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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
German Militarists
Fe ar A ctivity of
Communists in Navy

BERLIN, Jan. 23.-Five sailors
have been dismissed from the Ger
man navy on charges of disseminat-
ing Soviet propaganda. This grows
out of the mutiny on the Cruiser
Emden, when the revolving sailors
raised the "Red Flag" and sang rev.
dictionary songs following a pro-
test against bad conditions. The
German naval authorities tried to
hush up the affair.
Government officials stated that
rigorous measures were being
taken to. check an increase in the
revolutionary activity in the Reich's
armed forces"
Several Communists have been
arrested at the stations in the Bal
tic while distributing leaflets among
the sailors in the barracks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
4 ft4IANCE OF GERMAN
/ ASCIoTS AND SOVIET
ENEMIES is EXPOSED
Describes Connections Between German Bosses
and ChernOvetz FOrgers
Weber, Forger, Says He Had Support of German
Authorities Against Soviet Union

should be organized in Caucasia, but
owing to an indiscretion the whole
plan became known. Later on at
the beginning of 1917 we took up
negotiations again with prominent
British and Italian politicians with
the same end in view.
In order to justify his actions,
Weber then commenced furious
diatribe against the Soviet govern
ment which he declared had come
to power by the murder of millions
of people and so on. When the at
tacks of Becker and his lawyers be-
came a little too sharp the court
gently reproved them. They ig-
nored the reproffs and went on in
the same insulting and slanderous
tone.
Weber declared that throughout
he had been in close touch with the
German authorities in Bavaria who
had been fully aware of his plans.
Here the prosecutor interviewed
and asked: Do you mean that the
German authorities were aware of
the Tchervonetz forgeries and APP
proved Of them? That is impos-
sible.
Weber made no reply, but the
other German fascist accused Bell
sprang up and shouted: The German
government itself sympathized with
our plans!
The cooperation of the German
authorities with the Georgian con-
spirators was also shown in the
statement of Weber, that the Ger
man naval authorities had trans
ported the accused Karumidse to
Baku in a submarine in order that
he should organize an insurrection
against the Soviet government
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
CHICAGO CABMEN
REFUSE TO SCAB
Won't Fight Brothers
in Pittsburgh

Continued from Pace Ons)
gas used each day. If he works less
than six days a week, s per cent of
his wages is deducted.
This commission or wages is reg
ulated by the merit system. If the
drivers car or person is not spot
lessly clean, or if he is seen smoking
or reading or lays off work he re-
ceives demerit and his chance of
getting raise is lowered. If he
is a loyal, submissive slave, he re-
ceives one merit week and at the
end of year, if he has fifty merits,
he receives one and one-half cent
raise. The highest rate of commits
sion is Al cents.
The Gold Star drivers get a
straight wage-besides their COM
mission, of S14 a month and have
the privilege of helping the boss
keep the salary and the job of his
fellow-workers in jeopardy. He is
the spy, the stool-pigeon for the
company and many of the men are
refusing this job when it is offered
to them.
The mass unemployment that ex-
lists in Chicago, has made the yell
low Cab drivers realize that with
the decrease in the buying power of
the workers, conditions for them and
all workers will get worse and that
they must stick together and not
fight against their fellow-workers
in the struggle against a wage cut,
in their struggle to work and live.
The Yellow Cab drivers of Chi
cago also realize that the A. F. of
L. will never help them, that the
policy of the A. f. Of L. is one of
sell-out and betrayal and open COL
laboration with the boss. The Par
melee Transfer Company, the largest
transfer company in Chicago owns
the Yellow Cab Company. The Vel
low Cab drivers are not union and
are forbidden to join a union. The
Parmelee Compa' y is signed up with
the A. F. of L. and all their en-
ployees have a sign on their caps
"Yellow Cab Co.," besides their un-
ion button.
Yellow Cab drivers of Chicago
and Pittsburgh. the Trade Union
Unity League calls upon you to
Join it's ranks.
Fight against wagecuts and long
hours.
Fight against the merit system
and stool pigeons.
Join the fighting Industrial
Union of workers for workers
against the bosses.
Join the Trade Union Unity
League.-A Yellow Cab Driver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Phila. Workers Int'l
Relief Fights Movie
Propaganda of Bosses

