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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
NoA.F. of Meeting in Cleveland
Unless Walters Strike Is Ended
Plan Seek Next Years Convention for Ohio City Aban
doned-Raroad BrOtherhOods Will Meet Elsewhere
il Walkout Continues-Trouble Costing Merchants
Big Sums.

Cleveland, O. (ILNS)-Cleveland,
a popular convention city, will lose
some large labor conventions if the
lockout of union walters, mattresses
and cooks employed by the large no.
tells is not speedily settled. Decision
by labor organizations not to meet
here will mean the loss of large sums
of money by Cleveland business
interests.
As result of the lockout, which
resulted in sympathetic strike of
musicians and operating engineers,
the Cleveland Federation of Labor
has abandoned its plan to seek the
next years convention of the Amer
lean Federation ofLabor Similar ac-
ton is contemplated by the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, whose
president, A. F. Whitney, has written
to all officers and representatives of
local lodges Of the organization ad-
vising them of the situation in Cleve-
land. After telling of the circum-
stances leading up to the strike and
lockout, which involves % of the
larger hotels, President Whitney
writes from the Brotherhood's head
quarters in Cleveland:
cleveland, it can be said, has here
tofore been recognized as popular
convention city. The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers has held its in
ternational conventions here for many
years past, and in 1925 and 1923 the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
held it's conventions here, for which
we paid out $1,300,052.S4. The Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen anc
Enginemen intended to hold its 1881
convention in Cleveland, but if this
lockout is not satisfactorily settled
within the near future | understand
from President Robertson that, with
out question they will go elsewhere
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

tions to the United States, where
soviet coal can undersell American
coal.
Canada to Call Halt on Red Coal
6-Soviet coal is entering Canada
at the rate of 100000 tons year, the
soviet contract calling for that
amount. However, the Canadian gov
ernment, under Premier Bennett, is
planning to put up an absolute bar
against soviet coal in the near future.
Trading authorities have sug-
gested the possibility that the So
viets, in playing the American wheat
and cotton markets, are playing both
ends of the game, so that no actual
cash viii leave soviet hands in the
settlement, thus making Americans
pay for their own misery.
S-The soviet program OF export
ing to the United States and under
selling on the one hand and of de-
pressing the market by selling short
on the other hand, is contributing to
American unemployment.
Promises that the wheat selling
situation will be investigated are not
regarded as pointing toward cure
for the soviet commercial war, be-
cause only one angle is being reach
ed The others remain untouched. 1t
is pointed out that while the secre-
tary of agriculture grows properly
excited over wheat, the treasury de-
partment has shown no such vigor in
dealing with the pulp wood and lum-
Der situations, which are equally
serious, if not more serious.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
Souiets Raid Cotton Market
as Well as Chicago Wheat Pit
ployment, at fair wages and unde,
good working conditions.
Long Workday to be Ended

good working conditions.
Long Workday to be Ended
In statement issued to employees
of the Bookbinders Trade Association
Inc, Alexander Schwartz, managing
director, said
Zone of our combined aims shall
be more even distribution of work
through the elimination of the prac-
tice which has grown in our industry,
of many shops, including the pro-
prietors, working as much as II to
16 hours day, including Saturdays
and Sundays, under miserable condi-
tions, and not eking out even a bare
living"
The employees are told that the as
sociation has agreed that all en-
ployes in the mechanical departments
of its members shall join the Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
and that the employers expect the
employees to enroll Immediately.
Signing of the agreement is looked
upon as a big step toward complete
unionization of the bookbinding trade
in New York city and Inauguration
of the 44-hour week
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

"The lodges of the B. of R. T. have
recently been expressing strong
sentiment toward holding our future
conventions in Cleveland, but they are
as yet not aware of this labor trouble
here, and unless the situation is
cleared up satisfactorily it will with
out doubt have very decided in
fuence upon our delegates as regards
Cleveland as a convention city in the
future. The delegates will not con-
sent to be served by non-union cooks
and walters, and we cannot as a
standard recognized railroad labor
organization ask our men to come
here and help knock down decent
wages and working conditions for
Cleveland labor.
at is, of course, sincerely hoped
that this unfortunate controversy
will be satisfactorily cleared up ir
the near future, and if such proves
to be the case you will all be advised
in the connection.
"I convey this information to you
brothers so that you may be aware
of the conditions which prevail at
Cleveland and be governed accord
ingly."
The Cleveland Press, which has
been quite fair in its attiture toward
the workers, warns that the strike is
hurting the city by keeping business
away. The city council is discussing
the situation and urging that some
understanding be brought about. De.
claring that the strike is costing mer-
chants and others thousands of dol.
lars daily, Councilman Alexander |
De Maioribus told the council many
conventions had cancelled arrange
ments for coming to Cleveland
The strikers are standing firm anC
the local labor movement is giving
them strong support.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
Grain Move Is But One in List of Red War Plans
Invasion to Depress American Commodities Continues in
Pulp Wood, Lumber, Coal, Glue and Other Articles

