The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WO “You Can’t SEAMEN ON OIL TANKERS SLAVE FOR $85 MONTH Like the “Daily,” Are | Commu at Heart | (By a Worker Correspondent) LES (By Mail).—The mn was given by merican nan, Pat me back from Buenos i three days ago. ing went down to Buenos Aires on the W. G. Miller, West India Oil ose captain was G That was about three iddle of the win- | that country. When he left it was spring time. | the greatest cattle | sea Argentine is country in the world, King said | Meat, hides and even bones are i from there all over the world, including: the United States No wonder that Wall Street bankers are trying hard to get rid of all yerman influence in that rich coun- try. Seamen Like “D: The conditions on said ship could have been better, King declared. Al- though King admitted that he does not know much abont Communism, he expressed the opinion that the Union will find millions of peasant: ing who are ready to give their A. F, of L. Seamen’s Unign dces not | Budge Us!” The imperialist nations who are plotting a war against the Soviet 8 like the one in the above draw- lives for the only workers’ and rt amount to a great deal, “I am in | % a favor of a union that would take in| Peasants’ republic. ali the seamen in the world,” he de 5c i as st sea- | at elared—“and I think that 1 men are really Communists keart,” he continued. “Have you ever seen the Daily Worker on any ship?” he was asked. “Yes,” he said, “in foreign waters in the last few months.” ADVENTURES OF A COMMUNIST WATCHER The drawing is by William Gropper. and outside the polls were all ready to carry out orders at a moment’s “What do th. seamen say about | (By a Worker Correspondent) it?” I wanted to know. “They like} Last Tuesday afternoon (election | it very much,” he said. day) I went down to our section | notice. I. W. W. Has No Influence. | “Has the I. W. W. any influence | among seamen?” was the next ques. | tion. “No,” he said. “Members of thet organization do not go on nips,” according to King, “thev like to keep their feet dry, on land.” He also said that when an I. W. W. ‘ occasionally hires out as a seaman he generally takes the job for less than the union scale, $62.50 per month. King had also heard that the I. W, W. “sold out” during the 1921 seamen’s strike. Being a wobblie in the past myself, I am slow tr believe such things. But [ am giving the I. W. W. a chance to headquarters to see whether I could| Some of the republican “boys” assist the committee in charge of| recognized a Tammany “repeater” the election campaign. The chair-|who was such a supporter of Smith man of the committee instructed me |that he went from one voting place to go down to one of the election to another in order to cast his vote districts in the sixth ward and act |for his favorites. as a watcher for the Workers (Com- at our place he was recognized by munist) Party. After receiving my |th¢ Hooverites who did not like the official credential I headed to the idea of him continuously voting for assigned place which happened to their opponent. He was immediate- be in one of the east side public ly attacked and received a good schools. ‘ beating and if the police had not Arriving at the place the first saved him I would probably have thing I noticed was the suspicious had to appear as witness in a mur- looking characters hanging around der trial. One also could see how inside and outside the polls, I whispering deals were made with walked inside and started to inquire voters openly. Not only were hagd- for the chairman of the election |fulls of cigars passed out and vot- When he arrived , explain matters |board. I was approached by a broad $40 A Month. shouldered “gentleman” with a big “Seamen are getting $85 per cigar in his mouth who was very month in Argentine,” he said, “com-|much interested to know who I was pared with $62.50 on American and whom I represented. ships. Seamen's wages in the United | _A G. 0. P. Ward Heeler. States are even as low as $40 a| I kindly informed him that I had month,” King said. The Dollar |only business with the chairman of | Steamship Compeny of San Francis-|the board and that I couldn’t see eo is using Chinese crews, paying the reason why he was taking such the men next