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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13

time arrives for his raise But the
bosses have a whip and lash the I'M
organized workers.
The U. S. Metals Refining Co. has
a graveyard department and the
workers are shipped to it before the
raise is supposed to come into effect.
When man is transferred to the
yard it means that the company is
through with him.
One of the most brutal, semi
civilized foremen bosses the yard,
and he drives the victims till they
quit. Very few men endure one
week. Most of the transferred work
ers quit before they complete the
first days task.
In other departments a man may
receive 4912 cents an hour. Some
of them are paid 52-54 cents an
hour. When they are transferred
to the yard they are paid 45 cents.
That is where theory and practice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
HUGE BUILDING
OF INDUSTRIES
FOR SOCIALISM
Soviet's Giant Blow at
Capitalism

MOSCOW, Dec. 12.--The budget
for the coming year, the second of
the second of the Five-Year Plan of
Socialist Construction, totals $5,-
800,0O0,000, or 431h per cent over
last years budget, of which $780,
100000 will go into building indus
try, both in the cities and in social
izing agriculture, expanding rail-
ways, docks and other transporta-
ton, and great electric power
projects. Around $780, 100000 will
be spent on schools, hospitals, social
insurance for sick persons, old-age
pensions and so on.
In the next year or rather the
current year since the Soviet finan-
cial year begins on October l, the
socialized part Of agriculture will
be raised to a total of 100000
acres, or about 20 per cent of all
land titled.
An enormous construction of fac
tories for manufacture of agricul-
tural implements is planned, and
part OF the whole plan is now under
way. An idea of the vastness OF
he work of socializing Soviet agri-
culture may be seen in the fact that,
while in the United States only
$4,000 combined harvesters were
manufactured last year, the Soviet
Government is now building two
factories, each one of which will
produce $4,000 combines a year.
While the complete construction
program may not be finished until
1882 it will be able in the coming
year to produce with the factories
now operating, as many tractors
and combines as the United States
produced in 1922.
The Five-Year Plan began 16
months ago, but with only this short
time gone by, the actual amount to
be invested in this years construc-
ton Of industry is SO per cent over
what the government thought it
could do when the plan was started.
X 4
Workers and poor farmers in the
United States! If you admire So
Wet success, adopt the methods OF
Bolsheviks yourselves! Join the
Communist Party here in America!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
ACCORSI CASE
GOES TO JURY

Continued from Page One)
blandly pointed out Accorsi GO
months after he swore he didn't
know who fired the sliot) in re-
spouse to the question by District
Attorney George F. Langfitt, "Did
you see the man who fired the shots
at Downey?"
A half dozen witnesses testified
that Accorsi was not at the scene.
They also swore that he had never
worn mustache. The prosecution
insisted that the man who shot
DowneS had a dark mustache. The
insistahce on the mustache by the
prosecution was reminiscent of the
Sacco Vanzetti frame-up when there
too the matter of a mustache fig
ured.
Two BARRIERS, C. E. Murphy and
Leonard Rocco testified that Accorsi
wore no mustache. Murphy said he
shaved Accorsi three days before
and two days after the shooting, and
that on either occasion had Accorsi
any sign of mustache. Rocco's tes-
timony corroborated that Of Murphy.
Peter Snee, 16, neighbor of Ac-
corsi, told Of watching Accorsi and
his father, Michael, making repairs
on their flivver, the day of the at
tack on the Cheswick meeting of
the murderous coal and iron police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Haiti Masses Stand
Firm Against Marines

