The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 4

‘ eo 7A Oo he at a eeewemwers Page Four = Speed WAGES $7512 PER WEEK IN IRVING MILLS Must Organize to Fight Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail). From time to time we read of “pr perity” under this Coolidge govern- ment. Right here in this republi- tan stronghold, which is ruled and ominated by those henchmen of the bosses, the McClures, who have ruled by every high handed meth- od of corruption, there exists some of the worst industrial conditions endured by any workers, Of late many extreme ¢: of suffering have been caused by the speed-up System and the lack of adequate protection from dangerous machin- ery. | Speed-Up Maims Child. One case is that of Anna Bel- mont, 15-year-old worker wh® was employed at the Irving Woosted Mills. While following the work as- Signed to her, that of a doffer, she was later compelled to operate a spinning machine. While so doing, her finger was amputated, due to defective machinery, inexperiénce at this job, and the speed-up system in the Irving mill. The machine she was working on had no guards around it to protect the worker from being injured. The girl was compelled to wait one hour before the bosses had her tak- en to the hospital, and anyone who has suffered much less pain will un- derstand how this child suffered un- til the company was pleased to ease her suffering. There is a law in Pennsylvania, according to which child labor is prohibited, but the law does not prevent it. The employment agent, Mi Ford, told the girl on the second day| after the accident that she would be able to come to work the next day. In addition, this lackey of the com- pany wanted the child worker to/ sign papers which offered $7 @ week for 14 weeks. School Day, Deduct From Wages. The wages of this girl for a full week were $7.50 yet when she went in C. to know the truth of the |base of the foundation on which it | n is built. _ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 ester Tex Will Fly to Fascist Capital — It is hardly likely | that Mussolini will | throw the two gentleman shown! have into one of his torture holes or tond them up in| front of a firing | squad. are | Roger Q. liams, on. the, left, .and Pierre Bonelli, on the right, who are making a trans-At- lantic flight in their plane Columbia, | with their destina- tion rumored to be Rome. | | | | Soviet Workers Want to 4 __ Hear from U. S. Comrades GIRLS SLAVE FOR WEALTHY Y.W.CA, 862 a Month for 11- The Daily Worker has receiv the following letter, which is of in- terest to all workers: “To the Hditors of Worker: “Dear Comrades: “The workers of the Soviet Union are watching with great interest your heroic struggle to liberate the Hour Day working class from exploitation and Sse ies enslavement. ‘The workers of ‘Tula,’ (By a Worker Correspondent) the ‘Red blacksmith shop’ of the OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail).—| U.S. S. R., are very much interested Many people have been fooled into | 0 know the conditions under which thinking that the Young Women’s! yout workers, our class brothers, Christian Association is a wonderful | 8T€ working. We want to establish institution for the benefit of girls @ more intimate contact between the| and women, especially of the work-| Workers of the two countties thru ing class. T may be true for|Tetular messages between the work- girls whose position enables them to/ €rs’ correspondents of the U. S. 8.| enjoy a soeial life above that of the) R. and the United States. working girl. For these gitls the} “The editorial staff of the Tulal Y. W. C. A. is a pleasant home, but newspaper, ‘Cortmunat’ thinks that| organiza-| it is exceedingly necessary and val-| et at the uable to establish this kind of con-| ection and organize the publication| of corréspondences of your workers’ | Exploit Women Workers. correspondents in our newspaper, The wealthy women who make up 894 those of our workers’ corre- the board of directors in each city “Pondents in your newspaper. are among the greatest exploiters This, in our opinion, will aid in| of labor. Their one object is to get maintaining brotherly connections} the hard and menial work done for | between the workers of the U. S. S.