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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Further Proof of Huge War
Preparations in James Aircraft
Tells of Vast Increase in Expenditures for Air
Fleets During 1890; British Labor" Min
istry Spokesman Admits War Danger

In the meantime, while the i'm
perialists are making huge expendi-
lures for war purposes, mass mem-
ployment and suffering are on the
increase in every country save the
Soviet Union, where the workers rule.
c. w. Eady of the British labor min
istry made the admission today that
not only was unemployment on the
increase in Great Britain, with a
present total of 2,643,OOO, but that he
saw no reason to repeat the old
cheerful estimates" In fact, he con-
fessed conditions were getting worse
not only in Great Britain, but in all
other capitalist countries.
Eady further admits that the i'm
perialists are being forced to seek a
solution Of their problems through
the medium of war when he declares
that even the slow recovery he Wis
ualizes depends on the steady i'm
provement of trade, without any fur
ther serious disIocation of industry
from war or other causes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
TOO FEW REPORTS FROM
DISTRICT 4, BUFFALO.

From District 4, Buffalo, we re-
ceive too few reports to know just
what is going on But we do know
that increases of only "a in subscrip-
lions and las in street sales have
been registered since the start of the
drive.
We also know that there has been
no Red Builders News Club organ
lied in the district and that it is OBJ
vious that no machinery of distribu-
ton has been built or circulation
would have increased further. 1t is
also clear the Party has not been
made to feel the Importance of the
campaign and is not pushing the
drive.
Such small increases should be the
work of two or three men and not
for all Party, League members and
Pioneers and revolutionary workers
in whole district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
CRISIS Is UNDERMINING
IBANEz REGIME IN CHILE

Reports sent to Chilean workers
in New York from Chile state that
the nitrate industry is in state of
paralysis. Ibanez, fascist dictator of
Chile has sent a representative to
confer with officials of the American
government to work out schemes OF
naturalization of the industry.
The sending of this representative
Ran1sis, to the United States shows
that the Chilean papers are lying
about conditions in the nitrate In
dustry. Unemployment is widespread
In addition, the workers in the shoe
industry are working on part time;
the marine industry is deeply affect
ed. Unemployed Workers have broken
into stores and taken food without
interference from the carbineros
(riflemen). The growing crisis is I'M
dermining the Ibanez regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
WAR MANEUVERS
OFF NICARAGUA
To Exert Pressure on
Revolutionists

IS Nicaragua, scene of many rebel
lions against Wall Streets rule, will
be used next month in Uncle Sans
war games when the United States
fleet will carry on its annual ma
neuvers off Panama,
The U. S. warships are too wide to
travel with great convenience through
the Panama Canal. American en-
gineers saw that Nicaragua was an
ideal place for another canal because
of the large lake in the center of
that country.
This year in the war games 1875
ships are to participate on the as
sumption that the canal has been
completed This tremendous war
game will use thousands of men, IL
battleships, three aircraft carriers, 10
light cruisers, IA destroyers, 80 sub
marines, A auxiliaries, as well as $50
planes. The Los Angeles, giant air
ship, will be used in these war ma
neuvers for the first time.
Uncle Sam is preparing his game
OF war skillfully. He is practicing
how to protect two canal zones and
how to keep the Central American
natives under his control
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

LONDON, Jan. 9.-Noting a vast
increase in the production of fight
ing planes during 1880, James
Worlds Aircraft, published here to-
day, further serves to show up the
huge war preparations for the i'm
perialists against the Soviet Union
and in the struggle for markets.
Reviewing information obtained
from military sources, the publisher
writes:
There seems TO be more inclin-
alton than ever for every country
to entrust its safety to air power
and less inclination to depend
either on altruism or the League
of Nations. Nations, moreover, are
tending to build air forces distinct
from navies and armies on the pat
tern which Britain originated"
Fighting planes, he says, have been
developed with a speed of 200 miles
an hour, which, he adds, is nothing
less than surprising in view of the
guns, bombs, ETC., carried.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Jersey A. F. OF L, Official Cuts Wage Scale
Splitting the Difference With Employers

