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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Form Big Steel Trust;
Crisis Speeds Up
Capitalist Monopoly

CLEVELAND, Dec. IA $780,
0OC.OO0 steel merger, comprising
four companies, shows the growing
justification of capitalism in the
present crisis.
The name of the new company
will be the Republic Steel Co. 1t is
the third largest steel trust in the
United States.
Hoover is speeding up capitalist
monopoly, especially in railroads
and steel, as well as other basic in
dustries. The Interstate Commerce
Commission is pressing trustifica-
ton of railroads.
Owen D. Young is getting Hoov-
er's help in gigantic trust which
will control the country's system of
telegraphic and cable communica.
tions-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Organize Action Against Unemployment!
Unity of JObless and Employed Workers!

Unemployment increased sharply last month
The automobile industry showed decline of 17S in the
number of workers employed during the month of November
decline in November of other
cent.
employed by
1876 per cent
the metropolitan New building
decreased according the figures the F. W. Dodge corporation
by $365,OO00OO under last years total
Only indusrespaper manufacture and tobaccohave
creased forces. All others showed declines.
big parttme employment is indicated by the
that the decrease payroll totals than the
decrease As against 7
Der of workers the automobile industry shows
cent in payroll totals
For the first September 1925 employment has
st lower level than in the month of the previous
trend here Not only is there
the number workers steadily employed
still further the number
spdup there will be wide between the decrease
totals and the decrease workers employed 1t
that Hooves council placing the burden
the working class rapidly possible
Our Party program for combating unemployment
poymen demands from the Communist Party and the Trade
into militant industrial together with already
ganzed workers struggle against the effects cap
ast decentralization speed-up and unemployment This
basis for all unemployment demands for action"
Emergency relief for the funds
unemployment Insurance. administration of benefits
by committees elected by workers. h~ Ion" nd tho 5day week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Mine BATTLE
At C 0 AL PIT
IN AUSTRALIA
Labor" Premier With
Union Heads Try to
Break the Strike
Strikers Besiege Pits
5000 Pickets Defying
Trainload of Police

Dispatches from Sydney, Austria
liza, show that the battles continue
between striking miners and police
at the Rothbury colliery in New
South Wales, with State Premier
Bavin sending a trainload of armed
police from Sydney to defend the
coal operators and attack the strik-
ers, one of whom was killed and 90
wounded by armed mine guards
Monday. But OH the side of the
police there were also many wound
ed.
The labor" prime minister, just
elected in October, Mr.. Scullin, was
gathering the cowardly and treach-
erous class collaborationist mine
union leaders into a campaign to
persuade the thousands of miners on
the picket line to stop picketing and
let the volunteer" scabs work. So
far the strikers have refused to heed
these cowardly "leaders."
The pickets, said to be 5000
strong, with miners and their wives
participating, made three charges
on the police guard, and were driven
back only by volleys which further
angered them. They cut all COM
munications, camped out around the
mines all night and have prepared
to lay seige to starve out the scabs.
The capitalist press which howls
for blood of the strikers had it's re-
'porters marched away by the collar
at the head of jeering masses of
miners, and their camera men
chased away and their cameras
smashed. A section of the railroad
track was torn up to stop the ship
ments of food and supplies to the
beseiged scabs.
Many of the mines in the northern
section of New South Wales have
been on strike for months. While
the militants had urged the spread
ing of the strike to the other fields
in the south, the treacherous union
leaders have refused this obviously
correct policy. The great bulk of
the Australian unions are led by re-
formists, and in the attack on the
working class which has been going
on over year now, have proven to
be the worst foes of the workers,
nesting in office and weakening and
betraying the workers in struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
BIG WAGE CUTS
A D MITTED BY
U.S.LABOR DEPT.
Unemployment Grows;
Wages Are Cut
in All Plants
A. f. of L. Aids Bosses
Communists F i g h t
Attack on Workers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Unem-
ployment growing and the wage
cutting campaign is in full swing.
These facts are brought out even
by the boss-favoring statistics of the
United States Department of Labor.
Employment in the basic indus
tries, according to the Department
of Labor, decreased 81 per cent in
November, compared with October.
Payrolls dropped nearly 7 per cent.
This means a big wage cut for the
workers left on the job. This COW
ers 1896 factories, employing
5,045,4 ,493 workers.
Especially severe unemployment
was reported il the automobile in
dustries. Here the drop was nearly
Is per cent. Radio plants fired 27
per cent of their workers during
November.
The fact that payrolls were even
lower than the amount of unem-
ployment shows conclusively that
wage cuts ar proceeding rapidly.
Further wage cuts will proceed as
soon as Hoover's grand fascist
council'' works out its detailed
plans.
The nationwide wage cutting,
which is revealed by the Department
Of Labor reports are going on with
the help Of the leaders of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
When the big wage-slicing cam
paign is finally perfected by the
20 leading capitalists, headed by
Young, Lamont, Rosenwald, Barnes
and Hoover, the A. f. of L. will in
tensify its scabbing campaign. AL
ready the leadership of the A. F. of
L. is fighting strikes and is keeping
its promise not even to attempt to
organize the workers and to sabot-
age every attempt to organize the
workers.
The statistics of the Department
of Labor, though they vastly under
estimate the present acute crisis
situation, give the lie to Hoover's
"no-wage-cut" talk. The Commu-
mist Party, with it's drive for 5000
new members, is leading the strug-
gle against the fascist" attack on
the American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
GENERAL STRIKE
IN SILK, S 0 0 N
Many Delegates Will
Attend Textile Confab

