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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
By vi. JEROME.
Textiles.

e industry most affected during
,riod, both as regards the num-
of strikes and the number of
ers involved, was textiles.
ty-six textile strikes affecting
2 strikers, have been reported
The half-month ending April Is.
these strikes II were in the
h-the Piedmont section and
iessee-involving 1880 work
and 10 in other sections of the
try, chiefly in New England
Pennsylvania, involving 4,022
5ers.
lie outstanding points of sig
ance in connection with the tex
strikes are:
} That over 1900 workers
ok in the South-the region
'hich the Northern textile barons
ed their mills, confident of OBJ
ng cheap and docile labor.
J That all of the Southern
ers are native-born Anglo
n stock, long hailed by the
press and pulpit as "individ-
;tic," independent" 100 per
American" and "strike-proof."
} That 20 of the SO strikes,
practically all of the Southern
les, are against the speed-up-
"stretch-out" or multiple-loom
EN-.
y That by far the largest num-
of union-led textile strikes were
ar the leadership of the National
tile Workers Union, in the face
he hysteric cutlery of "Commun-
20 raised by the bosses and their
nts.
y The fact that in the South
strikes led by the National Tex
Workers Union, the Negro work.
have been drawn in on the basis
;ull equality as against the seq
alton policy of the A. F. of L.
y And, finally, the fact that
the number of textile strikes
he South, the bulk Of the strikes
ere spontaneous and unled. This
its, in the first place, to the
;ematic refusal of the old A. F.
l.. unions to organize the unor-
,zed workers, and, secondly, to
readiness of the unorganized
RS for organization.
A. F. of L. Treachery.
le part played by the A. F. of
officials in the textile strikes is
of open cooperation with the
SEES and the police authorities to
ak the strike movement. The
cy of these officials has consist
iy been one of class-collaboration
fascism. In the case of the
kes they were forced into by the
infamous walkouts Of mill work
they have sought by all means
5tifle the revolt by shameless
lpromises and sell-outs.
his was notably the case in
;abethton, Tenn, at the end of
rch, when the 5000 strikers of
American Glanzstoff and the
erican Bemberg Companies were
back by the A. F. of L. Of
ais On an open-shop basis, with
e promises instead of gains. The
extent Of the betrayal became
II several weeks later, when the
'kers of those two companies
in spontaneously came out on
Ike on April Is.
Where the National Textile Work
Union has led strikes, the A. F.
L. officials have adopted a down
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
STUDENTS PROTEST SCHOOL
MERGER.

WAYNESBORO, Pa, May s.
Aroused by the proposed merger of
the Mont Alto state forest school
near here with the forest school at
Pennsylvania State College, Forest
school students last night hanged
and burned in effigy Charles Dor,
worth, secretary of forests and
waters of Pennsylvania and Joseph
lllick, state forester of Pennsyl-
vania.
The hanging and burning climaxed
demonstration by students, at
tended by more than 1000 people
from Waynesboro, Chambersburg
and all parts of Franklin County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
Soviet Union Factories
NJ a Ike New Cameras

LENINGRAD, May 5.-The Len
ingrad optical factory is this year
producing for the first time 1000
amateur cameras of its own design.
In addition the factory will produce
also a quantity of pocket cameras.
The factory expects to bring up
at the end of the next five years
the output of amateur photo appara-
tus to $4,000 and that of pocket
cameras to 100000 annually.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
SSR Factories Make
garettes for Export

HOSCOW, May 5.-The Tobacco
Indicate is beginning to produce
|ecial cigarettes for export pur-
ses. AThese cigarettes will have
paper mouth pieces as the Rus
n cigarettes have and will gen.
lily conform to the foreign de-
nds in appearance, quality and
ce.
special makes will be produced for
STA and China.
has also been decided to send a
iple consignment of Soviet cigars
Argentina.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
UNEMPLOYMENT IN ULSTER.

BELFAST, (By MaiD-Over 25l,-
600 unemployed workers are regis
tered by the government for unem-
ployment benefit in Northern Ire
land. This government figure is said
to be only part of the real total.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06

Workers of Europe and America!
Help the Oppressed Colonies in
Their Struggle Against Imperial
ism--the Common Enemy!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
DANE JOBLESS GROW.

