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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
(By a Worker Correspondent


CLEVELAND, Ohio (By MaiD.-
Mahon, president of the Amalga-
mated Street AMI Electric Car Work
ers Union is prize faker. He has
sold out many strikes and it is up
to US carmen to get rid of him.
His great friend Mitten, million
aire of Philadelphia is a scab lover
and a strikebreaker and recently
assisted the deal which caused the
employees of Mitten to lose about
$2,215,000. The Mitten company
union plan will not go with US car
men in Cleveland if the progress
sives have anything to say.
The labor takers likely planned
some other schemes to skin the
workers while they were sightseeing
at their annual convention in Seat
tie, Wash, recently. We must keep
our eyes open and turn our company
unions into real fighting unions or
an industrial basis. We are being
enslaved more than ever and that is
the reason we should fight all the
harder and stick together as mill.
tant fighters.
The following schedule of runs
shows the long hours of nerve
straining work prevailing for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28

New Revolutionary
Calendar Established
In the Soviet Union

MOSCOW, Sept. 27.-The Soviet
government has published a decree
revolutionizing the calendar by
establishing a year of 73 weeks of
five days each, abolishing the uni
versal day of rest and several reli-
gious and patriotic holidays. The
new calendar becomes effective Oc-
tober /.
The holidays left from the former
calendar will be May l and Novem-
Der 7, anniversaries of the revolu-
ton, and January %, memorial day
for Lenin.
Under the new calendar the four
workdays of the week will be leng-
thened by 80 minutes although the
uninterrupted work-week schedule
provides for different groups of
workmen resting on different days.
Schools and all institutions will be
reorganized. Many factories already
have established the five day week
system.
It was deemed possible that the
nomenclature of the'new week would
be numerical as "Oneday," "two-
day., etc.
Engineers and economists predict
greater productivity and prosperity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28

on the job, evidently there will be
an excuse for not giving the "un-
deserving mill hands" anything
more than they are getting.
Meanwhile, however, they can be
of use to the boss men. In the Gas
tonia Gazette article on Smyre mills
it is unctiously announced that the
mill bosses have organized among
the common working people a
mothers club" and "young la
dies club"
"The mothers club prepare, and
the young ladies' club serve, the
various banquet suppers when the
superintendent, overseers and others
at the head of various departments
in the mill get together for mutual
conference and shop talk" says the
article.
But the operation of the system
may be even clearer from the fol-
lowing editorial comment in the
Charlotte Observer of August 16:
"There are dozens Of plants man
aged by men who treat their hands
as members of a common family,
hobnobbing with them on all occa-
sions, devising amusements for the
benefit of the employees, and per-
sonally joining in the festivities.
These plants religiously observe
the picnic occasion in summer
time and the turkey distribution at
Thanksgiving and Christmas. Plants
so managed are unaffected by the
labor disturbances that have be-
come common in sections invaded by
the Communists"
This last is a pious hope that
workers under the influence of the
welfare stunts will not revolt, and
is already denied by the facts, but
it shows another reason for this
community SERVICE" already pro-
claimed as a substitute for wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
by a Worker Correspondent

(By q W0fEeT Correspondent
Did you know that there is a pri-
son at 25 South Street? No? Then
you have never enjoyed the hospi-
tally that this place so kindly Of
fers to one and to all. For all who
have been there realize that this
place is a prison, even tho the
guests are allowed out on parole
during a large part of the day. We
are told that this doubtful dump is
a home, hotel and club for seamen
and harbor workers. AS such it's
influence is supposed to be helpful
to those who tarry there from time
to time (by the way, often the first
is also the last time).
When one arrives there, unless
early in the morning, the cheerful
sight of two or more blue-coated
minions Of the law lends just the
right amount of homelike atmos-
phere to this bastile-club for seamen.
On the reverse side of this tag
are the prison rules and regulations.
Pardon, | mean suggestions for your
behavior in this home. Modern ele-
vators deposit you on the tier in
which your cell is located. The di-
mansions of the cells are seldom so
large as to give one a feeling of
being lost upon the boundless prai-
ries of the west. No, quite the con-
trary. Eight feet by ten is about
the average size (nice and cozy, you
see, home-like).
This article is the result Of pipe
dream. No, not at all. Only a few
days ago l was forced by circum-
stances to patronize this joyous
abode of kindness and good fellow
ship. l know whereof l speak. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
MAHON SUPPORTS
insult AGAINST
CHICAGO CARMEN
Calls Slavery Fair"
Conditions "a

