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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Swedish Strikers
in Big Fight

STOCKHOLM (By Inprecorr
Press Service).-On February 10
and II severe collisions occurred be-
tween demonstrating workers and
the police in Stockholm. Thousands
of building workers went on strike
as a protest against the use of strike
breakers. The masses, supported by
other workers, collected in front of
the building where the strike break
ers were at work.
The meeting was addressed by
Communists. In the beginning the
police attempted to disperse the
meeting by exhortation, but later on
with the arrival Of reinforcements
they attacked the workers, whereby
also a number of women and chill
dren were injured. The strike break
ers were then taken to their homes
in motors. A number of these mo-
tors were damaged by stones.
Numerous arrests have been made
in connection with the collisions and
the Unfortunately arrested work.
ers will be charged with rioting. In
connection with the collisions the
bourgeois and social democratic
press has commenced furious cam
paign against the workers. The Com
munist Party has issued an appeal
to the workers to continue the action
until the election of the strike break
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press
Service).-The socialists are in the
lead in the anti-Soviet campaign, of
course. Today's "vorwaerts" pub
fishes the sensational revelation"
that the "Rote Fahne" is "main-
tanned" by the Soviet Embassy and
the Soviet Trade Mission, and that
5000 of the edition daily are taken
by these two institutions.
No attempt is made to explain to
the unfortunate readers of the social
democratic organ how it comes about
that the bolshevists choose such a
clumsy and complicated way Of
maintaining" the "Rote Fahne."
What the Soviet Embassy and the
Soviet Trade Mission do with 5000
copies of the "Rote Fahne" every
day only the "Vorwaerts" knows,
and the "vorwaerts" keeps it dead
secret.
The Social Democratic Press Serv-
ice goes still further and reproaches
the German Foreign Ministry for
having tolerated "Soviet interior
ence in German affairs" for years
without protest. It then demands
that the government should "act
ruthlessly as soon as there is any
proof that the Soviet government
participates in Communist actions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
THE SOCIALISTS" LEAD
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
THE TOILERS' REPUBLIC
VOrwaerts Revelations Like Matte VOLTS
and the "Red Disclosures of Whalen
German Socialists" Become Ridiculous Before
Workers in Attacks on the Soviet Union

in Germany. "Proof" would, there
fore, seem to be still lacking.
The S. D. Press Service then de-
clares hypocritically that the social
democracy was always in favor of
maintaining diplomatic relations
with the Soviet Union Chats why
the social democratic ministers sup
ported the expulsion of the Soviet
Ambassador Joffre), but then raises
the question of what Germany gets
from such relations apart from the
expulsion of journalists, the perse-
cution of German citizens and the
impoverishment of Russo-German
peasants. "The continual executions
and hunger disturbances in the So
Wet Union had created a spirit in
Germany which demanded that this
question should be raised"
The democratic "Berliner Tage-
blatt" reports from Influential cir
cles" that the social democratic
party intends to demand that ode
cisive action" should be taken, in
other words a rupture between Ger
many and the Soviet Union, should
it be proved that the Soviet En-
bassy and Trade Mission actually
substitute the "Rote Fahne." 1t
would appear therefore that the So
cial democrats have no proof for
their slanderous allegations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
OUTLINE PLAN
FOR MARCH e
Conference on Jobless,
Then Big Convention

Continued from Page Ons)
modified at once, we will succeed
in making this national conference
of tremendous political Importance
and, therefore, lay the foundation
for mass campaign under our gen.
eral slogan, which is the organiza-
ton of the unorganized workers.
"At all times we must keep in
mind that the building of the unem-
ployed movement must increase the
numbers of our members in the
unions by leaps and bounds. In fact
it must be our everyday task that
during this campaign new members
will join the revolutionary trade
union movement and thus lay the
basis for the building up of a mass
trade-union movement in this coun-
try, which will challenge the social
reformist and social fascists of the
american Federation of Labor and
the yellow socialist party, in fact
all OF the capitalist class.
"All speakers and organizers
must bring into the forefront the
plan outlined above-that is the ma
tional conference on March 90,
which must be followed up by state
conventions in all sections of the
country and the building up of ma
tional unemployed mass convention"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
The Polish Left
Socialist Trial

