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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
FINLAND'S TRADE UNIONS CALL
| GENERAL STRIKE TODAY IN AID
! OF HUNGER STRIKING, PRISONERS
Hundreds of Workers Imprisoned by the White
Terror Since 1918, Strike!
Political General Strike of Finnish Workers
Shows Masses Astir

ing political prisoners.
On Monday, the political prison
ers in Ekenas went on a hunger
strike. They were joined by all
other political prisoners in Finland's
various prisons. Some of these
workers have been held in prison
by the white terror since 1918. They
are suffering bitterly as we'll as
from increasingly terrible prison
conditions,
The strikers demand humane
treatment and freedom from forced
labor as the right of political pris-
oners in supposedly civilized"
countries. Feeling is running high
among the whole working class, and
powerful demonstrations are being
held in all parts of the country.
Labor deputies are interpellating
the government in parliament, but
the strike declared for tomorrow at
6 a. m. is the greatest demonstra-
ton expected The situation is
tense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
MWL FINDS GULF
READY TO MEET
New Orleans Meeting
in Low Wage Territory
Continued from

tSGTttTueH rom
% South St., the Gulf ports are par
ticularly in need of organization.
There are no unions in the har-
bors of Florida and Alabama, or
most of the other Gulf ports. Pen
sacola, Florida, has about 700 long
shoremen, half Negroes, and many
of these left the international Long
shoremen's Union when it failed
them in the strike of 1921. The
maximum wages paid here are 70
cents per hour.
New Orleans, the second most i'm
portant port, as far as tonnage
shipped is concerned, has 10000
longshoremen, of whom but 1000
are members of the I. L. A. Two
thirds of these are Negroes, in "Jim
Grow" locals. The Marine Workers
League will carry in here the mes
sage Of full racial equality.
80 Cents Hours Wage.
Banana unloading pays 80 cents
per hour. This work is controlled
by the big fruit companies: Cuya-
mel, United Fruit, etc, and is non
union. But the M. w. L. will fight
for a union, The most speeded part
of the banana unloading is work on
the lines loading the conveyor in the
ships hold. This is 65 cents an
hour, and very exhausting labor.
The highest rates paid are on
Shipping Board docks, where they
get so cents per hour. Other docks
pay in between the 80 cent banana
rate and the 80 cent rate. Negroes
make up two-thirds of the whole
longshore force.
The port of New Orleans is GER
tain to increase in Importance with
the completion of the southern in
land waterways system, especially
the canal that will run from Mobile
to Corpus Christi, Texas.
New Orleans is a most important
port for class conscious workers to
control because of it's dominance Of
the Gulf trade, wherein lies large
section of the American imperialist
prey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
Caldwell, O., Mine
Will Lay Off Many
Men; Stacking Down
(By q Worker Correspondent

CALDWELL, Ohio (by maiD.-
The Caldwell mine is working every
day but there are rumors that it
will slacken down to few days q
week. If that happens the majority
Of us will be ready victims for the
poorhouse or wherever you please.
The mine has been operating on
nearly steady basis for about
seven months and there are a num-
her of people that can't keep tho
wolf away from the door. Can't
make CROUCH money, that's the rea-
son.
A young friend of mine, also q
miner, approached me yesterday
and says, Pm up against it, He
says, 1 work like a mule but I can't
make both ends meet. I send three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
STAUNTON Meet
FOR NNU PLANS
w att Overwhelmed,
Quits May Be Insincere

