The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 1

On the Anniversary of the Canton Soviet, We Hail the Reviving Revolution of the Chinese Workers and Peasants! FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ip New York by mall. 88.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURS The Class Struggle and Our Party in Southern Illinois The Illinois coal strike, like all sharp struggles of this kind, brings into clear relief and alignment the class forces which are at war. From government down through the list of ruling class forces to the gunmen recruited from the Chicago gutter districts, the allies of capitalism have been mobilized. The Peabody mines, owned by one of the largest coal companies in America, have been turned into fortresses guarded by state troops. John L. Lewis is allied with the coal barons as are Fishwick and Farrington—the latter fresh from his lucrative post as an open agent of the Peabody Coal Company in re- turn for a $25,000 bribe. As in Butte, the heart of the metal mining district, in 1914, when a new militant union arose on the ruins of the old Western Federation of Miners, sunk in reaction and destroyed by the Anaconda Mining Company because it was no longer of use to it, when troops were sent in and the miners’ leaders railroaded to prison, so in Illinois the coal barons and their government, having gutted the United Mine Workers and turned it into a company union, are appalled at the sight of the National Miners’ Union uniting the mine workers around its program of militant struggle, winning the support in actual struggle of thou- sands of miners who repudiate the slave pact of Fishwick, Farrington and Lewis. The military have occupied some coal towns and are preparing to occupy others. Freeman Thompson, leader of the miners in Spritg- field, has been seized by the authorities and his whereabouts is un- known as this is written, The miners are fighting back. The,strike is spreading. Mass picketing continues. Every day brings reports of additional mines closed by strikes. Continual betrayals by leaders create demoralization and dis- couragement—for a time. Unemployment has a deadening effect— for a time. Blacklisting, jailing of militant leaders, the murder of others—all these weapons and more have been used against the miners of Illinois. They check the advance—for a time. But the flaming will of the miners to struggle, while it burned for awhile less brightly, was never quenched. It has flared forth again with new vigor and has already scorched the hands of the social traitors stretched forth fo snuff it out. For it was upon the social reformists that the coat barons depended. They were the ones delegated by the bosses to withdraw the fuel of the class struggle from the old union cf the miners and to heap the wet dung of class peace so high that the wil] of the miners to fight would be smothered or strangled in its poisonous fumes. The traitors have failed. This all-important fact will be registered ih the mind of every miner and must be noted by every other member of our class. The social traitors have failed in their efforts to conceal the class char- acter of the whole struggle between the miners, the bosses and their government. The miners under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union have taken the offensive. This is the second all-important fact in con- nection with the Illinois strik Conceal Fact | | Haiti Strike Still Is On | Washington, Dec. 11.—Although | effort is being made to pretend that | “all is quiet in Haiti,” the fact | ° ° ous creeps through that the strike is| Fight Vile Conditions; PRISONERS IN "AUBURN REVOLT; ! The lickspittle “president,” Luis Borno, who was never elected by the Haitian people, has issued a “state- |ment,” undoubtedly written by the still on and martial law is still in| nian O° force to hold back the mass move-| Second Uprising |ment boiling under the surface, | in Year { | Troops Called “In Series of Revolts Show imperialist “High Commissioner,” Brigadier General Russell, claiming | : . |that with proper repressive meas-| | Growing Protest [ures by the armed forces, “there is | BULLETIN. |little chance of progress by the i strikers. | Eleven prisoners and one guard | Borno attempts to justify the | had been killed, last minute reports |massacre of the peasants of Aux|from Auburn declared, and 20 bar- Cayes, by saying that the United |Ticaded men were still holding out States was “obliged by treaty to| against thousands of troopers, maintain peace” in Haiti, One can | guards and police. Gas attacks and scarcely define “peace” as conso-| machine-gun fire raked the embat- jnant with the shooting down of un-|tled prisoners who were fighting jarmed peasants, and further the | against the miserable conditions and jabsurd claim that the United States | tortures meted out to them since is “obliged’ to do so is exposed by | the July revolt. Warden Jennings, the fact that the United States jforced the treaty upon the Haitian | was saved by state troopers. |people in the same way it forced) aupupn 'N. ¥, Det 11.