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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
WORKERS OF SOUTH RIVER KEEP SOLID FRONT
Entire Town Behind Needle Strike Nov in Fourth Week

workers to return to the shops under
the old conditions, pending arbitra-
ton.
Terror Also Fails.
When this demagogy failed. terror
was resorted to. At once not only
the strikers, but the workers Of the
entire city, were reused. Threats of
the workers compelled the mayor to
send out of town the deputies who
had been sworn in for action against
the strikers. When the police, with
tear gas bombs, clubs, and even guns,
attacked a picket demonstration of
5000 workers practically the entire
working population of the town, they
were answered with bricks and-stones
and compelled to retreat as the mas
ses of workers surged around the fac
tories from in the afternoon until
the next morning.
Threats of arrests of active strik-
ers meet with the answer that the
workers will take them out Of jail.
Boss Committees Smashed,
The militant position of the fork
ers has compelled the liquidation OF
all the committees organized to Yset-
tle' the strike by forcing the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

South River for the first time.
The strikers are now determined
that they will not go back until they
have won their demands. The shops
in South River are closed. 1t is now
necessary, however, to spread the
strike to dress shops in Plainfield,
Perth Amboy, where South River
manufacturers are beginning to send
their work.
Build Shop Committees.
The strikers must at once proceed
to organize their shop committees, to
strengthen the strike committee. Re-
cruiting for the Needle Workers In
dustrial Union must be undertaken
among the militant fighters in order
to establish union leadership in
every shop. Workers in other cities
should show their solidarity by send
ing food and money for the strikers
through the Workers International
Relief.
The strike can be won. The soil
darity and militancy manifested by
the workers of South River has set
an example for all workers in the
state Of New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Rueggs in Appeal to Chinese
People and Workers of World
Victims of Frame-Up Explain Refusal to Make
Appeal to Chinese Supreme Court

Court during the investigation" OF
the case, showing that the Supreme
Court displayed the same desire to
convict the accused. The statement
continues:
"The vicious and SAVAGE sentence
against us will be condemned by
the Chinese People who are op-
posed to the alliance of the Kuo-
n1intang with the imperialists and
to the interests of the imperialist
Shareholders. 1t will be condemned
by all friends Of the Chinese People
and supporters Of the struggle a
gainst foreign aggression.
"From our prison cells we have
decided that appeal should be made
not to the court which has already
unmasked itself as an AGENT of the
iInperialists but to the Chinese
People, to the masses who are en-
gagged in a life and death strug-
gle against Imperialism. We appeal
to the toiling masses and to our
friends throughout the world who
are struggling for us and against
imperialism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

for two years, have ben staggered
into the Trumbull plant, these sums
represent an entire months income
for these highly skilled workers.
The less skilled workers, like screw
settlers, for instance, get from five to
seven dollars per week.
Complicated Staggering.
The Trumbull plant is, first of all,
staggered into four six-hour shifts.
The workers put in six hours in the
hot mill departments and get paid
only for three hours. In addition to
this. the total number Of workers
attached to the plant (the company
boasts that it is taking care Of"
$500 workers in the Trumbull plant)
Is rotated through the four six-hour
shifts in such a way that they work
only from five to ten days per month.
Wages paid by such influential
companies as Republic, and the
standard of living of the workers it
takes care Of" tend to become the
standard for all concerns in the Ma
honing Valley with its concentrated
population of industrial workers. One
example of this will be sufficient to
illustrate the devastating results of
the capitalist offensive in this re-
spect:
Between Warren and youngstown
is a plant owned by the Ohio Leather
Products Co.-employing mostly girls.
They have a stagger system which
gives these workers three hours en-
pIoyment per day at 20 cents per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Slight Increase in DIV Funds
Over Monday Donations
Picnics, Hikes Camps, Contribute Literally
From Weekend Gatherings


o to Sep
s list Thursday the total of ss7oos s which
This substantial fruitful
o.
mountain the financial drive call for
nws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Gable BY Inprecorrl

