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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
iron and STEEL
PROFITS SOAR AS
JOB LINES GROW
Plants Work 3, 4 Days,
Lay-offs Weekly

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The results
of capitalist naturalization are
clearly apparent in the iron and
steel industry. While the lines in
front of the employment offices of
the big companies grow ailyd if not
hoourly those same companies re-
port earnings for the first nine
months, 1929, on an average of
double those made in the CORE
spending period last year. Work
ers in. plant after plant report that
they go to the mills in the morning
never knowing whether they will
work or be sent home. Plant after
plant reports schedules of three,
four or five days week for most
of the workers (although generally
they must appear ready for work
every day. and from several of the
most prosperous mills we hear that
the workers get involuntary "va-
cations"-without pay-every other
week.
While the profits squirt ahead to
rev records the Department OF
Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics
notes with an air Of apparent sur
prise what any worker in any one
of the mills could have told him
that these record profits have and
are taking a new toll in workers
lives and limbs. The October issue
of the Monthly Labor Review, Civ
ing at length the accident expert
ence of the industry over a period
of years, finds t..at from 49," until
1927 there was a gradual fall in
the number and severity of the ac-
cidents i, the industry but records
that in the year 1929 (the latest
figures they We analyzed) there
was a perceptible jump upwards
both in number and severity In
1928 tlare were killed 229, and 99S
were permanently disabled; the
number of those suffering tempo
rary disability (Which includes
those who must s. end months and
even years recuperating-if they
ever can recuperate) mounted to
the terrific total of 23,434.
Many Unrecorded.
Of course, to these figures must
be added the thousands of those
who sustained major injuries that
were never reported to the Bureau,
as well as the many who died OF
occuptional diseases (such as lead
poisoning, heat cramps, etc., which
the companies do not recognize as
part of the toll, and for which COM
pensation is paid in only few OF
the states.
In 1927, roughly, the United
States entered the third period. Ra-
tionalization with its attendant
speed-up, frightening of hours, cut
ting of pay, permanent laying off
OF workers, ETC., was introduced on
a wider and more intensified scale
than ever before. So we find the
soaring profits. So we have, in the
basic war irGustr.-, this increased
toll of hu nan lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
BY JACK TOMBSTONE,

