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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Socialists Would Save
Austrian Fascists from
Workers TheyAttacked

VIENNA, (By Mai).-The ex-
citement and indignation amongst
the workers in industrial lower
Austria at the fascist attack upon
the Workers Home in Glognitz is
still high. In the Hart mine near
Glowitz the workers have gone on
strike in order to force the owners
to dismiss number of fascist en-
ployees who are known to have
taken part in the attack on the
workers.
The social-democratic leaders are
doing their best to calm down the
workers. In the industrial districts
a number of conferences are taking
place and being addressed by Karl
Renner as the representative of the
Central Committee of the Austrian
Social Democratic Party. Renner is
pleading for discipline and sub
ordination to the instructions of the
Central Committee.
Communist Slogans,
The fascist press abuses the So
cial-democracy and declares that it
will taste more of the same medicine
in the near future.
The Communist Party of Austria
has appealed for demonstrations in
Vienna and in the industrial dis
tricts of Lower Austria, and de-
mands that the workers see to it that
in the future every public meeting
and demonstration of the fascists is
broken up as has been done on a
number of occasions in Vienna by
the workers under the leadership
Of the Communist Party.
The "Rote Fahne" (The "Red
Flag" the official organ of the Aus
trian Communist Party) publishes
the following slogans for the work
ers in the struggle against fascism:
Mass action by the workers in the
industrial districts, strikes, demon
strations in the factories, the for
nation of anti-fascist defence COM
mittees, and the arming of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.--Chicago may
rot see the feature picture, produced
y the Workers international Re-
ief, showing the heroic struggle Of
he Pennsylvania and Ohio miners.
The censorship board considers that
he picture is "prejudicial to a class
If citizens, setting them open to
corn and ridicule; incites to riot,
,elling the audience to r-cak the
avs of our cou-' T."
The whole scene showing the
sroup Of miners children waylaying
/, scab and beating him up with fists,
ticks and stones is taboo. Such
onduct on the part of American
hildren is scandalous, says the GEN.
ors. "They are committing a law
SIS deed, that worker (sic) had a
effect right to work and the chill
rem should be punished for beating
faithful workers and the parents
lould be punished for permitting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
The NeW "P10gyesSlves" IN the
American Federation OF Labor

finds its first expression in strug-
gle against this union officialdom
and its treachery."
Today we must add to that infor-
nation, that struggle against the re-
dictionary A. F. of L. leadership
and its social-reformist policy, re-
quires an equally determined strug-
gle against the illusions of the fake
progressives with their semi-left,
semi-socialist phrases and their
treacherous activities. We must add,
that the working class must break
sharply with all the old theories of
trade union legality" which called
for surrender to the old officials
whenever the struggle became acute,
in order to prevent the officials
from splitting the union. Today
the workers must be prepared for
the actual organization of revolu-
tionary trade unions separate from
and fighting against the class-col-
laborationist, social-reformist A. F..
of L., organizationally and politi-
cally.
More than four years ago we
said:
"The superficial observer of
events in the labor movement
judges that the labor, movement
IS becoming more and more reac-
tionary, that the masses are being
brought under the control of capt.
talism more and more completely
than ever before. Such a judg-
ment is mistaken indeed, for the
very opposite is true. The basic
reason for this concerted swing
to the right of the officialdom,
for this studied and systematic
cooperation with all the varying
forces and institutions of capital
ism, is the fact that the masses
are swinging to the left, are being
disillusioned, are becoming radi-
Called. The reactionary official
dom cannot go along with the
broad, sweeping rehabilitation of
the masses, without making a
clean break with their peaceful
past. They are either corrupt
agents of capitalism, or are timid
bureaucrats seeking nothing but a
peaceful office life with a secure
salary. In either case, their re-
action toward the seething rank
and file unrest is one of fear, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
ae Co. Guilty OF Murder Roasting Worker DEATH Correspondent Says

tendents. firemen, oilers, handymen,
elevator operators, mechanics and
all other building service and power
plant workers must be organized in
to one union in order to force de-
cent standards, wages and hours
from the bosses.
Meetings Of the Amalgamated
Power Plant and Building Service
Workers Union are held every We'd
nesday, at 8 p. M, at the Labor
Temple, 2E3 E. 84th ST., New York
City. All workers are invited to at
tend the meetings Of our union and
join in order to abolish the Inbear-
able conditions in our trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
By EARL BROWDER.

