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New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Providence. r. I.-Former Fed
oral Judge Arthur Lewis Brown dies
at "a years.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

gationalists arrive on pilgrimage
from Great Britain.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard au-
thorities ask public aid In seal ch
for missing William W. Neff, Chi
caeo student and assistant crew
mana ger.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

New Bedford, Mass.-Mrs. Maria
Macille and Mrs. Hermina Vaudrey,
sisters, drown in Long Pond. East
treetown, when motorboat hits rock;
five others in craft rescued.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

New Haven--Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell
writer and historian. lauds Cover
nor Alfred r. Smith and his record
as proof Of his fitness for the presi-
dency before meeting of the Connec-
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Danhury, Conn. Ninety-three
year Old woman, Mrs William
Seller OF Rye. n. Y. killed In au-
tomobile accident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

ees has been increased by more than
five thousand. Practically every one
of this number is a paid spy dis
tributed among the sugar factories,
plantations, industrial establishments
and political circles from whence
they send forth false reports result
ing in arrests, Imprisonment, mys-
ferrous disappearance and foul
murders without any regard to the
guilt of the victim.
Ell Pals is authority for the state
ment that more than two thousand
agents have been employed by the
interior department and that they
have done their work we'll is proven
by the increasing size of the sharks
that lay out in the harbor awaiting
the victims slipped into the bay
through the secret passage in La
Cabana fortress and from the side
of the Maxine Gomez. However,
the perfidy of these confidential
spies has been discovered by Cen
eral Delgado who evidently holds no
brief for the dictator of the island
since he discharged two thousand en-
masse. took up their credentials and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Help Grocery Clerks Strike

Within short period of time the Retail
Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union of
Greater New York has demonstrated that it
is a militant organization capable of obtain
ing improved conditions for it's members.
There is no section of the working class that
has heretofore been more poorly organized,
with the result that low wages long hours
and revolving conditions pervade the industry.
The union, conducting the strike called Mon
day in New York, has forced better conditions
from employers. Its strikes of last year in
Manhattan and the Bronx and it's recent
strike in Brooklyn established the base for
the union. The present struggle is for re-
newal of contracts and a five dollar a week
raise and for the purpose of organizing the
unorganized
The clerks union, however, must prepare
for drive on the big chain stores, where
conditions are unbearable.
All workers in Greater New York should
aid the striking clerks by refusing to patron
ize stores fighting against the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
(Continued.)

Two days prior to the announce
ment in Gel Pals" a long article
captioned by a two inch heading APP
peared in the official organ of
Machado & Co., Gel Excelsior" This
article stated that Moscow had al
ready dictated the death sentence of
four presidents. These were to in
clude the dictators of Peru, Venezu-
ella, Mexico and Cuba. 1t even went
SO far as to mention the names of
A. Mella, Alexandra Barreio and
others as being involved in the con-
spiracy. The article went on to state
that while Gales was at one time
considered a friend of Moscow be-
cause of his activities against the
Roman catholic church, his more
recent position on the agrarian ques-
ton and the possible arrangement
of the religious controversy had
again placed him on the Communist
blacklist and that his death was Of
ficially decreed by the supreme coun-
I'll of the Soviets. The assassination
Of Senior Felipe Fernandez Diaz Y
canejS, superintendent Of the LA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Wall St. Puppet, Enslaves Cuba

Ambrosia" which occurred in Jan.
1925 was also attributed to Moscow
The same paper also states that
Mariana Rosas Ortega and Jose Roig
Villar, natives of Huelva, Spain
were sent by the Moscow govern
ment to murder Caneja.
Such reports, together with the
prating of Machado about the free
dom of press and speech in Cuba
are given wide publicity in foreign
countries.
Machado Mercenaries.
Mr.. Thomas Allen, a representa-
tive of the United Press, frequently
interviews the dictator and sends out
glowing stories of the great achieve
ments Machado has accomplished
Vast sums of money are diverted
from the Cuban treasury to recon-
pense these mercenaries on the
Machado payroll who vainly try to
silence all opposition and prevent
the real truth of the murderous
regime from becoming known to the
rest of the world.
Since Gerardo Machado came into
office the number of public employ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Louis F. Weiss, Sr.,
Active Communist,
Dies in Worcester

