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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
900 WORKERS GO OUT ON GENERAL STRIKE IN SEVILLE SPAIN
STRIKE CRIPPLES
CITY after COPS
KILL WORKER
Workers Demonstrate
AS Police Fire

A general strike involving 10000
workers broke out in Seville, Spain,
on June %, according to capitalist
press dispatches. The strike was
called after the death Sunday of
a woman worker who was injured
the day before when the police
charged a crowd of women working
in the olive industry. The women
had appeared in front of the pro-
vincial civil government palace, pro-
testing against working conditions.
Antonio Vargas Bravo, mother Of
four children, and expecting the
birth of another, was knocked down
by police saber. She died Sunday.
The strike, it is reported, left the
city without bread, taxicabs and
otherwise paralyzed Seville. A group
of workers tried to get women work
ing in the publishing house and
editorial department of Novelas to
strike. But they were driven back
by the gun fire of the police. Two
were arrested.
Latest dispatches indicate that
many workers were wounded Mon
day when the police fired into work.
ers' demonstrations.
The decision to call a general
strike was made by various work
ers' organizations. The civil gov
ernor, Count San Luis, issued a
statement attempting to- justify the
action of the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
BOSS CORRESPONDENT
ADMITS GROWTH OF
CHINA-SOVIET POWER
Admits Failure of Feudal and Bourgeois Gov
eminent to Stabilize China
Renegade Press Ignores Facts About China
in Order to Fool Workers

The recognition of the utter fail
ure of the feudal remnants and
bourgeoisie to unity and stabilize
China and the realization of the his
torical necessity of a "far to the
left" regime in China by section
of the foreign and Chinese intellec-
tuals are admitted by Hallet Abend,
correspondent of the New York
Times, in a feature article in Fri
days Times. He says:
"Many thoughtful Chinese and
foreign observers who live in that
unhappy land are today convinced
that China must go far to the left
before it can evolve any stable form
Of government and finally settle
down to the ways of unity anC
peace. To date neither the mod
crates nor the reactionary conser-
natives have shown any ability to
cope with China's domestic prob
lens"
China is now actually travelling
fast on the road to a real left re-
gime, the Soviet regime of the work
ers, peasants and soldiers, the only
regime that can bring about unity,
stability and prosperity for the
country and emancipation for the
toiling masses. Describing the
rapid successes of the revolutionary
mass movement that are bringing
about this regime, the same CORE
spondent writes: Capture of city
after city by the Red forces has
been chronicled in the recent news
from China, and in case after case
local provincial authorities have re.
ported to Marking that the Com.
munists are so strong that further
resistance by the government rep.
resentatives has become useless"
Again he says: "The area at pres
ent under Communist domination
comprises large portions of Fukien
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24

Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Kwangsi and
Human provinces, and smaller por-
tons of Hupeh, Honan, Kiangsu and
Chekiang provinces. This geogra-
phical distribution of the Commu-
nists, who now claim to have in the
field armies totalling about $4,000
men, seriously jeopardizes the posi-
ton of the Marking government,
both at Marking itself, in the lower
Yantze Valley, and at the isolated
southern foothold, the rich and i'm
portant city of Canton"
The impending collapse of the
counter-revolutionary regime in
China is so obvious, the revolution
airy movement is proceeding at such
a quick tempo and the achievements
of the Chinese Communists are so
great that both enemies and friends
of the revolution cannot afford to
ignore the facts as they are.
| The capitalist press recognizes
the facts of the onsweep of the rev.
olution in China as the 'Red men
ace" as a warning to the boss class.
The revolutionary press, including
the Daily Worker, halls the success
of the Chinese Revolution in order
to rally the American masses to the
support of the revolution.
Only the renegade press, the Mill
tant and the Revolutionary Age, etc.,
ignore the facts in China. This is
because it has specific function to
perform for the boss class. 1t ig-
nores facts in China not because Of
ignorance, but is doing it with the
specific intention of confusing the
workers and the farmers by all sorts
of lies and legends, thus trying to
prevent them from supporting the
! Chinese Revolution. The renegade
press thus plays complementary
role to the capitalist press and can
properly be considered as the ap-
pendage of the capitalist press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
ONLY UNITY OF
WORKERS OF ALL
RACES WILL WIN
Bosses for divide and
Rule"
San Ysidio, Cal.

