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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
STANDARD OIL
co. OF INDIANA
SLAVES WAKING
Are Getting Wise to
Company Union
by a Worker Correspondent

(By q WORKER COffeSpondenrJ
WHITING, Ind. (By MaiD In
Whiting, Ind, heart of the oil-refir-
ing industry of the United States
and home of the Standard Oil Co.
the workers have heard the call of
the T. U. U. L. and have started TO
organize. Several delegates from
Whiting attended the Cleveland con-
vention. They returned to the job
with new enthusiasm and energy.
The propaganda and organizational
work took on new life. The result
is that genuine beginning has been
made in the formation Of real shop
committee. The committee meets
regularly, calls mass meetings and
has the sympathy of large num-
bers of workers in the shop.
The Standard Oil Co. is an out
standing exponent of benevolent
Company unionism. A fake en-
ployees representation committee
has been set up composed of COM
pany lickspittles. This committee is
supposed to be for satisfying the
claims and grievances of the men.
Actually it serves the same purpose
as lightning rod-to stop effective
action on the part of the men. So
openly has this committee worked in
the interests of the company that
large numbers of oil workers are
disillusioned. The result is that the
leaflets being gotten out under the
name of the Standard Oil workers
shop committee are being eagerly
taken and discussed. The shop COM
mittee is proceeding carefully and
theoretically with its work, laying
a firm foundation for complete or
ganization of the Standard Oil plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
IN THE SHOPS
Fight Killing Of Miners
BY Boss Negligence

+ say that the explosion was "due to
factors unknown" We miners know
that the explosion was due to the
company penny-pinching policy, a
policy that permits the bosses to
erect flimsy canvass brattices in a
mine that is wet. These brattices
mould and rot away in a few weeks,
and no attention is paid to them any
more. This not only makes for ex-
plosions by the developing of gas in
these places, but also it becomes i'm
possible for men to work in such
bad air. The bad air makes many
miners sick, and forces them to quit
work.
After the explosion, Local 113 of
the National Miners Union issued
leaflet calling the mems attention
to the situation and conditions here.
The Renton local has decided to put
up a hard fight to fight these con-
ditions.
The Young Communist League
moolllzed a NUMBER OF young girls
Gt was impossible to use men or
boys who are working in the mine,
as they would lose their jobs) who
went into the coal company camp
and left one leaflet in every house
The Coal and Iron policemen of the
Union Galleries were tapping booze
somewhere while the girls were dis
tributing the leaflets, but later il
the night made a visit to the homes
of several girls suspected of partici-
pating. We wish to thank the YCI
members for their work in helping
US to build a strong NMU local here
and we urge them to continue theil
good work.
A RENTON MINER.
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struggle against the very capitalist
system. These elements must be
fought. The labor movement must
go back to Gompers under whose
leadership the A. F. of L. during
the last war was the best supporter
of the Government next to the Army
and Navy" according to Sam Comp
ers himself. Such is the progress
sive" plicy of the Reverand.
The American Gapon.
In the Ia -cbis p eiBgc6. Ndare
In the South the workers are tax
ing up the struggle against the most
vicious exploitation,
In this situation Rev. Music re-
calls famous figure from the his
tory of Russian working class move
ment: Father Gapon. Following the
Russo japanese war, when the
masses of Russian workers gaining
their class consciousness in a strug-
gle not only against the immediate
economic demands but also against
CARBON itself-the Czarists pusher
forward Father Gapon. 1t was he
who led the procession of the
Gross" to the Winter Palace to petit
ton the Gar for some better condi-
tions. Amongst the economic de-
mands there was also revolution
airy" demand against Carbon it
self! Following Gapon in the pro-
cession were the crosses, church ban
ners, pictures of the Gar, etc. that
were carried by the yarge masses
of workers. The answer of the Gar
was the shooting down of several
hundred workers.
But the very movement organized
by this tool # the Gar that was to
act as a safety valve" against the
growing militancy of the workers,
set off the most important factor
that precipitated the first Russian
Revolution, the 1905 rehearsal of the
October Revolution, that established
tho first Workers Republic.
