The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 3

ee DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930 Page Three = = | op >is = Fe acy rs ma SEO YP S 4 “x KEeRS . oe BEDOE SPEEDUP AT MANHATTAN RUBBER PLANT Layoffs For the Last Four Months (By a Worker Correspondent) PASSAIC, N. J.—What are our conditions today at the Manhattan Rubber Co.? We know that all over the U. 8. whrkers are starving and | living under the most miserable con- ditions. But are we the Manhattan Rubber workers any better off? The bosses are always thinking up Clever idea for their own benefit, so they introduced the Bedoe system. ‘This Bedoe system has made slaves out of us. Our bosses put in this vicious scheme to make us work faster and faster; Terrific Speedup Under this Bedoe system we must slave under terrific speed up in order to make 60 Bs, which is called a day’s work. And if we make over 60 Bs the bosses reward us with a measly few cents extra. And what happens to us workers who can make the 60 Bs in spite of wwrking like h--1? Well, if we don’t we get a red mark at the end of the flay next to our name. And oh boy! A red mark means the unfortunate one gets bawled out by the foremen | (&@ gang of them) and is heckled to work faster. And a few red marks pheans getting fired. The foreman pomes and politely tells you that you bre not needed any more. * Layoffs are taking place daily for the past four months. And we who are working here today may be out pf a job tomorrow. We are really shivering for our jobs. Organize Against This The women here get even smaller wages, for the same work the men Jo. Why should the women get less lor the same work? It’s to the bosses’ benefit, because wherever possible he fires the men, and hires women to work much cheaper (for less than half in many cases). I and many other workers are get- eg sick of working under this rot- n Bedoe system and bonus scheme tnd getting such low wages. Why Joesn't anyone dome down and or- ores us in the Trade Union Unity ague. Chase Crippled Vet Off the Street So “Ladies” | May Pass (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Thursday, Nov. I saw a former war veteran beg- ing in front of Stern Bros. depart- ent store on E. 42nd St. This vet- ‘an was minus both his legs and was mpelled to push himself around with his hands. He had a sign which dicated that he was in the First Di- sion, 28th Infantry. For the benefit those who do not know, Stern Bros. Wis the ladies of class (parasitic bass). The sight of this veteran, and the ract that he was one of those who ught for ‘democracy’ would have been too much for the dear ladies they want to buy their gowns, etc. mpelled’ the special officer to chase phe vet. ‘Beat it before I run you in,’ he shouted when the legless refused fo move. This threat was enough to him move on, He lost his legs aking the world safe for Wall St. low the Wall Street ladies wouldn't ven let him beg. f DARCY STRESSES DEFENSE ON TOUR Carry Out 8-Month Campaign Plan NEW YORK —Membership meet- Ings of the International Labor De- fense, held throughout the country to discuss the Eight-Month Plan, are now in full swing. Sam Darcy, as- sistant secretary of the organization, fs attending these meetings to dis- cuss with the membership the vari- ous problems confronting workers’ flefense during the coming year. Darcy is coming direct from the convention of the American Negro Labor Congress, where he discussed the various problems confronting the Negro worker in the United States, especially in the South, and the dis- crimination and persecution of the Negro is his militant activity against unemployment, low wages and the speed-up. ‘The International Labor Defense districts are actively preparing ‘their campaign for the repeal of syndical- jst and sedition laws in the various states and a general omnesty for all imprisoned workers. Sam Darcy will be at the member- ship meetings in Detroit, Nov. 18 and 19, and in Buffalo on Nov. 20. Out of a Job? Got spare time? You can earn a little money and take a crack at the system by sel- ling Daily Workers. Come up and we will explain, 35 East 12th st. Organize Unemployed Councils to Strike Against 10% Wage-Cut In New Haven Pants Shop (By A Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn, — Fifty workers mostly girls went out on strike this morning against a 10 per cent wage cut in the Fenichels pants factory, 50 East Street. We work on the piece work system and we can only make from $12 to 15 a week, now we are not going to stand for any lower rates. We are going to form picket lines and win our strike. Woman Worker, ‘BOOSTER FOR THE 60,000 DAILY GOAL Tells of Speed-Up In Sugar Mill BERKELEY, Cal—I am a prole- | tarian booster for our great weapon, the Daily Worker. When I read my copy I am so enthused, that