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New Britain herald., 1929-07-19
REATS MAYORS SON

New Orleans, July 19 P}-Augus-
 tus Williams, recorder of mortgages of New Orleans, today beat up and
 threw out of his office Arthur O'keefe, Jr., son of Mayor O'Keefe, when he called on the recorder for an apology for the language used by Williams against the mayor at last nights open air labor mass meeting.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-19
MONOPLANE STILL UP

Houston, Texas, July 19 R,- Nearing the end of its second day in the air, the endurance monoplane Billion Dollar City" piloted by Glen l.. Loomis and Joe Glass, still was aloft early today.
 The plane took off at 1:49:54 a. m. WcdneSdaV
New Britain herald., 1929-07-19
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

Applications for marriage licenses have been filed by the following: Charles G. Fletcher of Lake court, street: Eugene Muhliesen of 119 Fairview street. and Louise. Meier of 49 Woodland street.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-19

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
INTRODUCTION.

In giving this of the FveDay Union
be that the plan of spoken
0orki9 the the Sov Union gears enjoyed
Sir-Hour aOhiLe the 0rtg
Hour Day to November, 1927 hen by decree of the Soviet
eminent the orng day decreased SeUen Hours the Seven
being factories
shift the past gear
got making
million orers general factory production already the
Hour shift
The miners, because underground confinement york.
the Uhoe last Of orkng conditions hich make unheah
fl occupation hare the SHour addition they receiving
specially double vacaon auth While all a0orers get
and thoe oho sick injured 0Ok medical
reoten including trips distant mountain resorts where
the palaces ed revolution
sanarus for the all privleges
given all Uorkes families children all being
borne by the industry unemployed miners and all other wokers
receive compensation that they and their families ve until
place found If any invatd unabe
york. hether ordinary disease accident he receives
from one-thud to oneha usual ves In
short IN the Sopiet Union Oorker relieved of the mountain
that haam him and his family capitalist countries.
England "labor party promised
restore the SeUnHoar Day they lost three the
haze Just found that the abo party icked them oh promise
betray them after getting elected And the
leader something of
shon after the election like Hoat
fights crooked officials With he then
time Uhen their side and takes the
the old leadership rather than strike
boldtu fight against the operators,
Cook England the labor because
promised the Seven-Ho Day. After the "Iqbor
proposed" that the operators SeVen
dndaa Hour Day. The operators refusing and fighting
retain the EghtHo Day. which them haze increased to
Cook W goes along Nth the faers
V has become fake himself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Miners! Daily Worker
Helps You Win Your
Battles! You Need 1t!

Minersl Fellow Workers! In all
your struggles you will need The
Daily Worker. 1t fights side by
side with you and for you. 1t ex-
poses the bosses and all fake '1abor
leaders" who are a part of the boss
class. 1t shows how the state and
national government works for your
defeat. 1t mobilizes workers and
workers organizations nationally to
help defend you when the bosses
try to break your strikes by throw
ing you into jails.
The Daily worker is the only
working class daily paper in the
United States. You must read it,
subscribe for it, circulate it in all
mining camps, in all industries. 1t
is the official organ of the Commu-
mist Party of the United States,
and you know that the Communist
Party always fights for the work
ing class.
Address: The Daily Worker, &c
Union Square, New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Miners Answer
Fascist Council

