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The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Fox Lobby Exhibits
EXPLOIT Uncle Sam

A lobby exhibit at the Fox
this week diScloSes the inner
workings of the Bureau OF
Census. The tabulating ma.
chimes. with complete description
of how they work, are on display
in the inner lobby.
This is the second of a series
of Know Your Government" dis
plays arranged by Manager
Marble Meakin.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Sandwiches

Norma Shearer has a habit of
bringing her lunch in sandwich
form to the lot in which she is
making a picture. During the
filming of Let Us Be Gay" now
at Loew's Columbia, she almost
ran a catering service. 1t seemed
everybody sort of strolled over
and helped themselves to food.
There should be a point to this
story but to date no one has
thought of it.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
McC COrmack Soon

All Washington seems to be
eagerly awaiting the showing Of
John Mccormack in Song o. My
Heart" judging from the many
inquiries received at the Fox re-
garding its playdate. It IS to
open it's engagement late this
month
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
frankie Jenks Boasts
Nickname of 'Rninh'

frankie jerks, the good looking
master of ceremonies who is max
ing his first appearance in Wash
ington this week at the Fox. is
billed as the "Rajah of Rhythm. :"
AS a result of this, his back
stage nickname is "Raian "
Frankie doesn't indicate whether
he likes it or not.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Youth VS.. Age

One of the oldest stage celeori-
ties and one Of the youngest
actors and playWrights appear
in "Sins of the Children" now
at Loew's Palace. They are Louis
Mann and Elliott Nugent.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Joe Cook Is LOpez

Joe Cook, star Of j''Rain or
Shine" now playing at RK-O
Keith's, was born in Chicago. His
real name is Lopez. His parents
died when he was very young, and
he and his brother we're adopted
by a family by the name of Cook.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Thanks Are Sparce

Thanks Are Sparce
A certain Los Angeles legiti
mate theater has been the show
window for the talents Of many
stage stars. Quite a number OF
them have been signed from it's
boards to profitable engagements
in the talkies. A short time ago
the producer at this theater told
me that of all the players he has
put in a position to sell them
selves to the talkies, only one
has ever taken the trouble to
thank him for being the instru
ment of his good fortune. This
one actor is Frenchman. He
stepped from a small stage part
to a $75O-a-week salary in the
movies.
Vampire Sought
The supernatural, which has
been avoided by the movies, for
some reason or another, will be
in the fore with the production
Of "Dracula" by Universal. This
Bran Sboker novel was dramatized
and played with notable success,
both here and abroad. A film
adaptation is now being made
by Louis Bromfield, and the u
is looking for an actor to play
the dread Count Dracula. Bella
Lugosi, the creator of the role in
New York is in Hollywood, and
there is some possibility Of his
being signed, Perry WINS, who
did the part of the maniac, Rem
field, in one Of the Eastern com,
panies also is here, and is re-
ported to be under consideration
for the film version. Once upon
q time Big Bill Tilden. the tennis
star, Of all people. played Count
Dracula on the road.
Star Returning
Within a few weeks now, Esther
RalSton, who formerly was under
contract to Paramount, will re-
turn to Hollywood from. an ex-
tended vaudeville tour. The visit,
no doubt, is to seek film job.
AS ] recall, the blonde Miss Rails.
tons last picture was THE
Mighty" with George Bancroft.
Upon her release from Paramount
she .eSSayed the Orpheum here.
provoking only mild praise. Else
where, however, her act is said
TO have been well received. At
any rate, she's been appearing in
1t steadily since last November,
and at salary Of $500 a week.
Her husband, George Webb, has
bean her manager during this
time.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
'U' FINDS TASK
CASTING FOR
THIS ONE
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1889. Premier Syndicate

