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Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-03
STATE PRESIDENT
TO VISIT LEGION
AUXILIARY TONIGHT

The local Auxiliary OF the Ameri-
can Legion will have the privilege
tonight of entertaining the state
president of the organization, Mrs.
Ethel NJ. Hurst
Dinner will be served at Las Flor
IS at o'clock with Mrs. Hurst as
honor guest and large attendance
of members is anticipated as the op-
portunity of meeting the state presi-
dent is regarded as great stimu-
liant to local interest in auxiliary
affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-03

CaleXico to become Mexican consu,
in that city, when his machine 6ver
turned, pinning him beneath it and
inflicting serious injuries. Obregor
has been in the Mexican consular
service for the past seven years, anG
is held in high esteem by his uncle.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-03
Young Obregon
Seriously Hurt

Lambcrto Obrcgon, -, nephew of
General Obrcgou of Mexico, is re-
ported dying in an FL Paso, Texas
hospital, following an automobile
accident near Van horn, Texas, last
week.
Young Obrcgan was on his way to
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-03
Search For Men
Called Off

Deputy sheriffs gathered at head
tquarters early this morning to be-
gin search between here and Riv-
erside for c. T. Gibson, Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1928-04-03

The value of the city water sup
ply which Fresno proposes to buy
has been placed at $2,034, jas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

William Green president of the American Federation OF
Labor celebrated May Day pulling off neat strebreang
any other adept professional capitalist stool pigeon could
have pulled.
He issued all unions affiliated with the American
Federation denouncing the PennsyvaniaOho Miners
Relief Committee the National Miners Relief Committee
urging affiliated bodies not to contribute money to It's re
fund for the striking miners.
In fourteenth month of the coal miners strike in Pennsy
vana West Virginia the ranks of which has been
recently added thousands in Illinois, Kansas and the unor
ganzed fields of West Pennsylvania this capitalist turnkey IN
mobng all the energies of the American Federation OF
winning of the strike fit to weaken the resist
ance attacking their rank and file relief organ
cation.
Had Green donned miners work clothes and equipped
with and lamp descended into scab mine to dig coal ne
done injury to the of the strikers
The operators depending the OF starvation TO
break the strike They know that the scan
savings the coal gg have long since been exhausted he
know depend the solidarity OF the rest
American working class provide them with the necess
until they win their strike And instead of inducing
the international unions dig down into their mil
ionoar contributions miners relief Green does
his place obstacles in the of the only relief
qanzation making serious effort to mobilize the entire
American working behind the coal diggers struggle
The answer the members of the American Federation of
Labor latest skebreang stunt must be increase
their activities tenod and to increase their contributions
burgh Pa.
Show SIP 000ayear srkebreaker that will not let
your brothers be starved into submission.
The miners must win
Feed them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

'one concern or trust for joint action
against concentrated capitalism, each
individual factory council, however,
to retain it's separate existence.
5. To devote special efforts to es-
tablish various mixed committees,
councils of action and other united
front organs in conjunction with the
workers in reformist factory trade
union organizations, as well as with
the unorganized workers on the basis
of definite concrete tasks.
6. To develop a militant trade
press, to publish special revolutionary
trade union literature, to help in the
establishment of Unity Clubs, etc.
Where Minority Exists.
For countries where trere is an
organized opposition minority (Great
Brittany the most important organ
national tasks are:
/. To draw as many complete trade
union organizations and trades coun-
ellis as possible into the opposition
movement.
2. To carry on struggle in the
local bodies on questions of wages,
policy, industrial peace, etc.
3. Increasingly to explain the
causes of the defeat of the recent
industrial struggles and to drive home
the lesson of the need for a change
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