The State Federation of Pcnnsyl.
varia Women's Clubs, consisting Of
rich and petty bourgeois women
Throughout. the Slate are doing their
bit for their class in attempting to
create a war mind and docile ac-
ceptance of the present wage
slavery system in the minds Ct
workers. children. In All interview
with the Philadelphia Rsco,l, jan
uary 90, Mrs. Willard, State chair
mnn OF the motion pictures for this
federation, declares that "the movies
supply amusement to 95 per ccnr
Of the people and their importance,
! think, cannot be overestimated."
Instead of capitalist war propa-
ganda against the only workers
Fatherland, the Soviet Union, the
work and lives of the workers in
the First Workers Republic will be
shown in movie release by the IN
ternational Workers Relief.
While providing humorous relaxa-
tor and entertainment for adult
and child, these pictures will not in
suit the intelligence of the workers
by providing fairy tale,and religious
solutions for the present miserable
plight which the working class finds
under the heel of capitalist exploi-
tation.
In addition to movies, the Phiia-
delphia w. 1. R., along with w. 1. R.
sections throughout the country, is
making arrangements to conduct
several cultural circles. Arrange
ments are almost complete FOR an
srt circle, harmonica band and man
colin group. All those interested
should communicate with the Dis
trict w. I. R. secretary, June Croll,
ut its headquarters, 80 N. Tenth St.,
Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Negro Workers Crowd
Meetings; Ask Bloor's
Return to Atlanta, Ga.

"The outstanding features Of
Southern mass meetings l have been
addressing" says Ella Reeves
fMother) Bloor in a telegram re-
ceiyed by the Daily Worker today,
lis the wonderful interests shown
by Negro workers. In the Winston
Salem meeting, fifty tobacco work.
ers. men and women, attended. Sun.
day, at Chattanooga, Tenn, there
was an unusually large group of in
telligent Negro steel workers. Tues
day, in Atlanta, Ga, a packed hall,
with many young Negro workers,
and so many who wanted their
friends to/hear the message of or
ganization and defense that they re-
quired t;edh2U, md en- emf cnnfwy
9uested an ether meeting for
Wednesday," =
Mother Bloor is on trip through
the South to the Pacific Coast. She
speaks Saturday and Sunday in New
Orleans. Monday she speaks in San
Antonio, Texas. She is organizing
branches of the International Labor
Defense,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

was very appreciable trend up
ward on Jan. as compared with
December 80 previously it was De-
cember 25). Iron and steel went
up Ill per cent, automobiles went
up So, automobile tires went up
lat per cent, and all industries
went up "a per cent
These statements, which are some
what exaggerated, have no effect
whatever on the growing army of
unemployed for the obvious reason
that the steel companies have been
keeping large forces on part time
basis. Even with the increases"
large part of their forces con-
tinue to work on a part time basis.
At the same time, they lay off
thousands of workers.
A 3.6 increase in automobile pro-
duction as proof Of increase in un-
employment is a sample of the
Hoover lying campaign. Automo-
bile production dropped 80 per cent
below the 1929 high point, and there
was great deal of unemployment
at that time. With the speed-up
and frightening of hours that is
going on in the automobile plants,
the bosses could easily raise pro-
duction SO per cent and fire part
of their already steeply reduced
forces.
Fundamentally, the severe crisis
ofsU. S. capitalism is continuing
and spreading. The increases" are
slight. fluctuations that do not af-
feet the sharp, basic crisis of de-
cline that is gripping nearly every
industry in the United States.
The Annalist says regarding the
increase" in steel production Chat
a normal seasonal increase this
month from the low base of SO per
cent Of capacity in December would
fall considerably short of a prosper
ity volume Of production
Iron Age, organ of the steel bos-
ses, points out that current orders
in the main are small. :. Frequently
smaller tonnages are bought than
were inquired for, indicating a re-
luctance to buy very far ahead and
that contracts for structural steel
(for that gigantic building campaign
that Hoover, Davis and Green
boasted about) were at the low fig
ure Of $4,000 tons.
The most significant feature IN
the steel industry is the constant,
sharp drop in prices. The steel bos-
ses are cutting prices all along the
line in an attempt to increase their
business and to make drive for
more of the world markets. In many
plants they have already cut wages
as high as 20 per cent, and viii
soon begin a systematic wage-slash-
ing campaign for all workers in the
steel industry.
No amount of phrases from Hoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Daudet Amnesty Farce Attempt to Hide Mass
of Workers in French Jails

PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Ser
e).-The amnesty comedy which
permitted the royalist leader, Dau-
Diet to return to France from his
exile in Belgium and which aimed
at calming the indignation Of the
workers at the constant prosecutions
against the revolutionary movement,
is now at an end. Daudet has made
his noisy and melodramatic entry
into Paris under the protection of
the police and accompanied by the
royalist bands, and dozen proletar-
ian political prisoners have been
"frc 3D." Those who have neen am
nestled were al'-,ost exclusively ed
itors or newspaper sellers, who in
any case had only a few weeks more
to serve, and in some cases only q
few days more.
The central organ of the French
Communist Party denounces the am
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
California Packers
Work Up Race Riots;
One Filipino Killed

WATSONVILLE, CAL, Jan. "a
A gang of anti-Filipino rioters killed
one Filipino worker today and
wounded several more. The attack
kegan with the discharge of rifle,
last night and has ragged intermit-
tendly ever since. The dead man is
Fermin Tobera.
The fact that American girls &C.
companied Filipino men to dance,
and that there was a Filipino owned
night club with American girls hired
rs entertainers was the reason given
for the assaults.
The California employers are anxi-
Gus to keep alive race prejudice as
a means of disuniting labor. Wat
sonville is a fruit packing center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

Kuestriner Platz and it had hardly
commenced to move off with the
flag and wreath Populations at the
head when the police made 4 fur
Gus and utterly groundless baton
attack on the masses. A police e.
ficer fired down upon the masses
from the window of q house whose
tenants protested furiously. Eighty
workers were arrested. The police
attacked particularly those workers
who had appeared in the uniform
of the prohibited Red Front Fight
ers League to do homer to their dead
comrades. A police sergeant as well
as a number Of workers were seri-
ously injured here.
Despite the wild attacks Of the
police the procession reformed and
proceeded to the cemetery where
the coffins were lowered into the
grave. The flags were dipped and
the Russian funeral march was play
ed. Bareheaded tens of thousands
of workers paid the dead comrades
the last honors. In conclusion the
masses sang the "Internationale."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
jOBLESS STARVE
BOSTON SOCIAL
SURVEY SHOWS
Unemployed Workers
Forced To Seek
Charity Aid
By GRACE NJ. BURNHAM.

