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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
RIGHT WING FUR
FINISHERS MEET
r e gi tered Workers
Plan One Union

When the details of the meeting of
the right wing fur finishers union. of
the Joint Council, held last Monday
night in the headquarters Of the right
wing union, were learned, it was dis
closed that even there the workers
are beginning to revolt against the
inhuman sweat shop conditions en-
forced by the fur bosses since the es-
Enlistment Of the dual union by the
American Federation of Labor
Demand Committee of Is
After a bitter discussion held on
the floor Of the meeting, in which the
machine in control of the Joint Coun-
cil were condemned for their activity
in annihilating standards, a motion
was passed with only three opposition
votes that a committee Of Is be elec-
ted to take steps leading to the re.
establishment of one union in the
industry. The committee, after being
elected, was instructed to appear be.
fore the Joint Council meeting anc
demand that they call mass meeting
of all furriers, where the question Of
one union shall be discussed and acted
upon.
The committee was also told to ap
pear before the local meetings of the
other 8 in the Joint Council to ask
them to elect similar committees t.
make the same demand from tht
Joint Council.
The significance of this meeting
lies in the fact. that the committee:
from each local comprising about &C
people in all, when elected, are asked
to take immediate Independent actor
n the event Of refusal Of the joint
Council to call the mass meeting
that is, to call the mass meeting them
selves under their own auspices. Al
this meeting the question of regainina
single strong union, which is cap
able of combating the inroads of the
employers offensive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
King, Gomez to Speak
at Haiti Protest Meet

Senator William H. King of Utah
will state his position on the policy
Of the U. S. government in maintain
ing marine rule in Haiti. The protest
meeting to be held under the joint
auspices of the Haitian Patriotic
Union and the New York Branch of
the All America-Imperialist League,
next Sunday, May 10, at New Harlem
Casino, 80 West 10th st. Other
speakers at the meeting will be Will
liam Pickens, Of the National Associ-
alton Of Colored People; Robert
Minor, editor of the DAILY WORK
Err; Henry Rosemond, Of the Haitian
Patriotic Union, and Manuel Gomez,
secretary Of the All America Anti-Im-
perialist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
CANNON TALK TO
EXPOSE FRAME-UP
Discuss Famous Cases
May Is

The entire history of the American
frame-up system will be thoroughly
discussed and analysed by James P.
Cannon, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, at lee
ture that he will give on Friday eve
ming, May 18th, at 8 o'clock at Irving
Plaza, 18th St. and Irving Place.
Cannon will show the relationship
between the frame-up system and the
efforts of the capitalist class to main
tain and increase its dominance over
the workingclass. The Sacco-V anzet-
ii case and its implications will be
prominently featured in his talk,
which will be given under the aus
pieces of the New York Section of the
International Labor Defense, 799
Broadway.
Cannon will also discuss the frame
up of Mooney and Billings and tell
of the mass movement which the l. L.
D. is starting to free these victims of
capitalist justice. Having visited
Mooney at San Quentin prison in the
course of a countrywide tour, Cannon
will be able to give an intimate pic
ture of the man who for IL years has
rotted in the dungeons of capitalism
for his devotion to the workingclass.
All those attending the lecture will
receive a three-months' free subscrip-
lion to the Labor Defender, monthly
organ of the international Labor De-
Tense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
WEATHER HELPS
SANDING TROOPS
Marines Vainly Pursue
Nationalist

PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua
May 8.--The rainy season has de-
veloped in Eastern Nicaragua ham
pering the movements of the United
States marines that are vainly trail
ing the nationalist troops under Gen
SANDING in the Pts Pts River Zone.
Word was received today of a
second clash between marines and
nationalists on the Waspook I.iver.
Nationalist ambuscaded along The
shore opened fire upon an advance
guard Of marines in boat. The fire
was returned. The advance guard
was reinforced and later a United
States bombing plane dropped : mbs
over the district where the ne tion
alists were believed to be barricat!cd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
AT
CENTER TONIGHT
New "Brick" Lists Prov
ing Popular
Continued from poge y