COPENHAGEN, (By MaiD An
increase of 10000 in unemployment,
bringing the figure to nearly 10000,
is reported in Denmark for March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
Soviet Workers Celebrate
Easter by Atheist Carnival

MOSCOW, May 5.-The night be-
fore Easter was celebrated here, as
thruout the Soviet Union, by the
whole population, most of them in
anti-religious demonstrations and
activities. The streets were filled
far into the night by carnival crowds,
and radios, open-air movies, and
theatres and movie places were open
half the night. The churches were
attended by old people and children,
in the main, together with a goodly
number of idlers and curiosity
seekers.
Offset Church Influence.
The anti-religious propaganda of
the Atheist Society and of the Com
munist Party and the trade unions,
together with the cooperation of the
government, was effective in offset
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06

% FOOT FALL KILLS MINER
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By MaiD
John Brushkowski, 80, coal
Ter, was killed when he fell down
chincloss shaft, about 1873 feet
p, Of the Glen Alden Coal Co. He
leaving his work to go home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06

cts. The judges have imposed I'M
usually heavy sentences and fines
upon the arrested strikers, who have
been rounded up in masses. The
number of arrests to date april
22) are 502-about a third of the
number of strikers.
But the spirit of the strikers is
splendid. Nothing daunts them in
their mass violation of the injunc-
tions, and the line of the bosses is
being steadily broken. Fifteen cafe
terias employing 325 workers have
so far settled with the union. A par
ticular feature of the strike is the
active solidarity shown by the needle
workers and the whole Left wing
labor movement of New York in par
ticipating regularly in the mass
picketing as we'll as in boycotting
the struck cafeterias.
Grocery Clerks.
(2) Another spirited strike in
the food industry is that of the Re-
tail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks
Union, N. Y, Cleft wing, involving
1920 strikers. The principal de-
mands are the 57-hour, 6-day week,
in place of the present 80-hour
week; $500 wage increase; union
recognition and job control by the
union.
In addition to the usual police
brutality and anti-strike injunction,
the union has had to fight the
strike breaking activities of the re-
dictionary United Hebrew Trades Of
ficials, who have held conferences
with the bosses and have been acting
as scab-agents and informers. These
same officials are responsible for
the frame-ups made against a score
of strikers, a number of whom have
been put under bail.
Notwithstanding the combined OPP
position of the bosses and the Right
wing office-holders, the strike has
made splendid Roadway. Since its
beginning, on April 8, rs per cent
of the 200 establishments affected
/ have signed up with the union, sub
hitting to all the demands. Of spe-
cial significance is the amalgama-
ton that has taken place in the
course of the strike between this
Union and the Progressive Butcher
and Poultry Workers Union. Pre-
parations are already under way for
a strike of the butchers.
Other Strikes.
. During the period covered by the
chart there were no other strikes of
prominence or considerable magni-
tude, although certain of the strikes,
small as to the number of strikers
involved, carried with them a deep
significance. To this class belong
the strikes of the commercial tele-
graphers, and of the musicians Tin
cluded on the chart in the theatrical
Industry, which were precipitated
by the discharges and wage reduc-
IlOlio resulting IEOIl Inc INTRODUCTION
of automatic telegraph machines and
the vitaphone respectively n the two
industries referred to.
The fact, that these industries be-
long to the most specialized type,
involving the most highly-skilled
section of the American working
class, is clear sign that capitalist
naturalization, with it's resultant
/ speed-up, wage-cuts, and mass dis
employment, is becoming an increas-
ingly vital issue in every battle of
. the class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06

Imperialist Plans Will Be De-
ated Not BY Pacifist Twaddle,
It BY Revolutionary Action.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
WHAT UNCLE WIGGILY SAW

Many things had happened to Tn
Gle Wiggily all in one afternoon
though il mas taken me several
nights, each one with Il different
story, to tell you about them. Just
think of all the things that happen
ed to the rabbit gentleman. Ny
goodness, tut, tut and dear me!
In the first place DR.. Possum told
Uncle Wiggily to get a football and
kick it around for exercise SO he
would get over being i'll.
Get me a football. and I'll show
you how to kick it," cried the ami.
NAL doctor. So Nurse Jane brought
in a ball and DR.. Possum kicked it
right through Uncle Wiggily's best
window. Ha, Ha,
But DIR. Possum said he would
send the glass dog UP to put a new
pane Of glass in the broken window
and Uncle Wiggily went out to kick
the football around the field. For
there are no windows to break in the
fields, thank goodness,
While kicking the ball Uncle Wig
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
CHARGES FILED
AGAINST MEMBER
OF FARM BOARD

