The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1930, Page 4

Page Four RUSSIAN WORKER TELLS) Across OF WONDERS OF TURKSIB Correspondent Points Out the Importance of the Frontier By ED FALKOWSKI. (Editor's Note:—The writer is Achievement to Workers’ State a newspaper man at present in PORE EE a 2 Europe. While he is not a Com- ea ioat anh fon thecal wunist, his article affords a sharp 1 iad oun ie ontrast to the rule of capitalisy a : enend’ iture upon the sharks 0% the Polish side of the frontic : : ; ‘ to give her, “nd the workers’ rule in the So sc led “Turks gol pt and get ‘et Union.) ; is ;: ; TEE atmosphere was rather tens s of cotton 4 in Warsaw. Immense _ poster $ and are sure offered 10,000 zloty for the captuy ars could | that any cot will be cepted. of the ghostly culpri who ha’ rr 1 s have proven planted a bomb in the Soviet Con « sia on vast a late. High and low sought, t! "4 rubber his plant ) per cent rubber. ll in the same to get from amounts of nnumerable police, sniff-snuffins into back alleys and among garbay cans, but the conspirators were n where to be apprehended. If any one knew where they were, this pet son had apparently collected a bi ger bribe for keeping quiet than thi chill-fisted government offered f exact information. .. . Strange tha police, who can smell a Commun underground; who can locate tin printing presses in the remotc corners of the cities, in cellars attics, could not locate scound who had attempted their dastar ~|deed in broad daylight. One sus pected the sincerity of the gover large t think that the s being achieved We have dis- ack republic. s € ment, altkough the pantomime dire Y t was inter- investigation went on merrily. . TI al e small nations sme police even guarded t kilo dur a | The Soviet! soviet embassy. One was not ce with 1 I err te opposite tain, however, whether their pr: beg NUS EE en ely crested | ence was for threat or safety improve equally t Jews, Gypsi y, Co: oviet officials. wspapers commenting daily on Russia never failed to scare 1; goos-pimples on one’s flesh. One read of indescribable atrocities, un- the N or, Oriat living area platina, a s, graph es Pee oe act |emotionable horrors. ‘Travelers dis- e workers and every measure| *PPeared, traceless in that godless is intecluced itmmedintely withone{countty. Churches were. being delay. On the construction of the | P!oWn to smithereens, priests and Turkeib there was a close contact |2!-, Going to Russia was to put i Caatae Sand the ove’ head on a chopping block and ae ‘All the| vite the main performer to mal ia z + followed with the| tHe ultimate gesture. io the ee The grotesque civilization _pic- true- % | Where Workers Interior of a Steel Plar DAJLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930 Own the Works | nt in the Soviet Union men sat on straw baskets sucking powerful pipes, talking amid low- hanging smoke. _ Large-breasted | women nursed babies; tried + Factories | shut down. Tough!” | “Thousands out of work. idle. Mines be any tougher And he opened Well, it can’t than it’s been here Soviet Novel NEGRO STEEL WORKERS Coming ARE WORST EXPLOITE The growth of collectivization in| othe zune of collective ot| Kept At Hardest Jobs Without Promotion; Ge “Brus the Soil Redeemed,” a Lowest Pay; Work Longest Hours new Soviet novel by F, panteroys | ade soon to be issued by International | a wees Publishers, The title is | By CYRIL BRIGGS ee eee a ag ofl ITH the rise of a Negro prole-| houses, the Negro workers ar esr ahananae tariat as a result of war time|grossly discriminated against, bein, fertile soil, once the property of! | , 4 Ke ¢ sah tacks RNS in sft| industries, the stoppage of immi-| housed in the worst shacks out o a Ibeal Alok wily on mig death 1c |the unsanitary collection of decrepi ‘ kulak, w! rati he rapid industri ab Cone Sen em LOWS Reet Fa Tene ERNE SoGen) thousands oC|audcnogient Housde, tersiehed’ th still hopes for counter-revolution | | sro werkers were drawn into the| workers. In Birmingham, Negr and his own recovery of the land | Negro werkers were dra | ot wie Sia a he has never used. But the poor] steel industry of the country. In/jsteel workers entre aan peasants finally secure farm rights|Some sections of the country they |houses are housed in fifty-year o| frotndthe: sealr Berta jrepresent a fairly large proportion | shac The novel illustrates in a graphic | of the steel workers. Tn a number | Negro steel workers, especiall and moving form much of the So-}of southern mills they compose |i, the South, are regularly de viet life and theory which is of the|nearly one half of the unskilled! srauded out 0” compensation whe most immediate interest, There is| wor in steel. | suffering injuries, which are quit an invasion by a band of