| the lowest wage, and with the least R. and the U. S. A. and eliminate| number of workers possible, which the lies and insinuations about the means long hours for th se on the Soviet Union, which our class en- the Daily | | tion it is necessary to g tile Mills Maims T FOR MEMBERS IN JUNIOR BRANCH Distribute Propaganda in Sunday Schools. | i (By a Worker Correspondent) The Ku Klux Klan is with us | again. It has initiated a campaign! to secure members for its “junior branch,” among Sunday school chil-| dren. An instance of this was furnished | | by a young boy who said he was ap- preached by his Sunday school teach- |er in the Baptist Temple, Third Ave. and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn,| | and an application blank and propa-| ganda leaflet were given him. The| namé of the teacher is withheld be-| cause it would help to identify the) | boy. Boy “Sounded Out.” The child relates that he was one) of a few selected by the teacher as| | promising material for a “Knights | of the Ku Klux Klan,” and after be- |ing “sounded out,” was presented | with two documents. The first reads | as follows: “HONOR IS THE CROWNING) VIRTUE OF AMERICAN MAN- HOOD.” “Your friends state you are a na-| tive-born American, having the best interests of your community, city,) state and nation at héart, owing no) allegiance to any foreign govern-| ment, sect, creed or ruler, and be-| lieve in: | “White supremacy. “The tenets of the Christian re- ligion. “Protection of our pure woman- hood. “The upholding of the constitution of the United States. “Just laws and liberty. state. “Freedom of speech, press and peaceful assembly. “Closer relationship between capi- tal and Amerigan labor. “Preventing the causes~of mob violence and lynchings. “Preventing unwarranted strikes “Closer relationship of pure Americanism. “The separation of church andj} Workers, Herded Like Cattle, Worker Sa s IN “NIGHT HOSTESS” Ruth Lyons, who plays one of the principal roles in “Night Hostess,” Philip Dunning’s interesting and en- tertaining play of Broadway night life, at the Martin Beck Theatre. COLO, WORKERS SCORE TERROR Relative of Pershing Shows Up Legion (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo., (By Mail).—A meeting to protest the attempted kidnaping of Benjamin Gitlow, Vice- Presidential Candidate of the Work- ers (Communist) Party was held |here Oct. 18. The meeting was a suc-\20d John Hunter Booth. |eess and a committee of three were |elected to draw up a resolution of | protest to be sent to the governor of | | Arizona and Texas. John Harvey Steele, an ex-member of the Ku Klux Klan ably discussed the terroristic of that organization from its date of organization to the | present time. Steele pointed out that | the organization claims that it has achieved the apex of civilization and| |that no order can go higher. The |lynchings and murders of the Klan | including the rape of a stenographer |by a Klain official in Indiana and) numerous other outrages committed by the Kluxers were exposed. Appeals For Prisoners. New Davis Play, “Tonight at\RESTAURANT 12” Opens at Windsor Theatre GIRLS SLAVE . Beam! “Tonight at 12,” Owen Davis’ new |43 COMRADES AND 1 if HOURS DAY I EK |drama, Herman Shumlin’s second VENTION” IN FINAL WE production of the season, is playing | AT CAMEO. |at the Windsor Theatre this week. nego gis aie |The cast is headed by Anne Shoe-| rea a oo rig ere oad maker, Florence Rittenhouse, Owen | Comedy “stsheap lend: | + Davis, Jr, Moffat Johnson and! ton,” Mp ie awit program | Must Work in Dance ici . ‘it «| being presented at the Cameo The-| Ee aici fe ait vomelatré is now in its third and final) Halls After Hours 53 " _ | Week. fey, Netcae naa bie cies i | Described as naive and simple in (By a Worker Correspondent) ee 7 oe 8 its methods with traces of “slap- cata oa Vans sida «“ s 3? ie. Li | Stick,” this first Soviet comédy am working in a restaurant here in Vine ae seedeene by | bBetts to exért a hilatious influence | Oakland where about 25 waitresses Mark Linder, will not reach Broad-|0Ver its audiences-and it is particu-| are employed. Conditions are bad. way before November 12. The pro-|!