalks outside the plant.
The Chicago police force is being
loaned to the Super-Maid Co. to
keep any union men from coming
near the plant.
The officials of the Metal Pol
ishers Union are all reactiOnary
tools of William Green, who, am
sure, would not hesitate to sell out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
RAILWAY TRIES
TO HOLD PAY
Big Bosses Have Sway
in Minnesota
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
/ DULUTH, MINI. (By Mail. y
Took on a job on an extra gang fol-
The big G" or Great Northern Rail-
way. The wages were 35 cents an
hour, and eight hours a day. The
Pay was small, and after l worked
there eight and half days, it took
me four days to collect the pays with
the proper Identity" etc. Had to
come near physical combat to collect
| it finally.
The big companies have full sway
lup in this section. If it had been
rear Chicago, Milwaukee, or even
Minneapolis, l would have forced
them to pay after twenty-four hours.
viii close for the present. l am
glad to hear the workers have sue
ceeded in their struggle to continue
the Daily Worker-O. F. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

Super Maid Aluminium Kitchen
Utensii Corporation forced all the
metal pOlishers in the plant who
we've union members into the
streets,
The Super-Maid has hired de-
tectives of the notorious Thiel De-
tective Agency, which sends stool
pigeons, thugs and dicks into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

largest open shop plants in the
country, and these Thiel detectives
have created a system of terror
among the workers in the plant.
Check Complaints.
You dare not say a word of
complaint if you wish to hold your
miserable job, for it is sure to get
TO the ears of the bosses through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

ment means starvation-for any
thing You say is liable to be
twisted b ythe stool-pigeons into
agitation" and out you go.
Police Chase Unionists.
A union man can't even get near
the plant. A worker correspondent
wrote the Daily Worker recently
how urion men are even kept off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
2OR REIGN IN CHICAGO PLANT OF SUPER-MAID

the polishers. These officials and
Green have tried to bring about
an agreement" with the Super
Maid Co. We know what kind of
an agreement this would probably
be from the records of these trait
ors. But the Super-Maid Co.
won't deal with them, for it knows
it don't have to buy out the Off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

Gals, for the union is not strong
enough.
The workers of the Super-Maid
Co. who were dismissed for being
nion men are being blacklisted
by the Associated Employers, the
bosses association, to whom the
Super-Maid Co. gave their names.
Aluminium Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

Thiel stool-pigeon. You can't
be seen reading a workingclass
PAPER, like the Daily Worker, for
you will certainly be fired if a
1hiel detective catches you. You
have to be careful what you say,
if you are one of those poor slaves
of Super-Maid who has a large
family to support and unemploy-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
Radio, Telegraph Heads
Contradict on Merger

Newcomb Carlton, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
returned from Europe yesterday and
furnished fresh impetus for rumors
of a projected union between his
corporation and the Radio Corpor-
alton of America, by admitting that
the merger is being discussed.
Cartoons remarks were in marked
contrast to the statement few
days ago of Maj. Gen. James G
Hartford, head of the radio corpor-
alton, that mo negotiations have
been completed or are pending look
ing toward merger or consolid.
alton of any kind"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
UNEMPL OYMENT,
AND DESTITUTION
GROWING WORSE
Scott Nearing to Speak
in Factory City
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