(By a Worker Correspondent I
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-A work.
er who dares to openly oppose the
traction regime in Chicago is dis
charged from his job on the Chicago
elevated or steel car lines and the
yellow company union with Mahon
at the head makes no effort TO rs~
instate him. Trainmen must know
only one thing, loyalty to the COM
pany." Orders are posted on how
to operate trains, when to put on
heat in the cars, what time of the
year to open and close windows,
when to wear your summer or win
ter clothes, and if you fail to carry
out these orders you are discharged
and a ward healer is put to the
trouble" of getting some one to
take your place.
On a sheet posted every day we
are assigned our work. During the
first four or six years we are on
the extra list with four to five
hours per day during the evening
and morning rush, with an eight
hour assignment about every eight
days in place of some conductor
who is off duty.
This is what our union chief pres
ident Mahon calls "fair conditions"
He assures US that he will continue
to fight in the future for these
"fine" conditions as we'll as for the
Mitten plan which he is supporting.
The reader should not be surprised
since this betrayer of labor is an
ardent supported of the insult fran
chise and a jolly good friend of
these political takers.
-CHICAGO TRACTION
! WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
S0CALLED LEFT KUOMINTANC
AND kWkNCSI BRITISH CLIQUE
THREATEN CHANG Government
Canton Under Martial Law as New Revolt
Gains Way in South
Trading on Mass Hatred Against Marking
Rivals Launch War

SHANGHAI, Sept. 27.-Although
Marking issues optimistic reports
that the revolt in the central and
southern regions is "broken," coun-
ter reports from Honkong say that
the commander at Canton, General
Chang Chai-tong, has joined the
revolt Of Chang Fa-kwei. Martial
law is declared at Canton. Shanghai
is reported occupied by revolving
troops. -
Chang Fa-kwei is known to have
allied himself with the Kwangsi
clique, which has always been used
by Britain, and he also is known to
be connected in the present revolt
with Wang Ching-wei, once head OF
the so-called cleft" Kuomintang
government of Hankow in 1927 be.
fore the whole Kuomintang became
counter-revolutionary.
The fact that Marking is sending
10000 troops toward Ichang, sup
ported by five gunboats, and that
extremely strict censorship rules are
being issued, bellies Markings usual
optimistic reports. Other signs OF
wide civil war are troop movements
to check a possible advance from
the north by Feng Yu-hsiang, and
the sharp fall in banknotes.
Wang Ching-wei and ten other So
called cleft" Kuomintangites have
issued manifesto denouncing
Chang Kai-shek and demanding
Reorganization" of the Kuomintang
identifying the signers as partisans
of the present military revolt by
stating that fighting" will cease
only when Chang Kai-shek is over
thrown. The heavy argument of the
manifesto is against the graft and
corruption of Chiang's regime and
follows a purely bourgeois line OF
calling for honest, clean govern
ment." Wang Ching where
abouts is supposedly unknown" but
everybody knows he recently ar
rived at Honkong.
The manifesto was given out here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
MOSCOW PARTY
DISTRICT { NDS
ITS CONFERE:NC
Condemns RightWing;
Act for 5 Year Plan

