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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Red Professor of Law Analyses Capitalist Laws

people, in the interest of progress
against the reaction of small group
of feudal lords.
Today the situation is different.
A small group of the privileged, who
by their control of the economic re-
sources are in the position to COM
mand the state, Expresses the broad
masses Of toilers by means of ex-
ceptional laws.
Emergency legislation has grown
in extent as well as sharpness after
the World War. The rights vested
in the parliamentary constitutions
of France, Germany, Austria, etc,
have been seriously infringed by
emergency legislation against the
working class.
In the Soviet Union
In the Soviet Union we see the
opposite tendency. There the big
majority of the people is using the
Legislative power for the building up
Of socialism and in order to prevent
reactionary forces obstructing this
task.
A far-reaching system of election,
of control of the apparatus of adj
ministration and the direct influence
on administration by practically the
whole working class and large
part of the peasantry is made use
for the advance Of progress and the
rebuilding of society on socialist
basis.
There is no other country in the
world where the broad masses of
the people have such vital and ex-
tesive part in the legislation and
administration of the country and
such wide control over jurisdiction.
Even in England the use of emer-
gency legislation against the work
ing class has found far wider ap-
plication after the war.
The duty of the international
juridical conference must be to fight
this system Of exceptional legisla-
ton against the working class in all
countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Seventh Man Dies in
Ala. Mine Explosion

Continued from Page Oae)
helper $3.50 for a twelve-hour
shift.
Company Store Swindle.
Miners live in shacks for which
the company charges So a month,
with an additional dollar for lights.
The company store is the only place
where miners can trade convenient
ly. Its prices run about Is per cent
higher than in Birmingham.
One miner says he has received
no money in wages at all for months,
because he is in debt to the company
store. Denied even the privilege OF
drawing checks" to be traded in,
he is given orders on the store for
something to eat. This miner can
not leave, because Alabama laws
give londlord lien on a workers
household goods.
The National Miners Union plans
to carry organization into these
Southern, non-union fields, in spite
of the heavy burden of conducting
strike in the Illinois and Kentucky
| territories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
100000 IN N. Y,
STATE is TOTAL
OF UNEMPLOYED
Expose Lie S Of State
Labor Commissioner

Continued from Page One)
1927-28-29 was we'll over 100000.
Unemployment in a severe form has
been growing since August, 1929.
The Department of Labor admits a
decline of 6 per cent during Novem-
Der and December, and since 1929
there has been a drop Of 10 to II
per cent, which accounts for
growth in the army Of jobless of
between 100000 to 100000 in the
State of New York alone!
Unemployment for r. r. Workers.
Springing out of the crisis, the
vast railway mergers promise still
more unemployment for the rail
way workers all over the country.
This confirms the statements of
the business statisticians who met
in Washington recently and said
that for the next ten years at least
the dominent question before U. S.
imperialism would be growing mass
unemployment.
The misleaders of labor in the A.
F. Of L., who combine with Hoover
and the bosses to worsen unemploy-
ment for the workers, admit that
the rail mergers will throw hundreds
of thousands Of railway workers on
the streets.
The faker A. o. Wharton, presi
dent of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists, said that at least
10000 to 225,000 men would lose
their jobs as a result of the rail
mergers.
James O'Connell, president of the
metal trades department of the A.
F. of L., and one of those who sup
ports Hoover's semi-fascist business
council in its attack on the standard
of living of the American workers,
admits that the number thrown on
the streets will be nearer 100000
within the next five years. None of
these close friends of the chief i'm
perialist, Hoover, can be accused of
deliberately spreading wild figures
to arouse the discomfort of the
workers.
For the entire country steel pro-
duction averages 65 per cent of
capacity, which for this time of the
year is the lowest figure since 1924.
In 1929 at uis time average opera
tions were at SO per cent. What this
means for the workers is shown by
reports from Pittsburgh. The Ma
tional Tube Co., leading plant IN
finished products, admits that only
40 per cent of it's usual number of
workers are employed. Edgar
Thompson Works of the U. S. Steel
Co. is on half time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
TRIADELPHIA, w. Va. (By
MaiD .-On New Years the mine
out here was working, and as soon
as the men got into the mine the
company officials received an order
to cut the wages from 81 cents to
40 cents ton. But all the men
got out of the mine and went home,
on the next day they came back, and
the men said that they weren't 60
ing to work for 40 cents a ton. For
stone, if you have feet they don't
pay the tonnage.
The people are working here but
they nearly starve. No. 2 mine is
entirely shut down and only No. l
and are working. The company
gives jobs only to those who buy
from the company store, no one else
is given work.
Down at Elm Grove Mine No. / a
Negro worker had a big stone. After
he cleaned the big stone the boss
saw that it. was a good place, he
gave him buddy to work with, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

