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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Farmers Union Proves TO be
Aid TO The Capitalist Union

Alexandc- Lcgge, (the S. 600 man
from the International Harvester
Coz as chairman of the Farm
Board. Legge made a success as
head of the international Harvester
Co., why shouldn't n-7le sue
cess for the farmers ?" Such state
ments as these and many others he
made shows how completely the
Farmers Union is following the
leadership of the capitalist inter-
ests which are robbing the farmers.
The Farmers Union relies upon
the Farm Board as a means of or
ganizing the farmer The Farm
Board demands that the union fol-
low certain practices, otherwise no
finances will be Forthcoming. The
farm organizations, such as the
Farmers Union, are controlled thru
loans, credits extended by finance
capital.
1t should also be pointed out that
T. zee capital finds it to it's adj
v~-'cge to get the cooperation of
the so-called farmers cooperatives
to fasten its hold upon the farmers,
to ctill a.. ivN the masses on
the f MS. Instead cf solving the
crisis for itself by these means,
capitalism becomes only still more
shakY and unstable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
WEST INDIAN
revolt CAVE
DUTCH FRIGHT
Curacao Republic Is
Negro Demand

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4.-Gone are
the days when the little-noticed but
industrious Dutch imperialists can
exploit tens of millions of colonial
slaves without facing a revolt, as
shown not only by the recent and
almost continuous rebellion in In
donesia since 1926, but in the Ameri-
can lake known as the Caribbean
sea in the West Indies.
In May, the Dutch West Indian
colony on the Island of Curacao was
the scene of unexpected revolt, when
Venezuelan workers, living in the
island rose in rebellion, seized the
government and forced the COVER
nor, anxious to get rid Of them, to
sign orders to the captain of the
American steamer Maracaibo to
transport them to Venezuela in an
attempt to overthrow the fascist ty-
rant Of their country, president"
Gomez.
The Dutch governor, who had
been overtaken unaware, received
harsh criticism, and as the Curacao
native Negro colonial workers were
overjoyed as long as the revolt
lasted, shouting out Long live
the Independent Republic of
Curacao" as they saw their oppres-
sors herded about at the end of guns
by the Venezuelan workers, the
Dutch imperialists got a fright and
sent three cruisers to Curacao to
stamp out the sentiment for an in
dependent Republic, of Curacao.
Repressive measures have been
taken, but, of course, the memory
of the Negro workers and their
hopes, still linger. Hence Holland
is giving special attention" to the
West Indies, is sending a guaran-
teed imperialist bloodhound, named
Major Van Slobbe to Curacao. He
is ordered to reorganize the police
force, which is now composed partly
of native Negroes, whom Holland
thinks are not to be trusted.
1t is also necessary for Curacao
and the neighboring island of Aruba,
to serve as a base for British naval
schemes against United States i'm
perialism, since Holland and Eng
land are very much united in the
Royal Dutch Shell oil holdings in
all Central America. Venezuelan
oil is refined in Curacao. 1t is a
strategic location and the new gov
ernor is to see that colonial Negro
workers do not, if the Dutch can
help it, take it away from Dutch
control as the Venezuelans aid last
May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
CHICAGO needle
POCKETS JAILED

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 1.-Two
members of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union were ar
rested Tuesday in front of the Value
Hat Co. The union is continuing
vigorous struggle against all mil
linery firms which locked out their
workers for their fight for union
shop and union conditions.
Zaritsky's company union, the
Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work
ers, is carrying on no struggle, and
is preparing an open sell-out OF
millinery workers.
The left-wing workers are re-
spending enthusiastically to appeals
of the Needle Trades Industrial
Union for support, organizationally
|. and financially.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Supreme Court of
Ecuador Supports
u. S. Dictator

