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The daily worker., 1930-03-05
(Bn q WorLer Correspondent.D J


TRENTON, N. 1.-THE Roebling
wire plant in Trenton is one Of the
most vicious concerns in the wire
industry. While it is a basic war
industry, it suffers from the eco
nomic crisis with a result that two
thousand workers have been laid
off in the last six months. The re-
naming four thousand workers
work two and three days a week.
Two years ago the average pay
was 65 cents an hour, today 40 cents
is considered good pay. New sys-
tenn of wage cuts is being intro
duced in most all departments in
both the Roebling and the Trenton
plants. We find every week a few
workers pay shrinks, and when one
complains the boss usually says,
"take it or leave it, we have hun
dreds of others to take your place
One Negro worker was actually
thrown out because he demanded
his pay.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Arcadia Textile Strike Against Wage Cuts

(By a Worker Correspondent
ALLENTOWN, Pa,-ln the last
few months many wage cuts were
imposed upon the Allentown textile
workers. Speed-up is introduced in
most of the mills. The up till now
so-called passive workers begin to
show resistance as shown by the
strike in the Arcadia rayon plant.
Even up till now we have had miser-
able conditions. Now the bosses in
sist that we should run II to 16
knitting machines instead of 6 and
s. The boss was trying to tell us
that he has no work and that is the
reason of the speed-up. But we
know that if we accept the speed-up
half of us will be fired. We decided
to strike.
We have good prospects of VIM
ming the strike as we have the
National Textile Workers Union
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Chester Workers, Demonstrate March 6!

Thousands of unemployed workers
are daily standing at the gates of
the factories here in vain hope of
getting a job. The problems of hun
ger, cold, no money for rent, are
gradually creeping in into the homes
of white, and particularly Negro
workers here. In many families the
children are their only support as
their fathers and mothers having
been made twice as old as they ac-
tually are by the terrible speed up
in the local factories, have been
fired from their jobs and replaced
by young workers.
On March 6, $50 p. m. at Third
and Madison Streets, Chester, Pa,
the unemployed and employed work
ers will demonstrate their united
will to fight against these unbear-
able conditions; for the building of
Metal Workers Industrial League,
Marine Workers League, National
Textile Workers Union, and the
other militant trade unions affili-
ated with the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League,
the vanguard of the working class.
Chester Worker.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
CZECH BOSSES
like A, T. or |,
See moscow Plots" in
Every Dark Alley

PRAGUE, Czecho- -Slovakia (By
Inprecorr Press Service).-In con-
nection with the Communist prepa-
rations for the International Day of
Unemployment on March 6, the
bourgeois press has commenced a
furious campaign of Indictment
against the Communist Party, re-
porting that preparations for a
Putsch are being carried out, that
"secret discussions" are being held
and that "emissaries of Moscow
are taking part in them, and so on.
The executive committee of the
Tcheckish national democratic party
has adopted a resolution which is
nothing less than a call to the
Tcheckish government to prepare
for war against the Soviet Union.
The resolution declares that sooner
or later a national conference of all
constitutional parties will have to
be called in order to consider the
question of the determination of
Communism which is already caus-
ing so much unrest amongst the
workers and the national minorities
in Czecho- -Slovakia.
1t then claims that the Communist
movement is Subsidized" and k Ut
alive by the Russian government,
which is steadily driving tbs Rus
sian nation into political, moral
and economic ruin.
The return Of the governm It of
Russia "into the hands of the Rus
sian people" is, according to the
resolution, the only solution of the
problem and the necessary step to-
wards the consolidation of Europe.
The Fcheckish government is there
fore requested to adopt the neces-
sary policy.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05

ing Soviet patriots and defenders of
the socialist regime. Had Sergius
behaved differently the working
masses would have considered his ac-
tion treachery to the Soviet Union"
Yaroslavsky protests at "the lies
of the foreign press about the activ-
tiles of une atheistic organization"
the dispatch states, emphasizing that
the atheists limit themselves to
agitation and propaganda, and re-
press anyone who suggests coercive
measures against believers. "Sci-
ence and satire are our most power
full weapons"
He explained that the closing of
churches and the removals of church
bells were always in accordance with
the law and the right of the church
congregations to appeal to higher au-
thorities.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Sparrows Point Steel Workers, Demonstrate
March 6!

