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Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19

SHOOTING ACROSS THE BORDER
When Mexico breaks out in one OF
its periodical revolutions, which oc-
cur about as regularly as epidemics
of the measles, pretty soon the con-
tending factions get to shooting
across the border, into peaceful Am
erican territory. Only recently reb-
ell planes dropped bombs in Naco,
Arizona.
The boys are not allowed in we'll
managed homes to play baseball SO
that the balls will enter the kitchen
window, and the Mexicans playing
their favorite game of revolution
should also be required to go out in
the back lots to do 1t.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19
MADE FRIENDS FOR AMERICA

MADE FRIENDS FOR AMERICA
Any country needs friends in for
eign lands, and one can see that Am
bassador Herrick, who has just
passed away at his post of duty in
France, must have made a wonder
full lot of them for his country.
The way for a country to make
friends in foreign lands, is for its
people who go to those countries to
render friendly services. Ambassa-
dor Herrick was always doing such
things for France. When many dip
lomats and officials, at the time the
Germans nearly captured Paris, fed
from the city, Mr.. Herrick refused
to leave: His act heartened the
French, and helped them make the
superb resistance that finally turned
back the invaders.
A nation can be hated in foreign
countries, and it can be admired and
even loved. If all Americans who
visit France would act like Ambas-
sador Herrick, we would see great
difference in the relations Of the
two countries.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19

1t takes two to make a bootlegger.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19
Rev. BuRce Addresses Bible
Class Rally

Despite the fact that Monday eve
ming was a very stormy night, the
program of the Adult Bible Glasses
of the M. P. Church was carried out.
1t really surprised the committee to
see so many present considering the
weather. Rev. e. L. Bunce, pastor
of the M. P. Church at Pocomoke
City, Md, was the speaker of the
evening. He is well known here as
being one of the ablest men in the
Maryland Conference, and it is
thought members and friends braved
the storm to hear him.
The local fire alarm at 1 P. M.
summoned the firemen to the tenant
house of Wesley Ross, about five
miles west of Harrington. The fire.
men responded quickly, but after
leaving the stone road got tangled
up in network of dirt roads in
this section and couldn't locate the
fire. When they did arrive at the
house the blaze had been extin-
guished, after about hundred dol
lars in damage. The tenant house
is occupied by a Mr.. Pritchett.
Mrs. Beatrice Hoddinott, of Baltt-
more, Md, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex.
Fleming, also other relatives.
Messrs. Jennings Wroten and Rob-
ert Hargett, of Wilmington, spent
the weekend with local friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bailey spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
at Hebron, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Holson, Miss
Alma Bailey, Francis Short and Mrs.
Herman Roach and children, all of
spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. II. G. Tee and Mr.. and
Mra. Fred Bailey.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19

NO DOUBT the roads ought to be
but people will travel
over pretty rough ones to reach well
bargain sales.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19

THE FUTURE of community de
pends not upon what it is, but OF
what its people believe it can be
come.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-19
ANNA K. GREG0RTUs, ChIrOpractOl

204 East Front Street, Milford
m22-tf Phone 157
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
The War Industry Par Excellence

