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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
CHARGE HARVARD
ON PAYROLL Of
POWER TRUST
Paper Trust Controls
Press

BOSTON, April 22.-Charges that
the Harvard School of Business Ad-
ADMINISTRATION was linked with the
power interests were voiced by Rep.
James E. Hagan of Somerville at
a hearing before the Joint Rules
Committee of the legislature today,
The hearing was on a petition for
an inquiry to determine to what ex-
tent foreign" corporations and
holding companies controlled the
distribution of gas and electricity in
Massachusetts,.
eve have learned only within the
last week." Hagan said, "of the
purchase of two Boston newspapers
the Herald and the Traveler-by
the International Paper Company.
This great company has a virtual
monopoly of newsprint paper for
the United States and Canada, as
well. 1t also owns and controls the
international Paper and Power Com
pany, which controls most of the
water power resources in Northern
New England and controls the New
England Power Association.
1.-THE New England Power Asso-
citation directly owns and controls
number of companies engaged in
distributing electricity in the indus
trial centers, such as Lowell, Law
renee, Worcester, Fall River and
some of the smaller industrial CEN
tiers. The object of the International
Paper Company appears to be, as
Mr.. Fahey said last week at the
hearing before the House Ways and
Means Committee to establish a viz
tual trust. In this way it would
have complete monopoly of cleo
trio power, from the source to the
ultimate consumer, and would die
tate the price all the way, without
competition"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Bv GRACE HUTCHINS.

John E. Edgerton, mill owner,
president of the National Assn. OF
Manufacturers, finding that even
cautious government surveys reveal
too much poverty and joblessness in
the United States, directs an en-
ployers' annual survey of employ
ment and wages.
Results of this Springs survey, re-
leased by the National Industrial
Conference Board, statistical division
of Edgenton's organization, were
published on the front page of the
New York World under the headline,
Employment Greatest in Two
Years and Still Growing, Surveys
Show" This is deliberate propa-
ganda aimed to persuade workers
that all's right with the capitalist
world. Employment in industries
throughout the country, according to
these employers, is 81 per cent
higher today than it was year ago,
and industries are operating at the
very favorable peak of IS per cent
of their fullest capacity.
1928 Worst Since 1921.
What president Edgerton does not
tell is that the year 1928 showed a
low level of employment in all in
dustries. 1t was the worst year for
factory jobs since 1921 and factory
payroll totals were at the lowest
level since 1924. These facts were
revealed by the U. S. department Of
labor in the Monthly Labor Review
Of February.
A slight gain in employment over
asst year in this spring Of 1929 is
,nly a temporary relief in the grad
lal displacement of workers by
Facts about the trend Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
FEDERALS JAIL
80 IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, April 22.-The
newspaper Excelsior said tonight
that police were seeking so persons,
including number of women, on
charges of distributing seditious
propaganda in the capital.
A number of arrests already have
been made but police declined to
reveal how many persons were held.
General Martin Triana, at Cana
cho, state of Zacatecas, informed the
presidential offices that 200 reac-
tionaries had offered to surrender.
The president instructed him to ac-
cept only unconditional surrender
but to assure the men that their
lives would be spared if they gave
up arms and promised not to offer
further resistance. The reactionaries
were under command of General
Eusebio Galindo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

The following article was writ
ten by Charles E. Ruthenberg,
who was, before his death, sec
rotary of the Communist Party.
1t appeared in The Worker, for
merly weekly organ of the Party,
on April %, 1928.
We reprint it today as a call
from one of the most militant
fighters the Communist movement
has produced to the workers of this
country to rally to the mass
demonstrations of proletarian
solidarity which the Communist
Party is organizing everywhere on
May Day this year. The Commu-
nists are the bearers of that Sec
ton of the American labor move
ment which has real vitality and
militancy in it, and which will be
crystallized on June / at the
Cleveland Trade Union Conven-
ton into a nationwide trade
union center. The American work.
ers will celebrate May Day this
year at many meetings through
the country arranged by the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
JUS. Surveys Reveal Poverty, Unemployment

this decline agriculture accounted
for 100000 men. Railroads showed
a decline of over 100000. In all,
nearly 100000 workers are no
longer employed in their old occupa-
tions.
That many Of these 100000
workers are permanently jobless is
acknowledged even by Nations Bust
ness. at is likely that some of
these men, particularly the older
ones, the partially disabled, and
those relatively inefficient, have not
been reemployed. They are perma-
nently out of jobs"
Do They Enter Service?"
Then with professional optimism,
the Chamber of Commerce writer
points cut that many workers have
been able to find jobs in non-manu-
featuring work and in Service"
Workers in hotels, restaurants, etc.,
have increased by $4,000. He says
nothing about the uncertainty and in
stability of such jobs and Of other
work which may be called personal
service to the rich.
The number Of workers in pro-
ductive industry may be expected to
decline rather steadily for a num-
Der of years as Nations Business
predicts. But contrary to the pre-
diction of this optimistic, capitalist
journal, we know that not many Of
the displaced workers can find per-
manent jobs, under capitalism, in
service or merchandising.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
trade OF USSR
ALMOST DOUBLES
Amtorg Figures Show
Big Increase

