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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
British Police Kill
Ii Solomon Islanders

TULAGI, Solomon Island, March
29.-Eleven of the natives who were
arrested here in connection with the
recent uprising to protest against the
heavy poll-tax have died in jail.
Crowding and a poor diet are believed
to have been responsible for their
deaths.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30

Labor and FYaternal
Organizations
ooncert for Miners, RelIef.


The Bessarabier Podolier Social Club
will hold a concert and dance at their
headquarters, 1347 Boston Road this
Sunday at p. m. The proceeds viii go
to miners relief.
DIR. Liber to Lecture.
DR.. q. Liber will lecture on Labor
and Health" Sunday at p. m. at il5
e. 13Sth st.
Icor Affair. March 80.
Moishe Katz of the Moscow Ozet will
report on the Jewish colonization IN
the Soviet Union today at Tammany
Hall, 154 E. 14th St. under the auspices
of Icor.
The musical program will include
Sergei Radomsky, opera tenor; Sciplone
Guidi, first violinist of the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and
Theodore Celia, harpist.
Colorado Relief Dance.
A dance for the benefit of the Col
orado miners and theri families will be
held tomorrow at p. m. at Ma
sonic Hail, II W. gard ST. under the
auspices of the Colorado Miners Re
lief Committee.
Gold to Lecture.
Michael Gold will lecture at the
Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 sack
man ST., Brooklyn, Sunday at p. m
under the auspices of the C. G. d.
Central General Development). The
subject will be "The Mechanical Age
and Literature"
Nearing-ThOmns Debate.
Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas
will debate on Communism VS.. So
cialism" at the Community Church,
saith st. and Park Ave, tonight at
Sis. Roger Baldwin will be chairman.
Auspices New Masses"
Lecture for Baker wsmen.
Bakers Council No. l of the United
Workingclass Women win hold an i'm
portant meeting today at 1887 Wash
ington Ave.
Brooklyn Lecture.
H. Gordon will lecture on the unem-
ployment situation today at 1874 South
st. at p. m. under the auspices of
the Friends of Solidarity.
italian Branch 1. l.. ID.
Nicola Napoli, Itanan national secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
Tense will lecture on the Paris Com
mune at the Italian Workers Club,
81 E. 104th st. at p. m. today.
Ray Ragozin TO Lecture.
Ray Ragozin will lecture at the
1890 Seventh Ave, tonight at 1880. Her
subject will be ''Workingclass Wom-
ems Problem Today"
Unemployed Mass Meet.
Bush Terminal workers, attention!
A mass meeting of unemployed work
ers will be held Sunday at / p. m. at
236 Third Ave, corner gath st.
Rny RarOZin SDeaks,
Ray Ragozin will speak at the Scan
dinavian Workers Club, 267 SIND ST.,
Brooklyn, at Vasa Hall at p. m. Her
subject will. be The Problems of the
Working Glass Woman"
Baldwin Speaks U. s. 8. n.
Roger Baldwin, who has recently re-
turned from the Soviet Union, will
speak at the Workers School Forum,
los e. 18th ST., this Sunday at 8 p.
m. on civil Liberties in Soviet Rus
sia."
4. l.. ID. Mass Meet.
A mass meeting of the 1. L. d. will
be held al $500 Bronx Park East Mon
day at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
By A. GOETZ.

The Ford Motor Co. was organ
lied in 1903 for the purpose of pro-
ducing low price car in large
quantities. Fairly successful from
the start, they went from 1876 cars
in 1908 to 6,181 in 1908. In that
year, however, Model T was de-
signed and a radical program of
quantity production was initiated.
Walter E. Flanders, an expert in
machine production took charge and
was to receive $4,000 in addition to
his salary if the company's output
in the year ending September 80,
1909, reached 10000 cars. The actual
amount was 1860, Fords being the
first motor concern to achieve such
large output.
Enormous Growth.
In the next fourteen years pro-
duction increased by leaps and
bounds. The huge Highland Park
plant was built and later River
Rouge. Coal mines, steel mills, rail
roads and many sources of raw ma
terial were acquired. A production
system was perfected, huge, I'M
wieldy, ill-adapted to change, all for
the production of one article in I'M
heard of quantities. Millions were
spent to produce greater and greater
output-almost nothing to improve
the car.
1t was at the height of Ford pro-
duction that Henry was reported to
have said: The public can have the
Ford car in any color it wants; pro
viding it's black"
Shut Down in 1926.
The Ford Motor Corporation pro.
duced the Model T for 16 years
with hardly any changes or i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Pioneers Will Protest
Boss Education in Big
Mass Meet and Rally