Continued from Page Ons)
revolutionists, the marine headquar-
tiers report "all quiet on the front"
The masses of poorly-armed peas
ants have not ended their fight
against Wall Street domination. A
rigid censorship here keeps news OF
sporadic fighting from being
printed.
Just recently report of serious
encounter between revolutionists and
Stimson's "peace pact" marines was
published showing that six Haitian
peasants were killed outright by
machine-gun fire and four died later
at Aux Cages. Many houses of peas
ants in Gabines Street were indis-
criminately riddled by machine-gun
fire.
With hundreds of marines being
shipped to Haiti and the cruiser
Wright stationed at Guantanamo,
$50 miles from Port au Prince, ready
to rush in with its deadly bombing
planes, president Louis Borno, Wall
Street puppet, now feels secure.
"We have little to fear for the
future" said the murderer of the
Haitian masses. "With continued
close watch maintained by the Garde
National in the front line and with
support of the United States marines
there is little chance of progress by
the strikers"
The strike and revolution have not
been crushed. The masses never will
submit to Wall Streets dictatorship
and Borno's bloody rule supported on
by the bayonets of thousands OF
marines.
Mobilize Support for Haiti Revolt
Mass demonstrations against Wall
Street marine domination in Haiti
and for the support of the Haitian
revolutionary workers and peasants
are being held all over the country.
In New York, the Communist Party
is staging a demonstration in front
of the Federal Building on Park Row
near Broadway, Saturday at 1:15 p.
m. In it's call for this demonstra-
ton, the Party says:
"Show your solidarity with the
courageous fighters against the
American imperialist ruling class
which is using the same measures
for the subsection and exploitation
of the Haitians which they use
against the workers Of the United
States!"
In Philadelphia, mass meeting
to rally support for the Haitian
revolt and against Stimson's war
threat against the Soviet Union, will
be held on December 10 at 8 PM,
at Garrick Hall, 507 East 9Th Street.
A similar mobilization is arranged
in Detroit for Friday, December 10,
at McCollister Hall, Forest and Cass
streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
u. S. Metals Pretends
It's Worried A bout
Health-TO Cut Wages
(By a Worker Correspondent


CARTERET, N. J. (By Mail).-
The U. S. Metals Co. invented a
new system in reducing the wages
of the workers. 1t experimental in
the small department where only
a few people are employed. 1t
worked we'll for the bosses. Now
the same system is in vogue in the
smelling department, and in the
near future it will be spread to the
whole plant.
When a worker works steady for
a certain length Of time in a gas
eous place he endangers his health.
The doctors examine him and de-
clare him unfit to go on with that
work. The thing was started at the
electric furnace. All men receiving
more than 49 cents an hour were
found to be suffering from blood
depression. But those receiving 40
cents an hour were found to be in
good health.
Then the man getting above 40
cents an hour is transferred to a
45-cent an hour job, a new man is
hired and carries the work of 81
cents an hour man. He is new and
knows nothing about the rate. As
soon as he gets wise and asks for
a raise notice comes surprisingly
from the doctor, which says the
man has to be transferred to As
cent an hour job, due to his blood
pressure defects.
At the present time there is
hardly man on the electric fur
mace who receives more than 40
cents an hour. All men who used
to receive more were transferred to
the yard.
This success prompted the com
pany to extend the blood pressure
examinations to all smelter workers.
Like at the electric furnace depart
ment all high-paid workers in smell
ter will be transferred to the yard
department at 45 cents, due to their
"blood defects" They usually say
that the transfer is for three or four
weeks, and when the blood gets
strong the worker is sent back to
the furnace job, but, of course, at
the reduced wages, because new
man is doing his job at reduced
wages.
The workers of the United States
Metals must organize and organize
quick because soon all of them will
be affected by the blood depression,
and eventually all Of will be work
ing at reduced wages. No depart
ment will be spared. 1t has been
accepted at the company as the gen
eral policy of reducing wages at the
plant.
We have bosses shop committees
helpless and worthless. 1t is dis
grace to have such an organizaty-..
1t is pure defense of the U. S.
Metals Refining Co. That is why
the company organized these shop
committees to protect its interests
should the workers ever want to
organize a protest against reduction
of wages.
We must organize the Metal
Workers Industrial Union and block
the vicious schemes of company's
wage reduction.
METAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Women Cigar Workers
Walk Out in Bayuk
Plant ON Wage Cut
(By q Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (By Mail) -
As a result of an unanimous spon-
taneous walkout of the whole shop
the Bayuk Cigar factory has been
shut down. Upon receipt of an
order for 100000 cigars the manu-
facturers tried to make Christmas
coup for themselves by cutting the
pay for these cigars from IS to As
cents per 100. The women, most of
them married and forced to work
because their husbands do not earn
enough to support their families,
had been earning from Sc to 500 a
week, shaving 10 and II hours day
when there was work. Only the
most experienced who had been
working there for 10, Is and 20
years were amongst those earning
$40 week. The rest averaged S12
for the fast workers and down to So
for the less fortunate ones.
The cut so enraged the workers
that they walked out spontaneously
after one of the women who had
worked there more than 10 years
spoke up to the foreman and refused
to take his proposal that they get
out the order of 100000 cigars at
this price and his promise that after
this lot, in five or six weeks, they
would be getting so and 80 cents
a hundred for them.
Most of the workers being mar
ried women doing two jobs, at home
and in the shop, too enslaved to find
time to learn anything about unions,
the power of organization and the
growing unemployment throughout
the city are under the illusion that
all they need to do is stay home
and the boss will be forced to grant
their demands,
The T. U. U. L. is on the job and
is planning to distribute leaflet
calling upon the women to organ
ize, when they return next Friday
for their pay. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Andrew Melons Frame Up Machine Oiled and
Working to Try and Kill Militant Miner

