The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1930, Page 1

What “Military Secrets” Can the U. Government Talk Over With Rival Im- perialist Governments, But Can Not Make Public?, Under the Name of “Peace” War Is Being Prepared —First of All Against the Soviet Union! untercd ay second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, Published daily ex Company, Inc., t Sunday by Th Union Square, Vol. VI, No. 275 ¢ Comprodaily Publishing é New York City, Sth 5 N. ¥. NEW | | PriceCutting, Imperialist War and Class Struggle An obscure item in a New York newspaper says that a British authority. predicts a terrific drive of price cutting by United States capitalists for the markets of the outside world, in order to wrest these markets from the various other capitalist countries wherever they are entrenched. | The voleanic effect of a sharp and deep fall in prices of com- | modities generally can hardly be overestimated, when added to the present situation of an already rapidly developing economic crisis. There is not the slightest doubt that the struggle for the world market is on at the.present time. It is being expressed by the London Con- ference which is preliminary to a colossal military struggle for control of the world market. It is not an accident that the British are the loudest complainers, because the chief antagonism between the im- perialist powers is that between the British empire and the Yankee Wall Street empire, A considerable fall in prices. of basic commodities can be found now in this country. For instance, the prices of structural steel have recently dropped to $12 a ton less than the 1923 high level. Chicago jobbers have reduced galvanized sheets by $6.00 per ton. The United States Department of Commerce reports wholesale prices to be gen- erally lower than in November and about 5 per cent below the level of a year ago. A report from Pittsburgh this week says: “The steel market is now at approximately the low-price point of Jate 1927, and there is no assurance that the decline will be arrested. Prices are now about $12 a ton under the 1923 high and $7 above the 1922 low.” General commodity price index figures for the U. S. show a de- cline £M the high point, in July, of 150.2, down to 139.8 on January 14th, which is the lowest point in over five years. The downward move- ment. of commodity prices is a general world phenomena, evidencing the world-wide character of the economic crisis. The “Federal Re- serve “Bulletin” for January records a decidel downward trend in 15, European countries (the only exceptions being Spain and Switzer- land),/as well as in India, Japan, Egypt, and South Africa. Prices in Latin-America also show the declining tendency. All of this can only mean added steam behind the growing danger of imperialist war for foreign markets and a still greater increase in the speed-up drive against the American working class. Long after the estimate of five million unemployed was made, capitalist sources have been reporting increases of unemployment by hundreds of thou- sands per. month. The Annalist on January 17th: reported that “the number of factory workers employed” had “decreased in the past three. months. by approximately 700,000; wages have also decreased, although, not quite proportionately.” It is obvious that American em- ployers are cutting wages right and left. The effort to lower ‘costs of production is expressed in other ways as well—notably the “ration- alization”.by which a very much larger proportion of the strength of each worker employed is used up in a given time by means of the speed-up of machinery and the pace of labor in the shops. The falling of prices in the home markets of the imperialists is an ominous signal of terrific struggles to come. Gigantic strikes and unemployment movements will inevitably be seen before very long within this country. The capitalist class will attempt to throw the bur- den of the break-down of their exploitation system upon the working Selass, and. the working class will resist as never before in American “history. This is already°shown by the struggles of the present day in the textile, mining, shoe and other industries. ing struggles—build your revolutionary unions! Build a Re Bia Ui Hs 1° And-build the-organ of leadership of rs—the Communist Party of the U.S, A.! SPEEDUP NAVY YARD FOR WAR | | E ® the Trade “Union: every struggle of the worke: TT NEGRO WORKERS © ‘JOIN PARTY Communists Fight on! | Chester _ Lynching Wall Street Prepares; Full Blast in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADEPHIA. — Contrary to the previous lay-offs of workers in the Navy Yard, which were due to the government’s alloting the work of building warships to private con- cerns; thegjntroduction of new ma- chinery, rs, aa and night shifts; the use of gobs to do the