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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14

being laid off from the Fisher Body
plant and 900 from Oakland!
There are q few plants running
in Detroit. Go out to Chevrolet and
they may give you a job-111z
hours night, The Kelsey Wheel
Co. will give you the same privi-
lege. Or take a turn down by Tern
stedt and they'll honor you with a
13-hour shift!
There is but one answer to this
wholesale unemployment and speed
up. Cut the working day to seven
hours and the week to five days.
Cut down production so that the
workers have enough energy left at
the days end to take in show or
play baseball. Spread the output
through the year, instead of having
burst for a month or two and then
long, long period of unemploy-
ment. How can we get this? Only
by the way in which the miners,
railroadmen and textile workers get
it-ioin the union! Divided. we are
sped up, thrown out of jobs, have
our wages cut; united we can work
like men, play like men, live like
men. Join the union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14

failed to say the proposed confer
ence would cover five different
classes of combatant vessels.
We spent most of our time on
cruisers, he explained, because that
is where the difficult technical mat
tiers arose.
But the ccccect of the conference
will be greater than its effect
merely upon the cruiser class.
Pity the Poor Navy.
The secretary said the present
American building program for all
and that the total tonnage of the
American navy now is 100000
tons. He believes agreement not
only would benefit international re-
lations, but would benefit the navy
which he described as living now
from hand to mouth because it's esti-
mates of requirements cannot be
justified by comparison to any stan
dard naval strength. He thinks the
proposed agreement would stabilize
that situation. Congress would be
expected to accept naval estimates of
requirements because they would be
based upon an international agree
ment.
No Immediate" Benefits.
He cautioned that material bene-
fits would not be immediate but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14

Now, as a carpenter, l was in
terested in your story of Wednes-
day. Ask the Central Labor Union
of New York why the prevailing
rate of wages in city contracts never
is allowed the worker. The cron-
trollers' alibi is that no complaints
have ever been made. Who is to
blame for that (of course no hope
from old Boy Hutchinsn as he don't
care a damn, but how about De-
laney, who was president of Big Six
and is supposed to be a labor man,
and this Sullivan, who has made his
living off labor? They never say
a word.
In Philadelphia l gathered some
pretty good suits of clothes and
sent them on to Gastoniia, and will
do the same thing here, but if that
bum, Hutchinson, or any of his tools
should get word of it, it would cost
me my card, so we American work
ers have to sneak to do what we
should be proud of in helping fell
low-workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
STICK TOGETHER
AND WIN Ar The
THOMPSON STEEL
Girls Struck and Beat
Company a,
(By d Worker Correspondent

(By a. Worker Correspondent I
CLEVELAND (By MaiD.-I am
worker in the Thomson Steel Co.
here. I want to write an, incident
here.
On Wednesday, July II, the girls
in Dept. Is went on strike! They
got a wage-cut. Instead of their
regular 371s per cent bonus they
were going to get 10 per cent bonus.
Instead of the 80 cents an hour the
girls were going to get 271a cents
an hour, etc.
At noon, instead of going back to
work when the bell rang they stayed
downstairs. The superintendent
came in to speak to them and locked
the door. He was afraid the senti-
ment would spread. The girls would
not hear of anything until they were
promised their old rates. They
stuck together and won! The rest
of the day everyone of the workers
in the shop were all smiles.
They were promised their old
rates! But fellow workers, this is
only to keep them quiet. This walk
out must be a lesson and a warning
to the rest of us. Each department.
will be cut, but not all at once. This
keeps the workers divided and each
department thinks it is only their
affair! -
Wage cuts is the affair of all of
US. We all will be cut soon. Don't
let them get away with promisesl
We want results. Now is the time
for us to form our shop committee.
By organizing strong shop COM
mittee with representatives from
each department we can kick against
these rotten wage cuts and get
something from the boss. Fight
against wage cuts. Form the shop
committee.
Write to the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, P. o. Box 20s, Cleve-
land.
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ANCL0-AMERICAN
NAVAL PACT OFF
Continued from Page One)


