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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Hungarian Fascism Loads New Burden
~, MoCSnc
on Masses

When Bethlen explained" that
it was impossible to abandon the
landowner" who had "made SO
many sacrifices during the war;, the
public galleries roared out the ques-
ton: "How about the war widows,
war invalids and war orphans?"
The premier said that taking care
Of such people was question that
"could not be considered in the pres
ent state Of the country's finances"
"But you saved your own 10000
acres, was the answering cry.
1--WE have saved in this struggle
:" Bethlen tried to say, " the
estates Of the counts" was the shout.
1t should be mentioned, in view
Of the ambiguous attitude of count
r rolyi in his recent American tour
that this gentleman himself is bene-
fitted under the Hague conference
agreement on optant's claims to the
extent Of $4,000 acres of Hungarian
land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Steve KatOvis Branch
of /. L. D. Formed;
to Con tinue Fight

Remember Katovis by increased
work in organization.
The Steve Katovis branch Of the
International Labor Defense, newly
formed with rs members. in menu
CRY of that brave fighter for the
working class, has challenged all
other branches Of the defense or
gan;zation to proletarian competi-
ton in building up the membership
las a monument to Steve Katovis.'
The branch has enrolled each
member to do his utmost in the 'le-
Tense Of Potash and Winogradsky,
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, who 20 ON trial to-
day on charges Of fclonious assault,
framed BY the right-wing takers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

M0NTEvIDEO, Uruguay.-One
OF the greatest strikes in years has
broken out In the meat-packing
plant, or better to say, the refrig-
Grafton plant of Fray Bentos, known
as the anglo" plant in this city.
The strike is against the ifihuman
speed-up and naturalization scheme
known as the STANDARD" system.
The strike is conducted by the Meat
Workers Federation and the Gen.
eral Confederation of Labor of Uru-
quay, and up to the present date the
conflict has taken such a fierce
character that seven workers have
been killed.
The fascist organization in Uru-
.guay have been organizing for the
last five years, and recently, with
government approval, are openly
drilling with arms and engaging in
strike-breaking against the work
ers. The company has speeded up
the workers SO much that it no
longer hires workers over 80 years
Of age, and those below it speeds un-
til they are utterly exhausted. AS a
result of the speed-up working
girl of tender years recently fell
dead Of exhaustion at her place of
work, while five years Of labor in
the plant is enough to wreck the
health of a worker for life.
The chief demands of the workers
are as follows: No more than eight
hours' work; each two hours rest
period of Is minutes included in the
working time. The worker who re-
ports for work but is turned away
for the day shall be paid for half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

PARIs.4-Frenoh fascists. encour-
Isged BY the government, are making
Wild demands for breaking off rela-
tions with the Soviet Union. or what
amounts to the same thing. demands
for a raid upon the Soviet embassy
under the pretext that "Bolshevist
agents' are holding general Kou-
ti6poff, the white-guard military
leader, as prisoner in the embassy
What has really happened with
the general is indicated by the
French secret police (who are surely
no friend of Bolsheviki) when they
stated simply and quietly that the
general had merely left his family
and eloped with a pretty lady. Re-
CARELESS of the absurdity involved,
the French fascists. however. de-
clare that such a statement shows
that the French secret police are
influenced by Soviet agents"
The simple and probably truthful
explanation by the police, is corro-
borated by the fact that the general,
a short time before he "disap-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