Continued from Page Three
of all troops from the coal fields
must be raised.
Picketing of the state capital by
miners and their families should be
considered just as necessary as the
picketing of scab mines.
The demand for the unconstitu-
tional release of Thompson, Voyzey
and all other arrested miners lead
ers should be the center of wide agi-
tation.
The disarming of the gunner,
American legionaires, old union Off
cials and other fascist elements is
a demand that must be popularized.
Such demands are basic in all work
ing class struggles in this period.
The question of allies outside of
those workers who are not members
of but who are close to the National
Miners Union, must be given the
most serious consideration. Import
ant forces like the $4,000 Kentucky
miners who,, although still nomin-
ally members of and still to some
extent under the influence of the
old Lewis UMWA, have voted for
Ia strike to enforce the 1917 wage
sailable, must be used to destroy the
struggle with all possible speed.
At the same time the experiences
of this important class battle, all
of which strengthen the position of
the NMU and make its program of
militant struggle politically unas-
sailable, must re used to destroy the
last vestiges of Trotsyism and Love
stoneism in the coal fields.
Party Leads.
With all shortcomings taken into
consideration, it must be said that
the program of our Party and the
Party itself is the vitalizing force
in the Illinois battle. Our Plenum
there has been tested in mass
struggle and we can say that it has
stood this test. Especially has the
supplementary resolution of the Hi
nois district Plenum been sustained
by the struggle in the coal fields.
Correct our weaknesses. Bring
new fighting proletarian material
from the Illinois battlefront into
our party and its leadership. More
attention to the militant mood of
the masses in basic industry. Mobil-
ize the whole Party behind the shock
troops of the class struggle in Hi
nois. Organize for struggle in every
basic industry in the true Boishevik
manner.
No separation of our perspective
of struggle from the necessary or
ganizational measures.
These are the lessons to date Of
the class conflict in the Illinois coal
fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

making light of the difficulties by
setting an example on the picket
lines. They can help spread the
strike by visiting the wives of the
miners not yet on strike to help
awaken the class feeling in them
and prove to them that only through
solid front of the miners can they
beat off the attacks of the bosses,
can they hope to win better condi-.
tions for themselves and their fam
lies.
Must Organize.
The wives of the miners on strike
must become organizers for the
National Miners Union, and under
their leadership through their
auxiliaries give full help and CO.
operation to the strike leaders. The
only way to win the strike is
through solidified fighting front
of the miners and their wives. The
wives of the miners must realize
that this will be a tough fight, a
fight to finish, it will require day
in and day-out work. The more ac-
tive ones will have to draw in the
less active ones into the struggle,
every day there must be a 100 per
cent turn out on the picket lines.
The first days of the strike so
splendidly begun must continue.
The wives Of the miners must carry
on struggle against the traitors;
all those elements that show pas
sivity in the strike. From the very
FIRST day it is to be a strike of the
whole family against the rotten con-
ditions imposed upon them by the
bosses and the A. F. of L. takers.
A Political Struggle.
The successful winning of the
strike and building of the National
Miners Union will be the first step
towards improving the conditions of
the miners and their families.
The conditions of the miners and
the workers as a whole are never
secure under the present capitalist
system. Speed-up, unemployment,
worsening Of workers conditions
are the evils of capitalism.
Not only must the wives of the
miners help in the present strike but
they must become keenly aware of
the political aspect of the class
struggle.
They must realize that it is only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
S0yld Union Miners Haze S0w Day. FveDy Week. Socially Oue

In Soviet Russia new and far
reaching social-economic reform is
being introduced. l refer to the
Continuous Working Week. The
idea of this reform belongs to the
well-known Soviet economist, J. La
lrin (who was also the first to breach
the idea of transferring to the sew
en-hour working day., who submit
ted his proposal to the Fifth Con-
gress Of Soviets. Congress ap-
proved his suggestion in principle
and instructed the Government to
begin practical preparations to
carry out the reform. AS a first
step in this direction the question
was submitted to extensive public
discussion in the press, the trade
unions, at workers meetings, etc.
After the whole of our working
class public opinion had indicated
with rare unanimity its endorse
ment of the reform and the advis-
ability of carrying it into effect, a
special Government Commission was
set up to implement the "nepreryv-
ka" or "unbroken week." as the con-
tinuous working week is already
called for short in Russia. The Com
mission, which included representa-
tives of the trade unions, hammered
out plans of technical arrangements
for implementing the reform and
drafted law on the matter which
was approved by the Government
and promulgated on September 25th.
1t may be added that, on the initia-
tive of the workers themselves, the
continuous work was introduced in
number of plants some time prior
to the actual passing of the law in
question. But beginning from the
present fiscal week, i.e., from Octo-
Der, the whole country has been
moving over to the new working
week on systematic scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
By ANNA DAMON.

