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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

the name of this odd gentleman. His
name is Muratov and he is the for
mer governor Of the provinces OF
Kursk and Tambov.
The discussion over, we all go to
the studio. The scene is laid in
the reception room of the governor
general. The visitors include men,
bers of the arch-reactionary Union
Of the Russian People, pages, army
officers, industrialists, police and a
delegation of representative Jews,
which is composed Of real Jews who
in the pre-revolutionary days were
frequent callers in the reception
rooms of governors, Of the very
Governor Muratov, now engaged as
an expert and assisting in the pro-
duction of "The White Eagle"
The studio is all agog with noise
and hustle. The director, /. A. Pro-
tasanov, is busy arranging the var.
ious groups. He is followed at every
step by Muratov who is again G.
it, making objections and proving 6
point of decorum. Protasanov waves
him aside and shouts:
"Meyerhold, take your place! In
dustrialists, to the right! Union Of
the Russian People, to the left!
Jews, to the rear!"
Meyerhold, his head shaved, plays
the high official who came on a
tour of inspection and is about to
receive various delegations for the
purpose of ascertaining the cause
of the recent disturbances in the
province.
The actual filming begins. Mey-
erhold converses with the industrial
lists, the camera goes full blast. Sud
denly /. M. Moskvin bursts upon
the scene from behind the wings. lie
interrupted his work in an adjacent
film studio to witness the SHOOT
ing" of this spectacular passage. He
liked Meyerhold's acting so well that
he rushed to embrace him and to
tell him as much.
There is general laughter and -
the scene is ruined. But the caro-.
man Goloyyna is not as disconsolate
as might be expected, for he has
obtained an interesting "shot" Of
three great actors in an impromptu
scene.
Again Protasanov commands
"Katchalov, Meyerhold, take your
places" and the filming is resumed
Meyerhold proceeds with the recep
ton of delegations. Here is a dele
CATION of the Union Of the Russian
People presenting him an icon
Meyerhold kisses the icon and hands
it back to one Of his retinue. Pro
tasanov shouts joyously:
"very good. Meyerhold"
i The delegation of Jews come for
ward and the high dignitary sud
denly becomes uneasy. sways bacl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Defective Wiring
in Movie Studio
Kills a Worker

by Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (By Mail) III.
w. frog, welder, TALL Croker ST.,
died Of injuries while en- route to a
hospital on Jan. 5, after being
knocked from a girder of the
burned Paramount Studio sound
proof stage, where he was working.
The $450,o0o "talkie" stage was
completely destroyed by fire few
days ago. The cause was said to be
defective wiring-defective on ac-
count of too much speed-up, others
claim.
At that time, six firemen and four
electricians were more or less seri-
ously hurt.
Convicted of violating a city or
dinance by distributing Red litera-
ture at the Roosevelt High School a
Jews days ago, Alfred E. Senior, a
member of the Young Workers
(Communist) League, was sentenced
on Jan. rs to 10 days in Jail by
Municipal Judge Sheldon. Senior,
who claims that his nationality is
English, is also forcing deportation
proceedings, thanks to William
Hynes, head Ct the "Red" Squad.
L. P. RINDAL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
MOULDER FAKER
Headquarters
in A brewery
Had Things Own Way
at Montreal Confab
(Bg a Yorker Correspondent

(By Yorker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, {By Mail) -
The reactionary officials of the
Moulders Union held a convention a
few weeks ago at Montreal. Canada.
The Black Horse Brewery was
their headquarters. All the delegates
were served with any amount of
free beer.
Besides drinking beer, the mis-
leaders of the Moulders Union ac-
complished nothing. They did abso-
lutely nothing for the benefit Of the
rank and file. Every move made
was in the interests of the official
dom-the fat boys. When a dele
gate who made motion that the
sick benefit be increased from $3.50
to SO a week, the officials went the
other way, and cut it to $6.75 a
week. Mostly officials of the union
were delegates to the convention at
Montreal, so they had their own
way.
The molders international union
consists of about 440 locals. Some
of these are two small to send dele
gates to conventions, as they have
less than 200 members. One dele
gate to each set of 200 members in
good standing.
There is no real wage scale for
moulders in Los Angeles. A sliding
scale is in operation. Union men
are paid from Sc to 81 a day. Union
and non-union men are working to-
gether, side by side, in the shops.
Scabs are working for anything the
boss is willing to pay-down to 81
or IS day. Common laborers in
local foundries are being "educa-
ted" to take molders' places in case
of strikes. Mechanics are also
taxing the place of skii.ed workers
in the holding trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Meyexhold, Great Director;
Plavs IN NeW USSR Film

