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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
| 900 MINERS STRIKE; LED BY NATIONAL MINERS UNION
e Hosiery Aseadus IN Conspiracy Make Attack Worker
Put to the Test

IRON by Bill given another column
great battle of the coal beginning
the Western Pennsylvania and coke region.
The capitalist pnhng the operators who trying
intensified competition the To
nhuman speedup robbery working conditions added
dismissals that amounts to IS
against begun other than the
Rockefeller interests the Consolidation Coal Company which
leg of the great octopus called STANDARD Oil"
thousand already strike They strike under the
fighting revolutionary
which the of the whole after rejecting the
fascist u M. w. of A. led by the unspeakabe Lewis.
should attempt by the equally crooked
but disguised also claiming be the "rea
u NJ Al making lot of tall talk against Lewis but
led by the Fshwk owat social fascts whose
outstanding well off the by
their acting tools of the Illinois This backed
group progresves"
phment the eay the southern textile workers
to the mill owners.
should stick tightly the National Miners Union
And M. u. Comrade well remarks, being
ability organize lead the Obviously
main policies marked for it by the situations The fight
against spedup dsmissas the
The fight for local demands is equally important.
how the N NJ u to the test depends greatly
putting concretey practice the basic strike strategy the
Labor Unions determined by the Srabug
ference that important subject.
the imperative needs that the n NJ u itself be
organizatonay consolidated firmly rock the of the
struggle that nothing dsodge it. All loose haphazard
methods be banned the machinery frightened
top to bottom.
file committees every Build the N. NJ. u.
treacherous u NJ W. A Fight the the pedup, the
discharges! firm fight will defeat the attempt of the
swell their profits the starving the their
wives and their children!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
India Peasants Burn Records;
Anti>Picketing LaW Violated

roy Irwin and the misleaders of the
Indian parties, 1000 troops were
rushed to Bombay to smash picket
ing and enforce the new government
edict prescribing six months I'M
prisonment for pickets.
Though this ruling is immedi-
ately stimulated by the Gandhi fol-
lowers picketing of liquor shops, it
can be used in every labor struggle.
The new regiments sent here are
native, the Fourth and Fifth Mahar-
rattas, but a Manchester regiment
at Secunderabad is ready to entrain
for Bombay at a moments notice.
News has been received here of
anti-imperialist demonstrators seiz-
ing village near Agra and looting
shops after driving out the police.
There has been fighting in Agra it.
self, but details are lacking.
The government communique on
the struggle at the Dharsanna salt
works recently "denies police atroci-
ties" and says: "The demonstrators
were only moderately beaten with
slaves"
However, some of them died.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
HUGE WAGE CUTS
SPEED UP LOOMS
FOR HOSIERY men
United Textile Union
Takers Guarantee to
Put. Over Boss Plan
But Men Will F i G h t
The National Textile
Workers in Call

PHILADELPHIA, June ia
sinister conspiracy, Matched in Sc
cret conferences and meetings be-
tween the hosiery manufacturers
and the officials of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Ho-
siery Workers, is threatening some
$4,000 organized hosiery workers
and many thousands unorganized. A
basic reorganization of the industry,
shot through with unemployment,
part-time work, speed-up and other
effects of the economic crisis grip
ping all industries, is to be made
with terrific attack on the already
low standards of life of the hosiery
workers.
Huge wage-cuts, ranging from
to 33 per cent, will be the start
ing point for more wage-cuts. Thou
sands of hosiery workers, especially
knitters, are to be forced out of the
industry with the introduction of
the "a and even 6-machine system.
Leading the attack against the
hosiery workers will be the Music
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
RALLY SHOE MEN
FOR june 20 MEET
Hail Party Vanguard
Of Working Class

NEW YORK.-At the time when
all the black, reactionary forces are
united in an effort to smash the
vanguard of the revolutionary move
ments, the Communist Party of
America opens it's Seventh Conven-
ton with monstrous mass protest
meeting at Madison Square Garden
on Friday, June 20.
The Communist Party of America
is the champion of the interests of
the working class of this country.
Because we find the Communist
Party at the head of every struggle
of workers, it is attacked bitterly by
the black reactionary forces, the fas-
cists of the A. F. of L, and the So
cial fascists.
The shoe workers, members of the
Independent Shoe Workers. Union,
affiliated with the Trade Union
Unity League, recognizing the sup
port given them by the Communist
Party, issued a statement in which
they call upon all our members, and
the shoe and slipper workers in gen.
eral, to participate in the protest
meeting,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

