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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Organize Shoe Workers

The shoe workers of Greater New York
numbering from thirty-five to forty thousand
workers, constitute a group of horribly ex-
plotted workers, at the present time at the
complete mercy of the bosses. All the evils
of large shops on the one hand and hundreds
sof small shops operated by thieving cock
roach bosses on the other affect the men.
women and youth who toll over benches MAX
ing shoes.
This condition of the shoe workers is due
for the most part to the thoroughly con-
temptible role as agents of the bosses at the
head of the alleged unions in the industry.
The Boot and Shoe Union is VIGOROUSLY
company union that always aids the bosses
beat down wages lengthen hours and uphold
any Objectionable conditions the bosses de-
mand. The Protective Union tries to Guido
the Boot and Shoe in the contest to deter
mine which shall have the privilege Of betray-
ing the shoe workers.
SO bad have conditions become, and so
many have been the wage cuts and the shop
tyranny through the imposition of fines
against the workers on the slightest pretext,
that there exists big sentiment for real
labor organization. That demand has been
met by the organization of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union, which has started an
intensive organizational drive. In Brooklyn,
an organizational meeting is being held to-
night at Lorraine Hall, 100 Broadway. Every
shoe worker should attend that meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Defense For Workers

The international Labor Defense, which is
a non-partisan, workers organization, is
carrying on an important task in defending
at the present time more than 1900 working
class fightersswh have been victimized by
the capitalist courts. The international La
Dor Defense since its formation has appeared
as the shield of the workers in strikes and
wherever the police, the government and the
courts have been willing instruments Of the
employers in beating, failing and many times
numbering workers.
The organization is now defending nearly
700 textile workers before the courts of New
Bedford who have already been sentenced to
as high as three years Imprisonment. The
l. l.. D. is defending the Cheswick, Pa. work
ers who were arrested little over year
ago in Sacco-Vanzetti meeting and are now
facing trial in Pittsburgh. The 1. L. D. has
prevented the attempt to deport foreign born
workers on many occasions, as for example
the recent attempt to deport several Cali
fornia foreign born workers. The l. l.. D. has
been in the forefront of the campaign to free
Mooney and Billings and the Centralia
prisoners.
In its work the international Labor De-
tense exposes at all times the fact that in
imperialist America there is no ''justice" for
the working class, that the government, the
courts, the police and all other such "Ameri-
can" institutions are nothing but agents of
the bosses, servants of Wall Street and of the
employers. Only in their own organizations,
one of which is the international Labor De-
Tense can the workers find the strength to
fight against the persecution of such CAPT
talist institutions and to beat back The at
tacks of the master class in the courts of this
country.
AT the present time the international La
Dor Defense is conducting a Christmas cam
paign for funds to carry ION its work and to
fight for the workers involved in the cases
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
BY ANN STANLEY.

CHICAGO is famous for its
" Grows" There is the Automobile
Row, with its glittering windows
displaying the latest cars of all
makes; there is Machine Row, with
establishment after establishment
selling nothing but machinery; there
is Millionaire Row down along the
lake front, with its great stone
mansions, immense gardens, private
swimming pools and swimming
beaches, golf courses. Down Mil
lionaire Row play the men that
draw their living out of the bust
ness profits of Automobile Row,
Machine Row, Publishers Row and,
incidentally, Laundry Row.
Behind the glittering show win
dows of any of the business Grows"
one finds tired overworked stem
ographers and typists, clerks put
ting in ten to twelve hours daily
behind the counters and on the
floor, laborers, shifting heavy boxes,
machines and furniture, repairing,
sweeping, cleaning, doing heavy and
disagreeable tasks for twelve to
twenty dollars weekly, according to
the horse power contained in their
aged bodies.
Every "row" has it's club where
the members of the Association ian
organization of all the heads of the
different enterprises in the Row.
meet to eat, play billiards and dis
cuss ways and means of getting the
largest profits out of the business.
Enterprises whose heads belong to
this organization invariably work
their help longer and harder and
pay them less than individual enter
prises. Each Associa ton has its
own system of blacklist and a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
By GRACE HUTCHINS.N
Federated Press.

