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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
BY
CROUCH URGES
ALL TO ATTEND
GitloW, Reeve, Others
to Speak


An appeal was issued last night
by the All-American Anti-Imperial-
ist League to all workers to back
the fight against American imper-
'alism by attending the reception
for the % workers just released
after serving a 30-day sentence for
demonstrating i'll Washington
against American imperialism and
for the release of John Porter. The
reception, which will be held We'd
nesday evening at s o'clock at Man.
haitian Lyceum, &c E. Fourth St.,
under the auspices of the New York
Section of the international Labor
Defense, the Young Workers League
Sand the New York branch of
the All-America Anti-Impeiialist
League, will also be a John Porter
protest meeting.
The appeal, signed by Paul
Crouch, national secretary, states:
twenty-five workers chose to go
to jail in order to uphold the strug-
gle against American imperialism
and for the release of John Porter,
young textile strike leader now in
Fort Leavenworth. The struggle to
free Porter is an integral part of
the struggle against Yankee imper-
ialism. Porter is now in Jail be-
cause he deserted from the army
of Wall Street and entered the fight
against American capitalism in the
New Bedford strike.
"The reception for the % freed
workers Wednesday is not merely
welcome home. 1t must be turned
into mighty protest meeting de-
handing the immediate release of
Porter, demanding that the con-
.temptible tools of American imper-
,ialism cease their brutal tortures of
this brave working-elass fighter.
The same government which is car
rying on war against the Nicara-
guayan workers and peasants, which
is now preparing to aid the Colon
han government to crush in blood
the strike of $4,000 plantation work
ers, which has shackled virtually
every Latin American country, is
victimizing and torturing John Por-
Ter. Workers, demand the release
of John Porter on Wednesday
night"
Speakers at the reception and pro-
test meeting Will be Ben Gitlow,
member of the secretariat Of the
Workers (Communist) Party; Karl
Reeve, editor of the Labor De-
finder: Clarence Miller, Philadel-
phia organizer of the Young Work
ers League; Paul Crouch, Otto Huis-
wood, Ben Thomas and Henel Ben
nett.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Minister of Justice
Ready to Give Teapot
Hero His Verdict Soon

PARIS, Dec. 9.-The minister of
justice announced officially today
that the Accusations Court had re-
jected the United States demand for
extradition of Henry NJ. Blackmer,
missing witness in the senate Tea
pot Dome oil investigation. The min
lister said he had not yet received
copies of the courts recommended
ton, but expected to get them short
ly. He said he would notify the
Quai D'Orsay which in turn would
inform the American embassy.
There seems no doubt that the
extradition will be rejected, and
there are not expected to be any in
ternational complications over the
matter, as attorneys for the U. S.
government thoughtfully waited un-
til the French statute of limitations
had run before filing suit for extra
dition. The whole Teapot Dome
graft crowd always were lucky in
having the government make tech
nical errors that allowed them to
escape Imprisonment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PH!LA. AGENTS
PLAN CAMP AICN
Daily Worker Drive on
Large Scale
Continued from Page One

C0HtlRued from rage One
hold its first meeting today and lay
plans for the campaign.
1t was decided to take at least
$4,000 copies of the special anniver-
sary edition which will be published
on Jan. 5, plus those ordered di-
rectly by the units. The question
of a special Philadelphia page each
week in the national edition of the
Daily was also decided upon, and
the goal will be set for special
page each day.
The fifth anniversary celebration
of the Daily vii! lake place in Phila-
delphia on Jan. II. On Christmas
Eve, Dec. "a, the Daily Worker
Freiheit masquerade and color-light
ball will be held, and all those pres
ent pledged themselves and the or
CARNATIONS they represented to
make these events the biggest sue
cesses Of the year.
All fraternal organizations, trade
union locals, co-operatives and bene-
fit societies will be visited to mob
ilize their members in support Of
the Daily campaign. Detailed re-
ports of the progress made in the
campaign will be printed regularly.
The Philadelphia comrades now
realize the great financial difficult
ties the Daily Worker is up against,
and have determined that, so far as
they are concerned, the paper will
not cease publication for a single
day. By building up the circula-
ton to the point the paper should
reach to be commensurate with the
Party and left wing influence in this
city, by constantly boosting the sus-
tanning fund, and by an energetic
and successful fifth anniversary
campaign, this will be achieved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
MOnarchist Lovers in
Fret Lest King Croak
Before Wales Is Home