Cdu ISlulO, Val.
Dear Sir
You say that our differences of
opinion arise from the fact that
you, one of the leaders of the Com
munist Party of America, do not
recognize boundary lines, that no
Communist can recognize national
boundary lines as a barrier to
workers, no matter what color or
race. Providing these foreigners do
not scab against their fellow work
ers either in their own country or
foreign country.
Now, what would happen in Rus
STA if Stain would open the borders
to all coolie and cheap Asiatic labor
and allow them to invade Russia and
cut down the standard of living the
Soviets are trying to improve? I'll
tell you the result: The moral con-
fidence and patriotism the Russian
people have for their rulers would
vanish.
Now, in the Daily Worker for
June you admit the white lettuce
packers got 60 cents per hour and
the Filipinos were doing it for 25
cents an hour, and few Of the Fill
pinos, six in number, joined the
Trade Union Unity League and be-
came six scabs. You can't tell them
anything else, they joined the T. U.
U. L. and scab all they please on the
whites.
Now, the purpose of the Gommu-
mist Party, as l understand it, is
to better the living conditions of
the workers of the world, not to
endorse wholesale scsbbing by these
people because six of these mill
tant scabs joined the T., u. U. L.,
and that is the condition in the
entire West and 10 evidently en-
dorsed by the C. P. Of A. and if
you are acquainted with the West
you know it yourself.
II. A. MeGRIFF.
|
Editorial Eote:-H. A. McGriff
may not realize it, but what he says
is exactly what the bosses say in
order to split the workers, and in
this way to get them fighting
against one another instead of unit
ing against their real enemy-the
bosses.
Precisely because the white work
ers have been poisoned by race
hatred and the Filipino and other
eastern workers have virtually been
made social outcasts the bosses
can employ them for lower wages
and play them off against the white
workers.
Now what should be the attitude
of every intelligent worker? Ger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24

BOSTON, Mass.-That the A. F.
of l.. policy is the policy of the en-
ployers is seen clearly in their ac-
tivity as far as the conditions of
the workers are concerned. The
Central Labor Union of Boston is a
part of the A. F. of L. and they are
following their leaders, Green, Woll
and company, in some cases, they
outstrip their chiefs. During the
last needle trades strike the officials
have worked hand-in-glove with
Mayor Curley, the "friend of la
bor," the police, social-fascist party,
socialists and underworld. The I'M
employment question they settled
by asking everybody to help carry
on the census and by adopting a
resolution demanding from the Wall
Street government to build more
battleships and give more work for
the navy yard workers.
Only the militant element-the
rank and file in the A. F. of L. are
for militant action to fight capital
ism with all it's parphanelia. S,
Winekur, member of the paper
hangers union, A. F. of L., intro
duced a resolution at the last C.L.U.
meeting, June 2, 1880, calling upon
the C.L.U. to protest against lynch
ing of Negro workers in the South,
terror and persecution of workers in
the United States. The resolution
called for united action of white and
Negro workers, to fight unemploy-
ment, wage cuts, speed-up, etc. 1t
called for organizing industrial.
unions in a militant class program
1t demanded a mass conference to
fight for the above demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
To the Daily WORKER

The hypocrisy of the bosses in
trying to fool the workers to put
over wage-cuts and lay-offs some
times goes to the limit. Take the
case of the leather goods shop of
Morris White, where 900 workers
are employed.
Morris White, the boss, put a full
page ad in the Times for April %,
in which he says; 81 solved the prob
lem of depression for my own or
ganization. Ny answer to slack
ness, under-employment and unem-
ployment is-what it always has
been greater employment .
bigger volume greater turnover
intensified selling promo
ton!
Yes :. bigger volume. One shop
works day and night. Speed-up in
the White shops is now a fine art
We were speeded up terrifically to
clean up on the bosses orders by
June Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
CHELSEA SHOE WORKERS
BEGIN TO ORGANIZE

