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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-13
CAN'T live ON
LAYOFFS, FORD
WORKERS LEARN
Time to Think Is Now,
Paper Says

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. II. - Work.
ers can't live on layoffs," which is
what the employees of the Ford Motor
company have been getting In the
past two months, declares the Jan.
issue of the Ford Worker now being
distributed urging the workers TO de-
mand more wages.
The leading article in the issue
says: Henry Ford announced to the
world few months ago that all his
plants would go on five-day week
henceforth; that all his employees
would get the equivalent of six days
pay or more.
Not Getting Work or Pay.
1--WE are not getting the six days
pay, nor are we getting the five days
work, but we did get a two weeks
layoff
1--WE must eat We must pay rent
Or contract payments. We must buy
fuel and warm clothes. In other
words, WE MUST EXIST! Six days
pay is only an existence. Demand not
less than six days pay. Demand the
adjustment OF the ruthless speed-up,
so we can all work five days a week!
Demand your right of life, liberty,
and pursuit OF happiness in rich and
Free America"
Workers Give Facts.
This issue of the Ford Worker is
filed with news of slave conditions
prevailing in the Ford industries and
of accounts Of buncombe fed the
workers, told by them. A picture of
conditions may be gained from one
article written by one worker, which
follows: This merit plan is the
biggest farce A worker could kill
himself by speeding, yet he wouldn't
get raise df the boss does not like
his face. Only a few tail wagging
favorites will get raise in this de-
partment. n
"The writer has worked over four
years in one OF the rottenest depart
ments in H. p, the spring job, and
could not get s6.40 because he COM
mitted the Ford. crime OF talking
back" to the star (czar) boss. Pay
ing a man what he is worth does not
mean anything here"
"Think or Surrender"
Think or Surrender" is the title of
The editorial in the paper. If ever
here was a time for the workers
at Ford's and elsewhere to think,
now is that time" the editorial reads.
up to now you have let the capitalist
class do the thinking, and like any
human being, they have been thinking
in their own Interests. They can
only think of speeding up; of getting
more profits out of your labor. You
are hoping for things to change; hop
ing for full pay; hoping for raise.
While you are hoping they are
thinking"
Paper Growing.
1t is announced in this issue of the
paper tifat the Ford Worker will here
after appear twice each month, on the
first and fifteenth day of the month.
The fact that the paper is growing is
attributed to the awakening of the
workers, who are educating and or
ganizing themselves to destroy a sys-
tenn that is destroying their health
and happiness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-13
Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities

Policies nd Programs
The Trakle Union Press
Strikes Injunctions
Labor and Imperialism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-13

News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

of the workers of the world in the
face Of the menace of a new war.
On Building Socialist Order.
The Congress of the Friends of the
Soviet Union unanimously passed
resolution on the ten years fighting
and building up of socialism. The dis
cussion of the war danger was open
ed by Wager, representing the dis
tributive allied workers of Great
Britain. He declared that the real
danger of war is proved by facts, in
Guiding the comparison Of the armed
forces with that of 1918. The com
bined armed forces of Great Britain,
France and the United States in 1918
were 1,413,000; in 1916 it amounted
to 1,S21,000. During the same period
the naval forces increased SO per cent
in Great Britain, 210 per cent in the
United States and 10 per cent in
Japan. The air forces turnout the
world increased 1000 per cent.
All VIII Use Gas.
The position of chemical warfare is
still more serious, Jaeger declared.
Notwithstanding the declarations of
the Washington conference and the
League of Nations never again to use
poison gas and chemicals in warfare,
not single nation ratified that part
of the Washington pact. Another
factor in the war danger, the speaker
declared, was the fact that the CAPT
talists have been deprived Of the ex-
ploitation of one-siXth Of the world.
Jaeger also referred to the great
rivalries between England and Amer
lea, and also the internal European
quarrels, thus leading to the posi-
bility of imperialist war. He declared
that events in China have intensified
the imperialist hostility against the
Soviet Union, since the latter is the
friend of all struggling for liberation.
British Inspired Raids.
The ARGOS raid and the raids on
the Soviet consuls in Picking and
Shanghai We're instigated by British
imperialists to provoke Russia to de-
(AStLN "CAs AlC Sdll. IJGcldIlOg Jn9t
the Russian people must be congratu-
lated on their policy of peace in the
face of such provocation, the speaker
declared that the wisdom of the east
is superior to the diplomacy of the
west.
The workers must defend the Sow
let Union, he said, and prevent war
also for their own interests. If the
Chinese Revolution is crushed and
capitalist governments concentrate
their attack on the Soviet Union they
will chain more firmly than ever the
workers of every country Every
delegate present must take a solemn
pledge to do everything possible, on
return to their respective countries,
to stop the preparation for war
against the Soviet Union and to make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