Soviet American trade for the
first half of the current fiscal year,
beginning October /, 1928, totaled
$62,000,000, as compared with $685.
100000 in the preceding six months
and $115,000,000 for the entire year
1929, it was announced by Saul
G. Bron, chairman of the Board Of
Directors of the Amtorg Trading
Corporation. Russian American
trade in 1918 amounted to $48,00,000.
The Amtorg Trading Corporation
made purchases aggregating $19,-
100000 during the six months end
ing March 81, 1929, an increase of
$3,500,000 over the orders placed
in the preceding six months. In
1929 Amtorg purchases totaled
S33, 100000 and in 1926-27 $685.
900.
The All-Russian Textile Syndi-
cate, which purchases cotton for the
Soviet textile industry, and Cen
trosoyus-America, Inc, and Seles-
kosojus-America, Inc, representing
Soviet cooperative organizations,
placed orders aggregating $30,000,-
900 during the half-year period.
Sales Of Soviet products by report
ing organizations amounted to
S9,600,000 for the six months, as
compared with $7,60O,O00 in the six
months ending September 80, 1928.
Imports of manganese of Soviet
origin into this country and of furs
by firms having special contracts in
the Soviet Union are estimated to
100000 for the period, bringing
the total Soviet-American trade
turnover to $6,2O00,000.
"The industrialization process I'M
der way in the Soviet Union was re-
Elected during the past half-year in
increased purchases of American
equipment for Soviet factories and
power plants as well as for the
newly organized large state grain
farms. Orders placed for industrial
equipment by the Amtorg Trading
Corporation alone totaled $780,
coo, as against $4,100,000 in the
preceding six months and $685.
900 in the corresponding six months
of the preceding Soviet fiscal year,"
stated Mr.. Saul G. Bron. "Pur-
chases of equipment for new Soviet
power plants were especially i'm
portant.
81 am glad to state that large
part of our purchases in this coun-
try was made on long-term credit
basis"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
The Future Is Communism's s.
Says Ruthenberg in May l Call

publicly advocating the principles of
Communism! and winning the sup
port of the workers for these prin-
ciples.
The Communists organized in the
Workers Party are no longer the
outcasts of the labor movement
Through their work in the every
day struggles of the workers,
through their programs of action
and leadership they have won the
confidence and support Of an ever
widening circle Of sympathizers.
Today the Communist movement
is on the read to becoming that pow
erful influence in the labor move
ment of this country which will in
fluence the millions of workers and
give them leadership and direction
in the struggle against capitalism.
The inner changes which have
taken place in the Party have been
a vital factor in achieving this re-
suit. The Communist movement in
this country is no longer satisfied
with dogmatic reiteration of funda-
mental Communist principles. 1t
holds fast to this principle: it will
never compromise on the question
of publicly advocating these prin-
ciples. But it has also learned to
apply them. 1t has learned to make
its beginning with the present men
tai attitude of the workers of the
United States. 1t has learned to
realistically study the workers of
this country and the facts of their
life and to base its policy and tao
tics, its methods of teaching the
American workers that their road
to freedom from exploitation and
oppression lies through Commu-
nism, on the conditions as they ex-
list in the United States.
Every worker who is a Commu-
mist can celebrate May Day this
year secure in the confidence that
the movement he supports has made
great strides forward, that the road
is clear for greater achievements,
that in the United States as else
where in the world the future be-
longs to Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

employment over series of years
are more significant than a tenn
porary gain reported for the early
part of 1929.
Government monthly surveys
cover over 100000 factory workers
and about 100000 other workers in
mining. railroads, public utilities, and
trade. But the employers private
survey covers only $4,000 workers
or less than 10 per cent of the 6,000,-
900 covered by the labor department
figures. A government summary Of
factory employment for the last five
years reveal that one out of every
four factory workers has lost his
job.
Million Lose Jobs.
Reduction in factory employment
since 1928, as reported by the De-
partment of Labor, means loss of
jobs to more than 100000 workers.
While factory production is at the
highest level ever reported, more
than l,500,OO0 factory workers have
lost their jobs since 1919.
Even Nations Business, organ Of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, ac-
knowledges the loss of jobs due to
naturalization" "Since 1920 mil
lions of workers have been displaced
from the primary productive indus
mining and manu-
featuring. Thousands of others
have been dropped from the pay rolls
of railroads. What has become Of
these mem" asks the business mems
magazine.
Permanently Jobless.
U. S. Department of Commerce
figures show that the number of
workers in productive industries has
declined 1,564,000 since 1920. Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Christian Socialist,
Ender, Chosen AS New
Chancellor of Austria

VIENNA, Austria, April 22.-Dr.
Otto Ender, christian socialist, has
been chosen to succeed Chancellor
Seipel, it was officially announced
last night. Ender has been COVER
nor of the far western district Of
Vorarlberg since 1918 and is known
to be clerical of intense pro-Swiss
views. He is known especially to
oppose the union of Austria and
Germany.
After the revolution of 1918 he
worked for the union of Vorarlberg
and Switzerland but the French and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
RESIST WAGE CUT.

