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| Fra NCE, England, | SECRET TROOP { | MOVES FEATURE. “PEACE” PLANS. Britain, France Hold| Joint Maneuvers | ant DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, Italy Concen AUGUST 22, 1928. trate Armies as Diplomats Go to Sign Kellogg Pact’ ‘Trans-Continental. Flight Ree ord Lowered by Eight Hours === GOEBEL'S FLIGHT LOS ANGELES TO N.Y, --= MACREADYS FLIGHT] | N.Y TO SANDIEGO BRITISH, U. S, ~ RUBBER RIVALS - AGREE TO MEET ‘Huge Boost Planned in” Prices AMSTERDAM, Holland, Aug. 21 “ssmbiving “JUGOSLAV NOTE WILL STIR. UP MORE ANGER The Speed-up at Its Worst: ' f ' ess - lat 3 Rage at Pact e - CENTRO By Un ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Aug. 21—| | : | BAN DIEGO te HT PARIS The note of the Belgrade govern-| | |(UP).—The Dutch rubber commit- sek esate Scene in. the or department at the Hyland. Park Plant of ment to the Italian government tee announced today that British armed| the Ford Motor Car Company. {promising it’ the full satisfaction | producers are ready to co-operate in jor the recent anti-Italian incidents rance and Italy ri : os . in Sebenico and Spalato, is expected a proposed conference with Ameri- pective coun- The map shows the route taken by Art Goebel, whose recent flight from Los Angeles to New York eet haoenie A I | OMOBILE-NEW GIAN I “/to lead to. further demonstrations) city has eut eight hours and fifty-cight minutes from the previous trans-Continental record. The dotted \c&n manufacturers to stabilize the = as against the Nettuno pact and the line is the route taken by the army fliers, lieutenants Oakley, Kelly and James Macready. The develop- industry. A bebihend Ter aTe ane eet regime in Dalmatia and ment of aviation is being sponsored by the government in preparation for the coming imperialist war. Ta # ctrenlde’ tol produmers ake nnual ma e being: hel : x orn Sroatia. Sis ith eal roa one Ate citer eat M ue byall t 5 / nay o of Ly 7 ocat “ F |committee said the British were not sien, DECAL Forms of Exploiting Workers: iv sre wus wot way ay HIT TREACHERY §=JSUDGMENT DAY COMES ‘inc i sv soem 0 0 tank {rplanes By BEN LIFSCHITZ = ee peasants and students in Spalato i United States, however, and added " i aes ; Ford Conveyor System |and Sebenico when Jugoslav work. that negotiations with Belgian and bega sai ay (This is the fifth in the series of ers were discharged from Italian , ° French producers had resulted in no , | articles on “Automobile—Symbol of | factories to make way for imported zgreement ; Modern Slavery.” The preceding anda provided tort Net- ae ; i: Siticibk atte coveree: thocaee ce HicroreaMh AM sacra Sareea ce (Continued from page five) ogize. He paused to exhibit a stain-/ The circular added that in re- | 3 ee industry, the giant mergers, the The demonstrations grew to seri- Continued from Page One the war as now have there been so less legal conscience—and his thin pasate er iio’ Weta | riving forces to imperialist war and ous proportions in Sebenico, where weleomin i many crimes, so much corruption, | yoice trembled i h i } . 4 1 i das , ¢ the attitude of the Com- i RAD ES BL ed. replied that although the American are maneuvering ne peeps io : pera Ford and} ae of ya shops were re-| munist International was unani-| 8° much degeneration as there is “Under the law of Maskachu-| consumers would not take the .re- ‘ : reneral Motors. ported =smashed,. an attempt was mously adopted. It was decided to| NOW: ts,” I a Hy ibili Fave ne * . st} Tele i sponsibility for inviting the Dutch, aleve thatsed a iaiags & made to storm the Italian consul- hold the next congress of the League|*. “...Well, I have already said oe i " pica the. orate eae they are oni to deliberate if the cint Franeo-British |, THe automobile industry can truly ate ‘and Italian sailors, who at- in Paris at the end of July, 1929. |that I not only am not guilty of| Whether a defendant ig guilty or|/ oY Sir veauy definite proposals, = designated as the real “Ameri- tempted to Paes demonstration, At the Sunday session General | these two crimes, but I never com-| innocent. The court has absolutely iat diese tea | were attacked. Denyanda, Madame Drevet, and the| mitted a crime in my life. I