WASHINGTON, Dee. 13. U.H--
The senate cotton price investigation
committee today decided to investi-
gate charges that Carl Williams.
cotton member of the farm board,
has "persuaded cotton cooperatives
to gamble on the cotton exchange"
by claiming he could predict cotton
futures.
The committee called G. l.. Stealey,
of Oklahoma City, former general
manager of the Oklahoma Growers
association and author of the charg'
cs, to present evidence to prove his
charges. Stealcy was to take the
stand this afternoon.
The telegram. to the committee
from George w. Moncrief, president
of the Oklahoma association, quoted
Il letter alleged, to have been written
by Stealey charging that "Williams
is author of the idea that he and
one or two others can accurately
foretell future markets and sold this
idea to cotton cooperatives of the
south and persuaded them to gamble
On the stock exchange"
A resolution adopted by the board
declaring "this charge is absolutely
without foundation" was quoted in
the telegram.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
1T IS TO LAUGH

Seating of Joseph R. Grundy as senator from Penn
sylVanla after refusing to permit William S. Ware to
do So shows considerable inconsistency on the part of
the senate, which of course is to be expected
1t is not without its humorous side, however. and
even the senate has to chuce over several incidents
connected with it. Grundy is the former arch-lobbv
st who before the senate investigating committee
some weeks ago. and if recall correctly that COM
mittee headed by the Honorable Sam Shortrdge of
California
In the of the investigation Grundv admitted
his lobbying activities in behalf of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association and defended them on the
grounds that the great state of Pennsylvania and other
great states of the east entitled to more repre-
senaton in the senate than the small thnly populat-
ed and relatively poor states in other sections of the
country These latter, he declared should talk darn
small. Now he is senator which is certainly
chucklc.
Ware denied his seat because over 100000 was
expended in the primaries of 1926 Yet Mr. Grundv
was part and parcel of the political machine
which elected Ware and showed total expenditure of
nearly s2,0O0,OOO Mr. Grundy readily admits aiding
the Ware campaign and does deny in so many words
that he is arred with the stick and practically
asks the senate What you going to do about it?"
That's another laugh.
Senators Norris Of Nebraska and Nye of North Da-
koa did assail the seating of Grundy yesterday refer
ring to Governor Fisher who appointed Grundy as an
Ass and declaring the appointment "stench in the
nostrlls of the people, and in spite the North Da-
kotan resolution to declare Grundy entitled to re-
tain his seat the senate seated him without roll call
vote. That's the third laugh
To Californians least the best laugh is the last
one. Nyes resolution was something like pan of red
hot Goals. The senate banded it about for three hours
wondering what to do with it. Finally on motion of
Senator Hiram Johnson of California it voted to refer
the resolution to the elections committee the chairman
of which is Hirams bosom friend the aforemention-
ed Sam Shortridge. There really is a whole flock of
laughs in that.
Mr.. Shortridge told the senate it was asking his
committee to do an idle and futile thing" and advised
that he did not know when he could call the committee
together
Unless Norris, and Nye get more support from
the sons of wild Jack asses, it looks as though Mr.
Grundy is in for the balance of the term. He sat
blandy by yesterday while the senate assaed him
and Governor Fisher and the blandness ex-
panded into broad smile at times 1t must have de-
veloped into hearty laugh, inside at least as he ad-
vanced to the rostrum and bona fide
member of of the best laugh producing organiza-
tions outside the theater.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
SHOW CONSIDERATION

By the time this appears in print there will be only
nine shopping days left before Christmas giving but
little time to those who have as yet started this
annual procedure.
1t IS only fair that folks should use little con-
sideration in planning their shopping, with thought in
mind for the clerks in stores, at the post office rail
road stations and other places which swamped with
business at Christmas time.
DO Your Christmas Shopping Early" is not an idle
phrase 1t not only means early in the season, but
early in the day 1t not easy for those who bear the
burden of the Christmas rush, many of them women
nor is 1t fair for the public to deluge them with work
in the closing hours of the day especially when great
deal Of the shopping can be done earlier.
By q little judicious planning the public adjust
its buying and shipping hours that they will not
occura the last moment when frazzled and
those carrying the load heartily wish there was no such
thing as Christmas
Just because some are making their living by serving
others in various capacities is reagon why those
being served should not show consideration the
er. Service IS double meaning word and applies as
much to the buyer to the seller
1T will add much TO the Christmas enjoyment Of
those who serve if those whom they will remem-
Der the Golden Rule and do accordingly.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13