Now comes the Reverand. I do
not wish to insinuate that he will
set off the most important factor
that will lead to the establishment
of a workers republic in this coun-
try. History repeats itself, the
first time as a tragedy the second
time as farce" The Reverand
takes the second place, even though
he represents a very dangerous posi-
ton to the working class. But to
quote Marx: sit is the conditions
that make it possible for a medioc-
rity to parade in the gard of
hero"
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LONDON, Oct. "a political
scandal of major Importance direct
iy proving tina tthe so-caled "labor"
government commits the most out
rageous violations of international
law to forward the interests of Brit
ish Imperialism, is revealed in the
astounding allegations against the
British Foreign Office, headed by
Arthur Henderson, with Macdonald
one of the outstanding leaders of
the socialist Second international,
made by the Afghan minister to
London, Saskatchewan.
Shuja Ed-Dowleh has for a long
time represented Afghanistan at
London, as duly recognized minister
of a formally recognized govern
ment. This must be especially noted
as England up to this moment has
not withdrawn recognition from the
Afghan king, Amanullah, who ap-
pointed Shuja.
Now, he changes from Berlin,
where he has taken refuge, that he
was expelled from England about
one month ago on the order of Ar
thur Henderson as head of the For
eign Office, being given only "a
hours to leave the country, that bag
gage he took with him was seized
and still held at Harvich by order
of the British Government, and that
after his departure Scotland Yard
detectives. accompanied by Foreign
Office officials, broke down the
doors of the Afghan legation, raided
the legation quarters, engaged in
a gun battle with legation attend
ants and the Afghan soldier lega-
ton guard, seized the legation ar
chives and his private banking ac-
count. and has hushed up the whole
amazing incident.
The whole sinking affair comes
up as legal demand of the Afghan
minister, to ownership of the pre-
cious stones he charges were seized
with his baggage. This demand for
enormously valuable lapis lazuli
jewels, which Shuja says were the
property of King Amanullah, will
come up in court shortly, unless the
British labor" government manages
to silence the scandal in compromise.
The whole affair is a glaring ex-
posture of the limitless venality and
even criminality of the social i'm
perialistic 'labor" party regime,
which thus flouts international law,
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by prosecution witness named
Grady on the strand. Grady said
that McGinnis boosted to him that,
"We have guns at headquarters and
know how to use them. If any Lo-
ray thugs come down, and try to
destroy our new hall they are likely
to be carried back dead"
Parrot Prosecution Lies.
Ferguson repeated parrot like the
story on which all prosecution wit
nesses are coached. This is the only
point of agreement in their mass
of conflicting testimony. 1t is as
follows: "Aderholt, Gilbert and
Roach approached the guard and
grabbed him. Some one yelled,
turn him loose" and then fired.
1 fell off the fender of an QUITO,
where I was sitting and incidentally
fired into the air. Then l was shot
down, and Gilbert and Roach fell
on top of me. Aderholt said, I'm
shot, and fel into the ditch. I was
stunned and didn't know what to do,
so l ran to telephone"
Then he told how he ran from
one house to another in confusion.
Finally he reached the drug store,
telephoned to police headquarters,
and then got some one to take him
to the hospital. 1t was found he had
only two shots in his skin, he ad-
mitted.
Flowers, attorney for the defense,
in cross examination pointed out not
only discrepancies in the story, but
actual physical impossibilities, to
which Ferguson swore, for instance,
Ferguson said the officers car
parked at the edge of the union lot,
had its lights on the side of the
union headquarters, sixty feet away,
but these lights covered only an area
of IL feet between the two windows,
and did not shine into the windows.
At that distane the lights would
have illuminated the entire building.
Ferguson denied that he inflicted
the third degree upon Mclaughlin
in Jail that night, following his ar
rest, to obtain the confession"
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treaty rights, immunity of legations
and every other thing which they
themselves ascribe othe "Bolshe-
viks," to- defend the interests of
British imperialism in Afghanistan
which interests are to make and
keep that country subject to Britain
as a road to attack the Soviet
Union.
