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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Asks Big Army
TOCYush Down
Future Strikes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The
official report of Secretary of War
Davis for the last fiscal year de-
mands further increase of infantry
and other sections of the army to
replace men taken from them to
supply the augmented aircraft SER
vice. Davis states definitely that
the army heads will not reduce the
number of soldiers in U. S. Overseas
possessions, in which at present a
quarter of the army is stationed, so
more man-power is needed for home
posts.
The report hints that with the
growing unemployment and the
strike movement on an increase.
more soldiers will be needed in con-
tinental U. S. to keep down the mill
tant workers and break strikes.
Davis takes credit for the growing
mechanization of the army. Ac-
cording to his report, one regiment
or infantry has been completely
motorized as an experimental unit.
The cavalry units of the regular
army have undergone a complete re-
organization, which has served to
reduce overhead, increase fire power
al. introduce anti-tank and anti
aircraft defense without adverse af-
feet upon the all-important cavalry
characteristic of mobility. An
armored car unit, the first in the
history of the regular establishment,
has been introduced.
"The organization of an expert
mental mechanical force was insti-
tuted during the fiscal year just
ended. This force combined units of
infantry, including tanks, air crops,
field artillery engineers, coast ar
tillery anti-aircraft, chemical war
fare, ordinance and an armored car
troop, ammunition train and medi-
cal detachments. 1t has undergone a
period Of intensive experimentation,
from which may be deducted the ca
pabilities and limitations of the
mechanization of military forces"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Against the Right Danger in the Soviet Union and Germany

Recent events Communist parties of
Germany have proved the correctness of the of the Sixth
the Comnn which stated that the danger
facing the Communist movement today the right danger
Based more he Com
reairms its decision of November 14th fully endorsing the
position Penum the Central Committee of the Communist
Party the Union and the Party Conference the Com
mun Party of Germany their fight against the right danger
gigantic of Socialist consructon.-the building of
basis Socialism of heavy industry and the oecvzaon of
the important of the international labor
whole The building Socialism, the realization of
nduaization in the Soviet Union renewed fortiaon
the poetarian stronghold cOnapostOn the menacngy
growing mpera rivalry the capitalist pole
of the world situation.
Troskyismin oveemang the capitalist forces in advo
eating policy overndustraizaion of breaking the alliance of
the working with the spreading disbelief the
possibility OF building Socialism the left
the Soviet Union leads the restoration capitalism
But after the decisive defeat of Trotskm ganzaona well
ideooga the main danger today the Soviet Union
right Opporunism which the kuak
Nepmen struggle
the Soviet Union demands the ndustrazatOn
kepticism about the possibility the colczaon
agricuturean of which the darmng of the Communist
and the working class before the class
the chances for the reeabmen capitalism the Soviet Union
Not only the the working of the Soviet Union
but the interests of the international also demand
uncompromng struggle against oskysm against outright
dences all concatory such outright
Opporunism.
The Committee of (Communs)
America declares solidarity
mttee of the Communist Party of Germany and with the position
of the recent Party Conference the Communist Party Germany
the andou opportunsc BrandIer which
ward the platform of democratic reormm instead of the pro
tartan revolution which tries make with the left
Social Democratic leadership instead uncOmpromng
openly of qudaOr The Party Conference
the Communist Party of Germany correctly charcerzes the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

