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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Two Years of the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union SeCretariat

bling the Philippine workers and pea
SAINTS, but quite intolerable that
American and Filipino workers
should cooperate in protest against
any efforts to stop the robbery.
The P hilipp pine bourgeoisie,
answering the requirements of its
American overlords, have melted re-
dictionary elements in the Philippine
Labor Congress to destroy the bond
with all Pacific trade unions by a
split, but have failed to carry the
masses of workers on such a back
ward step.
The watch-dogs of American i'm
perialism, native or trained to the
kennel, stand ready and willing to
pounce upon labor, a boomerang
method, however, which would de-
prive U. S. imperialism of its last
fig-leaf of hypocrisy. But all such
solutions" are no solution of the
economic misery of the Philippine
illoooCo, IIoI w Cuey IeiIlONe IHe
prospect facing the masses of being
used as cannon-fodder in the COM
ing war between America and
Japan. Neither can the Philippine
bourgeoisie find tongue to denounce
the statement of Secretary Stimson
who calmly refers in. the American
Congress to the Philippines as a
colony" and boasts that native lead
ers are conquered" Rather do they
find tongue to lick the boots of
Stimson's successor, for a niggardly
portion of the robbery of their race.
The working masses of the Philip
pines are beginning to realize that
only the internationalism of labor
can assure genuine national liberia
ton, that their economic problems
can only be solved by a struggle
against imperialism and its native
servants, and that the policies of the
P.P.T.U.S. are the best guide in at
tanning better conditions.
(To be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Iron, Bronze Workers Show How socialists
Ask Vote for Militant i'm Germany Aid in
Leadership Tonight Aiming Chinese Lords

BERLIN (By MaiD The "Rote
Fahne" publishes on the front page
a secret edict issued on the 18th of
July 1929 by the social democratic
Prussian minister for home affairs,
Grzesinsky, to the following effect.
"The law on trade in weapons to
China, issued the 21st of March
1928 claw book l of German Re-
public, p. ID AZ having expired on
the first of May 1929, l annul the
Grcular edict of 25th October 1927,
enacting that all transit transports
of weapons and munitions are to be
given notice of to the Foreign
Office"
With this decree social democracy
legalizes the. arming of the hang
men of China by the German ex-
porters. 1t is not by accident that
the secret enactment is issued pre-
cisely at the moment when China's
relations towards the Soviet Union
are becoming more and more
strained. German social democracy,
which rejoiced at Chang Kai-shek's
raid on the Chinese Eastern Rail
way, now removes the last stone
from the path of the German NUM-
lions profiteers. The "Rote Fahne"
calls upon the working classes to
prevent, under any circumstances,
the transports of weapons and NUM-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
COMPANY UNION
C0NFAB FLAYED
Boruchowitz Exposes
It's Dress Racket

Continued from Pnge One)
lar to the one recently carried thru
in the cloak trade"
Boruchowitz then pointed out that
the company union which claims
that it called the conference for the
purpose of improving the conditions
of the dressmakers is the one re-
sponsible for the breakdown of ,.*.e
agreement in the dress trade and
for the present sweat shop condi-
lions under which the workers are
compelled to slave.
Conditions Become Worse.
"The fact that following the much
proclaimed victory in the cloak trade
the working conditions in that
branch have now become even more
miserable than BEFORE" he contin-
ued, "the fact that the cloakmakers,
for whom the International suppos-
eddy signed an agreement guaran-
teeing week work and the 40 hour
week, are today compelled to work
long hours, ranging up to 60 and
even more, on a piece work basis
for the most miserable prices; is
the most conclusive proof that the
company union will not and cannot
secure any improvements for the
workers.
"The disastrous experiences which
the workers have gone through as
result of the recent fake strike
in the cloak trade will be an object
lesson to the dressmakers, and they
will not permit themselves to be
fooled by the company union and
the bosses.
Supported by Workers.
"The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, which has the sup
port of the organized dressmakers
and is now carrying on an organi-
cation campaign in the trade, is the
only organization which has the con-
fidence of the workers and to which
they are looking forward to lead
them out of the present deplorable
conditions and establish decent
standards in the dress trade.
"The strike in the dress trade,
which the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union carried through
last spring improvinGth the conditions
of the workers, has demonstrated to
the dressmakers that only by rally
ing around the Industrial Union can
they successfully fight against the
bosses and their agents of the COM
pany union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
SUPPRESS Chinese
STRIKES, ORDERS
ADVISOR FROM Us
And Kuomin ia n e
Quickly Takes Him Up

SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.-Dr. J. A.
L. Waddell, American advisor to the
Nationalist Government, in series
of articles written to point out the
way to build up China, well illus
trates how the bitterest anti-union
leaders of America are trying to
prevent the development of any eff
fective workingclass movement in
this country. He states that from
a perusal of the newspapers he
notes that the "strike habit is maxi
ing some progress" "This," he
comments, "is a bad symptom. The
practice of striking should be sup
pressed with firm hand for it is
contrary to al! the principle of eco
Monies. If workmen have griev-
ances (6r think they have) let them
present them formally to the en-
ployer with a request for reform.
AS for that curse of the
community, the walking delegate,
the Irish American employers
method of dealing with him, viz, ex-
pulsion from the works or even
from the community, vi ct arms
| with force and violence), is most
effective"
Had this open-shopper read the
newspapers a little more thoroly
Ne might have realized that his adj
vice to the Kuomintang has been
improved on by that reactionary
body. Walking delegates, that is,
labor organizers are strangulated,
have their heads chopped off, and
are subjected to tortures that might
even h c k the "hard-boiled
Waddel,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
GROWTH IN USSR
COTTON CROP AID
TO 5 YEAR PLAN
Huge Increase in Area
SoWn

According to cable reports just re-
ceived by the All-Russian Textile
Syndicate, the area sown to cotton
in the Soviet Union this year, total
ing $4,000 acres, shows an in
crease of 1874 per cent over the area
sown last year and 1878 per cent
over the 1913 area. This years crop
is estimated at 100000 metric tons
of cotton fibre, as against 244,000
metric tons in the previous year.
While the 1928 crop was 14.5 per
cent above that of the preceding
year, this years crop is expected to
exceed that of last year by 81 per
cent. In spite of the expansion of
! textile production, the share of,
domestic cotton in the total indus
trial consumption is increasing
every year.
The Five-Year Plan for the de-.
velopment of cotton cultivation in
the Soviet Union has been recently
revised, with view of completing
the program within four years. Ac-
cording to the new program, the
1882 cotton fibre crop is set at 1885,
900 tons, as against $4,000 tons in
the original program. The program
provides for the completion of sew
eral huge irrigation projects, for
supplying not less than $4,000 trac-
tors and large quantities of other
machinery, for the use of fertilizers
on the entire existing cotton area
and for the development of cotton
growing in several new regions, in
Guiding Daghestan, Northern eau
casus, Crimea, Ukraine and Astra-
khan.
Arthur P. Davis, former head of
the United States Reclamation Ser
vice, Lyman E. Bishop, prominent
Denver hydraulic engineer, and sew
eral other American engineers have
been engaged by the Central Asiatic
Irrigation Service to advise on
number of irrigation and reclama-
tion projects under way in the cot
ton-growing regions of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
TA|LORS SUPPORT
DELEGATE NJ EFT
Workers for Militant
Struggle

Continued from Page One)
the company union program of the
A. C. w.
"The prostituted organ of the
company union proudly announces
that production in the clothing in
dustry for the year 1928 reached the
sum of almost one billion dollars"
says a statement issued yesterday
by the conference arrangement COM
mittee. "This tremendous produc-
ton, as we'll as the extra millions of
profits, were derived entirely at the
expense of the workers. Hillman
and his outfit have the audacity to
speak of the good" conditions in
the industry, but this good" condi-
ton means that the bosses are free
to rob the workers in the form of
reduction of wages and speed-up.
For the Hillman outfit it means to
force the workers to pay dues and
taxes to the company union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

