The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1929, Page 3

} } D. iLY WORKER, } W YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929 FINNISH LABOR MOVES TO LE, | BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT ATTACKS IT, THREATENING WAR ON SOVIET Hunger Strike of Political Prisoners and Political General Strike Effective Chief Industry, Lumber, Cannot Compete With Production in Soviet Karelia On Nov. 16 we published the ac+ count of the hunger strike of the political prisoners in Finland and the general strike called on that day by the Finnish trade unions. Two days later wireless reports by In- precorr stated that the Finnish gov- ernment had granted the demands of the hunger strikers, although the capitalist press, while silent on | masses are moving rapidly to the | this, had declared the strike had | left, and the open fascist tertor, | We therefore give an ac-| supported by the socialist-fascists, | count, received from Finland, of the |is very deliberately provoking a | “failed.” national situation and the causes of the hunger strike —Editor. See HELSINGFORS.—Over 100 po- litical prisoners initiated, on Nov. 10, a hunger strike. The reasons for this are: use of brutal despotism against them. In their proclamation the hunger strikers appeal to the pro- letariat of Finland and the world. The workers’ representatives have interpellated the ‘government in the | Diet. The Trade Union movement has declared a general sttike for the 16th. The White Guard government confiseated all papers with the stiike proclamation and threatens to suppress all strikes with force of arms. The social democratic leaders are backing the “White” government in its ations and advise all workers to stay at work. The minister of “jus- tice” has ordered the hardening of the treatment in the prisons, on the excuse of the severe economic crisis. The increased tor- | menting of the prisoners and the And Finland is in a serious crisis. Its main industry, lumber, cannot stand the competition of the lumber oprduced in Soviet Karelia. Lumber export has dropped far and suddeh- ly. The farmers for three years | have had bad crops. Unemployment lis growing by leaps and bounds. | Many industries are closing. The |fresh situation of eivil war. The Finnish bourgeoisie have |mortgaged the government ‘rail- | ways, the public buildings and, to |some extent, the lumber industry | to American and British bankers. pehditures for war against the Si viet Union are increasing. Merc less taxes are inflicted on the agrar- to 20 per cent of their miserable wages. Small farmers are going bankrupt en, masse. The White Guards are openly talking of an ex- pedition against the Soviet Union, to avert the sharpening inner con- tradictions threatening the ecollopse of this supposedly “independent” buffer state, The Communist Party is, despite its illegality, undoubtedly the leader of the Finnish proletatiat. Just because of its influence with the workers, the fascists and socialist- fascists ate revenging themselves on the Communist’ prisoriers. COAST WORKERS FIGHT FAKER Show Japan ‘Socialist’ Friend of Terror SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 27. —Militant Japanesé workers here gave a “warm reception” to Mr. Abe, member of the national exéc- utive committee of the social-demo- cratic party of Japan, who has come hefe to gather funds for the social- democrats. A special leaflet was issued by District 13 of the Communist Party, pointing out the betrayal by the Jap- anese social-democratic party of the Japanese working class and of their support of the imperialist war plans against the Soviet Union. The struggle against the social-democ- racy of Japan was linked up with the fight of the Japanese workers here against the capitalist class and against the socialist party. When Abe, at a meeting, began to attack the Communist Party, workers from all over the hall denounced him. So strong was the workers’ protest that Abe was unable to continue. The Japanese social-democratic party has aided in the suppression of the Communist Party and in the government attacks on ail militant workers. Soviet Union Smashes Raids of Militarists (Continued from Page One) ments. The Wall Street imperialist, Stimson, is contemplating some sort of action but has not announced what steps he will take on behalf of United States imperialism. How- ever, it was announced by the State Department that Stimson “would make any move he considered war- ranted by developments.”- oe LONDON, Nov. 27.