distributed thruout Western Penn
sylvania over a month ago by la
Dor organization in which Accorsi
was declared to be innocent of the
crime with which he is charged
He also announced to the reporters
that he had in his possession photo
graphic copies of the LID. litera-
ture, but would not introduce the
material as evidence in the trial.
A total of 1873 veniremen is called
before the jury of IL men and two
women is finally chosen. Accorsi's
life is thus at the tender mercies
of a hundred per cent American
jury composed of a construction
foreman, mechanic, salesman, in
terror decorator, railroad engineer
(for 81 years., carpenter, house,
wife, plumbing heater, railroad
brakeman, farmer, car inspector,
farmer, and real estate-insurance
broker.
BY the use of the peremptory
challenge, of which each side has
twenty, the prosecution barred from
the jury all Negroes, Jews and for
eign-born workers generally. Fear
ing the subtle sense of solidarity
which unites all the oppressed, the
prosecution thus unceremoniously
dismissed several Negro working
women who were summoned for jury
duty.
And when the prosecution has
concluded its job, and has asked that
Salvatore Accorsi be done to death
in the electric chair at Bellefonte
State Penetentiary, the defense will
bring forward workers who will de-
scribe the brutal attack on the Sac
co-Vanzetti protest meeting near
Cheswiek, Pa, Aug. %, 1927. They
will tell how the state troopers,
known far and wide for their fiend-
ish brutality, rode their horses into
the crowd of working men, women
and children; how these uniformed
thugs mereilessly slugged defense
less workers and hurled tear gas
bombs into the terror stricken crowd.
And they will also tell, among
other things, how Tony De Bernardo
was beaten until his skull was frac-
tured, his arm paralyzed, bleeding
from his nose and ears, cripple
for life; and how he was thrown
Unconscious in truck and later held
in $500 bail until the police finally
let him loose, fearing, apparently,
that he might die on their hands
even as did John Barkoski, also a
coal miner, who was another victim
Of "Pennsylvanias finest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
$3.50 Hour Week
For Workers i'm
Macaroni Plant
(By q Worker Correspondent

wy " ~ Olhcf SVfsOppOt"CbS[
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (By Mail.
Il am a young worker employed
at the Cioio Bros. Macaroni factory
in Rochester. The workers work
between IS and 81 hours a week, and
get between SIS and $2s week.
Young workers get between SIS and
1923 for a IS to 58-hour week.
The bosses wrote in the paper
that nobody gets less than SIS
week, which is the wage which
young worker gets in this joint.
This young worker works the Won
derful hours of so week, but he is
actually working more harder than
the rest of us because in so hours
he has to do the work that we
do in SIS and So hours a week. We
won't go back to work until we win
because without a union we will al
ways be slaves. Macaroni work
srsl Join the Food Workers Union
and fight for better conditions.
Young Worker employed by the
Cioio Bros. Macaroni Factory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
u. S. Metals Refining Go. Sends the
Workers to Graveyard" to Fire Them

conflict in the U. s. Refining Co.
The company is the winner and
their organized workers the VIC
tins.
Last summer, when it was hard
to find good" workers (good
means those willing to obey, the
bosses in the factory were slightly
less brutal. Now that Hoover's
prosperity" is visiting Carteret
and many unemployed are lined up
at the gates, the foremen have re-
sumed their old attitude toward the
workers. They fire them whenever
they refuse to break their necks.
The other day a foreman told me
this: II fired the son of b. l
chased him out of the office. You
should have seen him run when l
went after him."
Thus he expressed his heroism
and praised himself for a "brave
deed" MAXIM TRAMP.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
(WirelesS By I1tprecorr)

