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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
by q Worker Correspondent

SYRACUSE, n. Y. (By MaiD.-
The following few items of indus
trial conditions in this section will
illustrate the general depression
and it's effects on workers.
In the steel industry the Halcomb
Steel and Crucible Steel companies
have shut down completely with
about 1000 men out of work. Hal
comb steel intends to open after the
first of the New Year at lower
wages. The 60 cents per hour work
ers will be reduced to So cents per
hour; the 55 cents will be reduced
to As cents and the 45 cents will be
to SO cents per hour. The night
shift workers work from 10l2 to 10
hours.
The Franklin Automobile Co.,
making the high-priced Franklin
car, generally employs between
2,500-3,5 800 workers. The plant is
working on a shift of about 5000,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
COmintern Executive
Expels Roy For His
Support of Brandler
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MOSCOW, Dec. S.-The Presi-
dunn of the Executive Committee of
the Communist International has
expelled N. M. Roy, formerly a
leader of the Communist Party Of
India, for activities in the Right
Wing opportunist movement of
Brandler, of Germany, against the
policy and program of the Commu-
mist International.
Previous to his expulsion, Roy in
dictated his opportunist line by in
sisting that the workers and peas
ants movement against British i'm
perialism and for Indian independ-
ence should not be independent of
the national bourgeois reformist
movement, but allied to it. The facts
of life itself have, since then, shown
this would have been a catastrophe
error, as the Macdonald labor" i'm
perialist government has wheedled
and forced the Indian capitalists
into accepting an empty promise of
dominion status Sometime" in the
vague future. The Indian bour-
geoisie in its National Congress has
given up independence and is more
ready to join with British imperial
ism against the Indian masses than
it is to join with the masses against
imperialism, since it fears Indian in
dependence would mean an Indian
Soviet and an end of their own posi-
ton as exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

of the New England mill towns,
where he has been a leader of the
mill workers for many years.
Mass membership meetings of the
NTWU are being held in all mill
centers. New York City, Paterson,
Allentown and Scranton mill work
ers held fine mass meetings over
the weekend.
On Tuesday, December 10, Pas
sale mill workers will meet under
the auspices of the NTWU at 25
Dayton Ave. Friday December Is,
at pm, a huge general member
ship meeting of the NTWU will
be held in New Bedford. Martin
Russak, Ben Wells and John Major
ski will speak. Meetings of the
NTWU locals are being held in a
dozen southern mill centers.
Special attention is being given
the mobilization of the young tex
tile workers by the NTWU. Dur
ing the convention sessions the first
National Youth Conference of Tex
tile Workers will be held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
UNORGANIzED TO
Be AT. N.T.W Meet
Speed Preparations for
Convention
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plants, the knit goods workers of
New York City and Philadelphia,
as we'll as workers from every sec
ton of the U. S. Unorganized
workers will send many delegates,
In Paterson, mill committees are
being organized in the dye works
around the election of delegates to
the NTW national convention.
Guido Sorio, Italian organizer of
the NTWU, is in Paterson for this
work.
Intensive New England workers
are modifying for the convention.
Ben Wells is working with the mill
workers in the New England dis
trict; jim Reid, president of the
NTWU, in Rhode Island; Fred Beal
is making a special convention tour
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
SOCIALIST RULE.
I'm REICHSTAG TO
BAR COMMUNISTS
Practically u n S e at s
Elected Members
(WtreIess BIZ Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Dec. 8.-As a result Of
the stormy scenes in the Reichstag
on Thursday, when the Communist
deputies heckled the socialist-fas-
cist leader Severing, in opposition
to the bill he had introduced for re-
pressive measures against workers
organizations, the Socialist" presi-
dent of the Reichs tag, Loebe, in
troduced intensified disciplinary
measures in the chamber rules.
Loebe's measures permit the eX-
pulsion of Reichstag member who
is guilty Of fragrant violation of
ORDER" the expulsion being effective
for 80 days of session Immediately,
and further 30 days if the mem
bers should refuse to leave the
chamber. 1t must be understood
that Possession days mean three
months, which bars members from
participation in the function of
offices to which they are elected for
that time.
Loebe also plans to deprive such
disciplined members from their pay
during the expelled period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
DEFEND Soviet
union, SAYS FSU

