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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
IN THE SHOP S
USSR Lumber Worker IN
Far Siberia, Tells Of Lite

higher judicial body-the peope's
court. This court consists Of state
Judge, and other judges who are
deegatcs from various syndicates.
Besides there exists the so-called
committee for labor safeguard,
whose duty is to observe the condi-
tions in which the workers live and
guard them from sickness. 1t also
cooperates with the state inspector
during the inspection.
The Working Conditions.
This system exists in other places
as well as in our town. Now l shall
describe to you the conditions of our
workers.
In "Nachtache" is a mill of the
umber trust-"Dattes." The chief
worl, consists of chopping down the
trees and shipping them down the
river. The cutting is paid for by
the cubic feet, the shipping by the
day. The cutters are paid on the
average Of three rubles (S1.50) a
day, the shipp RS 2.75-300 rubles a
day. We work 8 hours; overtime
and work are only permitted with
the consent of the workers.
Rabochkom and the labor inspec-
tor. However, more than ten hours
are not permitted and is done only
in emergency cases, such as forest
fires, tc. Ovrtime is paid time and
a hat; holidays, double.
When worker gets sick he re-
ceives full pay, not from the con-
Germ but from the welfare func
which is paid by the concern. The
sick workers get free treatments.
Every pregnant woman receives
leave of four weeks before and after
she gives birth. After birth (if the
child lives) she receives from the
insurance some money (30-4O rub J
and for nine months about ter
rubles exta.
Slack times and lay-offs do not
exist in our neighborhood we are
always short of workers. The wages
are not high, however we have
enough 20 liv, ca, yccause a room
and board costs for one person 30-35
rubles a month, and those who eat
together and live in tents spend only
1920 rubles a month, receiving &C.
100 rubles and more).
We have club where we play
chess, checkers, read newspapers,
magazines, find at our disposal
musical instruments, and sport
gam es. Visitors do not pay any
thing.
The musical, theatrical, sport, po-
litical, self-instructive, atheist and
esperanto circles function in the
club. Our library consists of 1000
books on various subjects. We also
have a newspaper which is typewrit-
ten.
We have a worker correspondents
group, and would like to hear from
American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
BARNHILL CAUGHT
IN CONSPIRACY
Met With Prosecutors
in Secret on Charges

Continued from Page One)
though its officials denounce them.
The international Labor Defense
tcda ysecured the bail, amounting to
$4,000, which will take the seven
defendants out of prison until the
appeal is heard in the higher courts.
Engdahl pointe dout why the flog-
& ers of the labor leaders were
found mot guilty" at Concord, N. c.,
Saturday and the strike leaders were
saddled with such heavy terms. "The
workers of America and the world
will not stand for this" he said.
"Their mass protest will rise in such
an extent that the capitalist authori-
ties will be forced to free those strik-
ers who were guilty of no other
deed than of organizing the unor-
ganized Southern workers"
At a special meeting of the Phil
adelphia l. l.. D. in Grand Frater-
nifty Hall, Monday, preparations
were made to mobilize all forces al
the great mass protest meeting
called by the Communist Party
Friday night at City HAIL Plaza.
The conference Monday adopted
a resolution scoring the class YER
dict which called seven unionists
guilty of murder in the second
degree because they dared to de-
fend themselves from the killers
sent against them by the mill COM
pany. The resolution says: "The
verdict of the mill owners court
shocks, but does not surprise the
members of the I. L. D.
"The International Labor Defense
pointed out a THE time the trial
began that by changing the charge
to second degree murder the prose
cution merely made strategic re-
treat in the face of the mass pro-
test throughout the world At the
same time, however, we had no IL
lusions as to the intentions of the
prosecution. BY this manouevel
Changing the charge) they elimi-
mated all possibility for selecting 8
fair jury without in any way aban-
doning their main objective which
was to eliminate the most active
organizers and terrorize the textile
slaves. Instead Of quick death in
the electric chair the valiant union
members and organizers will now
suffer slow death in the dungeons
of the state prison.
Won't Accept Verdict.
eve have no intention whatever
nor will the working class accept
the verdict Of the venal and bigotec
court and jury Of the North Caro-
lima mill barons. Now that the
pious mask Of impartiality has
been removed and Judge Barnhil
stands exposed as a tool of the
same mill-owners who organized the
fascist lynching and kidnapping
hands who have been terrorizing the
vUslaved mill workers and union or.
sanizers; now that all pretense that
this was merely a murder trial has
been dropped and the real issues in.
volved; the right of workers to or
! ganize, to defend themselves against
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U. spoke, applauding the decision of
the U. NJ. w. A. locals to throw
away their charters, but warning,
"but be sure you also get your
money. Vote it for relief, divide it
among yourselves, or give it to the
N. NJ. U. Buy firecrackers with it
rather than let Lewis fight you for
it. If you are attacked, see that
your defense groups fight them
bck."
Watt Rebuked.
The National Miners Union is in
control Of the rank and file. Fish
wick, harrington and Lewis have
always by machine methods owned
the U. NJ. w. A., but the new union
is the miners. This was demon
strated at the Belleville conference
last week when Jerry Allard, youth
organizer for the N. M. U. sharply
rebuked John Watt, the president,
for wrong policy expressed. Watt
gave an impression that the oper-
ators did not count in the fight.
"Brother Watt is on the wrong
track when he tells us that the OPP
orators while we take over the or
ganization which they now control
are shivering and will stand idly BY
the Belleville Daily Advocate quotes
Allard as saying on the conference
floor "The operators are a greater
enemy than either Lewis or Fish
wick. We cannot be too careful to
guard against Them" said Allard
The miners at the conference agreed
with Allard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
SWAT, Vladivostock, Bubernia,

