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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Soviet Scientists Reveal
NelU Facts on Kara Desert

beginning with next spring, regular
automobile trips between Ashkhabad
and the sulphur plant which is the
only big sulphur factory in the U.
S. S. R. This factory has very
bright prospects and has already de-
veloped into a cultural centre in the
desert.
The Fersman expedi' on crossed
the Kara-Kumy desert throughout
its length and width, something that
has not been done for the past As
years. Half a century ago military
expedition headed by lieutenant
Kalitin also crossed the whole of
the desert, and the present expedi-
ton has found it necessary to in
troduce considerable changes in its
maps of kara-Kumy. Only the
Northern section of what is known
as the Kara-Kumy desert constitutes
a desert in the proper sense Of the
word, soemuch so that neither wells
nor animals of any kind were found
in it. The central part of the Kara
Kumy is inhabited by about 10000
Turkomenians who lead a semi
nomad life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R. (By MaiD .
-Academician Fersman who headed
an Academy of Science expedition to
the Kara Kumy Desert has just re-
turned to Leningrad where, in an in
terview to the press, he made the
following statement:
The expedition had the object of
ascertaining the industrial posi-
bilities of the Southern section Of
the Kara-Kumy Desert where there
are extensive sulphur deposits, as
we'll as of establishing the posi-
bilities of organizing automobile
communications in that region.
The expedition crossed the central
part of the desert, visited the sui
phur plant which had been construc-
ted in The desert and then turned
eastwards towards Khiva and Ur-
gench, following the direction of the
Amu-Daria River. This entire route
which covered a distance of 1900
kilometers was covered in Reno
Eakhara automobiles. This type OF
car has proved to be entirely salts
factory under desert conditions and
it has now been decided to establish,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
LARGE GRAPHITE
FIELDS IN U.S.S.R,
Imports Are Now No
Longer Necessary

LENINGRAD, USSR, (By MaiD q.
"A geological party has surveyed
the graphite deposits in the district
of Turukhan, Siberia, estimated to
contain 2,250,0OO tons. In quality
the Turukhan graphite is equal to
that of Ceylon, and experiments have
shown it to be fully suitable to the
production of electrical appliances,
pencils, etc.
In addition to the Turukhan graph
lite the USSR has graphite deposits
in the Buriato-Mongol Republic,
known as alliber graphite which
may be used in unpurified form with
a slight admixture of Ceylon graph
lite. There are also three extensive
graphite fields in Ukraine. This
graphite is of low quality but thanks
to new publication methods devel-
oped by the Institute of Applied
Minerology and Colored Metallurgy
the Ukrainian grades have been
made to yield SO per cent of pure
graphite.
Heretofore graphite and graphite
products have been imported. The
discovery of the Turukhan graphite
and the successful experiments with
purifying the other grades of Sow
let graphite make it possible to dis
continue the import of graphite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
HALIFAX CARPENTERS GAIN

HALIFAX, N. S., (By MaiD.-
Organized carpenters here have won
a wage increase of nine cents an
hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
LEAD ALL OTHER
PARTIES, WINNING
in ALL 81 SEATS
Workers in Strike Area
SolidIy Behind C. P.
(WireleSs By Inprecorr.)

W VetCSS OY iBpf 0COffI
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May
29.-The elections to the urban coun-
ellis Sunday in the agricultural work
ers' strike area show the Commu-
nists leading everywhere. At Yane-
kovici the Communists have IL seats,
the agrarians 2; at Berenci the Com
munists have / seats and the agra
rians 8; at Kereskyn Communist
have 5 seats, the Slovakian people
party 5 seats and the social demo
Gratis 2; at Vance Communists sea
6, the agrarians 3 and the socia
democrats l.
Workers for Communists.
The results show the workers in
the strike districts are solidly be-
hind the Communists.
A strike conference of the agri-
cultural workers union has decided
because Of the fact that many work
ers have been forced by the united
terror of the authorities, the land
owners, and the socialists, to return
to work, that the strike should be
ended in disciplined fashion. Wage
increases have been won in many
districts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
American Tourists
Leave for U.S.S.R.

