The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 2

Finishes First Draft DAILY WORKER, NEW ot Message; To ‘Discuss’ Bury Victim of Dry Raiders BiG INCOME TAX... FUND TO BEUSED. FOR WAR PLANS Will Present Message Week from Monday WASHINGTON, Api dent Hoover hes completed the draft ofthe message he will tr mit to the special session of gress a Week from next Monday. will be Hoover's state paper, other than a proclamation. “The message, it is said, wili be short and will deal only with ‘ama relief and iff revision, the @ a pecamation of wasct ”, tt PAELL-Hole of Kinloch, a ‘Rationalization’ Tragedy This cond article b Louis ¢ int tional repre- tive of the Workers’ Inter- g, of Aurora, Ill., who was shot cing buried. The dry agenis, om they k hand in hard; ion by getting the smaller fry. The body of Mrs. Lillian De K to death by a band of dry raiders, ignoring the big bootleggers with make a pretense of enforcing prohi aw owever, income tax re ° a treasury al year has indicated} nt for the 1h : jent {es 1 Relief, on the coal fields a mine of model safety conditions, per apa apes bene ea] o western Pennsylvania. the fact remains that it was the ures he has been eam ¥ Lee ite worst hell-hole in the entire distriet, and it is thought ha} Mine v xtremely gaseous. Safety ere neglected. Speed-up forever being put into le regard was given LOUIS GIBARTI. died in a mining dis- pean y with eloped al me sion of ¢ Get Cream. Fat Bos Cream. | Be Saks would athe “fe of the wozkers of the feature of thi Td inove he: unbe . No effort was made to effee- =eceipts, £ burden of responsibility before the tively ventilate the mine and make lividuals’ inc aitetvescent cf labor v it a safe working place, All miners exceed those of corporations, is ing gratification to Pr ver and his backers, as i the plan by which big s' of th jcompel cron the big business he operation had fear in their e somewhat on the is- | s of hing happening. s of miners’ wives with whom sik ager Hemics of we talked reported that their hus- ae ce Nay aaa iret BBE It the cox solved had been bands had declared their intention ai Se Sian “ae oon |guilty of previous accidents, the po- of quitting as soon as possible, but ee oe nolders Curr Gaition of the agement ‘and cf low w and large debts prevent- pare Ene Trone |the supervi state authorities ed them from doing so—until it was OE eseeaiaie found to} Would be y_challenged by | too late. 3 " its | tion of the masses. ‘f . y evices. indicate that “wozkers’ stock owner- |" paca Tate No Safety Devices. mer | oy case seems to be dif-] ship” of sh foisted on v: wages, have lionaires. | Hoover's farm “aid” provisions in the message are known ‘> be of sufficiently general a nature to en- | able him to avoid responsibility | when the farmers realize that the ion for farm “relief” at the), The w on is a swindle. Butch Gov't Refuses The Kinloch tragedy is a typical result of rati-nalization. Conditions g to r-‘ionalization are gradu- forcing the abol:tion of every labor protection and safety measure in the plants which are becoming ef- ficient in this way. The workers are clearly feeling this characteristic of the new im- -enclosed company town provements. There is a critical tem- ping in the one per in the masses of the Pittsburgh the Alleghany Valley, well-guarded | 510, The National Miners’ Union. ey company pollce:and altho “illegal,” in the opinion of tht rounded by the benevclent silen bosses af tis-compaliy bonnie a peemewspaper officials. |only hope of the coal diggers of Canal am Competition Still it would be worth while to| 11, Alleghany region. Its clear-cut with Belgium, France speak about Kinloch and about the wlicy of setecuandicg thy an Be eced miner 4 of the working class is turning the | i hap ened in Kinloch? sympathies of the subdued company | Tompetition between Holland .and | typical rationalization tragedy. The towns towards this new organjza- is believed to Baweg (pal company wants to escape from|+ion” along the road, we find aie tly in the terms| the effects of the “market : numerable helpers and spokesmen inilitary treaty be+| coal.” It establiches in its na exposed|| ¢fficient machin is further ag-||SPeed-up system vated by the refusal of the Dutch|| Kinloch wa t the dredging m Dordrecht to! i of money |i)", de any millionaires. | the breakfast men in N the eveni Since t Kinloch. Tragedy of Rationalization. or LONDON, England, April 2. hown itself rec: of the secret ; At inside information from the its, itation. of in this sense one of the most modern plants of the Al- Joghany Valley. The only equipment | the activities of the “relief organi- Pe Red Cross Discriminates. Antwerp. The competition