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (By Mail)
Harry De La Vergne Tompkins,
American financial dictator, was
supported by the supreme court in
his arrogant and dictatorial actions,
by decision just handed down.
Tompkins was fined three months
salary for negligence and bullying
of government officials.
The case went to the supreme
court, and the judges showed their
respect for American imperialism
by cutting out the mild punishment
of the imperialist boss.
Tompkins is superintendent of
banking, and was appointed by the
Equadorian government under the
Kemmerer plan. The Kemmerer
plan is financial dictatorship of
Ecuador by Wall Street. Under this
plan Tompkins, as representative of
American bankers, is the virtual
political dictator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
labor" GOVERNMENT SETS UP
SECRET FASCIST Estate COUNCIL
TIC Meet Hoover Drive British Trade-Sneaks Enemies of
Workers into Power Literally by Back Door-Uses
Economic Fascist DemagOgy

archo-syndicalists, or old l. w. w.
stuff that in the modern" state,
namely, the imperialist state, the
dominating issues are economic"
and Scientific" and hence a parlia-
ment of politicians" is helpless to
solve them, the need being for "sci-
entific" minds and so on.
The British workers, however,
who have not been stewed in the
capitalist ideas of the American l.
w. W. with it's economic" hamburg,
will not be swindled into thinking
that the British Empire has become
revolutionary" because it has taken
up the policy as expressed by the
capitalists paper, "The Daily News"
in saying that "an economic general
staff is an inevitable coroHary of
an industrialized community"
While MacDonald's new duplicate
of Hoover's fascist council is busy
trying to Guido Hoover on ration
alizing the labor process, the Fed
Grafton of British Industries has
called British business men to copy
American methods of Disgusting
economic depression behind tall talk
of advancing prosperity" In an
appeal the Federation says:
although the United States is
stEn feeling the effects of a finan-
cial shock as great as that sustained
by any country in the present CEN
fury, no news except of an optimistic
character now appears from New
York" Then the warning to look
out for American trade rivalry:
eve are told new American produc-
ton records will be reached next
spring, and that if any trades are to
be hit it will be those in which
American supplies are taken from
Great Britain and other overseas
countries"
ave advertise the number of our
unemployed and draw dismal de-
auctions from their total" the Fed
Grafton says, contrasting English
customs to- those of America, where
the number of unemployed is kept
secret and the unemployed them
selves let starve to death without
SO much advertising"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
LeaksviIle Pickets
Keeps Mill Closed
Continued from Page One)

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so-called "layal committee"--a col
lection of scabs from other sections
and mill hirelings-did not compose
it. Its lurid and vicious phrases
quite characteristic of labor-baiting,
radical-baiting documents calculated
to inflame hatred against the union
were presumably framed by the
mill officials who arbitrarily secured
the signatures of the scabs. Many
of the signatures affixed to the
statement are either Of wholly ficti-
tious people or have never been
known by the strikers. Quite anus
ing is the fact that the signature OF
one of the "loyal committee" is that
of one of two strikers who are at
present touring the North to raise
relief to continue the strike to a
successful conclusion.
The statement in dealing with the
conditions in the mill becomes ludic-
rous. Many of the young workers
received as low as $12 a week. The
stretch-out was extended to a maxi
mum point. The mill was running
on two 11-hour shifts daily. The
new three 8-hour shifts daily was
calculated to still further increase
the stretch-out, dispose Of some Of
the workers and run the mill "a
hours continuously, allowing no
lunch period during the 8-hour
shifts.
The sham of civil liberties Jf citi-
zens was illustrated when the mill
81 pei Immediately fired the entire
Mill Committee, who, representing
the Leaksville wooden mill workers,
came to him to protest against the
projected attempt to further worseli
the working standards in the mill,
Though organization Of workers
into unions is supposedly legal, these
workers who formed the Mill Com
mittee were instantly discharged
and were left completely helpless
for daring to organize in their mill
tant union to better their conditions
and protest against stretch-out and
further exploitation.
Concrete proof that this statement
WIS issued by the mill owners is
the sixth declaration in the state
ment. 1t definitely calls for legisla-
ton from the sts 'e machinery Of
the mill-owners to stifle and sup
press all attempts at organization
on the part of the textile workers
for better conditions, and inflict
severe sentences upon union organ
izers.
All the attempts of the mill own
err to break the strike Monday
morning were Of no avail. Notices
were given to all the strikers that
the mill would ope Monday morn
ing, Nov. 2J. The Charlotte Oh
server, servile tool Of the mill own
ers, published their vicious blow at
the strikers and their union. Yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

