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The Men Who Slave for Ford
BY Fred Ellis

fairs that is bringing closer the
sharpening of class relations in the
auto industry.
Among the masses of workers m
the auto industry there is evident
tendency toward organization. The
Auto Workers Union, having ap-
prais 1 this situation, is beginning
an organization campaign. And be-
ginning this campaign, it holds no
illusions that the reactionary A. F.
of L. will organize the auto indus
try, which has already become a
basic industry, the land and air (air-
planes) transport industry, and
which can easily be transformed into
a war industry in case of war. On
the contrary, Mr.. Green is praising
the goodness" of Mr.. Ford and has
not word to say about organizing
the auto industry. Fully understand
ing this, the Automobile, Aircraft
and Vehicle Workers Union has
called a conference of workers Or
CARNATIONS for the purpose of plan
ming this campaign. The conference
will take place at SIS Adelaide St.,
January Is at 10 a. m.
Negro Labor Increases.
1t would be we'll to call attention to
the fact that lately the number of
Negro workers in the auto industry
has been steadily increasing. Right
at the beg inning C this campaign
emphasis should be laid, not only in
words but also in deeds, on the unity
of interests of the native-born, the
foreign-born (who constitute a large
percentage of the workers employed
in the industry and the Negro
workers.
The present situation in the auto
industry is now, as never before,
suitable for the beginning of an or
ganization campaign. The campaign
should be put into full swing along
all lines, and the leading class-con-
scious workers drawn into the or
ganizational work. A new union in
the auto industry is an event of
great Importance on the road to the
organization of the American prole-
tariat-it is a challenge thrown at
the House of Morgan and the indus
trial 'udal lord, Mr.. Ford!
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ew Sa,ldimo Triumph Ovey Imbeyiahst Forces

were travelling through the beautiful
waters of our River Coco in motor
boats.
"The fifth Of this month, at six
o'clock in the evening, the two above
mentioned officers were informed
that the pirates to the number of
200, were making a night camp at
the village of Yacalwas. This news
was received with enthusiasm by
our comrades, as they are well &C.
quainted with the place mentioned
and it was our fortune that had
brought the buccaneers to leave us
in that place all their war supplies
with the almost total loss of their
lives.
"Our boys did not lose time upon
receipt Of the report, and they began
their advance, lasting from six in
the evening till two in the morning,
until arriving in sight of the enc
my's camp fires.
disposition of forces for combat
was made. It appears that the buc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
By B. X. GEBERT.

The Detroit press on Dec. 80 pub
lished a statement of the Ford Mo-
tor Co. that it will hire $4,000 addi-
tional workers, and that the number
of workers employed by Ford will
reach 100000. The following day
several thousands of unemployed
gathered in front of Ford's plant in
the hope of securing a job. There
they were told that no hiring was
being done that day. On January 2,
already at midnight thousands of
unemployed were on their way from
the working class districts to the
factory. At a o'clock that morning,
with the thermometer at II above
zero, there were already 1000 work
ers at the gates, while at Z o'clock
an army of over 10000 unemployed
surrounded the factory, all in the
hopes of securing job. The work
ers, huddled in one trembling mass
waited for the time when the hiring
was to begin, or rather, for the time
when the employment agents would
start picking some from among
them.
Frozen as They Stand.
Many of them, very many, stand
ing in the cold and wind were actu-
ally freezing, several were taken
away in ambulances with frozen feet
and hands. The hiring began at s
o'clock in the morning. The pressure
of the mass of workers striving to
get jobs was so great that the fence
collapsed. From this more than 3d.
900, hardly 500 were picked, being
picked over, pushed around, showed
thru the gate, not only like slaves,
but like the cattle at the Chicago
packing houses.
Boss Takes Time.
The factory management announce
that this will be repeated every
morning during January and Febru-
airy, that every morning 400 to 600
workers will be picked for jobs in
Ford's factory. These workers are
hired at S. per day for five-day
week, that is, at S25 per week. First
are t, be hired the workers from
Detroit and environs, and later work
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ers coming here from more distant
points. Among the army of unem-
ployed looking for jobs at the Ford
plant were workers from Ohio, In
diana and more distant places.