THE following interview, taken
from the Russian press, gives an
interesting insight backstage on the
recent appearance of the noted d.
rector of the famous Meyerhold
Theatre of Moscow as a movie ac-
tor. The gifted director plays an
important part in "The White
Eagle" latest Of importations from
Soviet Russia, which opens at the
Cameo Theatre this Saturday.
One morning I telephoned v. L.
Meyerhold and asked: "Vsevolod
Emilyevich. may I see you posing
for the white Eagle?'" / was
elated to hear his answer: "Do come
over today. I'll be receiving dele
cations" He alluded to scene in
"The White Eagle" where he plays
the part of a high dignitary and
personal representative Of the car.
Arriving at the studio noticed
at the entrance an old-time police
sergeant in full regalia talking to
a cadet of the Exclusive military
academy under the car" As it
might be expected, these two speci-
mems of an extinct species attracted
a large crowd of passers-by.
I was conducted to Meyerhold's
dressing room just in time to be
the witness of curious scene. The
famous v. /. Kachaloy of the Mos
cow Art Theatre was being taken
to task by gentleman in a formal
black surtout. The person in black
spoke heatedly, telling Kachalov
that the badge Of the Order of the
White Eagle must be worn on the
right side and not on the left.
Kachalov listened to him in dismay
and confessed that in the scenes
"shot" the day before he had worn
the badge on the wrong side. The
solemn gentleman protested that it
was all wrong and profane.
Here Meyerhold Joined in the dis
cussion with the remark that "The
Emperor of All Russias" Nikolai
Nikolaievich was not likely to come
to see the film, that Baron Wrangel
was dead and that there were hardly
two persons at large in Russia who
had actually seen how the badge Of
the White Eagle had been worn.
Bending over Meyerhold, I learned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
co.
LINOLEUM PLANT
SpEEDUP CROWS
II and IL Hour Day
Slavery
(By a Worker. Correspondent

10y " w oTkeT C0fTespoWdETtt
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., tBy
Mail) The Armstrong Cork Co. is
plant where floor linoleum is
manufactured. In this helI-hole
about $50 workers slave. The COM
pany has two other plants, one in
Trenton, N. j., and also one in Ian
caster, Pa. In the latter two they
manufacture corks Of all sorts and
inside shoe soles. Most Of the work
ers here are English speaking. There
are also number Of Polish, Italian
and Hungarian workers here.
In this plant the work is divided
into three shifts (this is a busy
season for linoleum) and each shift
is given a two weeks day shift and
a one week night shift. The day
shift works II hours day and the
night shift works IS day. This is
the regular course" of exploitation.
Extra pay is given only when you
work over IS hours week.
The workers here only get half
hour for lunch. The day shift
workers who worked nights the pre-
vious week are compelled to work
overtime on the long run, and If they
refuse they are fired. The worker
is paid 40 cents an hour to start
and if he can stand the speedup and
slavery for six months, the boss
considers giving him raise.
ARNOLD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