@tly interesting for the array of |The girls have to stand for a ter- duction is now at the Bronx Opera | Hovel-charactar-types as well as pro-/ Tible speed-up system, and have to House, and plays Werba’s Brooklyn |Viding a glimpse into some of the | punch the time clock 4 times @ day. Theatr ee eee | present-day Soviet life im the U. S.| Wages are from $12 to $16 a week. (eee Wako ial 1S. Bs They must come to work spot- i i s ms sly clean, and have to send our iret « the|. The companion feature, “A Shang- | lessly , Rua cuits Gnas ee al Document,” also a Sovkino pro- | clothes to the laundry very often, the musical show at Hamierstein’s |uction, is important for its pene-| which takes away most of the money |Theatte, replacing Barbara Newber-|ttating revelations of the different) we earn. Some of the girls, after lry who will be in Mr, Hammerstein’s Strata of native life in this unique finishing in the restaurant, have to forthcoming produetion “Polly.” | Chinese metropolis and also the con-| wotk 8 or 4 hours in the 10-cent Rt PRR cee cross-currents of the foreign [gance Lae He si ae eae hive 4 ¢ | residents’ existence, It is highly in-|ing. In the kitchen, Philippin Manahan wpite Megsmore Kendnit|teresting beeatise some of its strik-| work fiom 9'to 10 hours a day for land Gilbert Miller have in rehearsal, |iM@ sequences were taken when $16 @ week. One day off every " \will be known as “The Sacred|Shanghai was changing hands dur-|days is all we get. Conditions in | Flame.” ing the recent uprisings. Completing | Oakland in the food industry ate the program is a Russiart News Reel | very bad. They will always be ‘bad until the workers organize for bet- | ter conditions. —GUST. VANTJAS. * . | John Henry Mears first produc-| Just released from Moscow. tion this season will be a new play} by Herbert Ashton, Jr., titled | “Brothers,” itt which he will star| | Bert Lytell. se FRENCH SCULPTOR DEAD. PARIS, Oct. 31 (U.P)—Paul Al- = ey bert Battholme, 80, painter, sculp- CHAMBERLIN, page ‘ tor and honorary president of the) PARIS, Oct. 31 .P).—Clarence E ieee pa bie pita er ster National Society of Beaux Arts, died | Chamberlin arrived here today from ane Lad Leven” a modeca comet | lay. | Berlin in his amphibian plane, after | lone stop-over at Coulommier, He iby Garrett Fort, Charles Beahan eases | | Complete and immediate independ-| Will proceed later to Cherbourg | énce tor the Philippines, Haiti, Porto Where he will fly out to meet the SOCIALISTS SOLD OUT DEVIL LAKE Their Rule Benefitted Bosses Only (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail). —A | | number gf years ago, “the ‘socialist’ | |administration in Devils Lake, N. |Dak., sold everything but the city Rico and the other Anieriean colonies Leviathan and return to the United and semi-colonies! ' States. ! Keith-Albee oun BIG A MEO x36 42nd Street and Broadway Ry Populor Demand Best Film Show | In Town | THE FURST SOVIET COMEDY _ “Three Comrades to school one day a week, $2.50 was : supposed to be an 8-hour day law eed aon her ag 4a a for women, the cooks, waitresses, . The working conditions in this| chambortide wed oes 9° mill are deplorable. There is no i ee general cleaning of halls, lavatories, ete., work from 9 to 11 hours a day in the Y. W. C. A. The minimum wage for women, workers in this state is supposed to be $16 per week by law. These wom- en in the Y. W. C. A. receive $62 per month. The waitresses are al- lowed $65 a month provided that they launder their own aprons. And i + | Of course the girls must always ap-| the goods they handle, their thin | pear spotlessly clean. a stooped over the machines for an Se ' a en hours daily. With all these con-| 4 dReartedness—Who Pay ad ditions, the average wage is but $7|heartedness of ta ¥. WC. A a ts It is high time the exploited work. | Semting to then & cake on their ag AE Teving ails formed a Ditthdays. Probably the cook has / : : ' to stay a couple of hours overtime The tenet, Sesinst their exploiters.) +> make it, but that is considered in| ers in every mill in Chester should) ‘he bargain and if the cook were to Sas nat the inhathal tactics “of ask for overtime pay ghe would be ta aay Organize to fight your Teminded there were plenty of cooks RE ccckcss ol Chester ae waiting for a job in the Women’s fiust ‘realize that the only protes.