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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-23

While Hans Jaray plays the role OF
the frequently bespectacled Schubert
with a quiet dignity that becomes the
role down to the ground, it Is really
Miss Eggerth who in her bold way
walks of with the picture. The pro-
ducers have seen to it that not only
does she break out into wild laughter
when Schubert plays that symphony
for the first time at court-thus
causing a tempermental rough-house-
but they have also given her songs to
sing, dances to dance, and broken
heart at the end of the affair when
she is forced into marrying some one
she doesn't love.
Miss Eggerth, you see, atones in
more ways than one for that peal of
laughter. Not only does she get her
father, the rich Count So-and-So. to
hire Schubert as her musical tutor,
but no sooner does she get him into
the swing of do-re-mi'S than she
lands him at her feet. And in that
swift tide of affection she is on the
verge of becoming Mrs. Franz Schu-
bert when papa says mo" and huStles
Schubert out of the country.
From then on the composer under
goes this and that and the other and
gets back to Miss Eggerth only in
time to see her wed to another. AS
a wedding gift he plays the "B Minor
Symphony" for her and when she
swoons he vows that he will never
finish it, tearing the manuscript mis-
erably in two. Then with tear and
sigh he departs for home, with the
ring of Ave Maria" in his ears and
little Marta still in his heart.
Whether or not you believe that
Schubert didn't finish this work on
account Of an unfortunate love affair,
YOU will nevertheless have to agree
that it ties the whole thing up very
prettily and that love is much
better reason than inertia for such a
case. The cast makes this fairly be-
lievable, too-the music is effective
when the print permits it to be
and Helen Chandler appears as the
pawnbroker's daughter who keeps on
loving Schubert through fair weather
and foul.
EVERYTHING is set! Fifteen
~ Washington beauties will be
selected by the five local drama
reviewers and sent to Annapolis to
take part in Annapolis Farewell"
which Paramount is now shooting in
the grounds Of the Naval Academy.
Cuestionnaires have just arrived at
this desk. The girls will be asked
to reply to such questions as: Color of
hair, color of eyes, height, weight,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-23
Slip Costs Man His Life.

While putting a coin in gas meter,
Thomas Cove, aged IA, of Cheshire.
England, slipped. His weight broke
the lead pipe, and the candle he was
carrying ignited the gas, which set
his clothing on fire. He was burned
to death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-23
since played in q number of Broadway

productions.
His stock experience includes sew
eral seasons with the famed Glitch
Gardens Co. Of Denver, more than
$50 weeks with the st. James Players
Of Boston, with the Albee Players Of
Providence and with the Jesse Bonstelle
troupe in Detroit. Recently he ap-
peared in a number of motion pictures
made at the Paramount studio In
Astoria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-23
Schubert and His Music
In Belasco's Film Story
British Company Has Handled "The Unfin-
ished Symphony Theme in an Entertain
ing Manner-New Faces on the Screen.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

TIME" lives So does SchubertS "B Minor
symphony. They meet in gentle unison in the Gaumont
British production, 1.-The Unfinished Symphony" which
- is playing at the Belasco And in that meeting
they only by excellent actors classical
with voice, but they have
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra the Vienna Boys
Vienna State of which Heroine Marta
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-23

Resources to Be Studied.
Fourteen expeditions will study the
natural resources of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
BY CARL EEV e

larger than the amount now re-
ceived as a relief dole, but at the
same time not so large as to encour-
age the rejection of opportunities
for private unemployment or the
leaving of private employment to
engage in government work"
Roosevelt emphasized this wage
cutting principle further, THE prof.
ects undertaken should be selected
and planned so as to compete as
little as possible with private enter
prises."
Roosevelt has been making use of
the low and decreasing wage on
work relief in order to lower the
whole wage standard of the workers.
The work relief wage set by the
Roosevelt government was previously
the magnificent sum of 80 cents
an hour. A full week was not
worked in most cases. But Roose-
welt considered that this starvation
wage competed" with private in
dustry So his relief director, Harry
Hopkins announced on Nov %
1884 that the thirty cents an hour
minimum on work relief was aban-
doned, and no minimum would be
set.
Since that time the work relief
wage in the South has been cut in
half in many cases and drastically
reduced in other sections of the
country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
.Flexibiiltyo and yearly Wage