till 2 p. m.-classes; from 2 p. m.
till p. m.-study; in the evenings
participation in some important or
responsible manner in the work of
the Communist Party or the labor
movement in general-this is the
schedule of the National Students;
that is, of the students who will, as
a result, be better, more militant
and capable fighters for the Amer
lean working class. From their
midst will come organizers, editors,
teachers, trade union leaders, agi-
tators fighters to the
cause of labor. All sections of the
country will benefit. These stu
dents will go back and teach the
lessons they learned. This will help
the weaker sections of the country.
And it will even be possible to send
some organizers to do pioneer work
for the revolutionary labor move
ment in unorganized territories.
The real value of the Workers
School, however, lies not so much in
the work that it has done but in
the work that it will do. May l.,
1927, and May 1, 1928, are impor-
tant. But May 1, 1929 and May l.,
1880, are more important. What
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
The Tasks of the Communists in the Trade Unions

>mation of Negro workers unions
with the trade union organizations
of the white workers in the same
branches of industry.
In spite of the efforts of the cor
rupt bureaucracy to prevent the left
wing from capturing the miners
union by cunning and violence, Com
munists must not leave this
union. In view of the decline Of the
miners union, however, the left ele-
ments must take the initiative in
forming new local trade unions in
coal mining districts where workers
are not organized and in places where
the miners organizations have been
destroyed or have fallen to pieces.
The whole purpose of the organiza-i
tional work is Systematically to win
over the masses. 1t is from this point
of view that every organizational
measure, and every step in our prac-
teal work must be regarded. This
is precisely why the ways and means
of organizational work are so varied,
and why it is impossible to lay down
general and fixed rules for all coun-i
tries. Organizational work requires
a serious knowledge of the trade
union movement and great flexibility
in the application of revolutionary
tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

ers for the working class who, be-
cause of their training at the school,
can fight more effectively for their
class. It's students belong to unions,
to workers clubs, to workers fra
ternal organizations. It's students
are workers in the shops and fac
tories and offices. It's student
workers carry the lessons of the
school-the spirit and militancy of
the school-the ability to handle
and meet workers problems in ac-
cordance with the needs of the en-
tire working class-carry all this
into the shops, into the workers
organizations, into the very midst
of large sections of the working
class. Some of the student-workers
at the school are leaders in the
working class Observation-Disclosures in
the unions, in the shops. While at
tending the school, they are better
able to carry thru the tasks of eff
fective leadership.
But the Workers School could not
and cannot afford to stand still. By
it's very nature-as part and parcel
of the class conscious section of the
American working class-it must
grow and develop if it is to carry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
N. Y. Workers School a Force in Labor

will the militant labor movement be
able to say of the school next year
and the year following that? What
accomplishment will the Workers
School have to its credit in the COM
ing year?
Confident of Future.
This much the Workers School
can answer. 1t looks upon the fu-
ture with determination and work.
ing class confidence. 1t is proud of
the responsibilities facing it. 1t ac-
cepts them. 1t recognizes the tre-
mendous problems facing the work
ing class today. But it also sees
the opportunities. The working class
needs more trained fighters. The
working class needs more devoted
fighters. The working class needs
class leaders.
The Workers School had good
cause this year to celebrate May
First. 1t pledges again its devotion
to the struggle of the working class.
The Workers School is determined
that May Day of next year, of 1929,
will witness a bigger celebration,
will see even bigger steps forward
taken by the school and by the
American working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

out its purpose. And the school has
not failed in this. From class
room years ago to rooms to-
day; from IS students to 1900 stu
dents in the same period of time
this has been the history of the
school.
New Quarters.
On May Day the Workers School
moved into a new building whore it
will have IL large rooms, capable
of taking care of 1000 students
comfortably. 1t has complete
floor to itself and will therefore be
in a position to organize its work
more efficiently and in manner
that will satisfy the students. It
is in position to expand and take
over another floor the following
year if its needs and the needs of
the militant labor movement of this
city so require.
Then there is the step of the es-
Establishment of the National Train
ing School. Can one overestimate
. its Importance? Twenty-Five lead
ing comrades from all over the coun-
try-from California to Connecticut,
from Canada to Colorado-are at
tending its classes. From 8 a. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
By D. BENJAMIN.

