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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
SHOULD GROW LESS wHEAT7

The department Of agriculture tells
farmers to grow less wheat.
Producers of winter wheat" the
department states, Should not plar
their 1880 production with the ex.
pectation that crops in foreign coun.
tries will be so short as to provide
a market for their wheat equal te
that of the present season."
What would happen if govern
ment department advised wage earn
ers to work less hours, as their out
put exceeded consumption?
There is not basic industry toda,
that dares operate 100 per cent, We,
managements of these corporation:
resist the five-day week as stoutly al
If there were no unemployed and de
mand were greater than output.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
CANADIAN UNIONS
MAKE BIG GAINS

Saint John, N. B., Canada.-A 27,,
900 increase in membership the past
year was reported by officers Of the
Trades and Labor Congress Of Can
ada to the annual convention here.
This gain is larger than the entire
membership of the various so-callec
canadian unions" that would split
workers in the Dominion and the
United States.
John B. Haggerty president Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
addressed the convention as fraternal
delegate from the A. F. Of L. The
convention reelected President Tom
Moore and Secretary Treasurer Ora.
per. Regina was chosen as next
years convention city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
LIVING WAGE
Is Upheld By New York
Commission Rule

New York.-Governor Rooseyelt's
cloak commission dealt its first blow
to sweatshops by upholding the right
OF contractors to charge a price suf-
ticient to permit them to maintain
union wages and conditions.
The commission sustained the action
OF so contractors who refused to pro-
duce garments ordered by half a
dozen jobbers on the ground that the
latter were not living up to their
promise to abide by union standards
The contractors are members of the
Cloak and Suit Manufacturers AS.
sociation. They, together with the
union and two other associations OF
employers, agreed to wage war on
sweatshops. The International Ladies
Garment Workers Union is recogniz-
ed. All workers and employers must
belong to their respective associa-
tions, and the cloak commission was
set up to enforce the terms of set
tlmeent.
Workers and contractors are elat-
ed over the commissions first deci-
sion, which establishes the principle
that the jobbers must pay for making
garments in sufficient amount to in.
sure the continuance of union stand
ards, plus a reasonable overhead.
Contractors hitherto complained
they were helpless, while jobbers ar.
bitrarily set prices and over a period
of years continued to fix lower and
lower rates with the result that the
contractors were compelled to reduce
wages and debase work conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
COAL MINERS AWAKE
IN COLORADO FIELDS

Lafayette, Colo.-At the largest
mass meeting in the history Of this
area, coal miners called for a wage
scale and working conditions that ex-
list in the mines of the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Company. This concern has
an agreement with the United Mine
Workers and has an average rate of
So higher than competitors. Records
for output are being broken and the
organized labor movement is encour-
aging purchase Of Rocky Mountain
coal.
This policy has had an effect on
business men, and at the mass meet
ing here the large hall was filled with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
WORDS OF WISDOM

We live in world which is full of
misery and ignorance, and the plain
duty of each and all of us is to make
the little corner we can influence
somewhat less miserable and some
what less ignorant than it was before
we entered it.-Thomas Huxley.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20
WILSON SEATING
NEARER

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-First
move toward seating William B. Will
son, former secretary of labor, as
senator from Pennsylvania, came here
when Senator Norris moved in the
senate to disapprove methods used in
the campaign of William S. Ware and
to deny Ware seat. If Norris
presses his highly privileged motion
as he says he intends to do, it is be-
lieved here vote will follow soon
If the senate adopts the Norris reso.
luton it will go far toward insuring
action in this session on the seating
of Wilson, contestant for the Penn.
sylvania seat.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20

The convention unanimously re-
elected President George, Secretary
Treasurer Flaherty and Assistant
Secretary Treasurer Otte with in
creased salaries. The former was
elected delegate to the forthcoming
international meeting of postal work
ers at Copenhagen. Los Angeles was
selected as the 1881 convention city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20

to Increase their fares, contending
that they are unable to earn rea-
sonable return on their investment.
Increased operating costs and motor
vehicle competition are cited as
among the causes contributing to this
condition.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
T.,snhone 1885 Hamilten. O.ie
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-20

citizens from every walk Of life who
acknowledge that the anti-union poll
icy has failed.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Must Make Collection
Blow at Boss Terror

