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the first Workers and Peasants Republic
with still more gusto today as it sees this
new fascist dictatorship added to the Gordon
of tyrannies, stretching now from Poland on
the Baltic to the extreme southern Balkans,
to which it has entrusted the oppression of
the Central European workers and the in
vasion of the Soviet Union.
While the war orders for arms are being
rushed to Rumania, for ultimate use against
the Soviet Ukraine, the new JugoSlav die
tatorship seems like an assuring second line
should the Bessarabian frontier, in event of
open war, turn into another "Bolshevik uni
versity" and the workers and poor peasants
of Rumania rise and sweep their Manius and
Bratianus into the Black Sea.
But the world imperialists, especially French
Imperialism, which has vital interests in
Jugo-Slavia, and italian fascist Imperialism,
which is casting greedy eye on FESTIVE
Croatia and along the Albanian frontier,
have miscalculated. Their statesmen, in the
fond belief that by ruthless oppression, by
fascist military tyranny, they can stifle the
volcano of proletarian Revolution, by putting
lid with fascist label over the crater, have
erred. The force of working class energy,
born in suffering and oppression, gathers
strength through patient and ceaseless or
ganization and preparation within. The
Jugo-Slav workers and peasants are faced
with this necessity of tireless, ceaseless,
courageous preparation in the face of the
new dictatorship as never before.
And the day when the lid does blow off the
volcano, when these Serb and Croat and
Slovene workers and peasants stream down
their mountainsdes to the destruction of
their fascist tyranny, neither the first nor
the second line, neatly contrived ON paper and
draw through eastern and southeastern
Europe for the suppression of the workers
and the invasion of the Union of Soviet Re-
publics, will avail them at ALL
Meanwhile, while preparing for their vic
tory, the workers and peasants, of every
country in the world must be alert to meet
the imperialist offensive which the powers
are daily celebrating against the Soviet Union,
with the SCATTERING offensive of the interna-
tional working class, to turn the imperialist
war into civil war.
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The government of Jugo-slavia has been
proclaimed military dictatorship; King
Alexander has decreed himself military dis
tator with unqualified powers to dissolve any
governing body in the country, to make, UNI
make and break any former claw" on the
books, to seize, jail, execute or exile anyone
whose political opinions do not coincide with
the dictator of the Serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes.
With him in the dictatorship, Alexander
has associated General Peter Zivkovich, pro-
phet and postmaster in the art of suppress
ing by every ferocity known to his next door
neighbor, the Hungarian dictator, Horthy,
the peasants and the workers organizations
in Jugo-Slavia.
The blood of scores of Serb, Croat and
Sovene peasants and workers brutally
murdered and tortured in Jugo-Slav jails
cries aloud on the international working class
for vengeance. The mute voices of hundreds
still suffering in the Jugo-Slav infernos,
whose plight will be a thousand-fold more
terrible under the new dictatorship, is every
day supplcating all workers the world over
for aid and liberation.
And to these hundreds of sufferers of the
Jugo-Slav working class, obscure and heroic,
hundreds more will soon be added. For the
new regime entered Immediately upon its
career of ruthless oppression, with the bay
onet as the means of enforcement and the
prison as the secure oblivion for anyone who
may dare to raise his voice against this new
fascist tyranny in the Balkans.
Almost the first act of the dictatorship
4 was to tighten the already brutal capitalist
stringency of the press, free speech and as
senbly laws with still more ferocious pro-
visions. Suppression for line of dissent
ventured in newspaper, Jail for word of
criticism dropped by a peasant in the hear
ing of an informer. Jail in a country where
jail meant death to school boy who was
suspected of belonging to the Communist
Youth.
For the Communist Party of Jugo-Slavia,
continued illegality and tireless persecu-
ton carried on with new dictatorial rigor
Imperialism plots its war schemes against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
By Fred Ellis

