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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
WALL ST. SHEET 81
ADMITS BIG WAGE
CUT DRIVE Is ON
Openly States Bosses
Will Slash Pay %,
of All Workers 3
Crisis Intensifies
Basic Industries Show
Declines

Now the wage-cutting campaign
starts in earnest. The bosses fig
ure that the 100000 unemployed
workers have gone hungry long
enough for them to make the next
big step to throw the burden of the
economic crisis on the shoulders Of
the workers.
The Journal of Commerce yester-
day declares editorially:
Certain it is that by and large
manufacturers cannot continue to
produce at present prices and pay
rates of wages that have been cur.
rent, particularly as respects Or
ganized labor. If no way can be
found to bolster the prices of most
commodities then either labor will
have to accept lower rates of pay
or else remain in substantial part
without employment"
Crisis Worsens.
Meanwhile the crisis goes on. The
Annalist weekly index of wholesale
(ContiHued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Chief COP TO
Lecture MEN or
The u. S. FLEET
Commissioned Officers
Will Have Better
Fare Elsewhere
Must Fight, But Whom
No Class Lines in r e d
Workers Warships

Grover Whalen, New York police
commissioner whose men have piled
up record of clubbing workers
who ask better wages, or who re-
fuse to starve without making a
fuss about it, will lecture the sail
ors of the United States battle and
scout fleets Monday night at the
Hotel Astor. He will tell them how
glorious it is to die in blaze of
fire from shells fired by workers
forced into service in other fleets,
how fine it is to be summarized or
blown up with mines and left float
ing for hours in an icy sea, if only
they do it to make more profits
for American bosses in China, or
in Latin America, or somewhere
else.
Whalen the Cop.
If this floor-walker from Wana-
makers, now chief of police, thinks
that he can make a sailor love a
cop by trying to tell him how he
ought to like his government beans,
and beans, and beans, and like his
suguey mugey rag, he ought to be
put behind a bible himself for a
couple of hours, instead of waving
club on the golf links at Palm
Beach, or a police club over the
heads of the sailors friends ashore.
The affair Monday night is for
the ordinary sailor. 1t is not
thought good enough for the officer
class, who will have their blowout
as guests of the Naval Academy
Graduates Association" at the army
and navy club, with much better
bill of fare and no common sailors
around to see them get drunk.
Class Lines In Navy.
In the United States navy, strict
discipline and strict class lines sep
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

bosses stool pigeons, is making
himself a leader of the strike. Suss-
man, a yellow socialist who has be-
trayed the taxi men more than once,
has horned in.
The present strike committee has
not made single practical economic
demand for the workers, and is al
ready advising compromise with the
bosses. The men have once voted
against this compromise" sell out.
Leaflets distributed by the T. U.
U. L. call for: eight hour day and
three shifts; abolition Of the COM
mission system, minimum weekly
scale of wages, against the compul-
sorry uniforming and police control,
against discrimination and the
blacklist, and for social accident,
disability and unemployment ipsur-
ance.
The T. U. U. L. further warns
the taxi drivers against the rack
eteers and their sell-out system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

Moros from the Christian Filipinos,
insist on enslaving both Filipinos
and Moros to U. S. rule and rob-
bery-incidentally Forgetting" that
they themselves are Christians.
The present battle, the cause Of
which is not given, although the GUS
tomary charge is made that the Mo-
ros are bandits, murderers, cattle
thieves and tax-dodgers," probably
arises from the same sort of robbery
as has repeatedly provoked peasant
rebellions among the Filipinos in the
northern islands, scores and hun
dreds of PHILIPPINE peasants lying
now in prison for resisting being
robbed of their land and crops. The
imperialists usually term such rebels
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

as religious fanatics" to cover ap
their ruthless suppression.
The demand of American imper-
ialists for rubber and fibres has led
to a wholesale swindle of peasants,
whose forefathers for generations
plowed the land on which they now
live--or did live. But American
corporations, or in some cases the
Catholic Archbishop Of Manila,
wishing to start big rubber and fiber
plantations, "buy" the land from tie
corrupt Filipino politicians who are
sold out to Imperialism, and have
the peasants elected by the cor.
stabulary. 1t is most likely that this
robbery was resisted by the Moros
Continued on Page Fiuel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

