The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 3

: DAILY WORKER, NEW IG: INGREASE IN SOVIET TRADE HERE IN JULY Agricultural Tools Make Up Bulk The Amtorg Trading Corporation, | the Soviet Trading Agency in the) U.S. A, placed orders during the | month of July to a total of $20,100,- 000, the largest amount of purchases | made in any single month since the | organization of the company five years ago, it was announced yester- day by Saul G. Bron, Chairman of | the Amtorg. Purchases by the Amtorg for the entire Soviet fiscal year 1925-26 amounted to $13,157,- 000 and for last year to $33,100,000, while for the ten months ending July 81, 1929, the orders placed aggre- gated $51,000,000, The total Soviet- American trade amounted to $115,- 000,000 last year, as against $48,-| 000,000 in 1913, while this year’s | total bids fair to establish a record. | A significant feature of the Am-| torg’s operations during the past | months was the fact that about 90) per cent of the orders, placed in- volved credits, a larger share than in the past. Complete equipment for a power plant to be constructed in| conjunction with the Stalingrad | Tractor Plant was ordered on a five- year credit basis from the Westing- house Electric International Com- pany and the International Combus- tion Engineering Corporation. Among other firms with which or- ders were: placed on long-term| credits were Allis-Chalmers Com- pany, Worthington Pump Company, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Link Belt Company, International s Company, John Deere Company, Caterpillar Tractor Company, the Hercules Motor Company. Of the orders placed in July agri- cultural equipment purchi for shipment to the Soviet Union during the first ten months of the current Soviet fiscal year, begin- ning October 1, 1928, amounted to $23,200,000, double the purchases of the entire preceding year. Agri- cultural equipment purchases, amounting to $21,000,000, exceeded last year’s purchases by one-third and were nearly three times the pur- chases of two years ago. Automo- tive products purchases increased 50 per cent over last year. Aside from tractors the largest purchases for July were made*for the Soviet oil industry. Orders for eight cracking plants to be installed at Batum and Tuapse, the terminals of the two recently completed oil pipe lines, were placed with the Winkler Koch Company, of Wichita, Kansas. The first large order for automo- biles in connection with the recently | consummated agreement was placed with the Ford Motor Company. Con- siderable foundry equipment was or- dered for the Stalingrad Tractor Plant and for the Amo truck fac- tory in Moscow. Machine tools, min- ing equipment, mills and ore crush- ers and chemical products were among the other important items purchased by the Amtorg during duly. ses, Italian King Bestows Post Prandian Medal On Swedish Scientist ROME, - Aug. 7—King Victor Emanuel of Italy today bestowed a posthumous medal on Dr. Finn Malmgren, who accompanied Nobile on: his airship Italia in the North Pole dash last year. Through Nobile’s’ mismanage- ment, the Italia was wrecked, and by the time the U. S. S. R. ice- breaker Krassin had rescued most of the crew two fascist officers who wore with Nobile had either killed or eaten him, or devoured part of him after he starved to death. Victor Emanuel now pays a deli- cate compliment to the Swedish scientist for his usefulness to fas- cism. Japanese Imperialists, Demand Big Naval Fleet of Auxiliaries | TOKIO, Aug. 7. — Japan will in-| sist on the 10-10-7 ratio in auxil- iaries and will not accept less, Ad- | miral Takarabe, minister of the! navy, said today. The statement was made at a con-| ference of prefectural governors. | Foreign minister Shidehara spoke, | stating that he was “hopeful” of prospects for naval limitation at the coming conference in Geneva, where | the imperialist powers will conspire | in secret, Revolutionaries . Gain in Shop Poll, PRAGUE, (By Mail).—The shop council elections took place yester- day in the rubber factory Matador in Petrzalka near Bratislava. The revolutionary unions secured 6 seats, representing a gain of 2; the Tchec-| kish National Socialists secured 3 seats, formerly 2; the Tcheckish So- cialists who formerly held one seat lost this seat and now have no representation. The social democrats carried on their propaganda on the basis that the C. P. had collapsed and that the only remaining working class party was the C. D. P., with the result shown above. The fascist elements in the factory which were very active, failed to gain a single seat. e oleae tas a a * Commercial | good to the workers’ cause. coming imperialist war. Against Gemonstrate on August 1. Tuning the War Planes Up for the Coming Slaughter One of the war planes of the U.S. Army, during mancouvers in California, us preparation for the YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 A these war preparations millions of workers thruout the world will That the Amsterdam Interna- tional is making a determined