to nothing, King de-|a keen interest in me. He got more clared. After staying 11 weeks in Buenos Aires he had to leave the country, King said, because he did not have the necessary papers with him. He} as the required documents now— with his picture, fingerprints and all on them. San Pedro, Cal., as a passenger by the U. S. consul in Buenos Aires But it is next to impossible to get a jobyon this coast now, King said And last winter the Pacific coast was the “worst place in the world” to obtain jobs for seamen, he de- clared. What about it Mr. Furu- seth of the A. F. of L.? King said that it is easier to get jobs in Ar- gentine than it is in the United States, especially if you know the language, Standard Breaks Agreement. King also was in China this year. Going up the Yangtze river on the Standard oil tanker Acme, the Chi-| nese fired upon the ship—because | somebody violated the regulations | and went into the war zone, King stated. The crew signed up with a U. S. com ioner, and the under- standing was that the.ship would not go into the war zone, he de-| clared. Some of the boys wanted to start a suit against the U. S. shipping board, but others got “cold | feet.” King thinks he has a good case against somebcdy, anyhow. King slept in my room last night. | Talked Communis: Had breakfast | | together. Handed him 6 copies of “the Daily Worker, snd he went on a cross country trip for New York City. Promised to write to and visit the office of the “Daily” be- fore he takes a ship back to Buenos Aires, “the Pacifie of the South L: P, RINDAL Rockefeller Donates Half Million to Aid Jewish USSR Colonies (By United Press.) John D. Rockefeller, jr., has con- tributed $500,000 to a fund being raised in this country for the de- velopment of Jewish farm ments in Russia. Rockefeller said the work, which began in 1922 and which has enabled more than 100,- 00 persons to settle on land in the Ukraine and Crimea, had impressed him as “a notable and creative ex- ample of social engineering.” settle. UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 13 The Federal Employment Service has just reported that unemploy- "ment in this state has made enorm- ous advances during the past month. There is a great excess of labor *hroughout California. Every city He was sent back to |? , | stein. suspicious of me and asked- whether I was a socialist or a Communist. He said that if I was a socialist TI had nothing to fear from him as he was a good friend of Mr. Hillquit. When again I informed him that it did not interest me even if he was a friend of Norman Thomas, he said: “Don't be afraid to tell me who you are, I won’t punch you in the nose” Afterwards I learned that the ‘gent’ was only the Ward Heeler of the republican party and that he sus- pected me to be a representative of the “Honest Voters League.” A Tammany Repeater. This being the first time-that 1 ever acted as:watcher, I had a chance to observe things that we only read about in the workers’ press. The “strong fellows” inside ers reminded that those were “re- publican” or “democratic” cigars but money bills were given to non- smoking voters. Of course the po- licemen on duty were too neat sighted to notice those things. One of the cops remarked to me “those guys sure are a tough bunch, ain’t they?” I only shook my head in the affirmative. The 400 voters that casted their ballots at that place were mostly small business men as |far as one could judge by their ap- | *bout his dynasty any longer? Any pearance. Most of them were known by their names even before they walked over to the table. They were approached by the “boys” as “how is business Mr. Finkelstein?” and “I hope you wiJl vote for the right man, Mr. Katz.” Very few voters did I no- tice that one could recognize as workers, and therefore I was much surprised in the evening when the votes*wereecounted that eleven votes were cast for the Workers (Com- munist) Party. —LOUIS DRUCKER. Cae ek (Written for the Worker Cor- respondence Class in the New York Workers School.) WORKER LIKES YOUNG PIONEERS s Thrilled by Spirit of ‘i Bio Meeting EDITORIAL NOTE: The follow. | ing correspondence was sent in by a building laborer who is now learn- ing English as a student in the Workers School. Four weeks ago he could