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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
5000 Jobless
Men Roam IN
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by a Worker Correspondent.J

(By WORKER CoTrespondent)
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. - Spring
field doesn't look very big, but it's
large enough to feel the exploitation
of the capitalists. There are only
$4,000 people in Springfield and
there are more than $4,000 workers
unemployed. Girls are working for
20 cents an hour in the factories.
The bosses own the workers in
Springfield. When a worker is laid
off in one factory, and seeks a job
somewhere else, he must get a re-
lease from his former employer.
The Ku Klux Khan flourished in
Springfield and patriotism ran high,
but the 100 per cent American work
ers are rapidly changing their atti-
tude of explicit faith in the bosses
government.
The Communist Party has held
demonstrations and meetings in
Springfield, but no organization was
DullC up.
However, last Saturday, when the
Communist Party held an open-air
meeting, enthusiasm and interest
was shown by the workers present.
IT. is significant of the present
period of sharpening struggles Of
the workers against the bosses that
we organize a functioning Party
organization in Springfield, Ohio.
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

NEW YORK.-In keeping with
its policy of posing as a liberal or
gan and the workers friend, the
New York World" on May A, pub
lished an article entitled, New
York's Meanest Racket" an article
purporting to expose the unholy al
lance of shyster employment agen-
cy and commissary with the boss
of the out-of-town construction
camp - the object of the alliance
being the splitting of fees, the con-
slant hiring and firing of men to
keep a steady stream of fees pour
ing into greedy hands, and as a
side line the serving of poisonous
food at exorbitant prices.
Such was the Worlds beginning
In no uncertain terms it inveighed
against the INSCRIPTIONS Madison
Labor Agency at 297 Bowery. Then,
alas and alack, seems to have come
the disconcerting discovery that the
concern supplied by this Agency is
none other than the Fred F. French
Company. To denounce an insig-
nificant Employment Agent is one
thing; to attack the advertisers of
the French Plan" quite another.
So, as usual, the "World" has scut-
tied to cover and the discreet veil
of silence shrouds its further in
vestigations, if any.
AS all workers know, in these
slave driving days a secret under
standing between the boss and the
employment shark scarcely adds to
the intolerable conditions under
which he works. He will be pushed
to the limit, anyway. Such is the
speed-up at the slave camp of the
Fred F. French Co. near Pawling,
N. Y, that men are not permitted
to pause even for a moment. If
a man stops for a drink of water
on a hot afternoon the superin-
tendent, Geo. N. Marshall, sarcastic
ally asks if he wants to take a
vacation. For a second "offense"
the man is fired. Even to miss a
stroke with his pick may cost
man his job. One man just ar
rived in "free" America was made
to load a wheel-barrow so full of
heavy clay that when dumping it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
Carol Opens Door to U. S. Imperialism

The London would consider
making that Carol has been restored to the
the
meant the asendancy imperialism Rumana Dis
Bucharest that Carol intends carry out economic
reforms" opening Rumania to foreign mecan) capt.
tai feature.
According to Bucharest dispatch yesterdays New York
rbune points dispute between the
under Vna Bratanu (Which opposed
the National Peasants party under Juu
reurnEd) has the
bringing capital into Rumania Bratanu representing
capitalists
intro ctiono of foreign capital"
Herald Tribune dispatch believes intends to turn to
for big loan However, not word is said about American
capital although the Liberal party represents Euro
pean against American capital while Carol and his party the
protagonists of American capital
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firing squad after a trial that lasted
half an hour or so. In most cases,
such trials merely consisted of TAX
ing the unfortunate mans name and
address, his age and the name Of
his father or mother.
"The man, of course, was asked
whether he was guilty or not, but no
matter what his answer, the investi-
cations of the foreign officers in
the settlement had generally estab-
lished the fact that he was, before
they turned him over to the Chi
nese."
The description begins with the
words, Sin the past" but the situa-
tion is just the same at the present,
except in places like Changchow and
Annoy, where the authorities have
been scared cold.
Procedure in the higher courts
will not be less summary and SEN
fences of death are likely to be
more sure than in the lower courts,
which are naturally less bold and
can be more easily scared. People
who believe that the transfer of
Communist cases to the higher
courts means a relaxation Of the ter
rorist regime of Chang Kai-shek
will be quickly disappointed.
White terror still exists in China
and will exist as long as the regime
of counter-revolution remains in
power. The only force that will de-
feat white terror is revolution, and
the best way to fight white terror
ism is to fight for the revolution
and for the establishment of Soviet
power, which is the only guarantee
against white terror in any country.
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A steel mill with an annual out
put of 100000 metric tons will be
built in the Kuznets Basin of Siberia
under the technical supervision OF
the Freyn Engineering Co. Of Chi
cago, ILL.,, according to an announce
ment made yesterday by the Amtorg
Trading Corp. A contract provid-
ing for technial assistance by the
American company in the design,
construction and starting of opera
ton of the plant, which will cost,
including a workers town and a
regional power plant, about $780,
100000, was signed in New York
by F. T. Kolgushkin, chief of the
kuznets Steel Mill Construction Bu-
reau, and H. ]. Freyn, president of
the Freyn Engineering Co. The
latter company have been consulting
engineers for the Soviet metal in
dustry for a number of years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
Battle of Telephones" RACES in Europe