—Dr. Sze, Chi- nese ambassador here, consulted with Arthur Henderson, foreign sec- eretary for “his majesty’s ‘labor’ government,” as to the advisability of appealing to the League of Na- tions against the Soviet Union. The Chinese militarists were given encouragement by the social-fascist “labor” foreign seoretaty. _ * SHANGHAI, Nov. 27.—Dispatches from Japan here today declare that Chiang Kai-shek has bribed the so- called Christian General, Feng Yu- hsiang to stop his hostilities against the toppling Chiang Kai-shek gov- ernment. The dispatch says: “President Chiang Kai-shek, dur- ing his recent A to Honan Pro- vince, suecéeded through Yen Hsi- shan, “model” Citgo of Shansi, in bribing Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang to order the Kuominchun to retreat in return for $5,000,000. “General Chiang Kai-shek further agreed to allow other factions in various parts of China a larger hand in the Nanking government, thereby ending his domination of the party and government.” T. V. Soong, finance minister of the Nanking government, has just returned from a hurried trip to Hon- an. Soong controls the pocketbook of the murderous Nanking govern. ment. ‘The success of the Soviet troops in overwhelming the repeated provo- cative raids into Soviet territory is forcing Nanking to patch up alliance with whatever militarists can be “ribed. | Bodies of Imperial | Victims in USSR Here (Continued from Page Oné) the faet that the capitalist govern- tment was résponsible for théir deaths. After the government which sent the soldiers to their death has given offi¢ial “honors” here, the bodies will be sent to Michigan for burial, Most. of the soldiers were from Michigan and were members of the 339th Infantry, the 310th Engineers and the 887th Ambulanée Company. The seventy-five bodies were found in unmarked shallow graves inte ‘which they were dumped by orders of thé atmy officers in com. mand of the-impérialist expedition, The Michigan regiment to which these men belongéd was the one which threw @ es inte their of- ficers by their refusat to fight any longer for Wall Stréet against the workers of the Soviet government. The American authorities hastily brought the regiment back to the United States in the openly admit- ted fear that they might join the Red Atmy against imperialist pow- ers. AG a résiilt of propaganda and contact with the Réd Army, the American soldiérs began to realize the purpose for which théy were sent. The bodies of these workers who were sacrificed in the imperialist at- tack will be used in an effort to stir lup hate against the Soviet Union |and to prépart for another imper- ist attack in which many thou- sands of workers would be called upon to give their lives in fighting the only workérs fatherland, the Soviet Union. Build Up the United Front of the Working Cleats From the Bot- tom Upset the Enterprises! Ward BossSays Albany Democratic Chiefs and Asemblymen Got Bribe penta High light in the testimony yes- terday William F. Buchanan, Democratic party ward heeler in Al- bany, appearing as a witness in the petiey trial of James J. Otto in the Federal cotirt here, were that prominent Democratic party mé- chine men and Assemblyman Jolin Boyle getting a big rake-off on the recalpte of the beseball. ge bling pool. Buchanan said that he was told by the operatars of the pool that two and a half cent of the pro- ceeds would ‘or “protection.” Buchanan fimaelt demanded $1,000 8 week from dames W. Wright, manager of the pool, and said that Wright told him that Hoyle got only $2,000 for the wohle sesson. Other Assemblymen ived 8, too, he stated, and sai the money went to and his brother, Edwata,, Demo- cratic boases in Albany. A trial for misuse of mails d in a pet- jury indictment of Otto, Cpe O'Connell An tar G8 1 amt At the same tinie military ex- | ian and industrial workers, from 10 | that a part of | &@ Workers Fight Back! Attacks of Police, ‘in Rumanian Meets (Wireless By Imprecorr) | BUCHAREST, Nov. 27—-A meet- jing held here on the 24th of Novem- |ber in Jassy under the auspices of the Communist Party, with an at- tendance of 2,000 workers, was at- taekéed by the police. The workers resisted the attack, Many were |wounded. Two hundred arrests | were made; Similar disorders occurred in} |Kichinev. Sixty-two workers were | arrested. NTWU MEETS TO MOBILIZE FIGHT |Plans to Smash Boss) Attacks on Union The enlarged meeting of the Na- tional Council of the National Tex- \tile Workers Union now in session in New York has issued the follow- | STATES SUPPORT FASCIST ATTACK AGAINST TOILERS 'Governors Aid Hoover) in Drive .. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27,—Pres- ident Hoover is enlisting the sup. port of all the governors of the 48 istates for his fascist attack on the |standard of living of the American | conflicts workers. Telegrams from nearly every gov- ernor appealed to by the White | House in the present economic crisis |show a whole-hearted approval of |the plans formulated by the leading | Wall Street imperialists. David Lawrence, in a dispatch to the New York Sun says “Business and government have become part- | ners in the biggest effort at coop- eration since the world war. Labor (the reactionary officials of the A. F. of L.) is cooperating on the basis jof maintaining industrial peace.” The united front of the reaction- ling statement: | “The National Council was called |for the special purpose of mobilizing the textile workers to meet the pre- sent sharpened attacks of the bosses. The N. T. W. U. will turn the at- tempts of the bosses, their govern- metit and the A. F. of L. fakers to |further beat down the living stand- atd of the textile workers into an offéhsive struggle for organization, higher wages, against the speed-up, for the 40-hour five-day week, and unemployment insurance. ‘The rapidly developing crisis, the Wall Street crash, the sharpening of all the contradictions of American capitalism, the tremendous overpro- duction and shrinking of the mar- kets has aggravated the situation in the textile industry. The ration- alization of the industry has brought abotit Widespread unemployment and part time work. “Tn all sections of the textile in- idustty the workers are faced with dfastic wage cuts: Side by side with the general wage cuts, the speed- up is being daily intensified. Tens of thousands of textile workers in New England and _ Pennsylvania, suffering under the crushing burden ployment are preparing for a strug gle. The silk and dye workers of Paterson are mobilizing their forces |for a géneral striké against the at- |tempts of the bosses in cooperation with the Musteites to starve the workers into submission. “In the South the bosses have launched a reign of fascist terror in ‘order to smash the growing resist- ance of the workers, The savage 20- year jail sefitences for the organizers of »the National Textile Workers Union, the murder of Ella May, and the fake A.F.L. drive in the South is an attempt to stem the growing tide of revolt and the continued ral- | lying of the masses of southern | textile workers under the banner of the National Textile Workers Union. | The Negro textile workers in the| South are joining the ranks of class | struggle side by side with their white brothers. | “Tt is highly significant that in the rayon section of the textile industry, a basic part of the war industry of Américan imperialism, we find the tnilitarization of labor and the most eompléte rationalization. “The National Council of the Na-| tional Textile Workers Union, has worked out a program of action to} meet the present sittiation. The sec- ond national convention of the N.| T. W. U., to be held in Paterson on| December 21-22, 1929, will express the unity of the textile working class around the program of militant struggle against rationalization and th war danger. The National Coun- eil calls upon all textile workers to organize into mill committees and send delegates to the con. 2ntion and to prepare for the struggle. “C6. plete class solidarity with the southern textile workers! “Demand the unconditional libera- tion of the seven Gastonia class war prisoners! “Down with capitalist rationaliza. tion! Fight against the war dan- ger!” Not only haw the dourge: 6 feath acide it has nee are Com “Prosperity” Lies Shown Up by More Lay-Offs by Ford LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 27—~ Fale clivaly on the announce- ment of laying off of 1000 Ford workers in San Francisco, comes the announcement that the Los An- Ford plant plans to lay off 1700 workers. Partial shut-downs of other Ford plants in this part &f the country are also planned. The continual lay-offs of auto ‘workers and shut-downs of the var- ious plants on the Pacific slope, just as in Detroit, Cleveland and other auto centers of the country, pees the “prosperity” lies spread y the. capitalist press at the be- hest of the open shop manufac- turers, BRITISH WORKERS SEE SOCIALIST TRIUMPHS | LONDON (by mail)—The Friends of the Soviet Union delegation left of wage cuts, speed-up, and unem-! |ary labor officials and the imper- lialists who are taking over the open ‘functions of government in the \growing depression, will facilitate the capitalists’ wage-cutting drives |against the workers in the basic in- \dustries. The wage-slashing cam- |paign will extend