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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12
Mine, Mill Features in Labor Unitv.

The December issue of Labor
Unity, organ VI the Trade Union
Educational League, is replete with
important articles on the most re-
cent events of the organized labor
movement. Amalgamation in the
needle trades, to be brought about
through simultaneous conventions of
the National Organization Commit
tee of the cloak and dressmakers,
and the Furriers National Commit
tee of the Furriers union is the sub
ject of the leading article. The con-
ventions will take place Dec. 70 and
20 and will effect an amalgamation.
Events leading up to this result are
interestingly told in the article.
An article, illustrated by pictures
Of the coal-cutt;ng and loading ma
chinery that is posing such a prob.
lem for the coal miners, and of the
company money which is substituted
~ the coal barons for U. s. cur
rcncy in payment Of miners wages,
: written by Freeman Thompson of
he National Executive Board of the
National Miners Union. In it he
gives review of the situation at
present, and especially of the bat
tie in the western districts, where,
rs in Wyoming, the new union has
checked the wage cut and is win
ring larger and larger numbers Of
the miners to its banner.
The Anthracite.
Another mining article, especially
appropriate at this time, is On the
nJhracite situation, which gives the
aclGround for the many murders
I'd frame-up court cases which have
ton place there. 1t tells of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12
The Answer of the Furriers

1t has now been almost two years since
the reactionary officials of the American
Federation of Labor, their socialist assistants
and their boss and police allies launched
concerted offensive against the left wing
Joint Board Furriers Union by establishing
a dual company union. Thru the economic
pressure of the bosses and the helping hand
land fist of police and thugs they hoped at
that time to. destroy the militant workers or
ganization.
Instead of being driven out of the industry
the left wing Joint Board conducted fight
so successful that after this bitter period the
union succeeded in gaining the allegiance of
every important local in the International
Fur Workers Union, from which they broke
away preparatory to establishing new in
ternational at the convention in December.
While plans were under way for the con-
vention and the new unions simultaneous
amalgamation with the new national organi-
cation of the cloak and dressmakers, who had
gone thru similar struggle, new obstacle
presented itself which the battling fur work
ers must overcome before their convention
delivers the death blow to the degenerated
hulk of the A. F. of L. scab union
This event was the announcement of Fur
Trimming Manufacturers Association that
they would terminate their agreement with
the left wing union JAN 81 and conclude
fake agreement with Matthew VOLTS scab
union.
When the fight against the left wing be-
gan, the left wing succeeded in splitting the
ranks of the employers. The big Associated
Fur Manufacturers withdrew recognition
from the Joint Board while the smaller trim
ming employers organization maintained re-
lations with the left wing union.
With the large Associated having fake
A. F. of L. agreement which permitted the
most inhuman exploitation, while trimming
bosses were compelled to live up to their pact
despite the Joint Boards weakened condition,
their present action was to be expected. The
most important reason for their action, how
ever; was the specter seen by the bosses in a
Joint Board that was ready to begin the final
drive for complete control of the industry
and its consequent wiping out of the scab
union.
Although its official announcement was
made only yesterday, this news was known
over two weeks ago, and the expected de-
morali4 alton of the furriers' fight failed to
materialize. On the contrary, long before
the bosses were ready to admit the fact
openly, the workers united behind the Joint
Board in a statement announcing the i'm
mediate beginnings of mobilization for a
general strike in the industry
No one who reexamines the two years of
struggle, bitter struggle, against the most
savage and traitorous of enemies can come
to the conclusion that lack of recognition by
the smaller association means a serious
setback to the Joint Board.
The Joint Board now stands at the end of
two years of struggle and cannot be dis
couraged by such tactics. Instead determine
ton is now greater than ever. The A. F. of
l.. company union is almost completely shat
tered. The United States and Canadian To-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12
Millions in Battle
Of Candy With Fags

Candy men have formed ST.
100000 pool to combat the propa-
ganda against sweets of cigaret
company that urges pills" as an
antidote to candy craving and fat
ness.
This morning there appears in
many newspapers an advertise
ment issued by second cigaret
company that urges everyone to
"eat chocolate and light up and
enjoy both; two fine and healthful
treats"
The cigarette company which
urged people not to eat sweets has
been boycotted at many New York
restaurants that sell candy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12