I. T. and T., or the Morgan, invasion
are Siemens and Halske of Berlin,
the L. M. Ericsson Co. and the Swe-
dish Telephone Trust, which is DOM
mated by the match king, Ivar
Kreuger.
The European concerns are charg-
ing the Morgan concern with at
tempting to monopolize the tele-
phone and telegraphic services
throughout the world, which is not
far from the truth. A plan for the
formation of an all-European front
against the American company is
under discussion. The fight is just
in the initial stage of it's develop
ment.
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BERLIN, June 15.-The intensifi-
cation of contradictions of capital
ism in the form of cut-throat COM
petition and eventual absorption be-
tween various capitalist enterprises
has found in the case of the "battle
of the telephones" in Europe another
brilliant illustration.
The invader is the notorious In
ternational Telephone and Telegraph
Co., which, after successfully en-
trenching itself in many South and
Central American countries, is now
seeking a foothold in Europe. The
most outstanding ones of the Euro
pean concerns that are fighting the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
Sons Wage Slashed; Mother Takes Poison

cided to commit suicide and drank
poison. Now she lies in a hospital.
This is by no means an extreme
case. The wage scale of Nomura is
the wage scale of hundreds of thou
sands of textile workers in Japan,
and the wage cut does not only ap-
ply to one worker. Although only
the case of one worker, Nomura, is
brought to public attention by his
mothers attempt to suicide, the lot
of hundreds of thousands of textile
workers in Japan are no better than
that of Nomura.
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HUGE WAGE CUTS
SPEED UP | OOMS
FOR HOSIERY MEN
U. T. w. in Conspiracy
With Bosses

(Continupd tr0m Page OneJ
lite officials of the American Fed
Grafton Of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, affiliated to the United
Textile Workers. 1t was on their
initiative that the secret confer
ences with the bosses were held. 1t
was they who not only agreed to the
hosiery employers plan for the re-
organization of the industry at the
expense of the workers, but who
guaranteed to put over the bosses
program.
Takers Organize Bosses.
During February, 1929, the A. F.
F. F. H. W. officials, under the
presidency of Geiges, now personnel
manager of the Gotham Hosiery, the
individual manufacturers were in
vited to a series Of conferences with
view to their organization. Up
to that time they were not organ
lied in a central bosses organiza-
ton, and the union made individual
agreements with them. Comi..g out
of the conferences the bosses went
away well pleased. For not only
were they now organized but the
! collective agreement that they had
drawn up included wage-cuts ESQ
called levelling off of price scales)
ranging from 5 to 20 per cent. In
mediately after this collective agree
ment s per cent of the knitters,
members, helpers, toppers, loppers,
boarders, examiners and auxiliary
help found themselves speeded up,
and the many little extras that went
to make up their total wages wiped
out in many instances.
The Present Agreement.
Early this year preliminary con-
ferences between the union officials
and the manufacturers were started.
The effects of the great economic
crisis had already been felt in the
hosiery industry. The large unor-
gained mills of Reading and vicin-
ity and in the South had long before
introduced the speed-up and the
more and one-machine system and
cut wages extensively.
Fawning before the bosses, the
hosiery officials agreed that the in
dustry was in a state of crisis and
that it demanded drastic reorganiza-
ton and that their powerful aid
could be counted upon. Thereupon
the employers demanded that a flat
33% per cent wage-cut for all cate
gories of workers, the introduction
of the "a and even 6-machine sys-
tenn and similar speed-up methods,
the forcing out of the industry the
majority of knitters and taking on
young boys and girls as helpers, be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
HIKING WORKER
SEES GROWING
CRISIS ALL over
Big Lay-Offs in All
Parts of Country
(B2 a WoHer Correspondent

