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DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 CHINESE RED ARMY GAINS IN NEW ADVANGE Important Cities Taken by Communists nued fron (Cont Page One) and forced officers in pressed nder ving qua’ 160,000 to Battle. Nanking E es of the e believed wait- " move between the two forces have occ d. according to s reaching London, and a big hattle, ¢ probably more than men. is expected hor' hek, head of the Nan- king government, has drawn up 50,000 men in the hiang, along the Ankweihupeh bor- der, and has four divisions number- ing about 100,000 men in Two Workers Killed in Explosion in DuPont Powder Plant SHIP COLLISION Injured | 27 SHANGHAI, March . | Two children were reported today to gitached, as will also the signatures |-ur ‘suosaed 0g pue poumoip eavy of James P. : | cluding six foreigners, are said to hord, president and secretary of the |be mis ing as a result of the colli- the Italian cruiser Libya sion 0} 7 NEW UNIONS | IN CHINESE RIVER ENDORSE CALL \Children Killed, 30 Are Ready for June 1 Meet in Cleveland (Luntinued trom Page One) Reid and Albert Wi National Textile Workers Union, signing for its executive board. | | with the Chinese coastwise vessel Mystic Bunk DEPOSITORS MAY ‘CAUSE ARREST OF BANK OFFICIALS Fails After Big Loans to Fascists It was stated at the district at~ torney’s office today that the in- sistent demands of thousands of vicinity of Kiu- | j a dozen persons hurt, including e |Kangtai as the Libya was prepar- ing to go to the aid of the sinking Italian destroyer Muggia Tuesday n the case of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union, the exe- cutive board held a meeting in New) York, which is also the headquarters small depositors who were swindled out of their money by the $4,000,« 000 crash of the City Trust Co. would compel grand jury action for {mouth of the Yangtse River. morning. The collision the The occurred in |Kangtai had 88 passengers and a n crew of 40 aboatd, Six foreigner: and seventy Chinese were rescued. Japanese steamer Matsumoto Maru, in charge of Capt. Kaneko, brought to this port today four of- ficers and 112 men of the crew of! the Muggia which struck the rocks off Haichau Island on the Fukien province coast and sank in a heavy fog. Thirty-seven of the crew had been rescued by a Chinese junk. All of the rescued were transferred to the Libya. Capt. Kaneko told the | Press he had received an SOS at) 40 p. m. Monday. He steamed in United | ; of the T.U.E.L., and officially en- dorsed the call itself, and will sign through the direct action of all the board members. Members Enthusiastic. The greatest enthusiasm prevails | amongst the membership of these fighting unions for the convention | of June 1, out of which they expect to see machinery created that will much assist them in finishing the organization work in their respec- tive industries, Each of these unions has a fine fighting -history, already, in each case a history of struggle that be- gan even before the formal organ- ization of the union. the arrest of some of its officials. The City Trust Co. was operated by Ferrari, head also of the Lancia | Motors Co, The Lancia Co, col- |lapsed under suspicious circum- | stances last November, but in spite |of this, the state banking commie | sioner’s office gave the City Trust Co. a clean bill of health, and it | continued to take in deposits, and |make loans to fascist newspapers pees security, and to friends of This is the Japanese Ginkgo Tree, placed in City Hall Park. So-called Japanese savants have told the masses for centuries that if they stood under this tree and wished, their wish would come true. The Japanese masses are beginning to give up standing un- Hyea Geiegel ees. its officials, on’ forged notes, or | other certificates. Some Revelations. | .. ‘which nothing has~ happened except fa gradual exposure of Farrari’s methods, and the curious actions of certain state officials, in connection with them. _INPROTEST MEET |the direction from which the SOS |had come. He found the wreckage of the Muggia impaled on a reef |connecting Finger Rock and the is- MILLINER LEFT Ieee danovianien ioaas| The officers when the bank was closed were Joseph M. Cohn, James F. Cavagnaro and Louis Tavormina, ( Plans Attack. ee is or eh é ight school children, when 3,000 Re eae ne pounds of nitroglycerine exploded in the DuPont powder plant at Gibstown, N, J. Lack of proper 0,000 men oprecite Chinne's Tate | precautions by the DuPont Co. is the cause of frequent blasts in DuPont plants where munitions with another 50,000 mane S troops: | for the coming imperialist war are manufactured. Photo chows Gibstown school children holding Tt is understood ther were having | __ome of the windows of the school blown out by explosion’s for their Kwangsi supporters would | a