—Fight- Borno upon them. It is as ridicu- |. Saat cio vist tonleae al |lous a claim as a highwayman might |'7& ,284!ns sig Hee » ;conditions in the state, 1,700 im- |make that he had “made a treaty” |~". i bi ‘s fe | with his victim which provides that {P‘8oned men in Auburn prison, fo ae A lthe second time this year, revolted the vietim must give up his money, |t") Gntied Wieder Wiser Ton is “obliged” to kill him—all in due |and captured: Warten. | Ea sen: | Having armed themselves, the age, Bom. statement attacks) bittered men who have suffered “agitators,” but admits that the 116 rottenest conditions imaginable, whole people had risen against au ee ea eet ens he overeat thority and “taken possession of the [#5 je0, 08 undergone the severe Hstreets with audacity, in Port-au- : SEIZE WARDEN When Auburn Prison- ers Revolted in J ul y oomcmeecs S “ { 1 } | | | | |, For the second time the 1,700 Au- |burn prisoners revolted against |grafting jail keepers and vile |prison conditions. This is one of a long series of prison rebellions , who agreed to free the prisoners,/ which are swesping the country, |rising to rule. The prisons are being crowded with broken workers and unemployed un- der the vicious Baumes and indeter- minate sentence laws that capital- lism is directing against the work- ers. Warden Edgar Jennings seen in center. WITNESSES HIT STATE LIARS IN Dr . jin July, made a prisoner of the war- Ponce Gbne Yea den and the chief guards and de-| apemal aad Gonaives He: Clatine (7a andled tein teaedom: | that “ambitious politicians” had |". were immediately rushed | “foolishly imagined that the mili-|,, the prison, and latest reports are | jtary forces of occupation would con- |? tt. wvcit ‘has been quelled by | vert themselves into accomplices” j 410 ioundér of “tle Tehderd, of the| jagainst Borno’s rule. | uprisi i Many Haitian attorneys have re-| Tp the last revolt against the aw- | fused, in a signed statement, to ap- }ful conditions, two prisoners were | Pear in courts on any cases until “a |\illed, several were severely wound- | AGCORS! CASE | Defend Right to Shoot Murderous Trooper; Dicks Frame ILD is | Price 3 Cents Outside New York. by mail $6.00 ver vear YANGTZE VALLEY 10,000 OUT ON SECOND AFLAME;NANKING DAY OF ILLINOIS MINER RULE SLIPPING — STRIKE: STILL SPREADS Foreign Troops Firing, on Crowds; Shanghai, | Christian County Mines All Stopped; Pickets Canton_in Panic Battle at Springfield; Many More Ready cay ees it Canton | Mass Pickets Dare Soldiers to Shoot; Thompson Report Starts Flight of Kidnapped; Labor Defense Rushes Attorney ‘Bourgeoisie BULLETIN FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 11.—The miners in all 40 locals of the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have voted to strike for the 1917 wage scale. The vote was a disagreeable surprise to the Lewis ad- ministration here, which is already trying to avoid a walkout, District President W. D. Duncan stated today that nothing would be done “until the International Board sanctions it.” But the vote shows the fighting Dressive authority of the Nanking| nirit of theameny and delegates who attended the Zeigler tri-state cone government and the approach of a ess "} ner f 4 'situation in which anything may | ference of the National Miners Union are certain that they will soon happen in the line of new forces, join the Illinois miners’ strike. « PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 11.—Two carloads of National Miners’ Union organizers left here today to participate in the Illinois strike. News was received here today that George Voyzey, Illinois district president of the N. M. U., has been arrested. The N. M. U. is cir- cularizing th whole labor movement with an appeal for funds with which to wage a successful struggle. . * SHANGHAI, Dec. 11—While a| |wall of censorship conceals most of | the events now going on in central | China, up the Yangtze river, both | here in Shanghai and in Canton the | condition of panic and disturbance among the population indicates clearly the disintegration of the re- | * | Reports that the military rebels | |were about to attack the Shanghai- | |Nanking railway station, and the| posting of troops around the build- | ing, is said to be the cause of a mass | rush of thousands of Chinese to} enter the international settlement. | ‘The way was barred by imperialist | police, armed with rifles and by} eyo reedind willey. totais | WEST FRANKFORT, Ill., Dec. 11—The Illinois Miners’ eae Get ate that. pressed | Strike is gaining momentum daily. Yesterday, a partial check- lagainst: the -barbed-wire ' fences set | up at the district office here of the National Miners’ Union, ‘up. | which is leading the strike, showed 10,000 men out, miners A “demonstration,” the character! marching