governors are all Americans ap-
pointed by the Governor-General at
Manila. U. S. Imperialism tries to
explain this ny saying that the Mo-
ros are opposed to being ruled by
Filipinos--but they certainly object
and have always objected more
strenuously to being ruled by Amer
leans. ..
Tim. and again they have joined
with the Filipinos, from whom they
differ only in the matter of religion
the Filipinos being Christians and
the Moros are Mohammedans. in
demanding independence from the
United States. But the American
imperialists, always shouting that
they are obliged to protect" the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
" hQIeu Backs
out On HIS
Il testimony"
But Congress Goes on
With Red Raid Plans
BULLETIN.

DO LIE IN
WASHINGTON, d. c., MAY 9.
-Whalen told the congressional
committee today that he started
his drive against shoe and other
strikers in New York at the re-
quest of Commissioner Wood of
the United States department of
labor. He boosted of aid given by
the police in depOrting foreign
born workers.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May O.
Grover Whalen, New York capital
lists gorgeous police commissioner,
came, saw and lost his nerve. He
was scheduled to appear today be-
fore the House committee on immi-
grafton to back up with his per-
sonal testimony the outrageous for
geries which he released on an as
tonished and somewhat mirthful
world a week ago.
But when Grover got to the COM
mittee, even though it was in secret
session, the crudity and ridiculous
inefficiency with which the for
geries had been committed had been
so thoroughly exposed that he did
not dare, even there, before the of
ficial enemies of the Soviet Union,
to go ahead and show them.
There is much doubt as to whether
even the photostatic copies given out
by Whalen show all the amazing
amount Of evidence that the docu-
ments they are supposed to copy arc
fakes.
Now he won't even show the copies
to Congress.
He offers the time-worn excuse
that anything said about the papers
now would interfere with police in
vestigation."
He wants the whole U. S. power of
oppression thrown against strikes Of
exploited workers. Most particular
ly he mentioned, as Communist
strikes" that ought to be suppressed,
the New York needle trades, cafe
terra, and shoe strikes.
He wants a quick acting deporta-
ton machinery set up that will
quickly fling back to firing squads
and hangmen in Jugoslavia, Fascist
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
SHOLAPUR Still
HELD BY REBELS
British Cavalry Fails
to Recapture City
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
BOMBAY, India, May 9.-Thc
Macdonald labor" government
has ordered forty airplanes, with
high-explosive bombs into the
Pashawar district with orders to
kill men, women and children, in
an effort to drown the uprising in
a sea of blood.
Bombay reports tell how alarmed
are the British that the Indians are
still in control of the Indian city of
Sholapur, captured from the Brit
ish Indian police by the angry mass
es Wednesday. The New York Times
correspondent casually mentions that
it was Striking factory workers"
who, turning the masses away from
the Gandhite foolishness of cutting
down palm trees, "led the mobs into
the European districts, where the
government officials live" :.
That is, the workers took the lead
ership away from those who would
make the independence struggle a
moral" fight against alcohol (made
from palm trees) and turned the
struggle into direct fight against
the government and a struggle to
drive out the British from the city.
And in the case of Sholapur the
masses were successful, two train
loads of British evacuating Sholapur
and arriving at Poona, properly
Mortified as all imperialists are, that
Indians had control of one of their
own cities.
Sholapur, the second largest tex
tile center of India and a distinctly
proletarian city, was still held Fri
day by the Indians, in spite of the
reported attacks by British troops,
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
MEMS CLOTHING
MEETING TODAY
Endorsed by NTWIU;
For Shop Committees

A call from the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, over the
signatures of Louis Hyman, presi-
dent, and Ben Gold, secretary treas
urer, endorses the mass meeting Of
clothing workers called by the Anal
gamated Section of the Trade Union
Unity League, to take place today
at Stuyvesant Casino, at p. m.
The N. T. w. I. U. statement is
addressed to all mems clothing work
ers, cutters, operators, tailors, press
ers, pants makers, vest makers, knee
pants makers, children's clothing
workers, sailor suit operators, sheep
skin workers and shirtmakers. 1t
points out that this meeting is held
on the day when the agents of the
bosses leave New York for joy
ride to a convention of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, con-
vention in the interests of the boss
es.
The N.T.W.LU. calls all clothing
workers to come to the mass meet
ing today and demonstrate and or
ganize there against the bosses and
their agents, the Hillman- Rissman-
Beckerman clique, and to demon
strate for solidarity with all needle
trades workers in their struggle fol
better working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
MOROS BATTLE AGAINST AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Constabnzary Officers Among so Reboted Killed Fighting