neither read nor wrife the language. ~The letter, exeept for seme minor corrections, is substan- tially as he wrote it.) es, ee (By a Worker Correspondent) Sunday, October 28, I went with the Young Pioneers to Webster Hall. When we came into the hall) the Bronx section of the Young Pioneers came in singing the song lidarity.” All the 900 children jpresent in the hall joined the sing- jing. Charles Wilson, the chairman, | jopened the meeting with the singing } of the “International.” Never Saw Such Spirit. | I never saw such spirit put into | a song as I heard that night. The! |chairman explained the issue of the | | meeting. The first speaker was H. Zam. He explained to the children the is- sues of the election campaign and | why the children have to see that their parents must vote Communist. The next speaker was J. Rubin- He told the children of the struggle of the New Bedford tex- |tile workers and how the children of the textile strikers were helping «x, the picket line. The children an- swered with a storm of cheers, The other speakers were Jesse | | children resolved that all workers myst vote Communist. Demonstrate on “L,” On the way home the Pioneers organized a big demonstration on both down ahd uptown stations of the 14th St. elevated station. The Pioneers sang “Solidarity” and other songs. The people in the trains were impressed with the spirit of the Pioneers. The children expressed great spirit through songs and cheers for the Communist Party and for Foster and Gitlow. I will never forget the Sunday of October 28 that I spent with the Pioneers. 8. KESSELMAN, Breaker Boys Strike; |Close Down Colliery, Bring Out 1,500 Men | without pay, they discovered the| * e |bonus performing strange tricks. PITTSTON, Pa, Noy. 13 —| onus Breaker boys, who pick the slate|N® Worker ever knows how the from the rushing coal in the chutes, closed down the Pennsylvania Coal |Co. colliery 9 by a. unanimous pro- | tes# strike against discrimination by the company in promotion of the boys. The boys charged that the company was showing preference to |favorites of thé bosses, who have acted as aids to the company against their fellow workers, Due to the solidarity of the boys, the entire mine had to shut down, bringing 1500 coal diggers out. EX-POLICEMAN IN KILLING, BOSTON, Nov. 13 (U,P)..-Charged with accepting a bribe from a pris- oner, Theodore F. Miller, former Boston policeman and until recently a prison guard, was arrested today in connection with the killing of Turnkey Frederick Pfluger at Charlestown state prison Sunday. Pfluger was shot to death by Charles J. Trippi, jr., 21-year old highwayman, serving 15 to 18 years for robbery, while the latter was teports an over-supply of workers| Taft of the Young Pioneers and B.|making an unsuccessful attempt to ‘Miller of the Workers Party. The | escape. ‘n the building trades industry. RKER, NEW YORK, WE’ ESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 HUTCHESON | ~FEAR THAT MEN WILL REVOLT He Is for “Legal” Per- secution By MIKE ROSS. General President Hutcheson is idently afraid of an open revolt ng the membership of the Car- enters’ Union because of his des- potie and unconstitutional expulsion |of the progressive leaders, who be- lieve that a union should be run in} the interests of the rank and file | | He now wishgs to give a legal face jto his autocracy in the future and therefore he proposed to the last} | general convention, held at Lakeland | Florida, ‘rat the rights of the local unions, to try members, be abolished and that this authority be given to! District Councils, which are bodies | far removed from the membership |and where Hutcheson’s henchmen are in complete control. Wanis “Legal” Persecution. Here, they can expel or persecute | with a legal face, all who have the| Jcourage to criticize ‘them for their | trocchery to the rank and file. | | Hutcheson didn’t even consider |this a sufficient safeguard against |the progressives, so he decided to ev | that, “a member, in order to be elig- \ible as a candidate for general office |must be a full beneficial member. tion, so the term is hard to under- stand, A full boneficial member is| ry |“ham was not for niggers.” Brown muppodedly one, (Wad: Kecaves Teun was struck twice with the