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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Leaders Of Armour
Strike Tried; Fight
for Unions Rights
1919 Pay RaiseGranted
as Aftermath of
Walk-out

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.-Before
a courtroom jammed to overlooking
with paclinghouse workers, three
leaders Of the recent Armour strike
went on trial Friday 10 defend the
right Of the workers to organize,
strike, and picket.
Morris Karson, VIM. Schneiderman,
and Norman HrWitz were arrested
prior to the smashing of the picket
lines by the police and driving the
workers back to work. The trial took
place shortly after the announcement
Of Armour's, Swift's, and Cudahy's
that 10 per cent increase in wages
was granted, as direct aftermath
of the packinghouse workers strike
for higher wages under the leader
ship of the clearinghouse Workers In
dustrial Union.
The trial lasted two days, and the
prosecutor was none other than
County Attorney Stassen, who was
responsible for the arrest of the strike
leaders and the smashing of the
strike. Stassen tried desperately to
whip up prejudice against the defend
ants, and to prove that the Commu-
nists who we're leading the strike
were arrested at the request of the
strikers themselves, but witness after
witness got on the stand and proved
that StasSen and the newspapers had
made up this story themselves as
part Of the plan to break the strike.
The trial brought out clearly that
the workers still have confidence in
the Communists who are leading the
Packinghouse Workers Industrial
Union, and are not frightened by the
"red scare" raised by Stassen, the
newspapers, and the employers, who
want to drive the Union out of town.
The trial concluded on Saturday,
and the jury deliberated for six hours
but was unable to reach an agree
ment Judge Shepley was finally
forced to discharge the Jury and set
a date for q new trial on Thursday,
Dec 18th.
The International Labor Defense is
carrying on protest campaign
against the persecution Of the strike
leaders. Workers and farmers Or
CARNATIONS and individual workers
are urged to send protest kilograms
or resolutions to County Attorney H
J. Stassen, South st. Paul, Minnesota,
demanding that the charges be
dropped A powerful protest will de-
feat the efforts of the Meat Packing
Trust to jail the leaders Of the pack
! inghouse workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Buffalo Conference
to Demand Jobless
Insurance, Dec. II
CityEmploymentDrops
A $40 Per Cent in
One Month

BUFFALO, N. Y.-Pointing to the
mass lay-ofs that are taking place
in Buffalo and vicinity, the Joint
Councils Of Unions and Unemployed
Councils has issued a call for q
United Front Conference for Unem-
ployment Insurance to be held Sun
day, Dec. II, at Carpenters Hall, at
3 p. m.
Recent figures released in Buffalo, y
the call states, "for the month Of
october show a decline in employ
ment 4.3 per cent and decline
in pay roll of 81 per cent. At
the same time the relief figures for
the same month show a decline in
relief Of per cent. we must
rouse ourselves" the call continues,
as never before, to place before the
Federal Government the unfiinching
demand for immediate cash relief and
Unemployment Insurance"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13

ism must be the aim of the workers,
airy aims of the workers movement,
with the historic need OF overthrow
ing capitalism and establishing So
cialisrn.
That position has its practical con-
illusions also in the day-to- day &C
ttvitieS of the Communists.
Because we have no faith in CAPT.
talism or in the spokesman for the
capitalists, we refuse to make deals
with the capitalists behind the backs
of the workers. We likewise refuse
to make deals with the A. F. Of L.
or Socialist Party leaders, who invari-
ably come forward with proposals and
maneuvers beneficial only to the
capitalists and designed to bolster up
the capitalist system Though fire.
quently proposed in the name of So
cialism).
Open Service to Capitalists
The A. F. of L. leaders make no
pretense Of desiring socialist So
ciety. They openly support the capt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Single Workers
March for Chicago
Civil Works Jobs
Police Have Denied a
March Permit

CHICAGO, III. - Thousands of
single workers. men and women from
roonaing houses and dirty fiophouses
of the city here, will march to the
Civil Works Administration Offices on
Dec. Is, demanding jobs or cash re-
lief.
The police commissioner has 50 far
denied permit for the march, but
the Single Workers Committee is 60
ing ahead with preparations.
Workers in Cook County have been
promised $4,000 jobs and 100000 have
already registered for them, accord
ing to official figures. Flophouse
workers are not given grocery relief
because the officials claim they have
no place to prepare the food.
The march for Jobs will start from
Union Park at 1920 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Capitalist Press Censors Sensational News of
Present Senate Hearings on Trusts
Poisoned Food Products

