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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Workers MObilizing
For Shifrin- MineOla
Defense Conference

Many working-class organiza-
lions are now electing delegates for
the big Shifrin-M ineola Defense
Conference on Sunday, January 10,
at II a. M, that will mark the ex-
tension over a wider front of the
campaign to save the ten militant
workers involved in the Shifrin and
Mineola cases. The conference has
been called by the New York Dis
trict of the international Labor De-
tense and will be held in Irving
Plaza, 18th ST. and Irving Place.
William Shifrin, after having de-
Tended his life from murderous as
sault by six knife-wielding right
wing thugs Of the Hebrew Butchers
Union, is now facing a possible life
term on charge of second degree
murder. His trial opens February
II. The nine Mineoa defendants,
two of whom are already in Jail,
were framed up on charges of felon-
ious assault during the 1926 fur
strike.
The fight to save these ten mill
tants is being conducted on ma
tional scale as part of the I. L. d.
general fight against the capitalist
terror drive. All workers organi-
cations are urged to elect delegates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
COMMUNISTS Reply to
Anarchist Convinces
200 At Harlem Meet

Yesterday at a meeting called by
the Spanish Workers Club, at Har-
lem Casino, about 200 workers heard
the spoke smen of the anarchists
who had protested the form of the
resolution against the terror in
Mexico which workers adopted at
their big Mella macs meeting Fri
day night.
This anarchist, Perez, was an
swered to the delight of the audi
ence by Fernandes Sanchez, men,
Der Of the Communist Party. At
least 95 per cent of the audience
voted in favor of the Communist
Party after hearing both sides in
the debate.
At the Mella mass meeting the
workers were so incensed at the an
archists' attempt to attack the So
Wet Union that they wanted to
throw them out Of the hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Allied Powers
.ROu Ovey Loot
ON Rebarahons
French compromise
on Sanctions

Reports of the Hague Conference
on reparations indicate that again
the irrepressible conflicts between,
firstly, the looters and the looted,
and, secondly, between the looters
over the loot, are to be CLOSED over
in new settlement" which settle
nothing and leave the way open for
bigger quarrels later on.
With the French and other of the
Allies pounding on the question,
Germany had to pledge she would
not pay Preparations to the United
States if she stopped paying the
other Allied Bandits through the
Young Plan scheme. And since it
was regarded in diplomatic circles
as dirty trick for Germany to have
made a separate agreement with the
United States without consulting
the other bandits, these other Allies
who watch each other jealously, are
agreed that each one will "men-
ton" in the present Young Plan
agreement, Germany's agreement
with the United States in order to
recognize its invalidity, SO to speak.
After continual haggling by the
Germans and French, with Tardieu
finally telling the Germans they ar
gued too much to be good "nego-
ors"-meaning that they OBJ
jected to being held up the Germans
got "insulted" and Tardieu Gained
them by asserting that they were
fine "negotiators" and he admired
them for it, which shows the ability
of diplomats to lie with great ease.
The French, who have changed
their policy on Sanctions" given
up last summer, now offer "com-
promise" to this effect: If Germany
keeps up payments, France has no
rights (of occupation) under the
Versailles Treaty. But if Germany
"wilfully" defaults, then the Young
Plan is off, and the Versailles sane
tons, occupation Of German soil and
so on, is allowed. Only the World
Court is to decide if the default is
"wilful." All of which leaves the
whole question where it began.
On Bulgarian PREPARATIONS, there is
a deadlock, with Bulgaria refusing
even to promise to pay the sums
demanded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

