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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
FRENCH COMMUNIST IN
PARLIAMENT EXPOSES
FRENCH WAR SCHEMES
The Largest Army in the World and Enormous
Naval Budget-Yet Lies About 1t
Praises French Soldiers Who Have Repeatedly
Demonstrated Against the Government

PARIS, Dec. % (By Inprecorr
Mail Sevice).-Despite the sys-
tematic obstruction of the French
Chamber of Deputies, whose capital
list members shouted, "Traitor!" and
despite the poisonous attacks of the
French social democrats, the Com
munist Deputy Boron, whose con-
stituency is in Alsace-Lorraine,
made a sharp criticism of the in
sane militarism of French imperial
ism in connection with the discussion
of the war budget.
Boron exposed the maneuver of the
government, which attempts to cam
outage the real figures of the ex-
penditure for ornaments and also
the strength of the army in order
TO deceive public opinion; Boron
declared that the real figures of
French war expenditure were Is
milliard francs, whilst the total
strength of the French army, in
GLIDING the special formations, was
100000, in other words, the largest
army in the world. -
A storm of Indignation swept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
NTWU Tours Beal
for Silk Strik e
continued from PAGE Onel

Continued from Page One)
Beals tour begins in Pittsburgh,
Jan. %. He goes next to Cleve-
land, Jan. 81 and %; Detroit, 20
and 80; Chicago, Jan. 81 and Feb.
|; Minneapolis, Feb. 2 to 8; North
Dakota, Feb. TO; Montana, Feb. IL
IL; Washington, Feb. 1918; Cali
]ornia, Feb. 10 to 25. On his re-
turn trip he will visit Utah, Col
orado, Kansas, Southern Illinois, In
diana, Cincinatti, West Virginia,
Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and New York.
"The strike fund" declared Clar-
ence Miller, secretary-treasurer of
the union, today, sis a prime neces-
sity for successful campaign. We
must raise $4,000 at an absolute
minimum.
"The A. F. of l.. takers, out to
sell-out the southern workers, adj
vertise a million dollar fund for
their campaign. We must act more
swiftly, more surely, to save the
workers from being misled by the
corrupt reactionary bureaucrats."
Need Is Great.
"The Trade Union Unity League
and the union is sending Fred Beal
to tour the country to arouse the
workers to the extreme danger of
the A. F. of L., of the necessity to
false funds, of the imperative need
for building the new revolutionary
unions under the leadership of the
Trade Union Unity League"
"The unbearable speed-up, wage
cuts, spreading like a plague over
the land, has created new upsurge
of revolutionary activity. The union
must not lag behind the workers in
their struggles against the bosses
speed-up exploitation. Wage cuts
and speed-up are ear-marks of the
period directly preceding the COM
ing imperialist war.
"Now is the time for straining
every nerve, every energy of the
union to organize the masses OF
textile workers into a strong revo-
lutionary body. A fundamental in
the campaign is that of strong
struggle-fund of at least $4,000.
"The conditions in the industry
especially the silk, demand gen
raj strike, as soon as possible. All
revolutionary workers must be
aware of this, and hasten theil
work, activize their fellow workers
mobilize for the general strike"
A call for national silk confer.
ence in Paterson, N. j., on Feb.
has been issued to lay the basis fol
the national silk strike and has al.
ready gone out over the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
|. BOr a h and Filipino
B urg col S Unite
Against independence

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-During
the discussion in the senate over the
sugar tariff the question of the in
dependence of the Philippines arose.
Senator Borah, arch-faker of the
Hoover administration, said: GAS for
the Philippines l would like to see
them given independence, but l do
not expect it is going to happen in
my time, and I doubt if it will hap
pen at all"
The two resident commissioners of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17

