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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
So to Sc a Week for
l7-Year-Old Worker,
Bessemer City Mill !

by a Worker Correspondent
BESSEMER CITY, N. c., (By
MaiD.-I am a striker in the
American Mill Number 2, BESSIE
mer City, and / with the other
strikers am facing death from
the mill thugs. All the mill work
ers of the South ought to join
the National Textile Workers
Union and come out on strike.
Then all us southern mill work
ers will have better conditions.
To show you what the slavery
is like in the American Mill No.
2, just see what | had to do.
swept sixteen spinning frames for
Sc a week and carried out the
white and black waste and / was
also brush rails boy for Sc a
week. l weaved for So and 81
week in the American Mill No. 2.
am II years old. We are not
going to let the mill bosses thugs
keep on doing what they have
done, killing a woman, etc.
Yours for the union,
-Bessemer City Striker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
OFFICERS RULE i
S, S. STEEL ORE
WITH THE CLUB
Captain Controls the
Shop Chest Robs

I wish to relate a few things on
board of one of Americas cargo
ships on which the sailor is being
treated low and rotten. Such condi-
lions exist on the SIS. Steel Ore,
owned by the Ore Steamship Com
pany. | will relate few daily oc-
currences that happened on our
trip to Chill.
The food consisted of stew at
least twice a day and usually for
breakfast we got liver or some
chops that would make you sick. A
few fellows did get sick from this
food and the treatment they re-
ceived when reporting sick was
astounding. One was shackled and
several others were threatened by
the first assistant with abusive lam
guage and with clubs.
The captain has charge of the
ship chest and charges anywhere
from 80 to 800 per cent profit on
all things he sells, the profit being
by law ten per cent. Among the
things he sells is sugar, milk, coffee,
tea and cocoa, so if a man wishes
to drink something besides I've
water as is made on this ship he
has to buy his own coffee. After
hard slavery all day in the hot
tanks cleaning them out which I
understand should be done in dry
dock, when we go for supper we
get nothing but old rotten stew and
stale bread.
Conditions are getting from bad
to worse on American ships and
when a complaint is made the reply
is nothing can be done about"
Something should be done abut such
ships as these. Join the Marine
Workers League and help to biuld
up the only organization that is
fighting for all seamen, regardless
of creed, color or race. Join it now!
&C. J. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
What to Do for the
ID e Tense of the %
| g a stOnia Prisoners

The 16 Gastonia prisoners go
on trial again inside of ten days,
Sept. 80, while workers through
out the world are demonstrating
on their behalf-demonstrating
against their Imprisonment and
against the reign of terror in the
South. The trial of the seven
other workers, charged with as
sault, also will start soon.
But not enough has been done!
You must broaden the base of
the united front!
You must bring into the protest
movement millions Of workers
who have not yet heard of Gas
| tonia.
From today until the trial re-
opens every worker in America
conscious of the class struggle in
Gastonia should do the following.
/. Broaden the base of the
united fronts in all cities by call
! ing all local trade unions and
other workers organizations to
a delegate conference before Oct.
Is.
2. Send speakers to all local
trade unions and other workers
organizations, explain the issues
in the Gastonia case, ask for do
nations.
8. Continue city-wide mass pro-
test meetings, but pay special
attention to street meetings and
factory gate meetings.
4. Induce every labor organiza-
ton in your city to pass a protest
resolution and send a telegram
of greeting and solidarity to the
Gastonia defendants, Mecklen-
burg County Jail, Charlotte,
N. C.
5. Continue mass collections.
Institute shop, mill and mine col
lections. Organize neighberhood
collections. Plan an affair during
the month of October and begin
selling tickets at once.
6. Build the international La
Dor Defense and the Workers In
ternational Relief into mass or
CARNATIONS by securing members
4
for both organizations.
No let-up in the Gastonia cam
paign until the defendants are
freed, until the Southern textile
bosses are defeated in their at
tempt to smash the National
Textile Workers Union and
make unionism illegal in the
South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
SHARP WARNING
TO IMPERIALIST
CHINESE TOOLS
Cites % Invasions of
USSR in Is Days

