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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
AUTO WORKERS
PLAN MEET
Fight Unemployment
and Speed-Up

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 1.-THE
National Provisional Committee for
the Organization of National In
dustrial Auto Workers Union, head
quarters 1882 Woodward Ave-, De-
troit, has issued a call for national
convention of auto workers. All
locals of the Auto Workers Union
are to send three delegates each;
all shop locals of ten workers are
to send one delegate each, and an
additional delegate for each rs
workers or major fraction thereof;
all organization committees are to
send one delegate each.
The conference will be held in
Detroit, meeting at p. M, March
8.
Demands.
The National Provisional Com
mittee says:
"The Provisional Committee calls
upon all locals of Auto Workers
Union, all shop committees, all or
ganized and unorganized workers to
get together to discuss the call for
the conference and to elect delegates
to the conference on the above pro-
gram and the following demands:
General wage increase and
a minimum of $40 per week. Against
wage cuts.
"A seven-hour day and five
day week.
3.-For unemployment insurance.
Full wages while unemployed to be
paid out of the profits of the bosses,
and administered by the workers.
Against the speed up system,
for regulation and reduction of the
rate of speed on the belt and along
the line.
5.-Abolition of all discrimination
against our Negro fellow workers.
equal pay for equal work for
all women and special protection
of women.
IA six-hour day for all young
workers; equal pay for equal work.
8.-Abolition of the bonus and
piece work system.
establishment and enforce
ment of safety and sanitary regula-
tions by the shop locals of the
union.
10.-A five-hour day for danger
Gus and unhealthful operations with
compensatory pay.
11.-No night work and abolition
of overtime"
The call for the conference an
alyses the failure of the A. F. of l..
to do anything for the auto workers,
urges all unemployed to organize,
and participate in the unemployment
demonstration on February 26.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
Communist Activities

Section One.
Unit functionaries meet Section Or
ganizers or correspondent Section
functionary, for instructions. before
unit meetings.
Build the Party Concert and Dance.
Saturday. Feb. %, $50 at Italian
Workers Club, 314 e. 104th St. aus
pices Unit 4. Section 4. Proceeds
Daily Worker and IL Lavoratore. Ad-
mission 35 cents.
Metal Fraction.
Thursday night. 26 Union So.
section 4 Unit DAILY" Agents.
Thursday Feb. 13, 7.30 p. M. 33G
Lenox Ave. All Unit DIV. agents
must be present. District Representa-
tive will be there. Roll call.
Section One.
Mass meeting, Thursday at Manha.-
tan Lyceum.
Unit s, Section Z.
Wednesday. sac p. M. 2901 Mer-
maid Ave, Coney Island. Education
al "Leninism and War
"Arbeitero Affair.
German organ of Communist Party,
Saturday, Feb. Is, 5 p. M, at Labor
Temple. 243 East saith st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
AFFAIR TO HELP PARTY
SCHOOL.

Bill Chopper, Morris Pass, car
toonists in Communists papers, and
other well-known proletarian artists
will discuss proletarian art and how
t affects the workers, at the Contest
Symposium, to be held Sunday,
February 16, 8 p. m, at the Co.
operative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx
Park, East. Proceeds go to the Ma
tional Training School of the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
Reb0rt SeQuen
Burn to Death
ON Muenchen

An unknown number of seamen
were held on board the North Ger
man Lloyd lines Muenchen until too
late for them to escape, it was re-
ported yesterday. The Marine Work
ers' League, % South St., is investi-
eating. The capitalist press lost
interest in the number of killed as
soon as it was ascertained that the
first class passengers were taken off
the boat first, and were all safe. and
that the ships officers were safe
One fireman, at this writing, I'M
known was blown overheard and
sank; Michael Gibney of Engine Co.,
No. "a, has a dislocated shoulder,
and four other firemen are known to
have been injured.
Josephine Gherke, d stewardess,
was injured.
The ship had only arrived yester-
day, loaded with phosphate, alumni
mum, ammonia and silver nitrate,
with a fire in Hold No. 6.
The 118 Storage passengers were
kept on board until the first class
were all ashore, and the first ex-
plosion from the fire came before
the lower paying German immi-
grants were allowed to leave the
ship. There were five explosions,
then the ship was pulled into the
North River, so as not to injure the
dock, and allowed to sink.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
YOUNG SHOE
WORKER TELLS
OF SPEED-UP
Calls All at Werman
Shop to Organize
sBy a Worker Correspondent