Continued from Page One)
Road (near John r.; Jewish Work
ers Club Rooms, 9148 Oakland (nr.
Owens); New Workers Home, 1349
E. Ferry (near RusselD; East Side
Hall, 5770 Grandy (at Hendrie) !;
Cooperative Restaurant, 1884 Ye-
mans (near 10000 Jos Campau);
Cooperative staurant, 2718
Geimer (near 1900 Jos Campau) !;
T. U. E. L. Centre. 1882 Woodward
(near Parsons); Finnish Hall, 1860
Fourteenth (near McGraw); Ukrain-
ian Hall, 1859 Martin (north Of $500
Michigan; West Side Hall, 28th st.
Il block north of Michigan); Ath-
letic Club, 1882 w. Jefferson (near
Post); Workers Club, 1890 COPELAND
(near $500 w. Jefferson); Lithuan-
ian Club Rooms, on Oath at Michi-
gan.
Boston Drive. Sept. IA to Sept. %.
Delegates from many cities in
Massachusetts, including Haverhill,
New Bedford, Peabody, Boston.
Maiden, Concord, Manchester, as
we'll as from New Hampshire, were
present at conference which mob
ilized workers for mass collection
days the week Of Sept. IA to %.
San Francisco Preparing Bazaar.
A huge three-day bazaar, Oct. II,
IL and 13 at the X. of c. Auditor
ium, $50 Golden Gate Ave, San
Francisco, is being prepared to raise
funds for Gastonia. These activities
are in addition to the intensive cam
paign of Mother Ella Reeve Bloor,
organizer of the Gastonia Joint De-
Tense and Relief Campaign, all along
the western coast.
Cleveland Arrangements Completed.
The arrangements for mass col
lection were completed yesterday at
Cleveland for Sept. 81 and %. All
language branches have been in
structed to call language conferences
not later than Sept. 80. A general
conference of the l. L. D. district
office will be held there on Oct. 7,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Green Wants AFL Not
to Do Anything About
Murder of Ella May

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 49,
President William Green stated here
today that he "deplores the shoot
ing of Ella May from a humanitar-
ian standpoint" but that the A. F.
L. general council would not do any
thing about it because the textile
workers there are not affiliated with
the Federation"
Green said W. D. Mahon, presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electrical Rail
way Employees, was on his way to
New Orleans to confer on the set
Element of the street car strike"
Which means that because of the
resistance of the workers on strike
there, Mahon is going himself, to
threaten them back to work at the
bosses terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Oil Rbelayers SHIPPED to
Dutch West Indies, Cheated

The NJ. W. Kellogg Co., New Jer-
sey contractors, hired five pipelay-
ers to go to Aruba, Dutch West
Indies, to work piping on the Pan
Oil Company's new re-
finery n Aruba. They were prom
ised $50 a week with overtime and
free transportation.
They got the $50 for while but
the boss cut out the overtime and
Their along comes the Dutch CO.,
eminent officials and tell them that
they will have to pay income tax
en- this SS6, also on 1925 that the
Kellogg Co. charged them for trans
portation. The transportation was
taken out of their pay at the rate
of $18.75 a week.
The men refused to pay so they
were told that they would have to
go to Jail at the rate Of so cents a
day. The boys didn't like the idea
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
CUBAN PRESIDENT
RULES BY MURDER
SMASHES UNIONS
His Assassins Sent to
Kill Workers Abroad

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10.
Fear that such revolutionary
situation is developing against
President Machado of Cuba that
American imperialist interests there
are in danger, yesterday caused the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
to summon Secretary of State Slim
son to appear before it next We'd
esday to testify to Machado's acts,
which the committee is afraid are
tactless.
The committee hopes in this way
to either dispose of the mass of
material forced upon it, charging
the Machado regime with outrage
Gus suppression of speech, unions
and outrageous acts against the
workers, or to decide against him
and substitute some less well known
tyrant.
Some of the charges against the
Machado government involve assas-
sination. Some of these are in con-
nection with suppression of labor.
Machado, representing American
capitalists, has outlawed every mill
tant labor union, and has impri-
soned, tortured and murdered doz-
ems of labor leaders without trial
When he can not easily arrest his
victims, he has sent assassins tC
kill them, even in foreign countries
as in the case of the Cuban Com
munist Mella, slain in Mexico City
Machado, who was first elected
in 1924, announced publicly that he
would not stand for reelection. In
1927, the Cuban Congress, in which
he exercised control, adopted consti-
tutional reforms extending his term
two years. In the next year, con-
stitutional convention called to APP
prove these reforms, did not extend
his term, but voted instead single
six-year term for presidents and
specified that it did not apply to
Machado. He was reelected last
fall and inaugurated this spring.
Among the charges is one that
Machado controls the congress
through the government lottery, by
controlling the assignment of the
1000 collectors who sell lottery
tickets. The legal price of the
tickets is 500 piece, but they are
sold for higher prices, sometimes
as high as $40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
BY q Worker Correspondent