football in that mirror on your
back the rabbit replied. "Hal Ha!
I've got some dirt on my pink nose
where it shows very plainly. Oh, l
Go look so funny! Ha, Hal"
Uncle Higgily saw himself in the
mirror and he also saw something
else. And what he saw was the Fuz-
" Fox.
Yes, indeed The Fuzzy Fox was
coming up the hill back of the bun
ny and Uncle Wiggily could see him
very plainly in the mirrors in front,
on the dogs back. Just as you can
sit in the front seat OF daddy's auto
and see in the mirror in front of you
the cars coming behind.
"Oh, dear mel" all of sudden
. cried Uncle Wiggily.
Whats the matter!" asked the
glass dog.
"The Fox that bumped on the
. nose with my football-the. Fox that
the hornets stung-is coming up the
Hill after mel" cried the rabbit -
saw him in your looking glass"
"Ha. So the Fox is coming. i
be?" whispered the glass dog. "Well
! we'll play a little trick on him
. Quick, you hide in the bushes, Tn
Gle Wiggily." So the rabbit did this
Then the glass dog took piece OF
mirror off his back and set it mp
: right on the ground, in some Other
! bushes. Next the glass dog went
and hid where Uncle Wiggily wa.
! hiding.
| Up the hill came the Fox. as an
! CRY as could be at having beer
stung by the hornets. "I1l catci
Uncle Wiggily and nibble him.
I growled the Fox.
just then he saw himself in til,
/ looking glass on the ground. The
/ glass was propped up gaainst a tree
But the Fox, seeing his own image
! didn't know himself, because hi,
face was swellcd by hornets stings
He thought it was another Fox and
| hight away he growlcd.
"Get away from here, Other Fox.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13

gilv saw the Fox. The Fox tried to
take Uncle Wiggily's football away,
but the bunny gentleman plunked It
up into tree. And when the Fox
tried to get the ball down out Of the
tree he hit a hornets nest by mis-
take and was badly stung. Then
Uncle Wiggily got the real football
and started home while the Fox ran
away. And on his way 70 his bun
calow Uncle Wiggilv met the glass
dog with panes of glass and also mir,
rors in the wooden crate on his back.
Uncle Wiggily walked behind the
dog gentleman, who was going TO fix
the broken bungalow window. And
as the rabbit gentleman was hopping
along, thinking what fun it was to
kick a football, all of 4 sudden he
began to think about Christmas.
at won't be long now!" said Tn
Gle Wiggily, speaking aloud.
"What won't be long :" asked the
g assput-in-dog.
"Christmas," answered Uncle Wig
gilv.
"Oh," said the glass dog. 81
thought you meant l wouldn't be
long putting that piece of glas. in
your broken window. I'll do it very
quickly once we get to your bunga-
low. You haven't any broken look
ing glasses that need mending, have
you!"
~ think not" answered the rab-
bit gentleman. "But YOU may ask
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. She has
charge Of looking glasses"
"Because," went ON ,the glass dog,
~ have here in my crate some very
fine pieces of looking glass"
"Ycs," said the rabbit gentleman.
81 can see you have" For, walking
behind the Gog as he was, Uncle
Wiggily could look right into a big
mirror, just as plain as anything.
Then Mr.. Longcars laughed.
"What are you laughing at ," ask
Cd the glass dog.
"Why, | can see myself and my
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
Friday, December 13,, 1872

DOL.
graph company would give the vi
ted States some measure of part,
with foreign communication mon
lplies, David Sarnoff, executii
vice president of the Radio Corpor
tion, told the senate interstate col
merce committee today.
"The PLAN he said, "would
once provide communication Sc
vice for the United States tn
would give us some measure of pa
ity with England, France, Germai
and Italy, where similar unificati'
already has been effected. At t
same time, it would provide, rad
wsNh the necessary pickup and d
tribution facilities that would wa
rant its greatess possible develc
mept.'
Sarnoff added that the merg
had been negotiated upon the bal
that such unification would be
the interests of a greater, more
ficicnt and more economical systt
of communication than either co
panv could hope to develop indepe
IDENTIFY.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
Romance With
Artist Short

