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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
WORKERS MUST !,
Be ROBOTS IN
PITT STEEL co.
Keep UpWith Machine.
Never MindYou
lBy a Worker Correspondent)

DB u w UfhCf SVtfOoPVfeNS'"~/
MONESSEN, Pal. thought ]
would write few lines of the rot
ten conditions we have to work
under here, in Monessen.
The Pittsburgh Steel Company
laid off hundreds of men in Septem-
Der and October of 1929. The men
have to go down twice day in the
morning at 7 o'clock and evenings
at 6 O'Clock. Sometimes they get
one to two days a week and some
weeks they go down and don't get
any work at all.
TIL labor wages here are 40 cents
an hour. A worker gets $500 for
an e1even-hour day, with 45 minutes
off for lunch. They also have the
piece-work system here in the Pitts
burgh Steel Company and the speed
I'D is terrific. A worker has to keep
up with machine, and if he wants
to get drink or go to the lavatory,
they stop all the machines and all
the other workers tell him to hurry
up back" so they can make a little
more than 81 a day, which very
seldom goes over $500.
The night shift goes on at 6 o'clock
in the evening and works until z
o'clock the next morning with half
hou rlunch period from IL until
1890 o'clock. The company has
spies all over the plant, old men.
who will report to the bosses, every
thing they see and hear, such as
workers talking about strikes and
unions, and if these old men don't
report someone so often, they stand
a good chance of losing their own
jobs.
Every stee worker must wake up
and end these conditions by joining
the Metal Trades Workers Indus
trial League.-Steel Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
BY !. AMDUR.

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By MaiD.-
The remarkable achievement of So
Wet economy in the first year (192S-
1929 of the Five Year Plan of
industrial development are now too
wep known to need lengthy recapi-
tulation. In industrial products an
increase of "a per cent as against
81 per cent anticipated in the Plan;
the number of workers engaged in
industrial enterprises increased 8
per cent; capital investments in
large industry (including electri-
city, reached 2 billion roubles tone
rouble half a dollar), and for the
entire national economy SO billion
roubles; the area under sowing of
state and collective farms has
swelled to 81 billion hectares Cone
hectare 21a acres) with CORES
ponding increase in agricultural
products, while railway freight has
grown by II per cent III per cent
in plan). The national income in
1929 was rs billion roubles
Chased on 1926-27 prices). The
Plan set the mark for 192S-29 at
279 billion-it reached 28.1 billion
roubles equivalent to 30 billion in
1928-29 prices).
After considering this amazingly
successful fulfilment of the 1st year
one turns with sense of active
curiosity to find out what "sky-
high" perspectives are destined for
the second-year Of the Plan 1929
30). And, Indeed, if 1928-29 could
be regarded as an extremely excep-
tional year then | search my mind
in vain to express, justly, the I'M
heard of Il thought of the word
fantastic" but my observations and
experiences have taught me that it
has long been eliminated from the
Russian vocabulary ambitious tasks
set for 1929-3O.
The control figures Covering a
period of year, for this year show
that a number Of sections in indus
try and agriculture are faced with
the task of accomplishing in 1929
30 what is normally anticipated for
only in the 4th and final year of
the Plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Enormous Quota for Second
Year of USSR 5-Year Plan
Construction Originally Intended for Fourth
Year To Be Finished i'm 193O-31

If, for example, the national in
come in 1929-30 should have been,
according to Plan, 31.1 billion rou-
bles and in 1930-31 1868 billion, the
control figures for this, the second
year, calls for 1925 billion roubles,
i. c.. sum reaching SIS per cent of
the figure set for the 3rd year
G931-32) of the Plan
Capital investments in the social
lied sector { L this year will reach
the colossal sum of 1861 billion
roubles. This is billion more than
is anticipated in the Plan, and is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Workers Int'l Relief
Pushes Drive for
Striking iii. Miners