Philippine dispatches Friday tell
rather vaguely of $50 reported kill.
ed in fight with Moros," some dis
patches concealing the fact revealed
in others that at least considerable
number of those killed were con-
stabulary troops, differed by Amer
leans. One dispatch says the losses
of the Moros are unknown, so it APP
pears that the Moros had the best of
the fight.
The American commander, Cap
tain Grinstead, though reported shot
in the leg is said to be mortally
wounded; a Filipino constabulary
lieutenant was killed, it is admitted.
The battle took place on Mind
anao Island, where the provincial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
TUUL PROPOSES
TAXI DEMANDS

With 1900 taxi drivers striking
against the Motor Transportation
Co. ("M.T.C.," which runs "Black
Beauty Cabs" and others) the
Trade Union Unity League is max
ing every effort to prevent the SELL
ing out of the strike by the rack
eteers, led by O'Brien, and by the
yellow socialist gang, which has
already got Norman Thomas and
August Claessens before the strik-
ers on a vote catching mission.
Wolf, of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, has edged into the strug-
gle, and in company with strike
committee heavily loaded down with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

Then we wrote to our COM
rades in all cities to organize
an affair for the Daily Worker
in the month of April. Again
the response was not suffi-
cient.
Campaign Begins.
On April LIST we launched our
drive for $4,000 readers within six
months. We were of the opinion
that if 10000 comrades would jump
into this campaign with Communist
determination, enough money would
come in from new readers secured
to tide US over a few additional
months. We now find that it takes
a little longer than we thought to
organize for a gigantic mass cir
culation campaign. Our comrades
are only now beginning to march
into industries and workers neigh
borhoods to get new readers.
Then also, the political impor-
lance of securing new readers
among the lowest paid workers in
the big industries and the necessity
of instituting payment plan so as
to place the subscription price
within the reach of these workers
will result in thousands of new
readers among workers we mostly
desire to read the Daily Worker, but
Continued ON Page -Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
r0sCOW COMMENT ON EGYPT.
(WreIeSS By I1lprecorrJ

W tFttto6 Dy INPI tVVTT'
MOSCOW, May 9.--Commenting
on the breakdown of the Anglo
egyptian pal'ley, the Izvestia, Sow
let Government organ, writes that
lad the Egyptian demands been
sranted it would have meant prog
regs toward freedom, but British
inlf.. ;aism was opposed, where
upon the 'labor" government aban-
doned all conciliatory attitude and
adoptsG tha conservative standpoint
Both the Egyptian and Indian ex.
amples expose the real natu'e Oh
the "labor' government - -,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
GERMAN SOCIALIST" JINGO-
ISM EXPOSED.
(Wireless Bu Inprecorr.

(WireIeSs By InprecorT.J
BERLIN, May 9-Yesterday's
committee debate on the naval bud
get heard a sensational revelation
of socialist" treachery. The Reichs-
wehr minister declared that it did
not matter whether the Reichstag
granted the first installment for the
armored cruiser "B" this year, be-
cause the Mueller ("socialist') gov
eminent had already worked out a
complete naval building program,
including requirements Of ships Of
the line for 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
ALL TO PROTEST
MEETING TODAY
s a V e Powers, Carr,
| P. M. Waterfront

The largest working class dem
onstration held in New York since
May Day will take place today at
l o'clock at South Ferry and White
hall st. to demand the liberation
of NJ. H. Powers and Joe Carr,
Communist organizers, who go on
trial for their lives on May 27.
They were arrested for organizing
Negro and white workers and dis
tributing working-class leaflets.
The demonstration will also de-
mand the liberation of the 280 lead
ers of the Japanese Communist
Party who have been sentenced to
death and life Imprisonment. The
entire Central Committee of the
Communist Party has been SEN
fenced to die.
Speakers.
The speakers will be Sam Darcy,
Communist Party; George Maurer,
assistant national secretary Of the
l. L. D.; A. Tatio, japanese Work
ers' Alliance; George Alexander
Negro organizer, |. l.. D.; Sam
Nesin, New York district organizer,
l. L. D. Beatrice Siskind, New York
district secretary, l. L. D., will be
chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
international
Wireless
News
SOVIET SENTENCES TRAITORS.
(WireleSs By lnprecorr.)