LOS ANGELES, Dee. 13. U.D-
The life of an artist S wife failed
to appeal to Mary Macklin Pope SEQ,
daughter of Charles G. -Iacklin, Chr
cago art dealer, according to her di-
vorce suit on file here today.
The 20 year old wife alleges cruel
~ on the part of Count Aurelein
Popesco, Roumanian painter, whom
she left after II days of welded
life in Chicago to go to her parents
in Beverly Hills, fashionable Los
Angeles suburb.
Countess Popesco declared she was
forced to live in a cheap hotel, pay
for her own meals and give the ar
tist $l0G to buy painting materials
/ The artist. here in connection with
, the suit, denied the allegations and
] declared he knew his wife would be
happy ii she returned to him.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
Southern Council
Meeting Today

LOS ANGELES, Dec. II. U.P)--
Members of the southern council of
The State Chamber of Commerce met
here today to hear the reading %
the report of Robert l.. Wilson, di-
rector of the agricultural depart.
r.ent, who is in Washington work.
ing ON farm problems of the state,
The report deals with the weed
and insect pests and recounts pro
eress made in protecting the STATE
from their inroads, Tariff matters
and freight rates also were touched
upon.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 13. 1914

Attorney NJ. w. Conkling has
left for Washington, d. c., to act
with President Walter 0. liamil'
ton of the Imperial Irrigation Dis
tlict, Leroy Holt and w IL. Best
as representatives of the district
at the conference with Secretary of
the Interior Lane, December Ii, re-
garding an appropriation for the
control of the Colorado.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
STATE NOT INNOCENT

There appears to be good for making arrests
IN New Iorks tragic movie studio fire which cost the
lives of 10 persons this week.
According 10 accounts Of the disaster the building
IN which numerous persons were compelled to work
was nothing more than firetrap to begin with and
conditions were not improved any by loading it with
the imsy and highly infammabe material used in the
production of motion pictures.
Apparently there is considerable blame to be at
tached to those operating the plant but the state it.
self is not without blame II could "recommend' fire
prevention apparatus in the building but was without
"A law to enforce the recommendation Had such a law
been the statute books 10 lives might have been
spared Placing it there may be the means of saw
ing future lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13

Haiti appears to have been little too hasty 1t
should have waited until of our marines were
mnding our business in China or Nicaragua
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13

You can't bite ,Unelc Wiggily, I'm
going to bite him. Get away from
here," Then the Fuzzy Fox made
Jump for the looking glass, thinking
it was the Other Fox. And, OF
course. it seemed as it the Other Fox
was jumping for the Fuzzy Fox.
Anyhow, the real Fox jumped right
at the looking glass, smashing It all
to bits and he bumped his sore nose
so hard that he ran away bowling
and Uncle Wiggily could come out
of the bushes, which he did, laugh.
ing "Ha. Ha"
SO what the rabbit saw in the
glass was very lucky, and if the su-
gar spoon will take Il swim in the
sour milk to make il sweet, III toll
YOU next about Uncle Wiggily and
the bears stocking.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13

Add to the mysteries Of the world-how do the con-
victs get the guns with which they start the riots?
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
Bedtime Stories
Ry HOWARD E. GARIS
newspaper Syndicate
uonvright, 1923, by Mcclure

The Press is contemplating dis
continuing the Uncle Wiggily fea-
ture which has been operated for
several years, replacing it with some
other story for the children, or do
ing away with the feature entirely.
The editor would like an expression
from those who have been reading
the column as to their opinion. II
the feature is not desired it VIII be
eliminated.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
TEN YEARS AGO
DeceY11,ar 10 1910

The teachers of Imperial county
are holding institute today, super
intendent A. 2. Shibley presiding
Many excellent talks will be give |
and the sessions will adjourn at
noon to meet at approximately tiLs
time in 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-13
4 Looking Backward
vyhat the Press Files Tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years 81
TwBNTY YEARS AGO
December IS, 1909

Attorneys for the Southern IA
cific railroad appeared before
Judge Cole in the superior court
yesterday ana asked the court TO
appoint receiver for the Ca'i-
fornia Development company, the
petition being based on the 'udg'
ment given the railroad eompanI
several weeks ago to cover the
money advanced for closing the
break in the Colorado river. w. H.
nolabird of Los Angeles was ap'
pointed receiver.