leader" stepped in and saved Hague
more than a million dollars. And
when he stepped in he revealed
clearly, indisputably, the links that
connect A. F. of L. officiaIdom with
the most powerful capitalists in
America as we'll as with the most
corrupt political machines in the
country.
Brandle and Morgan Help Hague.
Brandle went to Washington
Someone, just who we don't know
then went to Morgan and told him
the entire situation. Morgan controls
the Public Service of N. j., which
sells most Of its Illuminating gas and
electricity in the state and owns al
most all the street railways and many
bus lines as well. For years Public
Service has ben trying to buy some
of the bus lines in Jersey City, but
has been unsuccessful because Hague
himself owns many of the buses and
in addition pockets the $4,000 which
he charges his friends for a fran
Chise.
When Morgan heard of Hague's
little difficulty, he sent word to
Hague that his income tax fine
would be fixed at nominal sum if
he were willing to turn over the
Jersey City bus franchises to Pub
lie Service. Hague graciously ac-
cepted the offer, which means, ulti-
mately," ten-cent fare in Jersey
City, and had the Public Utilities
Commission, a republican controlled
body, grant Public Service the
franchises. Morgan, in turn, saw
to it that Hague's fine was reduced
to 100000. The finishing touch to
the whole matter was applied when
BrandIe paid the fine with his own
check. Brandle, Hague and Nor
gan-symboIS of the blood relation
ship between the A. F. of L., capt.
talism and capitalist government.
Brandle is not only the servant anc
ally of capitalists; he is capitalist
himself. On July 2, 1926, the Newark
News reported the following item If
its financial columns: Control of G
l.. Miller & Co, one of the largest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
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in July last year, and that cut went
into effect. Then one fine morning
the workers at the Standard found
their pay envelopes short, and an I'M
official but just as real second wage
cut was put over on them.
In spite of the treachery of the
U.T.W. there is possibility that the
agreement may not be renewed at all
when it expires. The membership of
the U.TW. which was 1900 is now
down OF 313 dues paying members.
The workers are disguised with the
UT.W.
The National Textile Workers Union
calls for fight for the eight-hour
day and five-day week, time and a
half for overtime, restoration of the
wage scale befor, July, 1880, and real
union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
BURMA PEASANT REVOLT
HAS NOT BEEN CRUSHED

Despite the repeated announce
ments in the ruling class press that
the revolt of the Burmese peasants
had been crushed and their strong
hold destroyed, the latest Associated
Press dispatch from Rangoon, Bur-
ma, states that the Tharrawaddy
rebels are engaged in making in
accessible Taungpyat Mountain, their
headquarters"
The peasants are rebelling against
starvation, head tax, and the robbery
of their land by the British bosses.
They have put up a militant fight
against superior military forces.
Whole villages have gone over to the
rebels. The Macdonald government
has ordered armored trucks into the
jungle with machine guns in an en-
deaYor to crush the revolt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
BY ALLEN JOHNSON.

BY ALLEN JOHNSON.
Without the support of Brandle,
the most powerful A. F. of L. Off
cial in New Jersey, Mayor Hagues
control of the democratic machine in
the state would be minus its strong
est supporter. 1t is Brandle who
forces the members in the A! F. of
L. unions to march in Hague's polit-
zeal parades, it is Brandle who rallies
his private gunner in support of
Hague's ticket at election time, and
it is Brandle who throws the entire
weight of the American Federation
of Labor in Hague's favor when the
latter gets into trouble"
In common with all good defenders
of the capitalist system, Hague spends
small fortunes trying to evade gov
eminent taxes. He has been en-
inently successful, for he never, until
few months ago, paid the govern
ment penny in income tax, de-
spite his $25,O00,0OO nest egg. And he
wouldn't have paid then if some polit-
ical enemies, jealous of his bank &C
count, hadn't repeatedly asked fed
eral officials to examine his books, at
least one of these enemies making a
personal appeal to Hoover.
Hoover, of course. with his great
sympathy for wealthy criminals, did
nothing. It was not until it was
pointed out that by tarring Hague
the republicans would have an edge
on the next sham battle at the polls
did the federal officials demand that
Hague pay his incom etaX. A long
secret battle followed, in which Hague
sought to avoid the payment of a
dollar.
The income tax officials, intent on
making political capital of the affair
insisted, and it looked for a time as
if the matter would be carried to the
courts, where some of the sources of
Hague's income would be brought to
light. 1t was at this juncture that
Brandle, the banker and labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