What is probably the greatest
news reel ever filmed has just been
imported into the United States by
Amkino, the American distributors
of Sovkino of Moscow. 1t is en-
titled "The Krassin" and consists of
the motion pictures taken on board
the Russian icebreaker Of that name
while on it's rescue expedition to
save General Mobile and his crew Of
the fascist Italia when the giant air.
ship crashed on the ice last fall
north of Spitzbergen.
This full length news picture COW
ering every detail of the rescue ex-
petition will be shown at Carnegie
Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 10.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, well-known
Arctic explorer, will speak before
the showing of the film.
'"The Krassin," representing the
highest perfection of the news reel,
was made under the greatest diff
culties in the far north, where the
icebreaker plowed through the polar
floes IN its race with death, hunger
and cold. This heroic expedition,
equipped in less than five days, ira
versed a great sector of the Arctic,
where no ship had ever penetrated,
was under the direction of Profess
sor Samoilovich, head Of the Soviet
Institute of Arctic Studies. The pic
lures of the rescue were taken not
only from on board "The Krassin,"
but also from "The Red Bear" the
tri-motored airplane taken by "The
Krassin" into the Arctic. Plotted by
Boris Tschuchnovski, "The Red
Bear" flew over the polar wastes
until the camp of the Mobile crew
was discovered huddled against the
ice-coated wreck of the Italia.
After locating the survivors Of the
Italia, Pilot Tschuchnovski and his
men were unable to return to "The
krassin" due to lack of fuel. In at
tempting to land on the ice they
smashed the undercarriage of their
plane and were marooned on Cape
Vrede, at 80 degrees north latitude,
for three weeks.
The subsequent rescue of the Ital-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
(Bg Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
Last April, the dire distress and
acute suffering from malnutrition
and all other evils of poverty on the
part of thousands of Philadelphia
workers had reached such degree
that the situation was the chief
talking matter of the time.
This year 1929, conditions are
even worse than last, due to unem-
ployment, wage-cuts, removal OF
many plants to other regions,
notably the South where the manu-
facturers can secure labor thorolv
American, at from $6 to SO week.
In Philadelphia, those operating
plants, particularly textile factories,
have forced the wages down from
an average Of s19 last year to an
average of SIG this year.
There has also been prolonged
epidemic Of influenza, la grippe
and pneumonia since early autumn
which has played havoc with the
workers here.
The Charity" organizations and
bourgeois social workers are unable
to handle the ituation, according to
public admissions made by these
people.
According to Karl de Schweinitz,
general secretary Of the Family
coc;ntv.r 227 families sought aid in
December. and the society had to
turn over 800 families away without
relief of any kind. This is the ex-
rer;ence of merely one organization
a number Of typical cases youched
for by the Welfare Federation are
~ follows:
Family A.--Comprises father
mother and three children, and re.
Iative with baby. Fathers lea
crushed in industrial accident. Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Nearly All Workers
Are Jo5less in Fort
Pierce, Town in Fla.
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (By MsiD.--
Nearly everybody in this town is
out of job. There are no factories
here. The only work to be had
when there is any is truck farming
and slavery in the orange groves.
They pay you 81 day on the farms
for nine hours day and board your
self. But nearly every worker is
jobless now. 1t is too dry to raise
anything. The last big storm ruined
all the oranges and also ali the
trees. No building Of any kind IS
being done here.
The city of Fort Pierce has
bought 92 acres of land to build an
airport. They will make the work
ers pay for it, and the purpose OF
the whole thing is to prepare for
imperialist war, in which the work
ers will be the victims.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Lou Wages, Unemt 'oy,memt
Misery for Phild. Workers

pepsation has expired. Rent over
due, family faces eviction. No coal,
no food and few clothes for TIE
family which suffer from cold as
we'll as hunger.
Family B.--Consisting of father,
mother and five children. Father
and three oldest children able to
work, but unable to obtain job. No
coal, family owes for rent.
Family C.--Father, mother and
three children living in one room.
Entire family including infant liv-
ing on So worth Of food per week.
Rent unpaid.
Family D.--Father, mother and
six children. Mother sick, boy of 6
recovering from grippe; boy of 8
has bronchitis; boy of 10 has tuber-
culosis. Whole family threatened
with tuberculosis, and there is little
food and clothing and no warmth in
home.
These cases are but typical ones,
and show wildly the lot of work
err in this age of prosperity.
! For every family whose condition
is "ameliorated," numerous others
join the long list Of those in want
Capitalism, thru its welfare Fed
GRAFTON and other similar societies
accomplish nothing, for they merely
look and act upon the surface Of
things and make no effort to do any
thing about the roots, the causes Of
these conditions. For, even the
many Of the social workers know
these causes, the capitalist system
of society, they can do nothing abou1
it, for the Welfare Federation, etc.
are controlled by the capitalist
themselves, who attempt to belittl,
the suffering or to gloss the entir'
matter over. &C. RABlN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
NE W SLASH OF
TWENTY PERCENT
BY BIC AUTO FIRM
Torkers in All Depts.
Ready to Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent

(Bg q H0rker OTTeSpo1tdentJ
DETROIT (By Mail) Workers
at the Fisher Body Plant, No. 81,
received another wage cut Of over
20 per cent. The girls in the same
plant were cut approximately 40 per
cent. This action on the part of
the company was just little bit too
much for the workers to swallow
and therefore they decided to strike
against it.
The trimmers are the first ones
who alked out, about $50 of them.
Workers in the other departments
are about ready to follow the call
of the trimmers. Wage cuts are
the order of the day in all General
Motor branches all over Detroit,
Pontiac and Flint, Michigan. At no
other time in the history were there
so many wage cuts throughout the
whole auto industry as we find at
The present time. General Motors
is determined to reduce the wages
in the auto industry and are doing
it very openly and on a large scale.
Scores of department walkouts
are taking place and a deep feeling
of discomfort makes itself noticeable
among the mass of workers in the
auto industry.
Only the other day a department
strike took place in one of the Pom
tiac plants, in which over 200 work
ers were paid off The same hap
pens in other auto plants such as
Dodge Bros, Hudson Motor Car Co.,
etc. All indications point to the
fact that the workers in the auto
industry for once begin to realize
that they're up against a big strug-
gle in the very near future.
The Auto Workers Union is and
must do much more in the future to
conduct an energetic and systematic
organization campaign, in order to
build up strong and powerful mill
tant union in this gigantic war in
dustry. All of these department
walkouts must be utilized to the ut
most for the building up of COM
plete network all over the auto in
dustry. It has become plain to all
Tarty members in Detroit, VINO are
active in this field of work, that it
IS high time to begin with the for
nation of shop committees which
will be the most effective instru-
rnent in the hands Of the auto work
ers in order to strike back.
Although only small group Of
workers are out on strike, yet the
Auto Workers Union has taken the
lead and organized strike commit
tees, and the spirit among these
workers is such that they are ready
to fight against the wage cuts to
the last. Efforts are also being
made to spread out the struggle.
Mass meetings are being called un-
der the auspices of the Auto Work.
ers Union and committees are being
organized in the different depart
ments. Leaflets are being distrib-
uted at the Fisher Body Plant, and
further arrangements already have
l.een made to have a distribution on
large scale at all auto plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
The Krassin,, by Amkino, Is
Greatest Ne1vs Reel Evey Made

ians by the icebreaker "Krassin,"
despite its damaged rudder and
broken propeller, furnished enc of
the most heroic polar achievements
in modern times.
On their return to Moscow, Pro-
fessor Samoilovich and Pilot Tschu-
chnoyski were given rousing re-
ception while all the data on the ex-
petition and the rescue were care
fully locked in the Soviet govern
ment vaults at Leningrad. Later,
the pictures were developed and as
senbled under the direction of Sow
kino of Moscow, who are now releas-
ing them in America, where they
will first be shown in Carnegie Hall
on Feb. 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

Philadelphia and Reading Ter
minal hundreds of men in the
waiting room. A stranger would
imagine that many people were
awaiting their train. This does
not happen to be the case, how
ever. These men have come in
and filled the waiting room to
overlooking to escape for few
minutes the cold of the outdoors.
Every fifteen minutes, the sta
ton guards, who are stationed up
stairs, come rushing down to dis
perse the crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

One of them will give signal
at the approach of their enemies,
and they will leave en- masse.
They will then linger outside the
railroad station until the guards
have returned upstairs, when they
go in, en- masse, again, to warm
up for brief period.
Many of these men are young,
boys, really, of Is and 10, and
even younger. All are seeking
work. and / have never seen any
one of them beg. They will not
ask even for a cigarette. One
night they will have a coat, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).--
A bunk in numerous cheap "ho-
tels' and lodging houses in the
tenderloin and riverfront districts
can be secured for IS cents per
night, and in few places as low
as Is cents. Vermin infested,
filthy, but shelter just the same,
during these cold nights. Bad as
these "hotels" are, they at least
afford some sort of retreat from
the wintry blasts. Better to sit
around the fire in the old-fash-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

