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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
SEA LIFE IS A Dogs LIFE; SHIP AND SHORE!
SLAVES of Work. Suffer and Die for Owners Waoving in Wealth

like "reds" here. The other day an
able seaman showed me a cut lip
and a limp. He was kicked down.
stairs and slugged in this Christian
layout for distributing handbills of
the Marine Workers Progressive
League about the Vestris sinking.
Remember Who Gave You This!
Upstairs everything hunky -dory.
Tine big reading room. All the an
cient and modern capitalist maya
zines. No Daily Worker. Spies
everywhere. Government men look
ing for dope traders, booze traders
mot in the ring). Dicks looking
for rouge's gallery mugs. Stool
pigeons of the common or garden
variety looking for anything. spe-
cially "reds." Over the door of this
and every other room a nice bronze
plate, telling the slaves that by the
kindness" of donation from this
on that capitalist parasite they "en-
-" the comforts - this room.
lsza..,&ssssessSs s&sssssesSs CT r. @,.-.a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
CLARITY MERCER
AT FURRIER meet
Observation-Disclosures
at Union Rally

After continuing in session al
most five hours, in a highly inter-
esting discussion of the problems
they are facing, over a thousand
fur workers crowded Manhattan
Lyceum, sc East 4th St., at a mem
bership meeting of their union, and
came to an almost unanimous con-
clusion to endorse the convention
decisions of the Joint Board, the
most important of which was the
proposed amalgamation with the
left wing Cloak and Dressmakers'
Union.
That the discussion was free was
evidenced by the fact that a number
of unionists expressed disagreement
with the plan to amalgamate so
quickly, proposing to wait, but when
one after another of the rank and
file and of the union leaders rose
and explained why it is an absolute
necessity to amalgamate as soon as
possible, many of the dissenters
frankly admitted their error, and
at the vote only a small handful reg
istered themselves against immedi-
ate amalgamation.
To the workers opposing immedi-
ate amalgamation, worker after
worker pointed out that the union.
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

As you approach this "prosti-
tute,' you are confronted by police
en- all sides, with regular station
tuilt into the street corner. Cops
to the right, left, aft and forward.
Cops at the door, in the hall, on the
stairs, everywhere. Feels like po-
lice station!
Great institution. Big, fifteen
storeys high, firepoof, marble, steel,
bronze, great lounge and mess hall,
but you eat at the counter standing
up. Workers sit down too much.
Hundreds of seamen about. Very
few chairs. Keep moving. Cops.
Nice Place--But Finky.
Over in the corner an employment
office. Very fancy, cute little
model of ship over it, but it don't
seem to be erupting with activity.
Near it you can get a bed for 35
cents a night and room by your
self for go cents. You can also get
your dunnace ~c-" "'~ongh b.
CbrieI'. - .;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
6 MONTHS GIVEN
MILL. STRIKER

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov. %.
brushing aside the evidence of 10
defense witnesses, a jury whose
majority composition is 10 business
men, today sentenced Joseph Cabral,
picket leader arrested early in the
textile strike, to six months in
prison. He was charged with at
tacking man.
Ten witnesses testified that Ca
bral was not at the scene of the al
legged beating, but the jury ignored
this testimony in its decision.
Even Cabral's alleged victim was
unable to identify Cabral.
The testimony by which the court
justified its decision was principally
evidence given by prizefighter.
Fifteen of the former strikers ar.
raigned before Judge Williams on
charges of conspiracy were released
today on bail fixed at $500 each
The bail was arranged for in New
Bedford by Robert zelms, secretary
e tho New England section of the
p ~ D~fanse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

things work out with the LaEollette
Seamen's Law, which Andy Furu-
seth hailed as the emancipation
act. Hoakum, pure and undefiled.
Quail and Parkhurst, Unlimited.
Quail wasn't in, so we went on
up to his partner, Mr.. Parkhurst,
and the further up we went the
more rickety and vile. A small
room, low ceiling, sheltered 20 or so
men from the sharp chill winds.
But what a shelter! All talking
jobs.
But there "hain't no jobs" we
were informed by seaman who
appeared to have degenerated into
a runner" for the joint. He eyed
my companions overcoat, however,
and said that he would swap the
next job that rolled in for the coat.
Then he went to look over the
PROSTITUTE" which. l hasten to add,
is what the seamen call the very
respectable "Seamen's Church In
stitute," half block away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
AGAIN DODCINC
vESTRIS GUILT
Lamport-Holt Officers
Renew Lie on Crew