bid to capture the labor organizations in the colonial countries, is now very clear. Delegations are being sent to the colonies, while with the recent discussion in the International La- bor Office quite a stir has been made about regulating compulsory native labor internationally, the impression | being given that, in the present case, Amsterdam representatives can ar- range favorable labor conditions for the natives. So far only one native organiza- tion—the Union of Industrial and Employees of South Africa—has been lined up by Am- sterdam, but, only because the rank and file have been badly misled by reformist leaders like Kadalie, the members having yet to find out that Amsterdam defends the employers and not working class interests. How Amsterdam regards natjve workers shown by the following fact, which, although a sidelight, is none the less very in: :-uctive. While the labor world had been left horri- fied and speechless when learning of the inhuman labor conditions in the French Congo, when even bourgeois newspapers published articles ad- mitting that scores of thousands of Negro workers had died in the course of the construction of the Brazzaville-Ocean Railroad, the Am- sterdam International was conspici- ous by its silence. Scan the official papers of this international as you will and you will not find: a single word about the abuses of the French imperialists, not to speak of any protest against these atrocities. This organization calls itself an In- ternational Federation of Trade Unions and yet it did not consider do not get sufficient information, or protest as we should do against the vritual slave conditions existing in the colonies today. That the Amsterdam International should publish such a note is simply betray- ing the cause of the native workers; the impression is created that things | , are-not at all bad in the colonies, as is sometimes made out, and - that press reports about the vile condi- tions of native workers are not to be trusted. By glossing over the inhuman ex- ploitation of the native population and by taking the trouble to give wide publicity to a notice of this description, Amsterdam is out to prevent the workers from getting any inkling of the . true state of affairs in Africa. To countermine the treacherous activities of the reformists, who are doing their very best to aid and support the exploiters, native work- ers must now help us to break down the barriers that encircle them. We would take this opportunity to urge all Negro workers to ‘send along let- ters on. their life and work to the in present-day conditions volves even a certain amount of risk, but we feel sure that in spite of that our Negro comrades will find ways and means to establish contact with us and that they will help us to expose to the workers in| affiliate to the Amsterdam Interna-|both of which provide for much every part of the world the char- acter of the imperialists and their reformist lackeys, In its resolutions the Fourth RILU Congress characterized the Amster- |dam International as “an organic | Part of the bourgeois-capitalist sys- q d it tem” and its role in the colonial | class interests-of the proletariat, but | producers of foreign sugar of course it worth its swhile to express an countries as a “weapon of imperialist are simply bourgeois agents, cun- are opposed to a raise in tariff. simply | Amsterdam International Defends the Exploiters of Workers in Colonies easily persuaded to stop work and |go home, the more so as they are already accustomed to much depriva- ltion, while to suffer hunger is noth- ing new for them. Thus, instead of urging workers everywhere to support the starving the Amsterdamites are deriding these men with their statements that starvation is nothing new for Indian workers who tare used to it! | In order to belittleethe strike in the eyes of the international labor moyement they dastardly distort the facts asserting that “Girni Kam- gar,” the revolutionary union, has only a few hundred workers, whilst the reformist union led by Joshi, has a membership of eight thousand. | Quite true that in 1928 when the “Girni Kamgar” was formed it num- |bered a few hundred, since that time ;Girni Kamgar has become a mass | jorganization, having on January 1,! 1929, a membership of ¢~ °00, wh as Joshi’s Union reported a loss of | 2,000 members. On this, of course, |the Amsterdamites are silent, Amsterdam’s attitude to the Bom- | editor of this paper. We know that | hay strikers should sarve as a warn-|for Smoot and the Spreckles Sugar t f corre-/ing to all class-consctous workers |Co. representatives today argued be- spondence is no easy thing and ins | throughout the world and especially |fore the Senate finance committee, in the colonies. It is especially im- |portant that the rank and file in |the Union of Industrial and Com- |mercial Employees of South Africa, |who, misled by Kadalie, agreed to| | tional, should realize the true role of Amsterdam in the International ‘Labor Movement. The native work- jers of