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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
Texas Communists Fined for Distributing Anti mg Leaflets Among Worker
Lovestone Speaks at
Open Forum Sunday on
Results of Elections

Jay Lovestone, executive secretary
of the Workers (Communist) Party
of America, will speak at the first
Workers School open forum of the
present season in the Workers
School auditorium, 1928 Union So,
fifth floor, this Sunday evening at
8 o'clock. The subject of his lecture
will be "The Results of the Presi-
Dental Elections"
Beginning with this lecture the
Workers School will hold these open
forums every Sunday evening, as
has been its custom in the past. La
Dor writer's, editors and trade union
leaders will lecture on different sub
jects each week.
All workers of New York City are
urged to attend the lecture of Jay
Lovestone this Sunday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08

allow full powers to the Joint Board
till the union gets control of the in
dustry. Then, they reason, we will
announce a sudden reorganization of
the. union to the shop delegate sys-
tenn. The weakness of this plan, the
majority spokesman declared, is
that the transitory steps they pro-
pose for immediate action are, in
themselves, an important accelerat-
ing factor in getting control of the
industry and the shops therein.
After an interesting and thorough
discussion, the plan of the majority
was adopted.
Before Zimmerman made his re-
port on the dress industry, H. j..
Cohen, chairman of the council,
made an appeal for the Jewish Com
munist Daily Freiheit, which, he
said, was then in great danger be-
cause of being barred from the Can
adian mails and thus having sub
stantial portion of it's circulation
Topped off by the forces of the cap
italist government. The collection
appeal brought an enthusiastic re-
Spouse. Several hundred dollars
were collected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
CZECH PEASANTS
ORG MIXING To
FIGHT REACTION
Red Deputies Expose
Government Terror
wireless to the Daily Worker)

(WreteSs TO the Daily Worker)
PRAGUE, Nov. IA conference
of peasants va small holdings is
taking place at Levica. The agenda
is: The hard positionsof small peas
ants; unbearable taxation; general
reaction; and necessary self -defense.
The delegates have unanimously
resolved upon joint organized action
against reaction. A small peasants
united front district committee will
be formed and secretariat elected
Immediately.
The conference resolved to issue
two newspapers, one in Hungarian
and one in Slovak, called "The Slo-
yak Village"
The police authorities have sup
pressed Communist papers in Prague
and Bruenn, they contemplate pro-
hitting also four Communist papers
in Maehrisch and Ostrau.
In today's session in the house of
deputies, the Communist deputies
protested against the persecution of
the Communist movement and the
prohibition of papers. They de-
scribed the police terror against the
striking miners, and made stormy
demonstration in the parliamentary
hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
STRIKE IN z hat
SHOPS Still ON
Heads of Yellow Union
Dew at Scab Work

Tenaciously, the Millinery Hand
Workers Union Local 43 continues
to fight for the maintenance of
union conditions in their shops, de-
spite the attempts of the socialist
leaders of the international Cloth
Hat. Cap and Millinery Workers
Union to break down union condi-
tions in the shops in order to wreck
this militant organization. The two
strikes called when the employers
violated union rules are still in pro-
gress in spite of the open attempts
of the right wing to break them.
Protest Piece Work.
Ten days ago, when the owners
of the Garland Hat Co. wanted to
shift the shop to work on the slave
driving piece-work basis from the
union basis of week work. the Mil
liners Union called strike of the
workers. Local "a, the right wing
union, refused to call out its opera
tors. The employers, with plants
crippled. asked for a conference with
the Millinery union officers. Not
satisfied with sabotaging the strike
by not calling out its members, the
officials of Local "a called on the
boss and told him that if he settles
with the left wing Millinery Union a
strike of operators will be called.
CMferences were called off and the
Millinery Union is still conducting
) militant struggle there.
princess" Strike On.
n The strike at the Princess Hat
Co. now ten days old, is still going
on in full force. The firm precipi-
tated the strike when it discharged
three milliners and had refused to
reemploy them when ordered to do
so by the union.
Knowing that thev can always get
more than "moral" support from
the socialist officialdom of n e
parent body Of the Milliners' Union,
the employers here have not as yet
capitulated The union intends to
continue the strike here also until
the boss is forced to give employ
nent again to the three girl workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
POLICE ATTACK
metal. WORKERS
AT DUSSELDORF
Workers Hit Socialist
sDefeatist Policy
(Wireless to the Dailu Workerl