not make any rash statement about
capitalism overcoming its crisis al
any time in 1890.
After glancing at just such PRE-
actions as those of Col. Ayres, the
Financial Chronicle Jan. ~ des-
pairingly says: mo, prOgnostica-
tons are largely useless"
They go on to say, not at all SO
convinced about the fundamental
power of capitalism as Mr.. Gitlow
and Mr.. Lovestone, nor so sure of
the arrogant ability of U. S. imper-
ialism to ride the crest Of the
crisis:
1T has been found that con-
tinuous prosperity is a myth,
cOnjuration of interested finan-
cial minds. Not too much graft
ficatiOn can be taken in the i'm
provemepts and engagements in
railroads and certain manufac-
lures, for these were all planned
before the slump"
They insist that capitalism re-
trench because of the revolutionary
portent of the present crisis. Sup
pose," says the Chronicle, sudden
ly brought home to the facts, no
matter how, we conclude that bOr-
rowing forever cannot continue,
that payday must come, and I'M
less there is some retrenchment in
the order of living a day will
break for unemployment that will
cause almost a revolution, what
them"
All over the country, the militant
army of unemployed, under the
leadership of the Communist Party,
Young Communist League, and
Trade Union Unity League is
sharply pressing it's demands for
relief. The Struggles of the 6,O0O,-
900 unemployed will grow tremen-
dously in the immediate future. At
the same time the battles of the
workers against the growing wage
cuts will intensity. Already the
severe crisis in the United States
is sharpening the world crisis of
capitalism. The tempo of unem-
ployment in Germany and the
United States is at about the same
level. Unemployment is growing
more severe in Great Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Pick Five for Mhitewash.

GASTONIA, N. c., Jan. 15.-The
CASTOR county grand jury today in
dicted five of the Ia recognized muir
derers of Ella May. They took care
not to include any of the really re-
sponsible superintendent or over
seers. The men indicted are all gun
men for the cotton mill bosses, and
if they ever come to trial will be
whitewashed. They are Horace
Wheeling, Troy Jones, Lowry Davis,
Fred Morrow and o. H. Landlord.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
SPONTANEOUS STRIKES
AT BRIGGS BODY co.
AFTER WAGE SLASHES
Auto Workers Union Organizing Cleveland
Workers

workers at the plant, merely for
telling other workers to go on strike.
The local of the Auto Workers I'm
ion is trying to organize the work
ers here. About ten of the workers
joined the T. U. U. L. The workers
are beginning to realize that a
strong Auto Workers Union is neces-
sary to fight against the onslaught
Of the bosses.
Conditions at the Fisher Body
Plant are just as bad.
Hupmobile has just opened up
now, and many of the unemployed
workers are going there for jobs,
but they will be out of luck, because
there are too many skilled workers
out of work, due to the bosses
speedup, and the new machinery
being introduced in the industry
r. L. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17

MOSCOW, Dec. "a (By Inprecorr
Mail Service).-The conference for
discussing the technical questions
of the introduction of the five-day
working week has now come to an
end. The speakers pointed out that
the workers had adopted the idea
of the five-day working week with
tremendous enthusiasm and in its
resolutions, the conference expressed
complete approval of the measures
adopted by the government for the
introduction of the five-day work
ing week, and demanded that up to
the first of January all cultural in
situations should adopt it. 1t was
also pointed out that a revision OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Five-Day Week Hailed by Soviet Workers

the labor protection laws was neces-
sary in accordance with the new
conditions of work.
The carrying out of the decision
of the recent plenary session of the
Central Council of Soviet Labor I'm
ions to send $4,000 workers into the
collective undertakings is making
fine progress. In Leningrad, alone,
1000 workers have volunteered for
the work, and the recruiting is being
continued. The labor unions in Len
ingrad have challenged the unions
in Moscow, in the Urals and in the
Don Basin to a socialist competition
to see who can mobilize 100 per cent
of the quota first.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
(Bu q Worker Corregpondentl

(B9 q W 0fhef COTeSpOAdentJ
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Since the
Briggs Body shop opened a month
ago, there have been four spontan-
eous strikes in this hell-hole. Wages
have been reduced 80 to 40 per cent
in some cases. All the workers
were formerly getting a day rate
from 40 to rs cents an hour. Some
of the workers were even getting a
dollar an hour. Now, everything is
on a piece-work system. The work
ers have to kill themselves in order
to make five and six dollars a day,
Now, that competition is getting
fiercer, the bosses want to keep up
their profits at the expense of the
workers.
Last Friday, the police at the re-
quest of the bosses, arrested six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Sell Dope to Young Seamen in 'Institute"