Washington (ILNS)-Soviet inva-
sion of American commodity mar
kets, blasted into the public mind this
week by the exposure of soviet trad
ing in the Chicago wheat pit, covers
a field many times broader than that
indicated by the Chicago revelations
and by Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde's statements.
international Labor News Service,
acting for this newspaper, is able to
state that in addition to selling short
on wheat in the Chicago market, the
soviet traders are also selling short
on cotton in Chicago.
1t is impossible at this time to
state the size of red operations in the
cotton market, but that they may
equal the wheat operations seems
likely.
Not only are the soviets interested
in depressing the American market in
cotton, but they are anxious to create
a market for their potentially enor-
nous crop of cotton substitute and
above all to disturb American polit-
ical life.
The Chicago board of trade has re-
ceived reports that the soviet govern
ment is selling wheat abroad at 10
cents below the world price, resulting
in virtual stop to exports from
| North America Dispatches from
Liverpool say that regulations in the
British grain trade make short sell
| ing almost impossible, but that vast
quantities of Russian wheat are being
dumped into Great Britain and the
market is upset Canadian, Argen-
tine and American shipments are all
being undersold by the soviet gov
ernment wheat, Liverpool reported.
| Reds Have Double Aim in Gambling
Information as to the source OF
information regarding the soviet
short selling of cotton comes from a
source that cannot be divulged at
this time, but in which ILNS has
complete confidence and which is in
position to know the facts.
] The soviet invasion today stands
this way:
THE reds admit vast trading ir
wheat futures and it may be shown
that they have sold short on more
than 100000 bushels. This wheat
cannot be delivered and unless the
depression program goes through as
the reds have planned it, Moscow
stands to lose in cash. She can un-
doubtedly sell her wheat on the Liver
pool market, pay her losses in the
Chicago pit. and come out ahead
making American wheat growers the
goat.
Cotton Campaign Replica of Wheat
] Raid
2-The Soviet short-selling cottor
! campaign is exactly like the wheat
i campaign and undoubtedly will bt
carried through in the same way, tt
the detriment of American cottor
growers.
3-The soviet program for export
ing pulp wood to the United State:
continues unchecked. Forty shipload'
now are on the ocean, enroute.
4-American made bone glue is be
ing undersold in the American marke
by glue shipped here from Russia b.
the reds.
5--One Boston importing firm ha
the contract for soviet coal importa
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

vance are invariably fraudulent. The
glamour and romance usually asso-
ciated with the term, Latin Amer
ica," fostered by novels of adventure,
mislead many youths into believing
there are golden returns in that re-
gior.
Small farmers are also lured by
stories of fabulous wealth, but the
department states that thousands fail
where one succeeds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
CLERGYMEN OF
THE SOUTH PLEAD
CAUSE OF LABOR


Birmingham, Ala" "Man must be
given preference over the machine,
said Rev. R. H. Crossfeld, of First
Christian Church, in a Labor Day
address.
"The status of labor has changed
and this should be recognized" said
the clergyman. GAS between the man
and the machine, the man must be
given the preference"
This address is Indicative of the
awakening of Southern clergymen to
the so-called labor problem" said
Paul j. Smith, chairman A. F. of L.
Southern organizing committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
THREE TO One
For Unionism Aberle Work
ers Vote

Philadelphia (ILNS)-After many
months of hedging and dodging the
issue, the H. C. Aberle Company,
makers of full fashioned hosiery, has
about reached the point of signing
union agreement after an astonish-
ing demonstration of pro-union SEN
timent in the mill.
At the conclusion of the strike
which ragged through January, Feb
ruary and March, union recognition
was waived as one of the peace
terms. A mediator was installed to
act impartially. The original media
tor was succeeded by DR.. George w.
Taylor, who today announced that
secret vote of employees in the mill
had gone three to one in favor of
clear-cut union agreement.
The vote was taken without the
presence of union or company repre-
sentatives in order to get the en-
ploye sentiment without prejudice
Two questions were on the ballot
"Do you" or don't you" want union
agreement? 1t is said most of the
small minority against such an
agreement are new employees.
The employers now say that, the
sentiment of employees being clear, a
meeting with the company's bankers,
its sales agents and some of its prin-
cipal customers will be held next
week, after which the issue will be
settled:
At the time of the strike the COM
pany employed 1,400 workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

In general, pride is at the bottom
of all great mistakes. .--Ruskin.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
PRINTING TRADES
Lead Right Now in New
Wage Contracts