ee ee eae a art aaa rush 100,000 reinforcements ‘from 'Th d f , ee CW. ousands ot Workers in Expecting such a move, Chiang , apparently is planning an attack before the reinforcements have time! to reach the front. Separate Congress. Chiang has declared war on his opponents, but appears more anx- ious to regard them as insurgents than as a different government, which they claim to be. They called ® separate congress at Canton when the nationalist congress at Nanking PROVEN A MYTH Fail to Frighten Labor in Rochester By MICHAEL INTRATOR. That the much boasted control of the Rochester men’s clothing manu- | Bosses promised that this particu land. Most of the crew had made) Net of “Bedaux””’ System lie way a the sland: (By LRA Service) | Winning their strike against the | Bedaux efficiency system of wage payment, 1,200 textile workers at the Shoals Mfg. Co., Green- ville, S. C., have gone back to work. | SOAP FACTORY GIRLS STRIKE ivory Plant Is Again| | speed up plan would not be intro- duced at present. But 150,000 other workers are al- ready caught in the net of thi recently faced discord in its meet- o . meet- facturing market by the Amalga- eee ‘ mated Clothing Workers Union is fanking’s situavion was made|a myth was shown by a story car. somewhat awkward by Chang |ied~ yesterday in. the employ Tsung-chang’s aitack on Chefoo yes- General Chang, one of the powerful Chinese war lords, etirement last Feb- zed a large army Shantung province against the most came out of his yuarv and mob in Kvomintang government. Disvatches today said the fight- ing at Chefoo resulted in about 300 casu: Chang in Chefoo. Chang Tsung-chang entered the city after the battle, but since the Japanese were expected to evacuate the Tsinan-tsingtao Railway zone shortly, it was believed his position then would prove untenable, since it would make a Nanking govern- | ment attack possible. The whole affair was complicated | further by the continued silence of General Feng Yu-hsiang as to his | sition. It was generally believed | it his alliance with either side would be synonymous with victory. He has been negotiating with Wu- hen. Report Li Shot. | CANTON, China, March 27.—} Simultaneously with reports from! Nanking that General Li Chai-sum, governor of Canton, had been shot in prison there, it was made known that 30,000 Kwantung troops are, on the march north to aid the Wu-/ han generals. General Teng Shin-tseng’s tele- gram to Nanking demanding the re- trade journa!, the Daily News Rec- ;| Scene of Struggle tem, according to the boast o: Charles E. Bedaux in his booklet,| Me: Fift t young girls, employed as| res Labor. Why the packe vie in the Proctor and Gamble | ord. plan is a driving form of sp NP soap plant at Port Ivory, Staten In the dispatch from its Roches-|™@y be understood from the effici- island, walked out on strike Tues- ter bureau, the “Record” gave in-|°™cy expert’s explanation of this/day. They proved their determina- formation for manufacturers which | ™¢thod of payment. definitely shows that the living 200 Bosses Use It. standards of the Rochester workers} Bedaux, the French industrial en- have by no means been degraded to | gineer for whom the plan is named, the limit. The Amalgamated offi-|came to America in order person- cialdom is now busy seiling out the | ally to supervise the introduction of workers’ standards still more. his scheme, He claims that the sys- nj tem now effective in more than} of the Rochester bosses who pr 200 industrial plants, involving the union officials. because of ite |°Ver 150,000 workers, at a saving “vision” in giving concessions on|0f more than $28,000,000 to the cor- wages and hours to the smaller |Porations. The Bedaux company is bosses in the city in order to help| internationally organized with them against the pressing competi- branches in England, Germany, Italy tion of the open-shop manufacturer. | 4nd Switzerland. These concessions to the small| To introduce the speed up, a cor- bosses, the article states, are being | Poration pays well for Bedaux ser- given voluntarily by the union of-| Vices in view of the future saving ficials, because the larger manufac- | 0 wage costs. An expert arrives at turers, by virtue of their strength, the plant, studies the worker’s speed can and are getting these conces-|With a stop-watch in hand or by a sions, whether the union officials |™ore secret method, and then re- Nie for noe | ports on the base rate of speed. This Thus, between “involuntary” con- |'S called the unit of human power| cessions to the big bosses and the | Measurement, or “B. voluntary concessions to the small Bonus System. manufacturers, union standards are| Put on a low base rate of pay being ground out. per hour, the worker is then forced “The remedy seems to lie in the |to strain to the utmost in order to form of rate revisions in