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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-21
PRESBYTERIAN.


Central Presbyterian Church
SOUTHERN ASSEMBLY,
Intersection of Fifteenth and Sixteenth and
Irving SITS NV.
Rev. JAMES n. TAYLOR, ID. D., PASTOR
$50 a.m.--Sunday School.
IL 100 a.m.--Sernlon by Or. w. w. Shaw of
Baltimore
500 . .m.--Westminster League.
Sis p.m.--Socal Hour.
700 p.m.--C f. Society
800 pm,-~Sernion by DR.. Shaw.
800 2. m. --ThurSday--Prayer Service.
Small children cared for during the morn
ing service
Vacation church school every day except
Saturday. $50 am
Take i4th st. car or Mount Pleasant
car or 10th st. bus to Irving st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Bulletin on Sick King
Doesn't Say Very Much

LONDON, Dec. 5.-A suspicion is
growing in this city that while King
George lies in his ound-proof cham
ber at Buckingham Palace five con-
fidential physicians are maybe
spending good deal of their time
lying for the government. Nobody
really knows how sick the king is.
Bulletins published always put the
best face on slight improvements in
temperature, and tell very little in
addition. Their chief interest seems
to be in estimations as to whether
the royal idler spent comfortable
night or not, and none Of them esti-
mate the duration of illness.
So the latest bulletin merely says
There are reasons to hope that the
recrudescence of the infection which
caused the last rise in temperature
is being moderated" The newly
created council of state is signing
the documents that the king would
ordinarily earn his luxurious quar-
ters by signing, and the poverty
stricken dwellers in the worst slums
in Europe are being coached to pray
for rour noble George"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Clothing Cutters to
Elect Convention
Delegates Tonight

A membership meeting OF the
Cutters Welfare League, called
especially to consider the question
of electing delegates to the coming
convention of the new cloak and
dressmakers union, as we'll as other
important problems, is to be held
tonight at the Joint Board head
quarters, 16 w. 21st St., at z o'clock,
according to an announcement by
the secretary Of the League.
Due to the fact that several men,
bers of the League expressed them
selves at the last meeting as being
opposed to amalgamaticn with the
Furriers Union at this particular
period, discussion of this highly i'm
portant problem will be continued
at this meeting till absolute clarity
on the question prevails among the
membership.
The mobilization Of the workers
in the dress manufacturing indus
Try for general strike so as to or
ganize this greatly unorganized
trade will also be taken up tonight.
At the last meeting of the League
nominations for the convention,
which begins Dec. 20, were held. At
this meeting the delegates will be
finally chosen from among the
nominees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
RHODE IS. MILL
WORKERS STRIKE
$50 Fight Against s.
Hour Increase

PAWTUCKET, Dec. 5.-Three
hundred and fifty operatives in the
Parker Mills in Warren yesterday
walked cut on strike when their en-
ployers announced the immediate in
auguration of a 53-hour week, in
stead of the 4S-hour week in force
formerly.
The company owning these mills
was permitted by the officialdom of
the A. F. of L. United Textile Work
ers Union to make wage reductions
by withholding the workers from
strike action. Now that nearly all
ether mills in Rhode Island put
through a general wage cut, again
aided by the labor takers, the
Parker Company generously" did
not cut wages, but instead announced
five-hour weekly increase of work
ing time.
Unable to endure this increasing
oppression, the workers here re-
fused to return to the mills under
the new hour schedule.
1t is believed that the workers in
the Lonsdale, Ashton and Berkeley
Mills may join the strike, since they,
too, had their standards attacked
by reductions and lengthening OF
hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
BOOST MORONES
FOR PRESIDENT
Roberto Cruz, "Crom"
Head, Build Party

