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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

WitchcyQf Film Shows The
Faith That Kills Wholesale

"Witchchaft Thru the Ages" at the
Fifth Avenue Playhouse turned on
inspection to be an interesting and
praiseworthy attempt to explain the
reasons for the superstition which
killed it's millions all throughout hui
man history, and now under the
cowl of MELONS policy of keeping
the inhabitants of his state of Penn
sylvania in the mental state which
makes for low wages, has but few
months ago, taken another victim.
Benjamin Christensen, director of
the film, did not show "witchcraft
through the ages" He made no at
tempt except for few flashes from
old engravings and rock carvings, to
show really ancient or primitive
witch doctoring. He did not bring
out the close connection between the
orthodox spook chasing priest, whose
operations in every age and cline
have been legal, and his submerged
brother, frequently the formerly
orthodox priest of conquered cult,
who has to put up with the title of
witch" and practise in secret. Much
religious history, many deaths and
untold human misery has resulted
from the competition of these two
dark forces, the accepted religion
and it's no less ridiculous, but illegal,
fyitcbcraftv rafIao+iop
There is good evidence to show
that real witch cult existed during
the middle ages, which was in real
ity a revolt of the "benighted" mas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

ses, who preferred to the horrors OF
christianity the remnants Of a some
what less austere and gloomy cult,
made up of the relics of badly re-
membered paganism.
The picture does show, however,
how the half crazy, clerical ascetics
of the church, saw witches on every
side, where there were not even any
who pretended to be witches, and
gives the story, taken directly from
old German court records, of the
destruction of a whole family and
several other innocent victims,
staunch believers all of them, in one
frame-up case after another, in
which horrible fortunes conducted by
priestly fanatics and hypocrits got
confessions of guilt, and confessions
duplicating all the personal enemies
of the confessed, on a wholesale
scale.
One young mother is provoked I'M
der pain of having her baby executed
to betray, on promise of release for
herself and child, a knowledge of
witch spells, common to the whole
population, and is burned alive as a
result.
The picture is enlivened by photo
graphs of several ingenious medieval
devices, intended to show the gro
tesque Nightmares of what awaited
in hell the cursed persons who tried
to compete, unorthodoxly with the
prevailing and hallowed, Catholic
myth makers.-V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
GASTONIA Mill
STRIKERS WILL
FIGHT TO END
Score Local Press for
Lies
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q WORKER Correspondent
GASTONIA, N. C. (By MaiD -
We want you to please put this in
the Daily Worker for us. We be-
lieve that the union is the best thing
that ever came to Gastonia, but it
seems that everybody that has lots
of money is trying to damn our
union.
The business people of this town
don't want the cotton mill workers
to have anything, but they want US
! to work hard so they can have
plenty. There are people right here
in our mill village that haven't got
decent clothes to wear, on account
of making nothing in the mill.
l know why they speeded US up
so fast. They did this so they could
get as much yarn in two or three
days as they did before in week.
When speed was normal it took six
hands to run the work that three
hands now do. If that's not speeding
the work, what do you call speeding
the work?
Rich Are Enemies.
We have just been waiting to see
what the rich in this town would
do. They have done nothing but
criticize the poor laboring class of
people. People like ne have to get
up at two o'clock every day to do
house work and then go to the mill
and work all night.
1t is eight o'clock in the morning
before I can get to bed. How do
you think the editor of the Gastonia
Gazette, the paper which has been
on the bosses side in the strike,
would like his vie or mother to
work like that? What" he will
say II wouldn't let her"
Well, that's what we are trying to
get, so that the husband can make a
wage to support his family so that
the wife and children won't have to
work. How do you think any man
can make living for a family on
81 and So a week?
Why is it that the senators from
North Carolina don't want to have
any investigator down here? Be-
cause they know they will find our
conditions just like we say they are.
Let them come right down to our
homes and see for themselves what
we have to put up with. We don't
have cake and pie to eat like W. 7.
Rankin or editor Atkins of the Gas
tonia Gazette, but we want to be
able to eat in order to live.
Children Slave.
We noticed in the paper about the
children's nursery. That is just be-
cause we can't make enough to get
the kind of food they need. Also
we saw in the paper about criticizing
the editor of the Gazette. l don't
guess that there are many mill en-
ployees that know the editor, he
don't want to know the hands that
work in the mill.
Why are the chain gangs full to-
day? Just because the mothers have
to 60 to work and leave the children
when they are little, because the
father can't make a living for the
family and they are left to go out
in the world.
If we had had union in Gastonia
things would be better. We want
our rights and we intend to have
them if we have to fight for them.
WORKERS OF THE
OZARK MILL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
Mayor and q Floaters
Indicted for Fraud in
Illinois Town Election.

