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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04
The 1929 MODELS

1t is estimated that 25 million auto
mobiles will be registered for the
year 1929. Twenty years ago there
were only 100000 passenger cars IL
censed in the United States. There
are more hard-surfaced roads in many
single states today than existed IN
the whole nation in 1908. Thus, 1t Is
evident that automobile production
has furnished the most vivid and in
teresting picture exhibited in all our
industrial progress during the past
quarter of a century. 1t was good
deal less than 20 years ago that the
4-cylinder rattlers were the customary
equipment on most automobiles. Less
than ten years ago fabric tires
"blew cut" so frequently that many
automobile owners did not regard
themselves properly equipped unless
they carried with them a suit or two
Of overalls. There was not mucf
more style to the old automobile
than there was in push carts--thOugf
We didn't think that way at the time
The early cars were all painted blacl
and they were upholstered in blacE
leather.
Then out of the laboratories of in
dustrial chemists there appeared qulcl
drying lacquers and beautiful bodie
of varied duco colors at about tn
same time. Fabrikoid in beautifU
browns and other conservative color
began to liven up the interior uphol
STEERING.
The 1929 cars are now being show
. in the automobile salons and the frs
big display has just been held in Ne
4 York City. These 1929 cars posses
great many new mechanical feature
to add to the delight of motorists.
The most distinctive change is
i upholstering and the duPonts are r,
Il sponsible for it; for as that conce1
revolutionized the appearance of IL
II exteriors of cars with their lacquer
al they have succeeded in furnishing ne
rayon patterns and materials for u
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04

gestions, even directions and COM
nands, which it may not be wise
or even possible to follow.
No one person m the car has
the same angle of vision as the
driver. The distances which he
judges with his eye often seem
quite close to those in other seats
in the same vehicle. Even so, the
manoeuvres should pass without
comment, for that one outcry of
distrust, or expression of lack of
confidence, may be the cause of
making the driver swerve ever so
slightly to the right or left, thus
spelling his own judgment and
causing an accident.
Driving in traffic is a job which
demands attention and confidence,
and anything which tends to break
this attention or destroy a drivers
confidence in himself is unsafe
for all concerned. The person who
interrupts this continuity of coordi-
mated action is really a menace to
himself and others.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04

must withstand the sharp pui1 tba,, JeakS
and quick turns to winch ,t f a aLe
subjected and an adJusIhlenI .ile
front wheel bearings muss ~ ia
sionally made. The front mus nave
been equipped with taper roller Dear
ings making them easily accessible
and lessening the number OF ADJUST
ments necessary. -:
roller thrust bearings, one ABOVE and
one below, take up the thLus. u i tne
steering worm. A roller tnIus. pear
ing on the spindle bolts adus 70 the
ease of steering. :,
Through the use of Overslzed bal
bearings inside the armature' the Ell
ficiency and life of the generator nave
been increased. These armature bear
ings are immersed in oil, being en-
cased in a reservoir holding suffi
cient quantity of oil to last year
Because of this construction the pos
sibility of any oil working INTO tn
commutator and impairing the opera
ton of the generator is entlrely elm
mated.
In the transmission, roller bearing
are used to carry the cOuntershaft be
cause of their adaptability to the car
rying of radial loads such as th6s
to which this shaft is subjected. Flo
the same reason a roller bearing
used in connection between spine an
drive shafts, and these shafts in tur
revolve on ball bearings. A ball thruS
bearing is used for disengaging tn
clutch and the front end of the clutc
shaft is carried on a radial ball bea
ing in the flywheel.
The liberal and skillful applicable
of frictionless bearings throughou
strikingly demonstrates the high d
cree of engineering skill applied
: the designing and building of the ne
model A Ford
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04
OAKLAND FIELD
FORCE EXPANDED

