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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
WRIGHT SIKORSKY
Bull DING PLANES
FOR COMING War
Stool Pigeons w a tic h
Workers
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
I am a worker in the Wright
Sikorsky aeroplane manufacturing
plant in Long Island City. The con-
ditions for the workers there are
terrible, as we are speeded up to
the limit.
The days wages are s4.20 for nine
and holf hours of slavery. Several
thousand workers slave in this plant,
which is busy turning out planes
for use against the workers in the
coming war.
Stool-Pigeons Watch.
On Aug. l, International Rcd Day,
I was one Of the many workers at
the Wright-Sikorsky plant who were
forced, involuntarily to work. For,
in the Wright-Sikorsky factory, if
any one is suspected of being in
sympathy with the left wing labor
movement, either his wages are cut,
or he is given harder work to do at
the same wages or less, or he is
discharged outright.
They have stool-pigeons circulat-
ng among the workers to listen care
fully for any signs of grumbling on
the part Of any of the workers. The
slightest complaint, and it somehow
gets to the officials who fire the
worker complaining about the hard
slavery. The workers here are, of
course, entirely unorganized.
Thoughts With Demonstrators.
l and many other men here felt
very badly on Aug. 1 because we
could not come out and join in the
demonstration of the class conscious
workers in New York. But my
thoughts were with the workers who
marched under the red flag to pro-
test against the imperialist war
plans, which are only too evident to
us workers at such plants as the
Wright Sikorsky.
Our sympathy, while shaving on
that day, was entirely with the dem
onstrating workers led by the Com
munist Party.
While l was thus forced to remain
at work on International Red Day
l consider it as my duty to at least
show my solidarity with the demon
strators of that day by donating my
DAVIS wages for Aug. 1-S4 90 for
nine and a half hours labor, to the
workers press-the Communist press
l mean. l also appeal to other class
conscious workers who, like me, were
compelled by the bosses to work on
Aug. I, to follow my example and
donate days wages for the work.
ers.
AEROPLANE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Porto Rlcan Workers, Your
Party Is the Communist

This is the conclusion of the
series of letters from a Porto
Rican worker telling of the con-
ditions of the workers on that
island.
The Porto Rican workers are turn
ing to the Communist Party.
They are beginning to feel that
the fight is not only struggle be-
tween the bosses and the workers
but also a struggle between the
working class and the capitalist
class as a whole.
1t is fight between the oppres-
sors and the oppressed. The same
bosses that exploit the Porto Rican
workers also exploit the workers of
the rest of Latin-America and those
in the U. s. A. Hence, the fights
take on an international character
between the working class and the
capitalist class.
To fight more effectively against
this cruel and ruthless system of
imperialist exploitation, they must
realize that the bottom of the evil,
better say the root, is che capitalist
system, which must be done away
with.
The capitalist system is a system
of society based on the exploitation
of man by man. The capitalist sys-
tenn that breeds slavery, racial pre-
judice--Jim- Crowism and segrega-
ton, lynching, economic expkita-
ton and inequality and lastly the
most dreaded thing of all, i'm
perialism and its ultimate conse-
quences, imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
new SLASH IN
WAGES in AKRON
RUBBER PLANTS
Firestone, Goodyear
Slaves Victims
(By Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
AKRON, o. (By MaiD. - The
large unemployed army that now
haunts the rubber shops in Akron
is having it's effect upon wages.
The slaves in the shops are being
told to "step on the gas" or get
out. Some who have worked for
years in the shops are experiencing
the worst driving they ever saw.
Some of them have aches and pains
all over and their hands swell up
from handling molds in the pit or
in other departments.
The latest is that the machinists
at Firestone engraving molds have
now been put on piece work. One
man was given repair job to
cut and worked all day on it to
earn eighty cents. He kicked to the
boss but was plainly told that it
was piece work from now on. Good
rich also have their machinists on
engraving piece work as well as the
bench men. Goodyear started this
and now they are all doing it. Good
year recently laid off about 5000
men in all departments.
Tire builders in all the shops have
been cut during the past few weeks
from fifteen to forty per cent on
their piece work rates. Those who
cannot speed up to make their day
rate on piece work are fired or
quit. There is lots of kicking, but
they have no union to help them
fight the boss.
The Communist Party of Akron
held a successful mass meeting on
August l at Grace Park. The speak
ers spoke of the war danger and
pointed out that the speed up and
wage cuts in the shops was one of
the means the bosses took to pre-
pare for war. They want the work
ers to submit to them, work like
hell, and get starvation wages, or
starve quicker on the outside.
The Communist Party and Youth
League will also give a picnic at
Young's Hotel on Manchester Road
on Sunday, August %. The mill
tants in Akron are now taking steps
to organize the workers and will
send delegates to the Trade Union
Unity Convention at Cleveland on
August 81.
RUBBER WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Rex Mil Bosses Control the
Schools, Dog Workers Around

