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2) ~T DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 SSS aaa ———— . alin 4 es 7 ee Page Three Soviet Court Hearing Reveals British firm’s Sabotage and Espio Conditions in Gary, Ind. Dominion of Steel Mills XPOSE BRIBERY AND ESPIONAGE “IN LENINGRAD Others Implicated; New Trial Soon (Special to the Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, (By Mail).—Re- velations of a plot by a British firm In the Soviet Union to carry on eco- nomie sabotage implicating certain! | engineers working in Soviet factor- les in a system of espionage for the British has led the trial of the manager of the Leningrad branch of the British Morgan Crucible Company to be postponed until all implicated can be apprehended. Wolfmann, the manager of the Morgan Crucible Company plant in Leningrad, was tried on February 23, charged with giving bribes to Brylkin, an engineer employed by the Soviet Kolchugin Factory, for accepting the products of the Mor- gan Company, alleged to be of poor quality. Wolfman denied the charge of. bribing employees of the Soviet factories, but admitted that Brylkin acted as intelligence man for a for- eign firm on Soviet territory. In view of the fact that the court hear- ing brought to light new information with regard to Brylkin having acted as a spy and conveyed his intelli- gence to Wolfman, his court decided to adjourn the case for further in- vestigation and ordered the arrest of the others implicated. The main factory of the Morgan} Company is located in London. The Leningrad branch was opened in 1908 and has since been under the manangement of Wolfman, who be- came a Latvian citizen after the October Revolution. ODESSA, U. S. S. R., (By Mail). —The Marty shipbuilding works at Odessa is being enlarged and will handle repairs on eight ships during the current year. New vessels to 8 total value of 5,000,000 rubles are also scheduled for construction dur- ing the year. . Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today the profetariat alone is a really revo- lutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifesto). (Second Installment.) By IVAN BACHAN, of an article which in its first part, already printed, told of the loot- ing of the Gary steel workers thru their being compelled to buy ‘sport tickets, subscribe to the Red Cross and pay graft to the individual bosses to keep their jobs. * evapo The most merciless driving of men |in the Gary mills is seen at the Na- tional Tube Works, where in every operating department (a part of the plant has been idle during the win- ter) the bosses force the men to work from 10 to 15 minutes before starting time and also after quit- ting time, without extra pay; and in many instances floor men and crane operators do not get more than 15 minutes off to lunch, yet the company deducts a half hour for lunch time. Those workers who do not respond to this speed-up scheme are “spotted” by the bosses, and on pretext of being “lazy” are fired. Safety department rules are noth- ing but efficiency and speed-up schemes. At first workers used to look to- wards safety instructions with at- tention but the bosses have openly showed their intention through the use of safety departments and bureaus, and just as the capitalist system as a whole sows the seeds of its own doom, so it is with “safe- ty” bunk. Its directors are nothing | but efficiency experts employed to weed out those who do not readily submit to the capitalist rationaliza- tion and speed-up. The firing is done under the ex- cuse they are “breaking safety jrules.” Safety meetings in addition to being such a speed-up and colla- |; boration scheme, are also used by the bosses as a forum at which they openly urge the workers to produce more. Several weeks ago, an in- stance of this was reported by a worker, at the central mills, where at a supposed safety meeting of the men the boss told them either to produce more work or they get their “walking papers.” Attitude of the Workers. Even though the U. S. Steel Cor- poration has full sway and control This is the second installment | system of spying and ridding the mils of “disturbing elements,” none- | theless, the workers in this section are far from being in a state of even slight “contentment”, as the company paper “Gary Workers Circle” tries to picture. shows conclusively how far the steel trust stretches its bloody hands to | his mind, previous election the election results do not in themselves characterize Gary, since most of the workers are foreign-born who had no voice in the election, and the large mass of Negro workers who did vote, were