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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
RICHMOND, VA. PLANTS
CLOSE DOWN, ADD TO
THE BIG JOBLESS RANKS
10000 Already Out of Work in Southern Para
disc of Open Shop Bosses
Worker Urges Fellow Workers to Join TUUL
to Fight Unemployment, Slave Conditions
(Bu a Worker Correspondent)

RICHMOND NMore on unemployment in this bosses para
The Manufacturing mill No.
their jobs Felt Products Co. shut down April
throwing jobs Southern Works Co
is c.
r. Co. in
them working this than 20 rs
works the u A.,
during the Confederate
laid off than 1900 workers
the O months.
laid
Others only working
time
2, A. Whitlock, Ligget- Myers,
laid off in the southern
A.. other r. shops the last months
The Richmond Car Works supposed to month
with believe the lies of bosses sheets the
Richmond Times Dispatch NewsLeade WE'LL far not
again being told the old bunk that the bosses have
that they'll hiring
There approximately 1900 work.
don't exdown where the South begins
Fellow workers. organize ourselves the Unemployed
demand unemployment abolition of
All white, employed and
poyed Unity and the Communist
untedy against all exploiers and for
workers and farmers government.
-JOBLESS WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Rotten Conditions for Richmond Women
Tobacco Slaves
by u Worker Correspondent

emming department of the Whtock To-
All When a worker first
Ia Then after days
she the wkng work. They 31a
pound toba that We make
about S. and Sc week
impossible half decent
amt towel furnished by the So if
hands and face to buy ownand this
of the dollars that the bosses
The conditions in other departments all about the and
about paid enough for the hard
what alone gain better conditions
which We'll
miserable living conditions that is by all
workers led by the
fight the 7hur day 5dy week.
abolition work other militant demands
Daily Worker about
Unity League 1907 E. Main st, Richmond Va
-WHITLOCK SLAVE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
MAY DAY PARADE
THRU ST. LOUIS
Jobless Committee to
Mayor, Negro Speaker

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (By MaiD.-May
day in st. Louis was celebrated by
great gathering of unemployed
and strikers, which swelled as it
marched through the streets. The
parade was led by large group OF
school children carrying Commu-
rist banners. The march covered
three miles, but much twisting and
turning was done in order to pass
as many factories as possible.
AS the procession passed the fac
tories, the demonstrators shouted:
ASK your bosses how long you're
going to keep your jobs" and as
they passed the schools, they called
Teach them Karl Marx"
In Columbus Square, where the
march ended, speakers were intro
duced by Boris Stephanoff. A Negro
speaker exhorted his followers to
leave the republicans and to join
the Communist Party; a fourteen
year old high school boy, member
of the Young Pioneers, spoke in be-
half of that organization, and
nineteen-year old stenographer, in
very emphatic speech, spoke
against the employers.
$1,000 for a Car.
A committee was sent to the city
hall. 1t was composed Of workers
who had not been able to obtain
work for a year or more, namely,
a twenty-year old factory girl, who
led the group, a Negro hod-carrier,
a boiler maker, a seamstress, and a
Negro laborer. The committee re-
ported that the mayor had received
them with SNUG courtesy, but said
that he had no authority to do any
thing for the unemployed. In res
ponse to a query he explained that
his new $4,000 automobile was a
gift of the board of aldermen, over
which he had no control.
In St. Louis, according to the
most conservative estimates, there
are about 10000 peopel unemployed.
Mayor Miller, recently returned
from winter in Florida, having
been previously connected with a
very odoriferous lighting contract
fraud, most probably finds such
problems as unemployment rather
dull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
BILLION
FOR BOSSES NAVY
Imperialist War Nearer.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May s.
A bill for naval aircraft costing
81, 100000 will be introduced in
to Congress by Chairman Britten of
the House Naval Committee. The
fifteen 10000 ton cruisers will be
rapidly constructed. The redesign-
Ing of three 10000 ton cruisers was
ordered to permit increased thick
ness of side armor.
These are some features of the
navy race which is now on as a
result of the London disarmament"
conference. In order to hide these
war preparations war is outlawed'
by the Kellogg Pact, obsolete war
ships are scapped, and disarma-
ment phrases are peddled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Fascists Try to Rule
Or Ruin Hospital Here

A flat charge by Philip Bongiorno,
vice. president of the Italian hospital
here that the fascists were pursuing
a rule or ruin policy in the insti
tuition came yesterday. The fascist
group is headed by Emanuel Graz
zim, Italian consul-general, and by
Generopo Pope, big owner of
Italian language fascist newspapers,
and gravel dealer. Pope was edged
onto the hospital board by the arch
swindler Ferrrari, whose County
Trust Co. crashed last year with
heavy loss to the depositors, because
Ferrari was stealing part of the
money, and using a lot more of it
to substitute II Progresso and other
fascist newspapers.
The Mussolini consul is demanding
the return to him of $4,000 which
he claims to have donated to the
hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Millions for Navy;
Clubs for the JObless

