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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-18
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(NEA Service Stan Correspondent

(NEA Service Stan C0rerspOndemtD
 Hollywood. - The two-reel com edies of five and ten years ago are almost directly responsible for some of our most entertaining mo- tion pictures to-day.
 This statement comes from Nor man Taurog, director of Maurice Chevalier's last two films and one of the leading directors to rise from the ranks of the old two-reel megaphonists.
 Many of the biggest laughs we get from pictures to-day come from situations which simply are highly developed two-reel gags" !" Taurog declares. "The chief dif- ference is that we now do a great deal by suggestion instead of em- .ploying broad comedy, as we did in the old days.
 "An example of how that is done Is the sequence in The Way to Love-, in which Maurice Chevalier and Edward Everett Horton go around cutting off neckties. That was based on gag I used in a two-reeler eight years ago.
 "In the old days audiences had to be shown everything. Now they are more intelligent and prefer to have certain situations suggested to them rather than have them played straight through.
 "In fact, they often get a laugh out of simply anticipating a cer- tain situation"
 Society Rebunked
 New York's -Four Hundred"- or perhaps 1t would be more cor rect to say -Four Thousand"--is about to be shown what Hollywood thinks of it's coming ont na rtiaa for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-18

program from all the leading pro- ducers. Polls is now an indepen- dent theater, not bound to any chain operation and therefor Is able to reject pictures that theaters on part of chain are compelled to play, this Is why you will always find good programs at the Poli.
 A word to the wise should be sufficient. as no matter how large the capacity of this popular the- atcr it will be taxed for the next 4 days, go get in early so that you will not be sorry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Farmer Sells Crop for
$50, Result Of Eleven
Months Labor for 2

LURAY, Va, Route No, Editor
Daily Worker:
In regard to conditions of labor
in this section, an adjoining tenant
farmer has just sold his crop for
$50. This is the result of eleven
months labor. His son-in-law, who
assists him, realized $40. They are
operating $4,000 farm. These
men are practical farmers and in
dustrious, hard workers.
The overall factory, which employs
practically only piece workers, are
running full time hours a day and
six days a week, and they draw from
35c to SOc per day. The tannery,
which has been closed for the past
four weeks or more, and no definite
time set for reopening, with its mod
ern machinery, now produces about
five times as much leather with one
fifth the number of men it used
five years ago.
Lester Ruffner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
By III. FRIEDMAN

zaritzky president OF the Cap and
Millinery International, once stated
ct capmakers' meeting that Hill
mans Amalgamated is a very good
union and we, capmakers, can learn
whole lot from that organization. /"
Out of credit to Mr. zaritzky, it
must be admitted that in the matter
Of forming close alliances with, and
giving full protection to, grafters and
underworld characters so that with
their help to be better able to ter
rorize the workers in the shops and
sell their interests to the bosses, our
president is true disciple of Mr.
Hillman of the Amalgamated. T..
For years, bunch Of contemplate
racketeers reigned supreme in B.
Greenberg's shop. The union office
supported them directly and other
wise. Every worker in our trade is
familiar with the many acts of terror,
graft and corruption the clique in
the shop used to put over on the
workers.
The workers used to bring charges
against the clique TO Inc union Of
flee or the executive Of Local No. l.
The grafters would always be white
washed by the union officials.
These fellows used to get from the
firm as high as 500 week each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
EXTORT $500
FROM WORKERS
ON STATE JOB
Wages Of Negro, White
A. F. L. Bricklay e rs
Robbed by Contractor