The campaign of the Workers In
ternationel Relief to raise relief
funds for the striking and victim
lied Illinois miners is gathering mo-
mentum. Three more cites. Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and New York,
have arranged miners relief con-
ferences. The Boston conference will
be held Sunday, Feb. =, the Phila-
delphia conference Monday, Feb. 10,
and the one in New York on Satur-
day, Feb. Is.
All workers organizations in
these cities are asked to elect dele
gates at once and send IN their Gre
dentials to the local offices. The
Boston local of the w. I. R. is at 5
Lowell ST., the Philadelphia local at
80 N. 10th ST.. and the eNw York
local at 100 Broadway, Room 221.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
BIG INCREASE
IN CALF. AUTO
JOBLESS NUMBER
WHY'S Knight Slashes
Wages
(Bu a Worker Correspondent.)

by a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail.)
Over a month ago, the writer, and
other workers, went or times to
the Willis-Knight auto factory in
this city. Each time they told us
to come back in a few days; and it
cost 20 cents one way for care fare
to the plant.
Work Rates Cut 40 Percent.
Piece work rates have been cut
40 percent, and you have to speed
up like hell to make from So to 81
a day of s, or more long hours.
At the local Ford plant something
like 100 men were laid off about
2 months ago. Now few are taken
back and the boys say that the speed
up is beyond belief. Hundreds of
wage slaves, who worked at this
plant before, are waiting to get their
jobs back, and thousands of other
workers thrown out from other
shops to live on California "sun-
shine" in this cold, rainy weather.
are seeking employment at the Ford
plfrt
Workers, waiting in the show
70 j for jobs, are chased out into
tn Ferflooded streets by the slave
dr. g bosses, who are saying: sit
is INST the company rules to stay
in &c"
Organize!
idle, starving, cold and wet
workers are beginning to open our
eye and see that we cannot feed
on nice promises and lies about
Hoover's prosperity.
Organize! Unite in the Auto
Workers Branch of the Trade Union
Unity League!
AUTO BODY TRIMMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
10000 Chicago City
Workers Are Unpaid;
See WOrsening Crisis

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-With the fl
nancial crisis of the city growing
worse, over 10000 city workers are
still unpaid. William II. Malone,
head of the State Tax Commission,
told the heads Of railroads, utilities
and manufacturing plants, unless
they bought S50,000,000 worth of tax
anticipation warrants that the Sc
we're economic crisis, with its mass
unemployment, would be worsened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
2 CHARGED With
SEDIT|0N IN PA,
Distributed Leaflets to
Jobless

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. By MaiD.
Ray Pertz ard Holmes were ar
rested several days ago for distribu-
ting leaflets to mass Of unem-
ployed workers in front of the Wis
coss TEXTILE Mil, in Chester, Pa.
They were held in Jail fer 26 hours,
jncommunicado. The international
Labor Defense forced the police
magistrate to give them trial at
T o'clock this evening. They were
charged with sedi3ion and held on
$500 bail.each. The I. L. D. is now
fighting the case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

Workers. This Is Your Paper.
Write for 1t. Distribute 1t
Among Your Fellow Workers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
The Congressional Elections

