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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Nicaragua Now Ready
for Canal Says Edge
in Report to Senate

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. 49,
Senator Edge of New Jersey, who
has been on a recent scouting ex-
nedition for American Imperialism in
Central America, seeking to make
its position there more imprecnable
than ever, reported to the senate
Yesterday that Nicaragua is now
ready" for the construction of the
proposed canal. He said, further
more, that it is needed for war pur-
poses.
He based this readiness" on the
somewhat shaky evidence of the
good will" dope spread about
Hoover's visit to the coastal city of
Corinto, and the unden.ahle fact
that the two lackeys, Moncada and
Diaz, had licked Hoover's shoes till
the polish came off. Edge evaded
all mention of Sandino's continued
resistance for national independence.
Edge was arguing for S150,000 to
make a new survey across Nicara-
qua for the proposed canal, which,
he claims, is matter of national
Defense" and would shorten the New
TorlI-San Francisco route by 10
hours and accommodate 70 per cent
Of the present Panama traffic which
is crowding that route.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
CREEK TERROR
DOES not WANT
INVESTIGATION
Denies Barbusse's Tor
ture Charges

PARIS, Dec. 18.-The Greel, pre-
mier, Venizelos, has answered the
questions of Barbusse, the French
revolutionary writer and chairman
Of the Committee for the Defense
Of the Victims of the White Terror
in the Balkans, by declaring that his
information was false and advising
him to base his demands only on
official information.
Barbusse had demanded that an
Investigation committee be allowed
into Greece.
The Greek workers AID" branch
Of the International Red Aid, has
reported that it is in the position
tc give information on the exiting
and falling of workers and peasants.
According to its report, so more
workers and peasants have been ban
ished to IL deportation islands for
a period of time ranging from 6
months to A years.
Fifty young soldiers have been
imprisoned in the catacombs of
Kalpaki, desolate spot in the noun
tains where the prisoners die from
hunger and torture. They were sus-
pected of having Communist ideas.
The police commission can sem
fence workers and peasants to terms
of Punishment without any trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Poyntz Speaks Tonight
at Organization Meet
of the Office Workers

Juliet Stuart Poyntz, labor lee
turer ard educator, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a mass meeting of
office workers to be held under the
auspices of the Office Workers
Union tonight at 8 p. m. at the La
Dor Temple, 18th St., at Second Ave.
According to statement issued by
the Office Workers Union, this
meeting is step in the intensive
campaign undertaken by the union
for the organization of the half mil
hon office workers in New York.
'The mass of office workers is
still labcring under the illusion of
the superiority of their position to
that of industrial workers, which is
so diligently maintained by the
bosses and their press. The develop
naent of labor-saving machinery in
offices and the consequent terrific
speed-up systems under which of
flee workers now work, give the
final blow to this myth and prove
conclusively that office workers are
subject to the same evils of ex-
ploitation and oppression at the
hands of the employing class as the
rest Of the working class.
eve call upon all office workers
to attend this mass meeting, join
our union and build up a powerful
organization of office workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Rap PRESENCE OF
2ALBO, FASCIST
Plan Mass Campaign
Against Murderer

A resolution of protest against
The bloody activities of Italo Balbo,
right-hand man to Mussolini and
delegate to the recent aviation con-
ference was adopted at a joint
meeting Of the International Labor
Defense and the Anti-Fascist AL
lance Sunday night at the Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
The Anti-Fascist Alliance charges
that Balbo, -generalissimo of the
fascist militia and minister of avia-
ton, is responsible for the murder
of tens OF thousands of workers tor
tured to death in Italy, and fifteen
thousand now in exile or impris-
oned.
The resolution adopted follows:
Whereas, the American govern
ment has welcomed to this country
Italo Balbo, former generalissimo of
the fascist militia of Italy, and who
has personally taken part in the tor
turing and killing of workers; and
Whereas, we consider the pres
ence of Balbo an insult to the Amer
lean workers and their organiza-
tions; be it therefore
Resolved, that this conference
calls upon the American working
class, and especially the members of
the organizations that we represent,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
S0ngsters
at Latin American
Dance on Saturday