BERLIN. - A complete exposure Of
the lies in the capitalist PRESS about
the Fornsa revolt against Japanese
imperialism is contained in a detailed
document issued here by the interna-
tional secretariat of the League
Against Imperialism.
The analysis of the real facts be-
hind the Formosan revolt published
by the League states:
1.-THE imperiahst press agencies did
their best to create the impression
that the instruction of the natives
in Fornosa was an attack BY head
hunters on the civilizing japanese
people. The usual atrocity stories
were circulated The natives, being
the guilty persons, of course. We
will see, however, that in reality the
Japanese forces have been guilty of
terrible brutalities against the native
population of FJrmosa.
THE cause of the instruction
were: the intensification Of Japanese
exploitation, oppressive taxes, the
confiscation of native lands, official
arbitrariness, and the misuse Of ma
tive women by the japanese con-
queros"
More than 1900 Formosans took
up arms against their imperialist op-
pressors. While the Japanese press,
and together with it, the entire i'm
perialist press of the world spread
the most preposterous lies about the
real reasons for the uprising, on Dec.
30, 1890 the osaka -Asahi" was forced
to admit that the basis for the revolt
were:
u The natives of the affected dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
RUHR STRIKE HAS
BEEN CALLED OFF
Bigger Strike Coming,
Communists Gaining

BERLIN, Jan. 9-The Revolution
airy Strike Committee called off the
Ruhr strike until the arbitration de-
cision is announced. Meanwhile, in
tensive preparations are being made
to organize new struggle on a
broader basis.
Today Hindenberg issued a new
emergency decree, altering the arbi-
tration system. Formerly, decisions
were only possible with a majority
vote of arbitrators plus the owners
or unions. The arbitrators proposed
a 6 per cent reduction, the owners
insisted on 8 per cent, while the
unions refused to go over 4 per cent,
because the social democratic union
leaders feared the further growth of
Communist influence.
The new decree allows arbitrators
to issue dictatorial decision, ire
spectiye of the wishes of owners or
unions. The arbitration court meets
tomorrow to settle the Ruhr conflict
The capitalist press announces a 6
per cent cut is a certainty.
Mass dismissals of strikers in Up
per Silesia are taking place, where
the fascists and reformists are CO.
operating against the strikers. Police
are clubbing and arresting pickets
right and left. However, 40 per cent
are still striking. The strike is now
extending in the Beuthen district.
Officials announce the increase of
unemployed to 100000 during the
fortnight between the sixteenth and
the thirty-first Of last December. At
the beginning of the year 1881 there
are more than four million registered
on the unemployed exchanges. The
highest level is expected in March,
when a six million figure is men
toned as the possible number to be
out Of work by that time.
Yesterday evening, fierce collisions
took place in Fuerstenwalde, near
Berlin, of socialist and Communist
workers against fascists. Shots were
fired and many on both sides we're
injured. The incident is noteworthy,
because socialist and Communist
workers spontaneously formed a
united front against the fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

