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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
MASCOMA MILLS
CUT PAY AGAIN
Working Hours Also
Extended in Lebanon

LEBANON, N. H. - The Mascoma
Mills Of the American Wooden Co., a
unit Of the octopus which is the pre-
dominant factor in the American
wooden textile industry, not content
with another slash in wages Of their
workers are putting into effect this
date an extension Of working hours
from 48 to 50 hours per week. With
three fourths of their weavers forever
eliminated from the industry by the
recent Introduction of automatic
looms and other employees eliminated
proportionately as far as possible
they now proceed to lengthen work
ing hours in final effort to get the
last possible ounce of energy out of
already overworked wage slaves who
are held to the grindstone of their
jobs by the fear that recruits from
the ever growing ranks of the unem-
ployed will take their places, thereby
depriving them of their last slim
chance of getting a livelihood at all.
1t is reported that the recent slash
in wages amounted to about 30 per
cent cut for weavers, except those
who are on automatic looms who
were cut about II IL percent. Loom
fixers were cut about Is per cent and
loomfixers helpers are working for
80 cents per hour. DresSers were cut
80 and one third per cent, spoilers
were cut from SIT to $13 per week
and common labor to 30 cents an
hour. These drastic cuts following
previous wage reductions have
brought earning power down to a
point where it is claimed that at least
one of the employees who has large
family cannot earn enough in a full
weeks work to feed and clothe them
and the already overburdened town
poor department will have to make
up the deficit.
The extension in working hours
coming at time when even the most
far seeing of the capitalists and bos-
ses are admitting that a reduction
from an eight to six hour day is the
only possible way by which we can
ever re-employ the ajority of those
who now are unemployed, and when
the heads of the great American
railroad systems are negotiating with
the railway labor union heads at Chi
cago over reduction to six hour
day to take up the slack Of unemploy-
ment In that industry, shows the al
most incredible stupidity and short
sightedness of those who control our
textile industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
by a Worker Correspondent

HIBBING, Minn.--The Indians OF
Minnesota are starving. At the
same time there are thousands of
dollars in the U. S. treasury which
they are deprived of in order that
the politicians in the Indian depart
ment at Washington can draw fat
salaries. ,5-,1q4isf
While the officials of the Indian
department are living in fine houses
the Indians are forced to live in
shae IS that are not fit for cattle and
at the same time starye and freeze
for lack Of food and clothes.
The big cry of the government Is
that the Indians are not able to
take care of their money, On No
venlber the Indians received from
the government $3.50, They are ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
Chester, Pa, Workers
Commemorate Death
of Lenin Jan. oath

CHESTER, Pain face of growing
evictions, wage cuts and layoffs,
workers here, will commemorate the
death of Lenin at memorial meet
ing to be held on January oath, at
731 Caldwell Ave, $50 p. m This
meeting will be a point of mobiliza-
ton for the great National Unem-
ployment Day Demonstration, Feb
ruary 4th.
No admission will be charged and
this promises to be one of the big
Gest meetings yet held. There will
be banqueting. speaking, and per-
Torrance by the Young Pioneers Of
America. All workers are called
upon to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21

are supported in their picketing by
the unemployed branches in the
neighborhood. They are being helped
in their work by the Trade Union
Unity League, 70 which they look for
leadership. There is great sympathy
with the cutters amongst the other
workers and with a wage cut an
nounced for Thursday. There is a
possibility v pulling the whole shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-We work for the
Western Union at so Hudson st. Our
wages were recentlyrcut, 10 per cent
without any notice whatsoever. And
now our Employees Association, which
we are compelled to belong to, has
decided that we must work. days
week. We have already been cut
down to five. s aHs
The company has also cancelled
500 girls vacations. They were sup
posed to receive two weeks vaca-
lion every year. Now we must work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
Western Union Girls Ready to Hit Pay-cut

steady without a vacation and receive
the sum Of $40 week for our work
How can girl live on $40 a week?
The above facts affect about 1900
workers. We ale ready for anything.
EDITORIAL NOTE:-The work.
ers of the Western Union should
get in touch with the Office Work
ers Union, 1893 Broadway, at once.
The comrades in the union will
give the girls leadership in form
ing committees and preparing for
strike action for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
by a Worker Correspondent