further intervention in China impos-
sible; to prevent the manufacture of
munitions, the transport of troops,
etc, against any country struggling
for freedom
Henri Barbusse, noted French au-
thor, gave a picture of the great
achievements Of the November Revo-
luton, notwithstanding the hostility
of the rest of the world. He said that
the Soviet Union had built up monu-
mental work of peace and human
progress, Barbusae pointed out the
danger Of not realizing the immin-
ence of war The imperialists, he de-
clared, are planning a war against
the Soviet Union because the latter
threatens the existence of world capt.
talism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
NEWS FROM THE u. S. S. R.

A great deal has been done to i'm
prove agricultural methods. Towards
the beginning of 1926, the more than
three-fields crop rotation system had
been adopted by 1,305,00 peasant
farms. Prior to the war, only y per
cent of the sowing area was cultivated
according to this system.
Use More Machines.
The use of assorted seed is becom-
ing more and more general. During
last year alone, the peasantry were
supplied with about 100000 pools
assorted seed. The use of machinery
is becoming more general in the coun-
tryside. In 1913, 87,000,000 roubles
were spent to provide the country
side with machinery, and 102,000,000
roubles in 1927. Five million cooper
ative members receive machinery on
credit, that is to say one-fifth of all
peasant farms.
Agricultural cooperation is grow
ing. At the end of 1926 such coop
eratives had over million members.
Last year alone the turnover of CO.
operatives increased from 500 million
roubles to 1885 million roubles. On
the whole, cooperatives are response
bic for 81 per cent of the total col
lection and storage of butter.
In the course of last year, over 10
million peasants profited by various
forms Of propagation of agronomic
knowledge.
AS result of this, already at the
beginning of 1927, the sowing area Of
the Union was nearly 81 per cent
of the pre-war sowing area, the area
under seed for technical purposes
so important to the whole national
economy-occupying 100 per cent Of
the pre-war area.
The total production Of agriculture
has reached 1912 per cent of pre-war
production. In the coming new finan-
ciai year, 1928 agriculture will
continue making steady progress.
Growth of Workers Co0peratives.
Urban workers consumers cooper
atives in the L. S. s. K. have been
steadily increasing and developing in
the course of the last few years.
In l926-27, the number Of share
holders increased from AZ to over 5
million. The number OF cooperative
shops and stores increased by 1900.
The turnover in 1926-27 amounted to
$500 million roubles against 2,113
million roubles in 1885. Coopera-
tives were responsible for so per cent
of the budget of working class FAM
lilies.
Control figures for 1929 indi-
cate 20 per cent increase of turn
over and 35 per cent increase in the
proportional weight Of agricultural
produce in the turnover of agricul-
tural cooperatives. According to con-
troll figures, the number of sharehoid-
Iers III workers cooperatives should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
Leave Of Absence For prisoner

U
On April 21st, 1925, the Presidium
of the All-Union Central Executive
Committee issued an order, accord
ing to which peasants being in prison
for offenses not of serious nature,
are allowed to go home during the
summer for field work. Provided they
do not commit more offenses during
their leave of absence, but use it for
the right purpose, this period is in
cluded into their term of imprison-
ment on their return.
This measure has certainly given
positive results. 1869 peasants re-
ceived leave Of absence during the
summer Of 1925. Although these peo-
pie are perfectly free in their move
ments, only 4 per cent did not re-
turn.
All Return.
During the summer season of 1925
and 1926, 1915 per cent of such tenn
porarily released prisoners returned
to the place of their incarceration,
9.7 per cent We're late, and or. per
cent returned before the expiration of
their leave at the request of the local
population.
Thus, only 7 of the 1000 temporar-
lily released prisoners gave displea-
sure to the population by their con-
duct. Many Of those who were late
gave good reasons for being so and
this extra time was included into
their term of Imprisonment.
The State of Agriculture.
Through the November revolution,
o0,000,000 hectares have been added
to the area of peasant land in the
European part of the U. S. S. r. The
peasants were given land which for
merly belonged to big landlords and
the clergy, and also appanages of
members of the eX-czarst family, AS
a result of the redistribution of land
in the villages themselves, about 5O,-
100000 hectares were taken away
from the kulak section of the peas
antry In this manner, poor peasants
received after the November revolu-
ton 100,000000 hectares.
But during the imperialist and civil
wars, and also owing to bad harvests,
sowing areas decreased considerably.
To remedy this, help on a large scale
had to be given to the peasantry in
the form of seed loans. Between 1918
and 1927, the state supplied the pea
SAINT population with 3,147,000 tons
seed, over half of which was gift
and not loan. Two-thirds of this
amount were given to the poorest
peasant population and the remainder
to middle peasants.
Improve Methods
1t is entirely due to this assistance
of the government which made it pos
sible to reestablish in comparatively
short time, the sowing area and to
strengthen peasant farming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
go End pea
Savings Bank Campaign.

