Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
BIG PLANTS SQUEEZE WITH LESS WORKERS) % PLAN TO” OUT MORE Efficiency Schemes Being Pus hed During the, Crisis to Permanently U. S. Steel Gobbles General Motors Hea Eliminate Thousands Up Smaller Companies;| ds “Protect” Profits 7 In the very dst of the cris campaign spéed-up and ments, which will throw of thousands more worke: jobs permanently. An the New York Time talks of the lead ing efficienc; Alfred P. Sloan, pr General Motors statement y at the onset of means was taken penses” (wage ciency was in protect profits It was one of Hoove ; at the beginning of the c the bosses keep empl workers as pos productive machinery, s a degree of recover, théy could get out duction with less w The United not only carri it has taken adv its to cut lowed up many smaller com- nd is increasing their effi- ey can do with less Ss swa panie Steel Co., on the Pacific Oil Well Supply Co. these facts which give more to the statement of the efficiency experts at their g in Washington in the , when they said the | problem that will face | stry y for the next ten going gz the , the wiping out of thousands nufacturers and busi- concer proceeds along with ncreased e. cy. This is a pre- step for lowering costs of ction and for a concerted drive | orld markets. The so-called | amount of unemployment will double. The workers on the | job will be speeded-up as never be- fore. The elimination of skilled workers will be more rapid, and the attack on the workers’ wages will be more ‘drastic. SPECIAL LABOR UNITY OFFER AT AUG. 3 PICNIC NEW YORK. —Thousands of} workers are expected to attend the! picnic of the Trade Union Unity will take | Bay League Council, which place on August 8 at Plez Park. 3 ‘ The picnic, held in conjunction| with the revolutionary unio: leagues and workers’ organiz: must be made to strengthen them) all, It is the duty of every member of the T. U. U. L. to see to it that thié pienic is a tremendous success, financially as well as organization-| ally. An unusual program has been ar. ranged. Among other 2 will be music, dancing, freshments and good spea exétptional offer is beir e subscriptions to Labor Unity official organ of the T. U for this picnic only—one scription for $1 (re $1.50). Tickets to the pi car be Obtained at all industrial unions and Jeagues, as well as at the T. U. U. L, office, 13 W. 17tt Unemployed workers w miltied free, on pre aaemployed council bi Demonstrate e August 1 DISCRIMINATION IS BOSSES’ “SOLUTI (Special to the Daily Worker) BLOOMFIELD, N. J., J Gtoss discrimination against for- @ign-born workers and another fake “golution” of the unemployment problem of capitalism is the order of Councilman Charles J. Ernst to all heads of city depar to find out whether any are employed and to substitute for them | much fussed. “Damn fool,” he yelled liem Schley Howard, K.K.K. mem- citizens desiring jobs. Contractors doing work for the town are being asked not i any but local workers. This is ing done ostensibly “to relieve un- employment,” by order of local politician seeking votes. it is expected to accomplish the pur- pose is not explained. i The number of unemployed here| is o@verworking the “poor depart-| ment,” which is supposed to t M cently received a gift of $13,000 in | the form of an estate whose heirs sould not be found, but little or noth- ‘ng has been done to relieve unem- sloyment. Strike Against Wage-Cuts! Demand Unemployment Insurance! FAKE GARMENT STRIKE — GETS A WAGE CUT PLAN BALTIMORE, Md., July 27.- Some of the details of the prear sangeéd agrement by which the In ternational Ladies Garment Worke fake strike here is to be settled have come to light. It is stated now by| Jatob Halpern one of the chiefs of hé LL.G.W. that 19 shops are ready *> “eompromise,” on the basis of re- gation and wage cuts when. | the boss wishes, so long as 60) ’ notice is given first. All de- | to be settled by compulsory ar- oy pes per agreement with the bosses, _ the International Ladies Garment | Workers fakers are sending the _ vorkets back to the shops here on cy og sweat shop conditions. ; Needle Trades Workers In- Juatrial Union calls the workers to a the strike over the heads company union and fight to union conditions. Needle Trades Workers In-| } Union is urging the work-| ‘to organize rank and file com- lees, take control of the situa | | make some real gains, -MUSTEITES PLOT WITH ANTI-LABOR GOVERNORS, PATERSON, ave J. July 28.— Gov. Larson of New Jersey is ask- | ed by the Paterson textile council of the United Textile Workers to extile states to “discuss meas- 0 stabilize the industry through ation.” Gov. Larsen is also fi wu le; rnors of all textile states. This is a regular practice of the treacherous Muste union, the U.T.W. It did not hesitate to ask Governor | O. Max Gardner whose hands still dr th the blood of Ella May in ia and those shot down on the} icket line at Marion, North Caro- , to a similar conference. g comes of those confer bs but further plans to trick and windle the textile workers. ‘SSLEY MUCH UPSET AS PASSING REMARK HITS NEW YORK.