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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-29
Glass in Trade Union Problems.

tIhss ia IraUc Union Pr0bIcmS.
The class in American Trade Union
Problems conducted on Mondays at
7 p. m. is open to all interested In
the various phases of trade unionism.
Admission to those not registered is
25 cents. Next Mondays class viii
hear Obermeier on Organization of
Food Workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-29

All industrial organizers and all
section organizers are instructed to
complete the registration of all Party
members. Those who are not as yet
registered should do so Immediately
This registration is of utmost import
ance in the building of the TUtfT,
District Industrial Department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-29
Bath Beach Y.C.L. Entertainment

A spaghetti party and entertain
ment will be given Friday evening,
Nov. 20, at As Bay 2Sth St. under
auspices of the Bath Beach unit of
the Y.C.La
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-29

A Harvest dance will be held under
auspices of Section of the Commit
mist Party on Nov. go p. m, at Sc
Manhattan Ave. Admission IS cents.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07

imperialists' maneuvers about Limitation of
ornaments" Senator King of Utah, an
ultra-reactionary democrat who OCCASIONALLY
tries to put on liberal" face in the service
of the mining kings of his state, offers his
pacifist contribution by opposing the 15-
cruiser bill and pleading at least for the re-
duction of the proposed number of 15 new
cruisers to five.
This is of course only more help to the big
imperialist war makers.
The interests of the masses of this coun-
try workers in industry and farmers on the
land, are not represented by these proposals
for large navy, for small navy, or for a
middle-sized navy. Nor by the cynical hypo-
crisies about total disarmament of a capt.
talist system which can only live by precipi-
tating the world again and again into the
bloody carnage of imperalist war.
The workers and dirt farmers can advance
their cause only insofar as they organize
their strength against the imperialist war
makers and the imperialist government and
coordinate their fight together with the re-
sistance of the other enemies of these i'm
perialists. The only way to abolish war is
first to overthrow the capitalist system which
makes wars inevitable and which therefore
finds mo inconsistency" between peace"
pact and the most colossal preparations for
war in history. The overthrow of the i'm
perialist war makers will not be accomplished
by pacifism, nor by disarmament nor
partial disarmament" To propose the COM
plete abolition of, the capitalist army and
navy with the simultaneous organization of
a toilers' militia, is the consistent approach
to this question. But the imperialist war
is rapidly being prepared with the assistance
of the Borahs, the lingo trade union bureau
Gratis, the pacifist socialist party and the
liberals. The transformation of that bloody
. imperialist slaughter into the opposite of i'm
perialist war, into civil war for the over
throw of imperialism and the establishment
of the dictatorship of the workers and dirt
farmers-this is the solution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
TODAY: Life in the Mining Camp of Ophir,
Utah; Haywood's First Sweetheart; Bound Out
to Cruel Farmer; His First Strike

attention, and for months I was kept
in dark room. But the sight was
gone.
When l returned to Ophir, school
was closed and I did my first work
in mine. I was then little past
nine years of age. 1 was with my
stepfather, who was doing the asses
lnent work at the Russian mine.
School opened again, and went an
other term. This time Professor Fos-
ter was the teacher, a stern-looking
old Mormon from Tooele, but an ex-
cellent teacher. He taught me to I'M
derstand history, to dig under and
back of what was written. He was
a lantern-jawed, gray-mustached old
man with gray eyes, and l never
saw him whip a child.
Hardly week passed without a
fight with some boy or other, who
would call me "Squint-eye" or "Dick
Dead-eye," because of my blind eye.
l used tn like to fight.
After this term of school the fam
lily returned to Salt Lake City.
Zion, as the Mormons called the city,
was intended originally as the cap
ital of an empire of the Mormon
Church. When gold was discovered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
New Speedup
In Continental
Motor Plant
(By Federated Press)