Strikes among the caie-field
workers of Porto Rico. news OF
which must be noted as having con-
tinually been suppressed in papers
published in the United States. are
having an effect upon political af-
fairs, which come to the fore with
the annual session of the legislature
that assemblies on February 10.
One of the outstanding features
of Porto Rican politics is the scabby
scoundrel, Santiago Iglesias. who
calls himself q socialist" and who
is the right-hand man Of William
Green in the labor machine of Yam
kee imperialism which is called Pan
American Federation of Labor
There seems to be no organization
giving expression to working-class
interests in Porto Rico and the
/ "Hobson's choice" of the proletariat
is between Iglesias and another
scoundrel Of the "unionist" partv.
known ~ DR.. Barcelo. It has been
very embarrassing, however, for
Iglesias, who makes pretensions of
being q spokesman for "labor," that
just at the political moment when it
didn't suit his interests. the cane
field workers struck for higher
wages.
Even the most hidebound imperial
list papers sdmit that "in no instance
was any strike authorized by Sena-
,or Iglesias, who is the representa-
Give Of the American Federation of
Labor Ia Porto Rico. and It is most
embarrassing to him that the strikes
secured"
Recovering from his embarrass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
FORD LAYS OFF OLD
HANDS TO HIRE FEW
AT LOW Err WAGE
1000 Chester Unemployed Wait at Gate on A
Monday Morning for Jobs
Toilers Find Chester Ford's "Raise" All
the Bunk
eXnected to make S..

expected to make IS.
But much to the surprise of those
waiting in line for jobs, all the men
who came back, some of them having
been employed many years, were
fired. Laid off permanently, the
bosses told the men.
The reason for the lay-offs was
obvious. Ford does not want to
pay the SIS day men Sc, etc. So an
attempt was made to get new men
for the old wages. The Ford work
ers should join the T.U.U.L. and so
lay the ground for big Auto Work
ers Union. The unemployed ought
to organize under the T.U.U.L.
Auto Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
KILL SEVEN WORKERS
IN URUGUAYAN STRIKE
ON PACKING HOUSE co.
Meat Workers Federation Fights Speed-up and
for Wage Increases and Right to Organize
Girl Worker Speeded, Falls Dead at Work; the
Fascists Of Uruguay Arm Against Workers

a day. The worker coming to
work a full day, but is dismissed
after four hours, shall be paid for
six and those who are sent home
after six hours shall be paid for
eight; double pay for Sundays and
holidays, seven-hour day for night
workers at the same pay as the
eight-hour shift; workers under 16
years to work no more than six
hours daily but to receive the same
salary as they would on the eight
hour day. A graduated scale of
wage increases from 10 to 25 per
cent, according to whether they now
receive high or low scale, the low
est receiving the highest increase.
Piece workers a 10 per cent raise;
women 40 per cent raise; for minors
of Is and over 80 per cent increase;
double-pay for overtime; working
clothes to be furnished by the COM
pany; and last, but not least, the
right to organize.
The police and the company have
done their best to separate the Com
munists from supporting the strike,
but without success, on the contrary,
the Communists are holding great
mass meetings for the strikers and
spreading support of the struggle to
all the workers of Montevideo.
The strike Is complete and they
have rejected the trick terms of gov
eminent officials to get them into
arbitration traps, in spite Of the
fact that they are being evicted
from the company houses and are
meeting continuous prosecutions by
thu ,,olicn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
COPS HELP THUG
STONINC OF HALL
IN LOS ANGELES
Angeles Workers DEFY
Terrorism

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. A.
Members of the American Legion,
and other thugs stoned the windows
of the hall at the Cooperative Cen
ter, 2706 Brooklyn Ave, where q
joint protest mass meeting was held
by the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League.
These organizations protested
against the terror directed against
Filipino workers throughout this,
the home state of President Hoover,
and also against the intimidation of
working class students in the Roose-
welt high school, where members Of
the Young Communist League and
the Young Pioneers are being denied
diplomas-because they are work
ing and fighting on the side Of the
exploited toilers.
The main purpose Of the terror
ism against the over-worked and
underpaid islanders is to divert the
attention of workers from the econ
omic crisis now prevailing--by put
ting the blame on these "step-
children Of Uncle Sam"
Police Aid Thugs.
When the stones came through
the windows at the Cooperative, as
pointed out above, members Of the
workers defense squad rushed down
to the street, where they were held
off by the police "Red Squad with
black jacks-and until the thugs es-
capped into their cars.
On one of the stones was the fol-
lowing note:
Warning to the Young Commu-
mist League and the Communist
Party. There will be no more Com
munist literature distributed in Los
Angeles and vicinity. This is your
first warning and may be your last.
Take heed.
"The Anti-Communist League Of
Los Angeles"
The chairman of the joint meet
ing accepted the challenge. He de-
clared that within the next four
days the Communist Party would
distribute 10000 leaflets on the Fill
pino question-calling for a demon
stration at the Plaza Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
1000 DENOUNCE
MILITIA MURDER
Toilers Crowd Beal's
Meetings; Beal in Jail