group
the opportunism of the Brandere The concas
the right danger the chief danger facing
Communist Party Germany a
attitude of this of concor the because
make distinction
outright opporunst Brandr while reality they hinder
the liquidation of oppounm by accepting the tomnern decisions
only with The Party Conference
Party of Germany absolutely condmnng this attitude
of the of conciaOrs and declaring that it impossible
mechanical the estimation of the political policies
Party party fighting present
leadership the Central Committee of the German Party the conca
objective
Brander The Communist Party
into the victorious leader the German proar revolution with
cleansing its ranks of the Bandes qudang
of concliators
The Trotskyst outbreak the (Com-
munisD Party of America creates situation for party
The renegade Cannon making frantic efforts to split the
TOtskysm
Social Democratic oogy The rokyist
Lore and Eastman ally of the capitalists the Government
the Socialist Party the A. F. of L. in their
Communist Party Trotskym appears today United
States the consistent of The platform
of TrOskysm the rallying
elements within and outside the Communist
liquidation of rokyism Party be achieved only by
uncOmpOmsng relentless struggle against manifestations the
right danger by meless criticism mistakes and
made by the C. E. and the Party whole by complete
mobilization of all Party forces against the renegad
Democrats pe and qudatOs Only line of the
International be the basis of fight against the right danger
and Trotskyism The decisions the
International without
ces fight against the Trotskym
which declares that the
Party the and that Trotskymwhich
the Party which fights openly the Soviet Union and the Comnte
lesser rende consciously uncOnsousy objective
help to TrOtskyism
The situation in the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union
Germany and in the Workers (Commun Party
decsivey that mercs struggle the right danger
Trotskysm only the liquidation concaoy
forge the the
national into soidified world party of Communism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
CITLOW EXPOSES
AFL CONVENTION
Tells Forum Of It's Re-
dictionary Role

At last nights Sunday forum Of
the Workers School, at 26 Union
Square, Benjamin Gitlow, member
of the Political Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party, spoke
on "An Analysis of the A. F. of L.
Convention" An attentive audience
heard his biting indictment of the
Economic statesmen" who run the
A. F. of L. as branch Of the i'm
perialist government of the United
States.
Gitlow characterized the conven-
tion as the most reactionary in the
history of the American labor
movement. He showed this by sum-
marizing the report of the Execu-
tive Council of the federation to the
convention, and it's action on the re-
port. In dealing with international
relations, the report urged restric-
tion of immigration from all other
countries of the western hemis-
phere, but said nothing about the
need for international solidarity. 1t
came out against strikes and for
industrial peace. It's financial re-
port best summed up it's present
policies, said Gitlow, for, Of nearly
half million spent during the past
year, only S5,222 went for strikes
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
MORE DAILY
READERS, GOAL
To Reach Masses in
New Campaign

To place the circulation of the
Daily Worker on a par with the in
fluence of the Communicated left
wing in the unions, cooperatives,
fraternal and other workers organi-
cations and thus raise the circula-
ton in New York City alone to 25,-
900 or 35,000-was the concrete aim
proposed to the Daily Worker
agents by A. Ravitch, business man
ager of the Daily at their meeting
Friday night.
Part of the blame for this not be-
ing the case now, said Ravitch, was
due to the inactivity of some of the
Daily Worker agents. He praised
the agents of sections and 2, who
brought in large sum each week
for the sustaining fund. Leo King
of Section l received special men
tion for pushing the campaign
ahead in every unit meeting and was
thus able to bring in $50 to $100
each week.
Mass distribution was the real
solution Of the problem, however,
Ravitch continued. If the New York
circulation could be built up to the
figure mentioned about. there would
be no need for the sustaining fund
and the periodic drives. without
which the paper can not continue
under present conditions. The mass
distribution in Harlem during the
Continued on Pcge Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Workers to Denounce 2 New York Troopers
Hoover War Trip at Indicted for Torturing
Big Meet Wednesday Foreign Born Victims

Workers of New York will voice
their protest at Hoover's war trip
to Latin America at a big mass
meeting to be held Wednesday eve
ming at 8 o'clock sharp at Irving
Piazza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
The meeting has been called by the
New York Section of the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League.
The meeting will be the first of
its kind to be held in this country
and will expose the true nature of
Hoover's good will" trip. Speak
ers will include H. NJ. Wicks, of the
Daily Worker. Paul Crouch, secre-
tary of the All-America Anti-Im-
rerialist League. and Arthur C. Cal
houn, author of "a Worker Looks
at Government" -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
BOSSES, A. F. L.
PLAN ATTACK ON
FURRIERS' union
Bosses, Labor Fakers
Try to Halt Growth
of Joint Board
Bosses Get Concessions
w ork ers Mobilizing
Against Enemies