Out of the Continental Motors
plant at Muskegon, Mich, come
stories of new refinements in wage
slicing that put to shame previous
efforts of efficiency experts in the
auto industry. The men call the
newest racket painless extraction"
but the pain comes after the extrac-
ton.
The company makes the PROPOSE
tion to workers getting 55 cents an
hour that they take 45 cents and
bonus that will make their pay run
to 60 and rs cents. "Fine," say the
men, "it's jake with u.s." The first
few pay-days show 60 cents an hour
or more, then in some mysterious
manner the bonus disappears. The
men get only as cents, with no bonus
at all. There is nothing for them
TO do about it but stay on the job
or get mad and quit. They are I'M
organized. This scheme was worked
in Department 81, where wages
were cut from 55 to 421a cents.
Another way to cut wages is to
lay a man off long enough for him
to get very hard up. Then he's glad
to come back and take the old job
at lower pay. The company uses
good trick to find out how little
man can live on. A worker is put
on 9-hour schedule with only three
days work each week. After he has
stayed on this schedule long time
the bosses notice that he is still
alive and able to work, although he
has been making only $40 to $12 a
week.
"Well, what's the use of paying
him $40 week when he can live on
s10?" they ask. Accordingly his
pay is scaled down when he resumes
work on 6-day schedule.
Continental Motors has a welfare
department, which auto workers call
the farewell department. A for
mer Muskegon police officer heads
it. 1t is his business to ferret out
any radical minded men among the
employees. A story making the
rounds of the plant among the men
shows their contempt for Continen-
tails welfare:
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Preparation for Imperialist War

When the life story of William E. Borah
is finally written, his long career IN the
United States Senate will appear much more
consistent with his first national fame"
of 1907 as the special prosecutor hired by
the mining corporations to hang the mine
workers leader, William D. Haywood, than
would be thought by many naive radicals"
Borah is now engaged in some of the
foulest work that could be done in preparing
the way for the coming imperialist war. He
seems to have set as his personal task the
Job of putting over all lies intended to
create the illusion that United States capt.
talism is merely peaceful Imperialism.
That this illusion is as necessary to the
war preparations as are machine guns and
warships is well known to Borah. AS Sen
ator Hale, chairman of the committee on
naval affairs has said, there is nothing in
consistent between the peace" pact and
the fifteen-cruiser bill. In fact the big navy
plan and the Kellogg pact are, for all prac-
teal purposes of American capitalism, two
sections of the same measure of prepara-
ton for imperialist war. The two together
make it possible for the imperialist war
makers, proceeding full speed ahead in build
ing the biggest naval and military machine
of all history, simultaneously to continue in
tensive building of the illusion that the whole
world will soon be "as free of armament as
is the Canadian border"
There is no more fatal illusion than that
created by the propaganda of the possibility
of "disarmed" capitalist society. The $50
cialist' and liberal hubbub in behalf of
partial disarmament is, both subjectively
and effectively, mere imperialist-patriotic
propaganda to dope the minds of the masses
with faith in the capitalist system-belief
that American imperialism will not plunge
into imperialist war if only they have few
cruisers less than are called for by the big
navy program Such propaganda is their
own little "pacifist" contribution to the big
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07

in California, the emigrants swarmed
through Utah on their way to the
gold fields of the west. Some
dropped off at Salt Lake City and
stayed, but curiously enough, in
spite of the stampede for gold, no
Mormons joined in the rush or left
their territory.
The Temple Block, where the
Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, the
Endowment Houses and the Temple
were enclosed within high walls, was
the H., heart of the city; around it
everything centered. In the Taber-
nacle, where eight thousand people
could gather, l heard Adelina Patti
sing one night when l was a young
boy. l have never forgotten it.
The city was built with wide
streets that were numbered from the
Temple Block. Along the cutters
ran streams of mountain water
which was used to water the gar
dens with which every house was
surrounded.
The population was divided. Nor
mons were the dominant factor.
The others, even the Jews, were
known as Gentiles. The Mormons
controlled most of the business and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07