on other mines, and the strike spreading rapidly. of which is unknown at present, on | ® The entire midland fields, the south border of the French con- | yi zi ea - 1 Rrandh| south of Springfield and north uni Heeroma ad HOOVER AIDS lor the southern coal fields is SUGAR BARON | struck, with 6,000 men. out. | Annamits’ troops succeeded in-hold- There are seven mines there; iends Get * jing the crowd back and erecting | {heavier barriers. they are not only struck, but effec- | tively picketed, with masses of ; Strikers on all the roads, and fae- | At Canton, reports tell of a bat- | jtle only a few miles from the city, | ing the state militia fearlessly.. Thé in which claim is made that the de- | a |fending Nanking forces drove back | President’s Fr |those of the rebel militarist Chang | The third fact of equal importance is that the Communist Party (Continued on Page Three) of the United States is playing a mighty role in this working class of- fensive. In one of the principal centers of basic industry our Party is the acknowledged organizer and director of this class battle. Once more the Lovestones, Lores and Cannons have been exposed as the bearers of middle class passimism and cowardice in the ranks of the working class. The most bitter denunciation of our Party and its program and tactics has come from this source and particularly in reference to the developing struggle in Illinois. The class struggle itself, the iron determination of the miners, has given the lie tosthese |new order” has been instituted. While | ¢q and six escaped. {the censored dispatches give only} When captured by the embattled an idea of their statement, it Was | men, Jennings fearing the wrath | probably made as a protest against | of the men he caused to be tortured, the martial law established by U. S- | pleaded with the troops and guards | marines, and the streets and trials {gn the outside to let the prisoners by American marine officers of ‘go free. strikers and leaders of the struggle. |" py, Raymond F. C. Kieb, com- = wns missioner of correction promised an The Communist Party of the U.|investigation on conditions after 5 aT |militia was sent on the first day | Big Sums to Enlist {Cr the strike to make their hese. dozen witnesses testified for the de-! His Aid quarters in Taylorville, Christian fense in the Salvatore Accorsi case | |County, and to garrison the mine today, proving that he was Tepeiey iLGW FASCISTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-—Pres. | buildings, set up machine guns jing his car at his home in Russel. | ident. Hoover has been working around the tipples, and menace ae ut |ton, miles from the scene of the laloaaly. rth the big sugar barons | Pickets with their bayonets. |Sacco-Vanzetti meeting at the time, | DEFEND BENITO \in their tariff fights. This was re- {Christian County is struck solid, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 11—A |and for two hours after, the State |vealed by the exposure of the fact | With every mine closed down. | Trooper Downey was shot while |that Edwin P. Shattuck, personal| The Buckner mine in Franklin |beating up miners at the meeting. | renegades. All support to the Illinois miners and the National Miners’ Union! Right from the ranks of the struggle in Ilinois the district leader- ship of our Party can and must recruit a mighty proletarian contingent fox Communism. In southern Illinois is the most fertile field for the Party membership campaign. Here the keen edge of the class strug- gle has carved a broad base for the party of the proletariat—the Com- miunist Party. Communist Parties have no interests separate and apart from the interests of the working class. In Illinois our comrades are in the front ranks of the struggle. There our Party will remain until the struggle is won in the “Iilino:s mine fields—and until the final victory of Communism over capitalism in the United States. Canton Soviet Showed Way! The masses of China are again entering an active struggle for the further development of the Revolution, On this second anniversary of the Canton Soviet, of December 12, 1927, it is extremely valuable to recall the history of that time. That the Canton Soviet showed the road for the Chinese masses is again being confirmed by the events surrounding the second anniversary of that hefvie action. At this moment the government of Chiang K: "sil Street, is collapsing in the face of the rising tide of mass 1 wence of the workers and peasants and the simultaneous blows of the rival military groups under the direction of the Anglo-Japanese im- perialist bloc. The active militarist insurrectionists are working under the banner of replacing Chiang Kai-shek with Wang Ching-wei, much- touted “Left” leader of the Kuomintang. Who is Wang Ching-wei? On this anniversary of Canton, let him be remembered as the exe- cutioner of five thousand workers. Wang Ching-wei was the agent of the imperialists and militarists