—As a group of x men were leaving the ng of the congressional com- e nesday, they passed Ralph Eas. y, secretary of the National Civic tion. Easley is the connect- link between Djamgaroff and white guards, Woll, Whalen, the| ion office, and everything t is mixed in the present anti- labor drive of the committee.\ It w Easley who was complimented lihu Root in an open letter re- tly, on “getting things started” ashington for an investigation. All this is supposed to be a secret. \c aucasian Crusaders is at present © when one of the newspaper men here said to Easley, “You are wasting|fcrmer Grand Dragon of the K.K.K.| your time!” Easley became very after the reporter. Then Easley’s wife trailed the re-| ters to the elevator and yelled the door was closing, “So you're Soviet, are you?” eit Outing to oT, Camp Nitgedaiget ° YORK. August and 3, The Freiheit, the Jewish Com- muni: vy, is arranging an out- ing to the co-operative camp “Nit- gedaiget.” An elaborate program is arranged for, with the participation of mem- bers of the Workers’ Theatre Studio, and includes carnival, danc- ing, entertainments Saturday night and Sunday afternooon. The price for the ‘week-end” out- ‘ng, including Saturday, Sunday all lay, is $4.00, Comrades who want to spend the week-end away from the city, in a mradely atmosphere, are invited ° go out to the camp. NEW 2 Tany At Opening of Section Four Forum) Section Four, District 2, of the Communist Party held its first open ‘orum last Sunday, at the section headquarters, 808 Lenox Ave. In spite of the terrific heat a large number of workers attended and participated in tl> lively dis- cussion that followed ‘".e excellent address by Otto Huiswoud, district Negro work director. spoke on the Negro wo~'-erg and | imperialist war, and concluded his talk by urging the workers to demonstrate on August first against the imperialist war prepar- ations and for the defense of the wor'ers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union, Another lively discuss 1 is pro- | mised for next Sunday. All workers |’ are invited to attend. y has taken over the | Atlas Portland Cement | liieinanil Unemplounas ee on oe ECONOMIC CRISIS ‘31G LAY-OFF IN GRIPS GERMANY GERMAN PLANTS Unemployed Increased! Communists Gain in 16,000 in 2 Weeks |Muencheberg Election SAYS F.SwU, CALL Mobilize for Defense of the Soviet Union NEW YORK.—Appealing to all| its supporters to join in the mass anti-war demonstrations on August 1st, the national office of the/ friends of the Soviet Union today issued the following statement: “August first will mark the day | of mass demonstrations of the workers throughout the world against the danger of imperialis' war and for the defense of the} Soviet Union. “This day of demonstration is of special significance for the friends ____|of the Soviet Union. The guns of the imperialist powers are turned against the first workers’ republic. | The threatening armed intervention | of the imperialist powers against the U.S.S.R. is the main danger of war in the present period. Every day sees a new effort to the mili- tary encirclement and for the strengthening of the fascist dom- ination over the toiling masses, de- fenders of the proletarian fath land, in the border states. Every | day sees new steps of diplomatic y ALL OUT Aue 1" “DAILY WORKER” HELPS BUILD A SHOP NUCLEUS Southern Beatie: 2 we ewe have no post office here. Ais “Persistent and systematic sale of | mail boat comes once a month. Daily Worker in front of the South-| I try put five dollars in this ila ern Pacific Railroad shop gates,| Please answer when received.” where more than 3,000 workers slave, resulted in organizing of shop | nucleus.” Communist League and Pioneers Build Daily Worker: “The League and Pioneers are mobilizing for building carrier | routes and circulation. In Zeigler a Daily Worker carrier route was established and though there are only ten comrades at present our omrade Pioneers are active on the job and this route will grow. The Pioneers who are selling the Daily here turn their pennies over to the group. The Pioneer Group in Johnston City has challenged the Zeigler Group and would like to establish a group also.” (Signed) Ben Gray, field organizer Y. C. L., South Illinois. jor slogans of the Daily Worker,}| “that it is a mass organ of the working class and is its collective! organizer,” are now being put in practice. Building of shop nuclei of the Communist Party in basic in- dustry is the best assurance of a/ | struggle against imperialism. The support of the Daily by the | League and the Pioneers shows the! solidarity of the militant and revo- lutionary youth with the adult work- ers. The successful pressure by the militant in getting subscriptions in the A, F. of L. unions against the reaucracy is an encouraging sign of minority groups in The above quotations from tt ters in the field show that the ma- | | force of the fascist A. F. of L. bu-| increased activity of building the! the fascist | 0 FRENGH “WORKERS STRIKE | Against Wage- Cutting New Insurance Law (Wireless by Inprecorr) | PARIS, July 28—There are violent | eollisions between strikers and police in the northwest strike dis- trict where 60,000 workers are al- ready out. Yesterd workers i stoned police at Rouen. Thirty ar- | rests were made. * ee +} The strike has been going on for + more t’ 1 ten days. Two days ago the Daily Worker reportd that 38,- 000 workers were out. Yesterday, the textile workers at Lillie, the cen- ter of the French textile industry, joined the strike and the number of stril--rs have now reached 60,000, | The strike is against the wage-cut- ting plan « ‘bodied in the new t- surance law. The bosses want to Militants In Fascist A. F. L. Unions Support Daily Worker: “Carpenters’ Union, the Hod Car-| riers Local and the Iron Workers’ | Union in the A. F. of L. each sub- seribe to the Daily Worker as a result of pressure of militant work- ers in those organizations.” Workers In Alaska Respond: “I am sending my help now. Am union. Last, but not least, from) shift the burde: of the growing far off Alaska, where we have read-! crisis by making the workers pay ers in sixteen cities, the workers | fr . le s “doles” under the are coming to the financial support| law. The workers refused to pay to help liquidate the $10,000 deficit.) and the strike started With the liquidation of the $10,000} ————. deficit, we can again then be further! The Daily Worker is the Party’s assured of regular subscriptions and | best instrument to make contacts steady circulation of the Daily} among ike masses of workers, to conspiracy and vicious propaganda for the general war mobilization. “We, therefore call upon the | friends of the Soviet Union to} Worker in the present increased very sorry not fend sooner because class struggles. build a mass Communist Party. “For Alt Kinds of Insurance” BERLIN, J The economic | (Wireless by Inprecorr) crisis in German: harpening.| BERLIN, July 28—The giant en- Jobless workers, ing to offi-| gineering plants, the Siemens Elec- | cial inc 16,000 dur-| trical Company and Bergmann Com- ing the first half of July. Coal| pany have announced dismissals. the first half of 3,400,000 tons in 500,000 tons in the] last year. The steel | Ss no improvement. | production durir |the year is only | contrast with fir: mon trade also s! The Siemens Company alone is dis- missing 7,000 workers. The Democratic Party, the Peo- ples Party and various other groups have formed a new centrist German State Party. The deepening of the crisis is also attend a conference of governors of | ATLANTA BOSSES; ed to sponsor a meeting of gov-| REVIVING KKK, investigating Communism} nent of state and the im-| — Saturday andj Huiswood | reflected in the Berlin Boerse (stock as almost in a exchange) which wa panicky condition las ing the first three d there the heav: day” of May, 1927. Many stocks fell 20 per cent on quotation price. The bond market has also been con- \siderably weakened. ‘New Move Aimed At Communists ATLANTA, Ga., July 28.—The! erate efforts of the southern bo: jof Negro and white workers on a militant basis in the South have| ian Crusade.” This organ-| ization is simply another version of the Ku Klux Klan, differing from | widened its program of attdck, es- |pecially directing its viciousness jagainst Communists and all mili- Constitution. Small, the machinery. authorized the use of his name in a letter circulated on July 14 as “Initial Correspondence.” His re- eat is seen as a result of adverse riticism in liberal quarters. | The organizing committee of the |composed of Joseph Simmons. apd one of its organizers; Wil- ber, special county prosecutor and | attempted organizer of the “White | Robes,” a new organization to | “aandle” the cases of the six Negro and white workers facing electro- cution in this city; Robert Rams. peck, criminal lawyer; Dr. Fran Eskridge, wealthy sanitarium own- ; James I. Lowry, sheriff and part | of the Klan-elected grafting city sovernment; and Ed. F. Bond, ealthy business man. While capitalism fatly wallows in|‘ its own contradictions, the workers, | allied with production and at the vantage point of a superior histor- ica. position, will smash these bug- abso bureaus of the bosses’ terror- ism. Equipped with the defense corps, formed into militant unicns, and under the leadership of the Communist Party the workers, black and white, will out-flank every maneuver of capitalism and estab- lish a workers and peasants govern- ment where exploitation of man by man will be unknown. Strike Against Wage-Cuts! Demand Unemployment Insurance! PRINTING TRADES MEET TONIGHT. NEW YORK.