WARSAW (By Inprecorr Press
Service) I'm the first telegram
dealing with the trial of the men,
bers Of the Polish socialist party
Cleft wing) in Sosnovice, the ex-
preston "the Polish social democra-
tic organization in Levitza," was
used. This is incorrect. Levitza is
not the name Of a place in Poland,
but the Polish word for left wing.
The trial is directed not against any
branch of the left wing, but against
the left-wing organization as a
whole, which is organizationally In
dependent of the reactionary Polish
social democratic party.
On the second day of the trial the
agent-provocateur Tchuma did not
appear. The accused Gadomski de-
MED the accusation that his organ
ization had received any subvention
from the Communist Party and de.
clared that his organization and the
Communist Party had only one thing
in common-the struggle against
fascism. Replying to question Of
the judge, Gadomski declared that
his organization had the deepest
sympathy for the workers and peas
ants state.
After the president of the court
had prevented a number of the &C.
cused from expressing themselves
sufficiently OH the questions under
discussion, the accused as whole
demonstratively refused to take any
further part in the trial, and ignored
the questions of the prosecutor.
Editorial note--These workers were
later sentenced to long terms in
prison.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Belgian Workers Fight Socialists, Police
and Bosses: Win Strike by Communist Aid

BRUSSELS, Belgium (By Inpre-
corr Press Service) Despite the
joint efforts of the owners and the
reformists, the strike Of the hat
workers here which was conducted
under revolutionary leadership has
ended with complete success. The
strike which was against a wage
reduction ended with a wage in
crease Of per cent and number
of other advantages. The reformist
Hatmakers international refused all
assistance and the strike was sup
ported only by the Communist Party
of Belgium and the revolutionary
hatmakers of Paris.
The strike of the 1900 building
workers in Ostende is still going on.
Yesterday the strikers drove about
60 bricklayers off the dyke which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

ers, the Rev. John Logan Davis,
pastor of the Washington Square
Methodist Episcopal Church is also
on the committee, which, beside be-
ing inspired by divine sources, will
doubtless be assisted by the moro
earthly agency of Matthew Woll of
the social fascist A. F. Of L. and the
protesting protection of the fascist
socialist" party.
Another Of the professional pat
riots (see the book of that name
published by Boni, by Norman Hap
good) is Major William F. Deegan,
tenement house commissioner, who is
responsible for the high rents paid
for disease breeding flats, by Ne
|gro, Latin American and other work
ers in the City of New York as
&c neral watchdog for the landlords.
This gentleman is also a former
state commander Of the strikebreak-
ing American Legion.
The bankers are represented by
James F. Kennedy, vice-president Of
the Interstate Trust Company, while
the capitalist courts are supplying
Judge William o. Mitchell, who is
relic of the Civil War not yet in
a museum.
The legal adviser is an attorney
who is called Colonel F. C. D.
Thomas. Two so-called "Sons of
the American Revolution" who are
scared Of another revolution are add
ed, Major Charles A. Dubois, and
William P. Van Alstyne, French and
Dutch names respectively. While
one other bird who would "Amer-
icanize" foreign-born workers by de-
porting them is named Captain Gum
pertz, a Legion post commander
Then comes a Veteran of Foreign
Wars who wants civil wars against
the workers here, by the name of
Joseph Carl Thomas. And, as men
toned, the Chamber of Commerce it.
self is bossing the attack by means
Of its executive secretary, Captain
Grifis and its president, Major Har-
old Lee.
at is time the business men Of this
city get together and showed these
agitators that we are serious" said
Captain Grifis, declaring that he had
information about the Communists
that would raise the hair on your
head. The present state of affairs
is sufficiently serious to demand II
solid front be presented"
The workers, meanwhile, are in
creasing their drive against capital
ism in the unemployed movement
which will hold it's conference in
New York on March 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
100 Leather Workers
Strike in Peabody
Against a Wage Cut