agreement between the two powers.
= These merely are negotiations be-
tween the two powers and will be
subject to action of conference in
which others will participate.
This announcement comes as q
surprise to the pacifists who pre-
tended to see in the conversations
between the spokesman of the two
imperialist powers step toward
limitation of naval arms. The ques-
ton is now raised regarding the
nature of the conversations between
Dawes and Macdonald that were
heralded as disarmament talks. 1t
is pointed out here that these con-
versations occurred simultaneously
with the opening of the imperialist
of. -lsive against the Soviet Union
and probably dealt with joint action
in support of the attacks of the
imperialist agents at the head of the
Kuomintang government against
the workers and peasants state.
Strive for Advantage.
The limitation of ornaments GEES
lures are merely attempts, on the
part of the conflicting imperialist
powers, to impose arms cuts upon
their rivals while they build greater
forces of destruction for the next
world war they are preparing. The
fact that the state department is to
invite France, Italy and Japan indi-
Gates that American imperialism
will endeavor to bring these powers
closer to it's own policies and at
tempt to align them against British
imperialist policy.
The discussions between Great
Britain apd the United States, have,
according to Secretary Of State
Stimson, been on the basis of total
naval tonnage.
1t was assumed from the manner
in which Stimson stated the propo-
sition that efforts to obtain material
reduction in cruiser tonnage have
failed and that the United States
must build all Of the vessels re-
Gently authorized by congress.
1t would be great mistake, Slim
son said, to be led along, by the
fact that the greatest difficulties oc-
Cured on details, into believing
those details were the most i'm
portant part of the Negotiations. He
was referring to the prominence
given the discussion of cruiser ton
mage.
Because the difficulties have been
greatest in single class of ships,
Stimson continued, the papers have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
British Steel Merger
First Unit in Trust;
SnOwden Aids Owners

A great merger of British iron
md steel firms has been completed
n the Northwest coast district OF
The industry, say capitalist press
correspondents. y is under the
leadership of Sir Arthur Dorman.
The chief firms in the amalgama-
ion are Dorman, Long & Co. and
6olckow, Vaughan & Co., both of
marlborough, who, together with
q number of other firms between
The Tyne and tn, Tees, will bring
The greater part of the steel and
ron production of the district I'M
der one control.
Dorman issued statement yes
;erday to the press, saying this is
the first of contemplated four
unit trust to monopolize the in
lustry. The other units will cover
South Wales, Midland and Scot
land.
Uses LaoOr Party.
He stated that the prospects OF
tre-capturing foreign markets due to
the insistance of the labor party
finance minister Snowden at the
Hague conference, would be good
this year.
Snowden served British iron and
steel owners, by combating Ger
man PREPARATIONS in kind as pay
ment of the tribute levied under the
Young Plan.
British steel workers wages are
not to be raised, however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
'FASCISM SINTRODUCE Piece
TO EXTEND SWAY WORK INTO The
over EGYPTIANS n COPPER MILLS
Would Replace Britain
AS Official Exploiter

Counting their chickens before
they hatch, Italian fascist papers are
beginning to speculate on an in
crease in Italian political and COM
mercial power in North Africa,
with the Withdrawal of English
imperialism from Egypt" There is
some doubt in Italy as to whether
the labor party government of
Britain really means to withdraw.
Cooler heads point to the practical
certainty that the Macdonald ges-
lures merely mean riveting British
rule under other forms.
But assuming that there will be
Egyptian independence, and cam
paigning for its vigorously, ap-
parently ready to contest English
dominance, even, the Rome press in
general points out that Italy now
has third place in the Egyptian
trade: with 21,19O,000 exports from
Italy to Egypt which is second place
for exports. Strong fascist organi-
cations exist among and terrorize
the 10000 Italians in Egypt. Tripoli
lies on one side of Egypt, and
Eritrea on the other, both Italian
colonies. With a political sphere of
influence in Egypt, these could be
consolidated, and the dream of con-
quering 'Abyssinia, from which
earlier Italian Imperialism was
rudely awakened years ago by the
successful resistance of the Abys-
sinians, could go on again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Detroit? NO
PROSPERITY
Unemployed Line Up
Daily
by a Worker Correspondent