ax, once 0 | after he dies. In order to be entitled | \to this “reward” he must have been ‘in the union five years. Why did not Hutcheson propose that a member must be in the union five years, in| he had just returned that day, faint | ion. | 2nd famished, from a body-fishing }make a dynasty out of the union. |” nu ” y hid | wi ; 3 expedition when the director of re- Tet ee ae, Ling, He. pvoboded ice wack in (ih bectlat eudght Might \of him. » cl There is no such thing as a “gyi tember 17th to October 28th, grab- beneficial member,” in the constitu |bed an 18-inch ax and made a fero- cious assault on Brown, uttering the |vilest oaths and telling him that AT THE BROADWAY. Sa HE Garrick Players are giving a dramatized version of Hugh Wal-| pole’s “A’Man. With Red Hair.” The] book was a trifle different from the usual glorified and more expensive dime novels which now circulate as mystery stories. In describing the atrocities committed by a certain Mr. Crispin (he had red hair) a whole theory of religion was evolved, a theory which-has no satisfactory re- futation. According to Mr.. Crispin, pain is an essential in religion; deeply religious people are maso- chists, and this at least is a psycho- |logical basis for asceticism, flagel- |lation, and’ such minor sacrifices as | blue Sundays. Mr. Crispin, a sadist, | therefore regardéd himself as the | proper type of messiah, bringing the boon of pain and the beauty of deep suffering to a world that needed it, and his method was direct action. |He lured people who really wanted Helps. in Terror ON |45 be tortured but didn’t realize it| Flood Victims Continued fiom Page One hero of the storm, who saved the lives of scores of people, white and black, during the storm, went into a red cross mess hall in Belle Glade and was eating a piece of ham given | . Mayrie Chaney, one of the chief entertainers on the vaudeville bill at the Broadway Theatre this week, PED CROSS DENY | through the agency of his crew of} Oriental servants (whose. tongues he had cut out for their good and his) and carved them up in various in- teresting and artistic ways. In the end his servants rebel, free some of his victims and torture him. The play becomes, under the over- done acting and unconvincing grim- aces of H... oid Vermilyea as Charles | Percy Harkness from Oregon, Barry | | 4 nedy as Hesther Tobin (whose tor- ments seem to have been largely mental) ‘vst another and the latest | thriller. Certainly nothing unusual | V" > do they get this idea in or- | der to be gruesome you have to be! green?. Greenlights, green cushions on the -hairs, ghastly green trees painted on the farthest baci scenery | which shows through the: bacx doo | whsa ic If a locomo:’ -«| engineer had ever drifted in there | he wouldn’t know why green was so discriminated against.’ He likes | green. So does a chauffeur. | Why make the Oriental servants | croak melodiously on every occasion ? | If they tongues only are cut out | they can » thousn indistinctly | th-7 can’t croak thet way. Anyway | their croaks remind one too much| of seasickness, which is a humorous | subject, not tragic one—at least) for native-born Americans who have! never been in a delegation. i It isn’t much of a play.—V. S| him by one of the workers who knew | SOVIET This director, who was in harge at Belle Glade from Sep- LENINGRAD (By Mail).—An archaeological expedition sent by the Academy of Science has carried out | excavaticns of tumuli (ancient | n the head and again on the shoul-| mounds) in the Leningrad province | SCIENTISTS FIND VIKING SITE ler. near the Rivers Oyat Pash, Kapsha | Race Discrimination. Case No. 5. Colored families | order to become a candidate for gen- | with four and five children given | eral office? Herein lies the swindle. Fake as Usual. This proposition, in order to be- constitution, must be submitted to a| reforendum vote of the membership | jand in order to fool them into sup- | porting it, the arguments need only be raised, “that surely one would, not expect any other but a full bene- | ficial member to be eligible as a \candidate for general office.” This | of course, is only the first step in| the fake. As sooft as Hutcheson wins | the above proposition, all he has to! do is to advocate a small