BERLIN (By Mai)-At this writ
ing conference of jurists is meet
ing in Berlin with representatives
from a great many countries, for
the purpose of determining the
position of progressive lawyers to-
wards present day legislation and to
form an international association Of
jurists, with a regular journal,
which will deal with all questions
of the struggle against growing re-
action in legislation and 'judicial af-
fairs.
A great many of the jurists at
tackled the so-cal1ed emergency
laws and practices against the work
ing class. But great action. Gen.
tered on the speech of Professor
Paschukanis, of the Moscow Law
University, representing the jurists
of the Soviet Union. Prof. Paschu-
kanis made a thorough analysis Of
the term Exceptional Legislation, +"
in summary as follows:
/, A Red Professor on Capitalist Law
1t would be of no use if we would
go in our Investigations of excep-
jtional laws back to the gray times
of Asiatic despotism or medieval
monarchs. For in these states under
such social relations practically all
was exceptional"
When we speak of exceptional
laws we have in mind such states
and societies, where formally an
equal right for all citizens exists.
History teaches us that each vic
torious class has reserved excep-
tional rights for itself in order to
safeguard the achievements that the
conquest Of power has brought
about.
The victorious bourgeoisie dem
ocracy, after the overthrow of
feudalism, has issued exceptional
laws against their old adversaries.
At that time bourgeois democracy
used the conquered state power in
the interest of the majority Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

physical struggle against fascism
and should take their place in the
ranks Of the workers defense corps.
The resolutions which were all una
nimously adopted demanded, inter
ALA, equal pay for equal work, the
abolition of the capitalist rational
ization, pause Of ten minutes at
the moving band, the prohibition of
all night work and children's labor,
the reduction of the cost Of living,
the abolition Of the fascist constitu-
tional law, against imperialist war,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
A. F. L. Misleaders Fail to Halt Big Eberle
Mill Strike

and the strike came off at 10 a. M,
Monday. Instead of getting all the
workers out of the mill, the labor
takers, at the request of the bosses,
ordered the men to go to the hall.
As soon as the members of the
union had cleared the streets the
tools of the bosses, the police, came
and chased the workers who went
out in sympathy, away from the
mill. The labor takers and the po-
lice are in close cooperation, as the
A. F. of L. leaders advocate the
election of the politicians who, with
the bosses slaves, the judges issue
iniunctions against the strikers and
use the police to club hell out of the
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

to be organized. You, who believe
that you can declare a strike today
in nine days and weeks time go
home to sit down to play cards and
not do any preparatory work, you
are just kidding yourselves.
want to bring to your attention
some of our shortcomings. We have
found that in the coal mining indus
try, while we know that it is easy
to organize these men into the N.
M. u, because it is the only organi-
cation that will appeal to the (they
know that they have been betrayed
by the Lewis, Fishwick harrington
leaders,, they are not wanting to
just listen to you and then walk
home and go to bed. They are willing
to sit up all hours helping to solve
the program, but you must come out
to organize them first and let me
say to you your program must be
to organize (applause).
You can do nothing whatever
without organization. You must first
organize and then you will be sur
prised to see what the organization
will develop. You will find that out
of this organization, there is just al
good material working in the coal
mines as what has been brought out
on the platform. The young coal
miner has proven one of the most
militant fighters in this strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Strikers Suffering.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 15.-The ter
rible restitution and suffering in the
Illinois strike area is described in q
letter received by the Chicago Local
of the Workers International Re-
lief from John Watson, chairman,
and Bessie Tierney, secretary of the
Eldorado Local of the W.IR. They
write:
"The people here have no clothing
and no food. They are absolutely
in destitute circumstances. We have
done all we could, soliciting cars
every day rain or shine, cold or
hot. We have fought good fight,
Are you going to keep your faith
with us?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
TRUCKERS AT PHILA. co.!
MAKING GAS FOR WAR,
STRIKE ON WAGE CUT
Refuse to Obey A. f. l.. Order to Cooperate
With the Bosses

ride on the trucks Of the Terminal
Warehouse Co., protecting the scabs.
The Terminal men, even though
they were members of the scab A.
F. of L. union were themselves
working for $4,000 week, way be-
low the union scale, and the leaders
of the union refused to support the
men in their struggle.
The policy of the A. F. of L. is
to lose the strike for the men. They
need real leadership which can be
found only in the T.U.U.L. and the
Communist Party which fights
against the bosses and their tools,
the A. F. of l.. takers who betray
the workers.
PHILA. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Battle RACES in Czech Parliament

