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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Finnish Socialists"
Aid New Gag Laws to
Suppress theWOrkers

HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec.
19.-The demonstration of the work
ers who month ago went on a gen.
eral strike to protest the mistreat-
ment of the thousands of political
prisoners held by the white guard
government, has given a fright to
the capitalists, who fear that their
war plans against the Soviet Union
may be upset.
The government is, therefore, pro-
posing new laws be passed by parlia
ment to give it more repressive pow
ers, to restrict the press and forbid
meetings. The cabinet threatens to
resign if such arbitrary powers are
not granted. In other words the
movement is for further fascistiza-
ton of the state.
The socialists" after some claw
ing the air for the purpose of fool
ing the workers, will undoubtedly
vote for the fascist development and
thus assure the passage of the pro-
posed laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

dent of the U.T.W., and Anna Vein
stock, one of the Federal scab
agents who has been busy helping
the U.T.W. sell out the workers in
Elizabethton, Tenn, and in New
England. In New Bedford victori-
Gus department strikes in number
of mills have been led by the
NT.W.U. during the pas; ~ days.
In Philadelphia the workers in three
hosiery mills ere out on strike to-
day.
The workers in the whole silk in
dustry are in movement and the
response of the unorganized workers
to the convention call of the N. T..
w. U. proves this. Yesterday a
number of delegates from the Blu
menthal Silk Mills in Bridgeport,
Conn, were elected to represent the
thousands of unorganized silk work
ers of Bridgeport at the convention.
The Paterson silk and dye workers
have elected 35 delegates represent
ing organized and unorganized
workers. From Homestead, N. c.,
and Scranton, Pa, delegates will
come from workers who have just
been in the midst of important
strike struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
400 Kentucky Miners
Join Illinois Strike
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on strike. More mines will be on
strike this week.
"This response to the strike call
has struck terror in the hearts of
the coal operators. The militia has
been called out in the Midland Sec
ton to break the strike. But every
miner walked out, refusing to work
under the protection" of machine
guns and bayonets. In Franklin
County the sheriff broke the picket
line at Buckner and the next day
the takers of the U. M. w. A. with
the sheriff, elected the striking
miners from the local meeting of
the U. M. w. A. In Cecilia the sher-
ifs forces smashed the picket line,
firing into the crowd with machine
guns, injuring many miners, includ-
ing one woman who was seriously
injured. Three strikers were ar
rested.
"This shows very clearly the
unity of all the forces of coal oper-
ators, the militia, the sheriffs, and
the officialdom of the U.M.W.A. in
strike breaking role.
"The militia in Taylorville arrest
ed the leader of the marching
strikers, Freeman Thompson. The
sheriff of Franklin county arrested
George Voyzey the leader of the
picket line of Cecilia.
"But despite the arrests of the
leaders, the strike is gaining and
new leaders are rising from the
ranks of the fighting miners and the
strike is going forward.
Demands.
"Miners! Join the strike! Organ
ize your forces in every mine and
strike! Set UP mass picket lines.
Strike for: The 6-hour day, 5-day
week, recognition of the National
Miners Union, abolition Of the bug
light and penalty system, demand
social insurance for the unemployed,
to be paid for by the bosses and the
state, fight against the speed-up
system, Fifteen minute rest period
during every hour on machines, one
man on each job, $35 week min
imum wage, Smash the check-off,
equal wage for young miners.
We want a united front of all
miners in the struggle against the
operators and the treacherous Of
ficialdom of both factions of the
U.M.W.A., against both Lewis and
Fishwick; for the establishment of
a real union in the mines; against
discrimination against Negro miners,
and for equal rights of all miners.
Railroad men! Truck drivers,
Refuse to transport coal! Support
the miners strike The struggle Of
the miners is the struggle of the
working class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
socialists Aid Austrian
Fascist War on Workers
Agree Fascist Constitutions Laws Projected Protecting
Scabs, SURPRISING Workers Press and DISTINGUISHING
Workers; Tariffs to Raise Cost of Living; I'm
employment Relief to be Cut