South Africa must know that \neither Amsterdam, nor its agents, | like Kadalie, Ballinger, aad others of their type, aim at defending the opinion on or even to mention the | capitalism” struggling against the jningly betraying the workers fact that thousands of native work- ers were being done to death by a capitalist joint-stock company. But Amsterdam is wide awake when the interests of the employers, the exploiters, need defending. A report happened to be published in the press that in South West Africa (former German colony, now a man- | dated area of the, South African Union) the coal owners were in- humanly exploiting the Negro work- ers, that they were being taken ad- vantage of and lured by false prom- s to sign unfavorable agreements. Amsterdam lost no time in taking up the cudgels for the employers. A note published in this connection in their “Press Reports” No. 16, of April 25, (issued weekly) runs as follows: Exaggerated Reports of Colonial Atrocities (I. F. T, U.). As a rule far too little attention is paid to conditions in the colonies and pro- tectorates. Sometimes, however, it happens that exaggerated reports get about, which do more harm than Re- cently there have been widly fan- tastic reports in the press concern- ing conditions in the mines of South West Africa, It is rumored that the Negroes in these mines are grossly mishandled—for instance, that they are induced to conclude impossibly bad agreements with the companies through the lue of a “free wife” offered by the employers. The Labor Union of South West Africa, which is affiliated with the IFTU, is much annoyed by these reports; it informs us, for instance, that if a white employee in the service of the | mining company strikes a native, he is liable to criminal prosecution and is furthermore discharged, this be- ing in accordance with the law which has been in force for over 20 years. On the whole, the blacks are humanely treated in South-West Africa, declared the centre. Their working hours in the Tsumeb Mine (the one concerning which the above absurd’ statement was made) are 8 hours and thy are paid extra for overtime, like the whites.” We do not claim that we know exactly how things stand in South West Africa. The capitalists and their press take good care to “pre- vent any information about the colonies leaking out. It is only on rare occasions that workers abroad get any first-hand information about. the position of their fellow-workers suffering and dying undef*the lash of their master for the sake of super-profits. Neither do we know how true the rumors about the Tsumeb Mine may be. Nor is this very’ important. We hold that the working class and native workers in particular suffer not because com- munications. as to the way native workers are mishandled are some- what exaggerated, but because we national revolutionary movement and the labor movement in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. |The recent events in the labor | movement in all parts of the world have brought into greater relief the treacherous role of the Amsterdam International. Bombay Textile Workers’ Heroic Strike. The workers of India are struggling heroically today against their oppressors—the British im- perialists. The Indian workers are being shot down, arrested, and per- secuted, but in spite of this and in spite of the treachery of their re- formist leaders, who are actively aiding the capitalists to smash the labor movement of India, the work- ingmen and working women are con- tinuing the fight. The Bombay tex- tile workers are fighting the colonial exploiters and the Indian bourgeoisie with every means in their power. | The resistance they have put up has been an examp@e to all. Led by the leaders of the Left Wing, the tex- |tile workers for several years past |year, in 1928, the textile workers’ strike lasted six months, and since they did not get all their demands conceded, they immediately com- menced to prepare themselves for a new fight. In spite of the fact that the Indian government arrested practically all the members of the Executive of Girni Kamgar (the revolutionary Textile Workers’ Union), the rank and file workers elected in their place were by no means intimidated, and after the preparatory work, a general strike was announced. Large sections of the workers immediately joined the | strike movement, and today there are already 130,000 workers involved. But this is only a start, for the movement. is growing and spreading to new districts. Amsterdam Hastens to Defend the Bourgeoisie. Of course, the Indian capitalists and their executive com- mittee—the Indian Government—are | doing their best to smash the work- ers. Defenseless strikers are being shot down. Racial and religious prejudices are being stirred up. In a word, everything is being done to |demoralize the workers’ ranks. Now the Amsterdam International is los- ing no time to help their masters. Unable to influence the workers of India directly, the Amsterdamites are circulating fake information ternational labor movement and to keep it from aiding the strikers either morally or financially. In their “Press Reports” of May 14th, the Amsterdamites are endeavoring to represent this strike as a Com- munist move. Revealing their arro- gant chauvinistic and imperialistic character, the Amsterdamites write that Indian. workers, traditionally prone to passive resistance, can be ihave pyt up a stubborn fight. Last | about the strike to mislead the in-‘ers at the proposal of the national | | thwarting their efforts to throw off | the yoke of capitalist and imperialist exploitation. | | G. VICTOR. | | Activities of the | Dobrolet, USSR Civil Air Service, Grow| | MOSCOW (By Mail).