SHANGHAI, Sept. 14.-The Chin
ese Press yesterday, upon the per-
sonal request of Madame Sun Ching
Ling, widow of Sun Yat-Sen. pub
lished the statement Of Paul and
Gertrude Rueggs explaining the
reasons of their refusal to appeal to
the Marking Supreme Court against
the vicious verdict of the Kianpsu
High Court sentencing them to life
imprisonment on the trumped-up
evidence furnished by the inperialist
British police.
The statement declares that "the
Supreme Court will not act any diff
ferently, since the same forces are
behind it that dictated the outrage
Gus and savage sentence handed
down by the Kiangsu High Court"
A Thousand Tortures
Describing the whole case, the
statement says: "After suffering a
thousand tortures we were con-
demned to life Imprisonment. We
suffered threats of immediate death
disease and torture. We were chained
in our cells and threatened with
torture with bamboo poles. Finally
we were deprived of every right OF
defense, and as protest against our
Imprisonment and farcical trial we
went on hunger strike.
"Our trial has already been con-
demned before the whole world as
CHASTITY farce and cold-blooded
stage-play in which every Chinese
law was flouted for the purpose of
securing our frarne-up and subse-
quent sentence. We were deprived of
all possibility of defense, denied
counsel of our choice, obstacles were
piled up for our Chinese attorney
He was even denied copies of the So
called documents which constituted
the main evidence against U.s."
eve cannot appeal to the Supreme
Court with any hope of receiving an
impartial hearing"
Appeal to Masses
The statement then enumerates the
many violations of Chinese law al
ready committed by the Supreme
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
BY REBECCA GRECHT.

For more than three weeks, over
1,700 needle workers, almost all Of
them women and young girls, have
been on strike in South River, New
Jersey, fighting for higher wages and
shorter hours.
The strike began spontaneously in
one shop Of 100 workers, and quickly
spread to include practically every
dress shop in the city, where women
and girls have been shaving SIS hours
a week for the miserable wages OF
81 and $40.
From the first day Of the strike,
the Needle Workers Industrial Union
organizers were quickly accepted by
the strikers as their leaders. This,
coupled with the militancy of the
workers, compelled the government
to resort to all sorts of demagogy to
betray the strike. Various commit
tees were organized - mayors
committee. a citizens committee, a
committee led by Moffitt, commits
sioner of Cancellation of the U. 8. De-
partment Of Labor - for the express
purpose Of driving the union organic
ers out of the city, and forcing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

Unemployment Insurance Bill prov
iding for: /. immediate national I'M
insurance for all work.
ers; 2. The insurance to be paid at
the expense of the employers and the
government; and 8. The unemploy-
ment insurance fund is to be ad-
ministered by a committee Of work
ers: and to enlist full weight Of the
ALL. membership to bear upon
Congress to enact it into law.
BY now, with the ALL. ofacialdon
so glaringly insincere. the need for
this Rank and File Conference for
Unemployment Insurance becomes all
the more imperative.
All ALL. local unions have been
called upon to elect delegates to the
conference and the indications are
that the response will be an enthu-
siastic one.
The Rank and File Conference will
be held in Cincinnati on November
1928 at the time the official ALL.
Convention is held and will send
mass delegation to the official ALL.
convention to force them to go on
record for and really fight for real
unemployment insurance as provided
for in the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
Editors Note: - 1t is fairly clear
from what Green has said SO far in
his most recent statements on in
surance that his latest bill is intend
ed to cover employed workers only,
who will have to contribute to the
insurance fund through check-off on
their wages, and without any assur-
ance whatever that even the state
governments, to say nothing of the
federal government, will even be ask
ed to give anything. 1t is certain
that by putting the matter on a
state instead of national basis even
this kind of law is made q thing Of
the far future, and will cover part
of the country only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
MASS FURY RISING
ALL OVER CHINA
Tmperialist Police Raid
Communists

SHANGHAI, Sept. 14.-Imperialist
police in the International Settle
ment yesterday carried out wide raids
against the offices of the Chinese
Communist Party and the homes of
revolutionary workers. This was an
attempt to block the preparations for
the mass anti-imperialist demonstra-
tons called for tomorrow and Sun
day.
Despite the police raids, It is evil
dent that the demonstration will be
held. Mass anger has reached the
boiling point as the Japanese impe-
rialists prepare to extend official
recognition tomorrow to the puppet
state set up by japanese bayonets
in Manchuria.
Under Communist leadership, the
strike movement is spreading rapidly.
Most of the foreign mills in Shang-
hal, and especially the japanese
mills, are already paralyzed.
In this situation, the imperialist
brigands are frantically modifying
their armed forces in Shanghai and
other cities. The popular fury was
further intensified yesterday with the
landing of Japanese marines and
marines and machine guns at Nan
king.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
CONDITIONS IN
USSR FACTORY
Described in Letter to
u. S. Women Toilers