The Workers School had good
cause to celebrate May Day this
year. With the most successful
year in its history (13OO registered
in the fall term; with the estab-
Hshment for the first time of a full
time national training course Cat
tended by % leading comrades from
practically every district in the
country); with the moving into new
and larger quarters at 1928 Union
Square Capable of taking care of
over 1000 students)-with all these
and much more having taken place,
the Workers School can well say
that the year, May 1, 1927 to May
l, 1928, has fulfilled to some
extent at least the slogan of the
Workers School, Training for the
Class Struggle"
Role of Workers School.
The Workers School is a force in
the working class movement and is
a tremendous weapon in the hands
of the American revolutionary
movement. It's thousands of stu
dents are not students in the aca-
demic sense but are militant fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

painters trade who writes: we shall
never adopt effective means of pre-
venting lead poisoning in industry I'M
til we accept the fact that the danger
lies in the air the workman breathes
more than in his personal habits.
American industry is still largely
dominated by the old idea that a
worker acquires poisoning from the
lead of his hands and that the way
to protect him is to urge him to wash
thoroughly before eating, laying
special stress on the Importance of
scrubbing his finger nails. have
never been able to picture to myself
just how the employer and the physi-
clan think that the lead under a
mans finger nails gets into his blood
As a matter of fact this source OF
poisoning is relatively unimportant
Men do not habitually suck their
fingers; they eat only three meals q
day, but they breathe in the factory
air some fourteen times a minute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

wards organizing the unorganized
masses of unskilled and semi-skilled
workers. The slogan Organize the
Unorganized" must, not be call to
the corrupt trade union bureaucracy
which rejects the task of organizing
the working masses; neither must it
be a one-sided call to the existing
trade unions, but must be the basis
of the activity of the Communist
Party itself. The Communist Party
must on it's own accord organize trade
unions in those branches of industry
where workers are not organized at
all or very inadequately organized
(the steel, automobile, rubber, boot
and textile industries, transport
service, etc..
At the same time Communists must
continue and increase their activity
in trade unions affiliated to the reac-
tionary American Federation of La
Dor in order to form a strong left
wing in it.
AS many trade unions refuse to
admit Negro workers to member
ship, the Communist Party must take
the initiative in forming trade unions
for Negro workers. simultaneously,
lit must continue the struggle for the
admission of Negro workers to the
existing trade unions. Communists
must put up fight for the amalga-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
May Day Features New
Issue of LID. Bulletin

May Day occupies the place of
prominence in the May issue of the
Labor Defense Bulletin, which is pub
lished monthly by the New York sec
ton of the international Labor De-
Tense, 799 Broadway. The leading ar
tic1e discusses ttfie significance of this
international working class holiday
and urges all class-conscious workers
to. join in the fight to free the vic
tins of the class war.
With the May issue, the Labor De-
Tense Bulletin has for the first time
been increased to eight pages. The
first number of the Bulletin, which
appeared in January, was only four
pages, and the magazine has thus
doubled it's size within four months
The Bulletin gives news Of persecu-
tions of workers throughout the world
and also contains details of the new
mass movement that the Internation-
al Labor Defense is starting to free
Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings
An item of especial interest are the
statistics of prosecutions of revolu-
tionary workers and peasants
throughout the world during the last
three years. These statistics, pub
lished by the International Red Aid
show that total of 86,591 workers
and peasants were murdered and 92,-
$40 wounded by the bourgeoisie from
1925 to 1928. There are at present
64,552 victims of the class war in the
prisons of capitalism.
y The cover design of the Bulletin is
by Lillian Finkler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