During the Moscow campaign TO-
0l9 new depositors have been secured
for the savings bank and their de-
posts amount to 5,l48,000 roubles.
During the same period, $4,000 rou-
bles worth Of loan bonds were sold by
the savings banks.
The figures on hand show that
wages increase side by side with the
naturalization of industry.
Labor Protection in the L. s. S. X.
The pneumatic hammer and electric
drill are now applied in the mechan-
ised mines Of the L. S. s. 4. Accord
ing to the miners union the employ
ment of these instruments is less in
furious to the health Of the workers
than Handwriting as less dust gets
into the workers lungs.
The miners union therefore pro-
posed to the Peoples Commissariat of
Labor to include the drillers in the
list Of trades which entitle employees
to longer holiday tone month in
stead ftwo weeks with full pay.
The Peoples Commissariat of Labor
accepted the proposal
210 New Workers Clubs.
Extensive building of new clubs and
huge labor palaces has been under
taken this year in the L. S, S. r.
According to incomplete figures 210
new clubs are now under construction.
The metal workers built Is clubs, the
textile workers 25 clubs, the railway
workers %, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
INDIAN WORKERS
LIVE MISERAbLy
IN Mill TOWNS
Bv TOM BARKER.

LONDON, Nov. 13 (FP) .-"It is al
most unbelievable that people can live
under such CHASTITY conditions" says
B. s. Rowntree in an article on. Bonn
bay housing in the Cocoa Workers
Magazine.
81 was shown some Of the 'chawls' .,
he says, that is the name used to
designate a workman's dwelling. Each
chawl consists of one room about 10
#. by 12ft. with small window and
no chimney They open into the side
of dark dirty passage, and the whole
building is tumble-down, dark, dingy
and dirty,--a miserable place to live
in. They pay dollar month for
such a room and usually two families
occupy one ROOM"
Goats, Dogs, Men.
Speaking of other privately owned
residential areas he offers a graphic
description of the unfortunate cotton
workers of British India 1--WE pass
out of broad thoroughfare into an
open alley and out of this we enter
narrower alley Uttered with filth,
sunless and sinking; goats are lying
about and here and there a miserable
dog.
From this alley we enter a tene-
ment so dark that at first we can see
nothing--the atmosphere is full of
the smoke of dry COW dung and little
wood made into fire. It emits much
smoke which escapes furtively thru
half closed ventilators.
Do Best They Can.
"The walls and floors of cement are
dark with smoke and dirt. The in
habitants sleep on the floor, there is
no furniture. Yet, the brass and cop
per cooking utensils are scrupulously
clean"
AS for sanitation, "two filthy
latrlnes serve for the people on the
whole floor" A rubbish shoot passes
from the top to the bottom of the
building and heaps of rubbish lie high
i'll a space between two rooms and
open to the main passage. In one
tenement the rains pours in to the
attics during the rainy season.
To get into q better room KEY
money of from SIS to $40 must be Civ
en- the landlords agent. How diff
cult this will be can be gagged from,
the fact that day workers receive S11
month for GO hours week. Spin
ners sometimes make as much as Sle
a month.
Under such conditions the workers
OF Bombay are housed. Truly
writes Rowntree, "they are housed
worse than CATTLE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