Washington wires state that-al-
though the government has not a
penny, but only bluejackets and jails
for the 100000 unemployed--the
naval appropriation bill reported to
the house yesterday carries a total
of $377,036,000 for the navy, an in
crease of $14,S51,000 over last year.
This, then, is disarmament" the
first swallow in summer which is
proposed to cost billion dollars for
naval increases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Chicago Workers Plan
c a m p for Children

CHICAGO, May San appeal to
all workers to support the raising
of funds for a children's camp at
Lake Benedict, Wis, this summer
has been issued by the Workers
International Relief of Chicago. For
this purpose it is organizing a tag
day on June 7 and children's mass
meeting on Saturday, May "a, at
the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 w.
Chicago, at II a. M, to organize
the children for the tag day. A
meeting of parents whose children
attended last years camp has also
been arranged for Tuesday, May 20,
at the Peoples Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
SHOW FORCER!ES
TO M ANDATE"
CRUDE, FALSE
Even Capitalist Papers
Admit It
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
Mr.. Whalen did not, casually leav-
ing out the comma and the exclama-
ton mark. Probably he deemed
these unimportant, but no worker
does.
1t is not necessary to take up all
details. 1t is enough only to point
out that the person who forged this
document is either Ukrainian
whose Russian is bad, or a Russian
who did not acquire fully the new
photography (spelling) adopte d
since the Bolshevik revolution.
One other point. You will note
that the top line on the right-hand
side gives a date January 1881"
Now it is an established rule in
Russian, as in some other languages,
that the names of the months are
not begun by capital letters. But
in this mysterious document" pro-
duced by the genius of Whalen, a
capital 81" is used for January and,
at the end of the text, capital
Sd" for December"
Still another. Before the sigma
ture of Grafpen, there is one word
in quotation marks. Why the au-
thor decorated it with such marks
is beyond comprehension. The word
stands for "Comintern." But even
should the Comintern be distin-
guished by placing it in quotation
marks, any Russian would align
them differently-as those who read
the language know.
And now to do away with any
possible doubt as to the clumsiness
of the forgery, attention is called
to another "little detail"
This document-the alleged "man-
date"-is addressed to &c. Grafpen,"
(The "T" before the initial prob
ably stands for the Russian word
for "Comrade" and that is all
rightly But how shall we explain
the following?
The mandate" is addressed to G..
Grafpen, and yet at the end of the
very same document appears the
signature of Grafpen!
Is there a double, or did Grafpen
address this mandate" to himself?
And last but not least important:
Why are both signatures in Eng
fish? Is it new style in Russian
diplomacy? Or is it another trick
of Moscow?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
DAILY MUST
HAVE $4,000
Push the Circulation
Campaign

Continued from Page One)
workers in mine, mill and shop whom
we have given our paper to, and
ask them to contribute money to aid
us in this emergency.
And you must act quickly! To
suspend publication is farthest
from our thoughts. But only you
can help dig your revolution )
paper out of this serious situation
Right now we need the Daily
Worker more than ever before.
The revolutionary workers ani
peasants in China are raising iir,
Red Flag over more territory day
by day. The natives of South A.
RIGA are sweeping into action
against imperialism's laokeys. in
India, growing masses are brushing
aside Gandhi and his don't" poll
cies, and entering the struggle as
real fighters. In Germany, there
are immense victories for us IN the
factory council elections. In Eng
land. we lead workers in the wool
strike.
In Poland, bomb is placed in tie
chimney of the Soviet embassy. In
England, forged letters, and, here,
Whalen's forgeries, as rev moves
in the attack against our father
land, the Soviet Union. In Califor-
MIA, in New York City, the skies are
darkened by fleets of airships, the
Hudson river is black with a fleet
of warships, all of which means that
war is coming.
Powers and Carr face the electric
chair in Atlanta because they dared
to organize the Southern workers,
Negro and white, for struggle. Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Raymond
are in Jail because 10000 workers
demanded work or wages for the
iobless. Everywhere the bosses and
their government are trying to clip
the wings Of the speeding revolu-
tiOnary movement to save their own
necks.
March and May 1 have shown
the mood of the workers. They are
ready for us. We must give leader
ship. We must help organize them
into the Trade Union Unity League,
into the Party.
Right now we need the Daily
Worker more than ever before in
its six years of existence! RevOlu-
tiOnary struggles are growing and
revolutionary struggle without a
revolutionary press is unthinkable
Right now we must strengthen
it, build it into a mass organi Reach
tens of thousands of workers in all
industries with its daily revolution
airy messages.
And-right now you will have to
go to the working class, to all work
ing-class organizations, and help col
lect a fund of $4,000 if we are to
avoid the danger of partial suspen-
sion of publication, if we are to
make the Daily Worker the pow
erful weapon it must be in these
revolutionary times!
Into action-today! We must
hear from you tomorrow!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09


