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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Bodies of Imperial
Victims in USSR Here

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the fact that she capitalist govern
ment was responsible for their
deaths.
After the government which sent
the soldiers to their death has given
official "honors" here, the bodies
will be sent to Michigan for burial.
Most of the soldiers were from
Michigan and were members of the
339th Infantry, the 31oth Engineers
and the 3S7th Ambulance Company.
The seventy-five bodies were
found in unmarked shallow graves
into which they were dumped by
orders of the army officers in COM
mand Of the impefialist expedition.
The Michigan regiment to which
these men belonged was the one
which threw q fright into their Of
ficers by their refusal to fight any
longer for Wall Street against the
workers of the Soviet government.
The American authorities hastily
brought the regiment back to the
United States in the openly admit
ted fear that they might join the
Red Army against imperialist pow
ers. AS a result Of propaganda and
contact with the Red Army, the
American soldiers began to realize
the purpose for which they were
sent.
The bodies of these workers who
were sacrificed in the imperialist at
tack will be used in an effort to stir
up hate against the Soviet Union
and to prepart for another imper-
ialist attack in which many thou
sands of workers would be called
upon to give their lives in fighting
the only workers fatherIand, the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
IS PERCENT IN
US, STEELS ARE
BARRED IN VOTE
So Company Gets Own
Men on Committee
(Bv a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
CARTERET, N. j. (By MaiD.--
The notice was recently put up in
the U. S. Metals Refining Co. plant
here enumerating the rules and reg
ulations of the shop COMMITTEES.
This isn't workers shop commit
tee-it's a company-run affair.
The election of the committee, as
I wrote the Daily the other day, was
the third Wednesday in October.
The company's rule saying that
no worker who hasn't been with the
company at least three years can
be eligible as a committeeman
eliminated about 95 per cent of the
workers. This large percentage
was supposed to have selected the
men to handle their grievances.
Well, when these workers know they
cannot become committeeman, they
aren't taking lot Of interest IN
the elections.
The remaining five per cent who
are eligible are the companyS own
men. Practically all of them have
exclusive jobs, and they will elect
themselves to represent" the dis
enfranchuised 90 per cent of work.
ers in the U. S. Metals Refining Co.
Another thing in the regulations
only those at least 80 days in the
company's employ have the right to
vote. Due to the constant shift and
the danger from poisonous gas, this
kept at least rs per cent of the men
from voting.
It was a wonderful" shop COM
mittee selected" to represent" the
workers. Company lackeys! This
committee will be the instrument to
break the coming strike when the
workers revolt again.
They can have their company
shop committee, but we're going to
have our own workers. shop COM
mittee.-Maxim Tramp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Depression Getting
Worse: Federal Board

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issued by the Federal Reserve Board
on present economic conditions.
This statement was issued at the
same time that the National (Fas-
cist) Economic Council was sum-
moned to Washington for December
Is.
Latest reports are that the lead
ers of the American Federation of
Labor will be drawn into the work
of the fascist organization, and will
be given prominent roles in the at
tails on the stand I'd of living of
the '--:sri4an workers, which will be
the --;rst consideration of economic
war organization created by the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Here are some Of the gems of the
Federal Reserve Board which expose
as unadulterated bunk the "stabil-
ization" statements published by
Hoover, Green, Music and Lovestone.
There was decline of industrial
production, mainly in steel and auto
mobiles during October and a de-
crease in factory employment. E"
The Federal Reserve points out
that industrial production has been
declining for a long time but that
Industrial production declined fur
Their in October"
'Production in basic industries,
which had declined for several
months :. showed a further re-
duction," says the report.
"The decline in production reflect
ed chiefly further decreases in out
put of steel and automobiles. :. :. :.
Preliminary reports for the first half
of November indicate further reduc-
ton in output of steel and automo-
biles; and a decrease in cotton tex
tiles"
'The volume of (building) con-
struction further declined in the
early part of November. :. :.
Shipments of freight by railroads
decreased in October and the first
two weeks in November"
The picture painted by the Fed
eral Reserve, very biased artist in
favor of capitalism, is a much
blacker one than the optimistic
statements for the consumption of
the masses issued from the White
House crisis conferences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Ward BossSays Albany
Democratic Chiefs and
Asemblymen Got Bride