SHEBOYGAN, Wis.-The largest
mass meeting in Sheboygan was at
sended by over three hundred work
ers and farmers on January 5. This
meeting showed many results. The
way the meeting was advertised was
by signs. We made two signs about
the size Of a placard inotlle use of
demonstrations. Two comrades took
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
AMALGAMATED AIDS
GOLDMAN co. MOVE
FOR NEW WAGE-CUT
Rlumberg, Amalgamated Head, Advises Work.
ers to Take Another Cut
Rank and File Committee Calls All Shops to
Organize to Resist Cuts
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Mr. Rosenberg, manager of the VIM. p
Goldman clothing shop with the officials of union the
Amalgamated, has made announcement to
workers The announcement not that the boss would give
raise to make for the 40 per cent wage
have received during the year 1884, but that another
wage cut necessary"
Mr.. Bumberg, manager of the union told confden-
tally Everybody (meanng the bosses got reductions. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
5000 JOBLESS IN
TOLEDO DEMAND
RELIEF FROM CITY

.ooNTINuED FROM PAGE oNEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21

The s5rllgcr3 exc yc.y militant. and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Summer Festivals
Close This Week

The tenth and closing event Of
the summer festival season at the
Sylvan Theater, in the Monument
Grounds, will take place Wednes.
day evening at o'clock with 100
or more Washington boys and
girls in a program directed by the
D. C. Playground Department,
and known as annual Playground
Night.
The U. S. Army Band, conduct
ed by Capt. William j. Stannard,
will assist in the program, play
ing a brief concert especially
arranged for children, and accom-
panying the various folk dances,
pantomimes, and sketches arrang-
ed under the direction of Miss
Maude Parker, assisted by Misses
Evelyn Sheridan, Ruth Tate,
Kathleen Fisher, Thelma Smith
and Rosemary Easton. directors
of Fairgrounds in the city.
Green Sleeves" and Gather
ing Peascod5." two English folk
dances; a Swedish folk dance,
known as "Klappdans". and two
Danish folk dances, THE Halter"
and THE Little Man in a Fix"
will be presented by children
from all sections of the city. An
Oriental pantomime, with its To-
Gale on a Persian desert in the
dim and distant past, and a
march and dance sketch, entitled
The Wooden Soldiers and the
Painted Dolls" will be outstand-
ing features of the occasion. Play
ground boys will present pyramid
building and tumbling as their
contribution to this colorful vaca-
tion-time program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
BuriedAIiveM Man
Sets Record

Weak and haggard and unable
to stand erect. Slim Jones, the
buried alive" champion of Sea-
side Park, was taken from his
tomb at Seaside last night after
a 15-day stay under the ground.
A two weeks growth of beard
covering his usually handsome
countenance Slim was still in
good spirits despite the ordeal
to which he had subjected him.
self.
Slim claims that his 15-day
burial at Seaside Is a new en-
durance record for this stunt and
there was none present to dis
pute him the glory. Although in
an extremely weakened condi-
ton he will be in good shape
again in few days. after he has
learned to walk again, according
to DR.. U. H. Hart, the park ply
sician who attended him.
While incarcerated Slim re-
ceived several thousand park visi-
tors who were enabled to see him
through a special continuance
that reached down to his tomb"
Unusually large crowds visited
Seaside Park over the weekend.
On Saturday the old-fashioned
tournament of the Legion drew
an immense throng.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29

the previous high-water mark
registered by none other than
the glamorous Carlo in LAS You
Desire Me-" 1t represents close
to capacity for every performance
and the money week champion
ship under the present straight
pictures policy.
When you look it up it's not
surprising, for in 1881 with the
handicap of playing Holy Week,
the Marion Davies feature, "It's
A Wise Child" attracted $24,825
to the ticket windows. That
figure stood as the record I'M
der the former stage and screen
policy until Joan Crawford in
Dance, Fools, Dance" cracked it
by $24 to ring up the 1882 high
for Loew's ace F. Street house.
What audiences talked most
about was the Davies satirical i'm
preston of the contralto-voiced
Carlo, a take-off that was rich in
comedy content and a flip that
every addict of Hollywoodiana
can enjoy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29