purchase stocks under danger of be-
ing fired if they are not loyal to
the company which means a sacri-
flee of four to eight dollars every
pay from their meager wages.
Wages are extremely low. For
extremely hard labor Negro and
white workers receive the starvation
wage of thirty-seven cents an hour.
The Negro worker is especially ex-
plotted and is given the dirtiest
and hardest and the most dangerous
work.
Skilled work is minimized in the
steel industry, therefore about 85
per cent of the workers are in the
unskilled class earning only 81 cents
an hour to SIS cents. Skilled first
class machinists draw So cents an
hour.
Steel workers, organize into the
Metal Workers Industrial League
which is affiliated to the fighting
Trade Union Unity League. And
demonstrate March 6 together with
the unemployed workers, because
speed-up which we have at Sparrows
Point mills leads to unemployment.
-Sparrows Point Worker.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
WORKERS IN PLANTS
IN TRENTON, CHESTER,
READY FOR MARCH 6
Arcadia Mill Workers Struck Against Wage
Cuts Which Leads to More Unemployment
Unemployed as Well and Employed to Demon
strate Together in Philadelphia District

There are thousands of unem-
ployed workers in Trenton and the
bosses threaten every one who dares
to kick about the speed up and
wage cut will be fired. The work.
ers are in a verge of revolt in many
of the departments. The bulletin
that the Communist Party distrib-
utes there certainly gives inspira-
ton to us in Roebling. In spite of
the fact that the A. F. of L. has
betrayed the workers once and they
were very sceptical about any union,
with the increased speed up and
wage cut, with the penetration of
the Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League a flame or a
little spark which is burning now
will sooner or later bring these
workers to a revolt. Much talk
about a strike is going on right
now.
All Trenton workers demonstrate
March 6!
"A Wire Worker.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05

Serious fighting is said to have
taken place, five French officers
having been killed and a number of
non-commissioned officers wounded.
Annamite officers and men were al
so injured. Aeroplanes flew over
the district and troops pursued the
mutineers who had fled. The situa-
tion in the military station, Khanh-
Hoa, is very serious.
Comrade Doriot deals with the dis
turbances in an article in "l'Huma-
mite" He attaches considerable i'm
portance to the revolt, and seeks its
cause in the oppressive exploitation
by French imperialism. Nineteen
million of the 20,000,000 peasants in
Tonking have only two-thirds of the
rice quantities they need for exis-
tence. They are robbed of their land
and tortured if they refuse to per-
form forced labor.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
NO JOB, NO RENT
Demands LEAGUE
President Seizes Floor
at Albany Hearing

After numerous liberals had de-
Tended the fake tenancy laws Of
republican party politicians at the
public hearings before the legisla-
tive committee at Albany, and after
the Lovestone renegades Grace
Campbell and Jenkins who split the
Harlem Tenants League had mob
ilized all possible reformist takers
to keep the leagues representative
from speaking, he spoke anyway.
The president Of the Harlem
Tenants League seized the floor
just as the republican assemblyman
Perkins was about to sum up for
his bill, and presented the demands
of the league. Chief among them
is one that there shall be no evic-
tions for rent and no rent payments
equired while the tenant is unem-
ployed, or in case of illness or
death.
Lower Rents.
The tenants league also demands
that rentals be no more than 10 per
cent of the annual family earnings,
demands government built houses to
be managed by tenants house COM
mittees, state aid to workers hous-
ing cooperatives, tearing down of
all unlivable houses, construction
by city or state of enough houses
for all the workers, no discrimina-
tion because race, color, labor or
political activities, immediate repeal
of summary eviction laws, no rent
while landlord fails to make repairs,
etc.
The landlords lobby simply gasp
ed in horror at these demands; it
had been fighting Historically
against even the hopelessly weak
and petty improvements suggested
by the two bills before them, one by
the Negro assemblyman (republican
party) Rivers, to let the tenant pay
the judge instead of the landlord,
and one by Perkins for a six months
stay in all dispossession cases.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05

leading us. We have much conf
dence in this union, as we know that
the Associated Union betrayed the
workers here, and moved out when
they had little difficulty.
We learned much from the shop
bulletin and leaflets that have been
distributed in the last year. Of
course we realize now that it was
a mistake not to join the union first
and prepare for the strike.
We drew up our demands which
were a 30 per cent increase in
wages and eight-hour five-day week.
And of course we will never work
on the 16 machine system if we win
the strike.
I know we will win as all of the
fellows are young and willing to
fight under the N.T.W. leadership.
An Arcadia Striker.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Indo- Chinese Revolt Against French
OppreSsOrS