MOSCOW, May 9.-The technical
employees of the Lena goldfields
concession were sentenced by the
supreme court today, charged with
sabotage and other offenses. Bash
kirtzev's death sentence was re-
duced to ten years Imprisonment;
engineer Kolyasnikov and the law
yer, Muromtzev, who had ten years
each, were reduced to six years;
Riabov to one year. The evidence
showed that Bashkrtzev was the
tool of the British.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
PLUMBERS AND HELPERS
FRACTION

A very important fraction meeting
of all Party and League members
in the plumbing industry, plumbers,
helpers and supply men, will be
held this afternoon at 2.30 p. m.
sharp, at the Workers Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
PORTO RICO POPULATION.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.-Early
census returns show a total popula-
ton of 1,543,043 on the island, an
increase of IS per cent over that of
1920.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Daily Worker Plea for
$4,000 Emergency Call
Workers Paper Must Be Helped Quickly-or
Consequences Will Be Very Serious

We delayed four months making this call for financial
help We wrote comrades everywhere to assist
creasng income from advertising and did have spen
did increase in advertising from New York Comrades other
large cities did not respond sufficiently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
MILITARISM AND MOVIES.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Movies
are now to be employed in the in
struction of military tactics, accord
ing to General Staff statement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

FASCISTS OK. SLAVE PLAN.
ROME.-Fascist Italy has ratified
the Young plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Bosses Organize.

The call says:
"The clothing manufacturers arc
organized into powerful association
chain store companies, etc. and
backed by Wall Street, are trying
to force the brunt of the crisis upon
the workers thru an iycseased speed
up, with reductions of wages ans
work reorganization.
Gas a result Of tn mass uN2n'
ployment in the mems clothing trac
is steadily growing. The conditions
under which those wi.c are employed
are forced to worh ar uuheaHable,
The clothing mnu@ta4 etars, thr''
their tools, Killmar Re;keIman aEc
Rissman. IS well as the A. j. of !.
bureuucyats, are ojeaniz;ng for the
purpose o. ntensifying the e&ploita,
ton of the workers ard tc Increase
the profits OF the bosses.
"Men's clothing workers. To.
know that you have nothing {" eH'
pact from the bosses Hillman con-
vention. This convention is a gath
Continued on Page Foar)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-14
Lions to Contest
For Meeting Trip
(SpecIal I'd Nc Heraldl

San BENITO, Sept. I3.-Captains
am other officers for two Lions
club companies 10 be entered in an
attendance contest were named at
the Friday luncheon at the Stone
wall Jackson Hotel.
Clyde King will captain one COM
pany with Charles Gilbert as lieut.
enant and Gus Munro will captain
the other with Jack Ogdee as his
aide.
The contest will last eight weeks.
1t is part Of a contest in which the
winners will receive free trips to
the international convention which
viii be held in Toronto. 1t is plan
ned TO make UP a Valley train to
the Canadian convention city next
year.
Rev. c. z. Marshall, immediate
vice-president. spoke 10 the Lions
on their creed and principles.
A. II. Pickens presided in the abb
Of o. g. Hamilton who IS out
OF the city.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-14
VALLEY SCOUTS
GET HIGH MARK
Executive Back From Meet
Reports 610 Points Are
Awarded Councils