|2™Ployment Office. I saw two girls “tion is in the form of a militant tex- | ‘@Ken sick while working hard, and tile union with every worker a mem, | When they tried to explain that the ber. For information regarding real | C@Use Was from overwork they were ways of fighting for better sondi.| tld that this was not the reason. aia come a Li West 3rd St, |.. The Workers each get one day off » onl are © \ in 7, but instead of the Y. W. C. A. Fe ladle Oearsetece Will employing an extra girl, the other leis more wages, at Hettes pers workers are forced to do the extra ditions. Join the National Textile "°F besides their own work. Workers’ Union. Oe eR | aces eee HERE'S ANEW Sorceress BOSSES’ RACKET much less wages, and can be worked 16 to 18 hours a day if necessary. Workers Are Forced to Give to Hospital The old men are also forced to do soap, no towels, the ¥irl workers must furnish their own aprons. The taén’s toilets and the women’s toilets are right next to each other; no such thing as privacy. The women and girls have to change their clothes behind the machines they work on. The textile workers, many of them mere children, are herded together “like cattle, breathing the foul stench job. In California, where there is emies are spreading. We consider it very important to receive com- munications from your workers’ correspondents in which the follow- ing questions would be discussed: “1, Conditions of work in your industry, such as wages, hours, | etc. “2. Practise of rationalization, its influence on wages, unerploy- | ment, etc. “3. The work of the trade unions, how are they defending the | interests of the workers; do they | protest large scale discharging of | workers, etc. “4. How are conflicts between labor and capital settled. “5. Forms of insurance of the | workers in case of sickness and old age. “6. What benefits do the unem- ployed get. “We have only pointed out some main questions and will be very glad/ affiliations, and signature, it has| attempt to hold back the rising tide place below. to hear from our class bfothers any-| #bove, a paragraph reading as fol-| of working class revolt and prohibit) sort happened, thing that would enlighten. us on your conditions of work and of life, economic and legal conditions. “Address all the messages from your workers to our publication and we will address our messages to your publication. “We consider it necessary to in- form you that most of the readers of our newspaper are workers in large factoties of attisans. We have here large metallurgical factories, | | employing 40,000 workers, some coal) mines employing 7,000 workers, and 30,000 artisans, 35 per cént of whom are in cooperatives. “Our newspaper ‘Communar’ has 21,000 readers and is a daily paper. “Editorial Staff, ‘Communar.’” We heartily urge workers to co- operate with us in starting an in- teresting foreign correspondence. It can be made into one of the most in- teresting features of the Daily Worker with the cooperation of our readers. Address your correspond- “©, } | gration, by foreign agitators. | Wm. Deitrich, Secretary of the! hall,” was the statement made to the “Prevention of fires and destrue-) Workers (Communist) Party of Dis-| Writer this ‘morning by a man éon- tion of property by the lawless ele- trict 10, appealed to the workers|nected with the motion picture in- ment. |present to give liberally to the de-| dustry as a “prosperous” éxtra. If “The prevention of foreign irimi-|fense of the Kansas workers who | his name was mentioned his part- jare awaiting trial as Criminal Syn-|time job would be almost as value- “Much needed local reform. \dicalists. The attempt to kidnap|less to him as “socialist” promises “The strict enforcement of ali) Gitlow and the events preceeding the are worthless to the working ¢lass. | laws. attempt were explained by Comrade| S. P. Rule Benefited Bosses Only. “Boys whose honor and character Deitrich to an énthusiastic atidience.