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r. (By Wir-
less, delayed) Moscow Party dis
trict conference ended Friday. 1t
approved completely the policy of
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party, condemned the capt.
tulating right wingers, and ex-
pressed its solidarity with the de-
cisions of the Executive Committee
of the Communist International, in
GLIDING that to remove Bucharin
from office.
The conference threatened organ
national consequences unless the
Bucharin group ceases its struggles
against the Communist Party.
Fifth Day Holiday.
The conference adopted series
of measures intended to carry out
the five-year plan.
A district committee was elected
consisting of 288 members. This
committee at its first session elected
Baumann, Polonski and Leonov as
secretaries.
The Central Council of Soviet
Labor Unions presented for discus
sion draft plan for theintroduc-
ton of the uninterrupted working
week, which provided for every fifth
day to be rest day, plus five revc-
lutionary holidays annually for
everybody.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
COMP ANY UNIONS
IN COTTON MILLS
Facts Refute Lauding
of Bosses by Writers

(ContinMtd from Page Onet
depressing the workers in their mills
with the $40 a week wage, the 12-
hour night shift for women and
children, ETC., but are fine, paternal,
social leaders, interested only in the
welfare of their Glands"
The "Welfare" Swindle.
Company unionism and "welfare
work" go together in the Southern
mills, in so far as either has been
introduced, they have the same OBJ
jective. Both are supercilious, cyni-
cal endeavors on the part of the
bosses to fool the workers into be-
ing better slaves.
"Welfare work." or Community
work." as the hired writers for the
metropolitan papers call it during
the present campaign to whitewash
Manville-Jenckes, is always alluded
to as an addition to workers wages;
"the wages in Southern mills are
low" the argument runs, "but low
wages plus the wonderful COM
munity work given the mill opera
tive by his boss equals high wages"
Would Make 1t Pay.
Douglas G. Woolf, managing edi-
tor of the Textile World, stated
editorially in his issue of July 13:
"There is only one way in which all
the innuendoes and applications on
both sides can be answered, and that
is by the ALLEGATION of all wages to
the pay envelopes, and the charging
on a rational basis for all COM
munity activities"
This is propaganda, of course, for
when an examination is made of
the Community work" even when
described by it's friends, as in the
case of the Smyre Mills just out
of Gastonia, it is seen that it would
make little addition to a pay en-
velope. The writer is Mrs. Joe
Gribble, and her article is in the
Gastonia Gazette of Aug. 70.
Good Christians and Yarn.
There it is explained just what
community work is for and how it
operates: the work of max
ing good people, good Christians and
good yarn combined" and again,
"Good houses without good house
keepers, more money without the
knowledge of it's right use, shorter
hours to work without the vital con-
Germ of good use of idle time, will
only tend to multiply the ills that
now exist" say the Smyre Mills
welfare workers and their reporter,
Mrs. Gribble.
The better houses, shorter hours,
and higher wages are not to be
given the mill workers at present or
in the near future, evidently, for
"Mrs. S. A. Lanier, the community
leader" has a duty to find things
bad, when she "makes a house to
house visit of the village lis
tening sympathetically to tales of
sorrow, encouraging the weak, adj
monishing in a motherly way the
trouble maker an arm about
hayward girl and a heartfelt
talk" AS long as Mrs. Lanier is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
Starving Workers Aid
Gastonia Defendants
Continued from Page One)
creased spirit, demanding the free
dom of the prisoners.

