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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
ARGENTINA AND THE WAR
DANGER

Hoover also made his trip in 1928 on a
battleship.
These little trips involve some figures. The
figures involve the sharpening struggles of
the imperiast bandits for a greater share of
the shrinking markets. L. s. imperialism has
lost S300000000 of Canadian trade to Great
Britain. 1t lost SS0,000O00 in trade to the
same competitor in Argentinian trade, after
the D'Abernon Commission visited Argentina,
Brazil, Chile and Uruguay
Announcing the proposed visit of the Prince
of Wales to Buenos Aires in March, 1881, a
cable from that city to the New York Times
said:
That Britain is making strong efforts TO
regain the leading position in trade with
Argentina appears TO be demonstrated by
the announcement of a return visit of the
Prince of Wales TO this country in connec-
ton with the holding of the empire trade
exhibition here next spring.
In fact, the British government trebled its
original contribution to this empire trade eX-
hibition planned for Buenos Aires. The Iri-
gOyen government of Argentina favored Bril-
fish imperialism. 1t took lot of coaXing to
get Irigoyen even to speak to Hoover over
the transcontinenta telephone system when it
was completed. But lrgoyen exuberantly an
nounced that he was extremely happy over
the prospective visit of His Royal Highness, a
of the previous tour"
realignment of forces in Argentina sup
porting the various imperialst contenders was.
brought about by the passage of the Hawey-
.Smoot tariff in the U. s., and the proposal
for British Empire free trade in Great Bri-
tain. A section of the Argentine bourgeois
supporting American imperialism expressed
their hostility with the Dew tariff. More dis
satisfaction was evinced over the British
i
low their agrarian products to enter Great
Britain as against Argentinian goods.
So this battle for the Argentine markets
becomes sharper every day. American trade,
up to 1880, growing by leaps and bounds
in Argentina. While British trade with Ar
gentina had increased 1896 per cent between
1913-1927, in the same period American trade
had increased 1875 per cent. Even during
1928, o. H. Hopkins, acting director of the
bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, ad-
mitted that THE active attempts of our Euro
pean competitors foremost Great Britain
H. g. to obtain a greater share TO the mar
ket were particularly noticeable during the
year"
What must be these "active attempts" now
with % per cent drop in U. S. foreign trade
and paralyzing crisis at home in all basic
industries?
His Royal Highness visit signifies an i'm
petus to these "active attempts" and the So
cial-fascist Ramsay Macdonald is not an I'M
important with his tremendous war prep
aratious.
An armed struggle is impending throughout
Latin America between the two leading i'm
berialist powers. The struggle for markets in
Argentina has already reached the stage of
open hostilities. The imperiaists cannot hide
the, harsher antagonsms which lead them to
The struggle for trade is very rapidly
entering the stage of a gigantic armed con-
flict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
BY JAMES BARNETT.

| EFT the worker of the United States draw
- deep breath of factory smoke, throw out
his chest to see how it feels to rest the kinks
in his back, look up at the belts and drive
shafts, and think of his blessed freedom" Let
the believing foreman roar. Father Vol wants
you to be happier about the joys of working
under capitalism.
You know the blessings all right, but why
not look 'em over once in while and find a
few new ones? You know capitalist rational
ization which you call the "speed-up," provides
all manner of belts and conveyors to give you
the biggest speed ride you've ever taken. Many
simply collapse from the thrill of it. You
produce over one-haf more than you used to.
Then you are free to work longer hours for
less pay that is if you have job, otherwise
you can take a longe vacation on an empty
stomach
An Eye Out Free.
Also think of the many nice ways the bosses
provide for little injury now and then:
eye taken out free of charge, leg cut off.
Or if you like little bath in boiling steel, or
a brush down with several tons of metal.
$4,000 killed every year.
:. The bosses have provided so many more
severe accidents for you that they are begin
ming to kick a little at the expense But in
spite of this they still increasing the sup
ply. About 100000 non-fatal accidents per
year are now furnished.
And you know how free you are to move
to California, Florida, if you don't like Chicago.
But these just reminders. you can think
of many more.
T. ...ies that you may know the great pri
vileges of your life Father Vol wants you to
contemplate what "slaves" the Soviet workers
are Just look upon these Reds and be happy
IN your own position
Think how hard it must be for these work.
ers to get along without capitalist bosses to
run their industries and take care of all the
profits. And these Soviet industries are grow.
ing nine times faster than the United States
industries. How do they do it?
Getting Along Without Wage Cuts.
How hard it must be to get along without
WAGE cuts. Instead the workers are burdened
wiSh an increase in real wages of 80 per cent
above pre-war, and if the other social benefits
such as free medical attention. rest homes
Santana, excursion trips, etc. are counted the
real wages are 81 per cent above. In addition
to this. during the Five-Y ear>Plan from 1928
To. 1870, laborers are TO get an increase of 70.5
per cent in real wages. terrible burden
FOR each dollar they now get they will have
~ cents more to spend. That would surely
worry the workers in the u. S. who's are even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
Anthracite Miners Revolt
Against New Agreement
By PETER THOMAS.