VIENNA (By MaiD-The "Neue
Wiener Tagblatt" discusses the
program of the winter and spring
sessions of the Austrian parliament.
The Favorable course" of the nego-
tiations between the Prime Minister
Schober and the social democracy
justified the hope that the parlia-
ment would adopt the new draft
within week or ten days. ct has
since been adopted. Editor. After
wards number Of alterations
would be made in the financial pro-
gram. These alterations are the con-
cessions made by the social demo-
Gratis at the expense of the tax pay
ers in Vienna in order to assist
other Austrian lands, and in par
ticular Lower Austria.
Then comes the Claw for the Pro-
lection Of the Right to Work." or in
other words, the hard labor law
against the right of the working
class to organize and fight for bet
ter conditions, and the supplement
to the Press Laws, which is intended
to dispose of the last remnant of
the freedom of the press as far as
the revolutionary workers are con-
cerned.
In autumn the parliament will
deal with the new electoral law,
which proposes the re-adoption of
the single constituency seat and rep
resents a wholesale disfranchisement
of the workers.
According to the same newspaper
the spring session will deal with
questions of economic reconstruction
whereby, in particular, commercial
and political measures will be adopt
ed. This means that after the work
ing class has been settled with,
fascism will reap its reward in the
form of increasingly high customs
barriers.
1t is already announced that Gus
toms will be introduced or existing
customs increased for the import of
grain, potatoes, sugar, wine, fruit,
vegetables and clothing.
The Austrian workers are there
fore threatened with swift rise in
the cost of living in favor of the
rich agrarians and the fascist bour-
geoisie. The aim of the Claw for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
NTWU Convention in
Atmosphere of Fight
Continued from Page One)

tCOHtUueV from rage OHeJ
stand the increase in looms from
four to six for each worker.
The meeting of the union at
Woonsocket, R. l., in Bowler Hall,
for Fred Beal last night, was
banned on the grounds chat no per-
NIT had been issued for meeting"
Miller announced.
Among the three workers halted
from distributing the leaflets in
Astoria was William McGinnis, an
other Of the Gastonia strikers, SEN
fenced to II to Is years.
Immediately the strike was called
in Mystic, a picket line was formed
about the plant and efforts are be-
ing made by strikers to spread the
strike to all nearby textile towns
where equally unbearable conditions
exist.
All Ready to Revolt.
Miller declared, "The workers in
all the textile towns in the vicinity
of New London are on the point of
revolt, and the National Textile
Workers Union is active in organic
ing mill locals in all these towns.
"The banning of the meeting in
Woonsocket," he said, sis simply
another effort of the textile bosses
to destroy the growing unionization
in the textile industry under the
banner of the N.T.W.U. But they
will be unable to halt our strides
forward. Our convention Saturday
and Sunday in Paterson will gather
together more than 250 delegates
from all parts Of the land to go
through with the program. Neither
arrests or attempts at intimidation
by the forces of the employers can
halt this movement in the most ex-
plotted of all industries.
Within the last ten days there
have been strikes in the Amoskeag
Mill at Manchester, N. H., in West
erley, R. l., in Bradford, Mass,
where $50 dyehouse workers were
on strike for three weeks, only to
be sold out by German, vice-presi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
new GERMAN
LAW A b ON
AT WORKERS
Like Black Reaction
Before 1848

BERLIN (By Mail).-The Reichs-
rat in which the representatives of
the various governments sit, intensi-
fled Severing's new draft of the
Law for the Protection of the Re-
public to such an extent in its ses-
sion recently, that the draft now
represents an unparalleled terror
law against the Communist Party.
Not only abuse directed against
the flag of the Reich and of the fed
eral states, against both living and
dead eichs-Presidents and Minis
tiers, but also against the subordi-
nate social democratic officials of
the state will be punished in the fu-
ture very severely.
There is a heavy punishment for
any one who is a member of "any
secret organization or of any organi-
cation hostile to the state" Under
this paragraph any member of the
Communist Party can be put in gaol
for years. The Reichsrat also de-
cided that any meeting Calculated
to disturb the peace" might be dis
solved summarily by the police.
At the same time the Reichsrat
decided to abolish those paragraphs
which prevented the return of the
Ex-Kaiser to Germany and provided
fer the punishment of high fascist
state officials for violation of the
law and their subsequent dismissal
from the service of the state.
The "Rote Fahne" declares that
the new law thrusts the politico-le-
gal situation of the working misses
back into the period of black reac-
ton prior to the March revolution
of 1S4S:
Bourgeois democracy commits
suicide with this law. The coalition
government led by the social demo-
crazy has no other answer to the
growth of the Communist Party and
its struggle against capitalism, than
a bloody bourgeois class justice. We
appeal in the last hour to the work
ing masses to organize a powerful
protest against Severings terror law
which is to be hurried through the
Reichstag. The Communist press
is at stake. The legality of the Com
munist Party is at stake. The free
dom of thousands of workers is at
stake!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Dugan Bros. Baker
Workers Slave 70 to
IS Hours A Week
(Bu q Worker Correspondent)