The general idea of all this is to
make him come to Jesus quicker.
Each night he must listen to some
long-haired fanatic preach Jeesus.
There has been witnessed by the
correspondent, and several others,
the exchange of money for dope,
booze and all these other things that
make a good Christian.
Personally, your correspondent
thinks that this condition has
reached climax, and the time has
come when all of the working class
shall take a hand to bring these
young workers to their proper
senses, and help them realize the
Importance of real working class
world, and not one Of graft, corrup-
ton and Jesus Christ.-A Seaman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
EVEN BOS
ADMIT DEC. DROP
MORE THAN 3 P. C.
Figures Show Wage
Cuts; Crisis Increase

Continued from Page One)
month and 264,OOO since Septem-
Der. If the so per cent of manu-
featuring employees for which no
data were returned is assumed to
have Jared the same, the periods
increase in unemployment, tenn
porary or otherwise, would be
somewherC around half a million"
These figures by one of the lead
ing organs Of capitalism do noy
cover the mass unemployment in the
mining industry, railroads, depart
ment stores, small shops, shipping
trade-in fact, they leave out mil
lions of workers and are based on
the faxed rep rts Of the bosses.
Steel, Auto Production Down.
With steel production 20 to 25 per
cent below last year, indications are
that unemployment will increase in
the basic industries.
Iron Age, mouthpiece of the steel
bosses, reports that the automobile
industry is placing only 20 to 30 per
cent of the steel orders that it did
at the high point of 1929. This
shows a curtailment of current and
future produ" ion of 70 to 50 per
cent in the auto plants.
Freight car loadings, one of the
capitalist guides to production,
dropped more than $4,000 cars for
one week below the 1929 figure.
Sees Black Future For Capitalism.
Col, Leonard P. Ayres, vice presi-
dent of the Cleveland Trust Co., and
capitalist economist to whom the
bosses look for guidance, uses some
fancy phrases to express what he
considers the blackness of the fu-
ture of capitalism,
eve are in a period of economic
low visibility" he says in a state
ment recently published.
I'VE now have a sufficient
number of November and Deem
Der figures and of still more re-
cent weekly reports, to make it
quite clear that general business.
and particularly industrial activ-
ity. are still declining
He sees a continued decline,
sharpening crisis, but hopes-hopes
based on no facts, merely pivoted
On his wish for continued big
profits-for a change in June. By
that time, says Ayres, the crisis will
have lasted one year. What Ayres
and his bourgeois associates mean
by change in June, is not a con-
tinuance of production equal 20 1929,
which in itself would mean crisis
for capitalism, bat that steel pro-
duction which is off 20 to 25 per
cent, automobile production, which
is off 40 per cent, building which is
off 43 per cent, will hit an average
of { to 20 per cent below 1929.
This would keep unemployment
down to 100000 or 100000, and
would make the capitalists feel
more comfortable than the steady
growth of more than 100000 I'M
each month without any
let-up.
prosperity a Myth
Even granting that Col. Ayres
can see through the pail of "low
visibility" which he'reporLs, he does
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Class Justice in CzechO- Slovakia

was sentenced to eight months i'm
prisonment; in Rimovksa, Comrade
Revesz received years hard labor.
The sentences were passed in con-
nection with speeches the three
Comrades had delivered.
Comrades Paufosima and Polacek,
who have been in prison awaiting in
quiries in Aglau for many weeks,
have now gone on a hunger strike
in order to secure their release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Brooks Shoe Workers Strike at Wage Cut

fer, but the filters did not, so we
decided to walk out Monday morn
ing and called strike. A meeting
was held with those workers and
we had a shop committee elected to
tell the boss we will not accept that
cut under any circumstances. We
will rather stay out and get all the
rest of the workers out on strike.
Those workers are not organized
yet, but we had signed the applica-
ton cards of the 7. U. U. LA
Shoe Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
Phila. Carpet Dye Workers Fight Wage Cut

labor-fakers of the A. F, of l., as
it co-operates with the bosses and
loses the strike for the men. Dyers
Of Philadelphia, join the National
Textile Workers Union, the only
union which fights against the
bosses and organizes the workers
into an industrial union and is affili-
ated with the Trade Union Unity
League, which will lead all the
workers against the capitalist mill
owners and their tools, the A. F. of
L. labor takers who betray the
workers and advocate cooperation
with the workers enemies, the
bosses.-W. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
by Seaman Correspondent