Especial to the Daily Worker
WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. IT,
The militant labor movement has
lost one of it's staunch supporters
through the death of Louis F. Weiss,
Sr., of this city. On Tuesday morn
ing, October 9th, Comrade Weiss
got up, had breakfast and went to
work. Entering the gate of the
mill, he dropped dead. Death was
due to a heart attack. He worked
at the mill for forty-four years.
His radical labor career runs back
about forty years. He was first a
member of the socialist labor party,
then Joined the socialist party and
stayed with it till the split in 1919.
He took very active part in the
left wing movement of the socialist
party and joined the Communist
Party at it's inception.
That Comrade Weiss was beloved
by all that knew him was shown by
the floral tribute. A truck carried
flowers to the grave.
Comrade Weiss died at the age
of sixty-six. He left his wife, five
daughters and son.
The comrades of this city mourn
his death and extend their hearty
sympathy to his family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Negroes Turn to Workers Party

the emancipation of the Negroes
during the coming election cam
paign, will stand out as one of the
historical events in the development
of the class struggle in the United
States"
That bold outspoken platform of
the Workers (Communist) Party is
the work of white and Negro com
rades. Twenty-four Negro members
of the Party sat in its National
Nominating Convention. Sat as
equals. And at the state conven-
tons Negroes were again present
in large numbers as delegates, and
were nominated on the Workers
(Communist) Party ticket out of
all proportion to the present Negro
membership of the Party. In New
York state alone, three militant Ne
gro workers were nominated: Rich
ard B. Moore for congress from the
21st congressional district; Lovett
Fort Whiteman for state comptroller
and Edward Welsh for state assem-
blyman from the 21st assembly dis
trict.
Is it any wonder, then, that in
telligent Negro workers are turn
ing to the Workers (Communist)
Party when that Party alone holds
out any promise for their full eman-
cipation, and when it is only by
voting Communist that they can
make a really effective protest vote
against the treachery and enmity
of the other parties?
Down with race prejudice! Down
with Jim Crowism and segregation!
Down with lynch laws! Down with
the oppression of the capitalist-im-
perialists! Vote Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Against the Capitalists!

Had there been delegation of New Bed
ford textile slaves of Buffers mills present
they would have arisen sand hurled into
Hoover's teeth the impudent lie that the
tariff has in any way benefited them. 1t is
precisely under the Fordney- McCumber
tariff, whose greatest beneficiary is the tex
tile industry, that the workers involved have
been victims of a continuous campaign of
wage-cutting. And when Hoover tried to
convince the impoverished, mortgage-ridden
farmers that the tariff has benefited them
in the round-about-way of high wages, he
simply adds insult to injury
The tariff is a class measure, benefitting
the coupon clippers who own industrial
stocks. It's function is to secure unlimited
monopoly to the trusts That Smith favors
it no less than Hoover indicates the lack of
issues between the two old parties. Only the
platform of the Workers (Communist) Party
deals adequately with this question:
"The high tariff wall around this country
forces the other countries likewise to protect
themselves by tariff walls. This hinders or
even prevents the export of American pro-
ducts to other countries. But accumulation
of capital is going with increasing speed,
and American big business, instead of ex-
porting goods is exporting capital on an ever
greater scale Inc next step is the defense
OF the investments of American bankers in
foreign countries. A strong army and sec
ond to none navy necessary. War threats
war danger and wars are the order of the
day The protective, defensive tariff is in
reality the most offensive weapon in the hands
of big business"
The demand of the Workers (Communist)
Party is for complete abolition of the tariff
on all necessities of the working class and on
all goods used by the farmers.
The reply to the war mongers and the i'm
pudent speeches of Hoover and his associates
Butler, the strike-breaker, and Fuller, the
murderer, on the tariff should be an
avalanche of votes for Communism in this
election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
For the Workers!
Hoover's Boston Speech