LONDON, Dec. 4.-The swift
transformation of MacDonald's gov
eminent into fascism thinly dis
guised as a Council of State" to
meet the economic emergency ag-
gravated by American aggressive
ness in the struggle for markets for
relief of United States business de-
preston, is remarked in the plans
Macdonald announces after his first
interview with wholly unknown
capitalists in a secret meeting at
10 Downing st.
Differing slightly from Hoover's
method of boastingly advertising
the "big business chiefs" who were
invited to form the Economic Con-
ference at Washington, Macdonald,
being bit chary perhaps of what
British workers would guess was
being done if they knew the most
labor-hating capitalists were in con-
sultation with him on how to speed
up with more intense rationaliza-
ton, Macdonald is keeping the
names of his council a dark secret,
even going to the length of having
them enter the government house
on Downing st. secretly through
back doors Of other government
buildings.
But what they are to do can
scarcely long remain a secret. Mac
Donald calls these mysterious bosses
his general staff" claiming that
they are from call political parties"
BARRING, of course, the only work
ing class party, the Communists.
That the function of government is
to be practically taken over by this
fascist council, is inescapably the
result, and propaganda as in the
United States is already being car
ried on to justify the pushing aside
of parliament as the center of gov
eminent, and lodging all power in a
fascist Economic council which
the bosses can use more directly in
attacking labor.
The noisy reactionary demagog,
General SHUTS, for example, is
spreading propaganda (Which Incl
dentally sounds much like the an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Beal to Tour Many Mill
Centers

In preparation for the National
Convention of the National Textile
Workers Union mass rallies will be
held in all textile centers.
The N. T. W. U. has arranged a
special tour for Fred Beal, Casio
MIA strike leader, who is now out
on bail. This tour will take him
through most of the New England
mill towns, where Beal is well known
to the textile workers. Beal will
hold meetings and do organizational
work wherever he goes. AS a re-
suit of Beal's tour and the other
work of the N. T. W. U. locals in
those parts, it is expected that most
of the New England textile centers
will have delegates at the conven-
ton when it opens in Paterson on
December 81.
Beal Tour Itinerary.
Saturday, November 80, II noon,
Blumenthal Viewers Club, st.
Georges Hall, Bridgeport, Conn.
Sunday, December l, l. L. D. Con-
ference, Boston, Mass, 10 a. M,
Chelsea, Mass, S p. m.
Wednesday, December A, Water
bury, Conn.
Thursday, December 5, Hartford
Conn.
Friday, December 6, New Haven
Conn.
Saturday, December 7, Bridge
port, Conn.
Sunday, December 8, Allentown,
Pa, 2 p. m.
Monday, December 9, Astoria,
L. I.
Tuesday, December 10, Nashua,
N. H.
Wednesday, December II, Man
chester, N. H.
Thursday, December IL, Dover,
N. H.
Friday, December 10, New York
/. L. D. banquet.
Saturday, December IA, Provi-
dence, r. |.
Sunday, December Is, Pawtucket
r. I.
Monday, December 16, Woo
socket, r. |.
Tuesday, December II, Holyoke
Mass.
Wednesday, December 16, Law
renee, Mass.
Thursday, December 10, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Friday, December 20, Paterson
N. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
IN THE SHOPS
Try to Inflame
w hite M in ers
Against n e gro
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a W Orbef C0fTeSpotde"'/ -
VAN VoORHIs, W. Va. (By MaiD
- Northern West Virginia coal
operators want miners only with
strong muscle and no brain.
In Everettsville, West Virginia,
the New England Fuel and Trans
portation Co. hired Negroes and
white miners alike during the strike.
All were living in the same camp
then. But now, since the takers Of
the U. NJ. W. A. helped to break the
strike, the New England Fuel Co.
is moving all the Negro miners to
separate quarters.
But the Negro and white miners
are getting their heads together,
and they will light hell's fire among
the coal operators in the fight for
the building Of the National Miners
Union,
At Scots Run, w. Va, the mine
foremen are going to the miners
below and saying: If you don't want
to work with the Negroes I'll take
them out and we won't hire any
more"
The miners said nothing, because
they knew that taking the Negroes
out of the mines would do them no
good-these miners are organized
in the N. NJ. U.
Next day the foreman said to the
Negro miners, Il must change you
to some other place, because the
white miners, specially the Hunkies,
won't work with you here" And
he gave them the worst place in the
mine. The white miners-espe-
cially the so-called "Hunkies"-
knew nothing about those boss lies.
Outside the mine a Negro miner
asked the foreman for a job. The
foreman looked him over and said
I'D give you a job but the white
miners won't work with Negro
miners here Again the white
miners had nothing to do with the
lying statement.
/ Why do the bosses do this? Be-
cause the Negro and white miners
are joining the N. M. U. and they
will be able to fight in body for
equal rights, better wages and
working conditions. So the boss
goes around trying to inflame Ne
/ groes against whites and whites
against Negroes.
1 Because the bosses know that
once the Negro and white workers
unite in one union-the National
Miners Union-they could not use
one against the other as they have
done in past strikes. They would
not be able to go to the Negro
miners and say 81 must chase you
out of here-the white worker won't
work with you" Because the work
ers would all be members of one
union-the National Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