Ny Worker Correspondent
While we workers of the Werman
Shoe Factory in Brooklyn slave for
hours a day for wages between
The measly sums of S12 and 500
per week, our boss, Mr., Werman, is
having a nice time in Florida en-
joying prosperity" on the money
which he squeezes from US. While
he is gone his three sons are SUBJ
'tituting for him in speeding us up.
When we complain to any of these
Werman triplets about our low
wages and rotten conditions, they
always tell US that it is enough for
any worker to get S1S per week!
They have a very able assistant
n Sam Reeder. He is the foreman,
Sam Reeder is a very wise guy.
He used to be a chopper getting
$50 week before he became a dele
gate in the union which used to be
in our shop and when a strike was
)nce called here, Sam betrayed it
and was bought off by Mr.. Werman.
Now he is our foreman and getting
S75 a week and two weeks vacation
every year with pay. He is the Of
sicial gangster of our shop. He
beats up anyone who distributes
eaflets to us, as he has done re-
Gently to members of the Young
Communist League who issued three
leaflets to us and held a very in
,eresting open air meeting for us a
few weeks ago.
YCL Exposes Reeder.
1t certainly gave me a whole lot
# pleasure to hear speakers point
Reeder out on the corner and call
aim a rat and every other name.
They have a nice way here of
speeding us up and gyping US out
Of a couple of minutes every day.
You have to sweat with piece work
% make an extra cent and even
hen not everybody has a chance to
york piece work. Many young
workers have to work for $12 a
week with overtime and with Sam
2eeder driving them harder and
harder. They gyp US out of 5 min
ltes every day by ringing the bell
very morning at 1855 and even at
lunch time by ringing the bell
minutes ahead of time.
Even after we have been exploit
I'd so, many of US get laid off. We
must get together and form a shop
committee which will fight under
the leadership of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union, a militant
left wing union, which is at present
eading a number of strikes all over
the city for better wages and con-
ditions and which will lead the
fight against the skunks, Sam
Reeier and the three Werman Sons.
We must fight for the following
conditions:
Minimum wage of $50 per week
For all young shoe workers; aboli-
ton of piece work; no discrimina-
ton against young workers, equal
nay for equal work; four weeks va
cation with pay for all young work
ers under IS; forty hour, 5-day
week for all workers; six hour s.
day week for all young workers
Under Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations

All income affairs, such ns bnzaars.
,;ances, concerts, ETC., for which or
usauizations desire publicity in this
column. must he paid for Mt the rate
of sI.OO for a SINCE insertion. $500
FOR three insertions. The space al
lowed mt this rate fs maximum OF
live lines with five words to each
inc. a total of y words
exposition International Revolution
ary Posters.
OF Workers Esperanto Group. 2s
-nion square. 5th floor, till Feb. 90.
lid steve Kntovis Branch.
Meets Thursday. p. m. at Center
A Night I'm japan.
February IS. at Japanese workers
.,rs' school sports Club. Admission So
tents. Part proceeds Daily Worker
Intern. womens Day Chorus.
Participation of all women union
MEMBERS urged Rehearsals Thursday
D. m. Workers Center, 4th floor,
tarting this week.
brighton Bench Open Forum.
OF Workers Club. Friday, $40 p. m.
u the Needle Trades" Admission free.
srownsvilie and williamsburg Doug
lass Memorial.
Tonight 8 o. M, 1o5 Thatford Ave.
ear pitkin. Prominent speakers
rood program. admission free.
Brownsville stringpinyers.
And Harmoniun players report 1o5
Thatford Ave, s y. m, ask for Shones
or Harper. Orchestra of A.N.L.C. be-
ing organized.
Painters MISS Meeting.
For all rnorganized painters. Fri
day, f43 II. i03rd ST. Firing your
fellow workers.
Borough Park LID.
Thursday, $50 p. NJ 1873 ARD ST..
Brooklyn.
Bronx Free Open Forum.
Am ba $50 dor Hall. 1875 Third Ave.
auspices Section Communist Party
and Left-wing Bakers Unions.
williamsburg Dance.
Saturday, Feb. Is. s p. m. at vii.
iiansburg Educa tional Alliance. &c
rhroop Ave, Brooklyn, auspices
womtnh Secion, Independent Shoe
workers Union. Admission 80 cents.
T,te BMT broadway line and get
or at Toriincr St
P-aux Lecture.
Ton chi $50 n m, 727 Allerton
Ave. role Of Communist Party in
class struggle" Louis A. Baum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
BOLIVIA TRADE
UNIONS VOTING
General STRIKE
Strike Vote a Blow at
the War Danger