BERLIN, Sept. 27.-That the Red
Army will punish decisively any
further invasions of the Soviet
frontier by Chinese troops and Rus
sian white guard attachments and
will take firmer steps to prevent
their recurrence is seen in the warn
ing to China through the German
foreign office. In part, it states:
"Soviet military authorities will
be compelled henceforth to take all
necessary steps to combat the at
tacks and prevent their occurrences.
"Instead of making a serious eff
fort to terminate these actions, the
Marking government resorts to dis
torted information respecting the
actual situation on the frontier and
dares, without any foundation, to
protest against alleged aggressive
actions by Soviet troops.
"The full responsibility for the
existing situation and possible fur
Their complications, as we'll as for
the losses incurred on the Soviet
border, is placed entirely upon the
Marking and Mukden governments. :"
AS proof of the deliberate and
continuous character of the attacks
being made across the frontier on
the peaceful population, the Soviet
note cites twenty-eight separate in
vasions of Soviet soil in the 10 days
between September 10 and 20, de-
failing the accounts of several in
which Red Army soldiers were killed
defending the Soviet frontier and
Soviet citizens, citing the killing of
many civilians and the robbery and
terrorization of others by bands of
White Guards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
(By q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, (By MaiD.-Perhaps
no better method of plundering a
body of workers has ever been dis
covered than the one employed by
Mahon, president of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees.
Mahon, a true 100 per cent Amer
lean, does not look on street car
transportation as being a great in
dustry and accordingly refuses to
organize it on an industrial basis.
Instead he is trying to peddle to
US workers the Mitten plan. This
ardent hater of Communism, who
has all guilty" of Communism
thrown out of the union, breaches
craft unionism."
Mahon is sure there is no class
struggle, and raises instead the
slogan of class collaboration. Re-
Gently the insult traction company
said to its employees, LET US invest
your savings. You are to purchase
from US investment units at $50
each, 50 from your first pay and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
BRITISH COMMUNIQUE ISSUED
IN FACE SAVING LANGUAGE
TO hide DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT
Former Insulting Terms of Macdonald Are
Discarded, Yelled Wording Reveals
Mass Resentment at Delay and Economic Crisis
Forced Reformists' Hand

LONDON, Sept. 29.-The foreign
office issued communique today in
dicating representatives of Russia
and England had decided on re-
sumption of diplomatic relations as
q step towards resumption of trade.
The communique said that during
a two-hour conference today Foreign
Secretary Henderson and Valerian
Dovgalevsky, Soviet ambassador to
Paris, reached an agreement on sub
jects "to be settled by negotiation
on resumption of diplomatic rela-
lions, including an exchange of am
oassadors."
Relations between the tw ocoun-
tries were suspended by Great Brit
ain in May, 1927.
The British had insisted that diff
ferences, including their charge of
"red propaganda" be settled first,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
ANOTHER TEXTILE
ORGANIZER SHOT
Boss Gunner Attempt
to Kill Below

Continued from Page One)
the terrific beating given him by
the fascist gang who kidnapped him
from his home in Kings Mountain.
His wife in Kings Mountain has re-
ceived letters similar to the one sent
Bellew, threatening that they would
kill Tessneair if he did not quit or
ganizing. The workers have estab-
lished a guard for Tessneair and
they sleep in the house with him,
armed with shotguns.
in North Carolina. He went to
Baltimore to work, but returned
when he heard there was a real
union trying to organize the mill
workers to fight the bosses.
Guard Headquarters
Recently another gang of mill
thugs tore down the union sign over
the Bessemer City N. T. w. head
quarters. Workers painted another,
and the reporter saw one old mill
worker guarding it with a shotgun.
He said that he felt that il another
gang came to tear this one down he
felt that several of them at least
would not walk away from the
place, whatever happened to him,
personally.
Two hundred mil workers of
North Carolina gathered at the
union hall Thursday, and haerd
Gerson, Carol and Bankoff speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
RILU CALLS FOR
AID TO CASTONIA
Continued from Page Onel

Continued from Page One)
of thousands of exploited workers."
the appeal declared.
Every agency of the capitalist
world is modified against these vic
tins of capitalist oppression in order
to convict them. These valiant
fighters will be burned alive in the
electric chair as were Sacco and
Vanzetti unless the working class
and all friends of labor Immediately
rally to their Defense" the Profin-
tern message further declares. 1t
explains the reign of terror, the role
of the capitalist melting to lynch
rule, and states "Unless the class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
Are Resume Soviet Union Soviet Terms
British PhOtOmatOn
Head NearlySmashes
Market with Swindle