LONDON, (By MaiD. - A pro-
posed reduction of shillings a week
in the wages of workers in the
wooden mills at Dewsbury, Liver
sedge and Wakefield, has met with
resistance and demand for a strike
on the workers part. Between 5000
and 10000 workers will ballot on
what action to take.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
CONDEMN DELAY IN BIRTH
CONTROL CASE.

Magistrate Rosenbluth, who post
poned the case of five doctors and
nurses arrested for conducting the
Birth Control Clinic in New York,
was severely criticised for this ac-
ton yesterday in letter from the
president of the Women's City Club.
The defense objected to delay as it
tad dozens of Witnesses ready, many
If them doctol, with extensive prac-
nee and HOSPITAL duties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
TEACHERS WOULD
RECOGNIZE USSR
New York Union Votes
to Ask y. S. Act Soon

After hearing the report of their
committee to the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics on the general ex-
cellence of Soviet Union schools, the
New York Teachers Union at a gen.
eral meeting recently voted unani-
mously to call upon the U. S. state
department and President Hoover to
give official recognition to the U. S.
S. R.
Fola LaFollette, Katherine D.
Blake and Alexander Fichandler,
members of the educational delega-
ton which visited the Soviet Union
with John Dewey last summer, de-
scribed the new spirit and methods
in Russian schools. Self govern
ment in the schools of the homeless
orphan children, the tremendous
strides in adult education among the
peasantry, the wiping out of litter
acy through the Red Army were
stressed. Three hundred thousand
recruits a year in the Red Army.
said Fichandler, are taught to read
and write and are sent out to spread
education in the most backward Sec
tions when their term of service is
over.
Cultural Level Rises.
Widespread education, he added,
had raised the cultural level of the
Russian people and stimulated their
demand for higher standards of liv-
ing. Production has been unable to
keep pace with this demand.
When it was pointed out that the
credit blockade of Russia by the
American state department was
largely responsible for the handicap
ping of Soviet industry, DR.. Fitch
andler seconded a motion by Grace
Burnham of the Labor Research
Assn. demanding recognition. Copies
were sent to the state department
and the A. F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

Italian cantons defeated the move.
AS a Catholic educated by the
jesuits, it is expected that Ender
will be as reactionary as the chris
tian socialists can desire. His cab
met will not differ widely from
Seipel's. On the reactionary mar
riage laws, the worst in Europe, he
is expected to support the church.
The fascists, who have been
openly declaring their intention to
seize the government are reported
to consider the choice favorably, as
Ender is not regarded as a strong
man and they believe they will still
make thrust for power within a
short time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
By C. E. RUTHENBERG
(From "The Worker" New York,
April %, 1929

May Day-the day which inspires
fear in the hearts of the capitalists
and hope in the workers-the work
ers the world over-will find the
Communist movement this year
stronger in the United States than
at any time in its history.
Three years ago the Communists
of the United States were driven
underground, their organization de-
stroyed. They were outcasts, de-
spised and ignored.
May Day of 1928 will find all this
changed. The Communist move
lnent, which Palmer and the various
state governments which partici-
pated in the 1920 persecution
thought they had destroyed, is again
carrying on its work in the open.
Through the Workers Party it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

Demonstrate on May Day your
solidarity with the oppressed
Negro race. Long live political,
social and racial equality for the
Negro masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
BEGIN EXPOSING
HOUSE evils IN
LATIN DISTRICT
From Peonage in Fields
to Slavery in N.Y.C.