Toned stoves in no matter how
filthy a room than to freeze to
death. Better to huddle on plank
with rags and reaches as a cover
than to walk the streets for the
coming of sunrise.
Yet TO anyone who wishes to
familiarize himself with the hard,
bitter struggle of thousands of
workers, let him remain downtown
on Market and Chestnut SITS. un-
til about 4 a. m.
Hundreds of men walking the
streets or huddled together near
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

spots where steam is escaping
from d building. And a talk with
these men soon proves that inva-
riably they are workers without
work. but vainly seeking some
thing to do. Not tramps, not
buns. These men never ask,
never beg from anyone.
True, many Of these men are
from other cities, but they are
migratory workers, going from
city to city searching for work,
any kind of work.
At 5 a. m. one will see at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Wall Streets Preparing Coming War

Photo shows U.
S. S. Selfridge
coming alongside
battleship Cali
fornia to receiue
orders as part of
battle ntdneavers
the Wall Street
fleet engaged in
recently IN south
er7I tCdterS. Ma
pdl 1naneuvers By
Wall Street fleets
hare become in
creasingEy fire.
que1tt of late, as
i'nperiaHst 40 ar
drrDs nearer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Workers at Fisher Body Plant Walk out Fight Against Wage Cut
FREEZE IN VAIN HUNT FOR WORK; CONDITIONS w

next night they are back without
coat, the coat having been
pawned for food.
And coats are plentiful; they
don't bring much in a pawn-shop.
So the workers are without the
25 cents to secure a bed for the
night.
This spectacle can be witnessed
every morning at 18th and Mar
ket SITS. The Hooverian age is
surely with us. Billions for few,
starvation for the many.
c. RABIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

In bourgeois society, living labor
lated labor. In Communist society,
accumulated labor IL but a means
to widen, to enrick, to promote the
existence of the Iaborer.-Karl
Marx Communist Mnnifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

and whispers something to the Gov
ernor (Katchalov).
The director is enthusiastic about
Meyerhold's work al thinks him
superb film actor, a model for the
profession.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13
Establish Seven Hour
Day in Rostov, USSR
State Petroleum Plant

ROSTOV ON DON, Feb. The
seyen-hour day for workers in the
state-owned petroleum industry has
gone into effect. The shortening of
the work day was preceded by i'm
provement of the industry making
fer more efficiency with less work.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-05
Irs. Sutterland's father, C. w

Mrs. Sutterland's father, C. W.
Winkenwerder.
An s-pound baby boy was born
at II o'clock Monday night to Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Higley. Someone
has reported that Harry is SO
proud he is going to borrow C. H.
Meyers school bus to drive to his
work.
The w. C. T. u. will have a
booth at the Fair this week. All
friends are asked to call at the
booth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Shaughnessy,
who have been visiting the past
fortnight with Mrs. Nell O'Leary
left Monday night for their home
in Seattle.
The Kennewick Bridge club will
meet Wednesday, September II,
with Mrs. Robert Mackie. AS this
is the first meeting of the new
season, there will be business
meeting and payment of dues.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Robinson of
Lewiston, Idaho spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard Lee.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-05

.,.,.er Moreland of Los Angeles
saturday visiting his cousin,
g g. Frank H. White.
:. Home Nursery company of
. Ia will demonstrate an Ar
'ss1v tractor at the Fair.
.;.s Garbula Thompson, who
:, zach the third and fourth
= Ia has been detained at her
s'.s by the death of her father.
Mil Mi, her arrival, Mrs. Larry Oil
= i taking her place.
The shanafelt and Reed fam
A.. we're guests at a lawn pic
!. It the Winkenwerder home in
= !. Garden Tracts, given in hon
Il Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Winken-
.,rder and Mrs. Sutherland and
laughter, Mildred, on Monday aft
snoor.
Mrs. Archie Durbin left Satur-
i,v for Portland, returning tomor-
noV. after a stop at Seattle.
Mrs. Fred Sutherland and her
Auehter, Mildred, of Ritzville
rent Sunday and Monday with