Continued from Page One)
creased spirit, demanding the free
dom Of the prisoners.
Need United Front.
The rank and file united front of
the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re-
lief Campaign is especially impor-
tant, the committee points out
Especially significant is the fact that
a number of right-wing and indie
pendent unions, spurred on by mill
tant left-wing workers, are sending
resolutions and funds to the strik-
ers. Alfred Wagenknecht, chair
man of the campaign, declared yes
terday that not enough work has
been done in broadening the united
front base. Indications are that
labor organizations, organizations
that contain large working class ele-
ments, are ready to give and work
for the freedom of the Gastonis
prisoners" he said.
"a Lithuanian Catholic organiza-
ton sent us a substantial contribu-
ton the other day. A. F. of L. To-
cal unions are contributing in al
the larger cities. Other organiza-
tions that recently sent funds are
the miners Of the Orient mine, in
Illinois, 1900 strong, WHO have as
sessed themselves 25 cents each fol
Gastonia; the $500 from Local 81
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers; SIS from the Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmel, Local 846; $5(
from the Painters Local, No. 989, Of
Newark, N. j., and $12 from the
Foremost Sportsmen's Shop.
Protest Meetings Continue.
The Pacific Coast reports many
activities also, under Mother Ella
Reeve Bloor, the organizer for thu
Gastonia Joint Defense and Relic:
Campaign. The workers of Sal
Francisco, and Oakland will hold {
mass demonstration Saturday a
Third and Minna Sts., on behalf O.
the Gastonia prisoners. They arr
actively preparing for their three
day bazaar, October IL, IL and IS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
DOCKERS ON EAST
RIVER PIER Get
ABOUT So A WEEK
Ryan, A. F. L. Takers
Not Interested
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
Near Wall Street, New York,
there is street called South Street,
which runs along the East River
waterfront. There the dockworkers
slave.
Every day early in the morning
hundreds of workers come to look
for a days work. Only a few get
the days work.
On South Street are the docks Of
the Ward Line, Munson Line, United
Fruit Co., and the Atlantic Fruit
Co. Many Of these docks, such as
piers IL, Is and 26 are not organ
lied. The workers slave under the
most miserable onditions, carrying
loads of bananas for SIS cents an
hour. The work lasts four to six
hours a day, pay averaging 1920
to $3.50 a day. The lockers stand
much abuse. The foreman is al
ways on top of you. The workers
cannot breathe a minute for the
speed-up system is on full swing.
They are not allowed to go out
to eat, and after working four or
five hours the men are sent to the
clock to check their time. The con-
veyers on the ships add to the
slavery. There are always plenty OF
men outside the docks to replace
those who are fired for being I'M
able to stand the swift pace.
Wages average So to $12 week
because work is so unsteady. In the
summer four ships arrive a week.
and in the winter only three. These
lockers live in filthy, dark, unsani-
tary homes.
The labor takers of the A. F. of
L., Ryan, president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
and Green and Co. do not care to
organize these workers. They are
interested only in getting high
salaries for themselves.
Waterfront workers, better your
conditions by organizing in a fight
ing, honest union. Join the Marine
Workers League, which is based on
dock committees.
"A DOCK WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
French Police Harass
FormerWhites Seeking
Citizenship i'm U.S.S.R.

Izvestia of Moscow, official Soviet
government organ, charged yester-
day, according to a cable from the
United Press correspondent there
that French authorities were per-
scouting thousands of former white
Russians in Paris who are attempt
ing to make peace with the Soviet
regime.
The Izvestia found that several
had applied for Soviet citizenship
and that 5000 already had Joined
the Union for repatriation, but that
Paris police were raiding them and
in many instances beating them and
deporting them.
The article accuses the French
ministry of the interior of openly
acting as representatives of the in
terests of the Russian white guards,
an anti-Bolshevist organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
SeQWeWs MstltMte-Q Nest
Of Rats, Stool Pigeons

second morning that I was down in
the lobby, l was not feeling very
we'll and wanted to go to my room
for short time. Upon asking the
clerk across the bars to give me my
key, he replied in a home-like man.
ner that my key would be avail
able to me at six that evening and
not sooner.
Upon asking the uniformed ele-
vator boy how much Dear Old
Mother" Roper gave him for his
long hours of work, he replied
twenty-five dollars per month" l
supposed that he has wisely invested
this money, and by the time he is
we'll past middle age, he will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprises!

