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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
"SLUSH" ACT is VOID

Eau Claire, Wis.-Judge James
Wickham ruled that the Wisconsin
corrupt practices act does not apply
to the office of governor. The law
has been in force since 1911 and is
intended to guarantee purity in cleo
tions. An appeal will be taken to the
state supreme court.
The ruling, if sustained, is inter
preted to mean that there is no limit
to the amount of money candidate
for governor, or his followers, may
spend in a campaign.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
Corporation Profits
Smash Records During
First 6 Months of Year

One hundred and ninety-four tele-
phone companies and other public
utility concerns report a profit for
1929 of $646 900, 900, as against $685.
100000 a year ago.
One hundred and eighty-one Class
railroads show frst-half earnings
totaling $563, 100000 this year, and
$462 100000 last.
Reports from the comparatively
limited number of concerns making
quarterly statements may tend to
present a more favorable showing
than would returns from all corpora
tions, it is pointed out.
That the general level of net earn
ings for the period has been unusual
ly high, however, appears to be be-
yond question.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
METAL WORKERS
STRIKE AGAINST
FINING SYSTEM

Perth Amboy, N J.-More than
2,300 workers employed by the United
States Metals Refining Company, at
Cartarat, near here, suspended work
to abolish fining system. A wage in
crease of cents an hour is also de
manded.
Employees must labor nine-hour
day, but they are worked three hours
overtime on each shift to make con-
tinuous 24-hour day. They receive
time and one-quarter for overtime,
and this is taken from them if they
lose time during the week.
The plant is non-union, but the
workers are being advised by Henry
F. Hilfers, A F of L. organizer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
Hard Battle Ahead On
Provisions Demanded By
Protective Conference

Washington, ID. C. ILNS)-Two of
the most important and far-reach-
ing tariff victories ever recorded
were scored here in the senate while
Americas Wage Earners' Protective
Conference was in session planning
more effective continuance of the
fight of its affiliated national and in
ternatonal unions for tariff relief.
under the presidency of Matthew
Woll.
The senate adopted:
l. A provision to bar from import
all foreign made articles bearing
American patents This will force
manufacture in America of all arti-
cles patented in America and sold in
America.
q A provision to bar from import
all foreignmade articles bearing reg
istered American trade marks. This
will force manufacture in America of
all articles protected here by regis
tered trade mark and sold here
Two Earlier Victories Reported
Two earlier victories of tremendous
Importance were reported to the con-
ference These were:
l. Adoption Of provision barring
advertising matter printed abroad
and mailed to consumers in the
United States.
2. Adpotion of provision barring
convict-mined coal.
All of these four provisions have
been adopted by the senate, must
pass the house and must be approved
by the conference committee which
will whip into shape the final meas
ure before it goes back to both
houses for final approval.
Those who are interested in this
| legislation believe no such tremen-
dous victory has been scored since
enactment of the Clayton act
Farm Bloc Members Vote Against
Labor
| 1t was noticeable, in the one record
vote that was taken, that while about
60 per cent of the republicans who
voted were in favor of the labor pro
posals and while about 60 per cent
of the democrats who voted were
! likewise in favor of the labor pro
posals, about 80 per cent of the farm
bloc members were opposed to those
proposals.
/ 1t is being recalled here that labor
supported every proposal agreed upon
by the farmers for farm relief.
During the two-day session, the
conference was addressed by Sena
| tors David A. Reed, of Pennsylvania
David l. Walsh, of Massachusetts
and Charles S. Deneen, of Illinois, al
of whom voted for laboTs proposal:
on trade marks and patents. These
three senator's, particularly Senator
Reed, led the fight for the adoption
of the patent and trademark provi
sions, which will insure employment
to hundreds of thousands of Ameri
l can wage earners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
DEMAND FOR STEEL
Used in Building Breaking
Records
By RALPH f. COUCH

Washington, D. C.-Sales of steel
for construction purposes continue to
break all records of past years, ac-
cording to latest data reported to the
United States Census Bureau.
New orders booked by manufacture
ers of the fabricated structural prod
uct are running approximately % per
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
Labor Tariff Group Meets As
Senate Victory Is Scored;
Ask United Action Everywhere

the employers will aid the union in
the war on sweatshops.
The employers appointed a commit
tee to list the outlaw shops. In one
place it was found that employees are
frequently worked until 2 am. and
sleep in the shop to be on hand at
the usual hour to begin the regular
DAVIS work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04
PLEATING IN
DUSTRY FIGHTS
SWEATSHOPS

