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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
MAC DONALD USES PHONEY PROMISES
TO CLAMP YOKE TIGHTER ON INDIA
Round-Table Conference Of Rich Princes Plans
Means of Keeping Back Growing Revolt
of Workers and Peasants

Indian merchant; (e) the exclusion
of Burma correspondingly increases
the relative importance of the back
ward native states and their counter
revolutionary rulers in a Federated
India.
The Indian delegates" in London
represent only numerically weak re-
dictionary classes; Indian Bureaucracy
priests, feudal princes and landown-
ers, rich usurers and big millowners
These have no marked influence or
following among the population
While organizing and strengthening
this counter-revolution camp, the
conference aims to influence the ma
tional bourgeoiSie and intelligentSia-
still the main leaders of the mass
movement. British imperialists know
that the Indian bourgeoisie.,is clam
oring for profits. Tired of strikes,
scared of government terror, its meek
opposition is already wayering. The
Indian National Congress marks time
and remains on the defensive. Thus
the British Empire gets its most
urgent present media breathing
space to organize its forces. to break
the revolutionary movement, and
then, on its own terms to force the
Indian bourgeoisie into submission.
Gaining time remains supreme object
of the farce, with the old labor faker
playing chief clown.
Whether or not these tentative
British plans succeed depends not on
the results of the London negotia-
tons but ON developments in India.
Here the labor movement pushes to
the fore of the revolutionary struggle
while peasant revolts spread The
All-India Trade Union Congress is
preparing for a general strike, the
London Times says. There are un-
doubted signs" the Times Bombay
correspondent writes on December 3,
that Communism is gaining an as
tendance in some of the unions, and
that at least one important develop
ment in that direction is likely to be
announced soon" What this develop
ment is to be we do not know. But
we do knoW--and the Indian toiling
masses are coming to realize-that
only under the hegemony of the
working class and the leadership of
the Communist Party can they de-
feat the plans of the British imper-
ialists and avert the betrayal of the
revolution by the Indian bourgeosie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
lid TO PRESENT
DEMANDS, FEB. 6
Imperial Val. Hearing
Postponed to Feb. 10

LOS ANGELES, Calif-On Feb. 6,
four days before the new date set for
the hearing of the appeal in the I'M
perial Valley cases, in Fresno, Cali
fornia, a delegation, under the lead
ership OF the International Labor
Defense, will wait on Governor Rolph
of California, to present the demands
of the organization and allied SYM
pathetic groups for the release of the
eight Imperial Valley prisoners, and
all political prisoners now serving
sentences in California prisons.
This move will mark one of the
many new activities planned by the
International Labor Defense and af-
filiated groups, in 9, new, united front
drive against the anti-labor criminal
syndicalism laws, and for the release
of all political prisoners
The demands to be presented to the
new governor are:
new governor are. I. release of I'M
perial Valley prisoners, Mooney and
Billings, and all political prisoners;
q pending release, the granting of
rights belonging to political prison.
ers--literature, visitors, correspon-
dence, ETC.; 3, pending release, the
removal of Horuichi and Sklar from
Folsom Casually reserved for second
offenses) to San Quentin prison; 4,
bail for the 8 Imperial Valley de-
PENDANTS, pending appeal.
Petitions, containing from $4,000 to
10000 signatures, demanding the un-
conditional release OF the Imperial
Valley prisoners, and the repeal OF
the criminal syndicalism laws will be
handed to the governor at the same
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
I/ETTR r.
daa aEE - III q - - 49,
Baltimore, Md. JObless
Beginning to See Thru
Boss Optimism Bunck
Baltimore, Md.

BalJlmOre, MD.
Daily Worker
The capitalist papers of Monday
carried two inch headline $4,000
new jobs predicted here in 1881" The
bosses and politicians smiled to them
selves with the thought: there that
will hold the unemployed for awhile. I"
Rich ladies and small business men
we're rejoicing to think that the spec
tire of workers and farmers gov
eminent" would not appear after all,
because won't there be $4,000 new
jobs.
Certain sections of workers espe-
cially the skilled that always held
themselves aloof of the lesser skilled
or non skilled workers sort of played
with their collar and thinking well
I won't have to go out on the hunger
march with the other unemployed.
Thousands of the unemployed
thought although with suspicion I'VE
will just cut down Oh expenses and
wait for that day of jobs"
However there are thousands of
workers in Baltimore who have been
without jobs for months and some
more than year who know that this
statement of the President of Balti-
more Chamber of Commerce is moth
ing but the bunk Just like the Hoover
Prosperity Lies" "Schwab's Business
Picks Up Lies" and the Ford Lies"
This section of workers are now
able to see behind the hypocrisy of the
boss controlled press. With each new
lie they are becoming more deter
mined to fight against such dam
nable hypocritical system that plays
around with the hungry bellies Of
men, women and children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
(Anti-Imperialist League BulIetin)