(CoTt1nned from page l
Workers Party units in District 2.
Each of the lists, which have been de-
signed by Hugo Gellert, contains 20
red bricks, priced at Is cents, so
cents and 81. The entire list totals
$40. On each brick is printed: add
Another Brick to Workers Center"
This has become the new slogan to
finish up the drive for $4,000 to es-
tablish the Workers Center. All
.class-conscious workers and units of
the Workers Party are urged to de-
vote all their energies to selling these
bricks in order that the drive, which
ends May Is, may be a success.
This is also the final week for the
competition for the beautiful revolu-
tionary banner, which is now on dis
play in window of the Workers
Center. The banner will be awarded
to the unit or organization which col
lects the most money in the drive.
The Young Workers Social Culture
Club is arranging package party and
dance for next Sunday evening at
$50 at it's clubrooms, 118 Bristol St.,
near Pitkin Ave.. Brooklyn. The
proceeds will 60 to the Workers
Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Women Hold Mass Meet
For Miners Tonight

A mass meeting and concert for
miners relief will be held tonight at
1472 Boston Road under the auspices
Of the Bronx Section of the Women's
Miners Relief Committee. Miners
direct from the struggle in the coal
fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and II
linois will address the meeting. Other
speakers will be Juliet Stuart Poynt2
and Ray Ragozin. Featuring the
concert will be programs by Irving
Schoen, tenor; M. Margolis, soprano
and violin recital by J. Kessler.
A meeting of the Women's Mine
Relief Committee will be held or
Monday, May IA, at Brooklyn Labor
Lsceum, 947-959 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Russell
Gets Reward
for Services

CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL,
like his friend John Spargo, has
made good.
Spargo has been making up for
his the very feeble and dubious SER
vices which he once rendered the
old socialist party by hawking fas-
cism in the columns of the New
York Times and attacking the Sow
let Union. Russell has been attack
ing the Soviet Union and hawking
patriotic biographies"
Yesterday it was announced that
he had receivedd the Pulitzer award
for the "best American Biography
teaching patriotic and unselfish
services to the American people"
Russell was once city editor of the
sanctimonious New York World,
owned by the founder of the Pull
itzer prize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
FOSTER TO TALK
ON Mine STRIKE
" orkers Party Meeting
To Be Held Tomorrow

'Tn its whole life," said John
Brophy, speaking at the historic
April list Conference, "the miners
union never faced such a crisis as
today, and the fault lies with the
Lewis policies"
The story of the events leading up
tc this crisis, the picture of the
present situation in the miners
strike, and the consequences of the
strike if it should not be won, will
be carefully analysed by William z.
Foster st membership meeting of
Sections z and 8 Of the \ orlzers
(Communist) Party, to be held
Thursday at p. m, at Bryant Hall,
Sixth Ave. and And st. Members
of these sections are required to
attend the meeting and bring along
their Party membership cards. A
special registration will be held at
the door and a record made of all
those in attendance.
Foster will expose the treacherous
policies of Lewis, showing how his
tendencies have always been to split
the union up into many fragments,
and thus weaken its resistance.
Lewis's treachery during the 1922
strike will be death with. A large
part of his address will be devoted
to the present situation in the unor-
gained fields, where the miners have
recently made the phrase Solidarity
Of Labor" burning reality by down.
ing tools to carry on the strike side
by side with their organized brothers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
DECkERMAN MAN
FOR PIECE WORK
Hollander Spe axis At
Bosses Dinner