day-scholars. Though not a Cath
clio, I was admitted to the school,
where a nun called Sister Sylvia was
cur teacher.
During vacation time my uncle
Richard came to visit us from one
Of the nearby mining camps. Read
ing an advertisement one day in the
paper that boy was wanted on
farm, he talked it over with my
mother, with the result that | was
bound out to John Holden. For a
period of six months at one dollar
month and board | was to be boy
of-all-work on the farm. There /
MIXED two cows, fed the calves,
cleaned out the stable, but my main
job was driving yoke of oxen.
One day I was in the field har-
rowing while Holden was blowing.
A tooth of the harrow turned up a
nest of field mice. They were Curl
Gus little things. / had never seen
the like before, and got down on
my knees to examine them more
closely. They were red, with no
hair on their bodies. Their eyes
were closed. The nest was 2 neat
little home all lined with what
seemed to be wool. 1t seemed only
a few minutes that looked at them,
when all of a sudden I felt smart
ing whip-lash across my body. Hol-
den had crossed the field. picked up
the bull-whip l had dropped, and
struck me without saying a word.
II jumped up and ran straight to the
house, gathered up my few belong
ings, tied them into a bundle and
started for home. AS l crossed the
fields some distance from Holden |
ssrg out: "Good-by, John!" I
walked TO the city, some ten miles
distant. This was my first strikeA.
When l got home and told my
mother that I had quit, because
Holden had struck me with the whip,
she was angry at the abuse, but was
afraid Of what be might do on ac-
count of the paper that she had
signed, which was an indenture
binding me to work for him. Hol-
den came to our house the next day,
my mother scolded him for daring
to strike me with whip. He adj
mitted to having bad temper and
promised never to do it again, so |
went back with him and served my
time. Holden was a cruel man,
cruel to his horses, cruel to his oxen,
cruel to his wife, who often used to
say that ut would be better to be
an old mans darling that a young
mans slave"
Ito Be Continued.)
In the mere instalment, Hay
aUood will tell of the first lynch
ing he witnessed, and of the I'M
pressions it made upon him. He
aoil tell hoau has bodyhood reaction
to racial bigotry caused him to
feel that the Negro Uorkers avere
the same as himself and other
! Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
PrOlab Theater Plans
Three One-Act Plays

The Prolab (Proletarian Labora-
tory) Theatre has begun operations
for the season at its headquarters
231 East 9th St. Rehearsals have
already begun on three one-act plays
to be presented some time in
February. There will also be a
monthly program of plays and
dancing at the theatre headquarters.
Workers interested in the Theatre
such activity are urgently requested
to come. Rehearsal meetings take
place every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
WALL ST. VIEWS CHINA
Wider Markets; Imber1alist Oppression

The favorable attitude of Amer
lean capital toward the industriali-
cation of colonial and semi-colonial
countries is clearly expressed in a
leading article in the official "Com-
nerce Reports" Dec. "a, published
by the Department of Commerce,
Washington. Reviewing the rapidly
increasing industrialization Of China,
this article says:
"What we are observing in China
is the transition of people from
medievalism to modernism, from
hand production to machine produc-
ticn and the organization of mod
crn society,""
The effects of this process upon
American financial and commercial
interests are described as follows:
"China's industrial progress does
rot mean less Of trade for western
industries, but rather the opening of
wider markets. From the beginning
Of Sino- Western relations it has been
the foreign trader who has developed
China's mines, factories, and various
forms Of industries.
Gle has financed and built the
railroads established steamship
lines, trade routes, wireless stations,
cables, and banks. He has admins
tered the maritime customs, the salt
gabelle, and, in part, the post office,
Some Of these activities may be
taken from his hands by the Chinese.
The west may soon find itself no
riore the supplier of China's cotton
piece goods and cigarettes. but it
will be foreign money and experience
that will build the new cotton mills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
By EARL BROWDER.
Continued
The Fake, Impotent Left"

