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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
PLUMBERS HELPERS STARV.
ING WITH CONDITIONS
UNBEATABLE.

by Worker Correspondent
Looking for a job as a plumbers
helper on a Monday is no cinch.
Due to unemployment in the build
ing trades the majority of the work
ers are unemployed. Conditions are
SO unbearable that the majority of
the workers are starving. The
workers would be glad to put in
more than six months a year Of
work if it was possible with union
wages. But the ALL. officialdom
don't care at all. So today we will
find union plumbers competing with
helpers for a 81 day job that may
last a week. Today there was a
crowd of 200 looking for such a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
MOIders of the Giant
Skoda Metal Works in
Victory by Striking
|By International Press Correspond
ence.)

By international Press Correspond
ence.)
PRAGUE (By MaiD.-During
the last few weeks there have been
numerous demonstrations and spon-
taneous strikes on the part of the
various categories Of workers in the
Skoda works which supplies the Bal
tic states with war material for use
against the Soviet Union.
The cause of the discomfort is that
the management, which maintains
close relations with the government,
is planning a thorough rationaliza-
ton of the workers involving the
dismissal of several thousands OF
workers. At the same time the
management also intends to intro
duce severe wage cuts.
A week ago the molders went on
strike because the naturalization
and wage reductions were intro
duced in their department. The
strike ended yesterday with a COM
plete success. The demands of the
workers have been granted, there
will be no wage reductions and the
molders will be paid for the strike
days.
The meeting which called off the
strike also adopted a resolution to
the effect that the strike would be
proclaimed again Immediately
should the management or the So
cial fascists make the least attempt
to break the agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
If Fighting Wage
Cuts Means Being A
BOlshevik She's One!
(By a WOrker Correspondent

(By O WOTEeT CoTTeSpoHdeHtI
LOS ANGELES, Cal, (By MaiD.
Il was working in dress shop of
about 200 workers, located on Los
Angeles st. 1t was a week before
Christmas when the boss was to
arrive from New York, not only
where he got samples for garments,
but also to learn how to squeeze
more profits fro mthe workers
through naturalization.
The forelady, licking the bosses
boots, collected money from the
workers to give him happy recep-
ton" on his arrival.
Two militant workers seized the
opportunity to explain to their fell
low-workers why we shouldn't do
nate for the boss. That on his ar
rival he will cut the prices on the
garments, not only to cover his ex-
penses, but to make bigger profits.
ooh, don't talk so, that is not
right, he wouldn't do it," claimed
the forelady.
"But is it right to deduct 3 cents
from a floor girl who gets SIG
week, because she was late several
minutes" I replied.
On the following day a worker
was collecting for a Christmas pres
ent for the forelady. l explained to
the workers why we shouldn't do
nate. The forelady represents the
interests of the bosses, and let the
boss, whose watchdog she is, buy
/ her present.
Upon arrival of the boss, the
prices on certain garments were cut.
A workers committee was gotten up
to protest against it.
The following day l was refused
work. Upon asking the forelady
why 1 was refused work, she re-
piled, before all the workers, "You
are too much of a Bolshevik."
If fighting against reductions
means being a Bolshevik, then l am
one.-B. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
FORCES Shift
IN MILIT ARTIST
Chinese WARS
w a g Ching-wei in
New Maneuvers

SHANGHAI (By Inprecorr Mail
Service) .-The complicated and un-
stable political situation in China
may be summed up roughly as fol-
lows:
The Marking government, which
for a time was prepared to resign
voluntarily and place power in the
hands of Wang Ching-wei and his
followers, now considers that the
worst is past and that it can find
a solution to its many difficulties.
Tang Shen-chi, upon whose troops
the Marking government counted in
its struggle against Feng Yu-hsiang,
succeeded in maintaining itself in
Central China and interrupted rail
way communications between Pc
king and Tientsin and Pukau and
Hankow. 1t is still not known
whether Tang Shen-chi is sup
ported by Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen
Si-shan.
Although the insurrectionary
troops are operating in the name Of
Wang Ching-wei, it is doubtful
whether the northern troops are be-
hind him. 1t is possible that they
will use his reputation in their own
interests and turn against him at
the first convenient moment for the
leaders Of these troops pursue
solely their own feudalist aims and
are hostile to the Kuomingtang and
in particular to its cleft wing"
The so-called reorganizationists
under Wang Ching-wei, have less
ened their attacks on Chang Kali
shek for the moment and are con-
centrating against HUI Han-ming,
the leader Of the right wing of the
Kuomintang and against Wang
Cheng ting.
The reorganisationists make HUI
Han-ming responsible for the
shameful collapse of the Marking
government in the conflict on the
Chinese Eastern Railway, and al
lege that he provoked the conflict
without the permission of the Nan
king government. The reorganisa-
tionists hope for compromise with
Chang Kai-shek, because they fear
that victory Of the North would
destroy the Kuomintang.
A conference of the generals hos
tile to the Marking government has
taken place in Tsingtau. The re-
suits of the conference are not yet
known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Miners Digging
in for Struggle

