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The daily worker., 1929-05-01
By CHAS. S. ZIMMERMAN.

The first OF May this year oc-
ours at a time when the struggle of
the needle trades workers against
the sweat-shop, against rational
ization, for shorter hours and higher
wages, is being intensified. In
January the Left wing organized
the new Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union. In February the
dressmakers' strike was called, and
carried to a successful conclusion.
Preparations are being made for a
furriers' strike during the coming
season. We are also preparing for
an immediate struggle to re-estab-
lish union conditions in the cloak
trade.
Therefore the needle trades work
ers have cause to celebrate May
Day this year with militant enthus-
iasm. But we realize that May Day
is not merely a happy holiday on
which to make lot of noise and
enjoy good time shouting hurrahs.
1t is time to mobilize the masses,
to resolve to carry on the fight
with increased determination, to
strengthen and steel ourselves for
ever sharpening struggles.
All over the world the class war
is intensified. Everywhere the cap
italists are preparing an offensive
against the workers, an attack upon
the first workers and peasants gov
ernment in the U. S. S. R., and they
are also preparing for the slaughter
of millions of workers in the armed
conflict among themselves for
hegemony of world markets.
This situation calls for increased
and intensified action on the part
of all class conscious workers. The
mass Of unorganized workers
throughout the United States must
be organized and prepared for i'm
mediate struggle. The reactionary
The daily worker., 1929-05-01

for your own most immediate inter-
ests then at least join with your
fellow workers in organizing the un-
organized.
The time to take up this fight is
right now. There is another imper-
ialist world war coming on. The
capitalists of different countries
fight for markets in which to sell
the things that the workers produce
but are not allowed to consume.
Thus in the Chinese, South Amer
lean, ETC., markets, British and
American capitalists are engaged
in deadly competition that must
speedily result in WAR.
The eXtra-sharp speed-up or era
tionalization" under which the work
ers are now being driven harder
than ever, is part of the bosses war
preparations. The working class
must prepare for the coming war by
organizing NOW, so as to be strong
enough to take full advantage of
the war situation in it's own inter-
ests. The workers reply must be:
Down with imperialist war! De-
fend the Soviet Union! Organize the
unorganized! No wag e-cuts, no
speed-up! For a workers and farm
ers government in the U. S. A.!
Join the Communist Party for the
overthrow of capitalismI
The daily worker., 1929-05-01

whose auspices the present May
Day meetings are being called, gives
it's unqualified support to this drive
to organize the unorganized. 1t
calls upon all workers to do like
wise. The Communist Party sup
ports every struggle of every sec
tion of the working class for the
betterment of their living and work
ing conditions, it leads the workers
fight for unemployment and disabil-
ity insurance and other social leg
islation to be paid for by the cap
italists and administered by work
ers' representatives.
At the same time the Communist
Party points out how limited and
Intellectual are all such reforms,
and leads the way for the final
struggle to overthrow the whole
system of wage slavery which is
the cause of all our social ills.
This system-capitalism--is the
real cause of war, poverty, unem-
ployment. Capitalism must be over
thrown-a workers and farmers
government must replace entirely
the present capitalist State. This
can be brought about only under
the leadership of the COMMUNIST
PARTY. If you agree with this pro.
gram in its entirety we urge you
to join our ranks; if you do not yet
feel ready to go beyond the fight
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
AMBRIDGE Steel
SLAVES GET II
And 13 HOUR DAY
SpoeduD and Inhuman
Conditions
(By u Worker Correspondent

y
AMBRIDGE, Pa, (By MaiD.-
The Seamless Tube Company, which
is a subsidiary of the Spank and
Shalfant Steel Corporation, has
served notice on the men of the In
spection Department that beginning
May l, we will have to work IL
hours day shift one week, and next
week thirteen hours night shift.
Men in ether departments are also
compelled to slave IS hours a shift,
seven days week. So you see,
May Day means something to US,
starting point in our struggle.
This is just taking place when the
hot summer months are coming and
when the workers everywhere are
fighting for a seven-hour day and
a five-day week.
Our wages are low, far from
enough for a decent living. The
laborers get no more than 40-45
cents an hour, and the men in the
inspection department are getting
So cents an hour, or $6.38 for an
11-hour day.
We must fight for the 8-hour day
and against the inhuman unbear-
able 13-hour day. We must organ
ize mill committees.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
JOHN REED

