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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
(Bp Federated Press)

In the gray light at Z a. M, un-
employed seamen gather along the
beach by the steamship docks. Back
from the Great Lakes, with no jobs
in sight for the next three months
or more,' thousands of marine
workers see the small savings from
a summers work used up in few
weeks. Many, knowing it is use
less to hunt jobs, would like to
sleep later in the morning, but are
turned out of the Seamen's Church
Institute and the Bowery flop
houses promptly at 7 o'clock.
Gathering in the International
Seamen's club for cup of coffee
with a ham and egg sandwich, the
men talk freely against the Church
Institute next door, calling it the
prostitute, its usual name among
marine workers. Although a char
ity concern, it charges as much as
any flophouse--35 cents night for
a bed, GO cents for room. Stool
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Mill WORKERS
HIT TROTSKYISM
Fall River Calls for
Support of c.. E. C.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. IL
The local organization of the Work
RS (Communist) Party which re-
Gently led the rebellion of thousands
of textile workers against wage cuts,
met to Consider the problems now
before the Party. After an ex-
haustive consideration of the, ques-
tions, the Party adopted unani-
mously the following resolution:
"We endorse the expulsion of all
the Trotskyites from our party by
the Central Executive Committee
and we pledge our whole hearted
support to it and to the Communist
International in it's fight against
the enemies of our Party, the Right
danger and the counter revolutionists
-Trotskyites. Trotskyism is op-
portunism covered with Left phrases
and the worse enemy of our Party
and of the Communist International.
No tolerance can be permitted-all
the real Communists must rally
around the Central Executive Com
mittee without any reservations"
for the struggle against all these
counter-revolutionary social demo-
Gratis. We endorse both statements
by the Central Executive Committee
on the question of the Right danger
ind Trotskyism, and its analysis in
its statement of November 18th that
t'Trotskyism is the most compre-
hensively developed system of oppor-
Continued ON Page FtUs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
USSR HAS MEMORIAL
MEET FOR AMJNDSEN
(Wireless to the Daily Workerl

(WmelesS to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. ia
memorial meeting was held here yes
terday to honor Roald Amundsen,
famous Arctic explorer who sacri-
ficed his life searching for the mem
bers of the ill-fated Mobile expedi-
ton.
Kameneva, representing the So
ciety for Cultural Relations with
Abroad, was chairman of the meet
ing. The speakers included Roth
stein, for the Commissariat of
Foreign Affairs, Baranov for the
air force, and Prof. Verobyev for
Aero-Arctic Society, and Tchuchnov-
sky, the Soviet flier with the Kras-
sin crew who first sighted three of
the Italia crew on an ice floe.
The meeting decided to send tele-
grams to Oslo University and to
Professor Nansen suggesting that
the best way to perpetuate Amund-
sens memory was to organize a
polar expedition in 1880 under Nam
sen.
The Leningrad scientific organiza-
tions have already founded Amund-
sen funds for the polar expedition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
By HARRISON GEORGE

lDpeCtut 70 tNe DuttY " OTheTI
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. H.
While Charles Evans Hughes, Stand
ard Oil lawyer in its war on Para
quay, together with the imperial
ist-packede commission supposed to
stop that war, was hiding behind
closed doors from reporters at the
Pan-American building here on last
Thursday, the writer, having fixed
up a list of questions, handed them
to a special writer for the Hearst
press and asked:
"What do you think of these ques-
tions to spring on the Bolivians ?"
He looked them over and grunted
81 dare you to. ask 'em."
We Take the Dare.
We took the dare, ard the next
day, after making an appointment
by phone, we were shown into the
presence of Senor Don Eduardo Diei
de Medina, minister of Bolivia a
the court of Yankee imperialism il
the Bolivian legation on Q st.
Senior Medina speaks Englisl
with difficulty, so it was decided t.
dispense with his interpreter ant
talk Spanish, and we began by in
forming him that, in order to write
authoritatively of things concerning
Bolivia, we came to the source Of
official information, the Bolivar
minister, who is also Bolivia's dele.
gate to the Monroe Doctrine confer
ence here that sails under the guist
of Cancellation and arbitration"
Unexpected Reception.
The writer took care to inform
Senor Medina that as some ques-
tions might touch so-ealled "deli-
cate Subjects" it was his privilege
if he so desired, to decline to an,
swer. Senior Medina, seeing before
him an. American and apparently
feeling that BolivIa's position was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
600 TailOrs Attend
Left Wing Forum,
Flay Hillman Gang