great readers. I remember the Sec
ond Christmas | was there, one OF
my relatives sent me book on
baseball. This would have been in
teresting enough some years before
but was now in a place where one
side of baseball team could not be
scratched up in long days ride.
I did not have many books of my
own, but the miners all had some.
One had volume of Darwin; others
had Voltaire, Shakespeare, Byron,
Burns and Milton. These poets
were great favorites of my step
father. We all exchanged books,
and quite a valuable library could
have been collected among these
few men. Some received magazines,
and there were four or five daily
papers that came to the camp. That
they were week old made little
difference to US.
I had friend about whom l have
not yet spoken. This was Tim. He
was much more than the ordinary
dog one usually meets. A shepherd
type, as large as a good-sized collie,
his coat. was black with brown
points and white patch at his
throat. He was quick and strong
and had limpid brown eyes. He did
not speak my language, but I could
understand his tail-wagging, his
joyful bark, fierce growl, pathetic
whine, and low, peculiar Groom,
There was something about Tim
that always made me think of him
as a real person. 1t was as though
the personality of some lovable hui
man had found a place in his being,
Instinct was not the only attribute
that actuated Tim, although perhaps
for scientific reasons / should not
venture to assert that Tim could
think. Anyway, you know him now
well enough to understand the kind
of companion such dog could be
to a boy at a mine sixty miles from
a railroad, with the nearest neigh
Dor four miles away. The one boy
in that section of the country / saw
only occasionally, but Tim was with
me sll the time. He and / had heaps
of fun. ! helped him out in many o
desperate fight we had with lynx
wildcat and badger.
John Kane was the assayer and
ore-sorter at the mine. He took 9
great liking to me and taught me
assaying. He was a big, heavy-set
good-natured Irishman with heavy
black mustache and pleasant eyes
When I went to work with him
helped him prepare the samples that
were to be assayed. No work
ever did in my life was as fascinat.
ing as assaying. These first small
ventures into the realm Of chemis
try led me to feel that l would like
to become a mining engineer.
made up M mind to learn this pro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
BY Stage Through the Nevada Desert;
the Mine in Eagle Canyon; the Bunk-HOuse;
Miners Books; Bills Pal

hung against the side of the house.
The we'll was near the creek, in the
bottom of the gully. Below the
house stood an old stone cabin, half
dug-out, with logs, brush, and dirt
for roof. One corner of this was
fixed up for use as an assay office.
The rest was used for storing cases
of canned foods, vegetables, and
other supplies.
My stepfather came down from
the mine a few minutes ahead of
the other men who were working
there. He was glad to see me. After
meeting the men and having dinner,
l unrolled my blankets and spread
them on some hay in the bunk over
the desk. l put on my overalls and
jumper and digging boots that same
afternoon and went to work in the
mine. My first job was wheeling
rock from a shaft that was being
sunk at the end of an open cut. /
soon found that a wheelbarrow
loaded with rock was more than /
could handle, so / made the loads
lighter and took more trips. | was
glad enough when quitting time
came.
When we got down to the house
it was already dark. The usual
mining camp meal was ready, and
every one pitched in with hearty
appetite. 1t was but a few minutes
afterward, when the dishes were
cleared away, that the men gathered
around the table again, reading,
playing cards or chess as best they
could by Pickering candle-light.
Others were stretched out in their
hunks, or sitting on the edges of
them, and so the winter evenings
were passed. There was no place
to go. The closest town was Winnie
mucca, sixty miles away. There was
one saloon at Willow Creek, the
post office, four miles away, but
this was seldom patronized, though
occasionally some Of the men who
went to the station brought back a
couple Of bottles of whisky.
Though miners situated as we
were could not keep in close touch
with current events, we were all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
By MARCEL JOUBERT.
(Translated from L'Humanite