Defense, and two Negro workers,
Henry Newman, of the American
Negro Labor Congress, and Henry
Storey, a Negro worker of Atlanta,
who may be the Communist candi-
date for governor of Georgia this
year. All are under the same death
charge. The two women and two
Negro workers were arrested at a
meeting of the A. N. L. C.
News has been received from
within the Jail as follows;
"The authorities are beginning
to tighten up on the instruction
defendants from every angle. Since
the Seventh, Nation Wide Protest
Day. queer things have been 60
ing on here. Hundreds of wires
and letters have been delivered to
the prison, but the defendants have
seen none Of them. Meanwhile the
officials are actually frightened by
this mass protest and rumors such
as, THE Reds are going to storm
the Towers The Reds are prepar-
ing for violent action are spread
ing"
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to answer the attempts of the French
imperialists in their war plots
against the Soviet Union. Our an
swer will be, war against the i'm
perialists. For the revolutionary
overthrow of the capitalist system"
They told of the recent appropria-
ton made by the French imperialist
government for war purposes of
three billion francs for naval forces.
When the seamen demanded a 5000
franc yearly pension for disabled or
aged men their demands were re-
fused. In 1914 the imperialists con-
fiscated the treasury contributed by
the seamen to pension their men,
bers and used it for war purposes.
The establishment of close ties be.
tween marine workers of France anc
United States was one of their com.
missioned duties, they told George
Mink, chairman of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, in hand
ing him their credentials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

MADRAS, India, June 15.-The
peasant uprising against tax eX-
ploitation, which Gandhi is attempt
ing to lead into non-resistant and
harmless channels, has swept into
South India and on tide of re-
sistance to police brutality.
When two nationalist volunteers"
were convicted of breaking the salt
laws at Tindivanam, so miles south
of here, a great crowd assembled,
stoned the police and constabulary
and severely injured an inspector of
police.
The police fired into the crowd,
which suffered unknown casualties.
1t is significant that during the
fighting the peasants broke into the
agricultural office and destroyed all
the records. This has been the first
step in uprisings of exploited pea
santry in every age and in every
country in the world.
Send 1000 Troops.
BOMBAY, India, June 15.-Fol-
lowing conference between Vice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
GEORGIA DEATH
{ TRIAL Is Near

ATLANTA, Ca, June Is. -
Thursday M. H. Powers, Commu-
mist Party district organizer, and
Joe Carr, Young Communist
League district organizer, go on
trial here charged with "insurrec-
tion," ETC., with the prosecutor de-
handing the death penalty for
them. Under Georgia law passed
in 1861 to kill leaders of Negro
slave rebellions, they can be cleo
trocuted if convicted.
Held in the same Jail with them
are two girls under 81 years of
age: Mary Dalton, organizer Of the
National Textile Workers Union;
and Ann Burlak, representative in
Georgia of the International Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
FRENCH WORKERS
BRING GREETINGS

NEW YORK, June 15.-Carrying
with them the revolutionary greet
ings of the French workers, Henr;
Augustine and Carbonetto Paul,
Marseille seamen, hailed the District
Convention of the Communist Party
held today. Speaking with the warm
fervor of the French revolutionary
workers, the two seamen, members
of the Communist Party of France,
told of the growth of the revolt
tionary movement in the fight
against imperialist war preparations
and the worsening conditions of the
French workers.
"The French workers are ready
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
HOSTILE JURY
CONVICTS nine
IN Ell centric
Class Enemies Refuse
to Consider Evidence
Sentences Today
Face AZ Years Apiece
Case Brought to Block
Vegetable Strike