tBY q worker correspondent
In the big bakery plant of Dugan
Bros, in Queens Village, company
which has several huge plants in
the metropolitan area, they are not
only slave-driving the men, but are
also making young boys, many un-
der II, work anywhere from Ia, Is
TO IS hours a day for wages of SIS
a week. These boys go to continual
ton school.
Dugan Bros. gets these boys right
off the boats as they bring the boys
fro mEurope. There is no union in
Dugan's.
The pay is from $22 to $24 a week
for the men bakers. The workers
work 70 to 75-hour week. Some
times they start work at 10 p. m.
and work till noon the following
day. They are not allowed to go
home till the foremen tell them they
can do so.
The foremen drive the men like
absolute slaves and the specd-up is
terrible.
Bakers working in the Dugan
Bros. plants, you've got to organize
into a fighting unon if you want to
work an 8-hour day, get living
wages and not be speeded up like
dumb brutes.
Get in touch with Bakers Union,
No. 8, of the Amalgamated Food
Workers Union, Labor Lyceum, 949
Willoughby Ave-, near Myrtle
Room IL. The office is open from
s a. m. till Z p. m.
-DUGAN BAKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
S e V e r e Crisis in
Argentina WOrsened
By Close of Exchange

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 19.-The
already severe economic crisis here
has been intensified by the closing
Of the gold exchange office (caja
de conversion).
The closing Of the exchange is
one of the many developments
growing out of the severe depres-
sion in Argentine. There is great
deal of unemployment. The news
papers report many bankruptcies.
Irygoyen's government explains
the closing order by saying sit is a
measure to prevent further restric-
ton of Argentine currency through
the expectation of gold" Recent
gold shipments restricted the cir
culating medium by nearly 100000
pesos. This caused crisis in the
credit situation.
A despatch to a New York cap
italist paper quotes foreign bankers
as stating that American export
trade to Argentina will be curtailed
as a result of the conditions Gre
ated by closing the exchange.
The poor families will be hit
more drastically by the present cri-
sis. Their conditions are already
very bad. Reports recently pub
lished in The Daily Worker pointed
out that in one district many farm
ers were actually starving.
The crisis in Argentina is part of
the world crisis of capitalism. The
struggle between British and U. S.
imperialism for the Argentina mar
kets is especially severe. President
Irygoyen favors British imperial
ism and recently g. them an adj
vantage over The United States cap
italists in the question of textiles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Must Form a Shop
Committee in Each
Department Store
(By a Worker Correspondent

S12 for a fifty-one hour week, ex-
elusive of lunch hours, is actually
the average sum paid to the Five
and Ten-Cent store salesgirls fEA
New York City. The beginning wage
in the Woolworth and McCrory
stores is about $11; the regular
maximum approximately SIS. One
salesgirl employed by Woolworth
for eleven years, now gets the UNI
usual sum of S18. Ordinarily the
girls do not work for the company
long enough to make more than S12
or $13.
The wage scale in these chains
is not determined by the company
but by the manager of each store.
Naturally it is to his interest to
submit statement showing great
profits. Thus his workers suffer.
Salesgirls are hired to work from
nine a. m. to six p. m. weekly with
no lunch hour pay, and from nine
a. m. to ten p. m. on Saturday
Actually they work about thirty
minutes overtime each day in
Strengthening stock and closing &C
counts-this mind you without pay.
Vacations are sometimes granted
after a year, also without pay.
Salesgirls in the Five-and-Ten-
Cent stores talk about their work.
ing conditions-but not to the man
ager. Fear of losing the job pre-
vents them.
We must form shop committees
in each department store: that's
how we salesgirls will finally form
big union to better our wages
and conditions.-S. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Polish socialists"
Promise Full Support
to Fascist Laws