I want to throw my hat in the air, and carry on like a jubilant youth again. I am 37 now, and it takes something powerful to affect me. Every issue of “our paper” is a power for good to the working class. The Daily Worker lurches forward like a powerful steed, the kind, you know, that is exhibited arid can’t be still for a minute, as it Is so full of life. Brothers Killed T travelled 120 miles to make con- tact with a class-conscious worker on | an outpost of the American Sugar | Refining Co., where the workers are miserably exploited and done to death through long hours, speed-up, | accident and slow starvation, life and hope nearly gone from their |poor bodies. I know, because I/ worked there. Two of my brothers were killed there, by accidents that | could have been prevented. I am soliciting subs, putting the paper into the hands of the workers on the job and off. When they get on their fighting mits over-production will be @ blessing instead of a night-mare, as they will have a substantial base to begin the new society on, On with the good work! Here's the money to extend my sub! R. B. W. On to the 60,000 goal TAXI GANGSTERS STILL RULE ASSN. Mulcting Treasury Of} Taximen’s Group (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—As a member of the Amalgamated Taxi Ass’n Inc, 1 want to thank you for your fearless article in the Daily Worker of Sep- tember 17, 1930. Since the meeting in August which the certified public accountant brought in their report the grafting Officials have held their power by the aid of gangsters and non-members who were given membership bdoks for the occasion, Gangsters Still Rule It is over 3 months that the audit committee hired attorneys to oust these fake officials for malfeasance of funds and they still hold on to their jobs of collecting and disburs- ing the organization’s funds. How much longer this will continue I do not know but I can assure you I would deal with them differently if I had the power. ‘The fight to oust the fakers must continue in the organization. Call rank and file meetings and elect your committees. Get in touch with the membership and @ontinue until all who take part in the corruption are sent to hades. Stockton Workers Building Movement (By a Worker Correspondent) STOCKTON, Cal.—Here in Stock- ton we had denionstrations August 1st and September Ist and many meetings of the unemployed, and many workers proposed to join the Party, the revolutionary unions and the unemployed councils. Five hun- dred copies of the Pacific Coast edi- tion of the Daily Worker was dis- tributed and the Daily Worker sold every «day. Though there are few big factories here, Stockton is one of the agricul- tural centers of California and here many Mexican and Filipino workers gather. The conditions of the agricultural workers are worse ‘han that of last year. Many more unemployed. It is our task to organize these workers into organizations and to start a big mass movement of un- employed as well as that of the em- ployed against the rotten conditions. All notices for this column can be run only for three days includ- ‘ng the date of the affair, due to the enormous amount of notices handed in. BOSS PAINTERS USE TRICK TO GET MORE WORK Only Organization Can Fight This (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK —It is worth men- tioning some of the many tricks used by bosses in extracting a few minutes extra work from a workman, that really belong to the worker. A few minutes do not seeth much, but take a few minutes each day for three hundred and sixty-five days and you will find it means a lot. For instance, I worked for a boss, a@ painter, my hours were eight till twelve, half hour lunch, quit four thirty. About twenty-minutes past four my boss would come sneaking around the job. In a smiling manner: he would say “Finish that stretch of wall, or cut. in those two sash before quitting.” Now that stretch of wall or those two could not be done in less than a half hour, no matter how hard I worked but to hold my job I had to finish it. Now that boss got twenty minutes from me that did not appear in my weekly stipend. “Give a Hand” Bunk A job is near completion, scaffold is packed up, ready after for the ex- press wagon to take it back to the shop. The boss comes around on the t of four thirty with the wagon th an excuse something like this \T am sorry I courd not get here sooner, give us a hand to load this scaffolding” Which means another twenty minutes, that benefits the boss in coin and labor. It is such underhand methods that are practiced by bosses, large and small, against the workers today. The A. F. of L. does wot interfere for our betterment but play into the hands of the bosses. The Tyade) Union Unity League are just as in-| terested in small matters as well as | the larger