the STANDPOINT OIL OccupdClOHdl poi-
sons asks the Workers Health
Bureau in a warning issued yesterday
to members of the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers of America to vote down
every agreement and industrial code
which accepts the use of the spray
painting machine in their industry.
mo protection against this machine
exists in the house painting industry,
the statement continues, where ven
tilation depends on the construction
of the particular room, closet or hall
way being painted, and where the
most dangerous poisons continue to
be used without regulation. Painters
are not even aware of the poisons
they are using as labels on the con-
tanners are for the purpose of pro-
lection against impurities in paint
materials and not for the protection
Of health.
In Constant Danger.
"Even where carried on in specially
constructed booths with a provision
for 100 feet of air constantly passing
by the working face of the booth and
where lead, benzol and wood alcohol
have been removed from spray
materials, there is no assurance that
workers will not be poisoned" con.
.tinues the Workers Health Bureau.
"Unorganized workers have beer
forced to accept the spray machine
in furniture factories, automobile anC
car painting but at a terrible sacri
flee to life and health. The organized
house painter has heretofore I'M
qualifiedly opposed its use. II
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California
and Colorado, the Workers Health
Bureau has assisted painters union:
in opposing the acceptance of any
regulations put forward as guarantee.
ing protection and has consistently
fought against allowing the interpre
tation that medical examinations anc
the provision of sanitary safeguards
will prevent lead and other poisons
Serious Situation.
THAT such recommendations nov
come from the union itself is cause
for serious alarm on the part of the
membership" states the Bureau add
ing, "our attention was forcefully
called to the seriousness Of the situa
ton when we examined the renorr
by the executive board of the Ohio
State Conference of Painters and pub
lished in the February issue of the
Ohio Painter. Their statement tha
The elimination of trade hazards
rests with the painter himself anc
his observance of the ordinary rules
Of personal hygiene is emphaticall,
denied by the Workers Health
Bureau quoting DR.. Alico Hamilton
Of Harvard University, an interna
tional expert on diseased in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

Tobless Hold
Meet May 9
Bv B. HERMAN.

AN unemployed mass meeting Will
n be held on Wednesday, May 9Th,
at Q D. m. at Grand Fraternity Hall,
1928 Arch St., by the Philadelphia
Council of Unemployed, This meet
ing will be the elimination OF a
whole series of meetings thruout
the city, in West Philadelphia, Ken
sington and South Philadelphia. AT
this meeting all the councils OF I'M
employed will be present and del
egation will be elected to visit the
city officials and demand that the
city provide relief for the unemploy-
ed, that system of unemployed
insurance be instituted that the UNI
employed should not be evicted for
non-payment of rent.
1t will mark big step forward
in the movement to organize the UNI
employed in Philadelphia. All UNI
employed workers are invited to
this meeting.
The city administration has mil
lions for wealthy contractors, mil
lions for bankers and real estate
and traction magnates, but the 1867
600 unemployed in Philadelphia
haven't gotten anything in the way
of relief. The republican admin
istration of Philadelphia and of the
state of Pennsylvania feels so
securely in the saddle, that it does
not even make a pretense of relief
for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
,eplace Men in Auto Industry; Slave 54-Hour w

absorbed the worker has breathed
them in for several minutes. Work
ing for nine or ten hours day in
a sitting, paint-laden atmosphere
standing continuously, going through
the active muscular exertion re-
quired by spraying, covered with
grease and paint, breathing in fumes
which smart the eyes, throat and
nostrils, this job is truly hell and the
companies such as the Ainsworth,
crying disgrace. With the cheaper
copanies such as the Ainsworth, a
girl may work 81 hours or more
week on this exhausting and I'M
healthy job and only bring home
II or is dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

has had a wage cut, the single girls
father can't keep her any more.
So she gets job in an auto factory.
At the same time, of course,
wages come down. Where the for
mer skilled man would get dollar
and half per hour on the job, the
girl now works for 35 cents. The
man walks the street, or makes up
his mind to go back for half the
wages on "production"--a general
term which covers all sorts of I'M
skilled and semi-skilled processes.
Some of the worst companies in
town such as Briggs, known for
their rotten conditions and bitter ex-
ploitation. employ women on ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

