The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1929, Page 3

Oil War Between 1'| BRITISH FORMING WORLD TRUST TO INVADE AMERICA Sinclair and Prairie to Join Shell Group Oil war on an international scale between the Standard Oil Co. and the British owned Royal Dutch Shell is forecast in reports from London that Standard’s principal DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929 U. S. and Bnitish Trusts as Result ot Stewart-Deterding Ba rgain Seeds of Battle Sprout! During Secret Division, of Eagtern War Booty Another war danger developed to- day when it came known that the eastern reparations commission will meet in secret starting this week to divide the war indemnities levied upon Austria, Hungary and Bul- | garia. i | The situation is complicated by | the fact that, though France and England Will fight over the bulk of the loot, enough will be left to divide | among Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and | Italy to revive a dozen Balkan jealousies. MCDONALD'S COMMISSION TO EXCUSE ZIONISM Preparing Propaganda For Holding Colony B tish imperialist intrigue in Palestine has reached the stage of “inquiry commissions.” According to an announcement to the capitalist press by the British ministry on BRADFORD, England, Sept. 18. \—A ten per cent wage cut for tex- | tile workers of the John Shaw fi | at Elland is announced by the opera- «: BOSSES SCHEMES CHICAGO TRANSIT. Fakers Sa |tors as effective at the end of the month. The cut follows the betrayal | of the strike of 500,000 Lancashire | textile workers, whose wages were A cut 6% per cent, through the British, Workers and Riders labor government and its agents in 3 the reformist trade union congress. | Wey ca orleans Co eanandent) With the workers already violent: | CHIOAGO (ay Mell) Am jem ent- | ployed as a trainman on the Chicago ly resentful at the government-aided : sy (By «a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND (By Mail).—The Cleveland Railway Company bosses are still making their promises of the eight-hour day and better con- ditions, but they are only causing the militants to gain strength. We have to watch our officials as well as the Aids In Gypping Both | ‘ye British Mill Firm MAHON HELPING Cleveland Car Union ( enemy is America, Col. Robert W. Stewart, recently ousted hy the Rockefellers from control of the Standard Oil of Indiana, was about to meet with Sir Henri Deterding, head of the Shell companies, to or- ganize a world-wide oil trust an- agonistic to Standard Oil. The Royal Dutch Shell and the Standard have been in a state of armed truce ever since a bargain was mede to divide the Oriental field. At that time Standard oil bought in Transcaucasia: from the Soviet Oil Trust, was driving Brit- ish Mosul oil out of the Indian markets and Deterding was in con- Sequence raving about the iniquity of trading with U. S. S. R. Besides his Shell Oil and Trans- portation Co., which competes in America with Standard products, Deterding will attempt through the medium of Stewart to create a con- federation of smaller rivals of the Rockefellers in America, for a death struggle in this country. Stewart is accompanied by Rich- ard Ajery, president of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., and Deterding’s spe- cial representatives in America. It is reported from Chicagc that Stewart carries with him the al- legance of the Sinclair Oil Co., the Prairie Oil and Gas Co, the Con- tinental Oil Co. and several others. Move Towards War. News has been received here that Deterding is to visit U. S. in a few weeks to demand categorical an- swers from a long list of oil com- yany heads as to whether they will Wine with his against Standard Oil. If the oil war materializes, it can hardly kelp straining diplomatic re- lations politically between the two rival empires, as the Rockefellers are as powerful in Washington as is Sir Henri in London, and oil is one of the most fruitful sources of international conflict. SEDITION TRIAL IN WILKES-BARRE Toilers Held on Charge of Lewis Man Sedition—the serious charge that posses like to hold over the heads \%3 workers who want to organize— vill be trumped up against Jennie and David A. Gorman, two workers of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. who go on trial Sept. 24 at that city in the heart of the Anthracite. Jennie Gorman was arrested for distributing leaflets at the mines to demonstrate August 1 against im- perialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union. The leaflets also warned the workers the bosses are preparing wage-cuts. She was arrested when a John L. Lewis spy of the United Mine Workers’ Union pointed her out to the company detectives. Gorman was held without bail, incommuni- cado, for four days. When her husband, David Gor- man, came to the police station to inquire concerning her arrest, he also was thrown into jail without charges. Four days both were held incommunicado, during which time they went on a hunger strike. The two were released on $1,000 bail, when the International Labor Defense heard of the arrests. The police were ready to dismiss the case if “Gorman