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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

The power of the bOurgeoisie rests
not alone upon international capital,
upon it's strong international cOnnec-
lions, but also upon the force of
habit, on the force of small industry,
of which, unfortunately, there is
plenty left and which daily, hourly.
gives birth to capitalism and bour-
geoisie, spontaneously and on a large
scnle.-V. i. Lenin ("Left' Commu-
nism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
NJ c. Student Tells How 40 Dropped from Exhaustion at Easb1h
Mrs. Fiske Returns IN Revival
OF Comedy at the Klaw Theatre

MRS. FISKE is now playing at the
III Klaw Theater in "Mrs. Bum
stead-Leigh," a farcical-comedy, by
Harry James Smith. The play was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

Celebrate the International Work
ers May Day at the Coliseum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

Imperialism is at the same time
the most prostitute and the ultins:te
form of the state power which nas-
cent niddle-cIass society had con-
menced to elaborate as means OF
it's own emancipation from feudai-
ism, and which full-grown bourgeois
society had finally transformed into
n means for the ensIayement of labor
by capital.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
Statement introduced April 18th, by Comrades
Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak,
Which Was Rejected by the National
Executive Committee.

THE letter the correct analyses of the
situation the working youth u. S. "A correct estimate
acehe main tasks before league in the present
presentation of the ruinous fractional struggle which
situation of the League and the
thesis should be based the line OF the open
CYL applying the line Of the Cyl to all the
problems and tasks facing Since all proposals
write the thesis in Letter and all amend
me to this the statement has as its
membership and the convention IN concise
the immediate problems and tasks as given by
Cyl letter.
The Third Pericd-Accentuated Class Struggle
Wars and Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12
War Observation-Disclosures OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Rehabilitation of Young Workers.

The mentioned dpgong changes also find their real
taking place in the working class youth
especially reflect themselves the recent rehabilitation
the task of the League striving to become
mass organization the workers base itself
the changes American working and the
rehabilitation especially affects the of the work
ing perspective and failure ornate the
mentioned changes and the trailing be-
hind responsible the slow growth of the League
The youth entering industries large and excessive
PERIOD with the introduction of intensified naturalization
Not only have specific youth industries
but today finds the working
decsve in number and influence basic industries
brutal naturalization the workers
nasc FORM all of its effects Intensified epotation,
7wor w~er r unemployment deterioration of the living
sec ard health standards, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

demonstrate Against imperialism
War May First at the Coliseum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12


The Third Period-Accentuated Class Struggles
Wars and Revolution.
DECISIONS of the 9th World Congress
of the CT We contained the letter of the
CT to the recent Party tasks confronting Party
accentuaon of the class sruggth radlca
of the and the growing war danger
exception to the general estimate the third period
of post The third period brings sharpening OF
uprngs and revolutions for the
dictatorship of the proetarat.
of spontaneous struggles (texte, auto RR ec)
bringing development unions strikes IN south and
opening completely situatonthe growing unrest and ad
ness increased effects of decentralization
taking industries in the country and the struggle
USA and Great Britain bear out completely
of the of the CT and Cyl and the open
letter the that american imperialism striving
monpo position world economics and politics and becoming
the universal crisis of capitalism and
ing into the orbit of the growing instability OF world
capitalism Open Letter CD The maturing growth OF he inner
the general crisis OF world capital
ism partial and character OF
capitalist stabzaon which opens revolutionary
T placing and League the leader
the spontaneous struggles against the effects OF ra
the growing danger decisive
ton leadership and membership the situation
the Party and League from the present numerically
propagandst STAGE develop into political party the
American working class" (CI Open letter.
class struggle rehabilitation and changes
in the American working class has its direct reflection
the Party These changes plus the active inter
of the CT develops OF
within the Party and the various so-caed historical groupings WITHIN
Party.
Among the main conditions making take the decisive
turn from political party of the
consistent Party
struggles the smashing the existing Party
and faonasm change OF It's poor social and national
co~rroon the isolation of the Party doing with the
methods of work to eliminate the federation theology
political attitude and reluctance to in mass actv
the American class struggle and conn itself
with pure social and
Amenze the leadership and to normaze
the life of the Party by establishing discipline and demo-
&c 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-12