whom everybody will recognize as
Carlo.
Beth Merrill plays the lead role.
You will be astounded at her
resemblance to the celebrated girl
from Stockholm, amazed at her
facility for mimicking the Carlo
deep throated vocal tones. The
play itself needs a little fixing
before it will be quite ready for
the devastating criticism Of
Broadway.
Exit the Queen" tells of a
movie star who is disguised with
all the publicity ballyhoo and
intense prying into the private
lives of the screen famous. So
she runs away. Gets job as a
waitress in a cheap restaurant
and falls in love will. a fireman,
renouncing her screen career to
marry her hook and ladder hero.
It's an excellent play idea. But
in the restaurant scene and in
her relations with the Fourth
Estate, the dialogue can stand
rewriting. I might add that
James Rennie is the fireman who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
This Is Ladies Night
At Park Ballroom

The Glen Echo Park manage
ment has been giving the public
many treats of late. What with
swimming meets at the Crystal
Pool and one thing or another,
more value for the money has
been the order of the day.
This evening all members Of
the fair sex will be admitted to
the ballroom free of charge. This
is in appreciation of patronage
enjoyed by the park all this sea-
son.
Besides the ballroom, many
other attractions beckon people
of all ages. The crystal pool day
and night caters to hundreds.
Roller coaster, airplane swings,
old mill. "dodgem rides" midway
help the hours fly.
In the ballroom, MacWilliams
and his orchestra entertain the
dancers nightly, except Sunday,
from $50 until 1870 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Comedy Pictures

MY vacation quota of laughs
was by invitation and at the ex-
pense of Paramount pictures.
Some bright genius in the house
of Zukor-bless his heart-con-
ceived the idea of rounding-up go
of the movie critics Of this broad
land and showing them New York
hospitality.
So they quartered us in the
imperial suites of the Waldorf
Astoria, opening a private club
room for between times diversion.
screening Harold Lloyd's Movie
Crazy" the Four Marx brothers
in Horse Feathers" and Maurice
Chevalier's Love Me Tonight"
That's a bunch of class celluloid
and no foolin'. But I'll tell
you about it later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
When the Feature Is
Shown on the Screen

FOX-"The Painted Woman, -
at II a. M. 1886. 4:30, 7:24 and
10 p. m. Stage shows. with Pola
Negri. in person, at 1890. 3:24,
6:18 and 1854 p. m.
EARLE-Doctor X" at 11:05
a. M, 1850. 4:35. 1920 and 1905
p. m. Stage shows at 1880, 1886,
$40 and 9:05 p. m.
RKO. KEITH'S -" Night Club
Lady" at 1902 a. M. Ill, 1921,
$50, 1889 and 9:4s p. m.
PALACE-"The Last Mile" at
1880 a. M, 1870, $50. $50, 7:35
and $40 p. m.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Me
a Star" at 1887 a. M, 1875, 1888,
5:31, 1929 and 9:28 p. m.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Folly
at II a. M, 12:45. 2::35, 4:25, 6,
1850 and $40 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Wanted An Opera!

Executives of the Washington
Civic Opera are searching for an
original light opera by local COM
posers. Besides uncovering and
presenting talented aspiring
young vocalists, this organization
now recognized for it's sincerity
of purpose and past artistic
achievements, desires also to
create at least one new produc-
ton each season should a worthy
score and script come to light.
Communications may be ad-
dressed to R. r. Edwards, the
Washington Civic Opera, Inc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Late Stage News
Of Broadway

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-What
has become of our playwrights?
The deplorers wonder what is
wrong with the American stage.
Well, for one thing, why isn't
Frederick Lonsdale writing some
thing for it? Or w. Somerset
Vaughan? Or some of our own
playwrights, for that matter?
The industry of Noel Coward
is one of the marvels of the age.
There is a guy Jho just turns
'em out as fast as he can write
them down. Also, it seems that
John Drinkwater and John Van
Druten have some more yarns
ready soon.
Oh, maybe we'll have a season
yet.
Anyhow, George S. Kaufman
and Edna Ferber are doing their
bit for the theater. Their latest
collaboration, Dinner at Eight"
is due at the Music Box in O.
tober, and much is expected of it..
Lilly Turner" by Philip Dun
ming and George Abbott, is hav-
ing a try-out upstate, and will
hit Broadway soon. John Golden
has a play by Rachel Crothers.
When Ladies Meet" on his fall
schedule. Clemence Dane has
done a play about Charlotte
Bronte. entitled How Clear She
Shines" and katharine Cornell
may appear in it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29