While statesmen of the mperlast countries juggling
the question of cruiser building other parts of the
chine speeding full blast ahead Particularly is this the
with the chemical industry From minor industry
few years ago the chemical industry in the United States
is the greatest in the world Here few figures:
The total value Of chemical production has increased from
S1046994000 in 1914 to than $1,000 in 1925
the latter figure representing than half the total price
of the world output An indication of the rate at which the
industry being combined into big and ratonazed
is evidenced by the fact that in the eleven year period from
1914 to 1925 the number of chemical manufacturing esta
bshmens in the United States decreased from 9848 to
1897 At this moment there is foot to create
gigantic merger of the leading chemical plants of the United
States and then to unite international scale with the
famous l. G. Farbendustrie of Germany.
Workers in the chemical industry not only suffer the de-
vaZng effects of the most intense naturalization but
also subjected to the most rghtu forms of chemical poison
ing besides they in constant danger of being blown to
pieces by the highly explosive materials which they produce
Thousands of scientists constantly employed expert
menng with chemical formulate for warfarepoison gases
liquid fire. etc. Every mperialist power is concentrating
upon deadly and devastating chemicals for in
fares preparing to poison whole populations 1t is the
industry par excellence.
The chemical industry in this country practically
organized correctly pointed out in the series of articles
chemical parfare prepared by the Red international of
Labor Unions and being printed in The Daily Worker The
A. F. of L. part of the imperast machine will
fight against organization of the chemical workers and in
movement for organization spontaneously develops
will try to deliver the workers bound gagged to the i'm
periasts.
One of the principal tasks of the Cleveland conference
of the Trade Union Educational League will be to set up
machinery for organizing the horribly exploited workers
this industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
The Imperialist Lie About the Soviet Chinese
Conference i'm Berlin

Police terror mobilization of the military, wholesale
rests and open murder in the hands of the mper
asts couneract the working class preparations for strikes
and demonstrations August 1s have been supplemented by
an international campaign of lies to the effect that represen
taves of the Soviet Union and the Marking oper
ang in China carrying peace negotiations in Berlin
Not only are negotiations not being carried but the
derous Chang KaShe is appealing to his i'm
peraist masters to wage campaign of armed intervention
against the workers and peasants government The appeal
itself like all other actions of the Marking
undoubtedly ordered by the mperast states themselves
The affair of the Chinese Eastern railway is being ut
lied for mobilization of the mperiast powers
against the Soviet Union First the United States govern
men sought organize the bourgeose sgnatores of the
Sh prepares an appeal the League of Nations supple
of enforcing economic blockade against the Soviet Union
in spite the fact that such blockade has actually been in
effect for years The open talk of economic blockade is
the prelude to military blockade and intervention The rep
tile press of the world playing down the of the
spracy against the Soviet Union only because hopes to
soe nhe fury of the workers August LIST approaches But
the most vicious malignant preparations going
The mobilization of military forces in France the murders of
leading Communists the suppression of Communist
papers the police here in the United States against
the demonstrations for the Gasona prisoners and to prevent
the fight of imperas part of the campaign
against the Soviet Union that every day intensity
The worldwide demonstrations August LIST must be
of such proportions and conducted in such
the strongest possible mobilization of working class
against mperast and for the defense of the
workers fatherland, the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
(To be Continued)

trict when they went on strike. The
outstanding feature of the bureau
Gratis activities is daily collabora-
ton with chemical combines like the
Kuhlman, Cohen, and other firms.
Up to 1926 there was a single
union in Poland for the chemical
workers. The 1926 congress of the
union withdrew the Polish Socialist
Party people from union leadership,
whereupon the PSP launched a COM
petitive union and, with the support
of the fascist dictators, began vile
campaign of scurrilous ISLANDERS
against the Left Wing union. In the
result, the Left union was expelled
from the PSP Central Trades Union
Commission. Afterwards, un d e r
similar conditions, the Glass Blow.
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ers' Union was expelled from the
Central Trade Union Commission
the 1928 Congress of the union hav.
ing decided to recall it's PSF leader.
ship.
Now, what sort of opposition does
the Factory Workers international
put up against such incredible facts
OF disruption and cooperation with
a fascist dictatorship? Sassenbach
as the representative of the Amster.
dam international and Stenhuys, AZ
the representative of the Factory
Workers International, were tho
fraternal delegates at the Warsaw
Congress when the split occurred.
and they fully endorsed the PSp in
what it did to split the chemical
workers union. So that's thatl -
" 81. u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
The Party Will Deal MerciIessly with Defeatists