Ell centric, Cal. June 10
The prejudiced rancher jury in the
case of nine workers charged with
criminal syndicalism here came back
within an hour, Friday, with YER
dict of guilty" for all of them. The
verdict is the same for all three
points of the indictment, and on
each point, a sentence of zone to
fourteen years" will be given each
man, making sentences of az years
apiece.
The jury also recommended de-
portation for all the defendants who
are foreign born.
Sentence will be passed Monday.
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Fifteen More Days to July 1st

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join fight
of shouting?
We have action We rush
enlist them side
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Help accomplish the
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Fifteen days to July 1st
In these fifteen days collect $4,000 complete the Daily
Worker fighting fund.- Emergency Fund keep going
and growing.
decided all
collection activities difficulties finds
would strengthen
attack of the the class
in secret in Washington 10 suppress
Every Party unit section, district
Recognizing danger standing shouting Danger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
Special India
Edition June Is

The special Indian Revolution
edition of the Daily Worker
Wednesday, June 18th, contains
special features, articles, and
news items explaining the great
significance of the Notwithstanding
events now taking place in India
as in China. Watch for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

"A numD6r OIL leaflets calling
for strikes against all wage
cuts have been issued by the
N. M. U. Fifty thousand adj
ditional leaflets will be issued
this week.
Miners in other properties are
preparing for struggle.
There is every indication that
these strikes are merely the begin
ming of far wider struggles. Much
depends upon the strength of the
forces the N.M.U. can send into the
field. The necessity for struggle is
understood by the great majority
of the miners and the ability of the
N.M.U. to organize and lead the
growing resistance to the wage cut
ting program of the coal and steel
companies is already being tested.
New Stage of Boss Drive.
The drive against the miners in
Central and Western Pennsylvania
has entered a new stage. The clos
ing of mines and mass discharges
are being accompanied by an an
nounced wage cut of 10 per cent
but an actual wage cut of Is per
cent.
The tactic of the companies is to
cut wages in the smaller mines first,
and in certain instances to confine
the wage cuts for the time being to
certain classes of work, but the gem
eral policy of placing still more of
the burden of the crisis in the in
dustry on the miners and their fam
lilies is being carried out rapidly.
Mines are shut down, the COM
panies attempt to force the same
production from a smaller number of
mines and workers, and at the same
time wage cuts take place.
The miners now actually face
fight for existence.
Standard Oil Leads Offensive.
The new offensive was begun by
the Consolidated Coal Company in
! Somerset County-a Standard Oil
subsidiary. Mines employing 1900
men were closed and at the same
time a IS per cent wage cut made
in the mines still working.
In the last few days other big
coal and steel concerns have follow
ed suit. The Lambert mine, il
Fayette County, owned by the Frici
interests, and employing 400 mer
has been closed. The Pike mine
owned by the Hillman interests, EN-
ploying $50 men, and the Cokeburl
mine, employing 450 men, and own
ed by Bethlehem Steel, have shu
down.
Evidence of Sharp Crisis.
Many of the hines in the Western
Pennsylvania district produce TO
what is called the "lake market
during the summertime, in additio,
to the local steel and railway de
mand. In normal times, contrar
to the situation ir other sections 0
the coal mining industry, thes
mines work full time.
But the economic crisis has struc
such blow at this market, and tn
depression in the local steel marke
is so severe, that competitive strup
giles which in ordinary mes are c
a very mild charac~ or entirel
nonresident, hG.' out in 5
sharp a manner that the Pittsburg
press is giving columns of fror
page news and editorial space {
the heroic battle now being wage
by the local mine owners for Gus
ice" Justice in this instance mean
lower railway rates. In this struggl
Pennsylvania and Ohio coal baror
have formed a united front agains
their Southern competitors.
"The Pittsburgh Press" for Jur
10 features the story of the con
petitive struggle under the follow
ing headlines:
Coal Men Join for Coal Rat
! Hearing Monday-Prominent Me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
To Break a Strike.