1t must not be imagined that the
crime consists principally in the for
NAL matter of violation of law, lega-
ton immunity and what not. The
political nature of the crime goes
much further. early a year ago,
through British intrigue, King ANA
nullah0, whose government was on
friendly terms with the Soviet
Union, was overthrown by the So
called water boy" the bandit,
Bacho Sacho. Amanullah took re-
fuge abroad and is now in Italy.
The British pretended to be very
sorry about this.
But as Bacho Sacho was openly
a British imperialist tool, revolt
against him gained Roadway and
about the time the British Foreign
Office under the labor" party felt
it necessary to raid the Afghan le-
cation in London, the revolution
against it's Afg6han tool was reach
ing a crucial stage. There is no
need to comment further on why the
labor" government resorted to this
astounding crime. 1t hoped to check
any outside help to the revolution.
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WORKERS v Q 7 E
FOR new Strike

Continued from Page One)
Hummer had killed himself with a
razor a few days after his special
blacklist expert, the so-called "per-
sonnet manager" of both companies,
had taken a fake strike vote inside
the mill and declared a majority
against strike.
PostpOnement Didn't Work.
Apparently the U. 7. w. mislead-
ers hoped that postponement of the
ballot would end the matter, but it
didn't work. The rank and file,
twice betrayed and sold back to the
mills, the last time after an unusual
ly vigorous and militant strike, in
which militia, armed guards and the
Injunction courts were alike defied,
insisted on voting for strike.
The local U. T. w. heads are now
employing tactics of delay to stave
off the struggle. kilograms were
sent to International President
Thomas S. Mcmahon, and Interna-
tional ce-President Francis j. Cor
man, who are at the Toronto con-
vention of the A. F. l.. German
came there directly from the U. L.
w. to sell-out in Marion, resentment
against the blacklist instituted there,
similar to the one in Elizabethton,
cause da strike last week that was
shot up by the mill owners deputies,
with five strikers killed.
The kilograms ask for instruc-
tions.
Call Government.
Another telegram went today
from the U. T. w. chiefs in Eliza
bethton to w. F. Kermin, of the
U. S. Department of Labor, remind
ing him that "The government is a
party to the last settlement" and
asking, "Do you anticipate any ac-
ton? Please instruct"
The part the Department of La
Dor played in the last settlement has
become notorious. A special agent
was sent to Elizabethton, who ar
arranged the sell-out with Hoffman
of the u. r. w. and the mill bosses,
then called a packed "union meet
ing" with militants excluded, and
bad it railroaded through as set
Element
Tne National Textile Workers
Union has been maintaining solidid-
arity with the Elizabethton strikers
since their second strike, and will
undoubtedly gain in favor with them
IS they realize more and more the
,cabby nature of U. 7. We tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
45 Drowned AS Ship ,
Sinks in Storm Off
the Coast of Norway

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 9.
-Forty-five persons were drowned
and others were rescued from choppy
seas asst night when the Norwegian
steamship Haakon VII was wrecked
in a heavy fog near Floroe on the
west coast of Norway.
The vessel sank in three minutes
after striking rocks, and indescrib-
able panic was reported.
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|. u d. 0 W STRIKE
LEADERS FINED
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
structing traffic. They Immediately
appealed the case to the Sperior
Court and were released on bail.
These arrests grew out of the re-
cent Ludlow, Mass, strike. On Sept.
80, rs spinners Of Mill of the Lud-
low Manufacturing Associates walk
ed out against the attempt of the
company to force them to run four
sides in place of two.
Jack Ross and Nat Richards, or
ganizers for the N. T. w. U, as
sisted by, Peter Chaunt of the Trade
Union Unity League, and the mem
bers of the Springfield units of the
Young Communist League and Com
munist Party, Immediately stepped
in and raised the slogan OF a general
strike. They organized strike COM
mittee, formed a militant picket
line, and upon their advice the strike
committee raised demands for all
the workers, unskilled as well as
skilled.
The militant picket line with bat
tie songs paraded the mill and pulled
out over half the workers.
Mill Agent Quimby, terrified by
the solidarity and spirit of the strik-
ers, called in the pot-bellied faker
John Gatelee, president CRATER of
the Central Labor Union of Spring
field, affiliated to the American
Federation of Labor He with the
aid of company stool pigeons, police
thugs, gangsters, and some OF the
strike committee whom he succeed
ed in creating the illusion that the
strike could be won by a round table
conference with the bosses, violently
elected the organizers of the N. l..
w. U. from the organizational meet
ing Wednesday night against the
protests Of many workers.