One Of the most successful open
forum meetings by the left wing
organization in the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union since they
became an institution many weeks
ago, was held yesterday AFTERNOON
in the Workers Center, 2S Union
Square.
Over 600 mems clothing workers,
all unemployed, came to crowd the
large hall there, and after hearing
Albert Weisbord, National Textile
Workers Union leader, joined a
discussion Of the conditions in their
shops. Many workers took the floor
to testify to the rank sell-out of
the workers by the reactionary Of
ficials of the A. G. w.
Despite active opposition by all
the workers in the industry, the Of
ficiJs have forced the sweat shop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Wright, Curtis Stock
Rises as Conference
Encourages Air War

KITTY HAWK, N. c., Dec. IT,
Orville Wright, head of the Wright
Airplane Works, was today honored
by speeches and the unveiling of a
statue at the scene of his first
flight, by President Coolidge's big
militaristic aeronautics conference,
called to boost aviation in U. S.
Wright professed himself much
satisfied at the report from New
York that the conference, emphasiz-
ing the probable large purchases of
airplanes for the next war, had re-
suited in the stock of the Wright
Company rising rapidly on the New
York stock exchange, first to 218,
and later in the day to 234 1-2. Cur
tbs plane stock also went up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
'vIVA SANDING"
SHOUTS URUGUAY
LABOR AT HOOVER
Crowds Denounce Visit
of Imperialist When
He Appears in Park
Workers Expose Trip
Placard City; Hold Big
Mass Meetings
Workers Expose Trip

M0NTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec.
17-President Hoover spent the day
in his heavily guarded rooms at the
Farque Hotel, amusing himself by
watching the government fireworks
on the bay.
He desired to remain quiet and
secure, members of his party said,
to recover from the shock of the
large crowds Of workers who
greeted his first appearance in the
park with shouts Of "Viva Sandino," !"
"Down With American Imperial
ism" and "Down With the Gringo." i"
Support Mexico.
"Gringo" is a Mexican slang
word, first used contemptuously of
United States army invaders of
Mexico during the U. S.-Mexican
war and during the invasion of Mex
leo by the U. S. navy at Vera Cruz
under Wilson's administration and
by General Pershing while Carranza
was president of Mexico. It's use
by other Latin Americans indicates
that they identify themselves with
Mexico and other nations which
have suffered from U. S. aggres-
SIGN.
The mounted police Of Montevideo,
acting under strict orders from the
government, dispersed the crowd
and escorted Hoover to his palatial
rooms.
Communist Posters.
After a mass meeting of Commu-
nists and left wing labor organiza-
tons, Saturday night, the city was
placarded with anti-imperialist post
ers, pointing out that Hoover came
through South America as advance
guard for Wall Street conquest and
calling for demonstrations against
him and his policy.
The corridors of Hoover's hotel
are swarming with uniformed police
TIE hotel lobby is full of secret ser
vice men and mounted police en-
tirely surround the building.
Hoover leaves late today on the
battleship Utah for Rio de Janeiro
and is said to intend making this
his last port of call in Latin Amer
lea.
Hoover Visit Flop.
Herbert Hoover was the guest OF
President Juan Campisteguy OF
Uruguay at formal dinner tonight
before the American president-elect
started on his final swing toward
home.
In summing up results of the
Hoover trip, which Latin Americans
see we'll enough is only one move
in the conflict between British and
American imperialism for control of
South and Central America, hostile
critics are scornful, and even friend
ly publicity departments are not
very enthusiastic. Thus the Amer
lean United Press correspondent
here writes only:
although officials are not in
clined to exaggerate the diplomatic
significance of the mission, they fee
that the multiplicity of friendly
contacts has had some effect"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
COmintern Greets
Polish Party on
10th Anniversary
(Wweless to the Daily Worker