yard- man’s work at a scab rate; the hir- ing of apprentices to replace help- ers and eventually first-class men at a second-class wage—we find at present a daily hiring of mechanics, helpers and apprentices. What is the explanation of this? Ts it Hoover’s construction program being carried out to help the work- ers better their conditions? Not at all. The workers, re-hired at re- duced wages, minus their vacation time and pay (one reason why they were laid off) are the ones to carry out the intensified program for war. From the Sun Ship Yard, we have two new cruisers, just built, arrived at the yard for finishing up and masts construction, The gobs and some machinists are being speeded- up in order to complete the refit- ting of nineteen cruisers to be réady at any call. More new cruisers are (Continued on Page Three) Food Clerks Win Victory; Police Jail _ 6 Women in Fight The Food Clerks Union, Local 17, of the Amalgamated Food Workers won a victory Monday at 272 East -PHILA.,»PA., Jan. 22.—At the December -11, general membership meeting. in Philadelphia which was the mobilization of the Party for | the Recruiting Drive, there was a lively discussion on the work among Negroes. Several units in Philadelphia are having a so-called “Negro Territory” with a list of workers systematically visited by the comrades. Several | units are calling neighborhool. mass | meetings with special efforts to} reach the Negro workers. The Work- | ers Sthool Forum in Philadelphia was transferred and is now held in a Negro hall, whil¢ the Y. C. L. is having an Interracial Forum attend: ed by a large number of Negro workers where applications are given out for the Communist Party, Young Communist League and the American Negro Labor Congress. | In. Chester, and Wilmington the! | - , (Continued on Page Three) ~ SIX ARRESTED AT GARY LENIN MEET Successful Memorial Is Broken By Police GARY, Ind., Jan. 22,—After a| eucces”;ul mass Lenin Memorial | meet’ .g was held“here last night at T»r er Hall, police broke into the Nil and arrested Comrades Stevens, Kreiger, Rusak, Williams, Kjar and B. Stevens, | | | | iber ! | | | | NEWS FLASHES STUDENT STRIKE IN MADRID. MADRID, Jan. 22.—While the nish unit of money, the peseta, is commonly stated to have “gone crazy” in fluctuations on exchange, mostly down, Madrid was treated to a strike of 5,000 students, protest- ing the deportation of a student, s de Rivera calls a “progagandist,” and bad treatment in the schools. Heavy forces of police armed with carbines dispersed student crowds, girl students of one school were drenched with fire hose. red flags flew over the buildings held by the strikers and one banner ried “long live the Republic.” Si 4 oe THREE-DAY BATTLE IN MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 22.—Reports which are incomplete on details of what is at issue, were given by the Federal attorney-general on a tnree- of Vera Cruz, between peasants and members of the reformist Con- federacion Regional Obrera Mexi- cana (CROM). Seven combatants are known to have been killed, though this is admitted to be a low estimate. “Rivalry” betweem the agrarians and the CROM members is given as the cause. Building Maintenance, Katovis’ Union, March Members of the Building Main- |tenance Workers’ Union marched to the Lenin Memorial Meeting at Madison Square Garden in protest The Building Maintenance Work- ers’ Union protests against the shooting of Steve Katovis, who i lying in Lincoln Hospital not ex- pected to live. Steve Katovis, as an active mem- of the Building Maintenance Workers’ Union, realized that the strength of one union is the strength of another union, therefore he went to demonstrate with the Food Workers against the lockout of the Miller Market, 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx, where he was shot by the police. The Building Maintenance Work- ers’ Union protests against the whole brutal force of the present system of society and pledges that nothing will prevent it from carry- ing on an organizational campaign in the same manner as Steve Ka- ter conditions of the workers. DEPORTATIONS MENACE MANY U.S. Trying to Murder Zinich and Others Unless workers of America make irresistible protest, two outstanding leaders may go to their death in fascist Jugo-Slavia, it was learned todayy when word came from Wash- ington that the Labor Department Antonio Maria Sbert, whom Primo | day battle at Atlixico, in the State | to Lenin Memorial Meet. against the brutality of Whalen’s |police cossacks, | is} tovis has done, and to fight for bet- | i j “” WAR TALK IN SOUTH AMERICA. .B. Stevens is being held for de- portation. fs " CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Over three | thousand workers attended the Len- in Memorial demonstration: held to- night at Ashland Auditorium, BUENOS Aires, Jan. 22—The Ar- gentine ment (British influ- enced) is considering a proposal of “influential persons” to initiate armed intervention by the A. B. C. powers ( ‘ia, Brazil and Chlie), in case Bolivia and Paraguay start hostilities in the Chaco dispute. 