A general strike, nationally, in
the silk industry employing more
than 10000 workers, cruelty ex-
plotted by the latest speed-up meth
DDS, looms as one of the principal
results of the second national con-
vention of the National Textile
Workers Union in Paterson, N. j.,
December 81 and %, in the N. T.
w. U. Hall, at 205 Paterson st.
The N.T.W.U. with but year be-
hind it, stands in the van of the
militant unions of the land. More
than 300 delegates from every tex
tile center of the land-from New
Bedford to Gastonia will attend it.
Principal points on the agenda, in
addition to the general silk strike,
are mobilization of further organ
ization in the South; Mobilization
for organization in New England
and other sections of the country;
Intensified activity to save the seven
Gastonia strikers from going to
prison for the hest part of their
lives.
Many Delegates.
One hundred delegates will leave
their looms and spindles in New
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

America officials.
. 1t is the answer of the min
ers to a new wave of repres-
sion. Today deputies sent by
Sheriff Pritchard of Franklin
County raided the Illinois district
office of the National Miners
Union, i'll 1-2 West Main ST., West
Frankfort. The deputies seized the
printing press, the filing system,
and carried away stenographers
notes, and all leaflets and records.
Fire On Pickets.
Yesterday at Benld the deputies
fired on the mass picket line, but
no casualties are reported as yet.
The Staunton strike is the first
step in an intensified effort of the
N. M. u. to extend the struggle in
Illinois and to carry it into Ken
lucky and Indiana. AS part of this
attempt, the district grievance board
of the N. M. U. meets tomorrow to
make further plans, and $4,000 new
leaflets, carrying the call for gen.
eral strike of the miners have been
issued.
Federal Strike-Breaker.
The corrupt officialdom of the
United Mine Workers of America
is continuing its feverish strike
breaking activities. They are work
ing closely with Mike P. Costello,
of ccatur, government strike
breaker called officially a federal
conciliator." At the same time the
illinois Miner" organ of the Fish
wick branch of the U. M. w. A.
machine, devices several columns of
its current issue to attacks on the
N. M. U. and open indictments to
scabbing.
Old Fake Meeting Stunt.
Another crude attempt was made
yesterday at Peabody Coal Co. Mine
No. 9, Langlyville, H., (near Tay-
lorville) to rush the men back to
the slavery of week ago. Joseph
Fontana, the president of Local
3,473, U. NJ. W. A, at Langlyville,
called meeting of those he thought
he could rely on, and proposed the
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
CAUGHT MILEUNDERCROUND;
400 MINERS AT STAUNTON
JOIN ILLINOIS STRIKE
$4,000 New Strike Call Leaflets Issued Board
Meets Today to Spread Struggle Further
Deputies Raid NMU Illinois District Office
Benld Operators Thugs Fire on Pickets
BULLETIN.