Demonstrate for the defense of the
Soviet Union May First at Coliseum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Workers IN Byicyaus Along the Hudson River Are RSy EmaueC
A. II. Woods Back from
Europe with 3 More Plays

THE noted impresario A. H.
l. Woods has just returned from
another jaunt to the European fields
in his hunt for material to keep his
production up to his usual mark
AS a rule, Woods has an active sea-
son each year, and judging by the
number of plays now planned, his
season should be an active one.
On his return from Europe last
week Woods stated that he brought
back with him three new plays,
which he plans to- produce this sea-
son in connection with the plays an
nounced month ago. The plays are
Murder on the Second Floor" a
play by Frank Vosper, who wrote
"Spellbound," in which Pauline Lord
was starred two seasons back; "The
Enemy" a play from the French of
Antoine, and "The Tiger in Men"
new play by Dion Titheradge.
Murder on the Second Floor" may
be produced this month. Many Of
the players are now on their way
here.
His first production of the new
season, Scarlet Pages" of which
Elsie Ferguson will be the star, will
begin rehearsals today. 1t will open
at the Eltinge Theatre on Sept. 8
after a brief out-of-town engage
ment. Others in the cast will be Lee
Baker, Robert Williams, Clare Luce
and David Higgins.
Scotland Yard" Woods's second
presentation, will begin rehearsals
on Aug. IL and come into the Sam
H. Harris Theatre late in Septem-
Der. In this will be Paul Cavanagh,
Phoebe Foster, Frederick Worlock,
A. P. Kaye and Robert Vivian.
"Hokus Pokus," which will come
to the Masqueu, and Murder on the
Second Floor" which will probably
come to the Morosco, are other
Woods productions scheduled for
September.
"The Bachelor Father" in the
London presentation of which Mr..
Woods and Sir Alfred Butt are in
terested, will open at the Globe
Theatre there late in September.
About October Is the producer will
return to Europe to help stage a
French version of "The Shanghai
Gesture"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Story I'm Old Siberia:
Based on Fact

In one of his stories, the we'll
known Russian writer, F. Koni, mar
rates an authentic episode of a
Suicide protest" among the political
prisoners in one of the Siberian
penal institutions. The most pig
nant detail in that story is an
authentic document which reads as
follows:
Comrades, those of you who
wish to commit suicide, please reg
lister with Comrade N"
This routine notice circulated
among the inmates of Katorga
prison illustrates at once the sub
lime heroism of the politicals and the
unspeakable horrors perpetrated
against them by the czarist jailers
Suicide was resorted to by the poll
teal prisoners as a means of focus
ing public opinion upon the unbear-
able lot of the captive revolutionists
Imprisoned rebels ended their lives
not in fit of emotional despair but
by way of strategy in their wal
against the regime of brutal auto
crazy. These men volunteered TO die
in order to make it more bearable
for their comrades to live. One re-
calls the note left by Egor Sazonov
a famous revolutionist who COM
mitted suicide in czarist penal cita-
del. He wrote simply and briefly
"My death will serve as mes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07

they take what they can find in the
way of work in order to live from
day to day.
Worse Conditions in Store.
Bad as the conditions are, there
are reasons to believe they may get
worse. AS stated, there has been
a change at least in the name of
the company, the claim being made
that the railroads have taken over
the ownership and management.
The opinion of most of the en-
ployes is that the roads have al
ways held control and that the
change of name is merely scheme
to annul some of the concessions
made to the workers by the old COM
pany. =
To those who may think that the
agency is a poor struggling corpora
ton, trying to fight off bankruptcy
or gather few pennies for the
starving stockholders, we suggest
that they read the following report
taken from the financial pages OF
the daily Chicago papers, dated June
II, 1929:
"The Railway Express Agency is
sued its first monthly report today
Charges for transportation, $24,S64,-
051; other revenues, $4,000 total
S25,104,107. This total is compared
with $20,913,228 earned by the
American Railway Express in Feb
ruary, the previous month. Pay
ments to carriers, after interest,
taxes, ETC., were S19,306,128."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Polish Working Women Most
Exploited UmdeYByutQZFascisup