as it is by the disorganization which
inevitably succeeds war, and civil
war in particular; starved by the in
vasion and blockade of allied troops;
inheritor of the collapse of tsarism
and capitalism, and beset for a year
by the ferocious hostility of mod
crate "socialism"-the Workers and
Peasants government is increasing
industrial production, building rail
ways, roads, canals and gigantic
power projects, opening mines, and
establishing thousands of new
schools.
That it is able to accomplish these
miracles" seems incredible to the
bourgeois. But to the socialist there
is nothing improbable about it.
Capitalism obstructs development;
capitalism suppresses human aspira-
tons; capitalism is Inefficient.
May Day, 1918, came to the dark
est period of Soviet Russia's history,
when the Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk
had placed Russia at the mercy of
imperial Germany, then victorious in
the west, and the allies co-operated
with the German advance eastward
by landing troops in Archangel and
Vladivostok, the beginning of a vast
international offensive against the
half-understood menace of the new
Russian government. Industry and
transportation were almost at a
standstill; food was scarce; and the
Red army was almost negligible.
Yet it was on that dark May Day
that Moscow was decked with Grim
son, the young Socialist troops pass
ed in review through the streets, and
thirty-seven statues to the great
dead of the international labor move
ment were unveiled. And the gov
ernment announced that May Day,
as far as it represented the revolu-
tionary ambitions of the Russian
workers and peasants, would hence
forth cease to be celebrated as a
holiday.
Today, May 1st, the darkness over
Russia is slowly lifting. Except for
minor setbacks, the Soviet armies
are everywhere victorious, not alone
with the weapons of war, but with
propaganda.
In all countries the working class,
which at first was apathetic, has
awakened little by little to the real
situation. A few months ago the
workers of England, France, Italy
and America were opposing inter-
vention in Russia; today they want
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
By B. K. GEBERT.

In the industrial city of Chicago,
at Brighton Park, lie big factories
Of the Crane Company, which en-
ploys more than 10000 workers, pro-
ducing agricultural m h inery.
Speed-up in the factory is general,
wages are low. Workers in the
foundry receive $23 week working
nine hours day.
Crane shops have a large number
of foreign workers, the majority of
them Polish, and hundreds Mexican
workers, who are especially subjected
to terrific exploitation and brutal
treatment by the straw bosses.
One of the foremen, John Zielniak,
was well known for his attacks on
Mexican workers. One day he at
tackled some Mexican workers physi-
caIly, but one worker who was
struck gave him such a licking that
this 220-pound bully of a foreman
died the next day. The Mexican
worker escaped from the shop.
ShOg Organization Needed.
We do not approve of this method
of struggle against the bosses, how
ever. We are of the opinion that
workers should unite in a shop or
ganization in order, for one thing,
to force the bosses to stop the ter
rorization in the shop. The bosses
at present are trying to use this in
cident to create antagonism among
Polish and Mexican workers, claim
ing, that the foreman was a Pole
and that the Mexican workers tried
to get rid of him for reasons of
nationality,
In this campaign Of the bosses,
the Polish Catholic daily, "Dziennik
Zjednoczenia," helps to incite Polish
workers against the Mexicans by
printing lying, nationalistic stories.
A Polish worker employed at Crane
wrote an article in the Polish work
ers newspaper" Trybuna Robotnicza"
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
Hog Killers
Get OmIv $16
a Week Wages