continued from Page One)
convention, and adopted all of them,
including the fight for the six-hour
day five-day week, against the
check-off, for improved conditions
kand wages, against discrimination,
Aagainst penalty and docking clauses,
kagainst arbitration, against speed
up, for Is nlinte rest periods every
hour, for social insurance, etc.
They held back for re-drafting a
proposed constitutional change.
''Watt's supporters, led by Morgan,
tried to show there are contradic-
lions in the demands, for instance
between the section or national
strikes, and the demand, that a
fight against the check-off must be
carried even to the extent of strike
by locals The delegates could see
no contradiction, however, they knew
that the Watt objections were mere
ly ignorance or pettiness.
For r. |. L. U.
'There was much speculation as
to what the conference would think
of the Belleville conventions APP
proval of affiliating the N. M. U. to
the Red International Of Labor
Unions. Watt has been conducting
campaign against this affiliation.
delegates rose to explain the rea-
ksons for the need of international
Solidarity of miners, however, and
were able to show how in the last
British miners strike the unions af-
filiated with the International Min
ing Congress scabbed on the British
miners, while those affiliated with
the R. 1. L. u, the half million Rus
sian miners, refused to send one
lump Of coal to break the British
strike. The conference voted for the
affiliation.
"Watt was in the hall the whole
nine hours of the conference, and
when it was about to adjourn, asked
for and got the floor for ten min
utes, and apologized for anything he
might have done to harm the move
ment. He promised to carry out the
decision of the Belleville convention
and not participate in the work of
the N. NJ U. until his case is settled
by the National Executive Board and
the incoming convention.
'He warned the miners not to pay
attention to individuals, not to pay
attention to the Red Scare adj
NAitted that the U. M. w. A. journal
carries headlines against the R. /.
L. u, and therefore is must be good
for the miners, and further stated
that if the Reds have the correct
program, the program should be
adopted.
Delegates Doubt Watt.
"But many Of the delegates pres
I ent came over and stated that they
do not trust Watt. They don't be-
lieve he is sincere now. He is just
badly outvoted in this conference,
and in the district. The general
opinion is that he saw the impos-
sibility of carrying on the fight
against the rank and file of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
ANSWER THREATS OF GA. BOSS
Sheet BY ADOPTING ATLANTA
Workers Groups Join in Socialist Rivalry to
Rush Daily South

fined Party
working class organizations and groups.
And which sufficiently sressthere
10000 mill workers in Atlanta week. which brings
mill workers rs Dae each workers
appeals for their fighting
And the holds true such mill Eabethto
boro Greenvl Gasona Bssemer City other mill
which workers organizations have pledged the Daily
So it's into the Socialist rivalry rush the Daily South!
And individual workers you've only the
southern workers aprea for the Ha by sending contribution
the Drive Rush the Daily Sout also
that ORGANIZATION adopts southern mill village!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16

union, and made this maneuver. We
think the maneuver will not fool
the miners in the rest of the coun-
try any more than here.
"The miners remember that Watt
has done many things they don't
like. He has appointed organizers
from Illinois and sent them to Ohio,
without sanction Of Illinois or Ohio
OF national executive boards, has
refused to work under the direc-
ton of the national office, and has
refused to believe that the N. M.
U. is sincerely opposed to the check
off on principle, has tried to split
the district convention.
Arne Swabeck and Joe Angels, fol-
folwer of Trotsky, are his close ad-
visors; SWabeck came to see him
and Angelo was at the conference
with him, and it is known that their
policy is to keep their forces inside
Of the militant unions, where they
can do as much damage as possible.
watt has been given every OPP
portunity to defend himself, and
the miners have repudiated him and
his program. They will watch him
from now on"
An error was made in one of the
stories printed recently in the Daily
Work, in which it was said that the
Livingston local refused to allow
Watt in the meeting. Watt was not
barred. But the Livingston local,
a very large one, is for the N. NJ. u.
and the Belleville convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16

ton of cotton, and the production
Of cotton instead of other crops,
grain, rice, etc. The last of these
possibilities is the one which offers
the swiftest and most effective re-
suits under the given circumstances.
In other words, the import of grain,
rice, etc, into Central Asia must
be guaranteed regularly, punctually,
and cheaply in order that the peas
ants in Central Asia have an in
centive to increase their production
Of cotton at the expense of these
other crops. The general condition
for this is a secure food basis.
The rather widespread production
of grain, rice, etc, upon land which
is suitable for the production of cot
ton could therefore be abandoned
and cotton substituted. The solution
Of the problem can be carried out
by Siberian grain with the assist
ance of the Turkish railway to the
benefit of the interests of the ST.
bcrian economic system, the Central
Asian economic system and the
economic system of the Soviet
Union as whole whose textile in
dustry will receive a broader raw
material basis and which will have
to import considerably less cotton
and be able instead to import in
creasinely machinery and other
necessities. The complex of all these
economic possibilities shows what a
great achievement the completion of
the Turkestan-Si Siberian Railway be-
fore the original time planned will
be for the economic system Of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
BUILD TURKESTAN RAILROAD
Continued from Page OusJ