—At the an- | nual meeting of the “Dobrolet” (So- | \viet Civil Aviation Co.) shareholders, a report was delivered dealing with |the company’s activities during the past year. The “Dobrolct” planes covered a/ |total distance of 1,000,000 kilometres during 1928. The lines of the com- |pany had a total length of 6,400 kilo- metres. In all the years of its ac- \tivity not a single accident has oc- curred on anyone of these lines. | Since last year the “Dobrolet” has | jbeen employing Soviet airplanes | with motors designed by Soyiet en- | gineers, and in the future no foreign |flying machines will be used on its lines. The past year was the first opera- | |tion year involving no losses to the jair lines. Considerable improve- ments have been introduced in the} |air communications including the | jequipment of the first night flying | |lines in the USSR from Moscow to | | Kovrov and from Kurgan to Novosi- birsk, The meeting of the shareholders adopted the five year plan of opera- tions providing for a strengthen- | ing of the air communications with the outlying regions of the country. | If this plan is carried into effect the USSR will assume the second place in the world in the length of air) | lines. M. Rykov, the president of the) Council of People’s Commissaries, was elected Chairman of the “Dobro- let” Council, and Ksandrov, late Chairman of the Chief Concessions’ | Committee, was named Chairman of the Board of Directors. ‘All Fascist Feme Murderers Get Off in German Courts BERLIN (By Mail).—The newly elected German nationalist govern- ment of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has pardoned all fascist. Feme murder- fascists and the German nationalists. The pardoned murderers have now all been released from all prisons in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin area. TWO ELECTROCUTED. UDINE, August 6.—Two workers were electrocuted today when a tele- | phone line which they were putting up in the vicinity of Resia touched a high tension wire, - ity a ell ; Association Wants Flat \of Communist propaganda. ' Wall St. ‘Good Will? Means Misery for Workers FILLED FROM ‘Disclosure Is Made by Rote Fahne 7.—The U a notice from D. 2 effect that the stca' of the N h Gerr Lloyd, whose home port is Hamburg left the port of Gdingen on the 19th “Rote n of July with an enormou a of munitio: destination Sh The crew of the steamer, after learning that the cargo was ammu- | nition, left the shi As other Ger- | man sailors also refused to trans- port munitions for Chang Kai and against the Sovi engaged a Polish harbor last Friday. Here is another of those “Good Will” flights, used in an attempt to conceal the fact that Wall Street, with the aid of the puppet presi- dents of the Latin-American countri enslaving the workers and peasants’ and despolling Latin-America right and left. This one is tite flight of tht Guatemalan flyer Two years ago the revelati the Communist. pre: to the enormous trai pons and munitions, via Hambu Ne 3 r, Col. Granados, from Guatemala feel ORM SRSEI Cotesd ia to Washington, where a “good will” message from the Wall Street puppet president of Guatemala was presented by Granados to Hoover. {. S. MOVES 10, BLOCK McDONALD GRAB WAR LOOT BLOW AT STRIKE Sharp. Split in Young U. S. Buyers Think It | Plan Conference | Will Spread THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. 7— (Continued from Page One) The American delegate to the Young firmly behind the decision of their sensation all Stresemann ov the concluded a men’s Agreement with the German shipowners and exporters, to the effect that neither weapons nor am- munition were to be sent from ( man ports. The German capital jevade this agreement by simply do- Jing their business in weapons thru \foreign ports. The “Rote Fahne” comments that we have striking proof of the arming of the Chinese war provocators by . the German bourgeoisie. This is” not neutral, as it pretends to be, but in- terferes actively in the imperialist wo! ts struggle against the Soviet Union. pian conference, E. C. Wilson, : re-| “istrict representatives made in con- eee senha vege) a all the ference two days ago, when they re- THBRO MEO EN neh Misa egon “\fused to allow the executive com- other delegates had taken sides one the other Philip Snowden, British “labor” 2 with basis of a mittee,of the union to negotiz the employers on