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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
(Bu q Worker CorrespondenN

CAMDEN, N. j. (By MaiD The
Christmas gifts for the workers of
the Victor Talking Machine factory
consisted of kicks, in their backs.
They were getting laid off for lack
Of work, just before, and even long
before Christmas, and now the fac
tory is almost all closed down be-
cause of overproduction, that is the
great amount of work the workers
had to produce during their cruel
and long days of speedup.
The bosses had planned this last
Spring. Machinery then was placed
in for the naturalization, and a few
scientific engineers" figured out
ways to drive in the new speedup to
swell the bosses profits.
After the new speedup system was
all set to be put into effect, they
hired about $4,000 workers and drove
them to slave under a real stretch
out in minute, and another man
to keep up with the line, he was
thrown out in a minute, and another
man substituted, to avoid any short
age and delay on the line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Tipping System, and Military Lineup in r. r.
P0rters' Slavery

while at the same time the bosses
hire and fire these workers, and
try to keep them terrOriZed from
becoming militant by militarizing
these workers. The Negro rail-
road porters must fight for the
demand of living wages and de-
cent working conditions, and the
abolition of the tipping system.
They must at the same time
cast out the Negro misleaders,
such as the Randolph and Cross
waithe type, yellow Socialists"
who collabOrate with the bosses,
oppose militant action by the
porters, and work hand in hand
with the A. T. Of L. takers of the
Green and Vol type, who have
had Negro workers barred from
entering most A. T. of L. unions.
They hurst become part of
railroad workers Industrial union
to take in all railroad workers,
and form their section of this
union under the leadership of the
Trade Union Unity League,
which stands for the united strug-
gle of both Negro and white work
ers, together against the capital
list system which fosters race
discrimination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
SPEED VICTOR TALKING
MACHINE WORKERS TO
LIMIT; LAY THEM OFF.

Then, in the evening, the workers
were so tired, because they days
slavery took all the strength out of
them, and they had to get ready for
the next days work.
And, I tell you, fellow workers,
that l did realize the outcome of this
new system they were planning last
Spring.
And throughout this damnable
speedup, the workers also suffered
wage cutting, and the bosses did it
this way: They laid off hundreds
of workers and then rehired them
again with big wage cut. This was
done until every worker had suffered
the wage cut.
Now, l will advise the workers
that at the present time very few
workers are employed and they are
beginning to base another new type
of machinery and new slavery sys-
tenn that will mean naturalization
twice as bad.
Victor workers, we must build our
factory nucleus up, so that we can
be able to end these slave conditions.
Victor Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
JObless Increase i'm
Many Industries

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ployed workers to work hard, re-
main calm and take the long view
in a speech he broadcasted over the
Columbia Broadcasting system, Sun
day night. With the big bosses
promising mass unemployment for
1880, the jobless should, according
to Klein, tighten their belts and
take long view.
In spite of his optimistic tripe,
Klein should not entirely cover up
the sharp crisis. He said: eve may
recognize, and acknowledge it read
lily enough, that right now there is
some decline in commercial activity,
as there has been during November
and December, on the whole; that
a few of the recent business fail
ures were more than a little dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
OF
WOMEN W0RSEN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Condi~
tions of women in industry is becom-
ing worse, according to reports of
the Womens Bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor.
A survey covering 10000 working
women showed that their wages
were very low, insufficient to sup
port them at the lowest standards
of living. Employed women are at
a great disadvantage" says the
Bulletin, prepared by Agnes L.
Peterson, for the Department of
Labor. "In fact, some of the prob
lens that must be shouldered by
women" walls Miss Peterson, 'chal-
lenge our present social order"
The solution Of the problem of
rotten conditions for working wo-
men offered by Miss Peterson is
"chivalry." The American Fedora
ton of Labor, through its women's
department, workers very closely
with the scab Department of Labor.
The prosperous DANES in the A. f.
Of L. purposely do not attempt to
organize the great mass of working
women. This is being undertaken
by the Trade Union Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
FRENCH WORKING CLASS
SUPPORTS COMMUNISTS
AGAINST PERSECUTION
Attack on Communist Paper Answered By
Workers Collecting Fund of 100000 Francs
Strike Wave Breaks Out and Revolutionary
Unions Defeat Right Wing Minority

PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Serv-
ice).-The Communists Geroux and
Desnots have just been arrested in
connection with the framed-up "plot
against the security of the State"
for which $50 officials of the Com
munist Party have already been
arrested.
Comrade Chapuis, the business
manager Of the central organ of the
French c. P. "PHumanite," who is
a cripple but who has been held in
prison since the 18th of July, has
now been sentenced to three years
Imprisonment in connection with a
number of articles published in
'l'Humanite."
The young Communist ANGEL has
been sentenced to years imprison-
ment for resisting the State au-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
SOCIALISTS" IN
COUNTERFEITING
ANTI-USSR PLOT
Imperialists
Back Conspiracy

Continued from Page One)
the money to start the counterfeit
ing business, he refused to reply.
But documents exist, some 40 vol
umes of them, that prove these
Georgian white guards were fl
nanced by Sir Henry Deterding and
young Nobel.
Evidence Stolen"
These 40 volumes of evidence, by
the way, have been monkeyed with
in an amazing manner. Seized when
the arrests were made two years
ago, they naturally were turned
over to the Berlin prosecutor Was
mund. But now this worthy got
mixed up in the famous Sklarek
scandal exposed by the Communists
of Germany as involving the $50
cialist" mayor of Berlin, Herr Boess.
And four days before this present
trial Wasmund RETIRED .
Then when the trial now opens,
the documents have Disappeared"
it being said that they were taken
from official hands, photographed
and then sent to various countries
apparently sold as blackmail by
these estimable Socialists
Respectable" Foes of BOlshevism
The counterfeiting scheme was
established on a wholesale basis,
with a big printing press in Munich
and whole string of money pass
ers" in England, Sweden, Italy, Bull
garia, Germany and France. The
infamous German general, Hoffman,
who negotiated the Brest-Litovsk
peace treaty" for Germany with
the Soviet Government and Captain
Eugene Weber, a German fascist,
who is now one of the chiefs of the
armed fascist band, the Stahlhelm
and other lesser lights were in on
the conspiracy. Weber is one Of
those now on trial.
But as in the recent case of Or
loft, the scandal will likely b(
hushed up, the scoundrel, Orloff
recently being released after a Sc
cret trial, because the German so
cialist' government had used him al
spy against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Mislead to Leave Soviet; Want Back

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail Ser
vice).-Many of the Swedish peasant
families who were persuaded to
leave the Soviet Union and return to
their native country" as a result of
promises and propaganda, are now
anxious to return to the Ukraine,
which they left.
More families have petitioned the
Swedish authorities to let them re-
turn, declaring that the Swedish en-
igrants have been deceived, that the
promised land has not materialized
and that the emigrants are being
forced to work for the rich agrarians
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

thority and melting military per-
sons to disobedience." He has also
been in prison since the 18th of
July.
The answer of the revolutionary
workers to these brutal prosecutions
is to strengthen the fund for "l'Hu-
mantle" which has now reached a
million and a half francs.
Strikes are breaking out in in
creasing number, the minority in
the French revolutionary T. U. fed
Grafton (CGTU) have been over
whelmingly defeated and stormy
demonstrations have been held
against the six treacherous ex-
Communist members of the Paris
Town Council. Despite the repres-
sion the influence Of the G. P. is
steadily increasing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Police Arrest w. |. r. Man.

BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, Jan. G.
After conference on miners re-
lief at Staunton, Marcel Scherer,
Workers International Relief repre-
sentative in Illinois, was stopped at
the point of gun by police and ar
rested on a framed charge of steal
ing an automobile. So swift and
militant were the protests of the
Staunton miners that the police
were forced to free Scherer soon
after they had arrested him.
Relief conferences were held in
st. Louis, Mo-, Sunday and in Belle
vile Sunday night. George Voyzey
and Gerry Allard, leaders of the
National Miners Union, spoke.
Plans were made for organizing re-
lief on broad scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

for low wages.
In addition, the Swedish govern
ment had not given them Swedish
nationality as promised. The petition
concludes:
eve have been made into the
slaves of the Swedish rich landown-
ers. We want to go back to the
Ukraine, and if you give us permits
sion to return we are prepared to
walk the whole way on foot, rather
than stay here"
The bourgeoisie has dug pit for
the Soviet Union and is falling into
it itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

cause, although the police have been
making exhaustive inquiries, nothing
can be discovered against them.
1t is, of course, a regular custom
in Hungary and other Balkan coun-
tries for the police to arrest people
first and then collect material
against them afterwards.
The first proceedings will take
place next Spring, so that the ac-
cused will have been in prison for
over a year without trial, not that
such little things trouble the Hun
garian authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By o. WOTEeT Correspondent
I want to tell of the conditions
under which the Red Cap porters,
all Negro workers, at the Pennsyl-
vania R. R. Station, in New York
are forced to work. There are five
hundred or more of these workers
at Penn Station, all of them Negro
workers. They work long hours, for
no pay at all from the railroad
company. Instead the railroad sells
each one very expensive uniform
and it must be paid for in cash.
They must line up in a military
manner when going on and off duty.
Amongst them are leaders," such
as captains, sergeants, and corpo-
rails, just like in an army.
They have very high rent to pay
and big families, and all they have
to depend on is the nickles and
dimes that any travellers may feel
like giving them.-WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

We, the janitors and more espe-
cially the Negro janitors, are among
the most exploited workers.
In most cases Negroes have been
fired from the wet easements and
whites taken their places and put
on the ground floor and gotten more
money.
The landlords or the tenants can
not do without the janitor one single
day week. The ianitors are getting
little pay but plenty abuse and dirty
rotten conditions in wet easements,
without light, gas, and with little
air.
There is a great prejudice against
Negro janitors, who can only get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Bosses Need A. F. L.

daylight
Bosses Need A. F. L.
"The meaning of this is very OBJ
vious. The bosses of the South are
beginning to see that terror alone
cannot defeat organization work
among the bitterly exploited south
ern workers. by the N. T. w. and
the T. U. U. /.
No Workers There.
Lawyers, politicians, civic lead
ers,' form the audience of the labor
takers in their conference today, in
the fashionable ball room of the
Hotel Charlotte. The workers from
the mills will not be there.
"The coming of the A. F. L. and
its much doomed conference i'm
poses further tasks on the T. U. U.
L. and the Communist Party; they
will have to face not only the guns
and police courts and thugs of the
bosses, but also the bosses social
fascist allies, the takers of the A.
F. L.
"The southern workers will draw
their own conclusions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Hungarian Workers jailed Without Trial

PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail Ser
vice).-According to a report from
Budapest, the courts have now come
to a decision in the case of 100 per-
sons who were arrested in the early
part of the year for alleged Com
munist activity.
The arrested persons have been in
prison for over eight months without
any proceedings having been com
menced against them. Eighty-seven
of them will now be brought to trial
whilst thirteen will be released be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Negro Masses Fight
Against Imperialism
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with lynching for speaking at a
meeting for the organizing Of white
and Negro workers into trade
unions in Norfolk, Virginia.
The International Trade Union
Committee of Negro Workers pro-
tests against the unwonted murder
of our Haitian and African fellow
workers; we protest against the i'm
prisonment of white and Negro or
ganizers in the U. S. A., we protest
against the suppression of the trade
unions of Negro workers, the break
ing up of their meetings. We de-
mand the freedom of trade unions
amongst Negro workers, the free
dom of public assembly and the
right of Negro workers to organize
trade unions and to strike. We call
upon the revolutionary working
class throughout the world to sup
port the struggles of our fellow
Negro workers in Africa, Haiti and
the United States.
International Conference at London
July, 1880.
Our call for an International Con-
ference of Negro workers for July
/, issued a few weeks ago and work
ed out at the Frankfort Congress
of the League Against Imperialism
in August, is a part of the general
mobilization of the international
working class against imperialism
and capitalist exploitation. In par
ticular it is to mobilize the Negro
workers for trade union organiza-
ton. We call upon all Negro work
ing class organizations and frater-
nal working class organizations of
all races to begin preparations for
this conference.
J. w. Ford, is in charge Of organ
ization work for the international
trade union committee of Negro
workers. The committee has offices
at 2 West 18th ~, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
MLR. Station in TayloryilIe.