The first step toward the piece
work system in the union membership
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers was taken yesterday when Louis
Hollander, manager Of the Jewish
Coatmakers' branch of the union, and
right-hand man of A. Beckerman, re-
dictionary boss of the New York
Joint Board, came out openly in
favor of piece work at a BANQUET
given to the employees of one of the
biggest firms in the city, the Charles
Douglis-Mack Co.
This is the second time that the
administration of the Amalgamated
has intimated its intention to put
over piece work for the bosses, but
the first time in public.
Workers Forced To Attend
The occasion for the banquet was
the successful and profitable compile
ton of a years work by this firm.
The Beckerman machine had per-
nitted these bosses to operate on the
piece-work system, and they thus
have rendered their thanks to the
union officials for the profits ex-
tracted under the system by giving
a banquet to their workers, nom
attendance at which meant immediate
dismissal from the job.
Now that the negotiations for a
new agreement are only several
weeks off, the existing one expiring
at the end of the month, the Hill
man administration is speeding up its
plans to begin an immediate often
sive against the protest of the masses
of the union membership.
Even a trade journal of the en-
ployers has declared its assurance
that anotherhigh union official is de-
finitely known to favor the piece
work system. Beckerman is meant,
it isgenerally believed. This trade
journal, in reporting the banquet. re-
cited the history Of the firm, saying
that the union officialdom of the
Amalgamated, especially, gave piece
work to this firm in order to be able
to use it as an argument against the
speed-up systems opponents. They
gave he employer to take absolute
liberty in choosing his crew Of work
ers from the market.
Convention Starts Monday
The coming national convention Of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union which promises good times
for 300 machine followers and their
700 guests and friends, according tc
the official announcements of "spe-
cial trains" and sightseeing" stop
overs, is scheduled to begin in Gin
cinnati next Monday. The convention
will be ended by the time the New
York officialdom begins negotiations
with the New York employers for &
renewal of the agreement. 1t is fol
this reason that the Beckerman ma
chine arrogantly makes public state
ments favoring the vicious speed-uI
, system, workers here declare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Lewis HEN(,HMEN
IN new SCHEME
Plot to Oppose Action
of Coal Diggers

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May 8.-En-
ragged because rank and file miners
of local union 2086, Pike Mine, have
defied the Lewis machine and have
voted unanimously to support the
Save-the- Union movement, Interna-
tional Organizer Lorenzo Dwyer and
his self-appointed assistant, Thomas
Bevans of So. Brownsville, are seek
ing methods to annul the action Of
the miners.
Bevans several weeks ago tried tc
prevent four delegates to the April
l Save-the- Union Conference at Pitts
burgh from reporting to Local 208G
on their return from the conference
The miners, however, voted 100 pei
cent to hear the report and then voted
to accept it and joined the Save-the-
Union movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
TAMMANY TOOLS
.FEARExPOSE;NEW
De AILS PROMISED
Graft Reached Millions,
Loughleed Charges

Police last night were guarding
William H. Lougheed, in fear that
those who will be exposed in the SEN
sational street cleaning graft scandal
may attempt to take the former Tam
many Hall official ''for ride" to
prevent him, from duplicating scores
of active Tammany Hall camp fol-
lowers.
Exactly what threat have been
made against Lougheed has not been
made public against Lougheed has not
heen made public, but yesterday |. M.
SaclSin, his council, went to police
headquarters and requested that his
client be protected. Aspecial detail
of uniformed men are now guarding
Iougheed's home at 2110 Bolton Ave-,
the Bronx.
In a signed confession Lougheed
charges that the graft amounts to
several million dollars annually. The
DayroIl system, as he describes it in
his sworn statement has extended to
IL boroughs and been in operation
for years.
He charges that many officials of
the department share in the spoils.
One Of those named by Lougheed
holds one Of the leading positions in
The street cleaning department.
Leading Official Involved.
One of the charges made by Loug-
heed is that one of the officials of
the main street cleaning office en-
ployed to check payrolls in Manhat-
tan, the Bronx and Brooklyn is link
ed with the graft gang.
The following is taken from that
part of Lougheed's affidavit in which
he describes the alleged payroll pad
ding" system:
@. Describe how the payrolls were
padded. A. Names and addresses
would be obtained mainly from the
Italian section Of the Bronx from
doorbell plates. The names would be
put on the payroll, given names and
addresses so that it would appear
ell right, and from 80 to SO, so, 20
and a little more than 100 fictitious
workers on the payrolls of the Crom-
we'll Avenue garage alone.
@. Was this done only in snow re-
moval work or at all times of the
year? A. At all times of the year.
only in a lesser amount in the winter
time.
@. Who would obtain the names for
you? A. It was suggested that -
(giving the name of one of his subor-
dinates) would go out and get them.
Lougheed, who frankly admits that
he began to take" in 1915, said that
he was at the Cromwell Avenue gar
age from it's opening. He said the
payroll padding was started right
away"
@. How much did you get each
week? A. All the way from 5000 to
$1,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

are unable to continue working and
must apply to the Hack Bureau for
new licenses. Most Of the men who
were deprived Of their credentials
made applications for a renewal Of
their licenses several months ago.
When the credentials were not
forthcoming on March 81 when
they expired, they continued to
work with their old Licenses.
1t is charged by many taxi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

drivers that the raids and the re-
fusal to renew the licenses is due
to the connection between the Hack
Bureau and the Yellow Taxi Co.
which is attempting to cut down
the number of drivers in the city.
Late yesterday afternoon and
evening the special police force con-
gregated at the West Shore Ferry
and examined all drivers that APP
peared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

