The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, | “His British Majesty”, | | GERMAN MENNONITES INU. $,S.R, Brits mse + DISILLUSIONED IN ANTI-SOVIET Not Yielted Mexico PROPAGANDA ABOUT EMIGRATION | mind the Yankees on the day U. S. (Wireless by Imprecorr) “1 ABOR” REGIME LAYS BASIS FOR WAR UPON USSR ‘Keep ‘em Humble’ Is Slogan ot Greenville Mill Bosses’ (DEATHS OF VARE |imperialism forced the “election” of {Ortiz Rubio as president of Mexico, | jthat British imperialism is not for- and journeyed to Moscow as the |getting that part of Latin America, MOSCOW, Nov. 19.—The intense and widespread anti-Soviet cam- paign carried on in the bourgeois first stage in their emigration to Canada are returning voluntarily to their homes in increasing numbers. and socialist press regarding the! This is due to their disillusionment Soviet citizens of German blood | with the promise held out to them who would—or did—like to emigrate | that the Germany authorities would to Canada, is collapsing. | aid them. These are peasants of the fanati- | ties are makiug no proper provisions cal Menonnite religion, whose fove- \%, Secure transport to Germany, fathers came to Russia 150 years | While the n ago from Germany and have main- | shows an unwillingness to accept tained their German customs, But | these immigrants. the anti-Soviet campaign constructed; From these facts the would-be abroad upon their response to prom-|emigrants are beginning to realize ises made to aid them to emigrate | that they are being misused by the to Canada is collapsing because | bourgeois to serve anti-Soviet prop- these peasants who left their homes | aganda purposes. NEW TERROR IN. Tess With RR Heads (Continued from Page One) there were present at the conference, MANCHURIA, 100 | Hoover, secretary of the treasury, |Mellon, and Lamont, of the Depart- 7 |ment of Commerce. MORE ARRESTED |. Mellon has broadcasted a proposal \for building operations to stem mounting unemployment, which pro- vides for the expenditure of $15,- 000,000 a year for ten years on gov- ernment buildings. ‘Should this stu- pendous plan go into effect, it would provide work for a few hundred out lof the many thousands of workers being thrown out of work, and would be restricted to the city of Washing- ‘on. The widely advertised $3,000,- 000,000 Hoover fund for unemploy- ment has dwindled many thousand ‘per cent. German Consul Denied | Permit to Assist (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 19.—Ther new wave of terror against Soviet | citizens in Manchuria, authoritative | dispatches from Harbin stating that | there have been 700 new arrests in| the last few days. The condition of the thousands is But the German authori- | Canadian government | | | | held in prison are frightful, as may | be seen by the many attempts at There is no more talk about sup- | port to the stock market, but out-| suicide of those who cannot longer |right admission that industry re- bear the illtreatment. Although the German consul, Stobbe is authorized by diplomatic right to c: ‘quires first aid if imperialism is to |run smoothly. | Announcements are being made e for the welfare of these |that the Federal Reserve banks will | Soviet citizens after the withdrawal cut its rates to 41-2 per cent in) of Soviet consuls, Stobbe had been yefused permission for months to ‘order to bolster up Hoover's plans. A cabinet meeting set for today isit these prisoners held without was adjourned, so that the most im- | |harges by the Chinese mil&aty portant members of the cabinet| itaff. Sick prisoners are entirely without medical attention. British Arrest 700 More African Negro Workers at Durban BURBAN, Natal, South Africa,! Nov. 19—The resistance of the Negro workers to British imperial- ism is still strong in spite of the war-like raid made to over-awe them last week under the guise of collect- ing poll taxes. Early yesterday an- other sortie of police armed with machine guns, tear gas and rifles descended on the native workers’ quarters to collect poll tax due last March but which these Negro work- ers had refused to pay thus far. As a result 700 were arrested. This action of the local authorities s sanctioned by the “labor” govern- nent at London, as the Negroes of South Africa have lately shown strong tendencies to following the leadership of