The studied attempt of the Lam
port-Holt Lines officers surviving
from the Vestris sinking, to turn the
blame from the company and them
selves to the Negro firemen, con-
tinued yesterday with the resump-
tion of the hearing before the U. S.
Attorney Tuttle.
The Sixth Engineer, Reginald NJ.
Dickson, repeated, parrot-like, his
testimony of the day before, to the
effect that Captain Carey had gone
to the firemen on deck and "asked"
them to go below and "lend hand"
They went below, Dickson said, but
came up at once by another route.
1t has previous. b. On e-tablishe i,
however, that when ordered below
some of the firemc1 : re counter
ordered by other officers to 60 to
other duties, as it was useless to
throw coal into a firebox full of
water. The officers testifying yes
terday apparently desired the fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
TERROR AGAINST
PARADE VICTIMS
Many Sick But All Are
Determined

Terrorism surrounding the %
workers arrested in Washington on
Armistice Day after demonstrating
for the release of John Porter, mill
tant New Bedford strike leader, were
made public last night by Alfred
Wagenknecht, executive secretary of
the international Labor Defense,
'Wagenknecht's statement is in the
form of a letter to John S. Horn
back, demanding that he Immediately
protest the maltreatment of the pris-
oners to the government. The work
ers are jailed in the Occaquon, Va,
workhouse.
Weakened By Jail.
Weakened by their harsh treat
ment in the prison and the hunger
strike, which they were forced to
call Immediately after their jailing
in protest against mistreatment at
the hands of their jailers in Wash
ington, many of these class war
prisoners have become i'll.
In spite of the terror practised
against them by their jailers all of
the prisoners are unanimous in their
determination to fight on for the
liberation of their fellow prisoner,
john Porter.
The international Labor Defense
is issuing it's demand that the gov.
ernment stop the brutal treatment
meted out to the prisoners who have
been slammed into the Occaquor
wcrkhouse on the charge of violating
parade ordinance ordinarily en-
failing a five dollar fine.
Disclosure of the treatment of thu
prisoners at Occaquon follows on tn,
heels of similar stories of savage
beatings given John Porter, the vic
tim of boss and lingo hatred in tn,
New Bedford strike, who is nov
Continued m Page Tt0o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
BROAD SILK Dept
MEETS SATURDAY
Striker Collapses of
Hunger in Street
Especial 70 the Daily HnkerJ

Especial 20 the Daily WrkerJ
PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 28.-
Announcement of the date and place
of the membership meeting called
for the striking broad silk workers
by the Strike Committee was made
Yesterday by that body in state s
nent made public late last night.
The meeting will be- held Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock in Carpenters
Hall, Sc Van Houten st.
Workers in the broad silk indus
try who are members of the Asso-
ciated Silk Workers Union will
gather at this meeting in order to
hold forbidden" discussion on the
condition of their strike, on the mis-
cradle working standards in the So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
Ne W TREASURER
OF A. F. |. WAS
1918 WAR M0NCER
Green, Bureaucracy
Reelected; Meet
Drags to End
No Organization Plan
R "a ctio naries Fight
About BrookWood