But unlike the capitalist newspa-
pers, the ads of The DAILY WORK
Err have never been sufficient to pay
the publication expenses. The paper
has been compelled constantly to call
on its readers to make up the deficit.
The workers of this country can save
themselves thousands of dollars and
place The DAILY WORKER on a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
i 900 TAXI DRIVERS LOSE WORK CARDS
Police Attack Is Under Orders of YELLOW Taxi Combany

MORE than 1000 taxi drivers
were stripped of their badges,
cards and books in raids made yes
terday and Monday by a special
corps of police connected with the
office of Deputy Police Commits
sioner Nelson Ruttenberg in charge
of the Hack Bureau, it was learned
last night.
The drivers by the police action,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
ADVERTISING, CALL TO READERS

potential advertisers. Increased ad-
vertising is absolutely essential if The
DAILY WORKER is to grow and i'm
prove and lift great financial bur
den from the shoulders of the work
ers of this country.
Workers, here is an opportunity to
help your Daily that will cost you only
a two-cent stamp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

The readers of The DAILY WORK
Err are being called on to help in
crease the amount of advertising APP
pearing in the Daily. 1t is a we'll
known fact that every newspaper is
sold at a loss and depends on its adj
vertisements to make up this loss and
something more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
u. S. S. r. Delegates to
Talk in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, May S.--A mass
meeting to hear report of the Amer
lean Trade Union Delegation to the
Soviet Union will be held Thursday at
s p. m. at Grand Fraternity Hall.
1926 Arch St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

sound financial basis by starting a
vigorous campaign for ads.
In another part of this paper read
ers will find coupon headed pat
ronize Our Advertisers. We ask you
to do small thing; fill out the cou-
pom with your own name and address
and the address of the place where
you buy some article of apparel, fur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

nishings or any other neeessaries. Fill
out several of these coupons with the
names Of several business places that
you patronize.
These. business places are potential
advertisers, potential sources of rev.
enue for The DAILY WORKER. The
coupons viii enable the business Of
flee of the Daily to approach these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