ambition for theatrical work.
He interested himself in nu'
merouS amateur theatrical or
CARNATIONS. At that time there
was a strong vogue for Spanish
type screen heroes. Cortez, the
type of a Latin hero, won the
favor of a Famous Players LaSky
official, who assigned him to q
leading role in one of their films.
He won success, and when the
talkie era doomed, was even more
in demand.
Cortez received his early edu-
cation in the public schools Of
New York city. He was married
to Alma Rubens, who died about
a year ago.
Cortez is a great lover of out
door sports, an excellent horse
man, and plays a fine game of
rolo. He is six feet, one inch
tall; weighs ITS pounds; has
black hair and brown eyes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29

GOWu W II e l 9
the amusement
business is up
a n d doin g,
where the fire.
quent bulletins
and news items
W hich filter
through to a
dramatic edi-
tors desk re-
veal an opti-
mistic note.
For instance,
no sooner did
I set foot on
r Street for an
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Carlo Inspiration

AS matter of fact there are
signs that the Metro-Goldwyn
queen has inspired both play
wrights and musical comedy Skit
writer's in the business of poking
fun. Down at Atlantic city where
I dropped into the Garden Pier
theater to see the pre-Broadway
performances of "Ballyhoo," it
was the glamorous Swede Who
furnished the germ for the best
skit in this Willie and Eugene
Howard musical comedy. 1t was
called "A Hollywood Training
Camp" with the Gallo Jeanne
ALBERT as thinly disguised
Carlo showing how she wrecked
leading men in love scenes and
how these gallant screen Romeos
trained for the romantic catch
as catch can battles.
Once this flaming siren of the
studios got a vertebrate hold on
her swain they melted away like
an ice cream cone in July sun.
So they trained for the fray like
prize fighters and the romantic
Set-tos resembled one of Joe Tur-
ner's wrestling hippodromes. All
very funny and snappy without
being too vulgar.
OF course the real spectacular
howl of "Ballyhoo" is in it's first
act finale with Willie Howard
singing "Ballelujah," while on a
treadmill four percheron stations
come racing right out towards the
audience. pulling, of all things,
a huge rewery wagon loaded to
the whip SOC with full sized
kegs of what the song says will
bring back prosperity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
All In q Day
BY
MARK HELLlNCER

NEW YORK; Aug %
guess all of you have read, time other, of
sucker who has bought the Brooklyn Bridge. Peculiarly
enough though this still happens with monotonous regu-
larty great many people believe to be just another
newspaper story thereby casting skepc reflection what
the confidence brethren consider be the high spot of
their art
considered have reached the of his profession guy
who can sell it twice automatically given exclusive selling
rights to the Hoover Dam and Yellowstone Park But
guy who sell three mes-we, there is only
who has done that and to introduce you him right
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Squaw Valley Boy

In playing the role of the
small town lad who makes good
in Hollywood in Make Me g.
Star" the Metropolitan, Stuart
Erwin duplicates, in most di-
rect fashion, his own life. He
was born and raised in SquaW
Valley, California, one of the
smallest of small towns, and made
good two years ago, in the studios
of HOLLYWOOD,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Ricardo Cortez a
Latin Type

The Times here presents Ri
cardo Cortes'S biography in con-
nectton lDith the RKO Greater
Shol0 Season.
Ricardo Cortez once held down
an important position in a New
York brokers' office. It was then
that he was struck with a sudden
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Who She Is

Ruth Donnelly, for four years
George M. Cohan'S leading
comediene on Broadway, has an
role in Make Me
STAR" at the Metropolitan. Her
father is a prominent Eastern
journalist. An uncle has been
mayor Of Trenton, N. j., for
MANY wears,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Play About Star

At the Apollo Theater, which is
another playhouse swept by the
ocean breezes, I had a prelim-
mary peep at Martha Madison's
new comedy. Exit the Queen"
The queen in this case, if you
must know, is also a picture star
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
dse vans Is
Resumins Her
Career
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1882. King Features
syndicate Incl