Spread the Strike.
Police Follow A. T. L.
The next morning, October 3,
when the organizers of the N. T..
w. U. came in front of the mill they
were set upon by the police and
forcibly prevented from talking to
the workers, Comrades Richards,
Ross, Hersh, Rose Ross and Ruth
Fisher were, without any warning,
thrown into the police partol, man
handled, beaten with clubs and
threatened. In the police station the
police thugs assaulted Richards with
their clubs and but for the presence
of the girls, who made an cutlery,
the men would have Jared far worse.
In the afternoon Bill Sroka, member
of the National Executive Board OF
the N. T. w. u. and John Nahorski,
Polish organizer, N. T. W. u, were
also pulled in for distributing leaf
let's, but were later released. The
five arrested were placed on ltria
Monday, October 7.
They made a militant defense of
themselves and exposed the role OF
the police an dthe A. F. l.. in the
strike. The convictions and fines
followed. All refused to pay the
fine, and the case is appealed.
The workers who were swindled
back to the mills by Gatelee are dis
satisfied, and N. T. w. and T. U.
U. L. organization work proceeds
among them.
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Coney Island Laundry
Workers Will Fight
for Better Conditions
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
The laundry workers of Coney ISL
and an dmust organize shop commit
tees and build powerful union to
better our conditions. We are work
ing from 6 a. m. to 8 p. M, with
but half an hour for lunch in the
Brighton Laundry. You will have to
work another hour and finish out the
work, says the boss of the Coney
Island Laundry to the workers at
o'clock at night. OF course, no ex-
ira pay for that.
These things show the miserable
conditions we have. The Coney ISL
and laundry workers can no longer
tolerate these conditions, and are
ready for organization.
In fact, shop delegate conference
of the Coney Island laundry work
ers has already been held. 1t took
place Sept. 81 at 229O1 Mermaid
Ave, Coney Island. Twenty work
CTS IcpLtSSHLCu L1lC WILT VI clSnI
big Coney Island laundries at the
conference.
The conference made preparations
for militant action. 1t decided to af-
filiate with the Trade Union Unity
League. Demands as follows were
adopted:
1. The eight-hour, five-day week.
2. Abolition of piece work and COM
mission basis. 3. A standard mini
mum wage scale. A. Abolition of
overtime. 5. Two weeks vacation
with pay. 6. Equal pay for equal
work for men and women, Negro and
white workers. 7. A 155-minute rest
period morning and noon. 8. Unem-
ployment, sick accident insurance
fund to be paid by the bosses, man.
aged and controlle dby the union,
shop committees and representatives
of the unemployed. 9. A sanitary
control committee of workers. 10.
Abolition of Yellow Dog Contracts.
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Seven ON TRIAL
DISCUSS Music
Continued from Page One)

best they are satisfied with improv-
ing the conditions of a few skilled
workers, at the expense of the large
mass of workers. The A. T. of L.
is offering itself to the bosses as
the best means of checking the
growing militancy of the Southern
workers. But the A. F. of L. has
not reckoned seriously with this
growing militancy.
In some sections of the South the
U. T. w. cannot show its face. The
record of the U. T. w. in the South
during the struggle of 1922 in
Greenville, Charlotte, Gastonia, Con-
cord, and a host of other textile
centers, were not forgotten. The
latest betrayals in Elizabethton and
in Ware Shoals are still fresh in
the minds of the workers. The A.
F. of L. left the workers at the
mercy of the bosses, and the most
active workers were blcaklisted and
were forced to return to the noun
talns and farms from where they
originally hailed. The betrayal in
Marion last month was a little too
much, if the U. T. w. U. expected
to stay in the South and "sell" I'M
ionism to the bosses. The new strike
this week was an attempt to save
their face before the workers.
Disavow Strike.