(Bg a Woker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Thousands are
walking the streets of CALIFORNIA;
Bay Cities. Their numbers are
swelled by even larger numbers
from Los Angeles with the police
frantically endeavoring to prevent
publicity from affecting tourist
traffic. The highways from Cali
fornia eastward are lined with
workers hiking from place to place
in search of employment. Some
times one comes across whole fami-
lies on the march. Other workers
migrate from place to place in old
rickety cars.
The industrial center of Dayton,
Ohio, has been particularly affec-
ted, though the Rotarians and men,
bers of the manufacturers associa-
ton are of the opinion that Dayton
is "better off" han most places.
Thus the National Cash Register
Company has made two ten percent
lay-offs and has slashed the wages
of those remaining. Frigidaire, the
General Motors subsidiary, laid off
1000 last week and this-a total
reduction of one nineteenth.
The public utilities companies are
finding that while domestic con-
sumption of electricity has increased
due to the use of electrical appli-
ances, the industrials have fallen
off greatly. In Philadelphia, the
use of power by the industrials is
onethird less than for the same
period last year. Similar reports
are made from other cities.
The heavy late frost in some of
the states north of the Ohio River,
is causing severe suffering to the
jobless. Fields of corn and toma-
toes have been destroyed in addition
to apples and pears.
A public utilities representative
reports that the radio business of
some of the largest companies is
shot, Atwater Kent of Philadelphia
having but a handful of workers
employed. He reports the same for
other companies who he says are
trying to find other fields to go in.
-HITCH-HIKER.
Support the Daily Worker Drive!
Get Donations! Get Subs!
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the first step in this reorganization
and should be so Incorporated in
the agreement.
Takers Push Boss Program.
Agreeing to the essentials of the
program proposed, the Musteite Of
ficials warned the bosses that such
terrific attack on the workers
would be difficult TO put over unless
some of the "raw" spots were re-
moved. And their proposal was
that the wage-cut be 1919 per cent
(for a starter only and introduce
ton of the 2-machine system. Fur
Their, to appoint standing commit
tee to see that the industry was
efficiently" run, that the most
modern methods of speed-up and
naturalization be introduced. This
naturalization commission could be
used as a pretext to further cut
wages on the plea of bad business,
etc. And, moreover, this the hosiery
bosses agents told their masters
with emphasis, we will accept the
responsibility of putting over this
program in a peaceful manner.
You now know our policy, they told
the bosses, is one of no strike, and
we are heartily in agreement with
you in wishing to adjust the living
standards of the organized mill
workers to the level of the unor-
gained.
Putting Over the Boss Program.
The methods that the officials
were going to use in carrying
through the lowering of the living
standards of the hosiery workers
and the reorganization of the indus
try for the bosses profits, was
closely guarded during the confer
ences. But Immediately upon the
close of the meetings and the reach
ing of an agreement, a call was sent
out for an immediate convention.
Ostensibly this convention would be
given power to accept and reject the
agreement. But the conferences had
agreed to make this convention the
endorsing body of this agreement.
Forthwith elections of delegates
to the convention were called for
and the officialdom got busy to see
that the delegates would be of the
same mind, and proceeded with the
intimidation of the militants as in
the Brooklyn local and the use of
sophistry and plain lies to fool what
ever honest delegates were elected.
To disguise the essence of the
agreement the officials put forth
the argument that the wage-cut
would be returned if the industry
was once Stabilized" and that it
was their duty to accept wage-cuts,
! etc.
That the hosiery workers, how
ever, are going to see through their
progressive" misleaders has been
shown by the uproar and the storm
of protest at the Philadelphia men,
bership meeting Friday, June Is,
when the agreement was cautiously
preached to feel out the sentiment
of the workers.
Ito Be Continued.)
(TomorrOw) The role of the
U. T. w. and the Struggles of
Hosiery Workers. Don't miss to-
morrow's issue of the Daily
Worker.
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cist government certainly cannot
do-ed.) a peasant revolt is i'm
minent.
DR.. Wolf said that during his visit
at Ziongrad last week group of
peasants approached the town pre-
feet and demanded that they be
permitted to plumber the shops for
twenty-four hours to allay their
hunger for some time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