THE new se-out agreement signed between
the Anthracite coal operators and the fas-
cists of the Lewis, Kennedy and Boylan ma
chine of the U.M.W.A., enslaves the Anthra-
cite miners for a period of five years and
seven months. This agreement compels the min
ers under the clause "of an improved carload
of coal'' to produce much more then ever be-
fore, without any guarantee of additional pay.
The operators are free to introduce all kinds
of efficiency systems which in practice will
mean more jobless miners and more murder
Gus speed-up with less wages for those who
remain at work. The operators in return
agreed to give the 'check Off to the Lewis
gang.
The hard coal miners throughout the Anthra-
cite region are revolving against this new
outrageous agreement. Even during the
LITIGATION convention in Scranton, in spite of
all the fake methods and intimidations that
the Lewis machine used to prevent any oppo-
sition, over 200 delegates fought bitterly
against the new fake agreement. When the
agreement put to vote 129 delegates
voted against it. These 129 delegates were
the only real representatives of the sentiment
of the great ma jorty of the hard coal miners.
Many U.M.W.A. locals throughout the Anth-
racite are voting against the entire agreement.
At the Meade local meeting the takers with
the help of gangsters adjourned the meeting
in spite of the vigorous protests of the miners
before the vote was taken because of the big
opposition against the agreement. At the Oily
plant local IS per cent of the miners voted
against it. The same opposition sentiment pre-
walls among the great majority of the miners
in the entire Anthracite.
Economic Crisis Hits Anthracite.
With the intensification of the economic
crisis of which the Anthracite is no exception
(some of the Anthracite Party members main
tain that there is no economic crisis in the
Anthracite) unemployment is steadily growing.
According to the Bureau of mines more than
10000 hard coal miners are permanently with
out work, besides the fact that at least 60
per cent of the miners are working only part
time 1.-TWO or three days week.. Production
of hard coal declined from 71,5l4.896 tons in
1927 to 65,51803l tons in 1929. On the other
hand we see that through the murderous speed
up that the miners are forced to work under,
the productivity per miner per year increased
from 419 tons in 1928 to 435 tons in 1929.
Under the new agreement the conditions of
the hard coal miners will become still worse.
Build Mine Committees for Struggle.
Because of this situaton--the worsening of
the conditions of the miners unemployment,
wage cuts, speed up AMI the new sel-out
agreement--the miners are becoming radical
lied. They are ready for struggle against the
coal operators and the Lewis machine. The
miners are Disguised with the U.M.W.A, they
are ready to deliver the final blow to that or
ganization which is controlled by gang of
agents of the coal operators But they need
leadership the slogan "Strike against wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
&2A<~.4
Labor" Lunacy-and Lies
By JORGE