Indian dispatches show that
Mahatma Ghandi, the "holy" faker
of the Indian bourgeoisie which per-
formed at the recent Lahore Indian
National Congress the gesture of
demanding independence "gradu-
ally" has taken back even the little
show of militaney made at Lahore
in double quick time before the dust
had scarcely cleared away from the
congress disturbance.
With the British 'labor" i'm
perialists both coaXing and threat
ening Ghandi, who is as much in
fear as they are of the Indian
proletariat and what may happen
with the demonstrations through
out India dated for January 26,
Ghandi has in effect announced that
the independence demand is given
up.
No Fasts for Murdered Workers.
Il must confess | do not see an
atmosphere for it today writes
Ghandi in the newspaper young
India" Yet it was less than two
weeks ago that Ghandi saw plenty
of atmosphere" at the Lahore Con-
gress. Only a few days ago, Of
course, the London "labor" govern
ment announced it was considering
Ghandi's arrest.
Since this announcement of wiped
out independence as slogan of the
Indian bourgeoisie, and so painfully
soon after its frothy gesture at La
hore, Ghandi adds a note of bank
ruptcy by saying that 81 want to
discover a Formulate take the
place of independence. And with
demagogic mysticism says, 81 am
concentrating all my powers on dis
covering a workable formula"
While the formula seems to be
mysteriously long and painful in
coming to birth, Ghandi forecasts
that it will be-just what the Brit
ish imperialists want, by stating
that the resolution for independence
passed at Lahore "does not rule
out altogether the idea of a con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Samoan Situation Shows Fight Ahead

Reports from New Zealand, the
mandate power which is little i'm
perialism in itself with British i'm
perialism, holding British Samoa, is
for "firm policy" in Samoa, where
the natives recently rioted when at
tackled by the police who tried to
arrest a white sympathizer.
A policeman was killed and twenty
natives were ordered arrested. But
the native organization, the Mau,
or League of Samoans, refuse to
surrender those of their number,
and though no police have been ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
"Disbanded" Fascists
in N. Y. Try Frame
Up of Italian Worker

Members of Fascio Benito Mus
solini, a fascist organization which
had advertised itself as "disbanded"
several weeks ago, held a secret
meeting January - at their head
quarters which wound up in a brawl
resulting in six injured fascists,
who are now trying to frame up
Ernest Lavino, an Italian worker,
on charges of felonious assault.
Lavino, president of the Biellese
Workers Progressive Club, an Ital-
ian anti-fascist organization, was
arrested while in the company of
several friends in a store at the
corner of seth st. and 8th Ave-,
last Saturday night. A notorious
fascist and a policeman entered the
store, and the former pointed the
worker cut. Lavino is greatly
hated by the fascists for his activi-
ties in the Salvatore Accorsi, and
the Mario Gilletti cases.
After a hearing at the West
Fifty-fourth st. police station, La
vino was placed under $1,000 bond.
This was supplied by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense which is fight
ing the case.
The fascists accused Lavino of
being one of a group that allegedly
attacked them after a meeting. Six
fascists claimed to have been beat
en- up.
1t is an open fact that the fas-
cists' activity is being directed
through the Italian consulate, which
in turn receives orders directly
from Benito Mussolini.
Lavino is president of the work.
ers' club which sent a delegate to
the lid convention and which was
most active in fighting for the free
dom of Accorsi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
CRISIS Shakes
u. S. CAPITALISM
Steel Industry Still on
Decline

Continued from Page One)
average of production in Deem
Der. That is contrary to the usual
experience for the time of year,
and preparation for greater steel
production this month would have
involved starting the month with
increased pig-ir0n supplies"
This is a startling admission, that
at the strategic period, when pro.
duction should show most marked
gains, the reverse is true and that
the crisis is sharpening at the most
favorable period for capitalism!
The Federal Reserve Bank fol-
Boston January 10) reports:
I'm November, there was
substantial decline in activity in
practically all lines of industry,
not only in New England but in
the entire country.
"Carloadings of merchandise
and miscellaneous freight during
November in New England fell
off considerably, not only from
the October volume, but also from
the corresponding month year
ago. New England carloadings
figures for November were below
the average for the three-year
period of 1923-25 for the first
time in five years"
There is the bombshell report of
hundreds of bank failures which the
capitalist press tries to hush up in
line with the Hoover policy of
prosperity propaganda" R. G. Dun
& Co., financial statisticians, reveal
the fact that in 1929 there were 437
bank failures - an increase Of 65
over 1928. More outstanding still
is the fact that the amount in
volved in the bank failures jumped
SO per cent. In 1928 the total in
volved was S129,649,605. In 1929
it jumped nearly S100,OOO,O0O, or a
total of 218,796,5S2!
These facts are the handwriting
on the wall. There is nothing "spot-
ty" about the present crisis of U. S.
imperialism. 1t is deep-rooted, black,
all-embracing and rapidly growing
to the severest in the entire his
tory of U. S. capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
GHANDI SURRENDERS TO
BRITISH, RENOUNCING
INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
Writes in Indian Paper That "AtmOsphere' Not
Fitting; Fears Masses More Than British
Treachery to Even His Own Congress Demand
Comes Following British Hint of Arrest
ference with the British"