18 MEXICAN ‘SAILORS DROWN. TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan, 22— Righteen nineteen men aboard fishing vessels were drowned the boats sank in pion 1 , in a 170th St., where the fruiz market ‘signed up and established union con- ditions. The workers got a raise of $5 each. The police raided, with consider- able brutality, the union’s women pickets, yesterday, and arrested six ot them. i The strike against the butcher shop at 2311 Ave. U, Brooklyn, is being continued actively, in spite of the open strike-breaking of the United Hebrew Trades and the yel- low socialist Forward clique. The Food Clerks Union continues its drive to organize the rest of the open shops, and establish union con- ditions, and the $40 mimimum wage per week. Unorganized workers get around $25 to $30, or even lower. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Y 7 officials are not only “examining” records in the case of Steven Zinich, editor of Radnik, but also of Stephen Graham, of Norfolk, Va., recently freed on charges of “inciting the Negroes to, insurrection.” Both workers came . originally from that part of the Austro-Hun- garian empire known as Jugo-Slavia todi Others in Danger. Besides these workers, for whom the International Labor Defense is fighting the following also face de- portation and death: SEVERE CRISIS I$ SHOWN IN THE BASIC NDUSTRIES AUTOOUTPU! DOWN 83 7 Dept. of Labor Admits Growing Unemployment in All Jersey Cities ’ Over 700,000 Workers in Reactionary Trade Unions Are Jobless BULLETIN NEW YORK, Jan. —Unem- ployment in New York State is time more serious than at any since the severe crisis of 1914, ioner, today. T) one of the many facts which gives the lie to Moover’s Statement that em- ployment had been increasing since December 25. “Reports of half of the 1,700 firms with which we are in touch indicate that unemployment in this State in the first two weeks of January was the worst period since last October,” Miss Perkins said. Statistics of half of the 1,700 firms showed decreases, in em- ployment for seven of eleven major industries. They represent a normal payroll of 600,000 work- | ers, which is today but 480,000, Miss Perkins {pointed lout. (On figures computél by the © Daily Worker there are more than 500,- 000 unemployed in the State of New York. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—The jday following the announcement by | Hoover and Secretary of Labor | Davis, that “employment was in- | creasing,” the Department of Labor | issued a report saying that “a sharp recession in employment in New | Jersey during the end of last | was noted by the Department of La- | bor.” Practically every line of in- dustry in the state reported curtail- ment of activity. Returns from var- ious New Jersey cities indicated that the decline in employment’ was general, Without giving any facts or fig- lures, Hoover yesterday declared |that “employment was improving.” | Since September, 1929, when 200,000 {to 800,000 workers monthly were | Continued on Page Three) DRESS WORKERS HONOR LEWIN ‘Dress Bosses Boastin \Sehlesinger Aids Them | Many workers fromgstruck shops in the Needle Trades trial Union were partici Lenin Memo. 1 ants in th t night. T Tew. Ag ci big organization paign to force dress shop employers | to accept union conditions, A number of shops are on strike, and some strikes Lave been won. The militancy of the N. T. W. I. U. members con- |trasts strongly with the calm prep- | arations for betrayal of work \interests now being made by | the International Ladies Garment | Workers. Company Union Negotiates. | ! Continuous conferences between | the Schlesinger officialdom of the International Ladies Garment Work- ‘ers are taking place this week. The conferences are partly camouflage, to make the workers think the unicn | bureaucracy has some real differ- ences with the bosses, and partly to work out the details for the adop- tion of the I, L. G. W. as the official | company union in the dress trades, |The fact that most of the details | are arranged before the fake k jeall goes out, does not necessarily | mean that there will not be a short fake strike—as a smoke screen he- jhind which the sell-out is carried | through, the bargain finished, | A. Bosses’ Strike. | The employers regard the “strike” with calmness. Why not? It is their strike as much as it is the | strike of their company union, the International Ladies Garment | Workers. The trade paper, “The | Daily News Record,” in a semi-edi- torial article, says: “The contrac- tors in the industry have attained a measure of organization, and