Fifty-four American tourists left
last night at midnight on the S. S.
Aquitania bound for the Soviet
Union, according to Milton Good
man, executive director of World
Tourists, Inc, ITS Fifth Ave, under
whose auspices the tourists sailed.
The tourists were divided into
two groups and will arrive in Len
ingrad about June 18th. The par
ties will visit Moscow, Odessa, Yalta,
and will travel down the Volga.
Members of the parties who have
relatives or friends in the Soviet
Union will be granted extension of
visas after they have completed the
tour.
Interest in tours to the U.S.S.R.,
is greatly increased this year. World
Tourists has been compelled to in
crease the number of sailings this
year due to the increased demands
for Russian tours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Soviet Scientists to
Explore Mongolia

LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., (By
MaiD A geological expedition of
the Academy of Sciences has left
for Mongolia in order to study the
mountainous fauna in the region of
the Hangai ridge and at the water
shed of the rivers of the Selenga
basin.
simultaneously the Academy of
Sciences has fitted out botanical
expedition to the Cobb desert for
the purpose of exploring the regions
noted for medicinal herbs and tan
ming plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
WALL ST.REPORTS
Debt AGREEMENT
Lamont, Morgan Part
ner, Says It's Okay

PARIS, May 20. - Thomas W.
Lamont, partner to J. P. Morgan,
announced to the press tonight that
the reparations question had been
settled subject to agreement on a
few remaining conditions.
A new schedule of annuities,
which the German capitalists will
be required to make the German
workers pay to the former allied
imperialist creditors, under the plan
of Owen D. Young, of General FL
ectric, to be effective next Septem-
Der, was completed today by the
international banks.
Lamont said his announcement
was made with the approval of all
delegations at the conference.
This statement said: "Both cred
itor and German experts have here
tofore declared themselves willing
to accept the annuity figures of
10000, 100000 marks (about $780,
100000 annual payments) as sug-
gested by the chairman, although
differences existed on the question
of Interpretation.
"This difference has now been
removed and a common basis of in
depreciation acceptable to both cred
itors and Germany has been found,
subject, however, to agreement on
the outstanding conditions which
still remain for discussion and set
Element"
The reference to few remaining
conditions probably refers to the
demand of the German government
that certain political concessions be
granted to the Reich in the form
Of withdrawal of the troops from
the Rhineland and the return of
some of Germany's colonies.
The payments would be made
through an international bank, in
which J. p. Morgan and other Yam
zee bankers, would .,old chief con-
srol, making millions in the form
If interest and fees from the prof
is taken from the German work
"a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30

Long Live the Revolutionary
Struggle of the Oppressed Colo
NAL Peoplesl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
COMMUNISTS IN
BEL CIUM CAIN
5000 VOTES NOW
Jacquemot Reelected in
Brussels
Wireless By "Inprecorr")

" UJItSo Dy INPT tOOfT
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 90
The results of the parliamentary
elections, Sunday, are that the Com
munists gained 1920 votes, or "a
per cent increase. There was a ten
per cent increased participation of
the electorate.
The social democrats lost $4,000
votes and seven seats.
The results of the election
strengthen the liberal-clerical bloc.
The Flemish party also won consid-
cradle increases.
Jacquemot was reelected in Brus-
sells.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
TAKERS SUPPORT WILSON

WASHINGTON (By NALL - A
group of A. F. of L. officials have
formed an organization to support
William B. Wilson, democrat, in his
candidacy for U. S. Senator from
Pennsylvania. Wilson has expressed
himself as opposed to all strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-30
Gains Communist Part
BRITISH-INCITED
ARABIAN TRIBES
IN BIG BATTLE
Imperialists Seek the
Control of Country