The slaughter of Colombia strik-
ers, shaving for S1.25 day, at the
behest of the United Fruit Com
pany, calls attention to the vast in
terests owned by the corporation,
to be protected by cannon of the
Colombian government.
Employing over $4,000 workers,
the fruit trust has almost monop-
oily Of banana imports into the U. s.
and England, handles half of the
worlds production, and is one of
the five largest producers of sugar
cane in Cuba. 1t operates SO steam
ers in the Caribbean trade, for trans
portation of company products
grown mainly on its own planta-
tons.
In seven or more countries, all
bordering on the Caribbean Sea,
the United Fruit Co. owns planta-
tions and other land, some, of it not
yet developed. 1t operates 2,200
miles of railways and tramways and
also its own warehouses, wharves
and docks in every principal port OF
the region. The corporation is now
planning an international air mai
and passenger route betwe.l the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
'Laundry Row. Is Workers Hell

ent. The bonus in laundry row
might consist of a few extra dollars
for having put in extra time during
the rush, pretty engraved Christ
mas card or merely a smiling "Mer-
ry Christmas" To be dismissed
after the temporary rush is over is
not unusual.
In later years the employers OF
Laundry Row" have taken advan-
tage of the unemployment crisis and
wages have come down, forces have
been cut in some cases by third
and hours have been heightened to
enable the remaining force to get
out the same volume of work.
The thorn in the side of Laundry
Row" is the existence of the "Team-
sters Union. Every stenographer
that works in the bookkeeping de-
partment of a laundry concern is
familiar with the red RACES that the
boss goes into over paying "out-
rageous wages" to these "bums" and
having to observe certain regula-
lions about hours, etc. Consequently
an eagle eye is kept on the workers
in the laundry and office for any
signs of "unionization." Any en-
ployee taken on, be it a sweeper OF
head stenographer, has his or he1
history carefully gone into and ref
erences checked up.
The great majority of workers ir
the laundry industry are young ano
over rs percent of them are women;
because the work requires no skill
or education but only fast fingers
and because the night shift is sc
convenient for them-mothers Of
small children often work here ir
order to piece out the family purse
which at best is very thin and dur.
ing the unemployment crisis he,
wages are often the only finances
coming into the family budget.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Kwangtung Peasants Fight Kuomintang Traitors

got only so guns and for each gun
80 shots. Breaking the surrounding
lines of the enemy, the peasants
rushed out from the city. The
troops were unable to catch them
This of course is partly because of
the braveness and skill of peasants,
but on the other hand it is greatly
to their good method Of propaganda
that made the soldiers sympathize
with them and carry out sabotages
The soldiers, moreover, when or
Fdered by the commanders to attack
OF to fire against the peasants, i'm
mediately informed the peasants all
about it and asked the peasants to
prepare. This is true even in the
last evacuation from the city that
the soldiers did not pursue the peas
ants on three sides,
Work in Armies.
The peasants in various places
consciously entered into the counter
revolutionary armies, and the army
of militia organized by the landlord
class. They could not remain at
home on account of their defeats in
uprisings and the increase of white
terror. Many of them went to the
mountains and settled there as band
its. Within the counter-revolution-
airy armies the propaganda Of the
peasants often leads to a catastrophe
in the enemies camps. They frank
ly declared: eve purposely go to
set the counter-revolutionary armies
to learn to shoot. We shall bring
back their guns to shoot the gen.
tries, the tanbows and the land
lords"
After the defeat of the Great Can
ton Uprising, workers and peasants
from different districts went in to
the armies. 1t is often discovered
in the reactionary army that SOL
diers bear two emblems, one is red
in color and the other white. The
latter is, of course, given by the
commanders, while the former is
prepared by the peasants themselves
for the time when they turn against
the militarists.
From all these facts, we conclude
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