CHICAGO, May 2S.-EIection.
fraud conspiracy indictments were
reported to have been returned by
the Cook County Grand Jury today
against John Comise, mayor of
Specialville, and % alleged men,
bers of the "floater army" of mike
De Pike" Heitler, vice lord.
The~true bills were reported to
have charged conspiracy and viola
ton of the election laws in the cleo
tons as Specialville, April 16.
Heitler, who escaped indictment,
was arrested with his "arny" at
headquarters in a pigsty, after rival
political leaders had complained of,
"floaters." Comise was defeated
for reelection.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
Copley, Publisher, to
Testify About All His
Power Trust Holdings

WASHINGTON, May 28.-The
Federal Trade Commission today
summoned Col. Ira C. Copley, Il
linois and California publisher, to
appear before it June IS in connec-
ton with its investigation in the ac-
QUESTION of newspaper stock by pub
lie utility companies.
Evidence developed at the previous
hearing disclosed Copley was for
merly substantial stakeholder in
mid-western utilities. Recently Cop
ley advised the commission that he
had disposed of all his power hold
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

wife is sick" and the boss would
say, 81 can't help that, you just
have to work or quit"
So there you are. l haven't got
money enough to move on so l
have to slave for the bosses or
get out.
Well, I shaved for a while longer,
but after a while what do you
think hanpened here? The union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

open our relief store and threw our
food on the street.
Next they broke up our picket
line and beat up old women and
locked them up. Well, that didn't
work so they had to study some
other scheme. Here's what it was
they passed a law that we could
not picket. Well, that wouldn't
work, so they said, eve will throw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

she would say, in cultured accents:
I'VE may be able to place you, come
around some other day." I stepped
up and told her 1 was applying for
the night typist's job. She gave
me an application and told me to
fill it out and then wait for Mrs.
Chadwick.
Probably, as I deduce from my ex-
perience, about five youths were
hired today out of about four hun
dred applicants for all kinds OF jobs.
The guard turned and spoke to an
applicant, saying: "Some of the
guys go from store to store during
the week. She knows some of them
and just turns them down without
any consideration"
In about a half an hour, getting
impatient, l asked the guard where
Mrs. Chadwick was. In answer he
told me to go through a gate and
tc sit on the other side of the sort
Of fence.
I was now seated where l could
watch the girls being "hired." What
might be called pretty young thing
was the interviewer. Sweet in her
way. She had different job. All
she had to do was to number the
applications. Mays hires mostly
girls. They work cheaper and longer.
But, they were not hiring many to-
day. At least I did not see them
being hired. / saw the girl-workers
with applications, being interviewed,
but not hired, not allowed to slave!
Some of the workers were told to
wait. They joined the rest of US
waiting.
These girls were told to wait for
Miss Randall or someone and
so on. AS / sat, l watched three
girls near me for one hour before
this Miss Randall came around to
interview" them. She Interviewed
them in this manner-First Miss r.
stared the applicant in the eyes.
Then she showed her pearls of teeth
by teething pretty smile. Ii a
cluttered tone she spoke saying,
"How do you do?" "What can l do
for your" The applicant answers,
according to their character. Some
earnestly and some besearchingly,
but all humbly, tell their tale Of
ability. The answer is inevitably
the same, "Come around some other
time, she says, we will be able to
place you"
Finally, some other gray-haired
woman comes around and takes our
applications. There were, / dis
covered when they gave in their ap-
! plications four other men of varied
ages, going for the same job as /.
We sit, again to wait and play
"You Wait" 1t was 12:45 a. M,
approximately three and half hours
since l came there before Mrs. Chad
wick came around and said that the
typewriters that were we were to
use "in test for speed and accuracy
were in constant use and that we
might as well go home as there
would be no opportunity for the use
Of the machines that day."
That is the way the exploiter is
allow to treat the producer, the ex-
plotted in the capitalist epoch. Eel
low workers, organize in the shops.
Join the Communist Party. How
much longer are We the exploited to
stand this oppression and exploita-
ton by the parasites Of the bosses
class. ~ v {
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

