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over-production in this industry that
threatens profits. Workers suggest
that the shorter work day will prove
effective.
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Only men whose selfish interests
dominate their minds can see harm
in the union label.
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SIX CYLINDER
SENTENCES
/:
: BY DR.. JOHN w. HOLLAND

90
Every honest try is an inner
triumph.
The sure reward of good think.
ing is the ability TO act more
surely.
what is more pathetic than
man apathetic toward good?
The Paradise of Fools is q shad
owy land called Tomorrow
Self-cnlture is the rather slow
process of mastering ones
own selfshness.
Life is a mirror. Try smiling
at it, and see what ii sends
back 10 you.
&c. 1928. Western Newspaper union.)
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And the best strategy is label
action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
By ROBERT w. DUNN.

Company unionism, low wages,
and sharper exploitation of 100000
employees are reflected in a net in
come of more than $S2,507,000 re-
ported for the year 1928 by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, self-styled
standard railroad of the world"
These profits-the largest in the
history of the road-represent an in
crease of $14,347,0O0 over 1927
earnings, and are equivalent to
nearly SIS profit on each 500 in
vested in the company. They were
made possible, in spite of 1928
drop in Pennsy's gross employed
and speeding up the rest. They fol-
low a period of union-busting and
active company authorization of the
Pennsy workers, directed by Cen
eral w. w. Atterbury, an aggres-
sive foe of union labor.
Unions that suffered most from
the Atterbury onslaught were the
federated shop crafts including
blacksmiths, boilermakers, sh e e t
metal workers, machinists, carmen,
electricians and molders. To des-
stroy these unions and set up it's
own employee representation"
scheme the Pennsylvania has re-
sorted to. blacklisting, injunctions,
unfair elections, and terrorization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
Wage Cuts, Sbeed-Ub, Cine
Penma r. K. Record Profit

Even the Railroad Labor Board
charged the company with setting
up "a system which throttles the
majority and establishes the repre-
sentation of a coerced and subser-
Went minority"
The Pennsy also company-union-
ized its clerks and tricked it's tele-
graphers and maintenance of way
men into accepting the slave status
which the company calls that of "a
happy family" Company officials
boast that it is not necessary for
the workers "to resort to strike in
order to get square DEAL" Having
wiped out the independent unions
that could battle for wages and hav-
ing stifled the voice of the workers,
the company is now in position
where it can shovel larger and
larger profits into the pockets of
absentee owners.
In January, the road used its "em-
ployee representation" to hand
shop-craft workers a 4-cents-an-
hour increase after unionized work.
ers on the New York Central had
won five cent increase through a
display of union strength. To pre-
vent agitation among its men the
Pennsy was forced to grant the con-
cession through its parasitic COM
pany union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
The Tasks of Winning the
Textile Working Women

5. Vacation with pay for two
months before and two months af-
ter childbirth.
6. Permission for mothers with
infants to leave their work every
three hours to nurse their children.
Z. Factory nurseries for working
women with babies and young chill
dren, to be provided by the employ
ers under the administration of the
union, free of charge to all mothers
who work in the plant.
s. Rest rooms in the mill to be
provided for the women.
Already these demands have at
tracted wide sections of the textile
women workers. In every local we
have a women's committee and
everywhere attention is being paid
both to attracting the working wo-
men into our union, and to develop
ing them for actual leadership.
Now that the Passaic strike, the
New Bedford strike and other
strikes have passed into history, the
lesson of the role of the working
women in the strike has become
Iindelibly impressed on all of US.
Our union fully understands the
Importance of women workers. With
such an attitude and policy we are
sure that we will help give the en-
tire working class most thorough
appreciation of the role of the work
ing women and to mobilize the wild.
est section of the workingclass wo-
men around our union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
(By Ira Service.)

The strike lasted form April &c
to October 6 of last year, and the
mill owners complained about the
Gloss of over 81 million working
days otheindustry." The workers,
however, rejoiced that they blocked
vicious wage cutting and speed
up drive.
In the beginning of 1928 a group
of large textile mills in Bombay,
mainly under British control, began
introducing new work system which
compelled spinners to operate two
sides of a frame instead of one, and
weavers to run three looms instead
of two. Along with these changes
went discharge of "superfluous"
workers, longer hours for those who
remained, and cuts in wages.
Takers Wouldn't Lead.
A number of small strikes re-
suited. The leaders TO theold line
unions, however, N. NJ. JOSH of the
Bombay Textile Labor Union and
D. R. Mayekar of the "Girni KAN
gar Mahamandal," refused to issue
the call to turn the scattered rev.
otis into a general strike.
In March, 1928, a new union,
the Bombay Mill Workers Union,
was launched, under Communist
guidance. Its leaders were J. H..
Jhabvala, formerly secretary of the
old union, and the heads of the
Workers and Peasants Party. Mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
Communists Lead Strikes IN
Bombay, Ret0y2niStS Aid Boss