"FleXibiilty" and yearly" Wage
Roosevelt has attempted to force
further wage cuts on the workers
in the reorganized MIRA. by putting
forth the idea of a flexible" wage
in the reorganized codes, and prop
agandizing that lower wage scale
would increase yearly average wages.
President Roosevelt said in one
speech, ut is not very useful to pay
a man ten dollars day If ne is en-
ployed only sixty five days a year.
New York World Telegram editorial
Jan. 49,
OF course, the plan is to reduce
the wage scale under cover of this
propaganda, and thus reduce the
whole living standard of the work
ers and increase profits. The yearly
average will be lowered and not
raised
The intention of Roosevelt to re-
duce wages was further seen in the
statement of Ickes, secretary of in
terror, that building trades workers
who are employed on P.W.A. works
must work below the union scale
Ickes said, "Conceivably we can
make an agreement with labor sc
that we can pay lower rates and
offer year round work" CNew York
Times, Nov. %, 1934)
This wage cutting proposal wa
made to the A. F. Of l.. leaders anc
William Green responded that il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
NC. Recruits Faint
On Drill Floor
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-A few nights ago,
when a detail of about forty recruits
was being drilled by Lieutenant
McQueeney in the toilet room of the
165th Regiment Armory at 26th
Street and Lexington Avenue, three
young recruits tainted, apparently
from malnutrition and had to be
taken from the ranks.
The first young worker showed
symptoms of fainting and was taken
aside shortly after his detail was
moved from the gym hall to the
toilet room which was the only
space available as the main hall
was being used as a tennis court by
some idle rich.
Shortly afterwards, the second
young worker showed signs of weak
ening and was placed with the first
victim who had already made two
unsuccessful attempts to rejoin his
detail.
At about ten o'clock the third
young worker fell, face downwardS,
and was carried off, to add one
more to the list of casualties for the
night. All were attended by what
appeared to be the regimental doc
tor. All three appeared to your
correspondent to be under age.
The Lieutenant made the remark
to one of the victims, but meant for
all of us, that he should eat before
coming on the drill floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07

that they are the aver
age wage, including the highest paid
workers, and that the bureau of La
Dor Statistics is interested in max
ing out case in favor of the NR.A.
These figures show that in most
of the main industries, not only
have the real wages las shown in
a previous article) declined in all
industries at least 3.2 per cent by
admission of government figures,
BUT THAT THE AVERAGE
WEEKLY WAGES IN DOLLARS
HAVE GONE DOWN UNDER n.
r. A. IN MANY BASIC INDUS
TRIES.
In the auto, boot and shoe, to-
bacco, iron and steel, wooden tex
tile, rubber tire, and many other
industries, the average wage in
dollars has declined. Add to this
the fact that the cost of living
has gone up by the admission of
government figures, lib per cent
for clothing and 1873 per cent for
food, and the condition of the
workers under N. r. A. can be
pictured.
The MIRA. publicity department
as well as the Department of Labor
tries to cover up these figures by
ballyhooing the slight increase il
HOURLY rates under N. r. A. But
this increase in hourly rates is more
than wiped out in the above indus
tries when it is remembered thai
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
5 Montana Farmers
jailed in Penny Sale

BRENTWOOD, Montana, Feb. g..
Five farmers and worker were
arrested at Westby, near here, by
U. s. Deputy Marshals on charges
growing out of penny sale" held
by 900 farmers in September to stop
a foreclosure proceeding against
Victor Nelson, young farmer.
The defendants, Victor Nelson,
Alfred HELM, E. G. Ferguson, Elmer
Bodin, Carl Christofferson, Westby
farmers, and Simon Swanson,
Plentywood worker, are to appear
before Federal Judge Miller, Fed.
eral Court, Minot, N. D.
The defense for all seven is being
arranged by the International La
Dor Defense. A United Front De-
Tense Council, composed of the
United Farmers League, the Farm
ers Holiday Association, the Farmer
Labor Unemployed Council of Di-
vide County, N. D., and the Farmer
Labor Council of Williams County
has been formed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07