by Worker Correspondent)
DENVER, Colo. (By MailJ-
This is my first article as a
workers correspondent but it
won't be my last. l want other
workers especially packinghouse
workers to know what the cordi-
tions are here in Armour's
slaughter house. l work with
the hog killing gang. Though
this Kind of work isn't the incest
kind to work at yet ore could get
along if it weren't for the speed
up which drives one off the job.
Workers are quitting every day
simply can't stand it.
The superintendent, fellow
by the name of Bill Sulky, will
come around and shout, Lets go
boys! A little faster. What's
the matter there?" He's real
slave driver and if you don't like
it they'll get some one outside the
gate to take your place.
The other day they laid off five
men and still they want the same
number OF hogs killed every day.
Every day we average about IT'S
to $50 hogs an hour and still the
superintendent yells his head off
for 200 an hour. And what do
We workers get? You seldom
get in over 40 hours per week
and what does that bring you at
40 cents an hour? Some are get
ting more per hour but how can
worker support himself and
family On SIG to $50 a week.
And now that the summer
months are coming it will be i'm
possible to get in a full week.
sure would like to see the
same thing happen in the pack
inghouse industry as what is TAX
ing place in the textile industry
in the South. We need real
fighting union that is out to or
ganizc us pacltinghouse workers.
Then we can demand higher
wages and no speed-up.
Yours for a packinghousc
workers union. O. c.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
Workers in Chicago Treated Ba Turn on Foreman
CRANE SHOP WORKERS
STIRRING IN CHICAGO

condemning these anti-workers at
tempts Of the bosses and calling
upon the Polish and Mexican work.
ers to eliminate national prejudice
and to fight shoulder to shoulder
against the bosses.
Polish Workers Framed.
At present the attacks of the
bosses are especially against the
foreign born workers who are also
the most exploited. The government
has joined the Crane Co. in these
attacks. In January Is Polish work
ers were arrested under the pretense
of having illegally" entered the
country. Twelve of these workers
have already been deported to fas-
cist Poland and six others are wait
ing deportation. The l. L. D. is
working on these cases.
These are not separate acts on
the part of the government and the
bosses. They are part of a COM
bined and carefully planned attack
on the native and foreign-born work
ers in preparation for the next i'm
perialist war. The workers must or
ganize themselves into shop COM
mittees. Steps in this direction are
being taken.
Elections for Cleveland Conference
A mass meeting, which is the be-
ginning of organization work among
the 10000 exploited and terrorized
Crane workers, is being called by
the Trade Union Educational League
Delegates will be elected at this
meeting for the Labor Unity Con-
gress in Cleveland on June 1st and
End to organize a new revolutionary
trade union center.
The militant workers of the Crane
shops are looking towards Cleve-
land for the revolutionary guidance
and direction which will result in the
organization of a powerful indus
trial union of all the Crane shop
workers.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
BOSSES TRY TO
S TIR UP R A C
hatred IN PLANT
But Workers Pledge
Solidarity
(By a Worker Correspoadent)

(by q WorI;eF Correspondent
CHICAGO, (By MaiD.-In the
industrial city Of Chicago, in Bright
ton Park, are the big plants of the
Crane Co., which employs over TO-
coo workers producing plumbing
supplies. The spced-up is general
in the Crane plants, and wages are
low. ps Ns
Low Wages, Hard Work.
Workers in the foundry receive
$23 week for hard work, working
nine hours day. The Crane shops
have great number of foreign
born workers. The majority are
Polish. There are also several hun
dred Mexican workers, who are
especially subject to exploitation by
the bosses.
One of the foremen, John Ziel-
MAX, was well-known for his attacks
on Mexican workers. One day he
attacked some Mexican workers, but
one of the workers gave him such
a licking that the foreman, who
weighed 220 pounds, died the next
day. The Mexican worker escaped
from the shop.
While such methods of individual
struggle against exploitation are not
the right way, every worker in the
plant feels that the foreman got
what was coming to him. Workers
should instead of this method, unite
and force an end to terrorization,
force an increase in wages, shorter
hours, end Of the speed-up and
recognition of the workers commit
tee.
Fight Boss Brutality.
Yet these Mexican workers fought
the bosses brutality the best they
knew how. The bosses are trying
to use this incident to create antag-
onism, among the Polish and Mex
lean workers, claiming the foreman
was Pole. The Polish Catholic
daily paper, "Dzienik Zjednoczenia",
helps the bosses by melting the
Polish workers against the Mex
leans. But Polish workers in the
Crane factory put a letter in the
Polish workers paper "Trybuna
Robotnicza," cond ming this
scheme of the bosses and the reac-
tionary press, and stated the Polish
workers will struggle side by side
with the Mexican workers.-CRANE
WORKER.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
(Bp a Worker Correspondent