THE 1880 election contest for seats in Con-
gress opened with the Illinois primaries in
April, and will continue until Nov. 4. On that
day elections will be held in every state ex-
cept Maine, which elects its senators and rep
resentatives in September.
Thirty-five senators out of total of 90, and
all Of the ABS members of the House of Rep
resentatives are to be elected this Fall. 1t is
"bye" election. occurring midway in Hoovers
term of office. At present the republican
party has majority of SO in the House. with
five vacant seats which were held by repub-
licans, and a majority of al in the Senate
Almost all the seats to be filled in this cleo
ton will be contested by the members now hold
ing them They were elected by capitalist
hackers where they are not outstanding capt.
talists themselves and to be reelected they
will more closely than ever, in view of the crisis
of capitalism, represent the direct spokesman
of finance capital.
The salary of senators and representatives
is "fixed" by law at $4,000. But these gentle
men have more than one way of fixing" their
actual income at figures automatically greater
than that. Otherwise Mrs. Mccormick of IL
linois would not have spent S250,000 merely
on a primary election, nor the Infamous Grun-
dy have admitted spending $338,000 in the
Pennsylvania primary. Besides the fat graft
to be had, it must be remembered that as the
crisis pinches big business it wishes to have its
ablest agents in the seats of governmental
power and so finances them lavishly as an in
vestment.
An idea of the "pin money" earned on the
side by these capitalist henchmen, may be part
ly gained from the case of Congressman Aubrey
Eaton of New Jersey. Eaton, by the way, re-
Gently denounced the Communists and praised
''the church, the school, the home, great public
minded organizations like the American Fed
Grafton of Labor" etc. Eaton himself was
formerly the preacher in John D. Rockefeller's
church; and now he is "head of industrial re-
latons" for the National Lamp Workers of
the General Electric Company, drawing in ad-
dition to his salary of $4,000 from Congress,
another $4,000 from the GE. Co. to "keep
the workers in happy state of mind" in
company union.
The tissues" raised by the capitalist parties
including the socialist party, not vital to
the working class, and the conditions of the
workers would not be bettered in the slightest
no matter which way such tissues" would be
solved. The basic fact to remember is that
working class interests can be advanced only
by the action of the workers themselves acting
as class opposed to all other classes, by action
outside of capitalist parliament and against it.
Hense the tissues" rised by capitalist poiti-
clans are meant only to deceive the toiling
masses and divert them from the basic issue
which is Glass Against Class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

Prohibition is put forward by most capital
ist politicians as the big tissue" The fact
that countries and peoples historically "dry"
such as Turkey and Moslems generally still
have classes, exploiters and exploited, rich boss
es and poor workers, just do the "wet"
countries, shows this to be a fake ISSUE of no
importance to the workers as a class.
The high tariff law passed by Congress will
be an tissue" from the capitalist side only with
those few who opposed it because their par
ticular interests were not served by it. While
the tariff question is one exciting extreme
antagonism within the ranks of the biggest of
capitalists, Henry Ford and the General Mo-
tors having expressed sharp opposition, finance
capital as whole demands a high tariff. And
capitalist government though it represents
capitalism as a whole will respond to the de-
mands of its most powerful group, the great
financers. Increased tariff certainly means
higher prices, reduced living standards, for
the working class, but there is no way that
the workers can remedy this by elections and
through Congress, since Congress is capitalist
institution SO the workers must fight for
higher wages to maintain their standard and
prepare to abolish the capitalist class and its
whole government machine.
The "World Court is another fake issue
used by Mrs. Mccormick in the Illinois pri-
mares. 1t IS lake because the bourgeois
opponents of the "World Court" deceive the
workers who are opposed to new world war,
by pretending that the only way the US is in
danger of war is by joining the World Court.
Yet war is coming because of imperialist RI
valries and imperialist fear of the Soviet
Unions growing strength, and whether the U.
S. is in or out of the World Court it will go
to war just the same and all the capitalist
opponents" to the World Court will be whoop-
ing it up for war when it comes.
The issue of unemployment will be lodged
wherever possible, and the proof of that is the
action of all the capitalist parties joining to
start "Red investigation to hide this real
issue. Here and there some capitalist dema-
cog will will undoubtedly "speak about" I'M
employment, but will never, speak
against capitalism, which is the basic cause
of unemployment. Neither will any capitalist
politician suggest any means that will effect
lively aid the unemployed Many will talk
about it, some will, like the Socialists pro-
pose that the unemployed be counted-but not
fed. All kinds of evasive proposals may be
made to make the workers believe that some
thing will be done-but not the slightest thing
will be done by any capitalist politician or by
capitalist government unless the workers Or
ganize and fight in the shops and in the
streets for the demands raised by the Commu-
mist Party, the only Party which represents
the interests of the whole working class as
against all other classes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

city unemployed convention June 18th and Ma
tional Unemployed Convention July and 5
must be raised in every working class organ
izaton and particularly in unions. In every
local union Of the A. F. L. independent
unions" and TUUL, the question of electng
delegates must be brought up along with a
sharp and strong fight against social fascism
which is already making every attempt to
sabotage the coming convention as they are
afraid of the mass movements of the working
class. In all of these preparations and cam
paigns the Unemployed Councils must espe-
cially pay attention to reaching and organic
ing the Negro masses, the youth and women of
the working class.
The National Unemployed Council has laid
down the program of struggle against unem-
ployment and the program of action is the real
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