New York. = The Pleaters and
Stitchers' Association, an organiza-
tion of employers, has started drive
against bootleg" methods of produc-
tion and sweatshop conditions in that
industry. The association has an
agreement with the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04

due this great man is being justly
realized"
Chicago now has one of its newest
and finest public schools and public
park named in honor of the immortal
Gompers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-10-04

A petrified pine cone is called q
symbol of geological changes in
California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Prepare to Chain
French Workers to
Ford Speedup Belt

PARIS, April 26.-With 100000
shares already oversubscribed, pros
poets for the new French Fo. Com
pany are bright to the thousands of
stockholders who waited before hank
officers in Paris today in the hope
of obtaining the most coveted shares.
Ford's plan whereby he sought
to prevent corporation control of the
new company was defeated at least
by one company. The number of
shares for each subscriber was an
nounced as limited to two or three.
The 1000 employees of the institu-
ton were therefore instructed to
make application for shares with
the money provided them by the
company. By prior arrangement
the shares were then turned over in
bulk to the company. Thus the work
ers were forced to play the role of
dupes to enable the company to
grab up a lot of these lucrative
shares.
Ford will introduce in his new
factory all the slave-driving meth
DDS that have made his American
factories notorious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27

Brothers, but they have menu
"Where ?"
"On the train. Special men who
fix the track, haven't they?"
You're fool, Vaska; and what
if we kill them all off? All of
'em 2"
And getting into the spirit of it,
they all agreed:
That's the stuff. . Kill 'em
off"
"No, no, there'll be nobody to fix
the track"
They kept looking back to see if
the .armored train was coming.
They were careful to remain under
cover of the woods, for rarely did
men expose themselves along the
line-the armored train fired on the
run.
Hearts were beating with fear;
the men flogged their horses, urg-
ing them on as if shelter awaited
them at the bridge.
About two versts from the switch
mans booth they saw rider on the
embankment.
"Ours!" shouted Znobov.
Vaska took aim.
"Shall l nip him off? Or is he
ours?"
1.-THE devil he is! Would I be
aiming at him if he were ?"
in-Bin-Ou, the Chinaman, who
sat next to Vaska, restrained him:
wait, Va-si-ka-a!"
Waltz shouted Znobov.
(To Be Concluded)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Russian Fraction in
San Francisco Hits
School DisruptOrs

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (By
MaiD The following statement
was issued by the Russian Language
Fraction of the California District
Of the Communist Party, in relation
to the action of individuals who
broke into the Russian school Thurs
DAY evening, April II.
"The Russian Language Fraction,
Communist Party, San Francisco,
wants to state that contrary to the
iGea prevailing among certain
number of workers, that the groups
of individuals who on Thursday eve
ming, April IL, 1929, invaded the
Russian school, took away the chairs
after terrorizing the teacher and
the children, have nothing in COM
mon with the Communist Party.
"All the Russian Party members
of San Francisco repudiate such ac-
tons OF gangsterism. We request
the Party press TO print this state
ment."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Two Former Shoppers
Are Held for Death
of Los Angeles Man

LOS ANGELES, Calf, April 26.
Two former prohibition agents
were held here today in connection
with the staying of Charles Chulla,
rs, alleged bootlegger.
The former agents were Harry P.
Chenoweth and Jack F. Ormsby,
both of Los Angeles. Federal au-
thorities said Chenoweth was dis
charged IS months ago for cause
and that Ormsby had been dropped
from the prohibition enforcement
staff for failure to pass civil SER
vice examination.
Chenoweth and Ormsby are al
legged to have killed Chulla during
a gun battle near Taylor Ranch.
Workers children, demonstrate
your solidarity with the entire
working class on the International
Workers Holiday. y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
On the Rails
International Publishers.
Copyright, 1929.