under the direct force and super- vision of mill bosses. At the sev- Jeral rallies of the Negro workers |during the election campaign, the correspondent witnessed how their “white brother bosses” with the as- but openly told them if they wanted to hold their jobs they must vote “republican.” The capitalist rationalization and {and turn is changing their attitude from that of passive non-resistance to a marked resentment. This is noticeable in general without the mills; the workers are discussing more and more the shop conditions, |and voice among themselves their | dissatisfaction over the existing con- | ditions, for even though the work- jers do not know the full portent of the capitalist efficiency scheme which is in force here, they are feel- ing the effects, the consequences, the brunt of increased production, and in that way they are becoming con- |vinced that the increased production jhas not and will not raise their eco- nomic status, but instead has resulted |in further enslavement, exploitation, |in greater misery and unemployment. Consequently the workers are in a receptive frame of mind and present a very favorable attitude towards militant action. Tasks of the Party. It must not be forgotten that the Calumet district, including Gary, is BLACK FRITTERS By P. ROMANOV (Continued from Yesterday.) Katerina, a peasant woman, goes to Moscow to see her hus- band, Andrei, who has been there for. five years working in a fac- tory. She has just learned that he is living with another woman and she is determined to do something desperate. Yet despite her anger she has taken along with her the traditional kerchief of black frit- ters as a present. Katerina-is be- wildered by the city, loses her way, but finally finds Andrei by acci- dent. He receives her kindly and she is so overjoyed at finding him that she forgets to be angry. An- drei is evidently holding a respon- sible position and he is no longer the village Andrei. They walk to- gether to his cottage. Now go on reading. Su approached the cottage with a failing heart. Suddenly she would meet the other woman, dressed like a lady, of course. Involuntarily, Kat- erina glanced at her own holiday sarafan, and felt a hot wave of shame flood her cheeks because of her village clothes. When they entered a roomy cham- ber with new pine walls and par- titions, the first things she saw were two beds. Her heart began to beat so that her legs grew weak and al- most gave way under her, and her throat went dry. Everything in the room was~so unlike the house where she had lived with him. Near a window was a’ table covered with a newspaper tacked down at the corners, an ink- well, a pen, a row of books, some papers on a long nail in the wall. Clean city towels near the wash- stand in the cornez. “Are there no ikons here?” she asked, just to say something. “No,” Andrei answered: simply. He washed his hands, standing with his back to his wife, and wiped them unhurriedly on the clean white towel. Katerina, sitting uncomfortably on the first chair she had found when she entered, which stood almost in the center of the room, with her bundle in her hands, looked around, and her eyes searched eagerly for signs of the other woman’s presence. Suddenly she saw an old straw hat on the top of a closet. She quickly lowered her eyes so Andrei maight not notice that she had seen the hat. “Well, we are going to drink tea right away,” said Andrei, and began to gather up the newspapers and manuscripts from the dining table. 4 . . . Katerina felt she did not know what to say in order to break the un- comfortable silence, And what was felt most terribly in this silence was * * From them had said a word still lay be- tween them. In the old home she would always talk of the same things—of the cow, of the children (there were three of them), of the bad weather. Now she was trying hard to find something to say to him, but she could find nothing. Suddenly she re- membered about their cow, and grew happy. “Our Lyska calved the other day. It was a fine calf,—just like her.” “AZURE CITIES” |tanned, and her elbows, once round and white, had grown sharp. ® “e-8 And again a burning, jealous ha-| tred surged darkly from her heart to her head. But her eyes suddenly rounded with surprise when a thin, emaciated girl in a white waist, a short blue skirt, and worn tan slip-| |pers entered the room. The girl’s} blond hair was bobbed like a boy’s and held in place by a round horn comb, The girl, a bundle of papers in This paper| not only exploit the worker at the| | base of production but also to poison| Notwithstanding the increase in| Communist vote over that in the] the real facts of the situation in| sistance of Negro preachers, politely | unrelenting speed up together with) cheating of workers at every move} of the situation at present, with its one of the most important industrial | MEMORIAL MEET| -FOR SUN YAT SEN | “HITS AT NANKING (Strike Looming on the Peking Railroad PEKING, March 13.