High lights in the testimony yes
terday of William F. Buchanan,
Democratic party ward heller in AL
bany, appearing as 4 witness in the
perjury trial Of James J. Otto in
the Federal court here, were that
prominent Democratic party ma
chine men and AssembIyman John
Boyle were getting q big rake-off on
the receipts Of the baseball gam
bling pool.
Buchanan said that he was told
by the operators of the pool that
two and half per cent of the pro-
ceeds would go for protection"
Buchanan himself demanded 81, 900
week from James w. Wright,
manager Of the pool, and said that
Wright told him that Boyle got only
$4,000 for the wohle season. Other
Assemblymen received brides, too,
he stated, and said that u part Of
the money went to Daniel Q'Connell
and his brother, Edward, Demo-
cratic bosses in Albany. A trial for
misuse of mails resulted in a per-
jury Indictment Of Otto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Labor" Minister Uses
SANDER on J O b e s S
Which Bosses Rejected

LONDON, Nov. 27.-With unem-
ployment growing steadily, and the
labor" government through j. H.
Thomas proposing wholly insuffi-
cient relief, Thomas recently came
forward, evidently as a "try-out" to
see if the laborites could get away
with it, with the idea that unem-
ployment relief was all wrong in
principle, as it "demoralized" the
workers receiving it, and intimated
that workers would not accept work.
There are now some 1,25O,O00 unem-
ployed registered.
Four years ago a committee of
economists, capitalists, of course,
made study of unemployment and
unemployment relief, publishing
their findings in book, "Unemploy-
ment Insurance in Great Britain"
(Macmillan), and to the question the
committee proposed sfor itself:
docs the present system diminish
the normal incentive to find work ?"
To this, these capitalist investigators
replied: "The assumption that work
ers prefer idleness and doles to
work and wages is obviously too
crude to fit the facts"
AS to the unemployed worker be-
ing "demoralized" by getting a few
shillings week to live on, one
questioner wants to know how de-
moralized Lord Carson, one of the
British nobility, is going to be, since
he has just retired on a government
pension of $3.50 per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
FINNISH LABOR MOVES TO LEFT,
BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT ATTACKS
IT, THREATENING WAR ON SOVIET
Hunger Strike of Political Prisoners and
Political General Strike Effective
Chief Industry Lumber, Cannot Compete
With Production in Soviet Karelia

On Nov. 16 we published the ae.
count of the hunger strike of the
political prisoners in Finland and
the general strike called on that day
by the Finnish trade unions. Two
days later wireless reports by In
preeorr stated that the Finnish gov
eminent had granted the demands
of the hunger strikers, although
the capitalist press, while silent on
this, had declared the strike had
failed" We therefore give an ac-
count, received from Finland, of the
national situation and the causes of
the hunger strike.-Editor.
HELSINGFORS.-Over 100 po-
litical prisoners initiated, on Nov.
10, a hunger strike. The reasons
for this are: The increased tor
menting of the prisoners and the
use Of brutal despotism against
them. In their proclamation the
hunger strikers appeal to the pro-
letariat of Finland and the world.
The workers representatives have
interpellated the government in the
Diet. The Trade Union movement
has declared general strike for the
18th. The White Guard government
confiscated all papers with the
strike proclamation and threatens to
suppress all strikes with force of
arms.
The social democratic leaders are
backing the white" government in
its actions and advise all workers to
stay at work. The minister of Gus
tice" has ordered the hardening of
the treatment in the prisons, on the
excuse of the severe economic crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Soviet Union Smashes
Ra ids of Militarists