have nothing to do with that question, oer ee estat oe representative of the Communist|never stolen and I have fought The law of Massachusetts provides | RM TISF expensive | duction. co ate : ey P | All-Opposition Coalition. Party, Tchaukai spoke. Saklavala| against crime, and I have fought) 4.4 4 fade “cannot dea ih 3 Ha) 5 - sepeti of industry, | | BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Aug. 21./ analyzed the situation in India,/and I have sacrificed myself even é 8 eal jn any| cna wentitars| cere eee —The formation of an all-national- Drevet on Indo-China, Mohammed| to eliminate the crimes that the WY With the facts. As far as he patharinin bf Hesse nN ites industry indeed ity opposition coalition is indicated | Hatta on Indo-Asia. |law and the church legitimate gnd|can go under our law is to state a de teaig ah ars capitalism. by latest reports from Zagreb, where! On the motion of the British dele) sanctify. the evidence. i | see ) At th e bar associa- i s 4 i i * ispyias ‘ ny of the Kellogg tion, helt tx! New: York. ‘Jacnas. A the Croation peasant Party and gation a sharp, resolution against the | eee enh eas | During the trial many excep- | movement to end wars of Rinery;eehevdl ett, ae democratic party lea lers have al-| second international’s decision Te- “This is what I say: I would dae wees Eee at ._| MANAGUA, Aug. 21.—General conquest. Seat Ma & ae A Vale Nae ready formed 4 coalition. |garding India was adopted. In his) not wish to a dog or to a snake, sents jose Gaencaneg Frank McCoy, American supervisor | Kellogg is due on. the | od te the mboc bie ee Dissident members bf the Bel- closing speech Maxton, of the Inde-| to the most low and misfortunate | Were taken to the Supreme Judicial! of the elections in Nicaragua this | tew days. He | Pointed to the automobile industry grade parliament, notably the few|pendent Labor Party, sverely at-| creature of the earth—I would Court. That court, after examin-|fall, has returned from a twelve- | of Myron T.|*° 8" example to prove the sound- remaining Croatian representatives, | tacked the second international’s de-| oot wish to any of them what I | ing the entire record, after examin-|day tour of the country and reports | a anhania: Routed ve woo of pro- some deputies of the Serbian pea- |cision against participation in the have had to suffer, for things |i7& all the exceptions—that court| himself satisfied with the progress . ek announced to: cE pp ae GC apenas g F sant party and of the German min- | Anti-Imperialist League. that I am not guilty of. I, am | in its final words said, ‘The verdict of the American occupation through- wireless today | | ts cost of peaact is reduced ority are exnected to join the rete ONT GER GENER suffering because I am a radical |0f the jury should stand; excep-|out the country. | ® he was enjoying the trip|to the minimum and the wages of and Dalmatian parties against the >} is » d indeed I am a radical; I have | tions overruled.’ That being true| He said further that the Nicara- y 4 t health. jthe workers have been at compara- Belgrade regime. Ivo Milich, the! CHICAGO, Aug.’ 21 (UP).— cena because I was an Ital- | there is only one thing that this|guan national guard, officered by ~” sy announced | tively high levels.” Tt is. working Croatian member of the government George . Brennan, democratic ian, and indeed I am an Italian; |CUrt can do. It is not a matter of| American marines, was replacing ellogg world repay cut so well for the capitalists thet “radical” party, has already given |Jeader, who died August 8. left an Ihave suffered more for my fam- | “iscretion. It is a matter of statu-|the police in many towns and was ent William T. Cos- the manufacturers of the leading up his membership and joined the | estate valued at $300,000 to his wife| | tory requirement, and that being | doing “effective work.” sh Free State be-|European countries: England, Ger. Croatian peasant par [and -dsughter, Mary. relatives said) 17 end fo my’ beloved: than for |e ee is only one duty. thae| eturns home. Kellogg |™@ny and France, are sending over Se AA i, | todayenhen: his will “was filed for | MIMelEs hue] ano comineedto | T tsibes Gann ass with my lawyer, Mr. Thompson?” ; favs