the Communist Party, and the labor imperialists hope by a strong show of force to prevent a serious anti-imperialist movement. \could assume their jles as business executives at Hoover's conference. It is the hope of the capitalists ithat the railroads can be pushed into | buying equipment, which is not need- ‘od at this time, as a means of stimu- lating steel output, and of alleviating unemployment in this basic indus- trr. | No tangible results were reported from the conference. This is the |first in a series of three-day confer- ences that Hoover has proposed. After making plans with the lead- | ling bosses of big business, Hoover | intends conferring ith representa- tives of the American Federation of Labor in order to work out plans of drugging the American workers into accepting the burden of the econ- omie crash, and the drastic measures in the way of wage-cuts, lengthen- ing of hours, ete. which will be the | main thread of the Hoover program. el here are aggravating the difficulties confronting the Chiang Kai-shek joutfit. A new faction has been or- | ganized which favors breaking away |from the Nanking géovertiment. The loss of 35,000 soldiers of; Chiang Kai-shek’s atmy, who joined | | 1 New Canton Faction Breaks from Nanking the forces rébelling against the Nan- king war lord’s government, greatly strengthens the anti-Nanking forces. CANTON, China, Nov. 19.—De-|In Northern Hupeh séven town gar- flections in the Kuomintang tanks'risons went over to the rébels. EAKSVILLE MILL WORKER TELL WHY STRIKERS MUST HAVE DAILY ‘Only Paper We Can Believe, for It Tells the Workers’ Side” (Continued from Page One) Leaksville, and telling them from the workers’ side, telling what wé all knew was the truth. s “But we can’t get the Daily Worker enough to go round among us. And we all have to have the Daily Worker. “We can't make a successful fight unless we know that workers all over the country are with us, and it’s only thru the Daily that we can know that. “I and the other Leaksville strikers do wish that the American workers would see that we get the Daily alway: Let’s show the Leaksville strikers we're with them, by rushing them the Daily Worker. ' Workers’ groups must adopt Southern mill. villages, seeing to it that the workers in Leaksville and the other mill towns in which the class struggle will soon be going on ih full force, are supplied with the Daily Worker, their only voice. Individual workers have also got to do theit part in the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.” « ° Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. This contribution to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South” is to show my solidarity with the strikets of the Leaksville, N. C. Woolen Mills, and the mill workers in the other Southern textile towns and villages. NAME oo c cece cece eee secre eeea reset ee aneeten beeen eesebeetebuabons AAAreSS 6... eee cc ce eee een e been ene isebesseneeeeneesesebebeaenente Pees TeHtN aeRO denaddvins -OEtO Vesnsdiscodevevsstconteteg FOR ORGANIZATIONS hb < CAUETH UREA Chabu rob dsesecas aspen WO $0 (name of organization adopt a mill village, and see that the workers there are supplied with the Daily Worker regularly. Address: City and State ....cccceccceceeeess east eared abbot bes eeesesbueteves We... Amount: Uahis «is a question was pu. to Henderson, foreign secretary, in the Commons Mond-~ about the defaulting bonds of the Mexican external debt. Henderson replied that “His Majesty’s government (that is, the “labor” government) is not in a posi- tion to take any steps in regard to these defaults until it is approached in the matter by properly qualified tion with American bondholders. Any such representations would re- ceive most careful His Majesty’s government.” This is obviously an encourage- ment to any opposition in Mexico, such as that of Vasconcelos, to re- sort to armed action to overthrow U. S. dominance expressed in the jelection of Rubio last Sunday. TUUL BOARD TO PLAN BIG FIGHTS Struggle Coming Soon in Many Industries (Continued from Page One) depend upon the Trade Union Unity League and the National Miners Union, a member of the T.U.U.L. The Belleville convention of the N.M.U. in Mlinois voted also to unorganized miners remeniber their Lewis machine. A national conven- tion on a@ broad basé, a