But even here, we learn from the
Charlotte News of October 6: "Ac-
cording to the members of the labor
delegation (that went to see Gov
ernor Gardner at Raleigh the strike
of the 60 union members early We'd
nesday morning which precipitated
the riot in which five were killed
and score wounded was not Off
cial, had not been called by the of
ficials of the U. T. w. u, and the
officials knew nothing of it until
after it happened"
Not for minute do l wish to i'm
ply that the strike was not justified,
to the contrary there was too much
exploitation and too many issues for
the workers not to have struck.
The various struggles in the
South are developing not only into
isolated strikes, but also into strug-
giles of the utmost political import
ance. The naturalization of indus
try, the stretch-out system, long
hours of work, low wages and the
low standard of living are calling
forth bitter struggles on the part of
the working class. More and more
are the workers beginning to under
stand that the struggles are not
simply struggles for their economic
but rae struggles directed
against the very foundations OF the
capitalist system.
Music As Mask.
The American Federation of La
Dor, the conscious agent of the i'm
perialists, is discredited amongst the
large mass of workers. At this time
"the Reverand A. j. Music, from
Brookwood College" as he was APP
propriately called by the whole
Southern press, steps forward with
a whole string of Revolutionary"
phrases, as the saviour of the A.
F. of L. "Organize the morgan
ized!" against imperialism and
ETC." But the true ma
ture of the Music lead progressive"
is shown in the slogans:
Back to Compers!" and especially
by the one Eight the Communists
and the ew UnionsW
The Communists and the New
Unions are the only living and &C
tive forces in the labor movement
today, that are succeeding in organ
izing masses of workers not only for
a struggle for the improvement of
the workers conditions but for a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
COMRADE LEPSE DEAD.

MOSCOW, Oct. 8.-Following
long sickness, Comrade Lepse Chair
man of the Central Committee of
the Metal Workers Union, is dead
here.
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The Musteites in the South, head
ed by Hoffman, have been preach
ing industrial "peace" and telling
the workers to picket and parade
with bibles. The answer of the cap
italists was the Marion Massacre,
that in some respects is similar to
the attack upon US in Gastonia on
the night of June 7.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
AFGHAN MINISTER TO LONDON IN
AMAZING CHARGES OF POLITICAL
CRIME AGAINST FOREIGN Office
Henderson Deports Afghan Minister, Siezes
Baggage, and Raids Regular Legation
Attempt to Hush Up Scandal of Astounding
Means Labor" Imperialists Use
BULLETIN.

PESHAWAR, India Oct 9Kabul capital of Afghanisan and
the bandit the Afghan throne Bcho Sacho has
of Nadr Khan whose brother
of the city, which fell from revolt within
by attack from without.
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Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprisesl
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|. L. ..' D.
FIGHTS TO HALT
LYNCHING
An editorial of the Gastonia
Gazette, October 7, calls for
lynching the union members
and leaders. mo matter what
it costs we ought to do
it right away" it shouts.
Will you help the Interna-
tiOnal Labor Defense fight
this?
The l. L. D. wants $4,000
new members by January l,
1880, to combat such lynch
lovers as the Gastonia Gazette,
organ of the mill bosses in
CASTOR County. The l. L. D.
helps the new militant unions
fight for better wages, less
hours, against speed-up, and
against the lynch laws Of the
capitalists.
Have You Decided to Join
This Fight?
Join the Fight for Better
Conditions by Joining
the |. l.. D.!
Are you attending the LID.
mass meetings and united
front conferences being held
throughout the country. Have
you heard
: Juliet Stuart Poyntz
on her national tour? She
will speak at Minneapolis, the
10th; Duluth, the 18th; st.
Paul, the 18th and Chicago,
the 18th.
New /. L. d. Branches Are
Being Formed Everywhere.
7 Word was received today at
the National Office of the l.
L. D. that another branch was
formed in Allentown, Pa, in
the heart of capitalist reac-
ton. eve call this branch
the Ella May branch in honor
and appreciation of the I'M
Iflinching fighting spirit of
this victim of the class strug-
Igle." the workers declared.
Ella May was an l. L. D. or
'ganizer in the South.
Add Your Name to the List
of l. l.. d. Members!
Sign the following blank
and become a member.
I want to join the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Enclosed
find 25 cents.
NAME ................
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