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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
Steel Bosses
DodgeElection
In Two Mills
BY TOM KEENAN,

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9.-Reiterat-
ing the position of the steel trusts
toward any attempt on the part of
the National Steel Labor Relations
Board to hold elections in major
steel mills, R. e. Desvernines, coun-
sci for the Carnegie Steel Company,
refused to allow an election either
the Duquesne, Pa, or Mcdonald,
Ohio plants of Carnegie in filing
an amended brief with the Board
in Washington Thursday.
The hearings on petitions of
Amalgamsted lodges for elections in
both mills had been reopened to
permit introduction of testimony by
the union to show that Carnegie
Steel Company transacts business Of
an interstate character.
william Spang, president of the
Duquesne lodge, testified that in his
own knowledge the compan
shipped steel regularly to Detroit,
exhibiting an order from the Chev-
rolet Motor Car Company there,
which had been filled.
The comany's brief states that Of
ficials are ready and willing at all
times to negotiate with members of
any employees organization as rep
resentatives of those employees in
the organization, thumbing its nose
to the ma jority rule" principle as
handed down in the Houde case by
the general National Labor Board.
The reopened hearing revealed
the possible legal peg from which
the steel trust will snatch a cloak
of 'unconStitutionalityH to smother
MIRA. if the Board tries to force
an election. In a long disposition,
L. H. Burnett, a Carnegie official,
testified that no Carnegie Steel Co.
employee handles either raw ore or
finished steel outside the confines
Of the plants. The shipment of steel
* ore, in other words, may be an
interstate transaction, but as far as
- employees activities in handling
such shipments are concerned, these
are decidedly 'intrastate,' and as
such the company will claim the
Labor Board and MIRA. have no
jurisdiction in employee employer
relationships.
Desvernines also indicated that
should the Steel Board order an
election at either plant. not only
will cooperation be refused in the
submission of payrolls, but injunc-
ton proceedings against the Board
will be instituted at once by the
corporation.
The steel workers refuse to even
consider such recognition as the
steel employers would grant. realiz-
ing that acceptance would mean
the strengthening of company
unions--the company union would
present its own demands, the
Amalgamated men theirs. and the
company would grant the former, If
-aly to break the A. AS prestige
with employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
Nationwide
Drive Against
Labor Is Cited

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 9. -
Senator Edward P Costigan Of
Colorado, in a speech before the Ma
tional Conference on Civil Liberties
today at the Hotel Arlington here,
advanced the Wagner-Costigan bill
as the best measure to be used to
suppress Iynching. This bill is ac-
tually a weapon against all work
ing class assemblies. Mr.. Costigan
did not mention the Negro Bill of
Rights proposed by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights.
Although admitting a number of
lynchings in the recent months, the
Senator praised Roosevelts attitude
towards lynching.
In opening the conference yester-
day, Roger N. Baldwin, executive di-
rector of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union, drew a balance sheet Of
civil rights under the New Deal.
Attacks on Labor
Labor had been hit hardest by the
attacks on democratic rights Bald
win stated, but Negroes and foreign
born had been treated more hui
namely. He offered no proof to
back up the latter statement
On the subject Of strikes, Mr..
Baldwin said
The record of industrial struggle
in the last year and a half shows
a nationwide attack upon the rights
of workers to organize and of unions
to strike and picket. The list of
these killed and wounded while en-
gagged in peaceful strike activities is
the longest in years-over so killed
and 200 wounded. Prosecutions for
alleged offenses in carrying out
peaceful strike activities have been
legion. The weapon Of the in
junction, too, has been freely used
to deny wholesale the rights OF
strikers"
Speaking of the governments
strike-breaking record, Mr.. Baldwin
declared:
Company Unions Flourish
Government agencies have not
made good the promise implied in
law of support of genuine collective
bargaining, Company controlled
unions are recognized as legitimate
agencies for bargaining when they
should long ago have been out
lawed. Compulsory arbitration has
been made compulsory in the coal
code. The merit clause in the code
promotes discrimination against
union labor. All the codes are adj
ministered by employers associa-
tons. The labor provisions
are thus in the hands of hostile
forces"
Colonel D, W. Mccormack. U. S.
Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization, spoke to the con-
ference Yesterday His speech was
broadcast.
The commissioner adjured the
American Civil Liberties Union to
get "the confidence of the people
and above all guard against giving
any grounds for the charge that
instead of being devoted to the
principles of our government, 1t
leans on the left toward Commu-
nisn or on the right toward fas-
cism of Naziism."
He advised that no fight be made
to keep the radical foreign born
from being deported since "the pres
ent law is mandatory, and there is
not the slightest prospect of it's re-
taxation"
Francis ]. German, misleader of
the general textile strike and head
of the United Textile Workers, de-
clared that employers should "be-
gin to understand the value of la
Dor organization, which is capable
of intelligent collective bargaining,
to the end that there may be
brought about more steady and
continuous operation of our ma
tional industrial plant"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
10000 Retail Stores
OBeAdded tOChairl
As Bread Cards Go
Huge Pay Increases Decreed as Bread Prices
Are Equalized and Below Cost Sales
to Workers Are Abolished
BY Vern Smith
Special to the Daily worksrl