issues for the workers’ benefit regardless of what line of livelihood he follows from laborer to past master mechanic, also disre- regarding color or nationality. If you are looking to better your conditions, also your relative and working com- rades conditions who are to come after you, unite under the Trade Union Unity League. Jobless Women Tell Of Miseries (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal. — Here are some interviews of unemployed wo- men workers: “My name is Mrs. Perry. I am a widow and have two children. I am out of work and I live with my sis- ter and we are almost starving. My second husband is in New Bedford, Mass., almost dying in a hospital. “Mrs. Balshor & widow, age 60. Have a nephew, we are out of work and starving. I am Portugese.” the sale of the Daily Worker proved 1100 to 1400 at its roll call. A series of open air meetings will be held this week, the central point of which will be the promotion of the Daily Worker. The meetings will be held at 10th St. and Second Ave. each evening during the pres- ent week. The role of the Daily Worker will be explained to the workers and headlines and excerpts read from the platform. Subscrip- tions will be taken and papers sold. The Red Builders News Club sends a challenge to the Daily Worker Boosters Clb of Chicago to sell fwice as many papers as the latter club during the first week of Decem- ber. The N. Y. club intends to double its membership during the coming week, through each member obtain- ing one new member. New members are expected to be added during the |street meetings. Ten new members joined the club Sunday making a membership of 32. Seven Members of Club Get Prizes Seven members of the club were awarded prizes of “Red Cartoons” for having sold more than 250 papers during the week. The honor members of the club were Shoholm, Stevens, Marino, Barnes, Gomez, Voss and Reese. Comrades Gomez and Barnes sold over 400 papers during the week. During the coming week a plaque of Lenin will be awarded to all who | sell over 250 copies during the week. Any unemployed worker who comes to the office of the Daily Worker can enter this competition. During the past week there were | 3500 papers actually sold by club | members in New York. | The Red Builders News Club also | is entering the campaign for paid | subscriptions. All members now} have subscription blanks. Regular | customers will be asked to subscribe. | Club members will receive 10 cents a | month commission for subscriptions. | Charts to Show Philly Progress M. Silver, Daily Worker repre- sentative in Philadelphia sends in copies of charts with blank spaces to show gains in subs and bundles | for every unit and section in the district. Silver promises to fill in the spaces with figures soon. Expects Increase In Grand Rapids Order Wh. J. Conn, section organizer in Grand Rapids says: “The number of copies sent to Grand Rapids will increase, I am sure, as a result of house to house distribution we are | undertaking now.” He also sends in the following original thought: “Also we will begin to send some more money for the Daily.” Changes in Daily Worker circula- tion in every district in the Party show in tables published each Wed- —J. K, SYLVIA. nesday. Heiresses Celebrate While Working Girls In Jail and Starved By MYRA PAGE America today is a land of sharp contrasts. At no time in history has a society presented more drastic ex- treemes. Yesterday the papers carried news of happenings in the lives of four girls: Eleanor Berdnac, Olympia Sca- lonia, Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke. All four are young—not yet in the twenties, members of “this great democracy” and, according to poli- tical “leaders,” school texts, and sky pilots, free and equal before the law. Hoover recently stated: “In America we give every one an equal chance,” and he added, “those who have the most ability get to the top.” But take the stories of these four girls. The America that two of the girls know is the exact opposite of that in which the other two live. For Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke were born with gold spoons in their mouths, as the saying goes, while Olympia Scaloni and Eleanor Berd- nac came into the world as daughters of impoverished and hardworking parents. This accidental fact of birth into two different classes of society has determined the whole course of their lives. Class differences alone, and not any differences in native intel- ligence, beauty, disposition or any other characteristic of the four girls are responsible. Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke have been surrounded from birth with luxury and ease and every ad- vantage which wealth can supply. They have never known what it is to do one day’s labor in their lives. ‘True, they are still young, altogether too yor to have worked. It is safe to say that they never will do any work, so long as canitalism continues. The other two girls, however, have worked since early youth. Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton do not even N.Y. News Club Boosts Order to 1400 Copies Daily and Sends Challenge to Chicago The Red Builders News Club composed of jobless workers who live by | it was still alive and kicking at its second hot dog jamoree at 27 West 4th St., Sunday night. The club increased its order from > rg (Continued from Page One) of the efforts of big monopolies to | “corner” whole industries. Again, there, a common sense man- agement has set up “continuous pro- duction,” all machines being used 24 hours a day and not just eight or ten, and every day of the week, not stand- ing idle Sundays; but with all this the shifts of workers are arranged so that each work four days of seven hours each, then has the fifth day free—with wages increasing and con- ditions generally bettering all the time. Still more, Soviet production doesn’t have to support a host of millionaires, with their diamonds, Rolls-Royce cars and harems of chorus girls, no parasites. Obviously, the Soviet CAN produce cheaper than capitalism. But it ac- tually is selling abroad only what it needs to buy machinery to hasten in- dustrialization. And it is NOT sell- | ing below the cost of its production, though it may be selling below what | it costs capitalism to produce the same things. ing. Certainly the capitalists are en- titled to get hysterical over this, be- cause it proves that Socialism is su- perior, economically, to their own system. But the big trouble is, that even Sot it is NOT dump- | in its first steps, Socialism is giving the workers a better life, a richer and more secure life than capitalism! And the capitalists know that they cannot continue to starve millions of workers here, and enslave them to their profit machines forever, while the example of victorious Socialism in the Soviet Union shows the workers of capitalist lands the lesson of rev- olution, the overthrowal of capitalist rule and the establishment of a Sov- iet Government in this country! BOSSES LIE ABOUT SOVIET DUMPING INTERNATIONAL EXPOSE LABOR OFFICE FAKERY Prayda Scores League Of Nations MOSCOW.—Referring to thé re- port of the International Labor Of- fice of the League of Nations on| “unemployment in the Soviet Union writes: There are some facts which are so| obvious that not | traitor, Thomas, cannot conceal from | the masses that all capitalist coun- tries are suffering from acute unem- ployment and'he therefore tries to conceal the fact that in the Soviet Union unemployment has not only “greatly decreased,” but actually been liquidated altogether. The social fascists dare not admit that the liqui- |dation of unemployment is not the result of a passing boom, but the logical organizational result of | Soviet system. This would represent | their greatest defeat. Instead. they do their best to persuade the work- ers that the Soviet government is re- fusing to pay support to unemployed workers, concealing the fact that no unemployment support is being paid out in the Soviet Union because there jis no one to receive it. The report of the International Labor Office follows the policy of the “Vorwaerts” and “le Populaire” in their attempts jto prevent their readers from learn- ing of the great successes of social- ism in the Soviet Union. BOSSES VICTIMIZE BERLIN STRIKERS BERLIN.—Thanks to the treachery of the reformist trade union leaders, the employers are now in a position to carry out mass victimization al- though part of their agreement was) that no victimization should take| place. Sixty workers have been victimized at the Frister works, 60 in Steffens | & Noelte, 15 at the Lorenz works, 15} at the Krupp and Drueckenmueller works, 13 at the Norddeutschekabel- werk, 43 at Siemens Plania works and the whole revolutionary opposition. At the Lorenz works the social democratic trade union official, Schulz, took up his position at the gates and only let those workers in whom he knew not to be members of the opposition. In the A. E. G. works in the Acker- Strasse the trade union official, Loef- fler, declared that all the workers who struck at the call of the revolutionary trade union opposition, i. e., One day before the union called the strike, would be victimized. The Metal Workers’ Union had agreed to these victimizations. Four Amencan Girls’ Lives Prove Private dress themselves. They have maids to fix their hair and lay out their clothes for them. Not that we envy these girls. Not one bit. Such an idle and parasitic existence as theirs is demoralizing, and one that no self- respecting person could endure. The | point is the rank uselessness of the arrangement. Wealth