—AIl employed and unemployed printing trades workers | are asked to come to the local of- fice of the Trade Union Unity League, 13 W. 17th St. Tuesday night at 5:30 and Wednesday morn- ing at 8 a. m. for very important work, Demonstrate August 1st! ‘cbor and Fraterna! Workers Ex-Servicemen. Open air meeting bopiene at 14th St. and Lenox Ave. at 8 p. Advertise your Union Meetings here. For information write tc The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26 28 Union Sx, New York City three-day term since the “Black Fri-| s to forestall the organization | | erystalized in the formation of the] the latter only in the fact it has) Among its original sponsors was | Sam W. Small, editor of the Atlanta | however, has just thrown a monkey wrench into! Small now denies he| On Sunday, severe collisions be- | tween fascists and workers oc- | curred in the Berlin Sport Palace following the children’s demonstra- tion. Police arrested 15 workers. At Koepenick, there are many col- lisions between the fascists and socialists, Many were wounded. The municipal elections at Muen- cheberg showed that the Commu- nists have gained and have outnum- bered the socialists. The Commu- nist Party is now the second strong- est party in Muencheberg. SEND OFF FOR THE FOOD DELEGATES NEW YORK—Picketing was re- sumed against the Allerton Ave., bakery, Bronx. At Roseland Cafe- teria, 188 St. and Cypress Ave., an jeajunctien was obtained by the boss with the aid of Local 164, but the ting has been so effective that the boss now asks for a settlement. |The Food Workers Industrial Union will keep up the picket line until 1 settlement. continues at 5317 arch Ave., Brooklyn, _ There will be a send-off banquet the food workers delegation to Fifth Congress of the Red Inter- nal of Labor Unions tonight at we workers, pines one wales Tle bm, at the wale headquarters, Pee = aie = ordic “Suprem: 16 West 21st Street. All members Bey? Ad: Wille Chaar UND of the Food Workers Industrial nm are urged to be present. are only 10c each, and are on sale at the union headquarters. |There will be movies on the Soviet Union, refreshments. All members of the Food Work- s Industrial Union and unorgan- ized food workers are invited to at- tend the picnic in conjunction with the T.U.U.L. on August 3, Sunday, at Pleasant Bay Park. Tickets are mobilize in every city for the Aug- ust first demonstration and make | it as effective as possible for the defense of the Soviet Union. This August first must show the rulers of the capitalist world that the Soviet Union is the Fatherland of the Workers and that they are ready at any moment to defend same against all capitalist activities. “Demand the recognition of the | Soviet government by the United States! “Fight mittee! “Defend the Soviet Union!” ARAB, ENGLISH SEAMEN STRIKE Under Leadership of | Red Union Center (Wireless by Inprecorr) NEWCASTLE, Eng., July 28— Two thousand seamen including 900 Arabs are striking against the scab company union, the National Sea- men’s Federation. This is the first time English sailors are striking with their Arab fellow wo’ The ity. movement whic the nion center in Engl: filiated with the Red Inte: of Labor Unions is leading the strike through a mixed strike com mittee of English and Arab work ers. The eration rep the employers for the dominatio! and exp ation of the workers. The strike is of extreme importance. West 21st St., Bronx headquarters, 2994 Third Avenue, and the T.U.U.L.| office, 13 West 17th St. There will be a general member- ship meeting of all food workers} on Thursday night, July 31 at & p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl, as a final mobiliza- tion for August, First. All food anti-Soviet Fish com- COLORADO WORKERS ENDORSE CANDIDATES DENVER, Colo., July 28—Three hundred workers attended the State Ratification Convention here and ANTI-FASCIST MEET IN SCANDINAVIAN STATES STOCKHOLM, July 28—The Anti fascist conference of Scandinavian and Finnish countries will meet at (CARL BRODSKY Velephone: Murray #iti snc 2? Kast 42nd Street, New York G “| supplanted the unwritten law of the on sale at the union headquarters 16 wrokers are urged to be present. Siberia Tribesmen Actors In “Law of Taiga” at Cameo How the “Great Law” of the vorkers and peasants government | Tunguses, the inhabitants of the wild taiga—with whom deals. The scenic beauty of the great, unlimited Siberian forests forming | the background of the film are hard | | to describe. The fine acting of the | semi-civilized Tunguses is unbe- lievable to one who doesn’t