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ments. The Wall Street imperialist,
Stimson, is contemplating some sort
of action but has not announced
what steps he will take on behalf
of United States imperialism. How
ever, it was announced by the State
Department that Stimson "would
make any move he considered war
ranted by Developments.
= u
LONDON, Nov. 27.-Dr. SEE, Chi
nese ambassador here, consulted
with Arthur Henderson, foreign Sec
cretary for ''his majesty's labor
government" as to the ACCESSIBILITY
of appealing to the League of Ma
tions against the Soviet Union.
The Chinese militarists were given
encouragement by the social-fascist
'labor" foreign secretary.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 27.-Dispatches
from Japan here today declare that
Chang Kai-shek has bribed the So
called Christian General, Feng Yu-
hsiang to stop his hostilities against
the toppling Chang Kai-shek gov
eminent.
The dispatch says:
president Chang Kai-shek, dur
ing his recent trip to Honan Pro-
vince, succeeded through Yen Hsi-
shan, "model" governor of Shansi,
in bribing Marshal Feng Yu-hsians
to order the Kuominchun to retreat
in return for $5,00O,OOO.
General Chang Kai-shek further
agreed to allow other factions in
various parts of China larger hand
in the Marking government, thereby
ending his domination of the party
and government"
r. V. Soong, finance minister of
the Marking government, has just
returned from hurried trip to Hon.
an. Soong controls the pocketbook
of the murderous Marking govern.
ment.
The success of the Soviet troops
in overwhelming the repeated provo.
cative raids into Soviet territory is
forcing Marking to patch up alliance
with whatever militarists can be
~ribed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28

And Finland is in serious crisis.
Its main industry, lumber, cannot
stand the competition of the lumber
oprduccd in Soviet Karelia. Lumber
export has dropped far and sudden
ly. The farmers for three years
have had bad crops. Unemployment
is growing by leaps and bounds.
Many industries are closing. The
masses are moving rapidly to the
left, and the open fascist terror,
supported by the socialist-fascists,
is very deliberately provoking a
fresh situation of civil war.
The Finnish bourgeoisie have
mortgaged the government rail-
ways, the public buildings and, to
some extent, the lumber industry
to American and British bankers.
At the same time military ex-
penditures for war against the So
Wet Union are increasing. Merci-
less taxes are inflicted on the agrar-
ian and industrial workers, from 10
to 20 per cent of their miserable
wages. Small farmers are going
bankrupt en- ,masse. The White
Guards are openly talking of an ex-
petition against the Soviet Union,
to avert the sharpening inner con-
tradictions Threatening the collopse
of this supposedly independent"
buffer state.
The Communist Party is, despite
Its illegality, undoubtedly the leader
of the Finnish proletariat. Just
because of its influence with the
workers, the fascists and socialist
fascists are revenging themselves
on the Communist prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Arrest Steel Worker;
Seek to Deport Him
and Leave 3 Kids Here

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 81. -
John Goretski. of Roscoe, Pa, a
steel worker at the Pittsburgh Co.,
mill at Allenport, was arrested to-
day on deportation warrant charg-
ing illegal entry. He was Jailed
when he applied for his second cit
;zenship papers. He arrived here
in 1920.
Goretski is held for $1,000 bond.
He is being separated from his wife
and four children, three Of whom
were born in America, and will be
held here if he is deported. The
children's mother lives here. Cor
etski is a member of the Slovak
Workers Society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
JAIL NEGRO WORKERS

MACON, Ga. (by maiD this
section, which is the center of the
National Textile Workers Union
drive for organization of the Geor-
gia mill workers, seven Negro
workers have been jailed in gen
eral roundup of Negro workers fol-
lowing the finding of the body Of
B. Morhead, white merchant. The
usual course of the courts here is
to railroad few Negro workers to
long years in prison on such &C.
casions as this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
IN THE SHOPS
Penn. Textile Tollers Strike
Against Firing NIU Worker

