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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Jobless Respond to
Call in Chi. District

Continued from Page One)
cago National Unemployed Conven-
ton are already being elected. Fol-
lowing are the quotas for our dis
trict:
Coal Fields-Sa1ine County, 100;
Franklin County, 100; Belleville,
Sparta, O'Fallon, Collinsville, 80;
Stanton, Benell, 25; Springfield,
Taylorville, 100,
Other Industrial Cities-Milwau-
kee and vicinity, ESQ; indianapolis,
100; Gary, 100; Whiting, so; Rock
ford, ILL.,, 10; Rock Island, 10.
City of Chicago-One thousand
delegates. They are divided accord
ing to the 2-hour sections, as fol-
lows:
Section 2, 300 (stockyards and
railroads.; Section 8, 400 (metal and
machine center); Section 4, 100
(metal and machine); Section 5,
200 railroads and metaD.
Demonstrations against evictions
are carried on, workers are being
taken into industrial leagues, shop
committees are being built as a re-
suit of our work amongst the unem-
ployed. Tag days are being ar
ranged at factory gates, appealing
to factory workers to support the
unemployed convention, with the
slogans: "Not Charity, But Solidar-
ity!" "Work or Wages" etc.
The Trade Union Unity League
city central, which is the leading
body of the unemployed, has already
rented the large hall in the Ashland
Auditorium for the convention. The
delegation of the unemployed con-
tinues to fight for it's demands. A
large committee went to the City
Hall on June to further press the
city administration on the question
Of unemployment. A large body of
militiamen, headed by the Red
Squad, met the committee and pre-
vented them from going in to the
city council meeting. The city poll
ticians promised to let the commit
tee know when the proper commit
tee" would meet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Frisco Bell Laid Off 1900 Phone Girls
by a Worker Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Call read
an article in the Worker a couple
of days ago from an operator in
the telephone game in the middle
west. Well, | am a slave in the
same outfit in this city. A SAM
pie of the prosperity in the grand
and glorious damn mockery, from
the first of January until the first
of March, was when the company
layed off $500 employees averag-
ing $4,000 a month. Some pros
perity for the Bell system. They
increased the telephone rates at
the first of the year, which will
mean an increase of S3,500,000 ex-
ira profits for the next year, and
according to the Daily News last
year was one of the best years in
the history of the company with a
profit of S15,623,615.00. Well,
1880, will sure be prosperous for
the Bell Company, but not so good
for the 1900 slaves who are now
on the bricks. As the comrade
from the middle west said, the
conditions are terrible.
The company has abandoned the
roller skates for operators; not
that the girls did not make better
time, but the iron wheels made too
much noise. They are now con-
sidering introducing special
skate with rubber tires, and be-
lieve me, if some of those dizzy
girls come down the operating
room where l work, no chance. !
will be looking for new master.
Some months ago, all Janitors
we're instructed to keep track of
how long it took to do their diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
RC)TE FAHNE TEARS
MASK OFF End INYL
LYING, WAR MANIFESTO
SOcial-Fascists Join Boss Chorus Against
Soviets to Hide Capitalist Crisis asa
MacDonald's Blood-Brothers Approve His
Imperialist Murders in India SO gre.