MUNISING, Mich. (By MaiD.-
Rotten conditions in the lumber mills
and camps are intensifying the
workers fight for better conditions.
Upper Michigan is known for its
beautiful lakes, streams and forests,
but it is a different story to the
lumber workers, living in the woods
day in and day out and being eX-
plotted, cutting and hauling timber
so a few bosses can gather the
wealth.
No Paradisd~for Workers.
The conditions Of the workers in
the lumber camps are such as arc
found all over whelN the workers
are unorganized. Low wages, long
hours, rotten conditions in the bunk
camps and mess camps. The hours
you read about in the early history
Of the U. S. still prevail in the
forests-"from day break to sun
down."
Herded in Camps.
In the lousy camps many workers
are herded together like so many
cattle, foul air exists, nothing but
nests OF disease. The speedup is
fierce and you slave until you're
ready ia drop.
With the workers in the saw mills
and paper mills it is the same-the
10 hour day prevailing, with speed
up system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
MILL 0UTRACES
DEFYLAb0R
|. L. D . Head Calls All
to Answer Blows

Continued from Page Ome)
ing at the union headquarters at
Kings Mountain by the mill owners
"black hundreds" thunder in unison
for decisive action by American
labor against fascist rule of the
Southern mill barons.
l heard the story of National Tex
tile Workers Union organizer Tess
ner, from his own lips, and talked
to the IS prisoners in the county
jail through the heavy grating that
separates them from all visitors.
News of the latest dynamiting out
rage, this time at Kings Mountain,
came in over the telephone.
If Workers Could See 1t.
If every worker in the land
could have had his turn at Tess
ner's bed of pain, or in the visitors
gallery of the county jail, and had
felt the impact of the Kings Noun
tain dynamiting that only close
proximity can give, then the die
tatorial power of the Manville-
Jenckes corporation would not only
crumble, but American capitalism
would sit uneasy upon an unsafe
throne.
Support Textile Workers.
The appeal of the International
Labor Defense, for the support of
the Southern textile workers in
their struggle, must bring about
exactly this result; raising before
the masses the absolute necessity of
supporting the North Carolina tex
tile labor in its battles with the
Manville-Jenckes fascist tyranny,
upholding them in their effort to
defend themselves, to organize the
unorganized, to use the strike wea-
pom, to march forward for their
class.
Every worker in the land must
help increase the growing nation
wide demonstrations against the
fascist terror in North Carolina; the
bloody terror that seeks to lift it's
crimson fist, dyed wwitwh workers
blood, in the face of all American
labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Right Wing Minority
At C:G.T.U. Congress
Refuted By Speakers
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

PARIS, France, Sept. 18.-On the
third day Of the Fifth Congress OF
the Confederation Generate de
Travaille Unitaire the discussion on
the executive report was continued.
The right wing minority speakers
attacked the Communist Party and
the majority in the c. G. T. U.
Bourneton and Tillon speaking for
the majority, repulsed the cpposi-
tional attacks and proved the con-
nection of the opposition with Trot-
zky.
Greetings to the congress from
the Red international of Labor
Unions were read amidst great
applause.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
TRY TO LYNCH 3
union LEADERS
Continued from Page One)

in York, South Carolina, was arrest
ed and charged with distributing adj
yertising matter without license.
This morning he was run out of
town and told at would be healthy
for you to stay away" First he
was threatened with sixty days on
the chain gang.
With the customary pretense OF
impartial upholding of the law, Gov
ernor Gardner today announced that
he "would make diligent search
for, and prosecution of, perpetrators
of the crimes" against tessner. In
an adjoining column of the news
paper printing this bunkum, is an
article that blames all vicious crimes
of the bosses black hundreds upon
the Communists and which justifies
the Outraged citizens of CASTOR
County who are maintaining law
and order and the sanctity of the
stars and stripes, asserting their
inalienable right to repel sinister
foreign invasion by whatever meth
3D." Thus murder is sanctioned by
all the reactionary forces and
agencies of capitalist society in the
South.
A series of mass protest rallies,
which tens of thousands are expect
ed to attend, will be held throughout
New York City Friday night. Com
munist Party candidates for NUM-
cipal election will be the principle
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Senate Hears Revolt Looms Against U.s. hQst PMbet MacadO Call
Austrian Government
Suggests Council Move
From Vienna mob"
(Wireless By Inprecorr.)

VIENNA, Austria, Sept. >19.-The
Reichspost, the government mouth
piece, points out in yesterdays issue
the constitutional possibility of re-
moving the national council from
Vienna, and appeals for such re-
moval, declaring that in Vienna the
council is "under pressure from the
mob"
Graz is suggested as the proper
place to which to move.
Fights between workers anil fas-
cist bands took place yesterday near
Kapfenberg. Three fascists were
put in the hospital.
There were also collisions in
Liesing.
Last night, fascists stole sig
machine guns stored in the Neukir-
chen town hall. where a socialist
administration is in office.
Capitalist press reports from
Vienna stated yesterday that the
Austrian Heimwehr Ia fascist or
ganization) has just published an
alarming manifesto, stating that
100000 armed men stand ready to
follow it for the overthrow of the
present government and the institu-
ton of a dictatorship like the Ital-
ian, unless the constitutional
changes demanded by it are made.
While Police President Shober
states that his 10000 gendarmes
and 1000 regular army troops will
suppress any revolt, "from either
the left or the right" it is under
stood here that these are only words,
and that the Austrian national
council is seriously discussing MAX
ing the constitutional changes. They
would establish dictatorship under
the president, which could easily
change into a direct rule by the fas-
cists.
While the socialists talk in gen
eral terms about opposing the fas-
cist coup which is set for the end of
September, the Communists will call
on the workers to prepare for open
fighting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20