PARIS, Mar. 3.-Out of the 26
revolutionists in French Indo-China,
who have been arrested for their
brilliant fight against French i'm
perialism, 13 have been sentenced
to be shot and one has been given a
life-imprisonment term.
The peasants and workers in Ildo-
China have increased their revolu-
tionary activities against the French
imperialists. The arrests grew out
Of an uprising of peasants and SOL
diers who attempted to storm a
French military headquarters.
In the night from Sunday to Mon
day, February 80, the Annamite
Security Troops mutinied in YEN
Beri. Two hundred men in Tonking
mutinied. A French bourgeois
agency reports that the governor
sent a detachment of "loyal" troops
to suppress the mutiny from Hanoi.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
WHY METROPOLITAN IN
MOSCOW ATTACKED THE
ANTI-SOVIET BACKERS
Yaroslovsky, of Atheist Society Says Church
Feared Losing Support
tabs Lies of Capitalist Press About U.SSR.
Anti-Religious Activities

The United Press reports from
Moscow state that it's correspondent
put some questions to Yaroslovsky,
OF the Atheist Society, among them
he was asked to explain why Metro
politan Sergius, acting Patriarch of
the Russian Orthodox Church, and
other leading clericals whom the
atheists attack as anti-Soviet, has
issued statements loyal to the So
Wet, quoting Yaroslavsky as reply
ing:
"They understand that any hostile
manifestation of clericals against
against the government will cause
he church and religion to lose mil
pms of believing workers. Millions
workers and peasants who as yet
hve not broken with the church and
religion are at the same time flam-
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Frisco Prosecutor Has
Cases Dismissed When
He Finds TOilers Ready

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3.-Joe
Nestroy, Mike Daniels and William
Simons, who were arrested at a
meeting here February IL, and
charged with refusing to move on"
disturbing the peace" and "resist-
ing an officer" had their cases dis
missed February rs. They had de-
manded a jury trial, and were pre-
pared to handle their own case, and
to make all the speeches in court
that they were prevented from max
ing on the streets. The prosecutor
made the motion to dismiss, in order
to prevent the workers from speak
ing.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Talk Disarmament"
But Launch, Build
Many War Vessels

BREMERTON, Wash, Mar. A.
Another 10,000-ton cruiser, the
Louisville, was floated today. While
Stimson. Macdonald and the other
imperialists talk about "disarma-
ment," at the London race-for-arma-
ment conference, the imperialists are
not idle. There are cruisers, battle
ships, submarines and other war ma
chinery being built by all the i'm
perialist powers while they try to
mislead the masses with their "dis-
armament" talk.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
T.U.U.L., CALLS
ALL out MAR. 6
Union Also Declares a
Strike, Demonstration

The Metropolitan Council of the
Trade Union Unity League, a CEN
tral committee of % elected at the
last session of the New York and
New Jersey convention, has issued
a call to all workers to strike
March 6 at noon and assemble in
Union Square to demonstrate with
the unemployed workers for i'm
mediate relief from the city treas
Ury, for unemployment insurance
paid for by the employers, for
shorter work day and higher wages
for those who work.
Unions Also Call
Seconding the call of the T. U. u.
L., are similar statements from all
the unions that belong to it, and
from its industrial leagues.
Such statements, addressed to all
their union members, and to all in
the industry they cover, come from
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, the Hotel, Restaurant
and Cafeteria Workers Union; In
dependent Shoe Workers Union, Me-
tai Workers Industrial League,
Building Maintenance W ORR e + S
Union, National Textile Workers
Union, Marine Transport Workers
League, Food Clerks Industrial
Union Local IT; Jewelry Workers
Industrial Union, Building and Con-
struction Workers Industrial League,
and all other T. U. U. L. groups,
shop committees, minorities in A. F.
l.. unions, etc.
The Metropolitan Area Councils
call to demonstrate March 6, says:
Unemployment is class issue.
Unemployment is the concern of all
workers, with or without jobs.
Reply To Provocation
"Reply to the campaign of pro-
vocation and terror of the A. F. L.,
the police, the bosses, the lying cap
italist press, by rallying for the
demands of the unemployed and en-
ployed workers in this demon
stration.
"The Metropolitan Area Council
Of the T. U. U. L. endorses the call
of the Communist Party, the party
of the workers, for this unemploy-
ment demonstration. The effective
ness of the T. U. u. l.. campaign
and struggle for the unemployed is
evidenced by the campaign of pro-
vocation, lies, and terror organized
by the A. F. L. agents, bosses and
police. Let us redouble our eff
forts! Out on Union Square,
March g."
The daily worker., 1930-03-05