BERLIN, (IPS).-Today's "Rote
Fahne" deals with the Manifesto
to the Russian Workers." issued by
the Second International, and writes
that appeal is not merely a repiti-
ton of the old slanderous charges
against the Soviet Union, which are
treated with contempt by all think
ing workers. The issue of the ap-
peal represents an attempt to hash
up the old charges and give them
new weight and credibility which
they had long lost among the mas
SEES. The best commentary on this
precious document is an examina-
ton of the actions of the gentle
men who have signed it. They
weep crocodile tears at the Russian
and "the unfavorable working con-
ditions."
In the capitalist countries 20 mil
lion unemployed workers are suf-
fering real privations. In the va
rious capitalist governments the
social-democratic ministers have
co-operated with the bourgeoisie in
cutting unemployed benefits.
Wage cuts, naturalization, in
creasing unemployment, increased
taxes for the working masses, in
creasing contributions and decreas-
ing benefits under the unemploy-
ment and health insurance schemes,
the cutting down of all social ex-
penditures and brutal political ter
ror against the revolutionary organ
izations of the working class, and
all this with the active support OF
the social democrats in the capitalist
countries. But these striking facts
do not exist for the leaders of the
Second International.
In the Soviet Unior the socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Masses Protest Atlanta Cases.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (By
MaiD "A mass protest meeting of
the International Labor Defense was
held here June 4, against the cleo
trocution of six Atlanta organizers.
Nearly one hundred Negro and
white workers were present, despite
the vicious campaign of propaganda
and terrorism carried on by the rul-
ing class to keep the workers from
this meeting. The day before a
policeman, seeing a white worker in
the hall, called him out and threat
ened to place him under arrest, de-
claring that any white person seen
at our meeting would be arrested.
]. Louis Engdahl was the prin-
cipal speaker.
A resolution calling for the i'm
mediate and unconditional release OF
the six organizers was passed unani-
mously. Copies of this resolution
were sent to press services and all
Atlanta papers, as well as to the
mayor of Atlanta and the governor
Of Georgia.
H. Jackson, secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League, Southern Dis
trict, spoke on its Southern District
Conference, to be held here June 8.
He pointed out that this conference
would mark a real step in the smash
ing of race prejudice and uniting the
Negro and white workers to strug-
gle together against oppression. lie
called upon all workers to elect dele
gates from their shops and send
them to the conference.
Gilbert Lewis, chairman, spoke on
the London Conference of Negro
workers.
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constructive work is making rapid
progress as all bourgeois economic
organs in Europe and the United
States are compelled 10 admit; I'M
employment is rapidly decreasing,
wages are steadily rising, unparal-
leled social benefits for the workers
have been introduced; social insti-
tutions impossible under capitalism
have been built up and are being
rapidly extended. But this flag
rant contradiction does not exist for
the Second International.
The manifesto does not consider
the bloody terror which is taking
place before all eyes in India at the
instance of the Macdonald so-called
Labor government, worthy Of
mention. 81
The appeal of the Second Inter
national eliminates in a call for
the overthrow of the Soviet govern
ment in order to Save the Russian
Revolution. The Russian counter
revolutionist Abramovitch, q lead
ing light of the Second Information
al, has fortunately supplied US with
the key to the understanding of
this extraordinary demand. In a
public demonstration last Monday
Abromovitch declared that Commu-
nism in the Soviet Union was the
counter-revolution. In other words,
down with the Communist PartyI
Down with the Soviet Power!
The social democrats however do
not content themselves with gener-
alizations. 1t is the joint will of
the sections of the Second labor
and Socialist) International inside
the Soviet Union to organize an
armed instruction against the
Soviet power for the restoration of
capitalism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Catholic Priest Exposes Anti-Soviet Lies

MOSCOW, May %. IPS).-A
German newspaper in Pokrovsk, the
capital of the Volga German Repub-
lie, publishes a letter from a catho-
lie priest, the head of the catholic
community in the town of Selmat,
Father Friedrich Schoenberger, who
protests energetically against the
continued anti-soviet campaign in
the capitalist countries in connection
with the alleged religious persecu-
tons in the Soviet Union. He de-
scribes the stories current abroad
as fantastic and senseless and
writes, 1--WE, the representatives of a
great catholic community in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10

ferent branches of work; as an
example, you had to mark the time
down it took you to sweep the
floor, dust the boards, dust the
chairs, clean the toilets, etc.
/ was talking to one operator
some time ago. She told me she
was with the company for 20
years, working nights, and sue
ceeded, in saving up $4,000, but
had it tied up in the Bell stock,
which by the way, dropped 8
points a week ago. Every EN-
ployee in his or here spare time
has to act as salesman, canvas
new business. Each employee is
furnished with sales book and is
expected to do all in his power to
create new business. AS the COM
rade from the middle west said
the rest and quiet rooms are good
but they sure need rest room
time and again. / have seen girls
who could hardly keep their eyes
open, and they are forbidden to
speak to each other while on duty.
Organizing? Why, if you speak
of unions on the job, you are on
the outside looking in. l dropped
the Daily Worker one day, and the
supervisor got hold of it. She
spent the rest of the night inquir-
ing of every one to find out who
read that paper in the office. Well,
if more of those slaves read the
Daily Worker, they might wake
up and as soon as the dial ystem
is in working order, more slaves
will be on the bricks, and more
Hoover prosperity for the Bell
System.
Telephone Operator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Bricklayers Beginning to See Thru Takers
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The workers of
the 'Bricklayers, Masons and Plas-
.erers international Union, Local
81 in common with millions of other
workers a,a suffering wage-cuts,
,peed-up, hsring and firing, discri-
.aination, a. I'd in general anything
the employee IS damn we'll please.
Why is it That these trades which
are organized do not take hold of
the situation and put up a fight
ayainst conditions which are stead
Jig getting worse? Why is it that
workers who fight against these
conditions are marked men, by the
A. F. Of L. misleaders, who do
everything in their power to expell
such militant workers?
The answer is not hard to find
nd in the case of local 81, one of
s~e members. A. v. Seyer:no saw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10

NEW YORK. - When the first
skyscrapers were built in this city
steam plants were put in the base
nents in order to produce their own
electricity to light the tall buildings
and drive their elevators either by
electric or hydraulic power, using
the exhaust steam for heating the
building in winter.
The licensed engineer and fireman
was in great demand, oil was not
sed everywhere. Even today one
I'm find hundreds of plants in
LIVER Manhattan, that is from the
Battery East and West to 14th St.
The hotels and hospitals are mostly
equipped with their own plants.
In recent years the N. Y. Steam
Corp. has laid lines and furnished
steam from the streets (as it IS cal
led by the engineeres). The new
Edison power plant at 18th street
produces enough current to supply
Manhattan buildings Tor industrial
and lighting purposes.
The latest plant that has been de-
molished was in Bloomingdale's de-
partment store between 59th and
Goth streets and Lexington and Bird
avenues, N. Y. steam furnishes
the steam and N. Y. Edison the cur
rent. About Is men of the engine
dept. lost their jobs and Blooming
dale's has no more use for them.
Numerous other plants went N,
Y. Steam in the last few years
thereby increasing unemployment
amongst licensed engineers and sta
tionary firemen. The skill of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10

licensed engineers thus is reduced
and they have to look for work as
superintendent or janitors. In many
apartment houses push bottoms or
self-service elevators have been in
stalled and elevator operators are
not needed any more.
Besides this many plants have
changed from coal to oil which again
means a reduction of help.
In all the above cases hundreds
of men have lost their jobs and they
must look for other jobs and many
change their trade and occupation.
The N. Y. Steam Corp. has 8 or A
plants in Manhattan and is so mil
lion dollar concern. Recently it has
been taken over by the N. Y. Gas
and Light Co., of which the N. Y.
Edison is also a part. The N. Y.
Steam Corp. works 7 days a week
and union organization is not known
in their plants. There is a fertile
ground for the Building Mainten-
ance Workers Union to organize.
There are several A. F. of L. unions
in the field, for instance: the Inter-
national Union of Steam and Oper-
ating Engineers, which is a racket
eering outfit and a sort of employ
ment or job trust. The Stationary
Firemen's and Oilers Union Local
Sc, A. F. of L., and the Building Ser
vice Employers International Union
which has few locals and Fire Ele-
vators Operators Union that make
no attempt at organization. And
there is the Window Cleaners on 9Th
street.
Building Maintenance Worker.
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clearly what was going on. When
delegate to the New York State
Conference of their union was to
be selected, Severino with the help
Of other workers issued leaflet to
the rank and file, exposing the be-
trayal policies of the boss-controlled
leaders. The leaflet pointed out the
things which would improve their
working conditions, such as the r
hour day and 5-day week, no speed
up, wage-cuts, election of shop and
job committees, etc.
AS a result of this appeal to the
workers, they selected Severino as
delegate to the Conference, right
over the protests Of the takers, thus
illustrating the effective work that
can be done on the initiative Of mill
tant workers who are not afraid
to firht. tilu. uasx2s.. -. A.. IT TT
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Soviet Union, protest against the
malicious anti-Soviet propaganda
which is being conducted abroad
under the cloak of a campaign for
the protection of religious freedom.
Our church in Selmat continues to
exist and suffers from no kind Of
interference or persecution" The
letter concludes with the statement
that far from prosecuting religion,
the Soviet authorities tolerate no
kind of religious prosecutions from
other sources. Father Schoenberger
also denies that there is any, note
worthy tendency amongst the Rus
so-German catholic peasants to
emigrate from the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Stimson Troubled.