ok their technicians an¢ ciency m a day. ‘Then you are replaced by | be right that you can only kill ¢ PO! is court, and Th 2 Td ence eh eee at to study the American Ctaniee Hess a man starting for $5 a day or by a la Se ean een me once but if you could exe- | that is to pronounce the sentence. ia vate te Ce are what reland, | duetion and exploitation. Tt ‘bas I student at 35 cents an hour.” men have been laid off. And in the| cute me two times, and if I could | = = ** “TPhayér:, “1 think T aligald peo- aia also appealed very much to the labor Aabda and “ a In the brake-shoe department, B hood painting department of the; be reborn two other times, I | “It is considered and ordered by nounce the sentence. Bartolomeo leaders’ of England and Germany,| A /0v6 O7@ two views of the |tuitding, Fordson, as throughout the | same plant they used to turn out 16| would live again to do what 1 |the court that you, Nicola Sacco,|Vanzetti, suffer the punishment of CT RAN GALS who have sent over their reprosen.| Conveyor system Tied parts |shole plant, it is reported by many | jobs a day. Now 88 are required.| have done already. |suffer the punishment of death by| Vonzetti, Pi f Vill: MUNG millenium,” where the accepted slo-| ‘and stil at ther took workers that boys getting around #) And of course several men were) “I have finished. Thank you. | the Passage of @ current of elec-| “Sseco (interrapting)=“You know | nium,” where the accepted slo. jcents an hour are being hired. fired. meity thru your body within the|1 am innocent, Those are-the same lea c gan is “the higher the production, = : —\eompany feeds them a lot ot taffy Race-Track Speed. | Then Judge Thayer roge to speak.) week beginning on Sunday, the| words I pronounced seven years Ny St f the higher the wage.” months. They increase the bonus|and calls them “students.” They At the Ford plants, most famous | H@ rose to pronounce sentence of tenth day of July, in the year of ago. You condemn two innocent wu it | Gene te iottatt: {in the first few days and then fire | are expected to turn one ee 4c thais cakettane gehi d, the sold-| death. But first he paused to apol-|our Lord one thousand, nine hun- me ae | ty tdi | them out before they i ) ion as i y pai iis) Se ig Siegert a i ry ae & lowever, will convince a bserve si ye s i i e No" pla je law. A Charge Japanese Move | that navies ic the eee Group Piece-Work. ‘a raise if they make good. The duction. from 35 to 80 pieces Merl Women, (who are’ paid ole E94 ah)” Stet: ‘i current of electricity thru your AV $ | Ct is the exploitation of | ee hosses “forget” about it, The one|hour in one year. At one of the o i is considered and ordered by | body within the week beginning on to Gein Manchuria |the worker 80 sharp as in the’auto-| In the Fisher Body plants ‘the | tre they sever formet da “step ‘on {Fisher Body plants where they used | day and cften less for doing. the the court that you, Bartolomeo Van-|Sunday, the tenth day of July, in ed et | mobile industry, notwithstanding the | &*0up piece-work system is now de- | thi F ise to make 150 to 160 bodies a day, |S4me work. zetti...” a : Sch fact that the average production for | V°!oped into a still further form of | it”—more production. speed-up, raise is fini y+) The process of acceleration of pro-| Vanzetti: “Wait ; the year of our Lord, one thousand ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Aug. the individual worker is so hich.* exploitation, best illustrated by one | the standard of efficiency. These | they now finish from 235 to 240) | ibis ad ahi stay a. | B ait a minute, please,|nine hundred and twenty-seven. . Wie Tn a st issued today the| ""nye nese eaer Ks s ay He lot the Fisher Body shops in Cleve.