National Organizer of the TUUL.
THE accentuation of capitalist con-
tradictions, increasing imperial
list rivalries and class antagonisms,
due to naturalization, expresses its
fundamental contradiction in the
rapid increase of the worlds prole-
tariat, with productive capacity
capable of more than filling all the
requirements of the worlds market,
with less instead of more workers
employed. For example, from 1907
to 1925 there was gain in the
working class of Great Britain of
over one million, in the same period
Germany showed an increase of five
million, here we see an increase of
40 per cent for population in
crease of 10 per cent. Italy's pro-
letariat jumped from one and a
quarter millions in 1911 to four
millions in 1921, gain of 1870 per
cent. France 100000, and so on.
In the USA the increase also has
been extensive.
The USA census bureau shows
that from 1920 to 1925 there was
decrease in agriculture of 10000;
in manufacture of $4,000 and in
railroad of 286,000 workers en-
ployed. In spite of this reduction
in the number of workers, agricul.
ture and manufacture showed a de.
cided increase in production. While
the steady increase in the number
of the worlds proletariat is a "nat-
ural" development of the capitalist
system of exploitation, and in the
period of capitalist growth is a
source of strength to the capitalist
system, it is, however, a source Of
strength only when capitalism is
able to develop new industries, ex-
tend agriculture, develop new mar
kets to the point where it can alb
sorb the workers displaced by ma
chimes.
However, under capitalism, it be-
comes a fundamental, unsolvable
contradiction ~rhen this rapid
growth in the worlds proletariat is
accompanied by the development of
production techaic that requires less
instead of more workers, when
capitalism is no longer able to de-
velop sufficient new industries that
will absorb the proletarianized
farmer and the workers thrown out
of employment by rationalized mass
production. This is still further
accumulated by a shrinking rather
than an expanding world market.
Mai cts Shrink. n
A shrinking world market in the
sense that the Soviet Union is no
longer sphere of exploitation, that
the buying capacity of the worlds
workers and agrarian population in
the capitalist and colonial countries
is decreasing, that the DEVELOPMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
mill BOSS LAUDS
SLAVERY SCHEME:
FOR THE WORKERS
To Make Mills Safe
for Scab Wages
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mill depression made '1abor rela-
tions" the outstanding subject at the
convention, whose delegates repre-
sent mainly New England and Penn
sylvania manufacturers.
A concrete illustration of union
curbing was presented by Treas
Lawrence Richmond of the Cromp-
ton Co. of Crompton, R. l., owners
of an industrial democracy" scheme
which, he claims, has kept the union
out of Crompton and has prevented
strikes since it's installation in 1925
Industrial democracy" as con-
ceived by John Leitch and installed
at the Riverside & Dan River cot
ton mills at Danville, Va, was taken
as a model for Crompton.
This plan gives the workers a
House of representatives, meeting
monthly under the eye of the mil
superintendent. The hossmen are
organized in a Senate, with the su,
perintendent and executives in the
cabinet. The cabinet, of course, has
veto power, but Richmond cheer,
fully explained that t had never hac
to exercise this power over actions
of the combined House and Senate
the one supervised by the superin-
tendent and the other composed OF
bossmen themselves. The bossmer
must approve of the Houses action
before it goes to the, cabinet.
Workers rewards under indus.
trial democracy" Richmond was can
did enough to admit, equal exactly
seven per cent of their wages, And
heir wages are determined by the
scale paid in neighboring mills,
mostly non-union.
"Employe rating" is the same for
the refined technique of the Leitch
plan to keep workers from acting to-
gether and developing solidarity
Each worker is listed individually on
the department charts, with his pro-
duction, efficiency and dement's
Those at the bottom Of the list are
fired. "Our employees" Richmond
explained suavely, "who practically
become our partners in business,
cannot afford to stand for ineffi-
cheney and slovenliness any more
than we can. Our interests are iden-
teal" ~
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population, it simplifies machinery,
drawing into industry millions OF
youth an women, it annihilates dis
lance, blinging industry close to the
osurce of raw material and cheap
labor-the industrialization of the
South is proletariani- g large sec
tions of Negroes-swelling the
ranks of the proletariat at a time
when an increase in the number OF
the working class intensifies all
capitalist contradictions.
On the one hand it turns the
world into an imperialist armed
camp seeking a solution for this I'M
solvable problem in imperialist
wars, amid on the other hand, it
seeks solution by intensifying ex-
ploitation, thus increasing class an
tagonisms, developing the class war
that has reached a revolutionary
stage in the colonial countries and
is developing mass class struggles
in all capitalist countries.
In the search for new markets
and spheres of influence the impe-
rialist world turns menacingly
towards the Soviet Union. The sue
cess of the Five-Year Plan has
dashed to the ground the hopes of
an internal breakdown of the Soviet
Union so ardently desired by both
the imperialists and their social
democratic agents,-so they are
preparing war of aggression to
destroy the First Workers Republic
in an attempt to turn the pages of
history back, and again tie the Rus
sian workers and peasants to- the
yoke of imperialism.
Planned Socialist economy devel-
oping rationalized mass production,
intensive and big scale mechanical
farming, means higher standard
of living for both workers and peas
ants. Naturalization under plan
less capitalist economy, based upon
the, exploitation of the working
class, means greater wealth and
leisure for the capitalist, greater
poverty, increased exploitation and
greater misery for the workers.
The introduction of the seven
hour day and one days rest in five
with an increase in the standard of
living, is the results of rationaliza-
ton in workers republic. The 8,
10, IL and 16 hour day, terrific
speed-up, wage cuts, unemployment,
is the results of naturalization in
the capitalist states.
Influence of Soviet Union.
The tremendous influence that
the Soviet Union has over ever
growing numbers of the worlds
workers naturally intensifies the
hatred of the imperialist nation
towards her. The mass of workers
do not yet theorize very deeply over
the question of socialist and CAPT.
talist economy, but they see coun-
try run oy the workers make such
sweeping changes; such as placing
industry and agriculture upon an
eight-hour basis, then introducing
the five-day week, advancing to a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
HILFERDING AIDS CAPITALISTS
(Wire[es8 bu InprecOYr.)