WASHlNGION, ~. u, June y.
From statements given out at the
U. S. State Department, it is clear
that American imperialism is
smarting under reverses of its
bloodthirsty fascist lackey, Chang
Kai-shek and his so-called govern
ment" at Marking. A lot of good
money has been spent repeatedly
to bride Feng Yu-hsiang to stop
fighting Marking, but he don't stay
bribed, and now, Joined with Yen
seems in a fair way of whipping
Chang Kai-shek.
The State Department admits
that delicate diplomatic situa-
ton" exists, with the American
Minister, Nelson T. Johnson, stay
ing in Marking both to give close
political advice to Chang Kai-shek,
and to dodge having any dealings
that amount to recognition with the
Northern generals.
At the same time, since the
Northern militarists are driving
Chang Kai-shek's forces back and
things look dark for Marking, the
American imperialists are in the
mood to dicker with Feng and Yen
to see if they can be bought over
from the Japanese-British bloc and
may serve to replace Chang alto
gether. Since America has recog-
nized Marking, this requires some
dirty double dealing, but the State
Department is accustomed to that
So developments point in that direc-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
French Cops Can't Crush Workers Spirit

PARIS, (IPS).-Despite the bru-
tai terror of the employers and the
authorities the 1900 striking build
ing workers in Rheims are holding
out firmly. 600 workers of the
textile factory lies Anglais" have
also gone on strike for wage de-
mands. The town is under a sort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
DELEGATIONS
PREP AR T FOR
METAL MEETING
National Conference to-
Win Demands

CONTINUED from Page One)
will attend from Canton; and Mas
sillon has elected 5 from the Cent
raj Alloy Steel Corp. In Youngs-
town, from 80 to 40 delegates will
represent the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube, Republic Steel, Truscon Steel,
Carnegie Steel and Automatic
Sprinkler.
From South and West.
From the South, a good delega-
ton will come from Birmingham
and Chattanooga. The Pacific Coast
is sending two delegates, according
to reports just received at national
headquarters in Pittsburgh.
The Auto Workers Union shop
locals in Detroit, Flint, Pontiac,
Lansing and Cleveland will have a
delegation of at least 80. From a
newly organized local in Tarrytown,
N. Y. a delegate has been elected.
A large portion of the delegates
will be Negro workers. 1t is estim-
ated that at least one-third of the
delegates will be young workers.
Build Towards a Union.
The Youngstown conference will
be utilized to strengthen the league
organizationally, making it capable
of leading the steel, metal and auto
workers in the daily struggle against
wage cuts of the employers, for the
7-hour day, against speed-up system,
and to lay the basis for a real mass
convention of at least 1000 rank and
file delegates in the near future,
when a new union will be launched,
uniting almost 100000 workers in
the metal industry in the United
States.
All the present weaknesses of the
league will be thoroughly discussed
at the conference, and new forces
drawn into leadership. A program
of action will be adopted, prepara-
tions made for securing 5000 new
members in the membership drive OF
the Trade Union Unity League. Ar
rangements will be made to send
= large delegation of metal and steel
workers to the Unemployed Conven-
ton in Chicago, July A.
The problems of establishing much
closer connections with the revolu-
tionary metal workers in the other
countries through the International
Committee of Propaganda and Ac.
ton and the Red International Of
Labor Unions will be dealt with a.
the conference, which will also elect
a delegation of three to the R.I.L L.
Congress.
Funds Are Needed.
The conference will start on Sat-
urday, June ID at p. m.
The arrangements committee of
the league, due to extreme lack of
necessary funds, is calling upon all
sympathetic organizations and other
workers in the industry to help fin
ance the conference.
All funds should be rushed to ma
tional headquarters, 622 Penn Ave,
i
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Textile JObless Swarm
States Union Official