NEW YORK.-EXtortion Of $4,000
in wages from 81 Negro and white
laborers employed by the C.. and w
Construction Co.. on an administra-
ton building for the 369th Infantry
Armory at 143rd ST., and Fifth Ave.
was barred today as the company filed
an appeal from the decision Of JUS
tice Genung awarding the workers
the money.
The workers, members OF the Brick
layers, Nasons, and Plasterers Inter
national Union of the American Fed
Grafton of LABOR, revealed that al
though they received sealed pay en-
velopes each Thursday containing
their wages at the contract rate Of
$3.50 a day they had to return $3.50
of each days pay to the construction
company agent by the following Mon
day or be laid off. This, the workers
pointed out, made their wages only 81
day when employed and they de-
manded individual rebates ranging
from $40 to $3.50 per man which sums
had been extracted from them.
At previous hearing held before
Frank j. Prial, First Assistant Comp
troller of New York City, on Novem-
Der S, 1882, at which Labor Research
Association representative was pres
ent, it was brought out that some of
these workers had complained to union
delegates when one Of them had been
fired. When the union attorney failed
to show up at the first hearing, the
Trade Union Unity Council had taken
up the case through Allen Taub, In
ternational Labor Defense attorney
At that time Sam Williams, Negro
worker, told of his being fired on his
refusal to kick back" with S420 Out
Of his S1420 for two and a half days
first pay day after having four times
work.
Negro workers have been the chief
sufferers. One, testifying before PriaI
that he had thus been forced to re-
turn SITS over a period of six months
told of the procedure whereby the
men were mulcted The timekeeper
he said, would follow the men on the
job shortly after they were paid of
and demand a "kick back on penal
ty Of firing those who refused to
come across" At that time Iaub's
motion that the company produce
time books was denied by Prial, Tam
many agent. The men plan to con-
tinue their fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Homeless Workers
ReportFarmP overly
(By a Young worker Correspondent

(By Young Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Mo. = I am writing
while holding on the railroad with
many other yong workers. My group
of buddies left Philadelphia a short
time ago and are now touring the
South. Being without funds we
have to get our meals by going to
the back door Of farm houses. Most
of the farmers are glad to help us
but they hav> very little after CIV
ing half OF lneir crop to the land
owner and paying all expenses out
of the other half.
I asked them If the Roosevelt
farm relief program would help,
Most said no, prices may be going
up for city workers but we farmers
will always get less from the trust.
If they do pay more. it will be after
most of us sold our crop.
NJ "eS have vagrancy laws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
SELL OUT STRIKE
OF 5000 BERRY
PICKERS in CAL.
Vice-Consul, State La
Dor Official for Lo w
Pay; Terror Continues

OS ANGELES, Cal, July 12.-Five
to ten thousand berry pickers on
strike against starvation wages of IL
to Is cents an hour were sold out
this week when settlement agreed
upon by the fake liberal leaders of
the Mexican confederation of labor
and engineered by the Mexican vice
Consul Hill and the State labor agent
Barker forced the workers back to
work at practically the same miser-
able wage level.
BY terms OF the settlement the
workers will get $3.50 for hour day
or 16 2-3 cents an hour while the
workers had been holding out for Is
cents an hour.
The berry bosses had offered the
workers 20 cents an hour, as min
imun, so that the Mexican liberals
who have put themselves at the head
of the strike to defeat it, and the
Mexican Vice Consul and California
state representatives have actually
succeeded in holding the Mexican
workers down to an intolerable level
of wages. In view of the rapidly
mounting prices, the settlement is
virtually a wage cut and not an in
crease. The intervention of Roose-
velt's labor department in the strike,
exposes the agreement as another
smashing attack of the new deal
regime against the living standards
Of the workers.
Terror Drive Continues
Meanwhile, having sold out the
workers, the politicians and other
fake leaders are engaging in a fas-
cist program of terror and deporta-
ton to wipe out the militancy of the
striking workers before August 18th
when the agreement terminates. Res
Thomson, assistant Los Angelo:
County superintendent of Charities
announces that 5000 Mexican fam
lilies will be deported Immediately
The organization of fascists bands tc
terrorize the strikers has commenced
In Ell Monte. group Of 10 Mexicans
led by a self-elected sheriff" arrest.
ed worker, Valdaas, and even youns
Mexican boys have been misled intc
patrolling the roads with heavy stick;
to keep out organizers of the workers
Aided by the Mexican Vice Consul
under pretense of selecting 200 fam
lilies for a desert settlement in Lowe
California as outlined by Gales, ex
tensive physical examination anc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Union Heads Move
to Sell Out the
Reading, Strike
Workers Advised to
Wait for More Pay
Under Slave Code