would be given flair consideration.
The N.R.A., in its statement giving
the basis for the hearings now going
on in Washington regarding reor-
ganization of the N.R.A., limited at
these coming wage cuts. The Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Board
statement this month declared that
the wage differentials, which makes
particularly Negroes work for less
pay, ARE to be treated as signifi-
cant realities of the present situa-
ton"
In other words, it has already
been decided to maintain the diff
ferential and thus assure the manu-
facturers of supply of cheap labor
The N.IR.B. further declared that
greater simplicity, flexibility and
uniformity are possible and desir-
able" ia the new codes. This fIexi-
bility means that new wage cuts will
be enforced.
The Roosevelt government, in re-
organizing the MIRA. while reject
ing the thirty hour week with full
pay, intends to revise the codes SO
as to decrease wages still further.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
National Manufacturers Association,
in their White Sulphur Springs
conference, ordered wage cut drive
Roosevelt is now putting through
this wage slashing drive for the
employers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
By a worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; think that I am
speaking for the overwhelming ma
iority of the members Of the Altera-
ton Painters Union, if not for all
Of them, when I say that when I
heard about the plans Of our union
to unite the members of our organi-
zation and the Brotherhood under
one banner, I felt really enthusiastic
and encouraged.
OF course, it is true that at first
some of the members of the AP.U.
got up and hotly resisted this pro-
posal, especially the old time for
mer members of the Brotherhood
They gave as their objections the
main reasons they had for originally
leaving the A. F. Of L. They hated
the system of corruption and favor
itism, they disliked the lack of trade
union democracy, and they were Bit
ter about the high dues and assess
ments, but most of all they cursed,
yes actually cursed, the policy Of the
Brotherhood, whereby their living
conditions had gotten so rotten. And
there certainly were some hot dis
cussions in the locals.
But as always happens, when the
raw and backward workers are
shown the real correct thing, they
follow it. The members Of the union
who had been most active, who were
really sincere about organizing the
trade and who understood the po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Mortgage Foreclosures
On the Increase
By a Worker Correspondent

BRISTOL, S. D-The increased
need of more active farmers and
workers organizations is shown by
the renewal of mass mortgage fore
closures here in Day County. South
Dakota.
Because of the farmers using
mass action in stopping mortgage
foreclosures, our county papers have
carried but few of these ads for the
past several months, until the last
few weeks, when they increased to
around fifteen and seventeen in one
paper alone, besides those carried
in other papers.
This along with the large number
of farmers and lesser number of
workers because they are more &C
tive in fighting for relief that are
being laid off relief work here, shows
the burning need of us farmers and
workers taking a more active part
in building rank and file controlled
organization, and putting more push
behind the Farmers Emergency Re
lief Bill CHR. 3471 and the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill
CHR. 282D. To do this we must
more generously support our. press
and give it wider circulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
BY a Worker Correspondent

COLUMBUS, Ohio - For many
years the Columbus Chamber of
Commerce has pushed Civic Cen
ter" on the banks of the Scioto. The
center now includes the State ONCE
Building Central High School, a
new Federal Building, the City Hall,
and a jail with an artistic exterior.
The first addition to this imposing
group will be a naval armory.
The City Council recently decided
site on the north bank of the
Scioto as a location for the armory.
The construction of a naval armory
at this time is, of course, in step
with the growth of American fas-
cism.
AS in other cities, the river banks
in Columbus have been nests of
tenementS and dilapidated homes,
the most poverty stricken section in
the community. The realtors purge
drove south on Front Street, and
up the side streets. Disgraceful
dwelling places have been RACED, but
the workers who, lived in them have
found others just as bad. At the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07