CHELSEA, Mass.-A meeting of
shoe workers held in this city was
addressed by Fred Biedenkapp and
M. Klarfield. Although only Is
we're present the discussion was
spirited and revealed that produc-
ton is only 25 per cent of capacity,
that the still employed workers are
forced to buy company shares and
sign "yellow dog" agreements.
The group of workers agreed to
meet regularly and take steps to
build shop committees and take
steps to prepare for New England
conference of shoe workers some
time in August. A small committee
was elected to direct future ac-
tivities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24

in the shops. Educate our members,
Concentrate on the negro masses,
Latin American and build the Anti
Imperialist League.
Coal Miners Moving
Comrade Schmies noted that the
coal miners were beginning to fight
against both the bosses and the
Lewis machine. On the. eve of the
Fifth Congress of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions, we must
answer the questions as to what ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
KU KLUX KHAN TO
NEGROES!

Foreign and northern agitators
are in Birmingham teaching social
equality among whites and blacks.
alabama laws guarantee the
supremacy of the white race by
prohibiting mixed marriages.
ga vast majority of southern
negroes know that social equality
doctrine is bad business" and are
advising their friends to leave
alone the Communists and their
like.
''The agitators should be sent
back to the north, or to Russia.
See that they go!
alabama is the best state in
the Union for good negroes, and
one Of the worst states for bad
negroes.
Thing 1t Over-Actw
The Negro workers are openly told
the white race is to be supreme"
They are threatened, alabama is
one of the worst states for bad
negroes" and the remark about $50
cial equality doctrine is bad bust
ness" gives away more than is
meant. 1t is "bad business" bad
for the exploiting business men and
landlords of the South when Negro
and white workers unite to fight
low wages, and lynch terror.
Threaten Death For Equality
The parade was conducted in au-
tomobiles and carried an effigy of
Tom Johnson, Communist Party dis
trict organizer and Oscar De Priest,
a Negro republican congressman,
The Klansmen labored through the
Negro sections of town: Graymont,
North Birmingham, Barmash and
Northside, having started from the
center of town within a block OF
the Federal building. 1t stopped at
Collegeville school, Jim Crow pub
lie school for Negro children, and
on the school grounds burned the
effigies at the stake.
Over the ashes were erected signs
Here lies the body of negro Oscar
DePriest-He believed in social
equality; and "Here lies the body
of white Tom Johnson--He believed
in social equality"
The Saturday following the par
ade, the Negro and white workers
of Birmingham answered this threat
by modifying in hundreds on Capt.
tai Park and cheering speakers for
the Communist Party and the T.U
U.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
Vagrant Bill in
ID. C.. Is Aimed At
TUUL Organizers

Daily WOrker:-
Headlines in local sheet here:
CITY'S HEADS URGE
CONGRESS TO PASS
VAGRANT MEASURE
Bill Would Allow Capital Police
to Jail at Will Suspected
Criminals.
When this bill passes the Hoo
yer gang will be able to Jail any
member of the Communist Party
or Trade Union Unity League as
soon as he puts his foot across
the district line. I will send you
a copy of the bill as soon as it is
printed. j. NJ.
Washington, D. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
kL.AN EXPOSES
BUSINESS BASIS
Workers Give Answer
to Fascist Gang

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (By Mail)-
Several thousand leaflets distributed
by the masked parade of 500 Ku
Klux Klansmen through the Negro
section of this city last Thursday
are unique confessions of the bust
ness interests back of this attempt
at terror. The leaflets, printed in
red ink, with an A. F. L. union label,
on cardboard, read:
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Steel WORKERS
0RGANIzINC IN
WEST COAST Mill.
Exposing Boss Stool
Pigeons
Pittsburg, Calf.