Monday morning the mill & d not
even attempt to resume work. The
complete solidarity Of the workers
against attacks upon their condi-
lions, and the firm purpose to build
and maintain their own fighting Ma
tional Textile Workers Union in the
Leaksvilla Mil, viii steel them in
their strike against the vicious
measures of the mill-ovners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Illinois Miners Strike
in Winter for Results

Continued from Page ORe)
the snow flies, when the furnaces
are blazing, when the demand for
Illinois coal in the big industrial
centers around Lake Michigan grow
insistent, when the operators are
really hit where it hurts.
The miners are fighting for real
and fundamental demands of their
own this time. The greatest prob
lem in Illinois is unemployment.
The introduction of coal loading and
cutting machines and the brutal
speed-up has displaced about half
of the more than 10000 men for
merly in mines of this district. The
miners who strike next week de-
mand direct aid for these starving
unemployed, in the form of insur-
ance at the rate of $35 a week, to
be provided by the employers and
the state. They also demand that
thousands of them be put to work
and the lot of the miner on the
machines be made easier, by hiring
bigger crews, and by the system of
15-minute rest periods in every
hour, also the six-hour day and five
day week, and abolition of the
speed-up. These demands flatly re-
verse the tendency of the mine own
ers now, to speed the miners, hire
smaller crews, get from them the
same or more production and by
all sorts Of tricks lengthen the work
day.
The Check-off Swindle.
The miners demand that the
union scale of wages be paid, and
that the ignoble form of swindling
known as the "check off" be stopped
The miners hate the U. M. w. A,
and would never support it. But
by the contract of Illinois distric
of the u. M. W. A. has with the
operators, the operators are allowed
to cut wages, and in return they
take out the U. NJ. W. A. dues from
the miners wages and pay this
money over to the rotten Fishwick
or Lewis officialdom in the U. NJ
w. A., injuring the miners not only
by the wasting of part of their
wages, but actually building up a
fund to be used against them. Fish
wick's defense against Lewis
charge of stealing something over
$4,000 from the Illinois U. M. w.
A. district treasury is that he laid
it aside to fight the National Miners
Union with.
The miners demand no discrimina-
ton against young workers or Ne
gro workers, and the same pay for
young workers as for adults, and
they demand safety provisions in
this exceedingly dangerous industry.
Help Through w. l. r. and l. L. d.
The miners demand, and expect,
the support of all militant workers
everywhere. The. have been as
sured by representatives of the In
ternational Labor Defense that they
will be given legal aid when they
are arrested for mass picketing, and
for marching in thousands from mine
to mine to call out those who were
not represented at the Zeigler con-
vention. They have been assured
by the Workers International Re-
lief that it will Immediately start
a campaign Throughout the world
to secure food and clothing for the
strikers. The working class, operat-
ing through these organizations is
their hope of winning this strike.
The International Labor Defense is
located at 80 East 18th ST., New
York City, and the Workers Inter-
national Relief is at 949 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
TORIES WENT CLEAN PREssr