LONDON, England, Sept. 20
The dramatic bankruptcy of the
Photomaton Parent Corporation,
valued at $50,O00,000 with the fol
lowing arrest of Clarence G. Hairy,
its principal owner for fraud has
shaken the London stock market.
A number of brokerage houses are
known to be seriously crippled, and
may fail.
Hatry's scheme, it is charged,
was to borrow from the Portchester
Trust, Ltd, $750,O00 on City of
Wakefield bonds, printed in excess
of the amount provided by the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

conscious workers of every land
make effective protests now, these
Gastonia textile workers will be le-
gally murdered by American i'm
perialism."
Great Protest Needed.
The call declares further: "The
l. l.. D. is conducting the defense.
The American capitalist class must
feel tn epower of the international
solidarity of labor. The workers
must arouse themselves to the mag
nitude of the crime about to be per-
petrated against our brothers and
sisters in the Gastonia case.
Unite in protest against this at
tempt to murder the leaders of the
American textile workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

before relations would be resumed,
and the fact that the British COM
munique declares that relations will
be resumed first and negotiations of
subjects" will come afterward, in
dicates that Soviet diplomacy has
won its point.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30
HONOR PAVLOFF.

MOSCOW, Sept. 27.-Proffessor
Ivan Pavloff, member of the acad-
envy and dean of the worlds physi-
ologists, celebrated his eighteeth
birthday today.
The council Of peoples commits
sars announced it had assigned t,
for his research work. Pavloff re-
Gently returned from the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

D. F. Mcdonald was chairman, and
several local workers took part in
the discussion which followed. The
workers Indignantly rpudiated the
barrage of malicious lies Of the cap
italist press, the bosses, and the
public officials. This campaign of
bosses lies is whipping the capital
list agents and middle class to a
frenzy of hate and violence against
the leaders Of the N. T. w. u, but
it's effect upon the workers is neg
ligible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-30

trial in Gastonia, but the preju-
dicial actions of the mill bosses had
been so notorious that change of
venue had to be granted to Char
lotte in Mecklenburg County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
BONDS ARE LOWER
! At SHORT SESSION
Trading Continues Dull, With
Price Changes in Mar
row Limits.
BY CHARLES F.. SPEARE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March "a tWo-hour
session of dizziness today brought to a
close the most unsatisfactory week on
the bond market this year. Price
changes were narrow, but quotations
continued to slip because buyers refused
to be attracted. In fact, the averages
closed at the low point Of the week,
which was also the lowest in three
years.
Convertibles were comparatively
quses with small price changes. Ana
conda Copper rs held near the previous
days final level and the International
Telephone 4l2s. International Match
5l2s, a few of the convertible oil obli-
cations and those of other industries
lost fractionally.
Rio de Janeiro 6l2s picked up nearly
point and there was modest i'm
proVement in the Brazil loan of the
same denomination, while the French,
Italian and German dollar bonds bare
~ moved. Belgiuns continued easy.
A majority of the railroad mortgages
came down shade further, but there
was no outstanding weakness. New
York Central SIS, Pennsylvania 4las,
Union Pacific 4i2s, International Great
Northern adjustments, st. LouiS-San
Francisco l2s and the Seaboards all dis
played sagging tendency as small Of
teringS continued to press against them.
The United States Government list
was much quieter and scarcely changed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
Washington Stock>Exchange
SALES.