League that has given every assist
ance and leading the young workers
in a militant struggle against the
bosses is accepted by many young
workers in the mill They have raj
lied under the banner of the left
wing for the following demands:
(D A minimum wage of $50 per
week for the day shift. (2) A mini
mum wage of $25 for the night
shirt. (3) Eight-hour day and 40
hour week for all workers. az Two
rest periods. (5)
Organization into the mill local of
the N. T. w. U. and recognition of
this local by the boss. ~ Time and
a half for overtime. 80 Seven
frames instead of ten.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker spordent)
Tuesday night, Nov. 20, the night
shift of II boys in the West Park
Silk Mill went out on strike 100
per cent because one of the boys,
a member of the National Textile
Workers Union, was fired. He was
the third member who had been fired
from the mill in a very short time.
This strike is being led by the N. T.
W. U. in Scranton. This is but one
of the many struggles of the tex
tile workers here in the anthracite
section.
This strike is a small one, but
very significant. The role of the N.
7. w. U. and the Young Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Western Electric and
Northwestern Shops
Fire 11,0O0 Workers

CHICAGO, Nov. 27-The West
ern Electric Co. has already laid off
over 5000 workers, and is continuing
the policy of wholesale cutting down
of forces.
The Northwestern Railroad Co.
has laid off 5000 men. The highly
skilled workers, especially railroad
machinists, are being fired.
This does not jibe with the state
ments of the railroad executives who
attended Hoover's crisis conference
that they intend to keep up "nor-
NAL" activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Prosperity" Lies
Shown Up by More
Lay-Offs by Ford

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Nov. a.
Following closely on the announce
ment Of the laying off of 1000 Ford
workers in San Francisco, comes
the announcement that the Los An
eeles Ford plant plans to lay off
100 workers. Partial shut-downs
Of other Ford plants iii this part
Ut the country are also planned.
The continual lay-offs of auto
workers and shut-downs of the var
ious plants on the Pacific slope,
just as in Detroit, Cleveland and
other auto centers of the country,
expose the prosperity" lies spread
by the. capitalist press at the be-
hest of the open shop manufac-
turers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
TUUL Plans Drive in
Food, Autos, Building

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ments with bosses. 1t throws en-
phasis on shop committees this
case, food or restaurant committees.
1t is for a national conference on
organization, of organizing the pack
ing houses, for demanding a five-day
week, and sanitary regulations, now
much neglected, where food work
ers toll. It's tactics are for mill
tant strikes, mass picketing, and
mass violation of injunctions,
In the automobile industry, ra-
tionalization, the speed up, and eff
cheney schemes by the employers
were already causing unemployment
before the present industrial de-
preston struck home. Now unem-
ployment increases by leaps and
bounds, because factories are clos
ing down, going on part time, and
reducing forces everywhere.
Hard Hit Now.
Exports of automobiles kept the
American industrial system, partic-
ularly the steel industry, living on
in a hectic, feverish fashion, long
after the causes of industrial de-
preston were already dragging at
it. Fiercer competition with Euro
pean imperialist forces abroad, in
Guiding tariff wars, have now re-
duced the exports, and then automo-
biles, being a semi-luxury, are hit
hardest among the first of the in
dustries suffering the general de-
preston.
The T. U. U. l.. finds the automo-
bile workers ready to organize and
fight. A convention, with repre-
sentation from the shops, the un-
employed, and the unorganized, is
being called before long by the au-
tomobile workers union. 1t will
start strong organizational drive
in the industry and will be preceded
and prepared for by conferences,
mass meetings, and special attention
to Negro workers, young workers,
and women workers, all of whom
play a large part in the auto in
dustry.
Building Boom Ends.
The decrease in building, the T.
U. U. l.. board found, has been 60
ing on for some time and is falling
more rapidly now. The financial
journals, the Annalist, clearly state
that building is already overdone,
and must cease. This does not mean
that the number of workers homes
is too great, but that the profitable
supplying of middle class homes
and apartments, office buildings,
and industrial construction has come
to an end. Workers will be left to
crowd themselves two or three fam
lilies in an apartment the same as
before--for they cannot afford bet
ter quarters at the rates landlords
are able to charge.
The number of unemployed build
ing workers is considerable already
and is certain to grow.
Program and Conference.
The building trades committee Of
the r. u. u. L. is working out an
organizational program and is in
structed to consider calling a ma
tional conference before long and
place field organizers at work. The
old union bureaucraeies have done
nothing whatever to meet the col
lapse of the building boom. Greater
attention to securing T. U. u. L..
members in the old unions and out
side of them is urged upon the
building committee by the I. u. u.
l.. national board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
Soldiers Killed i'm
War on Soviet Union
Brought to America