(Wireless to the Daily Worker
BERLIN, Nov. AT Dusseldorf
a great street demonstration Of the
locked out metal workers was held
today as protest against the yell
low socialist trade union leaders
strategy of retreat before the at
tack of the employers.
Enormous crowds Of workers sur
rounded the Town Hall, demanding
unemployment relief. The police
dispersed the workers brutally,
using their heavy clubs, but the
fighting spirit of the workers, far
from being broken, is rising.
There is growing indignation
against the sabotage of their de-
mands by the trade union bureau
Gratis. and $4,000 metal workers
have elected their own strike lead
crs in open defiance of the traitor
Gus officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
Working Women Will
Celebrate Their Fifth
Anniversary ON Sunday

The United Council of Working
Class Women will celebrate the
fifth anniversary of the formation
of the organization with a literary
and musical program at the Irving
Plaza Hall, Irving Pl., and 18th ST.,
this Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
A good program of entertainment
has been prepared by the United
Council of Working Glass Women
for this event. During the celebra-
ton, the accomplishments of the
organization during the past five
years will be presented.
All members of labor and frater-
nal organizations are urged to at
tend the affair.
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fusal of the city-owned Carnegie
Music Hall to permit Foster cleo
ton campaign meeting, explaining
Why the Mellon-controlled admins
tration did this, and urging all
workers to attend another Foster
meeting. Another article is headed,
Communists Support State Labor
Party Ticket" and begins:
"The 1914 and 1916 Westinghouse
strikes have taught us that some
thing more than union is neces-
sary to fight the company" 1t
takes up the use of the state militia
by the company, and the need for
d mass labor party to fight this
state strikebreaking. Exactly one
half of this small four-page bulletin
is taken up with election material,
and one the whole it is one of the
best examples of how a. Communist
shop paper can directly serve the
main campaigns of the Party
Most of the other papers, which
we cannot describe or analyze in
great detail for lack of space, are
similar. The "Crucible Worker" is
sued by the Communist nucleus in
the La Belle steel plant pittsburgh
district), devotes its entire first
page to an article on the elections,
headed Leader of Steel Strike
Presidential Candidate of the Work
ers Community Party" and has
other articles and announcements of
the campaign on the inside pages.
The main article is not as we'll tied
up with the interests of the work.
ers in that factory as in the case
of the Westinghouse Bulletin. 1t is
too general. But it stresses the
danger of war Nicaragua, U. S. S.
r., etc. and ties this up with an
appeal to the crucible workers to
vote Communist.
The American Bridge Worker"
also published in the Pittsburgh dis
trict, which devotes almost the en-
tire first two pages of a four-page
mimeographed paper to the cam
paign, connects it up we'll with the
local interests of the steel workers.
The "Tin Plate Worker" (same dis
trict), published in the McKeesport
Tin Plate Company plant, gives
nearly half of it's issue to the cleo
ton campaign. It's treatment is
based on the conditions in the mill,
and upon the danger of a world war.
Another Exposes Lewis.
The "Stanton's Miners Blast"
published in Wilkes-Barrre (Phila-
delphia district), gives the same
proportion of its space to the cam
paign. The chief article is entitled
"Whom Shall the Stanton Miners
Vote For?" and takes up the sup
port of the Lewis bureaucracy of
the two big capitalist parties and
the role of the great coal companies
in these parties. The Hudson
Worker" (Detroit) prints large
notice of the Communist campaign,
with photos of Foster and Gitlow,
at the top of its first page, and gives
the whole last page to special
Communist election appeal. This is
signed by the Detroit District Com
mittee of the Party and is good
statement, taking up conditions in
the auto industry, the betrayal Of
the labor misleaders, the three cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
CLOAK WORKERS
PLAN new union
Endorse Amalgamation
With F'urriers
Continued from proe Ore