LONDON, Eng. (By Mail 1.-THE
sooner the press plays clean in poll
tics, the better for the country"
was the novel statement Of E. A.
Viner at the annual conference of
the Junior Imperial League, an or
ganization devoted to fostering i'm
perialist sentiment with the aid Of
The press among the youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
OIL PRODUCTION DOWN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. A.
Oil production continues to go down.
The daily average production of oil
has decreased $1,000 barrels daily
since September, according to the
apartment of Commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
HOOver's Prosperity
Means Bread-Lines
For u. S. Workers

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-The number
of unemployed workers who applied
for jobs advertised by the post
office to truck Christmas mail was
so large that the postal authorities
had to call squad of police to ham
die the masses.
"Times must be hard" said one
Of the officials, commenting on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Graham Case
Is Up To-day

(Cou,Racd from Page Oae)
America protcs, as sharply as they
did for the Gastonia strikers, in
wolves the bruta}ties of the Coal
and Iron Police and State Police Of
Pennsylvania.
The third case, is that Of John
Tapolchanyi, OF Herminie, Pa,
whose citizenship papers have been
revoked because Of his membership
in the Communist Party. The case
comes up for appeal to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals in
Philadelphia next Wednesday.
The fourth case is that of sedition
in which William Murdoch, Will
lam Brown and Anna Burlak, Of
Bethlehem, stand in danger of 10
years under the Flynn anti-sedition
law Of Pennsylvania. They were ar
rested during the May Day meeting
in Schwab's steel town, Bethlehem,
this year.
The International Labor Defense,
which is fighting all these cases,
in addition to scores Of others in all
parts of the land urges direct con-
ributions to be sent to the national
office, at so East 18th St, Room
L02, New York City.
Involves Citizenship.
The Tapolchanyi case, setting a
precedent, is ore of outstanding i'm
portance to millions Of workers in
America. His citizenship papers
were revoked at Pittsburgh after a
trial in 1927, because he wrote
letter to his brother in Hungary, a
gendarme, disowIdng him for shoot
ing down workers in strike. The
letter was turred over to the
American authorities, and lapel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
/. l.. ID. IN GRAND RAPIDS.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. A.
Grand Rapids workers will hold
a second International Labor De-
tense conference, on Sunday, Dec.
is, following the first conference
held on November ID. Support for
the Gastonia Defense Drive was
pledged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
Reopen Marine TOilers
Office i'm New Orleans

(Continued from Page Onc)
were again released, after Morgan
and Brown had been sentenced TO
20 days and $40 fines.
The greatest anxiety over the or
ganization work of the league was
displayed here, not only by the ship
owners and stevedoring companies,
but by the city government, the
American Legion, and the U. S. De-
partment of Justice. The Marine
Workers Southern Conference, sched-
uled for New Orleans Jan. IS and
10, is the third regional conference
leading to a Great Lakes Confer
ccce, and then a national convention
to build an industrial union for the
whole marine industry. The en-
ployers are bitterly exploiting sew
eral thousand marine workers in
New Orlec ms, paying as low as 80
cents an hour on the docks, and will
take every possible means to pre-.
vent these Negro and white workers
from organizing.
Federal Dicks Called In.
Mayor Walmsley and Commander
Bodenhamer of the American Legion
toasted each other at a banquet
Tuesday and made a promise Of
united warfare against workers or
CARNATIONS, and to Gail all Commu-
nists." District Attorney Eugene
Stanley and all local departments of
justice agents then went into con-
ference to try and connect Morgan
and the others with the bombings in
the New Orleans street car strike.
Then Assistant District Attorney
Warren 0. Coleman, and Police
Superintendent Theodore Ray, whose
son scabbed in the street car strike,
went into a huddle Wednesday with
the commission council, to devise
further ways and means of prevent
ing organization of marine workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

rush of workers TO. even part-time
jobs.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. Hun
dreds of workers filled the jails to
capacity when zero weather forced
the jobless wage-slaves to seek
shelter. The police cannot find
room for the shelterless unemployed