Not even an imperial promise"
of Dominion Status, except MacDon-
AIDS vague declaration that "a
status has already emerged" such is
the reward of the delegates to the
Indian Round-Table Conference for
all their fruitless pottering with CON
stitQtion making"
Dominion status, on which demand
the delegates at first slammed unity,
is already safely buried under the
question of ''the extent of response
bility of the central government"
Thus development is toward bargain
ing over the amount the central In
dian exploiting classes will be allowed
to exercise in departments of the ALL
Indian administration. However, these
partial concessions are labelled they
will not in the least affect the Actual
Status of India as subject Colonial
Country.
Rivalries amer; tho rloat chauvin-
ist reactionaries--l ll,;;il Moslem and
feudal whom tiac British APP
pointed to represent" the Indian
people-arose Immediately the con-
ference opened. Thus the British i'm
perialists, cunningly steering the
squabble away even from the question
of Dominion Status, hypocritically
play at arbitration, with the Social
list" minister Macdonald, SO London
dispatches say, CARRIED as a peace
maker.
However, two positive results are
registered even while the delegates
quarrel over ghosts. ID The idea of
an Indian Federation under British
domination is accepted, which means
that the vicious plan of the Simon
Commission to split India into war
ring factions is approaching reality.
60 Burma, against the wish of the
Burma nationalist, is separated from
India (another recommendation of
Vic oilloh buii0tl', WHICH, uledI1S, Va
the isolation of the Burmari masses
from the main current of the Indian
revolutionary movement; (b) the
status of Burma will not be affected
by revolutionary developments in
India; Co the Indian bourgeoisie is
precluded from influencing Burman
policy; I'D British commercial inter-
ests in Burma get rid Of a most I'M
desirable and fairly strong rival-the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
STEEL MILLS HIT
BY WORSE CRISIS
Fact Is Show Up Boss
Optimism Lies

Cold, hard facts of the economic
crisis just published effectively pune
ture the campaign of optimism I'M
dertaken with renewed vigor by the
bosses. The steel industry about
which so much hot air has been
peddled by the capitalist liars re-
fleets the deep rut of the crisis in all
other basic industries. For instance,
the New York Times index of steel
production printed on Thursday
shows that steel production is not
rising.
Iron Age, leading organ of the steel
trusts in its latest issues shows dis
appointment at the failure of the
rnuch-advertised revival. They say,
Inventory replenishment, which was
counted on to stimulate the market
generally, has thus far failed to bring
out a notable increase in specifica-
tons" They go on to add that there
is slow pickup in general demands"
Steel production is now at A per
cent Of capacity, about 20 per cent
below the last years figures when the
crisis was already throwing millions
out Of work. All other steel maya
zines are gloomy over the slowness OF
any increase In steel, when the mills
had purposely cut their production to
practically nothing at the year end,
hoping to start up with a bang.
In fact, the Journal of Commerce
(Jan. 49, reports that instead of an
increase "the steel industry is slow
ing up, that the rapid moment (about
three or four per cent? gained as a
reaction to the holiday close-downs
Of plants is spending itself some
what"
For the workers this shows that
instead Of there being ground for the
optimism" that the bosses try to
spread the facts show more unem-
rloyment coming, that the crisis is
going to deeper levels and greater
starvation for the unemployed, and
that the greatest mass STRUGGLE for
unemployment. relief will have to be
developed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
Low WAGES AT Nj
MUNITIONS PLANT
Can't Tell When the
Place Blows Up
Pompton Lakes, N, j.