MEXICO CITY, Dec 5.-General
Roberto Cruz, former commander of
Mexico City, who was removed after
Obregon's assassination, addressed
the Crom Convention, which is
meeting here, declaring his solidar-
ity with the Crom. General Cruz
is at present military commander of
the State Of Sinoloa. Morones,
president of the Crom, urged an al
lance between the Crom and the
military faction. Apparently Mo
rones is preparing for a sharp
Struggle for the Mexican presidency
The group headed by ex-Presi
dent Gales and Aaron Saenz, for
mer minister of agriculture, have or
ganized new party known as the
Grand National Revolutionary
rarty. The committee of this party
consists of Gales, Saenz, Louis
Leon, governor of the State of Goa
hula; Gen. Perez Trezino and Ba-
silio Vadillo. The party has NOM
mated Saenz for president Of Mex
leo when term of Portes Gil expires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Silk Workers Local
to Hold Membership
Meet Friday Evening

Announcement of a membership
meeting of the New York Silk Work
ers' Local of the National Textile
Workers Union for this Friday
night, at the local offices of the
union, 247 Sixth Ave-, were made
yesterday.
Important matters regarding the
organization drive planned by the
union will be taken up, the notice
states, and all members are urged
to bring their shopmates and friends
in the silk industry, to the meeting.
The meeting room is number 9.
Although overshadowed by the
numerous other industries in the
city of New York, a surprisingly
large amount of workers are en-
ployed in the manufacture of textile
of all descriptions. Practically no
steps toward the organization of a
permanent union in the industry
were taken here. This local, affili-
ated to the left wing National Tex
tile Workers Union, and the Knit
Goods local of the same international
union propose to start the building
of a union in the trade.
Fight ngninst company union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Young Worker
arrested For
Praislng USSR

For praising the Soviet Union
Sam Kaplan, member of the
Young Workers League, was ar
rested yesterday, charged with dis
orderly conduct, on the instigation
of an unknown man he met in a
laundry.
Kaplan was taken to the Tooth St.
police station and then to the
Seventh District Magistrates Court,
315 w. 54th St., where the man who
had instigated his arrest declared
that Kaplan had insulted the Ameri-
can flag. This "crime" together
with the "crime" of praising the So
Wet Union was sufficient for Magis-
trate Edward We'll, who refused to
give the worker a chance to secure
an attorney, to sentence him to
three days in Jail or $40 fine.
In the absence of defense at
torney, the fine was paid by the New
York Section of the International
Labor Defense and Kaplan was re-
leased.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
VIVID COSTUMES
! AT DAILY BALL.
Soviet Colorlight Event
in Garden" Dec. Is

Those who attend the Soviet Cos
tune and Colorlight Ball at Madi-
son Square Garden on Saturday
night, Dec. Is, will see some Uzbek
costumes, among many others. Any
one who might want to wear such a
costume will be interested in the
following account of the sort of
clothes worn by the Uzbeks, and of
living conditions among them, which
has been issued by the committee in
charge:
"The clothing worn by the male
Uzbeks is typical of that of all Cen
trail Asian native peoples. 1t con-
sists of roomy ST it of clothes which
serves both as under and outer gar
ments, usually made of cotton or a
native material. Over the shirt is
worn a narrow dressing gown, made
/ of calico or silk, and decorated with
I bright-colored embroidery. A wide
dressing gown is worn as an outdoor
costume.
"On the feet are worn a pair of
soft native shoes, and over these,
leather boots or rubber galoshes, in
all seasons. The headgear consists
of small sort of skullcap, brightly
embroidered with silk.
"The women are kept in a separ-
ate part of the house. Polygamy
still persists, under rigid patriar-
chal system, and brides are pur-
chased and confined to a section of
the house not to be entered by the
men. The female costume consists
of a long gown and long, marrow
breeches, made OF bright calico or
silk. A sleeveless sort of jacket is
worn over the gown. For outdoor
wear, special loLg, sleeveless gown
is thrown over the head, and the
face is covered with black horse
hair net, which is obligatory for all
except girls under IL or 13, and
1 very old, wornout women.
4 The language the Uzbeks speak is
4 peculiar sort of Turkish dialect,
but one wearing their costume can
get by if he or she approximates a
Turkish cigarette undergoing in
cineration."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
FURRIERS Speed
MOBILIZATION
Plan Big Rally; Build
Organizing Committee