(Wweless to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. H.
The Executive Committee of the
Communist International sent aSlet-
ter to the Communist Party of Po-
land today congratulating it on its
tenth anniversary and declaring
that the Party occupied an impor-
tant position on the international
proletarian front.
The letter expressed the convic-
that the Party would brave the
fascist terror and lead the workers
in the struggle against the war
being prepared by Poland with the
support Of France and Britain
against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
CONGRESS- MOVES
TO START CANAL
THRU NICARAGUA
Cashing In Wall Street
Conquest; Making
Navy Stronger
Dry Law Fund Fight
Bruce Says Election of
. Hoover Is Disaster
Dry Law Fund Fight

4 WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Early
kaction on a joint resolution for a
survey of the proposed Nicaraguan
Canal and for data on feasibility of
enlarging the Panama Canal was
urged upon the senate today by
Senator Edge, republican, New Jer-
sey. The resolution has been re-
ported favorably by the Inter-Ocean
Canals Committee and has place
on the senate calendar. The con-
gress thus begins to exploit the lat
est Wall Street conquest, and gives
the navy more mobility.
The movement of senate demo-
Gratis to boost prohibition enforce
ment funds up to S270,000,000 a
year, instead of the $13,500,000
originally listed, came to naught in
the senate today, when the confer
ence report of the treasury and post
office appropriation bills was adopt
ed SO to 35. The conference report
eliminated a $257,000,000 increase
proposed by Senator Bruce, wet,
lemocrat, Maryland.
Elements of unconscious humor
developed during the debate. SEN
ator Sheppard, dry democrat, Tex
as, said he was willing to vote for
large prohibition enforcement ap-
preparation but considered prohibi-
tion a success now!"
Senator Barkley, Dem, KY, re-
fused support of the Bruce amend
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y,
Dec. 17.-"Charles Warner" for
sixty years a painter and paper
hanger, aged eighty-two and impov-
erished after lifetime of toll, was
taken to the county hospital yes
terday and discovered to be a
woman.
She refused to give her name, but
spoke very frankly, even bitterly,
about the conditions that had forced
her to masquerade as man. Tho
able to do any skilled labor that a
man could do in her trade, she was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
BRITISH-U. S.
WAR LOOMS IN
BOLIVIA CLASH
League May Interfere
in Latin American
Affairs
This May Bring Wa
League May Conflict
With Monroe Doctrine
BULLETIN

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. II
(UP).-Bolivian sources here said
today that the Paraguan
border dispute is another phase of
the worldwide fight for control of
petroleum, due to tests showing
great petroleum fields underlying
the Chaco district.
LUCIANO, Switzerland, Dec. IT,
Indications of the gravity with
which the League Of Nations, in
which England dominates, regards
the an-Paraguayan war, is
shown by the decision to concentrate
in Paris, for time at least, the two
chief organs of the League, the
Secretariat and the Presidency
Council.
This decision was taken just be-
fore BRAND took the train to Paris,
after a long telephone conversation
with Sir Eric Drummond who is now
in Geneva, and following the dis
patch at midnight of a new message
to Bolivia and Paraguay, in which
it is stated:
81 must once more call your at
tention to the suggestions made to
you by the Council after the solemn
assurances given by your govern
ment to respect your obligations un-
der the League Covenant"
BRAND also conf erred with
Stresemann of Germany.
1t was stated through the press
that: "While the American govern
ment has seen nothing in the Coun-
ellis action to date with which it
could take exception, members are.
certain that Washington's attitude
would not, be so complacent in the
face of actual League intervention.
BRAND will confer with League
members at Paris. Drummond was
visited at Geneva by Alberto Corr
tadellas, who was sent from Rome
by the Bolivian government to con-
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WOMAN WORKS AS MAN
Hides Sex 90 Years to Get Equal Pay

continually Disseminated against
merely because she was woman.
Employers took advantage of this
fact to pay her lower wages for the
same kind of work, as in many other
modern industries. Her method of
defeating them was to disguise her.
self. No one with whom or for
whom she has worked in all these
years accused her of not keeping up
to the regular standards of skill or
accomplishment prevailing in the
industry, and she drew the same
pay check, as men workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
New Machine Throws
Thousands of Railway
Workers From Jobs

BOSTON, (By Mail).-The Bos-
ton and Maine R, R. has perfected
its freight-handling machine, which
will juggle "a million freight cars a
year without brakeman riding on
the cars and with no switchman op-
Grating switches. Thousands of
these railway workers will be swept
into the streets by this apparatus,
to be operated by one man in a
tower.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
POPE, CARDINALS PLOT ON
MEXICO.