The entertainment and dance ar
ranged for Saturday night, Dec. %,
at the New Harlem Casino, 10th
and Lennox Avenue for the benefit
Of the Spanish workers paper,
vida Obrero" by the Spanish
Bureau of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party promises TO h one of
the most colorful affairs in work.
ing class entertainments.
1t is announced that the Antillian
Group, quartet of Latin-Americans
who work for the Oriental Music
Company in recording the latest
atin-American songs, has been ad-
ded to the program. They will ap-
pear at the dance with their latest
songs and costumes and they will
accompany their songs with their
typical Antillian instruments which
have no name in the English
language, The group consists of
Pedro Marcano, tenor; Aamon
Aunes, baritone; Rafael Gonzales
and Pedro Flores.
Tickets can be procured at the
Workers Book Shop. rs Union
Square and at the Spanish Center,
So West 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
BELGIUM GUILTY
or BRUTALITY TO
: CONGO NATIVES
Workers Beaten With
Rhinocerous Whips

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 18.-On re-
turning from trip to Africa, c. w.
Williams, clerk in the Boston Ju-
venile Court, further substantiated
the known fact that Belgium is
guilty of great brutality to the ma
tives of the Belgian Congo.
Williams declared that the 10000
whites, who rule the 100000 Ne
groes there, are eXerting every eff
fort and imposing extreme cruelties
to prevent the passing of Nordic
power ard influence. Prisoners are
driven to their forced labor with
unpsdded iron collars and chains
about their necks and with the en-
shaved workers are S6aded and
beaten to their tasks by whites with
rhinocerous-hide whips. The work.
ers are forced to work from twelve
to fifteen hours a day under a blaz-
ing sun, with no respite whatsoever.
Any semblance of organization,
political or otherwise, IS promptly
broken up. In 1927, twenty men
were sentenced to death for insur-
rection, to crush a revolt of the
natives, but were saved from execu-
ton only by the Intervention of a
few whites.
No Redress Against Whites.
Though natives are the police of
the Belgian Congo, which is eighty
times as large as Belgium, they dare
not arrest a white person on any
charge. Neither have the natives
any course of redress against a
white, no matter what crime is COM
mitted against them. The running
Of trains, steamboats, and all other
activities, is made possible only by
the natives, who do all the work.
The complete suppression by the
Belgian imperialists of any native
movement of organization lies in
the way of freedom, but a combined
revolt of the natives is likely to
throw off the Belgian slave-drivers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
N. Y. /. L. d. to Have
House to : house Drive
Saturday and Sunday

City-wide house-to-house collec-
tions for the Christmas Fund Drive
Of the New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense will be
conducted this Saturday and Sun
day. An intensive canvass will be
made throughout the city for the
purpose of collecting funds that will
go for the defense of the 662 tex
tile strikers who are being tried in
New Bedford and the other class
war cases now in the hands of the
l. L. D.
The Christmas season, which is
exploited by bourgeois "philan-
thropic" organizations for the fake
charity with which they seek to
crush the militancy of the workers.
is being used by the international
Labor Defense to strengthen the
fighting front of the workers.
All workers and sympathizers are
urged to help the struggle to save
the New Bedford militants from
jail, to free Mooney and Billings and
the other class war prisoners, by
contributing generously to the
house-to-house collections.
Volunteers are wanted for the col
lections. They are asked to report
to the office of the New York |. l..
D., 799 Broadway, Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Newark Worker School
Opens Tomorrow Mite
WithImp0rtantC Courses

The Newark Branch Of the Work
ers School starts in real earnest this
week with the beginning of three
important classes, English on Thurs
, day at 8 p. M. Fundamentals of
Communism, Friday at p. M, and
MARKHAM Economics, Friday at 9:3O
r. m.
A. Markoff, instructor i'll the
Workers School of New York City,
is the director of it's Newark Branch
and in addition will teach two
courses on Friday evening. 1t is
planned to organize courses later on
in Trade Unionism and American
History and Principles of Marxism.
The courses are open to all work.
crs who wish to train themselves for
the class struggle and Tor more eff
fective work in working class or
CARNATIONS to which they may be-
long. The fee has been reduced to
the minimum so as to enable all
workers to attend classes at this
school. Special provision, moreover,
has been made for unemployed work
ers and for workers on strike.
The plan of The Workers School
IS to have it's Newark Branch be-
come the educational center for all
militant workers in New Jersey.
The aim is to have the fighting
workers of Elizabeth, New Bruna
wick and other cities train at TIL
school. Those who wish to talk
any classes at the Newark Branch
of the Workers School should regis
ter Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
The YugOslav Worker
Club Will Attend Red
Poets Night en- Masse