Whether the 10000 will be hired as
announced there is no certainty, as
Ford is abolishing the night shift
and instituting a system of running
the machines six days per week and
giving the workers five days work
per week, and in the 10000 are prob
ably included the workers who will
be taken off the night shift. With
the additional workers employed,
Ford is to produce $500 cars per
day instead of the 1000 new being
produced. 1t is estimated that the
production of Fords during the cur
rent year will reach 100000. The
production of the Chevrolet for the
current year is estimated at approx
imately 100000 cars, while WHY'S
Overland, Hudson-Essex, Chrysler,
Dodge and others are to be produced
to the tune of another 100000. The
total production of motor cars for
1929 is to reach 100000 units. But
the market for that number of units
is lacking. James Dalton, the editor
of the "Motor Magazine" predicts
that about 100000 cars can be sold
in t is country in 1929 lin 1926
there were 100000 cars sold in the
United States and Canada). And
what about the surplus? 100000
American made cars are to be sold
in foreign countries, but there is no
market for such a large number in
those countries.
Battle of Giants.
The auto industry is expanding
not because the market for automo-
biles has increased so greatly, but
because in the auto industry there
exists a sharp struggle between Ford
and the General Motors, each tying
to dominate the market and Guido
the other in the competitive strug-
gle, cutting prices and changing
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MEXICO CITY, (By Mail) The
organ Of the Communist Party OF
Mexico, Gel Machete," publishes
letter from General SANDING, leader
of the Nicaraguan army Of liberia
ton against Yankee Imperialism,
signed by SANDING under the date
of Oct. IA, and addressed to the
writer Froylan Turcios. The text
of the letter is as follows:
81 have the honor of informing
YOU of a new triumph Of our army
against the buccaneers. On the 9th
of the present month, at four in the
morning a detachment OF buccan-
GERS camped on the banks OF the
River Coco in a place known as
Yucabucan, was attacked by one OF
our columns, under the command Of
Colonies Francisco Estrada and
Porfirio Sanchez.
"For ten days Colonels Estrada
and Sanchez had tenaciously fol-
lowed the Yankee morfimaniacs who
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Perfect the Exploitation of Auto Workers;
When 10000 Jobless Shivered

models. The "Detroit News" writ
ing of this struggle, states: "This
means competition on even more
severe scale than now prevails. 1t
is in the low and medium priced six
cylinder field that the greatest battle
probably will be fought. This means
still greater dollar for dollar value
for the purchaser from an industry
which has already astonished the in
dustrial world by it's ability to in
crease value to the buyer without
increasing prices"
Wage Cuts Come.
For the workers in the auto in
dustry this just means further re-
auctions in wages, more speed up,
and still more slave-like working
conditions.
Today the exploitation of labor
and the speed up system have been
SO perfected, that further progress
along this line seems almost impos-
|sible. When piece work rates were
cut several years ago it meant that
the workers had to speed up and
produce more in order to make the
same daily wage as before, today a
cut in wages means a cut, it can no
longer be made up by turning out
greater production.
Wage Already Lower.
Compared with the wages and
working conditions of today, the
wages and working conditions of
even 1924 seem wonderful. Today
the rate of workers in the auto
industry is from 80 to 40 cents per
hour, those working piece work max
ing Sc to So per day. The production
system has been SO perfected that
even the great expansion program
for 1929 is to be carried out without
the workers working full time.
The cost of the war for markets
for the domination of the market by
lowering the prices of automobiles
will be borne entirely by the work.
ers. 1t is precisely this state of af.
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200 pairs of shoes, 200 uniforms,
200 mosquito bell-nets, a large
quantity of provisions, among them
two tins of Chesterfield cigarettes).
In the pockets Of the dead was
found much correspondence, mill
tary orders, photographs and cur
ious things. We have taken photo
graphs of this pirates disaster in
order to give them to the world
press that all may know. Our force
of combatants was composed of 80
men: 40 under Colonel Estrada and
40 under Colonel Sanchez.