see the picture, tense, thrilling. Here are the! thrills of a Jack London story—and | a Leninist theme. wild Siberian taiga—the great forest—-and distribute? the reindeer of the rich to the poor that were starving—this is the story which one of the most unique and beauti- ful Soviet films tells. “The Law of the Siberian Taiga,” showing at the Cameo, produced by Kino-Siber, has a cast composed for the most part of the semi-primitive Biggest and Best Workers’ Outing of the Season! Our Build the Baily SH: Worker Picnic-—Car: iva’ Held in Co-operation with —All Revolutionary and Sympathetic Workers’ Organizations; —All Party Communist Papers; —All Daily Worker Readers; —All Workers from the Shops That We Can Reach, REMEMBER THE DATE SUNDAY, AUG. 17 PLEASANT BAY PARK the film The hunting scenes are |} ratified the twenty-six candidates of the Communist Party. Delegates from the Trade Union Unity League and the National Miners Union, from the best fields, packing houses, and steel mills, as well as those sent in by the hod] carriers and laborers, militantly en- Stockholm on August 10. The Com- munist Parties of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have issued appeals in support of the conference. dorsed the program of action for| the Communist Party election cam- paign. Workers Cooperative Colony 3-4 ROOM APARTMENTS We have a@ timited number of these apartments. No investment necessury. The rooms face Bronx Park, Avail yourslef of the op- portunity to live in a comradely “A TENSE RUSSIAN DRAMA”—N. Y. Times. AMKINO PRESENTS—AMERICAN PREMIERE “THE LAW ot « SIBERIAN TAIGA” The newest Soviet drama. A chronicle of the Tungus Tribe in the frozen wastes of Siberia . Desperately battling for life ... Fighting for food PRODUCED IN U. 8. 8. R, BY KINO-SIBIR JATEST SOVKINO NEWSREEL re) 42ND STREET | Now! and Broadway pA Theatre Guild Production’ ADDED \P TRACTION SOL AME WIS, 1789 Broadway | Daily from LOBE ' RICH ARD DIX in : ae es : | GARRICK GATETIES “SHOOTING STRAIGHT” | | DW. sia. avn, tv Mts.Th.&Sat 2:30 | GUIL and Clark & McCullough’ conety | I EIGHTH ANNUAL MORNING FREIHEIT PICNIC & CARNIVAL Saturday, August 2nd AT ULMER PARK 25th Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklyn Over Fifty Workingclass Revolutionary Organizations Participating SPORTS, GAMES, DANCING AND ‘OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS LARGE JAZZ BAND DIRECTIONS:—B.-M.T, West End Line Trains to 25th Avenue "NTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER CALLS FOR THE FORMATION OF FIRST ENGLISH SPEAKING BRANCH A meeting will be held to organize the first English speak- ing branch of the International Workers’ Order on Tharsday, July 31st, 7:30 p. m. sharp, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. The International Workers Order is based on mutual aid, fraternal and cultural benefits including insurance and sick benefit for workers regardless of race, color or sex. We call upon all English speaking workers to come to this first meeting held for the purpose of organizing an English speaking branch. We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE FRESH FRUIT SODAS AND ICE CREAM U. SS. R. CANDIES————CIGARETTES atmoaphere! fake Lexington’ Ave. White Plains Subway and x at Allerton Ave. sta on TEL. ESTABROOK 1400 2800 BRONX PARK EAST Our Office is open from 9 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. daily, and from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. om Sundays. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S" Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT ; 199 SECOND AVE. UE | Bet 12th and 18th Sts. Sire hi cobs Food -—-MELROSE— iH Dairy sticctss? | rad Iways Find i Plea fo Dine at Onr Place 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bronx 174th St. Station) INTERVALE gies HEALTH FOOD Vegetarian RESTAURANT 1600 MADISON AVE. ' Phone: UNlversity 5865 ce arene yy i ree ee noe er vhone: Stuyvesant 3316 John’s Restaurant hea er ITA NS DISHES place witb atmosphere Anlre “all restcale, meet 2 EB. 12th St. New York Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST BAST 115th STREDT ver, Serand Ave. New York DAILY EXCEPI FRIDAY Vtease telephone for appointmen hone> Lehigh soz? Pel. ORChard 8783 DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST Strictly by Appointment 48-60 DELANCEY STREET ver, Bldridge St NEW YORK SUKUE N DE 1 UNION SQUARE Neom B03— Phone. Algonquin 8183 Not eonnected with any other office 657 Allerton Avenve fstabrook 8215 Bronx, N Y. OOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION OF NEW YORK 16 W. diet St Chelnen 2274 Bronx Hesdauarters, 2094 hiro AVenue, Melrose 0138; Brooklyn Headquarters, Graham Avenue, Pulasky 0634 tes Counci) meets of every month West 2ist St. Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty ip ‘it