will leave town.” The latter refused. Thereupon the authorities doubled the bail and held the two under $2,000 bail each, on the framed charge of sedition. | The anthracite bosses wish to nalt the effective organizational ‘work being done by the Gormans among the miners. The Interna- tional Labor Defense will fight the case for the two workers. A. F. of L. Aids Boss Protect Huge Profits; Endorses High Tariff WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Amer- ican industrial interests, 403 of which were declared by Senator Borah to have increased profits bv 29 per cent between 1923 and 1928, received further support today when the American Federation of Labor. through its legislative committee, gave formal approval of the dis- puted flexible provisions act. This measure enables Hoover to increase or lower tariff duties by 50 per cent at any time his industrial ackers find a change advisable During the first six months of his year 471 representative cor- Jporations were making 7.37 per cent more than last year, it was boasted on the floor. The A. F. of L. letter pointed to its New Orleans convention in proof of its desire to excel in service to employers thru endorsement of the high tariff be- sides its policy of class peace. |fact they are secret. Edward Wilson, first secretary of the U. S. embassy in Paris, will “ob- serve” the session, in spite of tha Morgan has colonies, a specially appointed com- mission will sail on Oct. 3 to visit Palestine and report on all the to be treated well. reasons why the mandate should be continued, and transferred into com- plete conquest. MacDonald and Palestine. MacDonald only continues the conservative imperialist policy of Baldwin. During the time of his first “labor” government the bomb- 4) ardment of Bedovin villages in Irak, his policy in India, etc., proved this to the colonial peoples under the Italy Told Must Take | rue of Great Britain. Subordinate Place | Speaking for the League of Na- tions, which according to the French (Continued from Page One) governnient memorandum of 1925 is evolved as a result of the Dawes-;./hat institution of international MacDonald conferences. What the|/@W, which stands most enemical French suspect is that U. §, and|2%2inst the Comintern.” MacDonald British imperialism, failing to agree “tated that the uprisings in Pales- on their own strength, found a tem-| une were not of a serene or race ‘ «| character, they were simply actions Bpreryy Comgn basis by aniline | oe” sured pbusible® bandits, hi, against France. ‘ ; ; * statement forced his American or- British comment centers around “ry jon” ji i na | gan, “The Nat: to repudiate him. MacDonald's official statement sev- th whe too nach even oe ithewa con: eral days ago. One rather over-| elisa elevated system. There is probably wage cut policy in Lancashire, the [no group of workers worst exploited | than us slaves. |. In this and in two other letters |I will show the manner employed by |the Chicago Rapid Transit Company jand the surface lines in not only \exploiting their trainmen but the |movel way of plundering the Chi- cago riders who must use the street cars and elevated trains. This steal |is accomplished in part by the pres- jident of our union, Mahon, the be- trayer of the workers who are bat- tling the bosses in New Orleans. Mahon Aids Fare Steal. This same labor faker-in partner- ship with the Insull political ma- chine is helping to put over further class collaboration schemes on us |transit workers on the one hand and }on the other hand to still further | plunder the Chicago street car riders in helping to put over the Insull merger plan, The traction companies of Chicago are forming a merger in compliance with a law that just passed the stete legislature at Springfield. Plunder Workers and Riders. new notice has intensified the gen- | eral sentiment for revolt. If an ex- | pected strike is called, hundreds will | follow the lead of the militant Min- ority Movement and the Communist Party, reports say. POSTAL CABLE _ SPEEDUP GROWS Automatic Operators Replace Morse Men (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO (By Mail).—I shall tell of working conditions of workers of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Co. here. The operating room is criminally congested, constituting a fire haz- ard, ventilation is rotten, windows als of Division 268, Car- |men’s Union are wild about buying a piece of property while they al- low the company to treat the men as it wishes. But the militants are beginning to make some headway and we do not stand for buying any | property. We have read of the locomot: engineers and the garment wo. buying property. Our officials us a few left wing phrases occasionally but always act the opposite. | Well, we have a few words to say }about W. D. Mahon and William Green, traitors to the labor move- | They tried to pull another er ment. slick one on our brothers in New Orleans. | Solidarity With Orleans Workers. We carmen of Cleveland wish to congratulate our New Orleans bro- thers on their heroic stand and those who have lost their lives and those that have been arrested