Knowing that inevitably, the fight
to reestablish union conditions in the
fur manufacturing shops must soon
lead to general strike in the trade,
especially in view of the recent new
attempt of the bosses to revive the
all but dead remains of the A. F. of
L. scab union, the left wing Joint
Board Furriers Union goes about in
tensifying its drive to mobilize the
workers in the trade for such a
struggle.
Activities reminiscent of the days
prior to the big strike of 1926. which
ended in the winning of the 40 hour
week, are going full swing at the
headquarters of the union 1T % E.
22nd st. Following IN the strike
threat issued by the Joint Board at
its meeting Tuesday evening, the
union called together and held an
organization conference of its most
active elements yesterday evening.
Militants Meet
Scores Of the most militant men,
Continued on Page T1Oo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
HOUSE VOTING
MILLIONS FOR
NAVY Increase
First Activity Backs
Imperialism; Brings
War Nearer
Powder Head Resigns
Senator Dupont Feels
Too Conspicuous

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Con-
gress started off today on it's first
real work. Within a few hours the
House of Representative jammed
through the first of the militarist
measures designed to give American
imperialism the striking power it
needs to beat British and Japanese
imperialism away from good slave
markets and markets for raw ma
terials, as well as markets in which
to sell manufactured goods and in
vest capital.
This first measure is the Britten
bill authorizing the modernization
of the battleships Pennsylvania and
Arizona, including elevation of
guns, at cost of S14,800,00O. The
bill now goes to the senate.
More Navy Money.
Shortly after providing for this
!, increase in range of guns, a mea-
s sure sure to bring stern protest
3 from Great Britain, which holds
that such bill violates the 5-5-3
naval agreement, the House passed
and sent to the senate a $9,0O0,O00
omnibus naval housing bill
The largest item authorized was
$1,700,000 for Pearl Harbor, T. H.,
of which $1,200,000 is for water
front development and $500,000 for
improving the harbor and channel.
The authorizations are designed
to enable housing facilities to keep
pace with greatly increased avia-
ton requirements and other expan-
sions of the service.
Big Powder Man Quits.
In the Senate there was a furry
of interest over the resignation of
Senator Coleman Dupont of Della
Continued on Page FtCe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
ANCL.O-AMERICAN
WAR PREP AIRING
Diplomats of Both in
Pacifist Speeches

LONDON, Dec. 5.-Since one of
the most essential preparations for
war is the "moral preparedness" of
the population to convince them
that their own imperialists are not
imperialists at all but simply have
to "defend" the country against the
other powers who are to be pic
tured as the aggressors, the sign
ing at Paris of the Briand-Kellogg
"treaty to outlaw war;" was made
the occasion here of a liars match
between Foreign Secretary Cham.
berlain and U. S. Ambassador
Houghton.
Both excelled in pacifist speeches,
"hopes" that war might be "out-
lawed" by piece of paper, both
knowing that they were rushing
warship- building at top speed. With
the U. S. congress answering to
Coolidge's war cry for cruisers,
Houghton talked as if he meant
what he said. He cited the "United
States-Canadian frontier" as peace
full although both are vigorously
competing in every line of activity"
laying aside the fact that the U. S.
has more money invested in Canada
than has England.
Chamberlain, not to be outdone, also
took up Canada's position, and with
diplomatic phrases got around the
difficulty Of admitting that British
imperialism is far from content
with the situation in which the U.
S. is supplanting Britain, and
wound up by saying that the un-
fortified frontier of Canada and the
United States is a situation that
"is also true of the unguarded from
tier of the United States and the
British empire"
Thus did two imperialist diplo-
mats of rival imperialisms celebrate
the signing Of . fake peace pact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
A ANTI-USSR WAR
BLOC SCORED IN
FRENCH CHAMBER
Cachin Exposes French
Baltic Treaties of
Aggression
Shows Workers Duty
Communist Deputy in
Powerful Attack
Shows Workers Duty