ist prosperity" and the need to
organize and fight for their class in
terests. They see that every eco
nomic struggle is political strug-
gle because every economic demand
of the workers is bound to meet
with the combined forces of the capi-
talists, the United States govern
ment-the executive organ of the
capitalist class, and all arms and
instruments of the capitalist state,
from police clubs and gas bombs to
the asphyxiating gas of Matthew
Woll's social fascist propaganda.
They begin to understand the revo-
lutionary significance of the tre-
mendous success Of socialism in the
Soviet Union, and the need for them
to travel the same road as the Rus
sian workers in order to escape from
the exploitation and misery of capi'
talism. They are comprehending
that it is their supreme task. to de-
fend the Soviet Union from its war;
eager capitalist enemies. They are
learning that for real leadership in
their struggle they must turn to the
revolutionary movement.
"World capitalism goes deeper
and deeper into hopeless and incur
able crisis. The millions of ex-
plotted workers begin to awaken and
to develop the counter offensive
against capitalism. The great inter-
national demonstration against un-
employment is only one of the pre-
liminary phases of the great world
struggle that will eventually smash
the word capitalist system and lay
the foundation for socialism"
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Unemployed and
/, Employed Unite

III tCDHtHueU IFoW tuge OHeP
tant fight has made unemployment
an open burning national issue which
can no longer be ignored. Even the
so-called progressives in congress
have begun to blather about it.
"The A. F. of l.. and the socialist
party, true to their role as 'auxili-
aries of the capitalist class, have
not stirred hand to aid the unem-
ployed. Their line is exemplified by
Matthew Woll, the chief social-fas-
cist spokesman of American capital.
His program for the unemployed is
policemen's clubs and bread lines
submission for the workers and
recourse to bourgeois charity
crumbs. His lying statement about
the 1,250,000 of Russian money was
deliberately manufactured to create
kar sentiment against the Soviet
Union, to incite the police against
the unemployed, and to try to scare
the unemployed away from their
revolutionary leadership. Woll, en-
ployers' agent, is caught with the
goods and stands nakedly exposed
as an unblushing faker.
Thursdays demonstration will
be worldwide in scope. The TO-
100000 unemployed and millions
more of employed workers in the
various capitalist countries will
demonstrate militantly against cap
italism. The leaders of the whole
movement are the Communist Inter-
national and the Red international
of Labor Unions. The demonstra-
ton in Union Square, Thursday
noon, will be one of the greatest in
the history of the American work
ing class.
"It will be followed by further
decentralization measures. Last
night the Trade Union Unity League
decided to call a national conference
bn unemployment, to be held in New
York, on March 29. This conference,
besides setting up a national organ
ization and formulating the program
of the unemployed, will call great
national mass-workers' unemploy-
ment convention, to be held in the
near future in Chicago. This great
convention, drawing in thousands of
delegates, will be preceded by a
whole series of mass-state conven-
tions, local demonstrations, etc. The
workers will fight. American capi-
talists will learn that they cannot
offhand sentence millions of useful
producers and their families to star
vation while they, themselves, bask
at Palm Beach.
"The unemployed workers are or
panizing councils of unemployed
everywhere. They, together with the
employed, are building the revolu-
1tionary unions of the Trade Union
AUnity League. More and more they
understand that the A. F. of l.. and
its socialist and Music, it's allies,
are adjuncts of the capitalists.
"The slogan of the unemployed is
work or wages The T.U.U.L. de-
mands the establishment of unem-
ployment insurance and the seven
hour day, five-day week. Vast
masses of workers support these
elementary demands. The capital
lists will not be allowed to throw the
workers on the streets to starve be-
cause their bankrupt social system
is paralyzed. They cannot inflict
this wholesale starvation, even with
the use of all their police and A.
F. of L. allies.
"The economic crisis is rapidly
teaching the workers many lessons.
rhey see the hollowness Of capital
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
BOSS PERjURERS.
BUSY At TRIAL
Superintendent of Mill
Aids Killer of May