Pittsburg, Calf.
To the Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
I am going to write a few lines
about conditions in the steel mills in
the United States Steel here.
The rolling mill is running on
three-day week, the sheet mill three
days, the nail mill four days (where
the daily pay of experienced feeders
is around four dollars). The tin
mill has been running five to five
and a half days a week, but the
orders are so light and the iron so
rotten that the pay is low anyway.
Face Short Time.
After the present canning season
the tin mill faces a two to three
day week, if not total shutdown
(last fall the mill ran on a three
day week, and the amounts of fruit
canned in California is cut in half
for some fruits this year,.
A regular shop bulletin has been
issued for the last six months. The
workers like it i'd contribute to it.
The super" of the mills, Cohen, is
frantic, and even snoops for Reds
hirc self. One of his private stool
pigeons, a rat named Davis, has
been exposed by the militant work
ers and we are getting the other
stools lined up for exposure. There
are the dens brutal company pol
ice continually spying on the work
ers, but their brains are as flat as
their feet.
We are building local of the
Metal Workers Industrial Union
that aims be ready before winter.
Greetings from
A STEEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

The relatively high wage paid the
skilled" worker.
In this year of capitalist ration
aiization, in this year of Economic
crisis" OF "overprodaction" and of
intensified exploitation let us look
back to the good times" of 1926
and the happy situation Of what the
government agency of the packers
euphenistieally calls the "cannery
hands,"
The deductions include over $4,000
for a school lax! $1,074 for "clean-
ing ship and launch hire" and $780,
0S2.73 or go per cent of the wages
was deducted for merchan lise in
the Frisco store Of Mayer.
Finally, in the figures for 1927
it is stated in the government report
that the deductions to cover items
of merchandise bought in San Fran
cisco are not shown. AS the report
with callous cynicism brutally puts
it: the reason for this ON
mission is that Mayer failed to show
in the payrolls the amount of mer-
chandise bought and ordered by the
Alaska cannery hands before they
had been paid off.
Forward to Struggle.
Let us look back, but let US also
look forward to the rising revolu-
tionary struggle in China, in the
PHILIPPINES, in the South and here
on the coast where the growing re-
sentiment of the workers of all ma
tionalities is being organized by the
Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League and which will
overthrow this damnable system and
establish proletarian dictatorship
and workers and farmers govern
ment.
jim LACEY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

migratory workers in Sacramento
Valley who are confron ed with such
conditions. The Trade Union Unity
League is conducting a campaign
for organizing these unorganized
workers into militant revolutionary
unions such as the R.WI.L., A.W.
IL. and other sections of the
T. U. u. L.
Visit Workers Center.
It's up to US fellow workers to
come together and organize to fight
against these miserable conditions
prevailing in the golden state of
California. Visit the Workers Gem
ter while in Sacramento at 821
Second st. In going out to the
camps, or orchards or agricultural
fields get literature and supplies
and begin organizational work. The
time is more than ripe. ~
TWO HIGHWAY CON-
STRUCTION WORKERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Cal. Highway Construction
Men Exploited at Every Turn

portions. They cut down on our
sandwiches from a to at supper
time. When the workers began to
kick then the con ractor ordered the
cook to give us 3 sandwiches, but
they are cut SO thin that we are
half starved. And to think we have
to pay $l.50 every lay for our rot
ten meals and the tents which the
contractor provides for our sleep.
Must Have Own Blankets.
We are forced to have our own
blankets and beddings, otherwise
we would freeze to death. IFS cold
up here and there's plenty of snow
on the mountains.
You can't get the job there I'M
less you paid for it, $25O fee tc
the employment agency sharks in
Sacramento. You are also forced
to ride 200 miles to camp in the
employment agency's second hand
automobile and pay $3.50 for fare
Some day this junk of machine
will collapse in the road and in a
ditch and many workers are going
to lose their lives.
The necessity Of organizing the
workers on construction work is
urgent. To think of it, hat we had
to spend $40 for fare both ways
and fee, al $3.50 daily for rotten
food and come back after 5 weeks
PRACTICAL. Droke t" stort from the
beginning gain is something Grim
'r>'
There are tens of thousan' ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