to the skilled workers as well. The big capitalists resist any ex- tension of the state and municipal building plans because of the in- Jerease in taxes this will entail, and |are insisting on drastic wage cuts jas a means of throwing the burden of the present crisis on the acks of the workers. In line with the general plan of |the united capitalists in their drive against the workers’ standard of liv- ling is the retaining two or thiee workers on part-time jobs, where formerly one worker was employed. |In this way; the capitalists are low- ering the standard of living of the workers afd seeking to ward off tiass unemployment drives for re- lief. TUUL Plans Drive in Food, Autos, Building | (Continued from Page One) ments with bosses, It throws em- phasis on shop committees—in this lease, food of restaurant committees. |It is for a national conference on organization, of organizing the pack- ling houses, for demanding a five-day week, and sanitary regulations, now much neglected, where food work- ers toil. Its tactics are for mili- tant strikes, mass picketing, and mass violation of injunctions, In the automobile industry, ra- tionalization, the speed up, and effi- ciency schemes by the employers wete already catising unemployment before the present industrial de- pression struck home. Now unem- ployment increases by, leaps and bounds, because factories are clos- ing down, going on part time, and reducing forces everywhere. Hard Hit Now. Exports of automobiles kept the American industrial system, partic- ularly the steel industry, living on in a hectic, feverish fashion, long after the causes of industrial de- pression were already dragging at it. Fiercer competition with Euro- pean imperialist forces abroad, in- cluding tariff wars, have now re- duced the exports, and then automo- biles, being a semi-luxury, are hit hardest among the first of the in- dustries suffering the general de- pression. The T. U. U. L. finds the automo- bile workers ready to organize and fight. A convention, with repre- sentation from the shops, the un- employed, and the unorganized, is being called before long by the au- tomobile workers’ union. It will |start a strong organizational drive in the industry and will be preceded and prepared for by conferences, mass meetings, and special attention to Negro workers, young workers, and women workers, afl of whom play a large part in the auto in- dustry. Building Boom Ends. The decrease in building, the T. U. U. L. board found, has been go- ing on for some time and is falling more rapidly now. The financial journals, the Annalist, clearly state that building is already overdone, and must cease. This does hot mean that the number of workers’ homes is too great, but that the profitabe slupplying of middle class homes and apartments, office buildings, and industrial construetion has come to an end. Workers will be left to crowd themselves two or three fam- ilies in an apartment the same as before—for they cannot afford bet- ter quarters at the rates landlords are able to charge. The number of unemployed build- ing workers is considerable already and is certain to grow. Program and Conference. The building trades committee of the T. U. U. L. is working out an organizational program and is in- structed to consider calling a na- tional conference before long and place field organizers at work. The old union bureaucracies have done nothing whatever to meet the col- lapse of the building boom. Greater attention to securing T. U. U. L. members in the old unions and out- side of them is urged upon the building committee by the T. U. U. L. national board. for U.8.8.R, Wednesday. The del- égation will be away about five weeks, 4 Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Bnterpfises! |League of Nations in Solicitation for War Appeal Against Soviet GENEVA, Nov. 27.—Indicating that the imperialist League of Na- tions would be glad to intervene against the Soviet Union if the Nan- king government asks it to, the League officials practically invite such solicitation in an announcement that a special council session would be called on the demand of China. Washington yesterday stated that | \“it remains to be seen” what the |U. S. and other powers can do, and |quotes the Kellogg Pact in which |signatories are pledged to settle all by pacific means. But |since the U. S. Congress exempted |its Monroe Doctrine claim for dom- |ination of Latin America from oper- jation of the “pact,” it can scarcely j become morally indignant, especially as it incited China to violate the same pact by seizing the Chinese |Eastern Railway and refusing