TAYLORVILLE, ILL.,, Jan. g.
Undaunted by threats of United
Mine Workers gunner, the I.R. has
opened relief store in Taylorville.
This is the second relief station
opened, the first being located in
Eldorado.
A local relief conference was also
held at which committee was
elected to take charge of the store.
A conference was held in Spring
field, Thursday, at which A. Hereby
was elected secretary of the Spring
field relief committee.
A truckload of food and clothing
from Chicago is expected here at
any time. A big district relief con-
ference will be held in Chicago on
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Workers Cut Diamonds But Starve

BRUSSELS (By Inprecorr Mail
Service) The crisis in the dia-
mond-cutting trade in Belgium is
sharpening rapidly. The number of
unemployed has now risen to 1000,
of whom $500 are organized in
trade unions. In Antwerp alone,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Stuck in Easements That Are Wet Negro
Janit0r's Lot Is Hard
(Rn a Yorker Correspondentl

Correspondent
such jobs that whites will not take.
Janitors' hours are from 5 a. m.
to IL p. m. and his pay $40 to $35
a month and most landlords want
you to buy soap powder, buckets,
brooms out of these wages and also
want you to collect rent. Janitors
work 365 days in the year and no
vacations.
1t is necessary for janitors to or
ganize into a fighting union to bet
ter their conditions, and l think all
.ianitors, Negro and white should
be together in that union. And a
union led by the Trade Union Unity
League will take in all.
NEGRO JANITOR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

over 1000 jobless diamond-cutters
are without support, penniless and
suffering. By an agreement with
the leaders o. of the socialist"
union, the employers are closing
down all remaining shops for two
weeks.
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planned against Saylors on the muir
der charge.
Identified Lynchers.
The perjury charge against Say
Tors was made by the mill owners
courts, because Saylors saw Car
penter and Bullwinkle, the mill own
ers' lawyers, who acted as States
prosecutors against the Gastonia
class war prisoners, lead the mill
bosses lynching mob which kid
mapped Saylors, Ben Wells and C. M.
Lell last September, and because he
persisted in saying that he saw
them.
In the attempt to railroad Saylors
on the same murder charge in which
they have railroaded the seven Gas
tonia workers and N. 7. w organ
izers, the bosses courts made use of
an affidavit alleged to have been
made by Robert Allen, a former
striker, and which Allen stated was
forced from him through intimida-
ton by Carpenter and Bullwinkle.
The International Labor Defense
has obtained from Allen affidavits
repudiating the one forced from him
by Carpenter and Bullwinkle. Allen
denies that he heard Saylors state
that the latter did not see Carpenter
and Bullwinkle in the lynching mob.
A second affidavit obtained by the
|. L. d. from Allen denies that he
knows anything of Saylor in the
Aderholt case.
Aliens Affidavits.
The affidavits. follow:
December 20, 1929.
81, Robert Allen, nearby say that
do not know thing about c. D.
Saylors in the A. F. Aderholt case.
|, Robert Allen was not there, so
therefore could not have seen him
there. I, Robert Allen, have not
heard him say anything about it, in
any way, shape or form. l, therefore,
have not discussed it with C. d.
Saylors at all. Any other affidavit
is not true.
"(Signed) ROBERT ALLEN.
"Sworn to and subscribed before
me this Dec. Goth, 1929.
"R. L. Sing, Notary Public. (My
commission expires Dec. 8, 1917
#
December "a, 1929.
81, Robert Allen, have not heard
c. D. Saylors say that he did not
see John G. Carpenter and A. L.
Bullwinkle in the mob on the night
of September 8, 1929. But did hear
him say that they were in the mob
of night Of Sept. 9, 1929. If any
other affidavit made outside of this,
they are not true.
(Signed) ROBERT ALLEN.
North Carolina, Mecklenburg
County. Personally appeared before
me, Robot Allen who, under oath
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
YMg0 Slavia IN
Crisis Shown BY
Terror Exhibit