worker found wanting in loyalty"
to his employer soon finds that the
Grow" will have no more of him.
Probably the Laundry Row is the
toughest one. Here no discrimina-
ton is made between the factory
worker and the office worker as far
as work, hours and wages goes, ex-
cept that the more militant spirit
of the factory worker has won
steadier hours, and pay for over
time. The heaviest work is usually
given to the Negro men and women
that the laundry employs. This
work is also the worst paid. AL
though Chicago is northern city,
discrimination is made between the
white and Negro worker by provid-
ing separate wash rooms and locker
rooms for the Negro workers. The
sign over the lavatory door, "For
white women only" means that the
lavatory on the other side of the
room is badly neglected, dirty and
usually the breeding place of ven
ereal disease.
The wages here are very low. Ne
gfo women will receive as low as
eight and ten dollars for a fifty
hour week. White women fare a
little better. They draw twelve to
eighteen dollars for the same
lengthy week. Hardness is pun
ished by docking" the wages; SO
much for every ten or fifteen min
utes of hardness. Absence because
of illness is never paid-if the alb
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Continued

CONGtHUeu
In those places where the peas
ants have not yet rebelled, and where
the power does not belong to the
Soviet, the life of peasants bitterly
suffers indescribably. The militar-
lists of the Kuomintang assumed
their rule by way of door to door
search, by way of helping CENTRES
to unite and establishing the army
of militia, by way of specializing
business, of raising of rent and pro-
fit, of demanding old debts, of eX-
change of landlords, refusing of
loans, and arrest, Imprisonment and
execution at the within of landlords,
CENTRES and compradores.
In Peh-kiang, in North iRver dis
trict, the peasants have saying,
when one eats only kangee, he
will be diabetic." This shows that
/ the peasant has not enough rice to
eat and too much kangee which is
mixture of water and very little
rice. In Dan-See Kiang, East and
West River) there is another say
ing, "Too much potatoes produced
too much gas!" This shows that the
peasants have not enough rice and
the daily eating of potatoes does not
furnish enough substance. All this
contributes to make the peasants
desperate and are causes that make
revolution in villages inevitable
They can be considered as the grave
diggers for the gentry and landlord
ass.
Win Soldiers.
Another very remarkable charac'
ter of the present peasant struggle
is expressed by ethe fact that the
soldiers in the militarist armies be.
come revolutionized. During the
process of deepening of agrariar
revolution the soldiers are sent tc
the front by the counter-revolution
airy officials to execute the peas.
ants. But the soldiers carried out
sabotages with the peasants, with
out any previous agreement. Some
of them even revolted against theii
commanders and went to the side
OF the peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Speed Up, Low Wages, Discrimination Against
Negroes in Chicago Factories

sence comes at an inopportune time
the luckless worker finds herself out
of job on her return. The condi-
tions under which the women work
are hard. The air is laden with
steam and the smell of hot soap and
dirty wash. The workers must stand
at their work and the speed-up sys-
tenn is well exploited here.
In the offices, except that less
steam and stink creeps in through
the doors and partitions that sep
arate the offices from the laundry,
the conditions are usually just as
bad. The hours are long, in rush
times reaching well into the night.
Help is hired sparingly and fired at
the least sign of slack work. The
help that manages to hang on to its
job any length of time is the girl
that puts in the most hours, says
nothing in regard to the meager-
ness of her wages and the heavy
ness of her work, and gets along
with the boss. The salaries are
very small. Twelve dollars for the
beginner or unskilled worker. Twen-
ty-five dollars is paid only to ex-
ceptional workers, those girls that
are put into more or less respqn-
sible positions, who do work that is
equivalent to that of manager who
earns three to four thousand year.
At Christmas the girls look for
ward to bonus as great majority
of small offices give their office em-
ployees bonus as a Christmas pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
"Good WHIP Toward Hoover