Expansion of the field organization
of the Oakland Motor Car Company to
meet the anticipated increase in bust
ness in 1929 is announced by w. R.
Tracy, Vice-president in charge of
sales.
A closer tieup between the manu-
fatcurer and the public is assured by
the expansion, which included the Gre
alton of new district office, the
transfer of another, and changes in
the field personnel of additional dis
trictS.
This announcement follows directly
on the heels of statement issued by
the Oakland factory declaring that
shortly ga Pontiac Six, new in prac-
tically everything but name," would
appear on the market, and at time
when the new Oakland All-American
Six is commanding greater public in
terest than any previous model in the
history of the line.
In addition to expansion in the
sales department, production facilities
also are being stepped up so that next
year the Oakland Pontiac plant viii
have a capacity in excess of 100000
cars, as against an estimated output
this year of 265, 1000 units.
Field changes included the estab
lishment of a new district office Ol
December Is at Los Angeles, the 25tI
to be established in the United State
which exercises jurisdiction owe
Southern California, Arizona an,
parts of Nevada. Annual bushes
flowing through this office will rang
from nine to twelve million dollars.
H. p. Grove, formerly Oakland dis
trict manager at San Francisco an
previously at Pittsburgh and Butt,
heads the new Los Angeles distriC
office. Under his direction are fiji
teen field officials and clerical stat
Effective the same date, the distrit
office headquarters formerly locate
at Butte was transferred to Spokan
with the office personsel remainin
intact except for the addition of SCI
eral new field representatives.
Virtually simultaneous with thes
changes, w. H. Loudon, formerly di
trict manager at Memphis was br,
into the home office at Pontiac, Mic
w. r. Cartwright formerly assistal
manager at Buffalo went to Memph
as manager and was succeeded at Blu
falo by B. L. Morris, formerly assis
ant manager at New York City. p.
Murray, thoroughly experienced a
tomotive man, although newcom
in the Oakland organization, succee
ed Morris at New York City.
With this Encouragement of t
field personnel, Oakland officials a
going into 1929 confident of surpa!
ing by a comfortable margin any pl
vious year in the history fthe co
pany.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04
DODGE ADDS SPORT
ROADSTER TO Line
Graceful Lines Feature Latest Model
Offered in Varied Color COmbiDa-
tiOns.


Addition of a sport roadster with
rumble seat to the Senior Six line has
been announced by Dodge Brothers,
and shipments to dealers are being
rushed to insure immediate deliveries.
Sport types include as standard equip
ment two spare wire wheels with tires,
mounted in the front tenders, and
trunk rack in rear.
All exterior hardware of the road
ster including radiator shell, head
lamps, bumpers, hub caps, door han
dies, cowl lamps and moulding and
spare tire brackets are chrome plated
attractively setting off the body lac
quers and color combinations in which
the car is available.
The seat is unusually wide, easily
accommodating three passengers, and
upholstery is genuine black leather
Four Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorb
ers and balloon tires t31x6) properly
control the cars reliability. Conven-
fence and beauty are emphasized in
the arrangement of the instrument
board and drivers controls.
Grouped under a frosted silver fin
lSned panel are Une Spee0OmeIer, Ell
CINE temperature Indicator, fuel guag'
oil guage and ammeter. Carburetol
adjuster and manifold heat control arr
at the drivers right, and ignition
! switch with theft lock in the left pan
ell. A cigar lighter is in the steering
column bracket. Light control lever
: and spark and gasoline throttles ar
/ mounted on top of the steering wheel
/ Automatic Enthusiastically controlle
4 radiator shutters afford the creates
year around operating economy. Tn
hand brake at the drivers left an
q four wheel Lockheed hydraulic SCI
, vice brakes insure braking facilitie
matching the powerful six cylinde
! engine especially designed for tn
Senior Six line.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04
WALTER r. cHRYSLER's -
TRAFFIC TALKS =.
THE BACK SEAT DRIVER

Back seat driving-the giving Of
directions to the driver of motor
car by others in the car, is we'll
known automobile joke. But it is
more than this. 1t is a real evil
which results in more accidents than
can ever be traced, especially when
the car is in heavy traffic.
On trolley cars, in elevators and
on public buses there is almost
always a sign which reads: do
not talk to the operator" This
sign is placed by the company in an
effort to safeguard the public by
aiding the driver in his duty of
concentrating on his job. 1t
assumes, and rightly, that CONVEX
sation is a bar to concentration.
There is no reason why the same
rule does not hold good in the driv,
ing of pleasure cars. Aside from
the annoyance of having stead,
flow of conversation directed to one
which cannot always be answered
and often not even understood
there is the danger of being in
fluenced by specifically wrong sug
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04

Winnett-Go Government calls for new
bids for Cat Greek oil-owners of roy
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04

Municipal airport ready for
equipment. Expected to be official
mail plane stop first of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Organizing the Food Workers = the Main
Problem as the Amalgamated Food
Workers Convention Opens.