increase | in the death benefit, to those who | have been in the union for twenty- | \five years. Hence, one would have to have been in the union for 25 |years in order to be eligible for gen- eral office. With tears in his eyes. |Hutcheson will weep and say, “the wives and cl ren of the deceased apes must be better taken care of.” Fighters Being Eliminated. Why should his highness worry |opponent of the machine who can! remain in the union for thirty years, | without being expelled, is a relic in| the Museum of Natural History. Beginning in the third week in| | November, all the proposed amend- ments to the general constitution will be voted on in the local unions. Trogressive carpenters should ex- pose these fake tricks to the mem- i bership and get them to vote against |the proposed amendments. Not one | of these is in the interests of the rank and file. Militant unionists |should be sure to watch the vote | |for Hutcheson and his cohorts will} steal the vote if it can’t be gotten| in any other manner. ‘Packard Auto Workers \Learn Tricks Played by Speed-up, “Bonus” (Reprinted from “Auto Workers News.”) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail). — | Last summer Packard proudly an-| jnounced that economies in produc- | |tion made possible a $300 price cut. | |All loyal Packard workers partici- pated in this ‘joyous “economy of production” in the form of wage cuts. Men in the service depart- ment participated to the tune of a jcut in wages from 60¢ per hour to 48c. Workers in other departments, jalso participated in the general |harmony of wage cuts for the work- jers and more profits for the stock- | | holders. | When the workers returned from |their compulsory summer ‘vacation’ jbonus is figured, but he did know |that before ‘‘vacation” he was get- ting a bonus amount to 15-20 per| cent of his wages, while now he was lucky if he got any bonus at all. One worker received a bonus once jin two months amounting to 2 per acent. Another worker reports that jhe used to get a bonus of 20 per jeent, when the group turned out | 100 jobs a day, now they are put-| jting through close to 180 and feel- ing lucky to get 2 per cent, INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS GROW DETROIT, Nov. 13.—The end of the first quarter of the fiscal year 1928-29 shows a big increase in the number of industrial accidenis in this state. In July, August and September, alone, 82 workers were killed while at work, SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 13.— Every city in California has re-| ported a huge over.supply of work- | ers, Unemployment is steadily on | |relief cards for two dollars worth lof groceries, while white families \having no children given cards for come an amendment to the genera! listed. ix and seven dollars worth. Cases | “Case No. 8. J—, cropper, lives on boss’s place, all possessions in storm. Has small children. cross, Case No. 10. L—, Pahokee, says | his wife, Mrs. L., is soon to become a mother and is in very nervous con- | dition as a result of hurricane shock and suffering. “ The night of the storm she was forced to wade thru water waist-deep ta get to the shel- No aid from re \site of the town of Novaia Ladoga | |tenth and eleventh cenfuries. lish articles were found—swords, +» Pahokee, share \hatchets, lances, arrows, shields, Lost | kettles, frying pans, spades for col- two | lecting coals, pots with curious or+ d}naments, also trinkets and small and Sals. | Abundant materials collected by | the expedition prove that on the! a vikings’ colony existed in the | Duringeexeayations various Swed. fancy articles to adorn the dress, such as gold buckles, beads, brace- lets, combs, Anglo-Saxon and Ger- FRENCH REACTION ter of a rgjroad car. Doctor rec- | ommended she be placed immediate. | ly in hospital. Woman still waiting | for red cross to act in the matter. Still Waiting, “Case No. 11. A—, of Canal Point, lost 7 room house and all "OLDS MAORITY “Socialists” Will Help Poincare possessions, Asked red cross help. sree to and p_| PARIS, Nov! 13—With Poineare’s (couple), West Palm Beach, lost straight reactionary cabinet instal- everything when their home was blown down. The woman told our agent she was refused aid at the | red cross station and actually