WE Just picked up an A. +. of l.. paper--you
i" know the A. F. of L.! It's that organza-
ton run by Bill Green and Matte Woll Some
people think that the workers in it run it,
but that's bad mistake.
An organizations policy can be seen in its
papers So we introduce you to an ordinary
A. F. of l.. paper, "The Houston Labor Jour
NAL" The issue for labor takers Labor Day."
Splattered across the page is the editors
Labor Day Thoughts" in which he calls the
workers of Houston to g.. contemplate the
blessings of a land of liberty, education and
enlightenment"
No, he didn't say that that "land" was the
Soviet Union, but the United States Well,
that settles him.
We look all over the darn paper, but we can't
find out anything about the 100000 unem-
ployed. Guess they've been abolished! But
on the front page at the bottom there is nice
article on spirituaism. The writer of it don't
state his opinion just gables, and asks:
do people really live after they are dead?"
What a jackass! No. not that, either. Be-
cause he writes this kind of stuff to keep the
workers from becoming aware that they, the
workers, don't "really live" even when they're
alive!
Over to the right of this stuff is a Labor
Day Proclamation" by w. E. Monteith, Mayor
of Houston. He, just to be sure that people
out, starts out thus:
In our country, in no other, has the
splendid strength and stability of labor been
recognized. Enjoying wise leadership, under
beneficent laws with complete freedom for
individual advancement, labor has attained
in this country prestige and position hith-
erto unknown in history"
We pass! This guy can tell more lies to the
square inch than any we've met since god was
boy. The only thing correct in his proca-
nation is the punctuation.
Over on the left is an article dated from
Charlottesville, Va, giving the speech Of Don
aid r. Richberg, who is attorney for the IS
Railway Brotherhoods Qots of brothers in that
familyD, from which we select the following
gem 'of purest ray serene:
1--WE see on every hand laudable efforts to
render public service by great money makers
Which will do for fertilizer
1t will also do for the front page, so we flop
the thing over and see all across the back
page the following "streamer":
"Organized Labor Has the Good Will of
Houston Business Men"
"Good will" is nedible we recall, and good
wages is lots more negotiable when it comes
to paying rent or eyn buying hot dogs. SO
we wonder why the editor has put this hokum
in when our eyes chance to fall on the rest
of the page, which is covered with advertise
ments of these very same Houston business
men,"
Have you had enough? We thought sol
But amt the A. F. of l.. just grand?
Uh, huh! Grand larceny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
Pity the Poor "Slaves" of the
Soviet Union

being taught the refined and delicate art of
getting along without eating.
Then the Reds have been deprived Of the
joys of depression and hard times" Unem-
ployment is being eliminated, 40 per cent put
to work during the last six months.
While socialist naturalization is speeding
things up the productivity per worker is in
creasing over twice as fast it is in the U. S.
Soviet workers are being "short changed" on
working time. 1t is being rapidly reduced to
seven hours per day and the gloomy prospects
that by 1888 this will be cut to six, by
1943 to five hours per day. BY that time young
people under 20 and old people over so are not
to work for living, at all. They are to be
supported on the surplus production, something
has to be done with it, YOU know. They are not
above to dump food and stuff into the river
in the Soviet Union.
Overtime Privilege Denied.
Tougher still. there are rules against work.
ing overtime. How tan worker stand being
without his regular dose of overtime? Danger
trades have only six hours. But this is just
a clever device to keep accidents and sickness
away from the miners for instance.
AS if this were not sufficient Slavery" the
workers are given Is extra rest days per pear,
in addition they must take Is days vacation
with pay. The dangerous trades being dis
eliminated against, get month with pay.
This must be hell-uv-a- country.
Then there are all of the other schemes to
deprive aborers of acct Tents millions off dol
lars are spent every year along with strict
forcement of safety rules and devices. A person
must have to sneak off in room by himself,
if he wants to cut his little finger! And there
great laboratories studying fatigue, trying
to reduce it to the minimum.
Hedged With Insurance Schemes.
The tolers are hedged about with all sorts
of insurance schemes, unemployment. old age,
sickness and other forms of insurance. The
workers being taken care Of"
But the. picture is black enough, no more
need be said. Workers having to run indus
tries, getting more pay, shorter hours fewer
working days, more things to live on.
! have visite this strange country and
really never seen such spirit of freedom and
confidence among the workers. They must be
really good actors to hide their gloom for from
all appearances they are the freest and hap
piest bunch of workers in the world.
But Father VOL says they are Slaves"
Too bad! Too bad,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
On the Inner Lite OF Communist
Party Units
BY BUICK.