PEABODY, Mass, March 10.-A
hundred workers went out on strike
in the plant Of the KRISTEN Co. last
week against a 10 per cent wage cut.
They elected a shop and strike COM
mittee, and are mass picketing. They
demand withdrawal Of the wage cut,
and recognition Of their shop COM
mittee. The boss offered to aban-
don the cut, but refused to recognize
the committee. So the strike goes
on.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Organization Committee, affiliated
to the Trade Union Unity League,
carries on a vigorous campaign in
this section. Mass meetings are held
weekly at Sc Main St. and are well
attended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
RALLY AGAINST
BOSTON FRAME-UP
Frame Murder Charge
on Marine Worker

The bosses of Boston are trying
to cook up another Sacco-Vanzetti
frame-up. They have arrested Leon.
ard Dougherty, port organizer of the
Marine Workers League and hold
him on murder charges, under $685.
900 bail.
He was arrested on the picket line
while demonstrating in solidarity
with the strikers of the Needle
Trades Workers Union. Five gang.
sters hired by Schlesinger, of the
right wing union, attacked the
marine worker, who gave more than
he received.
He was arrested and held at first
on assault and battery charges,
which were Immediately afterward
changed to murder. Three police de-
cided to frame him for the murder of
somebody or other in Canada. The
International Labor Defense is al
ready on the job.
George Mink, organizer Of the
Marine Workers League declared to-
day, "This frame-up of Organizer
Dougherty proves the fascist meth
DDS of the A. F. of L. which works
hand in glove with the Department
of Justice. The international Sea-
mems Union, of which Andrew Flu
ruseth and Victor. Olander are the
guiding spirits are trying their
damndest to halt the growth of the
Marine Workers League by helping
the cops raid our headquarters and
lock up our organizers. At the ma
tional convention of the Marine
Workers League to take place April
26 and 81, the new militant fighting
union based on ship and dock COM
mittee will be launched and will be
able to smash all the fink halls and
the ISU fakerism forever"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Starving, His Family Starving "Organize!'

WATERBURY, Conn., worked
at the Scovil Mfg. Co. here( brass
products), but since have been laid
off six months ago ! haven't been
able to get job anywhere. My wife
is sick, she is almost dying, and the
doctor won't give her any medicine,
and have no place to borrow money
from. My two kids are coughing,
sick from not getting the right food.
The landlord gave me the last no.
tice and tomorrow he is going to
throw me and my kids on the street.
went up to the city hall and
asked them why they didn't send
me help as they said they would, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

determination of the Illinois miners
to refuse to pay the check-off, to
either wing of the United Mine
Workers. Thompson is mobilizing
the miners for a real rank and file
convention of the National Miners
Union in Pittsburgh, in June. The
election of delegates will start soon.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 10.
The Lewis convention of the UNI,
WA. opened here today, in opposi-
tion to the Fishwick split. The re-
port of Lewis was fragrant bid
for support of the coal operators
to himself, instead of to Fishwick.
He called on the government to aid
the operators, because the coal in
dustry is making less money now
than others. =.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

they were engaged in repairing. A
spontaneous demonstration of the
strikers then took place in the center
of the town. Police on horseback,
on foot and in motor trucks attacked
the demonstrators. Only after an
hour and half of disturbance were
the police able to gain the upper
hand hand.
Late information shows that the
strike of the 5000 textile workers
in Renaix ended as the result of a
second piece Of treachery on the part
of the reformists. True the strikers
won an immediate 5 per cent in
crease, but the reformists agreed to
a revision of the existing tariff and
a reduction of the basic wage. In
one factory where the owners have
already carried out this revision, ,
the workers are still on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Worker Children of
World to Meet

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Press
Service IAN international meeting
of proletarian children will take
place in one of the central German
towns at the beginning Of July.
Twenty thousand children are ex-
pected to take part from Germany,
France, Tcheckoslovakia, Austria,
Scandinavia and other countries. A
delegation from the Soviet Union
will also be present. The world con-
gress of proletarian children will
take place during the meeting. The
delegate elections for the congress
and the meeting will commence at
the end of May during the tenth
international childrens week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
(By q Worker Correspondent)