Continued from Page One)
of petty-bourgeois liberals to save
the employers under the guise of
preventing trouble" and "sympa
thy" for the workers, have offered
to mediate before the strike is actu-
ally made effective by calling the
workers off the job.
The demands of the workers are
the following:
The eight-hour day, a minimum
wage, abolition of contract labor,
double pay for night work, abolition
of night work for children. general
wage raise at all factories and in
dustrial plants of 80 per cent, medi-
cal and first-aid equipment and
treatment, and free sanitary service
in factories; recognition of labor
union delegates in mills, and full
amnesty guarantees for workers ar
rested or imprisoned as agitators or
organizers.
Editorial Note-The Red labor
unions of Bolivia, part of the great
and important revolutionary trade
union movement of Latin America
organized only last May at the
Montevideo Congress, by the action
above noted in the La Paz cable,
are striking a real blow at the war
danger threatening between Bolivia
and Paraguay.
Thru the Montevideo trade unicn
confederation of all Latin American
unions, the Bolivian unions have a
firm proletarian agreement with
their comrades in Paraguay, and
their joint revolutionary action upon
their own bourgeoisie, such as the
strike demands above are a surer
guarantee against war than all the
bourgeois treaties in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
Unemployed Mass Meet
Tomorrow at Ii A. M.

All unemployed workers are in
vited to the unemployment meeting
at which Sadie Van Veen, secre-
tary of the Unemployed Council will
tell of the present situation, and
the active steps being taken by the
council to force the bosses to give
work or unemployment relief. The
meeting is tomorrow, at II a. M.
sharp, in the Workers Hall, 1179
Broadway, corner of 2Sth ST. 1t is
called by Sect'on 2 OF District 2
of the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
POLISH TEXTILE STRIKE
WAGE CUT.

(Wireless By Inprecorr)
WARSAW, Feb. 11.--Ten thou
sand textile workers struck yester-
day at Bielitz against wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
NOVEL LITERARY PAPER.

The Rational Vegetarian Restau-
rant, 1919 Second Ave-, is making a
practice of printing articles on the
following subjects: science, litera-
ture, art, philosophy, and current
events on the back of its daily bill
of-fare. This is called the Rational
Digest" All patrons who frequent
this restaurant are asked to con-
tribute articles, reviews or short
stories.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-07-01

the lecturing and preaching that is done
by professional crusaders.
"There neuer 1DaS a right endedUor but
1t succeeded. Patience and patience and
1Ue shall 7Uift at last NeDeT mind the rid
icule, neuer mind the defeat Up again,
old heart, there is Uictory get for al jus
tice. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
LIGHT WINES AND BEER
They told me-Beer is not a bad drink:
The people ought to haze it. Read
1DHdt eminent German authorities
sag about beer.
BEER CAUSES 70 PER CENT OF
DRUNKARDS
Editorial from The Pittsburgh Post of
May 9, 1903
At the recent meeting of the Anti-Al-
cohol Congress in Berlin, it was stated
by DR.. Delbruck, of Bremen, the presi-
dent of the Congress, that beer-drinking
as a means of combating alcoholism has
been clearly shown to be a failure.
1t leads often to the use of distilled Id
uors, but in itself it produces all the evils
of whisky. "Of 149 patients who were
treated in a North German private asy-
lum for drunkards. Al had been alco-
holized," said DR.. Delbruck, "by drinking
spirits, 80 By aUine drinking, and Is or
more than haIf-by the erceSSiUe con-
sumption OF beer"
The belief that de1irium tremens was
unknown among beer drinkers was mis-
take. Tt was impossible to convey by sta
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dumped into prohibitory territory, mani
testify against the spirit Of the law. APP
plicantS, on having been asked have in
dividually denied the allegations as far
as they refer to them, which has pre-
cipitated critical state of affairs
The declaration of the court was the
cause of an immense sensation.
The toetS told me-Condition8 are lporSe
under prohjbition-BUT-
NINETY FIVE PER CENT BECAUSE
OF DRINK
Editorial from The Pittsburgh Leader of
January 6, 1901
According to the report of Jail Warden
Soffel the total number of prisoners re-
ceived at the jail in 1900 was 9,182 In
the previous year 8, 44O prisoners were adj
mitted this being the largest number for
any one year up to that time The in
crease is, doubtless, to be accounted for
on the score of prevailing prosperity.
More money means more pleasure for the
individual; more pleasure, more license;
more license, more crime.
The jail physician states that 90 per
cent Of the prisoners came to grief
through the abuse of strong drink There
in lies the key. In flush times, the saloon
has more than its share CT the largesse
that flows from the pockets of the masses
and the percentage of drunkenness and
of the evils that spring therefrom rise
accordingly There is more valuable
temperance lesson in these figures from
the county prison than is embodied in all
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-07-01
DO YOU REALIZE IT?
Extent to Which Wet Propaganda
is Being Pushed by Many
Magazines