—In the midst |of a blinding dust storm, 3,000 of- | ficials, most of them opposed to the | Nanking regime of Chiang Kai-shek,| |met on the occasion of the anniver-| sary of Sun Yet Sen’s death. They adopted a resolution urging the taking over of the legation quar-| ter, and against the representative of Nanking here, the commissioner| Thomas (Fatty) Walsh, onc cipal gangsters of New York as to corrupt the vote on election di Gan gster, Politic lionaires, for they cater to the whiskey needs of Wall Street and are also®used as strikebreak nage Plot in USSR ian’s Friend, Gets a Flowery Funeral ce Arnold Rothstein’s bodyguard, wi guests of honor. The: buried here with all the prin- gangster chiefs lead the existence of mil- s and e ay. Chang Chi. Chang celebrated the| | anniversary himself, but in his " FAKER TRIES meeting, 12 miles away. Strike Looms A strike against a grafting de- 10 government, the opposing militarist Haverhill ShoeWorkers clique here, also. The city is full i Repudiate Nolan. | | of troops, the streets leading to the (Continued from Page One) | houses of prominent generals being literally packed with soldiers. Wang Ching-wei, Chen Kung-po,|Pearl to move her office to their and Ku Meng-yu, of the Kuomintang |headquarters, she having been or- opposition, today published all over|dered out of the other shoe union |the country a proclamation stating building by order of Nolan. | that they would under no cireum-) |. Scores Nolan Slanders. stances obey any of the decisions) William J. Ryan, leading member of the Third Kuomintang confer-|0f Local 9, issued a statement de- ence, packed by Chiang, and due to/M0uncing Nolan, declaring that No- meet in Nanking Friday. |lan’s letter is a challenge to all | militants in the union, who have the centers in the country. No one can |overwhelming sympathy of the 8,000 doubt the significance of this dis-|Members in the Protective Union. trict in the immediate as well as These members all desire to rid the future class struggles of the workers jorganization of Nolan and his hench- jin the steel industry, and its results |™e"- have far reaching effect upon the | Lan in the allied industries as'Communist Deputies well. eS . In the spirit of our Party's pro-| in Reichstag Score gram for organizing the unorganized | Brutality on Jobless masses of workers, and in order that our Party -will be able to cope i = : successfully with the problem of the| BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Com-| steel workers in general and in Gary munist parliamentary fraction in the and Calumet district in particular | German Reichstag onge again raised in the forthcoming struggle, which|the question of police violence | Jalthough slow in coming to a point, |@gainst the unemployed. In Neu- is sure to be faced soon, and further |Koelln the Communist member of that our Party will be prepared to|the Reichstag, Blenkle, was ar assume an unquestioned leadership, | Tested by the police because he had decisive voice, in fulfilling this dif-|legedly participated in disturb- ‘cult task, it is absolutely impera-|@¢es which took place there before | tive that immediate concrete steps|the building cf the Labor Exchange. | be taken as a preparatory measure, | At the intervention of the Com- towards the organizational activity | Munist Reichstags fraction Blenkle among the masses of workers. jwas released after a protocol had z Need More Contacts. been drawn up. Another objection - # ive. 0f the Communist fraction is that ki require-) 0 Steneie, Se ne Eerie sent ithein. members ‘ave’ no. longer ‘per | ituation in Gary, first) th ers longer p men ie orem re ce we|Mitted to distribute admission tick- have done little or nothing in this respect. Many shortcomings and) obstacles could be enumerated. | Ideological weakness exists out of ets fcr the gallery to the unem- ployed. The social democratic Reich- stag’s president, Loebe, cut off the Communists Toergler and Stoecker without permitting them to continue Swiss Workers Protest | at Big Mass Meeting 1,000 MORE JOIN partment head is ready to break P | BASLE, (By Mail).