At meeting arranged by the
Trade Union Unity League for Fred
Beal, Thursday, at the International
Workers Home, Hamtramck, was
turned into mass demonstration
against the willful murder of a
young worker by the National Guard
here last week.
Stanislaw Prusinowski, 16 years
Of age, young Ford Trade School
worker, who had been member of
the National Guard, was fired from
his job, and was compelled to take
another job where he worked IL and
Ia hours a day. He, therefore, miss
ed drill and a warrant for his arrest
was issued. The sergeant was sent
to arrest him, and shot the boy in
the back as he was going out of the
house. This is part of the terror
of the National Guard against those
workers who are employed, to mako
them join it, and in order to mako
them good strike breakers.
Beal in Jail.
Fred Beal was scheduled to speak
at this meeting, but was arrested
the previous night while addressing
over 300 workers in Pontiac, Michi-
gan, and is held on $4,000 bail.
Determined To Fight Back.
The meeting passed a resolution
protesting this brutal murder and
the arrest of Beal, Powers, Ray
mond, and 10 other workers, who
are held for a total of $4,000 bonds.
The resolution demanded the abol-
ishment of the state militia and the
organization Of workers self-defense
corps. And it also demanded the
immediate release of our imprisoned
comrades in Pontiac, and decided to
organize mass movements to fight
against the bosses attacks and for
the organization of the workers into
the Auto Workers Union, and the
building of a powerful district of
the Trade Union Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

VfTNNA.-Reports from Buda-
pest Give an idea that count Beth
Ter, Hungarian premier, had some.
thir~ Of an unpleasant day in ex-
plalnihe to a parliamentary assemb-
leee and crowded gallery just
a Whist he did at the Hague confer
ence. The starvation and poverty
among the masses forced some of
the 'left" among the so-ealled $50
cialists", that form a sort of quar-
relsome support to the Horthy re-
CINE of blood and fascism, to shout
some objections at Bethlen, lest they
would lose influence among the mas
SEES.
One of the chief things done at
the Hague was the agreement by
Bethleh that the se-called "optants'
$50 courts and other wealthy land
dwrers. including Bethlen himself,
receive pay for them, which pay is
b. he ttAen out OF the hides Of the
Hungarian workers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Porto Rican Plantation Workers Strike

ment, however, Senator ITlesias
simply sent a message to all local
bootlicks, urging them that all de-
mands and differences be submitted
to the government board Of media
ton, where, Of course, they will
promptly be buried till the end Of
time.
DIR. Barcelo, Selling upon this par
ticularly fragrant attack upon the
workers by Iglesias is asserting his
sympathy" for the strikers, but
the fact that Barcelo has never ex-
tended anything more tangible than
sympathy, shows that he is as much
a scoundrel as Iglesias.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
COrbshley Released;
Miners Protest Is Too
Strong For the Board

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. A.
Henry Corbishley, secretary-treas-
urer of the Illinois district of the
National Miners Union, has just re-
leased from Chester penitentiary.
The Pardons Board ordered his re-
lease several days ago, but the
authorities held him until the last
moment. He was held four weeks.
Corbishley was arrested for VIC
lation of parole, and faced a ID
year term. He was sentenced to
that length of time in the state
penitentiary after being framed in
the Zeigler case. The charge of
violation of parole was punishment
for his activities in the Illinois
miners strike.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 4.-The
resident executive board of the Ma
tional Miners Union has sent out
the following call to all national
executive board members:
"a full meeting of the National
Executive Board of the National
Miners Union will be held Saturday,
Feb. 8, and Sunday. All District
Officers and Organizers, and all
District Executive Committeeman
are invited to attend. The purpose
Of the meeting will be to make final
preparations for the April / Conven-
ton, the organizational Southern
drive, the fight against unemploy-
ment and the establishment of the
N.M.U. in preparation for national
strike of coal miners. The weak
nesses and mistakes of the union
will be reviewed and corrected, and
our policies revised in accordance
with the present situation as it may
demand"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