Continued From Page One.)
eral and growing increasingly
worse. Too many of our organizers
feel that with the March 6 demon
strations that the need for organ
ization of the unemployed is over
The good results that could have
been secured have been allowed to
lapse because of our lack of energy
in pushing the organization of the
unemployed in real councils of ac-
ton.
Must Mobilize Them.
Where work was carried on after
March 6 it was only in the form
of lectures. Instead of modifying
the workers into action around con-
crete issues that affected them and
against which they would be will
ing to struggle, such as evictions,
seizure Of the spindle tax in tex
tile towns for the unemployed, etc,
we consciously or unconsciously
capitulated to the pressure of the
capitalist press releases or to the
difficulties of the daily grind Of
consistent organization work.
Instances are in New Bedford
where our comrades thought they
were being revolutionary when they
called upon the workers to organize
to flight the police" and forgot
all about mobilizing the unemployed
to assist in the organization of
mill committees to fight for the
realization of the 7-hour day 5-day
week, or the organization of a wide
movement for the establishment of
rank and file mill committees" that
would give the organizational base
for struggle against the terrific in
crease in the rate of naturalization.
Began Well and Stopped.
While our union started off cor
rectly with the policy of penetra-
ton of the mills through the or
ganization of the unemployed into
an active council in kensington and
where, in Philadelphia, through the
March 6 demonstration we were
able to mobilize the U. T. W. men,
bers in Kensington for real strug-
gle against the Aberle concern and
others that were introducing new
efficiency methods, our leadership
in the district just plainly forgot to
carry on with the day to day work
of organization, failed to push for
ward the union as the organization
of the workers for struggle-even
forgot to call meetings or inform
the national office of what they were
doing-even forgot to take up the
campaign for the election of dele
gates to the Red international of
Labor Unions and the struggle for
the release of the Atlanta prisoaersl
Because our organizers in Georgia
understood the situation they were
able to rally the workers into the
Union. Because the textile manu-
facturers were becoming desperate,
they have flung aside all pretense
and have come out openly for legal
lied murder of organizers. The
Manville Jenckes Corporation with
ex-senator Lippet at its head has
a reputation for being the most
open enemy of the textile unions.
Our reply must be a more in
tense drive to organize the Textile
Workers, drawing in the unemploy-
ed into councils of action affiliated
with the union, making the unem-
ployment convention in Chicago on
July 4 high point in our struggle
for the release of the Atlanta de-
PENDANTS.
Make the convention part of the
struggle for the organization of
5000 new members into the union.
Forward to the unity of employed
and unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
White Terror Grows in Egypt

CAIRO, (IPS).-In Cairo the po-
lice raided a workers meeting in the
belief that is was a Communist
conference. Nineteen persons were
arrested including a number of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10

of martial law. The streets are
regularly patrolled by police and the
Garde Mobile. The latter have
even penetrated into the enclosed
yard of the trade union headquar-
tiers. The workers maintain iron
discipline in face of the police
proyocations. ...-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Communist Press Asks More Initiative

MOSCOW (By MaiD. The
Pravda carries an article demand
ing more initiative on the part of
the workers and the executives. The
article says in part:
"We have the greatest Oppor-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Fifth Furnace All Soviet Made

MOSCOW, (IPS),-The fifth
Martin furnace has now been COM
pleted in the Rykov metallurgical
works in Artemovsk in the Don
Basin. The daily capacity of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-10
Stool Hits Tarrytown Worker
by a Worker Correspondent

TARRYTOIVN, ~ Yagin the who struck the aOorker
the head thug brought the Cleveland
morning gutter
told this teow off the sidewalk the oorker answered %
dog" the company thug picked club hit him
the
The company bdied hin, out.
young quit his job they oanted him slug
the oorkers. YOUNG WORKER