JERUSALEM, May 29.-Hostil-
tiles on a major scale have broken
out between the forces of King Ibn
Saud, independent ruler of Arabia,
and opposing tribes melted by the
British agents, was the news re-
ceived here today of major battle
southeast of Elsarar in Central Ara
bia, in which 1000 tribesmen are
reported to have been killed.
The battle is one of the fiercest
ever waged in the desert. The un-
DERIVING cause was the long-stand-
ing attempt of the British imperial
lists to subject Arabia to its domin-
alton as it did with Iraq and Pales-
tine, to assure control of the Red
Sea, retention of its oil deposits in
Iraq and war base against the
Soviet Union and the wave of rev.
olution in the east.
Reports from the desert received
today via Beirut said that the Jela-
wah tribe, loyal to Ibn Saud in his
fight against imperialist penetra-
ton and the enemy Ajmann tribe
participated in the conflict.
The British imperialists retain a
large military force on the Iraq-
Arabian border, and under the guide
of retaliation for Wahabis raids,
often sending planes, armored cars,
and troops into Arabia to war
against the tribes. These same
planes were used by the British to
remove their nationals during the
attack on Kabul, Afghanistan, by
tribes melted by them.
During the world war, Colonel
Lawrence, disguised as a tribesman,
melted the tribes into joining the
British imperialists against Turkey.
He was also reported to have been
instrumental in the Afghan revolt.
Iraq Sovereignty"
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The
sovereignty" of Iraq, controlled by
the British imperialists who own
one-half of the great Mosul oil de-
posits, is to be recognized by the
United States in a treaty with Great
Britain and its puppet government
in Iraq, which will be signed soon
in London.
Negotiations for the treaty were
begun year and half ago, but
its ratification was delayed by the
resistance of the Iraq nationalist,
causing a governmental crisis which
the British fixed by suspending the
government, and putting its puppets
into office.
Yankee Oil Interests.
Under the terms of this treaty the
American imperialists oil interests
are guaranteed, evidently on the
provision that they do not infere
with the government in Iraq.
The American imperialists parti-
cipation in the exploitation of Mosul
oil was arranged several years ago
by Colby, secretary of state in the
Wilson administration, and conclud-
ed successfully for the Yankee in
terests by secretary of state Hughes
later. Under this arrangement the
oil spoils are divided on the basis
of one-half for the British Royal
Dutch Shell and Persian Oil Com
pany, controlled by the British; one
quarter for the French and one
quarter for the Yankee interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Soviet Worker Tells How
May Day Was Celebrated

Dear Comrades:-
a worker of the Auto-Base of K p S. Peoples
pssariate of tell
braed proearan feast, May Day.
days of holidays May
Before it and is in the other countries
where the working class unable their feast the
do
During these holidays all theatres for the workers.
of them free charge admission
reduced.
In the factories and clubs theatrical
free fcharg The workers children enjoyed
mobile excursions.
Beside that all workers visit the Podhefny"
military regiments military
which protection
shops)
We, workers of P. s.,
America to strengthen their organization
We workers asking the workers of America join the
Party America and celebrate sodar-
y with the workers the
directed on the Russian working class.
We workers remind that the First Of May
worker of America other countries should at He
has to be out the street.
We anxious know how celebrated the festival
the First of May.
The working class of America be joined with the proetarans
of the world with those of the u particular
universal disarmament has be well
tack directed against the Soviet Union
workers of u S. sending greetings
the workers of America
Long live the First of Mayhe Proletarian FeasTULENEv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
WHILE WORKERS SLAVE
General Motors Bosses Sail ON Yachts

of the workers against these vicious
onslaughts.
The time is coming very quickly,
however, when the workers in the
great plants of Fisher Body in
Cleveland, Detroit, and other cities,
in the Overland, Chevrolet, Pontiac
and Buick factories, where profits
are going higher and higher, will be
organized and will be ready to put
up fight against the slave-system
to which they are subjected. The
Communist Party, through its mill
tant shop nuclei, through it's shop
papers, shop meetings, and other
propaganda, is reaching and win
ming these workers toward the
struggle not only for increased
wages and shortened hours, but to-
ward the struggle for the abolition
of the whole capitalist system which
allows workers to slave - starve
while the bosses go pleasure-yacht-
ing. CORRESPONDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
BROTHERHOOD
IN deal. WITH
CHICAGO ROAD
Asks Layout for Many
Rail Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker CoTeSpondeRtI
CHICAGO, (By Maii).-You see
some funny things at the different
railroads here. Last night a ma
chinist told me that he belonged tc
the union just because most of the
rest did; that the union was no gooo
as a union; that the officials have
made it the same as a company
union; that the Grand Lodge Off.
GERS have better "pickings" thar
ever.
Here's a business deal with the
Chicago and Northwestern R. R. A
committee of the Brotherhood O.
Railway Trainmen asked the com
pany to reduce the force so that
the men with the seniority woulC
get more work-instead of display
ing the spirit Of brotherhood o.
workers and dividing the worl
among all the members. The rail
roads certainly have got their EN-
ployes trained right for the com
pany. The Brotherhood creates &
hungry list" of employees for the
company.
At the Nickel Plate R. R.
Stoney Island the old engineers wan
to make 1000 miles instead of 2,80C
thus cutting off from work severa
of their fellow-workers. That's thu
way the Brotherhood treats tn
workers in the Brotherhood.
At Hammond, Ind, the railroad
have all reduced the forces, and il
general the large industries anc
railroads are cutting forces to tn
limit. Every man is doing a grea
deal more than the days pay call
for.
obs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
BOOT, Shoe union
Takers WORKING
WITH The POLICE
Call Cops on Brockton
Militants
(By a Worker Correspondent