real mass movement, will be arranged soon by the National Miners Union. Steel Workers Jobless. The steel industry is found to be one of those most requiring organ- ization. Speed-up and unemploy- ment are rife, and wage cuts are on the calendar. The T.U.U.L. metal trades committee has headquarters in Pittsburgh, where Andrew Over- gaard is stationed as its head and is very active, meeting also with good response from the steel work- ers. The automobile industry is in a similar condition to the steel, except that wage cuts, unemployment, and general slowing down of production has advanced further. There are thousands of unemployed auto work- ers, and the employers themselves take a gloomy view of the prospects in autos. The American “saturation point” was reached long ago, and the industry has been running for some time on its exports. Now it meets compétition abroad. The needle trades industry will be discussed in detail. The needle trades right wing organization, the |combination of socialist misleaders, company unionism, the bosses and the Tammany government in New York has proceeded to a point in advance of similar tendencies in There exists a machine for labor treason and sell- out, for tetrorism against militant unionists. The misleaders are en- gaging in a complicated strike man- euver, and the tactics of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, a member of the T. U. UU. L., will be carefully considered. Militant Food Workers. In the food industry, organi.ati work must be pushed. The conven- tion of the Amalgamated Food Workers is near. The food workers’ militancy is shown by the recent cafeteria strike, and this is not the only section where workers are dis- satisfied with restaurant conditions, ‘wages, and hours, Movement among building trades workers is evident. The building boom is booming along the down- ward trail now, and the A. F. of L. union heads have made no provision for this collapse, nor for the unem- ployment, smashing of union condi- tions and wage rates, that has al- ready begun, and will get worse. Many other industries show sim- ilar sigts of retrenchment, in each case the employers making special efforts to lay all the burdens on the workers, and the workers beginning to resist strenuously. (In an ar- ticle yesterday some facts were given about the textile, and tobacco industries.—-Editor.) Youth, Women, Negroes. The TUUL makes special provi- sion for the most exploited sections of the American working class in its organization campaigns. Many of the unions and leagues have spe- cial youth sections. A Young Workers Department has been estab- lished, and a national. committee to lead its activities is being created. It will Have on it representatives of the Negro and girl workers. The Negro committee will pay special attention to maintaining gen- eral T. U. U. L. Negro organizers in the field. The southern Negroes are not only being driven to the northern industrial centers now, they ate being drawn in increasing num- bers into the industrializéd sections of the South. Women play an increasing role in the workshops and factories. The other industries. out specialized activity among them, for organization, abolition of dis- crimination against women workers, and certain special demands of more immediate importance to wom- Seareedertarvariggn On workers than to men, agents of British bondholders, who| are, of course, already in collabora- | attention from} carry the fight into the South, first | into Kentucky, where thousands of | betrayal in the 1922 strike by the| TUUL Women’s Committee works) | Henderson ‘Interprets’ | Comintern Activity | jderson of the “labor” party and British foreign secretary, informed the House of Commons that the “la- |bor” government regards the Soviet government the responsible, under British and Soviet government, for propaganda of ternational. | The protocol merely confirmation of the terms of the treaty of 1924. There is no provision against the Communist International in the 1924 treaty negotiated by the first “labor” government, since the question of the Communist Interna- tional could not be raised against the Soviet government unless the anti- Soviet activities of the Second Inter- national of which the “labor” gov- ernment leaders are officials also being questioned. The announcement of