—A meeting out any moment on the Peking} attended by a thousand workers | Mukden railroad. The workers are ; Sarees y oad. ‘The wor ; protested against the prohibition by es seen abeuEb Chiate Haiahelis the Swiss Federal Council of the Shut Down Big Plant in Tennessee Red Gathering in the Canton Tes- sin. The resolution passed by the meeting points out that the prohibi- tion is a provocation of the work-| (Continued from Page One) ers and an indirect support of fas-|their posts in the plant failed de- spite the guards; and when the cisin, whose spies are given a free land The meeting greeted the con- vocation of the Anti-Fascist Con- gress in Berlin, and called upon the proletarian organizations to send delegates to this. At the close of the meeting a demonstration was held before the prison in which four strikers went out again, they took everybody with them. ° Three factory guards$ part of a private thug army and a policeman were reported to have been injured. Militia Threat. urrounded with guards impossible for even a t st. newspaperman to reach refugees are incarcer- him till two hours later, Arthur | Mothwurf, president of the company, s Federal Council has |declared that all efforts will be imade to call in*the national guard. . * @ already sent all public authorities instructions for the practical pre- ! vention of the Red Gathering in the) The workers in the rayon mills Canton Tessin. The Committee jin this country are among the most | preparing for the Red Gathering horribly exploited slaves in Amer- has been refused permission to open |ican ind: a | The majority of those employed in the rayon plants are women, the men in the family either working at other industries or at farming, |the combined earnings of both being far from enough to supply the bar- est necessities of life. The work in these plants is much more dangerous and unhealthful than in ordina a postal eheque account‘ for the col- lection of money. The attitude of the Swiss Fed- eral Council is being criticized even in bourgeois circles on account of the refusal to permit the anti-fascist professor, Salvemini, to enter Switzerland. The bourgeois press of | Switzerland regards the agreement between Mussolini and the vatican y on the Roman question as of the |the manufacture of artificial fibres greatest importance for strengthen-|Tequires the use of powerful and ing fascist propaganda both in corrosive acid Italy and abroad. The Catholic re- | actionary parties, hitherto opposed | in part to fascism, will now sym- | pathize with it or at least be neu- | There CHILD LABOR WASHINGTON (By years of age. Only its opposition against the suppres: i4, South Tyrol. y textile mills, since | Mail).— | e still 36 states which per-|ly the zeal which the “Daily” d tralized, since the church will cease | mit child labor of children under 12 | played in giving the women workers states regu-|cvery sion of German nationalism in|late employment of children under! week, BRITISH LABOR FAKERS IN CLASS PEACE ALLIANCE T.U.C. Agrees to Mond Speed-up LONDON, March 13.—The In- dustrial Reorganization and In- dustrial Relations Conference, in which the two most important fig- ures are Lord Melchett (Alfred Mond, of the “Mond Plan”) and Ben Tillett of the Trades Union Congress yesterday adopted a series of class collaboratién measures to speed up labor and throw it into unemploy- ment, The eleventh article on the pro- gram reads, “Rationalization of in- dustry should be pressed rapidly.” Another article of the agreement, the 18th, provides for the revision of the laws on the age at which school children can be put into child slavery. In return, the workers are promisedgan “attempt to get higher pensions for workers over ” morc public improvements, and easier im- migration to the colonies. Incorrect Title on Article by Gertrude Mueller on March 12 Editor, Daily Worker: I wish to protest most emphati- cally against the liberty taken by the Daily Worker in changi the title of my article on the Paterson strike which appeared in the March 12 edition of the Daily Worker. The title which was used, “Women k Workers Led in Paterson,” is misleading and gives an en- irely wrong impression. In the left ig struggle against the union of- als and for the winning of the strike several women were among the most prominent spokesmen, but to give the impression thai the women actually led this struggle is unfair to those left wing men wo ers who participated equally with the women in the IAdership. Because the article wes one of a ies published during this week, with special reference to Interna- tional Women’s Day, the liberty which the - Daily Worker took in changing the title can be explained possible prominence _ this GERTRUDE MUELLER. which arose considerable inconsis-| : misunderstandin; ce Sige f tency and ‘3 |he would maintain his measure: reorganizati f our Party. |. u Tauris Waa ts eonneneie aa js| 2gainst unemployed demonstrations in reali of co-|in the gallery and that he would in reality the cause of Tack OF <oj|Permit no discussion on the subject. units. They are practically no| Sree Sa Oe American-born members and not one} Negro member even though there} are thousands of Negro workers in| the mills working side by side with their remarks. Loebe declared that WORKERS WIN STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO (By Mail).