DETROIT, Mich, (By MaiD.-Up
to quite recently the foundry work
ers in K building, River Rouge Ford
plant, enjoyed the privilege" of
washing some of the CRIME from
their hands before the quitting bell
rang. Ut has always been a puzzle
how this department got away with
this violation of Ford policy. But
now even this minor concession is
taken away. The presumption is
that "sorry" Sorenson, who always
has his ears pricked to hear his
masters voice, has ordered this
bad" practice stopped. Ford has
explicit faith in this flunkey; that
is why he is paid such handsome
salary.
The core-room has been moved
from No. l Iron Foundry to No. A
and the toilets are situated directly
above where these cores are baked,
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
Needle Workers Celebrate May Firs

bureaucrats strangling the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and their
allies, the socialists, as well as the
middle group of conciiators led by
such misleaders, bourgeois pacifist
intellectuals, such as Music, must
be exposed and fought. The Trade
Union Educational League h a S
pointed the way to the building of
a revolutionary trade union center,
to unity the forces of militant labor
for the struggle against social-dem-
ocratic reformist illusions, against
naturalization, against wage cuts,
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
IN FORD PLANT
Speed up Kills Workers of the Belt

and the smoke and gases that arise
are suffocating. Just few minutes
in these toilets will give one a split
ting headache. In fact every day
many workers go to the factory hos
pital for relief. Other toilets are
similarly located and it appears as
though it is the purpose of the CON-
pany to force the men out of the
toilets as soon as possible.
In the brass foundry a man lost
two fingers on a machine with
which he had no experience and be-
cause the boss had continually
bounded him to "step on it." An
other worker rushed to death at an
electric furnace was wringing wet
with sweat; he took cold from a
draft due to an open door and he
died in four days. He had been with
the company Is years and his family
is left destitute. Such is Ford
slavery.-FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
MANY PACKING
WORKERS fired
Machinery Causes Big
Layoff
by a Worker Correspondent

tDY u " Vh6f fIoSpUfCL6Ht/
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (By MaiD-
l am going to say a few words on
how we packinghouse workers are
exploited here in Sioux City. l have
worked in all three plants here,
Armour's, Swift's and Cudahy's and
find the working conditions are as
bad in one as the other. Their main
idea is, install as much new machin-
cry as can be had to put more men
out of work and lowering the wages
at the same time but producing
more. The most ignorant can not
help but see this and how the big
profits are fattening the pockets of
The packers.
Armour and Company here re-
Gently installed a new electric ma
chine for cutting fat backs into bean
pork. Before this took five butchers
and three laborers and now with
the machine it only takes three
lahorers to do the job.
The recent installation of new
'coving tables on the hog cutting
floor cut down the number of men
10 per cent but increased the speed
Of getting out the work to about
40 per cent and the men get no
n.ore money. We dare not say any
thing or our card will have a dis
charge slip on it that night. It's
hard to convince some of the men
as to just what should be done but
more are beginning to understand
that only through organization will
we get anywhere and better our
conditions and eliminate the iron
crushing hand Of the boss.
You fellows ought to join the
Communist Party and help us or
ganize shop committees and lay the
basis for union. We must all get
together. Let's go!
ONE OF ARMOUR'S SLAVES.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
Ford SLAVES
Wait Hours
To Get Pay

by q Worker Correspondent
DETROIT (By MaiD - The
other day the Juice" went off
in the "B" building at Ford's on
the afternoon shift at about ten
o'clock at night. After waiting
about an hour the men were told
TO ring out and go home. This
gave the men seven hours on
their clock cards but on the next
day they discovered that the
timckeepers had only given them
credit for six hours.
In the same miserly manner
the men on the midnight shift
were treated. An hour after they
had rung in their cards the bosses
told them TO go home. They were
given an even zero" for their
time. Profits are sacred; wages
must not interfere with them.
Another rotten practice that
Ford men resent very much on
the midnight shift is time they
have to wait to get their money
cn pay day. They must wait an
hour and more after they quit
work in the morning before the
pay office opens up. 1t is enough
abuse to work man on this
grave yard shift while he
fights sleep through the long
midnight hours and then compel
him to hang around on his own
time when he should be home.
This just goes to prove the
utter contempt the capitalists
have for us while we are un-
organized.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01