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. s.-After
having considerable trouble get
: ting The Boudoir Diplomat" by
the Hays office, Universal now
is in a quandary about finding
the proper actor to take the
principal role.
The last Of the three feminine
leads was signed today-Betty
CompSon. She'll divide honorS in
the film with Mary Duncan and
jeanette Loft. Betty's role is the
one for which Mary Nolan ori.
ginally was selected. Later, 1t
was decided for Mary to be
loaned to Warner Brothers, where
an attractive role was offered in
TEX Mistress"
A logical candidate for the
masculine lead in "The Boudoir
Diplomat" is Basil Rathbone, who
did a splendid job Of it on the
stage. In those days, the play
was known as THE Command to
Love-" The U hasn's been blind
to Mr.. Rathbone'S qualifications,
but the negotiations developed a
hitch. Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
was eager for the role, but didn't
get it. No wonder, either, for he
scarcely is the sophisticated type.
The direction of this suave
comedy falls to Malcolm st.
Clair, veteran of the silent pic
lures.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
An Honest Critic

An nOMGSG OEAbAV
AL Jolson tells the story of the
producer who asked for opinions
on a preview.
"Stupendous," said one assis-
tant.
Colossal" exclaimed second.
What do you think of it?" in
auired the producer Of the author.
A reckless look came upon the
mans face. st only think it's
areat," he replied defiantly.
A Mere Trifle
Douglas Fairbanks was held up
in his beach home by three young
bandits. They only took $100, so
didn't report it to the police"
related the star. Heigh-ho, to e
q movie idol. If this department
were robbed of 500. it would
feel like calling out the militia.
Migration Continues
just how passe the talkie musi-
cal has become is revealed by the
fact that so song-writers left
Hollywood yesterday for New
York. The pickings were great
while they lasted but retribution
is at hand.
The Washington times., 1930-08-09
Anna Q. Receivers


After many setbacks, Anna @.
Nilsson seems now on the def
mite road to recovery. She was
released from the hospital several
days ago and is spending a week
with the Basil RathboneS until
her Beverly Hills home can be
redecorateG. This time, she will
invite no relapse by premature
return to the films. The doctors
have promised that, with proper
care, she should be completely
well by late fall. Then she'll do
a talkie. It's been very dis
couraging for the star to be out
Of things at a time when the
movies were undergoing vital
Transformation. Her hip injury
was suffered in a fall from a
horse months ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
70 Ices Confer
In Elilwar-' zee:
Demand Relief

MILWAUKEE, WIS, (By MaiD-
Eighty nine delegates, representing
40 union locals, councils of the un-
organizations, with is fraternal dele
gates met here Sept. 26 in the United
Front Conference For the Support
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. After hearing the main
reports by Bill Clark, Wisconsin sec
rotary of the Trade Union Unity
League, and of Bill Gebert, Com
munist Party district organizer, and
after spirited discussion by many
delegates, the conference voted for
the following demands:
$4,000 emergency relief fund to
be set aside by the Milwaukee COM
mon council to pay each Jobless man
$25 week. The fund to be accumu-
lated by assigning 10 per cent of the
city government income, cutting
police appropriation one-third, cut
ting salaries of political officers one
half, and special taxes on the rich.
Prohibition of evictions.
Free fare and lunches for work
ers' school children"
A delegation of 10 was elected to
present these demands to the COM
mon council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04

managers are paid lot of money for
being clever. He called up MI
Eicaclberger, the city manager, who
is helping the street car company
put over the raise in fare, who denies
free speech to the workers and VINO
cannot do anything about the I'M
emDloyment situation in Dayton.
Sir Walter Raleigh EichIeberger
"You see we are not in any special
rush to get this job done but we want
to hurry it up. Wa like to have the
men work on Sundays without vio-
lating the state law" Mr.. Smith
wanted to know the way out. These
two gentlemen did not know that a
disguised worker had just quit and
was in the next room when this con-
versation was going on, getting his
pay check. He knew the Dayton
papers would not print the story, so
is sending it to the Daily Worker.
The city manager then played the
role of Sir Walter Raleigh, and
magicaIy produced a cloak. why
don't you Great an emergency? The
law states that only in emergency
can men work on Sunday. If you do
that everything will be okay."
For the past two weeks now, the
men have been working on Sunday
for straight time. Mr.. Smith is a
very clever and faithful manager. Mr..
Eichleberger sure is a good fellow
for the parasites.
Such is the stuff that our City
Commission is made of. Such is the
stuff of the city managers. All rep
resentatives of the Capitalists. Do
ing their duty by capitalism. The
workers. must have their own repre-
sentatives in the Capitalist govern
reats in order to bring the problems
of the workers before the millions
of workers. They must have some
one who will put up the fight against
unemployment, for the tight of free
sNeech, against wage cuts, for the
RIGHT to organize.
Vote Communist in the coming
elections. Register on October I'd
ard October 18th and vote for the
only party for the workers. Vote
for the Workers Social Insurance
Bi;l.-A worker who was employed
on the overhead job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Farm "Relief" Based
On Farm Mortgages

