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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
''TO He'll With the
Injunction" Writes
Jailed Food Striker

(The following is a letter from
cafeteria striker who was ar
rested for picketing. The letter is
addressed to the cafeteria work.
ers' organizations
Welfare Island,
May "a, 1929.
Dear Comrades:
The boys here in this capitalist
prison-hole want to let you know
that we are all right and wish we
were out on the picket line. Please
let my family and also my girl
friend know that I am well. Give
our greetings to all the comrades
and tell them to keep up the fight
until we get out to help win union
conditions.
Don't forget to cover the Blue
Bird Cafeteria. 1t was the boss of
that place that sent me here for
30 days by his dirty lies in the court.
We received the letter and the
money you sent and thank you for
the help. l also wish to thank the
union for the assistance which YOU
have given to my wife and children
who otherwise would have nothing
to eat.
DIRTY, Sinking Hole"
have "a more days out of my
sentence to do, but at least | will
have chance to get rested a little
before / get back to the picket line
The Jail is a dirty sinking hole but
we cafeteria workers are used to
that. 1t is no worse to be here than
to slave IL hours a day for 6 1-1
days a week for some damn fat boss
of slave driver.
was glad to hear that some more
cafeteria bosses have been forced
to surrender to the union and give
us a decent break. I hope that
some day soon we will be striking
for the 5-day, 40-hour week like the
needle trades workers. No workers
need to be organized so much as the
exploited slaves in the food indus.
try. hope that the convention Of
the Trade Union Educational League
will be successful and that strong
left wing revolutionary trade unior
center will be built up in this strong
hold of Imperialism, to lead the class
struggles of the workers.
ITO He'll With Injunction"
Tell the boys not to be afraid of
going to Jail for the good cause we
are fighting for. 1t is better to be
in here than to be a scab outside.
When we win union conditions we
will be well rewarded for all the
hard fight we have had for the
union against the bosses. Don't let
the injunction scare you, it is only
a piece Of paper. To hell with the
exploiters and their damned iniunc-
tons,
Fraternally yours,
A striker sent to Jail for violat-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
PLAY FROM GERMANY TO
OPEN THEATRE GUILD
SEASON.

The Theatre Guilds initial produc-
ton of the coming season will be a
German play, "Karl and Anna" by
Leonhard Franck. Alice Brady and
Otto Kruger will have the leading
roles. The play has been successful
in both Berlin and Paris, where it
is now running. 1t is the first Ger
man play to be adapted and pro-
duced in Paris since the World War.
Philip Moeller will direct the play
and its theme is best described as
being Enoch Ardenish. Foreign re-
ports are that it is distinguished by
direct simplicity of treatment
which accounts for its forcefulness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
International Motors Controls PfAd ~ L. Enav Auto Workers IN It's Plan
"1he Village of SIM, Soviet
Film, a Photographic Poem