Faced with the growing power of
the left wing Joint Board Furriers
Union, which is rapidly regaining
control of the industry, the fur
manufacturers and their partners,
the A. f. of L. Joint Council, have
marshalled their forces for a new
attack against the Joint Board. The
whole plot, brewing for some time
and still openly admitted by the
manufacturers, is to have the two
employers associations join in re-
fusing recognition to the JOINT
Board and sign fake agreement
with the A. F. of L. Union.
Since the attack of the Joint
Board, when the union conditions of
the fur workers were sold to the
bosses by the a. F. of L. for its
support in the fight, conditions in
the shops have become worse and
worse. Now that the strength of
the Joint Board shows an alarming
increase and it becomes apparent
that the bosses associations should
be compelled to sign anew with the
left wing union, the new promises
of a free hand in depressing condi-
tions given the bosses by the scab
union have been accepted and the
Fur Trimming Association has also
decided to withdraw recognition
from the Joint Board. The Associ-
ated Fur Manufacturers, the larger
association, withdrew recognition
when the fight against the left wing
began, about two years ago.
W0ll Serves Bosses.
Confronted with imminent and
total extinction, the scab A. F. of L..
Joint Council, through its Matthew
Woll and socialist assistants. kept
Offering the employers more and
more outright concessions if they
would join in a last desperate eff
fort to halt the tremendous strides
being made nationally by the Joint
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
10000 Are
Homeless IN
Chile Quake

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 2.-The
death toll may reach over 120, over
10000 are homeless and thousands
OF workers are without any sign of
relief in the devastated area $50
miles to the south, where violent
earthquakes virtually destroyed the
city of Talca and greatly damaged
several other towns.
Many More Feared Dead.
"The catastrophe is indescribable
in the city of Talca, which is al
most totally destroyed" said an
eyewitness. Ironically enough the
only undamaged building in the city
is the Intendencia (chief govern
ment building).
Chillan, Baraahone, Santa Cruz,
Pelequen, Quinta, Curico and other
towns in the damaged area, where
most of the population are workers
employed in United States owned
.SNPPSA
Workers Suffer Most.
The population of Talca still re-
mained in open fields in fear of fur
ther shocks. The parents and rela-
tives of missing, however, swarmed
through the wreckage of buildings
with the rescue forces. Slight shocks
were reported today at several points
and were felt here, but did not dam
age.
Prisoners All Killed.
Parts of the prison walls fell on
the cells and courtyards at Talca,
completely isolating sections of the
prison. 1t was impossible to estim-
ate the number of dead in the ruins,
since none of the prisoners could
evade the falling walls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
SUBWAYS MAKING
MILLIONS FROM
FIvE-CENT FARE
81, 701,0 900 in Net Profit
While Suing for
Raise
Charge to Break Union
One Expense for z
Cent Propaganda

Evidence of enormous profits
made by the overcrowded subways
Of New York for Mr.. Hedley and
MS group of stockholders in the In
terborough Rapid Transit Co. and
the BIN. T. at the very time when
they were suing for an order to in
crease the fares on their mainly
worker passengers from five cents
to seven cents or more, is contained
in the report of the New York
State Transit Commission, just
made public. The net profit last
year was S2,7O1,00O, it is revealed.
This is particularly interesting, as
the argument used for an increase
in fare, an argument not only pre-
sented in court but foisted on the
public through car cards and the
columns of half dozen friendly
newspapers, was simply and solely
that the companies were going
bankrupt on the five-cent fare.
Walled Over Expense.
"Such an increase in operating
expenses" said the companies as
answer to every criticism of made
quate service, failure to maintain
schedule and failure to prevent such
disastrous accidents as that which
killed and manned dozens at one
time in Times Square this summer.
And now, on the word of coldly
calculating statistic.ans, working
for a commission friendly to big
business in every way, comes an
other side of the question to view.
Such an increase in revenues
such an increase in the number of
passengers"
Profits Fat.
The Hedley outfit has tight grip
on all useful means of transporta-
tion in New York, subways, elevated
lines, surface cars, Hudson tubes.
Workers going to work have to use
these lines,
The commissions report shows
that all of the transit lines Of the
city, including the bus lines and the
Hudson River tubes, carried curing
the fiscal year a grand total of
1926, 100000 passengers. This was
Continued ON Page T1Oo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
ROyalists Move in
Albania Parliament