ference with the British"
This attempt to deceive the Indian
masses who are pressing forward to
great upheaval against imperial
ism, is put forward under the pre-
tense of a necessity of avoiding an
other "Chowri Chowra," the town
where in 1922, twenty-four police
men were killed by real indie
pendence fighters. This so panied
the old faker Ghandi that he tasted
for five days-so it is claimed.
Quick Change of Vision.
But Ghandi has not tasted five
minutes for the Indian poor who
die daily from starvation and
misery imposed upon them by the
British rule, nor does he make any
such demonstration of pain" at the
Bombay workers shot down on
strike by British troops. His
"holy' feelings are touched only
when Indians kill some of their op-
pressors.
Therefore, it is not any feeling
against violence generally, which
has led him to want to avoid an
other Chowri Chowra, but a fear
that the Indian masses, led by the
proletariat, may make a successful
revolution against Imperialism, and
thrust the Indian bourgeoisie also
into the garbage can.
Nor is this unlikely. Lahore dis
patches late Friday told of trial
where two Indians, Bhagat Singh
and a man named Dutt, were APP
pealing against conviction for scar
ing the Indian Assembly year ago
with a noisy but harmless bomb.
When the two left the courtroom, a
number of Indians began shouting
Long live the revolutionv Reports
state that twelve were arrested
after IAN exciting scene," which
would indicate that they resisted
arrest.
The Indian masses are astir, and
the working class, not Ghandi nor
any of the Indian bourgeoisie, are
at the head of the movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Mexican Financial Crisis Upsets Things

Mexican dispatches reveal the
agony of the Mexican bourgeoisie
who, having sold out to Yankee i'm
perialism are finding that it is
grievously Improbable. At the mo-
ment the pain is over the drop in
the price of the Mexican silver dol
lar, which keeps going down.
Now these gentlemen who thought
it nice to be friends with Uncle Sam
and do what Mr.. Morrow, U. S. am
bassador desired in suppressing the
Communist Party, find that they are
compelled to pay U. S. dollars for
merchandise and sell for declining
Merican dollars, and they are very
excited about it.
The mines are closing down, since
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

it don't pay to mine silver any more.
And this, in addition to the oil wells
that have long been stopped up for
the most part, since there is too
much oil in the world market, and
as American capitalists bought the
oil wells for their own benefit, not
for Mexico's, and can tell the Mexi-
can government to forget it if it
complains that Mexico is not being
developed" as promised.
Altogether, Ortiz Rubio, who
changed his mind about visiting
California when he was informed
that the Communists there were 60
ing to give him as hostile recep-
ton as he got in Detroit, will have
some difficulties when he takes
office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

for the January 10 conference at
once and send in their credentials to
the l. L. D. district office, 799 Broad
way, Room 422.
The mobilization of the broad
masses in the Shifrin- Mineola de-
Tense campaign will be given further
impetus at a mass meeting to be
held in Irving Plaza on Friday eve-
ming, January "a, at s o'clock. On
Saturday and Sunday, January 25-
26, tag days will be held throughout
the New York district to raise urg-
emily needed funds to cover the ire
mendous expenses involved in de-
Tending these two cases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Wage Increase" Spells Speedup

the increase in production is from
10000 to between 46 and 48 thous-
and per shift.
Men from this department report
that this is easily done through me-
chanical system lately introduced.
Also from two to four men have
been put off each shift of inspec-
tors in this same department.
FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Unemployed Graw In Pontiac.