WARSAW, Dec. ia confer
ence took place between the fascist
Polish President Moscicki and the
socialist representatives in the Sejm.
The social-fascists promised Mos
cicki that they would work together
with him in the new constitutional
changes which impose more oppres-
sive and fascist laws on the Polish
workers.
The socialists promised their sup
port and cooperation to any cabinet
that might be chosen by the fascist
Moscicki. Newspaper reports state
Aat the conference between the So
vleiists and the fascist leader twas
of a friendly nature" The severe
economic crisis and the growing
rehabilitation Of the Polish workers
is driving the socialists into open
fascist alliances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
W.I.R. Sends Relief.

The Workers International Relief
is on the job in the Illinois coal
strike. The first $4OO for the relief
of the striking miners has already
been sent to the strike area and
more will be dispatched as quickly
as contributions from workers and
sympathizers throughout the country
are received, the W.I.R. national Of
flee stated today.
Marcel Scherer left today for the
Illinois fields to take charge of relief
activities for the W.I.R. Relief sta
tions are now being established in
the most important sections of the
strike area and under Scherers di-
rection distribution of food, clothing
and other necessities will be coor-
dinated.
Though we have sent all our
available funds for the relief Of the
striking Illinois miners" Ludwig
Landy, executive secretary of the
W.I.R. declared, at is only the pro.
verbal drop in the bucket. Thou,
sands of dollars are needed at once
to keep these striking workers, their
wives and children alive and fight
ing. The workers of this country
who look to the Illinois strike as
blazing way in the struggles of the
entire working class must not let
the miners be starved into submis-
sion. New York City has arranged
TAX Days for this Saturday and
Sunday. In every city similar Tag
Days must be arranged. Organiza-
tions are asked to hold affairs for
miners relief and every individual
worker must send all he can in
money and food Immediately to the
Workers International Relief, GAG
Broadway, room 512."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

the Protection of the right to work"
is to make serious struggles for
wage increases impossible.
The same newspaper then declares
that there is no possibility of any
reduction of taxation, but instead
there must be a certain reduction
of social burdens and economies in
the administrative apparatus"
T@ken in conjunction with the open
threat of the deputies of the Land
Bund to cut the unemployment sup
port the meaning of reduction of
social burdens" becomes clear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
by a Worker Correspond3ntJ

(By q WORKER correspondent
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. by MaiD.-
A mass meeting was called by the
National Miners Union here to
mobilize for the general strike.
The same day the U.M.W.A. locals
called special meetings to try and
draw the crowd away from our meet
ing and make it flop.
What happened? Instead of an
empty hall for the mass meeting,
the hall was packed with all per-
sons standing. All the tricks that
the crooks employ weren't enough to
fool the miners. The miners here
realize that the N.M.U. is their
union and not the corrupt M.W.A.
When the speakers came into
town there were four thugs steady
at their heels and following them
wherever they went. Their inten-
tions were to beat them up, but be-
ing like all other lackeys of the
| bosses, they hadn't the nerve, be-
cause there were two speakers to-
gether.
/ When the speakers were through
and asked if there were any ques-
tons, a few planted stool pigeons
asked some silly questions, such as
who are "We'-the speakers used
that word in their talks when men,
tioning anything about the miners
The stool pigeons also had the gall
to say the miners don't work hero
on the machines, and when this was
said the miners were ready to knock
hell out of them. These stool-pig-
cons and thugs came to bust the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Has Come to Stay,
Fight Miners Battles

meeting, but after seeing the spirit
of the miners, they laid down.
A bunch of thugs outside the hall
didn't have the nerve to attack our
speakers as they left the hall.
All this shows that around the
Midland track the bosses and takers
fear the National Miners Union and
will try their hardest to wipe out
the N.M.U., something which is i'm
possible as the N.M.U. has come to
stay and fight the miners battles,
as they are doing now in the big
Illinois strike.=K.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Send Greetings to the Workers
in the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing of The Daily
Worker in the Russian language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Send Greetings to the Workers
in the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing of The Daily
Worker in the Russian Language!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Send Greetings to the Workers
In the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing of The Daily
Worker in the Russian Language!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Send Greetings to the Workers
in the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing of The Daily
Worker in the Russian Language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
EXPOSING A STRENGTHENING
AGENCY IN NEW YORK.