| Anyhow, E. B. Cutlit, an indus- are above reproach are needed. Upon| George Pershing, a relative of| trial king, was the republican boss these beliefs and the recommenda-| General John J. Pershing, discussed) of the community. Conditions were an opportunity of becoming a mem. Fascisti organizations in the Unitéd|“dear people” great, and the com- ber of the most powerful secret or-| States including in ,his talk the| mission form of government, “revo. ganization in existence for the youth Minute Men, Organizations of /lutionary” measure advocated by of America, For God and Country, Deputy Sheriffs, Labor Fakers and | yellow socialists, was voted on and Father and Mother.” | Yanks of the World. The latter be-| adopted. The so-called socialist ad- The application for membership|ing @ new organization in Denver, ministration, elected at the time, is entitled, “Application For Mem-| Colorado, that was formde by a split/ swore to make a tramp out of Mr. bership, Junior Ku Klux Klan,” and) 5f the local American Legion of this| Curlin and to run the republican | besides containing spaces for name,|City. Pershing branded these fas-| grafters into the lake (named after \address, occupation, Sunday school,,isti, super-patriotic organizations the devil, I suppose) in order to |parents’ names, parents’ religious] as the willing dupes of Wall Street’s| cool off batofe Re a picerd ut nothing of that according to my in- | lows: “I wish to state, on my honor,|the Workers (Communist) Party| former, who used to be a store- |that I am a_ native-born, white|from bringing its. message to the keeper in Devils Lake. |protestant, gentile, American boy) Workers in the Southern states, Out. of the 9 commissioners elect- and that I believe in the tenets of| Exposes Legion. ed, 8 had farms and were heavily and principles of the Knights of the) Comrade Pershing quoted at/in debt. The “people’s business” Ku Klux Klan, and that if elected to/ length the facts of the fascist Amer-| went from bad to worse, the movie membership I will strive to so livejican Legionairs. He said: “There| extra said, and the change of forms that my life will be an example to|are approximately 1,000,000 mem-}and personnel of the government did | Americans everywhere; further-| bers in the American Legion today, | not seem to benefit anybody at all— | more that my parents and guardians) but there are 4,000,000 more of the except the city fathers, who, in spite have consented to this application.”| American Expeditionary Forces who of their known poverty 6n election Lindbergh Belongs. lare eligbile for membership. Where|day, a few months later were rid- The lad reports that he was told | are they? Why are they not in the| ing around in ‘expensive automobiles that Lindbergh is a member of the! legion? They are workers who will and smoking high class cigars, he Klan and that all boys who signed] have nothing to do with an organi-| declared. |up would be introduced to Dazzy | zation eae ed ag hiraes i| Lost Faith in S. P. Reformers. | Vance, star pitcher of the Brooklyn) year” profitters of the last world) 4 i | Nationals, who was descrjbed as in| Slaughter.” iat Tee The ste sympathy with the movement. Comrade Aubrey Lewis, Chairman stated that the commissioners’ mort- The Klan is determined in its fight of the meeting, read extracts from) gages had been paid shortly after against the working class—the the Declaration of Independence and the “drowning” Of the ie italist Negro, Catholic, Jew and foreign-| the Constitution of the United States) bosses, Sor finally, the Mentehee® born, to utilize any means by which) and explained that he was one of the| government. of Devils Lake also their aims can be accomplished. 