(Wireless to the Daily Worker)
PARIS, Dec. 5.-Marcel Cachin,
editor of the central organ of the
Communist Party of France, L'Hu-
mantle, and Communist deputy in
the chamber, made a powerful at
tack on the budget of the foreign
ministry in . the chamber today,
above all condemning the aggres-
sion of the imperialists against the
Soviet Union.
Cachin exposed the military
agreements between the Baltic
states against the Soviet Union and
heartily condemned the French sup
port of these states.
He declared that it was the duty
of the proletariat to defend the
Soviet Union and he accused the So
cialists in assisting in the moral
preparations for war against the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
IA Wage Cuts in One
Month Is Reward of
A. F. of L. Policies

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The
drive of the American capitalists
against the living standards of the
workers is being directed most in
tensively against the unorganized
workers. This is revealed by statis-
tics just released here which show
that unorganized workers in var
ious industries suffered ID wage
cuts during the month of October.
Textile, coal and auto workers
suffered most, the statistics show.
These are the three industries
where the class collaboration and
betrayal policies of the officialdom
of the American Federation of La
Dor have been most glaring.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Moscow District Party
Members Approve All
Com mi ttee Decisions
(Wreless to the Dailq Worker

(Wweless to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. 5.-All
the decisions of the November plen-
ary session of the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union were unanimously ap-
proved at meetings of the active
Party members held in the Moscow
district, at which the work of the
session was discussed.
The membership meetings also ap-
proved the organizational decisions
of the Moscow Committee of the
Communist Party concerning the
changes in leadership of the Moscow
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
COLOMBIA FRUIT
STRIKERS SEIZE
FEDERAL TROOPS
Govt Ready to Start
Martial Law for
Yankee Firm
5000 Workers Firm
Wave of Solidarity in
Latin America
BULLETIN.

BOGOTA, Colombia. Dec. )
U.H.-The government issued a
decree tonight declaring a state
of seige in Santa Marta. the capi-
tai of Magdalena Department, as
a result of difficulties between
striking banana plantation work
ers and federal soldiers.
General Carlos COrest Vargas
was named civil-military chief in
charge of the situation. The ac-
ton was approved by the cabinet.
BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec o.
Aroused by the combined efforts Of
the government and the Yankee
fruit company to break their strike,
strikers on the banana plantation
in Magdalena province Of Colombia
today captured a contingent of 35
soldiers sent against them by the
federal government. After the sol
diers were disarmed they were re-
leased by the strikers.
Aa a result Of the growing mil
fancy of the 5000 plantation work
crs and their increasing resistance
to the company police. thugs and
federal reinforcements, during a
strike which mas already lasted
three weeks, it is expected that the
Yankee company's demand that the
Colombian government declare mar
tial law in the region and use the
str.ctest methods to suppress the
strike will be granted immediately.
The workers on the vast fruit
plantation, approximately 80 miles
long and 20 miles wide, are reported
to be making all preparations to
defend themselves and continue the
strike. The bravery Of the strikers
ir combating the combined forces
of the New York fruit company and
the Colombia government has
aroused strong wave of sympathy
among the workers in Colombia and
other Latin American countries.
Officials of the company today,
despite persistent reports TO the
contrary, held that the strike had
not spread out OF the Magdalena
province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Workers VIII
Greet Fascist
GangSterHe