The Yugoslav Workers Club has
ordered tickets for it's entire mem
bership for the third annual Inter
national Red Poets Night, to be
held Friday evening, Dec. 2S, at
Manhattan Lyceum, SO E. 4th st.
The club 10 an educational organi-
cation Of class-conscious workers
and all the members are going to be
present at Red Poets Night and
bring their friends.
For the first time since the found
ing of the institution of Red Poets
Night the Yugoslav workers will be
represented. John Sigzorich, a con-
tributor to "Radnick," Yugoslav
Communist daily and a member OF
the Yugoslav Workers. Club, will
be among those who will read.
Il 4 Poets Night this year will be
more elaborate than ever before and
the poets who will read will include
greater number Of nationalities.
Revolutionary poetry will be fol-
lowed by revolutionary dancing or
any kind of dancing at all to the
strains of John C. Smiths Negro
Jazz Band. Buy your tickets early!
RnGrsTEI YOUR PRoTEsY
'fiArTsT iNr ERIALIST WAR. VOTE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Women's Course Starts
at N. Y. Worker School

"Women in History" is the title
of course that Paulir, Rogers.
agitprop director of the Women's
Dept. Of the New York district of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
will give at the New York Workers
School, 26 Union So, beginning to-
night. The course will be of par
ticulcr interest to women active in
labor struggles, and particularly in
the organization Of working women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
KILLS. STARVING CHILD
Released to Watch Two Others Stare

Cne baby girl died, the others,
though made seriously i'll, recovered.
Mrs. Kempf was tried for first
degree murder at once, there being
no romance or drama in the case
and no reason for delay. The jury
disagreed.
The second trial followed today.
Distracted, hardly caring what hap
pened to her, Mrs. Kempf decided
not to fight, and through her attor-
ney offered to plead guilty to man
slaughter. The plea was accepted
and the Judge placed her on proba-
ton.
Mrs. Kempf was freed, to start
over again her fight to feed the two
remaining children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. is (UP(
An apparently hopeless fight
against grinding poverty, climaxed
by question as to whether Santa
Claus would forget again this year"
to visit her little home, led Mrs.
Anna Kempf several weeks ago to
try to poison herself and her three
small children.
With almost the last Of her
money, the mother bought a card
board container of ice cream and a
package of rat poison. She mixed
them and the family sat down to
what the children greeted as treat.
She thought it would be the end of
their earthly troubles, at least.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Race Vaccine Across
Alaska to Stop Its
Small pox Epidemic

CORDOVA,A Alaska, Dec. IS (UP).
"A dog team carrying large sup
ply of vaccine was racing down the
Yunok to Holy Cross today in an
attempt to stop smallpox epidemic
that is spreading inland from the
coast.
Amateur radio stations at Anvik
and st. George Island flashed a
message from ]. W. Chapman, post
master at Anvik, to Governor
George A. Parks at Juneau, telling
OF the epidemic.
Half of Anvil's supply of vaccine
has been sent to Holy Cross which
is so miles away. There is no APP
parent lack of vaccine at Anvik,
the message indicated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Further Consolidation
Of Texas Oil Companies

FORT WORTH, Tex, Dec. Is
(UPl.-Sale of the oil properties OF
the Henshaw Oil Corp. to the Amer.
lean Maracaibo Co. of New York
was concluded at conference of of
ficials of the two companies here
today.
With the sale, $1,000 acres Of
producing and semi-producing oil
lands, mostly in west Texas, will
change hands.
The purchase price, though not
announced officially has been re-
ported at $3,000,0o0.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Drop Indictments in
Knapp Case; After All
No Worse Than Teapot

All remaining indictments against
Mrs. Knapp, former census bureau
head and secretary of state for New
York State and charging her with
forgery, false entry, and larceny, in
the handling of S1,200,000 census
funds have been dismissed by
Supreme Court Justice Callaghan, in
Brooklyn, yesterday, at the motion
of Special Deputy Attorney General
George z. Medaile. Mrs. Knapp was
convicted on one count only, and
served only fraction of her 80 day
sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Yuditch to Talk at
Amalgamated Fraction