READING, Pa, July II. With
$4,000 workers on the hosiery and
other industries in Reading and VI
cinity out on strike and with the
strike threatening to sweep the en-
tire region. moves are under way by
the officials of the A. F. of L. and
Amalgamated Clothing Workers to
strangle it if they have their way.
In compliance with the Mayor OF
Readings order that mass picket lines
be reduced to II workers for each
plant, the union officials are discou-
raging mass picketing Their insist
ence on federal mediator to arbi-
trate the strike and the speed with
which they are maneouvring for
terms to assure recognition is another
evidence of the desire to check the
strike movement. Union RECOGNITION
is the only demand raised by the Of
ficials. This would provide the check
off of dues from the wages Of the
workers which is their main objective.
AS soon as mill is recognized, the
workers are ordered back to work and
told to wait for the Roosevelt Code
for their higher wages" At the same
time, the agitation of the Union off,
Gals and the Socialist Party, which
is also active here, centers around
building confidence of the workers in
the Roosevelt government.
No Rank and File Participation
Hardly any rank and file partici-
patton in the strike is evident. A
rank and file group which is now or
ganizing is urging the workers to turn
the strike into real struggle. To
achieve this, it is necessary to de-
mand that a broad rank and file
strike committee be elected represent
ing each shop and that no agree
ments be made with the employers
by individuals or submitted to ar
bitration but that they be settled by
this committee. The workers should
especially resist the move to send
them back to the shops without wage
increases as these gains should result
from the strike. Mass picketing and
the organization of relief committees
is imperative if the strike is to result
in winning improvements for the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

NAMPA, Ida.-The wages paid the
agricultural laborers are tragic. Take
the pea-plckers, who receive about
half what they were paid last year
lie most places and zoe in a few,
as against &c in 1882, per hamper.
And those hampersl Anyone who
has ever tried to fill one of them
knows the wherefore of their dia-
boIcal shape; inches in diameter
at the bottom, 16 at the top and
about 212 feet high. The weight is
all at the top, and they are the
"settlingest" things ever invented for
the exploitation of child and super
anuated labor.
Most of the workers are children
from years of age up, and they
have to be at the receiving plants
at a. m. in order to catch the
trucks to the fields.
Not satisfied with the natural graft
of these peculiar shaped hampers
and the starvation wages, some of
the buyers are paying only every
two weeks, and giving the pickers
no checks or slips with which to
check against the company count. AS
a result, many of them claim to
have been gypped-with no recourse.
Top wages for hay hands IS $50
per day and board-same as last
year, with a surplus of hands, so
that those who care to shop around,
can get their hay up for a dollar a
day per hand-or less. Hog prices
have again tobogganed from $5.25 to
81 for tops. Relief work in town is
still set at 50 per day for 4 to 6
days per month, depending on the
size of family, and payment is in
grocery orders.
The workers and farmers must be
made to see the necessity for organi-
cation to fight the Roosevelt hun
ger program. Some of them would
like to see the system overturned.
but hope that the chief moguls of
the system itself, Morgan, Baruch.
Roosevelt and Co., will "get religion;
or big-hearted and scuttle their own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13

doubtedly show a steep rise in stocks
on hand, forecasting greater unem-
ployment for the workers.
An instance Of this is the textile
industry which knowing beforehand
of the initiation program, of the slave
code and of Forthcoming higher
prices, speeded up production in or
der to stock UP, and with the inten-
ton later to slow down production.
These facts should make clear to
the workers how far Roosevelt and
the apostles of the new dear are
ready to go in their efforts to de-
ceive the workers while putting over
the bosses program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
HOSIERY BOSSES
CODE PROPOSES
s. WAGE SCALE
Company Union Plans;
Drastic Cut Prepared
for Highest Paid;