So deep is the mass hatred of the peoples
Of Latin-America against the ravenous, in
satiable imperialism of the United States of
North America that Hoovers good Will
tour is marked by heavy concentration of
troops in order to shield him from justifiable
fury The Latin-American masses are not
deceived by the crude hypocrisy which de-
scribes this rowing imperialist tour as one OF
good will" They are familiar with the his
tory of Yankee frghtfulness in Nicaragua,
in Haiti, in Santo Domingo, in the present
incitation of the puppet government OF
Bolivia against Paraguay in order to grab
more oil land for the Rockefeller interests.
The Latin Americans know that when San
dino, the heroic defender of the masses of
Nicaragua, is branded bandit by the con-
temptible lackey of dollar despotism, Cal
Coolidge, it really expresses the contempt in
which all Latin American peoples are held by
imperialist Washington, spokesman for the
whole ruling class of this country.
In the Argentine republic Hoover and his
party of plunderers proceeded through lines
Vt armed soldiery, guarding the personifica-
On of the new and aggressive turn in Ameri-
imperialism from the vengeance of the
SANDING" and to demonstrate against
cynical, defiant and monstrous murder
of Sacco and Vanzetti Proceeding from the
Argentine to Montevideo, Uruguay, Hoover
was met with the usual mobilization OF
soldiery, while the masses vented their hatred
of American imperialism by acclaiming San
dino and shouting viva Sacco-Vanzetti.'
All class conscious workers of the United
States hail with joy these demonstrations of
the Latin-Americans against Hoover who is
to become president of the United States on
March 4th next 1t is evidence that they are
IRE of the sinister meaning of the election
s man whose whole life has been one of
imperialist plunderers, who is an
at utilizing war, famine and flood in the
st of his class, whose bloody trail ex-
srlcs through many countries in many
chimes. They are right in demonstrating
against his tour as sign of increased ag-
gressiveness, as the herald of new slaughters,
as forerunner of an attempt to subdue all
Latin American nations to the position of
vassals of American Imperialism.
These demonstrations are clear indications
of the trend of the development of antrim
perialist sentiment in Latin-America. They
are forebodings for Yankee tyranny of the
time when the oppressed and robbed masses
of that part of the world will rise as one
against such evidences of good will" and
drive out the despoilers of whole populations.
In this fight the peoples of Latin-America
will find valiant comrades in the ranks of the
American workers and farmers who suffer
under the same blight that is represented by
Hoover and the class he has been chosen to
serve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

that the establishment of the Soviet
representative Of workers, peasants
and soldiers is one Of the most i'm
portant tasks in the present period
of the Chinese revolution.
World Proletariat!
Now the Chinese peasants have
finally come to their self-conscious-
ness, consciousness from fighting
experience that to revolt in one or
several villages or districts or coun-
tries is not enough. Only by uniting
the city proletariat, by Selling the
power of one or several provinces,
could they uproot the rule of i'm
rerialists, bourgeoisie, gentry and
landlords, and overthrow the Kuo-
r,intang. Only in this way could they
build up the new Soviet China.
After the defeat in the great Can
ton uprising and the recent retreat
from Hal Lou-Fong, the working
class and peasantry deeply felt that
the help Of the world proletariat in
general and the help of the USSR
in particular to the Chinese revolu-
ton is of vital Importance.
Workers, peasants, and soldiers Of
China, unite to accomplish the demo.
cratic dictatorship of workers and
peasants powers!
World proletariat, particularly the
fatherland Of the proletarian Glars,
Unite in unanimous help to the Chi
nese Revolution!
Long live the success Of The Chi
nese Revolution!
Long live the success Of World
Rovo,ution!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
FulEer's Land Graft