children better or else they will not
let them in school.
Union Wakes Workers Up.
But they do not pay enough money
so that we can fix our children up
right, let alone have enough to eat
and live on. They, the bosses, got
so bad that they tried to make US
do whatever they wanted us to, or
dered us around like dogs. But since
the workers have had a chance to
join the National Textile Workers
Union, the bosses are finding that
they can't drive US around any more.
Dog Workers Around.
When the workers get cut of the
mills on Saturday at noon, why we
have a sheriff following US until
Monday at six in the morning, ard
if they catch a worker doing any
thing they call wrong" they chain
gang him almost without a trial.
Now a worker charged with any
thing in this county has hardly what
you call trial.
Why, the officers of CASTOR
County go to the mill owners every
morning to find out what the bosses
want them to do. That shows the
law is controlled by the bosses,
doesn't it?
We have been blackjacked and
beaten up here, but we will stick by
the National Textile Workers Union.
MILL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

The Porto Rican workers and
farmers by no means are alone in
this fight for economic and social
emancipation, they have as allies
hundreds of thousands of organized
ass-conscious workers right here
in the mecca of world imperialism.
These militant workers are being
led by the revolutionary Party of
the class struggle, the Communist
Party of the United States of
America, the vanguard of the revo-
lutionary workingclass and the
political leader of the masses. The
Communist Party of the U. S. A.
not only fights for workers and
farmers government in this country
but also for the complete and abso-
lutte independence for Porto Rican
and all the other colonies and semi
colonies under the clutches of Ameri-
can imperialism.
Porto Rican workers and farmers,
organize revolutionary units and
prepare for the class struggles
ahead! Plant the seeds for the COM
ing and inevitable social revolution!
Porto Rican workers in the
United States, join the Party of
white and Negro workers, the Com
munist Party.
Vote for that Party, your Party,
on election day.
Long live the solidarity of the
workers in the U. S. A. and the
workers and farmers of Porto Rico.
Forward to a Porto Rican Soviet
Government and Soviet Union of
the United States of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
MILLIONS FOR !
FIRESTONE-zERO
FOR HIS SLAVES
Wage Cuts, Speedily
In Akron $ aa&s@%ai
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent ~!
AKRON, o. (By MaiD. - Tire
builders on so trucks were re-
Gently cut from 60 to Al cents and
now have to build 18 instead of ID
tires to make out Another five
tires stolen to add to Firestone's
millions. All the new plants in
other parts of the world, the hun
bred million invested in Liberia to
enslave its people growing rubber,
and now the half million battery
plant in Akron, have all come from
our sweat and blood. From 1920
to 1924 Firestone paid off forty
four million dollars debts, and ever
since profits have gone up and
wages down and down. We are
forced to work eight and half
hours at top speed for SIS, Sc, and
S7.40, while the boss and the chief
inspector hollers more production
and better work. If you have one
bad tire it means three days lay
off, and if you don't make out you
are fired.
Labor Saving Means More Profits.
Labor power inspectors watch to
see where a slave can be ''freed"
and his wages saved to the company.
1t also means more speed-up for
the rest of US. They lately cut
down stockmen, one machine repair
man instead of two, and three wo-
men now do the work of four sweep
ing the tire room floor. We tire
builders have to lose time and wait
our turn. Then help repair or
change our machines just to save
mans wages for the company. But
the bosses don't care, as long as
their profits are increased.
Fight for Shay Week, 7-Hr. Day.
Long hours and speed-up is the
rule now in every factory. Fore
men and inspectors raise hell if we
quit a minute before lunch to wash
up. Firestone owns both men and
machines, every minute for produc-
ton and profits. We work harder,
faster, but we can't make out more
than SIS or Sc. Other shops are
just as bad, so it's no use to quit.
In Soviet Russia where the work.
ers own the factories and control
the government they work the seven
hour day for higher wages than
ever before.
Organization Only Way Out.
In order to improve conditions we
must organize and fight for it.
Fight against speed-up and wage
cutting.
Organize your shop committee
now. The first step towards a I'M
ion, and fight for the 5-day week,
7-hour day.
TIRE BUILDER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