MOSCOW, Dec. IA represen-
tative congress of the collective
agricultural undertaking in the Ger
man Soviet Republic on the volga
has issued a manifesto, declaring
that the world bourgeoisie (capi-
talist CLASSY has been organizing
the emigration from the republic of
individual kulaks (rich farmers),
and pretending that these represent
the whole German working peasan-
Try of the republic.
The manifesto states that in fact
Il emigration movement finds no
response in the Volga Republic,
where German workers and peas
ants stand unitedly behind the So
Wet Government and for the prole-
tartan commune in the German
Volga Republic.
It states further than rs per cent
of all German Volga farmers are
now collectivized, being collectively
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Big Stock Smash
Reflects Drop in
Basic Industries

In spite of Hoover, Green, Love-
stones predictions of smooth-going
for American Imperialism, and de-
spite the prosperity" propaganda
of the leading members of the
"Grand Fascist Council the stock
market again suffered a severe
crash as reflection of the declining
production in the basic industries of
the country
The fact that building has been
dropping by hundreds of millions of
dollars; steel production steadily
dropping to as low as 30 to 80 per
cent of capacity; with automobile
production at a virtual standstill,
the stock market gamblers again
felt the future of their profits to
be not so secure, and stocks again
dropped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Volga Republic Germans
Charge Emigration Plot
Peasants of Collective Farms Declare Capitalists Abroad
Planned Scheme-Ploted With Individual Rich Farmers
Peasant Masses Back Soviet-Seventy Five Per
Cent of Farms ColIectivized

worked under central management.
The German Volga Republic" is
one of the autonomous Soviet repub-
lies within the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics. It is populated al
most wholly by people of German
blood whose ancestors migrated to
that part of Russia over a century
ago and maintained German GUS
toms and languages in spite of the
Outstanding" pressure of the
car. Since the revolution and I'M
der the rule Of the Workers and
Peasants, these German folk have
complete self-rule in their own So
Wet Republic, with their own Ger
man schools, literature and culture.
\
Poor farmers in the United States,
learning from the example of those
in the Soviet Union, should join the
Communist Party of the United
States. If organizers are not handy,
write in to 43 East 125th St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
MlsIeadey IN
Strike, Metal
Co. Union Head
by q Worker Correspondent

fBy q W0f6er Correspondent
CARTERET, N. j. (by maiD
the third Wednesday in October the
U. S. Metals Refining Company
selected the "shop committee" to re-
present the workers of the U. S.
Metals Refining Company. This
committee no more represents the
workers than it represented the
strike they sold out.
The interesting thing is that Jim
mie,' the recent strike misleader, is
chairman of the shop committee.
Why the company selected him as
chairman is puzzle to many but
to us experienced workers it is plain.
Jimmie gave up hope during the
strike and boldly announced the
company will fire me-" Never!
The U. S. Metals will never fire
Jimmie--he is too valuable man.
Another Jimmie" is a member
Of the famous shop committee. This
Jimmie's last name is Howard or
something like that. He goes among
the foreign born workers and shouts
"You boys that have any grievances
come to me. No sob. can buy jim
ME Howard. I'll fight your case
till | win"
But when nobody treats Jimmie
with moonshine he leaves the bootleg
joint Disguised. Is he stoolpigeon?
Well find that out later.
Because there are plenty men at
the gates the workers of the U. S.
Metals get transferred and laid off
daily. If we won the strike and
organized at that time the story
would be different. The workers of
Carteret learned the lesson this
time. Next time they will select
their true representative instead of
company agents.
u. S. Metals Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Will Evict Leaksville
Textile Mill Strikers