white} Conditions, hellish as they are for| frequent in mills having old-fash guards and we see the villagers di-| the white steel workers are several | joned processes. vide in their allegiance to the So- times worse for the Negro workers | fs } viete—tha poor and middle peasants|in the industry. The “victims of| Te Plight of the Negro stec remaining loyal and the wealthy |workers arises out of their unor persistent and vicious é¢discrimina- | see “4 the | farmers turning to the whites only|tion on the part of the bosses, the | S2nized condition and treacher; to renounce them when it becomes|foremen, the American Federation | Of, the American | ee ean clear that the invasion is a failure. |of Labor and backward white work- | Labor leas “alice io rate ES) a At the climax of the book there is ers still under the influence of the | make the slightest altempt, | a drought. The priests pray and try | imperialist ideology of race hatred | O80") pene ve aa ny ase to convince god that he should send|and prejudice, the Negro steel one ., pentie ve ES Gcoit them some rain, to no avail. Then| workers are confined to the hard- | "he PEs o aaa ie here se the leader of the collective brings| est and worst jobs in an industry | O8Y Of Negro inferiority the Amer the peasants together to build a| notorious for nerve-wrecking speed-|ic#% Federation of Labor opent: dam which will allow irrigation to| up, inhuman long hours and hard |SUPPOFtS. a. the fields and help save the district | work under terrific heat. In most| The hope of these workers lies i from famine. | mills they cannot rise higher than | militant organization and ageres | “Brusski: the Soil Redeemed” has | keeper at the furnace, and even this |Sive struggle such as is furnished already been published in England| is possible only with an all Negro) the trade union field today by thi and Germany as well as in the de Union Unity League. O \ rew. Like Negro workers in other 1 : B U.S.S.R. In all these places it has|industriés, the Negro steel» work-|%y militant struggle, side oy sidi been hailed as probably the bi ers usually receive lower pay for| With the white workers, under thi the recent Soviet novels. Here it is|the same work. In many plants, |leadership of the revolutionary issued as the fourth of a series of| especially in the South, they are |Mions can the Negro workers breal Soviet fiction, which already in-|forced to work longer hours than | down the wall of prejudice erected cludes the collection of short stories{the white workers; in some of the |against them by the bosses and thd “Azure Cities” and the two novels|Birmingham plants, for instance,|bureaucrats of the A. F, of L “Cement” by Feodor Gladkov and| Negro workers are made to toil 10 Negro workers! Join the Tradq “The Nineteen” by A. Fadeyey. In-|hours a day in contrast to eight | Union Unity League! formation on these books and others|hours for skilled white workers on Fight side by side with the revo. on Marxism, the Soviet Union and} continuous process. lutionary white workers agains Even where, under the guise of |race prejudice, lynching, unemploy. welfare schemes, the bosses force! ment, imperialist war. the workers to live. in. compan ° g ther areas the cheap t beria can t of gr ‘an in t was eans that ne Turksib s before the hospitals, post of- s, ete, joy quite fr ZGOUNOFF. m the factory LABOR SPORTS BASEBALL At the time of the writ column the home run r Babe Ruth stands at 43 Just 19 days and of his old record. Looks like the id record will be relegated to a new one that he will no doubt set his year. The Babe is still the out- standing figure in the Amer pastime and a “hero” in the ey the vast number of the American young workers. The best way to fight such hero worshipping is to draw these young wo into workers sports organizations organizing workers baseball. Every class conscious worker should do of this cord of homers, his share in building workers sports. ¢ BOXING The fight of August 7, between Kid Chocolate and Jackie Berg proved one thing, and that is that the Kid is the outstanding boxer of the present crop of featherweights His “defeat” by Berg, if one is to accept the judges’ decision, no liseredit to him, the difference in weight between the two fighters was exactly ten pounds—and ten pounds between little fellows is like fifty between heavies—but inspite of his handicap the Kid that he could hit and box cleaner than the clawing Berg. The Kid’s showing at this fizht will further increase his difficulties for the featherweight title. The title, aceording to the boxing stust, is “for whites only” therefore we can loek forward to one of the best feathers fighting continually out of his class for reasons of race dis- crimination. While these pro fights are going 1 eight