The strike of Locals S16 and 2S2
of the teamsters union with about
1900 men out, has reached the point
where the official clique in control
feel it is ripe for sale. The city
government stands ever ready to act
as go-between in these matters, and
Acting Mayor Mckee yesterday
gathered around him a committee of
building contractors and brick deal
ers to make the transaction as easy
and as secret as possible.
The strike is one of truck drivers
who carry brick to buildings under
construction. They have complete
control, and building is hampered,
though it has not stopped.
The strikers demand dollar per
day increase, and time and a half
for overtime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Six TOilers Held for
Working Class Action

BUFFALO, N. Y.-Six workers
were arrested here recently for
working-class activity. M. Melvin
was arrested when speaking at an
open-air meeting. c. Larson and
William Herbert, a Negro worker,
were taken into custody in front
of the Bonner Steel Co., where they
were giving out leaflets.
L. johnson and William Fake
were arrested for giving out May
Day leaflets, while Carl Larson was
arrested for pasting stickers calling
upon workers to join the celebra-
ton.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-P. Field
and A. Riven were arrested for dis
tributing leaflets and charged with
vagrancy. They are held withou:
bail for trial May s. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense is defending
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Workers Camera Club
Is Formed in Chicago

An appeal to all workers inter-
ested in working-class photography
was issued by the Chicago workers
Camera Club of the Workers Inter-
national Relief. The club aims to
supply pictures Of events of inter-
est to the workers to the revolu-
tionary press.
1t plans to obtain it's own club
room. 1t therefore asks for SYM
pathetic professional photographers
in the workers ranks to join the
club. Workers interested in joining
should communicate with Ada Ar
mold, secretary, at 1OS N. Dearborn
St., Room SOL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

The workers here don't know what
the company will pay them at the
end of the week, because they cut
the price of a group of workers each
week, without telling them. Be-
cause if the boss would cut the price
on all the workers at the same time
we workers would strike.
This place moved from New York
City seven or eight years ago be-
cause of labor trouble. So now the
company enjoys all kinds of bosses
agents, flunkeys and stool pigeons
to keep the workers from organ
izing and demanding a living wage.
Of all the bosses lickspittles, Bill
Newton is the cream of the crop.
Fellow-workers, we must organize
ourselves into real workers union,
the T. U. U. L., and demand $40
per week minimum wage, S-hour
day, abolition of piece-work, sani-
tary conditions, etc.
RICHMOND SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
3 HELD ON CRIMINAL
SYNDICALISM IN K c.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May S.-Joe
Bogdanovich, Nick Kolodko, and
John White are held here on charges
Of criminal syndicalism. The attor-
ney for the International Labor De-
tense informed the judge that the
Communist Party is legal and runs
candidates for election in Kansas,
but the judge declared the three
were guilty, and are held on the
specific charge of distributing Com
munist Farty leaflets, calling the
May First demonstration. This, the
Judge interprets as criminal syndi-
calism.
The three have been finger print
ed, Bertillion measurements taken,
and their homes ransacked by the
police.
The 48 arrested just before the
May Day demonstration have been
released, with threats not TO join
any workers organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Congress of Belgian Educational Workers

BRUSSELS, Belgium UP.S).-
The reformist Union of Educational
Workers has just held its national
congress here. At the time of the
last congress the union was affili-
ated to the Paris Educational Work
ers' International. In the mean
time, however, thanks to the maneu-
vers and intrigues of the leaders of
the international Federation of
Trade Unions (Amsterdam) and of
the Belgian reformists, the Inter
national has been split and the re-
formists have won the majority of
the central committee of the Bel
gian union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

At former congresses, representa-
tives Of the Educational Workers of
the Soviet Union spoke, but this
time the leaders of the Amsterdam
international were the guests. The
reformist majority of the central
committee has had great Difficult
ties with the members who are OPP
posed to the reactionary attitude of
their leaders. The delegates from
Verviers and Charleroi in particu-
lar sharply criticized the reaction
airy policy of the central committee.
These delegates are not Commu-
nists, but were in favor of remain
ing in the Paris International.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
New Move to Fool Shanghai Workers

and bring about industrial peace"
for both the imperialist and Chinese
bosses. Evidently, the serious I'M
employment situation and the grow
ing rehabilitation of the workers
have brought about this new move
on the part of the Bureau as a
means of making the workers be-
lieve that the Koumintang is doing
something for unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

vote, naturally giving scare to
the imperialist Labor" Party, will
undoubtedly not make Labor" less
reactionary and imperialistic than
formerly, but rather more so, since
Macdonald has long since ceased
even pretending to serve the inter-
ests of the workers and will esteem
a Conservative victory as new rea-
son for being more intensely capt.
talist than ever before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