members. The workers in the public
gallery sang the "Internationale,"
whereupon the gallery was cleared
by the police with great brutality.
The Communist members sang
revolutionary songs whilst the po-
lice were at work and % Commu-
mist members were excluded for 10
days from the parliamentary ses-
sions. These Communist members
were then elected with violence from
the hall and the Communist Deputy
Stixka was slightly wounded by the
notice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Indian reports state that a tax
payers strike is begun and is rapid
NY developing in the Punjab, and q
part Of the independence movement.
IThe movement started at Multan.
Apparently, the bourgeois Ma
tional Congress had nothing to do
with starting it, but some elements
Of the National Congress are trying
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail
Service). In today's session of the
Senate there were sharp collisions.
At the proposal Of the social demo-
cratic president four Communist
senators were excluded from sew
eral sessions. The Communist sena-
tor Mikulichek was attacked by So
cial democrats and flung out of the
hall.
In parliament the new govern
ment was received with stormy
demonstration by the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Taxpayers Strike Starts in India

to get it under their control and are
arranging huge demonstration.
Reports that the Hindus and Mos
lens are united are most significant,
since the British have always strived
to keep them divided. This time,
they are jointly refusing to pay the
water tax, over which the fight is
beginning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Austrian Factory Working Women Meet

VIENNA, Dec. Is by 1nprecorr
Mail Service To-day the first con-
ference Of working women opened
here. There were twenty-eight dele
gates from the factories eighteen
Communists, three social democrats
and seven non-party working wo-
mem, three delegates representing
organizations and twenty four
guests.
The speakers demanded that the
women workers also should be
hAined to take their part in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
(Bn a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By MaiD.
The Eberle, the biggest hosiery
mill in Philadelphia declared a lock-
out and hundreds of workers are out
on strike. The tools and servants Of
the hosiery mill owners, the labor
takers who control the American
Full Fashioned Hosiery Union, true
to their sell-out policy, instructed
the workers to cooperate with the
bosses and tried to force the work
ers of the Eberle Hosiery Mill Co.
and of Clearfield, to accept 25 per
cent wage cut.
The workers held a special meet
ing, and again the takers tried to
stop them from going out, but the
workers voted to strike Monday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Unemployed Mass Meet in
Perth Amboy.

PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Jan. Is
A mass meeting on the subject of
Unemployment, It's Cause and the
Role of the Communist Party" has
been arranged for Friday, January
II, 8 p. M, at the Workers Home,
308 Elm st. D. Flaiani will be the
main speaker. There is wide I'M
employment in Perth Amboy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

A. LoSoUSky, general secretary
of the Red International of La
Dor Unions, the largest body of
4corkers on earth, embracing dp-
pronimately 16,00O,000 a0Orkers.
Under the Gear, Losovsky under-
acent the fate of many reUolution-
lists as q political prisoner qOorking
IN chains IN Siberian mines. Later
he lived in France and qUds setre-
tdry of the cap-makers' ANTON IN
Paris. He IS here shoa011 speaking
oUer the radio of the Soviet Trade
Union Central Council, one of the
most powerful stations IN t he
WorLd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
(By q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By MaiD
The Lening Chemical Works of
Brudisburg, Pa, a suburb of Phila-
delphia, engaged in the making of
poison gases, etc, for the coming
war, declared a wage-cut and the
drivers and helpers went on strike.
The Terminal Warehouse Co. forced
their truck-drivers to haul in place
of the strikers, and these men struck
too.
The A. F. of L. Transfers and
Truckers Union leaders advocated a
policy Of cooperation with the Len
ing Co., but the men refused to
carry it out. The police, ever will
ing tools of the capitalist bosses,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Take Union to Miners
Thompson to TUUL