and Ease Barbara Hutton is the grand- daughter of James Woolworth, of five and ten cent fame. From this sire she has inherited $60,000,000 which he amassed primarily by sweating it out of adolescents who went to work even below the minimum age allowed by law for six, eight and ten dollars a week. Along with Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke is “coming out” in society this fall. As you have probably guessed, Dor- is is the daughter of James Duke, the man who “made,” that is took, close to a hundred million dollars out of the labor of Negro, Poor White and foreign-born workers in tobacco fac- tories and on tabocco farms in the southern and other states. Labor con- ditions in Duke's southern tobacco plats aren otorious, and the work more despised even than that in the cotton mills. Deaths from the dread consumption are high. Doris Duke first received publicity when, five years ago, a girl of thir- teen, she inherited from her father this vast fortune. While she has not done one thing to create this wealth, the law and courts of the land which men like Duke control, say it is hers “by virtue of the rights of private property.” High-priced lawyers have been re- investing this hundred million for her in factories and railroads. So that now additional thousands of workers unknowingly are pouring extra millions of wealth into her cof- fers. Miss Duke lives in a Fifth Avenue house worth over one and a half mil- lion—a sum which would house 4,000 evicted families for one year. In ad- dition, she owns a little 2,000 acre estate \In New Jersey, another estate i at Newport, a private Pullman car with “Doris” gilded on the paneling, and several motor cars and horses. Her days are spent clogging, taking trips to Europe, and kneeling before King George, in horse-back riding parties, and beauty treatments. Now she and Miss Hutton are making their bow to the New York City Four Hun- dred, and preparing for a strenuous | winter of expensive drinking parties, heavy eating and warding off heiress- hunting suitors. While these two girls are going through this farce of living, the other two, Eleanor Berndac and Olympia Scalonia, are facing quite different problems. Theirs are the struggles and heart aches of working girls battling against the great odds which the capitalist system visits upon mem- bers of their class. Today Eleanor is in jail awaiting sentence while Olympia lies in the hospital, perhaps dying of poison which she took in despair over her failure to find work. We'll let Eleanor tell her own story. “We had no money. Father hasn't been able to get work for over a year. The little we have comes from the welfare department and what money I can earn cleaning and tak- ing care of children. Clara, my ten- year old sister, wanted a costume for Hallowe'en. A school mate had in- vited her to a party. Poor little thing, she has had so little pleasure, and she begged so hard. But all our cloth had gone for useful clothes, for there are eight in our family, and not a spare penny anywhere. “I went over to the store today to see a woman I sometimes work for. ‘Then I saw the costume, lying on the floor. A clown costume, red and black and so pretty. I'd been thinking of Clara, and how much she wanted to go to that party, She's my favorite, Before I knew it, I had the costume under my coat. Then the detective arrested me. That was all.” Clara is awaiting sentence in the women’s detention home of Detroit, on a larceny charge. She is treated | as a criminal in the eyes of the law, for she has dared violate the “sacred Property Is More Valuable Than Life laws of private property” in order to give her little sister a day of hap- piness. The story of Olympia, now lying in Coney Island Hospital, is not dif- ferent from that of many other work- ing girls. Out of work for several months, with all hope gone of find- ing a job, and unable to face her needy parents, she attempted suicide by taking poison. Olympia is barely sixteen years old. But what years of destitution and worry have been crowded into this short span! The difference between the posi- tion and interests of the Doris Dukes and Barbara Huttons and the Elea- nor Berdnacs and Olympia Scalonis |is the difference between two Classes and their opposing interests. These differences are an inevitable part of the capitalist system, whereby jone class, the bosses or capitalists, own all of the means of production and are therefore able to exploit the working class, who own nothing but its labor power and therefore must hire out to them in order to make a living. The capitalists keep all of the wealth which labor has created and the wage-earners are allowed on- ly enough of their product to enable them and their children to go on producing wealth for the masters, In this way, millions