MONROE BRIDGE, Mass.-Con-
ditions of the textile workers of
Western Massachusetts, are bad
very low wages, speed-up, long
hours and unemployment.
And in the other big industries
here-the paper mills, the conditions
are also bad.
The workers have been induced"
as the bosses say ito accept"
wage cuts. In some plants they
work overtime-gradually having
themselves scrapped; in others they
are idle for shorter or longer periods.
In Holyoke, Springfield and Fitch
burg three to four days week is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
UNEMPLOYMENT RISES
AMONG WEST MASS.
PAPER MILL HANDS
"Must Be Organized by Trade Union Unity
League, Says Worker Correspondent
Holyoke, Fitchburg, Springfield, Lee Mills or
to Day Week Basis

the rule, and wages accordingly. The
many unemployed are being used by
the bosses to cut the standard, such
as it is, even on the skilled jobs.
In Lee, Mass, mills have been
shut down for an indefinite period.
Conditions in the Berkshires are at
not higher level.
The paper mill and the textile mill
workers in Western Massachusetts,
and in Vermont must be organized
into the Trade Union Unity League
and the National Textile Workers
Union, for their conditions are 60
ing down and there are so many of
them unemployed.
w. Massachusetts, Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Jobless Drive Defy
Bosses War on Aliens

Continued from Page One)
at Washington to deport all "Com-
munists." This is done under the
guise of Characterization work" OF
the Chamber of Commerce.
C. H. Grifis, who has Captain
in front of his name, and is execu-
tive secretary of the Chamber Of
Commerce, disclosed" SO the CAPT
talist press reports, that "businesa
conditions are menaced by Commu-
mist activities" making the ridicu.
lous assertion that the business
crisis is not due to the capitalist
system but to it's victims, the work
ers.
Frankly" said Captain Grifis, "a
lot of our members are scared,"-.
and these capitalist parasites who
expected that the working class was
going to starve to death quietly, are
showing their fear at the advance
of the revolutionary workers as
shown by the demonstrations last
Thursday against unemployment not
only by their prosecutions and class
revenge against the leaders Of the
demonstration, but by attacking the
foreign-born workers.
The International Labor Defense,
taking the counter-offensive yester-
day in this new phase of fascist re-
preston, stated through its secre-
tary, j. Louis Engdahl, that: "The
announced plan to deport all foreign
born militant workers, for activities
in behalf of their class is a further
attempt to divide the working mass
es, to drive a wedge into the unity
Of the foreign-born and native work
ers who are fighting against starva-
ton. We will intensity our CAM
paign and carry it into every city
and hamlet in the country, to pre-
vent this attempt by the employing
class to divide the workers"
At the, same time the LID. tele-
graphed all its connections to rush
cash funds, bonds, stock and con-
tributions to its office at 80 East
18th St., to raise the $4,000 q:
least which is needed to free on bail
the workers arrested and being per
secuted as result of their activity
in the March 8 demonstrations.
The Chamber Of Commerce in its
plan for characterization" has ap-
rointed special committee Of pro-
fessional reactionary patriots, with
"Brigadier Generals" majors" and
Captains" bristling among the
bankers and big bosses, to lead the
drive for the deportation "by ship.
loads" Of militant workers.
Heading the list is Brigadier Gen.
eral Peter A. Traub, as the commit
tsss chairman, who as an agent par
excellence of U. S. Imperialism not
only devotes himself to suppressing
foreign-born workers in America,
but went as member of q U. S.
commission to supervise elections In
Panama" in 1908, in order to fasten
the chains Of American capitalist
robbery and oppression on the necks
Of the workers and peasants OF
Panama.
As God also must have q hand IN
any dirty crimes against the work,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Why Negro Worker Joined Unemployed
Council
(By a Worker Correspondent)