The Fake, Impotent Left"
The so-called cleft wing" of Wang
Ching-wei and Chen Kung-po, is
little more than an auxiliary to Chi
ang Kai-shek, who uses it or puts
il on the shelf as the moment die
tates. 1t is incapable of independent
action. Various provinces (Kiangsi,
Anhui) are unstably divided between
military forces of one or another
group: others (Szechuan, Kwei-
chow are outside the stream of ma
tional events, and semi-independent.
Underneath all these groupings
and re-groupings at the top, there
is the mighty movement of the
peasants, the agrarian revolution,
and the rising revolutionary trade
unions of the city workers, led by
the Communist Party of China,
which holds large sections of south
ern Human and Kiangsi, and north
ern Kwantung.
Struggle of the 1.-TWO Parties"
The Marking administration
(which we have dubbed the "Amer-
lean Party') has been living on its
diplomatic Victories" which have
been presented to it without charge
by America. The settlement of the
Marking incident, the recognition
of the back-door of a tariff agree
ment, the raising of the American
representation to the status of Sem
bassy," the talk of credits and nam
ing of American business men as
advisors" to the governmental
these have been points of prestige
granted to the Marking government
by America, while being withheld
by Britain and Japan. Upon this
basis the american Party" has been
able to continue to live.
But all these gains have been
purely spiritual" quite without ma
terial benefit even to the Chinese
bourgeoisie. Even the tariff agree
ment makes no practical difference
until Japan and Britain also agree,
for the "most favored nation clause"
is prominent in it, as in all similar
victories" Of The Marking govern
ment. And in the meantime the
Marking clique eats away its own
foundations, even it's support among
the bankers, compradores, and bour-
geoisie generally, by an orgy Of lux
ury and extravaganza remarkable
even among Chinese mandarins.
British Very Much Awake.
While the United States helps the
Nanaing american Party" admin
'stration with paper victories and
(, restige, the British have been max
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
Preparing for New Wars in China

the governments order sending him
far away to Singkiang; Chang
Hsueh-liang has regretfully de-
clined Markings invitation to come
to that city to occupy the nice chair
they had assigned him in the Cen
trail Committee.
Only Feng Yu-hsiang stays on in
Marking, still something of an
"enigma" in the Chinese scene, for
no one is sure just exactly which
side he will be found on after the
fighting begins even tho now he is
in alliance with Chang Kai-shek.
Feverishly they prepare, one and
all, for the elections" to the Kuo-
mintang Congress whihh will be de-
nided by the strongest military COM
binations.
And in the Meanwhile
Ever larger masses of people are
literally starving, industries lag
and close their doors under the
weight of taxation and slack bust
ness; the railroads are in a condi-
ton of wreckage; river transport
struggles vainly against rising tide
of piracy and militarist taxation;
taxes, taxes on everything and any
thing, multiply on every hand, but
less and less reaches the central
government.
One-third or. more of the city
populations are unemployed; rail-
road workers are six to 10 months
in arrears with their wages; the
armies are unpaid and mutinous, but
disbanded soldiers become more
dangerous still by joining the revo-
lutionary armies or becoming ban
dts; cholera is appearing, spread
in govt from the famine areas over
the country.
And meanwhile the peasant move
ment continues, the agrarian revo-
luton grows in the countryside. In
the cities the trade unions are re-
viving, strikes become larger and
more numerous, the proletariat
again is gathering it's forces.
The Chinese stage is again being
set for a new act in the revolution.
This act, beginning with the war of
the militarist tools of the rival i'm
perialist powers, can have but one
ending, that is the establishment of
the Soviet Power Of the workers and
peasants. The Chinese Revolution
prepares, through the unconscious
collaboration of its agencies, for it's
next great epoch.
Canton, November 20, 1928.
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BILL
SYNOPSIS