The 'new progressives" have set
themselves to convince the workers
that it is possible to find middle
course between the reaction of the
A. F. of L. leadership on the one
hand, and the revolutionary union
ism of the left wing on the other
hand. Their position is not inaptly
described by their own principal
spokesman, A. j. Music, as "an I'M
comfortable seat in the middle of
the fence, spending most of their
time perhaps in protesting to the
Communists that they were not A.
F. of L.ers and to the A. F. of L.
that they were not Communists"
This seat on the middle of the fence
is, however, only verbal position,
designed to deceive the masses. Ac-
tually in every struggle they have
been, and will continue to be, on
the side of the A. F. of l.. bureau
Gratis, on the side of class collabora-
ton, which means on the side of the
capitalist class. They will continue
in the future, as they have in the
past, to fight against the left wing
to the last ditch. owe fought
them to the last ditch" boasts
James Oneal, in New Leader, Feb.
2, while pleading for a little, just
a very little, tolerance for his group
from VOL, Green G. Coz
The words we addressed in 1924
to the workers of America regard
ing these middle of the road pro-
gressives," as they like to call them
selves, hold true today with added
emphasis. At that time we said:
Struggle between the official
oligarchy at the head of the A.
F. of L. and the militant section
of the membership is becoming
more bitter, not because anyone
has decreed that it be so, but be-
cause the struggle between the
working class and the capitalist
class is becoming more intense.
The inner-union struggle is a
primary fact in the class strug-
gle, because the workers find it
impossible to attack the employing
class while the union bureaucracy
stands in the way. Because the
official oligarchy protects capt.
talism against the workers, there
fore the class struggle inevitably
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

the tenants arrive, and has to bank
his fires and close up the place after
everybody has left, besides running
an elevator all day. The wages for
this exhaustive work average from
S22 to $50 per week.
In the launderies the engineers
and firemen work from 10 to so
hours a week, with wages for engi-
peers from $40 to $50 and firemen
from $50 to $35 per week.
S4-Hour Week.
In the hotels, wages and conditions
vary. They cannot be accurately es-
timated, as the small hotels work
their men IL hours day and 7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
ON FOR BUILDING SERVICE AND POWER WOR

hospitals or power plants the open
shop is prevalent, with conditions
worse than in any other industry.
While other workers are fighting
for the 5-day, z0-hour week, thou
sands of maintenance workers have
to work I days a week and u hours
a day.
Three Jobs For One Man.
A worker in a loft building. who
runs an elevator for passengers and
freight combined, has a boiler to
tend to. He has to be on the job
one hour before anybody enters the
building, in order TO get up steam
and have the building warm before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

days week. Some hotels pay by
the month, others by the week.
The high-speed elevator operators
in office buildings have wages rang
ing from $22 to $27 per week, but
in small office buildings they pay
SIS to SIS per week.
TIL apartment house workers are
worse off yet. Their wages are
very low. They depend on tips, eat
the food left over by the tenants,
make use of old shoes ana clothes
and collect bottles, paper and junk
to sell. These workers quit their
Jobs quite often, because of urbear-
able conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
LAY OFF FOR
WORKERS IN
POTTSTOWN, PA.
Replace McClintic Co
Men With Women
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PCTTSTOWN, Pa (By MaiD.-
Workers at the Spicer Manufacture
ing Company and McClintic- Mar
shall plants in Potstown were shown
what Hoover prosperity" means fol-
the workers when conditions wert
lowered by these firms.
At the former plant half of the
men engaged in the manufacture Of
universal joints and automobile
parts have been laid off and theii
places taken by women. At tn,
McClintic- Marshall structural iror
works extra pay and supper al
lowance when the workers are
forced to slave overtime have beer
abolished.
Some of the women who have beer
hired at the Spicer plant are the
wives of the men who were laid off
for they had to go to work wher
their husbands were jobless a long
time.
When McClintic- Marshall discon
tinued the supper allowance Of 7t
cents an hour and $1.25 night bonus
for overtime, which was poor enough
ray for overtime, the men struck
The bosses then fired 200 men
many of them having worked there
for years and years. A number OF
these discharged men were later re.
hired at reduced wages. The wages
were reduced from 80 cents an houl
to 80 and 35 cents an hour, less thar
half of the pay than before the wage
cut.
The treasurer of this MeClintic.
Marshall Co. is Henry Mellon, re.
publican leader and of the Andy
Mellon family.
]. A. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