Henderson, therefore, in view of the fact that negotiations with the Soviet govern- ment were forced on the present “labor” government by British work- ers, constitutes an advance excuse for breaking off relations when Brit- ish imperialism deems the moment ready for war against the Soviet Union. the Communist In- provides for tion of Henderson’s attitude quotes the “Pravda” as saying: “We are not in the least led astray as to the interitions of Brit+ ish imperialism, the official repre- sentatives of which at present is the |‘labor’ party. We know Premier Mac- Donald has as little intention as for- mer Premier Baldwin to retreat from jfrom preparations for its overthrow by means of war. Nevertheless we do not refuse to establish diplomatic and trade relations, and we will not demand from the British govern- ment that it withdraw from the Lea- responsibility for anti-Soviet pro- paganda or for activities of the Sec- ond International, of which the ‘la- bor’ party is an influential member.” LABOR PARTY T0 ATTACK JOBLESS Thomas Begins With a Blow at Relief LONDON, Eng., Nov. 15.—J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, and the “labor” government’s wise man on unemployment, yesterday told a gathering of British employers that he disagreed with the “Labor” Party platform—on which MacDonald was elected and Thomas appointed to enforee—concerning unemployment. The platform stood for “Work or full maintenance of the unemployed at the expense of the state.” This means that the “Labor” Party as a whole is recanting this election pro- gram. Thomas said that he agrees with the employers’ idea, which is in ef- fect that unemployed workers simply starve to death. Thomas expressed this by saying he was against un- employed compensation because it, so he says, “is calculated to destroy and sap that independent spirit which built up the British race.” This statement of Thomas, in which he says that on this point he disagrees with other laborite leaders, is the opening gun attack- ing the unemployment relief long established. It is certain to be, not | Thomas’ opinion alone, but that of | the whole “labor” government, in- troduced by him as a test. If the workers do not show marked resent- ment, other laborites will follow and all relief stopped. At the same time, the “labor” government of Australia has cabled a@ request to British laborites to/ abandon the proposal of sending un- employed British workers to Aus- tralia, the British government pay- ing their fare, as there is a great unemployed army in Australia aiso. Another laborite trick is seen in the fake peace gesture of the gov- ernment in announcing that the Singapore naval base construction would be slowed down “as much as possible” —- which means exactly nothing. Such “slowing down” is only to be done—‘as much as pos- | sible’—until the naval conference in January. Meanwhile the laborite leaders are defending British business at home and abroad and attacking the unem- ployed, the shipyard employers say they will have to lock out 15,000 ship carpenters as a result of the Belfast dispute, on the 23rd of November. im concerned, t cnn’t discovered exe in modern Koclety © rt lai ation of @ society of ax, f free and equal. LONDON, Ne «. 19.—Arthur Hen- | recent protocol signed by both the} Moscow dispatches on the ques-! attack upon the Soviet "system and| gue’ of Nations or that Premier Mac- | Donald and the ‘labor’ party assume | Hah KILLER ADKINS PLACED ON STAND Sheriff Tries to Jail Victims His Shots Miss he would make the strikers put back the furniture of a scab which they had thrown out of a company house. G. C. Crowley, a local barber, said he heard a striker ask Hoffman: They are throwing us out of our houses.” '“What are you going to do? | This was when the mill thugs were jevicting strikers from their homes. i *. + } | According to Crowley, Hoffman replied, “I am going to do nothing. | | Why did you let them start?” This testimon doffman Jas a restraining influence on the| militant workers seers to be part of |a general policy to concentrate fire on the rank and file strikers, and save, if possible, the U.T. offi- | leialdom, which is recognized by many southern mill owners as {friendly to the employers. Venue Change For Killers. | A change of venue was granted | jthe mill lawyers for the only