SNJAZI, Nladlvostock, Bubernla,
U. S. S. R.:
It seems to me that every worker
correspondent should write about the
things with which he is we'll &C
quainted. Therefore, I am writing
to you about the life of lumber
workers where l live-Nach tache,
which is situated on the North Shore
of the Japanese Sea.
The general situation in our re-
gion does not permit payment Of
high wages and therefore We do not
have a paradise in Nachtache. How
ever, we have our Soviet Govern
mentment, our Soviet power and
therefore we have passed laws which
aim to i'm prove our conditions and
to improve our working conditions.
To Defend Workers Interest.
The first organization which de-
tends our work and enforces the
labor laws is the Rabochkom work
ers' committee). Rabochkom consists
Of a few go syndicate represen-
tatives who are elected by all the
workers from the concern. The cleo
ton is without ny restrictions, and
every group or individual can pro
pose cndidates. The tasks of the
"rabochkom" are as follows:
To defend the material welfare OF
the workers; to raise the profes-
sional skill of the workers; to adj
minister judicially (explain laws
contracts, etc.; to lead cultural and
educational work; to develop in the
workers the international spirit and
clss consciousness.
The Rabochkom for the Workers.
For the fulfilment of its tasks
the Rabochkom organizes different
committees. The first task is taken
care of by the conflict committee.
How does this committee work? To
understand that you have to know
that besides the labor laws there
exist labor contracts, collective and
individal, which are made by large
private and state concerns which are
under the control of the syndicates.
According to the law all condi-
tons may be improved in the con-
tracts upon the minimum which is
guaranteed in the laws, but condi-
tons less than those given in the
minimum simply cannot exist. The
conflict committee consists of an
equal number of representatives of
the administration of the concerns.
1t always refer sto labor laws
and contracts to solve the misunder-
standings. If the committee dis
agrees it has no power to decide the
case. The latter is carried to a
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cities in which Foster will speak on
the remainder of his tour.
October 25. 26-New York.
October 27-Pittsburgh 1.-TWO meet
ings).
October 28-Charlerci.
October 20 - Cannonsburgh 1.-TWO
meetings..
October 80, 31-Chicago, III.
November Gary, Ind.
November 2, 8, 4-Detroit, Mich.
November Pontiac, Mich. (eve-
ning).
November 5, 7-Cleveland, Ohio.
November 6-Youngstown, Ohio.
November 8-Buffalo, N. Y.
November Rochester, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Mass Struggle Against
Repression of the Red
Front Fighters Grows