games ahead } and | showed | ,the organization drom its present |narrow language base into one of the American young workers, Alto- | gether there were 41 delegates rep- resenting six L.S.U. districts. The |conference also repudiated the op- position tendencies of some of the L.S.U. members as tendencies a ing from the social basis of some of the members. A real base was laid by the con- ference for the organization of a mass L.S.U. Convention which will be held in Cleveland, on September 8. To this Convention the expects at least 200 dele- H Track and Field Meet. | The Eastern District of the L.S.U. is holding a championship track and field meet nex. month, to be held at Ulmer Park, on September 13. |Tke program consists of 41 track and field events for men and women 1 as boys and girls. All workers are invited to enter this meet, and especially those from the trade unions. Write for entries to District of L.S.U., 2 Room 309. ‘or Class Struggle five week’s just instructor's in Detroit but the L.S.U. is on the school job in training instructors and com- rades who shall be able to lead the work in the L.S.U. and build Work- ers Defense. Plans have already | been mapped out for a similar five |week’s course in the Eastern Dis- |trict. This school will be held, | starting the 15th of September, at |Camp Kinderland, one of the finest | workers camps in this section of the | country. The fee per student to this five ended | |a row, the rotten you know what!” | on, the L.S.U. is getting ready to) week’s course, including all expen- start its indoor boxing season. We|ses, is only $50. Each workers ask the readers to shun these fake |sport and fraternal organization as professional fights and attend real|well as every trade union should worker smateur boxing bouts { the|send at least two worker stude: |; L,S.U. to this ool. Workers Defense Labor Sports Union News. | must be made a reality through the The National Conference ‘e| training of leaders for the defense L.S.U, held on August 2-3 marked |movement. Send all applications to 6 step forward in broadening out of | the Eastern District. tured on the other side of Poland’s borders was cultureless barbarism, controlled by bearded giants, long | on whiskers and short on brains, with an endless thirst inside of them which only vodka could soothe. Workers Fleeing Poland. the In primitive shed which serv. s Warsaw’s largest rail- road station hundreds of ragged, louse-bitten families were gathered in one section on the stone floor. | Amid a wilderness of trunks and | baskets and blankets and infants g¢ inside dusty blankets, old} pacify the bigger youngsters whose | labor will gladly be sent by Interna- ntimacies with one another had| with a long, gie story of his | tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., reached the scalpin ge. These | dog’s life, endless work, all hours | New York City. were evidently refugees fleeing|of day and sometimes of night, too. | | from some invading army; evety-| He worked on the fields for a big} land-owner. “In a whole week we don’t earn enough to buy one single | hunger and want, like every capi- talist land. How can one escape | thing h in terrifi iedly scrambled togeth« confusion and di wwe Avesyou: Monnet Tine | Bee cried indignantly. His from the vast gloomy prison-house | | quired of a seedy old man who ap-| 0” in Je worked in an|of capitalism? One can change boewned . ldate aunid: ‘thivstvanme| Ole zeta He was in America| one’s cell—seek out a different Legaarine initia many years and had saved a little | background £ nena | encampment. many years and had saved a little | background for one’s torture. . . | money. “He sent me my ticket.”| But the slavery and hunger are al-| | “To America,” he said, “we were | the old man said. “But most of | ways the same. ... | to leave for Danzig last night, but! these people here sold all they; ©. er i for some reason we're still here.| owned to pay their way across the} (Next Saturday the writer will| I don’t know what's the matter!” | ocean.” PARK ERE iy ober | Conditions Intolerable. They would escape poverty by|and the many discouragements put | “It’s not so easy in America | fleeir to America, that land of|in his way to keep him from going | days,” I reminded him,| promise. A it promised only|into Soviet Russia.) | | these “PORTRAIT OF A RUB LINE | > By STANLEY DE GRAFF 9 | The duco rubbers come straggling in, in twos and threes, into the darkened factory, among the lines of auto bodies sitting silently on | their trucks. They stumble sleepily over the tracks to get into their | overalls and undershirts. Voices call |through the gloom. “That you, | Mike? How come you ain't home | drunk, when you got paid yester- day?” “Lo, Red! You old such and |such, you're