(C0Ntlnued from Page OHs)
and enter the residential section of
the rich. SPRAYING all over the
city are the quarters of millions of
workers, while the exploiters have
drawn the delicate rows of their
homes in the most desirable sections.
In the workingclass districts them
selves the exploiters have taken
care to build barriers.
The history of many of the slum
districts reveal the flux and change
of immigration. Lower Harlem,
twenty years ago, was already be-
ginning to lose its Irish and German
population, which had been placed in
other divisions of American industry,
to give way to the mass immigration
of cheap" labor. This turnover of
population shows that the most re-
cent immigrant workers, were not
only yoked to the lowest kind of
labor, but were also given the worse
dwellings to live in. They go hand
in hand.
Latin American Section.
Latin American toilers, many of
them peasants, were given the
privilege Of living in this section of
Lower Harlem. There are many
Porto Rican poems here, who, in turn,
together with the Negro workers,
are filling in the growing demand
for the lowest kind of labor in in
dustry.
This section is not purely Latin
American. Many Italian workers
live here, as well as many Negro
workers, who have migrated" from
their mecca" in search for less
crowded conditions. There is also a
large percentage of Jews, some of
whom are petty businessmen, drag
ging their incomes from the workers
via pushcarts in the market on upper
Park Avenue, Harlem, and the small
stores in the section.
This is a sort of intermediary sec
ton, from the Negro district to the
north, thru the Negro section-the
Latin-Americans, to the white work
ingclass sections to the south.
From One Slavery to Another.
Poems from Porto Rico and the
Philippines have tried to escape the
brutal exploitation of Yankee inn
perialism by escaping to the home
of that Imperialism and into the dis
ease-festering homes Of upper Park
Avenue under the tracks of the New
York Central. Latin-American work
ers have come from their home
countries, chased by brutal bourgeois
governments that have sold them
selves to Wall Street.
Many of them came from the
fields to New York City, perhaps
thinking that some degree Of free
dom awaited them here, perhaps
knowing better. But they are here
now, a part of the American work
ingclass, most of them making up
the most exploited section of it.
We will visit some of their homes
here, and see if they have really
escaped the slavery of peonage, of
the plantations and of Yankee i'm
perialism.
Tomorrow we will discuss the
homes in Latin American Harlem.
We will go to Park Avenue, the
street of two classes.
Tenants are invited to write in
freely to the Daily Worker. de-
scribing the conditions under which
they are forced to live. The letters
will be nublished as they come in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Lexington Strike Firm

LEXINGTON, N. c., April o.
Heavy picket lines yesterday and
today around the Wenonah and Da-
kota mills, which had advertised
that they were going to reopen
Monday and Tuesday, effectively
discouraged the idea of the employ
ers here that they might get some
of the strikers to go back. The mills
are still closed.
The National Textile Workers
Union and the International Labor
Defense are holding a mass meet
ing this afternoon here at which
Walter Trumbull, Ellen Dawson and
Paul Crouch, as well as local speak
ers, will address the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
DEPUTIES FIRE
2 VOLLEYS AT
Mill STRIKERS
Charge With Bayonets;
Mass Meeting Defiant

Continued from Page One)
must not be allowed to stop the eff
fective picketing, which is winning
the strike.
Speakers at the afternoon mass
meeting were Organizers Beal, Bush
and Pershing. Karl Reeve spoke for
the International Labor Defense.
There are apparently well found
ed rumors that the night picket line
tonight will be assaulted in similar
fashion to the one this morning.
Police Encourage Bomber.
The scab, Troy Jones, who Satur-
day attempted to throw dynamite
bomb at the speakers platform at
the strike meeting in the afternoon,
and was arrested when he came for
purposes unknown to the evening
meeting, has already been released,
and walks the streets of Gastonia
under police protection, openly and
loudly declaring that he will yet
blow up with dynamite the strike
headquarters and union organizers.
Even with the opening of the re-
lief store at Pineville strikers of the
Chadwick Hoskins mill have been
forced to fish in streams for food
for their families. In other towns
of the Piedmont district, food is
scarce among families of striking
operatives.
The imperative need here and
throughout the southern textile
strike area is for relief donations
to keep the relief stations stocked
with food and for defense money to
fight the frame-up cases -tarted by
the bosses.
Feed Pickets.
Immediately after the bayonet
charge of the deputies, the strikers
held meeting in the Workers In
ternational Relief station, Franklin
Ave-, and without suggestion from
the relief director decided that the
strikers actually participating in the
picketing should receive. food first
for their wives and young children.
Must Rush Relief, Defense.
The Workers International Re-
lief national office has received the
following telegram from the Gas
tonia representative:
Gastonia relief store must be
kept stocked with food relief daily
because need is great. Spirit of
strikers and number on picket line
increasing steadily due to relief
already given. Workers of Boston,
Mass, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Kansas City, Denver, San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New
Haven, and other cities must has
ten to build relief collection ma
chinery so we can inform strikers
that workers throughout North
are Loyalty backing them with re-
lief. Rush large check so we may
feed mothers and their children.
Funds for relief should be sent
with all possible speed to Workers
International Relief, l Union Square,
New York.
Funds for defense of the jailed
organizers and strikers in the South
must be rushed to international
Labor Defense, 80 E. 18th St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

The first step in the revolution
by the working class Is to raise
the prOletariat to the position of
ruling class, to win the battle of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

In the Soviet Union--the seven-
hour Gny. On May Day we intcn-
siey our struggle for the S-hour
day, 4O-hOur week!