are accumulated by such exploiters as Duke and Wool- worth, while the class of which Elea- nor Berdnac and Olympia Scaloni are struggling against long hours, the speed-up, wage cuts and wide-spread unemployment. Working men and women, organize to fight for better conditions, and to carry on the struggle until capitalism is overthrown and a socialist society set up in the United States, like that’ of the Soviet Union. Where land and all means of production will ke owned collectively by the toiling pop- ulation, and the new government, composed of councils, or soviets, of working men and women, and poor farmers, will represent the" interests not of private property and the ex- ploiting class, but of the laboring masses of the peoples, |does Germany isolate even the social| democrats can deny them. The arch-| the} {Germany Is Bulwark Against Bolshevism Says Boss Newspaper Allge- | BERLIN.—The “Deutsche meine Zeitung,” the organ of Ger- man heavy industry, publishes a sen- sational article under the title, “Why itself?” The article contains, inter alia, the follow- ing: “At last the danger of Bolshevism to realize that Germany could be an vism as a member of the European and American defense front. Eng- land is anxious, at least conserva- tive circles in England which will |take over the reins of government again sooner or later. The question is raised there: does Germany want jto be a bulwark in defense of bol- | shevism or against it? This is the question which is in the background of all discussions between British and German political and economic lead- ers. Conservative England wants clarity as to Germany's standpoint. | The best earnest of our sincerity would be a cabinet pf the right wing with a foreign minister, who whilst not endangering Germany's interests and whilst making no diplomatic er- rors, would af)pt a very different at- titude towards Russia.” This article throws a very clear light on the secret negotiations which are proceeding between Ger- man and foreign politicians with a | view to tightening up the encircle- | ment of the Soviet Union as the first step to an imperialist war of inter- vention. (GENERAL STRIKE INBARCELONA Socialists Try to Betray Strikers (Continued from Page One) | temporary barricades, smashing street cars and engaging in fighting with the police. A battle took place near the ambla, Broadway of Barcelona. In one case armed workers ordered soabs off the job. The strike is pro- ceeding in many other parts of Spain, though the capitalist newspapers re- port the police have “matters well in hand.” The general strike is still on in Madrid, with frequent clashes tak- ing place between police and work- ers. Railroad workers throughout the country, who are demanding higher wages, have threatened to stop all railway traffic. There is a food short- age'in Madrid as the result of the strike, with the capitalists becoming frantic. The sociglists, who have an alliance with the republican bour- geoisie, are trying to prevent the workers from forming councils to su- pervise the distribution of food sup- plies. Police and civil guards are patrol- ing the streets with rifles, guarding public buildings both in Madrid and Barcelona. The red flag was hoisted in Barcelona on a street car in front of University Square after the car had been stoned. The strike started in Orta, a suburb of Barcelona, with workers stopping the street cars by tearing up the tracks. Many Com- munists were arrested. In Granada members of the build- ing trades union declared a 24-hour striké in sympathy with the general strike in Madrid. Students also re- fused to attend classes in sympathy with the workers. The strike later was extended to the street paving workers and others, paralyzing a large part of the city’s activities. The situation is tense throughout Spain, with the political crisis being aggravated by the revolutionary mili- tancy shown by the workers. The reformist trade union leaders are at- tempting to betray the strike and defeat the efforts of the workers to get an increase in wages. POOR FARMERS READY TO FIGHT Ts Their Paper (By a Farmer Correspondent) LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — The | “United Farmer” is being distributed here among the farmers and pre- parations made > organize a United Farmers League a little later. Two meetings will be held, one west of town and one east. Farmers are hard up. A canvass shows that they want to subscribe for the “United Farmer”, but not money for this. get a tax-payers’ fight for lower taxes. Ctonditions make the farmer radical, now listen to what a revolutionist has to say. Some farmers believe in the farm- er-labor party here in Minnesota, but when they begin to see this party is no better than the other old parties, they will then turn to the left and fight a good deal harder than they are now doing. —Farmer. 