?. Yuditch, of the staff of "The
Freiheit." will lecture on "The Left
Wing in the Trade Unions" tomor-
row night at 7:30 at a mass meet
ing of the Amalgamated fraction of
the Trade Union Educational
League at the Workers Center, 26
Union Square.
All members of the Trade Union
Educational League are urged to be
present, especially shirtmakers,
ranten1akers. vestmakers and other
clothing workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
BR0ACH CLAIMS
VICTORY; FAILS
TO SIGN BOSSES
Has Jobless Fund Plan
to Bleed Members
(By a Worker Correspondent

(BY a WORKER CoffeSp0ndentJ
An increase of ten per cent in the
daily wage, and the five day, 40
hour week has been granted by part
of the electrical contractors of
Brooklyn and the Bronx
This increase was won by a mill
tant attitude on the part of the
membership of the local here of the
International Brotherhood of Elec-
trieal Workers, and this membership
was led in this fight by the progress
sive group within Local 8, the
group that International Vice Pres
ident H. H. Breach is trying to
break up.
But that fact did not prevent
Breach at the union meeting in Cen
trail Opera House from stepping
forward, exaggerating the gains,
and taking all the credit for the
successful negotiating" "com-
plete victory, except for few min
or reservations" says Breach,
No Big Bosses Yield.
Among these minor reservations
which Breach hardly mentioned is
the fact that most of the workers
will not profit by the new deal, be-
cause the big contractors, according
| to Breach, couldn't be included"
At the meeting referred to above,
Breach, apparently feeling confident
that the audience of electrical work
ers were swallowing this bunk
whole, proceeded in a self-satisfied
way to outline program for I'M
employment relief. The contractors,
angels of mercy according to this
program, will dig up million dol
lars year, and Breach will dis
tribute to needy electrical workers
half a million a year. He charac-
teristically did not explain where
the other half million would go.
Tho he had to admit that when
he first proposed this plan to some
friendly" contractors, they thought
it absurd, Breach insisted that he
would teach them to pay. "They
will learn to pay" this little Caesar
acclaimed.
Membership Will Pay.
The progressives warn the mem
bership that this unemployment re-
lief plan will not cost the contrac-
tors anything. Some means will be
found to assess the union member
ship for it, and Breach will be more
helped than the unemployed by it.
And to top off this meeting,
H (is) H (ighness) Breach delivered
the usual blast against Communists
and progressives. He suspects
them of seeing thru some of his
high sounding schemes, programs,
and negotiations.
One of the things we are expos
ing him for is his order to an ODE
dent rat, "Jack" Solomon, to go
around and lift the cards of all those
helpers who were not able to attend
an electrical school for which they
have to pay out of their own pock-
cts, whether they can attend or not.
This school was founded at the
suggestion of Breach for the pur-
pose of turning out efficient and
obedient workers, but it can not
seem to get the loyalty or enthus-
iasm of the helpers, who know that
any scheme of Broach's can have
only the effect of sapping the hard
earned dollars out of their pockets.
ELECTRICAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
dent purpose of helping the employ.

dent purpose of helping the employ
ers to defeat the strike.
From the time the police were
organized until this very day they
have been the ready tools of the
employers in all industrial disputes.
That was why they were organized,
the state police.
Police Strikebreakers.
"The two defendants in the case
were guilty of no offense of any
sort. The police knew it. They de-
liberately raided their meeting, as
they had consistently done before,
for the purpose of breaking up the
strike. In this business the sheriff
gave full assistance. All the par
ties concerned will be sued for mali
cious prosecution and false arrest.
"a warrant for the arrest of
Corporal Onko was sworn out, on
charge of assault; he has been
arrested but was released when
Sheriff Braun went his bail. Hear
ing mas been set for Friday on this
charge. The authorities will prob
ably now adopt the usual pro-
cedure, | have no hesitance in say
ing, they will probably prosecute
Toohey. 1t will be interesting to
see what kind Of charge they will
use against him this time"
Darrow, Hays, Toohey and Brophy
were given dinner last night by
The local Civil Liberties Union.
Toohey was absent on account of
illness. Tonight there is a mass
meeting with the four as speakers.
The character of the new frame-up
against Toohey cannot be ascer-
tained although it is definitely
known that warrant is out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Radio Board Again
Helps Radio Monopoly