Continued from Page ORe)
N. M. U. have taken up the stand
of battling by strike action against
every new encroachment, and to re-
gain conditions that have been
taken away.
These local strikes are, of neces-
sity, directed twoard the abolition
of the check off, since the check off
is the operators favorite method of
hog-tying the miners, since. the U.
M. w. A. officials with their swarm
of gunner, are the fascist agents of
the operators in making the miners
accept every new attack on their
standards and in preventing strike
action against such attacks. Hence
the present struggles are series
of fierce fights between the miners
and the U. M. ". A. fascists, with
the miners battling the company
union gunner to throw out the U.
NJ. W. and go over to the N. M. U.
Elected Committees Essential.
These local strikes, as battles of
the rank and file, are founded on Pit
Committees of the most militant
miners, elected by the miners as a
whole, whether they are members of
tibet N. M. U. or not. This is a key
point of successful struggle, and as
such PIT Committees develop over
wider areas more general strike
movement become spossibIe around
demands which arise not only from
the special conditions prevailing in
local pits, but from the general
conditions in the industry from
which all miners are suffering.
The miners are determined to
smash the rule of the operators
that they belong to the company
union, the U. M. W. A. While the
bosses are seeking to fire every
militant miner and have the U. M.
w. expel him, the miners where they
meet such discrimination when re-
turning to work, are again taking
up the fight, not for reinstatement
in the company union, Of course,
but for the right of the militant
miners to work, and to break the
check-off grip of the company union
on the miners as whole.
N. M. U. to Correct Errors.
The fighting spirit of the miners
is unquestionable. 1t has over
whelmed the N. M. U. leadership
which did not foresee such response
and which did not prepare either
itself or the miners properly. Hence
there has been considerable confu-
sion, but no sense of defeat among
the miners, who are through with
the U. M. w. A. for keeps and
know that the N. M. U. will carry
on the struggle against all diff
culties until the rank and file miners
have established thir victory against
the operators and their company
union. Thus the fight goes on with
many local demands such as the
following:
Against the check-off in all forms,
in the form of dues to Lewis and
Fishwick, or in the form of COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Itish OppressOrs and Indian
capitalists CannotStop Revolt
of Leninism "Debauchery' Ghandi and Nehru in Pre-
Congress Maneuvers; British Bar SakatvaIa from
Attending Lahore National Congress

ONDON. (By Inprecorr Mail
vice Dispatches from India
e that in the closing speech on
.alf Of the prosecution in the
erut trial the prosecutor refer
g to the young non-party journal
and author Hugh Lester Hutch
Son, declared that Hutchinson had
me to India in order "to debauch
i life of the youths of India" 1t
pears that Hutchinson organized
dramatic society which performed
play entitled "Red Oleanders," and
It he then persuaded the actors to
n a study circle for the purpose
heading Stains "Leninism".
is quite clear that the British
lorities would infinitely prefer
Indian youth to spend their time
cal debauchery rather than that
W should study Leninism. This
zee of futile insolence and insult
ilivered by the prosecutor is char
Eeristic of the intellectual level of
e whole trial as far as the prose
zion is concerned.
e-Congress Maneuvres of Ghandi
and Nehru.
sThe Indian nationalist leaders
andi and Javahar Lal Nehru are
" trying to recover some of the
stige which they lost as result
heir enthusiasm in accepting the
eroy's statement and the propos-
round table conference, by ex-
sing doubts" about the prom
made. The attitude of the In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