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. q
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has
announced that farmers seriously
affected by the summers drouth in
Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri and AL
ALBANIA, will be permitted to borrow
from the remaining $550,000 fund APP
propriated by Congress for seed
loans, In order that they may buy
fertilizer and seed for fall and win
ter pastures. But each farmer must
give his promissory note and a mort
gage on his crops. Two thousand APP
plications for loans have already been
received.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Police Break Up
Glassport Rally;
Arrest Candidate

GLASPORT, Pa.--The election
campaign meeting arranged by the
Communist Party with e. P. Cush,
Communist candidate for U. s. SEN
ator from Pennsylvania was broken
up by the police on Monday evening,
September 20. The crowd was dis
persed and Cush arrested, kept in
jail 20 hours and then released
The police here have a consistent
policy in trying to cripple the Com
munist election campaign by break
ing up meetings.
In Monessen. controlled by the
Pittsburgh Steel Co. Ca Mellon COM
pany), the meeting was not broken
up but the $50 workers that came
to the meeting were terrorized by
the police, and only 35 came into
the hall. The rest stood outside the
hall. Another meeting on large
scale will be arranged in Monessen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Bull DING TRADES
FAkERS BOSS ND
Play the Bosses Game
While Men Are Hit
CHICAGO, Ill.

CHICAGO, Ill.
Daily Worker:
We, the building trades workers of
Chicago and vicinity, are deeply af-
fected by this economic crisis, with
no relief in sight, either from
"Hoovers bunkology" about prosper
ity returning in so days or from the
labor faker Bill Green who is against
unemployment insurance, especially
the Unemployment Insurance Bill as
proposed by the Communist Party,
the vanguard of the working class.
Fascist Tricks
Nothing can we expect from either,
Hoover, Bill Green, John Fitz-
patrick or Matte VOL, nothing else
but trickery, fakery, lying and thiev-
cry. These are the real and open
fascist methods against us building
tradesmen all over the U. S. A, es-
pecially in locol q (Bricklayers and
Plasterers A. F. of L. union).
Local q head is High Priest"
John Strech, president, and at the
same time he is in the building ma
terial business. When one of the
business agents, Healy, who has an
office in the City Hall as a building
inspector. Cases such as these are
too numerous to mention, but Just the
same it becomes the solemn duty of
every worker to expose these takers
5000 for Wisdom
Workingmen, let us take a look
at that robbery by the union officials
of local No. 81 by giving Pete Shan
nessy's wife $4,000 per year after his
death (Pete Shannessy was president
of our local and died two years ago).
Workingmen, let us once and for all
put a stop to this. Our treasury is
being drained, the business agents are
having good times in City Hall and
the builders building paying $4,000 to
a grafter's widow. scab jobs are ram
pant over the whole city and the
business agents give not a snap to
stop these jobs, although they are
few Jobs in number.
Must Fight to Live
This is the situation with which
we are confronted with today. And
how are we to put a stop to all this
Comrades, fellow workingmen, there
is but one solution to this problem
and this is, you must know your class
by organizing into solid industrial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Cut Wages and
Crews on Ripley
Boat; Undermined
(From The Southern Worker)

(From The Southern Worker)
(By a Worker Correspondent
Houston, Texas.
Two wipers were assigned to the
S. S. Waban dykes Bros. Ripley S.
S. Coz on August IA through the u.
S. Shipping Board at Houston, Texas.
The vessel at this time was undergo
ing boiler inspection and general re-
pairs. On job like this there is
plenty of dirty and hard work. Dur
ing this time the bosses cut the
wages of the seamen and also the
man power of the crews. The crews
were cut from SO men to rs and the
chief engineer quit, saying he did not
care to take ship to sea under
manned.
The first assistant engineer, who
was a good owners tool, got the
chiefs job and the second assistant
who was a Greek and scabbed in the
1921 strike was promoted to first as
sistant. He fired all the American
workers and hired his own kind.
"A Seaman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
FLINT WORKERS
ALSO LOSE HOMES
Boss Parties Sharks Aid in
Repossession
Flint, Mich.