the yearly average of hours worked
per week declined from 49.4 in 1929
to 1854 in 1888 and to "a in October,
1884. Figures of National Indus
trial Conference Board.)
Some idea of the tremendous
speed-up inaugurated under N. R.
A. can be obtained from the fol-
lowing statement of William Green
biased on government figuresO For
every 100 units of product turned
out by an average factory worker in
1919, Ill are turned out today in the
same amount of time"
1t is no wonder that while the real
wages of the workers declined and
unemployment increased (see ar
ticle u, that profits went up one
thousand per cent in 1888 and 111
per cent in 1884 over 1888, making
$43O,500,000 profit for 290 big cor
porations in 1884.
New Wage Cuts Planned
Now that Roosevelt is reorganiz-
ing the MIRA, a new wage cut
drive has been launched. Already
the wage cutting principle of the
bill Roosevelt is preparing for Con-
gress, to reorganize the MIRA, has
been made clear.
The intention to cut wages fur
ther in the recognized MIRA. was
made clear by Roosevelt in his mes.
sage to Congress on Jan. 4. Rooso-
welt said, "Conreneation on ener-
gency public projects should b,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Armour Pays Girls
Below Code
BY a Worker Correspondent

WICHITA FALLS. Tex-I am
writing this article at the request
Of a girl who works in the Armour
CreamerieS. This young woman has
begun to see that only through or
ganization will the workers be able
to obtain any improvement in wages
and conditions.
Maybe one of those papers you
are always showing around will print
a piece about the place where
work" she said to me. Certainly
something should be said about this
place which counts dead chickens to
be of more Importance than living
human beings.
One hundred and fifty women
and girls and a few men pick and
clean the chickens for Armour
creameries. Their bodies are smeared
with blood and offal from the dead
birds. These workers pick shackle
of four chickens clean for nine cents.
If you leave a few pin feathers you
must go over it on your own time.
1t is hard for a fast picker to earn
over a dollar a day; and then you
may find that the foreman has fig
ured something out of your pay
envelope at the end of the week.
The chicken code provides a mini
mum of two and half cents for
each fowl picked. But the MIRA.
is a pal of Armour and Company, so
these Wichita Falls workers are
cheated out of a penny on each
shackle.
IF you women don't like It," the
manager bawls, there are plenty of
Mexicans and Negroes who will be
glad to take the job for less than
what we are paying you" Here is a
good example where the bosses use
the question of race to keep down
the wages of the workers of all races.
The rest rooms provided by Ar
mour are filthy, being nothing but
dark and unsanitary puryeyors OF
disease. When a worker has occasion
to go to the rest ROOM she is told by
the foreman to make 1t snappy."
The women must clean up the rest
room on their own time.
There IS no provision for compen-
sating injured workers. If knife
slips and cuts a hand to the bone,
the worker receives a smear of
iodine instead of cash for lost time.
What does Armour care about one
working woman more or less?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Armory, Jail, School and Offices
Comprise Civic Center in Columbus

center Of Columbus, however, the
tourist now will see nothing insult
ing.
The naval armory will make the
Columbus Civic Center a complete
monument to capitalist democracy
a navy armory, Office buildings, a
Jail and school. Beside these, the
observer may stand on West Broad
Street bridge and see to the north
the filthy gray walls of Ohio's over
crowded penitentiary. The Civic
Center must certainly crafty the
heart of every Columbus citizen who,
like Candide, feels this the best of
all possible worlds.
Public works are supposed to pro-
vide work for the poor, one more
system of outdoor relief. The City
Hall, an important part of the CEN
ter, will have a new wing soon, a
P.WA. job. At least one of the COM
panies under contract for a part of
the job, working presumably under
NR.A. conditions, pays its workers
less than code wages. One can
reasonably expect similar arrange
ments for the construction on the
armory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Sl.8O Relief for
Family of Five
By a Worker Correspondent