The railroading of the nine I'M
perial Valley workers grew so di-
rectly out of the February strike of
some 5000 vegetable workers in the
valley, and the preparations for
another strike during the present
canteloupe season there, that it is
scandal even in capitalist circles.
While delegates were gathering in
the valley for a great convention Of
the Agricultural Workers Industrial
League of the Trade Union Unity
League, to which the $4,000 Imperial
Valley workers were turning after
the sell-out of their previous strike
by Mexican mutual add reform
list organization, IS were arrested.
Many were held on $4,000 bail each,
1t was openly admitted that the ar
rest was to Save the canteloupe
crop"
The number actually placed on
trial was nine: Alonzo and Orosco,
Mexicans; Hariuchi, japanese; Her.
rera, Porto Rican; Roxas, Filipino /;
Emery and Erickson, native born
Californians; Spector and Sklar, U.
S. citizens. The trial was featured
by several stool pigeons, apparently
new professional witnesses" like
those used in the previous orgy of
criminal syndicalism trials, in 1922
and 1928.
Prosecute Defenders.
During the trial, members of the
Labor Jury were arrested, and LID.
mass meetings broken up. Those
arrested and tried for assisting the
defense by distributing leaflets ex-
planning the case to the workers, OF
for serving on the Labor Jury have
written "a birds eye view of Cal.
ifornia justice" as follows:
"There were originally six of us
arrested and charged with vagrancy
but all evidence was directed to-
wards proving our membership il
the Communist Party.
District Attorney Head said
Now, if you men will quietly serve
out your five months sentence anC
not appeal your cases, l will no
prosecute you further. But if you
appeal, will put criminal syndical
ism charges against you He doe
not want us out on bond, becaus
he has had some experience witt
our determination. We will not sur
render one inch, though we see i
thu present criminal syndicalisr
trial, what we can do with his han
picked juries of growers. We al
lucky there is no capital punish
ment for organizing to make cond
tons better, as there is in Georgis
"To the workers everywhere W
say, Don't give up the fight!'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
By BILL dunno.

PITTSBURGH, June 10, (By Mai).-One thousand min
ers are on strike number of mines owned by Bethlehem
Steel the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company and the Du
quesne Steel Company.
These strikes led by the National Miners Union and
are against the 10 per cut made few days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
FIGHT OPEN WAGE CUT
OF 10 PER CENT BY BIG
PENNSYLVANIA OWNERS
Standard Oil, Morgan and Morrow Owned
Mines Lead; Swindling Makes 1t A Is Per
Cent Cut

Penowa Last Important UNIV, Local in Dis
trict Joins Miners Union; Crisis Hits Hard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

Read of the Attempt of the Bosses and Their
Agents in the A.F.F.FH.W., the Progressive"
Musteites, to Saddle the Hosiery Workers
With the Burden of the Crisis by Big
Wage-Cuts, Speed-up, etc. Special Ar
ticles and Features all this Week.
Hosiery Workers, Don't Fail to Get
Your Copy of the Daily Worker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
TWO TRANSLATION
AIR RECORDS MADE
Hiss Laura ingalls, and Robert
Buck Set Marks for Flying
IA Time.
ny sne Associates Press.


NEW YORK, October 1.-two new
Nanscontinental air speed marks were
established today, one by boy of Is
and the other by q young woman who
already held records for barrel rolling
and looping.
The drst in was Miss Laura ingalls,,
who landed at Roosevelt Field with a
flying time Of IS hours and IS minutes
from Los Angeles. A little later Robert
Buck dropped down at the Newark Air
port after % hours and Al minutes in
the air since leaving Los Angeles
Buck beat the junior record made re-
Gently by his friend, Eddie Schneider.
Miss ingalls, didn't beat any record be-
cause no woman had ever made an
oklcially recorded flight from the West
Coast before, but she established mark
for other women to shoot at.
Buck brought back with him the
Junior record for both west and east
directions and Miss ingalls, would have
had two records, too. If she had not had
such keen competition.
She new ont in 80 hours and ~ min
utes, but before she had time to turn
around and start back Mrs. Keith Miller
cut the record to IS hours and A
minutes.
Both the junior and woman's records
are being computed on flying time basis
and not. as Is done in the open record.
en- elapsed time The ingalls, and Buck
elapsed times are considerably more
than the flying times since both
Myers stayed overnight on the way in
Columbus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
BUREAU TO WEIGH
SCHOOL EXPENSES
Extra Hearing Nearly Com
pIeteS Consideration of
District Budget for 1882.