Unions interprets the present out
burst of American imperialism. and
points to the grave contradictions
mat exist within it, showing how
The very capital export, which is
the basis of that imperialism, is
wrecking the home market ard the
foreign market for U. S. goods, in
creaslng the exploitation of labor on
the one hand and bringing a crisis
OF imperialism on the other hand
winch Imperialism will try to solve
by war.
The cover is by Fred Ellis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12

Published by National Daily Worker Publishing
Assn, Inc, Daily, Except Sunday, at 26-2S
Union Square, New York, N. Y. Telephone,
stuyvesant 1696-7-S. Cable Address "Daisoo,k"
ROBERT MINOR. ...................E lito,
VIM F. DUNE Assistant Editor
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theatre, singing the International
in Chinese, with fervor and spirit
that never dies.
Workers-White and Yellow
United.
But behind them and more pow
erful are the factory workers and
the pc SAINTS. When foreign white
workers came to them last year
bringing the message of interna-
tional solidarity, at Changsha in
Central China, 100000 waited all
Gay in the cold rain, without shell
ter and almost no clothing, to greet
their comrades from America, Eng
land and France with wild acclaim
when the white workers shouted
their slogan "Tah tao digo chu vii"
Down with imperialism.
At Canton, April last year, the
streets ran red with workers blood.
In front of the hotel where the pro-
visional committee of the Pan-Pa-
cific Trade Union Conference was
located, demonstrations were held
against "the Bolsheviks." The fas-
cist nachinist's union led parades
shouting Down with the Commu-
nistsw
The Undying Spirit.
Before our eyes our Chinese COM
rades were led bound thru the
streets to execution, girls and young
men, but with heads up and, if they
We're not gagged, shouting Down
with Chang Kai-shih! Long live the
Communist International! Down
with Kuomintang murderers! Long
live the world revolution!p And
underneath the staccato shots and
crushing reaction boiled the rebel
lion of the masses.
On December IL, 1927, after all
too short but earnest preparation the
workers and peasants, with the aid
of mutinous troops, rose once more,
seized the city and set up Soviet
power. At it's head was Su Chao-
jen, president of the All-China La
Dor Federation, man of quiet pow
& and urlir1ited darir~.
"Arms. Give Us Arms!"
Coolies and peasants we're crowd
ing everywhere demanding arms.
But arms were few and organiza-
ton was not fast enough to meet
the return wave of reaction led by
U 5, s gunboats and foreign
forces backing up the reactionary
troops of Ii Chi-sen.
In the strong stone buildings of
hanks and others buildings the work
ers and peasants fortified them
selves, never to give up until i'm
perialist artillery and machine guns
had literally destroyed the buildings
around them.
Died-BM Died Fighting.
Again and in greater streams ran
the blood of the workers and peas
ants thru Canton streets. They died,
and they died by thousands, but
they died fighting like tigers, these
brave coolies and peasants of
Kwangtung.
Chang Kai-shih broke the already
strained relations with the Soviet
Union and in Canton the Soviet con-
sulate was raided and Vice Consul
Hassisi murdered. Workers, men,
women and children were tied to-
gether, drenched in oil and set afire.
Protest strikes swept all China, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-12
By HARRISON GEORGE.