to settle the dispute on terms of the 1924 treaty, also violated by the seizure. GULF SHIPPING BOSSES JAIL 3 Seared by Influence of M. W. L. (Continued from Page One) | Workers League on the Gulf Coast, just as the Pacific Coast shippers are frightenéd, the shipping bosses, expressing they are determined to stamp out the imilitant organization to which the seamen are responding, resorted to the use of Act 24, passed during the imperialist world war, in thé attempt to railroad the two sea- men, * A statement issued by George Mink, national secretary of the Ma- rine Workers League, with head- quarters at 28 South Street, New a o* Asronson and Davis as a concerted action by the shipping bosses, the reactionary misleaders of the Inter- |national Seamens Union, and the In- | ternational Longshoremens Associ- ation, as well as the textile mill owners. “The shipping bosses and the mis- leaders of the A. I’. of L. seamens’ jand longshoremens’ unions realize the rapid growth of the M. W. L. among the seamen, to the extent that they have attacked two of our locals, both little more than a month old. ganizers have not only shown their organizational strength among the seamen, but. have also shown: their itant workers, in San Pedro, New Orleans, or any other port will net prevent the M.W.L. from proceeding with its dtive to organize the ex- ploited seamen, and from fighting the reactionary I.L.U. and L.A. fakers. 4 @. 4 BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov. 27.— The steel trust, having succeeded in railroading three workers in Mar- tins Ferry, Ohio, to possible ten yéar terms in prison, will attempt to railtoad three more workers, members of the Communist Party, in Bethlehem, on December 1. This is the date on which the trial of William Murdock, Anna Burlack, and William Brown begins, on charges of “sedition” These three militant workers were arrested when a May Day demon- stration was attacked and broken up by the police in Bethlehem, ac- | ting at the orders of the Bethle-| hem Steel Go. They have been out on $2,000 bail. see NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 27. --An ancient Virginia state law will be used in the attempt to rail- road Stephen Graham, member of the Communist Party, who is charged with “inciting the Negroes to rebellion.” Graham was arrested several weeks ago when he addressed a meeting of both Negro and white workers of the Southern Spring Co, The International Labor Defense is defending him. Graham has also been thteatened with deportation to fascist Jugoslavia, where probable imprisonment and possible execu- tion awaits him. Arrest Steel “Worker; Seek to Deport Him and Leave 3 Kids Here John Goretski. of Roscoe, Pa, a steel worker at the Pittsburgh Co., mill at Allenport, was arrested to- day on # deportation warrant charg- ing illegal entry. He was jailed when he applied for his second cit- izenship papers. He arrived here in 1920. Goretski is held for $1,000 bond He is being separated from his wife and four children, three of whom were burn in Ametica, and will be held here if he is deported. The children’s mother lives here. Gor- etski is a member of the Slovak Workers Society. 800 MILLION FOR WAR. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—War expenditures for 1933 fave been ad- vanced to $803,000,000, an increase of $120,000,000 as compared with last year. The fact that the pres- ent. expenditures are nearly four times greater than the pre-war mil- itary outlay is indicative of the rapid war preparations, York, characterized the arrest of| “The Marine Workers League 6r-| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 27. —} ‘Penn. | Textile Toilers Strike Against Firing NIU Worker U.S, STEELS ARE (By a Worker Correspondent) Tuesday night, Nov. 20, the night shift of 17 boys in the West Park | Silk Mill went out on strike 100 per cent because one of the boys, a member of the National Textile Workers’ Union, was fired. He was the third member who had been fired from the mill in a very short time. | This strike is being led by the N. T. W. U. in Seranton. This is but one of the many struggles of the tex- tile workers here in the anthracite section. This strike is a small one, but very significant. The role of the N. ,T. W. U. and the Young Communist ssist- ; League that has given every ance and leading the young workers in a militant struggle against the bosses is accepted by many young workers in the mill. They have ral- lied under the banner of the left wing for the following demands: (1) A minimum wage of $20 per week for the day shift. (2) A mini- mum wage of $25 for the night (3) Hight-hour day and 40-| héur week for all workers. (4) Two fifteen-minute rest periods. (5) Organization into the mill local of \the N. T. W. U. and recognition of | |this local by the boss. (7) Time and ja half for overtime. (8) Seven shirt. frames instead of ten. | | ‘Depression Getting |Worse’: Federal Board | (Continued from Page One) jissued by the Federal Resérve Board |on present economic é¢onditions. This statement was issued at the same time that the National (Fas- cist) Economic Council was sum- moned to Washington for December 5. Latest reports are that the lead- ers of the American Federation of Labor will be drawn ifito the work of the fascist organization, and will be given prominent roles in the at- tacts on the stand-rd of living of the afi workers, which will be the sideration of economic war organization created by the United States Chamber of Com- merce. Here afe some of the gems of the | Federal Reserve Board which expose {as unadulterated bunk the “stabil- ization” statements published by Hoover, Green, Muste and Lovestone. | “There was a decline of industrial | production, mainly in steel and auto- |mobiles during October and a de- crease in factory employment... .” The Fedéral Reserve points out |that industrial production has been declining for a long time but that “Industrial production declined fur- ther in October.” | “Production in basic industries, for several which had declined |months . .. . showed a further re- | duction,” says the report. | “The decline in production reflect- ed chiefly further decreases in out- |put of steel and automobiles. .. .. .. Preliminary reports for the first half of November indicate further reduc- tion in output of steel and automo- biles; and a decrease in cotton tex- solidarity with the southern mill | tiles.” workers. ‘ és 3 “The volume of (building) con- The reign of terror against mil-| struction further declined in the early part of November... . .. Shipments of freight by railroads decreased in October and the first two weeks in November.” The picture painted by the Fed- eral Reserve, a very biased artist in \favor of capitalism, is a much {blacker one than the optimistic statements for the consumption of the masses issued from the White | House crisis conferences. | “Labor” Minister Uses Slander on Jobless Which Bosses Rejected |ployment growing steadily, and the “labor” government through J. H.| Thomas proposing wholly insuffi- | cient relief, Thomas recently came | forward, evidently as a “try-out” to | see if the laborites could get away | |with it, with the idea that unem- [ployment relief was all wrong in |principle, as it “demoralized” the | workers receiving it, and intimated that workers would not accept work. There are now some 1,250,000 unem- ployed registered. Four yeats ago a committee of economists, capitalists, of course, made a study of unémployment and unemployment relief, publishing their findings in a book, “Unemploy- ment Insurance in Great Britain” (Macmillan), and to the question the committee proposed «for itself: “Does the present systém diminish the normal incentive to find work?” To this, these capitalist investigators replied: “The assumption that work- ers prefer idleness and doles to work and wages is obviously too crude to fit the facts.” As to the unemployed worker be- jing “demoralized” by getting a few shillings a week to live on, one |questioner wants to know how de- |moralized Lord Carson, one of the British nobility, is going to be, since he has just retired on a government pension of $350 per week, JAIL NEGRO WORKERS MACON, Ga. (by mail). —TIn this section, which is the center of the National Textile Workers drive for organization of the Geor- | gia mill workers, | workers have been jailed in a gen- | eral round-up of Negro workers fol- lowing the finding of the body of |B. Morhead, a white merchant. The usual course of the courts here is to railroad a few Negro workers to long years in prison on such oc- casions as this. BOAST OF FAKERY. PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— ‘The misleaders of the American Fed- eration of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers are boasting that their class-collaboration pact with the full-fashioned manufacturers “is having a helpful effect on the trade,” a) es | LONDON, Nov. 27.