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nations in that territory to seize for
themselves the full control over the
natural resources, and to exploit its
oppressed and struggling masses Of
workers and peasants, and obtain
ing at the same time greater politi-
cal and military power that follows
from such control.
at becomes mere and more neces-
sary, due to the narrowing of the
world market, and the ensuing COM
petition for spheres of interest, that
United States Imperialism get for
itself the best vantage point and
the dominant position, and to crowd
out the European powers from the
Far Eastern and Chinese field, par
ticularly the British, it's strongest
rival.
"At the same time the imperial
lists powers see themselves faced
with a mighty power, the Soviet
Union, with its millions of free
workers and peasants in control, to
which millions of oppressed and ex-
plotted workers and peasants of all
nations look to as their fatherland,
the only hope to free themselves
from the yoke of oppression and
exploitation.
Defend Your Socialist Fatherland.
"The Friends of the Soviet Union,
U. S. A. Section, stands for the de-
tense and recognition of the Soviet
Union. 1t calls upon all workers
and friends in the United States,
explaining to them the significance
of this Chinese-Soviet situation,
and exposing the aggressive policy
of the United States and other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
ILGW "Strike" Is For
Control By Employers

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the question of the left wing, and
of Communism. They can't leave
them alone. Over and over they as
sure the delegates that "Commu-
nism is dead" Abe Cahan, of the
Forward, spoke with we'll simu-
lated enthusiasm yesterday of the
"way you have cut out the Commu-
mist cancer"
But that was just it. The l. l..
G. W. is union of the bosses,
Schlosinger and his henchmen, with
needle trades workers coerced by
bosses or temporarily tricked into
belonging to it, nominally. The
fighting heart of the union, those
who won the terrific strikes in New
York and other cities are no longer
in it. They are in the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, march,
ing into great organization cam
paign, real struggle with the en-
ployers just at the time this fake
convention meets.
The reactionaries here console
each other that the "lefts" are not
at this convention. But they are
very much worried. They have to
remind each other frequently that
everything is all right, we are all
alone now, just us and the boss
and Governor Roosevelt, of course
Tammany Hall and strike breaker
Lehman, the acting governor of
New York, who sent his congratu-
lations to this convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

revolt and a group of peasants was
marching on the city. A marine
patrol of twenty, with an undis-
closed force of the so-ealled nation
al guard" every officer of which
above second lieutenant is a U. S.
marine, was posted at the roadway
entering the city.
The Haitian peasant forces num-
bered only $50, and demanded to
enter the city and join the strike,
They would not believe the strike
was called off, reports state, and
were allowed to send two of their
number into town. When these re-
turned with the word that the strike
leaders had called off the strike
Undoubtedly because they had been
facing death at the hands of the
marines), the information was
greeted with curses and jeers.
In spite of the lack of other
weapons than machetes, clubs and
stones, the reports state that the
peasants took the offensive and
penetrated into the marine positions
heroically fighting until death.
Peasants Impoverished.
The peasantry, which has been
steadily impoverished during Yam
kee occupation, were recently sub
jected to additional taxes on tobacco
and alcohol, and were being forced
by law to standardize the quality
of the coffee they market, by such
rigid rules that their income, al
ready miserably low, was cut down
still further, This measure, by
which American coffee interests
hoped to compete on the world mar
ket with British coffee interests in
Jamaica and Brazil, and Dutch i'm
perialist coffee interests in Indo-
nesia, was enforced with the author
ity of the hated Haitian govern
ment" of Borno.
While nothing but reports of Ere
sumption of peace" came out of the
martial law censorship, the fact
that the bulk of the Haitian people
are in revolt can be seen by the
array of armed forces being sent
against them by the Hoover admin
istration. Wires have been cut
throughout the country, which is the
western end of the large island of
which the Dominican republic, also
ruled by Yankee marines, is the
eastern and larger part. The peo-
pie of both are Negroes, and almost
all are peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
IN THE SHOPS
Big Ldy-OfS in Syracuse
Plants AwQkenlng Workers