Land to the peasants! Rice and
meat to the workmen!"
These were the slogans under
which, on December II, 1927, the
workers, peasants and revolutionary
soldiers seized power and set up the
Canton Soviet in Southern China.
Canton, China, seems a long way
from America, and when these words
are put into cold type on the printed
page, only to the reader whose heart
beat in true international solidarity
with the revolutionary workers Of
the world, will they bring a picture
of the lion-hearted Canton coolies,
whose heroism will ring down the
ages.
April 1927-Reaction.
April IS, last year, when Chang
Kai-shih made his coup d'etat, aided
by Ii Chi-sen, his more or less re-
liable Canton commander, the rail-
way workers on the road from Hong
kong to Canton had instantly struck
and flown to arms against the re-
action.
It was but few days later that
the writer got his first views of
Canton, traditional center of Chi
nese liberation movements, home of
Sun Vat Sen, headquarters of the
nationalist revolution which had
swept northward to the Yangtze.
Along the Pearl River.
Up the Pearl River, winding it's
muddy way between flat country
sides, where the mud huts of tiny
peasant villages hid from the tor
rid sun among detected trees, and
where the water buffalo, the cara
boo, with the coolie, the beast of
burden of the Far East, toiled laz-
lily among the rice paddles, lies Can
ton.
Nearing the city by boat, a halt
is made at the spot where Sun Vat
Sen n.anned to build q r Dor that
would put British Hongkong out of
business, as Hongkong prospers only
b. trade passing to and thru Can
ton. All f>rgotten now, since the
reaction surrendered to imperialism.
British. Trade Sick.
But in 1927 the boycott of Hong
kong by Canton, and the great sea
mems strike, had taken the sap out
of Hongkong, in spite of the omin-
Gus grey warships that lay in its
harbor and the swarms Of British
troops which filled it with the air
of an armed camp.
Where the boat from Hongkong.
British boats with British officers
and Chinese crew, stop moment.
you will see great military camp.
A training camp for troops of the
nationalist army. Over in the CEN
ter of the camp, surrounded by
picked troops, were thousand or
so student officers disarmed, cap
tlves or the reaction, seized the mo-
ment Ii Chi-sen in combination with
Chang aKi-shih up north, made the
coup d'etat on April Is. Some had
already been shot. Others were
under torture, politely called Eek
a: nation"
Contrasts.
Further up the river on the
southern bank, stands an ancien,
pagoda, a relic Of feudalism, looking
over the rice paddles where the peas
ant and the caraboo til with a
wooden pillow shod with tin; looking
over the military camp where
snappy-uniformed officers armed
with automatic pistols and command
ing troops of machine gunners give
instructions how to massacre rebel
iious peasants and workers from the
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again the Lion Hearted Chinese Workers Will
Fly to Arms Under the Red Flag

shops and factories whose tops show
thru the murky haze up river.
AS the city nears one sees the
banks lined with sampans, the
homes of great portion of Can
toms population. Flat-bottomed
small boats, half or more covered
to Fbe used as house. Imprinted,
ugly, inescapably dirty, filled with
children Of all ages clad in rags OF
nothing at all, but all working at
something, some making toys, wood
carvings, ivory carving, beads, brass
work, anything.
The Flower Girls of Canton.
A certain section of the river has
boats bit more elegant, the homes
Of the famous GLOVER girls" sweet
ard wis ful-eyed daughtrs OF the
poor bought by the rich as play
things; ''sing-song girls to decor
ate the banquets of the Chinese
bourgeoisie. If you are friendly with
compradore he will make you a
present of such kind. The local
agents of imperialist concerns are
very friendly with compradores.
Over the swarms of sampans and
the weaving masts of fFeight-car-
rying junks, all along the river front
runs "the Bund," the chief traffic
artery of all Chinese ports. The
river here is divided by an island,
Shameen, the international settle
ment, with splendid foreign hotels
and comfortable houses in pleasant
yards, with restful parks and boule-
wards. Over the gate of the park
sign says that Chinese and dogs
are not allowed, unless the Chinese
is an "amah" or nursemaid to for
eign children. l
Slaves to Imperialism.
Where the boat lands, Chinese ex-
aminers of the customs go thru the
baggage. The foreigner expects and
gets little attention. The Chinese
who come third class locked i'll cages
asst IN are thoroughly searched for
possible "seditious" literature. Ex-
tremely deferential Chinese runners
from the foreign hotels will take
your baggage. For a white man to
carry anything but gun or sticl
in China is unknown.
If you escape the runners hun
bred rickshaw coolies out on the
bund contend with each other to
carry you. Big and little, young
and old, but all gaunt with habitual
starvation, blue denim trunk leav-
ing exposed their bronzed skins,
pouring sweat in the hot sun and
with hunger-showing ribs rising and
falling as they pant, running thru
the streets.
The Rickshaw Coolie.
There are no draft horses in Can
ton. The coolies do the horses work.
Two years between the rickshaw
shafts and the strongest coolie is
wreck. He sleeps in the rickshaw or
with other homeless workers stretch
ed out along the sidewalks, or in
some hole under a shed. He eats,
when he eats, a small bowl Of rice
and water favored with slender
greens, at the open-air kitchens.
The rickshaw coolie is more visi-
bly, representative Of the toilers of
the East than any other. In May
last year we saw the inspiring sight
Of 5000 rickshaW men in q HankoM
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20
DIES ON IO6TH BIRTHDAY