are not go- ling to be forgotten. We voted $100 to be sent you from our Local 268 BESSEMER CITY botage Aid TEXTILE MILL for Orleans Strikers SLAVES AWAKE American No. 2 Mill Slaves Strike and that a collection be taken at each station on the first p: after our regular meeting of 27. da: Aug, Officials Sabotaged Aid. | Our acting pres tary Kessler and Arndt word to boatd members 3 €c had gone back to work and did not |; need a collection but we are going x, to take the collection soon and also more if necess: and urge you to continue and don’t give up until you have won. | Watch Carmen Fakers! We carmen in Cleveland also urge all other militants all over the coun-| To show how were I will say try to force their locals to a you, Yes, and watch out for aker, traitor Mahon, who is 1 to declare your strike an strike. We will support you ev if he does declare the strike out lawed, and also make his visits un welcome to Cleveland | The Daily Worker is and has|“sed more proven to be the friend of union|in the Natic Union. Most |men and we urge you to read i t 1e chan There is where yor will learn ¢ what is going on in the labor move 0¢ ment. We urge you New Orleans transit workers to write to the Dai- ly Worker. I will soon write to the Daily of the conditions Mahon has helped to put over on us. | —CARMAN, in one th | spinners you tell that y n I did when I v 1 $12.90 a e but $12.5 $ they It is ha as a bundle of wire wool to rub out Teekedc angle hak beet: Betited ont) | cealed iackeys of imperialism, work- that England was not going to build against America, “but if America’s building has the effect of stimulat- ing other countries to build, then indirectly England will be compelled | to take an interest in American building.” Excuse To Build. This, it is pointed out, is a threat | at both France and Japan, and pro-| vides an ever present excuse for al nayal race with U. S., in which the blame for starting the rivalry can be laid to American imperialism. The Japanese naval and press comment is somewhat bitter also, the experts seeing that the Japan- | ese navy is to be outnumbered bad- ly, and feeling the drive against submarines, on which Japan partic- | ularly relies. Geneva Sees Failure. The league assembly at Geneva} continues to tinker with the war machinery. Lord Cecil, represent-| ing the British labor party seems to have enough suspicion of failure in the forthcoming conference to make | him introduce a resolution today asking the arbitration and security | commission to prepare a convention “strengthening the means of pre-| venting war”. As such a conven- tion could not be considered until next year, this is easily seen as Britain’s “peace offensive” a mat- ter “for the record’ if war breaks out before then. TRAIN FOR BOMBING CRUISES. | AIRPORT, Buffalo, Sept. 19. — With its motor droning along in per- fect fashion, the Stinson-Detroiter | endurance plane, “Buffalo Evening News,” passed its 118th hour in the | air today in an attempt to set a new | record for sustained flight. | FOREST FIRE SPREADS. PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. 18 (UP).—Two large forest fires rap- idly spread today over ever increas- ing areas of the Pacific northwest. The La Dee fire, on the slopes of Mt. Hood, was spreading up the roaring river canyon with 210 men fighting it and no immediate chance of them getting it under control. power—Marz. | importance. ing under the mask of bourgeois liberalism. They pointed ous that MacDonald is following directly the imperialist path of Baldwin. League of Seventh Dominion. Already, before the British elec- tions, ihe Labor Party of Great Britain was active through its lead- ers in “The League of the Seventh Dominion,” a league, with the. pur- pose of accelerating the development of Palestine as a national state of the Jewish people supported by the British Government. Leading mem- bers of this exclusive imperialist league are the two Labor Party colonels: Wedgewood and ‘XKen- worthy, both of them known as ardent pacifists. The strategic importance of Pal- estine is very strongly stressed by |these pacifistic colonels and their league. First of all, Palestine touches on the south the Suez Canal | and on the north the Port of Haifa, | the end-point of the planned oil pipe lines from Mosul. The Suez Canal is one of the most important water- ways of the British Empire. Haifa is already a naval station of great Its port is modernized and enlarged—big docks are under construction. Furthermore, Pales- tine is the center of many of the most important sea and air days of Great Britain. The British navy needs the Mosul oil over Bagdad and Haifa. For War On U. S. S. R. The pacifist colonels, their league and MacDonald are fully ‘in agree- | ment with the Balfour policy of ‘utilizing the Zionist movement for building up a reliable population of Jewish landlords controlling the Arab and Jewish workers and small peasants in Palestine. And Colonel Wedgewood states openly: “Every- thing rhat so far has been done by the British Government is inade- quate. England must take the colonization of Palestine in her own hands.’ ’ The Near East is a very conven- ient basis for military attacks against the colonial countries and the U. S. S. R., Irak and Egypt are the best bases for an air offensive against the Caucausian Republics. It would be a great blunder of the pacifist colonels to overlook such an important fact as securing the “Hinterland,” Palestine, for the im- perialist attack. And there we find the real reason for this policy of the MacDonald Government. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! GASTONIA Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE A HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the American working class analyzed and described by « veteran of the class struggle. To place this pamphlet in the hands of American workers is the duty of every class-conscious worker who realizes that ihe struggle in the South is bound up with the fundamontal interests of the whole American working class. 15 cents per copy (plas Se. Place your order postage) today with the WORKERS [LIBRARY PUBLISHERS and all Workers Book Shops 43 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY unwashed. You buy meal tickets (amount taken from pay) and eat sur- the gunstocks. in a leesed restaurant where rotten Men’s locker room is filthy with ‘vermin. Most all Morse operators are re- placed by automatic operators at a much lower wage. Morse men, $30, $40 a week, automatic or MUX clerk, $65 to $125 a month. Recently the company affiliated with the International and Telephone Co. with the arch ex- ploiter Mackay at its head. Im- mediately rationalization became more active. All wires were speed- ed up to the maximum speed. An example—New York-Chicago were from 45 to 55, Seattle from around 30 to 50—this means an increase of 10 to 20 messages an hour. I will tell more of conditions of the Postal Telegraph workers in my next let- ver. TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. VICTIMS TO “AIR CONSCIOUS- NESS.” ONECNTA, N. Y., Sept. 18 (U.P) —The broken body. of . Kenneth Smith, 27, a former village chauf- feur who aspired to be a parachute jumper, lay in an undertaking es- tablishment here today. Before 4,000 persons gathered at the fair grounds here yesterday, Smith jumped from an _ airplane, 3,800 feet in the air. After drop- ping 1,000 feet he tugged at his parachute cord but the bag would not open until he was within 50 feet of the ground. He was killed. * * * FOSTORIA, Ohio, Sept. 18 (U.P) — A home made airplane took the lives of two youths here. senior and student flyer, was pilot- ing the plane when it crashed from a height of about 150 feet. He was pinned under the wreckage and died at the Fostoria hospital. Michael Kimes, 21, his companion, also was killed. CAR CRASH INJURES. LIEGE, Belgium, Sept. 18. — Twenty workers were injured, some seriously, in a collision between two street cars last night when defective meals are served, at too-high prices. | Telegraph | Melvin Hawkins, 17, high school | face lines and elevated lines. For some time the granting of a new franchise has held the attention of Chicago, since the former small street car company has developed into a giant monopoly which plund- jers the people of Chicago and ruth- lessly exploits its employes. The reason for passing a law compelling a merger of the surface and elevated system is “to develop a traction sys- tem with a more unified head and |better service,” say the sponsors of the Insull law. The Real Reason for Merger. In the background we find the stock of the traction company, raise |the fare, and on the other hand, if not reduce wages to meet our de- | mands for an increase with the plea that the traction company is not earning returns on its invested capi- tal. Who are the sponsors of this piece of work? It is the servile press, the Chicago Tribune, the News and the Jewish Daily Forward, which re- cently incited Zionist-fascists to at- tack the office of the Freiheit, and a corrupt political machine with | thousands of thugs and ward heelers, This political machine says who |shall be trainmen on the transit | lines. The misleader Mahon, who is helping Insull sell stock to the un- derpaid slaves, this betrayer would | use our scant savings to put over the Insull merger. — Chicago Traction Worker. | KILLED IN FOREST FIRE. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 18. — The Pacific northwest forest fire |claimed its ninth victim of the year today when William Roe, Clark county farmer, was burned to death |mountain and Elk Horn fires. Our own age. the bourgeols age, is distinguished this—that it it plified class antagoniamn. More and more. society is splitting up into two My two great and directly d clanses: bourgeoisie by getting behind the real reason to further water the} while fighting flames which swept | |down on his home from the Larch | : This is the handy work of, irsst! MOSSBERG GUN who already controls both t! | - CO. CHEATS MEN [Get $15 For a Week’s Hard Slavery (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn. (By Mail). | Here is New Haven is a factcry on {Greene St., engaged in the manu- facture of small single shot rifles | for the use of boy scouts