Alvan L. Fuller, governor of Massachusetts,
and the blood-streaked monster who carried
out Yankee capitalsm's murder of Sacco and
Vanzetti, is now exposed as plain CRATER.
Boston is to build a subway, and hence the
real estate sharks are grabbing all the avail
able land in the vicinity through which they
think it will pass, in order to hold it for
speculative purposes when the underground
railway is completed. 1t seems that much of
this land was grabbed by Fuller and his
cohorts before the plans to build the subway
were known to the public.
Fuller seems to have stolen a march in land
grabbing on another republican politician,
Malcolm E. Nichols, who is mayor of Boston.
Hence the workers are treated to recrimina-
lions between the two. Fuller now charges
the mayor with incompetency in not building
the subway. The mayor, himself, tried to
grab some of the land, but when he found
that Fuller had obtained most of it he vetoed
bill creating the commission that was to
have charge of the building of the new SUBJ
way. Fuller, Infatuated, Immediately in a
public speech opened an attack on the mayor.
The mayor retorted with considerable heat;
charging Fuller with being a successful
speculator" rather than "studious admins
TRAITOR" and further charged that Fuller
substituted personal invective for dis
passionate discussion" and mistakes SANDER
for argument"
Such revelations" are nothing new to
workers who are familiar with Fuer's pro-
cedure in the events leading up to the murder
of Sacco and Vanzetti. Fuller replied to the
charges of the mayor by trying to imply that
his erstwhile supporter was drunk as usual.
Says Fuller:
when the mayor tries to make the public
believe that am specializing in land stocks
then the most charitable conclusion that can
come to is that he is in his usual irresponsible
condition.
AS far as we are concerned we are neutral
in this quarrel. We believe everything that the
mayor says about Fuller and it is quite pos
sible that what Fuller says about the mayor
is true. Both of them are capitalist politi-
clans and neither of them would scorn a
piece of easy graft so long as it was suf-
ficiently involved not to be as obvious as the
bribery of prohibition agent.
The workers of Boston have seen Fuller and
his silk hated associates of the Back Bay
aristocracy murder two innocent workingmen
because they fought for their class, they have
seen the mayors police force club and jail
workers who picketed Fuller against this
fiendish murder. They have seen the state
militia break textile strikes and the courts
send pickets to jail. In a word, the class
character of the state is becoming clear to
them. Eventually the workers of Massachu-
sets as elsewhere, will be able to fully'per-
ceive the means by which the master class
holds them in subsection. Then, under the
banner of the revolutionary class party of
labor, the Workers (Communist) Party, they
will dispose of all the assassins and swindlers
along with the class they serve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

For instance in the second bonn
bardment of the city, of Hai-Fung,
in Sept. 1927, one company of the
besieging army revolted and joined
the peasants. In the second bonn
bardment of North River district,
the same story Of the soldiers revolt
was repeated in Jan. 1928.
Most remarkable was the event of
March. General Fung Hsi-sen sent
two divisions of more than three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

mentioned above. Tt is important at this
time for all sympathizers with the work of
the l. l.. D, to support this campaign and to
defeat the attacks Of the capitalists courts on
1900 workers by sending funds Immediately
to the National Office of the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18

thousand men to surround the An
Kiang Soviet of the Fifth District.
Cannons fired more than a hundred
shot and some hundred fights were
waged. The Soviet government re-
sisted obstinately and maintained
more than one month. The attempt
to capture the city resulted in a
fiasco.
Just in this moment An-Kiang was
cut off from outside relief. They
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FACING SUITS
Government Asks Ac-
counting For All
Production

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-(H1-Tbe
department Of justice announced to-
night that il had stituted suit
against the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur-
chasing company and the Mammoth
Oil company an the Unit-d States
district cJurt at Wilmington, DEL,
to recover profits the corporations
made out of the purchase of royalty
oil in the Salt Greek, Wyo., field.
The government asks accounting
Of all "gains and profits" made
from the sale of approximately TO-
100000 barrels Of oil, and that the
contracts under which the oil was
delivered to be cancelled.
The contracts for sale Of the
royalty oil in the Salt Greek field
were let TO Harry F. Sinclair, or
ganizer Of the Mammoth Oil COM
pany, by former Secretary Of the
Interior Albert B. Fall.
The contracts were renewed last
February by Secretary Work but
were cancelled a short time ago by
Secretary West. who acted on the
opinion Of Attorney General Sar-
gent that they were invalid because
Of a clause providing for their re-
newal.