c. & P; Tel. 5s-s1,OOo at 1894, $1,000
Washington Gas IS "A"-S2o0 at 1921.
Capital Traction Cos at 104A, 5 at
104L4, 8 at 10414.
Chestnut Farms Dairy com.-25 at 223.
Potomac Elec. Sc pfd.-5 at 1l3.
Potomac Elec. 5l2 % pfd.-25 at 10834,
at 10834.
Washington Rwy. g. Elec. pfd-lO at
esq, 10 at $685.. 10 at 1914, 20 at
9814. 2 at 1914, 10, at 9814.
Riggs National Bank-2 at 573.
Columbia Sand & Gravel pfd.-10 at
94i4, at 9414, 10 at "a.
Lanston Monotype-10 at $50, 10 at
100, IS at 100.
National Mtge. g. Inv. pfd-120 at 534.
AFTER CALL.
Potomac Elec Sc pfd.-5 at 11S.
Washington Gas Light-20 at 1l2.
Potomac Elec. cons. SSH 900 at 1911
Capital Traction $500 at 1O01s.
Anacostia g. Potomac r. r. 5s-S1 900
at 90.
1anston Monotype-2o at 12sss, 10 at
12934.
American Security & Trust Co.'S at
470.
Columbia Sand e. Gravel pfd.-5 at "a.
UNLISTED DEPT.
Army g. Navy Club $500 at 100.
Metropolitan Club 412s-$1 900 at 9O3s.
FarK Savings Banks at "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
CURB STOCKS DROP
AFTER EARLY GAIN
Profit Taking Causes Losses,
Wiping Out Many
Advances.
Ely HARRY II. BECKER.

0peCld4 OISpalCn 10 Inc star.
NEW YORK, March 9.-Fresh profit
taking was invited by initial strength
in todays short Curb Exchange session
and gains were reduced or en-
tirely erased in nearly all cases. AL
though the entire lists did not partici-
pate in the early improvement, the
radio stocks, airplanes and few of the
utilities moved ahead in impressive
fashion, but the strength was only of
short duration.
Radio stocks led in point of volume
and price gain, deriving their impetus
from the violent advances in kindred
stocks on the big board.
All the MarconlS moved ahead briskly
and there was considerable demand for
Gramaphone Co.. too, on the reported
agreement with the Marconi Phone in
terests. This would give Gramaphone
exclusive rights to Marconi trade marks
in all fields of public entertainment.
Sharp advances were recorded In
Aviation Corporation of America and
the new investment company by that
name in Fokker and Sikorsky, the last
reaching a new top All these appeared
to have turned defiantly against the
short interest. Among the utilities the
best actors were American Super Power
shares.
New high prices were established by
Safe-T-Stat and Haygart. Other strong
stocks of the miscellaneous type included
Zenith Radio. American Cyanamid,
Acoustic Products. Trans-America,
Ford of Canada, Anglo Chilean Nitrate,
j; G. Penney, Wright Aero new and
others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
Pool Operations.

Several large stock market operators
have criticized the Reserve Board Tor
cautioning the country regarding brokers'
loans, saying that the warming caused
enormous losses to small investors.
From the strong-arm methods which
have recently been used to force few
fayorites of certain speculative groups
to higher levels when the general level
of prices was receding It would appear
that these groups actually believe that
stock prices will reach higher levels.
While many pools seem content to
let their stocks drift with the general
market, the operations of those ag-
gressively attempting to rush their stocks
higher against the trend would indicate
that unless the stock market does
eventually turn sharply upward and
public buying begins on large scale
certain pools will be forced to take some
heavy losses from their recent oper-
ations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
RESUMPTION OF GOLD
MOVEMENT DISCUSSED

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 9.-Wau Street
is discussing the possibility of resump-
ton of gold movement from London as
result of drop in exchange rates.
A movement that started in January
was halted when the Bank Of England
raised its discount rate.
Some observers believe the bank would
raise the rate still higher if another
outflow of the metal from London
started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
BY KENNETH S. VAN sTRUM.


NEW YORK, March 9.-The stock
market decline. which followed Hoover's
speech ON Monday vas attributed by
many to the fact that he emphasized
the necessity for governmental control
of the utilities, neglected to say that
the credit situation was sound or did
not call attention to the need for rail-
road consolidation.
There is always a strong tendency to
attribute sudden change in the mar
ket to any current development of suf-
ficient Importance to warrant the con-
nection. In this particular case, how
ever. it is difficult to see how Hoover's
Inauguration should force the market
downward, since his attitude toward
business so obviously meets with Wall
Streets approval.
In describing the reaction few OBJ
servers emphasized the fact that money
remained at 8 per cent on Monday, sew
eral days after month-end settlements
had ceased to be an influence and when
rates should have been easier. BY We'd
nesday call rates had gone to IL per
cent, even though the demand-for loans
| was less since stock prices had been
declining for four days. 1t was there
fore obvious that brokers were finding
difficulty in obtaining sufficient credit
even though their demands were grow
ing less.
The significance of the size of brck-
ers' loans is always debatable ques--
ton. but there seems to be small doubt
that the current call money rate lndl-
Gates exactly where the control OF the
credit situation lies. Theoretical dis
cussions of the security markets use
of it's available funds may help the in
weston understand the general situation,
but the more practical question is,
what effect will the markets excessive
use of those funds have upon the stocks
he holds?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. March LA9.-Bar sill
yer, 561s; Mexican dollars, APPS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
Business and Call Rates.