driven away by those in charge. Her case | investigated and statement found correct. Whole Communities Destitute. ‘ed, and a majority of 48 insured hin? in parliament and the “social'sts” ready to support him, a series of stiff legislation is to be expected. Undoubtedly, Poincare will be able to force thru his: budget, which pro- | vides for a large expenditure in |naval armaments and the building | Case Ng. 16, At Deerfield there | of @ line of fortifications stretching are 400 destitute Negro refugees Some work done in this district by red cross but on a basis of gross house of deputies on Thursday he across Europe, When Poincare appears before the discrimination in the distribution of |is expected to read a program con- food and clothing. taining meagre concessions to the “Case No. 17. At Gifford, there | radical socialists, thus guaranteeing. immediate help. No red cross sta- tion in this district. “Case No. 19. Colored girls re-. fused positions on red cross relief staffs. Only white women used by red cross, even in colored: sections, These go into Negro homes with an unsympathetic attitude and try to bulldoze refugees into making the harest requisition for food and clothing. “In the arduous and perilous task of gathering his information our agent once joined a ‘body-fishing’ crew. Heré is his story of that ex- perience: “Body Fishing.” “ ‘Arriving at Belle Glade I signed up with the state board of health as one of a crew to find dead bodies We were sent out under the guns of the white guards to a point where we took the boats, In my boat ‘were seven colored men and a white officer of the state board of health who carried a gun across his knees. Our crew started out just before 12 o’clock noon, but finding that we did not have sheets, rakes and line the officer decided wae should go back to headquarters for same and get dinner. “Getting back to headquarters we were sent to the rear of the kitchen where afte® a long wait food was handed gut to us. We had to eat among the earbage and flies. While we were eating I talked to some of the others, there being no whites around. “ ‘After dinner we went ‘fishing’ for the bodies again. Levi Brown, the ‘hero of the storm’ was respon- sible for my safety here.’ Answer This Appeal. “The Negro Workers Relief Com- mittee presents these reports as re- ceived from our agent in the field. We do not believe any one can read these pitiful accounts of the suf- ferings of our people without dig- ging down into his pocket and-com- ing to their ai tne increase, all cities in the state report. MITTEE. |are 15 Negro families in need of'a certain majority for the reaction- ary program. Machine, New Addition | to Stool Pigeon | An innovation was added to the system of stool pigeons and spys, | in the form of a machine, at the In- | ternational Exhibition of Inventions | at Westminster, England. The machine keeps a record of | the work done by an employe in the | absence of the boss, It can be con- | nected gbetween the office of the boss and any machine, without the \\nowledge of the worker on the job | When the boss; arrives after an absence he can see at a glance whether or not the machine has been running in the standard speed of the factory or whether or not the worker has been taking a well-earned few minutes rest. The machine also records the number of articles turned out. contribution he can possibly spare. We appeal to all Negro organiza- tions, to lodges, clubs, societies, etc. to make this question of relief a part of thoir order of business at the very next meetiag. We particu- rally aid for these destitute storm | sufferers. Checks and money or- | ders may be sent to the Negro Work- ers’ Relief Committee, 461 Lenox Ave., New York City. REMEMBER THE MURDER OF SACCO & VANZETTI! SAVE SHIFRIN SEND YOUR DONATION AT ONCE TO SHIFRIN DEFHNSH Com- ROOM O92. 26 UNION SQUARH, NEW ¥! larly appeal. to the Negro church to | man coins of the tenth and eleventh centuries and Byzantian coins of Emperors Basile and Constantine (end of the tenth century). Arabian coins were also found, showing that there were commercial relations be- tween Scandinavians and Arabs through the Bulgars on the Volga. Excavations also prove that the vikings’ colony near. Lake Ladoga carried on commercial relations with Russia during the period when the feundation of. the Russian State | was laid in the tenth and eleventh centuries, These archaelogical collections were sent to the Etnographical Mu- seum at the Academy of Science for ifvestigation and restoration. Professor: Arne, director of the Stockholm Museum, the expedition. participated in | i "THE THEATRE LAST WEEK FAUST sUILD Thea.