CHARLOTTE, N. c., Mar. A.
Mill managers, city police and other
mill company henchmen are on the
scene now as perjurers for five of
the Manville Jenckes thugs who
killed Ella May and are on trial
here now.
G. R. Spencer, manager of the
American Mills at Bessemer City,
appeared yesterday and testified
that he drove up with his car at
the time Of the shooting, that all the
textile workers in the truck had
guns, and that there were no other
cars in sight. This contradicts tlS
statement of dozens of others who
were on the scene and saw the COM
pany thugs block the truck on the
road. overturn 1t and shoot at the
workers as they fled.
Tried to Hire Perjurer.
One of the last witnesses against
the thugs was Mrs. Noah Ledford, a
neXtdoor neighbor of Horace Wheel
us, identified by two witnesses as
the man who actually shot down
Ella May. Mrs. Ledford swore that
Wheelus came to her before the
trial and asked her to testify that
he was home at the time of the
shooting, but she refused to lie for
him.
One of the mill company witnesses
is Roach, who accompanied Chief
Aderholt when he tried to massacre
the Gastonia strikers in their tent
colony, and got killed himself in
stead. Roach was wounded at the
time. He will testify, with other
hirelings, that examination of the
truck indicates that one of the
strikers shot Ella May.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05

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Shot For Stealing Bread.

SUOJ OT
BUFFALO, N. Y, Mar. Am
unemployed worker, Dorwood Nune-
maker, II years old, is dying in the
hospital from being shot in the
head by a policeman for stealing a
loaf of bread for his family facing
starvation because of unemployment.
He was with his married brother,
also jobless, when the policeman,
named Andres, fired on them when
they came from chain store with
bulging pockets. The lad lived with
his unemployed brother, whose wife
said: "Lester has been trying daily
to get work, but could get none, and
we are faced with starvation"
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mar. Am
Unemployed Council was formed
here at a packed meeting, including
many Negro workers. Many present
had found no job for three of four
months. Arrangement is made for
the demonstration March 6.
!
! Youngstown Ready for March 6.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-A splen-
did demonstration with at least 5000
workers was held here on February
26 at the Public Square.
The Unemployed Council, in the
absence of a meeting of the city
council till March 10, had sent let
ter demanding a special meeting on
the Goth. Though the city council got
it, they denied it, though registered
mail receipt proves they lied.
Speaking took place from the City
Hall steps. Some fat patriot wanted
to talk and we let him, much to his
sorrow, as after he had tried to talk
about everybody having IAN equal
chance" and "going back where you
come from" it was hard work to pre-
vent the workers killing him right
there.
Marching back to the Workers
Hall with 500 along, so more asked
to join the Communist Party, n
applied for the Young Communist
League and six newsboys signed
cards of application for the Young
Pioneers. This is in addition to the
II workers joining the Communist
Party the first unemployed meeting
held here.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
J0BLESS IN ALL
CITIES prepare
FOR MARCH 6
Minnesota, Ohio, N. Y,
Penna., Mobilize

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said Of the Gary Steel Company at
Duluth. After the Ford demonstra-
tion, the workers were forced to
work behind locked doors.
The daily worker., 1930-03-05
Ford Worker Tells 'em!

CHESTER, Pa, Mar. A work.
er in the Ford factory here who at.
tended the mobilization meeting f.
Mar. 6 demonstration gave the fol
lowing logical argument for the EN-.
ployed workers to strike March {
and join in the World Fighting Day
against unemploy.
ment:
"If we demonstrate, we will prob
ably suffer a little hardship, but il
we stay on the job that day, especial
ly at such a place as Ford's where
l work, we will suffer because Of
the terrific speed-up and for doing
what the boss tells us to do, as
am suffering now.
"You know we have the speed-uI
there, efficiency the bosses call it
We must fight the bosses with theiI
own weapons. They fight US with
mass production, and the answer Of
the workers must be-a mass demon
stration on March g."