and of the revolutionary trade
union.
No less active part was taken in
strikes by women employed on the
land in the West Ukraine. In Octo-
Der 1928 the police arrested and shot
at land laborers in the village of
Grebens for pressing economic de-
mands upon their lord" count
Sapega, the arrested including eight
women. They were tried in March.
1929, one of them, Manka Pawlik, an
old farm laborer of 63, being sem
fenced to 5 months Imprisonment
for resisting the authorities. Dur
ing the forest workers strike the
wives of the strikers and women
working on the land demonstrated
against blacklegs at one place, Batia-
tycz. Shooting by the police re-
suited in two women being wounded
and several were later arrested.
1t is only by developing their
trade union activities among the
women workers on a really broad
scale that militant trade union Or
carnations and revolutionary min
orlty movement will be able to pull
the women workers into the fore
most ram of the fighting prole-
tariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
French Imperialism
in Terror in IndOchina;
Huge Sentences Given

INDO, China (By MaiD.-The
special court in Hanoi has SEN
fenced a number of Annamites to
very severe penalties. They were
charged with conspiracy against the
life of state functionary in con-
nection with the shooting of Bazin,
the chief of the compulsory recruit
ing bureau for Annamite workers.
Eighty-three natives were sentenced
to a total of 265 years penal servi-
tude and 155 years Imprisonment.
Three of the accused got twenty
years each, two fifteen years, nine
ten years, seventeen 5 years penal
servitude. Nineteen men were SEN
fenced to 5 years, and 33 to two
years Imprisonment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
A. F. OF |. SELLS
OUT PHILA. TRUCK
Drivers STRIKE
Bosses Had Gunner
for Use Against Men
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
Philadelphia has just experienced a
strike which was short but full of
action. The truckmen and helpers
who are forced to pilot freight cars
between New York and Philadelphia
and nearby points went on strike for
better wages and conditions, and the
misleaders of the A. F. of L.. seeing
fat dues if these workers were be-
trayed into the A. F. of l.. Union,
got them to affiliate with the Team
sters, Stablemen and Helpers Union
No. 40. and the faker, Morrison of
the A. F. of L., went into conference
with the bosses and sold the work
ers out.
The former wages were $50 to
$50 for drivers. The bosses agreed
to pay S35 a week. Helpers re-
ceived $50 to $3.50. The bosses
agreed to pay $3.50 to $3.50.
These were no gains for the strik-
ers, as the strike promised to de-
velop into real struggle. The
bosses were licked, all freight was
held up and the workers proved
themselves fighters. The Trade
Union Educational League of Phila-
delphia, being engaged in the Gas
tonia struggle, and due to lack of
funds, was unable to put all its
forces toward leading the strike, but
members of the Trade Union League
were asked by the drivers to assist
them in their future battles.
The ever-ready tools of the bosses
with drawn guns were ready to shoot
the workers during the pitched bat
ties between the strikers and the
scabs. This is not the end of the
strike, as the men are dissatisfied
with the sell-out by the A. F. of L.
labor takers and will again in a,
short time struggle for real ccnces-
sions from the capitalist truck own
ers. The slogan for the future
struggle will be hours day. time
and a half for overtime, double time
for Sundays and holidays; now they
receive overtime only after working
60 hours week. The slogan should
be $3.50, a minimum of S35 for
drivers, 20 per cent increase for all
and an 8-hour day.
The police at Trenton Ave. and
Dauphin were more brutal than
usual. The strikers have learned
from this struggle that they must
form efficient shop committees to
prevent sell-outs by labor takers,
as happened at this last strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
JugOslav Terror
Sentences Doctor