>of leaders.
4. To carry on relentless struggle
against the slightest infringement of
trade union democracy, explosions,
etc.
For countries where an organized
opposition does not exist and where
work is carried on only by fractions
Germany, Austria and others) all
the efforts must be directed towards !:
1. Forming fractions according to
industries, districts and on a national
scale.
2. Appointing for every big enter
prise special trade union organizer
for permanent work among the or
ganized and unorganized.
8. Struggle against bureaucratic
centralism in the trade union move
ment and for extension of the rights
of local trade unions and trades
councils.
Tasks for American Party.
In the United States where the
overwhelming majority of workers
are unorganized, where members of
the existing trade unions are recruit
ed mainly from the midst of skilled
rworkers-the labor aristocracy, where
the most important trade unions are
undergoing process of disintegra-
ton, all Communist work in trade
unions must be directed mainly to-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

tremely heavy jobs. For example,
on the big punch-presses, Bottom
machines, which must be lifted by
the worker, where the piece punched
out may weigh over hundred
pounds, two girls are put together
on such machines. There is con-
slant danger Of losing fingers or
hands on such a job.
Ruin Women Health
Women are being taken on spray
ing increasingly too. This job is
known for one Of the unhealthiest
in the whole industry. While the
booths may be equipped with sue
tion blowers, this draws off the
fumes so slowly that before they are.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
HOW POWER TRUST WORKS

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Methods
of public utilities organizations in in
fluencing high school students against
municipality operated electric light
plants in Connecticut were revealed
at the Federal Trade Commissions
Power Trust Investigation.
Clarence G. Willard said that a
catechism on utilities was furnished
to most of the state high schools. The
pamphlet said publicly owned utilities
charged higher rates, were less eff
GENTLY operated and were injected
into politics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

The automobile industry is draw
ing the women into the ranks of it's
workers in ever-increasing numbers.
Five years ago there were 5000
women auto workers in Detroit; to-
day there are 10000. They are
being taken on the heaviest, dirti-
est, unhealthiest of jobs.
The bosses are preferring women
for some lines. No need to inquire
the reason-they can get them for
rs and 35 cents an hour. Young
and not-so-young, married and sin
gle, today they need work more
than ever before. The married
woman,s husband is ont q. work Or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04

Inc JOCCOWLItY T6SOtNCtOH tVuo uUVPt-
ed BIZ the Enecutive Committee of the
Communist International on Febrat-
arg rs, 1923.
CONTINUED from Previous Issue).
In regard to the organizational
tasks of the Communists in countries
where the trade union movement is
split, it is essential first of all to
deal with the work and shortcomings
Of the independent revolutionary trade
unions in these countries France,
Czechoslovakia, and others). In these
countries it is essential:
1. theoretically to recruit new
members first and foremost among
unorganized workers, taking partic-
ular advantage of periods of mass
movements.
2. To carry on a struggle against
fluctuation of membership by the es-
tablishment of fighting funds, mutual
aids funds, etc.
3. To reconstruct the trade unions
on an industrial basis without forcing
the pace, however, and without re-
sorting to mechanical fusions.
A. To combine the factory councils
Of all enterprises forming part of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
Women Must Organize

Equal pay for equal work is one
crying need for the women in this
industry. They should be kept oft
the night shift and off the particu-
larly unhealthy or dangerous jobs.
They should have yearly vacation
with pay. Free nurseries should be
maintained by the city where the
working mother could leave her
baby instead of hiring some one at
home, which eats up nearly all her
wages. For expectant mothers
there should be two months vaca-
ton before and after childbirth, with
pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-04
PAINTERS ENDANGERED
BY SPRAYING DEVICE

allow themselves to be made the victims of
which
industry known be of the most dangerous from