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2S.--The
American Federation of Labor con-
yention came to a close today. after
a session more than usually un-
interesting. In former conventions,
there has usually been at least pre-.
tense at the formulation of organ
izing campaigns, even though the
campaigns have of late years in
variably turned out to be more
camouflage for inactivity, giving
few of the upper bureaucracy OF the
A. F. of L. unions a chance to sit on
imposingly named committees and
spend tens or hundreds of thousands
Of dollars in expenses and salaries.
But not at the 1928 convention.
The only reference to the need of
the American workers for organiza-
tion was in president Green's pre-
liminary statement, and Green did
not lift his voice to advocate any
definite plan for accomplishing
what he then stated the major task
of the A. F. of L. movement to be.
namely, to double the membership
of its unions next year.
Re-elect Pie Gard Artists.
The convention came 10 an end
this afternoon soon after reelectine
Green and his whole bureaucI acy
The single new name on the list is
that of Martin F. Ryan of Kansas
City, elected treasurer to supersede
Dan Tobin. resigned. Ryan is presi-
dent of the Railway Carmen Of
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
MEXICAN COMMUNIST
DEPUTY URGES FIGHT
ON j. 5. IMPERIALISM
La Dor Representative
Denounces Hoover
Tour
Waves Captured Flag
Call Sandino Defender
of All Latin America

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28.-
Herman Laborde, Communist
member in the Mexican Cham
Der of Deputies today issued a
ringing call for solidarity of all
Latin-Americans with Sandino
In his fight against American
Imperialism. Amidst wild dis
order, in which many cheered,
but in which conservative
deputies tried to stop him,
Laborde waved before the
chamber U. S. flag captured by
the Nicaraguan army of indepen-
dence led by General Augusta San
dino, and declared that union with
Sandino in his fight represented
the possibility of united struggle
against common enemy"
Laborde declared Hoover's jour-
nev was a move by the U. S. in the
conflict between British and Amer
lean imperialism, and means that
American imperialism is making a
stronger attempt to subjugate Latin
America.
The chamber of deputies was in
turmoil during the Communists
speech. Attempts by reactionaries
to silence him failed, and Laborde
attacked the cowardice and reaction
ary character of these deputies. He
declared that the Mexican work
ers suspect Hoover's purposes.
Deputy Santos, the government
spokesman, spoke against Laborde,
called him "unpatriotic" and told
him not to seek international COM
plications.
Marie Gomez, closely affiliated
with Portes Gil, the new president,
declared that Sandino's struggle is
lesson to all the world, and caused
American Imperialism to hesitate
over making an attack on Mexico
but it was necessary to disturb
good relations with the United
States" He went on to praise U.
S. Ambassador Morrow and said
that although Mexico must support
Nicaraguan independence, it was
unable to "quixotically oppose over
whelming strength" and that he
welcomed Hoover's visi ito Mexico.
All of these hypocritical remarks
We're answered by the Communist
deputy, who pointed out the danger
in which not only Mexico, but all
Latin America lay from imperialist
aggression.
Laborde is a member of the Cen
trail Executive Committee of the
Mexican Communist Party, is a
railroad worker and was one of the
leaders in the last big railroad
strike. He joined the Communist
Party in 1925 and has been very ac-
tive. In the last elections he was
sent to the chamber of deputies
His speech is one of a series the
Mexican Communist Party is plan.
ming in connection with Hoover's
trip to Latin America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
WORKERS PARTY
PLEDGES AID TO
LATIN AMERICA
Hail Communist
Demonstration