McALESTER, Okla Dec 17Fve bodies out of 62 entombed
miners Old Town Mine here brought to the surface
today. There be still below.
The identified dead include Negro mners Pete Tlford
Walker Others identified Leonard Darvi Ray
Wch Manuel Huerta Rafael Slazer Those rescued
Arnold Knger, Joe Poncea and Frank Gonzales Smoke
have stopped the First word of the
who from $500 feet down the
in the said the blast still farther down. Forty
the married The number dependents left will be
about 230.
WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec 17Vincent Kamenovich, Ma
Ona Miners Union organizer for southern Illinois, arrested
today for mobilzng pcke and held until $780, Depu
d United Mine Worker thugs patrol all roads around Cecilia and
Buckne The armed but pcketng continues
energetay, spite of heavy rain storm There Is
Toohy both speaking
to great crowds daily
WEST FRANKFORT ILL.,, Dec. 1.-THE 400 miners al
Mine No. at Staunton Ill., struck in body yesterday and
joined the strike that is leaping like flame from mine to
mine throughout the Illinois coal fields This is of
the miners the terrific flood of lies about the Collapse of
the strike cut loose evidently by yesterday
and today by the bosses the United Mine Workers of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

abolition of all evcion for by
workershese other program
issues through the rapid increase unemployment principal
industrial centers.
The organization of the unemployed launching militant
struggle for their demands jointly with the
immediate task
1t not too begin the preparations
ference of Unemployed Workers which plans
adopted by file the
and authoritative council entra the struggle could
This is lifeanldeath question for millions unemployed
workers today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Walker and Tammany
Hall Politicians Give
Themselves Fat Raise

Mayor Walker and the Board of
Estimates boosted their pay 60 to
70 per cent. No increases were
given the poorly paid city workers.
While fighting against every
strike for higher wages with the
aid of the police, Mayor Walker
gives himself a fat raise in salary
to $4,000 year.
Several other Tammany Hall
politicians stuck their hands into
the treasury for their personal bene-
fit. Believing in Hoovers prosper
ity" propaganda the New York city
politicians help themselves to heavy
raises.
: Mayor Walkers pay is to be
boosted from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year, 60 per cent increase; Comp
troller Berry's from $4,000 to $780,
600, or 40 per cent; Aldermanic
President McKee's from $4,000 to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
By HARRY CANNES.

Washington is in a fever of war
preparation. The leading question
before Hoover, Stimson, Morrow
and Adams is the coming London
naval race.
Behind the barrage of capitalist
newspaper lies about this drastic
war step We see the big imperialist
powers maneuvering for alliances
for the next war.
The question of "pasity" with its
intonation of agreement is the
veriest smoke screen thrown out to
cover the sharp competition between
the imperialist powers for big naval
increases to back their fights for
world markets and a re-division of
colonies.
A picture of these hasty war prepa-
rations under the leadership of
Henry l.. Stimson, secretary of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
PERIAL.|SM IN
FORCED Retreat
Soviet Firnness Wins
Against Meddlers

Toxic reports concerning the
Manchurian situation are being dis
torted by the capitalist press to aid
in the provocation against the
Soviet Union being carried on by
the imperialist powers whose repre-
sentatives are nosing into western
Manchuria on a so-called "interna-
tional train" to find new excuses
for threatening war on the Soviet
Union.
The N. Y. Post, for example, runs
headline on alleged "New Red
Warfare" over Toxic news which
mentions the unconfirmed rumor
(Contlnued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Illinois Mine Strike Gives
Real Lesson IN New Tactics

'From this strike not only the
miners but the working class as a
whole can learn a big lesson of the
class struggle stated Bill Gebert.
National Miners Union organizer in
southern Illinois, yesterday.
"New methods and new tactics
have been applied he continued.
"Miners going out on strike have
against them not only the coal oper-
ators, but the sheriffs with their
army of deputies, picked out from
the Lewis and Fishwick gangsters,
the local business men. the American
Legion, the I.W.W., the Trotzkyites,
and the Lovestoneites.
"All these forces are united in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
BELGIAN WORKERS MILITANT.