gonna get your back broke today, seven hundred jobs, the jboss said, if we have to stay till twelve tonight!” “I’ve heard that one before!” “Some guy steal my |undershirt! Whose do dat?” “I ‘smell something, Boobnik musta ! come in!” “Go tuh ‘ell, you Polock!” Another voice says, “Gawd, I don’t know if I can hold out till tonight, | my muscles all feel as if they had a toothache!” “Aw, pipe down! You \ain’t no worse off than the rest of us.” “If yuh don’t wonna work, go | home!” | Back-Breaking Labor. The lights come on and reveal a hard looking crew, of many types, most of them clad in old shirts and overalls; they have thick muscles and bread shoulders, but pasty com- plexions and sharply lined faces seem to be the rule. The five min- ute whistle blows. “Where’s Baldy? The dirty kike never shows up on time when he’s on my team, now |we'll have to work short handed on the first couple jobs!” The lines start with a jerk as the last whistle blows. “Shut that line down, yuh darn fool, give a guy a chance to get his rubbing rags!” Some of the early arrivals have got their first job done and move to their next one. “Yeh! You guys are good, working before the whistle blows; you hungry bozos oughta stay all night, then you’d have your day’s work done by seven!” “Aw, shut up and let a guy work Mack, it’s no Ra off your nose!”— “Look at Windy with the silk stop-ins; the sweet thing, let’s put Kennite down his back.” “Yeh! “Better save your wind, boys, you'll jneed it before quitting time!” “Who slung that rag? I'll knock him for “Oh! you did? Well, lay off the rags, will yuh?” . Nerve-Wracking Speed. The Kennite, a greasy, smelly mess, like thin putty, has been ap- | plied while the conversation is going on, and the tightly rolled rags are scouring off the rough surface of the paint, to leave it bright and smooth. When the job is done right, the duce is like a mirror and that completes the finishing of the metal surfaces of the body, except for touching up defective spots. The rubbing process is a combina- tion of back-breaking labor and nerve-wracking speed, as enough pressure must be applied to the rags to grind off the surface of. the | tock-hard lacquer and the lines are run at such a speed that the men must go on the jump to cover their You try it!”| — ‘haste to get to a restaurant stool. Others fish out lunch boxes and line. “Hey, | SF awl on the cushions, that are share of the surface before it getsjis relayed down the ‘ay r . to the inspector who marks chalk|Useless! Telephone!” “Hey, Use-| waiting to be placed in oe boule. on all places that are not polished|less! Up in front.” “Oh, Useless!) They are mostly ae pete is enough. |Your last job got caught in a sno jeat at once and eae til is eir ea 5 Inside an hour, the men are be- |storm!” — “U If you don’t and see ee Ske ee ag tite ginning to sweat in spite of the|vant to work, go home!” The party| “I wouldn't Se ae ci araatad ae coolness of the weather and their|S® designated runs down the line work tor 7 2 day! sores es scanty attire, The talk died down| toward the body in question, shout-|4ig job! Horse is smart peop es, uJ want rest some time! ‘We oughta after the first few minutes and has|ing, “How in hell can I keep up, if : rae been replaced by grunts and the|You're going to chalk the whole job| set twenty a day for such a job. Pp y i | “One time I get twenty bucks a day, | 9” by Fisher!” “When?” “Oh, ‘bout} clang and bump of metal surfaces oe a on: 2 rebounding as the rags dash madly| _ 4S time goes on, he: Veams tree, four years ago.” “Them days is gone forever, buddy.” “Next back and forth over them. ‘The men eLE aden dees OO Ti hold their own against the tide of | er toward the inspector, who}'S | Sat i metal waves poured down the track| becomes annoyed and yells at the | Year, pe eenade rigs ie led by the truckers for the first two|laggards, “Work back, there!” |not.” (What a prophet this la or three hours, then, under the| ‘Sleep nights!” or “Come down this |turned out to be!) Over in a corner i i a crap game is being carried on in strain of aching muscles, here and lfoneae canispers Gariad by outunenta there a worker begins to shyst | di z * 2 : of enthusiasm as some lucky player to let up a little in places where it ‘i is i won’t show too much, Too Tired to Eat. mia bes bis npini coud stars e Ean fe ful of bills into his pocket. The inspector uses his chalk At last the noon whistle blows Z ry ‘ Whoosh! goes the five minute |more frequently and now and again/and most of the gang drop their| whistle and the men dash for the ! ess! far on the next one and I'll give you & pass to go home on!” etc, emphasized by profanity. some chalk to rub off.” The call the timeclocks at the entrance, in {rags. The last whistle blows