Especial o be
MOSCOW, Dec. 9. (By Wireess). The wages and pen
sions of Soviet workers will be raised by 4200000000
rubes and the retail trading network will be extended by
10000 new stores the first day of 1885, according to the
decree published yesterday by the Council of Peoples Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
No Mercy for armed
Enemies Of Workers,
Says Press Of USSR
Papers of Countries From Which Executed Ter.
rOrists We're Sent into Soviet Union Renew
Campaign of Lies and ISLANDERS
Especial to the Daily workerl

MOSCOW, Dec (By Wireless).-Und the headline,
The AnSoviet Vpers Are Kissing article in yester-
days Pravda organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, dwels in detail the anSoviet lies and SANDERS
lately spread in connection with Kirovs assassination hv
Evening star., 1934-12-01
"OUR DAILY
BREAD" is
RATHER SAD
But Picture at Columbia
Turns Out With EUery-
body Happy at End.

"Our Daily Bread" the latest King
Vidor production, which has been
brought to Loew's Columbia for the
current week, is by no means the
choicest of film fare. While it is i'm
bued with a commendable intent to
dramatic the earthly origins of the
rye in that great national institution,
ham, -on-rye, less pretentious and more
realistic stories have often been told
of the seed that springeth into crops
and the man behind the pillow.
Mr.. Vidor wrote, directed and pro-
duced tale Of a group of depression
derelicts who cast their lot together
in the fertile agricultural area Of the
Middle West, swapping a stone
mason's skill for the shoemaker's art,
living without money. tilling their
fields with man power. Composed
chiefly Of lower middle class artisans
whose wobbly aptitude for survival
had made them easy prey to hard
times, this community constituted a
combination of the theorists heaven
and the property lovers hell.
The army of misfits chose for their
leader a stalwart young man named
John, espoused to an equivocally
named lass, Mary. These were vir-
tually the only young people in the
shanty town, but SO earnest were
they that the bursting of ripe plants
from the soil enraptured them even
as kicking the gong around might
have enchanted more sophisticated
couple.
When the bedraggled hopefuls of
planned economy were threatened
with disaster because they lacked cash
pending a harvest, among them was
revealed a noble convict who sacri-
feed himself to the law in order that
his friends of the fields might COL
lect reward upon his head and with
the cash buy groceries In contrast
to this sentimental deed. a city-braZen
blond called Sally drifted into the
community and employed her wiles in
the seduction of farmer John and
the general disruption of local morale
Had there not been terrible drought
on the land at the time the citizens
might have been sufficiently busy to
overlook Sally's evil ways. In their
idleneSs and brooding over the blast
ing sun, however. they resented her,
they sneered at John and altogether
lost heart.
Needless to say, John escaped the
fatal spell in time to contrive hand
some irrigation scheme, and his fol-
lowers joined him in one of the oldest
ditch-d digging projects ever accom-
plished by the hand of man. Of you've
ever dug a ditch you will understand
just how quaint the method isl
The yarn draws to its end with wa
ter bursting all over the withered corn
this is a story of cornbread, appar-
ently). with John and Mary happily
reunited and every one settling down
to a prosperous Winter and the FIVE
year plan.
We regret to inform you that Tom
Keene is negligbly effective as the
brawney hero John; that Miss Karen
Morley Is scarcely a farm-girl type
even if she remains generally COM
petent actress. and that John T.
Qualen as a Swede plowhand gives
about the only credible performance
in the lot.
The Columbia program also includes
a Nifty Nurses" comedy, a travelogue
and a newsreel. r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