| boys are being used to beat down | with the same number of men on| UC! ee! Shown apove, i Proceed- | Your Honor. May I speak a minute Thig is the sentence of the law.” ee ongolian & ‘epublic emphatic- rm this acute | ni Riaeee oleate chien NPR the job. At the Hudson plant they|™& 8¢ an ever increasing * pace. | 5 Mone: vad instigated the £°™ of exploitation as “various /land. Hero they hire the workers |the wages of the men. tee aie vtput foc; This in conjunction with the fact 71 ally der CE nce tes spo | forms: of: wa; yments”—but the|at a basic day rate, fluctuating be- | Systematic Terror. fey See SOR en: es ane i viet i volt x Mongolia against the ge payments”—but the 3 es 3 ° . Ithe ‘5 number. of i | that that the automobile market is yea Bor SERS ene workers in the aut bile indus tween 55 and 70 cents an hour. The| This story of a superintendent, siiene er. of men in one : A ae m Manchur ment denouncing le automobile industry | ents a » The | ; : eee voar, atthe, saiertl ducing the | "ating the saturation point, is pro- | ee cece: propaganda and-| know from bitter experience that ail |company has designated for itself| printed in the “Auto* Workers year, at the pine eden te ana eres “ineeasine “Goede | ae “Japanese with a| these various forms of wage pay- | # certain rate for the operation, The | News,” June, 1928, will give the| Wage an average of 10 cents an shen th'the industry provocat in Man-| are introduced to scmeeze out Company allows the workers to make | reader an idea of the systematic hour. (Auto Workers News, June, With the development of ¢0 : gomteoruape a atom of energy in order to one dollar an hour. The work is|terror which is used by the various | 1928.) ; i yaa eae a Pie The L. ADDER CHANIN'S46th St.W. of Broadway iestalcirenang tie more and more work for |given out in lots, which take he-|companies to speed up production| A worker from Briggs grnoct pra M out bi lal ksuptee eine: | ee ia Wao Mats, Wea. @ Bele UF : The me money and most of the|tween 1’4 weeks and two weeks to|and to. transform the worker into |" We're still speeding up plenty °° eto hci Addie ty usenet aEASS NOW ON” ata SCHWAB and MANDEL'S time for less. |perform. This lot, say, of 100 fen-|a real slave: |these days, on a piece work basis, dire GREE doe tec tadeans Ores | 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. MUSICAL SMASH ; 4 Speed-up is manifestéd in vari-|ders, is to be hed in a certain| In one of the biggest departments | Just as soon as we increase our (alt ‘ We it a Rerauwaciatia CORT THEATRE, W. 4s st. OO D N EW (Lately the foreign press and the/oys ways: Piece-work is one of the |time in order to get the dollar an |of the River Reuge plant, urodne: jpieieney,. We're, dhe: Zor vmateny, Seer See EI usd chido. | Money anhalt ip ane keucaed tadio have announced a people’ Res systems evolved by the employing |hour. This group of workers, how- | tion was running smoothly. In fact, | prices. Men still start at the aver- aes dhe cantons atack errr With Play. with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC surrection in a | ¢lass to increase production by sriv- /€ver, do not get its bonus at the end more prodvction was being turned| age wage of 45 cents per hour, and | e 4 i = ae ° # - : | is 4 ft ‘ | ith- 42nd Japanese press pa iY Spreads | ing the’ workers a certain price per |¢f each week, but when the lot is | out by this particnlar superintendent | women at 35 cents per hour. An the next article, we will deal/ MAN INJURED, ROBBED. |Kcl- CAMEO *¢* Now Bear of this rebellion and in addition! piece, The more pleces they turn |completed. If the worker is laid |than by any of the others. Never-| On a certain operation a man has/| With the phase covering health con-| asHTAND, Pa, Aug. 21 (UP), : reoprts ee moops 2°) out, the more they get up to a cer- | off, or quits himself, he gets only | theless an efficiency expert one day|to handle 4,500 doors to make $8,/ ditions, wages, hours and profits. |—James Lewis of New York was Conrad Veidt particips tain point. Under this system many | bis day rate. They use the same | walked over to him and told him to|and on another operation 12,000 ithe eee a ; log i “The Mongolian Government em-|bosses may be dispensed: with. | form of group system in the Sterns- |fire fifteen’ men. “Which fifteen| pieces of metalstrips must be ‘hut | BACKACHES] coringe eee posPital here today io] in “Two Brothers” phaticali 8 pation or|Time-study men are employed to| Knight plant of Cleveland. In the|men?” asked the head of the de-| through the rolls to earn the same Saar ton cee ALES 285 and the part: n of its army in any| walk arcund with a stop-watch and | Chandler Cleveland Motors Corpora-| partment. “Oh, any fifteen will|amount of money. There is every- from KIDNEY oe when he was held up and| wep Lire OF VON HINDENBERG” Tebetlion. It requests citizens of the) observe different operations, When |tion the same group system is used.