Women's labor is also being substi-
tuted for that of men. The Adams
Axle Co., a subsidiary of Durant
Motors, with 500 workers, shut
down completely. The Brown Tyre
Chaplin Co. making chiefly gears, as
a subsidiary of General Motors, and
employing 1900 to 1000, shut down
completely.
Crouse-Heries, employing about
300 workers, LAID off half. SYRIA
cuse Washington Corp, employing
about 800, laid off over half that
number.
There are no prospects of re-em-
ployment until well into next year,
and then with reduced forces, as
new machinery is constantly being
introduced.
The workers are ready for the
Trade Union Unity League if the
Trade Union Unity League will ex-
ert the effort to reach these work.
ers.-D. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

kow and Canton are placed under
martial law, and Canton is near to
fall before the onslaught of rebel
troops, last reported as only rs
miles from the city and fighting
freely to enter, while within Can
ton itself the militarist commanders
have quarreled and the city may
fall to the Kwangsi BRITISH troops
at any hour who are allied withthe
troops of Chang Fakwei, known as
1.-THE Ironsides."
Marking army commanders at
Canton are sending planes over the
rebel lines dropping leaflets offer
ing brides in the name of Chang
Kai-shek (more American money!,
for rewards of $4,000 for Chang
Fa-kwei, dead or alive, promotion
for officers and special brides for
deserters who bring arms with them.
The oath Division, which mutt
MED at Pukow and moved north
ward to Pengpu, are expected to
give battle to troops sent against
them from Marking, which may
themselves go over to the rebels
at the first moment. The dis
missal" by Marking of General
Teng seng-chi, who led the Marking
forces in Honan against the Kuo-
minchun, has had as main result,
the mutiny of 10000 more soldiers,
while Marking troops were defeated
at Changchow, only 100 miles from
Shanghai, by mutineers Of the
Fourth Division whom they tried to
disarm. The mutineers slaughtered
the 1oyal" troops and tore up the
railway between Shanghai and Nan
king.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
VICTORY OVER THE KULAKS.