— Workers in two shafts of the city- jowned Hetchy dam project, 34 in IE DETROIT, Mich-Shubert’s LAFAYETTE THEATRE Puy your Tickets at Daily Worker Office, 1967 Grand River Avenue; Hit TOT i At the words “our Lyska” she With beating heart, she waited for Andrei to speak. “Just like her?” Andrei echoed mechanically. Still seeming to be engrossed in something, he slowly continued to remove the newspapers from the table and to put them on the bookshelf. Suddenly he looked at his wife with a new erpression on his face, as if he had decided to tell her something important. The terrible moment had arrived. * * . “Katiusha,” said Andrei, looking not at his wife, but out of the win- dow, “I did not write to you because that would not have meant anything. I do not live alone, but with a com- rade. A fine, honest girl. She will come from work right away, so don’t you hurt her. I never chased after ‘women, the thing came about honest- ly. That is all. . .” Katerina looked at him in silence, without blinking,—only her throat was convulsed as she swallowed hard occasionally, This was the right moment to jump up, rip the shawl from her head, tear gut a handful of her hair, shriek like a madwoman with in- sult and grief. And then smash the window panes. Instead, she said quietly, she did not know why: “And what about me now?” “You will live as you have always lived,” answered Andrei. “I shall! send you money, and I shall come to help you with the harvest.” Katerina did not answer. Tears suddenly filled her eyes, fell on her Hands. She did not dry her eyes; she wiped the tears from her hands with a sleeve. “Why should you ery? It will be settled somehow,” said Andrei, and glancing out of the window, added: “There she comes now. Her name is Katerina too—Katya. Wipe’ your eyes, I have told her about you.” Hurriedly, obediently, Katerina wiped her eyes. She expected to see a larg2 woman with plump elbows and big breast, with a white face, grown fat on the four or five hundred rubles while she, his lawful wife, was drying up, feeding and nursing his children, harvesting wheat in the fields where that something of which neither of her arms had become rough and looked involuntarily at the straw. hat. | her hands, stopped short in surprise. “What did he find in her? She jhas a chest like a board,” thought |Katerina. | “Katya, we have a guest,” said| Andrei, noticing the girl's question-| ing glance. “Katerinushka is here.”| Katya smiled, blushing confusedly, and offered the guest a thin, pale| hand. “I did not guess at once,” she said, | smiling again, guiltily and yet at} the same time kindly. And recover- ing almost at once, she added: “I suppose you want to eat after your long journey.” “T told the landlady to put up the samovar,” said Andrei. “Good. . .I just came from work,” Katya turned to Katerina. Then for a fleeting moment she looked at herself in a hand mirror which hung on the wall near the towels, fixed her hair, and disap- peared behind the partition, * * * Katerina still sat uncomfortably on the same chair in the middle of the room, She did not know what to say, and how to treat her hus- |band when his wife was there, behind the partition. She spoke against her own will: “She is small and thin.” “That is nothing. She is a fine, kind person,” Andrei answered. As if suddenly remembering | something, Katerina hurriedly un- | wound her bundle, and took out the black fritters. “Here, presents. . .” And when Katya, with an apron on, and with hands black from char- \coal, entered the room, Katerina, still against her will, said to ‘her too, as if ashamed of the black fritters: “Here, a village present.” Katya blushed again and glanced at Andrei, “Take them, take them,” said the latter, busy with something in a cor- ner. “She is a fine woman.” “Why did you bring them? It’s too much, really.” And Katya added at once; “But I love them terribly, Are they with buttermilk?” “With buttermilk, with butter- milk,” Katerina answered quickly, overjoyed that the girl knew what buttermilk was, (To Be Concluded Tomorrow.) * * * (Copyright 1929, by