TOULON. Franee-Mme. Berthe
Cadeur died on her 106th birthday.
She had been married five times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20

By HOMER II. GRUENTHER
OMAHA, Neb.. May 15.-Mrs. A. A.
Hoffman, society woman, widow Of
a prominent physician, is going 10
put her case before the public by
running for reelection to the school
board.
She says the election will be a test
as to whether Omaha citizens believe
stories that she had threatened TO
shoot her husband.
These stories emanated from testi-
mony during a trial recently, when
Mrs. Hoffman tried to break a second
and secret will which DR.. Hoffman
made known to her only a few hours
before his death.
Made Same Kind Of Wills
In 1928 Dr.. and Mrs. Hoffman made
reciprocal wills, each making it plain
that the one dying first was 70 leave
every penny of his or her estate TO
the survivor. According to testi-
mony, however. DR.. Hoffman, after
making the reciprocal will. went to
the office of an attorney friend and
told him that his wife had just forced
him TO make a reciprocal will, but
that il was not what ne desired. He
told his friend that he desired TO
leave part Of his money TO his
brother. John Hoffman Of Center
City, Mimi, and to his two sisters,
Mrs. Mable Hoffman Johnson Of st.
Paul and Miss Ida Hoffman Of Min
neapolis, MINI.
When DR.. Hoffman died in 1926 he
left $4,000 to be divided evenly
among his two sisters and his broth
er-his wife was 10 get n balance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20

this week when Steve Pinckney, a
Smith leader. denounced Love and
his crowd as being under the control
of the khan and their efforts at pc
ing a plan Of the khan to regain con-
troll of Texas politics. Had Moody
issued the same kind OF statement a
week ago, after the klan-controlled
delegations to the county conventions
had broken their agreement with the
Harmony faction. had Moody then
declared that it was a khan fight, the
results Of previous elections show
that the whole state probably would
have been back Of him.
Now that Smith people have raised
the khan issue, Moody would lay him.
self liable to further charges Of CO.
operating with the Smith crowd
should he also denounce the khan.
Tom Love issued a statement We'd
nesday denying that he is. ever has
been or ever will be a member Of
the khan, but admitting that he IS
working with that organization. II
has been generally known over the
state that Love was not a member,
but he has eooperated with the or
ganization in politics for years.
Monday night will be a hot time in
Beaumont. At least two and proc
ably three caususes will be going on
at the same time. The Smith and
the Love forces have announced their
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20

Death was due to heart disease, ac-
cording TO the attending physician.
Mrs. Hoffman, the widow, fought
the probation OF the second will on
the grounds that her husband had no
right 70 make a second will without
telling her that he did not desire to
carry out the reciprocal will.
The trial was the result. The blood
relatives and many of the doctors
friends testified that they were pres
ent many times when Mrs. Hoffman
flourished a gun when she desired
10 make her husband DO something,
or when they had arguments.
What Witnesses Testified
Friends of the doctor. many Of
them prominent Omahans. testified
that DR.. Hoffman had told them his
wife had threatened TO shoot him
on numerous occasions.
The court decided fer the blood
relatives.
Mrs. Hoffman was selected two
years ago by Governor Adam Nc
Mullen as Nebraska's most repre-
sentative woman. being sent to Phila-
delphia's Sesquicentennial exposition.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20
Pharr Kiwanis to
Have Picnic For
Honor Students
(special 10 The Heraldl