ing from the hills were plundering
the refugees, and the soldiers were
envious. Armored Train No. 1869
was dashing between the stations,
and it alone prevented the soldiers
from dropping everything and max
ing off.
THE guerilla staff was sitting in
the switchman's booth. The
switchman stood dejectedly at the
telephone receiver and asked the
station:
"Is the armored train coming
soon?"
Next to him sat a guerilla fighter
with calm face; he held revolt
yer and he was gazing at the
switchman's mouth.
Vaska Okorok was batting the
switchman:
Don't get cold feet. Well make
you cook"
And pointing to the telephone he
said:
"They say that the learned Boil
sheviks in Petrograd talk with the
moon."
"Well, who can help it, even if it's
so?"
The muzhiks sighed and looked at
the embankment:
Truth can climb even to the
stars"
The staff was awaiting the arm
ored train. Five hundred muzhiks
were detailed to the bridge. Long
Russian carts brought logs to the
embankment, so as to prevent the
armored train from going back.
Crowbars lay near the ties-ready
for tearing up the rails.
Znobov said grumblingly:
Truth and truth is all you know.
But we don't know ourselves what
it's for. What do you want to talk
to the moon for, Vaska?"
"Just from curiosity, that's all!
Perhaps we might want to build a
muzhik on the MOON"
The muzhiks roared.
Damned sinnerw
Darn his hide"
Here we're trying to dope out
how to lose as few men as we can,
and he goes batting about the moon.
How are we going to take the arm
ored train, darn your"
well take It'll"
ut amt squirrel that you can
just nip off a pipe"
AT that moment Vcrshinin arrived.
~ He entered, breathing heavily;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
START FIGHT ON
ANTI-ALIEN DRIVE
Hacker Speaks on LID
Campaign May 4

The New York district of the In
ternational Labor Defense has
launched mass campaign against
the new government drive on the
foreign-born workers. The passing
Of the new deportation law-the
johnson bills weapon in the
hands of the employers who are
thus enabled to spy more effective
ly on workers and to weed out mill
tant elements, the I. l.. D. points
out. Secretary of Labor Davis goes
further: in his last report he de-
mands the registration of all for
eign-born workers, further restric-
ton of immigration, more severe de-
portation laws and "selective" as
well as restrictive" immigration.
One of the chief detectives of the
fight the I. L. D. has launched will
be the prevention of the deportation
of John Tapolcsanyi, Hungarian
worker, who citizenship has been
revoked by the federal district court
in Pittsburgh on the ground of "be-
lief in the principles of Commun-
ISM" Tapolcsanyi is now slated for
deportation back to fascist Hungary
unless the workers of this country
compel the government not to turn
him over to the Horthy- Bethlen
hangmen.
The New York I. L. D. has al
ready outlined the tentative plans
for the campaign. In the near flu
ture the first of a series of confer
ences of delegates of working class
organizations will be called and
plans made for enlisting broad
masses of workers of every nation
ality behind the fight. Leaflets in
various languages will be distribu-
ted turnout the shops and factories
and mass meetings are being ar
ranged, as well as lectures before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
An Episode of the Civil Wars in the ULS.SR
By VSEVOLOD IVANOV

with weary movement he put his
cap on the table and said to Emo
bow:
"Soon?"
The switchman at the telephone
said:
"They don't answer"
The muzhiks sat silently. One of
them began to talk about hunting.
Znobov remembered the president
of the Revcom Revolutionary Com
mittee) in the city.
"That light-haired fellow?" asked
the muzhik who had just been talk
ing about hunting; and straight off
he began to spin yarn about Pek-
levanov: that his face is winter
than wheat flour, and that women
cling to him like frogs to a
swamp, and that the Americana
Minister had offered seven hundred
billion to induce Peklevanov to as
sumo the American faith, but that
Peklevanov had answered proudly:
eve won't accept you into our faith,
even for nothing"
"Son of a -" said the muz-
Inks admiringly.
For some reason it was pleasant
to Znobov to listen to all this ly-
ing, and he felt moved to tell some
thing himself. Vershinin took off
his boots and began to rewrap his
foot-cloths. Suddenly the switch
man spoke timidly into the tele-
phone:
"When? Five-twenty?"
And turning to the muzhiks he
said:
"Comingw
And as if the train were already
at the booth, all of them ran out
and, shouldering their rifles, mount
ed the carts and drove eastward to
the blown-up bridge.
"We'll make it!' Okorok was
saying.
A SCOUT was sent forward.
IA They looked at the rails that
stretched with a dull glitter among
the trees.
Grip 'em up, and that's ALL"
And from another wagon came
the retort:
Cant be done. Who'll pull 'em
together again."
well go straight in the train,
brother!"
"We1l just roll into the cityv'
eve can't afford to NEEDLE with
The track"
Okorok shouted:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27