4,000,000 eligible members of the went to the devil—after nearly all | This is theif latest stunt. | American Legion who was a revolu- tions of your friends, you are given the American Legion and the other rotten, dissatisfaction among the the work of men of all trades, being forced to do all the repair work in the building. This saves the Y. W. C. A. from hiring plumbers, elec- tricians, carpentérs, painters, etc. Yet the Y. W. C. A. receives large amounts each year from the Com- munity Chest, besides charging the girls who lodge there the usual surit:| (By a Worker Correspondent) After the Salvation Army had fired me for collecting funds for miners’ relief, I packed my kiester and hit the trail looking for work and didn’t strike anything till I ar- rived in Portland. There an employ- ment shark by the name of Hanley grabbed me and signed me up as a quarry laborer, for the Hauser Construction Co., at Marshfield, Ore- gom (It’s a U. S. contract.) The fare to this place is $8.30, if you haven’t got it they will advance it. The race line between Negro and ence to the Daily Worker and we white is drawn so sharply that the! will forward it to the “Communar.” Negro Y. W. C. A. girls ate forced) aj] correspondence received from (ee use read at balan where! the Tula workers will be published hey have their activities. in our newspaper. If you receive MARJORIE HUNTER: | c5ssaapondence divedtly’ we sek yon to forward it to us for publication. —EDITORS. was sent back into the tunnel, ended the twelve hour shift by lapsing right in the tunnel a to bé helped to the bunkhouse next day I. was put on a der was operated by an inexperienced man, thus endangering the lives of and a | ‘Obregon Assassin Will "s; Be Tried Next Monday Boatd and bed cost $1.50 a day. Now comrades, the shark who shipped us told us we were to work forty-eight hours a week, at fifty | cents per hour. When we arrived we were told we would have to work|and kept on working. the wotkers. I refused to work with an inexperienced man who was en- dangeting our lives; I also had the support of one other worker; rest were 100 per cent Americans I also com MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31 UR—| Selection of a jury of nine persons from a panel of 30 for the trial of perior Concepcion for the murder of General Alvaro Obregon, will | tionary American and not a witin-| Sap Gch OF Roca ER ne 200 Workers, Opposed | | by Fake Union, Form | Clothiers Cooperative “We are glad to join the growing co-operative auxiliary to the Red| forces of America.” With this an- nouncement, Workers Co-operative Clothiers, Inc., 872 Broadway, make themselves known as the latest of the proletarian co-operatives in New| York. i According to John Biazzo, presi- | dent of the new organization, more \than 200 workers—members of the the | #ose De Leon Toral and Mother Su-|co-operative—are enrolled and ef-| \forts are being made to secure ad- | ‘ditional members. The enterprise is| four hours overtime each day, in-| plained of still being sick so they 5t@rt tomorrow, Prosecutor ‘Nieto affiliated with the National Co-op- eluding Sundays, at straight time. | put me laying tracks. on We were also told we must pay $1.50| was discharged. When they paid) @ month to the National Hospital| me off I found that they had taken| Association of Portland, Oregon, and out $1.50 from my pay for the Na-| if we should get hurt or fall sick | tional Hospital Association although this same hospital association would I had only worked 51 hours. Still take care of us sick, I asked for an order to the The straw-bosses on this job must | association’s doctor but was told! have had their training in the speed-|that I was not entitled to any bene-| up system at Henry Ford’s plant. | fits, because I was no longer in the. Due to the speed-up system, and| employ of the company. ! pro-| twelve hours’ work in a damp tun-| tested and demanded my money batk nel I contracted a bad cold. I went) but was run out of the office. I am to the office “and asked for médical | making an attethpt to ee my money aid since I was paying for it, but| back but don’t éxpéct it. Thesé con- all they gave me was three pills, not | ditions will prevail as long as the) but by the time-] *. @\merican worker is unorganized. day though very sick IF —D. W. GOODWIN. ni Niepo said the trial probably would last no longer than a week and that if Toral was condemned to, death he