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail
Service).-The exhibition death
and Terror in Yoguslavia," orga-
nized by the League of the Free
Balkans. Is opened here by the
former Prime Minister of Albania,
Mgr. Fan Noli. The exhibition aims
at showing the bloody national and
social oppression of the Pan-SeEr
bian regime and the present mill
tary-fascist dictatorship in Yugo-
slavia.
Statistics, documents and photo
graphs all contribute to damning
Indictment of the ruling classes in
Yugoslavia. Ten years of white ter
ror in Yugoslavia, 1864 executions
and political murders, 10000 politi-
cal arrests, $500 political fugitives,
100000 emigrants.
In the last six months alone Sc
Comm workers, intellectuals
and }l-revolutionaries have
been I'd, including the secre-
tary Iugoslavian Communist
Party. witch; the secretary of
the " avian section of the In
ternatioaal Red Aid, Hekimovitch,
and the leaders of the Yugoslavian
Young Communist League, Oreshki
and Mishistch.
Four thousand political prisoners
are still in prison. The exhibition
gives frightful picture Of the ma
tional oppression practiced by the
ascendant Serbs against the Croats,
Macedonians, Albanians and other
national minorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Avella Miners Strike
Against Cut in Wages
(Contin,:ed from Page One)

(ContinEed from Page One)
rade the towns attacking miners,
raiding their homes, brandishing
weapons.
The executive board, Illinois dis
trict, National Miners Union, has
issued instructions to all local
unions and the N.M.U. members to
instantly organize defense squads to
repulse these fascist attacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07

unskilled labor and artisans in the
building crafts. There was
sharp decrease in building per-
mits issued and contracts let for
construction" This is the time
when the bosses usually make
contracts for Spring building,)
The facts show that American
capitalism is in the throes of a
crisis all along the line, with the
disease especially affecting its
yitals in the basic industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Issue Coupon Books.

Coupon books, containing cou-
pons selling from 25c to 81, have
been issued by the Workers Inter-
national Relief to raise funds for
the striking Illinois miners. They
can be obtained from the local W..
l. r. secretaries or from the w. l..
R. National Office.
All workers are urged to sell
these coupons among their shop
mates and friends, as well as to
raise funds in other ways. Send all
money at once to the National Office
of. the Workers International Re-
lief, $40 Broadway, Room 512, New
York City.
& s..--- 49, a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
EDITORS NOTE:

EDITORS NOTE:
The system of tipping is
scheme carefully fOstered by the
bosses in the cases of such work
ers as railway pOrters; it saves
the bosses from paying wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
Court Opens to Frame
Saylors, George Saul

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planned against Saylors on the muir
der charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-19

mary with at least 100000 votes
in his pocket. He can count on
that many votes in advance.
He's as smart a campaigner as
there is in America. You'll make
the mistake of your life if you start
counting him out of the picture
now
Thompson's political machine is
still strong. OF recent months he
has been keeping quiet. He says
little for publication.
1.-THE rumor has gone around that
his health is failing and that he
will be glad to drop out of public
life when his term ends, seven
months hence.
But those who profess famili-
arity with political affairs here scott
at this rumor Thompson, they say,
will be back with all his old gusto
when the next campaign begins"