Another said "At last some one is
sticking up for us. That's great.
The composition Of workers of the
government ship yards here is ex-
service men, Negroes, Mexicans and
Filipinos. A select husky lot are be-
ing employed to build war ships.
The bosses watch the men closely
while great speed up goes on. They
are building submarines and cruis-
ers for war. The yards are working
on day and nights shifts. The
TUUL is getting a campaign under
way to organize the workers into
the TUUL. "A. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
i. F. L. Makes Plumbers Scab on Steamfitters

ters have sent their organizer, Rich
ard P. Walsh on this job but no
avail. The scab master is Bauer
and Co., of Milwaukee, heating en-
gineer. The scabs get $3.50 per
day and less, much less than the
filters scale of $3.50 per day.
This seems big money but their
yearly average will run around $400
for annum and this has been going
on for 2 years. The steam filters
officials have been to see capitalist
politicians, U. S. Senator Deneen
and Governor Emerson on this sit
uation. Graft unionism breeds
scabism. CHI. PLUMBER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Sterlind Shoe Shop Is
Tied Up Again; Scabs
Cheated by Boss; Quit

The strikers against the Sterlind
Shoe Company located at 2402 At
lantic Ave-, succeeded in "taking
down" the entire scab crew yester-
day morning, thus paralyzing the
shop once more. The boss of the
Sterlind has accumulated during the
last ten weeks about dozen or 50
workers by promising them all kinds
of bonuses; work or no work these
scabs were to get a full weeks pay.
These scabs did not require much
inducement on the part of the
strikers since the boss Of this firm
broke his promise time and again
so that many of them received very
little pay while the boss required
them to stay in the shop all day to
"show the strikers that the shop is
working full time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Mare Island Navy Yard Workers Welcome
DAILY

by Worker Correspondent
VALLEJO, Cal.-The workers of
the Navy Yard here received with
great enthusiasm the Daily Worker
special California edition which was
distributed to them. The eager
Navy Yard workers opened the
papers with interest and started
discussions. Especially were they
interested in the article on the
yards, exposing the A. F. of L. po-
litical dickering. One worker was
heard to say to the distributors
eyes that's the stuff we want but
the boss watches us all the time"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Spread Boss Lies to Workers in Night Schools

by q Worker Correspondent
l want to give an idea of how
the bosses night schools pump the
foreign born workers with their
bunk. A new teacher came and he
started to tell us how to be good
citizens. First, he said, you have
to buy stocks in building and loan
associations. He asked how many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
A Young Worker Who'll Fight for His Class

l have received the Daily Worker
for a few days and carried them to
work and handed them out to some
fellows.
! think the boss found out about it
and had me fired.
l am very glad that the South is
fighting hard. I wish them luck.
That is what Reading needs.
--JINGLES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
S. A Week Wage Cut in IS Klein Shoe
Repair Shops

Of the bosses. We had an organiza-
ton about 5 years ago, but it was
broken up by an injunction Judge.
Since our organization was broken
up all that we got was speed-up
and wage cuts.
Besides the regular force Klein
employs men for or 2 days week
at $685. or 2 days work at $11.70.
We should all DIN the Independent
Shoe Workers Union.
Shoe Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

As FAR as ! am concerned. Z can't
cinim to have discovered the ex-
istence of Glasses in modern society
..r their strife against one another.
Mfddlc-class historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles. and political economists
showed the economic physiology OF
the classes. ! have added ms new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tiOnst u that the existence of
classes is bound up with certain
phases OF material production. -
thar the class struggle leads neces-
sariIy to the dictatorship of the
prO1etariat; ~ that this dictatorship
In hut the transition 80 the nboII-
ton of all classes and 20 the crc-
nti0n Of society of free and equal.
Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
(By q Worker Correspondent