BROCKTON, Mass, (By MaiD.-
Daniel Harrington, labor agent OF
the Boot and Shoe Workers Union
is a worried man. In a rage he pre-
sented himself before City Marshall
Boyden and wanted to know why
the police did not stop mass dis
tribution of leaflet issued by the
Shoe Workers Section of the Trade
Union Educational League. City
Marshall Boyden pledged to see that
the police stop all future distribu-
tions and Harrington went back to
his job of selling stamps to the
manufacturers.
Conditions in Brockton are get
ting worse from day to day but the
Boot and Shoe officials are quite
satisfied as long as the dues rolls
in. The Trade Union Educational
League took the initiative in raising
the question of struggle against
the Baine-Lovely clique and for a
fight to better conditions in the
shops. The same leaflet also called
for the election of delegates to the
District Conference of the T. U.
Z. L. for Sunday morning, May
10Th at 81 Chambers ST., Boston.
The workers received the leaflet
enthusiastically and Harrington's
efforts to get police aid will not
keep them from developing strug
gle against the Boot and Shoe and
the bosses. The revolt against the
Boot and Shoe in Lynn, Boston and
Chelsea has made deep impression
on the Brockton workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Ford Asks League of
Nations to Tell Least
Workers Can Live On

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 3d.
Henry Ford has appealed to the
League of Nations Labor Office to
give him the figures that will enable
him to pay his European workers
just enough to keep them alive and
able to rear families of child slaves,
and no more.
Prices of food, clothing and shell
ter vary so from country to country
that suspicion has begun to dawn
on some of the Ford company man.
ayers that they are paying more to
the workers in one country than in
another. The chairman of the board
Of the Ford concerns in London has
asked the League, it became known
today, to send him tables of real
wages in the various countries where
Ford has or contemplates owning
factories, so that the higher paid
workers can be cut. The League
countered with a hint that Ford
should subscribe $4,000 towards
the $4,000 it says it needs to gather
the statistics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Fourteen Imprisoned
in Jersey Caiss0n;
Speed-up Is Blame

JERSEY CITY, May 30.-Four
teen men were imprisoned in a
caisson under the Hackensack River
tonight following an explosion
caused by the speed-up on the new
diagonal bridge being reconstructed
at West Newark Ave. Workers at
once began the task of rescue and
with great difficulty brought up one
man, who was unconscious.
The bridge where the explosion
occurred is one which the state
highway department is constructing
to provide better approach to the
Holland vehicular tunnel, which was
under the Hudson River, joining
New York and New Jersey.
The contractors, rushing the
work towards completion, had night
construction crews employed at the
scene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
Soaring the Steel Trust.

of MKeeport Pennsylvania controlled lock- stock and
barrel by the tin plate and steel bosses These corporations
of them forming the trust having things their
way for years in McKeesport
of the hell McKeespo the McKeesport Tin
But they satisfied with their slavery
their letters Plate little
of the Tin Plate Plant show that them determined
stand for their slavery much longer.
These awakening expressed in the Tin Plate Worker
recently got the steel trust and tin plate badly scared They
badly scared that they arrested several of the workers
who giving the shop Pretty good for four shop
paper, to the Steel Trust
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
A New Ford Worker.