! investment houses in the country, has
been acquired by a combination of
banking and labor interests. The new
controllers are Theodore Brandle of
New Jersey, president of the National
Labor Bank; John Dowd, vice-presi-
dent of the International Brother
hood of Boilermakers; S. w. Gutten-
berg, vice president of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, and
D. A. Park, president of the N. Y.
Empire CO.
When fools and financiers talk of
the prosperity" of the American
working class, it is Of men like the
above that they think Of Brandle
and his fellow labor-leader- capital
lists didn't save the money they put
into this investment corporation by
working at their trade, and a careful
examination of their genealogy re-
veals no wealthy aunts or grand
mothers who might have left them
legacies.
Owns Labor Bank.
The Labor Bank that the Newark
News speaks of was incorporated by
Brandle in 1925, ito finance any and
all matters pertaining to the welfare
and management of labor unions.
The charter doesn't specifically say
who it was that would be financed
although the fact that Brandle forced
more than 40 A. F. of L. unions in
New Jersey t odeposit their funds in
his bank may yield a clue The Ma
tional Labor Bank, entirely in the
control of Brandle, is housed in the
largest skyscraper in the city, also
owned by Brandle There isn't trick
in Wall Streets bag that Brandle
doesn't know and hasn't used After
Incorporating the bank, he formed a
holding company to include that anC
| his other ventures. He then sold
stock in the holding company. An in
quiry addressed to the New Jersey
attorney generals office in Newark
will disclose just how much that stock
is worth today, although it is not
likely to reveal just why Brandle isn't
being prosecuted as the most craven
kind of stock swindler, specializing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
FORCE CHICAGO
POLICE PERMIT
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clipping into a mighty thing. In any
case, first Alcock offered permit
for route on the far west side. This
was refu-ed by the committee. The
permit for the route outlined above
followed.
Jobless Discuss March.
Thousands upon thousands OF
stickerS and leaflets calling upon
Negro and white workers to join the
hunger march Monday noon plaster
Chicago.
Monday morning, when 500 work.
ers called by the Majestic Radio Co.
were again told nothing doing" and
police squad cars circled the lines
of workers, the hunger march be-
came a chief topic of discussion
among the men who had been wait
ing since before dawn.
In the soup kitchens and flop
houses where unemployed are being
starved by inches on slop, the hunger
march and the fight for unemploy-
nent insurance is talked about.
Tuesday evening, when repre-
sentative of the Unemployed Council
requested the floor at Machinists
local 800, American Federation of
Labor, the chairman refused to con-
slider the req6est. Workers made a
bitter fight on the floor, and nov
until the chairman told the men,
bers that a vote to give the floor to
a representative of the organization
whose aim is to destroy" the Mach
inists Union, and warned the men
that voting in favor of the motion
meant a vote against the union, was
the Unemployed Council represent
atives request defeated by the mar
row margin Of SIS to At. But during
the spirited discussion on the motion,
the demands of the Unemployed
Councils were brought out, and a
large percentage of machinistS de-
clared they would join the march.
Unemployment among the machin-
lists is rapidly rising, aided by the
rapid strides in naturalization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
DEMANDS STAND
ON ALIEN BILLS
Of Fake Progressives
in Congress

NEW YORK. National Com
mittee for the Protection of Foreign
Born yesterday sent letters to the So
called Progressive Senators demand
ing that they state their position in
regard to the persistent campaign
against the foreign born, in the form
Of proposed discriminatory laws and
bills for the fingerprinting and regis
tration of foreign born workers.
The letter categorically asks these
takers to state their stand on the fol-
lowing points: the proposed laws
providing for deportation of foreign
born workers, whose political views
and class interests conflict with those
o. the bosses; the right of asylum for
political refugees; discrimination
against the foreign born, one express
sion of which is the immigration
quota system; on proposals for regis
tration, photographing and finger
printing of the unemployed; on the
Harris law on the basis of which
thousands of Mexicans are herded
over the Mexican border; on the laws
permitting special discrimination
against the japanese. Chinese and
IIindus, barring them from this coun-
try.
The National Committee for the
Protection of Fof n Born stresses
its dependence on mass protest
against the bosses campaign of per-
secution, and calls upon all workers,
native and foreign-born Negro and
white, to unite against the reactionary
measures that are a menace to the
working class as a whole, and in par
ticular to the foreign born
The Committee calls for the speed
ing up of plans for local conferences
iii every city. New York has already
taken practical steps and has set
Feb. as the date for such con-
ference. Other cities must follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