BELGRADE (By MaiD.-Dr. Mil
ovan Zanic has been sentenced by
the High Court of Justice in Bel
grad to six months Imprisonment.
His "crime" consisted in the follow
ing: at a meeting of the Chamber
of Solicitors in Zagreb when an ad-
dress of greeting to the king was
discussed, DR.. Zanic moved that the
king be requested in the address to
give people their civic rights back
again. The public prosecutor de-
clared at the trial that such mo-
ton was equivalent to ian attempt
to change the existing system of
government" and almost, if not
quite, high treason. So DR.. Zanic
can consider himself lucky that he
got off with six months. He has
been taken to the Pozarevac peni-
Tertiary, notorious for its murderous
regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
.TYLERDALE,PENN
Miners CHEATED
COAL WEIGHT
Wage Cuts in Wash
ington Mine
[By a Worker Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Pa. (By MaiD -
I want to tell you about the lousy
conditions in the Tylerdale mine
here. In 1921 l worked in this mine
and the average weight of car was
5000. Then the old United Mine
Workers was organized and the cars
averaged 1000 to 4500 a car.
Today these same cars loaded to
the top with a big hurcp on it (1S
inches top or you get docked) and
the most we can get is $500 to 5000
weight per car.
Another thing, if you al.i the boss
for any deadwork you are fired as
quick as a damn. 1 WORKED there
now for three and a half shifts.
What did ! get for these thr, and
a half shifts of hard work? got
three big 900" On my state
ment, that's what | got.
l asked Dave Hapeson, the fore
man, for my three and half days.
He told me he turned my three and
a half days in on coal. looked at
the statement again and there were
no shifts and neither was there any
coal.
A RAISE"
We got "raise" here the other
day. Pick coal was raised (down)
from IS to 73 cents ton; machine
coal from So to 50 cents ton, driv-
ers reduced to S., and laborers in
side to or so cents an hour. The
boss drivers receive the 'biggest"
pay of all. They get Sc for 10 hours
day. Cutters were cut from II
cents to 10 cents. Leaders yardage
cut from rs to 60 cents, machine
yardage from Is to 10 cents.
Fellow workers, theo is only one
thing to do and that is for US to roll
up our sleeves and organize the Ma
ticnal Miners Union strong and
ready to fight. The N. M. U. will
protect US, let's build it. 1t is the
only union in the mining industry
that fights wage cuts and the
bosses.-MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Indict Ex-War Lord in
Murder Over Woman

TOXIC, Japan, Aug. GA Japan
csc court has indicted Chang Tsung-
chang, once war lord of Shantung
province, for the murder of Hsien
Kal-su, an ex-prince of the Manchu
royal house. It is alleged the ex-
dictator killed the ex-prince in row
over a lady in Changes harem.
Chang was a brutal murderer OF
workers. suppressed unions, etc. So
did the Manchus in their day, and
so do the successors of Chang, the
present Kuomintang militarist rul-
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Death List Grows in
Belgian Ship Wreck

OSTEND, Belgium, Aug. 6. = A
revised list of known dead in the
sinking of crowded pleasure boat
IN the harbor here yesterday, stood
at nine tonight, with 26 other per-
sons still suffering from injuries and
shock.
There were about SIS passengers on
the boat when it was struck by a
larger passenger boat and sank al
most instantly. Officials said they
were unable to determine definitely
how many persons were still miss
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07