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The
Federal Radio Commission continues
to grant ship station licenses to the
Radio Marine Corporation, a 81
sidiary Of the Radio Corporation
America, in spite of recent court c
eisions in the radio tubes cases. T.
Radio Corporation of America 9
pires to monopoly Of the best ste
tons and wave ler this. Three new
stations were granted it yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19

to rise in mighty protest against
the presence of such criminals as
Balbo in this country and against
the government he represents; and
be it further
Resolved, that we ask our or
CARNATIONS to endorse and actively
participate in any protest demon
strations against the presence of
Balbo in this country, that may be
organized by the Anti-Fascist AL
lance and the I. L. D."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
PICK DELEGATES
TO CLOAK meet
Convention to Be Held
Here Soon
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
the discussion at the open forum
was Louis Hyman, chairman of the
National Organization Committee of
the Cloak and Dressmakers' Union.
BOSTON. Dec. ia report de-
livered by the secretary of the Bos-
ton Central Trades Council at the
last meeting of that reactionary A.
F. of L. body, shows how desperate
the Boston labor-fakerdom is at the
fast growth of the left wing local
of the cloak and dressmakers' union
there.
The ridiculous extremes to which
they are ready to go in their eff
forts to halt that locals progress
can be seen when a report was made
by Secretary Greiges that he and
two officials of the right wing cloak
makers zeal had gone to the chief
of police to warn him of catastrophe
consequences for the city of Bos-
ton, if the "agents Of Arnold Roth
stein" were permitted to call strikes
here.
In this he was referring to the
acton of the left wing local in
calling an organization strike
AGAINST the Sally Dress Co. From
the A, F. of L. takers report it was
learnt that the three Boston boosters
had told. the chief of police that
Julius Portnoy, N. 0. G. representa-
tive from New York, who had led
in the decision to call a strike
against the firm, had come to Bos-
ton as agent of Arnold Rothstein,
the dead gambling chieftain, in or
der to disturb the peace of the city.
The basis for this maneuver is
the scurrilous attacks the socialist
Forward" recently made on the left
wing. One day they claimed that
the files of Rothstein, in possession
of the grand jury, would show that
Rothstein was an agent of the
Communists and the next day they
charged that Rothstein was the
ringleader of the Communist strikes.
Public discredit has by now forced
even the Forward" to stop these
idiocies. This, however, did not
prevent their Boston colleagues from
aping them.
Despite the order of the police
that picketing at the struck shop be
halted, the workers are determined
to continue fighting.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 49,
Baltimore cloak and dressmakers are
called to attend a mass meeting,
called by the N. o. C. for Wednes-
day evening in the Conservatoria
Hall, 1929 S. Baltimore st. A repre-
sentative of the. N. o. C. will come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
ARMY GOOD TO FRIENDS

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS (UP).-
Lease of the former Boston army
base to The Bay State Shipping Com
rany of Boston for five years, be-
Ginning Jan. 1, was authorized to-
day by the U. S. Shipping Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Harvey, Big Tammany
Man, Allowed to Hold
Two Jobs at One Time

George U. Harvey, recently elect
ed president of Queens Borough, to-
day received certificate of cleo
ton from the election commission.
rames J. Munro, an attorney, had
to obtain mandamus pro-
ceedings against Harvey's receiving
the certificate because Harvey was
a member of the board of aldermen
at. the time of his election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
Yellow Dog Forced
on the Indianapolis
Silk Mill Workers

INDIANAPOLIS, (By MaiD.-
The company union now rules in the
Real Silk Mills here. 1t is called the
Employees Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton. Workers are forced to sign
yellow dog contract.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19

The original Isndora Duncan
Dancers OF Moscow will perform
In u special Program of RevOlu-
tiOnary Dances at the Fifth Anni-
vcrsary of the Daily Worker.
Tickets are ON sale Mt the Daily
Worker office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-19
SEEK BURNED BODIES.

HAZARD, Ky, Dec. 10 (UP).-
Firemen continued digging in the
debris of the Combs Hotel today in
search of persons reported missing
after fire destroyed the hotel Satur-
day night.