It was eminently fitting and a warning
to the working class of the whole country,
that Herbert Hoover appeared on the plat
form at Boston Monday evening with the de-
feated and discredted former. senator Will
liam Morgan Butler, textile magnate of New
Bedford and Governor Alvan T. Fuller,
murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti. Morgan,
textile mill strike-breaker and scab-herder,
introduced Fuller, the butcher of two inno-
cent workingmen who incurred the fury of
the capitalist class because they endeavored
to organize the shoe and textile slaves of
New England; Fuller as chairman of the
meeting introduced Hoover, the imperialist
arch-murderer, WHO utilized his control of
food supplies in Europe to enable the monster,
Horthy of Hungary, to establish his tyran-
nical government.
In such a setting Hoover talked of the i'm
portance of controlling foreign trade. Under
the guise of an economic discourse this man,
whose chief claim to fame is that he inflicted
systematic starvation upon whole popula-
tions-men, women and chidren-boasted
of the fact that, as president, he would en-
deavor to make the ruling class of this coun-
try supreme in the markets of the whole
world. That this cannot be realized without
a new world war for a redivision of the world
was clearly implied when Hoover referred by
implication to his role as food admins
TRAITOR" in the last war by declaring:
1.-THE great war brought into bold relief the
utter dependence of nations upon foreign
trade. One of the major strategies of that
hour to crush the enemy by depriving
him of foreign trade and therefore of sup
plies of material and foodstuffs which were
vital to his existence"
This utterance is not mere recital of his
tory, but reveals part of the war prepare
tions of American Imperialism. 1t also &C
counts for the fact that just such person
as Hoover has been chosen as the next chair
man of Wall Streets executive committee at
Washington.
A considerable part of Hoover's Boston adj
dress was devoted to the tariff Like all capt.
talist politicians Hoover resorted to sophistry
and plain lies in order to justify the Fordney-
McCumber tariff. He particularly referred
to the tariff as it affects the textile industry
of New England. Ex-senator William Morgan
Butler who sat upon the platform, was one
of the chief beneficiaries of the tariff, but the
thousands of workers who have just been
through bitter struggle in which the
minions of the textile magnates dubbed,
jailed and in other ways terrorized the work
ers, can hardly appreciate the observations
of the republican presidential candidate that:
New England has many protected indus
tries. There has been less hardship in the
United States and that fact has been
due to the partial protection afforded in the
tariff against foundations of foreign goods
Touch the tariff textiles and North
Carolina feels the blghting influence as
quickly as Massachusetts. Nor does it stop
there. The farmer finds diminished market
in the lessened demand caused by lower
wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

EOR the first time in the history
of the republican party, that po-
litical instrument of predatory
wealth is faced with a serious re-
volt of Negro workers. For decades
the republican party has kept the
Negro in line with fine promises
they had not the slightest intention
of putting into effect and by the
lie that Abraham Lincoln, and not
economic conditions, had forced the
abolition of chattel slavery. In adj
dition, whenever the Negro voters
got FESTIVE, the republican machine
would rush its Negro "janisseries, "
quoting the statement of Fred
erick Douglas, the Negro abolition
ist that "the republican party is
the ship, all else the sea-"
This year the republican promises
are as numerous as in past cleo
tions. AS usual, the republican presi-
Dental candidates say as little as
possible but their lieutenants are just
as voluble as lieutenants of other
republican presidential candidates.
In fact they are the same lieuten-
ants. Year in, year out they are
the same. Bourbons never learn, nor
do traitors cease betraying. And
these Negro janisseries and the Ne
gro republican newspaper editors
who depend for existence not upon
mass support but upon state print
ing and other political graft are
busy working Frederick Douglass
statement overtime. But the Negro
revolt goes on just the same. Goes
on and intensifies. And intelligent
Negroes are confounding the quoters
of Frederick Douglass with the mex
orable logic that Frederick Doug
lass was too great revolutionary
to have condoned the long record
of republican treachery against the
Negro or the present lilywhitism OF
the party Douglass would have
been the last one, they say, to have
advocated servile attachment to q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