Of going to Jail so they paid and
quit the job. When they went to
ship home on the tanker Danziger
they read their papers and found
that it was supposed to be free
passage. The ship company, the
Lago Oil made them sign papers
that the company would not be re-
sponsible for any disaster or ship
wreck.
When they landed in New York
they went to the M. w. Kellogg Co.
to find out about the money due
them and they had to pay S125 for
their passage home. The boys were
told at the Kellogg office that they
were only being charged for "a
meals. One of the boys told them
that he could live at the Blenheim
Hotel at Atlantic City for that. Tell
all the workers to keep away from
Aruba, Dutch West Indies.
ADAM WEAVER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
Ella May Is Dead But
Her Class Songs Live

(Continu,d from Page One)
that l can watch the children at
night" Not much of favor to
grant, but individual needs appar-
emily could not balance slight in
convenience to the company, and
they refused. To nurse the chill
dren, she had to quit her job. With
pay cut off, a doctor or nurse was
impossible, and she lost four of the
nine she had raised with such diff
ficulty.
After that Ella May thought. a
good deal. When organizers brought
the word that workers should stand
together to gain some control over
their own lives, her whole being an
swered, eyes, we should" She not
only joined the union and spoke at
meetings, but her incredibly robust
spirit dubbed over in innumerable
songs. In her own words she told
the hope and power of the union,
using the old mountain folk tunes.
These songs spread over the coun-
tryside faster than literature or
leaflets. Listless and half-illiterate
mill workers glowed to life as they
heard them, grinned at the novel
idea that instead of standing their
conditions they could get together
and change them. They grinned,
and agreed; and the word grew in
power.
Ella May, intelligent, steadfast,
and talented, became a worker to
be reckoned with. persons I'M
known" turned their attention upon
her. They poisoned her well, and
sent her several threats of death.
But they misjudged their Ella May.
She did not fear to go to Washing
ton to testify against the mill own
ers in the Senate investigation of
the southern textile industry. Re-
turning, she continued to give her
unquenchable vigor to the union and
the defense of the 16 Gastonia work
ers on trial.
Always she kept on singing and
making up new songs, "strike bal
lets" as she called them. l saw
her three weeks ago at an l. L. D.
picnic for workers in the woods at
Mt. Holly (near Gastonia). A slight
figure with brown bobbed hair, a
firm profile, and very thorough
smile. She stood on the stoop of a
deserted shack while men, women
and children crowded around te
hear her. Her full throaty voice
gave the songs in mountain style
with an odd sort of zip at the enc
of each line that delighted her az.
dience. "Well never, no we'll never
let our leaders die--yi!"
"Purtiest singin' / ever heard
said one of the women, who hac
been standing since the beginning
of the meeting with feet firmly
planted, barring her breast occa.
sionally to nurse the baby in hel
arms. The workers chuckled al
Ella Mays apt digs at the mil
bosses, and kept calling on her fol
more favorites; they would not lei
her stop. She responded without
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
GANG WORK IN
BIC WESTERN
ELECTRIC PLANT
66 Hour Week to Exc
Out Meager Wages

CHICAGO (By Mail)-The work
ing conditions in the wire mill de-
partment 1886 of the Hawthorn
plant of the Western Electric are
among the worst at Hawthorne,
where conditions are very bad all
over. The wages are based on gang
piece work; there are from three to
five men in each gang; the hourly
rates for operators on number and
2 machines vary from SO to 60 cents
an hour; each operator has to run
two to four machines depending on
the kind of machine and the size of
the wire drawn.
The night workers are requested
to work six nights a week; if we
fail to report to work Saturday
nights we are asked all sorts of
questions and dare not refuse. This
makes a 66-hour week and it is the
only way we can make a living
wage.
Since the work is very hard, dirty
and sloppy and the rates are so low
it is hard for the company to get
the workers to stick to their jobs,
so lately they have been hiring now,
inexperienced workers at straight
hourly rates of 70 cents an hour
while the workers with long service
and lot of experience are work
ing at piece work and average only
Sc cents an hour.
The workers here are ripe for
organization into a militant union
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party.
HAWTHORNE WORKER.