The Koumintang Bureau of Social
affairs of Shanghai has recently
made a fake move to forbid" the
employers to discharge their en-
ployes unless the dismissal is ap-
proved by the Bureau.
The bureau is an official organ of
the government, whose speciality is
to deceive and betray the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

pastors" returned to Sweden from
Canada to report that Canada did
not want them nor was it fit to live
in. Certain agents had tried to bind
them up on loan of $150,000 to
tracts of government land in Can
ada, but this was impossible to
pay off and the peasants would
really become serfs. They came
from CANNED, Svenskby, in South
ern Soviet Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Labor" Defeated in Bye-ElectiOn

London reports that the Labor"
Party lost in the first election since
a year ago, losing a House of Com
mons seat from the West Fulham
division of London to the Conserva-
tive, Sir Cyril Cobb. Cobb won by
only 240, however, and also as an
upholder of the empire free trade"
ticket opposed to the regular Con-
servatives.
The falling off of the Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Germany Arms for War-Against Whom?

Germany, with some imperialist
itch of her own and a secret plan
to join with other bigger imperial
list powers against the Soviet Union,
also is "disarming" by it's defense"
minister, Groener, demanding &c.
100000 more the coming year than
for last year for the army. To an
investigation committee, when asked
for statement on charges that con-
siderable secret military activity is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Left Soviet Union; Now Sorry

The Swedish peasants, lured
to leave the Soviet Union by ere
ligious" intrigue to furnish propa-
ganda against the Soviet power, are
now finding it impossible to live in
Sweden. And the fine promises
they got from capitalists as to
paradise to be given them in Can
ada-all these promises have gone
up in smoke. Tuesday one of their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
RUBBER RIVALS.

LONDON.-One hundred and
eleven Dutch, 313 British, 80 CONT
mental and SO Dutch East Indian
rubber companies have agreed to a
restriction Of rubber production,
aimed primarily at the American
rubber market
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

going on in Germany, Groener, dis
patches state, gave a confidential
answer" saying for the public that
all such activity" was done with
the full knowledge of the present
(Catholic) and the past ("social-
ist") chancellor. This admission of
secret military activity shows that
capitalist Germany is preparing for
war against the Soviet Union and
to crush it's own workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09

Demand the release of Eos
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
Figurehead?

But this figurehead to 10hom
Macdonald kneeIs as the King of
parasites and the symbol of e1-
pIoitation and oppression, is paid
millions for his COB" out of the
toll of the aOorkers. The blood of
the Indian masses, of all the COL
onial slaves oppressed By British
imperialism is on his hands. But
the rising a0age of revoINtion qUW
sweep this prehistoric relic, to-
gether auth Macdonald and his
imperidliSt masters onto the scrap
heap of history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-03

three years before the supreme
court validated a return Of 744
per cent in the Baltimore street
car decision.
Members of the judiciary sub
committee will inquire into the
Bluefelds case when they assemble
next Saturday to begin hearings on
the Parker nomination.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, who
has announced his opposition to
Parker because of opinions in strike
injunction cases, will be the first
witness heard.
Labor's opposition is based prin-
cipally on the appellate opinion of
Judge Parker in the Red Jacket
coal injunction case.
1.-The injunction" Green charges,
virtually reduced the condition of
the miners of West Virginia to a
point approximating industrial serv-
itude."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-03
JUDGES RULING
MAY BAR RISE
TO HIGH COURT
Supreme Court Nominee Is
Attacked for Opinion
in Utility Case.

By SCripps-Hotoard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, April 3-An opin-
ion by Circuit Judge John j. Parker,
holding that a return of III per
cent to a public utility company did
not appear to be IAN adequate re-
turn on the capital invested" had
come to the attention of the senate
judiciary subcommittee which is
considering Parker's nomination for
the supreme court.
The opinion was given in the
Bluefield Waterworks case, in the
district court at Charleston, w. Va,
in May, 1927 Parker was called in
by Circuit Judge McClintic to serve
in an advisory judicial capacity. In
his oral opinion Parker said on the
point of capital return:
I'VE do not think a return of 71a
per cent, especially in the close val
uation made, is an adequate return
on the capital invested"
A stenographic transcript of the
opinion has been forwarded to the
senate committee by F. M. Livezey
of Huntington, w. Va, who was
counsel for the West Virginia pub
lie service commission in the pro-
ceeding.
A temporary injunction issued by
Parker restrained the public service
commission from making effective
its proposed rate and valuation
schedules for the water company at
a time when the plant figured in
a then pending merger proposal
which later eliminated in consoli-
dalton of the local company with
the American Water Works Com
pany.
This opinion was rendered almost