first put me to running two
frames. Then they got a man
named tombstone to run the mill
and the first thing he did was to
put me to work running four
frames, and cut my wages 20 per
cent. They made me work
longer hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

Ever since, l haven't had a de-
cent meal, or clothes, for after my
rent and fuel bills were paid l had
only about 81 left. So you can
see | did not have much to buy
food with or clothes for my wife
and babies, and if they got sick
and asked if l could have time
off they would say, "No, we can't
let you Off" l would say, my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
"NICE WOMEN OPENS IN
BROOKLYN, UJNE 3

L. Lawrence Weber's new play
"Nice Women" a comedy by William
A. Grew, will open at the Majestic
Theatre, Brooklyn on June 8. Robert
Warwick and Sylvia Sidney are fea-
tured. The cast also includes Verree
Tearsdale, George Barber, Lolita
Linthicum and Hope Drown. The
play is due on Broadway a week
later.
Pleasure Bound" is now in its
three last weeks at the Majestic
Theatre. The revue will move to
Chicago about the middle of June
with the present cast intact.
May Murray has joined the cast
of Little Accident" Croaby Cages
comedy now at the Ambassador
Theatre. Miss Murray was last seen
here in paris Bound"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
Keep Up the Fight Writes
Food Striker from HIS Cell

CA letter from John Taylor,
cafeteria striker who was SEN
fenced to six months in the work.
house on May Goth, by Judge Ed
ward We'll of jefferson Market
Court, for the crime" of pic
keting.)
Riker's Island
Dormitory No. 5
Number 98150
Dear Comrades:
/ have reached my new "home"
where l will have six months to
think it over" Every dormitory is
separate wooden building. At
least we have plenty of room and
fresh air, so it is not quite as bad
as l expected. II rather be here
than in one of the sweatshop cafete-
terias shaving for ~ hours a day
for starvation wages. l was lucky
enough to land good job here when
l arrived, in the storeroom. But be-
lieve me l have to be a good boy"
to hold it.
Misses the Comrades.
am going to be lonesome because
l don't know single one of the
prisoners here. 1t was not so bad
in the Tombs where the strikers were
always coming and going and l could
see the comrades and find out how
the strike is going on. But maybe
some more of you will be sent up
here as the judges are getting worse
every day and soon the strikers will
be getting a year in the coop for
picketing. don't wish any of you
any hard luck, but if you get a Jail
bit to do, / sure would be glad to
see you here. 1t would make it
easier to pass the time. But don't
get in a hurry to come here because
once you are here it isn't so easy to
get out as to get in.
wrote you letter from the Jail
but since then / took a boat ride to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
INFL UENCE OF
LEWIS MACHINE
NOW DISCARDED
National Miners Union
Leads Struggle
(BA q YORKER Correspondentl