Pompt0n Lakes, N. u.
Daily Worker:
The conditions in the Cap Works
of the E. T. Dupont De Nemoures Co.
in Pompton Lakes, N. j., are abso-
lutely rotten. Men working in the
Cap Loading Dept, where you do not
know what minute you are going to
be blown to hell. are being paid as
low as IS cents an hour. They must
work eight hours day, in closed
,onls where the Powder Dust is fly
lg all around. The powder that
ley use in the caps, turns your
ands and hair yellow, SO you can
nasaine just what it does to your
nsides, when you are inhaling it all
Eay.
j The women and young girls work
ing in, the plug and solder, sulphur
and test lines are paid from twenty
five cents to thirty cents an hour,
and they have the fake bonus sys-
tenn. which is nothing but rotten
speed-up system, for II they work
themselves to death, they have a
chance to earn about twenty cents a
day more, and If they make one mis-
take then it is taken from them,
They have the Stagger System
there, in which the workers are laid
off ten and fifteen at one time, and
they are off for two or three weeks
and then they are called back, and
another bunch are laid off. They
pre- using that system to speed up
the workers, for If they don't do as
much work as the bosses think they
should. then they might only work
one week after being laid off, and
then they get "it" again.
Another thing that they use against
the workers are the houses owned
by the company and rented out to
the employees of the company. Any
one living In those houses must take
all the wage cuts handed out to them,
and If they fight against them then
they are served notice to get out. and
as the living quarters are scarce
around that vicinity they all think
twice before fighting against the cut.
The only way that we can fight
against these rotten conditions is to
organize into militant union, the
Trade Union Unity League is the
only union whose policy is that the
workers must come first, and to he'll
with the bosses.
4. BEE JAY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20

From L. Donk, Unit 5, Section 4,
New York City, we received the fol-
lowing letter which might be APP
plicable in other units. He writes:
"At our unit meeting, the Daily
Worker never gets the proper atten-
ton. In our unit, a conrade was
fighting for the floor to give a report
on the Daily Worker, how to sell it
in his territory. A responsible COM
rade from a leading section commit
tee said, This was bunk
This unit has q quota of rs
DaiIies, with a possibility of selling
rs more if the comrades would
work. Workers buy the Daily with
enthusiasm in the Spanish terri
tory. A Negro working girl missed
the Daily and asked me If would
come the next day. Two Negro
women bought the Daily.
TN these conversations ! find many
interesting workers who give much
information about their struggles.
We should use these contacts for sub
scribers. Daily Worker agents SHOULD
keep in their pockets invitation and
contact cards.
"Some comrades refuse to assign
the selling of the Daily Worker to
new comrades, believing we will lose
them. When the bureau assigns
comrades they urge them TO do this
important work in half hour.
This rush work is very bad. The
comrades who are assigned are inn
pressed with the idea that this
bureaucracy is misleading"
Unit Bureaus know that the Daily
Worker is to be put on the order of
business at every unit meeting. AS
one of the Party's major campaigns,
leading comrades in the unit--yes,
and the section as well--who brush
aside reports ON the Daily Worker,
show a gross negligence and mis-
understanding of the Party's activity
among the masses.
Other units should profit by the
mistakes of this unit. Circulation can
never be built on haphazard, indiffer-
ent attention to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
STARVING MUST
WAIT FOR WORK
Boss Dogs However
Are Cared For
Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas ClJy, MO.
Daily WORKER
After about two years of lay-offs,
wage cuts and shut downs, the Shelf
field Steel Plan at Kansas City is
still running at spasmodic intervals.
The men whose families are suff
and slowly starving are forced to stay
near the plant to be ready to go to
work when the company decides to
open up. Because the Company never
announces definitely when they in
tend to open up and if the men are
not there when the mill starts they
lose their jobs and others are given
the work Consequently the employ
ment Office is crowded at all hours Of
the night and day with men who are
compelled to sleep on the benches
and cement floors waiting for a
chance to get to work.
Company Store System.
The employees are further exploit
ed by the company with a system
which practically forces the men to
spend their meager hard earned
wages at the Compalsy's store and
commissary where they are charged
high prices for the necessities OF life.
As a result of this system many of the
employees do not have any money
coming on pay day.
While these workers are starving
the manager of the Sheffield Steel
provided 100 acre farm for his pet
dogs just outside of the city. Every
conceivable comfort has been provi-
ded for his dogs ON this farm. These
palatial buildings are equipped with
steam heat, electric lights, baths,
steam tables and electric potato
Washers. All this luxury is spent on
his dogs instead of going to the wor-
kers who produced it. Workers
should organize under the T.U.U.L. to
fight against this system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
"MOre and More
A Workers Paper