by Valentine V. Konin.)
"This is not a title of book of
adventures. This is the ac-
count of the crimes committed by
the French engineers in the islands
of the Pacific, where the imported
Indo-C Chinese workers suffer and
perish like slaves"
This, alas, is not title of a
book of adventures. This is tragic
chapter of the colonization, recently
proclaimed by the socialists as a
necessity of civilization. In the
light of few harshly exact facts,
this is only a glimpse into the in
conceivable existence granted to the
laborers of Indo-China. This is a
bunch of facts challenging in itself
all those who pretend that slavery
is abolished; all those who applaud
the colonial policy of France; all
those who deny to the people of the
colonies the right to free them
selves from the yoke of the i'm
perialist pirates.
Importation of Workers Increases.
According to an agreement be-
tween the governor of Indo-China
and the High Commissioner OF
France, the colonists are authorized
to obtain in Indo-China all the labor
necessary for their plantations. AS
q result, the number of Indo-C Chin
ese laborers imported" to Nou-
velles Hebrides was 500 in 1928
2,139 in 1925, and 4,607 in 1927
This year the High Commissioner
of the Pacific has asked for 5000
new recruits for Nouvelle Gale
DOME and $4,000 for the Nouvelles
Hebrides.
This importation of labor is done
by actual recruiting offices legal
lied in their atrocious traffic OF
human flesh. These offices profit
by the misery of the Indo- Chinese
population by exporting all those
who starve on the soil from which
they were driven by the COLOMBIA
ton. The Tribune Indochinoise'
explains the workings of this re-
cruiting:
"Their dazzling promises allure
h the famished men and women; they
flash before their eyes the prom
ises Of Ell Dorado; and upon the
arrival in the forests these unfor.
tunate beings find themselves con.
demned to hard labor"
Use Force.
Sometimes the recruiters employ
better tactics. They unroll theii
victims by force. A certain Indo.
Chinese magazine points to case
! when few minors, among then
4 t4-year-old girl, were kidnapped
from their families and forwarded
" the plantations and mines under
IL protection of militia. The un'
lrtunate laborers, seduced by the
pforises or enlisted by force, kl[ty
nothing Of what awaits them upor
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use of their guns. And the list of
grievances and assassinations i'm
posed upon the Indo-Chinese who
had been torn away by force from
their families and their country is
very long indeed!
Chinese workers work for the low
est salaries, their owners succeed
in realizing scandalous fortunes.
The Comptoirs Francois DIES Nou-
velles Hebrides, where few
aforementioned cases took place,
has seen its income rise from 470,-
661 francs in 1921, to 1,652,6O7
francs in 1924. At the same time
their dividends on shares grew from
40 francs in 1921 to 60 in 1923
and 100 in 1924.
The Compagnie Franchise I'M
mobiliere des Nouvelles Hebrides
reached a million-franc income in
1926. And in the same way rise
the fortunes of all other companies
exploiting shamelessly the Indo-
Chinese slaves put at their mercy
by the French imperialists.
Socialists Uphold Imperialism.
The socialists can speak of the
noble civilizing character of work
carried on by imperialist France;
they can deny to the people of the
colonies the right to free them
selves from the bloody guardianship
of the slave dealers. Leon Jouhaux
can declare the necessity of con-
tinuing the forceful enrolment OF
the INDECENT Indo-C Chinese workers
They will demonstrate once more
their solidarity in preparing for the
imperialist despotism.
| However, they will not prevent
/ the colonization from being an un.
bearable yoke for the natives; MOI
will they prevent them from real
izing their sad plight and organic.
ing towards their liberation. But
their liberation will be possible
only through the complete over.
throw of the imperialists and so.
cialists, who, in spite of their at.
tempts to defend colonization, shall
not prevent the workingclass from
carrying out triumphantly the
movement for the liberation of the
colonial peoples.
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out of the Red Land
ITO the Isadora Duncan Dancers.)
BY A. B. MAGIL.

Out of the red land, dancers out of sun
ripened fields and the greathearted toll
of millions in cities building, breaking the soil
for new growth, for new victories to be won,
you come with feet of fire and the large bare
limbed ritual Of life-light for the blind.
Where are the famine years? Take them and bind
them weave them fast with strands Of your living hair
into black moose for the worlds black hate,
and go and say to all who suffer and bleed:
On our backs carry the Of the workers state,
and with our feet plant such terrible seed
as shall burst the earth and shrivel in the. flamc
Of Revolution all your years Of shame!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10