Continued from Page OnsJ
is that it will open up new market
for the produce of the Siberian soil
and that it represents considerable
development of the very one-sided
connections of Siberia with the out
side world. Apart from a few
branch lines, the railway communi-
cations of Siberia were limited to
the great West-East line from
European Russia into Siberia with
its terminus in Vladivostok. This
line is not able to offer the stream
of Siberian commodities sufficient
ly broad bed, and as a result ST.
berian grain is loaded with relative
iy high freight charges.
The plans for the development Of
Soviet economy are to open up a
way across the polar sea Through
the so-called Sea of Cara, which is
already commercial proposition),
and in the South to open up a new
railway network. The Turkestan-
Siberian Railway uses the branch
line from the main Siberian Rail
way near Novosibirsk to Semipala-
thinks, which existed before the war.
The line will then proceed in a
South-Westerly direction parallel
with the Chinese frontier through
Casackstan and Kirgistan to the
town of Frunse in the heart of Cen
trail Asia where there is then a con-
nection with the existing Soviet Cen
trial Asian railway net. The length
OF the new line from Semipalatinsk
to Frunse is 1,400 kilometers. The
new line will transport chiefly the
much-needcd timber and grain from
Siberia to the federal republics Of
Turkmenistan and Usbekistan (for-
merly called Turkestan).
The former railway connections
Of Soviet Central Asia were repre-
sented by line from Krasnovodsk
on the Caspian Sea to Tashkent and
then OH to Frunse. The freights
from OF to Krasnovodsk therefore
needed transport over the Caspian
Sea.
There is a further line from the
Volga district from Samara via
Orenburg to Tashkent, etc. Com
pared with these lines the new
Turkish line gives the possibility of
transporting grain from Siberia to
Central Asia and diverting the grain
from the Volga district to Western
Russia or to the world market. The
great naturalization of the grain
transport and other transport not
only for Siberia but also for other
districts Of the Soviet Union needs
10 elaboration.
The full significance Of the Turk
sib line is however only clear when
the Importance of the grain trans
port to Central Asia is recognized.
Central Asia is the main cotton
growing district Of the Soviet Union
and is # hrst-rate importance for
the textile industry and for the
state of the foreign commerce bal
ance OF the Soviet Union.
There are three practical posi-
Utilities of increasing the production
Of the cotton harvest: the intensi-
fication of production per hectarea.
the extent of the artificial irriga-
tion system required for the produc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
nAO IN THE SHOP S

the workers are ready to join the
militant new unions.
Several local unions of the Ma
tional Miners Union have been or
ganized in this locality in the last
few months. Not a bad record
when you consider that there only
a handful of progressive miners in
the Cambridge field.
"A Black Diamond slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16

electricity ard gas bill about ST.,
that makes $25 a month. Last pay,
he said. ] drew So
Now this is no exception, for
there are thousands Of sadder cases
than that. I am glad to relate there
is growing cIass-consciousness
among the miners and other work
ers. This is a positive sign that
children to school, pay S18 for rent,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
INDONESIA TERROR.

AMSTERDAM (by mail). - In
Bandoeng in Indonesia (Java) .
whole meeting of Indonesian bour-
geois nationnlists was arrested. The
governmental terror Is being inten-
sified all over the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16

Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom un---at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
(Bn SpeciaL CabLel

(By Special Ca5Ie)
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Nov. Is
"A general strike Saturday of II
hours, throughout Finland has been
called by the Trade Union Fedora
ton in support of the hunger-strik-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-16
BULLETIN.