EERLIN, Nov. Tn the Reich
stag budget committee, the socialist
finance minister, Hilferding. pre-
sented vague plans on finance re-
form, but asserted that workers gain
a benefit by the lowering Of proper
ty taxes, claiming that thereby CAPT
talist production is increased. He
said that the financial betterment
resulting from the Young Plan must
be devoted to reduction of the
property taxation. The Communist
fraction moved that Hilferding must
state his plans fully, but the COM
mittee rejected the motion. OF
course he could not prove that the
workers benefit just because the
capitalists do-the facts are to the
contrary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08

Since the last world has gigantic industry
with Of the big plants Virginia
nestle production of 100000 pounds jumped to 100000
1925 Over pounds used in the southern mills for mixed
goods etc. Most made from
and both these products handy Ceuose
also used for the production Of explosives cotton
mills in few hours
The plans like the other textile mills have the cond
lions Tor the workers Prison conditions make
cessons given these workers cotton workers The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08

Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08

The working ciass cannot simyIy
lay hold of the renay-mxde state
machinery, and WELD IL for It's own
purpORc.. .This ne- COu,mu lPari.
COmmuneD breaks the modern state
pOWer-Marx.
The Washington times., 1929-08-20
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST q
By WILLIAM SHWADER
VOICE OF HEAVENS

VOICE OF HEAVENS
IN 0MORR0W Jupiter planet benevolent in its nature
versey aspeeted by the and makes things
roshued than they really Do ask favors,
above all, avoid speculations defer investments.
LOOKING AHEAD
If tomorrow birthday hen during the coming avoid
temperate
diet and in mode of e Enter partnerships and
avoid all impulses gamble.
child will probably sympathetic
receptive but be easily influenced by others his dsad
vantage He fret and be inclined unorthodox
religion, and insist that doubt be diped
by
THE TALISMAN
The ancen Chadeans and Others used tasmans which
they credited with the power of bringing good fortune health
competency and They also used lOvecham attract the
friendly the planet Venus the goddess
this deeply psychological well astrological truth
The particularly the
making responsive the harmonious paneary vibrations
exercising bodily functions exciting the
imagination and inducing receptive and hopeful attitude For in
wearing ove-charm often met with wsh-ful
lment asman her served constant
for keeping her wish before her; be-
cause developed pleasing that actually
helped the desired The great Frenchman Coue worked
similar lines.
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The Washington times., 1929-08-20

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The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
J. Who wrote "The Ring and the Book"f
What said:
"I hope to my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar"3
What is the capital Of California? s-s=%s+
nickname was President Taylor knowa by?
s. What is the legend about William TeMf
s. Where Falkland Islands?
the September II important anniversary
Americans?
answer is
s. Fiesole is in India--ItaIy- Spain Germany.
Adelaide France-Chna-- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
10. Benares is in Sweden-Ala Alaska-Ireland
IL Houston is in Texas-Canada- -Mexico-Niearasua.
IL Syracuse is in Connecticut-Maine- Ycrk-oho
Complete these titles
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a. "The --4o Of Roaring Camp" by Harta
15 "My Old - Home" by Foster
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
By D. ]. WILKIE GA. F. C0rrespondent)

DETROIT, May 4--Belle Isle, Detroit's $17,000.000 playground that figures in the most recent liquor scandals involving a police officer, seemingly is almost ideally situated for smuggling operations, whether they have to do with rum, aliens or merchandise.
 Yet relatively few arrests have been made on the island for at tempts at illegal entry into the United States from Canada.
 Lying in the upper Detroit river midway between the Canadian and Michigan shores, the islands two- mile length encompasses some 700 acres, much of it densely wooded and perhaps not more than min ute and a half from the Canadian shore In swift motorboat.
 The island is connected with the Michigan mainland by broad bridge, but has no legal port of entry from the Canadian side ana
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
BETTING PARTY LED ID MURDER
 OF GIRL WIFE
Student Held as Material Witness Tn Latest
 Torch Staying