Continued from Pine One
structure of the new union and the
role in the new organization which
the Council of Shop Chairmen and
Delegates is to play.
Plan Dress Strike.
Recounting the miserable condi-
tons under which the dressmakers
in the industry were compelled to
work, because fully 90 per cent of
the trade was totally unorganized
and that even of the remaining ten
per cent only a fraction were real
union shops, Charles S. Zimmerman,
a N. 0. C. leader, told of the plans
that were under way, which the
chairmen's council must carry into
effect, for an organization drive in
the dress industry, which will un-
doubtedly eliminate in dressmak-
ers' general strike in the spring of
next year.
Shop Delegate System.
In reporting for the National Or
ganization Committee on the organ
ization of the new union, Boracho-
vich declared that he speaks for a
majority of the N. O. c., and that
minority held differing opinions.
The whole committee unanimously
agreed, the reporter said, on the
fundamental principle of having the
new union organized on the shop
delegate system. The majority pro-
POSED that first steps toward the
transformation to the shop commit
fee system be begun Immediately,
To this end it proposed that the
Shop Chairmen's Council elect from
its ranks a representation to the
Joint Board, according to the num-
Der of workers they represent in
the. shops. Joint Board delegates
are elected from the local meetings
now. The underlying reasons for
this, Borachovich explained, is that
as the shop chairmen increase the
number of people they represent in
the shops their numbers on the
Joint Board also increase, thus shop
delegates, through their council, will
take over more and more of the
functions of the board.
When the industry's shops are
finally under complete control of
the union, the shop delegates coun-
ell executive committee will then re-
place completely the Joint Board.
The workers will then control the
union directly from the shops, which
will be the basic unit of the new
union instead of the craft local, as
at present. =
Minority Wrong"
Although complicated in appear
ance, Borachovich said, it is really
the most democratic and simple form
of organization. He then announced
the position of the minority of the
N. O. c., who, he said, wanted to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
IN OUR SHOP PAPERS

italist parties. the role Of The U. S.
government as the agent of the cap
italist class, the preparation of new
wars by American Imperialism and
summary of the Communist pro-
gram. It would probably be more
effective if it were signed by the
Communist nucleus rather than by
The District Committee.
At the Kenosha, Wis. Chicago
6istrict) bed factory of the Sim
mons Company, the Simmons
Worker" mas just been published
and one-half of this two-paged
mimeographed bulletin is given over
to an article on thee lections. The
Packing House Worker" is small,
printed bulletin, published by a
Communist nucleus in Kansas City
for the meat-packing plants OF that
city, Omaha and Chicago. The main
shortcoming of this issue is that al
though published in October it does
not deal with the election campaign
at all, aside from a little announce
ment of the Communist presidential
candidates In the New Haven Dis
trict there is the winchester
Worker" an eight-page mimeo-
graphed bulletin, very neatly gotten
up and with over half of it's space
devoted to the election campaign.
The bulk of the two pages edited by
the Y. w. L. workers in the factory
is devoted to the campaign.
The Eagle Pencil Worker" pub
lished in New York, gives an entire
page, plus parts of other pages, to
the campaign, basing its chief article
on the fact that the bosses prepared
police to keep the workers from
hearing Communist speakers at the
factory gates, whereas republicans
and democrats were allowed to
speak, distribute leaflets and so on.
A shortcoming in this paper is the
failure to even mention the S. p,
which is still factor in New York
City.
The Hattie Carnegie Worker"
published by the Communist millin-
cry shop nucleus in that factory, de-
votes it's chef election article to an
attack upon the S. P. 1t goes to the
other extreme from the Eagle Pen
Gil Worker" since it hardly even re-
fers to "liberal' AL Smith or "ef-
ficient" Hoover. OF course, these
are small papers, but the workers
issuing them must learn to touch
upon essentials, even in tho small
space allowed them. In this case,
since this is an election issue and
the paper has eight pages (twice
as much as the average shop paper
this shortcoming could have been
overcome. Partially compensating
for this, however, is an innovation
which should be greeted with cheers
it contains the first page of any
factory paper the Party has ever
issued in a foreign language. The
last page is written in Italian, and
the chief article is an election ap-
peal for the Workers Party. All
cur other papers, which are pub
lished in factories with fairly
large number of foreign workers,
should get busy and do likewise.
In summary, we can only hope
that all the major campaigns Of the
Party will be so clearly connected
up with and based uTtn the needs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
By A. G. RICHMAN