. NOI DID
In Part One, Haywood a0rote of
has pioneer parents crossing the
l0este'7, plains IN covered aUagon.
His father q pony-e1press rider.
Settling at Salt Lake City. Hay
goods birth there February /,
1869. The famous Mountain
Meadoao Massacre" of gentiles By
Mormons. HIS fathers death.
The family moues to Ophir, Utah,
mining camp. Bills first school.
SLIPPERY Dick" kills has man.
NoaU go on reading.-EDITOR.
Copyright, 1929, By Interna-
tionaL Publishers Co., Inc. All
rights reserved. Republication for
hidden except By permission.
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HA WOODS BOOK

all of the farms. Many of the
larger enterprises, factories and
farms, were owned by the church,
which maintained tithing offices, a
newspaper and an historians office.
The Gentiles of the Territory were
miners, business men, saloon keep
ers, lawyers and politicians. The
desert News" was the official
paper of the Mormons, while the
"Salt Lake Tribune" spoke for the
Gentiles. Against the Gentiles there
was a bitter antipathy, as the older
Mormons could not forget the out
RACES they had suffered, their prop
erty that had been destroyed, the
killing Of their leaders, their final
abandonment of the states where
they had lived, and their search for
new home where they could be
safe from persecution, and which
was now being invaded by their old
time enemies. That spirit of bitter
ness has somewhat died down with
the newer generation, but when I
was boy it was at its height.
We lived for years near the house
that was my birthplace, in different
rented houses, always surrounded
by polygamous families; the Tay-
Tors, the Evanses, the Cannons.
John Taylor, one time president of
the Church of Latter Day Saints,
as the Mormons call their church,
lived across the street from US. He
had eight wives in one half block.
Next door to our house was one of
several families of William Taylor,
brother of the president, and the
first house from theirs was the
home of Porter Rockwell. He had
the reputation CT being DANTE, or
one of the Destroying Angels, an
associate Of the notorious Bill Hick-
man. Concerning these Destroying
Angels, it was said that their func-
tion was to avenge the church by
doing away with such offenders as
apostates. Rockwell was a mys-
terious being to the boys of the
neighborhood, most of whom were
Mormons. All had heard Of the
terrible things that he and Hick-
man We're accused of, through ru-
mors and whispers in their families.
There was nothing definite, but
enough to arouse the curiosity of the
youngsters so that when we saw
Porter Rockwell on the street. with
his long gray beard, gray shawl,
gray SLOUGH hat, and iron gray hair
falling over his shoulders, we would
run along in front Of him, staring
back at his not unkindly face. After
Porter Rockwell died, some boys in
the neighborhood thought it would
be good joke to haunt the big
house where he had lived alone. One
who worked in drug store got
some phosphorus, which we put on
sheet. We tied the sheet to a
rope, and pulled it from the house
to the barn. Breaking into the
house, we ratified pieces of iron and
crockery in an old key, shook the
windows and did other things to
make a noise. so that one passing
could not fail to notice the dis
turbance. The ghostly sheet and the
continuous racket on dark nights
gave the house the reputation Of
being haunted. All the boys who
belonged to the gang were initiated
with different hairraising stunts.
The Sisters Academy Of the
Sacred Heart was in the next block.
They had little building adjoining
the girls school, where some small
boys from the adjacent mining
camps were boarded and given their
first education. There were some
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and cigarette factories, foreign ma
chinery that will equip them, foreign
engineers who will in large part lay
out the railroads and construct the
industrial plants and teach the
Chinese how to get the most out of
them. 1t will be western-manufac-
turcd commodities that will cater to
the increased standards Of living
brought about by the growing intro
auction of modern methods of indus
tIialization, until the time, when
China may be able to produce them
for itself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07

In previous instruments, Earl
Browder told of new wars brewing
among the Chinese war lords, i'm
perialist tools. He goes on to tell
of the plans for the Kuomintang
Congress.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. g.
President Moncada, who owes his
position to Yankee marines and
bombing planes, received a tele-
gram of congratulation from Presi-
dent Coolidge yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 CUP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP).--
Two naval mine sweepers, the
Whippoorwill and Tanager, collided
today about sixty miles from Oahu,
Hawaii, but were able to put into
Pearl Harbor, the navy department
was informed by radio. The acct
dent was caused by an. eccentric rod
on the Whippoorwill being carried
away.