paign in the mass organizations for
the elections of a permanent Daily
Worker representative to the cOun-
Gil. We expect to get at least 100
organizations to affiliate and send
their delegates to the first meeting.
I'VE have decided to initiate a
special campaign in these mass Or
CARNATIONS for the month of Febru-
airy to get subs, bundle orders and
financial aid for the Daily Worker.
1 am quite optimistic about the re-
suits of our effort, in building up
this council, and that in the future
it will prove to be one OF our best
means of reaching large masses OF
workers and also have a good or
ganization to sustain financially the
Daily Worker.
"On calendars we can sell at least
100 calendars if you are interested
in selling them but they must DO
here by January 10.
I'VE are trying to mobilize the Par
ty units for the building of the Daily
it is still a very inadequate appa-
ratus if we are to reach the large
masses of workers in this city.
Send 5000 copies of the Daily
Worker of Thursdays issue. Send
also 5000 copies of Friday, Jan. 10.
THE spirit for the Daily Worke,
is quite good and we expect to get
good results cut of these two mobili-
cations.
"You know that we have several
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
SIOUX CITY BEGINS
TO SHOW INCREASES

Mel Wermblad, Daily Worker rep
resentative of District 10, Kansas
City. writes: "I am enclosing the
weekly report from Sioux City, which
shows that they are making fair
progress in getting mass circulation
for the Daily Worker in Sioux City
1.-THE Daily Worker will be dis
cussed at the District Convention.
Definite plans for building a mass
circulation will be outlined and dis
cussed and 1 believe that it will re-
suit in increased activity in this dis
trict."
The Sioux City report, signed by
Walter SWezey, shows II new sub
scriptions, six house to house custom
ers and fifteen copies of the paper
sold each day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

NV YORK, Jan. 9.-The cam
paign for signatures for the Workers
Unemployment Relief Bill received
additional impetus from the militant
hunger marches which have taken
place throughout the country during
the past days, with thers scheduled
for the coming weeks
The National Committee for I'M
employment Relief, at 2 West 18th
Street, reports that within less than
a week, using only his spare time,
one New York worker collected IT'S
signatures. This worker is still at it
and intends to reach the 1000 mark
before the end of this week.
The Cardale, Pa, miner, whose
name has appeared in the news sew
eral times, has collected $50 in his
little mining town and vicinity At
st. Louis an unemployed worker, has
1850 to his credit. He tackled lists
upon the walls of employment agen-
cies and visited the bread lines. This
shows what can be done by little
effort.
In statement issued today, the
National Committee calls for reports
from workers who, by their own eff
forts, have collected signatures into
the hundreds. How about inaugur-
ating competition among all workers
who are collecting signatures?
Agreed And now, who will be the
worker who will have to his credit
The greatest number of signatures by
February II"
1OQUIAM, Wash, Jan. 9.-Hoqui-
am unemployed held rousing meet
ing last night at which committee
of action was selected to speed the
work or collecting signatures for the
workers Unemployment Relief Bin
and to launch the organization OF an
Unemployed Council.
Although the meeting was called
on short notice. it was well attended,,
with the. unemployed workers show
ing great nIlitancy and freely join
ing in the discussion. One worker,
who has family Of 7, told of be-
ing given $500 by the welfare com.
mittee to feed his family for two
weeks. At the end of that perioo,
being still alive after playing tag
with starvation, he returned to the
welfare committee. This time hs
was given $40 and told to make it
spread over weeks, which amounts
to less thansl0 cents a day for each
member OF his family. At the end Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
ASK TO SELL THE Daily

Il and another local comrade are
unemployed and could use some of
our time to good advantage for the
Party and the Daily Worker by sell
ing the Daily on the Streets" writes
Robert A. Hoyer of West Reading, Pa
The Party Unit, however, does not
nave any money with which to fl
nance daily bundle, and, of course,
neither do we, I, therefore, wish to
ask if you will not give us credit,
temporarily, for daily bundle of 20
copies so that by the sale of these
papers we can raise money to pay
for further bundles.
I'VE are of the opinion that we
may be able to sell many more copies
daily than the twenty that we are
ordering, but we prefer to first try
it out with a small number"
Jobless workers receive the paper
at cent a copy, payable at the end
of the week after they have made
their sales.