in the butchery which followed the Canton Soviet. He worked under the official protection of the British battleships and forts of Hongkong, and through the assistance of the American gunboats in the Pearl River in Canton. He personally directed the slaughter. The military leader of Wang Ching-wei’s forces, is General Chang Fa-kwei, now leading the attack upon Canton. Chang Fa-kwei was the same instrument used two years ago by Wang Ching-wei for the slaughter of the workers> Wi > ere the associates of Wang Ching-wei today in his bid for power against Chiang Kai-shek? He is working hand in hand with the Kwangsi clique, whose principal military leader is Li Chi-sen, per- petvator of the massacre of Apri] 15, 1927, when the flower of the Canton working class, three hundred leaders of the Canton-Hongkong general strike committee, were suddenly seized in the night and exe- cuted in coll blood. And with Li Tsung-jen, commander in Hankow in 1928. whose chief lieutenant, General Hu Tsung-tu, boasted that he would rather kill ten “innocent” people than allow one Communist to escape alive. And with Tang Shen-shi, the servant of a thousand masters, the perpetrator of the massacre of peasants in Changsha, Hunan, on May 20, 1927, And with Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan, Chang Hsueh-liang, and the whole miscellany whose only bond of unity is their common direction from the Anglo-Japanese imperialist bloc and their common desire for a chance at the booty of central government. The masses of China will say good-bye to Chiang Kai-shek with the full measure of contempt and hatred which he deserves, and hasten his journey with as many blows as possible. But let there be no illu- sions about the immediate Chiang Kai-shek’s suceessor-——Wang Ching- wei, who has many times demonstrated that he will follow essentially the same policy, only being closer to another master, Britain instead of the U. S. The Canton Soviet! Towards this glorious page in the history of the Chin Revolution must the masses of China turn nov, on its sec- ond anniversary, as the beacon-light pointing the way for the next _ forward step toward liberation and the building of a new life. On December 12, 1927, the workers of Canton seized power from the militavists of all groups, and set up their own government. For three days they held power, and were finally crushed only by hek, puppet of _ |S. stands for complete independence | the July revolt, but the outcome was |of the Haitian people. Workers are | urged in its present membership jcampaign io become members of the ‘Communist Party. BROACH BUILDS — ~NO-STRIKE FUND land pvererowding which directly led to the present militant resistance of (Continued on Page Three) BIG NAVIES |Electrical Union Head | ;.,c Warersaki and’ Adwiral Taker Has New Trick on Men jabe, heading the Japanese delega- ; tion to the London naval armament By JACK TAYLOR. conference, arrived here on their H. “Little Caesar” Broach, the way to argue for more cruisers for | International faker who only a short Japanese imperialism. 5 |time ago directed his machine in| Wakatsuki is former Premier of | Electrical Workers’ Local 3 to, levy Japan and Takrabe is minister of | a strike assessment of $50 for jout- the navy. Both will put up a vig- neymen and $25 per helper for a orous fight to increase the Japa- ke that was never called, has nese naval strength so that it may n no accounting to the member-|try to extend its colonies in the shin of the unfon of the money |next world war, = raised as a result of the assessment. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Secre- Undoubtedly he and his clique in|, of the Navy, Charles Francis | the union have good reasons for not Adams, is pushing the building of ing to give an accounting. (Continued om Page Two) | wantil i In order to offset the growing cenig sentiment of unrest .among the BOSSES FIGHT COMPENSATION. members of the union resulting) Even the existing New York State | from unemployment and unfair con- | Workmens Compensation Act, which | ditions on the job, Broach together | gives the bosses the best of it, is | with the bosses, has arrived at a being attacked as invalid by the little scheme wherewith he hopes to Staten Island Rapid Transit Co., | turn the dissatisfaction of the mem- | which wants no workmens compen- bers away from the road of strug- sation at all. 4 inst himself and his machine |.» — ~~~ IRR | leat, s || NOTICE TO ALL PARTY MEM- Check-Off Insurance, | BERS IN; DISTRICT 2. “Little Caesar’s” present scheme | is “old age and disability insur: ance.” Under this scheme the con- | | tractor is supposed to put aside 20. cents per hour per man employed | | by him. This money is then placed | (Continned on Page Two) All members must receive di- rections from Section and Unit organizers on the demonstration which takes place Saturday at 1.15 p. m., at the Federal Build- | ing, Park Row and Broadway. | Every member of the Party is instructed to drop work if neces- sary and participate in this | DAILY WORKER AGENTS | ATTENTION! | the worsening of the vile conditions | It is for Downey’s death that the Mellon owned State of Pennsylvania is trying to railroad Accorsi to elec- | trocution. The defense witnesses, who in- |clude Accorsi’s wife, two barbers, |and the repair man from whom the |miner defendant bought spare parts |to fix up his car on the day of the meeting, all testify that Accorsi never had a mustache. This is im- |portant because the two prosecution | “ , |‘eye witnesses,’ State Trooper Brown VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 11.