Tom Murray. Valley Scout x
ecutive. and r. L. Lyon, assistant
executive. have Just returned from
Houston. where they attended the
semi-annusl seminar OF the South
Texas executives. Eleven councils
are In the South Texas group. with
headquarters at Yoakum, Austin,
Beaumont, Galveston. Houston.
Corpus Christi. Port Arthur. Laredo,
San Antonio, Uvalde. and the VAL
ley. All we're represented at the
seminar.
In the studies made or the
growth development. administration
and activities OF the councils. the
Valley was rated $40 points. while
the next highest council was rated
$40 points. These ratings are made
by the national council and are
reported to the various councils
quarterly.
These ratings are simply indi-
cations OF the trend the work OF
the various councils Is taking. and
show the strong as well as the weak
POAAlS VI cdIAl COullCIt SdAQ MI
Murray. The studies made at
Houston revealed certain weakness
es common to each Of the councils
and plans were made to strengthen
these points"
I'VE are proud OF the high stand
ing OF the Valley Council and at
tribute 1t very largely to the splen-
did cooperation Of practically ev-
cry citizen Of the Valley. Scouting
will grow and its influence viii
spread to more and more boys In
exact proportion to the active in
terest and cooperation or Valley
citizens. We want TO MIKE this the
outstanding Council In Region o.
which includes Texas, Oklahoma,
AMI New Mexico"
The next seminar OF the South
Texas group will be held for two
DAYS at Harrington. during February.
1881. Walter Gum. executive of the
Beaumont council. was elected
chairman for 1881. and Dave Coers.
executive OF Port Arthur. was elect
ed secretary. These posts were held
during 1880 by Tom Murray. chair
man. and @. w. Simpson. Scout
executive Of the Missouri Pacific
lines. Houston. as secretary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-14
new PROJECTS
ARE LAUNCHED
Creamery, Nursery, New
Telephone Exchange Are
Pharr improvements

Especial TO The Herald)
&FHAnK, Sept. 13.-Growth and
development arc going on at a
steady rate as is shown by the
many new projects which are being
launched and me building and con-
structiton work which is taking
place IN the community. one Of the
latest developments noted in this
town is the building constructed
for the new telephone system
which has recently been placed IN
Pharr. The new exchange building.
located on Cage Blvd. and Cherokee
Street, is similar to those erected in
Donna, Mercedes and other Valley
towns. 1t is stucco, located on a plot
OF ground purchased By the Rio
Grande Valley Telephone Company
and the new switchboard was inn
mediately installed to replace the
old system. The opening Of this ex-
change gives Pharr and community
a completely modernized telephone
system, similar to that Of larger
towns. +. H. Rushing is general
manager of the telephone system
and expects great returns 50 Tar as
the service rendered IS concerned.
The Plantation Dairy. which was
recently established and put into
operation, is located on the old san
Juan Plantation south OF Pharr,
and is a model Of efficiency and
cleanliness. The new establishment
is owned BY p. 8 Devine Of Pnarr
and George Ingram is the manager
and operator. The latest and most
modern equipment Is being used
and the milk goes through a process
which insures its being kept IN first
class sanitary condition. Milking
machines and other up-to-date
machines are used.
Rev film
Another new firm organized dur
NV the past few months Is the
Wiley Nursery with Mrs. II. L.
Gum and Alrg. j. ID. Lauck, the
wner and operators. These bust
ness women are prominent citizens
Of Pharr and have personally plan
ned and directed the paintings,
growing and all other details Of
the business OF the citrus industry.
In August 1929, the developers put
out twenty thousand seedlings. In
March of the same year the bud
ding was done and about sixty per
cent OF the trees are Marsh seed
less grapefruit. twenty-five per
cent Thompson Pink grapefruit and
fifteen per cent are pineapple,
Temple oranges and tangerines.
Through close and careful atten-
ton this firm will have six thou
sand trees for sale by November OF
this year and seven thousand more
will be ready for the market by the
first Of March OF 1881. During this
Sear, the heads Of this firm expect
TO expand and add twenty thou
sand more seedlings to their stock
and as time moves on, they plan to
increase their nursery with the idea
OF making the Valley Nursery one
Of the largest in the Rio Grande
Valley. The nursery Is located one
mile south OF Pharr and the pres
ident. Mrs. II. L. Gum, and secre-
tary-treasurer, Mrs. j.. d. Lauck,
welcome visitors.
Other new businesses are being
arranged and organized for Pharr
and is indicative Of the progressive
ness OF the city and community. II
is the opinion of many that the
future is bright for Pharr and
community. The citizens are voting
on a proposition Of paving more
streets and the taking up Of war
rants already issued.