Boss education and the use of the
schools to spread capitalist propa,
ganda will be protested by thou
sands of working class children at
the mass meeting and rally to be
held by the Young Pioneers at Web
ster Manor, 18th st. and Fourth
Ave-, next Sunday at p. m.
Children of working class parents
just as well as adult workers are
subject to exploitation and discrim-
ination in the shops and also in the
Schools" said Charles Wilson, one
of the leaders of the Young Pho
neers, last night. Children are as
much a part of the class struggle
as their parents. Working class
chillren are organizing. Not only
are we active in workers struggles,
but also politically we are organ
izing into Vote Communist clubs"
The Pioneers Red Rally, which is
expected to be the biggest of its
kind, will be addressed by Robert
Minor, Communist candidate for u.
s. senate; Herbert Fam, Red can
Gidate in the Fourteenth Assembly
District, and Jessie Taft, represent
ing the Young Pioneers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Naturalization and Speed-up.


The naturalization in the auto in
dustry far surpasses many others.
Although the speed-ups and eff
ency schemes have reached the ex-
tent where each operation is figured
to the -thousandth of an hour,
nevertheless we find new inventions
developed daily. Recently Packard's
displaced its stripers, who were
skilled workers receiving as much
at S1.25 per hour, and replaced them
with girls who do the same work
with a small stripping machine at
wages that are one-fourth of those
previously given these skilled
mechanics.
Another important problem facing
us in this industry is the trade
schools. The Ford Trade School is
an outstanding example of this. Boys
ranging from II to 16 years of age
are admitted to the school. They
are hired at 10 cents per hour and
are supposed to be increased every
six months, according to the degree
If their development. The school is
organized for two purposes. Firstly
it serves the purposes of developing
a cadre of skilled mechanics. These
mechanics trained at the school can
later be employed at lower wages
than those they displace. Secondly
they can be employed at the factory
at lower wages, on the pretense Of
being students"
Trained to Become Scabs.
Only recently many boys were
taken from the school and placed
directly on production. We must
also emphasize here that the school
is utilized for the purpose Of de-
veloping group Of young workers
that receive certain privileges and
can therefore be utilized against the
rest of the workers in the factory.
We must point this out to the
Students and link up their prob
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
By PHIL BART.

The organization Of new unions
in the mining, textile AMI needle
industries has shown to the work
ers that only the left wing in the
trade unions with the active par
ticipation of the Communists can
conduct the campaign to organize
the unorganized workers. The reso-
luton of the American Federation IF
Labor at the Detroit convention to
organize the automobile industry
was only an attempt to stifle the
militants and discourage the indie
pendent development of an indus
trial union that will organize the
workers in this industry.
/ One of the most important facts
at the conventions of the new unions
was that for the first time in the
history of the trade union movement
in this country, the youth question
was given a prominent place on the
agenda. Not only were these prob
lens discussed generally, but youth
conferences were held where these
questions were discussed in detail
and a definite program outlined.
Young Workers Increase.
The number of young workers in
the automobile industry has in
creased tremendously in the past few
years. Altho there are very few
figures regarding this phenomenal
rise, we notice that certain sections
of the industry employ primarily
young boys and girls. In the spring
and wire factories IL. A. Young,
jerks & Muir, etc., the making of
spark plugs CA. G. Spark Plug Coz,
the body factories briggs, Murray,
Hayes-Ionia, etc. mostly young
workers are employed.
The wages of the young workers
in these factories are below those
of the adult workers. The work it
self is of course detrimental to their
health. Many times young girls are
compelled to work all night in gas
filled rooms that are the cause of
various industrial diseases. In the
oil sanding department the work
affects the skin and causes various
Diseases which at times bring per-
manent disability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Ford, Chevrolet in Sales War