Consideration Of the Districts 1882
budget by the Budget Bureau was COM
pleted yesterday, except for the school
items, which will be taken up during
the week beginning tomorrow.
An extra hearing was called yesterday
afternoon in order to get everything
except the school items completed. 1t
lasted until after o'clock. Maj. DAN
lei j. Donovan, District auditor and
budget officer, was the only District
government representative to attend the
extra session.
The 1892 budget for the District is
said to require an expenditure of $48,-
500,0 600, which can be met, according to
present reports, without changing the
tax rate Of $1.70 per hundred on real
and personal property and without get
ting a larger contribution from the
Federal Government than the $780,
900 contributed for the Districts ex-
penses during the current fiscal year.
According to the program, hearings
on the District budget will be complete
by October ~. They started october 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
U. S. SEEKS EARLY
DISARM FORMULA
League Delegates to Oppose Any
Budgetary Limitation for
AImaments.
~ the Associated Press.

y the Associated Press.
Speedy conclusion of the work Of the
League Of Nations Preparatory Disarm-
aSaent Commission will be urged by the
American delegation.
After extended conferences with Pres
tdent Hoover, Secretary Stirnson and
state Department officials, the Amer
lean delegation, headed by Hugh S. Glib
SON.. Ambassador 10 Belgium, and Hugh
Il. Wilson. Minister to Switzerland, has
left for Geneva to attend the session
opening early next month.
A number of other nations are under
stood ready to back any plan TO hqui-
date as promptly as possible the work
OF the commission in order that some
formula for disarmament may be laid
before the League Assembly.
One proposal which Is favored
widely, but which viii be opposed by the
United States so far as its own land
and sea forces are concerned, Is that
fcr budgetary limitation Under this
method expenditures for ornaments
would be limited rs well IS the numer-
teal strength Of service. The conten-
ton Of the United States will be that
the propOrtionate cost Of maintaining
the services here Is much higher than
In other countries; 50 q budgetary hmi-
tata0n would restrict unduly Americas
12Uu, SEA OF III IOLCeS. ~ VIII oAeO "
egnphAsized the United States gives full
rublicity to the amount Of money
spent annually on its fighting forces
) me delegation Is expected to oppose
oimphaticaIiy any limitation formula
which would restrict commercial air.
craft.
President Hoover ut the series Of
conferences he has had with the prin.
eipal delegates has taken q whole.
hearted interest In the formulation Of
the American policy. It was said,
authoritatively today, the United States
win not enter the session with any
thing In the nature Of q surprise. as
e. last years meeting, when the Amer
lean delegation proposed the use Of
the "yardsttck" for naval limitation.
while the 'yardstick" never was
adopted, Il opened new discussions
which led. to the signing this year Of
the London Naval Treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
LOST DOCUMENTS
POSTPONE INQUIRY
Federal Trade Commission
to Resume Power Hear
ings in November.

~ the Associated Press
The destruction of records in the re-
cant fire at the Federal Trade Commits
sion shas so hampered the investigation
Of power utilities that it will not re-
sumo hearings until some time in Mo-
veniber.
The commission advised the Senate
yesterday that check-up of the dam
age showed reports prepared for use in
hearings on eight companies had been
destroyed altogether. These concerns
were to have been examined publicly
Ia the near future. The commission
also lost exhibits and field reports con-
eerning five other companies.
Resume Hearings in November.
When the hearings are resumed next
month, the affairs of one of the larger
holding companies, not named in the
report to the Senate, will be examined.
Since the fire at the end of August, the
commission has held one series of hsar-
ings on affairs of the Carolina Power
q Light Co. and the Minnesota Power
b Light Co., both operating concerns
OF the Electric Bond g. Share group.
Field accountants, the commission
said; now are examining the books Of
i've holding companies and six operat-
ing concerns. They have completed
studies on one holding company and
eight important operating groups.
~ Documents Being Replaced.
The lost documents are being replaced,
but this work was said to be con-
Stunning much time as well as being ex-
pensfve.