and, ‘refreshed by food and rest, the |“duco monsters” plunge into the | work with a will. | Speed-Up and More Speed-Up. | Soon, however, the pace begins to | tell and perspiration puts a damper RED SPARKS | By J ORGE on conversation. The line jolts PRAYERS IN ARKANSAS __ recently, so the eget oe along for about an bones et ae mee r ‘i a ies to make us believe. How | one spies a gap in the line far down lant anata awe ted C asy! The Mexican peas-|the track, followed by more empty | reminded by seeing that at Claren- | 2%t made a revolution, rather they | spaces; he turns to his partner and ladon ‘Ark. a district conference of mistakenly thought they did, to get | says, “T’won’t be long now! They’re the C.M.E. church, Negro, looting | land. But under Calles the revolu- |thinning out; maybe we get off over the corn crop, decided to and’ tion missed fire. Revolutions for |early.” Partner tells the next man, did pray for rain. An item from | !#nd, when suce |, naturally get,/ “I hear we'll be going home soon”; Mountain Home, Ark., tells how the | the land. But Calles, Portes Gil, ' the third party passes on his version Commercial Club there held a meet- | 22d now Rubio, being bourgeois, de-|to the next man and so on. Pres- ing "to take care of the stringent | cided that it was not polite for peas- jently we hear from the head of the situation, caused by the drouth,”| "ts to get land without paying for |line an outburst of cheering, inter- and whether or not the failure of | it- So they agreed with Morrow that |spersed with the crowing of roost- god to squeeze out a bit of moisture Mexico would borrow money to pay | ers and baa-ing of sheep. The bright is the cause of unemployment or | for the land “given” to the peasants. |lad who started the ball rolling, not, is hard to say, because the, The peasants got darn land, 99 per | runs down the line to learn the cause meeting elected a committee on un-| Cent stones in the desert. Began \of the uproar and soon returns with employment, to see if the local|to complain, asking for good land | the glad news that bunch knocks off power company would begin work | like the gigantic plantations stolen |‘n half an hour, which is followed {on “the Wild Cat dam.” While it| by Calles and friends. So Calles|by more “hoo-raying.” don’t do much good, a prayerful | *P0 “To give more land to the} In his glee, the bright lad starts | people surely have lots to do these | Peasants, the ¢ days. But ahout Wild Cats and| As it has no money, it would have ‘dams, some of those thousands of | to borrow from Wall Street. Wall |Chicago Negro workers, who lost; Street is imperialism, and as the \what little they had saved through | daddy of the revolutionary family, | robbing their bellies, when the big- | 1’m against imperialism. So let the gest Negro bank of the country peasants get along without land! went bankrupt, can pray that the | There! “Who s I’m an imperialist wild cat will come back, but it won't lackey!” Great “revolutionary,” is help a damn bit. Anyhow, they will Calles. The peasants get stones and soon have lots of company, as the experience. Calles gets married, closed season on banks is just be- ar | foin in the chorus: I know Mr. Mack, he’s a good friend of mine, That is why I crack my back, upon his rub line, Halelujah! I'm a bum! Halelu- jah! Bum again, Halelujah! Gimme day date, to revive me again! | The rubbers joyfully’ redouble | their efforts and another hour soon calls out, “Tell so and so he’s got|rags with a yell and plunge toward | supply man’s window to get new; overnment must pay. up his favorite parody and some} Steel Slaves in Rolling a Slab of Metal Into Sh (Continued from Page Three) and he is elated to report to the manager of the Mills at Sparrows Point that the maximum record ton- nage was made for the day and to manager that meant that production greater profits made in less time, and that the maximum energy was extracted from each worker to get that two hundred tons. ae es Many Jobless. The Plate Mill workers here al- though they are exploited to the highest degree under the most per- militant attitude against the bosses and :this fact can be attributed to the wholesale unemployment that exists in the other big departments such as the hot mills and wire mills were many men are laid off and working on part time. For this those nearest strain their ears for the bad news. He yells at the in- the job. Use that chalk! What do you suppose you’re here for?” “But the gang is short-handed; only four teams! They’re doing the best they can!” “T’ell with that alibi! If they can’t get ’em down there’s a thous- and guys outside waiting for a job; if some of them |} are tired give ’em a wi y-off to rest up in! Now, hear down on that chalk; don’t let ’em go to