Those detesabe watchdogs of Imperialism the social
democrats wagng campaign to defeat the strikes and
demonstrations against mperas and for defense of
the Soviet Union that being prepared for August st
They supplement the police provocaon the newspaper sup
pressions the murder of Communists and the mobilization
of the soldey (as in Pars) with widespread propaganda
the workers calculated to persuade them par
tcpate in the August LIST struggles.
These social democrats that in 1914 aided their
capitalist masters drive the workers into the aughterhouse
of imperas today actively helping to prepare
imperalst against the Soviet Union Their betting of
August LIST is part of their policy.
Closely following international social democracy are the
Trotkytes who openly SANDER the revolutionary
OF the world and aduce the leaders of the heroic struggles
in Berlin May Day. The Trotskys organ of the political
erate and renegade Cannon refers to preparations for
August LIST the result of ghtmndedness garruousness
braggadocio and disgusting responsibility and concludes
its ISLANDERS with the proclamaon 1T is necessary call
off the August First Demonstrations"
Bringing up in the of this antiSovet Love-
stone and his supporters in the United States Their latest
fractional document distributed among the Party
from which Lovestone expelled joins in the chorus of
against the preparations for August st spe
officially to the slogan for the workers of New City to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31

down tools at 400 August and proceed to the
mass demonstration at Union Square empty talk This,
taken with the Lovestone talk about degeneration of the Com
munist International and his cheap the Berlin May
Day events clearly indicates the road he has travelled With
in an incredibly short time he has aligned himself with the
social democrats and Trotskyes who conducting
pagn of defeatsm against the Communist struggle
bat mperialst and in defense of the Soviet Union
There are more dangerous enemies of the working
class at this historical moment than those who preach
ism to the 1t abandonment of the struggle in
defense of the Soviet Union Even it direct aid
mperasts inasmuch is intended to give them free
hand to mobilize their forces for Intervention military
against the workers and peasants of the socialist
fatherland
Using the most time-wom phrases, the Lovestonites
plead that the masses not ready for such struggle 1t
old trick to blame the for lack of poti
cal initiative and revolutionary integrity But the masses by
their worldwide response August LIST will give the lie
to the united front extending from the mperass and their
social democratic ackeys to the Cannons and the Lovestones
The Party will not tolerate within it's ranks repetitions of
these degenerate and defeats slogans will know how to
defend itself against such methods and will deal mercessy
with those who aiding the mperast drive against the
Soviet Union by preaching defeasm to the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
Chemical Warfare, the Chemical Kings
and Their Social-Democratic Tools
nda Committee of the Red International Labor Unions
By the Chemical Workers International Propaganda Con

Thus this theoretician Of social
treachery blesses his Party, blessed
it for its subsequent work in shoot
ing down dozens and hundreds of
strikers in the big working class
actions undertaken by the prole-
tariat in Central Germany and in
the Ruhr, as well as the massacre of
May Day demonstrators this year,
all the work of Social-Democrats,
for Germany boasts an S. D. Min
lister of War, and S. D. Home Sec
rotary, while practically all the
police beginning from the chief
constables of the S. D. Party who
were represented at the Kiel Con-
gress and finishing with that bril-
liant specimen, Herr Zoergiebel, be-
lolg to the Social-Democratic Party.
3. From the Theory of Treachery to
the Practice of Betrayal.
Hilferding's theory as to the $50
cialistic" nature of the chemical in
dustry in the capitalist countries is
only one of the minor reasons why
the Social can commit
such dirty betrayals against the
chemical workers movement. Prob
ably in no Other Industry Has Re
fornaist Treachery Been Revealed
so Plainly and Cynically as IN the
Chemical Workers Trade Union
MoUeemnt.
In the capitalist countries the
chemical workers are almost en-
tirely unorganized. In the United
States, the country with the biggest
chemical industry, there are nearly
million workers all told in this
industry, yet the chemical workers
there Haze no Trade Union Or
ganization At All. The American
Federation of Labor is doing every
thing it can to effect cooperation
with the magnates of the chemical
industry, and moving not a finger
to organize the proletariat en-
ployed in the chemical industry, one
of the worst paid and most ex-
plotted sections of the working
class.
In Britain there are no less than
100000 workers employed in the
chemical industry, yet altogether
only a few thousand have been won
for trade union organization. The
General Council is just as inter-
ested in preventing the chemical
workers from coming together, just
! as interested in seeing them dis
united, as the boss of the General
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31