One could go on reciting case
after case, but time and space is
limited.
a. r. of L. Takers Ignore Them.
The American Federation of La
Dor takers have done and will do
nothing to organize these terribly
exploited workers to improve their
conditions and wages. The Anal
gamated Power Plant and Building
Service Workers Union is carrying
on a campaign to organize all work
ers in the production and application
of light, heat, power and service to
buildings, apartments, hotels and
factories. All engineers, superin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
INCINERATOR'S
ARCHES LOOSE
BY co. NEGLECT
Union Men Fired for
Activities
"a q Worker Correspondentl

iBy q W 0fHeT Correspondent
The other day three workers in
the engine room of the warehouse
of Bloomingdale's-the millionaire
department store-were discharged
in Long Island City for union activi-
ties, because they took the lead in
getting the other workers to demand
q decent living wage. The ware
house is located at % Hunters Point
Ave, Long Island City.
The wages paid in the engine
rooms Of the Bloomingdale ware
house are $40 a week for engineers,
$50 q week for firemen, S34 for
handymen, but in the Bloomipgdale
store in New York City the wages
are $40 for the engineers and $35
for the firemen. The workers in the
warehouse were seeking the same
level of wages, at least, as the store
was paying. The men were getting
up a petition for 5etter wages. In
describing conditions in the ware
house in Long Island City, I must
tell of an incident that happened last
August.
Due TO the wish Of this millionaire
firm to save a few dollars, Joseph
Taylor, fireman in the warehouse
engine room was roasted to death
last August when he fell into the
incirerator. This incinerator was in
awful condition. Both of the arches
were loose and Taylor fell into the
fire and was roasted to death, due
to the negligence of the company,
for I had pointed out to The chief
engineer a week before that the
incinerator was in this condition. A
little while before this one of the
arches had fallen. when was On it,
and stepped off just in time, or I
you'd have been burned to death.
When I told the engineer Of the con-
dition. he told me to fix it a little,
hut 1 refused, fer the company
should have gotten new arch in
stead Of merely making a makeshift
~epair or tying UP the loose arch.
IF ] had made this makeshift repair,
ard something happened, as it did
when Taylor fell into the fire, |
would have been made the goat and
would have been sent to Jail, for I
am a licensed engineer. The chief
engineer had q handyman tie up the
loose arch, and the result was that
the fireman, Taylor, was burnt to
death a week later Thus, l say the
3loomingdale company is guilty of
murder.
Here is something to remember,
Not line of this accident appeared
n anv CT the capitalist papers, for
he Bloomingdale millions hushed the
natter up. The Bloomingdale COM
many gives thousands of dollars in
advertisements to the capitalist
oaperc, so they are willing to hush
such accidents up.
I told the investigator" from the
insurance company the facts Of the
accident, and said / was willing to
appear as a witness any time, but,
IF course, the insurance company
hushed it up.
Thus the Bloomingdale company.
whose department store is patron
ized by union men, discriminates
against union men, and discharges
workers for union activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Report S300,0O0,OO0
Merger of 3 Farm
Implement Companies

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. % W.R.
The South Bend News Times to-
day said a merger Of three large
farm implement companies has
been completed.
The companies named are the
Oliver Chilled Plow Co., of South
Bend, the Nichols Shepard Co., of
Battle Greek, Mich, and the Hart
Parr Company of Charles City,
Iowa, the paper said.
The new concern, according to the
News Times, would have resources
of $300,000,000 or more, making ii
a rival of the International Har-
vester Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
1By a Worker Correspondent