The Cadis Republican truthfully says
that the extensive propaganda to restore
liquor is not realized by the average man
and woman The average citizen knows
that many of the metropolitan newspapers
color their news columns as well as their
editorial pages in opposition to prohibit
ton, but they do not know how many
magazines of national reputation are feed
ing their readers with wet propaganda.
The Republican quotes from two of these
to show how far afield they go to slam
prohibition:
From the Lining Age:
'"The average middle-class American girl
esteems it an excellent thing to get in
toxicated on every possible occasion, and
the American boy is proud of his ability
to carry slxinful of liquor without COL
lapsing. Wives are proud to say that their
husbands are suffering from 'hangoVers.
Husbands encourage their wives to get
drunk in their own homes"
From ScribnerS magazine:
"There are some who predict boot
logger president" 1.-THE United States is
the only nation in history that has de-
liberately financed the criminal classes"
Drinking is a civilizing agent, a benefit
to health and nerves"
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THEY ALMOST HAD ME
FOOLED

They told me-National prohibition IS
corrupting police and public Off
ciaIs-Something u1knolDn ander
license.
AN EVIL THAT MUST BE CHECKED
Editorial from The Pittsburgh Post OF
March 4, 1890
There are reported to be about 1000
Speakeasies in Philadelphia, and so great
is the evil that the judges who are to sit
in the license court have given special in
structions to constables to inquire into
and report these lawless rum shops to the
courts for suppression and punishment.
The Philadelphia Times, commenting on
these facts, makes some remarks which
apply with equal force to the conditions
of the illegal liquor traffic in Allegheny
County.
1.-The police force of this city is the one
cause of this flood of drunken demorali-
cation and defiant lawlessness that now
disgraces this city There are not 100 OF
the nearly or quite 1000 speakeasies in
operation in Philadelphia that are not
known to the police; but instead of lcos-
ing them and bringing the criminals to
punishment, they are protected, compelled
to pay the price of protection to the po-
lice or to the party, and to vote and work
at elections as the police direct them in
obedience to orders from the city admin
instration.
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NEEDS OF TODAY GREATER THAN THOSE OF YESTERDAY

of
proportions period
The this euan1 H e CAMPAIGN WAS the Egheenth Amendment
country r ''''ss' y "'''DS A"A'''' p'''4"N'. p'4''
DFYs ASSUMED
and devotion on the mart Of the neoo who had set themselves against the LIQUOR
believe that the goal had been reached
hencorth nothing 1t evident that
certainly for the
writing of this policy into the Constitution The fact the contributions Of both time
than the license
Committee the
evidence of their devotion whatever
~ ~ SURPRISINGLY EXPENDITURE
carried forward its part in this campaign for
ma ma part m e campaign s esa
period between S ana 1 eoy eoe afcs to carr x
about turned
s naded the ons Of literature Circulated expenses public
dollars collected spent period of in
spending management
negligible Of the
tire amount pledges secured not than was obtained personal sonc
forums gatherings
the public meeting inform
vastly value
me newspaper lePoIts Oh ene sC Oh @ s
of report
which constitutes large part the educational program OF the national
W ~ WHAT OF THE FIGHT TODAY
But what the fight oday Since 1922 there has been decline IN contributions
that collected New friends constantly coming the
prohDfon
write the Eighteenth Amendment into the it worth while fighting
eOODaOn FRIEND of nh0n
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North Carolina has a law making it
compulsory to teach the evil effects of al
cohol on the human system. Teachers
who fail to give the prescribed number Of
lessons on the subject will be dismissed
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-07-01
FLOUTED ALL LAW