JAMESTOWN, N. Y. by Mall -
The population of jamestown, N. Y,
is approximately $4,000. Several
nearby villages help to swell the
workers of the city considerably.
jamestown is known as a wood-fur-
niture town, but it is changing to a
metal town. There are large textile
mills here too.
There have been six or seven
bankruptcies among the furniture
factories in the last two or three
years. This, despite the fact that
the employers have hired efficiency
experts to extract the last ounce of
energy out of the men at minimum
cost.
The men are forced to work at
starvation wages at breakneck speed
for long hours in order to fill GER
tain orders and then walk the
streets until more orders are placed.
The unemployed are estimated at
from 5000 to 5000, and the more
destitute are forced to accept
charity.
mo Help Wanted"
Conditions for the workers in the
Jamestown factories are steadily be-
coming worse. Most factories have
a sign out "No Help Wanted" Many
factories are offering as low as 10
cents per hour. A few mornings ago
about 200 men applied for work at
Salisbury Axle Co. None were hired.
This applies in greater or less de-
gree to all the factories.
Empire Case Slaves.
The Empire Case Goods Co.,
manufacturers of bedroom furniture,
employ several hundred men. 1t has
three or four sanders. There is no
adequate method of blowing the dust
cut, with the result that when the
workers stay any length of time
they get tuberculosis. One died two
years ago. For some time before
and after Christmas the workers
were forced to work 10 hours a
day. 1t was here that the notorious
labor hater, Frank o. Anderson, be-
came immensely wealthy. He now
spends his time in trips to the East
and around the world.
At Shearman Bros, formerly
Maddox Table Co., the men have
heen forced to work terribly long
hours. They aven had to work Sat-
urday afternoons, Sunday after
moons and Thanksgiving forenoon.
The work is mostly piece work. Some
Of the rubbers come at A. M. and
work until S p M, and then just
make a living wage.
At Herricks an Italian made a
mistake in the packing room. The
foreman gave him hell. what can
you expect for 35c. per hour" de-
manded the worker. 81 can get all
the men l want for less than 1 am
paying YOU" whined the boss. And
the italian put on his hat and coat
and walked out.
Women Mill Slaves.
The Acme is textile mill en-
ploying mostly female labor. The
women are obliged to buy their own
brushes, even when it is practically
impossible to make living wage.
At the Art Metal the bosses con-
tinue to cut the premium rates, MAX
ing less wages for the workers and
more profits for the employers. AT
this factory during the Community
Chest drive young worker sub
scribed two dollars (the workers dc
not dare refuse. If they do, they
are more than likely to lose their
jobs.) The boss wrote down three
dollars. The next week the extra
dollar was deducted from his pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

The power Of the bOurgeOisie rests
not alone upon International capital,
upon it's strong international cOnnec-
lions, but also upon the force Of
habit, on the force of small industry,
Of which. unfortunately. there IN
plenty left and which daily. hourly,
gives birth to capitalism and bOur-
ceoisic, spontaneously md ON n large
scale.-v. 1. Lenin cleft" Commu-
nfsm).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
Another Exploitation
Plant for Goodrich

AKRON, o., March IS (UP).-B.
F. Goodrich Tire G. Rubber Com
pany will spend S4,000,000 on build
ing projects within the near future
and a large part of this amount will
go to construct a huge tire plant at
Atlanta, it was reported at the COM
pany's offices today. Through the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
by a Worker CORRESPONDENT

by a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-To in
sure the continuation of an open
shop and eliminate any workers
who object and fight the chain
gang or belt system of slave
driving they have in the plant, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

the Workers Center, 26 Union 3d.;
the Spanish Workers Center, 55 w.
18th St.; Unity Cooperative, 1900
Seventh Ave-, and the Negro Cham
pion, 165 w. 133rd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
increase HOURS
OF SODA CLERKS
Woolworth Slaves Are
Paid S13 a Week
(By a Worker Correspondent)