of local unions of the Railroad Brotherhood
and of A. F. of l.. who are electing delegates
Mass meetings of unemployed workers have
been called and delegates will be sent to the
City Council once again demanding immediate
relief for the unemployed.
Hunger marches to Springfield are being or
ganized in the coal field in connection with
the July 9Th convention and July 4th unem-
ployed demonstration in Chicago. The C. P.
fully supports the movement and is giving
proper leadership and guidance. The incom-
ing election campaign will make unemploy-
ment one of the outstanding political issues
which together with the war danger, defense
of the Soviet Union, work or wages and social
insurance will be the outstanding demands and
issues of the campaign.
The question of sending delegates to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
By BILL GEBERT.

IN the Chicago industrial area the economic
crisis is deepening daily despite the fact that
it is spring and production should be normally
picking up in many industries. The number
of unemployed workers is increasing while
wages are decreasing and general intensified
ton of murderous capitalistic naturalization
is in progress. This is recognized even by
the capitalist statistics. Howard Meyers, chief
statistician, in reviewing the industrial stua-
ton in Illinois for the month of April, 1880,
states
Comparison of the index figures for April
this year with those of year ago indicates
that factories in the state are employing 78
per cent fewer workers and paying out 1873
per cent less in wages. For all reporting in
dustries the figures reflect losses of 81 per
cent in men and 1875 per cent in payroll
amounts"
The Dept of Labor states that in the per.
iod of March 15-April Is Chicago proper
suffered heavily with a decline of 3.3 per
cent employment and 25 per cent in pay
rolls"
The Continental Illinois Bank and Trust
Company, in reviewing the present situation,
predicts the following for the future
Factory employment may not return to
normal before the end of the year."
John Parr special Wall Street correspondent
to the Chicago Daily News, in discussing the
duration of the past economic cycles calculates,
as he states, scientifically" that the present
crisis is mot going to end until May, 1881"
Forbes Gives Declines
Mr.. Forbes, financial adviser of capitalists,
discussing the present crisis, compares the
figures of production for the first quarter of
1880 with 1929 noting the national decline in
production as follows:
"Pig iron--11.2 per cent.
Steel ingot-12.5 per cent.
Copper-18.7 per cent.
Bituminous coal-4.8 per cent.
Auto-32.6 per cent.
These reports from capitalstic sources come
1t the end of Hoover's magic go days which
snded May 7th, at which time business de-
preston" was supposed to end and prosper
.ty" to begin at once.
The capitalist class through its propaganda
it's newspapers and other sources tried to
snol the workers that the present crisis will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
Chicago Unemployment Struggle

be overcome and that there is nothing to worry
about. But the capitalist class does not want
to fool itself. 1t is beginning to speak of the
crisis as deepgoing and that their only hope
is that it is only cyclical crisis. But capt.
talist economists forget one little thing-that
this cyclical crisis occurs in period of general
decline of world capitalism and is developing in
the present 3rd postwar period of general
crisis of world capitalist economy.
They Speak About 1t.
To help capitalism in its attempt to fool
the workers that it will recover from the pres
ent business depression" the fascist and
cial fascist are very active. The Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor is beginning to speak about
unemployment. The social fascisti-socalist
party and Musteites-also speak of unemploy-
ment. The democratic party in Cook County
in its platform has unemployment as its main
issue, ridiculing republican prosperity. All of
them, together with the church and other capt.
talist institutions have one sole purpose in
taking up this question-to draw the workers
from the struggle for work or wages, for So
cial insurance for the unemployed, etc.
All this together with many other factors
which be brought out shows very clearly
the seriousness of the unemployment situation
in the Chicago industrial area we'll as
throughout the country.
The Council of Unemployed in Chicago which
is affiliated to the TUUL, is leading the strug-
gle of the unemployed workers. The Unem-
ployed Council presented to the City Council
a list of demands. These demands are in the
hands of the City Judicial Committee of which
Alderman Oscar Nelson, floor leader of the
fascist Thompson administration and vice
president of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
is head of. These demands have never been
acted on and never will be until the Unem-
ployed Council together with the working class
generally will be able to mobilize sufficiently
to force the bourgeoise to grant concessions.
Organizing the Jobless.
The unemployed council has organized To-
Gals in Chicago and is carrying on wide prep
arations for the National Unemployed Conven-
tion to be held in the Ashland Auditorium,
July 5, calling city conference of unemployed
councils and working class organizations to be
held on June 18th at 10 a. m. at Peoples Audi
forum, PAST W. Chicago Ave. The call for
the conference was issued few weeks ago and
has already received response from a number
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
Actions of the Central Control
Commission of the Party
Reinstatement of Oskar Rabovsky.