SAN FRANCISCO, Call could
not be without the Daily Worker
think it is becoming more and more
a workers paper But would like to
make some friendly criticism. / think
it was needless expense to publish
that supplement to the Daily Worker
concerning the sabatogers' trial in
Moscow. That must of cost several
hundred dollars to publish and how
many workers read it? Very few.
Workers do not have the time or pa
thence to wade through such long
winded articles. know I did not
have the time to read it. Short, pithy
articles are the best for worke-s md
the most read. IS. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
CZARIST ARMY IN
FRANCE READY TO
F.: ATTACK SOVIET
White Guards Receive
!, Money From Bosses

y, PARIS, Jan. $50 brazenIy have
the French imperialists encouraged
and subsidized a white guard mill
tary organization in France. that
even a. petit bourgeois radical in the
Chamber of Deputies was moved to
protest the too open support OF the
Czarist cutthroats.
u The deputy, Margarine. told that
the army was held in readiness to
march on Moscow under the leader
ship of the Czarist general, Miller
He also revealed that the white
guards maintained military college.
He o did not. however, divqlge the
source OF funds for the maintenance
Of this huge military force for use
against the Workers Republic.
y; PARIS.-Joining the imperialist
war pack attack on the Soviet Union.
prominent bourgeois intellectuals and
writer's have protested" against the
executions of forty EIGHT food specu-
lators by the Soviet Government last
September.
PHILADELPHIA.-W { h 25o,0o0
workers jobless and their families in
dire want and many starving, the
bosses, instead of giving relief, are
getting their patriotic societies under
way to t'educate the workers against
the reds" The chief purpose of the
new society will be to repress the
growing militancy Of the Philadelphia
workers to fight for Unemployment
relief, against the wage-cut campaign
and for decent living conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ~Ss

-~$---->--~--w--~~>-----
Trade Union Unity League locals, s
Negro organizations, s women's or
carnations, 10 unemployed councils
and many mutual aid and sports or
ganizations which sent delegates. The
delegates represented between u and
Is thousand workers. Twenty-Five
Negro delegates attended, 10 women
and youth delegates.
Three workers were elected upon
the workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Delegation to Congress, which
is to make demands for passage OF
the Unemployment Insurance Bin in
Washington. D. G.. on Feb 10. There
will be one member upon this dele
cation fro neach Of the following
points: Pontiac, Warren, Lincoln
Park. Hamtramck. Flint. Grand Rap
ids, Lansing. making II delegates In
all from this district. There will be
a demonstration Feb. 10 In Detroit
So far $4,000 signatures in endorse
ment Of the bill for unemployment
insurance have been sent In from
Detroit. Better organization and
greater mobilization for signatures
will get at least 100000 signatures
by Feb. !.
Lists in Detroit upon which sigma
lures have been gathered must be
turned into the district T.U.UL. Of
flee, 1864 Woodward Ave-. Detroit,
not later than Feb. 5tl1.
Other Demonstrations.
Feb. 10 demonstrations have ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
Went Four Days
Without Amy Food
Pa.

iAi"NSapliAa' a.
Dear Comrades:
! have been out of work for almost
a year and I'm young yet. l hap
pened to be in Atlantic City this past
summer looking for work. I went to
churches, charity, associations and
others trying to get bite to eat, but
/ was turned down at all of them.
went for four days without a bite
to eat and a place to sleep. Then l
had to help myself another way and
only then ! ate bottle of milk and
a loaf of bread.
I wasn't the only one, there we're
thousands doing the same. Yet go up
on the boardwalk and you'd see the
capitalists walking UP and down
Haunting airs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
y Years Old and
Red as Can be
Mt. Cleuons, Mich.

nv. OeluOIlS, MICH.
Daily Worker
! am IL years old. Tin as red as
red can be. My daddy had to cancel
the Daily Worker, because he needs
those few cents for bread. I'm mis-
sing this paper SO much. If I had
the money would join the Young
Pioneers. But all have is so cents
which earned doing chores. want
to surprise my daddy l am enclos-
ing SO cents for the Daily Worker.
Here's a good one. A couple Of
days ago, teacher said this: Over in
Russia they take your food away,
shoot the poor people on the streets
aren't you glad to be in America.
eyes, be in America in the bread
lines,. l hate to turn the radio on
for fear Of hearing better days are
coming, or that Hoover is saving us
In sixty days. Send me the paper
as soon as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
Com. Emily Krumin
Died in California