PHARR, May 19.-The committee
from the Kiwanis club met with COM
mittees from the Lions clubs from
San Juan and Alamo on Friday and
made preliminary arrangements for
the picnic 20 be held az the San Juan
plantation. The affair will be held
for the purpose Of entertaining stu
dents IN the Pharr-San Juan public
schools and pupils Of the Valley View
school who have been neither absent
nor tardy during the nine months Of
school.
II is believed by the clubs of this
community that this will be a won
derful method Of encouraging pupils
70 attend school regularly and to
be punctual and thereby further edu-
cation. The picnic will be at 4 p. m.
Tuesday and more than 200 pupils
are expected TO be present. Games.
and other diversions will be enjoyed
after which barbecued beef. ~"cabrito."
ice cream and other delicacies will be
served. The committee from the To-
cal Kiwanis club includes +. s. De-
vine. w. G.. Shippee and w. NJ.
White.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20
CLAIMS FILL
AIR AS DEMS
MEET NEARS
All Factions Planning
To Control Conven-
ton AS 1t Opens,
Writer Declares
Ry G. ID. Wade

HOUSTON, Tex, May l9.-The po-
litical air is full Of claims on the eve
of the state democratic convention.
which meets in Beaumont Tuesday.
The Moody-Davidson forces claim
their minimum will be about 100
votes more than the maximum Of the
Love forces, who, in turn, claim they
will control the convention with 200
votes to spare, while the Smith crowd
asserts positively that they will con-
troll the meeting. Now take your
choice.
It would be next to impossible fo-
a neutral observer to base an esti-
mate on which claim is nearest cor
rect. due 10 that word "uninstructed,"
which hasks the real feelings Of the
delegates. Virtually every delegate
il going 70 be. to a certain extent,
for or against Al Smith, inc it is I'M
possible to look through the "uniE-
structed" screen and determine how
they really feel.
Who Has Majority?
Formal figures sustain the Moody
element in their claims, for more
delegates were instructed to support
the "uninstructed" program, by far,
than those instructed for Smith or
instructed to vote against Smith.
But will these figures mean anything
IL the voting gets hot at Beaumont
over the Smith issue? Or will those
uninstructed delegates who lean to-
ward Smith 20 into his camp and
those bitterly opposing him so into
the Love camp. leaving Moody high
and dry?
On only one thing are the Smith
and Love forces agreed-that the
Moody faction will be the minority
group at the convention. The spokes-
men Of each group claim they will
be strongest of the three. However,
they get their figures by first count
ing their instructed votes and then
adding all from Moody's uninstructed
camp whom they know to lean their
way. IL might work out that way in
the final analysis il the voting gets
hot, but very likely most of the un-
instructed delegations will start with
Moody. But there is q lot of sub
surface bitterness and many of the
Moody uninstructed crowd would 20
TO Smith in a minute rather than see
Tom Love get control of the con-
vention, and many would &c TO Love
rather than see the Smith forces get
control.
Moody lost his best chance to get
absolute domination Of the situation
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-20
TUNC nut May
Be new CROP
Oil Bearing Plant Is
Being Given Test
At San Benito

SAN BEN1To. May 1s.-The VAL
ley may have another new industry,
straight from China, il experiments
which have been started by L. l..
zenor and County Agent Henry Ais
meyer prove satisfactory.
Mr.. Zenor, a local real estate man,
after some investigation has come
TO the belief that the tung nut, a
Chinese nut from which oil Is extract
cd for paints and varnishes. will
grow in the Valley.
He and Alsmeyer have secured some
OF the nuts from Louis Alsmeyer,
now of Florida, and formerly county
agent Of Cameron county. and they
are to be planted in the Valley and
given q trial.
The nuts grow in a climate in China
that is very much like the one here.
according to Mr.. Zenor, and he be-
Iieves that they could be grown
p~rofitably on some Of the less val
liable land of the county. The trees
need very little care, and the nuts
drop from the tree TO the ground and
can be gathered when there is a slack
Of other work.
There are about 500. 900 OF the trees
low growing in Florida, and that
state promises to make an important
industry Of growing them.