Continued from Page Oue)
coal company called in the officials
of the United Mine Workers of
America, and agreed with them to
give division of the work only to a
limited point; that all machine men
must be considered as mechanics
and that no division of work would
be granted them, but the men do
ing the hard laborious work, such
as loading slate, among these men
the work is divided. They are given
six days straight, and at the end of
it many are so completely exhausted
that they are compelled to go to the
hospital. They come back for their
turn once out of - weeks. This
means they get one-week work out
of every IS weeks.
In the Ducoyne area we have a
different situation. We have a
vein of coal of something like Z to
8 feet thick lying approximately 30
feet beneath the surface. They have
the work of shifting the earth
this job employed many workers.
Now they have brought in a spe-
cially prepared steam shovel for this
mine, which employs something like
ID men on gang! These IA men
turn over as much of this earth
separating the coal as it previously
took 375 men to do.
Work in Smoke.
If we go into the Rocky Mountain
region of the coal industry, where 1
had the misfortune to be a little
more than a year ago, the Union
Pacific Coal Co., also the owners of
the great Union Pacific Railroad,
has long string of mines. They,
too, put the speed-up machinery in.
Working in groups of four, using
three machines, the cutting machine,
the duckbill loader, every eight
hours these men take from the solid
from 300 to 1876 tons of coal to the
flat car on the outside. The speed
up is so terrible and terrific that
the moment that these men get the
shock prepared, the matches touch
to the fuse, the blast goes off, anil
within 10 minutes time the men
are back in the smoke, loading and
going on with their work.
Stool Pigeons.
In the Kentucky region we find
that the men there in that terrible
non-union state, are compelled to
load out a whole cut, stretching
across a 30-foot room, the cut being
seven feet deep, the height of the
vein runs from A 1-2 to 51-2 feet
for $2.65. The company stores are
there, the miners are compelled to
trade in the company stores; the
company houses are there, the fam
lilies of the workers are compelled
to live in the company houses and
the single miners are compelled to
board in the company boarding
houses. The company bulldogs-the
company stool pigeons-are organ
lied to survey the situation. In
every group of Is workers the COM
pany has special stool pigeon who
tries to deliberately provoke the
other workers into criticizing the
conditions that prevail. Just as soon
as this is done the worker is sent
to the top of the mine, given his
grip by the bulldog and sent pack
ing without the opportunity to say
word.
l am bringing this picture to you
so that you will begin to under
stand why the coal miners are fight
ing most militantly.
Want Organization.
Go among the workers in the fac
tories, mills, go out among the coal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Banquet Sunday for Relief.

CHELSEA, Mass, Jan. 15.-
Funds for the relief of the striking
and victimized Illinois miners will
be provided by a banquet that will
be held here Sunday, Jan. 10, at the
Chelsea Labor Lyceum, arranged by
the Workers international Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
CLEVELAND TAG DAY FOR
MINERS.

CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 14.-The
Workers International Relief will
hold Tag Days for the Illinois mine
strikers Saturday, Jan. IS and Sun
day, Jan. 10. Volunteers for the
Tag Days should report at South
Slavic Hall, 5607 st. Clair Ave,
Freiheit Gesangs Varein, 1920
Kinsman Ave-, and at 20 West Su-
perior Ave-, Room 800.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

list law, under which Ohio League
members are facing years of i'm
prisonment, and preparations for
the district school.
The conference sent greetings to
the coming Plenum of the National
Executive Committee of the Young
Communist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
$4,000 to 10000 Unemployed in Buffalo

the whole of society, and not while
it is in the hands Of a few, who
live in luxury, who do not see and
do not care for Our needs.-J. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

CHICAGO (By. MaiD -Four mil
lion dollars worth of contracts for
public work in the metropolitan area
netted Geore L. Chamberlain
100000 and another s503,802 re-
mains unaccounted for, government
charges against him hold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Build The Daily Worker-Send
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

for the defense Of the Soviet Union
and for a Soviet Austria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become a
Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Want Organization

Go among the workers in the fac
tories, mills, go out among the coal
miners-they are ready and wanting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29
UNION LABOR AND IT'S FRIENDS

of the producing public. Organized
labor is the best friend that Amer
lean business may claim and Amer
lean business, as best exemplifed,
appreciates the worth of the work
ingman's contribution to the general
well being. No better example of the
good will existing between the better
industrial, mercantile and profession
al interests, and the working classes,
than these pages of representative
firms and organizations that have
joined your paper in it's campaign
for better understanding, in busi-
ness sense, between labor and other
civic interests. These are your
friends. Their cooperation speaks
for itself. Each offers you, your fam
lily, and your friends unique service
in it's line. Their interest in labor is
commendable. 1t is your duty to
familiarize yourself with them, to
patronize them, to see to it that your
family does likewise, and above all
to remember them as those who have
made this program possible. On the
good will of such as these, has labor
established the solid foundations for
it's upward growth. Mutual respect
is an accomplished fact.
Our friends have not forgotten us.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-29

There can be no better evidence of
the value of organized labor to the
community than the attitude of the
man in the street.-the merchant in
his store--toward labor movements.
The American workman's place in
society is established. Earnest efforts
and cooperation have assured that
fact. True, he has fought for the
blessings received, nor does he sit by
in snug complaisance to await the
millennium. He is fully aware that
the future of labor is dependent upon
continued effort. Through organiza-
tion he has won much and it will be
through organization that his prog
ress will continue. Raised to his
proper dignity he wears his honors
well. 1t is thus that the public today
views the man, who with his hands
and brain guides the machinery of
industry.
The world loves fair fighter even
as it despises the work lodging rad
ical. The world knows and appre-
ciates the Importance of union labor
to the development of state and COM
munity. Fair profit for the wares of
the merchant and the product of the
manufacturer, could not be had with
out fair wage to crown the efforts