basis whereby we can draw in the majority of
our members into active participation in Party
work.
The new Party members who enter our units
must see and feel that membership in Com
munist Party is a serious matter.
Our Party machinery must work with clock
precision and Bolshevik efficiency on the basis
of political clarity and iron discipline of all
its members.
The non-Party workers who accept the lead
ership of the Party also expect and want to
see our Party work and lead in true Boil
shevik manner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
For a Frosty PulmOtOr

Ordinarily the weekly journal of the big
boys, "The Annast," cuts slashes out of Hoo
yer hump of optimistic hokum, and talks cold
turkey about just what's what in business
But the issue of September 5, while admitting
that
"On the basis of the current business rec
ords there is little present encouragement
for expectations any larger scale (than
the present business slump)"
goes on to say, with all the stupidity of Henry
Ford, that
perhaps few sharp, frosty days would
be good thing for business and the business
mans psychology"
Really, this is as rotten as Haywood Broun
who thought that when the smiling days Of
June came around, Hoovers promised "pros-
perity' would go up with the thermometer
Last winter the whole tribe of hokum ped
dlers had it: "Things are bad now, but Just
wait till spring" Spring came but brought
the reverse of prosperity. During the long
hot summer the thermometer rose but the num-
Der of unemployed rose with it.
Then somebody got the bright idea that
'tree sitting" might help. So they went out
with the squirrels and roasted in the branches,
awaiting business revival"
But it revived only in the newspapers, which
have been doing their damnedest to make
everybody believe that things simply had to
improve when September / came and vacations
were over.
Some of the stree sitters" are up there yet,
and haven't heard the news that "Texas"
Guinan has joined Haywood Broun's Socialist"
campaign committee and everybody has opened
new bottle of gin. Alas, now the "Annalst"
wants "a few sharp frosty days" to bring the
tree sitters" down and the business mans
lost psychology" back home
So as long we don't run out of Springs
and Autumns, you can believe what you see in
the capitalist papers about how business is just
on the point of picking up.
Whenever some smart aleck tries to kid you,
though, about that revolution just round the
corner" tell him to think how many times
business has picked up--and gone to the Soviet
Union.
why" asks bewildered reader of the ~
Y. Telegram, "does the city pay 200 to 800
per cent more for property it buys for parks,
than the property is WORTH" He should have
read on another page where it is told lin
way to hide it, that BROOKLYN Tammany
leader, John H. McCooey, was interested" in
property the city bought for school, It was
assessed at $55,400 and the city paid $780,
604.81 for it. Why the 81 cents only Tam
many knows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09

cuts and the new sel-out agreement" is a
practical slogan and can be realized provide
that our Party and the Nine Oil and Smelter
Workers Industrial Union start Immediately
real organization campaign throughout the
Anthracite. The organization Of mine commit
tees is the most urgent task.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09

Demand the release of Foster. Minor. .Amter.
and Raymond. in prison fcs fighting for I'M
employ ment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09

The Daily Worker is the Partys best in
s'rument to make contacts among the masses
OF workers. to build a mass Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09

Tammany grafters go free-the Unemployed
Delegation is in prisOn-Vote Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09

Write as you fight! Become a worker
correspondent.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

closely guarded, a tensely dramatic situation developed. Hundreds of con- victs, toilers in the tailor shop and shoe factory, streamed down the stair way of the building that houses the death chamber and gallows. MeXicans, whites, negroes-thieves, robbers and cutthroats-swarmed past in silence, each with sullen, sidelong glance at Reyes. The guards drew him aside un- til the parade of convicts had passed,
 When Reyes entered prison he was philosophical and resigned, although protesting his innocence.
 q have no right to be here, but here am," he said. Thirteen months of fighting in the courts is enough. I will make no attempt to appeal to the United States Court. am flat broke. and besides could appeal only on a
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
By EDWARD BOYDEN.