the wage cut, way or on the demand ARGUE OVER FORM c chancellor of the exchequer, that! The ministry of labor in MacDon- b s: ald’s cabinet tempor: at a Y ] AFRBE H | the plan be revised to give England) Marearet Bondfield anit a lar and France a smaller |jster of labot, had been basing her program of treason on the accep- tance of the five per cent wage cut. Some new proposition for the men |to go, baek pending arbitration is now expected from the labor par portion of the huge indemnity ex- torte] from beaten Germany, Rate, But High One WASHINGTON, There is an apparently well found- ed rumor that Wilson will now de- mand a share of the “unconditional| "°™ ‘ payments” for American claimants) S°VeT™M™MeM™ | or those bankers to whom they have May. Socead old their claims. | A PRrEe Sharp Split. | Ben Hirsh, president of M. Wile Cheron, of France; Mosconi, of|& Co., returning from England Aug, —Sena- which is amending the house tariff bill in favor of their respective “slid- ing scales.” Some compromise be- Italy; Hymans, of Belgium, and the |terday, stated that it is tween them seems probable. Japanese delegate, Adatchi, vigor- 8™ong British manufacturers that Opposition to the sliding scales, ously denounced any yielding to|the cotton mill strike will soon g Snowden’s demands. Wirth and|SRread to the woolen mills, where Stresemann of Germany gave mild|the employees are very much dis- support to those demanding no Satisfied. : change in the’plan. | The importers of British cottons On the other hand, Titulescu, of im New York stated yesterday that Rumania, speaking in the name of|the market here had failed to stock most of the smaller countries of|UP because they had received reas- Europe involved in the war, followed |SUting statements during the past Snowden: month that the Lane ‘Two commissions were organized, | Would be short. It is presumed here with two delegates from each coun- S| try on the financial commission, and|°" the MacDonald ministry and the only Britain, France, Italy, Ger-|Teactionary union leaders to sell out many, Belgium and Japan on the the strike quickly, and are now political commission, caught without sto higher duties than those now in use, developed from F. A. Dillingham, representing the American Sugar Producers Association. The Asso- ciation demands a flat rate, in fair weather or foul, of 3 cents a pound, nearly double the ent rate. The Terror Campaign by “Socialists” and Bosses of Germany BERLIN (By Mail).—The employ- ers and the reformists are at present Arbitration Ruling Against the Silesian Murderous Prison Regime in Bulgaria continuing their systematic cam- . . . leat: aeainey ote. ecaladonaey Tortures Workers Mill Hands Binding bers of the shops councils. Th ; = thaivman and vice-chairman of the| SOFIA (By Mail).—The prison of} BERLIN (By Mail)—After the i Sliwen is perhaps one of the worse employers and the trade unions shops councils of the Berlin Trans- port Association, Ltd., (buses and trams and underground), Deter, Krueger and Kayser have been issed by the social democratic director Brolat. The chairman of the shops council of the largest Ger- in Bulgaria. The cells are dark and damp congrete dens situated six feet underground. Here sixteen proletarian prisoners are being de- tained since May 1st for having cele- brated the world holiday of the pro- came to an agreement last night, the arbitration decision in the lockout of the 55,000 Silesian textile work- ers was declared binding. In place of the wage increase of 15 pfennig demanded by the trade union oppo- man chemical workers, Leana, has letariat and having gone on hunger |sition and the 11 pfenning demanded iso been victimized, In the Ber. strike as a protest against the bru-|by the official trade union leader's, lin metal works of Keyling and | ‘al punishment following upon this the decision prov a 4 Thomas, and in a number of build-| “crime.” The prisoners have not|increase of 2 pfennig and provides ing undertakings the Labor Courts |e? the light of day for over a|for a long term until April 1931 dur- month. Four of them are very ill,|ing which period wages are to re- several spit blood, but none are ac-|main stable. corded medical aid. One of the prisoners, Comrade Spotascow, who |SOCIALISTS ATTACK WORKERS. is very ill, asked for a doctor and| BERLIN, (By Mail).—In Zwickau insisted on having one. He was|the National Socialists attacked a beaten up by the warders, and|demonstration against the provoca- chained up in a solidarity confine-|tion of the Nanking government. ment cell. After a few days he dis-|They injured a number of worker: appeared and nobody knows what |with steel rods and life |became of him. It is possible that |the police did not interf Subotica have ar-|he died owing to the ill-treatment |the fascists. The Zwickau workers s under suspicion | received and his death is to be|will reply to this attack by founding hushed up. is workers’ defence corps. . have removed revolutionary mem- bers of the Shops Councils from their office. MASS ARRESTS IN RUMANIA. BUKAREST (By Mail).