of the Kinloch pits was equipments | zations.” The Red Cross and the for the protection cf labor. nters on the forts of Dutch capitalism to Keep|}the catastrophe one year ago failed The cheap goods and foods of bour-|Sunni tribes in the Tirah Valley | industry can easily stand when upping in the port of Rotterda: pete on the be: of Kinloch geois relief—clothes, potatoes and near the Northwest Frontier Pro-| profit earnings are disclosed. Most | e estab! The! the cxpense of Antwerp, cheldt River, on which Antwer tamdz, passes through Dutch terri- ory on its way to the sea. By reaty the Dutch are supposed tol <eop the estuary of the Scheldt free ci thud, but the work was neglected during the war and has never been lishment of up-to-date ven-| milk are intended to advertise the tilation systems. They disregarded | gocd heart of the ruling class, The all warnings and demands of their) Red Cross gives ene c: two quarts worke They de it cl by | of milk per day, for one week only, their refusal that rationalization in to big families. Some are getting technical improvements under capi-| sandwiches and home-made jelly and talism only means inte: ied exploi-| beans. tation and “~ cf labor, but by eedless to say, there are ele- properly resumed. As a result Ant-j}/mo means the better of the ments distinctly excluded from every werp is losing ‘rade to Rotterdam. working conditions or improved relief rm of the official agen- He Safety d.-‘ces for the v rs. On| cies. The militant workers ef the : . the ary, the ne j-up sys- last strikc- and the Negro families ’ s Cepruguayan Avintiee Wien is sucking the sucneth of tol eee en eee ee Hpworker of every trade, And the Legion aid 1 Escape from Plane (“huge firancial investment” fo The working class must provide " ae : bor saving machinery does not leave for them, The solidarity of th: rit — ng Paar ne 4 4 edeaaaaten April rcom for the most primitive and great industrial centers of Americ: tors, from Montevideo March 17 o fly in 15 stages to New York, fruggled into Tumaco today with - thrilling story cf escape from a ing plane. ir plane was destroyed by the re after they had landed it. Two of the aviators who were un- art, except for minor burns, ‘were wrying the mechanic. He was shed at once to a hospital. His afeguards of labor pro- should be expr victims of Kinlc rationalization, ed by aiding the } tection. i Work in Fear of Death. The unemployed armies are in- tioualized industries. the shadow of death—especially in| tastrophes, the mining industry. i \ member of the National Miners’ | fam 2 Union stated at the investigation: support the organization of work- * “Ve can openly state that the ei class i ‘ 4 — - + Tt ee a ROR, , UBIL: ES) _ corons yore: su W. I. R. tag days for miners’ . in en York City, April 12, 18 and 14, ° f te a ak a eet ‘: ” J ‘Workers Along Belt” in Dunn’s Book ee The significance of the recently, al! time, Henry Ford, comes in for JERUSA i " Yensified Ford-General_ Motors some vigorous “debunking” in the peer gy ea April 1 war in Europe is explained in | book which shows what the 40-hour | P“*8? ur the use of Lat and Automobiles,” Robert week meant to the wages of work- |i” SPelling Hebrew, which is the amnis new book issued today by jers on the “Ford Race Tracks.” It Official language here, has been ternationel Publishers, 361 Fourth describes in detail what Detroit | started by Ittamar Ben Avi, Jer- New York. workers term the “bone-us” system, usalem journalist. Ben Avi says y the motor giants are grap- snd exemines the company “wel- for new markets on Huropean fare” schemes and their methods of | ‘t® Present characters, also used to I; whut the export prospects are. | preventing the unionization of the | tite Yiddish, are not really Jewish, , of the “saturation point.” | workers. but were imported by a group of ea rineament aa ere all | es Soies and Slush Funds. instructors in the fifth century, The with in Dunn’s book. ‘ow the employers organize, how | Latin alphabet, it is said, is more Tor Worker. | they create slush funds to fight the |}; A it is primarily @ book about workers, how they boy of the eH like the ancient alphabet of Hebrew worker and written from and women in the great plants, is than the present characters, . ndpoint of the man and cnly a nart of the story told’ by ‘along the belt.” It tells Dunn. The increase in the accident | Aon fortune rose from $28,- severity rate and the multiplication 1 | i y a3 ii! : — $2,060,000.000. It ex- of industrial diseases are carefully | ) “ll ; | oti teeny Would Change Hebrew Letters General Motors covld treated. A, profits of $276,000,000| A special workers? edition’ of for the miners. We