Exposing both these groups in the
process of daily struggle, the revo-
lutionary wing of the trade unions
is once more strengthened and
united in a new center, the Kyogi-
kai. Japan's working class, whose
best leaders have worked untiringly
in cooperation with the P. P. T. U.
S., is smashing down the barriers of
reformism and reaction and moving
en- masse toward greater struggles.
The Philippine Trade Unions.
The past two years have witnessed
in the Philippines, also, maturing
of the labor movement, driven by its
own deficiencies in the face of ever
growing exploitation, to throw off
its old insularity and class collabora-
ton.
The world labor movement knew
nothing of the conditions of the
Philippine proletariat before the P.
P. T. U. S. came into being and I'M
covered the swamp of imperialist
robbery of workers and peasants
which democratic" America has
been concealing behind its back
while posing as champion of the
"self determination of peoples" and
friend" of oppressed nations
(when oppressed by other imperial
istsD.
When the organ of the P. P. T. u
S. has lifted but little corner OF
the veil of isolation and secrecy
covering the incredible plundering
of the Filipino masses by both the
imperialist and native bourgeoisie
the sheets which speak in the islands
for the American imperialists, have
flown into a rage. at the fraterna
bond of the exploited masses of the
Philippines and the militant workers
in America and other Pacific lands
To these brass-faced imperialists il
is quite all right for them to seel
and get the interested cooperation
of the Philippine bourgeoisie in rob.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
German Workers in
Saar Basin Meet at
Frontier of France

BERLIN, (By MaiD.-The revo-
lutionary workers in the Saar met
on Sunday in Gross Rosseln on the
French Saar frontier. Approx
mately 5000 persons were present.
French gendarmerie prevented the
demonstrators from crossing into
French territory and prevented the
numerous French and Italian work
ers who had collected on the other
side of the frontier from crossing
into Germany. Both sides cheered
the Red Army, the Soviet Union
and international proletarian soli-
darity over all frontiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Indian Workers Are
Indicted in Murder
Frame Up at Lahore

LAHORE (By MaiD.-The indict-
ment at the Lahore trial of 16 In
dian workers comprises the charges
Of murder committed on a police Of
ficer, conspiracy against British ad-
ministration in India, organization
Of revolutionary group and parti-
cipation in bomb outrages, and in
the manufacture of bombs and other
explosives. $50 witnesses will be
heard at this trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
WOMEN WORKERS.
TO MEET TONIGHT
Mobilize to Support
Communist Party
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
five-day week and protective legis-
alton for women workers. The work
ing class women will demonstrate
their opposition to the attack on the
Soviet Union by the Chinese war
lords and the Russian white guard
lists and willsrally the women against
another imperialist world war and
in defense of the Soviet Union.
The speakers at the conference
will include Rebecca Grecht. Com
munist Party campaign manager
and candidate for assembly 18th
district the Bronx; Rose Wortis.
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and candidate for assembly,
Bird district, the Bronx and J. Louis
Engdahl, secretary, international
Labor Defense and candidate for
President of the Borough of Man
haitian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
WORKERS SCHOOL
STUDIES LATIN
LABOR PROBLEMS.
New Courses Open for
Anti Imperialists