MOSCOW, Dec. 6.-The Soviet
Trade Commissariat announces that
the grain purchasing campaign has
been carried out according to the
plan.
EDITORIAL Note-The above
success on the Soviet grain pur-
chases is one of the great victories
of Soviet production under the Five
Year Plan, since the entire harvest
yield was purchased and collected
into the hands of the Government
Grain Organization by December /
for the first time, as formerly the
task was dragged on throughout
the year.
By an early mobilization of the
harvest the grain collected furnishes
a use of the value it represents as
basic economic support to the
swifter industrialization of agricul-
ture and other industries.
The fulfilling of the purchases by
December l is additionally a smash
ing triumph over the rich farmer
'kulak" elements who tried by tricks
and violence to prevent it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
FINNISH WORKERS SOLID WITH
SOVIET.
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HELSINGFORS, FINLAND, Dec.
8-The proposal of the reformist
ade-union bureaucrats to break off
e agreement of fraternal relations
Atween the Finnish Wood Workers
and the Soviet Workers unions, has
been defeated by membership bal
lot, the vote showing 1859 against
breaking relations, and only $50 for
such action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
AUSTRIAN FASCIST CRIMES.
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" U VFV"o . 9 ITVT77 WV Y
VIENNA, Dec. Son the night
of October 10 the Heimwehr fascist
leader, Mayr, shot and killed a wood
worker named Artner. After de-
laying the case until now, the judge
who tried it, a fascist member of
the Heimwehr at Loeben himself,
has acquitted Mayr Of the murder
of the worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Agency Sharks in
New Haven Gyping
The Unemployed
(By q Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (By Mall.
The coachroach employment Of
flee, fellow workers, know in every
city in the United States. We have
always the same story to tell about
the coachroach employment office.
However, l would like to tell about
one here in New Haven.
A person picks up the New Haven
Evening Register and he looks over
the advertisements for employment.
He will see one from the free en-
ployment bureau-oh, what a sweet
invitation to get employment This
is how it reads:
Wanted; six machine operators.
Apply, Free Employment Bureau,
Room 204, POT Orange St."
The poor out-of-work hurries up
in the morning, but what a disap-
pointment he gets when he arrives
at the building and climbs the
rickety stairs. He comes to Room
204. Now the same atmosphere
prevails here as one will see in the
coroner's office. There sits the
knight of capitalism, with his
smooth-shaven face and his high
collar. Oh, how immaculate he
looks! There along side Of him sits
his lady attendant with the long
horned telephones so she she will
be in touch with all the factories
well" he will say in an icy kind
of manner, what can 1 do for you
this morning."
"Oh," the applicant will say. Il
came to inquire about them machine
operators l seen in last nights Reg
ister."
"AlI right" the grand knight will
reply. Now he sees right away that
you are up in years. Then he starts
to put you through the third de-
gree period.
Can you read a micrometer?"
eyes, sir"
Can you read a blue print"
eyes, sir"
If you say yes he will keep on put
ting other questions until he sticks
you. He knowa that is the smooth
est way to get rid of you. eve do
not want you" the grand knight of
the employers association will say.
"You are out of it"
So the poor worker says: "Say,
mister, would it be any harm to let
me know what factory wants these
machine operators ?"
! ooh, no." replies the grand
( knight, that would not do"
In the meantime the telephone
rings. The well-drilled lady takes
up the receiver. ooh yes, two in
spectors for Snow and Pettrillies. |"
She will jot it down on a piece Of
paper.
Well, it leaked out on the street
afterwards, and it was common
talk, This was how he wanted the
machine operators. There is a fac
tory here known as the Geometric
Tool Co. The operators We're get
ting 10 cents per hour. The COM
pany wanted to cut, the wages but
they did not want any trouble"
They send their troubles to the
grand knight. When he has all the
recruits ready he sends them to the
place in question and the those who
are to be the victims get the door.
That's the way the coachroach
employment office works. We've
got to organize to stop that. l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
BELGIAN TAXI DRIVERS
STRIKE.
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IWWeIeSs % INpFecOFTI
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. g.
The taxicab strike here is still pro-
ceeding, the drivers demanding 25
francs per day, plus 10 per cent of
fares. The owners attempt to send
out scab cars has failed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
The Class War Front
| Extends from Algeria
to Helsingfors, Finland
Dockers Miners Metal Workers. Taxcab Drivers Strike
While the Soviet Trumphs Over Kuak Resistance

Harbor have failed, when the dock
ers there refused to scab. Three
vessels, the "Gouverneur Lepine,"
the "Madal" and the Psyche" left
harbor without unloading. The
lockers have formed a section of
the Revolutionary Transport Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Marking Government Topples.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 8.-With revolt
of two kinds flaming under his feet,
Chang Kai-shek's Marking govern
ment is topping to it's downfall,
signifying major setback for
American imperialism and a ripen-
ing of the Chinese mass revolution
of workers and peasants.
While the militarists who have
been paid to fight for Marking are
revolving everywhere, going over to
it's foes of the British-Japanese
bloc, the revolt of the masses, yet
largely among the peasants, is
growing with leaps and bounds.
The railways leading both to Nam
king and to Hankow are cut by rebel
soldiery, Shanghai, Marking, Han
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

Orr own age. the bourgeois age,
IL distinguished by this--thnt ~
has simplifi.. class nnfngOnisma
Move and more. society u splitting
up into two great hostile cnmps
into two great and directly contra
posed classes, bourgeoisie ana pro-
Ietariat-MarI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
FRENCH WORKERS ON STRIKE.

(Wireless by Inprecorr)
PARIS, Dec. 8.-The metal work
ers' strike at Guise, and the miners
strike at Champagne, are proceed
ing unweakened and with strong
fighting spirit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
JOBLESS GROW UNDER
LABOR" RULE

LONDON, (By MaiD Unregistered
unemployed increased to 1,252,000-
1852 more than at the last monthly
returns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
ALGERIAN DOCKERS TIE-UP
SHIPPING.