The steamship President Roosevelt
of the U. S. Line is expected to ar
rive tomorrow with the bodies of rs
soldiers who were killed in the war
of American Imperialism on the So
Wet Union in 1919, in an attempt
to crush the Russian workers and
peasants government.
A united front of all the imperial
list nations was established in Arch
angel in 1919 directed against the
Soviet Union. The Red Army was
victorious. The American soldiers,
most of whom were auto workers
from Detroit, mutinied several times.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
500 MILLION FOR WAR.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2:.-War
expenditures for 1888 have been adj
vanced to $sO3,OOO,0O0, an increase
of $120,o00,000 as compared with
last year. The fact that the pres
ent expenditures are nearly four
times greater than the pre-war mil
itary outlay is indicative of the
rapid war preparations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-28
GULF SHIPPING
BOSSES JAIL 3
Scared by Influence of
M. w. L.
(Coutiuued from Pare One)

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Workers League on the Gulf Coast,
just as the Pacific Coast shippers
are frightened, the shipping bosses,
expressing they are determined to
stamp out the militant organization
to which the seamen are responding,
resorted to the use of Act "a, passed
during the imperialist world war, in
the attempt to railroad the two sea-
men.
A statement issued by George
Mink, national secretary of the Ma
rine Workers League, with head
quarters at 2S South Street, New
York, characterized the arrest of
Aaronson and Davis as a concerted
action by the shipping bosses, the
reaetionary misleaders of the Inter-
national Seamens Union, and the In
ternational Longshoremens Associ-
alton, as we'll as the textile mill
owners.
"The shipping bosses and the mis-
leaders of the A. F. of L. seamens'
and longshoremens' unions realize
the rapid growth of the M. w. l..
among the seamen, to the extent
that they have attacked two of our
locals, both little more than a month
old.
"The Marine Workers League Or
ganizers have not only shown their
organizational strength among the
seamen, but have also shown their
solidarity with the southern mill
workers.
"The reign of terror against mil
liant workers, in San Pedro, New
Orleans, or any other port will net
prevent the M.W.L. from proceeding
with its drive to organize the ex-
plotted seamen, and from fighting
the reactionary I.L.U. and LILA.
takers.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Nov. 81. -
The steel trust, having succeeded in
railroading three workers in Mar
tins Ferry, Ohio, to possible ten
year terms in prison, will attempt
to railroad three more workers,
members of the Communist Party,
in Bethlehem, on December 1. This
is the date on which the trial Of
William Murdoch, Anna Burlack,
and William Brown begins, on
charges of "sedition."
These three militant workers were
arrested when a May Day demon
stratior was attacked and broken
up by the police in Bethlehem, ac-
ting at the orders of the Bethle-
hem Steel Co. They have been cut
on $4,000 bail.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Nov. 27.
An ancient Virginia state law
will be used in the attempt to rail
road Stephen Graham, member of
The Communist Party, who is
charged with "ineiting the Negroes
to rebellion"
Graham was arrested several
weeks ago when he addressed a
meeting of both Negro and white
workers of the Southern Spring Co.
The international Labor Defense is
defending him. Graham has also
been threatened with deportation to
fascist Jugoslavia, where probable
imprisonment and possible execu-
ton awaits him.