Thousands of Latin American
workers exiled from their home
countries in Venezuela, Chile, Porto
Rico and other places, for their rev.
dictionary activities, are isolated in
New York having little opportunity
to carry on the work for which they
were deported. In order to meet
the needs of these workers and of
United States workers engaged in
anti-imperialist activities the Work
ers School is offering series of
courses to train fighters against
American and other imperialist pow
ers in Latin America.
These consist of classes in Prob
lens of the Revolutionary Move
ments in Latin America, Develop
ment and Present Position of Amer
lean Imperialism and a choice of
Fundamentals of Communism or
Principles of Marxism. l. A. Mo-
reau, Scott Nearing, Sam Darcy,
William Simons, and others are the
instructors.
The Struggle in Latin America
The ruthless reach of American
for the wealth and natu-
raj resources of Latin American
countries, and colonial possessions,
through the increased exploitation
of the native workers in those coun-
tries; the greedy drive for greater
profits for American capitalists, and
the open bartering to foreign impe-
rialism of the lives of the workers
by the treacherous native bourgeoi-
sic, is forcing tremendous growth
o f revolutionary consciousness
among Latin American workers.
The course on Problems 'of the
Revolution, Movements in Latin
America will aim to explain t h e
class forces at work in these coun-
tries, the role of the native bour-
geoisie in relation to American and
British Imperialism, and the tasks
confronting the Communist Parties.
1t will give the student an under
standing of the nature of the strug-
gle in Latin America and the con-
crete work which the Anti-Imperial-
list organizations and the American
Party must carry through. Latin
American workers in the United
States and American workers actu-
ally involved in or preparing to car
ry on anti-imperialist work will be
especially benefited by these cours-
es. Outstanding leaders of the anti
imperialist movement will teach the
courses.
World Imperialism.
The class on the Development and
Present Position of American Impe-
rialism will cover the wider scope
of American imperialism in relation
to the world situation, and will dis
cuss the main centers of imperialist
conflict in which American imperial
ism is playing leading role and the
possibilities of the conflicts for the
revolutionary movement and the
perspectives of the struggle.
Registration for these courses
opens on Sept. 2 at the office of the
school, 1928 Union Square and con-
tinues through Sept. 80 when regu-
lar school sessions begin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

New officers will be elected at the
general meeting of the Iron and
Bronze Workers Union at 8 o'clock
tonight at 7 F.. 18th st.
Union members are being asked
by the progressive group for sup
port of the leadership which led the
successful fight for the 14-hour
week. Right-wing opponents are
seeking to defeat the militant lead
ership on the tabled charge of being
Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
HUGE CZECH LABOR MEET.

On Saturday peoples meeting
was arranged in Gablonz and about
700 persons participated. Despite a
police prohibition, Senator Hampel
spoke for long time undisturbed.
After the meeting he was arrested
and beaten up by the police. ~
other persons were also arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
indian Glass War
Prisoners Framed Up,
Go On Hunger Strike

BOMBAY (By MaiD.-Bhagat
Singh and Budhukeswar Dutt, ac-
cused of having thrown a bomb into
the Indian National Assembly in
April are on hunger strike since 80
days. Fourteen other accused and
two witnesses who have withdrawn
the discriminating statements they
made during the preliminary investi-
cation have Joined the two chief
accused in their hunger strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
GREEK TERROR.

ATHENS (By MaiD.-Eighteen
Communist workers have been ar
rested here and ten in Drama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27

SAARBRUCKEN, Aug. 26. =
Seven workers were killed in an ex-
plosion in an oxygen factory here
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
Needle Workers Refuse
Pay When Firm Takes
Days Pay for ILGWU

All of the 200 needle trades work
ers of the Emmett Joyce Company,
an Industrial Council shop at 498
Seventh Ave, refused to accept their
pay when the company deducted one
days wage for payment to the right
wing /. L. G. w. U. yesterday night.
eve won't accept the pay unless
it is given to us intact" the work
ers declared.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class from the bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
If ANYTHING GOES WRONG, BLAME
The ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
(The Baptist, June 81