—Rei- |and the coal operators’ spy, Coplan, | jsaid that Accorsi, whom they jtified as the killer of Down ‘a mustache. Sear From Accident. The defense also proved that Ac- iden- has not from a blow from Downey’ as the prosecution witnes: but from an accident on the job. | At yesterday’s ion District ‘Attorney Langfitt outlined the case for the State and demanded the |death sentence. The majority of the witnesses for the state were (Continued on Page Three) | ‘Chinese Workers and Peasants Against Imperialism in China | The Daily Worker publishes herewith a statement recently issued | by the Chinese Students Alliance clear explanation and political accuracy of this document make it of great value to American workers. STATEMENT OF TH ALLIANCE IN THE U. SOVIET CRISIS” IN MANCHURIA, IMPERI- ALIST MANEUVERS AND DANGER OF WAR * | { IN THE FAR EAST. | Imperialist war maneuvers in Manchuria which brought about the | attorney and close friend of the im-| County is on strike, with Coella and E CHINESE STUDENTS icted Must 'perialist. boss in Washington, re- inally Conv F bong C | ceived $50,000 from Herbert C. La- kin, president of the Cuba Co., a Try to Fool Workers |corporation controlled by the Na- Latest reports from the Interna- | tional City Bank of New York, for tional Ladies’ Garment Workers |his help in enlisting Hoover’s sup- Convention at Cleveland indicate | port for the sugar trusts. that Schlesinger, ringmaster of that | Of course, Hoover does not need strange circus of Lamar tf to jack pursuading to help his old pany union officials, had himself to | do a little balancing act. Some sim-| (Comtinued on Page Three) | ple delegates from Boston intro- | | duced a resolution demanding that} |ian language sheet, should never | | publish anything against Mussolini. | | These delegates were surprised at! AGAINST USSR | Schlesinger, who apes the methods | |and theory of the blackshirt chief | so well, because he wanted to throw| rs ‘ | mud at his fellow traveler in the|Six Meetings and Big | swamp of class collaboration. | Sepa ge The machine finally convincea, Demonstration to these cranks, however, that they had Rally Workers to run with the rest of the ap- paratus, which must not yet be too| Tomorrow night in all neighbor- easily understood by the workers, |hoods of the city, six monster dem- The boss has use for it. The reso- | onstrations will take place. These | (Continued on Page Two) /are held in protest against the brutal 2. | slaughter of Haitian workers by the jarmed forces of the United States marines who are there to protect the investments of the National City | Bank and against the continual mob- \ilization by the State Department \for war against the Soviet Union. |The demonstrations which are called |by the Communist Party will be ad- dressed by Chinese as well as Amer- The remarkably \ican Communists. Saturday afternoon at 1.15 p. m. all New York workers are called to gather in front of the Federal building at Park Row and Broadway jto demand complete independence |for all colonial countries and in de- fense of the Chinese Revolution and in the U. S. A. * * . 5. A. ON THE “SINO- publics, The movement for the struggle marked the beginning of ajagainst imperialism is rapidly gain- |ing headway. This is indicated in | ists, (long vies of continuous raids on) jthe Union of Soviet Socialist Re-| A yery important meeting of all | unit Daily Worker representatives _ in the district will be held tonight at |8 p.m. at the Workers Center. Party | Recruiting-Daily Worker Drive, | Sixth Anniversary Celebration, and | | many other important questions will ' demonstration. Organization Department, District 2. be taken up. sentatives will the attendance, Section D. W. Repre- make a check-up on | “Sino-Soviet erisis” have been going | the Soviet border and led to a seri- ‘on for several years. The Nanking ous international crisis that most |and Mukden militarists acted as im-| menacingly threatens the peace of | perialist agents in these maneuvers’ the world. and, utterly against the will and in- Persistent efforts on the part ef \terests of the mass of the Chinese the capitalist press and imperialist people, repeatedly provoked the So-| governments and their lackeys to | viet Union and did their best to