, Union Unity League has started or
ganizing and leading these slaves
in their fight for better conditions,
the corrupt A. F. of L. sees that in
order to serve its masters, the big
capitalists, it must disorganize and
confuse some of these cotton mill
slaves so they can be used against
the ones who are in real live, mill
tant unions.
A. F. of L. Busy Selling Out.
This is evident from the fact that
the A. F. of L. in all these years
has made no attempt to organize
these Horse Creek slaves until after
the Passaic, Gastonia and Marion
and other textile struggles took
place under the leadership of the
T.U.U.L.
Horse Creek Valley in which the
above mentioned mills are located
is one section where these takers
are active.
The workers here are very mill
tant and anxious to organize, there
fore the A. F. of L. is succeeding in
drawing many in it's ranks. And the
bosses want the A. F. of L. mis-
leadership among the workers.
Workers Want Fight.
Regardless of this outfit many of
the workers fight.
One case to illustrate. A man and
his wife were discharged without an
explanation (the superintendent
wished a few minutes later he had
given one).
Many were put off without ex-
PLANTATION these were so enraged I'M
til they kept the bosses in a state
of terror for some time locked in
their homes and would have given
them what they justly deserved but
for the intervention of the police
and these A. F. of L. takers aided
by politician who is the mill own
ers' tool.
Into the T. u. U. L.!
The writer is enclosing a clipping
from the Labor Review" a fake
LAX weekly published by the A.
F. of L. This clipping shows the
rotten way in which these takers
treated this latter case.
We need the T.U.U.L.
AN OBSERVER AND
WORKER.
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Brown City, Mich.

Brown City, Mich.
70 the Editor,
Daily Worker:
| read in the Daily Worker of
the strike in Flint and went there
and stayed until it was over, and
think it opened up the eyes of the
workers and showed them whose in
terests the police are hired to pro,
tect, the workers or the General Mo
tors.
The evening before the state
troopers beat and slugged the boys
on the picket line | heard Comstock
tell the boys not to fight or get
militant. That he had talked to the
chief of police and it was OK. for
them to picket. You could see from
the line of his talk that he was go
ing to betray the workers.
Stool Pigeon Comst0ck
He asked Comrades Woods and
Killop out of the hall for a few min
utes and to their back asked the com
mittee if they wanted them as lead
ers or not. Another comrade and
| gave them a few pointers and
they voted to keep them 100 per cent
and that goes to show that the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
LUMBER BAR0NS
PLAN FURTHER
ATTACKS ON men
INTO Lumber Workers
Industrial Union!
Seattle, Wash.

oShSeANs N@
bear Editor
Conditions for the workers in the
Northwest is steadily growing
worse. The lumber industry, on
7hich hundreds of thousands Of
gorkers depend on for a living, is
ow in the throes of a crisis. The
lead of the lumber trust said the
.oviet Union was rapidly taking
ontrol of the lumber markets of
he world. He admits that nothing
an be done except through high
.ariff to try and save the home
harkets.
Secret Meeting.
The lumber barons in a secret
aeeting in Tacoma decided to take
he following steps in curtailing
reduction. To close down about
.orty mills and camps, lay off all
light shifts and remaining camps
Ind mills to work five days a week.
These steps to be taken at once.
Pay Cuts Loom.
The pay in the mills are from
|2.50 to So a day. Horace Greedy,
pokesman for the lumber barons,
peaking to representatives of the
apitalist press, warned the public
bat unless the lumber industry is
Protected that Seattle, Portland,
Aberdeen and the rest of the cities
L the Northwest will be ghost
titles of the past, as go per cent of
he payroll of the states of Wash
|ngton, Oregon and Idaho comes
Iirectly or indirectly from the log
ling industry. This, he says, will
ring on mass unemployment and
nth it Communism. He said you
ray all laugh at the word Commu-
ism, but already the forces of
are at work in the log
hing camps and mills and they are
inding a fertile field for their
york.
He is quite correct. The T. U.
,. l.. is growing in the Northwest,
ind so is the Communist Party,
nd in closing ! appeal to all lum-
per workers to join the Lumber
Workers. Industrial Union, a branch
# the T. U. U. L.
-PRINTSHOP WORKER.