LONDON, Dec. "a bulletin on
the condition of the king, signed
among others by Doctor Buzzard,
while deliberately vague, indicates
that the king, who has resigned his
monarchal powers to regency of
six, may end his reign of oppression
over the empires 465,O00,00O sub
jects before the Prince of Wales ar
rives.
This is worrying the monarchy
lovers who are anxious to uphold
the tradition that the new king must
be on the soil of Great Britain be-
fore the old king is formally allowed
to die.
1t is regarded as necessity for
the monarchists that when the cry
goes out that "the king is dead" all
pumpkins must be impressed with
the amending phrase "long live the
kingw
Thus the new king gains fine
bit of advertising from the checking
out of the old. No worker get a
penny on the pay or a minute off
the day." and no Indian peasant can
tell the difference when the tax col
lector comes around.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
POincare Hooks Bait
for French Radicals

PARIS, Dec. 9.-The articles in
Premier Poincare's budget which
dealt with religious problems and
{ It; ..5uted' largely to the fall Ct
the National Union cabinet, were
adopted by the cab,~at t,day after
revision. They will be presented to
parliament along w,.h special cred
it's for December.
The original articles would have
re-established religious missionary
orders T-ance ard re I'D GER
tain church property abolished by
the Law Of IL 3. Alt..or. : the new
articles have a different fc: :, they
a, the same as the so-called modi-
fled tex wish We're violently OPP
posed by radicals" The new ones,
it is believed, will give them al ex-
cuse for sporting tie Po;2care
reaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
CITY ABOLISHES JAIL
Negro Town of 5000 Finds 1t Useless

Montgomery and his cousin pur-
chased large tract of land and
began selling lots exclusively to Me-
groes. This was the beginning of
Mound Bayou, which was incorpor-
ated in 1898 with Montgomery as
the first mayor.
The town is governed by mayor
and board of aldermen, who are
elected every two years by popular
vote. Two officers--a marshal and
a deputy sheriff--direct law en-
forcement and many of the inhabi-
tants of the town have grown from
childhood to manhood and woman
hood, without ever having seen a
uniformed policeman.
Because of the well-nigh absence
of crime, the city council has abol-
ished the prison, stating that 1t is
a needless expense" to the com
munity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PRODUCE MORE
PLANES FOR WAR
u. S. Outstrips in Pro
ductiOn

The rapid growth of airplane pro-
duction in the United States is re-
vealed in a report by the aeronau-
teal ,Chmaber of Commerce which
shows that during the first nine
months of 1928 American manufac-
turers controlling 80 per cent of the
total output turned out 2192 COM
mercial plans. On this basis, the
Chamber estimates that for the en-
tire year 1928 American manufac-
turers will turn out 1866 COM
mercial airplanes, valued at $780,
100000, compared with 1927, when
only 1895 commercial ships were
made, valued at S5,000,000, and 1921
when there was no manufacture Of
commercial plans.
With military construction in
Guided, the Chamber estimates that
the total production for 1928 will
be about 1900 airplanes of all types,
valued at $75,000,000. The report
says that more than S100,000.000 is
invested in the airplane industry,
which now employs almost as many
workers as during the peak of war
time production. Airplane manu-
featuring centers have been devel-
oped in New York, Philadelphia,
Hartford, Buffalo, Detroit, Milwau-
kee, st. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita,
Colorado Springs, Los Angeles and
Seattle. Chicago is not manu-
featuring center, it is the largest air
transport center in the United
States. It's traffic is now exceeded
only by Templehoff in Germany.
The Aeronautical Chamber of
Commerce claims 95 per cent of
Americas airplane manufacturers
and air carriers as members. The
Chamber sponsored the Chicago air
craft exposition opening December
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
TORONTO NEEDLE
WORKERS STRIKE
Fight New Wage Re-
auctions