(BY O Seaman COffeSpORdentJ
There is a wonderful" Institute
at % South st. It is supposed to
be a home for seamen who are
thrown on the beach by the ship
owners that support the Institute,
or rather, control it, for it is the
seamen who support it.
The seaman's first thought when
he comes off one of the "Slave
Wagons" is to get a good meal and
a good bed, so he is told that the
Seamen's Institute is the proper
place to go for these things.
He pays IS cents for ships bunk,
and it is really nothing else. Or, if
he has money, the lordly person at
the desk sells him a bed for a dollar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

1By W0T6eT CoTeSpOHdeNtJ
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By MaiD.
"A strike is on at the Hardwick
and Magee Carpet Mill at 7th and
Lehigh Ave. The Dye House work
ers struck against a wage-cut here
from 70 to IS cents an hour and
terrible working conditions. The
strike has been on for five weeks
and as the splitting policy of craft
unions exists in This mill the work
ers who belong to the same union,
but to another craft, are scabbing
on the men on strike.
This policy is advocated by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17

PRAGUE, Dec. "a (By Inprecorr
Mail Service) A new wave of
class-justice is rising against the
revolutionary workers. The Com
munist Deputies, Harus and Major,
are still being held in prison, despite
all the protests of the workers. In
the last few days a number of new
sentences have been passed.
In Kashau, Comrade THOR Weiss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
NEW HAVEN INTER-RACIAL
AFFAIR SUCCESS.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan. 15.-
The first inter-racial dance held by
New Haven Unit 2 of the Young
Communist League, in the Negro
section, was a success, and 10 APP
plications were received for men,
tership in the League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
$4,000 Joblcss in Birmingham.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 10
There are more than 10000 unem-
ployed workers in this city. The
building trades workers are espe-
cially hard hit, the majority of them
being out of work.
The Bank of Eusley, located in a
district of steel workers, closed its
doors. More than 5000 workers,
many of them unemployed, who had
a few pennies in the bank have had
their life savings wiped away, This
is the fifth bank that has closed
here in six months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
NEW BEDFORD LENIN
MEMORIAL JANUARY 26.

The New Bedford Lenin Memorial,
which was originally scheduled for
January %, has been changed to
January &c, 2:3O p. m. 1t will take
place in Bristol Arena, the biggest
hall in town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17

the Philippines, who has a voice, but
no vote, express about the same
views as Borah. Guevera, in a speech
in Congress, prol ised to protect
American imperialist interest in the
East, if some semblance of indie
pendence were granted to the bour-
geois of he Philippines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
.PASSAIC JOBLESS
BEING ORGANIZED
STRUGGLE
Severe Situation in
Textile Mills