The splendid response of the
miners in Southern Illinois to the
call of the National Miners Union
to strike the mines is proof that
they are wide awake to the fact that
only through a militant uncom-
promising fight under the leader
ship of the National Miners Union
can they win better conditions for
themselves and their families. This
lesson has been taught them by the
bosses and the A. F. of L. by the
Lewis, harrington, Fishwick takers,
who have sold out their interests
time and again to the bosses.
Keenly aware of the kind of a
battle the miners will have to put
up, their wives have joined them
and are taking their place side by
side with the striking miners. On
the first day they led the picket
lines; in the front rows came these
heroic women to help fight the joint
forces of labor reaction. and the
police.
This is not the first time that
women have marched to the front in
picket lines. In the class battles of
recent years women workers and
wives of workers have shown their
class consciousness by fighting side
by side with the men workers.
In the recent class struggles
fought by the Industrial Unions
against the bosses and the A. F. OF
L. takers to gain better conditions
for the workers in the mining
needle, textile, food and shoe in
dustries the women workers fought
militantly together with the mer
their common enemy, the capitalist
class.
Other Battles.
We well remember the valiant
fight put put by the wives of the
miners in Pittsburgh and the tex
tile workers in the South. They
fought shoulder. to shoulder with
their husbands and brothers in the
mills and on the picket line. Out
they came in the front lines against
the police and the hired gangsters
of the A. F. Of L.
In the present strike the wives
of the miners can and will play a
leading role. They can help win the
strike by encouraging the men,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

What is the essence of this re-
form, what Importance does it pos
cess for our country's industries,
and what has it to offer the working
class? In this article it will be our
endeavour to give a brief reply to
these very pertinent questions.
At the present time only a certain
number of our industrial plants
work continuously throughout the
whole year. Among these are plants
in the metal trades, the railway and
water-transport services, the oil in
dustry (production Of oiD, electric
power stations, and such public SER
vices as the tramways, water supply,
the postal services, etc. All other
plants cease work not only on pub
lie holidays, but also on each week
ly day of rest Sundays over most
of the U. S. S. r., and Fridays in
the Moslem districts). Out of the
365 days of the year production is
carried on approximately on 300
days, and in the case Of a number
Of plants which stop work complete
ly during the annual vacation of
their workers, for as a little as 288
days. Consequently, for one-sixth
Of the working year the machinery
of our industrial plants stands idle,
whereas its utilization during this
idle period would do much consider
ably to increase production as a
whole.
The new reform means that all
plants must work continuously the
whole year round, barring five days
Of revolutionary holidays January
22nd, which marks the anniversary
Of Lenin's death and commentaries
the memory of the victims of the
Winter Palace massacre on January
9th, Old Style, 1905; international
Labor Day on May LIST and End; and
the Anniversary of the October
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

Revolution on November 7th and
8th). This means that instead of
800 working days (and even 288
days as happened in some cases al
ready mentioned), all plants will
work 800 days. This result is OBJ
tanned by doing away with the
weekly day of rest when everybody
at the same time took their day Of
rest, as well as by doing away with
the stoppage of work on public holt
days. Instead, you have a certain
number Of the workers taking their
off-day in turns throughout the
whole week, the plant meanwhile
carrying on its normal production.
For the industrial plant the working
year lasts the whole twelve months,
though every worker has his nor
NAL rest-day at fixed intervals.
But the length of the working
week is now reduced. AS a rule,
the five-day week has been intro
NNNCd Ny ldW-dlJSI lOuI udyS
work, one days rest. Every day,
one-fifth Of all the workers have
their off-day on which to rest. Out
of the 365 days in the year there
must be excluded the five days of
revolutionary holidays which must
thus be left cut of account. There
remain 800 days which make up 72
weeks. This means that each worker
gets 72 instead If 81 Sundays" in
which to rest. This again, means
that there is considerable increase
in the number of such rest days.
Considering that in addition to Sun
days there used to be 10 Church
and revolutionary holidays, alto
gether there we're 65 days in the
year when no work was done, which
under the five-day uninterrupted
week works out at 70 plus 5 equals
II rest-days.
End of First Installment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