THE Village of SIM" the film now
showing at the Little Carnegie
Playhouse, is known in Russia as
"Ryazanskiye Bahby" ("The Peasant
Women of Ryazan"). To one
familiar with Russians and Russia,
the title inevitably suggests the
famous peasant women, "bahby," by
Malyavin-those gorgeous creatures
in flaming reds and blues who in an
orgy Of movement, spreading their
immense aprons, look as if they were
the earth herself rising, mounting up,
to take shape in their rugged yet in
toNicating beauty. The name of the
film, therefore, prepares one to ex-
pect something very colorful in APP
pesrance, romantic in. spirit, fan
tastic in implications. The actual
film is none of these things, and the
fact, it will be admitted, is rather
to its credit than otherwise.
That Malyavin's canvasses were
one of the sources of inspiration in
the making of this film is evident in
some of the shots in which the
decorative treatment Of the women's
dresses together with the grouping
betray Enthusiastically the influence OF
the famous painter. But this is as
far as the resemblance goes. There
is nothing of Malyavin's "glorifica-
ton of the Russian Bahia" in the
film made by Preobrezhenskaya. The
whole spirit of the picture is differ
ent. Malyavin's orgiastic self
abandon has given place to sober,
tho kindly, observation. With re-
markable detachment which borders
almost on self-efacement, Preobrez-
henskaya let's the life she presents
speak for itself. In no part of the
film does she seem to be working for
an emotional effect. The drama OF
her characters-and no situation
could be more poignant than that
in which the father of the family
forces openly his daughter-in-law to
become his mistress and has a child
by her while his son and the girls
hubsand is away at war-this drama
tic conflict is never torn from its
background, is never psychologically
isolated from the life of the other
village folk.
And in this, "The Village of Sin,"
reveals characteristic difference
both from the typical Hollywood pic
ture and the typical Russian picture.
Hollywood's method in building up
an emotional appeal is based pri-
marily on dramatising the situation
by isolating and stressing the re-
actions of individual characters. The
Russians, such as Eisenstein and
Pudovkin, on the contrary, stress not
so much the situation and the actual
experience of their characters, as the
form in which they present these on
the screen. Hence the preoccupation
of the Russians with cutting, or
"montage," as it is known in Russia,
which, in their eyes, assumes the
position of principal factor of drama
tic appeal.
With commendable independence,
FREDERICKSBURG in this film
strikes out on her own. She drama
ties neither the situation nor her
method of presenting it to the audi
ence. She merely records her facts.
Inevitably her picture loses some
thing in dramatic suspense, in the
intensity of it's emotional appeal
But if this is a drawback, "The Vii
lage of Sin" may also be said to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
(By a Worker Correspondent

ABERDEEN, Wash, (By MaiD ..
Workers at the plant of the Gen
eral Package Manufacturing Com
pany, Aberdeen, Washington, have
gone out on strike against low wages
and the speed-up system. The work
ers walked out as an unorganized
body, but they are being organized
into the International Woodworkers
Union, Local /. Over seventy-five
men have joined the organization
within the last few days, and the
membership is increasing so rapidly
that in a short while the whole plant
will be organized into the union.
About $50 men were employed in the
plant.
Starvation Wages.
The conditions in this plant are
typical of conditions in all the mills
of this region. Wages are so far
below decent living standard as to
appear almost ridiculous. Young
men and women begin to work in
the plant at 1925 per day, and if
they stay long enough they may
get $3.50 per day. One girl began
to work in the plant at 1925 per
day and after four years of hard la
Dor was given a raise of 25c per
day. Very few of the $50 workers
in the plant get over $500 per day.
The highest skilled workers in the
plant, the joiners, get only from
$4.25 to $4.75 per day.
There is no uniform rate of pay
in this plant. The bosses vary the
wages as widely as possible in order
to get the men to work against each
other in production. Those who work
a great deal harder than the rest
are given 25c or Csc more per day
than the others. This method of
speeding up the plant has had a
bad effect on the health and morale
of the men.
Speedup.
The joiners have felt the effect
of the speed-up tremendously. Sew
eral years ago they were required
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
INDICT LEWIS SLUGGERS
Even Capitalist Courts Admit Guilt

Sass, chaimran of the meeting, and
Albert Kowalsky, preside. of the
local union of the N. M. u, were
beaten ur. Sass was struck over
the eye with a bottle, and for a
time it was feared that he would
lose the use of the eye. These in
cidents occurred at Riverville.
On the same day, Toohey and
others were besieged by an army of
Lewis gangsters med to the teeth,
and kept in a miners house for six
hours, being in this way prevented
from speaking at the Rivesville
meeting.
In spite of these terroristic at
tempts, the National Miners Union
is growing in West Virginia, be-
cause the miners realize that it is
the only c-sanization that can de-
fend their interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PARAMOUNT, w. Va, (By Mail)
Seven sluggers hired by the Lewis
machine to break ~ meetings of the
National Miners Union and beat up
members and organizers of the Ma
tional Miners Union, were indicted
by the May Grand Jury in Fair
mount. So fragrant were the slug
ging activities Of these Lewis hire
lings, that even in this reactionary
state the authorities are compelled
TO make a gesture of enforcing" the
law in order to save their face.
The indictments arose out Of an
attempt of the Lewis machine to
bIak up mass meeting of the Ma
= Miners Union, at which Pat
secretary treasurer Of the
scheduled to speak. Louis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