are getting. the! There are bitter complaints about Even churches open their “relief stations.” vietims of the The workers in New York, Chis) ereasing in the face of the new ra-| cago and other centers-must demon- But their fate| strate that they fully understand is hardly wors> than that of the the significance of the murderous ei Set ; workers on the job, who work in new speed-up systems and their ca-(P£8inst the Soviet Union. Fp he roads and campaigning is They must rush to the aid of the OP¢” the rc eee te of the Kinloch mite aad 'egain feasible, the province is the SHERIFF HELD JAMES REID OF FOR SHOOTING TEXTILE UNION AURORA WOMAN IS ASSAULTED Irate Boss Attacks Leader at Confab WARREN, R. I, April 2.—While coming out of the Narrow Fabric Co. mill after a conference with the bosses President James P. Reid, of the National Textile Workers Union, was assaulted by a mill boss named Boynton and received an ugly gash on the cheek. A strike exists in this plant since last Friday and at the conference, Reid had compelled the employers to concede the 48 hour | week. Police See, Hear Nothing. Superintendent Haley of the mills, ‘as searched. |and a police official who was also Fairchild Refuted. present, later claimed the usual Eugene Boyd Fairchild, who was blindness and deafness, having employed as a_ prohibition inves- | neither seen nor heard anything. tigator for State’s Attorney George; Reid had gone to the conference, 'D. Carbary's office, admitted that | Tequested by the mill ‘owners, with e hed not bought any liquor from|the strikers’ conference committee, Mrs. De King but said he had sent | Where the demands of a 20 per cent a friend into the house and that the | increase and the 48 hour week were friend had come back with a pint made, lof moonshine. | Strike 100 Per Cent Effective. Phillip Johnson, Fairchild’s friend, The strike is 100 per cent effective was called next and he denied that @d will continue until the con- he had bought liquor from Mrs. | ditions desired by the workers are De King. met. with. “J didn’t even enter the house,” The entire mill’s operative forc> Johnson said. “I met three men in| HAS enrolled into the National Tex- the driveway and got the liquor | Workers Union. i fe from them.” | A mass meeting of the strike will . |be held tomorrow where the report Clubbed Husband First. |of the conference will be made. Devuty Sheriff Roy Smith, who! was shot through the leg by 12-year-| pais old Gerald De King, son of the dead! woman, after he had shot the mother | | mala while she was trying to telephone} British Union Argues | Evidence Shows Fake Warrant in Dry Raid y investigating the . Lillian De King at % raiders today ordered |Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith held on a charge of manslaughter. | Before a large crowd which ex- jpessed its sentiments with hand felepping, booing and laughter, wit- Wesses at the inquest into the “dry Yaid killing” of Mrs. Lillian De King Aurora today gave conflicting ns of the evidence behind the nt on which the De King home| | and testified in his own behalf by affidavit, which was read at the ingvest. When Smith came in, the De King home, according to his own testi- mony taken in a deposition today at De King over the head with the| Lonpon Stock of his shot gun and then shot The Chemical Workers Union has har Reps cand pecans a | opned its case for increases in wages him.” going 08 and shorter hours before the Indus- . jtrial Court. Twenty thousand work- = 's are affected. BRITISH PLAN \to be argued before the arbitration court on a strictly technicai and financial basis and the hearing may he extended. * Output, $40; Wages, $10, The census of production figures | a : week is about $40, while wages lUse Tribe Split as Base \ch, shout, $40, whi i! for Attack on USSR Trading figures for 1922-28 show | ‘esaacieknte |export trading carrying balances al- CALCUTTA, India, April ;.—0f-| most double imports, | ficial reports from Peshawar in| The estimated cost of the union |morthern India today told of the joutbreak of war between Shiah and an attorney, was allowed to testify. a hospital in Elgin, he bashed Case i Court ers The case is the first of its kind ee show that the output per head per claims will amount to $1,500,000 per year, a figure which this section of vince, Prepare Afghan Attack. The despatches state that “grave danger is feared should the Sunnis, who are being supported by the|the chemical industry were shown Afridi tribe (Afghans) attack the by the ministry of labor figures Shiahs first, 2s this would probably howing that in July, 1923, 240,000 | |esult in an invasion of British ter-| workers were registered as insured | itory.” persons in the industry, against |} Alarm is felt here that this is a 213,000 in December, 1927, a reduc- retext which the British govern-!tion of 27,000, | a has been seeking to invade} In drugs and fine chemicals, tak- fghanistan in its preparations) ing the same dates, there is a reduc- Against the Soviet Union. jtion of over 3,000, nearly 15 per Official reports go on to state cent, Data is shown establishing that “military forces are being kept that the output since 1324 with re- in readiness at Kohat and British! duction of workers is actually over airplanes are reconnoitering.” 