Continued from Page Two)
workers and is being held on a
trumped up charge Of driving with
out a license"
His b. -ther, Ebert Totherow, in
charge of Youth Work of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
Dewey Martin, organizer for the
Union, were arrested at the same
time for distributing literature.
This attack followed directly on
the heels Of the warrant sworn out
for G. D. Saylors, who is now being
charged with murder of Chief of
Police o. D. Aderholt. The renewal
Of terrorism follows Immediately
after the greatly successful confer
ence Of the International Labor De-
tense in Charlotte, last Sunday
when delegates from North and
South Carolina, Georgia and vir-
ginia attended.
A collar to shoe frisking in the
police station and hostile question
ing Of Ebert and Martin followed
They were afterward released. 10th.
crow is oein.. held for 500 cash
bail.
Mill Owners Rage.
The Southern bosses and their
agents the police and press are in
real fit Of rage over the popularity
Of the International Labor Defense
and the Communist Party. In the
smallest Of police cases and in ed.
itorials the question pops up.
As the Charlotte News tells in
the following story; "Hints Of Com.
munism and Atheism developed dur.
| ing the trial Of Thomas Griffith
chairman Of the Mecklenburg High.
way Commission and one Of Char.
lotte's leading citizens, charged with
interfering with a police officer and
Of his niece. Mrs. Robert G. Hayes
charged with traffic violation in
city police court"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
by q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
CARTERET, N. J. (By MaiD. -
In the past few weeks we have ex-
perienced unusually interesting
events in the U. S. Metals Refining
Co, plant. The lay-offs, transfer
and firing of the workers is in ac-
cordance with the general practice
of the bosses after defeating
strikers-as the U. S. Metal did in
this case with the aid of the A. F.
of L. takers, the strike-b breaking inc
tutution of America.
The U. S. Metals Refining Co.
has theoretical policy of dealing
with the workers and their wages.
The theories are that after a man
is employed a certain time he is
supposed to get raise. Every
worker bases his hope on this shall
low promise and wears himself out
so as to keep the job until the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
.CASTONIA BOYS
ARE ORGANIZING
Build Textile Union
and National Confab

Continued from, Page One)
week. Tonight wednesday, he
spoke in Manchester, and tomorrow
night in Dover.
Tuesday, December II, he will
speak at Herman Hall, 629 Summer
st., Holyoke, Mass; December 18,
in Franco Belgian Hall, 9 Mason St.,
Lawrence, Mass; December Is,
Sunday, at 8 p. M, n A. c. A. Hall,
Providence, Rhode Island; at 7 p. M.
of the same day, in Pulaski Hall,
518 Mill St., Central Falls, R. l.;
Monday, December 16, in Bouzier
Hall, High St., Woonsocket, R. l.,
and Thursday, December 10, in
Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
WORKERS CHILDREN STARV.
ING IN PORTO RICO.

SAN JUAN, p. r., Dec. r.
Sixty per cent of the children in
Porto Rico are undernourished, ad-
mits Governor Roosevelt. Roose-
welt is governor of the islands in
the interest of Wall Street--to see
how much less the children can live
on so that the American corpora
tions in Porto Rico can pile up
greater profits.
"In many rural schools" mourns
the imperialist governor, 81 have
seen children with bodies stunted
and minds dulled by lack of food"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13

Not only has the bourGeofsis
forged the weapons that bring
denth 10 itself, II Inns also called
into existence the men who are 10
WELD those weapOns--the modern
working class---the pr0letnrinns.-
Karl Mnfs tCOm muniss Manifestut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE ---F FROM THE SHOPS
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Nogales international., 1929-11-22
Don't Forget The Red Cross

We believe that most of the citizens of Santa Cruz
County are familiar with the work of the Red Cross,
which is asking our citizens, through the Lions
Club to enroll as members for the coming year.
The American Red Cross is chartered by Congress
for specific purpose it's chief being to take
care of the soldiers and sailors in the service of the
government, particularly in time of war. However,
the peace work of the Red Cross deserves the sup
port of every one of us.
In serving as a vehicle for disaster relief, taking
charge Of the collection as well as the wise expendi-
ture of every cent contributed by generous citi
zens, the Red Gross justifies it's existence.
Of course, there will be criticism This is inevitable in
every phase of human activity but nevertheless it u.s.
believe common duty to support the organiza
ton to the extent membership, which only costs
us one dollar for whole year.