George VoLzey, old time mill
tant fighter IN the miners ranks,
is at the head of the N.M.U. I'D,
ministration IN Illinois district.
He is IN Jail 11oaU for leading the
miners IN march on Cecilia mine.
Told the sheriff if they turn hin,
loose he will lead another demon
strGtion tomorrow.
The International Labor Defense
has issued the following manifesto
in the Illinois strike situation:
The International Labor Defense
greets the courageous strike strug-
gle launched by militant coal min
ers of southern Illinois, that is
rapidly spreading to all sections of
the state and over into Kentucky.
1t is the first decisive answer from
the ranks of labor to the hunger re-
gime promised by the "No Strike!''
fascist decree of the Hoover confer
ences in Washington, in the midst
of the crashing stock prices in Wall
Street, in which the officials of the
American Federation of Labor par
ticipated and to which they gave
their approval.
Just as it battles with the textile
workers in the South, seven of whom
have been sentenced to 1T years in
prison, just as it modified the
whole working class and success
fully cheated the electric chair in
Melons state of Pennsylvania in
the attempted burning to death of
the coal miner, Salvatore Accorsi;
so the international Labor Defense
enlists for the struggle in defense
of the striking coal miners of
Illinois, beaten and jailed by the
heavily armed troops and imported
gunner and thugs of the mine own
ers and their government.
Save the Arrested Pickets.
Already Freeman Thompson, or
ganizer of the National Miners
Union, has been seized by the troops
and thrown into military dungeon.
His crime was leading strikers in a
picket demonstration against the
Peabody mines in Kincaid. The
order for his arrest was given by
the mine owners superintendent.
Thus is seen the close cooperation
of the employers and their capitalist
state.
George Voyzey, Illinois district
president of the National Miners
Union, has been thrown into the
Buckner Jail, for leading the dem
onstration on the Coello mine in
Franklin County. Numerous ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
FIGHT AGAINST TREACRERY is
PART OF FIGHT AGAINST BOSS

L. P.-ites, the I.W.W., Watt and the
Trotzkyites, fight against the Ma
tional Miners Union. John L. Lewis
supports John ]. Watt financially.
The Omitted Mine Workers Journal
prints attacks against the N.M.U.;
so does the "Illinois Miner; so does
the Industrial Solidarity; so does
the weekly People," and it is in
teresting to know that the material
for these papers are taken from the
counter-revolutionary sheet of the
Trotzkyite Cannon, the Militant"
This is no accident.
The N.M.U. is the only force in
the field that actually carries on the
struggle against the coal operators.
Against this advanced force of the
miners, all these elements are
united.
1.-THE Weekly People" prints a
whole page of attacks and calumnies
against the National Miners Union
and the Communist Party. 1t says
that the coal operators and Lewis
do know that the Communists are
leading the N.M.U., but that the
Communists are keeping that fact
from the miners.
Communists Are Driving Force
What is the Trade Union? The
Trade Union is a mass organization
to which every worker can belong.
The N.M.U. is built on the class
struggle basis. 1t unites every miner
who is ready to fight against the
coal operators, their government and
the takers. The N.M.U. does not
limit itself to the Communists. 1t
would be foolish, as that would mar
row down the Union. The Union
would not be fulfilling its duty or
its aims. The Communists in the
NM.U. are the driving force. They
are the vanguard of the miners, and
their influence is growing, and it
is no wonder that the attack against
the N.M.U. is first of all concen-
trated against the Communists.
The government, the coal operat-
ors, Lewis, Fishwick, and SIP. -ites,
the I.W.W., Watt and the Trotzky-
ties, all of them know very well that
by attacking the Communists they
are fighting against the only force
under whose leadership the N.M.U.
can march forward.
I.W.W. Offers Wage Cut
The I.W.W. in its manifesto to the
coal miners, says: "Mr. Coal Miner,
we are fully equipped to take care
of the volume of business which is
sure to accumulate as enthusiasm
for the success of the big member
ship drive increases" The I.W.W.
in its manifesto to the miners has
not a word to say about capitalist
naturalization, unemployment. Not
a word about the role of the takers
of the UNIV. of A, not a word of
the police and fascist persecution Of
the militant miners. But it offers
the coal operators a new wage cut
for the miners in Illinois.
1t openly speaks that the I.W.W.
proposes uniform and universal
wage scale of $1,000 per week." and
it concentrates all its attacks against
the N.M.U.
Miners correctly say that the ST..
P, the I.W.W., and Watt have no
support among the miners. But there
are some miners who are misled
by them, and it is the duty Of the
N.M.U. to fight and win over the
miners from the influence of these
opportunists, to win these miners for
the class struggle against the coal
operators; it's necessary to expose
all opportunists, servants of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
WOMEN IN THE MINE STRIKE