at-! misrepresent the true state of facts | tack and humiliate the only country | concerning the “Sino-Soviet crisis” the fact that numerous workers or- ganizations are adopting resolutions and holding meetings to voice their sentiments. On Friday night at 8 |p. m. at St. Luke’s Hall in upper | Harlem, the American Negro Labor | Congress has announced that it will hold a meeting in denunciation of the massacres now being carried { —_—$—S— — | the combined forces of the militarists, and British and American | gunboats, | The ferocious slaughter of workers which followed, and which | caused the streets of Canton to flow with blood for weeks, did not bury the Canton Soviet. On the contrary, the unexampled white terror | served to drive deep into the consciousness of the Chinese masses the | conviction that only the complete annihilation of the militarist cliques, and of their bourgeois-landlord-imperialist masters, can open the way to liberation of the Chinese masses. Just as the Canton Soviet aroused all the fear, hatred and fero- city of the bourgeoisie and the imperialists, so it arouses all the de- termination and revolutionary heroism of the workers and peasents. There is no other possible road for the Chinese masses. The Canton Soviet of 1927 showed the way. in the world that respects the rights | of the Chinese people and treats China with equality. These provoca- | tions, ranging from raids on the So- viet Embassy and Consulates to the |arrest and murder of consulate of-| |ficials, culminated in the forcible | | seizure of the Chinese Eastern Rail- | | way this July, in direct violation of | | the Sino-Russian agreement of 1924, | the only equal treaty that China j has ever concluded with a foreign power. This outrageous stunt of | the Chinese militarists, Derturned | under the direction of the imperial- % and the sudden touching concern for! thru in Haiti. Resolutions are also China expressed by the cold-blooded | being considered in all militant trade imperialists ever since the beginning | unions which will be adopted and of the “Sino-Soviet crisis” should | published in a few days. warn every fair-minded Chinese and| The meetings tomorrow ni every real friend of the Chinese | take place as follows: people to examine carefully the true | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., issue anJ real significance of the| and Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. near Present dispute between the Chinese 42nd St.; Bronx, Rose Gardens, 1347 militarists and the Soviet Union. Boston Rd.; Williamsburg, Miller's 1. is a serious mistake to regard | Grand Assembly Wall, 318 Grand the seizure of the Chinese Eastern St.; Brownsville, Hopkinson Man- Railway as carrying out the nation- sion, 428 Hopkinson Ave.; Long Is- al demand of the Chinese people. land, Bohemian Hall, Second and (Continued on Page Three) | Woolsey Aves. ight will Manhattan: | Valier miners taking a strike vote |last night and sure to join the mass | revolt against operators’ extortion and United Mine Workers of Amer- ica treachery. To the southeastward of Franklin | County, the strike movement has | begun and will develop. The same ‘is true of Belleville, and Staunton | territories, to the northeastward, but in the southern coal fields. Miners from Taylorville are marching on the mines around Springfield. The local police and deputies at Springfield yesterday (Continued on Page Three) | | ii International I! Wireless | News | DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FAS- CISTS. (Wireless by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Dec. 11—Yesterday the workers of Czecho-Slovakia (demonstrated against the new so- | cialist-fascist government. The dem- ‘on stration here was addressed by a ,Communist member of the German Reichstag. At Ziskov the demonstra tion was broken up by police, 2 € WIN STRIKE IN BELGIUM, (Wireless by Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, Dec. 11.—The strike jof fishermen at Ostend has ended |with success. The fishermen win |six holidays off, with pay, and alse |10 francs’ increase in their wages, | ge | STRIKE BRITISH WOOLEN | MILLS, (Wirelcss by Inprecorr) 5 LONDON, Dec. 11.—The wool , {workers at Saddleworth have de- cided to strike Thursday night © jagainst the threatened wage cut of 10 per cent. Shoe Bosses Forced to Fire Scabs From the official and unofficial picket lines, the office of the Inde- |pendent Shoe Workers is receiving ‘news of lay-offs of scabs by the |scores. In the Colonial shop about |16 scabs have been suspended from |work until after New Years. In |the others, of the 22 shops that have either locked out the members of the Union on the advise of Woods, {of the Labor Department, or have been struck because they wanted to ‘cut wages or start piece work. Employers are hiring detectives from private agencies by the score for the purpose of visiting each and every member of this union. and threatening them,