<<TT'S a long lane -" Hundreds
 of convicts in San Quentin,
 muttered the old saw when Asa Reyes, veteran district attorney of California, was locked up as one of them recently.
 Asa Reyes. convict! shorn of his hair by a man he had sent there; shorn of his name by the State he had betrayed; photographed by a convict he had prosecuted, Reyes finds him self just another figure in gray among 4,943 other felons.
 And yet how different. In his twenty-five years in the Los Angeles prosecutors office-twenty as deputy district attorney and five as district attorney-Keyes had sent over 5000 other men and women through the same prison gates that finally opened before and closed behind him.
 Something like 2,000 of them are there now-Noman Selby, the one- time Kid Mccoy, famous pugilist, who slaughtered Theresa Mors; Clara Phillips, who pounded Alberta Mead ows to death with a hammer; Mrs. Myrtle Mellus, Beverly Hills society matron; Gordon Stewart Northcott, young master of murder farm" in Southern California, and his old mother, Mrs. Louise Northcott; Mrs. Margaret Miller, sensational trunk murderess; James P. ("Bluebeard') Watson, serving life term for the wholesale murder of his series of wives; McNamara, whose alleged bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building 20 years ago cost 25 lives, and innumerable less famous but equally dangerous criminals.
 The window of Reyes prison "of- flee" looks out on the recreation yard, where most of the murderers, kid napers, embezzlers and former city and county officials, whom he as an aggressive prosecutor sent there, take their daily exercise.
 Many and frequent are the black looks of hate that go up to the little barred window shielding Reyes from
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

WoIHIng on new wing nearby, booed ana ragged him sarcastically and hissed at him out of the corners of thelr mouths. And through his own prlvate sources of information, Warden holohan had heard of mutterings and bitter threats.
 In the photograph room in the flnger-print epartment-in the bar Der shop-everywhere he was taken, were convlcts from Los Angeles County-men who remembered Reyes, men Reyes remembered.
 Sure Reyes sent me up," the as- sistant prison photographer said, 'but l never thought would have the pleasure of sitting him down in that chair and mugging him."
 As the former district attorney walked towards the barber shop,
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12
Why Convict keves Is Most Dctested

ONE of prisoners in Quen " ad
 hope of of the in the ophes demanding vuazng ndeed that weigh he challenges
 
 he frequently when in of knd-larceny. while ke sending he wass stealing Sl00 000!"
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

gOV UaV 0Ic-As, ClVy CNN C0NsUle themselves with the fact that none of them received worse treatment than l."
 There are plenty of guys who would fix Reyes, if they got the chance" one convict snarled. He wouldn't last five minutes out there !n the yard"
 That is why No. 4S2lS is isolated denied even the company of felons Too many of the boys" are laying fol him.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-12

view. Any number of these imprisoned men would gladly pay with his life, for the privilege of two minutes alone with the stern man who sent him there.
 But Warden Holohan is careful. He keeps his most hated prisoner safely cooped up in the "Old Mems Ward" a separate building, we'll removed from the cell blocks and directly over the office of the recreation yard captain.
 Tt would be terrible thing" says the Warden, If some half-crazed, resentful prisoner should take venge- ance on this man."
 So Reyes finds himself a lonely and hunted pariah in the Big House." which he so largely populated Not that he is the only prominent eX-of- ficial confined within San Quentin's walls.
 If permitted, No. 4S21S might hold a complete mock court" The judge, policemen and deputy sheriffs could all be chosen from among the inmates. There are enough men of culture and education confined there for "blue ribbon" jury. Finding experienced de- fendants would, of course, be easiest of all
 Among the prisoners now in Cali fornia's Big House" are no less than six former public officials from Los Angeles alone; Charming Follete, for mer municipal court judge, is serving time for perjury and attempted brib- cry of a district attorneys inves- tigator; Deputy Sheriffs Walter Lipps and William J. Anderson are there for accepting a S10,000 bride, and three other prisoners are ex-policemen found guilty of manslaughter.
 These men, but not Reyes, are al- lowed to mix with the other prisoners during the daily exercise hour.
 q would like to let Reyes mingle with the prisoners but don't dare" says Warden Hoohan, "Too many have knives improvised from scissors they steal from the tailor shop or from files taken from the jute mill. It is impossible to keep these weapons out of the possession of the more than