The following cable was yester-
day sent by the Central Committee
of the Workers (Communist) Party
of America to the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party of
Mexico:
To Central Committee, Communist
Party of Mexico:
In the name of the class con-
scious and militant workers, work.
ing farmers and the oppressed
Negro masses in the United States
that follow the leadership of our
Party in the struggle against
United States imperialism, we
congratulate you on the splendid
demonstration of COmrade Her.
man Laborde, membe rof the Cen
trail Committee of your Party, in
the Mexican Chamber of Deputies
against the sharpening offensive
of United States imperialism upon
the peoples of Latin America sig
nalized by HoOver's present trip.
The Mexican petty bourgeoisie
and the labor reactionaries of the
GROIN have abandoned the fight
against United States Imperialism
and are compromising with Wall
Street at the expense of the work
ers and peasants of Mexico. While
the wokresr and peasants of Mica
ragua are still putting up'a brave
resistance against the complete
crushing of Nicaraguan national
independence by United States i'm
perialism, Nicaraguan liberals and
conservatives alike are selling
Nicaragua to Wall Street.
The infamous convention of the
American Federation of Labor now
in session in New Orleans urging
a big navy, demanding the exclu-
sion from the United States of
Latin American workers and peas
ants and the renegade socialist
party which advocates the Kellogg
Peace Pact and the League of Ma
tiOns, are not the true spOkesmen
of the working class of the United
States. The Workers (COmmunisD
Party of America is the only truly
revolutionary party of the Amer
lean proletariat.
1t is clear that the only force
capable of waging revolutionary
struggle against United States i'm
perialism in Latin America and
for the complete liberation of the
masses from the oppression of
the native and foreign bourgeoisie
are the workers and peasants
under the leadership of the Com
munist Parties of Latin America,
jointly with the prOletarian revOlu-
tiOnary movement in the United
States and all over the world and
in alliance with the anti-imperial-
list struggles of the colonial peo-
Piles.
The Workers (Communist)
Party of America pledges itself
in case of invasion and imperial
list war against the Latin Amer
lean workers and peasants, to
fight on the side of the Latin
American people, against United
States imperialism, to bring about
a defeat of the United States gov
ernment, to help lead to victory
the undying solidarity of all OPP
pressed and exploited on the Amer
lean continent.
We pledge our full support to
the struggles of the Latin Amer
ican peoples against United States
imperialism and to intensity our
fight for the overthrow of Wall
Streets rule in the United States
and for the establishment of
workers and farmers government.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
WORKERS (COMMUNIST)
PARTY OF AMERICA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
STRIKE COMMITTEE ASSOCI-
ATED SILK WORKERS.

called settled shops and on their at
titude toward the assistance offered
them by the National Textile Work.
crs Union in winning their strike.
Night Workers to Attend.
The time for this meeting was
set for Saturday afternoon, the
Strike Committee spokesman said,
in order to enable the weavers and
other craftsmen working nights to
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
MEMBERSHIP MEETING

A membership meeting of the
Broad Silk Department to discuss
the strike situation and conditions
in settled shops will be held at
Carpenters Hall, Sc Van Houten
ST., Saturday, December l, at 2
p. m.
The meeting is called to enable
all members of the Broad Silk De-
partment to free and complete
discussion of the situation.
Order of Business: Strike situ-
aticn, condition in settled shops;
attitude of the Textile Workers
Union.
Attendance by membership book
only.
STRIKE COMMITTEE ASSOCI-
ATED SILK WORKERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
By HARRISON GEORGE


"Want a shot of booze? Or do
you want to be shanghaied in a per
fectly legal way, or just plain
shanghaied?" said sailor to me
in the international Seamen's Club,
% South St., down on the New
York waterfront. "Come with mel"
Down on the street, few doors
north, we climbed narrow and rick
ETY. stairs at sign called "Quail's
Shipping Agency" On the second
floor left there is bootleg liquor for
the sailor to tuy, and, when he
spends his wad, Mr.. QuaiPs employ
ment office on the floor above will
take him before the U. S. Shipping
Commissioner on any boat handy
and the sailor will wake up and
find that he has "signed on" So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
3 KILLED IN CRASH.

PEORIA, III, Nov. % W.H.-
Three women were killed near here
today when Santa Fe train struck
their automobile at a grade cross
ing. The dead: Mrs. l.. M. johnson,
Mrs. George Elliott and Miss
Blanche Smith, all of Knoxville, Ill.
Savage Beating,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
FIRE KILLS 4 WORKERS

CANTON (By MaiD.-Fire in
Tai SEE Pc, Saukwan. took the lives
of four workers and injured more.
The fire started in bamboo fac
tory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

The ruling class of the United States launching fresh
offensive against the peoples of Latin America particularly
against the countries in South America, and against the
toling masses of the United States.
This new offensive is signalzed by Hoovers trip to
South America He there to prepare for new er1ast
nroads into those United States mperiasn After him
States to subdue the OF the South
American their national independence Hoover
trip to the extension of the present United
States regime Nicaragua the other Latin American
count
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

(This is the last of series of ar
ticles on the Vestris and the life and
toll of marine workers.--Editor'
Note.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
TRY TO FRAME UP MINERICH ON TWO "B0MB" CHARGES
FICHTHOOVER TOUR
Resist War Plans of U. S. Imperialism