it is slow work and according to the
latest registration figures available,
Chevrolet sold 84,503 in July against
1904 Fords.
The new Ford policy is partial
adaptation to. present conditions,
producing a car that is up to the
minute both in style and in mechan-
ical requirements which is produced
in a series of color schemes. How
ever the old policy of continued
mass-production of the same car for
long period of time continues. 1t
is impossible for the Ford organ
ization TO turn out new models with
new requirements from time to time
in accord with the changes of other
automobile concerns.
And it is precisely this immobility
of production which spells the ulti-
mate doom of the Ford Motor Co.
While Ford is still trying to increase
the sales of his new car, Chevrolet is
already working on a new six-cylin-
der car which will probably sell at
the same price as the old four-cylin-
der model.
The Unknown Soldiers"
The burden of the war between
Ford and Chevrolet will be borne
by the workers who will suffer as
a result from wage cuts, speed-ups
and unemployment. However, a
time when the masters are fighting
each other is the best time for the
workers to organize their resistance.
Let us take advantage of this favor
able situation and organize into one
big industrial union of auto workers
and prepare to defend ourselves
against the rotten conditions i'm
posed on US by the lords of the
auto industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Wages Below Those of Adults; Trade Schools
Used to Train Scabs

lens with those of the young auto
workers generally.
The major problems before us are !:
l. The building up of Young Work
ers League shop nuclei in the auto
factories. 2. A systematic campaign
to acquaint the young auto workers
with the demands of the Young
Workers League. 1t is very difficult
to get leading comrades to go to
work at certain plants q. A. Young.
Briggs, etc., and carry on work
there. These plants, where condi-
lions are worse than many others
must be utilized by us. The forma-
ton of nuclei in these plants and the
publishing of shop bulletins regu-
larly will give us a possibility of
drawing many Of these young work.
ers into the League. Youth columns
in the Workers (Communist) Party
shop papers are a very good means
of reaching the youth. More effort
must be made to get material deal
ing directly with the youth for these
columns.
Shop Committees.
simultaneously with the building
OF shop nuclei comes the establish
ment of shop committees. We have
seen from the experience of the
Flint strike the role of the shop
committee. If we had had contacts
in many departments of the Fisher
Body plant at Flint at the time, we
could have tied up that plant COM
pletely.
The condition in the industry is
such that similar strikes as that in
Flint will develop. These strikes are
only the rehearsals for the big
struggle to organize the workers in
the auto industry. This task, like
many others in all unorganized in
dustries turnout the country, will
not be solved by the labor takers.
1t is the task of the Workers Com
munistl Party and ~ Young Work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Workers Bear Burden of Cheap Car Clash;
Must Organize and Fight

rrovements. Thousands, hundreds Of
thousands and even millions of cars
were thrown on the market without
any attempts to change and keep
up with the times, when a sudden
drop in sales forced Henry to per-
nit some changes on the car.
But it was too late for small
changes. The Ford wouldn't sell any
more and in 1926 production on the
old model was shut off and the Ford
plant had to undergo a radical
change for the first time in history
But how hard that change was and
still is!
The Chevrolet.
In November, 1911, the Chevrolet
Motor Company was organized and
started production on car designed
by Louis Chevrolet, a we'll known
racing driver, who has since dis
appeared from the industry. In 1913
production got under way and by
1915 their yearly output was up al
most to very high figure
This was the same year that Ford
set a new high record of 283,161
cars.
This company also increased their
output rapidly, having a production
of 1926 in 1917, 149,540 cars in
1920, and over half million in 1925
On September A, 1928, the millionth
Chevrolet was run off the produc-
ton line for this year and the fifth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24
Young Workers Exploited in Auto Plants

ers League to build up the machin-
cry that will make it possible to
carry on the campaign and organize
the workers in the auto industry.
One cannot write about this indus
try without emphasizing its import
ance in the preparations for war
by the capitalists. The automobile
industry can be turned at short no.
tice completely into a war industry.
The development of the aeroplane
industry in Detroit must be watched
by us closely. Instead of producing
tractors for farms these machines
can produce tanks, heavy guns, etc.
Our nuclei in this industry are
therefore destined to play a very
important role in the fight against
capitalism in the next imperialist
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24

million for their entire production
few weeks later.
Chevrolet Policy.
The policy of the Chevrolet was
quite different from that of Ford.
Instead of throwing all resources
into the creation CT a gigantic pro-
duction machine, improvements
were made on body, motor and
chassis and new models were put
out each year more and more in ac-
cord with the latest developments
in technical motor equipment and
body styles.
One change swiftly followed an
other and the company became ex-
perienced in rapidly changing pro.
duction from model to another, thus
developing the car and the product
ton apparatus at an even rate.
In this way Chevrolet was able
to rise to a point where in a re-
latively short period the 20-year old
Ford domination of the cheap car
field could be effectively challenged.
The following table shows the sue
cess of the Chevrolet over the Ford
policy:
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Real Estate
Transfers

"A. ID. Hatten ~ All 10 III. M. Clark,
~southerly 10 acres Of block &, Rice
Tract subdivision, $40, etc
r. NJ. Clark ct al TO A. ID. Hatten.
northerly 10 acres Of block "a, Rice
Tract subdivision, $40, etc.
q. WI. Riddle et uK TO Delta Irri-
gated Farms Co., 40 acres. being
block ESQ San Benito Irrigation Co.'S.
subdivision. 10. etc.
j. III. Whitney TO Delta Irrigated
Farms Co.. 40 acres. being all block
243, San Benito Irrigation Co. sub
division. $40. etc.
Jno. TWIN ct al 70 Delta Irrigated
Farms Co.. II. 20 acres, block 2lA
San Benito Irrigation Co.'S. subdi-
vision, $40. etc.
Geo. HommcIl Il MI 10 r. K. Elrod
lot s. block IS. San Benito Land d
Water GO. subdivision, $l0- etc.
X. Monies ct al TO G. vi. de kreteh-
ermar. 2-57 acres out OF T~ennehaill
and Russell tract, share %, u. 3.
grant. $40. etc
Port Isabel Irrigation co. 10 Chas.
Vitak, block So. containing s-s4
acres Bayside Gardens subdivision
$7972.s3.
r.. w. Smith Ct nj to II. III. Dun
lap, lot ~ and north 20 feet Of lot
20. in block III, townsite Of In Feriar
$2025.OD.
B. II. Dunlap to +. r. Belts. lot
10 and north 20 feet Of lot 20. in
block II, townsite Of La Feria, Si0s
etc.
Jose Garcia et NJ to HarIinda Dc
Alexandra de Garcia, 100 feet out Of
north 10 Of block w. San Benito
Land and Water Co.'S subdivision,
$3.50.
Joe Celaya. Jr.. ct al TO Paula ch.
de Esiamilla, lots 4. D and u i'm block
III and lot 2 IN block 12s. city of
Brownsville. $40, etc. Also IL undi-
vided interest In and to 10 acres or
land, out Of the lower or eastern
league OF San Pedro de Carricitos
grant.
A. =. Mcrlendon TO Martha w. Me-
Clendon, all lot Z in block 81, city OF
Harrington, $500.
Ygnacia Hernandez VIDA dc Adame
70 Jose II. Adame. lot ? in block l54,
city Of Brownsville, $40. etc.
Port Isabel Co. 70 A. W. Nicholson,
lot = in block ~. townsite on Point
Isabel, Texas, 1925.
80. A~DtECEOWlNl@ eL LA 10 San De-
nito and Rio Grande Valley Ry. Co.,
north 20 feet Of block 10, LaFuna
Vista subdivision. $40, etc.
Amos Jones ct ux to Jas.-Dickinson
Farm Mtg. Co. all lot 3 in block ll2.
containing 1929 acres, FL Jardin sub
division Of shares 20. rs, 20. 90 ana
81, Espiritu Santo grant, part OF lot
4 in block 2l3 out of I'll Jardin re-
subdivision Of part of shares %, etc,
$40, etc.
l. y. ~Stiernberg ct MI Ia r.. G.
Owens, all lot 3 in block s. Windsor
Place addition Harrington. $500.
N. III. Windsor ct Al 70 &. K. Car
ter, lot 3 in block 3. Windsor Place
addition city OF Harlingen, $500.
6. r. Combe to Jas. In Gro. lots
=. , and . In block T. Paroles addi-
ton TO Brownsville. $40. etc.
q -. Combe 60 Jas. In Gro. lots 4,
2 and 2 in block :. Paroles addition.
city Of Brownsville, $6T5.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
Herald Class6eds Ads. Are More Interesting Than a Move, Phone s

strongly suspect are foreigners Is
they are constantly eating onions.
Well. sir. ! have already drawn up
the platform which 7 will submit 10
the committee. III fhe republicans
adopt my platform they ought 20
sweep the country. Here it iss
Farm relief: Quicker services
on free seeds from congressman.
2.-Tariff: Abolish the duty on
suspenderS and double the tax ON
Scotch jokes.
3.-Prohibition: Law v~ielntorn
SHOULD be ashamed or more careful.
4.-Aircraft: A law forcing every
transatlantic flyer to carry N bar
Of soap and a towel.
5.-HighwAys: Recruiting of the
Haystack township road which now
passes through Hootstown 40 it will
pass through my town.
6.-Foreign: % Prevent Chinese
lauEdrymen from joining their civil
war as we need them and (2) dis
arm everybody i'm LnicaEo except
the police
Therel Thatll lnock their eyes
out.
p. Sd have a straight tip that
Harry NJ. Sinclair hasn't N chance
for the nomination.
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LNzKasILaaAGv D

Highway No. 100 to the San Jose
Ranch Road, approximately 40
miles.
40. Paroles Line Road from
State Highway No. 100 to the San
Jose Ranch Road, approximately 40
miles.
A-I0. Blue Town and Military
Roads from end Of present concrete
pavement on Blue Town Road. Ia
miles south Of La Feria, via Blue
Town and Santa Maria TO the Hidal-
| 80 County line, approximately ST.
miles.
ALL. Briggs Road from Harlin-
gen-Rio Hondo Road northward, ap-
proximately 2.5 miles.
Ala. South Line Wilson Tract
Road. from State Highway No. s6,
via Beheimer Corner and Primera
to Tanberg's Corner, approximately
so miles.
Ais. CONTESTANTS Rosa and
Santa Rosa West Roads from
Combes via Santa Rosa 20 the Hi
dalgo County line, approximately
go miless.
Ala. Military Road West from
Brownsville City Limits to West Line
COMMISSIONER Precinct No. 2, ap-
proximately ga miles.
Ais. Southwest Road from Browns
vile City Limits to South Point, ap-
proximately ~ miles.
B.-Grading and Structures On
BIS. Pennsylvania Avenue Road
from San Benito River-Road to La
Paloma road, approximately 81
miles.
B-24. Oscar Williams Road from
State Highway No. IL northward ap-
proximately 80 miles.
BIS. Military Road from the San
Benito River-Road to Los Indios, ap-
proximately so miless.
Bog. Line an" Road from State
Highway No. IL to the San Jose
Ranch Road, approximately 20
miles.
BET. F~rcsnal Road from San Be-
nito-Rio Hondo Road to the East
Browne Tract Boulevard approx
mately 2.5 miles.
Detail plans and specifications and
other information for each road to
be improved may be obtained at the
office Of w. o. Washington, county
engineer, in the court house at
Brownsville, Texas.
A certified check for five per cent
Of the amount Of bid. made payable
to the order Of Oscar c. Dancy.
County Judge Of Cameron County.
must accompany each proposal as a
guaranty that the bidder, if sue
cessful, will enter into contract and
furnish bond in accordance with
specifications.
The right is reserved by the
Commissioners Court to reject any
and all proposals and to waive tech
nicalities.
Proposals must be submitted IN
sealed envelopes and marked bid
for Construction Of Roads"
j. j. BISHOP,
County Auditor Of Cameron County.
Dated this END day Of May, 1928.
5-23-30-6-6-13-4t-3OOl
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NOTICE

-TDTTNL
The COMMISSIONER Court az Can.
county, Texas, will convene and
81 as a Board OF Equalization On
Monday, the 18th day of June, A. ID.
.SZs, at 3 o'clock. A. NJ, to receive
All the assessment lists and books of
Y A. Cowden, Tex Assessor of Cam
eron County, for the year 1928, for
inspection, correction or equalization
and approval.
witness my hand and the Seal of
ire commissioners Court Of Gamer
on county, Texas, this the 4th day OF
June, A. ID. 1928.
(SEAL) n. n SFAco
County Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk
OF the Commissioners Court Of Cam
eron County, Texas.
6-5-1S-I4t-3O3e
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