by Worker Correspondent
I heard the Communist Party
speakers on West St., New York
City, about how we can fight unem-
ployment, and also for race equality
Of the Negro and white workers.
I've been out of work a while,
and was wondering which way to
turn, and I see that it was to join
the Unemployed Council.
I am Negro worker, was coach
cleaner in the Waldo Ave-, Jersey
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
prosperity" for Toronto Workers

by q Worker Correspondent.)
TORONTO, Ont, Canada--The
churches of this bigoted fascist city
boasted they took in 100000 last
year and the city jammed full of
starving workers who are unem-
ployed.
The labor takers, A.F.L. kind here
had a meeting with Abram Stan
kovich, late of Russia and U.S.A.
He urged all hatred against the So
Wet Government. There is a three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

City yards, Of the Penn. R.R. Wages
were 40 cents an hour, very bad con-
ditions. Job was especially hard in
winter, when we had to be out in
the freezing cold most of the day
and wasn't allowed to warm our
selves.
Pm going to do all l can for the
Trade Union Unity League in the
future, and tell all workers I can
about it.
UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

they said there are so many others.
1 told them l was starving and
am going crazy from not eating and
worrying. I served in the World
War for "Uncle SAM" I still know
how to use a gun, but suppose
get caught what will become Of my
family?
Jail for the workers, Jail for me,
Jail for those who organize us into
councils of unemployed. I am not
afraid of Jail, / am going to tell
all the workers to come to the meet
ings, to go to the city hall in num-
bers of thousands to demand social
insurance.
Waterbury Brass Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

CHESTER, Pa.--Since The Daily
Worker is the only daily in the
United States in English fighting for
the working class, we feel it our
duty to send it our greeting as part
Of a celebration, for the formation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
JOBLESS GLASS WORKERS BAT
TIE ON 9Th.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Mar. 8.
glass workers marched on
Gablon, center of the glass industry
here last Thursday, International
Fighting Day Against Unemploy-
ment. There was a collision with
the police who fired upon the work
ers. The workers fought back with
stones. Many were wounded and
five policemen seriously injured.
Twenty were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

year city job started foot of John
ST., a big tunnel for new water
works. Wages, As cents an hour.
There were hundreds waiting for the
job, and none taken on.
Farmers getting slaves for $40
month, long hours, hard work,
starvation and hard struggle to get
your $40 when month is up.
Yours for the final victory of the
workers under the Communist lead
ership.-W. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Greetings from Chester Ford Shop Nucleus

of a new shop nucleus in the Ford
plant in Chester, Pa, and on this
occasion we pledge ourselves to carry
on the struggle in behalf Of the
thousands of workers being exploited
in said Ford plant.
Chester Ford Shop Nucleus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him q copy every
day for a week. Then ask him to
become . regular subscriber,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
INCREASING TEMPO OF SOVIET
PRODUCTION

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.--Reports for
) he first quarter of the present fiscal
year showed an increased of 81 per
cent in industrial production. Costs
have been lowered 4.e per cent dur
ing this period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Fire Traps 20 Miners;
Thompson Challenges
F a k e M i | t a n t
(Continued from Paoe Onel

Continued from Page One)
cut off all exits and traps below
ground number of miners which
the company refuses to estimate, but
which is certainly at least so, and
probably about 10.
All telephone connections with the
apparently doomed miners are cut,
the fire is blazing so fiercely near
the main shaft that volunteer rescue
crews, miners from other pits who
are willing to risk their lives for
their fellow workers, have been able
to penetrate but short way.
Company Publishes Lies.
The company officials talk glibly
about another entrance open if the
miners below know how to reach it., -
and issue soothing reports of the
imminent rescue of the miners, but
this talk of another entrance is
denied by old miners here. The COM
pany has not sent any of it's Of
ficials into any other entrance to
lead the trapped workers to safety.
Working of men in gas and dust
fire traps is one of the things that
the National Miners Union is or
ganizing the miners to prevent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11
Tell the Advertiser-"l Saw
Your Ad in The Daily Worker"

gates, owing to the scandalous cleo
toral system introduced by the re-
formists.