hope to add hundreds of firms to their way of thinking, once the strike is jealled.” Of course, that is one of | the reasons their company union calls the strike. “According to some lines of thought expressed in the market, perhaps busi- orkers Indus- |2 And again, from the same paper:, Osaki and Tenamuro militant the manufacturing end of the Japanese workers. | ness would not suffer in the event Tapolchanyi, whose citizenshio of a short strike.” With the I, L. papers have been revoked and ap-|G. W. it will, of course, be a short peal against which has been made | strike, just a little vacation in in- by the International Labor Defense, | dustry, useful to the employers. who is in danger of being sent to) The trade paper, “Women’s Hungary, and number of other Jap- anese and Chinese workers on th» Wear,” says: “The contractors, as represented (Continued on Page I'wo) N. Y. under the act of Maroh 3. FINAL CITY EDITION YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail $6,00 per yenr. s Price 3 Cent Grouwz Ill. during the strike called bu t have been expelled from the Unit evicted from their houses by the co to carry on to a victory. Great | | > of miners who picketed Wa OVER 16,000 AT MASS LENIN MEMORIAL MEET; MOBILIZE FOR STRUGGLE Hit Lying Statements of Hoover on Jobles Army; Show Growing Crisis Amter, Darey, Hall, Minor, Olgin, Speak: “Build a Mass Party of Lenin” ; Over 16,000 enthusiast! International workers met in Madison Squar eh Nol. 2 Smo GE Ritowads, Wireless Garden Wecne aaa night f he National Miners Union. They # News commemorate the death of * I. Lenin, and to pledge the support to the Communist Pa ty in its growing mass stru; gles in th of the in ed Mine Workers of America, and al bosses. But they are determined | ATTEM eer ANE atriggles ere looming in the coae } * MPT TO OFFSET ANTI SOVIET PLOT. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) OLIGE STILL TORTURE KATOVS Worker on 7th Day of | Grim Fight For Life Steve Katovis, Communist Party member and active militant of the Building Maintenance Workers’ Union was still alive late yesterday after nearly a week of what physi- cians say is practically a hopeless fight for life. He lies in Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, with a policeman standing guard over his bed day and |night, trying to catch some whis- Iper which can be distorted into a “death bed confession,” possibly: the basis of charges against Katovis’ fellow members, or at least useful in whitewashing the murderous . Tammany policeman, Harry Kiritz, who shot him in the back. Quizzed By Police., Katovis is occasionally tortured by the policeman’s inquisition. He has many times requested the of- “ficer b® removed, and the I. L. D. is | trying to#have this done. | It was at a meeting calledyby the | Trade Union Unity League, in which | workers resisted an assault on them by a policeman and detective guard. ing Millers Market, struck by the |Food Clerks’ Union, that Katovis was shot down, last Thursday eve- ning. Crippled War Veteran to Speak For the Int'l. Labor Defense, Fri. ph F. Fofrich, crippled World War veteran of Keasbey, N. J., who has organized a branch of war vet- s in the International Labor De- fense, will be one of the speakers the Shifrin-Mineola-Gastonia de- e meeting, Friday night, in Irv- Plaza. Fofrich, who spent four s on his back in a Veteran's pital in Chicago, learned of the ommunist movement through the Da Wo He has been en- thusiasti ly supporting the pro- gram of the Party since that time. collection days for the Shifrin - Mineola - Gastonia defense fund are to be held Saturday and Sunday, thousands of workers who have already volunteered, will col- leet funds throughout the city. The meeting will raise great pro-/ test against the murder onslaught upon Steve Katovis, who remains in a dying condition in the Lincoln ‘Hospital, a policeman still sitting jat his bedside, “guarding” him, The I. L. D. is demanding that the po- liceman be removed from the bed- side of the wor |Party Nat'l Training | School Opens Feb. 10: With Leninist Courses The coming National Training. Schoel of the Communist Party that will open on February 10, 3930, is an important step taken “by the | Central Committee in the develop- ment of proletarian comrades for active participation and leadership \in the work of the Party. The developing economic crisis ‘and the developing class struggle in the, United States demand today ‘more than ever before a thorough itraining in Marxism and Leninism |for all leading comrades, in order |to be in a position to cope with the problems that face the Party in its | every day struggle. | These comrades who will be sent to the National Training School will have an opportunity to acquire this ‘Marxist-Leninist. understanding of solving the pzsoblems of the Party and mobilizing the workers for the program of the Party in the struggle against capitalism, ‘The National Training Scheol will |therefore attempt to overcome this jgap and try to give to our comrades | from the various districts a theovet- lical as well as practical training in the problems of the Party and the working class, BERLIN Jan. 22.