TORONTO, Dec. 7.-Thirty-two
workers of the Durable Waterproof
Company, a raincoat manufacturing
plant OF Toronto, all members of
the Industrial Union of Needle
Trades Workers, are now on strike.
Since Oct. 8, when the shop was
first organized by the union, the
workers were preparing for a strug-
ele to better their conditions. The
wages in the shop were between So
and SIS week for skilled operat-
ors. The firm took advantage of
the fact that most of the workers
sere young and exploited them to
the limit.
The Needle Trades Union in
volved is the left wing union re-
Gently organized when the Canadian
locals of nearly all the right wing
internationals split away from their
narent bodies because of the reac-
bonary policies and expulsion tao
LlCo Vie OlllCIdlS uS6u. HlS llllOil
is expected to affiliate with the
amalgamated neddle trades union
which the militants are to organize
at conventions in New York at the
close of this year.
About two weeks ago the piece
work prices in the raincoat trade
were slashed so per cent. At shop
meeting the workers decided to de-
1and the recognition Of the union,
4 minimum rate of so cents an hour
for operators and cementers, $50
minimum for cutters and So mini
mum for all other workers. A COM
many stool-pigeon told the firm of
The plans and six of the leading
Union members were fired. The
Union has replied with the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

A Lemm Memorial Meeting will be
neld in Madison Square Garden SAT
az day evening, January 10. All Party
and sympathetic organizations please
take note,
You are requested not to arrange
any conflicting dates. The Lenin
Memorial Meeting tins year VIII be
powerful demonstration against
the impet la list war and for the De
Tense OF the Soviet Union.
District Executive Committee. Men
York District
Party Units Attention!
The Spanish rraction viii hold It's
first ball on Saturday evening. Dec
%, at Harlem CAt inc. ll6th st. AND
Lenox Ave. Proceeds viii 20 for the
organization OF Spanish speaking
WORKERS and tof the support OF me
organ OF The Spanish Bureau vida
OhreTa." Please, keep this dats open
and give this affair your greatest
support.
bronx Y. w. l.. Dance.
The Bronx section of the Young
Workers (Communist League viii
hold a Section Dance aon saturday
Dec. %. at the Rose Gardens, lS47
Boston Road. There will be enter
tainment and an excellent iazz band
Discussion on Right Danger.
International Branch z. Section 6,
viii discuss "Trotskyism and the
Right Danger" this evening, at 8
p. m. at Sc Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn. A member of the DEC
will lead the discussion.
Branch 3, Section Z.
An important business meeting Of
Branch, Section 7. will be held to-
day, Dec. 10. at p m, at Finnish
Hall, 764 10th St, Brooklyn. Dis
cussion viii be on the American
question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Navy Orders 2 Largest
Zeppelins Ever Built;
Carry Tons of Bombs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The
nsvy department has just awarded
contract to the Goodyear-Zeppelin
Corporation for the two largest air.
ships in the world. They are to be
1856 feet long, carry 6,5O0,000 cubic
feet of gas space and a useful
lift of $4,000 pounds. The largest
dirigible now owned by the navy is
the Los Angeles, built by Zeppelin
Co. of Germany, and 658 feet long,
with a lift of $4,000 pounds.
The new airships will have a
cruising range of 9,1S0 miles,
whereas the Los Angeles has a
range of $500. The engines and
engineers will be housed within the
hull. Space is allowed inside the
hull also, for five airplanes, with
mechanism for launching them ano
recovering them while the Zeppelin
i. under way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PORTER PARADE
PRISONERS ARE
ACTIVE IN JAIL
Miller and Thomas Are
Quizzed by Jailers

Continued from Page One
be diseased, the class war prisoners
have actively discussed the prob
lens of their fellow prisoners.
The class war prisoners, with
their courage and accomplishing
fortitude with which they go through
their experiences in the workhouse,
have been a living propaganda to
the other prisoners Of the courage
Of the workers in the face of capt.
talist oppression.
So sympathetic have many of the
prisoners been in their attitude to-
ward the workers that the authori-
ties have become alarmed and have
given the matter considerable pub
licity in the local press and at Wash
ington.
1.-THE Occaquon workhouse is hon
oycombed with Communist propa-
efnda," according to one press
statement.
The class war prisoners at Oc-
caquon were arrested during a pa
lade in Washington on Armistice
Day. when the demonstration de-
manded. the release of John Porter
and denounced the preparations
which the United States govern
ment, in common with the other i'm
perialist powers is making for the
next war.
The authorities, Infatuated to think
that the workers would bring the
Porter case to the steps of the Cap
itol, threw the militants into jail
for terms varying from thirty to
sixty days, after submitting the
prisoners to every kind of suffer-
ing and humiliation. Food was
kept from the class war prisoners,
they were crowded into narrow cells
containing one bunk for four or five
men.
John Porter is still being held at
Leavenworth, where reports con-
tinue to leak through that he is be-
ing brutally mistreated and tor
tured by the prison authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PUTS
A Finish TO The
DYING CHAMBER
Derides Signing of the
Fake Peace Pacts