The answer seems to be that although
high interest rates cannot by thern-
selves bring the general level OF STOCK
prices to a halt, in past years the point
has always been reached Where the
combination Of too rapid business eA-
pansion plus high rates Will call d
temporary halt in the market.
The country's business IS not certain
to continue on such a prosperous plane
as at present, for progress has never
maintained such a pace without eventu-
allv letting down. Perhaps we nave
finally succeeded in perfecting our
business and banking systems, put past
experience whispers that although per-
lection can be approached, 1t has never
yet been attained. g.. 10
1t is not generally considered 70 De
conservative investing to buy specu,
lative tavorites which have advanced
sharply in the face of unseaSonaDly
high money rates and the reserve
banks warning, and with business close
to boom proportions and perhaps cue
for temporary downturn. II an al
iustment is necessary the sooner IL is
accomplished the better, for then the
stock market will be put on nrm
basis where worthy issues can continue
their steady growth in value as business
of the country progresses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
PARIS BoURSE PRICES

PARIS, March (E).--A heavy tone
prevailed on the Bourse today.
Three per cent renteS, II francs 10
centimes; 5 per cent loan, 81 francs 80
centimes. Exchange on London, 124
francs % centimes. The dollar was
quoted at IS francs 81 confines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET

CHICAGO. March 9 LP.-Butter.
higher; receipts. 10,834 tubs: creamery,
extras, 49h: standards, 4834; extra
firsts, A8a48la; firsts. 47a471a; seconds.
45a46l2. Eggs, unchanged; receipts,
1852 crates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-09
Stock Financing.

Since the early part of last year
tightening money rates and falling bond
prices have been causing a decline in
the volume of bond issues. At the same
time stocks prices have been rising,
which has made it possible to market
new stock issues in large quantities at
increasingly high prices. AS result,
the volume of stocks issued rose while
bond issues fell. Thus many companies
have been able to finance with common
stocks rather than bonds, something
that is difficult to do unless the invest
ing public is in a particularly receptive
frame of mind. Many large corpora
tons have made much of this oppor-
tunity, and although there are some
signs of congestion in the market for
new stocks, especially for new invest
ment trust securities, the trend is still
decidedly in favor of stocks.
1t is hardly to be expected that this
situation will continue indefinitely. In
fact, lately the number of new bonds
has been increasing gradually in spite
of the fact that the bond market is
still feeling the depressing effects of
high interest charges. When interest
rates begin to fall again and the bond
market begins to rise we can expect a
sharp increase in the number of new
bond issues.
Copyright, 1929
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-22
THEATERS AID
GOLDEN RULE
Safety Film Is Shown to
Walker Patrons.

Response to the universal appeal
of the Golden Rule Safety Club
sponsored by the Indianapolis
Times continues undated.
Theaters everywhere are con-
tinuing to cooperate in what civic
leaders declare is without a doubt
one of the most logical and sane
attempts to promote safety through
mutual use of precautions.
Any mOtOrist or pedestrian will
ing to pledge himself to drive as
he would have others drive and
walk as he would have others walk"
is eligible for membership.
In connection with the club cam
paign. a two-reel feature, The
Penalty" in which the value of OBJ
serving the Golden Rule ably is
demonstrated, is shown.
The picture is making a three
day appearance at the Walker
theater here in connection with the
appearance OF Ida Cox and her
company in "RaiSin' Cain
The film closed a two-day en-
gagement at the Granada theater
in Greencastle Tuesday and opens
Friday at the Aircraft theater at
Franklin.