| go.” “And the reason?” asked the|thing here to make a worker fed | or BLADDER} "°?hed early this morning. and CHAPLIN In “BASY STREET? republic adequately to ‘erovert) they think that‘a worker is making | The workers do not know what they | superintendent. “You don’t have to|that he is in prison: hard labor, CATARRH there provocative rumors. jhis money tob easily, or getting too | make every day. They only find out | give any reasons.” was the reply. |slave-drivers and hard-boiled guards. in th d ak at much for the operation, his piece-|what they make on their bonus at | «wen, even if I don’t give the men| Set Women Against Men. [alas Aged e 3 r ra) work ts cut down and the worker | the end of a pay period of two} 9 reason, 1 want to know why just| Another way used to cut wages is Pi rossheen 3 "i tik work all the harder to catch | weeks. the same,” insisted the speaker. |by replacing men with women. In Sant: iMid 3 SUPPORT THE i woe u up! ; The extent to which this group| “Very well, then, I'l tell you,”|the core-making department of | antal Midy % | centten, the conveyer line may be|system demoralizes the workers,|said the efficiency expert. “You|Plant No. 20, men working for $5- aingtenloge ton ° r serewed up a little faster. The /and makes them drive one another, | are too friendly with the men. We|— = ommunist : vue i | steam pe dbaaag be turned low in| could best be shown by the peculi ‘Ti have noticed that when you go 5 | winter to. keep the workers a dit | strike which broke out in the crirk|oo™ i ff e i 1 a [Silly and, hone, more In the moe |shate doparament of the Beek i: oUER, the department no ane i ampaign Fund te fi i i afraid of you. No one is more on & A 3 a 0 move fasterat the machine. Rais-|tor Company, where the gang de- | ¥ s k iContinuedsfrom. Page: One |ing the task of the individual worker | maticeay | elena ma h |the alert, more uneasy and trying) 5 : gait Gitiow, Commmniat candidate) oo the group is tho mort common |twe “auikers ther ee ee, eat |to work harder ‘than: before: It is| To Witness the LAST TOUR A campaign to rouse the workers and poor y Mf st col | ty 2 on ‘ast | 3. i | y q . elite nt as th eprincipal | oo cd-up system, |encagh to keep up a high speed af |different in the other departments. | Celebration of THIS YEAR farmers to revolutionary struggle against the — The Whip—Fear. | production should be taken out from | Philadelphia, Labor Instfitte, 8th) The lay-off method, or the mere | the gang! : ; | ; | f the and Loc August 24, with Max) nor of lay-offs, m: |men are all uneasy and trying to ||| Be hn OCT. 17 on the = A -offs, may be used to vate y 9 eee: of the’Labor Delt eae An os Sestta “ad ands |e rere Company apa the | 8024 themselves to the maximum ERR baat educates i FOR AGAINST Baas, Hevbert Benjamin, Workers 1. dor the sthnuhus, they give closor lime Eeeel Catena tee one Todi | effort. All the men think the heads ||| REVOLUTION “Mauretania.” Se a a Party organizer, and an Italign| strontion to the belt. ‘The workers"l Hon \Pordiiaae thie ‘mones to a |0f their departmerits are son 1 2 Oreantention of the 1. Wage cuts, injune~ speaker. + 22, Muz| Ames and production records may|targe gang or bones ony sean | oo” | ig a ae tions and company men} temasco, August 22, Mu- sere thew | “Are you not satisfied with the| Samer besny be put on a black-board and com-|iocses, who keep raszing the men 3? Uni all, wit manuel | ae sicians’ Union tall, with BE: 1) petition encouraged. ‘The gangeor | tare wee Witeea Pasiveae” Varo Levin, William Schneiderman, Ed-| Owens; and Charlotte Anita | ro3? Plece-work ‘system mry be | received many millions of dollars, | BuPerintendent, ba t part is quite * Tense of the oviey * Tteachery of the hairmen astra 4. \in’ the past, as bonuses and they, in| 2: *» Was the reply. Upton: labor bureaucracy, ole ates hone The- |, This makes the workers boss each | tien, ghw to it that Ford got it pack | Unusual Foreman. | Unieerieincd ee ee har st ne,| other. Bech realizes that . tho | mua™y atman oven from the sweat |The superintendent then stated, 4A Labor Party, i how tre, 6202 “Penn Ave., August 26, hard th fell ith Jack’ Stachel, organization | jp... eee cree tallow th the return to each othe fear the’ Workers Party,|nider the gang payiient ayston. Evolve New Schemes. in Italian and other! ‘The department rercentaze| But with the increased competi- : |scheme is practiced in the Hudson tion in the industry the Ford Com- troit, Woodward and Alfred) Motor Car Company, where the | any has evolved new schemes, One August 22, a demonstration | company guarartees 200 per cent of “f the favorite ways of cutting William Reynolds, Alfred E./the day rate, provided the work is | Wages is known as the “syatematic and blood of-the workers. | Any one can tell when the superin- | the 11th Anni- |tendents are passing through. The| # production record here?” asked the “Henry Ford may be able to make} what he wants out of other men, but he is not going to make a son ay out of me. I quit.” | | Something like the above story | | could be told about executives in the Fisher Body, Pontiac plant, and in COST OF THE ENTIRE TOUR group sails RUSSIA ers and textile work- om struggles. 5. For 2 Workers’ and Farmers government, Place the Comm nists on the Ballot. HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO capitalists and their government. unions. 2. Unemployment. against Negroes, 5. Imperialist war. Furnish campaign publicity and adver- , ‘ f the automobile in- Free Soviet Visas id tis John: Schmees and others. | done in a given time. However, the | Ford plan.” “The Ford Worker” of'| ther Plants o Tour speakers and tising. werhill, Mass. Lbierty a | workers are ignorant as to the rates, |June, 1928, tells the story: ean raeaaetonas Ba ser Ba Yel be you = organize mass meet- ~ Publish cam ay H iberty St. August 2: i Lie ef ‘ | fe extend your st organ! ig paign i i cians Pate aed ”| This company practices schemes of| “A herd of hunting dogs of the | don’t want leaders, they want slave- ings. literature, service department are placed under the direction of a specially trained hound bearing the li¢ense number, 1 The “Buick Worker” tells how the | Star 262. These animals roarn*over with Philip Frankfeld . gang system works in plant No. 66.|the plant, hunting for some worker Milwaukee, Harmony Hall, 1st | When a new man comes in, instead | they can send to the employment of- and Mineral Street, August | of the company paving him day-rate | fice for talking, or wiping the filth with English and Italian speak-| while he breaks in on the job, the | off his hands before the’ bell rings, ‘s workers (the gang) have to pay him | running to the funch wagon or/walk- out of their own small wages. ing away from his machine towards At the Chevrolet plant in Flint, | the tool crib. These dogs take your Mich., they hire in some depart- number and send you to the employ- h reduction of forecs, expecting the Omaha, Jefferson Park, August | smaller group of workers to pro- | with James“ace yand others. duce the same amount of work. Newark, Military Park, August |” ughkeepsie, Fall Kill Hail, and Washington, August 22, “Walt Carmon, business man- of the. Labor Defender and Napoli, editor of Il Lavora- | hour, promising a bonus which will fired. This is invariably the case r £ run them up to 65-70 cents in three | if you happen to be getting above $7 ments at a flat rate of 42 cents an | ment office, where you are usually | | drivers. They don’t want workers |to have any spirit of independence and self-respect, they want obedient, docile slaves. The process of acceleration of | production, of speed-up never stops. | Here are a few examples. A Dodge worker writes that “in the Duco $375 $25 First Payment, balance payable in installments, mswuOnace so as to visit your relatives and friends in any part of the Soviet Union. Wo 69 Fifth Ave., New York | work we now spray the Victory Six |}! with two coats instead of one, and at the same price.” A Packard man writes, “In the body division we used to do six jobs a day. Now we do eight, and 20 per cent. of the rld Tourists, Inc. Tel. Algonquin 6900 — ~ | © Respond Now! Respond Now!! 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