ROME. Dec. o. Mussolini yester-
lay festively closed the last session
of the chamber of deputies, which
has been slowly diving since the
Srrng of 1924, and substituted it
w the fascist grand council as the
official government body of Italy.
Practically the last act of the cham
Der was to sign its death warrant,
but this was merely a Formally,
since the fascist grand council, and
its head, Mussolini, have always
completely run the government.
The change means that instead of
the Is per cent of alleged non
fascists in the former parliament"
there will now be 100 per cent Of
openly-acknowledged fascists, per-
sonally selected by Mussolini.
In his speech, Mussolini openly
Knocked the entire shallow system of
"peace" treaties, and put forward
his own plans for imperialist ag-
gression and continued armament
for war.
"The truth is" Mussolini said,
"that the whole world is again arm
ing itself. The number of baycnets
and cannon is constantly increasing,
yet everybody speaks of peace.
eve are all for peace" he HIPPO
critically continued, "and if to-
morrow, other Kellogg treaties were
in view we would hasten to sign
them. Fascism's policy was one of
peace" he said, "but the party would
be chary about giving its coopera-
ton to Others" His entire speech,
was marked by his constantly dwell
ling on the subject of the impending
war and ornaments, and called for
final drive to bring all the forces
of Italy under arms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

The abolition of the jail at Mound
Bayou, Mississippi, town composed
exclusively of Negroes, numbering
about 5000, brings to the fore the
crimeless reputation of this munich
pality.
According to the published rec
ords, only one arrest has been made
in Mound Bayou in six years, and
it has been over 20 years since a
murder has taken place in this all
Negro community. Yet, the Nordic
"lily-whites" and contemporaries"
insist that the Negro is incapable OF
self-government, self-determination
and self-improvement.
Mound Bayou was founded in 1887
by a former Negro slave, Isaiah
Montgomery, bodyguard Of Jefter-
son D<vis of the Confederacy. En-
oloyed by railroad company to
sell land in the Mississippi delta,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Sees Evolution of Eye
During Short Periods

CHICAGO, Dec. "a statement
by DR.. c. Koch that the human eye
is adapting itself generation by gen.
Grafton to the changed conditions
and that in 400 years more the need
for spectacles, now almost univer-
sal, will have disappeared, was con-
sidered by the American Academy of
Optometry here as indicating an
other proof of the theory of evolu-
ton, and by the old Darwinian the
DRY OF slight changes, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
U. S. Minister to the.
Colombian Government
Presses for Oil Grab

BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 9.-The
newspaper "Spec.-tor" reports that
the minister of industry has denied
t. .ttior r.. } the /. ii b,
T. olombian Petroleum Company
rcpres ontative, Clarence S. Folsom,
to revole .,.e conc IA 1 of the
Barco concession.
The Columbian government re-
Gently cancelled the concession on
the grounds that the company, in
which U. S. imperialist interests are
involved, had NJ compli. :. with tas
rla.ions the contract.
The new Yankee min " to Col
omI' :, Je4- --on Cc-fery, has been
in secret negotiations with the gov
eminent, using all the pressure pos
s. remove he oscillation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Officially Recognize
4,726 Votes for Foster,
GitlOw in Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. S.
Foster and Gitlow got 4,726 votes
in Pennsylvania, according to the
official state election returns. Since
Philadelphia, with its famous vote
stealing record is the largest city
in the state, and many of the min
ing towns are so completely COM
pany controlled that only certain
people are allowed to vote at all, it
is safe to say the real vote was
many times as large.
The official returns divide the
vote of Foster and Gitlow as fol-
lows, on the Labor Party ticket, q
6S7; on the Workers (Communist)
Party ticket, 2,039.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Government Statistics
Confess Indian School
Children Are Starved

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.--The re-
cent survey of the governments In
dian Service, conducted by ten ex-
perts of the Institute for Govern
ment Research, while displaying
great caution as to language, still
discloses that hospitals for Indians
are ill-equipped, schools are over
crowded, and that Indian school
children are forced in many cases
to live on as low as eleven cents a
day per child.
Salaries paid instructors are so
low that no first-class teachers will
remain for any length of time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Smith Chooses Ten to
Become Expert Killers