OSAKA, Japan, June 15.--It was
bad enough for Nomura, a spinning
mill hand, to try to support fam
lily of five with monthly wage of
IS yen ($17.50). But with the deep
ening of the crisis in Japan the
boss decided to shift the burden of
the crisis on Nomura and his fellow
workers, making 20 per cent cut
in his wage.
Nomura's mother, Mrs. Iwajiro
Nomura, rs years old, knowing that
her son could not support the whole
family with his reduced wage, de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
Peasant Revolt Imminent in Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 49,
In speeches delivered at the Hun
garian parliament Thursday night,
two notorious conservatives, DR..
Paul Wolf and Count Franz Hun
yazyi, admitted the seriousness of
the agrarian crisis in Hungary and
warned the fascist government that
unless relief is provided for by the
government in time (Which the fas-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
.S,P.-A.F.L.. TAKERS
PUT over PAY CUT
Force Reading Hosiery
Workers to Take It

by a Worker Correspondent
READING, Pa.-Last week the
workers of one of the largest hosiery
mills received their third cut and
decided to strike. The owner Sc
cured the services of the organizer
for the Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, who hurried to the plant
and addressed the workers in the
presence of the owner.
During his Judas speech he told
the workers to accept the cut and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16
j0BLESS MEET IN
SPITE OF C 0 P S
Hunger w ave Hit S
Mass. Textile Region

FALL RIVER, Mass, June 15.-
Chief of Police Feeney and fifty
uniformed thugs blocked the streets
to Liberty Lot Friday to try and
prevent the unemployment meeting,
but over 500 came through the lines
and demonstrated. The speakers
were Emanuel Perry, Rappoport,
district secretary of the National
Textile Workers Union, and others.
The largest mills are closing here.
The meeting adopted a resolution
against the Southern terror. An
other meeting will be held June 81.
FALL RIVER, Mass, June Is
Fall River, with its idle mills, is a
blatant example of the crisis.
For centuries the family owner
ship of Fall Rivers textile mills
has been paying itself exorbitant
dividends, higher sometimes than
100 per cent. Most of the mills
closed for years will never run
again.
The workers, who managed a
meager living in days gone by, will
have to wait absorption in other in
dustries or follow the thousands
who have already left hunting jobs.
Census figures tell the story. In
1920 the population was 10000, in
1880 114,000.
Over 60 per cent of the textile
workers are unemployed. Of these
20 per cent work part-time. Fur
Their shutdowns are threatened on
July /.
All Are Hit.
Since Fall River is a one-industry
town all other workers suffer
equally from the unemployment
scourge. Building is at a complete
standstill. Maybe Is per cent of
the building tradesmen are working
maybe only 10 per cent. Distress
is widespread.
Meanwhile citizens of the wealth.
lest nation of the world live on prac-
tically no income or IS, Sc or 81 a
week.
Half of New Bedford Out.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June Is.
Half of the New Bedford textile
workers are unemployed, while the
rest snatch at a chance for one or
two days work. The new census
figures show d population 5000 be-
low ten years ago. The actual loss,
considering New Bedford's usual
normal growth, is around 10000.
Building is naturally at stand
still. The building trades unions
have practically disappeared.
Organizing For Relief.
Against such conditions as these
in the textile centers the National
Textiel Workers Union builds mill
locals, mill committees and councils
Of the unemployed. Strong organ
ization, fighting for the shorter
work day and larger wage, unem-
ployment relief and unemployment
insurance, paid for by the state and
administered by the workers and
the organized unemployed, will help.
The Communist Party points out
to these workers that capitalism it
self is the originator of these job
less crises and of the permanent I'M
employment that goes with indus
trial progress. 1t calls on all to
vote their protest of this capitalist
system at the coming congressional
elections. xIasali.g,,.as i?
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q. s. S. r. TO SALVAGE SHIPS.