JOPLIN, Mo. A certain family
were without groceries or fuel. The
man went to the Welfare to get
both, but they said they would have
to send an investigator first.
1t was several days before she
came out, and when she did she
gave them an order for groceries
at $l.S8. On this a family of five
was supposed to live for a week
They had three school children in
the family, too.
The family was allowed only one
half a ton of coal for the month,
and if they ran out they were sup
posed to freeze for the rest of the
month.
The investigator was asked how a
family of five could live on that
and fix lunches for the children.
She said that she did not expect
them to. They were just helping
them along This is in a land of
plenty. Workers, organize rank and
file organizations everywhere against
such conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Alteration Painter Halls
Proposal To Merge Unions

liticaI Importance of going into the
Brotherhood at this time, finally
convinced those Of us who had hest
tated at first and we're skeptical.
One of the best arguments these
leaders advanced-and particularly
the Communists who seemed from
the very beginning to see this very
clearIy-was that the bosses were
trying. and very often successfully
to use one union against the other,
at the expense Of the workers. For
they showed us that conditions in
either one of the unions could not
be maintained when the other did
not also maintain conditions. And
we also saw that the great mass of
unorganized were a constant threat
to the organized workers, unless we
made it our business to organize
them also. But since the A. F. of l..
was always trying to destroy us and
we were always trying to maintain
ourselves, this fight between us was
leading the unorgsnized to become
disguised with both unions and to
resist organization in either.
Today, I feel that the sooner we
all get together into one big union
and turn our attention to fighting
the bosses and those who work with
them, for better conditions and the
maintenance of them, all the work
erS will be better off.
General membership meeting Fri
day, Feb. 9Th, Stuyvesant Casino, 8
pm. Bring your union book.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
JObless Council Member
Dies of MaInutrition
BY a Worker Correspondent

AMBRIDGE, Pa.-Paul Wukelich,
member of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil and the John Reed Branch of
the International Labor Defense in
Ambridge, died a week ago in the
Monaco Hospital.
Comrade Wukelich had been ill
several weeks, having been sent
home from an RW.D. project. His
regular doctor refused to see him
in his home, stating that he was
well enough to come to the Office
to see him.
The case was criminally neglected
by the relief authorities as well. 1t
was only through the militant eff
forts of the Unemployed Council
that another doctor was arranged
for and the relief authorities forced
to take him to the hospital.
Upon the death of the comrade,
hospital officials said that if the pa
tient would have been brought there
a bit sooner his life would have
been saved. The doctor that was
brought into the case analysed it
as a case of malnutrition and i'm
proper living conditions.
A case like this should steel the
workers to more determination in
building the Unemployed Council,
which through mass action and
militant struggle fights for more
relief, medical attention and decent
living conditions for the unem-
ployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
New England Legion
Bill Is Oppose

CONCORD, N. H, Feb. 5.-Mrs.
Elba Chase, prominent New Hamp-
shire Communist, and the Commu-
mist Party's candidate for Governor
in the last election, led q strong OPP
position against the fascist forces of
New Hampshire at q public hearing
before the Judiciary Committee of
the House of representatives here.
The occasion was the public hear
ing on a bill entered under the
sponsorship of tn American Legion
denying the right of place on New
Hampshire election ballots of "any
party which advocates the over
throw by force or violence, or which
advocates or carries on a program
of sedition or of treason by radio,
speech or press, of our local, state,
or national government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Describes Robbery
Of SharecrOppers
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-Tn a recent issue of
the Daily Worker, I read an article
by a sharecropper correspondent
from Chambers County, Ala, des-
cribing the condition of the poor
laboring people in that area who
work all year round, at the end of
which these impoverished share
choppers owe the landlord more than
they have made.
I used to live in Bolivar County,
Miss, and the same conditions pre-
vail there. I was employed by
commissary on an estate which had
200 acres in cultivation, including
for the most part cotton, little
corn and alfalfa.
The Negroes were given dilapidat-
ed shacks of two and three rooms to
live in for families ranging from
three to twelve without anything in
the way Of sanitation or even run
ming water or lights. We used to
overcharge them for everything they
purchased Good, clothing, furni-
ture, etc.. All of this was charged
against their account.
We sold the cotton and told them
that we could not sell it at all, OF
that we got very little for it. We also
loaned them money on any vaIu-
sbles they left with us and charged
them interest ranging from so to
100 per cent, which they never could
pay, and after having paid us many
times the value of the article they
had to leave it with us. Then we
sold the valuable to somebody else
I haven't the patience to write
otherwise I could tell you Of hun
dreds of cruelties and swindles
which we inflicted on these poor
people.