ton at a most difficult period, and
for which he was sentenced to death;
Bella Kun, who organized the first de-
tachment of foreign workers who
fought against German occupied
forces in 1918; and Tehang Go Tas,
organizing chief of the Chinese peas
ant contingents who led many work
ers' contingents against the bour-
geoisie, striving to establish a revo-
lutionary united front of the workers
Of the east with the workers of the
Soviet Union and the whole world.
World Workers Helped Revolution.
Foroshilov, amid impressive silence,
told over 1000 delegates that from
the first days Of it's existence the
Soviet Union had always the active
aid of the international proletariat
and the working masses of the east.
During the difficult years of the civil
war, when the workers and peasants
repulsed the foreign attacks and
white guards, the workers of
France, Germany, England, Italy and
other countries refused to fight
against the prcletarian revolution,
raising the red flag in spite Of bloody
oppression.
Shook Capitalism.
Inspired by the glorious deeds of
the November Revolution, the work
ers Of the world shook the founda-
tions Of capitalism, inflicting crush
ing defeats upon the bourgeoisie. Tho
separated by national boundaries the
action of the revolutionary masses
nevertheless ameliorated the situation
of the Soviet Union, contributing to
the victory Of the Red Army over
numerous enemies. On this anniver-
sary Of the victory of the working
class, declared Voroshilov, is a SOU
venir Of the international solidarity
Of the proletariat thru years of civil
war and token Of the fraternal unity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
Just Like 1918.

Conditions today are identical to
those just prior to the world war,
Barbusse continued. He enumerated
the various stages of British policy
toward Soviet Russia due to the de
cline of the British Empire and the
need for sterilization at the expense
Of the colonial workers and home
workers. France, tho more timid,
is nevertheless subservient to British
policy. The congress must not be con-
tent with declarations, concluded Bar
busse, but must organize against war.
Tomsky Speaks.
Tomsky, head of the All-Russian
Trade Union, received a tremendous
ovation when he arose to speak. He
declared that many failed to realize
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
Improve Methods

1t is entirely due to this assistance
of the government which made it pos
sible to reestablish in a comparatively
short time, the sowing area and to
strengthen peasant farming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

reach Sc million by October LIST,
1928.
Agricultural Tax.
The campaign for the collection OF
the agricultural tax in north Caucasus
is proceeding satisfactorily. Accord
ing to preliminary information 10
million roubles lover so per cent of
the annual amount) have already been
collected. Many poor and middle
peasants paid the tax even before it
was due.
Provinces and State Loans.
Formerly, state loans depended for
their success mainly on Moscow and
other big centers. Lately, owing to
the growing well-being and cultural
development of the whole population,
the provinces begin to play an impor-
tant role as holders of state bonds.
This is shown by the following table.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
Defend Workers State

, the imminence of war The causes Of
war, he said, are now more acute
than prior to the imperialist war Of
1914. The political side Of the new
alliances, forming new alignment of
capitalist forces, makes a new inn
perialist war inevitable. The eco
nomic side Of the naturalization Of
, industry has proved the acuteness Of
the riyalries between the capitalist
powers; the rapid growth of industry
in the colonies compared with home
industry, he said, is another factor
leading to war situation
Previous wars, said Tomsky, APP
piled only to the front and the home
Future wars will be between whole
nations, and women and children will
suffer equally with the men in the
trenches. II is impossible to fight
war. Tomsky declared, without COM
batting imperialism at the same
time-exposing its aims to the work
ing class.
Why Glass Peace.
The retarding factors in the war
danger, the speaker said, is the fear
of resistance by the working class and
the fact that one-sixth of the globe
is controlled by the workers. In order
to conduct war, he said, the CAPT
taists require peace at home. Hence
the present reaction against the
workers, particularly in England. The
Russian workers called upon the Brit
ish workers to resist attempts to be-
ing driven to slaughter and TO pre-
vent the destruction of the workers
in the Soviet Union.
When to Stop War.
Tomsky exposed the futility of
those who declare that on an outbreak
of war that the people would oppose
it, pointing out that the people did
not rule and would be powerless to
stop a war at that time. He reminded
the delegates of the action of the So
cial-democrats at the outbreak of the
last war. The next war, he said,
would again be to defend the father
land" etc.
Tomsky emphasized the Importance
also of combating opportunism. The
social-democrats, he declared. do not
oppose violence against the workers
but shouted when the Soviet Union
executed few counter-revolution
aries in self defense.
Referring to the disarmament con-
ference, he declared that the Soviet
Union would support every radical
proposal for disarmament while at
the same time seeing in the confer
ence merely an attempt on the part
Of the imperialists to deceive the
workers. He emphasized the neces-
sity of daily propaganda against war
and for preparing the workers on the
outbreak of war to convert the inn
perialist war into a civil war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
THE FOLLOWING NEW READERS SEND THEIR GREET
lNCS TO THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION or
THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF The RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