4. Realize United Farmer. many of them have even enough) The plan here is to | league going to| He will, INCREASE. LAND. " SOWN IN USSR. 35,949,000 Hecatres Already Seeded MOSCOW.—Up to the 25th of Oct. 35,949,000 hectares of land in the |Soviet Union had been sown. Eight world unemployment in which the/ is being realized more and more in| million, nine hundred and ninety~ French “socialist” Albert Thomas, is| the world in general and in Germariy | seyen hectares were sown by the col- compelled to admit at least that|im particular. People are beginning | jective farms and 1,537,000 hectares by the Soviet farms. In the southern has greatly decreased,” the “Pravda” |important bulwark against bolshe-| districts the sowings are being con- tinued. The People’s Commissariat for Agriculture has confirmed the plans |for the spring sowing. A total area of 78,118,000 hectares of land will be sown, representing an increase of | 23.4 per cent on the area last spring. The collective farms will sow 41,- 000,000 hectares and the Soviet farms 7,400,000 hectares. The socialist | secotor of the sowings will be 62 per cent as compared with 38.5 per cent last. spring. | The sugar beet yield has now been |brought in to the extent of 94 per cent. The total yield will be 131 million cwts. 165 factories will work |4 months and produce 18 and one- half million cwts or two and a half | times as much as last year. JOB SHARK LIARS TANGLE CAL. CASE Try to Convict Jobless Leaders in Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov, 17.— Another one of those brazen frame- ups by which the boss class hopes to rob the workers of their leaders be- gan badly here Wednesday when Mike Daniels, Communist organizer, and seven comrades were placed on trial for having forced “employment. agencies” here to refund money col- lected from jobless workers for jobs which did not exist. The charges are the usual ones employed in such cases—‘disturbing the peace.” A crowded court room of sympa- thizers witnessed the amusing spec- tacle of the prosecution calling in- sufficiently coached witnesses to jus- tify their attack upon unemployed workers, While the complaints against the defendants contain charges of “fight- ing,” witnesses for the employment agency sharks failed to substantiate previous assertions and were greatly confused by the cross-examination of Philip M. Ziverin, attorney of the In= ternational Labor Defense, who is de- fending the group. Prosecution Tangled Up. J. Neely, witness for one of the “outraged” employment agencies, de~ nied on the stand that any fighting occurred in his shop. Charles Leh- man, another unemployment shark, failed to “remember” from whom he mulcted money for mythical jobs, but his memory was quite clear on the point that Charles Bell, one of the defendants, had stated there would “be something doing” if the sharks didn’t refund the money. The defendants in addition to Com- rades Daniels and Bell include Wil- liam Malone, Emmet Lachley, Tom Roy, James Black, Paddy McGilland Francis Henderson. They are being tried before Judge L. M. Shelly, of police court, and a jury of nine men and three women. The trial will be continued. BOARD TRIES TO JUGGLE MARKET Yesterday rumors spread over all the wheat exchanges that the Farm’ Board through its “Grain Stabiliza- tion” Corporation had sold for fu- ture delivery to foreign countries its 60,000,000 bushels of wheat. There was a counter rumor that the Farm Board was again buying wheat, and some indication that it had placed an order for 10,000,000 bushels of De~ cember wheat. The result was extraordinary chaos, wild excitement among the gamblers and fluctuations of wheat ranging from 69 to 73 cents. The net result |seems ta be to leave wheat about where it was a few days ago, in price, and the farmers as badly off as ever. Meanwhile the premiers of four Canadian provinces are conferring as to what to do about the price there, which is around 60 cents. When wheat | fell to a dollar, in February, the sit- uation was deemed serious enough | for the provincial governments to is- sue a statement that the “whole back- | ing of the prairie provinces is behind the wheat pools.” Bankers ‘exorbit- ant demands for interest and pay- ments on money loaned wheat pools has now forced these pools ot liqui- date, nad with a disastrous fall in |prices, The provincial premiers do not seem to have any remedy. The United Farmers League, head~ quarters in New York Mills, Minn, |denounces all this juggling with the | market as a swindle on the farmers, and calls for the farmers themselves | to organize for their own advantage, to refuse to pay rents and mortgare payments, and to force the reduction in price of agricultural machinery, fertilizers, and necessities.