WHITE PLAINS, N. r, May A. Gene Bussey, student at the Johns Hopkins University, who told of a love affair with Mrs. Dorothy Peacos, is held in jail as a mater ial witness in the torch staying of the 22-year-old wife of Earl Pea cos, by her husband.
 Bussey said he indulged in pet ting parties with the girl and cor responded with her. He said Peacos found the letters and threatened to beat the life out of his wife
 The New York American publish cd a letter of the girls mother in-laW giving the woman's reasons for leaving her husband, which said: Tt did not take long for us to realize that we made a mistake in living together and keeping up pretenses for life was really hell on earth. We were not really man and wife but a couple of fighting kids"
 The police said Peacos has talk ed himself out of the plea of lf-defense contained in his or iginal confession which said he choked his wife who pointed a gun at him. Later he admitted he hit her over the head as soon as they entered their old Mount Vernon home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
Married Women Taught
 To Seek BrOader Fields

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May B. Coordination of women's interests within the home and in her out side contacts will occupy the at tention of summer institute meet ing here from June 26 to July IT.
 This is believed to be the first effort to seek the solution of wom- ems difficulties in this field The institute aims to lay down the principle of women's education that college training presupposes right to simultaneous intellectual and domestic interests It points out one way of achieving this right through cooperative enterprises.
 The work conducted by the in stitute includes the study of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04

consequently includes no federal officers in it's police force To make Q legal entry upon the island from Canada, the visitor first must cross the river at Detroit and jour ney to it by ferry, by automobile or afoot.
 Capt. Joseph A. Burkheiser, har- bormaster and head of the police detail on the island, who has been suspended on charges of aiding rum runners, has spent virtually his entire career of 22 years as a mem- Der Of the police force on the is- land.
 He has been harbor master and head of the police since 1921. He flatly denies the charges, among which are allegations that he as- signed patrolmen under him to protect rum running craft from interference by federal officers or state police. The charges contain no allegations that he profited fi- nancially from the reputed con- nivance with liquor runners.
 Rum figures in the early history
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
Orientals May Dominate Entire World If West
 Continues Birth Losses

PITTSBURGH, May 4.-Eugenic factors for and against domination of the world by oriental races are enumerated by Prof Roswell H. Johnson of the University of Pitts burgh in a report to the American Eugenics society.
 "The eugenic aspect of the ori- ent," he says, must interest us, since the western world now has entered into a rapid decline of the birth rate which is shared only in a minor degree as yet by the orl- ent.
 "This, together with a superior toleration of torrid temperatures by the Chinese and the East Indians, presages an orientalization of the world (especially if we include the semi oriental, fecund Russian peas ant)
 "The outstanding feature of the orient eugenically is the effect that the very strong family unit there has in resisting the powerful trend toward a lower birth rate in the intelligentsia. The significant fea- ture is that the Chinese man and woman feel genuine ambition to be the parents of several children.
 "The international consequence, especially as the death rate is reg ularly decreasing with the spread of western medical arts, is sure to be a great increase in the oriental populations in contrast to the west ern peoples.
 "The crucial question is how firm resistance does the Chinese fam fly system offer to the great wave of family limitation that is sweep ing the western world so effective ly? In China it is now evident that among those educated in the west this resistance is not great
 Factors tending to limit the size
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04

of the race in China pr. Johnson enumerates as including d e h S from over-crowding widespread brigandage, and graft. Another barrier is the arranging of mar riages by necromancers.
 The Japanese, says Dr. Johnson, with "a strong, centralized, active, ambitious government of a people keenly race-conscious, highly uni- fled and patriotic" has the great est opportunity for an eugenic movement to preserve high birth rate among the superior portion Of the population and teach limita- tion to the ignorant.
 Consider" he says, how such a people are bound to embrace 9 movement that can carry them up to a point where no western nation can look down upon them"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04