"At the attempt to give military
promotion to those who took part
in this action, all the comrades re-
fused to accept promotions, saying
that the triumph was due not to
their abilities but to the laziness of
the so-called trained Yankee troops,
who had gone to sleep unguarded.
These promotions are pending
awaiting another opportunity, in
which, say our comrades, they hope
to work with real soldiers and not
limitations, because it is now, shown
to the world that as the pirates
initiate everything, they have come
also to initiate real soldiers. A
costly result, this pretension, after
twenty years Of technical prepare
ton to appear in the morning light
as in the dawn Of Yacalwas.'
mo occasion more propitious than
this to anticipate that when we may
attain definite triumph, the world
will know that citizens conscious OF
their rights, and not professional
soldiers were those who overthrow
the supposedly trained technicians
of Yankeeland, and that the very
military titles.g grades and ranks
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cancers had been moving about, for
what no one knows, until late hour
of the night. All our force was
armed with rifle and machete, in
terspersed with expert bombers. An
assault was to be made and the or
der given not to waste a single car
fridge.
1.-THE enemy was sleeping tran
gully, and when the two sentinels
gave the signal of alarm, it was too
late. The confusion of the enemy
was somewhat difficult to under
stand. The machetes and grenades
were making carnage among the
filibusters. Our men, in order to
distinguish themselves from the ene-
my in the obscurity of the early
dawn, had cast aside their clothing.
The machine guns took no part in
this combat as they were not needed
and were left with the rear guard.
The work was purely for the ma
chetes, the grenades and revolyers.
Our rifles were not used, as the
fight was hand to hand.
"The attack lasted for an hour
and a half, sufficient time for the
telling, by the blows of our ma.
chetes, that field of human bodies.
"Their supply train, needless to
say, remained in our hands, because
the Yankee buccaneers had scarcely
time to fire few volleys from their
boats.
"The enemy dead, ia; wounded
and captured, 60; the rest lost some
where in the mountains.
Supplies captured include two
motorboats and eleven launches
land in them twenty cases of Lewis
guns with thousand rounds each
four Lewis machine guns unpacked,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-17
'Tammany Jury Raves
Against Book on Sex

THE Sex of Life" a ten year ole
book Of sex instruction for tn,
young which has the approval @
Havelock Ellis, and various othei
authorities, written by Mrs. Mar,
Ware bennett, known for her activ
ity in favor Of woman suffrage an,
birth control, was yesterday held b.
a Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyl
to be unavailable, and $50 obscene
lewd, filthy, vile and lascivious a
to be unfit to be spread upon tn
records of this honorable court" Il
the language of the Indictment re
turned against Mrs. bennett. Til
penalty is a maximum of five year
imprisonment, fine of $4,000 o
both
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that today are necessary for the or
ganization of our army, will be re-
nounced by me as by those who
form our ranks, as is unanimous in
this sense the opinion of those who
compose our army.
"As opportunity offers l will send
you news of our operations against
the forces of the buccaneers. For
Homeland and Liberty.-C. SAN
DINO"
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poationte supreme scab employer And this government
in the person of Morgan maneuverng preparation for
pungng world mperiaist for of enrich
ing themselves.
The interest of the working class OF this country is
clearly to defeat the United States in the coming Just
SO it is to the interest Of the workers of each mpeat
country for the defeat Of their town. government
Does this Inconsistent Not when bear in mind that
the outcome be sought is the transformation of the i'm
perias into civil war; the revolutionary for the
overthrow of the capitalist class in all mpeast countries
and the establishment of the dictatorship Of the toers in
place Of the present dictatorship Of the Morgans.
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Copyright 1929, By international
~ Publishers Co., Inc.
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TODAY: Riding for Homestead; Great Hopes
for the Future as Farmer; Forced to Work
OUT Queer Folk of TuscarOra
PART XI.