the driver brings his belt of
w slavery other countries h has established plants in
eand) the the Ford plants in the
sending few shivers into the old slave
driver Shop committees shop papers,-thats the
Worker of all shop has long made
Ford sawbosse Detroit their teeth And
have Ford Woerssued by the Communist branch the
big plant Kearney, N. J.
this Ford Worker the May issue,
it's corker This shop lively,
shop bound adopted by
the the Kearny belt their In fact already has
by the packed hoc full of letters from
plant Kearney plant Edge
water, as S planned the Ford Worker is going with it.
Right off first catchy sign the
tack explains article the
of robbery of workers practd all Ford plants The
Ford Worker is spced with many live sketches.
of Ford Worker the large of
worker correspondence Letters the shop indication of
the workers the plant
paper beat the Ford Worker this
Send in your shop paper, so that review
it, Help to build the shop paper department of the
Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31

apparently count to any degree, the
playwright's purpose being to hor-
rify the audience as much as pos
sible. 1t is built along the lines
of mystery play, the only mystery
being to find out what it is all
about.
The action of the play takes place
in the Port of Hainan, on the China
Coast, where British gunboats, COM
manded by Jim O'Neill, American
soldier of fortune, is conducting a
campaign against Chang Kai Chang,
who is either a Chinese bandit or
Chinese patriot. l think he is
neither. In the hands of Captain
Donnell, lie seems like bogyman
used to brighten children who re-
fuse to go to bed when ordered to
Go so by their parents.
The three acts and the prologue
are used to kill off the cast one by
one, so by ten minutes to eleven,
when the play ends, only about four
cut of % are still alive.
The playwright has been very ver-
,satile in the methods of killing off
his cast. Every means, from hang
ing to machine guns, are used.
So far, I have not said anything
about the plot, and the less said the
better.
The cast includes Douglas R.
Drumbrille, formerly of "The Three
Musketeers," who portrays the part
Of O'Neill, and does the best pos
sible in attempting to make the part
seem true to life. Others in the
cast are Hugh Buckler, Howard
Hall, John Buckler, Jr., Audrey
Ridgwell and Frank G. Bond.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-31
ACT AS SPIES
E9R BOSS AND
TERR0RIzE men
Run M aterial Yard
with Bosses
(Bu a Worker CorreSpondont)

(bB q W Ofh6T CoiIeSpOHu0Nt/
am an Italian worker and the
only few words of English that l
know is because 1 read the Daily
Worker. Now l will try to write a
little of Local 80, of which l am a
member. 1 mean Local 80 of the
plasterers.
There has been some trouble in
this local in the past few months.
Those in control of the local are two
delegates, or business agents. One
is Italian and the other an Irish
man. They work together to fool
the members, but they are trying to
keep alive an antipathy between the
Italians and Irish members.
Many members are grumbling
about them. These two officers say
that they have been the builders of
the organization. Here is how they
build things. A club with members
Of the local has to pay not only
dues, but were forced to buy a
vacant house from this delegate
that he was not able to sell to any
body else.
The members are forced to bring
to this delegates house as gifts"
the best Italian cheese, or money,
if they wish to hold their jobs any
length of time.
Now let's see about the second
delegate, the Irishman. With the
help of the big contractors he or
gained about Is months ago a
bosses or contractors association.
This delegate said that the associa-
ZION was for the purpose of protect
ing the wages of the members of
our local.
But now we know the purpose of
this. The contractors that do not
Join the organization have got to
give money in the bank to the plas-
terers' local as security; this means
that in case the boss does not pay
the plasterers or if something is
wrong he loses the money.
But if he wants to be in the bosses
association he has to pay three per
cent Of the whole amount of his
job to the contractors association.
The result is that the plasterers
if they find work even for a few
days have to work like slaves, and
stand for the speed-up, and non
union wages.
Who rules the bosses association?
The same gang that rules the plas-
terers' union. A son of the Irish of
fetal whom l mentioned, is an of
fetal of the bosses association. He
and the rest of the gang take money
from the bosses association, and in
every local meeting they come in to
spy on any member of the plas-
terers' local who dare to speak
against some boss. Thus they have
created reign of terror, making the
plasterers afraid to speak because
they may lose their jobs.
Before concluding l wish to tell
another thing. Some of these dele
gates are running a materials selling
yard together with some of the con-
tractors. They are not only get
ting money from the bosses, but
force them to buy their materials.
These are the conditions that the
exploited workers find within an A.
F. of L. local.
PLASTERER.