TIRANA, Albania, Dee. 2.-The
constitutional assembly passed law
Transforming itself into a parlia-
ment, it was announced today. This
is the final act in connection with
the assembly's work of amending
the constitution to permit the trans
formation from a republic to a
with King Zogu on the
throne, and Mussolini's protectorate
an established fact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
MEET TONIGHT TO
PROTEST MASS
TEXTILE TRIAL
Weinstone, Weisbord,
.WIagenknecht, Gold
to Speak
To Score Boss Attack
Natl Textile Union n
Issues Appeal

Answering the attacks of the
courts of the Massachusetts mill
barons, workers of New York will
rally tonight at big protest meet
ing and demand the release of the
662 textile strikers and strike lead
ers who are being tried in New Bed
ford in the biggest mass trial in
American labor history. The meet
ing will be held at o'clock at Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place,
under the auspices of the New York
Section of the International Labor
Defense and the National Textile
Workers Union.
The trial is a retaliatory measure
on the part of the mill owners in an
effort to crush the new National
Textile Workers Union and to
eliminate from the field of activity
the best fighters in the great six
months New Bedford strike. In a
further effort to outlaw militant
unionism indictments of conspiracy
on two charges have been brought
against rs of the leaders of various
activities connected with the strike,
including Albert Weisbord, secre-
tary-treasurer of the National Tex
tile Workers Union; Fred Bieden-
kapp, national secretary of the
Workers, International Relief; and
Paul Crouch, secretary of the ALL
America Anti-Imperialist League.
In addition to Weisbord, Bieden-
kapp and Crouch. the speakers will
include William w. Weinstone, dis
trict organizer of the Workers
(Communist) Party; Ben Gold,
manager, Joint Board, Furriers
Union; Alfred Wagenknecht, ma
tional secretary of the International
Labor Defense; Pat Toohey, secre-
tary-treasurer of the National
Miners Union and Norman H. Tai
lentire, national assistant secretary
of the I. l.. d. A number of the
defendants in the trial will also
speak.
An appeal was issued last night
by the National Textile Workers
Union, calling upon all textile work.
ers of New York City and vicinity
to attend the protest meeting to-
night. The appeal, signed by Albert
Weisbord, national secretary, states:
''In New York City and vicinity
there are over $4,000 textile work
ers. The New Bedford strike was
fight not only for the New Bedford
workers, but for the knit goods and
silk workers of New York City as
well, and it is the duty of all the
textile workers to rally to the de-
fense of these militant fighters who
now face Jail. The textile workers
in New York City must take the
lead and by their militant demon
strations compel the textile barons
of America to let our people go.
"The National Textile Workers
Union, in launching this defense
campaign, raises the slogan: Every
defense an offensive against the en-
ployers." This defense meeting must
also be meeting through which the
$4,000 textile workers of New York
City help to build up a truly ma
tional, militant textile organization" ."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
CONGRESS- DUCKS
FARM RELIEF"
Plan to Rush Big Navy
Appropriations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. - The
Lame Duck" session of t he
Seventieth Congress will assemble
tomorrow, and a canvass of opinion
among the senators and representa-
tives assembled shows that the clash
Of arms and necessity for providing
for fresh eonquests of American i'm
perialism abroad will provide a con-
venient excuse for postponing in
definitely any action on farm relief.
The republican spell-binders, as
we'll as the democratic, during the
presidential campaign made free use
of promises to the farmers that
something would be done to alleviate
the distress in rural regions. Such
promises now become liabilities, as
everyone knows no considerable re-
lief short of abandoning the capi
talist system can be afforded, and
even slight relief would be unthink-
able, as it would be possible only at
the expense of the bankers, grain
elevator, grain purchasing groups,
and agricultural implement n d
fertilizer companies which at pres
ent have a strangle-hold on farm
economics.
Dodge the Record.
Moreover, the farmers have shown
some signs lately that they see thru
the fake plans proposed. In this
iilemma, the congressman going out
Of office desire not to be on record,
and those remaining in wish to post
pone the reckoning by any means
possible. A convenient excuse now
is, "Wait for Hoover"
Boulder dam will come up first
in the senate, and seems likely to
go thru in an amended form-score
one for the Southern California real
estate boosters.
To Build Cruisers.
The Coolidge proposal for fifteen
new cruisers will then be taken care
of. After that, and with the big
navy guaranteed, the intricacies of
the Kellogg proposal for a league
against the U.S.S.R., under U. S.
leadership instead of British, will
be discussed, under the misleading
title of anti War treaties" The
treaties are supposed to come up for
vote some time in January, after the
Christmas recess.
In the House everybody will be
kept busy grinding out administra-
tion bills for appropriations, the
last whack at the pork barrel for
some of the members.
immigration law notifications
1.-THE question q rational origins")
the Vestris in4 q. N..a gives a
possibility for slap at British ship
ping, and the remnants of the S-4
disaster, which includes difference
of opinion whether the House and
Senate should appoint a committee
of inquiry to talk to death evidence
OF incompetence of high naval Off
GERS when the lives of mere seamen
are concerned, or whether the presi-
dent should appoint the committee,
are all on the list.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