order to |earn increased pay for his extra ef- permit the small producer to com- | fort. A premium is paid for all ad- pete with the unorganized mar- ditional output. In order to break kets,” the article states. Rate re-| the workers’ sense of solidarity by visions means lowering the piece- | setting one individual in competition work wage rates. Therefore, the | with another, the bosses then post a The story expresses the or on to win. by preventing scabs |from stealing their jobs yesterday. The strikers demiand a wage in-| crease, The walkout was precipitated | when the plant management reor- | ganized the packing department by installing labor-saving machinery. Workers in the mechanical depart- ment had struck successfully earlier | in the year against an attempted cfficiency system. The management claimed in press statements that there “was » no strike,” that the “girls had simply cuit,” advertising thereby for strikebreakers. A few answered the ad. Stopped before they got in, they were told of the strike. Appa- rently they were ready to disregard the warnings of the pickets, for they suddenly scurried away. Later they told police they had been slapped and otherwise respectfully han- died. This was denied by the strik- er when police questioned them later. The “skirmish” was alleged to have taken place at the main gate of the Proctor and Gamble plant. The girl workers’ conditions have Ceclined steadily for years. Before |the installation of the speed-up the | workers packed 80 cases an hour, but the new machines installed re- | ganization drive. The Muggia formerly belonged to the Austrian navy but was part of the loot which fell to Italy after |the World War. ‘SHOEBOSSHAS TO POST SECURITY Raise Voted | vice presidents; Frederick Ferrari, executive vice president, and An- ver 600 engineers, employed by|thony di Paolo, treasurer. WINGER ARRESTED “**° » aes 5 i f which the New York Board of Transpor-| The board of directors, of whic Was Giving Unionists ‘tation, yesterday held a meeting at General Sessions Judge Francis X. 3: vas chairman, included di : the Labor Temple, 14st St. and 2d|Mancuso was ct D e Convention Appeal | Ave,, protesting against the refusal | Paolo, Isidore Siegeltuch, Francis A. lof the transportation heads to grant | Sasso, Joseph F. Saphir, Genaro Herman Jukowsky, a leading left |them the wage increase which the Ascione, Francis, S Faterne, wa winger in the Cloth Hat, Cap and Board of Estimate already voted for. eo ate Beniaiain Weeks Millinery Workers International | When the Board of Estimate voted | °"yi\vent Labate: Henry H. Laza. Union, was yesterday arrested while |a yearly wage of $8,120 for all Grade 9+ V7neCMh EM A ee ae. Mover, distributing circulars carrying an|C Engineers employed by the city, Wwiiue WH Sakolsky and Charles 1 uppeal to the members of the Mil- |the Board of Transportation was the | Rrcrmorg linery Local 24, only body to refuse the wage grant. | 5 The arrest was made at 36th St. Their excuse was “no money.” In For Observance of Shoe Union Agreement A victory of great significance to the shoe workers of New York was} The leaflet Jukowsky distributed |#t the coming city elections. yesterday won by the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, now in the|to fight the strikebreaking and |engineers who were chose2 by the midst of an extremely fruitful or-) union-smashing policies of the Za- membership, were refused a hearing The Elbee Shoe Co., against which a strike was go- ing on for some time because they larly to the coming convention of committee full power to go as a body | violated the agreement signed only recently, was yesterday compelled | to knuckle under, again recognize| the union, sign an agreement and) what is more, post a certified chec! of $500 with the union as securit; of pact observance. In addition to this further suc-| cess was recorded yesterday in pull-| ing a strike against the Griffin and | White, member of the Board of} Trade, a frankly open shop organi- | zation. | The shop struck yesterday was) the Shoerseld and Romano Shoe Co., and the entire crew of 50 is now out. | The strike against Arthur Bender, a large firm is still in force. Negotiations were begun looking | toward a settlement with the Del-| mont Shoe Co., tied up by a few-| day-old strike. Of all the classes that stand face) to ince with the bourgeoisie today the pro‘etariat alone in a really revo- lutionary class.—Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifesto). and Sixth Ave. by a plain clothes |Teslity, the workers charged at the detective, who is said to have been |mass meeting, the Board heads re- put up to his job by the right wing |fuse the wage raise in order to be| machine in control of Local 24, able to claim that they “economize” 2 Boys Dead; Parents Sick; Eat Pork That |was a call to the union membership ky machine in power in the The circular alluded particu- 1 union, the internaticnal, where efforts will | be made by the bureaucrats to per- etuate themselves and their poli- further. At a hearing in Jefferson Market | Court later, Magistrate McInerney was compelled to dismiss the case. Jukowsky was represented in court by Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for the International Labor Defense. Cab,AmbulanceDrivers Injured in Collision | A three-cornered collision between | , V | Ly a Flower Hospital ambulance and two taxicabs at 57th St. and Sev- | enth Ave. resulted in Dr. Angelo | Castelno, age 26, riding the step, | getting a fractured ankle; Philip Cohen, ambulance driver, suffering \bruises, and Abraham Moglin and Joseph Devlin, cab drivers, being cut around the head, Last 2 Days! Had Become Diseased ORANGE, N. J., March 27 {U.P).—Diseased raw pork was blamed today for the death of two boys and the critical illness of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Aquilina, of 406 Valley St., here, One of the boys, Joseph, 4, died at his home last Friday and the other, Carmelo, 6, died yes- terday in Memorial Hospital. | A committee of 16 transprotation by the Board politicians. They passed | a resolution yesterday, giving the} to the Board of Estimate and de- mand the raise coming to them. ARREST UNEMPLOYED. BALTIMORE, Md., (By Mail).—| Found sleeping in doorway and | under steps, 28 unemployed workers | | were last week sent to the House of | Correction on charges of “va-| | grancy.” The youngest was a 19- year-old boy. The working class cannot simply lay hold of the rendy-made state machinery, and wield it for its pwa purpone.,..This ne Commune (Paris Commune) breaks the modern state pover.—Marx, | Day Edition Daily 3Qs Worker sulted in the dismissal of many workers. Those who remained were lease of Li Chai-sum remained un- answered today, tho this was the article continues, “The union is con- | daily sheet, showing the number of ull i tt ; cinema scious of the situation and is meet- |“B’s” or units of work produced by FIRST SHOWING IN AMERICA! 3 ‘ alti | Hed t k 160 cas | ca set by the ultimatum for). it wherever possible in the form /each man or woman the day before out, with aa ab ie sis. a week 7, ee ” 3 00,0 Q Q C O PI E S woes of revisions.” and the amount of premium earned. |)’ Banknotes of the Nanking gov-| ye. | This is supposed. to. speed up. the| *vel- Beg e g | ernment are being refused here and| . That large bosses also get “re- pitas ‘i The Trade Union Educational THE REVOLT OF THE ROBOTS | worker by “appealing to his pride! land spirit of competition.” “Tho day I worked hardest, I earnest feast,” stated a candy work-| aspects of the struggle. er ai Schrafts’ where the sysfem/ ‘The strikers are demanding an has been introduces,in-spite of the | increase in wages in view of their workers’ resentment, Schraft candy! doing twice as much work. workers are still unorganized and) therefore unable to protest effec-| tively. | “We are supposed to do a spread| of 6 boxes in 2 hours, at a base | is IN MEET TONIGHT of 31 cents an hour. For all boxes packed over that spread, we are paid a bonus of four different rates, in- Rally to Speed Drive for Organization League has sent organizers into the strike area to assist the workers in anizing their ranks and in other the central bank is allowing only| visions” can be seen from the state- $50 Mexican to each note-holder.)ment: “The larger manufacturer, Troops have been thrown around the| because of his dominating opposi- banks and have already used their|tion, is able to make requests and bayonets on the anxious note,|in turn these requests are treated holders. Merchants are refusing|With much deference by organized all cargoes. labor . .. the small manufacturer, on Thruout the city troops which | the other hand, makes his requests showed sympathy with Nanking in the form of self-preservation and have been replaced by troops from hopes that they will be met. But The Russian “R. U. 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The limit is $20.80 a week. |... .On Monday, only seven out of| |the 34 girls in my department had) Jearned additional rates, ranging) | from 5 cents to 80 cents.” | i 4 Knit goods workers in Greater To forestall the workers’ Denes} t | against stop-watch time-studies, the| New York are urged by the City | Bedaux system often includes “prac- | Committee of the National Textile tical workmen employed in the de. | Workers Union to come to a mass partment studied in order to facili-| meeting tonight in Irving Plaza tate understanding on the part of Hall, loth St. and Irving Place, at all employes.” These “practical 8 0’clock. : ; workmen” are, of course, company, Official pledges of assistance in men placed among the workers as the organization drive contemplated tools to “put the system over.” | yy the textile union in this trade Workers have no way of checking Was given by tHe leaders of the left up on this Bedaux system of pay-| Wing Needie Trades Workers Indus- ment, and cannot tell whether or ‘tial Union. Ben Gold, national sec- when management is cheating them "etary of the union, will be one of out of pay. But one point about the | the chief speakers at the meeting efficiency plan is perfectly clear to | tonight. 