Note.-Vsevolod Ivanov, born,
1896, is one of the outstanding
writer's of the Soviet Union. His
early youth was spent in the
Khirgiz steppes and he led col
orful, adventurous life-from cir
Gus clown to partisan (guerrilla)
fighter. His literary godfather
Gorky. One of Ivanov's most ia
nous novels is 1.-THE Armored
Train," dealing with the period
of the Civil Wars, which has been
dramatized and successfully pro-
duced by the Moscow Art Theatre.
The story, "On the Rails" is an
extract from this novel.
Mounted on a round-bellied horse
>" that was as shaggy as a mastiff,
Nikita Vershinin rode along the
bushes near the railroad embank-
ment.
The muzhiks were lying in the
bushes, smoking and getting ready
for a long, stubborn wait. Their
-hirts-scores, hundreds of motley
pots of color-flashed on both
ides of the embankment between
The crossings-over a distance of al
most ten versts.
A lazy horse; bag instead of a
saddle. Vershinin's legs dangled
Town and his boot painfully rubbed
1is heel through the carelessly
wrapped rags.
"Look here, boys, there must be
40 women!" Vershinin was saying.
! Detachment commanders drew
themselves up soldier-fashion, and
briskly, as if steadying themselves
Through soldierly department, asked:
"Any news from the city, Nikita
|Yegorich?"
! '"There's an uprising"
"And how's the military ad-
Fances!"
Vershinin struck the belly of his
lorse with his heel and started off,
ceiling sleepy fatigue in his body:
Advances are good, lad. Remem-
,er, we mustn't make a mess of our
nd Of it."
The muzhiks lined up along the
mbankment as if for moving. They
yaited.
The embankment looked unnatur-
lily, disagreeably empty. During
he last few days echelons of refu-
ees, of Japanese, American, Rus
ian soldiers, had passed eastward,
ne after the other. Then thread
mapped somewhere and men were
irown in another direction. There
ere rumors that the peasants COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
GIBSON STANDS
FOR BIG ARMIES
U. S. Militarists Say
Reserves Allowable

GENEVA, April 26.-The Amer
lean delegate to the preparatory
arms conference today gave away
the militarist plans of his govern
ment, inadvertently, in the course
of a speech trying to throw the
blame for lack of progress towards
disarmament on Japan for not 'lay-
ing her cards on the table" Gibson
stated the United States would not
insist upon limitation of trained
army reserves"
The British and Japanese dele
gates received instructions from
their governments this morning and
it was said in well-informed sources
that an attempt probably would be
made to convoke the next confer
ence in Washington in 1880.
1t was generally anticipated that
the commission would accept Glib
sons proposals on negotiations as a
basis for the future general confer
ence, but virtually all delegates in
sisted that a conference should not
be convoked until preparations had
been made to ensure its success.
Gibsons announcement that the
United States would not insist on
limitation of reserves, coupled with
the previous declaration of Lord
Cushendun of Great Britain, that
England would accept any agree
ment of military powers, left the
U. S. S. R. and Germany alone de-
handing reduction of European
standing armies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
Poison Fumes Ruin Health
Of Workers IN Auto Industry

While employed in The various fac
tories in Detroit, it was my oppor-
tunity, from both observation and
experience, to make a careful study
and gain many facts concerning the
conditions under which both men and
women have to work. The first that
| might call attention to is the I'M
healthful conditions. The most hor-
rible of conditions of this kind that
| have ever seen or experienced was
tina of the duco sprayer's booths at
the Briggs Mack Avenue plant. In
this department mostly Negroes are
employed. There was a continuous
fog of paint throughout the day
that these men were forced to in
hale. Ventilation could be had only
from the elevator shaft. Respira-
tors of the very cheapest kind were
used-hard rubbcr-which cost, re-
tail, 35c. (thc company bought in
large quantities. and which cost the
worker $3.50 in case of theft or loss.
The pipes were insufficient to take
away the vapor from the spray
guns.
A number of women and girls
were working at the end of these
booths-tape papering. Much Of the
vapor escaped which they had to in
hale, for they had nothing at all to
protect their noses.
The girls worked as long as the
men-from 10 to II hours, both day
and night shifts. They braved the
cold as the men, although they were
less adequately dressed. 1t could be
plainly seen that many were under
the required age.
In the press department also, there
were large number of women en-
ployed. They handled the heavy
sheet-iron just as the men who
worked alongside them, and were
equally as greasy and dusty. This
is true of all of Briggs Plants and is
even worse now than ever before.
Particularly the sanders, duco
sprayers, not to mention the many
other maladjustments and conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27