(By Worker Correspondent
SIOUX CITY, Iowa by MaiD.-
The soda fountain clerks at the Wool
worth's five and ten cent store in
Sioux City have had their hours in
creased so that they have to work
until 6 p. m. instead of $3.50 p. m.
The clerks are supposed to start
work at $50 a. M, but they are
forced to get in at dawn, at as early
as GAS a. M, to get things fixed
up for the start of the days work
On Saturdays the soda fountain
clerks at Woolworth's are forced to
work until 9 p. m.
The pay is miserable, the soda
clerks being paid the measly sum of
S13 week. The clerks get only
a half hour off day to eat their
lunch. 1t is no wonder that the
Woolworth corporation is able to pile
up so many millions in profits.
envelope. The boy protested, but to
no avail.
At the Marlin Rockwell Plant, for
luerly Gurney's, one worker who had
been employed about ten years
spoiled couple of rings and he was
fired.
At most of the factories, if the
workers refuse to work overtime,
they lose their jobs.
Fight Speed Up!
The larger stores close at $50 on
Saturdays instead of 900 as for
merly. But in giving the girl en-
ployees this concession, the owners
gave them IS minutes less at noon
each day. Formerly, the girls had
an hour and a half at the supper
hour on Saturday with pay. In this
way the girls are the losers.
Fellow-workers of Jamestown:
We are treated like dogs and driven
like cattle. We will be obliged to
submit to this form of wage slavery
as long as we are unorganized in
dustrially and politically. We must
organize into industrial organiza-
tions in the factories and join the
only political organization of the
workers which is working for their
1'interests-ihe Communist Party.
We must fight against the vicious
speed-up which wears US out long
before cur time. We must fight for
the seven-hour day. Of enlightened
but industrially backward Russia
has the seven-hour day it is tragic
that we, in this highly industrially
developed country are still con-
tinlling with the customs of the mid
die ages as far as working hours
are concerned.) We must fight for
unemployment insurance, old age
pensions, sickness and disability in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

The history of all hitherto cx-
listing society is the history of
class struggles.-Karl MARI (Coi.a-
munist .danifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

new investment, it was said, capacity
of the company will reach 5000
tires daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
NEW MERGER AGREEMENT CONDENSED

The agreement submitted to Congress yesterday by
two Washington street railway companies provides BRIEF
Continuation present after rat
fcaton.
Free transfers between connecting points,
fe BUSES issued under terms
conditions" subject to approval Of the commission
Reduced fares for school children the rate
by the commission.
Instead of agreed rate base the merged company
enjoy existing valuation the two
ing a valuation of the company
No provisions for diversion of stock of
Capital structure not definitely set forth the stpuaions
being that it should with
that the total liability of the shall not
total liabilities of the two existing companies.
New authorized to acquire all outstanding stock
of Washington Rapid Transit Co. which would be
with the merged company when and if the commission
requires"
New company to take all existing contracts Wash
ngton Railway & Electric Co. for sale of rail-
way companies.
Agreement must be submitted stockholders rat-
cation within six months after approval of
than majority of stock of companies
ratification.
Frees of paying salaries of crossing policemen
Conditional guarantee against competition.
Prohibits appeal of valuation fixed
in which valuation element we'll commissions
orders and DECISIONS subject to review in the
agreement, according to Brig. Patrick
chairman of the commission the of
that it would be futile
negotiations unless they know the terms conditions
advance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
Z MARINE PLANES
EN- ROUTE TO HAITI
Amphibian Craft Waits at
Fort SCreven, Ga, for
Fog to Lift.
BY the Associated Press.

by alne Associated RreSS.
Two Marine Looming amphibiar
planes last night were en- route to Port
au Prince, Haiti. to reinforce the
squadron of 10 planes already operat-
ing under command of Marines in the
island where disorders in the last few
days have brought about a serious
situation.
The planes departed from Quantico
Va, early yesterday under orders from
the Navy Department and last night
were at Fort Screvens, Ga, where they
were forced down yesterday afternoon
by fog.
Marine officers commanding the
planes were waiting for the fog to lift
to continue their fight via Jackson
vile, Miami, Fla, and Cuba, following
the Pan-American Always route. The
officers were under instructions to reach
Port au Prince as soon as possible,
The officers we're instructed to de-
liver the planes TO the Marine force
now in Haiti and to return on the
u. S. S. Wright which departed from
Norfolk yesterday with a contingent OF
469 Marines to reinforce the detach-
ment now in Haiti.
The planes were in charge. Of Lieuts
William C. Brice and Peter P. Schrider
of Quantico. With them were Cor
porals Anders, Mcmahon and Kilbridge
It was understood that the Wright
would return to the United States as
soon as its passengers are landed. as
the Marine flyers instructions were &c
return Immediately, aboard the aircraft
tender.