IBy q " 0THeT COTTeSpONueHyJ
The piece from out of capital
list paper is from a strike-breaking
firm which is in the New York Gen.
trail building, 42nd st. at Madison
Ave, New York City. They hire
secret operators for all lines to get
information against the workers.
They go under the name of National
Metal Trades Co. on the second
floor. Here's the strikebreaking
ad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
DIE SINKERS

experienced on cutting sterling
silver flatware dies; steady, good
wages; state age, experience,
former employers.
"A toolmaker out of work but
don't want that kind of a job.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-07-05

%plucked. A matron of glib phrases
Poor Vail" she exclaimed vol
ubly. we actually DROVE her
out this evening. To Googin's-
such a jolly place. Mr.. Ramsey
had a beastly headache. We were
all going, but the very last min
ute
An expression of conventional
concern succeeded Mrs. Ramsey's
fixed smile. "Nothing's wrong at
home, I hope?7
Sybil chuckled maliciously. "Oh.
no-we're just giving Val a little
surprise party. She will be SUR
PRlSED, won't she, Mrs. Ramsey?
OF course you'll phone and have
her PACED. But Wen drive fast
and perhaps we'll get there first"
Mrs. Ramsey elevated her
tweaked brows. Flushed apoplec-
tically. But Sybil had flown.
"A little speed, Jackl Step on
Through the frosty night they
drove like mad.
Its like the movies" giggled
smuggling warmly against
husbands shoulder. "Sib, the
.'irtuous sister, starring. Vals the
ngenue lead, and you're the hero.
'ackie, %rescuing the innocent in !
.enue from the william at Goog-
MS"
Presently they were th t
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-07-05

Valerie, you see, has such
flair for the dramatic. 1t woul,
really be a shame to spoil her act
l believe, if you don't mind. II
wire her congratulations, and tel
her to run right along"
Dolly collapsed on the umbrella
stand.
well, of all the hardboiled wo.
men!" She turned appealingly to
Mabel. Did you ever hear of
such a thing in all your life?"
Mabel was blandly Indifferent.
Il don't know. What's it all
about?"
Mrs. Weston shrugged. They
were too much for her-Valerie's
enigmatic sister-in-law and this
blase social worker.
You're perfect idiotsl" she told
them shrilly.
With infuriating calm Mabel
patted her on the back.
Don't get excited, Mrs. Wes-
ton" she admonished, in her best
professional manner. whats the
dirt, Sib?"
"Oh, Val has found herself a
lover. And she's written Dolly
that she is going to elope with
him"
And l come and tell you, be-
cause l thing l OUGHT-and you
treat me like a burglari"
Historically Dolly turned on
them. "As Valerie's best friend
come to you-to ask you to save
her from herself. You-her hus-
bands sister! You ."
DOlly's emotional vocabulary
was inadequate.
Haven't YOU any hearth" she
demanded. Haven't you any G
If you don't care about !
Valerie, think of Tad"
Il am" interrupted Sybil dryly. r
think of your mother! And i
he newspapers! And the SCAN
DALI" -,
you could knock me over with r
/ feather. I'm simply stricken.
II never get over it. Poor VAL c
he's in with a fast crowd. That 6
ang from New Haven. You knew a
!. Everybody does. It's Tad's h
ault, anyway. What can a man a.
xpect when he doesn't pay any
ttention to a girl? You know k
it is, yourself" r
X = X -,
She vas co%nciliatory now. h,
Il always say we women ought
!, stick together. You may be h.
ore with Val, and all that. But W
can't let her do this, Sib. If W
he and Tad can't hit it off, let de
get a divorce. There's moth n
e wrong about that. But if Val f.
opes with this man, she might W,
well cut off her right hand.
Il know Val. She's a great lit nj
2 excitement eater, but she 9