BERLIN (By MaiD The mass
movement against the prohibition of
the Red Front-fighters League has
entered, during the last few weeks,
and in particular under the impress
sion of the increased fascist activity
into new and organizational stage.
In many parts of Germany including
Berlin, the Ruhr District and Thur
ingia, local committees have been
formed with a view of mobilizing the
factory workers and the proletarian
mass organizations for a determined
and united struggle against the pro-
hibition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Says Senate Fixed
Carbide Tariff to
Suit Power Trust

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 3d.
Senator Norris of Nebrasa, so-called
"liberal" republican, whose hopes to
head a third party Of the bosses
leads him to occasional bouts with
the regular republicans, today ac-
cused tariff-making senators of
framing the calcium carbide sched-
ule to protect the power trust.
The interest Of the power trust
in calcium carbide is due to the fact
tina 1.-THE producers Of this chemical
are huge users OF electric power.
The proposed rate, to benefit the
power truss, is a cent a pound.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Rote Fahne Printers
Aid Humanite Defense

BERLIN (By MaiD The print
ers in the Friedrichstadt Printing
Works which print the "Rote
Fahne," the Central Organ of the
German Communist Party, have sent
letter to the printers and editors
of "L'Humanite," the Central Organ
of the French Communist Party in
forming them that the printers of
the "Rote Fahne" have collected 500
marks for the defense fund for
"L'Humanite" and forwarded the
money to Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Plan for Big TUUL
Mass Meet for Foster
in Chicago on Oct. 80

CHICAGO, Oct. pa big mass
meeting on Oct. 80 is being arranged
for the general secretary Of the
Trade Union Unity League, Vim. z.
Foster. He will, in addition to out
lining the program of the OF the
new Trade Union movement, which
has as its principal task the organ
ization of the unorganized into mill
tant industrial unions, deal with
some of the latest betrayals Of the
American Federation of Labor. The
meeting will be held at peoples
Auditorium, PAST w. Chicago Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
STRIKES And Their betrayal
BY MACDONALD labor" PARTY
DISILLU SIONING The WORKERS
Election Corruption of Labor" Member of
Parliament by Capitalist, Exposed
In Germany, Also, Socialist Trade Union
Leaders Betray Strike Struggles
(WireLess bN Inprecorr.)

LONDON, Oct. 23.-The ballot in
the woolworkers' union gave a re-
suit of so per cent against accept
ing the wage cut of 8.3 per cent.
There are 10000 workers involved
and the employers are preparing a
lockout. The fake '1abor" govern
ment is again confronting the work
ers' demands, as at Lancashire
where labor" forced the cotton
mill workers to accept a wage cut
they had struck against.
At a Huddersfield Power Loom
Tuners meeting 80 per cent voted
to reject any cut whatever An i'm
portant group of key men, the
Managers and Overlookers' Society,
voted almost 100 per cent against
the $3.50 wage cut proposal, the
vote being: To reject, 1,4O9; to ac-
cept, 90.
The employers in the iute mills
have also put before the union a
demand for 6 per cent wage reduc-
tion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
We HAVE SEVEN
MORE GASTONIA |
STRIKERS TO SAYEe

The international Labor
Defense rallied the masses
of workers the world over
to save the % Gastonia
strikers. We forced the
bosses to release sixteen
workers! Our job is far
from done. The bosses
think they will be able to
send the seven Gastonia
strikers to Jail for practi-
cally life sentences-slow
torture to these militant
workers.
Fight the bosses!
Build the workers or
CARNATIONS fighting them!
Build the International
Labor Defense!
The l. L. D. seeks $4,000
new members by January
l, 1880. A powerful l. l..
D. will mean a powerful
appeal in the higher courts
for the Gastonia strikers.
Add your strength to save
the strikers!
Branches of the /. L. D.
are springing up every
where, from Miami, Flo
rida, to Seattle, Wash.
Every Worker Must Be a
Member.
Tomorrow the bosses
will try to give you Gas
tonia Justice" The /. l..
d. will be there to fight
them.
For the protection of your
self, of the working class
build the l. L. ID. into a
powerful mass movement.
Join the |. L. ID. at once!
FIJI out the following blank
and send it at once to the Ma
tional Office of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, 80 East
Eleventh street, New York City.
I want to Join the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Enclosed
find 25 cents for initiation fee.
NAME ..................
ADDRESS ................ 80.
CITY .........
STATE ...............
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Not One Minute to Lose
in the Fight for the Freedom
of the Gastonia Strikers !!
Demonstrate! Protest!

FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM, FOR THEIR RIGHT
TO ORGANIZE, TO STRIKE, TO PICKET, TO
DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST
FASCIST AND POLICE ATTACKS!
NEW YORK workers will demonstrate on Union Square
today, at 5 p m. and will hear nationally
known speakers explain the class significance
of the Gastonia Case
PHILADELPHIA workers will meet at City Hall Plaza
tomorrow at p m. to demonstrate and to
hear j. Louis Engdahl, explain the class YER
dict of the Gastonia The workers will
protest the frame-up charge of murder
against the leader of the Window-Cleaners
Union, William Streik, and two other men,
bers.
CHICAGO workers will protest Gastona and the bosses
plans to crush the Communist Party by ar
resting eighteen members of the Party and
charging them with sedition and frameup
burglary charges
DETROIT workers holding Gastonia demonstrations
Saturday at p M Campus Nartius,
Woodward, near Cadillac Square.
SEATTLE workers will hold conference Sunday Oct
81 at Finnish Hall, when Mother Ella Reeve
Boor will explain the class issues in the
Gastona verdict end outline plans for de-
veoping and broadening the Gastonia cam
pagn.
THE GASTONIA Joint Defense and Relief Campaign will
get the Gastonia strikers out on bail
Immediately. To do this great sums of money
are necessary To carry the fight on in the
higher courts and the Supreme Court of
the United States means much money The
workers of America must continue to help
with FUNDS well great mass dem
onstrations.
Castonia Joint Defense & Relief Committee
so East Eleventh ST., Room 4O2 New York City
Auspices: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
Endorsed by: NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
FORM CANADA NINE TRUST

TORONTO, Ont, Oct. 23.-An-
nouncement was made here today
of the formation of the Inter
national Mining Corporation,
100000 organization with both
American and British Canadian in
terests on the board of directors.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24

How do the Soviet lumber work
ers, in the farthest reaches Of ST.
IBERIA, on the japanese Sea, live?
Read the following letter from ST.
- l lumber worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
(WiroLeas bN Iaprecorr.l

BERLIN, Oct. 23.-The arrested
leaders Of the plumbers strike are
charged with Intimidation and
bodily threats" of violence, or the
mitigation fthe latter" The
workers, who understand the ar
rests were brought about by the
union beaureaucrats, are increasing
their protests at this reformist
crime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
Wireless by Inprecorr.)

LONDON, Oct. 23.-That the So
called Labor" Party and the openly
reactionary Tory Party is practic-
ally one and the same thing, is
again proven by the inquiry into
election corruption of the Labor"
member of Parliament, Moses. The
inquiry proceedings show that
Moses was financed in his election
largely by the capitalist, Ballard,
who also financed the Tory candi-
date, Lady Astor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
WHITE CUARDIST
BANDS find RED
ARMY BAYONET
Wipe Out Three Bands
Invading U. S. S. R.
wireless By lnprecorr.)

MOSCOW, Oct. 23.-Firing on the
Soviet frontier guards and peaceful
citizens by Chinese is proceeding in
the Transbaikal district. Near Lake
Khanka, three bands of White
Guards raiding Soviet territory have
been wiped out by Red Army troops.
At Hardin, authorities again raid
cd the closed Soviet consulate, where
a committee was left to wind up af-
fairs of the Far Eastern Bank by
agreement with the Chinese when
the consul was withdrawn. The
committee was dissolved and the
monies, documents and so on con-
fiscated. The Chinese have formed
new committee, all Chinese, and
notified all debtors of the bank to
pay all monies to them, refusing to
make any protocol concerning the
seizure. The chairman of the COM
mittee, Lukani, is subjected to house
arrest.
The Mukden authorities are main
tanning neutrality" in the Feng-
Chang Kaishek conflict, refusing to
dispatch Mukden troops against
Feng, under pretext that such action
would weaken the Chinese front
against the Soviet Union in Man
churia. Actually, Mukden hopes to
utilize the conflict to establish the
independence of Manchuria from
Marking or any other regime in the
south.
The Chinese are attempting to
force Soviet citizens still employed
on the Chinese Eastern Railway to
give up Soviet citizenship, many be-
ing dismissed for refusing.
Why He Went Over the Wall.
MOSCOW, Oct. 22.-Referring to
the Bessedovski affair in Paris,
wheer this man Bessedovski, an at
tache of the Soviet embassy climbed
the embassy wall to escape, so he
said, being sent back to Moscow, an
affair which the bourgeois and So
cialist press is striving to make an
anti-Soviet scandal about on the
theory that Bessedovski feared pun
ishment for political differences"
the "Pravda" declares the follow
ing:
Bessedovski's differences" are
not political, but differences with
the Soviet criminal CODE" as Besse-
dovski had robbed the Soviet gov
eminent of large sums of money.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
Judge Mary O'Toole
TodStmiStresS For
Conference Dinner