sage to the outside world about
the horrors taking place here"
"In Old Siberia" new Soviet
film which is having its American
premiere at the Cameo Theatre
makes use of these and similar in
cidents in compelling portrayal of
the penal system under the czarist
regime. While reviving a dreadful
memory, it at the same time pre-
sents another striking example of
the new achievements in the art of
the cinema. The picture is now in
it's third week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
Dry Spy Kills Farmer:
Facts Are Squashed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. - o. D.
jackson, prohibition supervisor for
southwestern states today submitted
preliminary report to the treasury
on the fatal shooting of farmer by
Prohibition Agent Stevens at San
Antonio, Tex. No details were given
as recently victims of prohibition
craftsmanship have used all possible
records in their damage claims.
Build shop committees and draw
the more militant members into
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
The Negro workers employed ii
The brickyards along the Hudson
River, extending from Peekskill tc
Hudson, present a typical case OF
.he most ruthless exploitation and
Worsening of conditions confronting
he working class of the entire coun-
~. One could hardly believe that
n New York State, between New
York City and Albany, such print
tive social conditions could exist.
Slaves Recruited from South.
For a number of years the brick
industry in this section of the state
attracted hundreds of workers. Most
Ct these were recruited from the
South. Agents of the companies
were sent into the rural sections OF
The Southern States, where they in
duced the Negroes to leave the
farms by telling them of the "glori-
Gus" conditions for workers IN the
North, especially in the State OF
New York. Most of these Negroes,
knowing the evils of peonage, lynch
ing, and other forms of terrorism,
we're only too glad Of an oppor-
unity to escape.
Find Selves Fooled.
Train loads of them were brought
and dumped into the brickyards'
However, the men soon found out
that they were deceived, for the
brickyards are hell holes hardly any
better than the peonage farms. I'm
organized, ignorant of labor tradi-
tions, and spied upon by the COM
panies' stool-pigeons and gangsters,
the workers were compelled to sub
init to the repressive rule of the
companies. This state of affairs
continue to grow from bad to worse
until 1926 when efforts were made
to organize, but this failed through
he treacherous role played by the
A. F. of L. and its organizers.
Organizer Absconds with Funds.
During the years 1925-26 the
Yards were working full-time. The
men worked regularly, but within re-
cent years the industry has been on
he decline. AS a result of a recent
investigation it was discovered that
the men were hardly working more
than three or four days in the week,
except in one or two of the larger
yards. This is due to foreign COM
petition. European-made bricks are
laid to be imported at a cheaper
rate than bricks made along the
Hudson River front. This is possible
as the process used in most of these
Ne WORK yards is sundried. The
New York yards is sundried. The
machinery have been able to survive
The foreign competition for they are
not placed at the mercy of weather
conditions. The furnaces supply the
heat to dry the bricks whether it
rains or shines.
Unemployment Grows.
This decline in the industry has
created much unemployment. Hun
dreds of the men who were brought
from the South are being laid off
weekly. These men drift into sur
rounding towns like Beacon and
Newburgh and there offer their la
borrower for starvation wages,
Even before conditions became Sc
unsatisfactory the men realizing
their horrible position, showed a
willingness to organize.
(To be COntinued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
WAGE CUT IN 5 AND 10
Slash for SLAVES of W00lWOYth Cham

lars a week are now receiving ten
dollars and sixty cents a week for
the same working schedule.
1t is this sort of thing that drives
girls to prostitution who are unable
to earn living otherwise.
This affects the entire working or
ganization from salesgirls to office
worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
by a Worker Correspondent

| should like to call your attention
10 the new wage effect put into op-
ration by the +. w. Woolworth Co.,
whose stocks scared so high.
A ten per cent reduction of wages
went into effect July 1. Salesgirls
j no formerly received fourteen dol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07

The working tinss cannot simply
lay hold of the read y-made state
machinery. and WELD IL for its own
Purpos-.. This ne-S Commune tParis
tommune) breaks the modern state
pOy.er,-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07
LURED FROM The
SOUTHERN FARMS
TO n. Y. PLANTS
Robbed by Misleaders
of A. F. of L.

This is the first half of an in
taresting letter from worker on
the conditions of the men who
slave in the brickyards along the
Hudson River. Most of these
workers are Negroes. In an early
issue we will conclude the letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07

DON'T FORGET THE MOON
LITE CRUISE FOR THE
DAILY WORKER AUG. 9th.