—Seven- teen workers of German, Magyar and Serb nationality have been ar- rested by the police under suspicion The police rested six pe of Communist propaganda. Soviet Workers Demonstrate Before Embassy of Bloody Kuomintang The mass anger of the workers and peasants of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was so great at the imperialist attack on the USSR made thru the Chinese war lords in the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, that demonstrations of tens of thousands of workers took place before the embassy of the Kuomintang in Moscow. Above, a demonstration before the Chinese embassy in Moscow, ~- ~ andl, cu x . ~ ~ Sn re strike | |that the mill owners were relying | BUSINESS MEETS CALLED PRIOR T0 CHARLOTTE MEET Start a S| Page One) th rkers and etings will be fool protest M ganized the or- d still mas cn the return trip. , Two r r s of the N. and two’ a thou- Over teday which ning in | During t k there will be 15 locaf union meetings in the various mill ind Gastonia, in addition t he ma meetings Thursday evening at the Rex mill don S 1. t th t colony ir mer City. his confer- story of established s section, legates. ed daily. The s of the NTW are being te t utmost to meet the dema c workers for or- ganizers, more meetings, and im- mediate action leading towards a wide stru against the bosses and their and stretch-out. But the wor teadily progr ng de- spite There is every in- dication t ‘oming conference will be very successful. At the Bessemer City Con 00 dele- gates were expected were there when the cgr called to order. About 500 delegates are now expected at Charlotte, who will represent 100,000 workers directly, and many more indirectly. Three additional organizers have been sent out in the past two day: me to Virginia, one to Alabama, and one South Carolina. Ten thousand stickers have gone out, and are being stuck on the walls mill the Carolinas, Virginia, Tenne and Alabama oon as the enraged bosses have them torn down they are im- mediately replaced. The sticker call upon the workers to form mill committees where they have not al- done so, to send del the conference, and prepare for the coming _ strug; One hundred thousand leaflets, printed. calls to the conference, are being distributed broadcast. The alertness of the defense coun~ sel in the-first skirmish with the anville-Jenckes prosecution in the astonia case, in forcing the ap- pointment of Judge Barnhill to re- place Sink, and forcing the change of venue, has given impetus to the ;campaign of the union, The wo Jers have gained courage and conf! |dence from the prompt and efficient {manner in which the International Labor Defense and its corps of at- torneys immediately assumed the offensive, exposing the tactics of the prosecution to send the 23 textile ors to their death or long x nm , and the demands they pre- nted which forced this gesture of a The rapidity with which Workers the and the union sent additional forces to replace the arrested, and reestab- International Relief lish tent colony headquarters, has had its effect, However, the defe: organiza- > tion consistently stresses that the danger is still imminent, that the change of venue does not necessarily |mean a fair trial and that the need to make the mass protest of the working class felt acutely is greater than ever The Bessemer City conference started the great drive to put an end to the slave-like conditions the textile workers are now enduring, to increase wages, lower the intol- erably long hours, fight the stretch out, and in the process build the National Textile Workers Union into a powerful instrument of strug- gle. The Charlotte conference will go much farther than the Bessemer conference did, It will concretize the demands and formulate tactics to launch the struggle which must reach every textile worker in every mill of the South, Notice will be served upon the | mill barons that the intolerable cone ditions of open shop exploitation — | must end, There can be no doubt |of the radicalization of the south- jern textile workers. They are surely |and definitely turning to the left,— so much so that even strikes led by |the reactionary and corrupt U. Ty W. are forced to assume a militant aspect in spite of the bureaucrats ‘who are unable to hold the workers” down to ordinary A. F. of L, tae~ ties, It is the job of the Charlotte Con- ference to organize this unrest and discontent and give it direction, For this reason it is destined to become an historic landmark in the Ameri- |can labor movement. ens | It is not the plan to begin a see ries of sporadic strikes, scattering — |the forces of the union, but to start. a gener 0, ‘al struggle among the, ile workers to put pa 000 tex to abus and win the demands the Bessemer Conference has indicated, * ¥ The boast of the Southern chams bers of commerce that southern la« bor is “docile, cheap and 100 per ¢ent American” is forever blastedy «=i \a thing of the dark past, . - 5) oe aR cee s that have lasted too long,