publican chiefs, if the dissatisfied
Negro would vote the democratic
ticket. The late President Harding,
as much as told the Negro to divide
his vote in that infamous Birming-
ham address that was the precursor
of the present republican lily-whit-
ism. A vote for the democrats
would still be vote for the CAPT
talists and Wall Street could main
tain its equanimity. Even vote for
the socialist party would not bother
Wall Street much now that the So
cialist party has discarded it's revo-
lutionary role and is playing the
treacherous game of class-collabora-
ton. But vote for the Workers
(Communist) Party is something
else again. Because the Workers
(Communist) Party is in earnest
and THE CAPITALISTS KNOW
IT.
Negroes Turn to Workers Party.
And the Negro workers are begin
ming to realize it, too. Beginning
to realize that the Workers (Com-
munist) Party is the party of the
oppressed against the oppressors;
the party of the worker against the
exploiting slave-driving employer
whose policy it is to keep the work
ers divided the better to exploit
them; the party of the enslaved
colonials against the imperialists of
England, France, Japan and the
United States, the party of the dis
franchised, lynched and brutally op-
pressed Negro against the lynchers,
against the segregationists against
Acknowledgement, against jim-crow-
ism and against all who would de-
grade him and deny his manhood.
1t has not escaped the Negro
worker that while the platforms OF
the other parties have said little of
him, and that little ambiguous and
uncertain, the Workers (Communist)
Party in it's platoon has come out
openly and boldly for the rights of
the Negor masses, by demanding
the abolition of race discrimination,
of all laws which support the segre-
cation of Negroes, of all Jim Crow
laws; abolition of all laws disfran-
chising the Negroes, abolition of
laws forbidding intermarriage; abo-
lition of all Jim Crow distinctions
in the army and navy. 1t demands
full racial equality for the Negro,
economic, political and social; full
and equal admittance of Negroes to
all railway station waiting rooms,
hotels, restaurants and theatres |;
equal opportunity for employment,
wages, hours and working conditions
for Negro and white workers; equal
pay for equal work for Negro and
white workers. 1t also demands a
federal law against lynching and the
protection of the Negro masses in
their right of self-defense. In fact.
the platform of the Workers Com
munist) Party leaves no a doubt
of the stand of that party upon the
Negro question. 1t is unequivocal.
1t is bold. 1t is just.
No Pussyfooting Here.
And in his acceptance speech, Will
liam z. Foster, Communist candi-
date for president, spoke out just
as clearly, just as boldly. He did
not talk as if he had forgotten the
existence of 100000 Negroes in
his acceptance speech. Said Foster:
1--WE will defend our platform. In
the land of lynch law we will de-
nounce lynching. In the home of
Jim Grow, we will attack segrega-
tionism. The entry of the Workers
(Communist) Party into the South
and the bold raising of the issue Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

renowned them as having commit
ted irreparable harm and branding
their reports as utterly false and un-
worthy of belief.
Cuba needs a few more such Of
ficials to free the island of Sound
rels of the type of Fors, Trujillo,
Machado and his allies for only then
will the island be safe for decent
civilized people to live in.
But in spite of periodical expo
sures of the tyranny and horror per-
meating the whole civil life of the
Cuban people, night raids continue
kidnappings take place, husbands
and fathers are torn from their
homes, only to mysteriously vanish
from all human ken. The whole
Cuban population knows the stu
alton but is helpless through the
sitting of every avenue of disclo-
sure, through fear of persecution
and even murder, and so the high
binders ride on, their crimes I'M
checked because the United States
government at the behest of hand
full of financial pirates closes its eyes
and refuses to listen to the sights
and tales of mortal terror inflicted
daily by the National City Bank
dictator to the end that foreign in
vestors should reap huge returns out
of the illicit profits sweated from the
Cuban workers.
Cato long cried out, Carthage
must be destroyed" At first he
cried to an empty audience but per-
sistence eventually won adherents
to his cause and Carthage did go
down into the dust of oblivion. So
must we, who know of the conditions
in Cuba, raise a new slogan and
pursue it to the end for the scarlet
crime of Cuba is blight upon the
twentieth century-Machado must be
destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Profit in Cuba Sugar