could either appeal to the supreme court, ask a writ of amparo or appeal to President Calles for clemency. The prosecutor pointed out that five jurymen could convict either o: the two. If the jury should sustain the defetise Contention that the as- sassination was pdliti¢al Toral can escape with life imprisotment, it was pointed out, ° rican tm: Hin aa Weeds sven Pie | announced today. The trial prob-' erative League, eastern division. At room Tl ably will begin néxt Thursday. i Comménting on the need for more | ¢o-operative ventures in New York, D. Monteleone, secretary, said: “The principle of class-conscious |co-operation is making big strides \among the workers of New York. | Proletarian apartment houses, total- ing an investment of nearly seven million dollars; co-operative grocery stores, cafeterias, shoé repair shops, summer camps, credit unions, are Some of the most fecetit develop- j ments. | Mr. Biazzo said that this new Atnal- because of the venture Was opposed by tl mated Clothing Wotker at Janion “was not in fay, { ber of the terroristic, murdering, in-| civilized horde that operated under covér of 100 percentism. The meeting was successful in all respects, Four-Day Fair Planned by Shifrin Defense in Brownsville on Noy. 15) A fair which will last four days, beginning Nov. 15, has been ar- ranged by the Shifrin Defense Coni= St., Brooklyn, N. Y. The proceeds will be used for the defense of Wil- liam Shifrin, militant worker, who successfully defended his life against |a gang of right wing thugs, and is now held.on a homicide charge. The attempt to frame Shifrin is likened by Sam Liptzen, manager of \the Shifrin defense, to the recent | Sacco and Vanzetti frame-up and | subsequent murder. “Shifrin is a class-conscious worker,” said Lipt- zin, “who has ineurred the vengeful wrath of the master class and re- actionaries, but although it is too late to Save Sacco and Vatizetti, we ean and must tihite into a powerful fuard which Will snatch Shifrin ‘rom thé bloody jaws of capitalist ‘justice.’ ” . tive method of distribution clothing field. \ in mittee to take place at 154 Watkins, J. D.-T, and others lost their faith lin the S. P., it was pointed out. In- former reading Daily Worker now. —L. P. RINDAL. Communist’ Prisoners’ in Rumania Win Rights After 14-Day Strike (By Red Aid Press Service) BUCHAREST, Rumahia, (By Mail).—The 14 days hunger strike | carried out by Stehanov and Aradi has been successful, The two have | been releaséd from the punishment jcells, the chains taken off them and the prisoners transported back again to their own éells, furthet, they will lreceive the rights of political pris- oners with an exerecise time of two hours a day. Despite these gains, the situation of the prisoners in Jilava is still ter- rible. The political prisoners have | to spend 22 hours out of the 24 in junderground cells under terribly filthy conditions. ed NEW TREATY SIGNED. BERLIN, Opt. $1 UP).—Germany and Lithuania, after more than two years of negotiation, have reached an agreément for a commercial treaty, it was learned tonight. The treaty will fix freight rates for German transit to Russia, P hrough Lithuania | and One Invention” EXTRA ADDED FEATURE— RUSSIAN NEWS REEL Direct from Moseow P |¢ivic REPERTORY 14st “& Shanghai Document” | “A Crackerjack Film” —Daily News. | THE THEATRE GUILD FAU JULLD ‘Thea. W, sena st. GUL , Given. 8:80: Mate Thursday and Saturday, 2.30 Strange Interlude John ‘Thea., 58th co DEN of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 Thea. 1th Ave, & 59th St. | JOLSON Bvs. "s.30 Mats. Wed.&Sat ODETTE DE WOLF | Guy ROBERTSON MYRTIL © HOOPER | — . tn a musical romance of Chapin ERLANGER THEA., W. 44th st, ———_menes — Evenings 830 — WHITE LILACS Mat.: Wednesdays & Saturdays, 2:2, Georgé M. Cohan's Comedians with POLLY WALKER “Byes. 8:30 | = 0c, $1.90, $1.50, Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.30 |EVA LB GALLIENNE, Director | Tonight, “Lunvitation au Voyage.” Fri. Extra Mat, @he Cherry Orchard. | Eri. Eve. “The Would-Be Gentleman, Sat. Mat. “Linvithtion au Voyage.” Sat. 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