PENOWA, Pa. by MaiD .-When
Lewis abandoned the Jacksonville
scale in June, 1928, the men, not
wishing to go back as a bunch of
sheep, and convinced that it was
useless to fight any longer, organ
lied rank and file committees to
decker with the coal companies, de-
manding acknowledgment, mine COM
rdittees, etc. In this they were sue
cessful in a number of mines.
Penowa was one of the mines in
this district that went back under
such arrangements. The coal COM
pany adhered to the agreement up
to May 81, when they notified the
miners check-weighman that he was
not allowed upon the tipple any
longer. They thought the men were
ripe for plucking of any kind, but
the coal company made one big mis-
take-they did not consider the fact
that since the men went back they
had organized local of the National
Miners Union.
- When the check-weighman was
notified that he would not be per-
nlitted to remain on the tipple, the
officers of Local Union 105 of N.
NJ. U. called a meeting Immediately
Of all men employed in the mine.
The unanimous decision was to
strike. Local 105 is leading it.
When at the meeting the policy of
the N. NJ. U. was eXplained-that
this is a strike against wage-cuts,
fifteen new members were enrolled
and the possibilities are that every
man in the mine will join the Ma
tional Miners Union.
The spirit is very good. The men
are in a fighting mood. No cries
Of going back at any wages. The
men are determined to go back only
under the condition that the check
Feighman remains; ana no wage
cuts or discrimination.
Some of the men who. were under
the influence of the Lewis machine
: lie that the National Miners Union
was organized with the help of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company to smash
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, and the strike of 1929, were
convinced by this prompt action of
Local Union 105 that the National
Miners Union is the only union that
really fights against wage-cuts and
worsening of the conditions in the
mines.
This is the first real outbreak of
the old fighting spirit in this dis
trict, and will be a basis for new
struggles of the Western Pennsyl-
vania miners under the leadership
of the National Miners Union.
The mine is 100 per cent on strike
Under the leadership of Local Union
105 Of the N. NJ. U. Not content
with discharging the check-weigh-
man, the company has made big
cut in wages as well. Machine min
ing has been cut from 50 cents per
ton to 46 cents; pick mining from IS
cents per ton 10 65 cents; machine
cutters from 10 cents per ton to 8
cents per ton; day work from SIS
per day to $3.50. The n. Nj. U. local
is holding regular daily strike meet
ings. The company has commenced
evictions at this early date. Sam
Mancuso, president of Local 105, N.
n u, was the first to be served a
seven-day eviction notice. The ma
t:onal headquarters is making ar
arrangements to extend the strike to
other properties of this company in
an attempt to effect complete tie
up of all its operations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
''LET'S STICK TO UNION"
Gdst0nia MIL Strikers DEFY Euichi0us

shelter and Manville-Jencks is still
piling furniture out today on the
street. Poor old crippled women
are put on the street without shelter
and some are crying because
their children are without homes.
But we're still going to stick just the
same if our things are out on the
street. So stick to the union all you
workers.
"A WOMAN WORKER. J. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

came here, and the union men
called us on strike Ss.d showed us
we did not have to Shave for the
mill bosses like we wern. We found
out that this was the right kind
of union, and the mill bosses tried
to break it up. First they got the
National Guard, and then they got
a masked mob and smashed out
our union headquarters, broke
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

them out of their homes"
They took us to court, and you
know that the judge was for the
mill bosses, so they started to
throw my furniture in the street
and my wife was sick. They said
they would not put ont sick people,
but you can bet they did.
Here l worked for them all this
time almost for nothing and they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

(By a Worker Correspondent
GASTONIA, N. c., (By Mall.
Fellow workers, I have been work
ing in textile mills for Is years.
When 1 entered the Loray Mill
first I went to the employment Of
flee and asked for a job. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
(Bg q Worker Correspondentl

GASTONIA, N. C. by Mail) II
want to tell you of our struggle in
the Loray mill. have worked for
% years in the spinning room in
Loray mill and they make you do so
much work with small wages and
that is why am out today on strike
to better our conditions in the Loray
mill. Now my furniture is out ~
Ag on the street ! am without
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
Ga KILLED BY QUAKE.