PONTIAC, Mich, Jan. 13.-The
majority of the workers of Pom
tiac, a center of the auto industry,
are unemployed. Wage cuts are
the lot of those still employed, and
these work but few days week.
Over 800 attended the last un-
employed meeting. A large number
of Mexican and Negro Workers
were among the 400 to 500 at the
January 8 meeting called by the
T. U. U. L. for the unemployed
workers.
The Communist Party here ex-
poets to exceed its quota before
the Party Recruiting Drive is over.
A mass meeting against the white
terror in Mexico has been called by
the Party here, for Friday, January
II, at " North Saginaw. English
and Spanish workers will speak.
Otto Huiswood, head of the Negro
Department of the Party, will speak.
The Lenin Memorial meeting will
be held by the Pontiac local of
the Party on Friday, January "a,
at Wolverine Hall, 311s West Pike.
Jack Stachel, district organizer of
the Communist Party, will be the
main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
NEWARK u. S. METAL
WORKERS WOULD JOIN
BROTHERS in CARTERET
Men Have to Wear Gas Masks; Slave Seven
Days Week
Average Pay Between S22-$24 Per Week;
Examined in Own Time

gas masks all during the time and
work seven days a week, no Sun
days or holidays off. The average
pay Of a man for full week (seven
days. is between $22 and $24 a
week, and he has to have blood tests
and a physical examination every
two weeks, which has to be taken on
his own time, not during working
hours.
1t would be a good plan to get
The Daily Worker to these workers.
These workers would be only too
glad to join their fellow workers in
Carteret in a fighting organization
to get better working conditions.
METAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
SING SING GUARDS TALK
STRIKE"

Because Governor Roosevelt pro-
poses to remove them from the
civil service division, so guards in
Sing Sing penitentiary threatened
to 60 on strike. Even these lackeys
of capitalist oppression who take
joy at shooting down imprisoned
workers, rebel when their wages or
conditions are tempered with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
DRIVEN TO SEEK AID

WASHINGTON, D. C. (By MaiD.
Unemployment or partial unem-
ployment was given as a major
cause of dependency by more than
half of the families covered by a
study of 1000 families applying for
air to three Boston relief agencies.
The figures are given by the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

rested for killing one of the native
chiefs, Tamasese, Sir Joseph Ward,
New Zealand prime minister, in an
nouncing ''firm policy" is sending
cruiser with airplanes to Samoa to
force the natives to surrender by
Saturday.
The situation promises a fight, as
the native Maori people are brave
fighters when aroused, though very
hospitable to all whom they regard
as friends. The "firm policy"
cruiser, planes, bombs and all, GER
tainly has been approved by the
British labor" government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Organize "Flying" Clubs
TO Become Bombing Clubs.

LONDON, (By MaiD-More than
5000 aviators are in British flying
clubs, and 1000 of them have pilots
licenses. The Prince of Wales has
helped to poularize the cut of "air-
consciousness" in preparation for
the coming imperialist war. Air.
plane manufacturers report the de-
mand for planes exceeds the supply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
by a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
y NEWARK, N. J. (By MaiD.-In
The Daily Worker of December 10,
1929, you have letters from workers
about the conditions of the workers
in the U. S. Metals Co. plant at
Carteret, N. ]. In the article you
do not even mention the Balback
plant on Doremus Ave, in Newark,
N. j., which is also a U. S. Metals
Co.
The conditions which the worker
speaks of in the Carteret plant are
even worse in the Balback plant.
Men work eight and ten hours a
day over furnaces where they wear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
DISCOVER TEACHERS
AS LABOR" CLASS

BUTTE, Mont. (By Mail) A
school teacher who sued for wages
under the state law relative to work
ers' wages won her case. The Dis
trict Judge William E. Carroll ruled
that "the term labor should not be
narrowed down to only those who
toll with physical effort"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Ford Plant Worker Describes Tyranny

Right here in Ford's you can find
yourself always under the whip of
some petty straw boss or service
man. You can be sent home for
breaking any of ten thousand rules
laid down by the company, whether
it is splitting on the floor or throw
ing paper or any thing. This Ford
system is a means by which they
are expected to feel like slaves.
FORD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT (By Mai).-Prior to
the increase in pay, Dept. No. 6510
of River Rouge Plant employed ap-
proximately 210 men on each shift
who turned out an average of 10000
value bushings per shift.
Since the increase each shift en-
ploys between 100 and 140 men and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Spain's Money Collapses; Fascists Mystified