ND9 ~ W wv WI OopOHoVtp/
DETROIT (By MaiD.-While the
Board of Commerce is spreading
propaganda throughout the country
about prosperous" Detroit and in
Viting tourists to spend their sum-
mers here, the workers of this great
open-shop city are tasting the bit
ter fruits of the American Plan"
Every morning hundreds of unem-
ployed line up in front of Murray
Body Company, many of them get
ting in line as early as 5 o'clock in
the morning. For hours this line
moves slowly through the employ
ment office, hut only a few skilled
workers are hired-body panelers
and fender finishers. The mass of
workers are turned away, jobless;
many of them homeless, more of
them hungry. And this in the year
of American prosperity" 1929!
Over at Dodge's there is a small
crowd, for most of the unemployed
have heard that Dodge is not hir-
ing and are not willing to waste six
cents to come out. Over at the
Hamtramck Briggs plant the en-
ployment office has closed. Out at
the Mack Ave. Briggs plant there
is big crowd standing, packed to-
gether like cattle in a pen, swelter-
ing in the hot midsummer sun.
Some victim of Mr.. Briggs has writ
ten, eff poison fails, try Briggs"
Down the street we hear that
Hudson has laid off 1000. Morgan
and Wright tells US that we don't
need to apply there for a job. They
also are laying Off Chrysler is just
getting along with a few workers.
No job there.
Out at the Ford Rouge plant a
great mob of men stands inside the
fence. 1t is strong storm fence,
used in the stock yards to keep cat
tie in check. Henry uses it to keep
the unemployed in check. But there
are no jobs there. Mr.. Wilson, for
mer employment manager of the
plant, says that there wer 1000 less
on the payroll at the end of the
spring than there were during the
winter. Production engineers in the
same period were able to increase
Ford production daily from 5000 to
1900! And that, auto workers, is
the open shop! That-unemploy-
ment and increased productions
prosperity
Reports from Pontiac tell of 1000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14

augurated yesterday, will be to ar
rest active unionists on framed up
liquor charges, and then add charges
of conspiracy to overthrow the gov
eminent, to kill police, interfering
with the law, ETC., etc., to hold them
inactive in Jail and if possible send
them to prison.
The same charge of constructive
murder" will be framed against
them as is used against the is now
facing electrocution or long i'm
prisonment. Thus the authorities
are preparing case against the
union organizers in expectation that
there will be casualties or fatalities
when the meeting is attacked to-
morrow-or at other meetings in the
future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Slave Harder, Is Order
of Bosses
(By q Worker CorYespondent)

by a Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE by MaiD Not
satisfied with the terrible exploita-
ton of the Hooper Mill workers with
the previous system of Base Work,
Boss Hooper, with the help of his
efficiency expert, Mr.. Gulick, has
introduced the piece work system.
This piece work system will speed
up more and more every day until
Mr.. Hooper will take our very lives
in the mills to accumulate millions
of dollars of profits.
Last Friday at the meeting called
by the company we We're told how
lovely it is to work under the piece
work system. Mr.. Gulick, who is
well known as a slave driver made
a beautiful" speech for Mr.. Hooper
and said, Gas the conditions are TO-
day you are not satisfied and the
company is not satisfied. With the
piece work system you will be bet
ter satisfied because this system
will help you"
Boss Says "Slave Harder"
Then Mr.. Gulick put his foot into
it and said, 'If you do not make
enough under the piece work system
it will be your own fault for not
working harder"
Who is Mr.. Gulick trying to fool?
The workers in the Hooper Mill are
against the piece work system, for
we know that piece work means
more speed up, less wages, longer
hours and worse conditions, general
ly. Mr.. Hooper has made our lives
more miserable during the past few
years. While during the war period
workers were receiving somewhat
decent wage, today we are receiving
a starvation wage.
Workers, Into the N. T. w.
The Hooper Mill workers must
organize into a powerful union which
will fight for better conditions for
all textile workers. We must or
ganize into the National Textile
Workers Union, the only organiza-
ton Of the textile workers which
fights against the rotten conditions
prevailing in the Hooper Mill and
in the textile industry as a whole.
Betrayed by U. T. w.
The American Federation of Labor
union, the United Textile Workers
"Union" has betrayed US once and
we cannot hope to better our con-
ditions if we depend on the U. T. w.
Let us organize now; let us build
a strong, militant, fighting organ
ization of the textile workers here
in Woodbury. and fight against the
terrible conditions under which we
are forced to slave.
Join the National Textile Workers
Union today! Join in the fight
against the piece work system and
against all other speed-up schemes!
Join in the fight for shorter hours
and higher wages!
Organize and fight; join the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union! Write
or call, 1906 East Baltimore ST.,
Baltimore, Md. Telephone, Wolfe
9104.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
) FACE CHARGES
FOR @SEDITION
SMASH MEETINGS
Brutal Police Terror
RACES Against Labor