pany stores.
For pay for all dead work, taking
up bottoms, moving rock, setting
timber, laying roads and pushing
cars.
For employment of motormen and
trip riders where motors are used.
Against the speed-up. More men
on conveyors, Is minutes rest per-
iod twice day on machines.
Abolition of docking.
More wash houses, lockers and
sprays.
Cages provided for lowering and
raising miners at all air shafts as
we'll as the main hosting shaft.
Abolition of y waiting time to
enter the mine.
Abolition of the bug light, more
air and better ventilation.
Equal pay on the tonnage basis
behind all underwriting machines.
Man ways and adequate protec-
ton for abulage and high tension
wires.
Against all wage cuts proposed,
whether direct from the company or
through the U.M.W.A.
In the fight for these and other
demands, the miners, knowing the
scab character of the U.M.W.A. Of
ficials, of necessity are preventing
these traitors from leading the
strike" since such Headers" very
deliberately betray the struggle as
they are agents of the operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
PHILA. NJ EFT AL L E A G u E
STARTED

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 80
The Metal Workers Industrial
League of Philadelphia has offili-
ated with the International Labor
Defense and will send delegates to
the national conference Of the De-
tense organization in Pittsburgh.
Similar action occurred in the
furriers section of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union which will
send two delegates to the monthly
conference of all LID. branches IN
Philadelphia, at IT'S North Sixth St.
on the first Monday of each month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
RATIONALIzE ROCK HILL MILL

ROCK HILL, S. C. (By MaiD.-
The Cutter Manufacturing Co. has
economical" at the workers ex-
pense. There were three sweepers
in the card room, getintg $40 to $11
a week. The management took two
of the sweepers off and cut the re-
naming workers. wage 10 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

dian Trade Union Congress in decid-
ing to boycott the whitley Com
mission" has made it necessary to
put forward some opposition if they
are to hold their positions.
Ghandi has written to Fenner
Brockway of the Independent La
Dor party and a member of the
House OF Commons expressing a de-
sire for some guarantees. -. the
two parliamentary debates contain
nothing, not even Benn's speech,
that would give me assurance that
may approach the conference with
confidence and safety.
1t is also reported that Nehru is
considering whether he should re-
pudiate the manifesto supporting the
Viceroy and the proposed conference,
of which he was one of the signato-
ries.
Bar Indian Communist.
The former Member of Parliament
for Battersea, S. Saklatvala, an In
dian Communist, applied for permits
sion to go to India as a delegate
to the coming Indian National Con-
gress. Wedgewood Benn, however,
refuses to grant Saklatvala the nee
essary permission on the ground
that "the situation in India is very
delicate"
1t must not be forgotten that
Saklatvala is an Indian and that
Wedgewood's action is a refusal to
permit him to return to his own
native country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

Angeles recently under the auspices
of the TUUL. In spite of only a
short time notice through mimeog-
raphed leaflets 200 Mexican work.
ers were present. Comrade w. Sim
ons, delegate to the Montevideo Con-
gress, spoke on the struggle of the
Latin American workers against
American Imperialism" For over an
hour and a half he exposed the
fascist policy of the AT. of L. and
Crom, and stressed the tasks of the
TUUL on the every day struggle of
the workers. When comrade Simons
asked the audience how many were
in accord with the policies of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
300 R.R. Workers Laid Off in
California

sACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 30
Zee thousand workers in the shops
: he Southern Pacific Railway in
city learned more about Hoover
Osperity" when they were laid
on Christmas. The gradual clos
3 down of railway repair shops ac-
npanies the growing decrease in
fght-car loadings, a sure indica-
b of the severe crisis in American
Iitalism.
The Southern Pacific shops are
almost completely shut down,
EOnly handful of employees were
affected by the lay-off order.
he Trade Unon Unity League is
ming an organization campaign
ing the Sacramento workers, es-
ally to organize the thousands of
mployed. A mass meeting in JAN
Y, date to be announced later,
start the drive.
I. Y. Jobbers Storm Agency
Swindlers
he employment agency sharks,
carrion crows which accompany
E Hoover prosperity" era, are
tening on the ranks of the unem-
red.
Unemployed workers in New York
Nv, who told how they had been
ndled by false promises of jobs,
sterday stormed the office of the
liable Employment Agency on the
iond floor at $40 Sixth Ave.
Over 100 unemployed painters,
| oenters and laborers angrily
onstrated their anger, and their
Jag militancy, as Joseph Weiner,
agency shark, and his assistants
led the office doors and tele-
/ ael for police reserves.
ne numbers of the unemployed
/ kers swelled and their militancy
| rapidly. Scores of voices told
| the unemployed workers had
| premiums Of from S. to $40 to
agency and in return had been
! they would get work. They told
| they had bee1 sent to a fake
Iress in Brooklyn, given by the
Ancy, and found they had been
lived.
/ ne abolition of private employ
1t agencies, which thrive on
ding the workers, is one of the
1nds for the unemployed, by the
munist Party of the U. S. A.
I JDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 30
betition in voluntary bankruptcy
3 filed today in federal court here
inst the Stutz Motor Car Co.,
America, by three Indianapolis
itors. The Stutz Co. recently
off thousands of workers in its
It's.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
BY LEON MABILLE

over ZUU,UUU mehlCdH WOIhSIS dIS
living in and around Los Angeles.
These workers form one of the most
exploited sections of the American
working class. They are working in
metal, railroad, oil, food and agri-
cultural, under starvation conditions.
Long hours, low wages, are the or
der of the day. In the agricultural
field men, women and children are
Shaving II and IA hours a day for
almost nothing.
Race Discrimination
The Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce is conducting lying pro-
paganda campaign in Mexico about
the prosperity of American workers.
1t fills the Mexican capitalist papers
with fake statements in order to
have Mexican workers initiating the
army of unemployed, this being a
good weapon to use, in order to
worsen the conditions of the working
class as a whole.
The American Federation of La
Dor bureaucracy is working hand in
glove with the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce by refusing to organize
the Mexican workers. They are en-
gaging in race discrimination
through their famous" immigration
restriction. During the Upholsterers'
general strike" the A. F. of L. lead
ership betrayed the Mexican uphols-
tering workers who were the most
militant strikers. The A. F. of L.
sent them back to work under the
same conditions os formerly.
Militancy of the Workers.
The events in the last few months
prove concretely that the workers
are ready to fight. The Mexican
workers are taking an aggressive
attitude toward naturalization, as
is best proven in the Imperial VAL
ley, San Bernardino and Upland
agricultural strikes. In the CONSOLE
dated Steel Corporation and uphols-
terers strike, their response to Com
munist and TUUL meetings in spite
of the persecution of the Red Squad
the Chamber of Commerce, the AT.
of L. and GROIN bureaucracy and
the agents of Mexican reaction,
proves concretely that the Mexican
born workers are conscious of their
position and are striving toward
organization.
A mass meeting was called in Los
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
ORGANIZE MEXICAN WORKERS.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.-As
part of the campaign against the
white terror in Mexico, a campaign
is being carried on to organize the
Mexican workers in the U. s., to-
gether with the American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
3 Lay-Offs Go
With Many Crises

] CONTINUED from Page One)
fits December IS issue, estate has
IRE prisoners now than at any
he before"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

job. Boys 16 years old without ex-
perience to plumbers of as years.
Away with the labor takers of the
ALL.
Let's US organize under the true
banner Of the T.U.U.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
HO0yer-Rubi0
Attack Rebels

Continued from Page One)
for the arrests was the growing eff
fectiveness of the exposure of the
Ortiz ubio-Gil-Calles regime as an
appendage of U. S. Imperialism in
Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

Our own nge, the bourgeois age,
is distinguished by this-that IL
has SIM iifiOu class untaRontsms.
More and more. society is splitting
up into two great hostile camps,
into two great and directly contrn-
posed classesi bourgeOisie and pro.
Ietariat-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

TUUL, the majority of the workers
present raised their hands. The out
come of this meeting resulted to 20
TUUL applications.
Lack of Spanish Literature!
The Los Angeles TUUL Center is
issuing a monthly agricultural bull
letin in Spanish. This bulletin will
be a great help for the organiza-
ton of the tens of thousands of
agricultural workers.
Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become a
Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
celebrate
in your city