BRUSSELS, Dec. 1.-THE taxi
cab drivers strike is still strong.
The owners tried to run cabs by
scabs from a young fascist organ
ization which opened a recruiting
bureau. Seven hundred strikers Wis
itei the bureau and persuaded" the
fascists to close down.
Last Sundays 24-hour strike of
the Antwerp street car men was
splendidly carried out. Wage nego-
tiations are preceding. The union
has told the company that any at
tempt to victimize any strikers will
be Immediately answered by solid
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
RI.L.U. PLENUM OPENS.
(YWeZess IN Inprecorrl

" U0Itoo VJ ITP7 tUUTTT
MOSCOW, Dec. 1.-THE Sixth
Plenary Session of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions opened yes
terday. The Plenum will review,
among other things, the results of
the policy of independent leadership
of mass struggle by revolutionary
trade unionists despite the repressive
efforts Of the reformist trade
union bureaucrats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

an attempt to crush the heroic
struggle of the miners. The sher-
ifs, and Sheriff Pritchard of
Franklin county particularly, are
using machine guns and tear gas
bombs against the miners on the
picket lines, clubbing men, women
and children, and failing the mill
tant miners. The I.W.W.s in Col.
linsville were the only strike break
ers in that mine. They, like rats,
sneaked into the mines, through the
mass pickets of the miners. The
local capitalist press utilized the un-
scrupulous attacks of the Trotzkyite
organ, the Militant against the
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
TO DOPE THE WORKERS.

CHICAGO (By MaiD.-A local
corporation, Industrial Service, has
issued an open-shop magazine called
"Magazette," to be widely circu-
lated by open shoppers throughout
the country in order to dope the
workers. The "Magazette" is handed
out to the workers with their pay.
Workers are warned against it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
HUNGARIAN JOBLESS DEMON
STRATE.
(Wireless By InprecorrI

(Wweless By Inprecorr)
VIENNA, Dec. 17.-Budapest re-
ports state that street demonstra-
tions of the unemployed were held
there, under Communist leadership.
The police attacked the demonstra-
tors and arrested many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

$4,000, about 70 per cent, and tk-.
five Borough Presidents, Miller of
Manhattan, Byrne of Brooklyn, Har-
vey of Queens, Bruckner of the
Bronx and Lynch of Richmond,
from $4,000 to $4,000, approx
mately 35 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
r. l. MILL STRIKE.

ANTHONY, R. l. (By MaiD.-
Spinners went on strike at the
Berkshire Spinning Co. here for
better working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
international
Wireless
News
AUSTRIAN WORKERS ATTACK
FASCISTS.
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

VIENNA, Dec. 17.-Workers yes
terday attacked fascists at Ebensee
and st. Poelten. Large forces of
police saved the fascists, though
many were injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

62 Miners Killed Mile Underground at
McAlester Cry Out to All Labor to
Win the Illinois Strike and Buiid a
Union That Will Stop Such
Slaughter of Workers For
pesses' Profits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

gap that hitherto existed between
the story of Abraham, who came
into the country from the east
about 1000 B. c., and the Galilee
skull, which was found in a cave
overlooking Lake Genesareth dur
ing the 1925-26 season by F. Tur-
ville-Petre. This ancient skull, be-
longing to the well-known print
tive Neanderthal race, dates back
to at least 10000 B. c., according to
Sir Arthur.
There still remain to be found
relics that will give view of the
new stone age, which interviewed
between the close of the old stone
age and the beginning of the age
Of bronze, to which the patriarch
Abraham belonged. The age of iron
in Palestine came in at about the
time of Saul, 1900 B. c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
BLIND MAN ELECTED
TO STATE LEGISLATURE
Wins in First Attempt, Lectures for
Living.

BIZ United Press
HARRISBURG, Pa, March %
Blindness is regarded as no handi-
cap to DR.. Charles Lose Of Mon
louisville, Pa, who is attending his
first session Of the Pennsylvania
legislature as a representative from
his district
Losing his sight while he was
head Of the Lock Haven State Nor
nal School, DR.. Lose for several
years has toured Pennsylvania as
a lecturer.
His first try at politics was his
candidacy for the house Of repre-
sentatiYes, and he won.
Education. welfare, and conserva-
ton Of natural resources are the
subjects on which Dr.. Lose works in
and out of the legislature. His
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Lose Car
penter, acts as his secretary and is
his constant companion, helping
him greatly in his legislative work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
FIND REMNANT
OF STONE AGE
e-HiStoriC Skulls Dug Up
in Palestine.