WINGDALE, N. Y, De g.
Complaints of two men who were
taken up and "third degreed' by
Fred Stark and George Mack, New
York state troopers, have resulted
in a grand jury indictment for these
two members of Troop K. stationed
at White Plains barracks.
The men are foreign-born resi-
dents, Vincent d'Annibale and uigi
Averza. They testified they were
asked questions about a fire, and
when they stated they knew 10th
ing of it, they were beaten up with
a black jack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
WeinstOne Speaks on
c. |. Program Tuesday

William W. Weinstone, organizer
of District 2, who was delegate
to the Sixth World Congress and
was also a member Ct the prcgram
Commission, will talk before
combined membership meeting of
Sections 2 and 8 on "The Program
of the Communist International.
Weinstone will present the various
aspects of the program and the sig
nificance of the program for the
Communist movement of the world
and America. A discussion will fol-
low.
The meeting will be held this
Tuesday, Dec. a, at Irving Plaza, and
-" oman at $3.50 d. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
SILK WORKERS
MEETING JOINS
new Mill union
Broad Silk Division
Quits Associated
Silk Union
To Build Real Union
w. |. R. to Open Drive
for Strike Aid

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PATERSONAN. j., Dec. AT a
crowded and enthusiastic member
ship meeting of the Broad Silk De-
partment of the Associated Silk
Workers Union, over 450 workers,
those on strike and those back at
work already, voted unanimously to
sever their relations with the AS
sociated and affiliate in body with
the National Textile Workers
Union of America. The meeting
was held Saturday afternoon in
Carpenters Hall, Sc Van Houten St.
Unable to endure any longer the
criminal incompetence and outright
sell-out tactics of the Associated of
ficialdom, and unable to take the
leadership of the union out of the
hands of the reactionary bureau
Gratis in control of a campaign of
terror against the left wing, the
membership of the Broad Silk De-
partment decided to take the only
action left open for them which will
give a chance of victory to their
strike and will help them build a
union that will really control and
enforce union conditions in the
shops.
For a Real Union.
After report on the general sit
uation in the strike and industry
was delivered by Gertrude Mueller,
spokesman for the left wing Strike
Committee, and after an exhaustive
discussion had been carried on by
the membership during which they
heard greetings and offers of i'm
mediate aid from the representa-
tives of the National Textile Work
ers' Union and the Workers Inter
national Relief, the meeting unani-
mously passed series of four mo-
tions which provide for immediate
affiliation, the building of a real
silk workers union in Paterson and
for relief of strikers in national
drive.
The striking broad silk workers
had been fighting against their Of
ficials, demanding that fake settle
ments with bosses be stopped and
Continued on Page Fire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Backed Gee Resolution
on Trotskyism, Right
Danger in Section 5

Following is a corrected list of
those who voted in favor of the c..
E. c. resolution on "Trotskyism and
the Right Danger" in Section s.:
T. Yakoleff, S. Mesnil, E. Baum,
Fannie Rurgin, H. Segal, n. Amron,
S. Leroy, Margolis, L. Stamler and
L. Hofbauer.