U. S. S. r. TO SALVAGE SHIPS.
MOSCOW.-Plans are being made
to salvage ships sunk in the White
Sea during the war. Many ships
were sunk there when they tried to
break the blockade. They will also
hunt for the cruiser Rostislav,
which was sunk by the retreating
white guards in 1921.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-16

MEXICO CITY.-The minister of
Finance of Mexico will leave soon
for New York, where he will confer
with the international committee of
bankers on how to tie up Mexico
more firmly with the United States.
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FARM IN THE PINES. Situated I'm
Pine Forest nenr Mt Lake. German
table, Rates: S16--S1S. Swimming,
fishing. NJ. OBERKIRCH, r. 1, Box
rs, Kingston, N. Y.
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wise them and lead them in mill
tant battle.
READING WORKER.
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CTomorrOw) The role of the
U. t. w. and the Struggles of
Hosiery Workers. Don't miss to-
morrow's issue of the Daily
Worker.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-14
OWNER THREATENS TO SELL
HERMAN; BENTON SIGNS UP

basemaa. Cissell's work has been
50 impressive in practice at San
Antonio that Bush has decided
Charlie Gehringer OF Detroit will
have a real rival for second base
honors.
With an eye toward the possihil-
ity Of getting the pitching assign
ment Sunday in the Pittsburgh Pr
rates opening exhibition game of
the season with the San Francisco
Seals, the Meme brothers and
French and Spencer warmed up
for today's resumption OF the YAM
nigan-regular series. Hemsley, CATCH
er. and Paul Waner reported with
ailing right legs. Hemsley's as a
result OF soreness and Big Pois-
on's" as the result of getting in the
way of a batted ball.
Today's performance of the Wash
ington Nationals in their first for
NAL competition. with the New Or
leans Pelicans, was of no inconsid-
cradle interest to Manager Walter
Johnson and the rest OF the powers
that be. The game with the South
ern Association team was the first
Of a series Of nineteen exhibitions
before the start Of the American
league championship campaign at
Washington. April II. President
Griffith's capital leaguers we're in
fair trim. as a result OF two weeks
training for the hatterymen and more
than a weeks workouts for most OF
the boys in the field at Biloxi, Miss
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where" and figures to 20 a lot fur
Their in a hurry. Last year. she
fairly dazZled in Florida winter
tournaments. got III some good licks
in major summer affairs and won
the Canadian women's title.
This winter Miss Hicks won the
mid-south tournament with case
taking medal honors with a 70 over
the Pine Needles course. one OF the
longest and snaggiest in the south.
Any woman who can break 80 over
IL is playing top notch golf. In
match play Helen was not taken
beyond the fourteenth green.
III the st. Valentines tournament
at Pinehurst she again was medal
ist and won the meet in a big
field, never going above 80 and
whacking out the course record Of
70 in one round.
Helen will be the baby" Of the
women's team that will play In
England in May. but she should
prove a lustY infant. Six consecu-
tive rounds ar Pinehurst for which
she averaged ~ testify TO that.
One Of the rounds, on which the
Long Island girl had a 70, was over
the No. 2 championship course, a
cruel layout for women players.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-14
STARS DIVING
In A.A.U. MEET
Eleanor Holm Breaks World
Record in 800 Yard
Medley Swim

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. March IA.
-(P-Stars turned their attention
today to low board diving and a
trial for new marks in the So
meter swim in the second days
program of the National A. A. u.
Women's Swimming championship
here.
Eleanor Holm Of the Women's
Swimming association Of New York
Jumped into the front Of the car
nival yesterday when she shattered
her " worlds record for the
3o0-yard medley individual swim
to four minutes. is seconds. clip
ping 62-5 seconds from her for
mer mark established at Newark,
N. j.
Sixteen-year-old Helene Madison
of the Crystal Swimming club. Sc
attic. took the honors in the OPEN
ing event Of the carnival. winning
the 100-yard free style. Her time
was one minute 1875 seconds.