HELSINGFORS, Nov. 15-Riots
and clashes with police in many Fin
nish towns took place last night as
the police tried to suppress the gen
eral strike movement mobilization
to close down everything Saturday
for II hours. Firing broke out at
Keni between police(and 1000 work
brs demonstrating their support of
lunger-striking political prisoners,
or which the strike is called. At
Uleaborg workers clashed with
mounted police, who arrested 20.
Great numbers of demonstrating
workers ridicule the threat Of en-
ployers to discharge all workers who
join the general strike.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
MOTORISTS, BE CAREFUL!

This is the time of the year when
workers are busy on the highways and
many are doing hand work that ne
cessitates their being on the pave
ment. 1t is impossible for them - get
off the road as each car approaches,
as this would hinder them to a great
extent. If the motorists will only be
cautious in approaching a highway
worker whether he be driving a team,
truck, or is working on foot, every
one will be safe
The highways have to be given con-
slant attention and it is impossible,
considering the amount of traffic, to
avoid having men on the road. Eff
forts are made by the highway depart
ment to keep a part of the road open
in case of any extensive improvements
and if the motoring public will Co
operate with the workers, we can CHI
joy better highways and less acct
dents.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
MANY WISH HIM WELL

An article appearing in the May
18th issue of Labor" tells of Senator
Henrik Shipstead being so i'll h t
sworn in recently on his sick bed so
that he could vote on the farm meas
ure. Following is an excerpt from the
article:
"Shipstead's condition is the direct
result of his devotion to his work. He
came back to Washington from a
strenuous campaign. at the end of
which, he was reelected by an UMPIRE
cedented majority, and plunged into
the labor of preparing for the fight on
farm relief.
He caught the flu, was forced TO
bed, dragged himself out to attend
the hearings on agricultural relief
collapsed at the telephone, and has
not recovered.
THE doctors say he will com
through safely if he can be induced
to quit thinking of his work and take
genuine rest; but they have not yet
found the way to make him do it,
Senator Shipstead has hundreds and
hundreds of friends in Minnesota who
wish him a speedy recovery; not only
because they want him to get into the
harness. but also because he is admir-
ed for his sincerity and the success
he has attained since his stay in
Washington.
Senator Shipstead has accomplished
much good for the people in Mime
sofa since he became their represent
ative in the senate and has command,
ed the respect of his political enemy
associates and it is indeed to be la
mented that his indisposition has been
prolonged.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
A Few Rules on Care
of Meat in Summer

Bureau Farmer: With the advent
of summer the housewife should keep
in mind few simple precautions in
caring for the family supply of meat,
and particularly that which is pur-
chased on Saturday to use over the
weekend. The meat is in good con-
dition when it arrives from the mar
ket and the housewife can maintain
it in this condition if she will follow
these few rules laid down by the Ma
tional Livestock and Meat Board
AS soon as the meat arrives home,
it should be unwrapped and placed in
a clean refrigerator. The reason is
this: When the meat is wrapped up
at the shop certain amount of air
is enclosed in the paper. This all is
the same temperature as the air in
the shop. If the paper is not removed
the cold air of the refrigerator is pre-
vented from reaching the meat. Con-
sequently the surface of the meat
spoils.
Meat, as we'll as every other food,
should be protected from contamina-
tion.
After meat is cooked there is fire.
quently large piece left over and it
sometimes happens that the house.
wife puts this into the refrigerator
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
LET'S BE CONCERNED

Exchange-The story is told { h t
one day far out at sea, ship sprung
a leak and the situation bee m c
alarming. Passengers became panic
stricken and life boats and life pre-
servers were gotten into readiness
One of the passengers in a stage of
great excitement rushed up to his
friend and said, Likely, key, the ship
is sinking" The friend, absorbed in
thought. paid little attention to his
companion and the warning was re-
peated several times with increasing
vigOr and vehemence. Finally the
friend said. with great impatience,
We'll, what of it. it isn't our ship!'
There are people like that in every
the community needs their help and
assistance they refuse or neglect to
give it. They pass the responsibility
to someone else. They do not nave
the time, they do not like the way the
thing is being done. they are not in
terested. 1t isn't their ship. 1t isn't
their town. Let it sink. Fortunately,
in most towns this class is in
the minority. The men who are will
ing to give of their time and their
money and their thought are in the
majority. If it were not so, the town
would not and could not progress.
No town was ever built by knock
ers and unconcerned ones who refuse
to support the project designed for the
good of the community, but ma n y
towns scattered over this country have
been made bigger and better and more
prosperous by boosters and workers
filled with zeal and community loyalty
and vision of the common good.
We second the motion.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
GRADUATES, VERSUS THE WORLD