by overthrowing the present capial-
ist system and establishing gov
eminent of the workers and farmers
like that of Soviet Russia can the
workers receive what justly belongs
to them for their work, that in this
country as we'll as all over the
world the only political party that
fights for the interests of the work.
ing class is the Communist Party,
that in all the struggles of the work
ers the Communist Party leads the
fight against the bosses to improve
the conditions of the workers, to
wipe the bosses Of the face of this
earth and to establish Proletarian
Dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Miners Demand Removal Troops from Mine Feds Dsam the Gunner
Miners Release of THOMPSON V0yzey All the Arrested Coal Miner
LABOR Defense JUMPS into
ILLINOIS; ASKS WORKERS AID

rests of others are repeatedly tax
ing place. These attacks must be
fought.
The international Labor Defense,
already in the field, fighting against
these growing attacks, calls on
workers the land over to rally in
defense of the Illinois mine strikers,
supporting them in their struggle to
organize and build the National
Miners Union, to picket the mines,
to secure the shorter work-day and
increased wages.
Freed Miner Accorsi.
Building the defense of the Hi
nois coal miners struggles, spread
ing to other states, goes hand in
hand with the fight to liberate the
seven Gastonia strikers and organ
izers and for the organization of
the textile industry; it links up in
evitably with the growing drive now
crowned with triumph for the re-
lease of Salvatore Accorsi; with the
demand for the liberation of Charles
Guynn, coal miner, and several
others condemned to long prison
terms in the courts of Belmont
County, Ohio, controlled by the steel
mill and mine owners; it is part of
the fight against the criminal syn
dicalist laws now being used in 35
states to smash workers organiza-
tions already in existence and to
prevent the organization of the I'M
organized. "Illinois!" like Gas
toniaw becomes a new battle cry
Of struggle.
Unity of Negro and white work
ers in the Illinois coal fields must
develop stronger than ever out of
this new challenge Of militant work
ers to the growing fascist tyranny.
No discrimination against Negro
workers in building the National
Miners Union. Unity with the
Negro workers of Haiti against the
Wall Street imperialist war.
Today, the employing class is try
ing to send Stephen Graham, or
ranizer of the International Labor
Defense in Norfolk, Virginia, to
many years. imprisonment, because
he dared speak to an audience of
Negro and white workers. Solidar-
ity of Negro and white coal mine
strikers helps build the resistance
of all .abor to this ruling class at
tack.
What Must Be Done.
In order to render the utmost aid
to the Illinois strikers, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense must strength
en- its own forces. It's membership
must be increased Immediately to
at least $4,000 in the membership
campaign now on, leading up to the
Fourth National Conference, to be
held in Pittsburgh, Pa, Dec. 1881.
It's central organ, "The Labor De-
fender" that helped blaze the way
for the "Gastonia" defense through
the South, where no organizations
of the International Labor Defense
had previously existed, must be
made an instrument of greater
struggle in this titanic development
in the present period of growing
class conflicts in the homeland of
the worlds leading imperialist pow
err. 1t can do this only through the
cooperation of the whole working
class.
Build the International Labor De-
tense, the shield of class conscious
labor.
Signed: international Labor De-
Tense, J. Louis Engdahl, Sec'y.