Russian war-wife. In the support
ing cast are Karl Kurnyak and Ian
Zhukov.
"Her Way of Love-" which is now
enjoying an extended engagement
in Berlin, was directed by Alexander
Strishak and Dimitri Poznanski.
On the same program the Film
Guild is presenting Poe's "The Tell
Tale Heart" directed by Charles F.
Klein and featuring Otto Mathiesen,
of "The Last Moment" and Charlie
Chaplin in his comedy antique, "A
Night at Show"
The Film Guild Cinema will pre-
sent the American premiere OF
"Richtofen, the Red knight of Ger
many" German film, commencing
Saturday, Aug. 81.
Wrath Of the Seas" showing for
the first time in America at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Workers to Leave for
U.S.S.R. Tour Oct. %;
W.I.R. Arranges Trip

The first group of worker tour
lists to leave for the U. S. S. R. to
participate in the 18th anniversary
celebrations of the Bolshevik Rev.
olution, will depart on the Aquitania
from New York, Oct. %. Places on
the grand stand in the historic
Red Square of Moscow will be re-
served for all members of the group.
They will reach their destination. in
time for the anniversary day, Nov.
6.
1t is only because of the special
arrangements made by the Workers
International Relief for cost price
rates that these workers are able
to make the trip. A similar tour
has been arranged by the w. l. R.
for May First IN the coming year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

ish and German Governments CO.
operated toward this end with the
producers.
Upon the screen also, are several
short subjects. There is a Gordon
Bostock talking comedy, Beach
Babies" And an audible Aesop's
Fables as well as Pathe's synchron-
lied news-reel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
ROBBERY IN ARSENAL
Workers Are Cheated in Iona Island

some time. Now that the work is
at last under way, these vultures
are charging common labor five dol
lars for government job and five
dollars for transportation to Iona
Island all the way from Philadel-
phia.
Then besides, the Globe Commits
sary is charging the workers ten
dollars week for the board.
1t is a very rare thing for
worker to be able to hold a position
on this job for more than ten days
or two weeks until they are fired
out and another shipment is brought
in.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Build New Highway
To Strengthen Panama
Canal; Prepare for War

BALBOA, c. T., Aug. Coon
structon work on a highway across
the lsthmus from Panama to Colon
will be started during the next dry
season, unofficial reports said today.
1t is part of the Strengthening of the
canal in preparation for war.
The proposed highway will follow
Canal Zone roads from Panama to
Alhajuela and the Government of
Panama will add the 25 mile strip
to Colon along the lines of recently
completed survey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