gun-| men out of Sheriff Adkins’ gang of 20 that will ever be placed on trial. |They are: B. L. Robbins, W. A. \Fender, Dave Jarrett, Jim Owens, |Charles Tate, Taylor Greene, W. T. ' Wiggs and Robert Ward. | All are thugs in the employ of the textile mill, made deputies so the: could kill strikers under color of le. Adkins himself who was described by many witnesses as fir- ng into the crowd with his pistol, the southern courts refuse to place on trial at all. The eight will be tried in Burns- ville, Yancey County, a farming community. Big Interests Clash | Over Tariff on Sugar CONSTRUCTION (By a Worker Correspondent) Keep us humble and in slavery. GREENVILLE, S. C. (By Mail)—|They think we haven’t the sense to Three sewing rooms in Greenville,|demand our rights. We have. Why| C., but this one beats thera all.|don’t we use it? Demand it! We are Two floors in an old shabby build-|not so humble looking. The people| ing. Downstairs the “3 and{up North say the southern girls,| cutters, upstairs the operators, and|they work for nothing. That’s why | finishers. About 25 young girls we move our factories down there. | some old women in all. | I argued today with my second} The manufacturers claim to have |hand. I discussed a few things that their office in New York, that is/led to her mind. Well, don’t knock | how they delay our pay for two and |the company to the other girls, she three weeks, under pretense that ajsays. Now, she knows too that the| jcheck hasn’t come from New York.!company is cheating, not cheating |I work in the upstairs floor. Stuffy,!but sapping the life of the poor |dusty, full of cotton, strings and|working girl. jsuch. : 7 If the girls didn’t have parents} We must sit and work our lives to Jive with, to keep them up, they | away. Snap, snap, snap—four cents couldn't board on $3.64 and $4.00 al a dozen. A good seamstress can only week, | get 40 dozen snaps sewn on in a) ayy are wo . aeauel day. That would only amount to OY Gre eRe vane te ee son $1.60 a day. But none stay long |MOney,” says a girl to me. We need lenough to get that fast. \to organi; If you mention union} Every. week we have new girls.|" Organize it frightens some of Old ones quit, new ones hired. The|*Me™ to death. We'll just have to “sweet” floor lady comes along and|Show these manufacturers that they “ y,, /ean’t always come to the South for pats you on the back. “My, you BS aay boc, aE. ie Gene reece \doing fine,” but won’t even tell how |°"** dc dlléy Oily havent | much you are working for. Who is |22™%¢ and Beads ere= ee 59E i us more. is | |she? What is she there for? —A YOUNG WORKER IN To watch us, to fill our minds with! THE SEWING FACTORY. |flattery. MEETS PREPARE “HUNG JURY” IN NTW CONVENTION GRAHAM CASE Rallies in’ All Mill) Use Every Means to Centers Railroad Va. Worker (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) Allentown, Eeston, Wilkes-Barre,| railroading Graham, telling o Scranton, Philadelphia and Chester,|Graham’s statement to the work- Pa.; Passaic, N. J. New York City;|ers at the meeting that they must Baltimore, Md.; Shelton, Conn. and | show their solidarity with the Gas- Providence, R. I. |tonia workers. Pausing “solemnly” The pre-convention mass meetings |for a few minutes, the two detec- will include a rally in Passaic, on! tives who arrested Graham said, Friday, Nov. 22, at 8 p. m., at the{“We must remember that Chief of Workers Home, 25 Dayton Ave, at|Police Aderholt was killed.” which Bill Dunne ard Joe Harrison,| The defense witnesses testified one of the railroaded Gastonia men,|that the only disturbance at the will sneak; a mass meeting in Ches-|meeting was the action of the po- ter, Pa., on Friday, November 22, to be addressed by William Murdock, Jenn‘ Cooner, and Chernow; in Mt Holly, N. Friday, November 22, |to be addressed by Shohan, di; organizer of the Y. CG. L. in Phila- delphia and Plotnick. In Scranton, Pa., on Saturday, No- vember 23, at 8 p. m., at 602 Linden re St. Anna Burlak, ynn, and Martha Stone ~ “ll ~peal Lawrence, |M: . mass meeting on the same date at 8 p. m. will hear Jim Reid, jpresident of the N.T.W. and Fred) Beal. Mass meetings will be |Sunday, November 24 in Allentown, | Philadelphia, and in Fall River. The | Allentown meeting will be held at '2 p. m. at 412 Hamilton, and will be j}addressed by Martin