A code for the hosiery workers
has been tentatively announced by
tile National Association of Hose!y
Manufacturers which establishes
minimum wages of So week for
learners, with a three-months APP
premiership period. This applias to
both full-fashioned and seamless
hosiery workers.
The SO week minimum wage for
lea r ers is the lowest minimum-wage
sale thus lar established in any Of
the codes. The apprenticeship
clause is, again another schema Of
the employers to keep wages low
and will be accomplished by a steady
turnover of workers who viii be
c.a<S fed as apprentices.
minimum for Skilled.
A minimum wage of S12, IS es-
tablished for stampers, boxers and
comb-winders, SIS for toppers, loop
ers, members, SIT for boarders, and
for the most highly skilled workers
| leggers and footers, a scale ranging
from $3.50 to S2750. In the seam
less hosiery industry, wages for
knitters are as low as ST. for loop
ers and boarders S14, and for ma
chine fiXers and machinists $18.
To head off union in the plant,
the employers are calling for the
establishment of company union
scheme establishing a shop commit
/ tee of three, two of whom are to be
mill employees and management
committee of three of officials in a
position higher than that of fore
man. The shop committee is to
confer with the management COM
mittee on all grievances. and in
cases of dispute, an impartial
person shall settle the dispute. A
e0-hour week is proposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13

delegation OF Salem textile strikers
we're present.
Miss Perkins was the speaker on
the Recovery Act at an open forum
at Wellesley College last Saturday,
when she was confronted with few
practical questions raised by the
strikers who made the trip from
Salem. The delegation came to find
cut what the Industrial Recovery
Slavery Law would do about the
back breaking speed up plan which
the Pequot company intends to in
stall. Miss Perkins made it quite clear
that the administration would not
help the strikers but would support
the company plan instead.
The company's proposal would not
eliminate any workers, she declared
when questioned about lay-offs and
if the night work law would mean
lay-offs she is for the suspension Of
the law.
The liberal lady who champions la
Dor laws for the workers has no OBJ
lection to the return of a practice
which has been abolished as dan
gerous to the health of women and
future generations if it will help the
Bosses profits Reminded that Gov
ernor Ely had made a drive for
moratorium of all Massachusetts, la
Dor laws. Perkins criticized this ac-
ton but evaded responsibility, 81 was
not Secretary Of Labor then" she
said. She forgot to mention that
she is supporting it now when Gov
ernor Ely has revived his campaign.
Anxious to bring to an end what
was obviously an unpleasant inter
view, she closed the discussion and
rushed off saying she had another
appointment.
The strikers we're accompanied by
Ann Burlak Of the National Textile
Workers Union and Robert Brakeman.
former mayor Of Peabody.
Brakeman, who leans heavily toward
the Socialist Party in his ideas OF
strike tactics was opposed to Ann
Burlaks open criticism of Frances
Perkins. Embarrassing Miss Perk-
ms is not going to help the case" he
declared although he admitted that
public officials pretending interest in
the workers should be exposed when
they act against the workers.
That the strikers are placing no
faith in Miss Perkins or the vacillat-
ing tactics of Brakeman is evident
from their iron determination to de-
feat the stretch-out plan. The dele
cation will report the Perkins inter-
view at mass meeting of strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Flowing Cotton Under
Is Start of Crazy Year
Writes Cotton Farmer
(By a Farmer Correspondent

FUTILE, Oklahoma. = Last week
should be called crazy week, or be-
ginning June IS, should be called
crazy year. Thousands of people are
SIGNING up to destroy from " to "
Of their cotton acreage. If the plan
goes through, many fine patches of
cotton will be plowed up in the next
two weeks. Cotton that the farm
ers have worked hard to grow.
Many people hesitated before they
decided to sign to destroy it. 1t is
discussed by many peoples as the
most absurd and the craziest move
lions of acres are destroyed, esti-
mating all average Of 148 pounds of
lint or $50 pounds Of seed cotton
to the acre and it takes one person
three days to pick one acre Of cot
ton, there is 100000 days work de-
stroyed which produced what the
people badly need.
There are now many people who
live on the farm that are destitute
of food and clothing Cotton chop
ping that paid 75c to 81 per day is
over. The harvest that paid very
small wage to a small percent of
people that were out of work is prac-
tically over.
What are we going to do is a
question asked by many people?
People are beginning to say shall
we organize or shall we starveq"
Others are wondering, yet waiting
patiently, and I am wondering if
the workers will finally decide that
to organize is the only thing to do.
j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
WARNS FARMERS
OF MISLEADERS