ENOUGH of the special election
Il campaign editions of our shop
bulletins have already been received
to make possible an estimate of
their activities in the campaign. Of
the Is bulletins received, four are
from the Pittsburgh district, three
from the New York district, two
each from Detroit and Kansas City,
and one each from four other dis
tricts. Most of these issues devote
a large portion of their space to the
campaign, setting forth what the
Workers (Communist) Party stands
for in the elections--its program,
it's activities, and how these effect
the workers in the factories.
The results of this Communist
election agitation in the factories
are incalculable, for we must re-
member that our factory papers
reach tens of thousands of workers,
most of whom are not yet reached
by our Party press, meetings or lit
erature. We thus reach a picked
group in large factory, usually in
basic industry, with message
that is intimately connected up with
their direct interests and problems.
Means of Contact.
The special function of the shop
paper is to make point of contact
on this basis and gradually to Gre
ate an interest on the part of these
workers for the wider political prob
lens Of the working class, which
the Daily Worker and other Party
papers can satisfy. BY using the
election campaign, in this instance,
as a point of departure for the dis
cussion of the problems of the work
ers in particular factory, the shop
paper is also a bridge to the Daily
Worker and the Party, and to the
wider and more general working
class questions treated by them.
Let us look at some Of these shop
papers and see just how they have
treated the Party's election cam
paign. The Westinghouse Work
ers Bulletin" published by the Com
munist nucleus in its great Pitts
burgh plant, is a good example of
how the election campaign is tied
up with the workers of the factory.
The chief article is entitled, Whom
Shall the Westinghouse Workers
Vote For?" and sets out to answer
the question which the opening sem
tence of the article asks: "Of what
special interest is this election cam
paign to the Westinghouse work
ers ?" 1t shows that w. L. Mellon,
brother Of the U. S. secretary Of the
treasury, is one of the directors of
the Westinghouse Company, whose
stock is controlled by this family.
This Mellon is also chairman of the
Pennsylvania republican machine,
and in charge of raising money for
the Hoover campaign in that state.
The article goes on to discuss the
slave-driving methods used in the
Mellon plants, and shows very well
the direct relation between exploita-
ton and naturalization and the po-
litical interests of big business.
Exposes POSSIBILITIES.
The same issue of this bulletin has
a large advertisement Of an election
meeting, Eith Scott Nearing Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
MOSCOW LABOR
CELEBRATES AS
100000 MARCH
,Lunacharsky Speaks at
Great Theatre
Continued from Page One


of new industrial, social and cul-
tural undertakings. In many great
industrial undertakings the celebra-
tons are given with the introduc-
ton of the seven-hour day.
(Wweless to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, Nov. 1.-THE eleventh
anniversary celebration of the birth
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
>publics was celebrated today in the
Great Theatre of Moscow, amid an
air of general rejoicing and enthu-
siasm seldom surpassed in any of
the celebrations that the Soviet
Union has ever held.
Thousands of workers, gathered at
the theatre for the occasion, heard
Lunatcharsky, Soviet Commissar of
Education, report on the progress
toward Socialism in the country, and
the accomplishments and tasks of
the cultural revolution.
Big Industrialization.
"a rapid industrialization, with
two billions of rubles invested in the
building up of industry in the Soviet
Union during the current year, Is
our achievement" said Lunacharsky.
"This places us second only to the
United States.
"This years, budget provides for
&c ,I,& l1sf
rubles. The Communist Party is
continuing in it's intense develop
ment of socialized industry, to be
run only for the workers and pea
SAINTS. 1t is also fighting the ku-
laks, and slowly but. surely sup
planting all vestiges of private CAPT
tai.
Wish Father to Thought.
"The imperialists and social demo-
Gratis of other countries are exag-
gerating the economic difficulties of
the Soviet Union. Well, the wish is
father to the thought"
Thunderous applause greeted Lun-
acharsky at the conclusion of his
speech.
Other speeches were made by
Bucharin and Rykof, who appealed
to the workers throughout the So
Wet Union for increased activity to-
ward cultural revolution, for sim
cere self-criticism in their every ac-
ton. and for the increased activity
of all workers in the task Of upbuild-
ing Socialism.
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and interests of the factory workers
as the election campaign has been.
With more experience, the handling
of this material will improve. With
the greater support of the bulletins
by the workers in the plant, larger
and better ones will be issued (of
the Is papers received all but four
are mimeographed and most of them
are small and appear monthly or BIZ
monthly. If the comrades working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
Loyal Union Milliner
Killed i'm Auto Crash