In fact, have direct iDforma-
tioin that, during the months in
which manufacturers were organiz-
Ing the opposition, Copeland at
tended numerous secret conferences
with them and actually embar-
raised them by his haste in agreeing
TO all their demands.
Incidentally, this is old stuff for
Copeland: just few years ago he
was propagandizing for corn sugar
manufacturers, in radio broadcastS,
simultaneously with holding hearings
on a bill which would have placed
this product on par in advertising
with the proven-superior cane sugar.
A private threat of criminal prosecu-
ton caused him to cease this racket.
Thus the absolute domination of
business interests over legislation en-
acted supposedly in the interests of
all the people is demonstrated anew In
American democracy, 1888.
Few instead were those among the
hundreds in the hearing room who
didn't know that the only answer to
the problems under discussion is So
cialized medicine, abolition Of private
to stop the sale of poisons,
fake cure alls, actually in
edible foods and grossly misrepre-
scented products which have always
been palIned off on millions of ex-
plotted consumers. What really angers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
JObleSS Conference
in Cincinnati Will
Demand Insurance

CINCINNATI, Ohio.-The local IN
employed Council is calling con-
ference for Thursday, Dec. 81, 8 p. M,
at Central Turner Hall, Room 10, 14l1
Walnut ST., in order to mobilize the
workers OF this city for the support
of the National Convention for IN
employment and Social Insurance,
which will be held In Washington
D. c., on Jan. 10, IA, and IS.
The rank and file of the Paper
hangers, Painters, and Machinist's
Unions are showing q growing interest
IN the movement for Federal Unem-
ployment Insurance.
The conference viii take up the
problems facing the workers on the
Civil Works Administration jobs. In
this city the workers are already feel
ing the blows of the Civil Works
program, in the form of speed up,
injuries and deaths on the Jobs with
no guarantee Of compensation, loss
Of time through bad weather for
which the workers receive no pay,
and inadequate wages in the face of
the higher cost of living.
To popularize this conference for
Unemployment Insurance, series of
neighborhood actions are being ar
ranged around the issue of Cash
Xmas Relief. On Saturday, Dec. 16,
the Block Assemblies of the West End
will send delegation to the City
Hall to demand cash relief for Xmas
and present to the city officials for
endorsement the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. The Walnut
Hills Unemployed Branch will send
o delegation to the PEBBLES Corner
Associated Charities on Monday, Dec.
10, and on Tuesday, Dec. 10, the East
End Block Assemblies will likewise
send a delegation to the City Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13

talist system. They advocate CO.
operation between workers and CAPT.
talists and invariably, as a result of
this approach, make bargains detri-
mental TO the immediate interests of
the workers. Their belief In the
capitalist system, based on exploita-
ton, causes them to necessarily pro-
tect the profits of the capitalists,
profits that must be squeezed out Of
the workers,
II was natural, therefore, for Green
to ally himself first with Hoover and
now with Roosevelt to prevent strikes
during the crisis, TO put over the
stagger plan, TO win support for the
n. r. A, to oppose unemployment
insurance, etc. Opposition by the
workers to any of these proposals
would hamper the capitalists in their
efforts to find way out of the crisis
and to maintain their system. Ac-
ceptance Of these proposals meant a
lower living standard for the work
ers, it meant that the workers were
forced, through Green's theory of CO.
operation, to bear the burdens of the
crisis.
Clearly. therefore the Communists,
who stand opposed to any lowering
Of the workers living standard, as
well as for the overthrow of capital
ism, wage continuous fight against
the A. F. of L. leadership as we fight
against the capitalists themselves.
These officials are only the agents
of the capitalists in the workers
ranks.
Betrayals In Name Of Socialism
But what are the differences be-
tween the A. F. of L. leaders and the
Socialist Party leaders? The Social
ist leaders pretend to stand for So
cialism. But their deeds, though
concealed behind socialist phrases
are no different than the deeds OF
the A. F. Of l.. leaders. They differ
only in their demagogy.
The first thing A. F. OF l.. leaders,
Socialist leaders, and renegadeS all
have in common is hatred of reyoIu-
tionary struggle, Of Communists and
Communism. II in no other way,
they all serve the capitalists by their
fight against revolutionary leadership
of strikes, and of the struggles of the
unemployed, and against all tenden-
cEes on the part Of the workers to
adopt a revolutionary outlook or
forms Of struggle.
The Socialist leadership, ignoring
the violence of the bourgeoisie in
their efforts to continue their bloody
system of exploitation, advise the
workers to rely on bourgeois demo-
cracy, to be pacifssts, to wait for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Drill Morning, Night;
March to Work in
Lockstep