demonstrations before the mills and
parades through the city caused a
gradual closing of themills. In a
week, 100000 workers were out,
shutting practically every mill in
Bombay.
Mass picketing began from the
first day. Special efforts were
made to get out the oilers and others
on essential services" The police
at first tried to prohibit all picket
ing, but had to back down and allow
two pickets at each mill.
Old union leaders refused at first
t oallow the Communists as many
representatives on the joint strike
committee as the left wing asked,
but finally yielded. Strike demands
covered wages, hours, discipline,
joint negotiation for fixing working
conditions, restriction of the three
loom system, Standardization of
rules, and right of members of the
depressed classes" to work. Most
of these demands the employers ans
wered evasively, or in the negative.
Agreement After Months.
The strike attracted international
support. The workers of Soviet
Russia contributed $4,000, the In
ternational Conference of Textile
Workers $4,000, and the Interna-
tional Federation of Trade Unions,
$4,000.
An agreement was finally reached
to resume work on October 6, nearly
half a year after the start of the
general strike. Wages for the most
part were to be restored to the old
levels temporarily. A government
committee of inquiry was appointed
to investigate all questions involved.
The mass meeting of $4,000 to TO-
900 which ratified the settlement
enthusiastically cheered the state
ments of the speakers that this was
only breathing spell which the
workers should use to strengthen
their organization and prepare for
still greater tasks in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
Great Variety of Significant Works Reflects
Vitality of New Soviet Culture

Tomorrow" and "The Commissars";
Observation-Disclosures "Chocolate".
Lyashko's novel "The Break" pre-
sents the psychology of the Commun-
list worker; while Seifulina's "Viri-
neya" and Gladkov's Cement" por-
tray types of Soviet women. A
number of well-written novels deal
with the Soviet youth, notably Ma
lashkin's '"The Right Side of the
Moon" Panteleymon Romanov's
without Flowers, and Ognyev's
"Diary of Communist Schoolboy",
which has been translated into Eng
fish.
The peasantry, also, has its place
in the new Russian literature. One
of the best writers on village life
was Neverov, whose Getty of Bread,
dealing with the famine period in
Tashkent, has been translated into
English. Fedin's "Transvaal' in a
bizarre manner describes the we'll
to-do peasantry. The transition of
the village from the old to the new
life is sketched in Karavayev's "The
Bears" and "The Chestnut Colored
Skim, and in Akulshin's Unbound
Sheaves" and "Village Whispers" A
strange spectacle of village life is
presented by Klichkov in "The Sweet
German" and other works, which are
poems in prose rather than novels.
Vsevolod Ivanov in "The Secret of
Secrets" has also essayed to portray
the present life Of the Russian peas
ant.
The life of city outcasts is de-
scribed by Leonid Leonov in "The
Thief" while petty Soviet officials
are portrayed in Katayev's EN-
bezzlers" and Lidin's "Glotov's EN-
bezzlement."
Novikov-Priboy has written num-
Der of splendid stories of life in the
navy, notably "Stories of the Sea"
and "The Divers"
In addition to these and numerous
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
By ALBERT WEIsBORD.
(Secreatry-TreuSllre of National
Textile Miners Workers Union
of Americn.)