Because wages are insufficient to
tide workers and their families over
periods of unemployment or part
time, and because the government
provides no insurance for the unem-
ployed, a large proportion of worker
families are forced to become paup-
ers when the chief wage-earner of
the family loses his job.
A recent study of 1000 families
applying for aid at three Boston
social agencies showed the greatest
number of women wage earners in
the group had received wages rang
ing from $40 to $14 in the last Job
held. Ten per cent of the families
forced to the charities We're sup
ported by women alone.
For men, wages in the last Job
held occurred most frequently in the
group earning between $40 and $24
q week. Sixty-nine per cent of the
families studied were supported by
a husband or father alone. In 5
per cent of the families children had
to go to work to add to the family
income. ONLY thirty-five persons
five single men, three widowers and
twenty-seven women - had but
themselves to support. Loss of
job FOR the remaining workers
meant restitution not only for them
selves, but for their wives and chill
dren.
In II per cent of the cases, I'M
employment, and in an additional 3
per cent, part time work, was the
sole cause Of the family's break
down.
Sickness, which under a capitalist
government is directly associated
with low wages, was the reason why
one man out of. every five lost his
job. The same proportion Of women
lost their jobs because of illness.
But 80 per cent of the men had just
been "laid Off"
When these families were faced
with the certainty of unemployment,
they turned in desperation to the
charities. Three-guarters o. the
wage earners had been unemployed
Cor more than two months before
they gave up the fight.
With the army of the unemployed
swelling to some five millions, work
ers must recognize that unemploy-
ment can not he conquered by any
such bowling to the powers that be.
The workers themselves must or
ganize to fight the speedup, long
hours of work and wage cuts. They
must organize both employed and
unemployed in committees and
councils to demand free medical care
for the sick, work or wages for the
man or woman who supports the
family. The Communist Party is
leading the workers in this fight, as
in every other fight of the exploited
against the exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser
vice). In today's session (Jan. y
Of the Tchervonetz trial the accused
Georgian Sadathierashvilli was ex-
amined. Sadathierashvilli was the
secretary of the cidevant prince Ava
lov-Bermond who conducted guer-
lila war against the Soviets in 1919.
adathierashviila described the con-
nections between the Tchervonetz
forgers and the German fascists,
and declared that the forgers want
ed the support of strong and united
Germany against the Soviet Union,
but unfortunately Germany itself
was infected with bolshevism.
He declared We were interested
in the accession to power of ma
tionalist government in Germany,
and we therefore fought with all
possible means against bolshevism.
We provided DR.. Weber and the Ba-
varian government regularly with
information concerning the activity
of the Soviet government in Ger
many. The aim of the Tcheronetz
forgcries was to provoke peasant
disturbances and If possible an in
flation in the Soviet Union. We
wanted to force the Soviet govern
ment to pay with dollars.
The accused German fascist DR..
Weber was then examined and de-
clared: l was the leader of a COM
pany of volunteers and assisted in
the overthrow of the Bavarian Sow
let government. When l recognized
that the Entente powers would play
a great role in the redistribution of
the East, I decided to cooperate
with them. We planned together
with official and economic leaders
in England that an instruction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

nesty swindle and publishes q list
of the comrades who are still serv-
ing sentences and to whom the FAM
nesty" has brought nothing.
There are at the present moment,
As admittedly political prisoners, and
"a of these are serving sentences
totaling 38 years imprisonment,
while 81 are awaiting trial. There
are 80 criminal" political prisoners
serving various terms, and 8 await
ing trial. There are % soldiers,
sailors and reservists serving yari-
Gus terms totaling 16 years. impris-
onment, 20 years forced exile and
14S years forced labor. In the col
onies, there are "a prisoners serving
sentences tolaling SO years forced
labor, IS years Punishment, l65
years imprisonment. One is suffer-
ing Punishment for life and one has
been sentenced to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Religious Opium Pedler Sentenced to Jail

lagos towards collectivisation and
the strengthening of the socialist
elements in the village. The kulaks
and the priests and parsons were
fighting theoretically against the
collectivisation and making propa-
ganda for emigration. The Catholic
church in particular was playing an
active counter-revolutionary role.
The trial took place in the presence
of very many Russo-Gern,an peas
ants who had come in from the sur
rounding villages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
GERMAN SCHOLARSHIPS
WORRIED

BERLIN, Jan. 2S.-That the eco
nomic crisis is also crisis for the
social-fascists is shown by the joint
conference of socialist" party and
trade union bureaucrats. The best
they could think of was to ask their
socialist" government to remove re-
strictions on loans from America.
But their government had just prom
ised at the Hague, to please Snow
den and Tardieu, not to negotiate
loans flor the present" These So
cial fascists want a part of the
Preparations loan," which capitalizes
the very debts Germany owes I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
Czechoslovakia Unemployed Fight for Relief

been formed in many other towns
and unemployed workers demon
strations have been organized in
Graslitz, Neudeck, Rossbach and
Northeastern, quite apart from
Prague itself and industrial towns
like Reichenbach, where the move
ment is already very strong. The
movement is under the influence Of
the Czechish Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Mail
Service).-The trial of the Catholic
priest, Graf, in Simferopol has
ended. Graf was sentenced to 10
wears imprisonment for having muir
dered his two illegitimate children
and for having conducted illegal
anti-soviet propaganda, etc. On the
LASTS OF. an amnesty, the sentence
was s-en reduced to one Of six
ve~ -si-onr- ert.
-b acusov described the de-
ve' t in the ls5o-German vii.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
~O S-orAK ON NAVAL
rrNrTpENCE.