It's all right for established authors
and playwrights to go ahead with
their work with an eye to selling 1t to
the movies, but this is the first time
| that the outsider" gets an oppor-
tunity to see how a story is told
through the eyes of the camera.
And remember that plenty of
Hollywood's most famous scenarists
have never sold any stories or plays.
You don't need to be an established
writer If you have ideas and know how
to put them down.
If you happen to have ideas plus
writing ability, like Mr.. Fowler, that's
all right, too!
We're glad to know that seeing Fred
Astaire dance gives other people the
idea that perhaps they could learn
| to tap out a routine with nonchalance,
| too!
Since his arrival at R-K-O Radio
studio, Astaire has had the place in
somewhat of q frenzy, what with
every one from secretaries to pro-
duction heads trying the simple rudi-
ments of the tap dance.
Most frank, among those who hope
to get the hang of it, is Katharine
Hepburn. who spends most of her
spare time joining in the work of
the chorus now rehearsing for
Roberta
Miss Hepburn, of course, can't take
time to change into dancing togs, so
she wanders in wearing the gypsy
nj xryfrr r< Of
her costuming for The Little Min
ister."
The other day Fred Astaire and
Richard Dix sneaked in to watch her
working, with the idea that they
might disconcert her q bit when she
saw them.
But they didn't.
II know" said the famous Kather-
inc, looking up, II must look as If I
had two left feet. But I'll get it."
Richard Boleslavski, who has been
interviewing extras with q view to
finding types to be used in the House
Of Commons scenes in "Clive Of In
dia," doesn't anticipate any trouble
whatever in duplicating any famous
people that he may need.
Its been my experience" he says,
'that in Hollywood it is not only pos
sible but comparatively easy to find
the double Of most Of the famous
dead and celebrated living.
"And can prove it by referring to
the Central Casting Bureau, where
George Washingtons may be hired for
$3.50 q day; Abraham Lincolns for
$40 day (the extra pay because they
demand real whiskers for incoln);
and Napoleons for anywhere from
$3.50 to $25 . day. This latter de-
Evening star., 1934-12-01

Pert James Cagney is the hero OF
The ST. Louis Kid" at Warner
Bros Earle this week. A year age
that fact was, in our humble opinion,
nothing to get excited about. This
week it is approximately the best news
amusement seekers will hear, for the
tough boy of the Warner lot has be-
come a real comedian and as en-
chanting a mug as you will meet bowl
ing q truck along the highways or
cuddling his beer at the rear table in
Mikes.
THE St. Louis Kid is swift Of pace
and thick with gags. 1t has warmth
of Characterization, timely plot ana
a beautiful heroine, and is altogether
a rather brilliant piece of trivial enter
tainment. We cannot think OF any
thing else around the town SO per-
fectly calculated to tighten the Stygian
gloom of a cloudy afternoon.
Eddie Kennedy and his pal BUCK
Willetts, a dumb, earnest young man
with a quarrelsome nature and glass
Jaw, were engaged in the aggressive
profession of ruck-driving. Possessed
of the traditional pugnacity OF i've
tonner pilots, they passed most OF
their off time in jail and squandered a
tidy portion of the weekly pay check
in paying the fines and costs OF simple
assault.
During the course Of one interstate
tourney their truck was rammed III
you can believe this one) by a fair
lassie in a model-T flivver. Right
vroth was she with them and her
anger led to much diversion for the
spectators thereafter. You need not
hear all the details to be reassured
that there followed a murder, OF which
sprightly Eddie was accused, a kid
naping of the heroine. a rescue and
all the fine old melodramatic trap
pings which are both venerable and
freshly treated in this film. Director
Ray Enright did himself proud in
supplying a wealth of inventive twists
to enliven every moment which might,
by basic familiarity. have been stale.
He also worked with a splendid sup
porting cast, including Allen jenkins,
as the numb-skull Buck; Patricia
Ellis, whose blond beauty is worthy of
your attention, and Robert Barrat,
Hobart Cavanaugh and others In lesser
roles.
Probably you will suspect there has
been an attack of acute optimism
somewhere when you are urged to
believe that the Earle also has this
week one of the best vaudeville bills
we have seen in weeks. Topped by
that skilled and effervescent banjoist
Eddie Peabody, the program is round
ed out by a picturesque and restrained
adagio-acrobatic act called the Harris
Twins and Loretta; the incredibly
facile mental wizardry of Harry
Kahne, who, himself is worth head
lining on any stage. and better than
average Italian dialect act titled
Harry Burns and Co., the company
consisting of Virginia Sully, Helen
Lockwood and Tony de Luca
Eddie Peabody, whirling dervish
Evening star., 1934-12-01
Where and When|
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Valley Forge" at 2:20
and 800 pm.
Loew's Fox-"We Live Again." at
10:40 am, 1:30, AIS, 705 and 9:55
pm. Stage shows at 1920, $40,
and 8:45 pm.
Earle-"The st. Louis Kid" at 10
am, 1920, ESQ, Sis, 7:45 and 1910
pm. Stage shows at 1920 am, l:45,
4:10, 6:45 and 9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Our Daily Bread" at
1910. 2:10, 4:05, sos, 8 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan-"Wagon Wheels" at
IL am, 1850, 2:40, 4:3O, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Anne of Green
Gables" at 1O:45 am, 1890, 2:15,
4:lS, '6:21, 8:06 and 9:51 pm.
Palace-"Painted VEIL" at II am,
los. 3:15. 5:25. 7:35 and GAS pm.
Tivoli-"Happiness Ahead" at 2, 4,
6, TAO and $50 pm.
Administrations Night of Love-"
at 2, 4, 6, 7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