Protest against mperaist mission to South Amer
ica Protest the preparations of American imperialism
Fight against the effects of capitalist naturalization and
for real relief for the unemployed
TO THE WORKERS. EXPLOITED FARMERS, NEGROES
AND ALL THOSE OPPRESSED BY AMERICAN
CAPITALISM!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

In offensive against Latin America United States I'M
pesm preparing by force of not only the resistance
countries but also the rivalry of other mperia
powers England France, Germany, etc.
Through the speech by Coolidge American i'm
notice those mperal that intends
the world domination of the American ruling
class New mpeast preparations for warhs
meaning Hoove South America and Coodge speech
Day. And order to back Hoover mpeaist mission
Coodge speech of preparations the Navy Department
with of increased naval construction to make
the United navy "second none"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
men stay below decks and to go
{ with the ship.
Officers Attack Negro Worker

Dickson's fellow officers followed
him with similar stories, apparently
" .l-schoolc1 by Il c.. .,pany l.w-
yers. One of them, Ernest Smith,
refrigerator engineer, tried to deny
that Lionel Licorish, Negro firemen
who saved 20 lives after leaping for
Continued on Page Fius
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29
NEW IMpERIALIsT WORLD WAR.

American Imperialism starting of naval compe
British Imperialism leading inevitably to new world i'm
perialst
Hand shapened of United States imperial
the drive of the Amer
living of the tong
Both designed endo strengthen
the mps and to increase the profits of the American ruling
class
"RATIoNALIzATIoN"-AT WORKERS EXPENSE.
Hoover the capitalist president the United States, stands
only mpast expansion and but also for intensive
decentralization OLA capitalist economy
higher technical developments industry at the
of the workers. for intensive speedup wage cuts open sp
for the workers unemployment outright starvation
premature physical exhaustion drive to keep the workers
helpless in the face of organized capital
ssOOoOOOOOO PLAN-AGAINsT WORKERS.
Hoover so-caed employment nothing
this time in order to pacy the
the millions of unemployed and partially employed
made at this time order to fool and msad the
Hoovs mpeast trip South America and to
preparations of the United States government
fooled again by Hoover and the American
Federation OF Labor reaconales VINO are using
their bankruptcy and to continue their betrayal OF the work
ing class
If the capitalist government build billion
dollar will be
further reduction of and fresh attacks
upon would be primarily the
organization the millions of workers in the basic in
dusres.
CAPITALISM CANNOT CURE UNEMPLOYMENT.
There unemployment under capitalism Whatever
possible under capitalism be secured by the
only by persistent militant organized struggle against
capitalism through the through independent working
class political action
The Workers (Communst) Party fighting
following demands relief the suffering of the unemployed
PARTIAL DEMANDS FOR UNEMPLOYED.
Unemployment insurance federal system unemployment
should be established federal law be enacted
meday providing for unemployment insurance for all
without exceptions dsqucatons The
compensation should be full for the entire period OF
$50 An unemployment insurance fund should
be created fifty cent be contributed by the EMPLOYERS and fifty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-29

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For WOrkerS-FarmerS Government
To Organise the Umorgamized
For the 4O-Honr Week
For Labor Party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-28
Building, However, Stays
Active, With Many
Contracts.
BIZ United Press

DU GHitcU fTCSS
WASHINGTON, July %. = The
Federal reserve board reported to.
day that business, in general
slowed up in June to a degree
greater than the usual summer
decline.
Industrial production and distri-
button of commodities in June were
in smaller volume than in May and
the general level of wholesale prices
also declined" the board announced
1t pointed out that there was a
6 per cent decrease in mineral pro-
duction in June; manufacture Of
iron and steel decreased; produc-
ton of flour, cotton and wooden
mills decreased and automobile pro-
duction was considerably less than
the usual seasonal decline"
Manufacture of agriculture i'm
plements and machine tools; pro-
duction of lumber, copper and shoes
and the activity of silk mills in
creased during the month, however
New building contracts continued
large, with an increase in contracts
for residential, industrial, public
and educational buildings, making
the total awards for the first halt
Of 1928 larger than for any previous
corresponding period, the board said
without, however, citing recent sta
tiStiCS.