CLAM LAKE. Wis.--TWelYe young
workers in the Citizens Conservation
Camp here, have signed a petition
protesting against the new military
regulations that have been put into
effect. The petition follows:
"Our original contract stated that
militarism in any form was not to
enter into our daily life here at the
camp but we were notified that hence
forth strict military regulations are
to be the vogue. Each morning we
are to stand reveille, to be drilled and
marched to work in lock-step forma-
ton. At evening, after fulfilling our
eight hours of manual labor we are
again to be submitted to military
drill.
1T is only fair to state that our
local officers are not responsible for
these orders, but they are guilty of
brazenly informing us that dishon-
orable discharge awaits anyone found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13

The only labor" representative to
speak was w. l.. Roberts OF the A.
F. of L. and he confined himself to
endorsing the bill as it is.
Reporters Gagged
BY no means would the bill curb
the most respectable and powerful Of
the misrepresenters OF foods, drugs
and cosmetics. 1t would not touch
advertisements such as one that ap-
peared recently in Chicago news
papers, promising all the unemployed
jobs If only they would buy Lifebuoy
soap and be rid of body odor. Adver-
Using representatives including some
from the radio broadcasters who coin
about SOS, 000, 900 a year from food,
drug and cosmetics radio advertising,
sat in the hearing room all day long
laughing out loud at the farce.
Newspaper reporters who knew
their papers wouldn't print the
story joked about it, one saying to
me,
"Well, ! guess you're the only one
who can handle this right"
Even the manufacturers them
selves loIled back In their chairs
and laughed at one another; IL was
that open, that raw.
The cream Of the bitter Jest was
served when, one by one the Heinz
pickle man, the confectioners, the
wholesale grocers repeated like par
rots, I'VE agree, indeed, that the pres
ent laws need revision BUT'-and
proceeded to demand exemption for
themselves.
Copeland in Secret Meetings
Copeland is now rewriting the bill,
and 1t is the foregone conclusion of
every insider In Washington that he
will riddle even its pretense Of pro-
viding protection to the consumers
before presenting It to the full COM
mittee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Philadelphia Die
Makers Organizing

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. IA
group Of tool and die makers working
in the Atwater Kent plant in Phila-
delphia held a meeting and decided
to organize g Tool and Dye Makers
Union in this city.
They were addressed by David
Davis, organizer of the Trade Union
Unity League in Philadelphia, who
outlined for them the aims and poll
cies Of a rank and file controlled or
ganization. After listening to his pro-
posals, they decided unanimously to
express their thanks to the TUUL for
their support and asked D. Davis CO.
operation in drafting their constitu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13

elimination" by diStending inteStineS)
was that Roosevelt, seeking some
thing with which to make an inno-
cuous and popular reform" hit upon
this and dared to suggest that they
should and would be curbed.
Courts Involved
The manufacturers, ironically, con-
centrated their fire on "burocracy,"
demanding that the law continue to
allow them their day in court" in
stead of providing for the Secretary
of Agriculture's penalizing violations.
They want this, of course, because
they rarely are stopped by capitalist
courts-aS was demonstrated when
H. B. Thompson, representing the
patent-medicine vendors, shamelesSly
cited a U. S. Supreme Court decision
upholding the sale Of an alleged abb
soIute cure for cancer!
The other chief argument they
raised, demogogically against regula-
ton was that supervision Of their fac
tory processes would result in expos
ure Of their trade secrets" This, in
the teeth Of the universally acknowl-
edged fact that modern chemistry can
analyze any product.
Feudalism in the person of Queen
Marie Antoinette shrugged at bread
less French peasants and said, LET
them eat cake" Capitalism today
through American industrialists offers
Cat fancy prices fake foods, impure
and often dangerous drugs and poi
sonous cosmetic smears to mask their
emaois 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13