strike of the Ludwigshafen Chemical
workers went down before the
United front of the employers, the
bourgeoisie, the reformists and the
French army of occupation.
7. Their Anxiety" for the Eight
Hour Day.
For ten years exactly the one
and the same collective agreement
has been binding upon the German
chemical workers. Every year the
union executive resigns this agree
ment without making any changes,
or rather with consistent degrade
tons in its terms. According to
clause 2 of this agreement the O.
hour working day is laid down as
the legal" day; actually, the work
ing day of the German factory work
ers amounts to 10 hours and in some
cases even to II. These slave-like
conditions are explained in the same
clause as due to the prevailing
economic difficulties affecting the
industry" O..
In 1929 the Union Executive con-
Guided new wage agreement be-
hind the backs of the workers pro-
viding II an increase" of wages
from l to A pfennigs extra per hour.
This, be it marked, when the Ger
man chemical combine known under
the name of the "Interessen-Gemein
schaft" openly acknowledges that
it's profits for 1927 amounted by no
means the small sum of 227,00O,000
marks.
s. Stool-Pigeoning, Corruption, and
Vote for Cruisers!
The last Union Congress, held in
1927, considered the question of
peace in industry and union benefits
for members permanently incapaci-
tated for work. Messrs. Brey, Gier-
big and their ellow-bureaucrats
have freed the German capitalists
from the need Tor looking after the
incapacitated workers thrown onto
the street after capitalist rationale
cation has sucked the last energy
out of him. Out of the 165 dele
gates at the Congress 80 were trade
union officials, and there were only
IL delegates in all with the Revolu-
tionary Opposition which, as should
be known, has a following of not
less than 40 per cent of the union
members.
Revolutionary candidates to the
executive were simply withdrawn
from the list of candidates, that was
all. The membership was deprived
of all opportunity of freely voicing
it's views. The expulsion of revo-
lutionary workers from the various
branches has acquired a mass char
acter.
Within the union machine, stool
pigeon and spying upon revolu-
tionary workers is the rule, while
moral corruption prevails, bringing
in its wake an extensive embezzle-
ment of union funds and various
other abuses. At the same time
union money is used for the election
campaigns of the SD Party. At
the same time, Brey and Gieberbig
vote in parliament for the construc-
ton of cruisers, while for submit
ting resolutions against the building
of these cruisers union members
render themselves liable to i'm
mediate expulsion from the organl-
cation.
In order to break the First of May
demonstration this year the union
executive expressly sabotaged the
preliminary campaign. After the
May Day massacre the union paper,
"The Proletarian," poured a stream
of filth inuendoes over the demon
strators.
8. The Sassenbachs Approve.
The very same thing is to be seen
in France, a case in point being the
way the reformists betrayed the
$500 paper workers in the IA Dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31