International Publishers.) ano ena pressive purpose of widening shop | activity, subordination of street nucleus work (outside) to the shop nucleus requirements and needs for a successful formation of shop plans now under consideration (shop pap- ers and campaign to strengthen the shop nucleus numerically) and if} necessaary to transfer one or two most competent comrades from street nucleus to shop nucleus, is another necessity. We must go ahead with publica- tion of shop papers at once. Pre- liminary steps have been taken but there is a reluctance on part of the members, and this obstacle must be overcome and plans as formulated by shop nuclei recently, must be put in action and given full support by the street nucleus and the local | executive committee. Immediate preparation of plans) for contact with and organizing of Negro workers, need as a first step: mass meetings to be addressed by) a Negto comrade, with a subsequent follow-up of those that respond and an effort made to organize them: also if possible the district organizer or the Central Executive Committee to send a Negro comrade here for a period of two or three months to help us in this task. Colonization of one or two Negro comrades would be excellent. This also applies to the sam: extent in regard to the Mexican workers, As soon as the above is started and carried out as much as possible, ir white fellow slaves. Also there a a ro contact with a large mass of|°f $6 a day was cut to $f City Mexican workers here. To overcome cfficials state that $6 will be paid these serious spots of weakness, the | #4! following is a general outline, which| | also might serve for units that face| x 3UT iva the same problem as we do in Gary: rete Sauce A ( ity ae 3.00 | Immediate centralization and co-|Colected by Jacob aN ordination of Party forces, of frac- Minn, ue ini Hee ae tions and units (nuclei) with cor- B ee ae per e ue a responding division of duties among emeety eae ae the members must be had in contra- ays Li aie eae distinetion to the present inadmis- Ba Hh iat Fe k pee noe 5 sible method of unloading the entire ear Hanta aad responsibility and Party work on Herd “fs apes aioe one or two members. Division of aa rickson, 25c; J. Jamp- us duties, unit and fractional commit-|_,"% scrrrcsrsscrtesteeetee Se tees according to ability to perform ee ry ub enechiealoy diligently in particular language, rain ar Abe roan oloch, wan fraction, unit, and other committee 1; M. Abryn, $1, tereeeeee = work. This is one of the most pres-| Joseph rate aba Toledo. am sing needs at present. Toh Ge mare ry Stronger Shop Nuclei. Voie os ys ; 2. Formation of committees with ex-| lla Snyder, 3E, 1F, City.. “1.00 SE DE, Gigs is aalins Kept 1.00 |a systematic fractional and unit work |number, walked out when the scale E, W. Kanel, Rochester, We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the work- ing class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy—Karl Max (Communist Manifesto) ifesto?, of the present shop nucleus be made, which is at present not unlike the street nucleus, that is into separate shop units based on the division of members to each particular shop which is the requirement for func- tioning of the shop nuclei. Preparation of plans for inner apparatus which is a necessary pre- ‘caution in general, but especially in, a company town needed. Immediate action must start for like Gary are in the agit-prop section. The Daily Worker and language papers have been neglected and very, little litera- ture is sold. The section in Gary is sorely in need of correcting this criminal negligence, for without our press and literature the best or- ganizational attempts will fall far below the desired aim. This also applies in regard to school and edu- cation of members, We must not forget the experi- ences and lessons of the 1919 steel strike and the lessons of the coal mine strikes past and recent. Let I. L. D., 3000 Grand River; taurants, 2934 Yeamans; Hamtranck and 2718 Germer. us remember the past experience and prepare for the forthcoming battle in the steel and allied indus- it is essential that a re-organization tries. 4 Workers Restaurant, 1343 Ferry E.; Cooperative Store, 14th & MeGrow; Russian Workers Cooperative Res- ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS In A Program of Revolutionary Dances DIRECT FROM MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. Company of 20 with IRMA DUNCAN Will Dance All Week BEGINNING MARCH 18TH POPULAR PRICES ELD () SAEED CO GRETEIE ( <SERRD- C4 HAVANA TAA NU ANUONNT EATING AUAUUNOAVACUNOUUNONEUNeAAEOOTNY ED 0) EDAD (0 CURED ( ED ( inna PPEELELSELLLELT x