~ROME, Dec. 17.--Pope Plus XI
held secret consistory today
which was attended by all of the
members of the College Of Car
dinals in Rome. It is believed the
Mexican situation was taken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
Section 2 "Daily"
Agents Meet Today

An important meeting of Daily
Worker agents of Section 2 of the
Workers (Communist) Party will be
held today at 101 w. 9th st. All
unit and subsection agents must at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-18
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a WOrkers-Farmets Government
To Organise the Umorgamized
For the 40-Honr Week
For Labor Party
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try it again" she warned him, and
I'll fight for you like a f1shwife. +"
Il think I'll stick to the hearth
side," Rod replied. But I still would
like to know how you financed this
house. And that doesn't mean that
1 think you stole the none. or any
thing like that, but just as matter
of curiosity -"
Il bought it on terms, of course,
silly. And it's half yours. You were
the first person to answer my adj"
with chicken feed in my pocket!
But I've got position. take pos
session of cage on Monday. It's
special work and there will be lot
of overtime, but it's with big Or
ganization and no. that I've some
thing to work for besides bread and
butter
Thank goodness I've found a
paying tenant for this house at last" "
BERTHE Lou applauded. you don't
know how I've worried about the
future payments"
Rod laughed. you can sell the
flowers and vegetables I've grown.
A lot of your five dollars a week
went for seed"
Then you must have been "
ing on crackers and cheese" Ber-
tie Lou declared, jumping up. And
I've the loveliest dinner for you!
But you will have to help me with
the steak"
II can cook it to the queens
TASTE" Rod assured her Suddenly
BERTHE Lou paused over lifting the
steak to the broiler.
"You said that the first time we
cooked a meal in our own home"
she reminded him.
This is a new start, too" Rod
replied Solenlnly. And this time
we will make a go of it. won't we,
BERTHE Lou?"
Lets go right out after dinner
and send kilograms to our parents"
BERTHE Lou suggested; land I've
got to telephone poor little Bessie
Rogers. She will sit up for me I'm
afraid. She never trusted you very
much and think she guessed that
I was head over heels in love with
my caretaker. And she may dis
cover that I've brought weekend
bag. expected you to leave to-
night" she added naively.
"Tell her that you've given me
the job for life" Rod said. I'm
never going to stop taking care of
you again"
For five dollars a week?"
For love of the only girl in the
worldp
THE END.
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us!" BERTHE Lou cried at one point
in the story. "Oh, Rod, if only you
had told me why you had to save
your money!"
Il couldn't when you came back
from Wayville," he answered. "You
had changed so. I mean thought
you had. I'm ashamed of it, BERTHE
Lou, but didn't believe you would
want to pay Lila the insurance
money"
II know. She had made you
think I was a selfish little beast, -
BERTHE Lou said.
And you had a date the first
night you were home" he reminded
her.
ut surprised Marco more than it
did you," BERTHE Lou answered
smiling. II never would have gone
out with him if you hadn't told me
you were having dinner with the
LoreeS."
And SO they went on, bringing up
their grievances, laying them, clear
ing away their misunderstanding
and coming nearer to each other
than they ever had beeen before.
Suddenly Rod remembered that
BERTHE LOUIS presence in the Baker
cottage was unexplained. "Ten me
how you happen to be here" he
urged her.
tits where I should be-" she
boosted proudly. Right in our own
home!"
She enjoyed Rods evident per-
plexity, but she did not keep him
long in suspense. II had this house
built with the money you sent me-"
she told him. Lila did us one good
turn, even if she didn't mean to.
She forced us to save some money"
But $4,000 wouldn't build this
house" Rod protested.
BERTHE Lou put her hands on his
shoulders and looked into his eyes.
Don't say it that way" she eau
toned him. at sounds as if you
didn't believe me. And we must
never doubt each other again. Or
lie. One little lie led to all the
trouble we had.
But it began before that the
night OF our wedding. I asked my
self If you loved me. 1 should have
believed that you wouldn't have