s. "Diyarp emantr and the Naval
War Conference now being held in
London with the participation Of the
imperial forces Of Macdonald and
tSimson, is the subject Of this weeks
sunday forum at the Workers
School, Jan. rs at 8 p. m. William
Dunno who is editor Of Labor Unity
wiz expose the preparations Of the
blood bath being prepared by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail
Service).-The organized unem-
ployed workers movement in Geek
oslovakia is quite new, but already
it is making itself felt everywhere
on behalf Of the voorhees,. Follow
ing upon the appeal Of the Unem-
ployed Workers Committee in
Prague, similar committees have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
imperialist naval plans now being
fermulatede in London against the
Soviet Union.

Our swp ags. The essrsesfs ags,
10 distinguisheA ~ fAis--shst u
has sinpIifi.S clsss sntagsaisna
Msss snd aeve, sesSsty 70 sp1lttlpg
- into two great hostile camps.
into two great and directly contra.
posed classess bourgeoisie and pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

yer, Davis or Green can hide the
fact that the present army of I'M
employment numbers well over c.
100000; that it is growing daily,
and that there is no evidence that
U. S. capitalism is overcoming it's
severe crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25
5000 BUFFALO
JOBLESS MARCH
ON CITY HALL
Workers Fight Police
in Demonstration

Continued from Page One)
time battling the police who tried
to smash the meeting. Dozens of
mounted cops, rode into the crowds
and beat the unemployed workers
with their clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-25

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-12
81 AIN REPORTER BURIED
AS 655 THUGS ARE JAILED

The funeral procession for the
star reporter, headed by an escort
of motorcycle policemen and in
Guiding men and women from all
the walks of life which Lingle's
career had touched, was moving
through Garfield park on the west
side when an announcement came
from the detective bureau that the
hoodlum roundup Of the last twelve
hours had put 655 men behind jail
bars.
Our flying squadron Of six detec-
tive units, each headed by q man
with numerous gang scalps IN his
belt, will clean this town up II it
is humanity possible to do So" said
Police Commissioner William F.
Russell, close personal friend Of
Lingle.
The pomp and magnitude Of the
Lingle cortege was impressive. Be-
hind the mounted policemen in
front marched union musicians
band, companies of policemen, a
Eand from the Great Lakes naval
training station where Lingle served
during the war, a detachment OF
the Illinois Naval reserves and sew
eral hundred city firemen in uni
form, led by Fire Commissioner Ed
ward A. MaIoney. City and county
officials were represented.
Pallbearers included Commission
er Russell; Harry Ash, first assistant
attorney general, and star mem
bers Of Chicago newspaper,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-12

SO funny. She called, Come back
to bed I'm going to turn on the
gas 1 knew that meant she was
going away I begged her not to.
She turned on two burners on the
range in the kitchen. I smelled it.
Madeline was asleep. I tried to
get out of bed, but mama wouldn't
let me. The gas made me sick.
Madeline woke up. Mama went
to Sleep" June related.
TT was at this juncture that Mrs.
4 Schmidt and Mrs. Estee Miller,
21S9 College avenue, Kelso's
mother, arrived at the home, found
it locked. Breaking a window with
her hand, Mrs. Schmidt entered
the house.
She found the mother on the
bed unconscious. The children
were crying. Gas jets Of the range
poured fumes into the house.
She turned off the jets and
called police. The mother was
restored to consciousness. The
three victims of the gas were left
at home after treatment by city
hospital attaches.
Mrs. Miller was not arrested.
She refused to talk to police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-12

EAUTY baptized $4,000 Garfield park swimming pool to-
ID day. Miss Patricia
c aquatic the above photo shows
Here's Pats trip by photo through the pool:
Receiving suit Harrison Marsh
pool its concessions
pat walking doorway water
test it.
thy head" calls Pat and into the
water the natal splash she went
padded about the
first Australian
6-Ieavng reluctantly.
summing herself after the plunge.
from the shelter house before the water
in.
Dedcaory pool will be held Sunday at
Reginald H Sullivan will will be opened to the pub
Monday B. Hunter architect designed and built the