Madrid dispatches tell that the
Spanish peseta is dropping on the
money market, selling at 5.15 to the
dollar, 55 per cent below par. 1t
has caused an enormous sensation,
and the fascist government of Primo
de Rivera admits it cannot explain
why the money is losing value. The
best De Rivera could do was to say
that it is the result of speculation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

"a banking maneuver," but he cam
not name just who is to blame. Some
banks are refusing to change money
at all, others are reaping a land
office business selling dollars for as
high as 7.9S pesetas. Prices Of all
goods are rising and there is prom
Use of trouble ahead when workers
strike to gain back their standards,
low as they are.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
WALL STREET CASH IN CUBA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Furthei
evidence of Wall Street control Of
Cuba, outside of the fact that tbs
greater part of the island is owned
by U. S. imperialists, is the fact
that three-fourths of the money sup
ply in Cuba, estimated at S138,000,.
coo, was American.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
(Bu q Worker Correspondentl

VDY W UTFo6F OVTTVoPVTIUUIIVI
DETROIT (By MaiD.- In car
list Russia the workers always
fought against the system of
filming. In China, India and other
colonial countries we find this sys-
tenn of filming for some supposed
breaking of rules or poor work
manship. And we find that this
same system is used in this hell
hole of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Two Bethlehem Steel Corp. Workers Killed

within one month, as in December
two workers were also killed on one
of the Bethlehem ships. The Beth
lehem Steel Corporation has just
recently bought out the Columbia
Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh,
Calf,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
LENIN MEMORIAL MEET IN
CHICAGO.

The Lenin Memorial meeting in
Chicago will be held on Tuesday
January 81, 8 pm, at the Ashland
Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren,
Comrades Bedacht and Thompson OF
the National Miners Union will b.
the main speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
NO PROFIT IN TEXTILES

ROXBOROUGH, Pa. (By Mail).
The personal estate of William
Sphinx, late of Alb Lyceum Ave-, tex
title manufacturer, is appraised at
$547 ,095, according to the inventory
filed when SPHINX died last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
(By Worker Correspondent

(By a worker correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf.-T W o
workers were killed in an accident
on a sh.., of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation il San Francisco Bay,
due to faulty equipment. This is
the second fatal accident reported
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Negro Children Die in Fire.

PARIS, Ky, (By MaiD-Three
Negro children, the Oldest four
years, were burned to death as they
slept when fire destroyed their
house in the Ruckerville district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Boss, Government, Seal
2 Men in Burning Mine

Continued from Page One)
took place a few days ago, against
the decision of the UNIV.
The fire in the Carl Melton mine
started from gasoline spilled from
a defective gasoline motor used to
pull mine cars.
Government Approves.
Volunteer rescue crews came on
horse and mule back for miles to
rescue the two trapped below. The
imprisoned miners rang the alarm
bell, showing they were still alive,
just before the mine company Of
ficials, with the consent and ap-
proval of G. P. Powell, Evansville
Federal Mine Inspector, started
blocking the shaft. Both men leave
widows and young children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Relief Conference
For Striking Miners

A preliminary conference of all
sympathetic organizations has been
called by the New Jersey section of
the Workers international Relief, to
be held Sunday, January II, at 2
p. M, at SO Mercer St., Newark,
N. ]. This conference will take
up plans for a relief drive for the
striking miners of Illinois, and the
building of relief machinery in prep
aration for the coming strike of silk
and dye workers Of Paterson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
DETROIT w. l. r. CONFERENCE

DETROIT w. l. X. CONFERENCE.
DETROIT, Jan. ia call has
been sent out by the Detroit section
of the w. !. R. for a conference to
organize all working class forces in
Detroit and vicinity for support of
the striking Illinois miners. The
conference will be held Friday, Jan
uary "a, at 7 p. M, at the Trade
Union Center, 1882 Woodward Ave.
The following relief stations have
been opened in Detroit: 1343 E.
Ferry ST., 914S Oakland, 3014 Ye-
mans, Hamtramck; $3.50 w. 18th St.,
and 1882 Woodward Ave. Supplies
and funds raised should be sent to
the w. /. r., 1882 Woodward Ave.