ALBANY, Dec. 9.-Ten members
of the notorious New York Ma
tional Guard were chosen yesterday
by "Tammany AL" Smith to take an
examination preparatory to enter
ing West Point Military Academy
to perfect themselves in the art of
numbering workers on strike and in
foreign lands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
MILITARY X. r. IN CAL.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UP).-
Assistant Secretary of War Robbins
told the United Press today the war
is ready to grant the
Southern Pacific Railroad revoc-
able permit to cross Benicia, Cal,
arsenal grounds as an approach to
the new Martinez bridge. The de-
partment has prepared favorable
report ON the congress bills for a
permanent permit, believing the
railway move is valuable strategic
ally to the army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
White Kills Negro by
! Shooting Him in Back

Il LOUISVILLE, KY, by Mail).-
n. Crawford, white, who shot a
young Negro in the back, who he
claimed had raped his daughter, is
being held under slight bail in the
county Jail.
While quizzed by the police, the
daughter of the murderer was asked
why she had her shoes off. She
replied that she was tired and had
asked the dead man to remove them
for her, out of which grew the pro-
tector of American womanhood's
fantastic idea of rape.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
TRY AGAIN TO
HOAX JOBLESS
British Govt Fools I'm
employed

TORONTO by Maii).--Despite
the fact that thousands of unem-
ployed British workers, recently
sent over to Canada by the British
government, found that they had
been hoaxed and that no work eX-
isted for them in Canada, the Brit
ish government is going ahead with
further plans to settle British I'M
employed workers in Canada.
The latest scheme of the tories to
lid themselves of jobless workers is
to send 500 families to New Bruins
wick, where unemployment has be-
come a severe problem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Now Sell Salt Creek
Again; MustHaveSome
One Subtler Than Last

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Bids
for sale of government royalty oil
in the Salt Creek Field Wyo., will
be opened next Monday, secretary
OF interior West announced today.
The contract for this oil formerly
held by Harry F. Sinclair was re-
Gently held illegal by the attorney
general, after series Of graft ex-
posures hitherto unknown in his,
tory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

Workers Party Activities


The Subsection Executive Commit
tee will hold an important meeting
on Wednesday. Dec. 10 at 6;l5 p M
sharp.
3E international Branch
BE international Branch ] will hold
the Party discussion today 10 p. m.
at 101 w. 9th St.
Unit BIZ, Subsection &c.
nism and the statement of the {. II.
nism, and the statement o. fthe G. r..
c. will be held by Unit ST, suhsee-
tion &C today, $50 p. m, at los e.
14th st.
Subsection sc 10 Meet.
5 All units of Subsection &c will meet
today at G:30 p. IN. at 10l West
eth Street. All comrades of these
units must be present at this
be taken up.
SIS. "a Executive.
The Executive meetings of Subseo-
ton "a will be held tonight at $50
at 1O1 w. 27.N ST
Unit 4. SIS. "a.
The regular meeting of Unit 4.
Subsection "a will be held tonight
at 6:30 at 40 w. 9th st.
Unit 2F, Section Meet.
Unit Of, Section ! will hold an
educational meeting tonight at $50
at 60 st. Marks Place. Pauline
Rogers will speak on Women
Workers in Industry" Comrades
are asked to bring friends and
women they know who work in fac
tories to the meeting.
Branch =, Section S Meet.
a business meeting and discussion
on Women's Work will be held to
night at o'clock at 313 Hinsdale
Ave. Turn will lead the discussion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
II SAILORS LOSE LIVES.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 9 (UP).
An official investigation was
started today into the sinking OF
the steamer Quintero, which went
down with II men off Point Patache,
near Iquique Thursday.
Twenty-Five members of the
crew were rescued by the steamer
America, which collided with the
Quintero.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

The Workers (COmmunisD Party
demands unemployment insurance,
the amount of compensation to be
full wages for the entire period OF
unemployment. the administration
of this insurance to be In the hands
of the workers. the cost to be
borne by the state and the employ
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
sOcoNY REAPs IT'S PROFITS.

Standard Oil of New Jersey re-
ports that the net profits for 1928
will exceed the 1927 figure of SILL
414,S37 net, after all taxes and other
expenses were paid. Oil workers
wages are being lowered, not raised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

The only way 10 abolish unem-
plo!ment Is 10 abolish capitalism.