The bosses throughout the city
are making drive to reduce the
wages ard hours of power plant and
building service workers. The six
day week jobs are being changed to
scven-day week jobs. Many jobs
are being reduced to low pressure
and between the steam service and
the Edison Company the engineer
ing profession is becoming more
miserable every day.
The men working in this industry
are almost all unorganized. In loft,
office building, factories, laun6eries,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

retreat to the protecting arms of
the masters, the capitalist en-
ployers.
"Let the rank and file workers
make no mistake about this
there is no middle of the road
course between the demoralizing,
disruptive, disastrous policies of
collaboration with the capitalist
class, on the one hand, and the
path of revolutionary class strug-
gle on the other.
"Our movement has had exper-
fence with the timid progressives,
who, in words, are loudly against
the reactionary leaders, but who,
when decisive moment arrives,
turn and run. Or, as we now
know, turn and join the bureau
cracy and fight against the left
wing. SIN reality such pro-
gressives are camouflaged follow
ers and servants of the most reac-
tionary officialdom. Progress to-
wards greater power for the
working class can never come
from such people. But their role
is the inevitable one for all who
seek halfway course. The issue
is between the revolutionary class
struggle or reactionary class
collaboration. Every worker must
make his choice"
We understand more fully today
than four years ago, the treacher-
Gus role of the "progressives," as
the bearers of social-reformism even
into the ranks of the left wing work
ers themselves. We will no longer
waste our energies and time in dis
astrous attempts to work with these
fake progressives. We will never
again become involved in such
treacheries as the ending of the Pas
sale strike, where we shameful
page in our own history made use
of the "progressives" to lead the
new union into the A. F. of L., there
to be cut to pieces and destroyed.
We will never again put forward
such progressive" as Brophy as
leader for the tens of thousands of
revolutionary miners, who have
nothing but contempt for such SPINE
less cutters. We are entering upon
new course, blazed out by the
creative energies of the working
masses who jolted the organized
left wing sharply when it itself hest
tated-the course of independent
struggle, independent leadership, in
dependent organization, inside and
outside of the existing trade unions,
for the building of new trade unions
especially of the unskilled and semi
skilled in the basic industries, for
the creation of new national CEN
ter for revolutionary trade union
ism, and relentless struggle
against all forms of lass-collabora-
ton, of social-reformism, of surren-
der to the capitalist class. The
working class is entering upon a
new period of sharp mass struggles.
1t must arm itself with new and
modern weapons, in policies, in
leadership, and in organization.
X
The last installment of this ar
ticle by Earl Browder, to be printed
in tomorrow's issue, will take up the
struggle for revolutionary leader
ship, and the perspectives for the
future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Jug0slav Dictator to
Try to Win CrOat Chief

VIENNA, Feb. 25.--King Alex
ander, who has set up a dictator
ship in Jugoslavia with the support
of the French and British i'm
perialists, will soon proceed to Ia
greb, Croatian capital, for lengthy
stay, it was reported here.
1t is believed that the royal die
tator will attempt to offer the lead
ers Of the Croatian Peasant Party
some inducement for their full
hearted allegiance to the dictator
ship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
RIVERSIDE.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Interference" starring
Evelyn Brent, Doris Kenyon, Give
Brook and William Powell. On the
vaudeville program: Flora Le-
Breton, Joseph E. Howard; Willie,
West and McGinty.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
am Greeenway and the Leavitt and
lockwood Unit; feature photoplay,
Marked Money" starring Junior
Toghlan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
TRAIN DISPATCHERS WIN IN
CREASE.

TORONTO, (By MaiD.-Organ-
I'D train dispatchers on the Cana
dian National Railways have won
an increase Of $3.50 month on
lines east, and $40 a month on lines
west, bringing the wages to $257.5O
and $3.50 month respectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

The petit-bourgeois, "gone mad
from the horrors of capitalism, is /;
social phenomenon which. like anar
chism. is characteristic of all CAPT
taIist countries.-V. I. Lenin ("Left
Comm unfsm).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

OF all the classes that stand face
to face with the bourgeoisfe today
the prOletariat alone is a really revo-
lutiOnary c1ass.-Karl Marx (COm-
munist ManifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

Charlie Chaplin pictures which does
not warrant revival. 1t is no better
than Mack Sonnet comedy of the
same era. But You have to laugh,
just the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
SHOEMAKERs STRIKE.