(Secreatry-Treasarer of National
TEXTILE Miners Workers Union
of Americd.)
From the very beginning our N.
T.W.U. has paid great attention to
winning the textile working women.
Of course, this is of primary i'm
portance to US because without the
women we can win none of our
struggles.
In the industry generally over
so per cent of the textile workers
are women and in some of the most
important branches of the industry
(rayon, knit goods, silk-throwing,
etc.t women are a predominating
majority.
Almost so women delegates out
of total of about $50, attended
out national convention. Of our
small National Executive Committee
of 1873 are women. These 3 women
are now full time organizers in the
field. Our National Executive has
a standing women's subcommittee
which is already working out full
program of work both for the fam
lilies (wives, sisters, etc. of textile
workers and for the women textile
workers themselves.
Our demands for the working
women are as follows:
l. Equal pay for equal work.
2. Minimum wage for women.
3. No night work.
4. Prohibition of work in heavy
and dangerous occupations.
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The present strike of Bombay,
India, mill workers which the Brit
ish government tried toturn into a
religious war, by the use of import
ed strikebreakers who were Moham-
medan Pathans, and by constant
provocation, was not the first bat
tie of these workers.
1t follows the victorious strike, a
year ago, of 10000 textile workers
in Bombay, which is described in
the following article by the Labor
Research Association.
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not seek to penetrate the inner mean
ing of the events he pictures, con-
tenting himself with being merely
paradoxical. This won him a tenn
porary popularity at time when
literary works dealing with the re-
volution were novelty. At present
Soviet readers, regardless of their
social status, demand more serious
achievements from their novelists.
Among the intellectuals of the old
regime who personally accepted the
new, but whose works could only
skim the surface of revolutionary
Russia, is Alexis Tolstoy. His
"Aelita", Engineer CAIRNS Hyper
bole" and "Blue Cities" are we'll
planned, plastic and entertaining.
His more recent works reveal lean
ing to the new bourgeoisie created
by the NEP new economic policy,
since 1920. A writer of a similar
calibre, is Fedin, whose Towns and
Years." deal with the civil war, and
"Transvaal"-with the village under
NEP.
Sooner or later Soviet literature
was bound to turn from the civil war
to the reconstruction period. The
best known novel reflecting this
transition is Feodor Gladkov's Gee
ment". The romanticism which
marked the proletarian literature of
the first period still clings to this
book; but this time the problems of
the new society are correctly APP
preached and lines are projected
pointing to socialist construction. A
number of realistic works dealing
with the period of peaceful economic
growth followed, notably Lyashko's
1.-THE Blast Furnace, and Lidin's
"The Ships Are Coming"
Soviet writer's also began to por-
tray the new types of people evolved
by the new society. Excellent por-
traits are presented in Lebedinsky's
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In the mert ndmen aywood tells Of the 1905 convention of
the W. f. of M Of the first convention the Industrial Workers Of
the World of uhick
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What Labor Union Should Be, as Stated by the
Industrial Union Manifesto at the
Birth of the |. WV.

precious chapters Haywood told Of his early life as MINER
cowboy homeseader IN the Old West member OF the
Western Miners of finally being elected to head the
WF: of Colorado; of the conference at
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Craft divisions foster political ignorance among
the workers. thus dividing their class at the ballot
box as we'll as in. the shop mine and factory
Craft unions may be and have been used to assist
employers in the establishment of monopoes and the
raising of prices. One set of workers is thus used
to make harder the conditions of life OF another
body of workers.
Craft divisions hinder the growth of class consci-
BUSINESS of the workers, foster the idea of harmony
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Bv WILLIAM d. HAYWOOD.
PART 55.

CRAFT jealousy attempt create trade monopo
Prhbve initiation established that force to become
scab against their manne circumstances have
thereby fined when they seek to transfer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-12-18
COUNTY BOARD
HOLDS MEETING
Official Proceedings of Board
of County Commits
SiOnerS

Auditors Office, Redwood County
MINI. Redwood Falls, Mimi, Deem
Der 3, 1889.
The Board of County Commission
ers convened in a special session at
10 o'clock A. NJ, on the above given
date.
Members of the Board were all
present.
The following bills were allowed:
Nels Larsen, expenses attend
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agriculture we have been chiefly
interested in developing socializa-
ton and giving aid to the village
poor. We have promoted to a wide
extent the building of workers
houses in the factory districts.
The chief care of our communal
economy has been to serve the work
ing class districts and the working
population, etc. This does not mean
that no errors have been committed
with respect to the class line in some
individual cases, for instance in the
distribution of agricultural credits
and in the frequent failure to adhere
strictly enough to the directive en-
acting that 70 to so per cent at least
of the newly erected houses should
be occupied by workers, etc. Such
errors must be- corrected with the
utmost energy.
We have set ourselves the task
of the cultural revolution in it's full
lest extent. At the present time the
cultural revolution is the most i'm
portant link in the chain of our con-
structive work.
And now to the results of economic
development in Moscow and the Mos
cow Gubernia (province or govern
ment).
During the past tive years we
have invested $40 million rubles in
the various branches of economy
Of this sum $40 million rubles have
fallen TO industry. For the present
economic year 1928-29 alone provi-
sion has been made for capital in
vestments to the amount of $40 mil
lion rubles $3.50 million rubles for
Industry. These capital invest
ments have been utilized as follows:
Doubles Output.
In the course of two years the
production of the industry of Mos
COW and it's environs has increased
by 81 per cent. The industry con-
trolled directly by the Moscow COM
munal administration Moscow Eco
nomic Council) has shown especially
rapid progress: 1t has doubled its
output in two years.
During the last economic year
(1927-28), the production of those
branches of industry Tin the city
and gubernia of Moscow which are
manufacturing means of production
increased by 3f.5 per cent, those
manufacturing articles of consump-
ton by 25.3 per cent. The capacity
of the power stations has been in
creased by 30 per cent.
In spite of bad crops, the total
agricultural production of our gu
hernia has risen by 6 per cent and
the proportion of this output form.
ing commodity by IA per cent. The
area under cultivation has been in.
creased by 4.6 per cent, "a per cent
of the total arabic land is already
being titled on the multiple course
system. In 1929 five times as
much fertilizer Was distributed as
in the year before, but even this
quantity failed to satisfy the whols
demand of the peasant farmss The
INFLAMMATION of the peasant farms
has made considerable progress.
Collective Farming Increases.
The number of collective farms
has more than doubled during the
past two years (from 225 collective
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14
By UCHANOV.