j. Muikin
Harold Bennett
Anton Vlasok
w. B. Beier
L. Csakany
S. A. Nelson
M. Stojewa
f. E. Bjercke
w. Wisniewski
NJ. Jensen
f. Orloff
II. w. Eklund
J. Knutzan
K. w. Browder
r. Ray
Anna BurlalS
c. c. Wheeler
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

Ida Tachinsky
Olive Dargan
Joe Vasnica
|. V. Panack
Oliver A. Butler
Sylvia Lindgren
Arvo Mandel
Jack Jarvi
A. Feinberg
Minnie Karasick
T. II. Stone
David Kinbread
j. Rosenstein
S. A. Casper
Steve Staicowf
Fred Ksendzow
z. Z. Miller
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

Peter Roucofr
f. Swenson
NJ. Shear
F. Josephson
C. Carlgreen
Sam Crestin
Jacob Cohen
Pete Ordanoff
Pete Martinovich
Philip l.. Greene
Nick Teutul
Esther Weissman
Joseph Restako
j. c. Patterson
Frank FARRELL
Geo. Reader
Martin Saline
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

Rebel Artists
Workers
Play
Come and
Hoof
Your
Cares Away
Put Some Passion
And Sash On
Let Loose
In True
RebelliOus Fashion.
at the
NEW MASSES
Anniversary Workers
Peasants Costume BAN
Friday Evening, December 2, 8 o'clock
Webster Hall
ll9 East 18th Street
Tickets: $3.50 in Advance
$500 at the Door
for sale at Jimmie Higgins Book Shop
10G University Place
Rand School, East 18th St.
or by Mail from New Masses
30 Union Square
Algonquin 4445.
Vernon Aadfo1 Rennais
and Orchestra.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-19
GIRL CLAIMS She
IS ATTACK victim
Says Soldier at Camp DeYens
Assaulted Her

Camp pevens, Aver, Mass, July
19.-LP>-A young woman who gave
name of Pearl Agurkman OF West
Lynn, stumbled out of the woods
into a roadway at Camp Devens to-
day, called for water and collapsed.
She was taken to the station hos
pital and after recovering conscious
ness told Major James A. Stevens,
executive officer, that she had been
attacked by soldier.
There was a severe cut over her
her right eye, both eyes were black
ened, hr throat was black and blue
and her fingers were bruised. Her
clothing was torn.
After she had told her story
James Farnsworth, a private in
Company K, 18th Infantry, was ar
rested and placed in the camp
guardhouse pending an investiga-
ton. He denied having attacked the
woman.
She said that she came here last
night to attend an enlisted mems
dance. She refused to say what &C.
CURED during the evening but said
that after daylight this morning the
soldier attacked her while she was in
the woods, choked her and carried
her into an unoccupied building,
then went away.
Hospital physicians expressed the
belief that she had either been hit
over the head or had hurt her head
in falling.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-19
Trial Flight Today.

Mitchell Field, N. Y, July 10 P)
Charles A. Lindbergh flew to New
Jersey this morning to get his trans
atlantic plane 1.-THE Spirit Of st.
Louis" preparatory to beginning an
air tour of the country in the inter-
ests of aviation.
Lindbergh arrived here shortly
before eight o'clock. having forgot
ten whether his appointment with
Charles L. Lawrence. president OF
Wright Aeronautical Corporation.
was for eight or nine o'clock. When
he found it was for nine he took up
the Wright service plane which had
been sent for him and for half an
hour treated the army post to an
exhibition of side stepping and loops.
Lawrence arrived promptly and
the plane Left at $50 for Tetboro
airport with Lindbergh at the con-
trolls. Lawrence and Lew Gowder,
the planes regular pilot, rode as
passengers. From Tetboro the filters
planned to proceed by autom obile
to Pearson, N. j., where the Spirit
has been overhauled at the Wright
factory.