Iby u WUTheT COTTeSPONueHII
CHICAGO, Ill.--The U. S. gov
eminent has under construction at
this time five buildings for hospital
purposes at Great Lakes naval base
in Lake County, III. This job in
wolves the expenditure of several
millions of dollars.
All trades on this job are A.F.L.
crafts except the steam-f filters. The
steam filters belong to the same in
ternational organization as the
plumbers yet the plumbers work
alongside of the scab steam filters.
The United Association of Jour-
neymen Plumbers and tSeam Fit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

by Worker Correspondent
READING, Pal am a young
worker of IS. was working in a
paint plant, a place where / had to
breathe lead fumes all the time.
Many a day had to go home and
have my teeth fixed, and then I had
some pulled. On January Is our
wages were reduced from 80 cents
an hour to rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
(By a Worker Correspondent)

wy " W oIhtI OUIfCcpOHu0Ht/
CHESTED, Pa. (by mail) - The
workers of Chester see now what
the Hoover Conferences have done
for their prosperity"
Although the Ford Plant had not
advertised for many men, yet we
all thought that men would be need
ed. So one Monday morning recent
ly 1000 showed up for work, hoping
for something.
Now Henry Ford had advertised
a dollar a day increase in wages,
as everyone knows. At Ford's Ches-
ter plant, wages had been SIS and
6 per day. So all the old hands
expected to make Sc and 81 day.
A few who had been making 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05

present had bank books. Only 8 Of
the 35 present raised their hands
and the others kept still. Then he
started on religion. He said religion
was what everybody needed to be a
good citizen. He didn't like to hear
me say that religion was poison for
the workers.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The boss
es of the Bayuk Cigar Co. have a
new scheme for speeding us up and
even then we can't make a decent
wage. Many cigars are rejected by
the inspectors and we are told that
they are seconds" or to be scrapped
but behind our backs these very
same Seconds" find their way to
all boxes.
Most of the heavy work is done
by Negro workers who receive from
80 to 32ia cents an hour, and wor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Speed-up Fierce at Bayuk Cigar; Negroes
Worst Exploited

home pay envelope of SIS to sup
port family on. We hope to be in
a fighting union, led by the Com
munists, and it's up to us to start
things rolling!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
(By q Worker Correspondent

fBy q W0f6er Correspondent
The workers of the Klein shoe
repair stores in New York received
notice of wage cut of 5 ollars
a week. For working 60 hours a
week we were receiving $35 week,
hardly enough to exist on especially
if man has wife and children to
support. Now we will get $50
week.
And perhaps less in the future
if we do not fight back the attacks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-05
Detroit Workers Fight Back.

Detroit Workers Fight Back.
DETROIT, Feb. 4.-The attempt
fthe bosses to prevent the fight
for relief for the unemployed, by
failing the leaders of the Trade
Union Unity League under the
vicious criminal syndicalism" law
of Michigan, will be resisted to the
utmost by Michigan workers, par
ticularly by those of Detroit.
Powers, Raymond and Fred Beal,
three workers arrested under this
vicious law against the working
class, will speak at three meetings
set for Friday, February Z. The
meetings will be at the following
halls: Workers Home, 1343 E.
Ferry; international Workers Home,
3014 Yeomans, Hamtramck; and the
Ukrainian Hall, 1859 Martin.
Each of the arrested are charged
on three counts, which may bring
sentences of ter years under the
anti-worker criminal syndicalism'
law. But the fight for the organiza-
ton of the unemployed for relief
from the increasing misery is not
to be stopped by this persecution.
On the contrary, wider numbers will
be rallied and in factory gate meet
ings the employed will be united
with the jobless against speed-ups
wage cuts, the C. S. law, and for
unemployment insurance.
These questions will be taken up
at a special meeting of the Com
munist Party membership Sunday
afternoon, February 9, at Workers
Home.