10 per cent. Base For Attack on U. S. 8. R. The union’s case shows all the The Northwest Frontier Province “benefits” of rationalization in the has always been the concentration ‘chanical’ industry, profits by the | base of the British against the hill carload for the investors, unemploy- tribes to the north and lately ment, poverty and destitution for | Now that |the workers. | |concerns are private companies and de not disclose their plunder. Effects of Rationalization. The effects of rationalization in YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3.1929 ~ . Kinloch Mine Houses the Kinloch mine forced them to work in a dangero which was built to surround the to harm ‘Relief, Tan ff Revision lived in un now? | tween 47 and 115, were murdered b arving, in These con NEGRO FIGHTS AS KLAN TOWN POLICE PURSUE Two Killed, Two Hurt Before He Is Shot Nn NEWARK, April 2.—Wil- ‘liam Bell, a Negro worker, unem- ployed. put up a brave fight against the greed of the compary a several policemen after he had shot ous gas filled mine. See the fence 2 man he believed was molesting wn during the &: his wife in a rooming house, and is Speed- Up, Child Labor, Low |: Wages in (Special to the Daily Worker} GASTONIA, N. ¢ » (By Mail.)— After years of opp: ion by the mill owners, the workers of the South are awakening to that they must org o progressive union to for better conditions, The Manville-Jenckes Company, with plants in Gastonia and High s C., and Pawtucket and Woonsocket, R. I., has been the leader in the “stretch-over” system (speed- up). They have installed (clocks) that time the various ma- chines while they are in motion, and the workers are paid on the basis of the number of hours the machines are in motion, which are registered | by the “hanks”, Insanitary Company Houses. Company housing conditions are jvery insanitary. No baths in the |houses, streets of clay which are now a foot deen in mud, no side- |walks, and walls of paper-board, dirty, smoky, vermin-ridden “homes.” | Long hours and low wages add to |the general enslavement, Seventy | hours a week is common. Legally there are none employed under the age of 14, however, the children need merely to state that they are 14 to! be hired at ten cents per hour to the fact a militant, ight the bosses England, Aprii 2.— Produce the fabrics that clothe the noon. , owners and bosses on fat salaries of | Policeman Is Said to | Be of Smuggling Ring | Selection of a jury to try John | T. McIntyre, policeman under indict- |ment as a member of an alleged in- | ternational diamond smuggling ring, | {began in federal court here today. Authorities believe that the ring, said to include many prominent jew- elers in the United States and (abroad, has succeeded in smuggling more than $1,000,000 worth of gems into this country. James S, Steel, Morris Landeau, | Barnet Shapiro and William Ballyne | | entered pleas of guilty to simiiar in- | dictments and are expected to tes- tify on behalf of the government. COL. HOUSE OPERATED ON. Colonel Edward M. House, Presi- dent Wilson’s ghost, had an opera- tion on his bladder this afternoon in a New York hospital, which was apparently successful. Soviet American Tractor Cooperative Association requires qualified men as follows: Builders to build houses from cement blocks Carpenters, finished. Gasoline Engineer. Electricians. Tractor Mechanics. General Machine Repair- | rough and |}! he spring weather is beginning to FARM WOMEN SUFFER | ‘ Sart The first report on “non-report- iunni, two sects within the Moham- |tate, commission for New York, jedan faith which are split over the |C°Ve"™& the year of 1927, spewed @vestion of the rightful succession |£2"™ perme the chee dt ght to Mohamet, is hundreds of years/'aving 13 per cent more diseases |old. The British government care- | than farm men. The reason was not jfully fosters such splits among cal thew by the commission, but is Mohzmetan subjects. thought to be due largely to the } insanitary condition of farm homes, TRAFFIC KILLS WORKER. which the men do not spend much | | time. A laborer, not yet identified, wa: es ers and Plasterers, Every member must pay initi- ation fee of $25.00, and $750 for membership, and is re- quired to pay his own trans- portation charges to U.S.S.R. For further information! and ||. By-Laws send 25c in stamps. ||) Soviet American Tractor Cooperative Association 4959 MARTIN AVENUE DETROIT, MICH. \Keilled yesterday when he was caugh in a traffic jam at Chambers Stre- jin front of the Erie Railroad ferr, dock. Papers found in his pocket indicated that he was returnin,, from work in New Jersey, FINE JOBLESS $35 Hi LAWRENCE, Mass (By Mail).