have the quality of it's defect. In
the clarity of it's outline, the even
ness of it's unfolding, the continuity
and liveliness of its background, it
acquires a characteristic and unique
quality-the atmosphere and unity of
poem. Not a rhymed poem of
measured lines, nor the lyrical poem
in prose (like that Griffith master
piece-"Broken Blossoms") but a
poem in free verse, descriptive and
factual, devoid of lyrical senti-
mentality and dramatic emphasis,
flexible in its form and natural in
its movement, and because of all
that, because of its being a poem,
throbbing with a life of its own, the
life of its continuous and characters
tic rhythm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
MILITARIsT DOES RIGHT THING

George o. L. Frank, vice-com-
mander of the American Legion in
Long Island, committed suicide yes
terday from drinking poison. He
was also a member of the chamber
Of commerce. Evidently he had be-
come disguised with life after at
tending recent meetings of his two
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
General Package SLAVES
Revolt Against Slavery

to produce only Sc dozen buckets in
ten-hour day. Now they are forced,
with no change in machinery, to pro-
duce 80 dozen buckets per day, in
eight hours. This speed-up has been
accompanied by no change in wages.
Therefore, the General Package
Manufacturing Company, with no
increase in men, no new machines,
and no increase in pay, has increased
its production by 40 per cent. This
is rapidly building an enormous for
tune for the bosses on the wrecked
lives of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Mine TAKERS
Lose FAT JOBS
IN OHIO fields
Miners Win Strike in
Lisbon
(By a Worker Correspondent


BELLAIRE, Ohio, (By MaiD.-
All officials of the United Mine
Workers of America in the state of
Ohio, with - exception of one, have
lost their jobs. The Lewis machine,
which wants all the, money that it
can wiring out of some miners with
the help of the operators check-off
for its own use, has discharged all
officials in Ohio cas- a result of the
collapse of the organization. There
is only one paid official left in the
c:-'cire state, end that is John Cin1ue
In East Ohio, whom the machine is
still maintaining in the hope that
some min-rs will be foolish enough
to join up with the grating gang.
The National Miners Union is
growing rapidly in the state of Ohio,
where new locals are being organ
lied frequently. In a number of re-
! cent strikes, the N. M. U. has led
the miners in the fight against wage
cuts and for improved conditions.
The miners in Ohio are thru with
the Lewis machine and will follow
only the rank and file organization
which really fights for the interests
OF the miners-the National Miners
Union.
The National Miners Union in
Lisbon, Ohio, won a victory after a
short strike against the efforts of
the company to reduce wages and
discharge three of the most active
members of the National Miners
Union. When this event occurred,
the National Miners Union called a
strike, which was 100 per cent sue
cessful. The company agreed to can
eel the wagecut, paid the wage-cut
which had already been deducted,
and reinstated the men who had
been discharged. Upon notification
by the Mine Committee, the miners
returned to work, feeling that the
National Miners Union was really
an organization that could defend
their interests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
SANTA, Deaf HID c. GIRL HUH
GREET BOY IN AIR CRASH
Photo by International