TORONTO, Ont, Sept. IA
Fiolent campaign of government re-
preston against the Communist
Party of Canada reached a climax
when police raided a local printing
slant and confiscated every current
ssue of the Worker, official Party
organ, as it came off the press.
Threatened with sedition proceed
.ngs, the printer was forced to re-
fuse handling the paper in the
Future.
D The raid followed stubborn re-
distance of the Party to police terror
organized to smash it's fight for free
lpeech and freedom of the streets.
five workers face sedition charges
rising from their participation in
he campaign.
Ruthless Suppression.
The charge, sharp instrument of
lass suppression in Canada, was in
,oked against the workers in the
Winnipeg General Strike in 1919.
Six workers face Jail terms fol-
owing their arrest at mass demon
trations. Meyer Klig is serving a
wo months sentence for the Gus
omary charge of Constructing the
,oliee."
The seditious charge is also be-
ng used against a local printer for
printing leaflet demanding free
peech and free assemblage.
Savage brutality marks every
ln3tration organized in Queens
where most of the arrests oc-
a., under the direct supervision of
he loyalist Police Chief Draper,
Who Systematically breaks every
demonstration with mounted and
cot police.
The struggle was intensified with
he failing early this year of Arrow
Iaara, editor of "Vapaus," Finnish
Communist paper in Sudbury, center
# the Mond nickel mines. Vaara
vas recently released after serving
tx months for sedition. He was
llso forced to pay aS1 1000 fine.
Deportation is threatened against
lon-Canadians active in the fight.
Only the mass protest of the Cana
liam Labor Defense in conjunction
With the Communist Party saved
he British workers Joe Farby and
Sam Langley from immediate de-
,ortation, although they are out
lnly on the sufferance of the
Dominion Government.
Reformists Aid Suppression
Following the lead of the liberal
PRESS, social-democrats in trade
Unions mildly plead for greater
treatment of the Communists on the
rounds that they should be al
owed "to let off steam" The tory
press demands rigid application OF |
he 1919 sedition laws-as in the
Ease of the Montreal Gazette and
he Toronto Globe, which edi-
.orially campaigned for "deporta-
sion-a simply remedy" to "quell |
he troublemakers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
ARREST EIGHT
IN CHARLOTTE
Disarm Workers, Pre-
pare for Lynching

Continued from Page One)
Hugo Oehler, southern organizer of
the National Textile Workers Union
declared, adding that the people"
whom Sheriff Lineberger declares
he will be unable to restrain, are
none other than the mill owners
hirelings, and not at all the work
ing population
The six organizers arrested to-
gether with Lell and Saylor are
Dewey Martin, John Gibson, Taylor
Shytle, Edward Ritch, Paul Shep-
pard and George Saul, an Interna-
tional Labor Defense organizer.
Preliminary To Massacre.
The arrested organizers as well
as other active unionists kept arms
in their houses to protect themselves
against the bosses gang who have
repeatedly threatened to lynch them.
Frank Fortner when he fired vol
ley of shots drove off a lynching
party which stormed his house in
Dallas.
The raid to disarm the workers is
similar to the plan of the June 7th
attack upon the tent colony in Gas
tonia, when police led by Chief
Aderholt served as legal shock
troops to take away the guards
guns as preliminary to the arrival
of the Manville-Jenckes Committee
of 100, which was to have followed
from the Loray 1aill to wreck the
headquarters and massacre the or
ganizers and members. Only the
heroism of the strikers guard pre-
vented this slaughter.
Charges Pile Up. 4 -r-
The eight arrested organizers
were arraigned this morning before,
Judge Shaw who is presiding at the
Investigation" and charged with
"arming themselves with the pur-
pose of feloniously assaulting and
killing authorities who interfere
with their meetings Saturday at
South Gastonia and combining
against the peace and dignity of the
state" The sedition charge was
later added, International Labor
Defense attorneys are preparing
habeas corpus writs to try to release
them.
The raid last night was fragrant
ly an attempt to intimidate wit
nesses in the investigation of the
leaders of the bosses black hun
dred. Fourteen Gastonia mill su-
perintendents, hirelings and police
officers, were among those war
rants had been sworn against on the
basis of testimony presented by
Saylor, Lell, Mrs. Lodge and scores
of other witnesses of tn eatrocities
committed by the millmen's gang.
Proceedings Stop.
OF course there was no need for
habeas corpus proceedings, and the
millmen's lackeys were Immediately
released on bond. They appeared
before Judge Shaw this morning,
but the proceedings were stopped
because Saylors and Lell, principal
witnesses had been jailed. Obvious
ly, this was one purpose of last
nights raid and arrests. Needless
to say, two of the ringleaders iden-
titled by Saylors and other wit
nesses, namely Carpenter and Bull
Wrinkle, head of the prosecution at
torneys demanding the chair for the
Gastonia defendants, were not ar
rested. At best, only a few of the
lesser lights among the bosses
forces may be made the goats as
gesture Of "impartiality" but the
real leaders will be unmolested.
Organizers here point out that the
legal offensive Of the bosses, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
British Fear Attack
Over Jordan; Relief
Aids Palestine. Labor