furnishing some water to the flats
below. This was my first view OF
the Santa Rosa range.
When we reached Rebel Creek it
was late at night. had been think
ing about unrolling my blankets for
bed. 1 climbed down from the
stage, cold and shivering, and found
that supper had been prepared and
a clean white bed was awaiting me.
A spring wagon was provided,
into which l threw my roll of blan-
kets and my valise, and we drove
to Eagle Canyon, two miles up
which the Ohio mine was located.
There was not a tree in sight; moth
ing but the scrubby willows that
grew along the little stream that
flowed down the canyon. There was
but one house. 1t was built of um-
Der and was about twenty-eight feet
long, fourteen feet wide, divided in
two by partition. In the front
room hunks were ranged; double
length and three high. In this room
there were no chairs, no tables, nc
furniture of any kind other than a
desk and the stuff belonging to the
men, consisting almost entirely OF
blankets and clothing, and few
suitcases and bags thrown under
the lower hunks.
The second room had big cook
stove in the corner, a kitchen table
and a cupboard along one wall
Along the other wall, where there
was window, was a long table GOV.
cred with brown flower patterned
oil-cloth, with benches running the
full length on either side. Over.
head on the beams were piled the
groceries and other supplies and the
bunk of the Chinese cook, which was
reached by a ladder. Charley Sing
was a good cook, and kept his par
Of the house scrupulously clean. The
other room was also clean, as fal
as being free from vermin was con
cerned, but the lumber was withou
paint and had never seen plane
There was a little porch in front
a bench over which hung looking
glass, washpans, a water-bucke
alongside the bench, and towel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
PART v.
Miners. Cowboys and Indians.


THIS was my first long journey.
We passed through Ogden, going
around Great Salt Lake, as the
Luzon cutoff had not then been
built. / was on the lookout for
Corinne and Promontory, as | knew
that these places had at one time
been the stamping ground OF my
father and uncle. Promontory was
the station where the golden spike
was driven when the Central Pacific
and the Union Pacific Railroads met
from the east and the west. The
iron horse, as the Indians called the
railroad, had overtaken the covered
wagons and OK teams.
For many miles after we left the
lake, the lowland was covered with
crust of salt. Then we came to
the sage-brush flats of Nevada
which seemed endless. AS far as
the eye could reach there was moth
ing but the long stretches of the
gray-green shrub. The stations
were few and the towns were small
We passed Elko, Battle Mountain
and then the Humboldt River came
into view on the right. On the
morning of the second day I ar.
rived at Winnemucca, went to the
hotel, and Immediately after dinner
took the four-horse stage for Rebe
Creek. The stage line extended ir
those days to Fort McDermitt, ar
army post. The stage was lo~'of
with freight; / was the only pas
senger. Inside was a big puilalt
coat and buffalo robe; l thought
there would be no chance to gel
cold. From Winnemucca past ths
dollhouse was a road through sane
hills, which was built Of sage-brusf
laid the width Of the wagon track
When tramped down it was for 1
short time serviceable, but the sand
were ever shifting, so that new
roads were continually in the pro
cess of being built.
We arrived at Kane Springs fol
supper. It was already dark ant
1 getting very cold. When we wen
to the station, the driver got drinl
of whisky. / felt warmer after |
cup Of hot coffee. After the horses
had been changed for new team
the driver said: 1--WE are ready; lett
go!" l piled into the coach. Thu
buffalo robe and the coat wer
gone; they belonged to the driver
1t was cold, clear night. In from
of us and a little to the right W,
could see the majestic outline O.
Cratic Peak, in the shelter O
which the winter SHOWS were stored
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
o.ish Police Jail
100 High School
Ukrainian Students
(Red Aid Press Service

WARSAW (By MaiD.-A few
days ago it was reported from Lem
berg that 80 Ukrainian students
were arrested there. Latest reports
from Lemberg say that already
more than 100 Ukrainian students
of the higher schools have been
jailed.
The police gave as reason for the
arrests the raids on the Polish re-
dictionary papers, the "Slowo Pol
skie" and "Kuryer Chodzienny."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
BY WILLIAM d. HAYWOOD
SYNOPSIS