Our Party is pursuing deter
mined course towards the complete
reconstruction of our backward
technic and economy. We have at
the same time set ourselves the task
of developing agricultural produc-
tive forces on the basis of a refor-
nation of our extremely backward
agricultural technics, to be accom-
plished by extensive Specialization and
| by improvement of the individual
agricultural undertakings of the
poor and middle peasantry.
Our economic policy is directed
towards Strengthening every aspect
of the Socialist sector of our econo-
my, and we are attacking the CAPT
talist elements all along the line.
Hand in hand with the reconstruc-
ton of our economy, we are pro-
ceeding uninterruptedly-in contra
distinction to the capitalist countries
with the Improvement of the ma
terial position of the working class
and of all toilers.
Growth of City Economy.
What have we attained by means
of this policy? First of all a gen
eral and considerable growth of our
economy and especially of our indus
try. The rate of development of our
industry is increasing from year to
year. In the course of the economic
year 1926-27 the production of our
industry increased by IS per cent,
and in 1929 by 22.7 per cent.
This rate has been made possible
only with the aid of extensive CAPT
tai investments. During the last
three years (including the present
economic year 1928-29), the capital
freshly invested in the industry of
the Soviet Union has amounted to a
billions of roubles.
The level of our technics Is rising,
even if not so rapidly as is actually
necessary and as we might wish.
The productivity of labor is also
growing. In 1929 it increased by
14.5 per cent, and further rise of
II per cent is to be attained in the
present economic year.
Agriculture Progressing.
Agriculture has also made prog
ress during the last few years, al
though the speed Of its development
is insufficient. We must accelerate
this development, in order to en-
sure our success in the continued
rapid industrialization of our econ
omy. The rate at which our grain
production develops is especially in
sufficient.
For the purpose Of accelerating
the development of agriculture, we
are giving support at the same time
to the individual farms of the poor
and middle peasants. We must, how
ever, never forget that radical
improvent of agriculture, and its
technical reformation, can be accom-
Iplished only on the basis of collec-
Invitation, on the basis of the devel-
opment of large-scale agricultural
undertakings.
Everyone knows that our work
besides it's great successes, reveals
numerous faults. All these faults
must be subjected to the severest
self-criticism. This is the only way
to remove them.
In our work we have adhered
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of diplomatic manoeuverng and the shipment of arms
it has already begun Yankee intervention for any
only mperialist against the of Mexico
The cassconscou workers of this country s be prepared
to resist to the extreme of their the mperas crimes
of the United States government in Latin America
Our greatest is the samethe bloated cruel ruth
less mperalist ruling class and of the Dollar
Empire.
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.HA Y WOODS
q ''' ''': ' ::::;; :, .;::.; BOOK
Haywood Discusses Skilled and Unskilled
Workers; He Organizes the BrOncho
Busters and Range Riders

In precious chapters Hoyood told of his early life miner
boy and homeseader IN the Old Vest of being union the
Idaho nnes his election finally head the Western Federation Of
Miners ats strikes IN Idaho Colorado; the leading
organization Of the LWW Chicago He speaking
that first convention of the IW.W. Now reading
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By VIM. d. HAYWOOD
PART SO.

Mt the ratification meeting whcih followed delegates spoke
"A them myself. said in part
organization which launched neither
creed COLOR previous condition of vude We
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of the West getting more wages per day
than these getting. We recognize the fact
that unless we bring them up to condition they
of necessity will drag down to theirs We propose
that this industrial movement shall provide for every
and woman that works, decent livelihood. Is
that something worth working for?
"Now understand me--or rather. do not mis-
understand me: do not that this organization
is going to improve the condition of purely the skilled
workers. but mean we are going to get at the mass