The Amagamated Union begins its convention to-
day
The principal point the
the organization of the
dustry and the preparation developing struggles
The food industry low industry wage average
both in the usted food packing
catering divisions below that of the
is little organization proportion the number of although
the Amagamated has made good beginning has led
struggles The Federation
acteristicaly gathering together only highly
favoaby situated workers 1t
finish and has developed extraordinary
and betrayal
The decisive section the preparation packing
lis completely unoganzed 1t is here that the
concentrate terribly exploited Negro
workers.
There will be struggle the
There officials of the Amagamated who opposed mozng
the for it's taskhe
workers in rusted industry in decisive struggle There
ments the
Unity League.
The Amalgamaed long revolutionary
tradition and confident will
po that may be made to Their backs the militant
workers and finally the itself another
the bosses.
Against all elements strengthen Amaganated
Food Workers for its coming battles by helping from this
try against those who would divorce revolutionary
advance guard of the workers
struggle must be carried
The convention of the Amagamated reflect
the will OF the masses to ruggit reflect the hatred of the
food workers for the miserable conditions which
live 1t permit tampering with
convention must leave the
closely bound the American Section the international
Unions, the Trade Union Unity League.
Those the delegates who are also members
the Communist Party the United
bt They that all revolutionary
unionsm repeled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
defend The
SOVIET union"
N. Y. Communist Mass
Rallies Workers


Over 1000 workers jammed the
Central Opera House in a spirited
demonstration against Stimson's
war threat on the Soviet Union.
Defense of the Soviet Union
was the central slogan which ami
mated the meeting called by District
2 of the Communist Party.
This is the first of series of six
meetings which is aimed to mobilize
the American workers against U. S.
imperialism's threatened attack on
the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics.
/. Amter, District Organizer,
opened the meeting calling on the
workers to mobilize against the war
danger. Defend the Soviet Union" "
was his appeal which was enthusias-
tically greeted by the audience.
James Mo, secretary of the Chi
nese Workers Alliance, spoke on
Continued on Page TlooJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Major Struggles Demand
Major Sacrifices!
The emergency appeal for funds is meeting with good
response BUT THE RESPONSE MUST BE EQUAL TO THE
BIG TASKS THAT FACE THE PARTY.


response BUT THE RESPONSE MUST BE EQUAL TO THE
Every day the Communist Party extends its activities
the growing class struggles The threat against the Soviet
Union of awakening many thousands of American
workers. The danger of under the leadership of Wall
Street against the u S. S. R. is the first order of the day.
Hoover with the help of 400 leading eXpoters of labor has
organized gigantic machine attempt to beat down the
standard of living of the American workers the present
crisis
Only the heoCommunist Party lead the fight against
the criminal drive. 1t is leading the fight But its
pitifuly small
We must have immediate donations. Every worker,
Party member sympahzer must make major sacrifices
at this time. Our work cannot wait. Every important
tvty of the Communist Party is hampered by the lack of
funds When you donate matter how great the sacrifice
your action to the work of the Party in this critical
period of major struggles.
Thousands workers contribute the maximum.
We cannot fail to meet the tasks growing out of the
danger the crisis the general mine strike because of
lack of funds.
Push the work!
The Communist Party is building movement and
appeal to Party member and sympahzer to send
his donation Immediately to the Emergency Fund.
SEND YOUR HELP FOR OUR MASS STRUGGLES
TO-DAY! Send your donations to-: The Communist Par
ty, 43 East 125th ST. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Illinois Nine
Struck EUeu
Before Date
Hot Reply to Fishwick
Call for UNIV Scabs

WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Dec. s.
Three hundred miners at Moscou-
tab, ILL.,, have joined those already
on strike n other parts of the state.
The date set by delegates Of
miners in Illinois, Kentucky and In
diana at the Zeigler conference for
a general strike throughout the
Illinois coal fields is Monday, De-
cember 8. But in some mines the
men are so incensed at the actions
of the employers that they are al
ready out. One of these cases is the
Kort Coal Mine, No. 2, at Moscou-
tab, ILL.,, where the wages have just
been arbitrarily cut to $5 day.
The Kort Co. miners walked out,
held meetings, elected a strike COM
mittee and started mass picketing,
as advised by the National Miners
Union Grievance Committee in
structions to all Illinois miners
when the December strike call
was sent out.
For BeIleville Demands.
The 300 voted solidly to continue
their strike for recognition of the
National Miners Union, whose or
ganizers lead the present struggle
Continued on Page ThreeJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
BOSSES ISSUE
lies ON CRISIS
400 Capitalists NJ a k e
Wage-Cut Plans

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Behind
the scenes of Hoover's Chamber of
Commerce grouping of 400 leading
eXploiters in a step towards open
fascist dictatorship, the real nature
of the present crisis was brought
out.
The capitalist press is bubbling
over with a frenzy of enthusiasm
over the synthetic optimism that
Hoover is trying to instilI into the
masses to hide the severe state of
unemployment and wage cuts.
But in conferences not given so
much publicity reports of James A.
Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel
Corp, show that steel production is
dropping rapidly and now averages
about 60 per cent of capacity.
Unemployment is being covered
up by keeping some of workers on
the job on part time. This is the
actual preparation for wage cuts.
Walker D. 'Hines, cotton textile
institute, and Paul Derbry, of the
Du Plan Silk Corporation, declared
that there was a severe crisis in the
textile industry. Lumber industry
capitalists gave their story of slump
conditions.
In fact, every industry represented
admitted a severe crisis. The ma
chinery for nationwide wage cut
ting, naturally, is kept strictly Sc.
cret.
Out of the Chamber of Commerce
meeting is growing gigantic pro-
pagapda machinery to cover up the
crisis and direct the capitalists
smashing drive on the standard o1
living of the American toilers.
The Chamber of Commerce or
ganization of 400 leading exploiter;
is to be permanent body with gov
ernmental functions, 1t will carr!
on Hoover's recommendation Il
speed-up the workers left on the jol
and will organize the capitalists
fight against unemployment relief.
Plans for wage-cutting will b.
directed by the officers of the Cham
Der of Commerce in their new roll
of developing fascists. For week
the Chamber Of Commerce will nov
carry on an intensive prosperity
propaganda drive to hide their rea
motives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Shoe Workers General
Strike Committee in
Drive on Open Shops

The General Strike Committee of
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union, a hundred members repre-
senting every shop that is organ
lied, including % on strike, or locked
out, met Thursday afternoon to con-
slider intensification of the struggle.
The fight started in New York
with letter from Commissioner
Woods of the Department of Labor
asking all employers to lock out the
union. Many employers broke their
contracts with the union and started
the lockout, others just broke their
contracts and started discrimina-
ton, piece work, wage cuts, ETC.,
and the workers went on strike.
Some previously unorganized shops
have joined the strike, fighting the
bad conditions.
The general strike committee, re-
Gently Sormed, elected at this meet
ing nine subcommittee, one of
which is the Shop and Mobilization
Committee. This subcommittee will
make drive on the open shops
very soon, to lead them into the
struggle.
Loans and Concert.
The strike committee calls for
f0ds to support the struggle, which
is in the interests of all shoe work
ers, and should receive donations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
DRIVE OF FOOD
WORKERS union

The Daily Worker sends greetings
to the Amalgdmdted Food Workers
national convention q0hich opens in
NelO York today. Forl0ard to the
establishment of a strong industrial
u',ion IN the food industry!
The mass organization drive of
the food workers by the Hotel,
Restaurants, Cafeteria workers.
branch of the A. F. w. is showing
favorable results. Since the an
nouncement of the beginning of the
drive made in Bryant Hall on No
vember ID, at a mass meeting where
over 600 workers participated, many
new members have come into the
union. The mass discomfort prevail
ing in the food industry on account
of the intense naturalization by the
employers of the industry at the ex-
pense of the workers bringing in
its wake a tremendous army of un-
employed, creating a turtle field
for organization. The workers in
the industry are showing greater
willingness then ever to be organ
I'D. The union has laid out plans
for a campaign on a mass scale,
covering the entire industry to fight
long hours, wage cuts and build an
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
ADD TO SUBWAY
STRIKE PICKET'S
Mass Meeting For All
Tomorrow at 4