of Belle Island. It was eight bar rels of rum. six pounds of paint, rolls of tobacco and wampum belt that persuaded the Indians in 1780 to turn it ovir to Lieut.. George McDougall, an Engnshman.
 The island was infested with snakes, and in order to exterminate the reptiles, pigs were placed on it. The snakes disappeared and the island which the Indians had called White Swan" became Isle au-Cochan," or "Hog Island"
 The swine soon lost their domes- tic habits and became wild. Exter- imitation of the pigs became a prob lem, but finally they too, were re- moved and the name Hog Island" becoming objectionable, public-spir- ited citizens renamed it Belle Isle.
 Settlement of boundary dispute, which placed the dividing line be- tween the United States and Can ada in the ship channel between the island and the Canadian shore, gave the island to the American government.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
Z DELEGATIONS
 IN SETTLEMENT
 OF PARATIONS
American Delegates Must Now Win Over Bel
 gium and France
OWEN YOUNG PUTS
 FORTH ARRANGEMENT
Settlement Splits Differ ence of Original Ger
 man Annuities

PARIS May 4. The German and American Preparations dele gations have reached full agree ment for complete settlement.
 All that remains is for the Am ericans to win the French and Belgian delegations to their views.
 Owen Young, head of the Am erican delegation, is conferring with other creditor nations. It is rumored that the British and Jap anese delegations have approved of the agreement and if other con- ferenceS are successful, a plenary session of the Preparations Con- mission will be held on Monday, when delegates are gathered in Paris.
 The proposed settlement splits the difference of the original offer of German annunities of one bil- lion six hundred marks and the Allied demand for two billion two hundred million marks.
 The German offer IS calculated tt 5 Ter ceiit interest plus nine tenths for amortization represent ing a value of 26,000. 100000 gold marks. roughly estimated at $6,- 240,o00,000.
 The Allied d e m n d amounted roughtly to 41 billion gold marks or $10,00o,o00,0o0, payable over a number of years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Airplane travel across the English channel between London and Paris has in- creased so rapidly that British arr plane operators are building one of the worlds largest airplane hang ars at Croydon airport to house 50 huge air liners in single build- ing.
 The London consulate has ad- vised the department of commerce of the British project in report on service between London and Paris since it was established in 1924.
 From 1924 to 1929. cross-channel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04

Dr. Frank H. Vizetelley, leXico- grapher, went and threw cold water on the claims of innumerable news paper columnists. actors, theatrical producers and Broadway playboys, each contending that he was the originator of the mysterious word "whoopee"
 In other words ne put the dam per on the whole business by &C., tually making a research of the word and finding that it was in usage almost half dozen centur- ies ago, spelled the same way, and having a similar connotation.
 Some time later, Ben Johnson, the English bard, made reference in his "Masque Gypsies' to "the Ballet of the Whoopee Barnibie. '" But do you think the whoopee la dies in that outfit bore any re- semblance to the ones in the pie lures above?
 In this year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty nine, there are many varieties of whoopee. There's the kind that has to do with the imbibing of giggle water There's the Tex Guinan variety, which naturally, has nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. But give us the com mon ordinary garden variety which everybody knows and understands, and which needs no research-just strength and endurance!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-04
Virginia Registers Twenty Two Killed Tn Re-
 cent Storm
RELIEF WORKERS
 SEARCH REGIONS
Claim Death Toll Will Be Increased Crops,
 Property Damaged

ATLANTA, Ga, May 4. - The death list as the result of storms stood at 28 in seven Southern States, the greatest toia being in Virginia were g were killed.
 Relief workers are searching iso- lated sections. They say the death list will mount to over 40 but this may drop again as result of con- flicting overlapping reports as to the dead.
 More than 1of V ooen inJ1.5d, many seriously.
 There has been an enormous crop and property loss.
 Most of those killed were at Rye Cove, Virginia, where a school house collapsed, killing the teach CT and 13 children.
 Six fatalities occurred in Mary land, five each in Arkansas and Tennessee, two each in Kentucky and Ala'7oma and nna is' T7larida
 Forty-seven persons were killed in last weeks series of storms in Georgia. The death toll two weeks ago was 84 persons.