MARLBORO, Mass, (By MaiD.-
The 20 shoemakers Of the Madison
Shoe Co. here have gone on strike
for higher wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
HIPPODROME.

Fannie Ward, Noree and Conn
pany, Walter Dare" VAIL, with
Emmett Oldfield; Glenn and Jen-
l,ins, Philson and Duncan, and fea-
ture photoplay, Captain Lash" "
Earring Victor McLaglen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Vaudeville Theatres
PALACE.

PALACE.
The Duncan Sisters, James Bar
ton, Rudy Vale, Watson Jr., Big
Bill" Blomberg's Alaskans, Weston
and Lyons, Danny Small and "The
Creole Belle and Christianson's
Horcac
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-07-27
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the construction Of Q modern road,
built to withstand the gruel'.ng traffic
conditions OF this age, could be done
only by highly skilled and expensive
labor if we diG not have these ma
chimes. But in countries like Bolivia,
Japan, Cuba and the Argentine, there
IS a wealth Of common labor eager to
work, at fraction Of the cost Of
similar labor in America, and for much
less than it would cost to bring in
and operate machinery that could do
the work as we'll. These people in
their own countries axe able to per-
form certain types Of wor': more eco
uonlcally than it could be done By
machinery in those countries.
"When we were supervising t,,e con-
structlon O: hi-.,..:-..y II Japan" Mr..
Dearborn sa:! we he'd anticipated
The trouble CT bringing i: lot Of ex-
pensive and heavy equipment by a
survey of what types Of work could be
best performed by machine and what !
by hand. But we were surprised to
~r.~~ 49, Ia
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-07-27

With the spread Of the motor
vehicle to all civilized parts Of the
globe, has come demand for roads
that will stand up under heavy auto
traffic. Since Americans have had
most experience with the wear OF
automobiles ON roads, the foreign au-
thorit!es are coming to America for
expert advice in making highways
that can sterd the wear Of heavily
loaded trucks and vast numbers OF
cars.
When the Japanese executives Of
OSAKA wanted q stretch OF fine mod
ern highway, they engaged Warren
Brothers, famed road engineers Of
Boston. to supervise the Job. The
ancient city of Valencia, Spain. also
engaged Warren Brothers, who sent
over the most modern road machinery
and skilled road experts and installed
O laboratory to test the materials 60
ing into the streets.
eThe old city Of Bogota. situated on
a lofty Andean plateau, decided It
must have modern streets and again
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-07-27

M p Pug SSas9n as regular and old enough to vote
leads the majors runs baed in according to the official aveasa
uee Jqy H. Fans all over the country breahsy watchno
ms efort to get the home from Ruth Cehe o-nts
6ottoniley Wilson Hafey and the other ucre
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-07-27
Warren Bros. Famed Road Engi-
neers, Send Experts Abroad to
Supervise Making American
Type Streets.

eign countries is precisely the same
that they have laid II tie United
States.
The pavement used IS known as
Warrenite-Bitulithic and is a type
especially designed to resist the in
PRODUCTION of moisture into the road.
and to stand up under the heaViest
sort of automobile traffic.
Modern street making plants and
laboratories and road making nnachin-
cry were set up abroad. But much Of
our road building machinery, accord
ing to Mr.. John Dearborn, President
of Warren Brothers Company, has not
yet proved itself more efficient than
some types of native labor abroad.
1.-THE bodybuilding equipment now
used in America" MIR. Dearborn state
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.-Ia EkNSdae q og0sg Q.s.LgI..5,
An f!es killed ara bred and devel.

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o,...i g, S'~-'~'r'1 - e. C'-'oaro la'o"2-
tory. For the tests 20 be exact, the
. IS OF tac E.2' Il-iaL must be the
came. Flies arc sail to be at the
height of their res!stive powers at five
days. and all the pests killed are OF
that age. BY breeding their c"A flies
instead of capturing them promlscu-
ously. the entomolcgists conducting
the tests are certain all their prey are
the required age.
The flies, hardest Of all winged IN
sacts, are exposed to the fumes Of the
LIQUID in the air-tight death chamber
for periods of ten minutes. From
nlnety-dve to 100 per cent Of the
100 flies killed st a time are down al
] the expiration, O. thu period. They
are Their KEEP. for twenty-foug hours