— John Marcello, young shoe worker, was fined $35 in court on an alleged creas et having thrown a stone Proletarian 2 at the foreman of the plant from j which he was just discharged. | ela rative 1t OPEN DAILy -9 p.m. Ul / PHYSICAL AND ME PROLETARIAN Tt follows the rise of “Labor ond Automobiles” can be se- Motors to the rank of third enred directly from International ‘World’s automobile trusts. | Publishers, or at the various work- leans to Detroit, Flint, ors’ bookstores for $1 in boards. Pontiac workers in The cloth edition is $2, in the cutting of | This is one of the fi ‘Bhort-time and instability | in the Labor and Industry it, in lay-offs. is told | sued by Inte een chenters of this il- | end pronared mechanics wear and | mI | oi MI page boc’, Anon WBeeaten hypocrites of iHutchins’s “Labor and Sik.” =i) tt ak » Our glasses are fitted by expert (Pormeriy. Polen Miller 1690 LEXINGTON AVENUR., Corner 106th St. to insure comfortable RE SREB DOr New York Central CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N. Y. STS — OPTICIANS. Telephone: Beacon 862. ... Spring is here with its beauty... Have Your Vacation NOW in The Workers Rest Home OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR $17 A WEEK gedaiget NTAL RECREATION ATMOSPHERE Railroad to Beacon New York Office: UNITED WORKERS Coop. Phone: Estabrook 1400. now dead with a bullet through his head, which the police said was self- tered. As Bell was driven | into an alley by a policeman shoot- ing at him, and no one saw the ac- tual killing, Bell's friends here doubt the suicide story. Bell interfered when a jeweler named Rabinowitz came to his home in a Murray street lodging house to argue with Mrs. Bell over some vashing that she was to do. What nt on was unwitnessed, but a resulted, and Bell is said to shot Rabinowitz. Fights Arrest. He then fled, and knowing full well the short shrift given in this Ku Klux Klan neighborhood to all Negroes who have injured a white n in a fight, he fired with a shot gun on those who tried to stop him. Among the injured was William Bahrs, who attempted, it is said, to direct pursuit from an upstairs win- dow, and was hit by shot from Bell’s gun. A Kresge truck tried to block Bell’s way, and the man in it, first open meeting ever held under Charles Ramsberg, bank cashier, the auspices of the National Tex-| was killed by a bullet from Bell’s tile Workers Union in the South. | revolver. Patrolmen Hackett and Cobb headed off Bell, but when Hackett tried to shoot him down, Bell shot the gun from Hackett’s hand and wounded his hand. He was forced into an alley by the policemen, and soon afterwards Gastonia Mills ; $10,000 a year and more. Men with families of three and four children slave 60 and 70 hours a week on a salary often less than $12 per week. Section be who straw-bosses in the mill: felt the lash of wage cuts, speed-up |and clock system of pay and they too are joining the union. Strike Under The men_ have struck for union recognition, for a forty-hour five- day week and for better conditions, under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union. | More than 800 textile workers of the Manville-Jenckes mill in Gas- tonia met in open meeting on a private lot, corner Fifth Ave. and Trenton Sts., Saturday. This ‘s the hav Military Leadership. The speakers were Ellen Dawson, | of one the Pas: strike the months’ Bedford strike. leaders in the great | New Bedford textile ‘ought New Will Truett, secre- tary of the organized Manville- Jenckes local, was the chairman.! picked up mortally wounded, The speakers were enthusiastically ened | Bell is known to have recently . - | complained that the police were per- Another meeting will be held on secuting him. the same lot next Saturday 2fter- George Pershing, who has come here as the representative of the Young Workers League will be| one of the speakers at this meeting. | ‘The proletarian movenent ix the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense major- rl Marx (Communist Mani- Now Playing! Another SOVKINO Masterfilm! 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