British correspondents in Pales-
tine note that the mandate commits
sioner is much worried over the low
water in the Jordan River, which
makes it easier for the Arabian
reYolutionists massing on the Trans
Jordania side to cross at thinly
guarded points. Two more regi-
ments have been rushed to the
river from Jerusalem.
Heavy troop patrols were parad-
ing the Jerusalem streets yester-
day, because Friday is holiday for
the Arabs. The Zionist newspaper
Doar Haydn was suppressed by
Deputy Commissioner Keith Roach,
Thursday, because of it's tactless ex-
posture of British imperialist policy.
The paper had practically called for
massacre of Arabs.
The W. I. R. has issued the fol-
lowing appeal for aid for Palestine.
While we regret the fact that
many Jews have suffered from the
uprising, still we reject the at
tempts of the Zionists to mislead
the working masses, especially
among the Jews, with the assertion
that pogroms have taken place in
Palestine. The uprising in Pales-
tine is nothing more or less than
revolt of the suppressed and ex-
plotted Arabs against the shameful
Balfour declaration, which has for
its object of drawing Jewish capital
investments to Palestine, and mask
ing the direct appropriation policy
of British Imperialism.
"The so-called Labor govern
ment, led by Macdonald, reaffirmed
the shameful Balfour declaration,
and has sent warships and troops,
and the most modern means of de-
struction-tanks, airplanes and
armored cars, to slaughter thou
sands of Arabian and Jewish work.
ers and peasants. The British
troops have literally wiped out en-
tire villages with fire and sword. A
special court has just been estab-
lished by Sidney Webb (Lord Pass
field) the colonial minister Of Great
which means preparations
for further bloody reprisals, and
the imprisonment of large numbers
of workers and peasants, in addition
to the thousands already thrown
into the dungeons of British i'm
perialism.
Many Dying.
The Jewish colonists, who have
persisted by the thousands from
malaria, hunger, and toll on the
roads, since the beginning of the So
called, Palestine immigration, and
who are still living in caves unfit for
together with the
and plantation laborers,
are the real victims of British i'm
periaIism and Zionist appropriation.
Not one cent for the Zionist
charity campaign!
Support the campaign of the
Workers International Relief, for
the relief of the Arabian and Jewish
worker and peasant families in
Palestine.
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would be obtained by replacement.
Stimson could not predict when
the forthcoming five-power confer
ence would take place but said
further progress awaited that con-
ference's action.
Premier Macdonald, he said, will
not attempt to carry the Anglo
American understanding further
when he visits here next month.
The premier's purpose in coming
here is merely to call on President
Hoover, he said.
Build Up the United Front Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Austr0-Reich Fascist
Mobilize for Field Day
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

VIENNA, Sept. 13.--'rhe so-called
Austrian Front Soldiers Day &C.
ours Sept. 1916. Great detach-
ments of the German Stahlhelm
fascist organizations preparing to
attend.
The day will see great frater-
nization of Austro-G German fascists.
pThe German fascist member Of the
Reichstag, DR.. Hoeltscher, spoke
yesterday in a Heimwehr meeting.
With regard to Hoersing's threat to
send the Reich's banner to Austria
should the Heimwehr become too
insolent, he declared that Stahlhelm
wouldn't permit such action.