—With unem- | seven Negro, UNEMPLOYED IN OHIO ORGANIZE Form Council; Favor | March to City Hall CLE |—With 65, employed, and the ranks of the un- jemployed being swelled by daily lay- offs in the big plants here, the job- less workers of Cleveland are be- coming more militant each day. They are now moving toward the or- |ganization of councils of the unem- ployed. Already several mass meetings have been held under the auspices |of the Communist Party, which will }lead the fight of the unemployed, and hundreds of unemployed work- ‘ers have listened eagerly for the call to action. | The Cleveland unemployed work- ers, led by the Unemployed Council, have issued a demand for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the ‘bosses and their government. The militancy of the unemployed workers has risen to such an extent that they are now demanding that the Unempoyed Council lead a march to the City Hall. Soldiers Killed in War on Soviet Union Brought to America The steamship President Roosevelt of the U. S. Line is expected to ar- rive tomorrow with the bodies of 75 soldiers who were killed in the war of American imperialism on the So- viet Union in 1919, in an attempt to crush the Russian workers and peasants government. A united front of all the imperial- ist nations was established in Arch- angel in 1919 directed against the Soviet Union. The Red Army was victorious. The American soldiers, D, Ohio, November 27 from Detroit, mutinied several times. ke, the bourxeots age, ea this—that it is Antngonismea. a clety is splitting up into two great hostile camps. into two great and directly contrn< 1 bourgeoisie and pro- rx. { The Central Committee o | U. S. A. printed a quarte if and its effect upon the | | | LOTS ABOVE 5,000 AT + COM 7 00 Cleveland workers ur-| most of whom were auto workers | Hoover Declares War on Workers! Fight Hoover’s National Fascist Council! Fight the Betrayal of the A. F. of L! leaflet dealing with the developing economic crisis leaflet will be given mass distribution to the work- ers in factories, mines and mills. and sub-district organizer is requested to place his order immediately for the largest possible Lula Send your order to MUNIST PARTY U.S.A,, 43 East 25th St. N. Y. C. 95 PERCENT IN BARRED IN VOTE So Company Gets Own Men on Committee (By a Worker Correspondent) CARTERET, N. J. (By Mail).— The notice was recently put up in the U. S. Metals Refining Co. plant here enumerating the rules and reg- ulations of the shop committee, |This isn’t a workers’ shop commit+ tee—it’s a company-run affair. The election of the committee, as |I wrote the Daily the other day, was |the third Wednesday in October. | The company’s rule saying that no worker who hasn’t been with the {company at least three years can |be eligible as a committeeman \eliminated about 95 per cent of the |workers, This large percentage |was supposed to have selected the |men to handle their grievances. | Well, when these workers know they jeannot become committeemen, they laren’t taking a lot of interest in the elections. | The remaining five per cent who jare eligible are the company’s own jmen. Practically all of them have jexclusive jobs, and they will elect |themselves to “represent” the dis- enfranchuised 95 per cent of work- ers in the U. S. Metals Refining Co. Another thing in the regulations |—only those at least 90 days in the company’s employ have the right to |vote. Due to the constant shift and the danger from poisonous gas, this | kept at least 25 per cent of the men from voting. It was a “wonderful” shop com- mittee “selected” to “represent” the workers. Company lackeys! This committee will be the instrument to |break the coming strike when the workers revolt again. They can have their company shop committee, but we’re going to have our own workers’ shop com- mittee—Maxim Tramp. | | Western Electric and | Northwestern Shops Fire 11,000 Workers CHICAGO, Nov. 27—The West- ‘ern Electric Co. has already laid off jover 8,000 workers, and is continuing the policy of wholesale cutting down |of forces. The Northwestern Railroad Co. has laid off 3,000 men. The highly | skilled workers, especially railroad | machinists, are being fired. This does not jibe with the state- | ments of the railroad executives who | attended Hoover's crisis conference | that they intend to keep up “nor- |mal” activities. | MINER BADLY HURT LOGAN, W. Va. (by mail) — Thomas Mann, worker in the Proc- tor Mines, was severely injured | when a section of the wall in the mine in which he was working loos- ened and fell on him. Oa a CH f the Communist Party of r of a million of a special American workers. This Every district $1.50 PER THOUSAND eR OIRO EO ee ee In Its Dee Gastonia sentence: “Bosses’ Justice the stock market erash; nt ) Manchuria, where the Sov “A Steel Trust Lynching,” by J. Amter; photos of sub drive. 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