BIZ SCjCHrc Scrrjce
LONDON, March 29.-Stone age
men whose tools resemble those of
the famous Cro-Magnon race Of
Europe, but whose skulls are like
those of an early Mediterranean or
modern" race once lived in the
caves Of Palestine. The first knowl-
edge Of these people has been
gained during recent months,
through the work Of Miss Dorothy
Garrod, a pupil Of the famous
Able Breuil. Miss Garrod's eXplor-
atoms have had the backing Of the
British School of Archaeology.
The new discoveries fill in a wide
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29

The body Of the plant Welwit-
schia, which grows in southwest
Africa, resembles an enormous
radish. 1t is sometimes twelve to
fifteen feet in diameter. Two long
leaves trail from the body on to the
ground. They endure for the life
Of the plant, which is sometimes for
LOO wears
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-29
GERMAN ROAD BIGGEST
$4,000 Miles of Ratings Under One
Control.

b u lHtS EpttfNt
NEW YORK, March 29-The
German Railroad company, with
mileage total Of $4,000 miles, is the
largest railroad system in the world
under one management, according
to DR.. Ludwig Homberger, director
of the ReichSban, who has been Wis
iting the United States. Its nearest
rival is the Canadian National Rail-
ways with 22,600 miles of line which
has its headquarters in Montreal,
Canada.
The border vidette., 1929-08-03
MEXICO RESIDENCE LAW, ONLY
REQUEST

Mexico City, July Felipe
Csnales. acting secretary of in
terror, clarified the situation with
regard to Americans residing in
the United States and working
in Mexico today with q state
ment to the Associated Press in
which he said recent regulations
controlling such border migra.
tions should be construed loosely
He said the regulation" which
required those who earned their
living by working in Mexico to
reside in Mexico should be made
"a . request rather than q de
mand, and hence any persons
not wishing to comply with it
would not have to do so.
The secretary explained it was
Mexico's desire that persons
working inside the Mexican Dor.
der live in Mexico so that they
would spend their money on the
Mexican side and contribute to
the prosperity of Mexican border
towns. He declared, however.
il was not the governments in.
tention to create misunderstood.
ings or i'll feeling along the Dor.
der.
The border vidette., 1929-08-03
A "FiRe CONSCIOUSNESS"
NEEDED

All the fire prevention work in
the world on the part of private
organizations and public author
tiles cannot attain it's object until
the public learns the lessons of
safety and develops fire con
sciousness." ]"
Fire menaces every home,
every business, every life. 1t
spreads an unending red path of
destruction and waste across the
nation.
The gospel of fire prevention
must be preached continually to
the people. 1t is we'll known
that old wiring. inferior building
construction, carelessly handled
matches aud cigarettes. Oil soak
ed rags and such obvious risks
are responsible for vast part
of our yearly fire loss. Yet con
fagrations resulting from these
causes persist and, in some 10
calities, increase.
The last two years have seen
q reduction in fire waste. 1t is
too soon to tell whether this is
the result of better public un
derstanding of the problem or
not. At any rate, we still have
the unenviable record of destroy.
ing more property and lives by
flame than any other civilized
nation. The solution is in the
handslof the people.
The border vidette., 1929-08-03
lNGRATlTuDE

Editors are said to be cynicle.
Is it any wonder? What other
profession meets with such con
slant and universal ingratitude.
Through the life of what other
men does this black sin so per.
sistently drags it's slimy form ?
No other avocation is so full of
unselfishness, helps so many
people, builds so many fortunes,
makes so many regulations. No
other is so given to expression
OF kindness, sympathy and bene.
violence. The editor has q word
of encouragement for every work
OF enterprise and philanthropy.
and words Of approval for every
deserving public act, sending
sunshine and happiness into
thousands of lives. That news
paper is never printed which has
not something in it to help some
one. Scientists, scholars, divines,
politicians, tradesmen, by the
million, owe their prosperity and
fame to the editor. Nor does be
help only those whom the world
calls great. He is friend to
the friendless, and q constant
benefactor to all classes. And
his kindness stops not with the
grave. His is the hand which
pays the last tribute of affection,
often to an enemy. How few
manifest any appreciation of
what be has done for them? His
benevolence, is accepted as a
matter of course. How many
repay him with the basest ingra
titude? Is it any wonder that
he is full of cynicism and even
of bitterness when he thus con
tinually encounters the coldness,
the meanness, the emptiness of
human nature. - Fayetteville
Sentinel.