ter curiosities in the Peabody repe-
toire is the harp guitar, whence he can
derive the music of complete string
orchestra. He carries this one around
with him, along with the original,
knife-indented fiddle, two fancy BAN
joes which weigh 81 pounds each and
are worth $1,000 of the family fortune.
He also now has a rare violin, worth
twice as much as the plink-plink
boxes.
If you've never seen DR.. Peabody
chasing gloom from the theater, bet
ter get look at him down at the Earle
this week He counts on this as his
last immediate vaudeville engagement,
intending thereafter to go on the road
with his own orchestra. He promises
the banjo, drums, piano and base Sec
ton will be perfect, and they make
dancing. r. H. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
ITALIAN PLAYERS
AT BELASCO THEATER
Tomorrow Evenings Entertain
ment Includes Well Known
Opera Singers.

"Addio Giovinezza,' the Italian
Dramatic Club play which will be
presented at the Belasco Theater to-
morrow night. will have as leading
lady Miss ToSca Fattorini, together
with an army of well-known amateur
players among the Italians of Wash
ington
The italian Dramatic Club, spon-
Sorlng this night at the Belasco as a
charity affair to aid destitute Italian
families of Washington over the
Christmas holidays, has secured the
personal appearance of Nicolo Cosen-
tino, tenor OF radio and opera fame,
who Immediately after the play will
offer program Of well-knoWn opera
favorites.
Iris Mazzarini, soprano, who made
her debut at La Scala of Milan in
"Elisir d'Amore," will be in Wash
ington, coming directly from Boston
for the occasion, Fred Colaprico, the
manager of the players, informs, and
she will be featured in program of
opera "arias" during intermissions.
c. Figallo directs the play.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
FRATERNITY is PRAISED
Wilkinson Tells Session of High

Wilkinson Tells Session of High
Democratic Character.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December Cecil
j. Wilkinson. Washington, D. c.,
chairman of the National Interfra-
;ernity Conference, addressing its
opening session yesterday, said that the
college fraternity lis the nearest ap-
proach to democratic self-government
found on the campus"
Sixty-six national college fraternl-
ties are represented at the meeting.
which is concerned with changes in
rushing systems, particularly in re-
spect to "hell week." the costliness of
fraternity membership and the COM
petition of professional fraternities.
Wilkinson said that college authori-
ties handicap themselves if they do
not avail themselves of the college
fraternity as a means of developing
democratic instincts and socialized
ideals among their students.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

pends on whether the little general
has to speak or not
Which rather takes the edge off our
historical ideals!
Some one of the Bengal Lancers"
! set asked one Abdul HaSSan, who
plays the part of a cavalryman in
the film, what he thought about the
fighting scenes in which he had just
taken part.
Not enough sun-strokes." was the
unexpected answer. And they told it
around as great joke until Hassan
heard about it and explained himself.
More heroes drop from the sun
than from bullets" he told the gang.
There are 'sun-stroke stations every
half mile in the Khyber Pass"
So in the completed version Of the
film you'll probably see Paramount S
finest stagger and bite the dust every
now and then. All for the sake of art,
of course.
(Copyright. 1894. by North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc
Evening star., 1934-12-01
CLIMATE SHAPES NOSES.
DENVER SCIENTIST SAYS
Larger in Tropics Because More
Air Must Be Breathed,
He Holds.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GOLDEN, Colo, December l.
Human noses change shape to fit the
climate, DR.. E. B. Renaud of Denver
University told scientists gathered here
yesterday for the eighth annual ses-
sion of the Colorado Wyoming Acad-
emy of Science.
DR.. Renaud said the African Ne
gro's nose is broad and fiat, with large
intake and exhaust openings, or nos
trils, because hot air is thinner
than cold air and more must be
breathed to get enough oxygen.
People of cold climates have long,
narrow noses, which take in smaller
quantities of air and preheat it before
it reaches the lungs, DR.. Renaud ex-
planned.
Evening star., 1934-12-01