what it is today" and 'the reduction
Of advertising to cold, factusl state
mentS okayed by a liberal minded
chemist would kill advertising, for
advertising would become too dull
and manufacturers wouldn't pay for
it."
There, r. r. Anderson, representing
the highly respected E. r. Squibb and
Sons druggists, unable to imagine
anything beyond capitalism, an
nounced, There have been and prob
ably always will be certain abuses in
the distribution of drugs" and sug-
gested, by way of remedying this, that
the new law should NOT provide
government supervision of factories.
Copeland Gets Paid
Finally, came the exposure of
Copeland by Arthur Kallet and r.
]. Schlink of Consumers Research,
a private organization selling in
formation on the difference between
advertised and real values. Kallett
told the huge audience of several
hundreds Of industrialists, that CO.
poland is now receiving pay as a
radio advertiser Of Fleischmann's
Yeast, that he appeared before the
microphone just few hours after
conducting the first days hearing,
and that during the course Of that
broadcast statements were made
which were gross exaggerations."
Kallett and Schlink had prepared
a striking analysis showing why the
bill, even as it stands now, would NOT
protect the consumers, particularly
those exploited worker-consumers who
must buy cheaper products. They
refused, however, to present any tes-
timony before the Committee headed
by Copeland. They demand that he
resign and that the hearings start
over again with an impartial"
chairman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
First Workers Center
Opened at Worcester

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. ~
Over 300 workers celebrated the
opening of the first workers center in
Worcester here SUNDAY, at 3 Harrison
st.
An open forum has already been
established and the first lecture and
discussion forum will take place on
Sunday, January 7. Plans for
workers school at the center are al
ready under way,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
COUNTY, CITY CONFERENCES
PREPARE FOR WASHINGTON
I JOBLESS CONVENTION janis

from all parts Of the country de-
manding Unemployment Insurance.
Workers organizations should imme-
diately send protest kilograms and
letters to President Roosevelt.
Tag days to pay the expenses Of
the convention have been set for De-
cenlber 16 and II in all cities.
One Of the most important demands
to be considered by the convention
will be the demand for trade union
wages and conditions on all C.W.A.
projects. Many delegates from C,W.A.
jobs will be present at the conyen-
ton to help plan program Of strug-
gle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Communists Wage Relentless Fight for the
Workers Daily Needs and Revolutionary
Aims; Socialist Leaders Betray

and that socialism can only be
achieved through revolutionary class
struggle. through the seizure of state
power by the workers and the setting
up Of proletarian dictatorship.
Our determined efforts to win inn
mediate victories for the masses,
based always on the principles of the
class struggle-the class interests OF
the workers as against the class in
terest Of the capitalistS-is inseparably
bound up by us with the revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
National Tag Days for
Meet Set for
Dec. 1917

NEW YORK. - County and City
conferences are being held through
out the United States in preparation
for the Unemployed Convention to
take place in Washington, D. G. on
Jan. 10, Il and IS, called by the Ma
tional Committee OF Unemployed
Councils.
Roosevelt has refused to feed and
house the delegates, who viii come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Teacher Swindles Six of
100000

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Frederick j.
Werner, former Brooklyn school
teacher, today admitted to swindling
several people out of 100000. He
nevertheless pleaded not guilty to the
formal charge OF grand larceny and
said he would pay 1t back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Neuvs Briefs
Three Killed When Wall
Caves In

Caves In
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 12.-At
least three men were killed and six
were buried when the retaining wall
on the Indian Gap Highway in Great
Smoky Mountains caved in. Little
hope was held for the buried men.
One Killed, Five Hurt in Italian
Mine Blast
PALERMO, Italy. Dec. IL. A
worker was killed and five seriously
injured by the premature explosion Of
a mine while they we're excavating
near here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
One Killed, Five Hurt in Italian
Fourth Dies as Result Of
Maine Fire