1t is apparent that the powerful liquor
interests fouted any lam that at
tempted to regulate their business.
LICENSE COURT HAS SENSATION
News item from The Pittsburgh Leader
of April g. 1908
According to declaration by Judge
Robert S. Frazer, concurred in by his COL
league, Judge John D. Shaffer, the Brooks
Law during the past year has been con-
stantly violated in Braddock by nearly
all the retailers as well as the whole
Salers. :.
Judge Frazer spoke his mind. He said:
'The Brooks Law, according to infor-
nation coming to the court, has, during
the past year, been almost continually
violated by nearly all Of the retailers and
wholesalers in Braddock. This is said
most advisedly and with regret. 1t has
been ascertained that in nearly all Of the
retail houses in Braddock women have
been in the habit of nightly frequenting
rooms at the rear of the bar where they
remained until they were intoxicated. I'm
fortunately, this court did not have the
special information in J.me to ask every
retail applicant, otherwise the number of
licenses would have been still fewer than
they will be.
Gas for the wholesale licenses, this
court is reliably informed that the pro-
Srietors of the stores have been con-
sistently employing foreign agents to So
licit trade among the foreign element and
have been paying commissions to their
drivers and others upon their turning
In orders. Much liquor, too, has been
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tistics the extent of misery caused by
what he described as beer alcoholism.
Prof. Cramer, of Gottingen, held that the
alcohol habit is durable if taken in time
and treated at a suitable drunkards' asy-
lum.
The ioetS tell us that beer is food and
mould Solue the problem. Read iohat
Judge White said about American
beer.
NOT GOOD DRINK, JUDGE WHITES
OPINION OF AMERICAN BEER
News item from The Pittsburgh Leader
of January 5, 1900
Judge ]. w. T. White, sitting in the
criminal court, entertains a very poor
opinion of the beer breWed in America
and takes every oportunity he sees Of ex-
pressing it.
Yesterday he told those who must drink
beer, they had better drink the imported
beer, and today he said that the beer
bought in this country does not intoM-
cate but makes brutes Of men who drink
it. That is due the aged jurist said, to
the drugs in the beer.
Judge White concluded by asserting
that more crime results from beer drink
ing than the drinking of other liquors.
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AN AMAZING ADMISSION
Editorial from The Pittsburgh Leader of
August II, 1902

BY all odds the most amazing confess
sion of police protection for the Illegal
sale of liquors are those contained in the
statements attributed to Assistant Supt.
of Police Wilson and Capt. c. K Gallant
reported elsewhere.
An announcement is made that "cer-
tain speakeasies are to be closed. Asst
Supt. Wilson, with fine contempt for the
law, and for his oath of Office is said to
have cleft it with Capt Gallant as to
what places were to be closed" Capt.
Gallant with frankness that is alb
solutely dazing, says, st did not notify all
to close"
Why wonder that the chief newspaper
defender of the ring gags at it's task and
utters an ominous warning? Why wonder
that the whole police department is de-
moralized and the men are making gross
plumbers daily?
DRINKING BY THE YOUTH
They told nte-Drinking among the youth
of the country 1OaS u7theGrd of be-
fore prohibition. This doesn't seem
to be exactly true.
BOYS SAY THEY BUY LIQUOR AT
DRUGSTORES
News item from The Pittsburgh Sun of
May l, 1908
When Judge Robt. S. Frazer, who sat
In court this morning, was told that some
drugstores in the hill district are worse
than the saloons and that little boys
could get anything they wanted in the
stores, he said that this must be stopped.
The arraignment of the drugstores came
up during the hearing of George Burnell,
IL years old, and Harold Kane, IS years
old, negroes, who were charged with steal
ing tobies and being bad generally.
VICE CRUSADE WILL GO TO COURT
News item from The Pittsburgh Leader
of July 2, 1908
Assistant City Solicitor L. S. Levin will
go into quarter sessions court tomorrow,
presenting petition asking five promi-
nine downtown cafe proprietors to show
cause why their license should not be re-
voked on the evidence that they had been
selling liquor to young girls. This is
in accordance with the Brooks liquor Ii
cense law and comes as a result of the
crusade against vice, which the police de-
partment has been carrying on.
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q regular syndicate controls the trade in
one part of the city while in other parts
Favored" wholesalers divide up the traf-
fic among themselves, shutting out other
men in the wholesale trade.
The ipets aDould haze us believe that
every police officer aVouId do his
duSy lDere it not for prohibition.
They seem to haze had difficulty
aDGy back IN 1902.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-16

DO-X'S FIRST FLIGHT WITH AMERICAN MOTORS-Closeup view of bow and forward section of the giant German seaplale, Dornier DO-X, as it was taken out on Lake Constance at Alten- rhein, Switzerland, on its first trial flight since the installation of new water-cooled American
 motors.