(consinueS from Page Ons)
her home here from st. Louis
according to her father, Mar
shall H. Fearnow. She is secre
tary to Donald Barlow. assis
tant manager Of the T. A. r. Of
fices here, it is said. FearnoN
talked with his daughter by tele
phone late last night. He said
that she said her injuries were
rUt serious. Miss Fearnow makes
her home with her parents and 9
sister, Miss Elsie Fearnow.
Russell Mcfarland, believed tc
be q resident of Clarendon, Va.
received minor injuries in the
accident, He and seven other
passengers were cared for at the
T. A. T. office at the landing
field where the accident occurred
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Dec. 2:
GNS) Officials. today blamed
a binding snow storm for the
crash Of q Transcontinental Ain
Transport plane here Whicr
killed on man yesterday.
Carrying Ii passengers from
st. Louis, the huge craft overshot
the field in attempting q landing
and struck Q stump. tearing of
portion Of the landing gear and
one motor.
Metal tie roads from the left
landing gear were thrust through
the fuselage in the Smashup, ia
tally injuring D. c. Law. Of Phil
adelphia, and injurying O. M
Kline, also Of Philadelphia.
Instead of turning over. the
monoplane swung almost com
pletely around at the impact
Pilot DEAN Burford, Of Coluru
bus. Ohio, was at the controls.
The remaining nine passengers
were shaken up by the crash and
sudden change Of direction, but
none injured seriously. AlnOne
them was Miss Mary FearnoW
formerly Of washington.
Burford declared he had felt l1ls
way through the storm all this
way from st. Louis and had
picked up an hours lost time
upon 5 arrival here.
Burford, in describing the crash
said an unexpected wind sWervec
the plane just as it was settling
to the ground.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
IS IN DAY FACE
RUM CHARGES

(continued from Page One)
r. Kirkland refused papers in II
instances.
Policemen w. r. Laflin and
william McEwen, of the Eighth
precinct, captured three cars in
less than two hours Saturday
night and arrested five alleged
bootleggers, one of them julius
A. Jackson, colored, of the first
block L st. N. W.. Sixty half gal
lon Jars of liquor were found in
this car, Latin said. He was
given 80 days for reckless driy.
ing by Judge John p. Mcmahon.
Sergt. o. j. Letterman, with
Richard Cox, George McCaron
and j. r. Mostin, arrested eight
persons and seized approximately
100 gallons of LIQUOR.
Hart charged John G.. POsey
.colored: Ben Morris, John Robert
Wilson and Julius Henry Jack
son. colored, with illegal trans
portation under the Jones law
BERTHE Lawford, 200 block War
rent st. N. W.: Grant Thomas
colored. and Louis Merchant. 1907
block Eighth st. N. W., were all
charged With second offense pos
session.
Those who were arraigned foI
simple possession were Edward
Brown. Joseph Ford, Charles Ed
ward Jourdant, Charles Clarence
Hamel, william Brown, Percy
Wood. Cerflch Bernard PUN
phrey, James Warren. Lawrence
o. Hite, Louis Merchant. William
Green. Campbell Simpson, Viii
liam Foster. Elijah H. Small
wood, Theodore Robertson, Her
bert Smith, Mamie Myers, Car
Jordan. David WetherS. JACK
Brown and Gus Brown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
s \ D v AWAITS
CHRISTMAS

Continued from Page Ons)
row night when Santa Claus gets
out his sleigh and RENDERS to
to make his annual roof-top trip
to the homes Of all good little boys
and girls.
The official forecast is: Partly
cloudy and slightly colder to-
night; minimum temperature
about % degrees: Tuesday fair"
Showing In New York
While the snow apparently had
stopped in Washington by 10
o'clock this morning, other parts
Of the Eastern seaboard reported
less favorable conditions. The
New York weather bureau re
ported that snow probably will
fall until Christmas morning, it
having started in the metropolis
early today.
Storm warnings were ordered
displayed by the Weather Bureau
from Cape HatteraS to Eastport,
Me. The warning said that "a
disturbance near Cape HatteraS
is moving north-northe eastward
with increasing intensity and will
cause strong northeast winds and
gales, with snow or rain this
afternoon and tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23