torney's office said they had found
shortage of $4,000 in Beyers's
accounts and that the sum may run
as high as 100000.
Beyers's method, according to the
clients, was to approach them with
a proposition to have their taxes re-
duced by hiring lawyers and going
to court. Meanwhile, the clients
said, they advanced various sums
to apply on their tax bills while the
litigation was being prepared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
INDUSTRY GETS
POVERTY HIT
MARRIED WOMEN
Seven Day Week. in
Neislon Plant
by q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail).-The
work in the canneries on the Pacific
Coast is hard to learn and is hard
to work. The hands of the workers
are stained and from holding the
knife the fingers blister and the
workers palms get raw.
The fruit acid eats into these sores
which make them very painful. Many
a time slips of the knives cut the
hands very severely. But we must
stand it because we must try to
make living.
Many a time we workers in the
Nelson Canning plant are forced to
work overtime, as the work is sea-
sonaI and the law in California al
lows such exceptions to the women
workers in this industry.
Seven Day Week.
eve work seven days week, at
eight hours standard daily. There
fore, with overtime, we often work
8 sixty-hour week. The average
wages paid are about $50 to $22
a week for this work.
Women working in the canneries
are usually those who are hard up,
who cannot make ends meet at home,
those whose husbands are out of
work or those who have many chill
dren and cannot make ends meet
on their husbands pay. Then there
are many young girls-yes, more
than half of the force is composed
of young girls.
A Nursery"
Because even women with small
children are forced by their poverty
to work there, there is a nursery
for the children, if it can be called
that. The Board of Health, if it
were or the job, should say some
thing about this. There is an old
couch in the fenced in part where
the children are so crowded that they
are forced to lie on top OF each
other. 1t is a filthy and dirty place.
Many women, rather than leave
their children there leave them in
care of older children at home. Many
women workers wean their children
at a few months of age and pay
fifty cents a day to some women
who stay home to care for them; the
women who have the children can
thus come to work.
Children Care for Babies.
At noon hour one can see many
little tots carrying babies in their
arms coming with lunch to sec the
mothers. Noon lunch period consists
of only a half hour and these
mothers cuddle the babies, scarcely
touching the lunches. No proper
places for eating are made. Many
women workers sit by the roadside
on the dried-up grass in the sun and
dust to eat.
ANNE ALDEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
"a "A us E M ENTG>

MONTREAL, Que, Aug. %. =
Here to strengthen the loosening
ties between Canada and the Brit
ish Empire, J. H. Thomas, Lord
Privy Seal in the British labor gov
eminent, pleaded today for more
Canadian buying from Great Brit
ain in preference to the United
States. He hopes thus to counter
balance United States penetration
which is causing international fric-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Chicago Tax Racket
Nets It's Originator
A Cool Half Million

CHICAGO, Aug. %. - tax
racket which may have Melted as
much as 100000 for its originator,
was under investigation today after
two warrants had been issued for
David D. Beyers, real estate agent
and tax adjusted, by clients who
said they paid Beyers to have their
taxes reduced.
Investigators for the states at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

The Film Guild Cinema will con-
tinue "Her Way of Love-" the Sow
kino film, for a second week, COM
mencing this Saturday.
This latest production of the
Soviet studios, which features the
star Russian actress, Emma Zes-
sarskaya, depicts the tragedy of a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
Her Wav OF Lone" to Run
Second Week at Film Guild

Cameo Theatre a second week is
subtitled "The Battle of Jutland."
Nils Asther heads the continental
cast portraying the roles-many OF
them based upon actual characters
Just as the re-enactment of the fight
ing is an attempt at historical fidel-
ity and authenticity. Both the Brit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
GREET DICTIONARIES

ROME, Aug. 23.-Thirty Ameri-
can legionnaires led by Commander
Paul V. MacNutt, were the guests
of fascist officials here tonight,
starting several days of lavish en-
tertainment. The legionnaires are
en- route to the Fidac convention at
Belgrade, Sept. /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
POSTPONES FLIGHT