ton to lynch, Ben Wells and two
other organizers, would be dropped
from the case. This was officially
announced today. The papers carry
inspired stories saying that many
citizens" have insisted that he re-
main in the battery of lawyers as
sisting abe state in the attempt to
railroad the union organizers to
electrncution.
1t is being made plain that Man
ville-Jenckes insists that despite the
unsavory reputation of Bulwinkle,
which he has earned as organizer
and leader of the bosses black hun
dreds, their favorite must be re-
tanned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28

to all press correspondents. Local
Chinese papers of course are for
hidden to publish it and American
imperialist correspondents are send
ing denials of it's statements and
praising the American Kemmerer
financial mission to Marking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
Fascists and Workers
Battle Near Berlin;
Communists Are jailed

BERLIN (By MaiD.. - The local
press reports 81 arrested after Ger
man fascists and national socialists
attacked workers at Cukoelin, south
east of Berlin. The police tried to
arrest only Communists, who were
fighting in the front ranks of the
workers, but because he was actu-
ALLY shooting when the police came,
had to take in one national socialist
member of the Reichstag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28
Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-28

WORKER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-31
BANDITS WORK FAST
Trio Makes Two HauIs in
Less Than Half Hour.

Three filling station bandits who
made two hauls in less than half an
hour Tuesday night were sought by
police today.
Two bandits, in a sedan with a
Florida license plate, sped into the
Great Western Oil Company's sta
ton at 1880 Massachusetts avenue
a few minutes after 8, held up Ran
dali Yeager, Acton, Ind, atJenuaAt,
with guns and took S16.
A Negro covered Major Howard,
1415 North Pennsylvania street, at
tendant at an Indiana Refining
Company station at Twelfth and
Illinois streets, took $40, forced How
ard into the wash room and eS-
capped.
Fleetness Of foot probably saved
Harry Feathergill, %, of 1888 North
Tuxedo street, from robbery Tuesday
night as two men approached him as
he was putting his automobile in
his garage. Feathergill ran out of
the garage. One of the men gave
chase. but gave up when he entered
his house,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-31
CARR REFUSES JOB
Declares Census Bureau
Should Name Veteran.

The scramble for the post of Ma
rion county district supervisor Of
the 1880 census was reopened today
when James w. Carr, who was rec
commended by United States Sena-
tors Arthur R. Robinson and James
E. Watson, withdrew his name.
In a letter to William M. Stewart,
director Of the census, Carr said he
was Withdrawing because he under
stood the director favored the ap-
pointment of war veterans wherever
possible.
Carr, former newspaper man, is
secretary Of the James Whitcoub
Riley Memorial Association.
Before it was announced civil
service would not be used in build
ing the census organization, Paul @
Richey, president Of the Indiana
Chamber Of Commerce, recon-
mended Lawrence v. Sheridan.
George v. Cof1n, city and district
Republican chairman, recommended
Omer Hawkins, his county chair
man.
From Lake Manitou, Senator
Robinson said he would confer with
Watson and the census bureau be-
fore new appointment is recon-
mended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-31
HURT AFTER CRASH
Woman Uninjured in Wreck
Falls Walking Away.

Mrs. Mamie Ferguson 1921 Ken
nington street, escaped an automo-
bile crash Tuesday night without in
jury, but today is recovering from
injuries to her knees, sustained as
she walked away from the accident
to telephone police headquarters.
She tripped and fell down several
steps on Washington street, near
Grace street.
Her car collided with a machine
driven by Russell Fisher, 308 North
Walcott street.
Jean Davis, 10, of 449 South
Webster avenue, was injured on the
face when her fathers car crashed
with an auto driven by R. G. Burge,
2166 Ringgold street, at Denny and
Tenth streets Tuesday.
Herman Whitehead, %, of Alb
South New Jersey street was
charged with drunken driving and
drunkenness when his automobile
colnded with another car at Ray
mond street and Southeastern ave-
nue. Tuesday.