Russak of the |N.T.W., Sonia Croll, and Bill Mc- | held on| | WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The|Gir-is, another of the ‘even Snate, unable to reach any agree-| roaded Gastonia class prisoners. The ment on the sugar schedule of the tariff bill, postponed the matter in- definitely until some agreement can be reached among the senators. A bitter fight over the tariff schedule on sugar has been made by representatives of sugar manufac- turing interests in Louisiana and Colorado on one hand and importers and refiners of Cuban sugar on the other. Millions of dollars have been spent by both sides in an effort to get favorable legislation. The tobacco schedule, now being taken up by the senate, also involves the matter of Cuban imports, espe- cially by Florida manufacturers. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Philadelphia meeting, to be held at 8 p. m., will hear William Murdock, Jennie Cooper and Chernow. James |lice in breaking it up. | One witness in the police court, |who testified that Graham caused no disturbance, reversed his testi- {mony in the Corporation Court and made the same statement as the detectives. This witnebs is em- | ployed by the Finkelstein Clothing Co., for which one of the prosecu- tors is attorney. That pressure had been brought to bear on him was evident. | The prosecuting lawyers tried to |inflame race prejudice in the jury by playing continually on the fact that the Communist Party advocates race equality. Hed the bosses’ court succeeded in |railroading Graham he would have |been. sentenced to 12 months in | prison and to a fine of $500. | Except for one small notice, the |press in this section suppressed the \news of Graham’s trial. | A Negro girl, who worked in the {Southern Spring Co. plant and who \testified for Graham, was dis-| Reid, Kizer and Conroy will address charged by the company. a Fall River meeting on Sunday. “It was a trial of class against A meeting will also be held Sun- | class, stated Graham. The Trade jday, November 24, in Providence, at| Union Unity League is continuing 8 p. m. Conroy and Reid will speak. |its organizational drive among the Baltimore textile workers will meet | Negro and white workers in this see- |Monday, November 25 at 8 p. m. and/tion, despite the threats of terror- will hear Murdock and Flaiani. In) ism. Easthampton, Mass., on Monday, at! <a £p. m., Reid and Richards will speak. DRINKING PALS. One of the biggest of the textile) LONDON (B: workers’ pre-convention mass meet-| Miechett—Sir Alfred Mond of the| ings will be held in New York City,!Mond Nickel Company — referred] jon Tuesday, November 26, at Irving mildly to employers who dodge sup-| |Plaza, 15 Irving Place, at 8 p. m.|plying “sanitary conveniences and Bill Dunne, Martin Russak and Cla- necessities of the human workers” rina Michelson, N. Y. district organ-|Ben ‘Tillett, M. P. and reformist izer, will address the workers at/trade union official, proposed his this meeting. lordship’s health. y Mail).—When Lord| Longshoremen Worke The Longshoremen’s Committee of the Marine Workers’ League sug- gests some demands for better con- ditions on the docks. The third is- sue of “The Hook,” official organ ot the committee, a four-page mime- ographed publication, remarks that they are intended especially for the port of aBltimore but are to be sent to the National Longshore- men’s Committee of the League. “Wages and conditions on the various docks heer are alike in only one respect: wages are low and .con- ditions are bad. Something must be done by the workers themse!ves to better such a state,” says the lead- ing article in The Hook. The pro- posed demands are: Recognition of Dock Committees. Ten minutes smoking time, morn- ing and afternoon. Not less than 18 men to a gang. day; from 8 a, m. to 5,00 p. m. Work during meal hours to pay double timee. Work6 p. m. to 12 midnight to pay time and one-half, and from 1a m. to 7 a. m. to pay double time, Time to start when engaged. Wages to be $1 per hour, straight | time, Work on Sunday, Saturday after- noons and all legal holidays to pay double time, rs League Demands Eight actual working hours per | OHIO FARE STEEL. CLEVELAND (By Mail)—The street car bosses have won their de- mand for a fare raise from three cents in Lakewood, largest Cleve- ‘land suburb. ot Marine