NEW YORK, Dec. %. RIN.S.l-
Death and Santa Claus walked
arm-in-arm into the life Of five
acknowledgements Alexander Max
emma. Death claimed the boy
after he had received his most
earnestly desired Christmas pre-
sent, an aviator's uniform.
Alexander was happy.
With Juvenile exuberance he
pulled his little hand loose from
his fathers and dashed into the
open street at Fourteenth Street
and Avenue C, where his new
found glory would be visible to
everyone.
A taxicab cut short his joy.
His little body was hurled ten
feet and the taxi sped on before
its license number could be noted.
Alexander died in Bellevue HoSpi-
tai from q fractured skull early
today without regaining conscious
ness
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Virginia Women to Make
Cold STAR Pilgrimage

STAUNToN, Va. Dec. 49,
Stanton and Augusta county
women are among the 324 Viz
ginians eligible to make q pill
grimage TO the graves Of their
soldier dead abroad as the guests
Of the United States Government
The list includes Mrs. Enola
s. Boggs, Wanesboro: Mrs. Nan.
ME S. Bruebeck. Mrs. Hannah
S. Kellar, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Nc.
Guffin, Staunton, and Mrs. Betty
c. Newman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Girl 'Hoofer' Marries
Kings Guardsn1an

That the bridegrooln's high
born and socially prominent
family thoroughly approved Of
the romantic match was evidenced
by their presence at the cere
mony.
Due to an ancient tradition,
the marriage necessitates Francis
retirement from the army, as
British custom dictates no menu
berIof the kings royal bodgguard
shall be welded to an actress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Mrs. Anita NJ. Baldwin
To Sell Big Estates
staff Photo.

Los ANGELES. Calf, Dec. %
tIN.Sa.--Mrs. Anita M. Baldwin,
daughter Of the late E. j. Lucky
Baldwin, today announced she in
tended to sell her vast Southern
California properties, valued ct
between $20,000.000 and $25, 000,.
900.
She asserted she was disposing
of the vast estate, in order to sil.
fill an ambition to travel and 10
devote more time to her music,
Management Of her properties,
she said, had heretofore made
this impossible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23

LONDON, Dec. 23 U.NS).-
Al romance between an ariSto-
cratic officer in the brigade Of
guards and q little blonde
"hoofer" from the Great White
Way reached its climax today
when Sunny Jarmann, of Broad
way, was married to Lieut..
Francis Francis Of the royal
horse guards.
The wedding took place In
fashionable Christ Church, Down
street. MayfaiHs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Train Sideswiped,
3 of Crew Injured

GORHAM, Kas., Dec. e
(INS.l Three members Of the
crew on Union Pacific passenger
train No. al, westbound, were
injured here today when their
train was derailed.
The locomotive and a mail car
Of the train Sideswiped passenger
train No. l28, eaStbound, which
was standing on q sidetrack.
The injured men. were reported
to be the engineer, fireman and
q mail clerk on the westbolnd
train.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
TREE At COURTHOUSE

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Dec. 23.-ThoSe entering
the county clerks office today will
see d hugh Christmas tree await.
ing the gifts which will be placed
there tomorrow. This is an an
nual event and just before clos
ing on Christmas Eve, County
Clerk William II. Duncan. diStri'
ata9 tt1 Gteas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Taxi Driver, Wanted
{ For Fighting, Is Suicid,

HAGERSToWN, Md. Dec. %.
Candy stottlemyer, so, taxi driver,
who was to appear in city court
this morning on q charge Of
fighting following his arrest last
hight, cheated the law by shoot.
ing himself last night.
When he left the house with q
shotgun. Stottlemeyer told his wife
he was going to shoot q rabbit he
had seen in the rear Of their
home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-23
Five Passengers Hurt
In Kansas Train Crash

ELLIS, Kan, Dec. IS uN.S.l-
Five passengers on q Union
Pacific passenger train were re-
ported to have been injured when
the train was sideswiped by an,
other train near Gorham. today.
Meager reports received here
did not state the extent Of the In
juries suffered by the five. They
were taken to . hospital at Hays,
Kan.