—Yesterday eve- ning the Berlin press commenced an anti-Soviet campaign regarding the discovery of forgeries of American ing crisis of capita workers we FISHWICK SCABS | money.. A person named Fischer, pr IN MINE STRIKE == Voight, who passed in all) Ganving | aa something like fifty $100 bills, was. 4"/"S ae tite : jformerly active in the left ‘wing’ vorkers f one ae : 4 +, |movement, but never was a member Wrooiore Union oy ie a IN. M. U. Urges Peoria |ot the communist Party. ‘The press Worers, ,uuom | Needle Trad | Men Take Control Paes to “suspect” that the: Young Comm | were forged in the Soviet | = Union, although the fact that the PEORIA, Il., Jan, 22.—A three | forgeries were printed on real cornered fight is developing rapidly | American banknote paper clearly in the sti@ke of 1,100 Crescent Coal |disproves the lying suggestion of I ess, The affair is without §@nda departm ar 1. tienal and prop: t of the New Yor Pioneer Co. miners here, Four mines are |the pr Awe | pol 1 significance other than the |District of the Communist Part; . |artificially*imposed: suggéstion that |He announced the purpose of t | The men came out last week. |<}, 0 commemorat e Soviet Union harbors forgers. * * « HIGH TREASON SENTENCE. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) Agents of International President | |Lewis of the United Mine Workers jof America are pretending to lead the anniversary carrying his tes struggles of tod Lenin’s death b gs into the clas thereby givin them. Lewis, engaged in a court | BERLIN, Jan. 22—The editor of |the workers an e: ve weapon fe battle with Illinois District Presi- | “y, » Bri the overthrow of capitalisni. Fc | ee | the “Volks Echo,” Fritz Stucke, has ‘7 dent Harry Fishwick of the U. M. 4, s + this reason, therefore, this meetin i ‘ jbeen sentenced by the supreme |‘ : ‘ |W., does not intend to assist the | court at Leipzig to serve 18 months |i8 not a meeting of mourning, a Peoria miners any, but is using , though we recall the death of ov their strike to embarrass Fishwick, leader with sorrow, but is rather meeting for the mobilization for ir tensified struggle against the bosse and their “socialist” and A. F. c L, agents, and to lay the basis fe increased. struggles against’ th {naval conference in London whic lis a war conference, making wa |preparations against the Sovie Union; and to strengthen the strug jprison term in fortress for articles h ae a 4 his abili attacking Chief of Police Zoer- Ieee eres nena annie) ility |gibiel’s First of May prohibition of lbilitys sell ont aiinersito oper [tee ee ee ee \ators outside of Illinois. | U. M. W. Scabs, | Fishwiek is simply trying to break the strike. He has promised 500 U. | (Continued on Page Three.) FINNISH COMMUNISTS OPPOSE RIGHT WING. (Wireless by Inprecorr.). HELSINGFORS, Jan. 22.—The right wingers have seized the print | shop belonging to the suppressed |&le against unemployment, which \ ‘Communist Party daily, and are is- “despite the lying statements o WORKERS CHASE |suing their own paper under leader- President Hoover, is increasing.tre ship of Tuomi, Nurminen, Pekkola,|Mendously from day to day, as con | firmed by reports by members o. and others. A mass meeting here | wo : | ARMED DYE BOSS jhas “unanimously condemned the | (Continued on Page Two) right wingers. | BT ee ae | ee | | —— | CHINESE WORKERS | NEW IMPERIAL INVINCIBLE. | 'Tyjied to Break Textile; | Organization Meeting | | and students demonstrations have | PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 22, ccurred here in support of the} |Workers at the Textile Dye Com- | Strikers against the American Edi- pany today wrathfully forced the|S°" Company. Quantities of leaf- ‘boss to put down a gun with which |!¢ts were issued here on the anni- jhe was threatening the organizer |Versaries of the deaths of Lenin, of the National Textile Workers and |Liebknecht and Luxemberg. Many the members of the joint committee arrests were made. (Wireless By Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Jan. 22.