Organize a mass meeting, hold
a concert, an affair of some
kind to celebrate the Sixth
Anniversary of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Elect Your
Daily Worker
Representative

Every party unit, section. dis
trict must have a Daily Work.
er representative. Every city
where the party has member
ship must name a representa-
tive.
The Washington times., 1929-07-31
IAPAN'SCENS0R
DOES TALKIE
CUTS

TOKYO, July 81 1.N.s).-whfle
bearing the distinction Of being the !
first aII-diaIogue moving picture TO
be screened in Japan, "rhe Wild
Party" win also remain upon home ,
office annals az being the first
"taikie'' to receive drastic censor
cuts.
Although minor deletions have
been made in other sound-syn-
chronized and dialogue pictures. # :
Is the first time that film Of this
kind falls victim to the censor's
scissors to an extent Of 120 meters.
the length officially ordered to be
removed.
It IL the first S4lne the censor /.
board frowned upon dialogue and
ordered this feature o9 film de-
ieted besides instructing the re.
moval Of kissing scenes. and nude
sequences, which according to Ja.
pans protectors Of morals are las /
civious and suggestive"
Hidden Tale
/ But behind this account OF strict I
/ censorship lies hidden a tale Of
hardship endured by Taro Tajima.
one OF the inspectors in charge,
during the review OF this film.
i His major trouble was the diff
| Guilty In understanding the dialogue.
"The Wild Party" it is understood,
/ deals with the adventures, most,
| amorous, Of group Of American
/ college girls.
The average American accent it,
/ self makes understanding alreadys
/ sufficiently difficult for unframed
| Japanese ears, but when it comes
! to a super Brooklyn accent, which
I Clara Bow. the star, is purported to.
| have, 1t becomes doubly trying.
This difficulty was further height
! ened by q generous sprinkling Of
| collegiate expressions sandwiched In
| between sentences.
Mr.. Tajima characterized his hard,
| ship in passing one seven-reeEi
'talkie" as being the equivalent of
reviewing 40 reels OF silent film. He,
said it took him q whole morning to-.
review THE Wild Party" approx
mately five times more than is need.
| ed to pass nontaliEie of the same
l length.
Censor's Method
The censors also decided when
! passing "The Wild Party to aban-e
j don their former practice Of oblit
| Grating the scenes and correspond
ing dialogue on the film by paint.
| ing them with black enamel. as this:
would be liable to excite exaggerat
ed ideas in the audience, when pro
jected. They have instead decided to
remove the coating Of the film with
chemicals, so that the scenes viii
| show white when projected on the
screen. This, they assume, viii lead
/ the spectators to believe the film
was severed by accident, and the
projection, being white instead Of
black, could have no objectionable
moral Effects
4 The parts cut were those of bed
room scene where the players are
seen in 'fdormitory abbrevia tions,"
| kissing scenes of excessive length.
and rowdy class room scene, where
/ the professor is publicly insulted by
his students.
The Washington times., 1929-07-31
Strange Fossil Slab
Is Brought to Museum

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. July 81
I Il. .N.S.l.--A giant slab containing the
bones Of great pig. the jaw Of an
extinct rhinoceros. and the jaw OF an
animal that In its prime combined q
cameLlike form with claws on the
front feet has come to the museum
Of Wesleyan University here.
The affair was purchased by Yves
, leyan from J. d. Higgins, OF Denver.
Col; who was once curator Of the
Museum Of Natural History in that
city. Out of an agate quarry in the
State OF Nebraska the slab was guar.
ried years back. I
"The slab is unique in the abun, I
dance of bones and in having in one
piece three forms from one locality"
says Wesleyan experts who studied,
it prior to the purchase.
The Washington times., 1929-07-31
French's Granddaughter
To We'd Rich New Yorker

LONDON, July 81 n.N.S,).-The
engagement Of Valerie French. grand
daughter of the late Lord French,
and Henry Bradley Martin will
probably be announced soon, the
Evening Standard stated today.
They were first reported engaged In
October, 1925, but the engagement
was broken. Mr.. Martin comes of q.
wealthy New York family.