BANGOR, Me-, Dec. ia fourth
Death as result OF fire which
destroyed the Paradise dance hall yes
terday occurred today. Miss Helen
Emery, marathon dancer, died from
injuries suffered in the blaze.
S. Debt Causes Death of Two
BRISTOL, Pa, Dec. IL. John
Princivilla, unemployed, demanded IS
which was owed to him by Frank
DiMarko, also unemployed. DiMarko,
not having the money, shot Princi-
villa and then committed suicide. Nine
children in one family and three in
the other are left fatherless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Several Die in Central Europe
Cold Wave

LONDON, Dec. 12.--Several deaths
we're reported due to exposure as an
intense cold wave swept over Europe.
The Thames river froze for the first
time in many years.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04

One unit q the Dig refinery ii
Casper il also changing over In
to 4 road Oh plant
By the use Of road oil. high
ways are being built at q cost Of
$3.50 . mile 70 $4,000 q mile as
against cement or concrete high
ways with a minimum cost or
$4,000 3 mile and are provid-
Ing adequate surface for all wes-
tern requirements.
In the standard road OF one
mile. IS feet wide. there are TO-
$50 square yards. About two gall
Ions Of road oil are used per
square yard FOR penetrating. top
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04


ping and blndins. with road Oh
under standard oscillations as
ordinarily constructed. . mlle Of
Of road Is feet win require ct an
average prizes Of about $500 for
road oil.
Economical and statistical au-
thorities agree oil is the first in
dustry In America to come back
and win yield the greatest re-
turns IN the next cycle Of pros
perity and the growing use Of
road oil Is an important factor in
increasing the prosperity Of the
OF industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04
CANADIANS MAKE
PROFIT ON 90 Dbl.
OIL PRODUCTION

Monalta on company. which
has part OF the Buckley farm I'M
der lease in the B6rder-Red
COulee field. reported a small op-
Grating profit on It's two produc-
ing wells during the past year,
despite low oil prices and a linn
tied market, at the annual meet
ing held in Lethbridge. The two
wells are making so barrels a
day.
Company elected B. c. MacMil-
Ian, W. s. Davidson, J. A. Hun
ctr, F. E. spooner and c. r.
Eide as directors and named q. A.
Of Lethbridge as secre-
tary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04

Taking the complaint as true. y
Judge BourQuin states in his de
cision on the motion to dismiss.
"as It must be when assailed by
motion to dismiss, 1t discipes one
OF the lesser of those corporate
enterprises for the benefit OF pro-
motors, reigning family, insiders,
little playmates and favorites, the
operations OF manipulations Of
which are characterized by con-
betrayal Of trust,
thimble-rigging, stock juggling.
Of law in general and
Of mail and banking law in par
plumber OF the jeople.
fraud and embezzlement. OF
hem are the South Sea Bubbles
Ind the Kreugers, taken as his
orical types, and their eager ac-
omplices more or less under
over in high financial, industrial
nd political place. some of which
ne recent, even current and
hooking instances.
with the disposition Of high
yaymen, is coupled less courage
han OF sneakthieves; for these
orporate instruments work
leaked in responsibility, by fraud
nd treachery, betray and destroy
Onfidence, breed distrust resent
lent and cynicism, prey upon the ,
nifty, rob them Of their sub {
lance, and in large part ARE re-
ponsible for the desperate con- /
ltiOn of the nation and its {
eople, and for the very real ]
evolution now upon them. ]
"And in striking illustration t
: Cato's famous anxiom not only
D these modern pirates go un- !
hipped Of justice, secure in the
sats Of the nightly, but they
rrogantly assume the pose Of ex-
srts and advisers how best to.
Ztricate people and nation from
lie slough Of despond in which !,
ley perish by reason Of the 4
lines aforesaid committed a. d
linst them" a
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04
TARRAHT HAS BUT
100 FEET TO GO TO
col PLETE MLELLAN

The Tarrant-McLellan No. /
well. located in the SEX OF the
sWA Of Section 7. Twp. "a N.
Range 5W. is the only well now
being drilled in the Cut Bank
field. A depth Of 257O feet has
been reached at this well, with
only about 100 feet, additional to
go.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-03-04
ROADW IS
BIG FACTOR
INDUSTRY

Wyoming refineries are speed
ing up operations to provide for
the growing market for road oils
IN the Northwest, including ths
craybuII plant. which is running
$500 barrels OF black oil q day,
cracking out the gasoline and con-
verting the balance into road oil.