2 : everyone—the slower or older work-| Albert Weisbord, national secre- ers who, for one reason or another, taty of the textile workers’ organ- have been least well able to carn ization, will also be a speaker at the extra premium, are the first to the mecting. be lai - “In ti f 1 = | are a. cline ordi lay oft” tossts the ct. DEMAND PAY FOR OVERTIME The following is a list of new books and pamphlets that have come off the press in the past two weeks:— Communism and the International Situation—15c Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies—15c The Program of the Communist International— (in pamphlet form) 15c¢ The Proletarian Revolution by V. I. Lenin—50c Reminiscences of Lenin by Klara Zetkin—35c (Prices To Be Announced) ‘Wage Labor and Capital by Marx (New English Improved Edition) Revolutionary Lessons by Lenin Heading for War ‘Women in the Soviet Union Ten Years of the Comintern (Postage Prepaid On All Orders, 5 Gents) SEND IN YOUR ORDER TO This special enlarged edi- tion will sell at the rate of $8.00 per thousand. DAILY WORKER 26 Union Square New York City. Send us..... Edition of the Dai +++++s.scopies of the Special May Day ly Worker at the rate of $8.00 per thousand Kiangsi province. | the union is not unmindful of condi- tea pate tions and is able to make these con- cessions wherever they may seem UEENS BRIBERY *. | | For this open betrayal the Hill-| iman regime in the A. C. W. is called |“far sighted” by the manufacturers, E R OP N D ;who enthuse over such “friendly and able” leadershin. Samael The workers are the victims of a vicious circle of concessions, which Charges of Frame-up jyerates in all markets thus; First, for Political Reasons concessions are given to the large ‘ bosses, with the official excuse that The whole case of the Queens big bosses are “responsible” and “a bribery, in which Frank H. Berg "00d influence on the industry.” and Al Levin were convicted of car- | hen the smaller ones get it to save rying a $10,000 sewer bribe from | them from extermination by open- Angelo Paino, a sewer contractor, *hop competitors, Then the big) to George U. Harvey, Borough pres- nes get more concessions, with the ident, was opened again yesterday {little ones following, while the by granting of writs of reasonable standards of the workers are forced doubt by Supreme Court Justice down. : John B, Johnson. The highly satisfactory wages Berg and Levin had insisted that 29d graft opportunities make the the $10,000, which Paino admits Amalgamated official undesirous of providing, was for campaign funds, *ch strenuous labor of organizing | and furthemore charge that Harvey |the open shops. And this open | ‘is engaged in framing them up for renee field grows larger and larger, | ‘political reasons, because they insist Providing the official with an ex- exposing him as a member of the CUs¢ 8 increasing Lucas lity neces- a Klux Klan. |fary to concede greater revisions | duction and lay off,” boasts the ef-| ‘, “Berg and Levin will now receive of wages, .speed-un systems and | ficiency expert, “the better work-| GLASGOW (By Mail).—Dockers rty on bail | wholesale dismissals ef workers | men are retained.” vhere have refused any longer to Tato yesterday plesded not guilty | Permanently displaced by the speed- | The Bedaux system gives the Work overtime or before working bery and his $10,000 bail was |¥P- ‘bosses this exact check on a work- | hours unless the union scale of over- ontinued, with April 8 confirmed | PRAM eA 9 er’s speed and ability to stand the | time wages is paid them. the dete of his trial. | DISABLED SOLDIER KILLED | pace, When the worker is used up | _ The technical grounds for grant-- MILWAUKEN (By Mail).—Em- there are plenty more, say the ex: | The modern bourgeois society ADDRESS that hos sprouted from the ruink the writ of reasonable doubt to | mott Watley, a war veteran still | perts, to take his place. of feudal society, has not cn , Be Lain were thal the sutering fons vous at te | ae | sgtteenimne | WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS STATE eseesessssssees Tne. é, a me, + I wen i len’ TH i i 3 rot voi borough president, but|") the Milwaukee rcads inset the Ce" finmenne naa 45 BAST 125 STREET Dae aha zi NEW YORK CITY fa ED ae ESAT RSE SANGRE, COVRE STIG, ‘en coldermen. home. /

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