to know why the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat cannot be applied to their
own countries.
Never in the history OF the world
has an idea made such swift and
thorough conquests. Amid the crash
of bankrupt capitalism falling, the
workers of country after country
set up their Soviets and establish
the Proletarian Dictatorship. Hun
gary, Bavaria, then Italy, Germany
The great exploited masses OF
India, Egypt, China, stir and clamor.
The basis of Finance Imperialism,
without which capitalism is ruined,
is crumbling.
May Day for Russia is holiday
of the past. But today Moscow,
Munich and Budapest flower in
streets of red, and ring to the tramp
of the proletarian battalions, mak-
ing celebrations for us-for the ma
tions as yet pools of quiet water
beside the torrent of the Social Re-
volution which rises, red world
tide, and floods the face of Europe.
May Day, 1919. Date forever
memorable, the worldwide blare of
trumpets announcing the fall of a
great social system, capitalism, and
the emergence of the age in which
mankind will be truly free.
May Day. A summons to the
worker-masses to make ready for
the last great war. Dark lies the
cloud of history, shot through with
terrible lightnings. But victory is
The daily worker., 1929-05-01

against imperialist oppression and
exploitation of LATINA m C a,
against the growing war danger,
and for a workers and farmers
government.
This May Day is a time for all
class conscious workers to resolve
to support the struggles of the
Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Union and the National
Textile Workers Union, especially in
the South, and of all workers in re-
volt against intolerable open-shop
conditions.
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
ANE WORKERS
EDGE: SUPPORT
0 UNITY NEE 7
Aid T. U. E. L. in
Big Conference

"a Worker Correspondent
-CAGO, (By Mail)-The bosses
Crane Co., manufacturers of
1ing supplies, employing over
} work. rs, mostly foreign-born,
t present making an attempt
lit their workers by using the
mt of the death of the fore
at Crane, John Zielniak, at the
of a Mexican worker whom
d brutally attacked. The Mex
worker could no longer stand
ruelty, and resisted.
bosses are especially using
incident to split the workers
IS an attack on the foreign
workers. In January 18 Polish
9rs were arrested under the
nse that they entered the coun-
Illegally"
Give of these workers have al
been deported to Poland. Six
are awaiting deportation with
International Labor Defense de-
ng them.
ese arrests were only the be-
ng Of the terror against the
Unborn workers. A few days
two workers were again ar
/; one Of them came to this
ry legally and the other is a
dian citizen.
ere is at present going on an
tigation cmong the Mexican
,rs CT Crane. The reactionary
press, using the incident Of
orenlan for hatred against the
can workers, is calling for the
'tation Of them.
.ac,,,s On fo~eign-born workers
,2Ge to terrorize them and pre-
them from fighting for better
lions end wages. 1t is a plan
aake the Crane workers fight
n Themselves. They must Or
. Themselves into shop com
&c.
,ps in that direction have been
A mas3 meeting Of workers
e Crane shops is called by the
9 Union Educational League, to
organization Of these $4,000
rized WORKERS. This is in con-
IN with the Trade Union UE.ty
rcss to be held in Cleveland,
/ ard ?, to organize a rcvoiu-
~ trade union center. Workers
t,,,e Crane Shops will be rep
ted ct Cleve!aad.-C F. A N e
, L.,
The daily worker., 1929-05-01
Ey WEI. +. KRUSE.
let Or -iz { the Communist
Pa =, t. Chicago.

4 l'as y L. ~h.caSo.
5r many years the workers of
Countries and races have demon
led their world-s = class SOL
ity Oh the First Of May. This
at international holiday of
4. was "born" In America, and
let right in Chicago. Here, in
! ct a national convention of
labor federation that later de-
BED into the A. F. of L., the de-
Il was first raised for a general
9 to begin May 1st, 1886, for
cctab,ishnent of the eight-.our
Is eight-hour movement reached
strength that the capitalists re-
id to every conceivable means
cad it off. On May 1st, 1886,
bite of the sabotage and treason
le top-crust leaders of both the
!. of L. and of the Knights of
Ir, 100000 men came out on
9 on the. First of May. In Chi
alone there were over 10000,
lg them 10000 lumber work
10000 metal workers, 10000
ing workers, 1000 furniture
ers, $500 employees of the Pull
shops