sleep!” As he swaggers 2’ , faint whisp- ers reach his ears, source it would be useless for him to try to | discover. i Chalk Be; to Fly. But then the chair be |The cry goes up that “ Day” has arrived! There is w wailing and g ng of teeth, as the rubbers bear places in the line, between trips to the front. As the strugale goes on, the dripping sweat and set jaws reveal the ténsion of aching muscles each other, like dogs guarding a ‘inning. ® ginning, a a is see ono E rant | middle one e ean, “Hey, ioe ” Negro preacher in Buffalo, hav- thought we were ing home. in a wae ing labored for the lord by sermon- | tal hoon? WWheewd an get that Plutarco Calles, none other, with 52 winters is announced as faking unto himself a wife, e pluribus unum, of 42 summers. It is reckon- ed that strong injections of Wall his colonial administration, did the trick. Calles, by the way, came out izing against the underworld, says he has received numerous threaten- | ing letters, To these missives, which serve him as a great means of ad- vertisement and consequent gather- y in of shekcls, he replies on the lin jail. I would rather see you ban | tized than arrested.” Underworld- | heavily against Yankee imperialism ers sure have a hard choice, | dope? You'll be here at seven to- night yet, maybe longer.” Fault-Finding Ispector. All is gloom and the energy | evaporates at once; the teams grad- vually begin to drift toward the in- Street gland extract, administered | front paye of a Negro paper :-—"1 | spector’s dead line, The time flies by Doc. Morrow on his return to | would rather see you in church than by on leaden wings. ow a new | factor enters the situation; the head | inspector, a lean, sour-visaged mis- anthrope, looms in the offing and bone. Brief tussels take place, now and then, as two fellows try to work in the same place at the same time. Cries of “Slow that line down!” go up from the weaker members; cynical “hard guys” counter with “Speed up that line! Put ’em on the hook!” They wouldn’t speak so loud, of course, if they thought their de- mand would be taken seriously! Line Plunges Dizzily On. The line plunges dizzily on, and the men stagger from one job to the Speedup at S; is increased, order filled quicker, | fected speed up do not express any | spector, “the jobs are coming rot-| ten! You saps are laying down on} y!| breaks the ‘spell, jown to hold their | and panting lungs. Some begin to} ‘rolls by. The boss appears in the | crack under the strain and snarl at} American Mills ape in An American Steel Plant barrows Point reason they have tried to eonsol themselves with the idea that the: {are lucky for not getting laid off like the other workers. The unem: ployment situation here is forcing the men to accept more speed uy and wage cuts and all because thi boss has only to open the doors tq replenish his mill with new worke that are unemployed. Nevertheless there are some mil itant workers in this department |that realize there is only one wa‘ | to fight the bosses in their attempt |to lower the standard of living o} the workers and they are spreadin the message of the Metal Workert Industrial League throughout th plant rousing the workers to th necessity of organizing the Negri and white workers together to strik against rotten conditions in thi Metal Industry. —A WORKER CORRESPONDEN next, on and on, in a daze. Th sweat flows in their glaring eyet and plasters their clothes to theit backs. Even the inspector begins tq tire, though from what cause nd one can guess. Still his chalk slide: over the botched jobs with pitiles: accuracy and he calls out the names of the unlucky ones with monoton ous regularity. The banter of th earlier hours is entirely missing and the gang struggles in sullen silence After what seems an age the fate: ful hour of seven is reached and the workers come out of thei trance a little and look at the boss | with wistful eyes. What comes now J | More agony? All Done—and Lay-Off. A voice in the distance sudden; “All done!. Ga ‘ home!” Off goes the power and th |vags fall on the floor. The wea: ones feel better at once, as the; move toward the garments hangin; | on the wall, Like a dam giving way, | their voices are heard again. “Hot dog! I’m glad that’s overi” “Boy she was a blinger!” “Some grind! Now for the happy ending to perfect day! As the homegoe reach the timeclock on their wai out, the air is suddenly rent wit! cries of pained surprise; futile} curses fill the ears of those in the rear; all push forward to see wha’ the trouble is. Aching backs are forgotten in the shock of reading a notice prominently displayed on! the front of the clock: “Commencing Monday all pro: duction departments of this plant) will be closed for a period of two months. (Signed) “H. Goldman, Mgr.) —— |