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.--De-
layed) Sunday, Dec. IA. Comrade En-
lily Krunin died in the San Francisco
County Hospital Of an incurable in
ternal disease (cancer) after more
than two years Of illness.
About eighty people, comrades and
friends. turned out to pay their last
respect to this revolutionary fighter.
Comrades w. Srogis and P. Korc
spoke; the Lcttish chorus rendered
revolutionary songs.
The revolutionary activities of COM
rade Krumen began in Riga Latvia,
in 1905, when as young woman, she
took active part in the struggle for
the liberation II thu working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
MANY DEMONSTRATIONS FEB. 10
TO BACK JOBLESS INSURANCE

ready been announced
Hartford, Conn. (This Is a march
from all towns in the state to the
state capital)
Springfield, Mass; New Britain,
Conn; Chicago. ILL., Cat city halD I
Duluth, Mimi; Los Angeles, Cal.
City Campaign Committee for IN
employment Insurance and Councils
Of the Unemployed in all cities and
towns should prepare as soon as pos
sible their Feb. 10 demonstrate tons,
and send fun details to the Daily
Worker and National Campaign
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
CONDITIONS FOR
GIRLS GET WORSE
fer Greatly in the
Present Crisis

lOleOO, OlllO.
Editor of the Daily Worker
Never in the history before has it
been necessary to organize the wora-
cn workers and the housewives as it
g today.
Toledo women pay their price as
elsewhere.
Here are few minor issues that
the girls are confronted with:
Long Hours of Work.
At department store-Raine, Bar
Der Company when Santa Claus was
i'll action for few weeks they hired
girls by the hundreds. Not saying
how many hours, at times from IL to
Is hours at $3.50 a day. Some girls
were told if you think we don't pay
enough you can make more at night.
All employees that had some kind Of
job were compelled to open charge
account in order to ge rid of his
old merchandise.
Intolerable Conditions.
Christmas eve. the girls found out
they had no job and no money. The
boss told them you charged merchan-
disc and We must have our money.
But we have nothing to live on. It's
just too bad.
But why can't we pay you half and
half later. The boss answered, you
don't find work around the corner
and Christmas is far off and / must
have mine.
1t is intolerable and unbearable the
conditions we are confronted with.
We have women's Council in
Toledo We must unite. IF. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
Suppress Red
sGeYWanPaber
In Hamburg
Wireless by Imprecorrl

BERLIN, Jan 10. ~ Communist
Hamburger Volkszeitung was sup
pressed today for appealing for the
illegal demonstration.
Yesterday Pirmasen's Court rtied
four workers accused of violating the
explosives law. The chief accused re-
ceived two years of hard labor The
second received two years jnapriscn-
ment the third worker received
eighteen months Imprisonment, and
the fourth was acquitted. The ac-
cused workers had raided the fascist
ammunition dump.
The Mcneil Dockers are striking
against wage cuts.
Last evening in GutzkoY near Stet-
tin there was a collision between the
tascists and the workers. One police
man and several fascists we're injured
Ten workers were arrested.
PARIS.-Following fiery speech of
Cachin yesterday the Chamber of
Deputies voted 27O against 258 for
the release of Comrades Marty, and
Duclos.
VIENNA. - Yesterday, twenty-five
land workers tried in Budapest and
charged with organizing the land
workers took place, When the trial
began the accused demonstrated
against capitalism. The court SEN
fenced the accused workers to discip-
linary punishment. They we're each
chained for six hours in a bent pos
ture. The public was excluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-20
Make 81 Year Old
Woman Shovel Coal
Boston, Mass.

SVSAA, AvAeASos
Daily Worker:
The capitalist system is getting so
rotten and miserable that even the
capitalist press once in while pub
fishes news Of workers struggle here
in America. richest country in the
world, poorest for the workers.
In East Roxboro. Mass, about 20
miles from Boston was the picture
published in Daily Record December
18th issue. Mrs. Hannah e. Cotton,
80 years old, lady janitor at the Pratt
School. shovels 80 tons Of hard coal
into one Of the furnaces she tends
daily. She has been 1anitor for IS
years.