Perhaps few people expect infallibility
in any human agency. For any organl-
zation designed to promote human well
fare, all that reasonable people demand as
condition upon which they recognize
its claim upon their loyalty is that its
purpose shall be of commanding Wortfi-
ness and it's functioning the best attain
able for the purpose. On these points the
best and most judicious friends of any
association for social service ought to dl-
rect their careful scrutiny in order to de-
tect and correct faults in organization
and functioning and to promote its high
est efficiency. But on the other hand they
ought also to be careful not to do need
less damage either to the association or to
the cause it seeks to serve.
THE Anti-Saloon League may serve as
an example 1t has been built up through
a long experience in trying to deliver So
ciety from the evils of the powerful, I'M
scrupulous, intrenched and unSpeakably
ruinous trafics in alcoholic drinks The
struggle for the overthrow of that traffic
has been, in difficulty, aims and results
accomplished, one of the most morally
sublime efforts in human history. And
for thirty-three years the Anti-Saloon
League has been as it is to-day the chief
agency for the prosecution OF that Strug-
gle Tt has been SO recognized, and a
leading feature in the strategy of the
liquor forces has been to undermine the
credit and morale of the League.
eff on any occasion spokesman or
agent of the League has been accused OF
conduct either politically or morally COM
promising, naturally the case has been
trumpeted loudly. To this treatment
there is no objection. The League asks
no immunity from criticism On the con-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

trary when there is ground in fact for
such criticism, correction of discovered
faults is aided by publicity. But in addi-
ton to such attacks there is pervasive,
unceasing campaign of imputation, sus-
picion and Misrepresentation having no
relation to the facts, all directed toward
creating an impression in public opinion
that the League is responsible for the
whole illicit traffic in drinks and for all
of the tragedies that have occurred in
connection with efforts of the authorities
to curb that traffic. The single policy has
been to blame the League for everything
1T is time for the friends of prohibition
to take account of these tactics To
weaken the League is to weaken the whole
temperance front. Friendly proposals for
improvement in the organization or policy
of the League are in order within the or
ganization at any time. But the present
is no time for any friend Of temperance
to join its foes by standing off and throw
ing brickbats at the League"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
The WET DISARMAMENT MOVEMENT
(Chicago Evening Posi-


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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01
DOESN'T REPRESENT STATE
u. S. Senator Gould of Maine De-
clares for Modification of the
Volstead Act

United States Senator Arthur r. Gould,
of Maine has declared for modification OF
the Volstead act to permit licensing OF
light wines and beer. The Senator's
statement was reply to publicity given to
an excerpt from a letter written by him
to a ST. Louis grape juice company in
which he declared that he had secured
"some very good results" from the con-
Germs unfermented product by following
directions.
Senator Gould was elected in 1926 to
fill the uneXpired term of the late Bert
M Fernald. He voted against the recent
ly enacted Jones law. Senator Gould's
declaration favoring modification has
created a stir in Maine. 1t is the pioneer
prohibition state of the nation Frederick
W. Smith, executive secretary of the
Maine Christian Civic League said that
the organization would oppose Senator
Gould's reelection.
Mrs. Althea c. Quimby, state president
of the w G.. T. u. said that Senator
Gould was not the candidate of the w. c.
It. u and that certainly the organization
will be even more frank and outspoken
against his reelection"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

feature writer discussing prohibi-
ton in the Chicago Herald Examiner
delivers himself of this very remark
able bit of wisdom 49,
"A person with the slightest imagination
could easily conceive a dozen laws which
Congress might pass and which no sane
person would ever think of respecting
Even prohibitionist would rebel at law
which made whiskers or mince pie illegal
even though there are doctors who
would approve of such a law."-Chicago
Herald Examiner.
This clever journalist should be
given Carnegie medal for his timely
warning to the Congress of the United
States to refrain from submitting any
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton whereby three-fourths of the
states might ultimately outlaw mince
pies.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-07-01

1--WE have had to handle more cases of
drunkenness in the last year than ever
before says Wesley Hunisett Of the Fred
Victor Mission in the Toronto Star. Shows
the working of Canadian government con-
troll.