In precious parts, Hayaoood told
of his birth among the Morn,ons at
Salt Lake City, IN 1869, of that
church's destroying Angels" ats
polygamous practice, of has first
school at Ophw, Utah, has first
Sweetheart, how he aoas bound out
as a bog slave, his first strike, of
odd Jobs in the city, has horror at
seeing Negro lynched, hoac he
learned dark secrets and met
famous persons as an an-noticed
messenger boy and bellboy. At IS,
he avas sent to Nevada to aUork actth
has stepfather IN mine. Nolo go
on reading.
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fession and wrote to the Houghton
School Of Mines and the Columbia
School Of Mines to learn their re-
quirements for entrance. / secured
some books on assaying and sur
veying and devoted much time to
study. But / never entered either
Of these colleges. / found myself
with other responsibilities and my
further education was secured in the
school of experience.
In the neat installment Hay,cood
aOrites of hunting IN Nevada, his
first attack of "bucb ague";; a
Basque sheep-hevder; the tragedy Of
One Arm Jim, the Pitte; the story
Of Jim Sackett;; "boots and saddles;
"a achite man boasts of murd9iag
Indians; hoW ta0o proposes escaped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
SUES FOR SEIZED GAS.

BERLIN, (By MaiD.- Stol-
zenberg, the owner Of 5000 TASKS
of poison phosgene gas which, fol-
lowing the Hamburg disaster were
taken out and sunk, has instituted
proceedings against the Free State
of Hamburg to recover damages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10
WASHINGTON. (Bv Mail,

WASHINGTON, (By MaiD.-
The quantitative output of Ameri-
ca workers has increased 108 per
cent since the beginning Of the cen
fury, Department of Commerce re-
port states. The speedup system
has forced the workers to produce
over double the former amount. y.
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The Md0-China SLAVE Dealers

their arrival. Treated like slaves,
separted from their wives and chill
dren, forced to labor Ia and Is
hours day, undernourished, I'M
sanitary, under the incessant watch
of actual torturers-an for sal
airy which is only hooking if it
exists at ALL
Here are few facts drawn from
the tragic balance sheet of the le-
Called slavery of the Pacific:
At the beginning of this year,
a. Pate Villa, on the concession
of Comptoirs Francois des Nou-
velles Hebrides, an Indo-Chinese
laborer, who had stolen bottle of
Peruvian bark belonging to French
overseer, was bound by the latter
and beaten until he expired. AT
the Societe DIES Hauts- Fourneauz de
Noumea, following the protest of a
few laborers against the horrors
they were forced to undergo, the
guard fired at the group and killed
a few of them. In the report pre-
sented to the governor of Indo-
China, the High Commissioner Of
the Pacific admitted the intolerable
treatment inflicted on the imported
laborers. He admitted that little
girl died from being violated. He
admitted that one colonist in order
to calm down the dissatisfaction
among his abused workers injected
into some of them a subcutaneou.
dose Of turpentine.
"Amusementsw
A sailor who has returned from
a voyage describes the atrociou:
amusements of the slave dealers
which he had witnessed in a port
The slave dealers tied a laborer tt
the end of long cord and dragged
him through water in order to at
tract the sharks and make then
follow their living prey. Another
laborer, while having a discussion
with a guard, was suddenly hurlet
into the sea. The guard persisted
in throwing stones at him to pre-
vent him from grasping the lane
until after the sharks had had theil
meal. For wanting to take snap
shots of these horrible scenes thu
sailor was imprisoned for Is days
His negatives were destroyed ant
he himself discharged.
L'Echo Annamite relates that OF
the island of Moketoa on the con
cession of Societe des Phosphate
du Pacifique, 'the married coolies
wishing to protect their wives from
the lewdness of the guards wer
shot to death without any othel
4 procedure of the law!" The wound
ed were put an end to, and thos,
trying to escape were charged will
rebellion.
Police Use Guns.
| At the air lady mentioned Societ,
des Hauts Fourneaus, the workers
rebelled at their treatment. TIL,
police were called and made full
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Police Use Guns.

At the ali lady mentioned Societe
des Hauts Fourneaus, the workers
rebelled at their treatment. The
police were called and made full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
Richest Girl Wants Home.

Married women with modern ideas
and others who wonder what modern
youth Is coming TO were taken on their
Is the wealthiest woman In Australia,
and one of the richest In the world.
When she recently inherited vast for
tune from her father, she said: my
best dream Is a home and lots Of chill
dren. I want a large family and I'll
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out in their buggies."