OMAHA, Neb.-As corn cultivating
draws to close, and the harvest OF
small grain starts, the misleaders Of
the farmers are BEGINNING to get I'M
easy and show signs Of fear. Evidence
of their fright is obvious from their
statements made during the last few
days.
MisIeaders Fear Upsurge of NIi!itancy
1t was during a breathing spell aft
er the harvest in 1882 that the farm
strike got under way. The farm mass
es have learned much about mislead-
ers. farm aid" promises, the value
of militancy and the value of organ
ization in the past year. Their mis-
leaders fear this knowledge and they
anticipate movement soon that viii
far surpass the farm strike of 1882
iii organization, demands and mill
fancy.
These misleaders have recently
learned, to their sorrow, that by call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
Vets Resent D. A. Y.
Sell Out Program
Disabled Vets Tear Up
Membership Cards

WASHINGTON D. c. Reports
from reliable sources are coming into
the Veterans National Rank and File
Committee that members Of the Dis
abled American Veterans, thoroughly
disguised with the sell-out program
put over at the National Convention
of that organization, are tearing up
their membership cards. E. w. Martin.
a Negro war vet who is in constant
touch with veterans throughout the
nation, just returned from tour ~
Maine and other eastern states, re-
ports that anger among the D.AV.
men is everywhere evident.
A Betrayal
The program adopted by the Ma
tional Convention of the D.A.V. in
Cincinnati is one of the most open
betrayals yet perpetrated by any of
the organizations. 1t includes: oppo-
sition to bonus payment; no legisla-
tive efforts for any but service con-
nected cases, ignoring and leaving TO
starve the thousands Of Disability Al
lowance cases, pensions, and other
benefit-receiving vets who face hun
ger as a result Of the Economy Act.
Bonus marches were tabooed by the
Convention. And veteran preference
on federal employment was handed
a knockout. The entire legislative
program Of the D.A.V. has all the ear
marks Of having been written by the
White House.
The Veterans National Rank and
File Committee, with executive Of
fices in Washington, D. c., 2l0-l1
Maryland Bldg, is composed of vet
Grams from all veteran organizations,
regardless Of political beliefs, race,
color or affiliation.
The program Of the Rank and File
Committee is: Immediate cash
payment Of the adjusted service GER
tificates; repeal of the Economy Act
and restoration of all disability; COM
pensation, disability allowances, PEN
sions, disqualification rights and do
miciliary privileges; immediate relief
for all unemployed workers and farm
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13


questioning Of strikers is proceedins
rapidly. The real purpose Of this ex-
aiming process is to obtain informal
ton which will be used for deporta-
ton of the most militant workers and
strike leaders.
At Pomona, the terror against tbs
workers who were picketing In the
fields in protest at not receiving their
earned wages, resulted in the use OF
sawed-off shot guns by constables to
drive out the pickets. Lopez, pick
ct, was arrested and charged with
peace disturbance.
Although the strike has ended with
out real gains for the strikers, real
basis has been established for re-
newal Of the struggle in the next
season. Tho membership recruited
into the Agricultural Csnnery Work.
ers Industrial Union and the youth
nucleus, will again attempt to organ
ize the workers for struggle for sub
stantial wage increases and recogni-
ton of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13
MISUNDERSTANDING
Official Sells Out
1000 Shirt Strikers

LEBANON, Pa, July 12.-One thou
sand strikers Of the Liebovitz Shirt
Manufacturing Co. returned to work
Monday in the Reading, Pottstowll
and Myerstown mills of the company
with promises of arbitration of then
wage demands. The arbitration sell
out was engineered by Leo Kryzcki
national organizer of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers, whose chief
interest in the strike is to obtain re-
cognition of the union for the dues
to be collected from the workers.
The workers went ON strike in the
hope of gaining wage increase. Their
demands will go to a committee OF
so-called impartial arbitrator who
usually decide in behalf of the bosses
profits against the workers.