and other young patriots, to train them to grow up to slaughter the workers. | They are shipped to Montgomery Ward, the well known distributors. Exploit Girls in Gun Plant. The firm I talk about is 0. F. | Mossberg and Sons. In his plant | you see sickly girls operating mill- jing machines, chuck lathers, drill presses, and other jobs which in other days were done by men but |that is not the worst of it. The Mossbergs have one grand scheme which they work to perfec- tion. This is what it is. Just now they are very busy with the boy scout rifles. All right, the poor worker is hard up for work. goes into the dingy little office. Mossberg Jr. is present. He looks | you over, he can see at a glance t you are hard up. around Monday morning.” Mossberg has a twofold object in cut to your sorrow. You present “How much do you want,” replies |his lordship. “On, I think I am {worth 40 cents an hour,” the ap- | plicant will say. “All right,” Mossberg will reply, ‘Sf you are worth it I will give it to you.” Slaving Away. You are then brought into the works, and | grindstone, some big, cumbersome machinery, a can of wood alcohol, Answer the Attacks of the Social. Fascists Against the DAILY WORKER ~ MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAIR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets ° OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Leave all your buying for those days because Madison Square Garden will be turned into A FOUR-DAY DEPARTMENT STORE Thursday, October 3rd Friday, October 4th.. Saturday, October 5th Sunday, October 6th.. Total....... Combination $ for all four days 1.25 On Sale at Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York \ He | “All right,” he will say, “como | Now | telling you that, as you wil! find | yourself Monday morning. Natural- | ly you ask in regard to your wages. | introduced to a big! the fumes of which will stifle you, | to have stuck to us On all of these operations you are |Win our strike ond t told to operate at high speed and] woud have had bett told that they are waiting for the the and to free in MER CITY | work. | STRIK Two Weeks Slavery at $15. You inquire when it is pay day. You find out you will have to wait ner victims ing two weeks for it. You slave away]|on his employment list waiting to |full speed for two wee Then | be robbed. your pay envelope is handed you.| You have to slave like “hell to Opening it you find only $15 in it.|hold the job, for the Mossberg You notify Mossberg about it. “I can’t work for such low wages” the workers. “All right,” says Moss: berg, “come upstairs and I will pay you off.” |family, working around the shop, | are acting as stool pigeons and any one not slaving hard enough for them is soon told to go. to the Daily Worker and correspondence section we workers can let one another know The victim goes into the office | and is given a check for his two | weeks’ service to be cashed at the|the truth. The Communists don’t Union and New Haven Trust Co./have to rely on labor fakers and bank on Church St. Now Mossberg | pork barrel actors for their in- has got two weeks production out | formation. of his victim at $15 a week. Mo: —wW. L. | THE ROPE as well as The Electric Chair threatens the 23 Gastonia Strikers The bosses’ lynch gang, the Black Hundred of the Man- ville-Jenckes Corporation, are out to kill our 23 fellow- workers in prison, the Gastonia union members and organizers, The posse of lynchers, led by Prosecutor Carpenter and Major Bulwinkle, redoubled their fascist terrorism when they kidnapped three organizers of the National Textile Workers Union and the International Labor Defense, and four days later the same fa gangsters killed Ella May Wiggins, mother of five children and an active union member, The textile workers in Gastonia are fighting splendidly! They do not allow themselves to be intimidated! But they need the assistance of ALL WORKERS to meet the com- | bined attacks of the mill owners and the government! | The Gastonia Workers Are Appealing to You Their Lives Are in Great Danger! | Smash the Fascist Rule ot the South! The trial reopens September 30 at Charlotte, N. C. THE MISTRIAL DOUBLED THE EXPENSES It repeats lawyers’ fees, expenses for court stenographers and for witnesses’ food. | You Must Double Your Efforts |. ---and Raise Double the Funds! Help the National Textile Workers Union organize the | 300,000 textile workers of the South! | Help the International Labor Defense form a powerful | shield t odefend the working class! Help the Workers International Relief save the southern | , Pellagra-stricken workers from starvation! | Join the drive of the International Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief! | HOLD MASS PROTEST MEETINGS! if PARTICIPATE IN MASS COLLECTION DAYS | September 21st and 22nd BUILD A UNITED FRONT IN THE SHOPS, | FACTORIES AND MINES! No let-up until all the Gastonia prisoners are freed from | the danger of lynch law and legal murder! Rush Funds to the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign 80 EAST ELEVENTH ST., Room 402, NEW YORK CITY Write to above address for literature on Gastonia,