OF many other workers, unless
changed miraculously and lately, are
laboring under deplorable conditions.
Wages Of sanders are 55c, sprayers
70c-sand.ng is the hardest job in
the plant. Production was increased
from $50 up to 500 bodies without
changing the rate of pay. The entire
shop suffers from the speed up"
Many departments strike frequently.
At Dodge Brothers, conditions are
equally as bad, excusing the paint
odor. Many of the well-paying piece
work jobs are auctioned off by the
"straw bosses; Negroes are en-
ployed only on the janitor, chip
tucking, car loading and trash haul
ing jobs. After working 10 and II
hours the janitors are forced to
scrub the floors several nights each
week for and 5 hours extra.
Straight" time paid. | personally
know two young men who have died
with tuberculosis taken while work
ing there, and another is in the SAM
tarium now.
l am constantly inquiring about
the conditions of plants | have not
visited or worked in and | get about
the same reports as my experience
has been.
Lastly, the mighty Ford Motor
Company. Production is the watch
word. Men are simply universal
joints to the machines. The thing
that men suffer from in this place
is overwork. Production is ever in
creasing. New men, which has never
been before to my knowledge, are
forced to make the production limit.
There seems to be nothing human
about the entire process = all
machines, men and all. Human life
and happiness for which industry
was created, and for which it should
be sacrificed, is sacrificed for in
dustry-yea, more.
Summing up: the worker is faced
with horrible condition throughout
Detroit, which is continually grow
ing worse. All have grievances but
no one to redress them. The Negro
it seems is faced by the most serious
problem of all. In many cases white
uvOrkp1ar rafI1Sa m noo,ar,+o IL &c
refused decent jobs in many fac
tories, yet he must compete in the
great struggle for existence Both
he and the white worker are ignor-
ant of what lies at the bottom of
their ills. But unless Negro and
white workers unite for the cause of
liberating themselves from their
worse-than-chattel slavery, the knell
of both is sounded.
AUTO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-27
LATIN AMERICAN
% NJ NJ U NISTS TO.
OLDCONFERENCE.
Call Meet for June / at
Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES (By MaiD.-
The first conference of all Commu-
mist Parties of South America has
been called by the South American
Secretariat of the Communist Inter
national for June 1. The conference
will take place in Buenos Aires and
all South American Communist
Parties are preparing to send dele
gates.
Discuss War Danger
The agenda of the congress, as
formulated by the South American
Secretariat, will be as follows: I.
1. The international situation, the
anger of war and the Latin.Ameri-
IAN countries. Reporter, Victoria
Codovilla.
2. The anti-imperialist struggle
and the tactical problems of the
Communist Parties in Latin Amer
lea. (The character of the revolu-
tion, the Workers and Peasants
Bloc, the workers alliances). Re-
porter, Rodolfo G. Ghioldi; CO.
reporters, member of the Mexican
Communist Party, one from Colom-
bia and one from Chile.
8. The peasant problem. Reporter,
a Mexican party member; core
porters from Brazil, Argentina and
Ecudaor.
4. The race problem in Latin
America. Reporter from Peru; CO.
reporters from Brazil and Cuba.
Hear Anti-Imperialist Report
5. The work of the Anti-Imperial-
list League. Reporter, Mexican
party member; co-reporter from
Argentina.
G. The trade union problem. Re-
porter, Eugenio Gomez, Uruguay;
co-reporters from Chile, Argentina
and Mexico.
7. The Communist youth move
ment. Reporter, Edmundo Chitor
for Argentina; co-reporters, one
for Mexico and one for Uruguay.
s. Questions of organization. Re-
orter for Brazil; co-reporters. one
or Argentina, one for Mexico and
one for Chile.
8. The work of the South Ameri-
can Secretariat. Reporter, Victoria
Codovilla.