PARIS, Aug. ga defect in his
wireless apparatus caused Dieudonne
Coste, French flier, to postpone
tentatively today his projected flight
across the Atlantic to New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y q w OTher CorTeSp0ndent)
HAVERSTRAW, N. Y. (By MaiD.
Visit Iona Island, the government
ammunition plant, and you will be
able to see how contracting con-
Germ of Pittsburgh, Pa, and the
Globe Commissary Co., which fur
nishes the board to the workers, are
exploiting the workers on the job.
The Globe Commissary Co. is a con-
Germ from Philadelphia.
The fund that was supposed to
have been appropriated for the i'm
provement at that place, was appro-
priated allegedly with the intention
OF relieving the unemployment sit
uation that has existed there for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24
FIGHT FOR MEERUT RELEASE

MANCHESTER, England (By|
MaiD.-A mass protest meeting de-
handing the immediate release of
the 81 Meerut prisoners was held in
Stevenson Square. Helen Crawford
was chief speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-24

The working class cannot simply
iny hold OF the ready.made state
machinery, and WELD IL for its own
purpose. This ser Commune (Paris
COmmune) breaks the nodern state
poWery-Mayx.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
Wheat Scars, Breaks
High-P Price Records
As Damage Reported

CHICAGO. July 13-Pl-Shoot-
fnp skvward 5 T-3c 2 bushel. wheat
today went whizzing bevond All pre-
vinrls high-price records this sea-
san. IT WIS declared bv leading
CROP authorities that BROUGHT dam
Q to North American sprin0 heat
had become irreparable. and that
rains from now on would he of no
nractical benefit. Trading opera
tions were on an immense scale
with the market A. 2 fevarish pitch
esneciaIlv m final dealinrS.
Wheat closed exoited OF the top
most figures reached. : Ia ~ ;
TIC above yesterdays finish. Con
closed 2-8c IN lie I'D. oets 5-8c 70
7-8c advanced. and nrovislons I'M
changed to a rise ~ 1oc.
An outstanding feature from ne
nY,+set IN wheat was General notice
III ~ e+a+e~an+s that +ha world
wheat s,1nnlv rituotion &c rot unl'Dn
that of 1o9A-9S. WHOM wHoot soare"
FL ebova 50 ? hushn1 in Chicago. At
thet time. the chief SHORTAGE n
IRONS v-ae in Fl1roNa whereas tho
h;o deficit q is in Canada ano
the United States.
AZ rompared With v'heat corr
was raIativelv weak o~f~~ n ho+
weather. cats. parallels the act'0~
- corr, hoth Grains edvenci-c h'1t
haino included to lag far hehirf
wheat
Provisions AVERAGED hirher.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14

who may get the call is that dainty
and promising miss, Nudge" Glad
man, a student at the University
Of Southern California and a player
who appears ready for her baptism
Of international fire. 1t is not i'm
probable that she will be called
upon to play the old singles match.
Miss Marjorie Morrill, of Dedham,
Mass, No. 6 in the national rank
ing, a notch ahead Of Miss Glad
man, is another likely candidate for
this assignment.
Miss Edith Cross of San Fran
cisco proved something Of a dis
appointment in European play, but
it is probable that she will be
teamed with Miss Wills in doubles
nevertheless. The two Helens, the
keeneSt Of rivals, have never been
gotten together as parners and that
feat probably will not be achieved
this time.
Considerable thought will be
used in picking the doubles teams
as it is in this department that the
British held the edge which en-
abled them to win last year. With
two teams in the finals at VIM
bledon, they appear to be fully as
strong in tandem play this season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
king TO HAVE
new OPERATION

LONDON, July 13.-(P-King
George must undergo. another OPP
Grafton Monday that an abscess in
the right side of his chest may be
drained, stated a bulletin issued to-
night at Buckingham palace and
signed by six physicians.
His majesty, who spent part Of
the afternoon in the grounds OF
Buckingham palace, was visited by
the Prince of Wales.
The Official bulletin follows:
THE general health of his majes-
ty the king has further improved.
The sinus in the right side of his
chest has ceased to give adequate
exit to, and therefore secure the
healing Of the small residual alb
scess with which it communicates.
ct will be necessary therefore for
this abscess tobe directly drained
and treated. Full consideration has
been given as to the best method
of ~effecting this purpose.
The operation is understood to be
a minor one.