What did the october Revolution,
tie anniversary of which will be ce-
ebrated on November by the work
srs and peasants of all countries.
schieve for the working women of
the vast country which once was
Jzarist Russia?
The following letter from the
working women of the factory Iii
1oviev answers this question of ut
most Importance to the toiling
mothers of ADMINISTRATION.
Dear comrades: We. working wo-
ren,of the factory bearing the name
If comrade Zinoviev (killed in 1915
" the bullet of a Czarist police
ran in connection with a strike)
'rant to tell you about our achieve
nents in the Soviet Union.
Yesterday and Today
When we worked for the capitalist
iosses our pay was very small. We
Guild not afford to get nurses for
ur children. We left them alone and
We went to work. In dark and damp
orners, alone or under the care of
n'r old mothers. Our children very
f5en sick. Mortality was very great
mong children at that time.
Entirely different are conditions
oday. Our children are taken care
in up-to-date nurseries located in
God light houses especially built.
babies of 2 months until years are
ccepted in the nurseries. When the
nother goes to work she leaves her
ably in the nursery After work she
axes the baby home.
Social Insurance
Our nursery has 200 children. The
rlrsery personnel consists of AZ
eople: One principal, one physician,
nurses, IA nurse-girls and 10 other
rorking people.
To keep a baby in the nursery day
nd night costs about IS roubles a
tlonth. For keeping our babies in
iae day nursery we pay according
/, our wages on the average 6 roubles
month. Some working women who
ave to provide for larger families
o not have to pay at all The state
rovides the needed funds.
If child is sick, the mother can
with the child. She is released
ON work and receives her full pay
ON the social insurance fund (Our
orking men and women are insured
the expense of the factory with
1t the workers having to contri-
ute).
Revolution Brought Us Happiness"
AS you see, comrades, the nur-
ries are great help to us. Thanks
, these nurseries work does not fall
ard on us women workers. We have
lie opportunity to participate in So
al activities equally with the men;
increase our qualification; to &C.
10y responsible posts.
70 us, working women, the Re-
luton brought happiness.
Working women of the factory
Zinoviev
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
knlorer Says Russia
Greatest Menace"

"By supplying Russia with ma
merry and exports, theother coun-
es are creating Frankenstein
MISTER that will devour them in
ssrially," declared Caryeth Wells,
explorer, upon returning here
m a visit to the Soviet Union.
In an effort to spur on the war
SEPARATIONS against the socialist
herland, this agent Of imperialism
"a that Russia is the greatest
mace in the world" clearly indi-
ing that his purely scientific ex-
ration" was nothing elsa but Q
mission. ~,....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Furniture Workers
Win on Hours, Wages
in Is Shops in Week

NEW YORK.-Eighteen shops, six
upholstery and IL mattress shops
have been settled by the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union during the
past week. The mattress workers
won the 44-hour week and wage in
creases, security of the job and re-
cognition of the union. The up
holsterers won security and recogni-
ton, and the 40-hour week and s35
minimum wage. Among the shops
settled was the Progress Upholstery
with 80 men and the Long Island
Mattress Co. with 20 men. Union
headquarters are 108 East 14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

Fosters Toward Soviet
America" is given free with
a yearly subscription to the
Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
GREEN STILL OPPOSES
JOBLESS INSURANCE;
RANK AND FILE TO ACT
A. F. L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy.
ment Insurance Calls Conference
Locals Favoring Real Insurance to Send Their
Delegates to Cincinnati, Nov. 22-23

attitude
secretary
oldom
employment insurance nncere in their declarations for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
Manchurian Resistance Grows.

Manchurian partisan and volunteer
troops continued their fierce pressure
on the japanese invaders yesterday
and carried out several successful
raids against the railways, further
dsrupting rail service and blocking
the movement of japanese reinforce
ments to threatened points.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15
"The Revolution Brought Us Happiness"
Say Working Women of the Soviet Union
Worker Correspondence
DISCHARGE PAPERS
(By a Worker Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-When in
1917 the registration Of workers be-
gan, preparatory to sending them
overseas to fight for Wall ST., I, al
though discharged from the U. s.
Navy, volunteered, having fallen for
the propaganda that if you volun-
teered you could go where you
wanted to. I volunteered for avia-
ton and was sent to Columbus, Ohio,
to guard military prisoners.
1t was during the period of my
service there that I was drawn into
an argument with another soldier
over what we were fighting for. L
was later arrested and sentenced to
Is years in Fort Leavenworth Dis
explanatory Barracks. This sentence
was later reduced to one year.
"YeIlow Discharge"
The statement I had made was
that we we're fighting for Wall St.
I was given a yellow discharge"
That is the reason why the fake lead
ers at present all over the United
States request that only men with
honorable discharges" be allowed to
go on the bonus march to Washing
ton.
When we march back there again
it will be for more than bonus; it
will be for what belongs to us and
the working class, the entire country
and everything in it.
(By Worker Correspondent
ROGERS, Ark. - vicious anti
Communis tattack was made by a
man who posed as an ordained min
lister named G w. Sanders, on Aug.
% at the Frisco Park here. This
Sanders bore the earmarks of re-
preventative of the fascist Khaki
Shirts or the Father Cox anti
working class outfit.
Comrade Tarr, who is the Com
munist Party candidate for the U. s..
Senate, and Comrade Ferguson got
up and exposed Sanders lies, despite
the interference of so hooligans led
by Sanders.
AS result of the meeting, we are
receiving new membership applica-
tions daily. for the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-15