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PHILIPPVILLE, Algeria, Dec, 8.
"A lockers strike is on here. At
tempts to unload vessels at Bone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

The working ciass CANNOT simpi,
lay hold Of the reauy-rrade state
machinery, Nhd wfcid II for us own
purpose. .Thia ne.s Commuue tpnris
Cao,murel hrcuks the modern state
povycr.-Mnrx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Not Bandits, But China's Bad Army

Hankow, China, Dec. 8.-The
missionary, Ulrich Kreutzen, from
Tayeh in Hupeh province, arriving
here after being ransomed from So
called "bandits," reveals that his
captors were members of powerful
Communist organization, which has
connections throughout the Yangtze
Valley, with headquarters here at
Hankow.
Leaders of the organization, fh
said, were well educated, many Of
them having degrees from foreign
universities, and speaking English
and French fluently, while all were
"imbued with Soviet doctrines"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
USSR Press Pill0ries
u. S.-Nanking Game
Continued from Pane One

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plete debacle of the Mukden mill
tarists, as a result of the punitive
reprisal by the Far Eastern army.
mo, Mr.. Stimson's note appeared
after the appeal to the United States
by Marking, whose evident purpose
was to prepare the road for the dis
avowal of any Soviet Mukden agree
ment. Already large part of the
world press recognizes that Secre-
tary Stimson is playing Markings
game and none now believes that
his action was dictated by friend
ship toward the Soviet Union"
The "Youth Pravda," organ Of the
Young Communist League, calls at
tention to the fact that only the
socialist press, led by the vilest Of
the lot, the German "Vorwaerts," is
venal enough to pretend that Slim
sons mote" was anything, but an
attempt to sabotage the Manchurian
negotiations and threaten war. 1t
says, for example:
Extracts from the world press
show we are right in believing Sec
rotary Stimsons action at the very
moment Mukden was forced to ac-
cept our original conditions, as
nothing but a test to see how strong
the anti-Soviet bloc was. Only the
German Vorwaerts can continue to
whine about the creative character
of Stimson's move"
The failure of Secretary Stimson
to block the Soviet Mukden agree
ment and inject its imperialist fin
ger into Manchuria, combined with
his complete defeat in China, where
the Wall Street owned Marking
government" is being shattered in
to ruins--and where American trade
has fallen off 80 per CENTS one
explanation of why the American
capitalist press is piling ridicule
and criticism on Stimson. American
imperialist demands a Secretary of
State that wins more markets from
Britain, and to do that one must
have some wits-hence, Stimson is
being howled down as an incom-
petent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
N. M. U. Appeals to Workers.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. Sin a
statement issued to the labor press
the National Miners Union today
made an urgent appeal to all friends
to rush funds to ensure the victory
of the Illinois coal miners who go
on general strike tomorrow.
"The future of the National
Miners Union and the facts Of the
American coal miners hang in the
balance" the appeal stated.
After pointing out that the fight
in Illinois is pivotal, and that thou
sands of miners, particularly in the
unorganized fields, are watching
the struggle there with the most in
tense interest, the appeal declares
that thousands of dollars are neces-
sary at once in order to rush all
organizers and other forces to Hi
nois.
"Workers,7 Help the miners win
their strike! Help defeat the
operators and their agents, Lewis
and Fishwick! Rush all funds at
once to the National Miners Union,
119 Federal St., N. S., Pittsburgh,
Pa"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

powers who support the position OF
the United States. The Friends of
the Soviet Union state that neither
the Kellogg Peace Pact nor any
other pseudo attempt towards peace
by these capitalist powers will ever
bring about permanent peace.
"The Friends Of the Soviet Union
state that it is only the workers
and peasants Of the Soviet Union
who have by deed and word proved
to the world mot least of which is
it's stand in the Chinese-Soyiet situa-
tion) that they are for peace, and
that they have consistently followed
a course which led toward nom
aggression; that contrary to the
the policy followed by all other for
eign countries who have long OPP
pressed the Chinese masses, the
Soviet Union has not now nor at
any previous time had single war
ship on Chinese waters; not a sin
gle soldier stationed on Chinese