Washington.-The majority of 20
time-work trades in 40
cities have agreed with employers to
cording to a study by the United
continue last years union scale, ac-
States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The printing trades, as a whole,
were more successful than the build
ing trades in securing these con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
NO WORK PROSPECTS
IN LATIN AMERICA

Washington.-"F by night" en-
ployment agencies are Turing men to
Latin America with tales of unlimit-
ed opportunities, says the department
of commerce.
Work seekers are warned that
agencies which promise jobs in Latin
America and who collect a fee in ad-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

tract, it is stated. Typesetting ma
chine operators on book and CONNER
cial work advanced hourly rates in
16 cities, and held old rates in other
localities studied Newspaper COM
positors and machine operators in
creased in Is cities and lost in none.
Electrotypers advanced in Is cities
and lost in one city.
Sheet metal workers led the build
ing trades with wage increases in 16
cities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

For an enjoyable smoke buy union
cigars and cigarettes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
WHAT NEXT?

1t will require $4,000 cars to move
Washington's apple crop this fall.
Paper required for wrapping the fruit
would fill 435 cars and nails for MAX
ing boxes 90 cars. The lumber need
ed to prepare the crop for market
would build city to care for $4,000
persons. With spraying and irriga-
ton out of the way for the season
attention is being paid to box max
ing and marketing facilities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Another Quack Cure-All

nUACKS Saving
development of The agaran following
ambitious Wall Street brokerage
farmers but a few other things well.
They with only solve the
crisis the United
in addition the strange hold of u s. imperialism
China the Blshevm the Far East find
idle shipping special should
provided with such far ghtedne and enterprise
And their smpe can't understand why did
think of it before.
The wheat (the huge last
the on-Ed) would where it is badly
needed Chna-Ed), the of Bolshevsm
would be avered influence prestige along
Pacific would be greatly enhanced"
AS they only interested the starving
Chinese and the world Bohevm but they also
their Influence prestige" this
insist cashng hard dollars Before
themselves the of however,
that the fascist Chang Kaek
fighting and bgate themselves the interest when
due"
only oophoe proposal S just will
Sending surplus wheat China will fighting
the Chinese workers ready
booder mperia nsavement than already the
they determined to drive the mpets and their
peasants
the sending China dependent
solution" of all other problems
this afraid that the crisis the
idle shipping, will remain with consid
erably longer period
AS farmers, the various
by Board the Farm Bloc Congress- Vulnerable
will solve nothing organization
United Farmers the development continuous
and determined struggle against the bankers the railroad
cancellation the debts of
farmers for machinery
pressing the There solution the
asraan cris only militant struggle will help the farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
CELEBRATE TODAY
10th ANNIVERSARY.
OF THE R. Ii. u.
New York Militants to
Hold Picnic, Aug. 3

Revolutionary workers every
where are celebrating today the
tenth anniversary of the founding
of the Red international of Labor
Unions. In the decade since it was
first organized, the E. l. L. IF, has
established itself as the fighting
world center of struggle on every
industrial field on every continent.
It has extended its organization
league in many countries to that Of
independent leadership of mass
struggle.
This is particularly true of
United States, where the Trade
Union Educational League, Ameri-
can section of the h l. l.. u, last
September called a national con-
vention in Cleveland which formed
the Trade Union Unity League,
with national industrial unions,
leagues, and groups in the old
unions, the leader of the revolu-
tionary struggle and the day by day
fight of American orl:ers in the
shops and of the unemployed.
The T. U. U. l.. will celebrate the
founding Of the R. l. L. U. IN New
York at the picnic of the T. U. u. L..
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union and others in
Pleasant Bay Park, August 3.
The r. l. l.. U. organization be-
gan among the delegates to the
second congress of the Communist
International in Moscow, the centra:
committee of the Soviet Russian
trade unions taking a leading part.
A meeting of minority and indepen
dent union delegates on June Is was
indecisive but on July Is 1920, an
agreement was formed between the
Italian Federation of Labor, the
Russian, Spanish, Jugo-Slav and
Bulgarian trade unions, which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Give Funds to Feed
Striking Miners and
Their Familie S

Read the story of the struggles
of the West Virginia and Penn
sylvania mine workers-read of
the actual starvation in the mine
fields-read of the growing
spirit of revolt that is surging
through t coal fields. Get the
truth in the Daily Worker!
This is a basic struggle which
already involves thousands of
workers-men women and child
remand will involve hundreds
of thousands more.
Their fight is your ght! 1t
is the fight of the whole work
ing class!
Collect funds in shops and
factories organize tag days
get personal donations-vist
fraternal and benefit societies
and have them give money
Form Miners Relief Committees!
Send all funds to the National
Miners Union-6l1 Penn Avenue,
Room 512-Pittsburgh, Penna.
The Mine Workers are leading
the fight against wage cuts!
Support them!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