HAVANA, Oct. II (UP).-Raw
sugar exports for the first six
months of the current year of 1885,
136,604 pounds were valued at SILL
824,365, according to figures made
public today by the treasury de-
partment. Of refined sugar 1885,
S91, 1896 pounds, valued at Ss,161,-
900, were exported during the same
period.
Exports of sugar cane molasses
for manufacture into industrial al
cohol for the first six months of this
year amounted to 121,101,754 gal
Ions, valued at $4,305,6S7.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-15
MENNONITES
VISIT VALLEY
Colony May Be Moved
Here From Kansas
After Inquiry

SAN BENITO, May 1~5.-Prospeets
Of the settling in this part Of the
Valley Of a colony Of between rs and
500 mennonites from Kansas are in
dicated in the statements OF mem
bers OF a party Of five who arrived
here Monday Of this week 20 investi-
gate Valley conditions.
The five men who came here are
from Garden City, Kansas, and regis
tered at the Stonewall Jackson otel.
They are d. v. Caps. Isaac M. Frie-
sen. Henry We~isenberger. ]. B. Ratz-
laff and J. X. Ems.
The five declared that they were
pleased with the Valley, and that they
would make a thorough investigation
OF the section. and seek to work out
an arrangement BY which the entire
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-15
Man Saved From
River Here Last
Night; Unframed

The Brownsville Ferry company
almost lost its first customer in
more than fifty years Of operation
Monday highland after the near
victim was no longer a customer at
that.
The affair happened at 1918 D.
m. at the ferry stage on the north
bank of the river. An unknown ne
gro. just returned from across the
river and brimful Of the "atmos-
phere" of old Mexico, taking a nan
on the ferry dock, was the almost
casualty.
A sudden swaying Of the landing
stage by the rapidly rising waters
sent the black hurting into the
stream. Fast work on the part Of
two white men standing nearby
saved the negro as his head and
shoulders were beneath the ferry
landing when he bobbed to the sur
face.
The men, n OF whom was near
ly pulled into the water himself, de-
clined TO give their names. The ne
gro appeared none the worse for his
experience.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-15
Coolidge Goes
oAnnapoEs To
Witness Pageant

WASHINGTON. May 15.-CP-A
vivid reproduction of stirring cpl
sodes of colonial days called Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge 10 Annapolis
today 70 witness a pageant in COM
memoration of the Annapolis conven-
tion of 1856.
Re-enactment Of such historical
scene as the arrival Of George
Washington in Annapolis to accept
the presidency OF the United States
and the resignation of his commits
sion in the old senate chamber had
been carefully rehearsed for the
benefit of the distinguished guest.
Governor Richie of Maryland had
invited the executives of the other
original twelve colonies to the ex-
ecutive mansion to welcome Presi-
dent Coolidge upon his arrival in the
Maryland capital. The state COVER
nors were to accompany the presi-
dent TO the old state house and TO
other historic mansions in the city
which were opened up and specially
decorated in period style for the
occasion.
Presentation OF an illuminated adj
dress Of welcome 10 President Cool
idge BY Mayor Charles W. Smith had
been arranged for the state house
visit.
At the Hammond Harwood house,
built in 1870, John Hays Hammond,
Of Washington, a kin of the original
builder of the mansion, VAS to intro
duce the president and Mrs. Coolidge
to various colonial characters. in
GLIDING George Washington. Lafay-
cite and other notables of the time,
several of whom were impersonated
by their own descendants in original
costumes.