Build Up the United Front of the Working Class Frdéim the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! | No gang or gangs to work more | than sixteen (16) consecutive hours | | per day. Regular meal hours: 7 a. m. to 8 a. m.; noon to 1 p. m.; 5 p. m. to 6 p. m., and midnight to 1 a. m. Winchmen and hatch-tenders to be paid one dollar and ten cents ($1.10) per hour. | Truckers on the docks to be paid) ninety cents (90c) per hour. | All men coaling ships to be paid | one dollar and ten cents ($1.10) per | hour. Al men employed in and about | the docks to be considered as marine | workers. VvVvVvVvVv Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- Telephone BEACON 731. N, For the Dec. 6 NEW MASSES BALL THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS AUTUMN DAYS AT CAMP NITGE- DAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED! CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. N. ¥, GRAND CENTRAL TRAINS LEAVE BVERY HOUR, ey Ay ty ty fy fe 4 ty te THE NEW NITGEDAIGET HOTEL OF SIXTY ROOMS WITH ALL LATEST IMPROVEMENTS TOILERS HUSHED Murder on Job by Co. Is Frequent (By a Worker Correspondént) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— Monday morning, about 9:30, on the Pennsylvania Norristown Line, the Vare Construction Company was conducting work for the electrifica- tion of the P, R. R. This same morn- ing the workers were talking about an accident. We asked the timekeep- er about the accident and he said |that a man was scratched a little. However, after a few hours the truth leaked out that a man was killed and another seriously injured by an express travelling on route to Norristown from Philadelphia. This fact shows the dangerous conditions under which the workers are slaving for the company for the miserable wage of 45 cents an hour and working eleven hours and get- ting paid for nine. The workers get no compensation. Some time ago there was a similar case in which a worker was killed by an express on the same line, It was not known until the next day \that there even was an accident. —VARE CONSTRUCTION WORKER. CHEAT CAROLINA _ TOBACCO FARMER Bosses Use Trickery and Fraud By GEO, SAUL. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.—Here, where the R. J. Reynolds and the |Brown-Williamson tobacco com- | panies exploit 17,000 colored and white workers worse thah even the textile workers are exploited, the farmer tobacco raisers fare darned poorly, too, and are fooled, looked down upon and regarded as imbeciles by the bosses. _On the two streets where the eight large tobacco warehouses ate located Fords and Chevrdlet cars |and sometimes old rattling trucks, | which are loaded with tobacco, aré |flagged by business solicitors, who | yell, “First sales, drive in this way!” Trickery. _ They say this whether it is the first or the last sales. Near each warehouse is someone with a monkey or a trained dog, which the owner charges the farmer a nickel to see. Photographers beg to take their picture. Second-hand ¢lothes dealers try to: unload upon them. | Medicine shows, where “cure-all” are sold, lose not a moment of the day. “Bargain counters” are num- erous. At the warehouse the farmers’ to- bacco is marketed and each ware- house competes with the others to get the greatest number of farm- ers to drive in, becausé for each pile of tobacco the watehottse gets 25 cénts, and 2 per cent commission for “selling.” The farmers are told that When they grade their tobacco it brings them more money, and so they put it into several piles instead of one, which means more 25-cent fees for the warehouse, The auctioneer and the bidders and the buyers pass along the rows of piles of tobacco, the auctioneer mumbling something no o:.e under- stands and not indicating the pile he is “selling” or stating the price he sells it at, the bidders making nods and winks with their hands busy picking up and laying down bunehes of tobacco, and the buyers just across from the fellows who [write otit the tickets telling them what amount to put on the ticket, In reality the formers’ tobacco is not sold at all. There is neither bidding nor auctioning nor bargain- ing. The buyers simply take it for whatever they see fit to give, and those who seem to be the bidders are not the buyers? VvvVvvyv Y. Tete; ne Esterbrook 1400 CAMP{ENTIRELY REBUILT