With the end of this week many,
if not all of the high school seniors
throughout the country will termin-
in life. They will graduate into the
world What shall be their course?
Shall it be higher learning? Shall
it be a trade, or shall their progress
be suddenly brought to a standstill?
These are the questions that are
forcefully brought to the minds of
graduating young men and women,
and very few make up their minds to
a certainty before graduation and
sometime not before necessity calls.
AS grade and highschool students,
you have had a wonderful time with
your school associates and with the
companionship of home-folks. AS
graduates, you are called upon to face
the world and to be a soldier in it's
strife. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
DO?
This is an age of specially. Anyone
can earn living, but specialist can
achieve quicker results. A trade or
profession properly learned is the
foundation for happy, useful and
successful life.
The American bids the highschool
graduates of the class of 1929 best
wishes for their future success COL
lectively and individually and in so
doing also advises them to go upward
on the ladder of success regardless of
the difficulties encountered or the
storms that beset the course so that,
in the end, each and everyone may
wasted.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
WHY CONDEMN A BABY?

Recently a baby of six years in
Paintsville, KY, was sentenced to If
teen years in "reformatory" or in
other words until it has reached vot-
ing age, for the shooting of his play
mate, whom he had quarreled with
Now is there any right thinking
and right meaning man or woman,
who would serve on a jury and help
with their affirmative vote, to take a
baby away from his parents at the
tender age of six years just when the
little tot approached the age when he
needed them most? Is there any man
or woman who would stand up aid
swear that his or her baby of Fix
knew right from wrong to the extent
that he knew he was doing a rank in
justice to mankind and that it was
punishable by the laws of men?
Why do people have to correct chill
dren of that age if they know, all the
time, what is expected of them? Why
do they have to-be told many, many
times each day not to do this or not
to do that if they are aware of the
ldCl anu Cali IHlHh Oh wrong III It's
true sense?
True enough the little fellow did
commit a wrong deed; terrible deed,
but did the jury help matters any
when it sentenced him to the pen
for the best years of his life when he
should have had the companionship
of nature and of freedom? Will they
help matters any when they have plac-
ed him in the companionship with old
er boys who have committed like deed :,
but in knowingly guilty way We say
cider boys because it is not the Gus
tom in most civilized communities, to
send children of that age to be penned
up by high walls and bars when they
should be getting the fundamentals of
good citizenship through correc t
teaching and association with loved
ones at home.
The jury down there in Kentucky
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-30
DECORATION DAY

Today Thursday is Decoration day
and the citizenry of the United States
is called upon to pay tribute to the
soldier dead of all wars. Various ap-
propriate programs have been arrang-
ed and rendered in honor of that DEAD.
The ranks of the Civil war veterans
are thinning fast and it is up to the
later war veterans to carry on as
they have so faithfully done in the
memory of their comrades who passed
to that other shore. where enemies
bullets may not reach and the war
cry does not reverborate.
This is a day that, to our mind, was
originated for the purpose of con-
stantly keeping in our minds the debt
We owe those, who have sacrificed
their lives and health in order that
their loved ones and we might live the
life of freedom and that democracy
might reign throughout the world ul,-
molested. How noble an ending, How
great a sacrifice!
Lest we forget" the disabled living,
who faced that living hell on earth;
who saw their comrades taken from
their sides and who have forever Gince
been hampered in their manhood by
the wounds inflicted by enemy bullets
by enemy blades, this day has been
set aside, that the living generations
might keep the day. not in rejoicing,
not in thanksgiving. but in reverent
memory.