Judge Mary O'Toole. one Of ths
three trustees Of the Community
Drama Guild Of Washington. will
act as toastmistress at the opening
dinner of the drama conference,
which ts to take place on Monday
evening at $40 o'clock at Mckinley
High School, when the speakers
will be Mrs. Frederic E. harrington
and Denis F.. Connell.
Mrs. Harrington, who has spent
the past fortnight in New York
city, will take for her subject "The
1929 Season in the New York The
ater." A musical program has
heen arranged by the committee on
arrangements, which is headed by
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith. The So
loists will he George H, OConnor,
accompanied by Matt Horne, and
Miss Eugenia Botkin, accompa MED
BY Mrs. Laura Fairchild Ward.
Reservations for the dinner. s
well as for all sessions during the
week of the drama conference, are
open to the public. The dinner list
will be closed Monday morning. but
until then reservations may be
made through the office of the
Drama Guild in the Franklin Ad-
ministration Building.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
To Attend Benefit
For Fellowship Fund

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will at.
tend the benefit performance of
''Ccuuette, which the American
Association of University Women
is sponsoring on Monday, April
%, at Polls Theater, on h half
of its million-dollar fellowship
funG. Mrs. John c. Merriam and
Mrs W. H. Hill are among those
who have taken boxes iOr the
performance.
Miss Helen NiColay, authoreSs,
will also attend the beneht, and
others who have recently been
added to the list of subscribers
are Mrs. Charles j. Bell. Mrs.
Clyde Warburton, Mrs. Q. w.
Wright, Miss Mary Louise Sr"wn,
Miss Olive HalloCk, Miss Eva 3.
HaWes, Mrs. e. r. sherman. Mrs.
w. Aspinwsll. Miss Grace Barnes
Mrs. G. F. Bowerman, Miss Anna
Bis"hoff, Mrs F.. r. Rahrend.
Mrs. W. c. Mendenhall. Mrs A.
f. Phillips. Mrs James rsrker,
Mrs w. r. Pearson, Mrs. J. F..
Powell, Miss Anna l.. Rose, Miss
Theodosia Rupli. Miss 4. REYNOLDS.
Miss Mary Jean simpson. Miss
Myrna SedGwick. Miss n. r Snsr-
man, Mrs W. a. Slade. Charles
n. Drayton, Miss Airline puf"u-.
Mrs. Henry Ferguson, Miss la
bella Grove, Miss r Hsmur"'rC
and Mrs. Frederick Hallar
Mrs. Samuel HerriCk - chair
man of the fellowship fund com
mittee, of which the members are
Miss Sybil Baker, Mrs. George ".
Bowerman, Mrs. Frank Edsington.
Mrs. Joshua Evans. jr.. Mrs. A.
r. Graupner. Mrs. Robert c.
Howard, Miss Josephine Junkin.
Mrs Thomas Walker Page. Mrs.
D. A. Robertson, Miss Cora Rigbv,
Mrs Thomas w. SidwelI, Mrs. l..
b. Swormstedt, Mrs. Philip Sydney
Smith. Miss Ethel Riley, Mrs. 0.
L. Veerhof, Mrs. Chester 3.
Watts, Mrs. H. f. Payne. Mrs. H.
A. Whitney. Mrs. Henry E. Will
lard, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle.
Mrs. W. H. Heron, and Mrs.
Rayond Morgan.
Mrs. Robert c. Howard heads
The committee on boxes and Mrs.
II, F.. Payne is in charge Of the
sale of tickets.