PARIS, May 28.-Sixty-four per-
sons were killed and ~ were injured
in "a villages in Central Asia,
shaken by an earthquake Saturday,
dispatches from Angora, Turkey, re-
port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

put me out in the rain, and my
sick wife too. X
Well, they found out this was
only making people sore at them,
so they went off and told people
lies to get them to work. But that
didn't work, for despite all they
have done to us we will stick to the
union and to hell with Loray.
L. K.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

Reap the benefits of the May
Day demonstrations by getting
into the Communist Party work.
ers who participated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
More Employment With
7-H0uy Day IN the USSR

The worker in the Kharkov bicycle plant who the
below tells how the workers the hour
at the time increasing employment well production These
Soviet workers hear from American
to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
CHARGE BIG OIL swINDLE.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2s.-
Partners of ]. c. Trees and M. L.
Benedum have filed suit against the
latter, charging they swindled their
associates in the J. C. Trees Oil Co.,
by telling them that the Standard
Oil bought them out for $4,15O,00O
whereas the actual price paid was
$6,000,000. They say Trees and
Benedum simply pocketed the diff
ference. saa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

1t is the ultimate aim of this
work ("Capital") to reveal the
economic law of motion of modern
sOcfety.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
Sheriff Agent of Ware,
to Tell Source of Cash

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 90
Friends and political advisers OF
Sheriff Thomas w. Cunningham,
who yesterday was named in U.
sSs.-.Supreme Court decision saying
.tha-senate had right to arrest him
unless he disclosed thea source of
$4,000 he contributed to the cam
paign funds of William S. Ware.
said today the sheriff was willing to
tell about the money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

Among all the classes that con-
front the bourgeoisle today, the
proletarfat alone r. really revolu-
uonary-Marx. tS&/
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29

Women Workers and Young
Workers! Join the Ranks of the
Struggling Workers!
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
Solutions of Last
Weeks Puzzles

FAMOUS Name Puzzle; The frst
sentence reads: Thanks 10 the
long useful experiments OF ons
man the torture OF rabies is past The
name hidden here Is Louis Pasteur
traced through squares number II.
i3. %. sc. So, 6l ~, GO. AZ. 81, a.. ~
which total 503. The second sentence
reads: Dynamite which Is very dan
gerous lifts tons Of rocks By Its ex-
Alfred Nobel traced through squares
number e.. e5. 95. lo4. ia. 81. So. 20,
i0e. III, I27. which total 1905 The
grand total score In sos plus l-0oe
which equals l.5e9.
Calendar Puzzles a times l5s also
Postmark Patehesf Fort Worth;
vincennes, Ind; Montgomery. Ala;
Madison, Wis. San Antonio: Cincin-
nsti: Augusta. k1ns-: Waterloo,
Iowa: Boston; Springfield. Ill: Ray
mond. wash: Greenwich. Conn
Poultry Pen Problemi Seven chick
ems were put IN Zach Of three small
coops and these In turn were put In
what IL Your Answer. l. Five 2.
Yes 3. The reverse T. -Four on each
foot g. Right front and left hind foot
A Catch Problems Two Of the
ears were on the squirrels head.
Riddless l. Because he IL a Drivats
still . Because they are hearty hsh
all t%artihciall. . Heigh hos. Chigh
8 Because they would use fowl Ian
guage. q Because their careers are
checkeree. z. Both have 70 be
threshed. S. Both are lightning.
Q. Tha turtle. because 1t has q hard
casa
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
RIDDLES

HOW good ara you at guess
IL ing? You can easily find
out by timing yourself in solving
these brain-teasing riddle&
i. What trees are grown by
burning?
2. In what way are a sleeping
man and q twelve-year-old boy
alike?
3. What nut does not grow on
q tree and has no SHELF
4. What beverage can be said
to be like time?
s. What soldiers never 20 on
a march?
8. What can live only as long
as it is in fire?
Y. What shoemaker never uses
leather in making his shoes?
8. Why do married people use
only twenty-five letters Of the al
phabet?
9. In what way are your eyes
like the North and the South
Poles?
10. What Is a similarity be-
tween a boy who is getting
whipped and q total eclipse Of
the sun?
II. Why was Samson the first
most popular actor?
IL. In what way are the center
of a tree and the tail Of a dog
alike?
Is. Two boys named Luke and
Paul both have the same thing,
but which has it first and which
last?