Syndicate, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Aug. 30.
Admirers of the sparkling Madge
Evans will warm to the practical
certainty that she is to resume
her interrupted career at M-G.M
in a few days.
Miss Evans, who has been off
the Culver City lot since her con.
tract ran out four months ago,
is virtually set for a big role in
William HaineS' new picture,
Lets Co." it is rumored from
good sources.
She has just completed role
with AL Jolson in THE New
Yorker" at United Artists.
The picture which draws Madge I
back to the lot on which her gay
personality sparkled in many fine
pictures has William Haines all
mixed up in speed boats. 1t looks
like a reunion of M-G-M favor.
ties, with Cliff Edwards also in
the cast.
Harry Pollard, one of Holly.
woods veteran regisseurS, will dt'
rect LeCS 20.
It's not new, but Eddie Cam
tor says it is the first time it has .
been sprung spontaneously!
Eddie was over at Fanchon and
Marco helping them tabloid
"Whoopee." An actor wanted
500 to play the Indian. When
Eddie heard about it, he said:
"Offer him $50 and make it g
half-breed."
Boulevard chatter: Marylyna,
Mary AStor'S baby is named from
the first syllable of hers and her
husbands name. FRANKLIN. =. C,
Aubrey Smith lunching the Aus y
tralian cricketeers as a start to
their three-day match. Aus.
tralia's colors are green and gold.
Blue, green and white are the
Hollywood Cricketeers' Club col
ors. Boris Karloff is one of the
home defenders. Saw Mickey
Riley and Georgia Coleman
dancing at the Hermoyne right
next to a swimming pool. Jackie
Cooper gave Myrr; 10y black I
eye with that old lamp-blacked
telescope trick the other day. 4
Jean Hersholt buys the Danish
Olympic teams flagpole for his
front lawn. . "A numerillogically
minded actor asked Carey Ford if
he should change his name after
his current picture. you should
change it after every picture"
flicAered Ford. Military order:
Al JolSon announces that a ma. =
chine gunner will be stationed IN
the forecourt of the Chinese open \
ing of Rain to NOV down the
first cracker of who said it amt o
gonna rain no more?". Tonsure
note: The Enthusiastically shaved
polls of the M.-G.-M. negroes in
'Kongo" Seen at M. B. BIS I'm
PRESERVATION" show: Harry Her
vey. Polly Moran, Victor Her.
bert. jr. and wife. B. B. BIS APP
pendix operation joke when the
doctor said, I'll soon have you
in stitches!". Miriam Hopkins
week-ends at Santa Barbara.
Sari Martha matches her Pc.
kingeSe, WhiSkey, with a new one,
Solomon ISaacS. La Bankhead in =
bags for ''Tinsel Girl". Jeanette
Macdonald has moved her back y
hair. Kay Francis cried her
makeup off over Helen Hayes 4
acting on the Farewell to Arms
set. May McAvoy lunching with ,
Jimmy Durante. .Adrienne Ames
weeking it at Coronado. Roxy
HollyWood-bound with Martin
Beck. Ethel Barr more, Lionel
and Ethel Colt Barrymore at Jack
Cummings Cocoanut Grove fare.
we'll party to Arthur Straus, the =
Chicago hotel man. Jack Holt,
Tim Mccoy and Harry Langdon i,
under the palms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29

Andrew Il. Kelley evening prom
enade that I was informed that
Marion Davies had cracked the
Palace Theater box-office rec
ord with Blonde Of the Follies.
To break a box-office record
these days you have to be good.
The facts and figures are that
blonde Marion rolled $4,000 into
the Loew's Palace till in seven
days. That's $4,000 more than
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-08-29
Did He Ever Work?

The other night, I CHANGED
on him and, between drinks, 1
Ventured a question.
Tell me, Snake" I asked,
''have you ever done an honest
days work?"
Snake" looked at me with a
panied expression on his face.
And when I tell you that
Snakes" panied expression
has kept him out of Jail during
the last 20-odd years, you'll
realize what work of art it is.
1t is the sort of expression that
mutely says: How could you
suggest such a thing?" and is
reputed even to have brought
cops to tears.
The panied expression passed
and he became retrospective.
Didn't l ever tell you about
the time 7 was in the tire bust
neSs?" he asked.
And before I could reply
"Snake" launched into his story.
1T was in 1915. 1 was in the
stock selling business when an
other guy in the same racket
sold me a company he had just
formed. The company was