Daily Workers
There is also another class of rob-
bers here in Flint, as this is a great
industrial city. Real estate sharks
have reaped a golden harvest for
themselves. Many Buick, Chevrolet
and Fisher men have lost their homes
by repossession. Some have had as
much as two thousand paid in these
homes.
The Modern Housing Corporation is
subsidiary of General Motors. They
have taken back many homes from
their workers who created these
homes by the wealth wrung from
them through the killing speedup
methods.
chevie Workers Speeded
The Chevrolet employees are the
most exploited workers of all the
General Motors plants, as they are
forced to work under the bonus sys-
TEN, where, unless the maximum pro-
duction is not produced, the workers
pay is very small.
The Fisher Body No. 2, where the
Chev. body is built, is used to set
the prices for all the other Fisher
plants. The General Motors policy
is a standard wage to be introduced
in all it's plants and to use Chevro-
let body prices for all their different
grades of work.
This same rule applies to the motor
car division and in order to put the
gigantic wage cut in force the bonus
must be put in all factories of Cen
eral Motors.
Productions Schedule Schemes
SO why not begin right at home and
Fisher body No. l, where Buick body
is made, gets the group system in
some departments. Now this group
system is wage cut sugar coated. 1t
works like this. They have a pro-
duction board where the amount of
bodies produced that day are marked
up and lump sum is paid per body
for the department with no prices on
operations to the men, but the total
divided between the number of men
working in the department. AS it's
! very much easier to lower the price
of the whole job than to cut each
operation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
RICH FARMERS
WORK KIDS 14-16
HOURS IN CAL.
Hetch- Hetch Victims Are
Buried
Sacramento, Cal.


Daily Workers
Editor-A few weeks ago the farm
ers of Tracy had employed several
boys under Is years of age, making
them work in the fields IA to 16 hours
e a day for $1.50. When the kids re-
turned to their homes at night they
complained to their parents of how
the farmers made them work so fast
that two of the kids tainted in the
field and in spite of the terrible heat
the farmers did nothing for them nor
let them rest for while. No; these
rich farmers want the profits out of
children's sweat and blood.
Funeral for Victim
I happened to pass crowd gath
cred about and I asked an acquaint-
ance of mine why it was gathered.
He told me it was another victim of
the Hetch-H etch who were caught in
the tunnel by the electric motor that
inflicted serious injury to a fellow
worker, M. Popovac. The company
doctors, instead of giving him medi-
cal assistance, cemented his leg that
turned to poison, and after "a hours
the fellow worker died. 1t shows
how the bosses treat workers when
they get hurt on the job.
In that crowd 1 saw fellow
worker by the name of M. Sjbicick
who had been seriously hurt on his
shoulders and front of his head at
the same Infamous Hetchy Hetchy
Water Power Company.
They have company camp and
kitchen where they deduct $3.50 a
day. I have spoken to many workers
and their feelings are in bitter OPP
position to these terrible conditions.
/ gave them several copies of the
Daily Worker and they certainly ap-
preciated it and say that everything
in it is the truth and are willing to
organize in the industrial unions of
the Trade Union Unity League.
ER-WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
OREGON RANCHER
{ ICTED BY BIC
BANKING CONCERN
Spent Years of Toll in
Building Up Farm
Las Vegas, New.