Amount received Thursday, Sept S57O03 r. Albornoz
Total to date Sent sg7sOG3 a Friend
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-07-06
Here, There And EDeryvhere

lof the Eighteen Amendment re-
turned a majority against repeal.
Our prohibition friends attempted
at the time to poor-pooh the close
ness of this showing as unrcpre-
sentative. How generous to the dry
cause it was may be judged from
| the fact that North Caro- .>na, in a
run-off primary for United States
senator on the democratic ticket,
has now nominated a wringing wet
and rcpealist, Robert r. Deynolds,
against his dry opponent, Senator
Cameron Morrison. Mr. Reynolds
plurality is about 100000, which in
North Carolina might be- termed
nouthful. Needless to say, a.
democratic nomination in the Tar
Heel State is tantamolnt to an
election.
The final returns from the "Di-
gest" poll were made public in the
last week of April. Since then pub
lie sentiment against national pros
hibition has been growing even
more rapidly than BEFORE The
National convention amply con-
firmed. the trend which this cam
vass revealed. and here, in this
North Carolina result, we have an
indication of what has happened
since. One may wonder now il any
state would to-day uphold the in
stitution. not excepting Kansas.
All Of which reminds us that Mr.
Darling has cartoon on this page
in which he. depicts as one of the
hazards to the realization OF repeal
the regiment of thirteen dry states
necessary to block 1t. Where can
they be found? Now that North
Carolina has spoken. echo answers
I"Where?" ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-07-06
Flip, Flop the Senator

Senator Morris Sheppard. democrat. of
Texas will soon be the object of envy by
those prominent republican officials who de-
sire to be in two places at one and the
same time, to be able to express contradio-
tory views and still retain the friendship of
the electorate. Let US see, the senator is
not up for reelection until 1886. l hats
four years away. Still there must be some
explanation for his startling public state
ments of the last week. 1t can't be that he
just Graves publicity.
Those who follow the news Of the day
closely may recall that Senator Sheppard
who is co-author of the 9th Amendment.
last week declared that it was his belief that
the voters should have a chance to express
themselves on prohibition or any other
public question. SO be would favor resub-
mission of the liquor issue to the states to
be voted upon in the proper manner Now
he wishes to clarity his previous state
ment. He is opposed to repeal of the
amendment and also to resubmission of the
question of repeal.
He certainly has clarified his position.
Nobody can mistake what he is trying to
DO. Listen 10 tnlS - prepared SOIle-
what hurriedly the statement | issued few
days ago in reference to the prohibition
plank in the national democratic platform
and it did not accurately express my posi-
ton in all respects. My position is this:
| am opposed to repeal of the 18th Amend
ment; am opposed to modification of
the Volstead Act; i am opposed to sub
MISSION OF the question of retaining, repeal
ing. or modifying the 9th Amendment
and shall vote against such submission
unless directed to vote for it by a repre-
sentative referendum in my state. :"
We have the utmost respect for any
bodys stand on the prohibition issue.
whether il is for or against, but after this
display of shifting back and forth we eer-
tainiy can't understand how the Texas SEN
ator can hope to command much respect in
his party. II there was q deliberate mis-
Interpretation OF his statement Of last week.
we might excuse his more Seeent explana.
ton But Il apparently 10 nothing more
nor less than q reconsideration OF stand
taken too hastily to satisfy all Of Senator
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-07-06
Spreading Ownership

Anyone who has supposed that the
present business situation would end with a
few rich men owning the important in
dustries has guessed wrong. Tempting as
are the prices of standard securities today.
wealthy investors with cash seem more in
clined than usual to put their money into
tax-free government securities rather than
stocks. They are impelled by their greater
confidence in government bonds, and also
by the surtaxes which would absorb so
much of their income from stocks. if Nthe
stocks paid dividends.
The masses however - not the poor.
but the people of that broad middle range
described as 'well-to-do" or merely com
Portable" = have been buying industrial
and utility stocks more than ever before.
In the last five years the number of stock
holders in General Motors has increased
seven times. There are comparable gains in
the spread of ownership in dozens of other
corporations.
This is natural result of the amazing bar
gains offered in we'll known securities.
When stock that formerly sold for $500
to $500 share can be bought for one-tenth
of the price. the average citizen starts read
ing the financial page and many little nest
is sent to Wall street for Matching. Thus
industry grows more democratic. 1t may
be toss-up at present whether the indus
tries are to be owned by the people individ-
ually. or by the government which is lend
ing SO many of them the money to carry
on. In either case the drift is toward pop
ular control.