previous chapters Haywood parents; has
Lake City IN 1862 boyhood the Mormons
life at the mining of Ophir;
lycng Salt of has little
schooling; odd Jobs IN the Mormon capital off to remote Nevada
Indian fights bow Haywood learned classic literature
concerted to labor mionism; Hayood anae orking
boy; baby Fort McDermtt; back to mining
FROM Paradise Valley back Eagle Creek and working
bother-naw got word tina
the McDmitt reservation had been thrown to entry that is people
could settle it, taking much hundred and sixty
required the settler should build house til
the land five which it would belong to him. This
called "hoesteadng 1t late at night when this
but bed started Fort McDerm horseback
than five hundred of the
this where located There
fathernaw myself there would not be
settlers the reservation the bottom-and
where brotheaw Jim took his homestead We knew there
but little chance Of the word getting about the land being
entry but lost time getting there first these farms
worth striving thoughts having
of that through head Hoped along. We
McDmtt early the morning after breakfast
our nes that u.s. to mark boundaries.
My farm just below the old post where the valley
widest We built foundations the three places
for lumber out Of which built house with
kitchen This lined with burlap whitewashed
fine wall and ceiling tight drum. my
down into the house.
Life began to take aspect Of did,
digging dihes question
nf Uhpr f0 huid Tho ruhor aohsol
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and coffee While the table eating remarked ta
we strange We looked him nurng and he said
Every here has lost eye"
Sure enough, this oneyed
the county and all together that night
The morning started going the canyon
went the summit to Paradise Valley. Here Billy Town
agreed take with him and stopped that night his farm Mex
through Summit
blankets on the ground The next morning we covered with
When got to Tuscarora Townsend said.
I've got to get out Of here sell out haven't
and other quick chickens
I'll be glad to get fifty cents apiece for hem think could
He had two crates full of chickens said I'd
them with myself which handy
The next morning started rustlng at the mine for
o M Of rona to the nns up . ne lease I'VE we mad lower m
to be hoed to the surface This handling
times When we got on top carried jig
paid for the mining company rest of the ore we sent ae
we had worked through the jig which worked BY
washed off at the top Around the shaft mountang
lputan oaks The brush it was pitched int
working among one JOY Pollard whose name
mention because the aerward met him aga
initial Industrial Workers Of the World
A was an interesting old right
stores The miners either lived restaurants
paonzed Usually long bar a tS Se en mh
one side with two three tables 'front.' card room tn
bar night when the bkeep @ at tn
" Tsl take look at that at the
lhey were eight and
from one TO SIX men, The Molly Forsay had killed her nara
mour had been tried and sentenced imprisonment in the STAT
penienty After about prison she revealed the fact h
he was to become mother To the involving the warden
the governor pardoned her. e ~ "a.1e'
teamster who hauling freight on the road from
ko could be seen knocking saloons gambling and sol
put never ndulgng drink married. the wife soon COT
v0 Later the teamser put dresses again. this tim
whatsi She had donned clothing SO that she coId .
money than paid for work - ~ "Ae noi'
IN the neat MISUNDERSTANDING Ohyee per. s a.
sage deserts achot magpes ntean "hot doe s .s ~.
aoDm the sdock horseback distress
remedies that work. 80 80 ~ "o"'e' "e'oc
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SUIT AGAINST BOULDER DAM.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 16.--Im-
mediate filing of suit in the United
States Supreme Court to prevent
the proposed construction Of Boul-
der-Black Canyon Dam under the
Swing-J ohnston bill was ordered to-
day by the Arizona-C Colorado River
Commission.
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VI WHeTe 10 UuIu where Cne chicken coop
should be- where the corral, and what kind of trees
to set out. 1t very fine land the loan was deep
and would grow anything.
There were so many things we needed that money
was an immediate necessity. / left home for Tus-
carora, a mining camp hundred and twenty-five
miles distant. The first night stopped at Thomp-
sons Mill at Willow Creek. There four other
men gathered there that night. The place had been
abandoned, but the stove and cooking utensils
still there. All Of us had grub with us, and
we got supper ready. consisting of bacon fapiacks
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10 CLEAR CHANNELS
SOUGHT FOR RADIO.