ldS Vegas 4NCNs
Daily Worker:
1 arrived in Las Vegas, New, Feb.
%, 1929, after being evicted from a
ranch near Ashland, Oregon, as /
was short just $500 of meeting the
first years payment.
l turned in as first payment on this
250-acre ranch a home and the saw
ings of 81 years labor on the rail-
road At the end of eight months
had built this ranch from nothing to
a dairy ranch, with one of the largest
most modern dairy barns on the Pa
cifc Coast Had 48 dairy cows, milk
ing 80 with monthly cream check in
come of $3.50 to $780,
Doubled Ranch Value
Yet | was evicted because I had
doubled the value of this ranch the
first year, and it could be sold for
double the price 1 had contracted to
pay.
The company l was dealing with
was the .Balfour- Guthrie Trust Co.,
Portland, Ore, a millionaire
concern, with offices in every prin-
cipal seaport In the world. Owning
large elevators, exporting grain, have
numerous flour and cereal mills.
Many More Victims
Thousands of workers and farmers
on the Pacific Coast and workers of
other parts OF the world have been
victims of their vicious exploitation
and swindling.
All I could claim after eviction
from this farm was my wife, an Aus
tralian sheep dog, trunk of clothes,
some bedding and an old Star tour
ing car. but in good mechanical con-
dition, and a little grub, carpenters
tools and some cash.
FX-FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
SCENT COTTON;
BANKERS GET ALL
Landlord Won't Advance
Credit, So Farmer Can't
Get Necessary Clothes
BY a Farmer Correspondent

Steele, Ala.
/ am 4S years old and / never saw
times like they are now. Cotton 8
cents and the landlord won't advance
anything for another year. l don't
see what l am to do, don't see any
thing in sight but hard times.
I have got four boys here and they
all barely got winter clothes and
won't get any. I can't pay them but
so cents for picking cotton with
board, and / am not able to do that.
am sorry for the poor boys. They
can't get nothing to do nowhere else.
Every farmer is in bad shape, guess.
We will have to do something to live.
l will write more next time.
| do hope our party will win. |
myself am going to fight like hell in
every way. And / hope and pray that
the A. F. of L. will sink in hell!
A ER-FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
NEGRO WORKER SEES NEED
TO FIGHT GARVEY|SM SPREAD

II would continue to systematic
ally and clearly explain how Gar
vey and the other takers are enc
mics of the organized working
class, particularly Of the Negro
members Of IL.
Many Negroes regard Garvey's
proposal to establish a fatherland
Of Negroes in Africa as a great
move to give dignity to the race.
But it is easy to explain the alb
surdity and impossibiIity Of such
a plan, and it takes only little
effort to show that the plan is
designed to divide workers on the
false basis of race. Come on,
Daily Worker and LiberatorI
More persistent education Of
Negro and white workers in re-
gard to Garveyism and kindred
Jim Grow plans! More of US
have been fooled <han you rec
ognixe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Chicago Jobless
Have Action Program
CHICAGO, III.

Daily Worker:
The jobless conference at Peoples
Auditorium on West Chicago Avenue
makes a sharp turn from a loose
propaganda stage, to unemployed
councils of action, committees of ac-
tions. Immediate relief and the fight
against evictions will be carried into
| the city council and finally to the
state legislature at Springfield.
The plans are we'll laid. If carried
out we can expect unemployed coun-
ellis to be well received by the I'M
employed here and we'll hated by the
bosses, and their poodle dogs of the
A. F. of L.. Socialist Party, L. w. W.,
etc.
AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Jobless Worker
Greets Meeting to
Welcome Foster
NEW YORK CITY.

Mr.. Editor:
I read in your paper about the
meeting in Madison Square Garden
to welcome Foster and the rest of the
Unemployed Delegation.
Now I am myself unemployed for
a long time and l admire your cour-
ageous fight for the social insurance
bill. 1t seems to me that we ought
to popularize it more. Why not ar
range a parade to welcome Foster
when he comes out from jail. 1 am
sure that every unemployed worker
will join in such a parade to welcome
the brave delegation, thereby show
ing the parasites what the unem-
ployed think of such Criminals"
AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-04
Tan7n,any Judge
Tells Worker
Boss Is LatU
NEW YORK, N. Y.


Editor Daily Worker:
October is, 1929, l worked in
an upholstery shop at 1904 Third
avenue, the Bronx. l just worked
for this boss four and a half
days, for which he refused to
pay me my wages.
| went into the court on 161st
street, and got a summons for
him. The judge called him to
the court three times, which he
didn't go to.
The judge then gave judgment
all alone because the boss didn't
want to come into court.
Yesterday I went again to
court to see the judge. The
judges name is Morris. He told
me 1 lost the case, that the boss
had no right to pay me any
more. Because I am out of the
law.
Why am I out of the law. 1
never saw the right laws for the
working people in the U. S. A.
This is justice in the U. S. 1t is
for the rich, not for the poor.
E. B.