The gangsterism and terrorism
of fascism, which is ruthlessly op-
pressing the workers and peasants
in Italy and stretching its arm to
other countries, will arrive in New
York incarnate in the person of
Italo Balbo, chief fascist gangster,
when he will land here tomorrow
as delegate to the international
Aeronautical Conference in Wash
ington from the Italian Aerial AS
sociation.
A reception fitting this leader of
fascist gangsters will be accorded
him, when anti-fascist workers,
mobilized by the Anti-Fascist Alli-
ance of America, will hold a demon
stration upon his arrival on New
York soil.
Balbo is noted for his gangste1
terrorism which found its base at
Ferrara, his native city, where he
was already known for his activi-
ties in 1922. From the very in
eeption of fascism and the. black
shirt hordes he has been one of its
leaders and Immediately became in
famous among the working and
peasant masses thruout Italy. For
his 100 per cent fascist activities
he was made a generalissimo in the
fascist militia, where he continued
his work of terrorization. He was
later appointed vice secretary of
the Italian Aeronautical Association.
Thru his activities as a fascist
and as gangster he accumulated
millions of dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Cops and Consul Try
to Silence a Scandal

HAVANA, Dec. 5.--Frances Por-
te-, blonde beauty and little play
mGt.e of c. P. Whitehead, million
aire sportsman of Atlanta and
"Coca-Cola king" is still refusing
10 leave his yacht, declining to sign
a summons to appear to answer his
charges in police court. When the
cops told her that her daddy" might
lose the 500 bail he put up for
her, she said she didn't care. The
police are striving to effect COM
promise and the U. S. consul to
hush up the scandal which lifts a
slight corner of imnerialist domina-
tion of Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
RATIONALIZE FAMILIES
Judge Orders Labor Power OUTPUT Cut

lem Of rearing them on such miser-
able wages. They decided they
could not make ends meet and ap-
piled mutually for a divorce, both
charging cruelty and neglect.
Judge Harrison Ewing heard
their cases in common pleas court.
When they had told their stories, the
judge rendered his decision which,
in part, said:
at was evident that the woman
Continued on Page Tpo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
Revolutionary Workers
and Artists Preparing
for New Masses Ball

One Of the gayest and most col
orful annual affairs of the radical
in New York City will
again make its appearance here to-
morrow night, when the New
Masses Ball swings into action at
Webster Hall. 1l9 E. 18th st.
Workers Of all trades, rebel writ
ers and artists-among them Will
turned from the Soviet Union,
and Hugo Gellert and Louis
Union, and Hugo Gellert and Louis
Lozowick, who did the decorations,
are expected to be present 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-06
wv YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928
Gee. PLENUM ON DECEMBER 18th
Convention Thesis, Right Danger and
Irotskyism, War Danger ON Agenda

Political the Workers (Communist) Party
meeting decided that Penum of the Central
held December 18th and 18TH The
agenda of the Plenum will be:
adoption convention thesiscoverng
the political situation and the tasks of the Party
struggle against right danger and its crassest mani
fesaton-Trotskysm
8. The fight against the danger
MOBILIZATION AGAINST RIGHT DANGER.
decided by the Political Committee for
the of mobng the entire Party in the struggle against
the which increasing rapidyas be from
the nenscaon of the policy of the United States
of Anglo American rea
the attacks the Soviet Unon especially
shown by the revival of the AngoJapanese alliance.
Penum will focus the attention of the entire Party
ersp the right danger facing the Party and the latest out
Trosyism attempt and his followers
organize Trotskys Party The Pnum will adopt to
carry of International that mob
Party Trotsky supporters
will also discuss the economic and
political situation and adopt the convention thesis
MEMBERSHIP MEETING DATES ADVANCED.
holding of the Penum the 1h and 18th of December
necessates the advancing of the dates of the membership meetings
auspices of E. December 22nd
23rd follows
Friday December Boston, York, Buffalo Chicago,
Minneapolis
Saturday, December Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Detroit,
New t'aven.
sunday, December 23rd Cleveland, Kansas.
All other Sixth be
held in New York City beginning February LIST unchanged