-w. dena st GUILD ee he : Thursday ind Saturday Strange Interlude INGS \IY AT 630 MACHINAL PLYMOUTH cainces OST. = EVES Si RS SAE W. 44th ST Evenings & 39 , Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30. orge M. Cohan's Comedians with POLLY WALKER RLANGER tH M: in Mr. Cohan's Newest Mustea! Comedy "BEALE" 7 ) Thea, W. 41th St. Eve. 8.34 LITTLE Mats., Wed. GODS of the LIGHTNING by Mawell Anderson & Harold Hickerson. wi ail 7 S Thea. 7th Ave. & o¥th St JOLSON Evs.8.30, Mats. Wed.& i DETTE DE SRTSON MYRTIL HOOPHR dn @ musical romance ot Chapin (CHANINS 46th St. W. MUSICAL SMASH Godp N EWO with GEORGE OLSEN'S MUSIC. of Bwa Eyes st 8+ Matinees, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDBI'> OPEN-SHOPPERS TO MEET An open-shop session of the Na- tional Association of Manufactur- ers will soon be held in New York. | A campaign to atteck organized la- | bor will be planned. {| WORKER; SHOOTS SELF AND BOSS | O'Neill as David Dunbar, Mary Ken-/34 Cents an Hour for Lumber Slaves (By a Worker Correspondent) FORT BRAGG, Cal., (By Mail). —Tiring of the slave driving methods and continual speeding up, Paul Rasmussen, aged 56, shot and wounded Verne Moore, night fore- man of the Union Lumber Co,“here. After firing ut Moore, the old work- er attempted to take his own life by firing twice thru his abdomen. Inhuman Speed-Up. Rasmussen later died in the hos- pital after ae was shot twice more thru the stomach by the town night watchman and city marshall. Work- ers’ of the sawmill state that the foreman was inhuman in his speed- | yet, into his home, overpowered thera | If the ve-rl cds are operated upon | up of workers, and that Rasmussen’s last words were: “He was very bad to me.” Maybe the rebellion of the op- pressed lumber grader will serve as a warning and a reminder to other foremen of the plant in their relent-% less speedup of the workers. 34 Cents An Hour. Working conditions are bad in this neck of the woods. The average wage paid to the sawmill workers is 4 cents an hour, and slightly more in the woods, plus poor meals and quarters, The workers stood a month’s shut-down during the sum- mer, due to overproduction resulting from electrification and labor sav- ing machinery being installed. The common laborer has paid for the new equipment. Canadian Wireless Man Communicates With Byrd Arctic Pole Trip MONTREAL, Nov. 13 (U.?).—For the first time since Commander Richard E. Byrd’s expedition left for the South Pole, a Canadian wire- less operator has been in two-way communication with one of the ships. Alee Reid, who operates amateur station 2BE, revealed he kad been in communication with Karl Peter- son, operator on the Eleanor Boll- ing. 40e: $1.00, $1.50, Mats, ‘Tues &Sat. 2.30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Mat, Today, “Phe Cherry Orchard.” Tonight, “EIinvitation au Voyage? fi try Orehardy? na Voyage.” eodeman? / “MATA HARI: 7, The RED DANCER ] Faced the Firing squad with a smile y 4a, he dempationgl Bie (jt CAME ne NOW Bway w * CARNEGIB, P. Continous Noon ta, Midn “TEN DAYS THAT SHO THE WORLD’ Pop. Prices ‘ ° Sirele 7551, hur Hopkins presents “THESE DAYS” By Katharine Clugston ey Thea. W. 48th St.. Eves, 8.30 gCORT Mats, Wed. & Sat., 2:30 'S. , NEON SAM 3 Thentre, 424 St, West itn HARRIS of Biway, Eves. 8.20. Matinees, Wednesday saturday, 2.30 MUSICAL COMEDY urL LUCKEEGIRL NITE HOSTESS MARTIN BECK THEATRE, fan hae 8th Ave. a Eves, 8.30. Wednesday and Saturday, Broadway |GANGSTER’ with Jane Collyer @ at dist St. Don Terry HAVEN McQUARRIE, CHANEY & FOX, WALSH & ELLIS be kee te teligh ies, KK CITY. JANUARY 5, 1929 WILL BE FIVE YEARS OF THE COMING OUT OF THE DAILY WORKER CITIES ARE URGED TO BEGIN MAKING ‘ARRANGE- MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW. ml A GRUESOME DRAMA SPEEDUP GOADS Hugh Walpole’s “A Man With Red Hair” Presented by Garrick Players r) ] ‘ }