WATCHES PLANES IN CHILE.
SANTIAGO, Chile, May 8.-Ernest
johnson, attaehe of the British Lega
ton in Argentina, has been sent her,
BY the British government to looi
after British air interests in Chile.
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ing away on Saturday, and there
would be nothing ahead of her
but Staley Drummond and mar.
riage for years and years on top
Of years.
They turned into the driveway,
and she left him, without word,
at the front steps, and went into
the house.
From the rear window of the
upstairs hall she watched him
put the car into the garage, come
out and sit down in the hammock
couch on the grass in the back
yard. He took out his little pipe
and filled it again. She watched
his fingers as they moved.
She loved his strong,
capable hands. with their blunt.
straight fingers. She loved the
way his shoulders curved under
his coat, an dthe way his head
was set on them. She knew that
she loved everything about him
as she never was going to love
anyone again. no matter how
long she lived.
She went into her own room.
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mo" said she and remained
standing, my business 10 OF no
Importance since Mr.. Marsh Is
gone"
She had suddenly the convic-
ton that this man with his large,
animated face and handsome eyes
had a clue to her purpose and
was working on 1t.
"As a fact" he went on. i've
reason to know that Mr.. Marsh
was interested in a girl named
Jerry 1t may be YOU,
I'm afraid not"
Miss King, i your mothers
name Marza?"
Like lightning utterly unex-
pected filling Jerry with
violent apprehension. What had
she precipitated? What would
Maria say to this reopening OF
the old buried romance?
Mr.. O'Connor had her card
with the home address-Hyde
street. In this he had all the
clue he would need to ferret
them out. If he wished, the
whole thing would soon be In his
hand. Marza's identity ana
the existence of Stephanie.
She cast a hasty glance to the
door. ...,.
Mr.. O'Connor interrupted with
an insistent: II haven't tne
slightest wish to pry into your
affairs. Miss King. Bu. you SSr
came here to consult Win MT
Marsh on a personal matter.
IF this business OF yours snoulu
chance to be what hope, you
will do me and my late partner
the. very greatest service Y you
will but answer q few questlons.
II am wrong In my nuncn we
one will be hurt.
Am I right in supposlng your
mothers name MARIA!
'sThat is her name.
The mans eyes kindled and
look of triumph passed over MS
face.
"Have you any brothers or a
sister,"
"Whv should I answer your
questions, Mr.. O'Connor. since
QOn'I KNOW WHSAC LhCS $1,000
I'm explain. There is a GER
tain legal and personal matter
that for fifteen years was the
dominant motive of my late part
ner's life. To settle this matter
became a religion with him. And
his most passionate grief that ne
was to die and leave it unflnish-
ed. On his death-bed he entrust-
ed the solution to me. We were
friends. I gave a sacred promise
that I would carry on for him:
IT an now preparing to fulfill
this trust. To do this it is neces-
sary to locate a certain party.
1T may be a mere coincidence,
Miss King, but it so chances that
am searching for q girl named
Jerry, and woman named
Maria as possible clues to the I'M
travelling of the mystery. I have
a description OF the girl-black
hair, blue eyes. I have a picture
and letters of the woman. Have
you any idea what l am talking
about?"
Her cheeks burned with excite
ment And she liked the high
rap.rap of her heart. Liked the
dramatic intensity OF O'Connor'
face
And she thought tluently: "He
can come Ap TO the City and z1ind
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signing as she went.
Carrie was cleaning 1t. A dust
pan lay in the middle Of the floor
and the contents of her dressing
table drawers were piled on the
bed. The drawers themselves,
had been washed and were stand
ing on the balcony outside the
front windows in the sun.
Carrie was leaning against the
dresser. holding something in her
hands, looking at it closely. Lily
saw that it was Pats Identified
ton card, with his picture upon it.
"You give that to me!' she
cried, and snatched it out OF the
maids hands.
CHAPTER XVI
Lily glared at Carrie. and Carrie
glared back at her. Then all at
once she shrugged her shoulders
and laughed.
mo wonder you want it. Miss
Lily" she said, looking at the
ragged, soiled card in Lily's
hands. your mother would be
proud and happy to find Pats
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to ask about you and your head
ache. Your headache
HUH"
Lily tried hard to keep her
temper. Mrs. Lexington had
taught her never to quarrel with
anyone who was working in the
house.
But anger flashed in her gray
eyes and her voice trembled with
fury when she answered the little
housemaid. Carrie she said,
you've worked in this family
too many years. think you'd be
happier II you went up to your
room and packed your trunk.
Wen send 1t to you tomorrow
or whenever you find 4 new place
to work"
Carrie tossed her head. I'm
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be finding a new place to work
when your mother asks me to
leave this house, and not before.
I'm not taking orders from you"
she snapped. "And I guess your
mother won't be letting me go
in a hurry, either. Not while
she's owing me six weeks salaryF
And with that she flounced out Of
the bedroom, leaving everything
in wild disorder behind her
dust pan in the middle of the
floor, the bed covered with the
contents of the dresser drawers.
the bottle of floor polish standing
in a corner beside the mop.
A minute later Lily heard her
talking cheerfully and loudly TO
Pat in the back yard.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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Pat smiled. what If she did?"
he asked. "She knows you and
/ took the car and the picnic
basket away. You can bet that
Carrie told her everything about
us that she could think OF
And, anyway. where's
your courage? An hour or two
ago you were ready to marry me
today and let the rest of the
world go by, Lily"
Lily climbed back into the
rear seat. Yes. and I'd do It
now. toow she declared firmly.
but I'm not going to be scolded
and questioned and lectured about
you around the house. Either /
marry you and get away or l
stay here and behave myself,
from now on
I'm leaving on Saturday, any,
way Pat said. $50 I won't be
helping you to misbehave every
much longer. TIM going to break
the glad news to your mother
this afternoon"
The skies darkened for Lily as
he spoke. He was go