Reinstatement of Oskar Rabovsky.
THE Central Control Commission has approved
the recommendation of District Control
Commission of District to re-instate into the
Party Oskar Rabovsky, of Baltimore, Md, who
submitted the following statement:
81 hereby wish to denounce the differences
which / maintained with the Party and which
caused my expulsion Time and events have
proven that the line of the Comintern Address
and it's American Section is correct, and that
l was wrong in maintaining disagreements.
81 fully accept the line of the Party and CT.
and pledge myself to carry out all decisions
of the Party and the CT. l most vigorously
denounce the Lovestone group as a bunch of
renegades to the working class. | completely
dissociate mys f from these traitors, organiza-
tionaly and politically, and pledge to fight
them to the bitter end"
Reinstatement of Mabel Husa.
The Central Control Commission has also
approved the recommendation of the Young
Communist League Secretariat for the rein
statement of Mabel Husa Former Pioneer D-
rector of District ~, Seatte), who made the
following statement in her plea for re-instate-
ment:
"On arriving in New York, I joined the
Lovestone group, but outside of attending one
class in their so-called "Marx- Lenin'' school,
I took no active part in any of their activities.
AS time went on, began to doubt and later
to realize that their line is not Communist
line, but, on the contrary, is line which fights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

all principles of Communism. This is proven
by their alliance with the social-democratic,
petty bourgeois Halonen in the U.S.A., and
with other renegades and enemies of the inter-
national Communist movement.
II have made complete break from their
group some weeks ago. l know that my place
is not with them. l know that my place and
the place of every s-conscious worker is
in the Communist Party, fighting under the
leadership of the Communist International"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

beginning of development of mass movement
to unite the employed and unemployed work.
ers in the struggle against unemployment and
against the capitalist system which breeds I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05

employment and misery and starvation for the
workers and which is preparing for a new
lloody imperalst war and for war against
the S. u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04

$216 common share in year to July
/, against $685. previous year.
Pullman, Inc. Transportation opera
tionS), July net after taxes of 81 per
cent; months, 40 per cent below year
ago.
Eadio-Keith Orpheum forms sub
sidiary, Metropolitan Productions, for
production legitimate plays in Los
Angeles and New York.
Reliance Manufacturing (Illinois)
passes 37la cents quarterly common
dividend due at this time.
Walworth Co. receives large South
American order for fianges and valves
amount not given.
American Cyanamid earned $1.S6 on
class A and B shares in year to June
80, VS.. $l.76 previous year.
Anaconda Copper Mining current OPP
erations 80 per cent below year ago.
Beatrice Creamery issued 19.057 pre-
ferred and $3.50 common shares in
connection with recent acquisitions.
Container Corporation of America
buys assets and business of Gibraltar
Corrugated Paper of North Bergen,
N. j.
Indian Motor Cycle owns 1913 per
cent Of outstanding stock Of Du Pont
Motors, Inc.
Long Island r. r. July net operating
income off Is per cent; seven months,
l6 per cent below year ago.
Paramount Cab Manufacturing pass
es per cent quarterly stock dividend
currently due on common shares.
Polymet Manufacturing net income
year to July 81, $161 ,280, VS.. $780, in
previous year.
Edison Bros. Stores August sales up
81 per cent; eight months, 24.2 per
cent above year ago.