way perhaps you had expected.
X 4 X
EERDE GROFE pronounced Gro
fay and his orchestra, assisted
by a smooth and attractive songbird
Betty Barthelle, head the Fox stage
show this week Mr. Grofe is the
man who wrote that Grand Canyon
Suite" which you've heard Maj
Bowes play on his Sunday programs,
and which is an interesting and vital
bit of American music. Mr.. Grofe
plays "On the Trail" from it. as also
the "Mardi Gras" movement from his
Mississippi Suite" which comes as
splendid finale to the bill.
Other acts this week include Grace
Dufaye, an amazingly agile dancer,
plus Eddie Stuart, and Dot, Don and
Teddy; the Funnyboners, popular
radio celebrities, whose antics are
happily received by the audience. and
Joe Phillips and Madeline Kileen,
occasional comedians.
Phil Lampkin's overture, dedicated
to Love" is his best - for reasons
Wnlch Mr.. LampKln probably knows
better than any one else.
** * X
CARBO remains at the Palace in
The Painted Veil" a film of
goings-on in those tropics which no.
body knows so well as Somerset
Vaughan. This may not be Miss
Garbo's best picture. but you'll find
that in its early stages she is a new
and devastating person-the peer of
all lady sirens of the screen. While
the story breaks in half and runs its
course more or less downhill after its
bursting up, it is well worth seeing just
for its early career, and for Miss Gar
bo's smile, which is the best available.
George Brent and Herbert Marshall
are excellent foils. When Garbo hasn't
got one, she has the other-which
should make the film better than it is.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

YET LOT all MISS oUcIl dUillty, dLu
for all Frederic March's worth dts
probably his picture at thaD and Tor
Reuben Mamoulian'S careful direction,
and for Mr.. Newman's musical score,
Nina KoshetZ singing, and that mid
night Easter service which was done
with the greatest care, We Live
Again" seems to us to lack that def
mite spark, that definite emotlona
surge which you expect with such a
story as Resurrection"
Mr.. Mamoulian chops up his scenes
so often, slides his camera from rich
to poor and back again with such
speed, that before you can begin to
accumulate either smiles or tears, you
are off on another tangent.
1t is this speed. and perhaps his
interest in details, that makes the film
not quite so good as 1t should have
been-or rather, as you expected 1t
would be. The struggle between the
classes which so preyed on Tolstoy's S
mind is certainly no longer a novelty,
and the audience is bound to be more
interested in the human reactions and
the love affair between the peasant
girl ana the prince than in the long
TRADES against social injustice.
Whatever else the film does, it gives
Freddie March one of the best roles
of his career and one in which he
outdoes himself. His later scenes are
especially noteworthy, particularly at
that moment when he is making up
his mind to go to Siberia and the past
comes back at him in magnificent
retrospect However bad we may have
thought Mr.. March in The Barretts
of Wimpole Street" (and We were in
the minority with this opinion). so
justly opposite do we think him in
1--WE Live Again"
Mr. March and Miss Sten and occa-
sional flashes of Mamoulian genius
make this film which you will prob
ably want to see You know the
story-it is long and it is dreary. But
1t has its moments. The only thing
Evening star., 1934-12-01
PAN-AMERICAN UNION
PLANS TRAVEL DIVISION
Tourist Information of All Types
to Be Supplied by Cen
tral Bureau.

The American Union shortly
will open a new department to be
known as the Travel Division, it was
learned today. The official announce
ment is expected within a few days
The new division will furnish free
all types of tourist information to
those who contemplate travel IN the
republics to the South. Accurate ad-
vice, as to costs of travel, accommo-
dations of every sort and best possible
routings will be available.
A central information bureau will
be constructed in the inner courtyard
of the headquarters on Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue.