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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
DAILY NEEDED TO
ORGANIZE Miners
Workers Must Send Subs
to Aid New Struggle

Most of the delegates who attended
the great Save-the-U Union Conference
in Pittsburgh have returned to their
homes and are beginning to spread
the message of the conference among
the rank and file miners of their dis
tricts. In organizing the miners thru
out the country for the twofold strug-
gle against the coal operators and
the corrupt union leadership, The
DAILY WORKER is certain to play
an active part.
The extent of this part will, how
ever, be determined by the readers of
The DAILY WORKER. Most of the
miners who before the strike were
regular readers of the Daily and drew
revolutionary inspiration from its
columns have been unable to renew
their subscriptions because, unlike
John L. Lewis and his fellow-fakers,
they do not continue to draw salary
while on strike.
Continue to Get Paper.
The DAILY WORKER has, how
ever, continued to send the paper reg
ularly to these old subscribers, de-
spite the fact that the loss of
revenue has been a serious blow to
the Daily in it's present condition. But
there are still thousands and hun
dreds of thousands Of miners thru
out the country who are unacquainted
with the only English language news
paper that fights on their side or
who see the paper only irregularly.
These thousands of miners are be-
ing organized now for the greatest
struggle in the history of the United
Mine Workers of America, a struggle
which will decide the fate not only Of
the United Mine Workers of America,
but Of the entire American working
class. I'll
Daily" Fights for Miners.
Save the Miners Union has become
Continued on Page ThresJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
ALL PARIS WALKS ON MAY FIRST
Workers in French CAPITAL Celebrate Their Historic Holiday

street cars to and from their meet
ings, by showing their employee
cards.
Even the weather was against the
company. 1t rained hard every day
contributing to the inconvenience OF
The Parisians, who do most of their
travelling on the buses, to such an
extent that public clamor required a
settlement of the strike as quickly as
possible.
After three rainy days the strike
was finally settled. 1t was victory
for the strikers. They got the ad-
justment in wages and the men were
reinstated. They demanded and got
pay during their idle time. But most
important of all they secured once
more their historic right of quitting
work On the day set aside for the cele-
bration of international solidarity,
May First.
Not only the Partisan workers, but
workers all over the world, fight
hard to uphold the old tradition OF
downing tools the First Of May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
100000 TO Get
MAY DAY DAILY

Organized and unorganized work
ers in every trade will be reached
when 100000 copies of the special May
Day edition of The DAILY WORKER
are distributed throughout the coun-
try. A large proportion Of this special
edition will go to the striking miners,
where plans are already under way
for the wide dissemination of the on
ly newspaper in the English language
that consistently fights on the side
of the workers.
The special edition will contain 32
pages, in which many features of
interest to every worker will be pre-
sented. Worker correspondents and
labor journalists throughout the coun-
try are now being modified to make
this May Day issue of The DAILY
WORKER the greatest that has ever
appeared.
Every unit of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party should send in greet
ings at once, and every Party mem
Der and sympathizer should have his
or her name on the May Day Honor
Roll. Plans for the distribution OF
the special edition should also be
made Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

the New York section of the defense
organization.
"For more than generation" the
appeal states, "May first has been
recognized as the holiday of the
working class throughout the world.
Everywhere where workers are OPP
pressed this day has been the occa-
sion for mass demonstrations, dem
constructions which at times have been
red with the blood of the working
class.
an the United States, the birth
place of the holiday of May /, reac-
tionary labor officials have desecrat-
ed this great day and have tried to
make the workers forget its revolu-
tionary significance. But the work
ers will not and must not forget. This
year more than ever before it is nee
essary that May l be made the oc-
casion for a demonstration on huge
scale of militant New York labor
att is the first May Day since the
capitalist class showed its contempt
for the mass power of the workers
by the numbering of Sacco and Van
zetti. In the heart of every class
conscious worker the names of Sacco
and Vanzetti are burned deep and
May first this year must be made
the occasion for a show Of working
class solidarity that shall be q fit
ting tribute to their memories and
to all those who have suffered and
are suffering today because of their
loyalty to their class.
"May first this year also comes at
time when workers turnout the
country are being intimidated and
attacked by the capitalist courts and
when the life of our fighting prole-
tartan organ, The DAILY WORKER
is being threatened. We must show
the capitalist class that we cannot
be frightened so easily and that our
spirit is unbroken. On May 1 the
workers of this city must present a
united front against their common
enemies, The International Labor
Defense, which has been in the fore
front of so many of the most des-
rerate battles of the American work
ing class, calls on all its members
and all bther militant workers to
make May 1 this year a real demon
stration of the power of their class
by attending the celebration in Madi-
son Square Garden"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
100 MORE BARBER
BOSSES SIGN Up
WITH STRIKERS
Individual Settlements
Demanded by Union

The demand of the striking Brook
lyn Local 913 of the Journeymen
Barbers' Union that the bosses sign
individual contracts with the organ
ization and leave their employers
association, was met with by 100
more boss BARRIERS, bringing the total
Of settlements made in the 7-day
strike up to $50 Barely 200 barber
shops have thus far failed to come
to terms with the union.
In signing the agreements the en-
ployers agreed 20 return to the old
wage of $35 a week, resembling the
S. wage cut which caused the strike.
The members of the Journeymen
BARRIERS International, about 10000
workers, are using the Brooklyn
BARRIERS strike as an example to fol-
low in fighting the wage slashing
campaign of barber bosses associa-
tons all over the country. They de-
mand of their leadership an imme-
diate, campaign to answer the bosses
wage cuts with an attempt to break
up all bosses associations.
One of the methods used by these
master BARRIERS Associations" is to
threaten bombings and other meth
DDS of terrorism to keep their mem
bers from settling individually with
the union. The Brooklyn barber
bosses, however, are signing up des-
pite threats Of terrorism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
CITE GROWTH OF
WORKERS SCHOOL
AT ANNUAL Dinner
Faculty, Students, Meet
to Discuss. Aims

(Continqted from Page One)
ton Bureau, harmless appendage of
the A. F. of L."
National Training Students Present.
The Workers School is the largest
institution of its kind anywhere in
the world outside the Soviet Union,
Wolfe stated.
Present at the banquet in addition
to the faculty, were the 25 members
of the National Training School who
will soon complete three-months'
course at the institution. Speaking
for the group, Thomas Fleming of
California, declared that the stu
dents at the conclusion of the course
would return to their districts and
active Party work.
eve shall return to the day to day
struggle with the bosses. and spread
the influence of the Workers School
and the message of the class war"
Jay Lovestone, executive secretary
Of the Workers (Communist) Party,
spoke briefly of the functions of the
school eve do not have red pro-
fessors' drawn from the middle class
! who act as instructors. Tho instruc-
tors in this school are men engaged
IN daily, militant struggle. The
Workers School does not award d.
rlomas or leadership Rather, 1t
provides workers with better equip
ment with which to participate in
The oil xUorS
Others who spoke were Jack
Stachel, organizational secretary of
the Workers (Communist) Party;
William w. Weinstone, secretary of
District 2; DR.. J. Minded, head of the
Jewish Workers University; Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, secretary of the
wcmen's work in the Party. and M.
Levy, secretary of the Workers
School student council
Messages were read from Scott
Nearing and Arthur w. Calhoun, in
structors at the school who were I'M
able to be present.
Alexander Trachtenberg acted as
POSTMASTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
biscuit WORKERS
FIGHT LAY-0FFS
Conditions in the Plant
Bring Talk of Action

(Continated from Pare One)
their heads unless they speed up
constantly.
Reports from many of the workers
indicate that they are driven at q
high rate of speed in getting out the
work while the number of workers is
being cut down day by day without
cutting down at all on production.
The factory force is now at half of
it's former strength and the remain
ing workers are forced to do the
work Of the full force. Workers who
have shaved for the company as long
as Is years have not been spared in
the lay-offs.
According to workers at the dough
machines, Superintendent Quinn has
increased the number of dough bar
rels at each machine on an average
Of from two to three more. In case
the men get through five minutes
early they are given another barrel
of dough.
This method is duplicated in every
department, so that production is in
creased and fewer workers are used.
The specd-up system has resulted in
over-production so that the National
Biscuit Company is forced to close it's
plants from time to time.
Many of the workers are talking Of
organizing into the Bakers Union,
the Amalgamated Food Workers
Union or the Machinists' Union. They
say that only through unions can
they fight the bosses AGAINST the
speed IN. for better working condi-
tions, higher pay and for shorter
work day to solve the problem of
part time work and lay-offs. Many
Of them are sending in letters to The
DAILY WORKER telling about the
miserable conditions at the plants
They get The DAILY WORKER at
the newsstands near the plant and
when they are through reading it,
they give it to their shop mates to
reaC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

Above is a
birds eye VieaO
of T1Oim Branch,
West Va, Hen
m Ford's "mod-
Ell" coal to1On
a0here the fIiV-
Der tsGr pays
ig h for the
Ii o e s of the
aOorkers 10 h o
are forced to
sell themselves
to quick death
IN this pretty
looking h e ] !.
Ford's famous
speed-Mp is IN
its most brutal
form IN T0i@
Branch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

agents in struggle for the amalga-
nation of the needle trades unions.
"Workersl Fight for these de-
mands: One powerful union in the
needle industry. Organization of the
unorganized. The 40-hour week. The
unemployment fund, paid by the en-
ployers and managed by the union.
The reinstatement of the expelled.
The characterization of the unions.
Against company unionism, against
class collaboration policies. Abolition
of the piece-work system, standards
of production and other speed-up
methods.
"(Signed) NATIONAL NEEDLE
TRADES COMMITTEE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09


ton to be held under the auspices of
Shachtman, editor of the Labor De-
fender, as the speaker.
The first meetings will be held in
New York City, where a series of
them will be opened Wednesday at 8
p. M, at the Bohemian Hall, BAT E.
72nd St., under the auspices of the
Harlem branch of the I. L. D.
Another meeting will be held under
the auspices of the Brownsville branch
at the Brownsville Youth Center, 1872
Osborn St., Brooklyn, next Sunday at
g p. m. A number of other meetings
are being arranged in various parts
of the city.
Meetings All Over East.
Meetings will follow in Bethlehem,
Pa, April 10, then into the Pittsburgh
territory, Canton, O., Apr. "a, Akron,
O., Toledo, Saturday, May 5; Detroit,
May 6; Flint, Mich, May 7; Grand
Rapids, May 8; Friday, May II, Chi
cago, May Il, Waullegan, III. Other
meetings will be held in the southern
Illinois territory and in st. Louis,
jamestown, Erie, Buffalo, Toronto,
Canada, Rochester, Utica, Troy. A
week in the New England field and a
number of days in the Connecticut
and New Jersey cities will follow.
New Pictures Shown.
The lecture will give graphic pic
ture of the historic movement in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

The price went down to seventy-five
cents, then to fifty cents.
"No," said the dealer. II can't get
more than s1.50 myself so I'll give
you thirty-five cents" The offer was
finally accepted.
Out on the street his wife with the
baby on her arm was waiting. In
stead of dollar for pair Of seven
dollar shoes the husband brought only
thirty-five cents. Well, it meant food
anyway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
union SQUARE IS
RED SQUARE NOW
Campaign On to Raise
Funds for New Center

CONTINUED from Page One)
new building will unity Communist
activity in this stronghold of the
worlds greatest capitalism and give
new impetus to every phase of our
activity"
Campaign Is On.
Weinstone urged that all members
of the Workers (Communist) Party
should not only give as much as they
can for the Workers Center but should
obtain donations from friends and
sympathizers. The campaign must
start Immediately he said, as the $780,
COO is to be raised by the end of the
month. Later in the month ban
uuet will be held in the new building
to which Workers Party members anc
militant workers will be invited.
Other speakers at the meeting were
Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman OF
the board of directors of the Work
crs Center; Ben Lifshitz, secretary OF
the Jewish Buro, Workers Party;
Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY
WORKER, and Joseph Brodsky
treasurer of the new center. They
discussed the financial details of the
ACQUISITION of the building and point
cd out its significance to the revolu-
tionary movement.
Quotas Assigned.
The speeches were followed by dis
tussion from the floor, after which
support of the drive for $4,000 was
unanimously voted by the member
ship. Bert Miller acted as chairman
of the meeting.
MANY Workers Party units have al
ready begun activity to fulfill then
quotas as quickly as possible. The
quotas assigned are as follows:
Section 1, $4,000; Section 2, S2,5O0i
Section s, $500; Section 4, $4,000
Section s, $4,000, Section 6, $1,000;
Section 7, $1,000; Brownsville, $500
Long Island City, $500; Yonker, S4OOi
Hampstead, 500; Hicksville, S1oO
Katonah, $50; New Rochelle, $1O0i
Portchester, 500; Staten Island, $50
Jamaica, $50; Bayonne, 500; Cliff
side, $50: Elizabeth, 5000; Jersey City
$3.50; Linden, $50; Newark, 5000; Pas
sale, s1e9; Paterson, 5000; Perth Am
boy, $50; and West New York, $50.
All money collected will be turned
in at once to the district office, l0S
E. 14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
Jobless Man Sells His
Shoes to Feed Family

LOS ANGELES, Calf, (By MaiD
The wife and baby were starving,
so the unemployed, penniless husband
and father sold his shoes for thirty
five cents in order to feed them. This
is only one incident in many here.
A young fellow walked into shoe
shop at 221 E. 9Th St., near the "slave
Market" recently. He had good
pair of shoes for sale. His price was
one dollar. Too high for the cobbler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

dollar for two months
This been effected without hardship to the
paper which itself fighting for existence against the Wall
Street endeavorng to crush it. The workers
must aid paper with their subscriptions Every May Day
celebration make the sale of the special two month sub
scrptons it's most important business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

China. Scenes never before shown in
this country will be flashed on the
screen, showing the conditions of the
Chinese people under the old feudal
regime, the entry and dominance of
the foreign imperialist powers, the
uprising of the masses of workers
and peasants, and the fight they have
been carrying on for years. Espe-
cially interesting are the pictures
showing the hideous cruelties prac-
tieed by the reactionaries in their at
tempt to drown the Chinese revolution
in it's own blood.
Dozens of original scenes will be
shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

two months subscription to The DAILY WORKER now
costs dollar! This opportunity which militant Amer
lean worker possibly afford miss brings the workers
within the purchasing power of thousands of workers
Thousands of coal miners strike or have been laid off
The millions unemployed daily increasing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

laid off in all branches of industry American
capitalism overproduces In these circumstances the sub
scpon their militant class which is dearer to the
workers than food itself, becomes impossibilty.
The DAILY WORKER knows that a subscription to the
paper hardship for the workers and of the wide
suffering workers has lowered it's subscription
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
WORKER FOR ONE DOLLAR IS OFFER

every worker, DAILY WORKER agent, Party member,
Of sympahizer with the behind the
subscription drive Workers everywhere should take adj
vantage opportunity Get your months sub
scrpton WORKER The offer only holds good
until the May you have subscription already send
one to a worker who has not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09

begin an open war against the left
wing.
Mobilize Workers.
GAS against these treacheries and
this policy of surrender to the en-
Lloyers the left wing in the needle
trades unions under the leadership of
the National Committee has been wag-
ing a heroic struggle in defense of
the workers interests, and has mobil-
lied the workers to resist the COM
bined attacks of the employers and
bureaucracy. The left wing during the
last two years has proven that it is
the only constructive force for the
building and strengthening of the
unions as a powerful instrument for
the Improvement of conditions. Today
under the powerful blows Of the work
ers the cliques everywhere are dis
migrating and losing their hold on
the unions.
"The coming conventions of the L.
L. G. w. U. and the Amalgamated
will mark critical period in the his
tory of the needle trade unions. They
will have to decide whether to con-
tinue the policy of class collaboration
which means surrender to the bosses,
whether to continue the policy of ex-
pulsion, discrimination and persecu-
ton which will spell the humiliation
Of the needle trades unions and the
substitution Of company unionism; or
whether the conventions will repudiate
have brought ruin and devastation
and unite the workers for the pur-
pose of rebuilding the organizations
the policies of the bureaucracy which
Must Fight Or Surrender.
1.-THE very existence of the needle
trades unions depends on the fina,
decisions of these issues. The workers
are confronted with a situation where
they have to choose between the pol.
icy of fight or surrender. The work
ers of the I. L. G. W. U. and the
Amalgamated throughout the entire
country must mobilize their forces anc
take up the struggle with renewed
vigor. Elect delegates who will come
to the convention to repudiate Tho
rolicies of the reactionary bureau
eracy and prepare the unions to meet
the challenge of the bosses and theil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
WORKERS WILL HONOR
CLASS VICTIMS MAY I

all members of the International Labor Defense and all
support celebration Madison Square
issued Yesterday by Rose Baron secretary OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-09
LABOR DEFENSE OPENS
CHINESE LECTURE TOUR

Final completed for the opening of the national illus
ton to be held under the of International Labor Defense with Max
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-02-01
DiversificatiOn
Depends on Roads

Minnesota is one of the five states
with the greatest number of miles of
surfaced roads, state and local. Min
nesota has more than $4,000 miles
surfaced with gravel or better mater
ial. The only four states with a
greater mileage are Indiana, Ohio,
Wisconsin and New York. 1t is
significant that dairying and other
forms of diversified farming are
practiced to a large extent in all
these states.
Diversified farming created the
first demand for good roads, and
improved highways in turn promote
diversified farming. Milk and cream,
butter and eggs, must be marketed at
regular and frequent intervals, and
poultry live stock and garden pro-
ducts must be sold when in prime con-
dition and when the market is favor
able. This was not the case with the
main products in the early days. Grain
could be hauled when the sleighing
was good, or when the roads were
dry. Timber was cut in winter and
skidded or hauled on sleighs to the
nearest saw mill or river.
Growth Of the cities has also stim-
ulated the demand for better roads.
At the 1920 census, $4,000 people,
more than "a third of the states to-
tai, lived in cities of more than TO-
900. AS the cities grow, milk, cream,
eggs and vegetables must be brought
from larger and larger area. Trucks
carrying dairy and poultry products,
potatoes, vegetables and live stock
are seen on the trunk highways all
over the state every day of the year.
The trunk highway plan, which
makes motor vehicle owners pay the
whole cost of keeping up the main
through routes, has relieved the To-
cal units of this expense and permit
ted them to spend all their money on
the secondary roads. This has re-
suited in a greater improvement in
roads of all classes in the last six
years than in the preceding fifty
years.
The employment of a highway en-
gineer in every county in the state
has been another large factor in this
development Of roads. 1t has enabled
the counties to get much more for
their money than when roads were
built without plans or engineering
supervision. In many counties the
town boards are also availing them
selves of the county highway engi-
neer's services.
Minnesota still has many thousands
of miles of roads unsurfaced, but a
of the farmers are within
a mile of surfaced road. Many of
the state aid and county roads, due
to lighter traffic, are in better con-
dition than some of the trunk high
WAYS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-02-01

merchandise needs and to make regu-
lar trips to New York to assist in
purchasing this merchandise. Inside
of ten years, he was elected president
of the j. c. Penney Company. One
hundred and seventy-seven stores
were in operation at the time of his
election.
Mr.. e. G. Hoag, large stockhold-
er and former director of the Com
pany, was assistant manager of Mr..
Reyes store in Beloit when Mr.. Sans
got his early training.
Mr.. Glen G. White, a director of the
company, and head of the real estate
department, attended high school in
Belolt at the same time as Mr.. Sans.
For seventeen years he was in the
coal and lumber business in Beloit.
The success of his former associates
and friends attracted him to the j,
Z. Penney Company and in 1915, he
decided on mercantile career and
started with the Company in Provo,
Utah, as a salesman.
Store number five hundred, locat-
ed IN Hamilton, Missouri, is identi-
fled as the birthplace of the founder
OF the Company, Mr.. j C. Penney,
just as store number one thousand is
identified as the early home of the
president, Mr.. E. c. Sans. There are
at present 954 stores in operation, 35
of them being in Kansas.-Adv.