Continued from PAGE One)
Body plant, where a strike of over
1000 workers was led by the Auto
Workers Union a few months ago.
At the meeting before the Murray
Body employment office on Tuesday
morning, January l, the police
dragged Comrade G. Powers, T. U,
U. L. organizer, from the platform
and attempted to arrest him. I'M
mediately the workers raised the
cry, let him go. He's got the right
to speak to u.s. They surrounded
the cop pushing him aside and pre-
vented him from arresting the
speaker.
A mass conference is being hsl
today at the Trade Union Center,
1882 Woodward Ave, to organize
the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
1000 Mill Workers in
Protest When 5 Jailed
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
place tomorrow at noon.
Among the speakers will be Fred
Beal, sentenced to 20 years in the
c. on case and the organizers
arrested yesterday and bailed out.
Hundreds of unemployed workers
are being notified today, and will
be at the r"eeting.
Prepare Wage Cut.
It's attack is the ming of
the bosses campaign to break up
N.T.W. mill meetings, and drive the
union from the streets, in prepara-
ton for further speed-up and wage
CT ing. The 'TT.W. a; the Com
munist Party are determined for
a great fight, and the workers are
responding t. the call for strug-
gle.
The Dartmouth meeting yeste- day
was one of { series held at mill
gates a. part of the general organ
izaticn campaign of the union, and
in preparation for the district con-
vention Of the N.T.W., February %
20.
Meetings have been held at the
main ga IS of the following mills:
January 10, Goswold; IA, Wansutta
and Grinnell; yesterda. Dartmouth,
Accushnet, Butler and Hathaway.
Today meetings were scheduled
for the New Bedford, Rayon and
Whit nan mill
Hegelias, Perry and Russak were
arrested at the Beacon mill gate
last week, and their trial comes up
tomorrow.
The National office of the N. T.
w. u, & fifth Ave-, New York,
issued a statement condemning the
police bru ,:ty in attempting to
smash the union. Sour union is fac
ing go--,ral struggle in the in
dustry," said Clarence Miller, secre-
tary { i urior, "anl the mill
owners and their police are making
every attempt to stop the growth OF
tn N.T.WU. But neit''3r in tn
South nor in New Bedford, or in any
other place, will the police succeed
in breaking our union. We are mobil-
izing our members to organize de-
tense corps against the terror of
the L.sses."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
(Rn q Worker Correspondent.l

lBy q WOrEeT C0TToSpoNdent.J
PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
At the Brooks Shoe Factory, where
there are about 100 shoe workers
employed, the boss is trying to cut
the wages SO per cent, by putting
them on piece work, instead of reg
ular week work, which they have
been getting up till this time.
Under these conditions, the work
ers are not able to make more than
50 to $40 week.
The cutters had accented that Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
German Workers
Battle in Many Cities
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
shooting, but none were killed.
At Nagdeburg and Leipzig police
also beat up similar demonstrations
yesterday. The general police ter
ror was intended to provide the $50
cialist" government with sufficient
justification for its recent passage
of new anti-Communist law.
Official figures on Jan. 8, give
the registered unemployed here as
100000 not counting great masses
who have exhausted their own means
of support, but who do not register
and hence do not appear in the Of
ficial figures. The "Rote Fahne'
reckons that there are 100000
workers jobless.
The New York journal of Com
merce yesterday, in an editorial on
unemployment in Germany, admitted
that the situation is gloomy" As
spokesman of American imperial
ism which has great loans invested
in German bonds and industries, it
points out regretfully that at least
some of the unemployed in Germany
"have to be supported from insur-
ance funds supplemented by Govern
ment loans and advances" This,
it regrets, hinders the process of
capital accumulation These are
the reasons why S. Parker Gilbert,
the American director of German
Preparations, backed up Hjalmar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
100 Jobless to Each Job.

CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Sears-Roe-
buck & Co., mail-order house, adver-
tised for four girls at $40 a week
few days ago. Nearly 400 jobless
girls applied for the jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17

Schacht, head of the Reichsbank re.
Gently, in getting the socialist"
government to begin a campaign to
reduce and finally to abolish IN
employed insurance relief-Ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
New Haven Workers Idle.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. TO-
The New Haven railroad is laying
off workers who have been with il
for more than 20 years. Freight
traffic has fallen off, officials say.
The New Haven Clock Co. has laid
off another hundred men. The Win
chester Arms and Seamless Rubber
Co. are working with sharply re-
duced forces. Workers fill the
streets vainly looking for jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
More Pennsylvania Unemployment.

JEANETTE, Pa, Jan. 16.-Em-
ployment here is paralyzed. The
leading plant, the Pennsylvania
Rubber Co., has been shut for two
months.
The bosses are installing new
speed-up machinery and when they
do open up hundreds of workers will
be eliminated.
X =
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 16.-The
Baltimore & Ohio laid off seven
crews recently on the Connellsville
division. The company announced
that the bottom has dropped out Of
the freight demand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-17
"Prosneritv a MYTH"

Even granting that Col. Ayres
can see through the pail of Glow
visibility" which he 'reports, he does
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

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