The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
The Pacific Coast on August First

cent capacity during the week ending June 2S.
The output for the first 26 weeks by 345 mills
was Fl per cent below the same period last
year. In the oil industry in California, lay-offs
are continuing, with many companies shutting
down large production fields. In railroad,
metal and other industries, increased lay-offs,
in many cases down to a skeleton force and
further wage-cuts. Oakland, Calf. and sur
rounding towns can serve as an example. In
the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co., 500 were
at work four months ago; now only 375 are at
work. Piece-work is being introduced through
the stop-watch system. Machnists getting
from rs cents to 81 an hour are fired and their
places taken by workers for SO to 60 cents
an hour. Apprentices are hired for SO week;
seventy-five of them being now employed In
the Chevrolet plant General Motors), after
ten days lay-off the four-day week is in prac-
tice, instead of six, with reduced day rate in
stead of piece-work. n the Key Route rail
road shops, more speed-up, turning out one
man operated cars. The westinghouse plant in
Emoryville, formerly employing $50 men, laid
off $50 last week. For the last two months,
the Byron X. Jackson plant has been shut down
entirely. The Caterpillar announces the early
shutting down of it's plant here, only $50 at
work out of normal force of $50. The work
ers in that shop report that one-half of them
will be laid off next week. Until the early
months of this year, over period of eighteen
months, it was only the 100000 order from
the Soviet Union that kept this western plant
of the Caterpillar OPEN The Elmhurst Foun-
dry, making castings for the Caterpillar, has
shut down completely. The Southern Pacific
shops are now working four days a week, in
stead of five. Engineers and firemen are put
to cleaning cars. Men are being laid off in
the passenger and freight yards as well. Con-
tinued wage-cuts and lay-offs are similarly in
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Pacific Coast, from the Canadian to the Mex
lean borders, from the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific Ocean.
War Plans On Pacific Coast Maturing
August First finds the war preparations of
the imperialists along the Pacific Coast ma
turing The selection of site for an army
dirigible base at either Sunnyvale (near San
Francisco) or at Camp Kearney (near the
Mexican border) is to be made shortly. Plans
are being made for the army base in Alameda
The largest army airplane maneuvers ever held
before in this country, held at Mathers Field,
Sacramento, in April, were followed by SIM
liar maneuvers recently in the state of Cali
fornia The Pacific fleet is to visit Seattle
and California ports within two weeks. The
c. M. I. G. and R. o. t., C. camps are being
puSneu extensively. new American Legion
Labor Post was recently organized in San
Francisco, from smong trade unonists, by the
takers in the San Francisco labor movement
The drive against the revolutionary move
ment, against the Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League, is increasing The
rejection of the appeal in the San Bernardino
Red Flag case, the sentence of six leaders of
the agricultural workers of Imperial Valley to
up to forty years in jail the continued refusal
of the authorities to release Mooney AMI Bill
lings, the Centralia prisoners, or the other
class-war prisoners in the jas along the Pa
cific Coast, the declaration of the chief of po-
lice of Los Angeles that Communist meetings
were banned in Los Angeles, the increase in
the number of workers held for deportation
all these factors indicate the increasing fear of
the revolutionary movement by the authorities.
AS further preparation for imperialist war,
the capitalists Of this state are intensfying
their persecution of workers of colonial origin.
The murderous attack on the Filipino agrieul-
tural workers in jacksonville, California, by
the bosses and the American Legion some
months ago is now followed by similar threats
in Sebastopol. Congress sashed the quota of
Mexican workers who could enter the United
States The authorities have begun new
wave of arrest under deportation charges Of
workers of colonial origin, particularly of Chi
nese AMI Mexicans.
Are We Ready?
August First finds our Party on the Pacific
Coast better equipped to carry on it's work.