The subway strikers have doubled
their picket lines at Grand Con-
course, Bronx, and are stopping any
going to work on that job by ap-
pearing with signs from to 8 a. m.
and at 8 p. m. Half of the pickets
are Negroes. The police were also
doubled, but the picketing went on
yesterday and will continue today.
The contractors now realize the
strike is on full force. The picket
ing has been sabotaged by the
treacherous officials of Local 63. of
the Compressed Air. Tunnel and
Subway Workers who did their best
to sell out and break the strike. At
a recent meeting of the local, the
officials set gangsters on the rebel
lious membership, and $50. of the
men left the hall, repudiated these
officials, and elected a rank and file
strike committee, establishing head
quarters at 235 West 10th st.
This committee has distributed in
all sections some $4,000 leaflets cali
ing a big mass meeting of all sub
way workers and strikers, tomorrow
at p. m. in Stuyvesant Casino, 142
Second Ave. There the strike COM
mittee will propose immediate or
ganizational steps for enrolling all
the subway and construction work
ers in one industrial union. The
workers have organized a defense
corps which will prevent the gang
sters of Local 63 from smashing the
meeting. The corrupt officialdom
of Local 63 and Local 1853 have been
Continued on Page TSooJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Tie Kellogg Pact in Haiti

The by Hoover Stmon, by American
leasm Haiti the when the world ringing with
cu!e the United Christ
raer in wamacr fact with the infamous
the Union
gall that could be imagined mperaist diplomacy.
Itvnoff his speech the Soviet the
had flung the challenge world Imperialism
meddng affairs,
the too joint from the Mexican, Panama Cuba
of the United These said Ltvno
much better be inqung if their and tranquility
by something the
The Haitian people, and leave of reckoning the buffoon
whom The u s. has office president have exposed the
Gevish humbug Kellogg
The Kellogg
behind the Soviet Unon 1t and in that the
of Haiti the workers the United States stand with the
mun Partyor the Haitian the
hypocrtes in Washington and Wall Street!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
Georgia Workers Demand to Be
Organized; Con ference Held

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 5. - The
Georgia conferences of the National
Textile Workers Union and the In
ternational Labor Defense, both held
last week, were fine examples of the
ability of Negro and white workers
to show solidarity, in a section of the
country where the employers train
every. nerve to keep them antago-
nistic and exploit both, stated 81
Gerson, N.T.W.U. organizer here.
The N. T. w. Georgia conference
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07

"Sound the Alarm to the Work
ing Glass! Accorsi must not die!"
These were the slogans issued by
the International Labor Defense on
the eve of the trial of Salvatore
Accorsi, coal miner, who goes on
trial for his life, Monday, Decem-
Der 8, on framed up charge of the
murder Of a state trooper.
J. Louis Engdahl, executive Sec
retary of the l. L. D., has just re-
turned from Pittsburgh, after MAX
ing final arrangements for the trial
and the mass campaign being car
ried on in that district.
Plans were laid out in conference
with Pat Toohey, secretary of the
National Miners Union; Max Salzr
man, /, L. D. District Organizer,
and others for a nationwide and
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-07
FORM BUILDING
SERVICE union
Conference Starts Big
Organization Drive

One hundred and ten delegates,
representing 66 buildings in various
parts of Greater New York, at an
enthusiastic conference last night at
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Place, organized the Building Mains
tenance Workers Union, militant,
industrial union uniting window
cleaners, porters, firemen, engineers,
floor scrubbers, superintendents,
janitors, ETC., and affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League.
The conference was called by the
Window Cleaners Protective Union,
Local s, and the Amalgamated
Building Service Workers Industrial
Union. These two unions ceased to
exist independently last night and
became part Of the new industrial
union.
Unorganized and Negro Workers.
A significant feature of the con-
ference was the large representa-
tion of unorganized workers and of
NJ ~ro workers. Also present were
several members of reactionary
American Federation of Labor
locals.
The two chief speakers were Har-
ry Feinstein, secretary of the Win
dow cleaners union, and Fred
Biedenkapp, general manager of the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
who spoke in the name of the Trade
Continued on Page Two)