—Workers STRIKE IN MAY \Unity League Gaining: “Mutualists” Sell Out BRAWLEY, The ‘of the union and the unemployed first Imperial y is over council which was distributing leaf- betrayed by th 5 reformist lets. The boss had to retreat back D organization, the “Mutual Aid As to his office and the committee and ion,” which has as istants organizer went on with their work. | in its dirty work, the whole consular The National Textile Workers and governmental apparatus of the | Union is now carrying on an in-| Portes Gil government, and the tensive campaign among the dye) had oe he State of Cal- | —— ifornia, United States immigratior Charged With Criminal {shores and the Afnerican Le- Syndicalism; High Bail) ‘the 8,000. wort |forced to take a redu | the low rate now workers of Paterson and among all} i workers, for the preparation and organization of the national sili strike, to be called shortly. It is organizing large committees of union members to go out every morning at} DETROIT, Mich. Jan. A 630 and 7 o'clock to the big dyejrested yesterday and held undec) hour. | houses where there are hundreds of }$15,000 bail each, charged with) However, the spirit of the strikers workers waiting for jobs. The con:-|“criminal syndicalism” are Philip is high. They feel that they have mittees hold open air meetings with; Raymond national secretary of the! not lost, but were sold out, and that them. This work is being done by| Auto Workers Union, and George| the Trade Union Unity League, the the N.T.W.U. in conjunction with| Powers, Detroit district secretary) Workers International Relief, and the unemployed council of Paterson. |of the Trade Union Unity League. | the International Labor Defense Refuse to Stop. | They were arrested at the unem-|wwere their true friends and had a This morning a large committes |POxed demonstration in Pontiac. "| correct. policy. | went down to the Textile Dye Com-| tine ate held for “dice the same} In the midst of the pany and began distributing leaflets. area held 20k: disarder}y éon-) 4 gricaltural Wo The boss came out and pushed them | League of the T, U. ors, have beer on of wages, gz 26 cents ar 22 struggle, the Industrial was born, |duct.” Conviction for “criminal | | syndicalism” may involve a ten-year oe lout of the grounds and said that | contence. | with membership largely among the jthey could not distribute leaflets | Var Filfpino workers at first. National ‘ pine Detroit is full of unemployed auto! ; . a ‘there. The workers insisted that | sorkers, and. the: TU,Uida. ta noe Secretary Miller of the A. W. I. L. | the organizin; rgan- fe" | gnnising -go.on sad}sberorgen jonly organizing them, but is prepar- ing extensive organization of the automobile factories. Many meet- {ings, and demonstrations have al- {ready been held. The authorities jand the auto manufacturers are try- stays in the Imperial Vall field committees and job delegates are al- {ready functioning on the ranches, and every preparation is being made | for a larger strike in the canteloupe picking season in May. Prepava- |izer of the union here began to de- liver a talk, whereupon one of the bosses came out with a pistol and began pointing it at the one who distributed the literature and at the organizer who spoke. All the workers that were there, | |the whole mass of workers were with | the committee,, dared him to shoot, whereupon he retreated to the of- fice and the committee finished dis- | tributing the literature at the meetg| ing. This was one of the most ef- fective demonstrations held so far. jin Paterson in preparation of the strike. i \Call for Conference to Fight to Free 3 ing to stamp the movement out by savage sentences. The International Labor Defense will defend those arrested. The workers are militant and un- | terrified by the arrests. A large attendance is expected at the Lenin | Memorial Meeting Friday, in Pon- | tiac, at Wolverine Hall, 31% West Picks St., where Jack Stachel, Com- munist Party District Organizer will be the main speaker. COMPANY UNION IN BEMBERG PLANT. tions are made for an organizational | drive in the Fersno and Salinas ter- ritories (Central California, north of | here). The Mexican Mutual Aid Associa- tion exercised a baleful influence | (Continued on Page Two) 1? if g || Today in History of the Workers | January 2: : Eighty thou- {sand textile workers in Massachu- ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, (By | setts, New Hamushire, and Rhode Mail).—Another result of the United | Island, struck against 20 per cent Textile Workers sell-out of the rayon wage cut and 54-hour week.—1919. strikers of the Bemberg and Glanzst- | Workers’ uprising in Hamburg off mills is the formation by the |crushed—1969: Ernest Jones, ac- bosses of a company union, the |tive in English Chartist movement “plant council plan.” Cloaked with | for political democra Jailed Ohio Workers A conference of all workers is being called to fight the Anti-Syn- | dicalist law for the freedom of the three Ohio workers framed under this law. This conference is to be held January y31, at 8 p. m., in the Cclumbus Auditorium, 581 S. High St., Columbus, Ohio, an appearance of fairness the “plant council plan” halts workers’ action for better conditions. |Pennsylvania convention intention to resist arbitrary Engli-* laws