The membership of Local 43, Mil
finery Hand Workers Union, learned
with great sorrow yesterday that
Frieda Kamermacher, who worked
in the j. Anderson Hat Company at
65 West 39th St., and who was a
militant striker and loyal union
member, was killed in an automobile
accident Saturday while attempting
to board street car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08

in these factories talk to the work
ers about each article, get their re-
actions-if and why they like the
treatment or agree with the point
of view presented-and shape their
following issues accordingly, our
shop papers will soon mirror the
conditions ana needs Of the workers
in their respective factories so faith
fully that they will become their
voice and organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
NEW YORK BOSTON AIRwAY

A regular passenger airplane SER
vice between New York and Boston
will be established as soon as de-
livery can be secured on tri-motored
planes which will be used On the
route, the Colonial Always an
nounced yesterday Flying time be-
tween the cities is estimated at an
hour and forty-five minutes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
STRANDED CREW SAVED

GIBRALTAR, Nov. 7. W.D.-
Fifteen members of the crew of the
Greek Steamer Loannis, which was
stranded off the coast Of Tangier
in fierce gale, arrived here today
on steamer which rescued them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08
WOMEN AID DAILY"

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. T.
The Los Angeles branch of the
Lithuanian Women Workers Alli-
ance Of America has sent a check
for $31.76 to the Daily Worker. This
amount a5.s raised among the mem
hsrship.
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1925
(No candidate)
1928
sos

FUR PRESIDENT, Queens: GEO. PUWEHo
No candidate)
of in
letaran sections follows:
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We demand the abolition of the
right Of eviction by landlords against
wage earning tenants.
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How NeW York City Workers
Doubled Vote for Communists
Continued from Page One

Continued Page One
offices Those indicated
below the chief proletarian sections:
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The Workers (COmmunist) Party
fights for the enactment of the 40
hour, 5-day week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-08

The Workers (COmmunist) Party is
the party of the class struggle.
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of new industrial, social and cul-
tural undertakings. In many great
industrial undertakings the celehra-
tons are given with the introduc-
ton of the seven-hour day.
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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

FOR PRESIDENT, Queens: GEO. POWERS
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-08-27

creek and the unused ID. and II.
canal to be prepared to leave their
homes. should the lock between the
canal and the creek give way under
the increased pressure Of the water.
First Warning Given
The first warning dwellers in the
valley had of the cloudburst was
about two o'clock yesterday after
noon. when police at Ellenville re-
ceived a call for help from Eagle
Nest. some distance nearer the head
of the stream. They reported that
the flood appeared to travel in waves
sweeping everything in it's path.
The crests OF the mood was reach
ed at Ellenville about $50 o'clock
last night and the water began to
subside during the night. The flood
reached its peak. however. at Ros-
endale. gathering force from several
smaller streams flowing into Rond
out creek.
Barns and other outbuildings were
swept away. and livestock was car
ried along with the raging current.
AS the waters rose, many families
left their homes and fed to higher
ground, while the water ate away
the banks Of the creek for a dis
lance of fifty yards on each side.
Rain Falls In Torrents
Napanoch was engulfed shortly
after five p. m. The rain fell with
more than tropical intensity for