married me if you didn't. And I
should have kept on believing it."
Rod took her hands off his shoul-
ders and pressed them to his lips.
"A man never had a sweeter bride"
he told her, "but a mans a man,
BERTHE Lou. And that means that
sometimes he's a fool. Only wise
woman can help him then. You
were too proud and too good"
BERTHE Lou smiled at him. "Well,
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twenty-dollar bill in Crystals green
leather handbag was all that re-
manned of her dead r-Aer's small
estate.
1.-THE dress, hat and stockings are
yours, you know Don't be an
idot!" she scofed, as Crystal made
a feeble protest. Brown isn't one of
my colors.
"Oh, by the way, you'll want a
handbag to match that outfit. Here's
water snake bag, almost exactly
the shade of the beige trimmings.
"All set? You do look stunning,
Crystal. . Let the georgette coat
hang free. 1t isn't wraparound. I
tell you. Crystal, you look as if you'd
had so many big-money jobs that
you'd turn up your funny little nose
at anything less than fifty a week.
Just look calm and efficient and
not too anxious. but not snooty,
either, and I'll bet you'll have a
swell job by the middle of the after
mon. Darling Crystal!
Don't cry, and don't bother to
thank me, or I'll crown you'll Come
along. No, don't you dare to put any
more rouge onl"
To Be Continued
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"And then I'll call up two or three
business men I know and tell them
to give you a job or I won't love
them any more. Pats company
might have something for you, but
it's an awful dump-they manu-
facture Pats invention, you know"
mo, Tony" Crystal rejected the
suggestion with the bit of self
respect which her encounter with
Miss Manley had left her. It'll try
the agencies.
I'LL have to get a job legiti-
mately, or not at all. But if you've
got a dress I could borrow" And
she shuddered as she glanced down
at the yellow silk she had thought
so enchanting.
There! It's a little long, but
can pin up the shoulder straps
in jiffy," Tony Tarver sat
back on her heels and started up at
her chum, Crystal Hathaway, APP
provingly.
"This lovely golden brown brings
out all the high lights in YOUR hair
and makes your eyes two shades
darker and brighter. You have got
the loveliest eyes, Crystal.
Il love the beige trimming, es-
Pc ,iallv the kick r'a~t - the skirt.
Isn't the georgette coat trick,
though? You look like a Vogue sill
houette in it-inches taller and
pounds simmer.
you'll find beige stockings in
the second drawer of that high
boy. Now for shoes = golden
brown kid, of course" And she
jumped up to rummage in her
closet for just the right pair.
They're gorgeous, but they're
too narrow" Crystal groaned,
when her broad but high-arched
feet were inserted into Tony's
pumps, size five triple A.
I'll take you downtown in the
car" Tony encouraged, darting
about the room again. Here's the
very hat! Isn't it ducky?-juSt the
color OF the dress, soft as velvet and
jaunty as cadets cap. Jerk it
about any old way to get the best
line for your face. And speaking of
faces"
Tony paused before Crystal laid
her hands on her chum's shoulders,
and studied the too-much- made-up
face long and critically.
Listen, darling" she suggested at
last, her lovely voice tactfully
casual, skip into the bathroom and
scrub your face clean of every
smidgeon of makeup. Then let me
try my hand at clarifying the Amer
lean girl"
Crystal flushed. painfully, but she
obeyed, and few minutes later she
was seated on Tony's dressing table
bench, with Tony's firm, quick fin
gers playing over her scrubbed
slightly freckled face.
AS she worked, Tony talked
Natural compilations are coming
back, darling-honest! Freckles
are in! I'm not going to try to
hide yours under layers of cold
cream and powder. Aw, please
honey, trust Tony!" she pleaded
as Crystal started to protest.
Just wee bit of massage cream,
well worked in, so the light busting
Of powder will blend nicely. Now!
You look awfully young and cute.
Just dash of rouge, well spread
so it will look natural.
Doesn't this shade look grand?
Your orange rouge is too artificial
Now, child, you do your lips
but only the thinnest, evenest film OF
lip salve. Shoes hurt much. darl-
ing?"
Terribly" Crystal confessed.
and haven't a pair to my name
that would match this dress"
BLOW yourself to pair" Tony
tossed off, not suspecting that the