Such an Expedient to Improve
Operating Conditions Is
Offered Commission.

Ten more cleared channels, made
available by narrowing the spacing be-
tween regional and local wave lengths,
have been proposed to the Federal Radio
Commission as the scientific eXpedient
whereby it can grant better operating
conditions to large and important
broadcasting stations now obliged to
share time because of the territorial
of radio channels.
The proposition was laid before the
commission by its former general coun-
sci, Louis G. Caldwell, representing sta
lions VITO, Hartford; VIDAL, Balti-
more; WHO, DeS MoineS; VOC, Dayen-
port, Iowa: KRLD, Dallas, and WAP1,
Birmingham. 1t resulted from a con-
ference here, at which the following
stations we're represented: WBBM and
WENR. Chicago; WFBM, indianapolis,
and WGY, Schenectady.
officials Were Present.
Mr.. Caldwell's suggestions were heard
at an informal session of the commits
sion. which was attended by representa-
tives of the stations and by members of
Congress from sections where stations
have been adversely affected by the
radio reallocation Of year ago. Called
at the suggestion of Senators Colds
borough and Tydings of Maryland, the
meeting was attended also by Senator
Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa. Repre-
sentative v. l.. Palmisano Of Maryland
Representative G. w. Ranseyer of Iowa
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and Representative w. 3. Oliver OF
The stations involved are almost all
on cleared channels which they use only
part of the time with the resultant loss
of their programs to the listeners IL
their areas. More cleared channels
presumably. would make it possible to
Dive them full-time operation. 1t was
on behalf of what Mr.. Caldwell called
IAN idea" that he appeared Monday in
order to suggest ways and means Tor
making the additional channels avail
able.
He proposed-and his views on the
scientific feasibility of the scheme were
supported by John v. l.. Hogan. the
consulting radio engineer-that the 20
channels now cleared for high-powered
broadcaSting under the radio realloca-
ton of 1928 be increased to so by mar
rowing the present l0-kilocycle spacing
between regional and local channels to
7i2 kilocycles.
Bunching Suggested.
First, he suggested the commission
should bunch all the cleared channels
in the band from $50 to l,190 cycles
C545 to 252 metersD. retaining the To-
kilocycle spacing between them. Then,
he added. the regional and local chan
nels should be coupled in the band from
1900 to 1900 kilocycleS $3.50 to 200
meters), with a separation of 7l2 kilo-
cycles between them.
Mr.. Caldwell pointed out that where
the commission now has 40 cleared, "A
regional and local channels it would
under the new scheme have so cleared
"A regional and 6 local. In other words,
the number of wave lengths would be
increased from 90 to 100 .g..
Properly separated geographically, the
regional stations. which have medium
power, and the local stations. which use
very low power, should not interfere
with each other and would suffer no
i'll effects from high-powered stations,
Mr.. Caldwell said In order to accom-
plish this geographical spacing, he
pointed out that the equalization
amendment, fixing an equal distribu-
ton OF wave lengths. power and hours
among the zones and States, would have
to be repealed or changed.
In support of his plan Mr.. Caldwell
pointed out that ninekilocycle separa-
tons have been fixed in Europe, where
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Russian broadcasting stations operate
at spacings Of "a kilocycles between
other European stations. Moreover. he
asserted, the plan makes 1t possible to
deal with Canada under more favor
able conditions when the Canadians
make their inevitable demand for more
wave lengths Canada now uses six eX-
elusive channels and shares time on IL
others with this country.
That the scheme impressed the COM
mission was quite evident, for it offers
one way out of the major dilemma that
has grown out of the reallocation OF
November, 1928, under which many sta
tions were forced to remain off the air
to avoid interference while others used
their wave lengths. Otherwise, Mr.,
Caldwell stated before the gathering,
the reallocation has undoubtedly worked
a decided improvement in radio recep-
ton conditions throughout the United
States.
(Copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance
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