Council, British Big Business and
the "uncrowned king" of the Brit
ish chemical industry, Alfred
Mend.
In France over 100000 workers
are employed in the chemical indus
try, few thousand being organ
lied in the Reformist Federation.
A. One Step Forward, Two Back
ward.
The only mass organization af-
filiated to the Chemical Interna-
tional (the Factory WorkersO, is
tho German Factory Workers
Union. A rapid survey of the de-
velopment of this the only mass or
ganization catering for the chemical
workers reveals a picture of the
blacklist treachery by the reformist.
Suffice it to say that in 1922 this
union had a membership of nearly
100000. In 1923 the membership
fell to round about $4,000, a drop
of about 211, 900 members. In 1924
there was further fall, this time
to 325,700 members. Since then,
and after 1924 the labor movement
has been swept by wave of en-
thusiasm while the chemical indus
try has passed through period of
real prosperity, the membership has
increased very little.
5. Bureaucrats Favor Abolishing
Eight-Hour Day.
In the Reichstag in 1923 the MPs
were called upon to discuss the ques-
ton of Martial Law, or the ap-
plication of an Emergency Powers
Act, and the abolition of the 8-hour
working day. At this particular
time the Vice President of the
Union, Gierbig, was in big CEN
tire Of the glass industry where the
glass-blowers to the number of TO-
600 workers had gone on strike to
enforce the 8-hour day. Side by
side in the same motor-car with
one of the employers, Gierbig sped
to Berlin to arrive in time at the
historical sitting of the Reich
stag. Along with Bret, the Presi-
dent of the Union, He Voted IN Fa-
DOR of declaring an Emergency
Situation and Withdrawing The
S-Hour Working Day.
6. How They Sold the Pass.
In 1924 a wave of strikes swept
the chemical industry. In Ludwig
shafen 10000 chemical workers
fought heroically under the revolu-
tiorary leadership of the progress
sive elements of the movement. The
union executive entered into nego-
tiations with the employers regard
ing the breaking of the strike. 1t
appealed to the workers to accept
an arbitration award. Throughout
the whole country, thousands of
workers collected funds and food
stuffs for the strikers. The Ger
man Trade Union Federation
(ADGB), and the German Factory
Workers Union forbade the collec-
ton of funds on the threat of ex-
pulsion from the Union. The chem
ical plants were occupied by the po-
lice, who had every assistance from
the reformist officials. The COM
handing officers of the French
troops of occupation adopted re-
pressive measures against the strik-
ers. The Central Committee of the
USSR Chemical Workers Union
and the Chemical Workers Interna-
tional suggesting that help be Or
ganized for the strikers. The sug-
gestion was turned down. The In
ternational declared that it entirely
approved the activities of it's Ger
man Section and that in it's own
good time at would find the ways
and means to enable it to win the
eight-hour working day in Ger
many" The heroically fought
r. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
l. The Theory of Betrayal. Chemis-
try on the Threshold of
Socialism.

l. Inc 1HeoTy Vi DelTdy di. SnemiS-
try on the Threshold of
Socialism.
AS allies of the Kings of the
chemical industry and agents of I'M
perialism, the role of the Social
Democrats and the leading lights of
the reformist trade unions could
furnish material for an entire
"blue" book or rather "black"
book. The chemical industry is one
o. the favorite themes of the the
oreticians of social-imperilism.
Speaking at the German S. D. Con-
gress in Kiel in 1925, Rudolph Hill
ferding built up his theory of the
peaceful evolution" of capitalism
into Socialism chiefly on the prog
ress made in the development of the
chemical industry.
"Organized economy" stated Hill
ferding, is coming to the fore tech
nically inasmuch as alongside steam
AMI electric power chemistry is
coming to occupy more and more
prominent place." In the fevcrish
development of the chemical indus
try this theoretician of social
treachery beholds a fresh step for
ward on the part of the capitalist
system toward the abolition of
crises, the simplication of cap
italist economy and to newer
achievements for civilization. He
mentionedNot Single Word about
the Feversik Preparations for
Chemical Warfare that are going
or, although these preparations are
the fundamental military rule of
what is euphoniously known as
peace time" chemical production.
2. Hilferding's Blessings.
A line lower down in Hilfer-
ding's report we find him express
ing his delight over the German
Reichswehr. "The Reichswehr," he
says, sis a defensive system. What
we need is, not struggle against the
Reichswehr, but struggle in favor
of the Reichswehr, struggle to
make it more of reliable instru-
ment of the Republic. The Reichs-
wehr should be in the same rela-
tons to the Republic as the defen-
sive police created by Severing in
Prussia. The Reichswehr is a ques-
ton depending upon the gaining of
control over the Reischwehr. Every
thing depends on the extent to
which the Minister of War follows
this policy.