FACTORIES AS A
WAR MEASURE
Wright Airplane Firm
Finger Print Force

PATERSON, N. j., July a.
That the government is secretly
rushing war preparations, even to
the extent of militarizing the fac
tories, is clearly seen in the finger
printing of 3,400 employees of the
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
here the first week of July.
This has caused tremendous re-
sentiment from the worker The
Communist Party has issued a
leaflet exposing the move as a war
measure, appealing to the workers
to organize a Shop Committee not
only to protest on August 1 against
war, but concretely resist this
militarization and defend their
economic conditions.
AS a result, there has been a
fake Withdrawal" and some lies
claiming that the finger-prints were
"destroyed"-but this is all clearly
false.
A War Move.
The Paterson capitalist press
clearly stated, at the beginning,
that because the Wright plant has
S2,500,000 in orders from the U. s
Army and Navy, it "has to be es-
pecially careful of the kind of help
hired, and all undesirables, Red
ana ex-convicts will be dropped from
their employ" This was said to be
information given by the company.
Besides, the finger-printing move
RESULTED from a conference" be
tween a certain Charles F. Robin
son, of the Owl Detective bureau
3O5 Broadway, Paterson, and the
Wright company officials, and was
approved by Guy W. Vaughan,
president" Those workers object
ing to being finger-printed like con
victed criminals, were to be dis
charged and, what's more arrested
"for investigation"
Obviously, this is for the War
Department, as this is the same at.
tack against the workers as was
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
The Socialist Party and the Mooney Case
BY MAX BEDACHT

THE SOCIALIST PARTY in its for the release War
l. H. Billings and Tom Mooney committing of
contemplate political body snaching
the honorable excap Judge Pann corporation lawyer Hill
quit and the whole socialist capitalist hangers
to make political capital of the Mooney
But the
blacklist imaginable line
pettysh op-keepers' political body
Mooney reyolutionst.
parade Francisco with bomb explosion Mooney
member of the socialist He active
activity primarily the exploited
lively active effort
Corporation
HAPPENED?
Francisco in those
The labor alpoweu
Corporations
and the United Railway he Francisco
the leadership
earthly Murphy Others had themselves
ably paid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

Writing to Matthew won,
Fish's fascist pal, who heads
the strike-breaking National
Civic Federation as well as the
equally strike-breaking A. F.
of L. bureaucracy, Roots letter,
made public Monday by VOL as
timely propaganda for the opening
of the Fish Committee Hearings"
today, advocates the creation of a
big body of U. S. spies like the
Burns Detective Agency did during
the last war and afterward, to per-
secute all workers organizations,
beginning, of course, with the Com
munist Party and the revolutionary
trade unions of the Trade Union
Unity League.
Call For Special Cops.
Root tells Vol, and Vol, of
course, had arranged that the let
ter be published, that there is a
defect in our police service"
Root says that although the U.
S. Government has many powers,
they are all enumerated" or spe-
cial powers, such as enforcing pro-
hibition and collection of customs,
and that the U. S. Government has
special police for these special pur-
poses, but alas:
I'VE have no general federal po-
lice officers, because the states and
not the federal government exer-
else general police authority"
Matthew Woll, anxious to get all
the credit for his service to the
bosses, claims-and with good rea-
son-that he and Ralph Easley, who
along with Whalen are responsible
for the anti-Soviet forgeries re-
Gently exposed in the Daily Work
er, are working through the Fish
Committee, for the establishment
of a special and large body of de
tectives with police power to stran-
gle working class organization.
Root helps along by saying that
I'VE have reason to believe that an
assault is being made by secret
means, supported by the resources
of great empire, aimed at the
destruction of our system of gov
eminent" Evidently, Root, being
accustomed to lying as an imperial
list diplomat, infers that the "great
empire" is the Soviet Union.
But there are other great en-
pres" One of them is the British
empire, whose Secret Service
agents are busy in every part OF
the United States today to defeat
America in the coming war with
England that will arise from trade
rivalry and the common attempts
to seize Soviet territory by war.
In the last war, no American
citizen could get on a ship il
America to leave the country, with
out permission from the head OF
the British Secret Service in Amer
lea, Colonel Norman G. Thwaites.
The Great Empire"
Another is the great empire" OF
hunger, made up of 100000 job.
less American workers and their
families, with speed-ups that wreck
the lives of millions. This "em.
pire" of hunger, misery, and wal
is certainly being modified by the
Communist Party and the revolu-
tionary trade unions, and on Au.
gust LIST will protest in masses, de-
handing: "Not a cent for warships;
all funds to the jobless."