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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Airship Gas Plant to
Work Day and Night to
Prepare for Next War

AMARILLO, Texas, Nov. lin
an effort to make its imperialistic
air forces more and more effective
the government helium plant, which
is expected to open here in January,
will run on twenty -four-hour,
seven-day-a-week basis. Helium, a
non-inflammable gas, very slightly
heavier than hydrogen, is used to
initiate airships of the type of the
much-advertised German Zeppelin
which recently flew here and back
over the Atlantic Ocean.
In order to transport this gas the
government is building a special
type of railroad tank-car more
costly than any now in use. The
plan is TO ship the gas, as fast as
it is distilled, to the army and navy
dirigible airports.
At the start the plant will pro-
duce between 100000 and 4,00O,-
600 cubic feet of the raw gas a day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
300 Express Workers
Attack Leaders for
Tactics of Stalling

Over three hundred express work
ers at membership meeting of local
2525 of the Brotherhood of Steam
ship and Railway Clerks at the
Grand Opera House, Eighth Avenue
and 23rd ST., yesterday afternoon
carried out a severe attack on their
officials for their failure to conduct
a fight against the American Ex-
press Company for their demands.
AS result of the pressure ex-
erted by the men, vote was pushed
through unanimously calling for q
strike should the company continue
its present practice of firing and
discriminating against. union men.
Union officials who have refused
to carry out the demands of the
workers and who betrayed the last
strike, reported that they are again
negotiating" with the company and
asked the workers to trust them to
"fix up everything o. K" Their re-
port that the company had offered
an increase of $1.68 per week was
rejected by the rank and file and
they were ordered to refuse such
concessions.
Increasing militancy is being dis
played among the express workers
who are becoming aroused at the
stalling tactics of their officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
CHILDREN AID
SILK STRIKERS
Fight for Demands Of
Parents

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. Ii
Strike children surprised their par
ents and older brothers and sisters
yesterday when they got together
at Turn Hall to organize for auxili-
ary activities in the strike.
First they raised their voices and
sent volume of song floating down
the stairs of the old hall that put
to shame anything that had been
heard ct the adult strikers mass
meetings. Solidarity Forever" the
international, the score of fresh
young voices sang together with a
determined ring.
Then they practiced the strikers
rebel yell: "1-2-3-4, 3-2-1-4; Who
For? What For? What Are We
Coin to Yell For: Union,
Union, UNION - UNION"
Again and again it rolled through
the hall and out into the stree: in
a way calculated to make any
grown-up striker blush.
Continue Activity.
When the shouting was over they
didn't go home Instead they sat
down, listened to a fraternal dele
gate from the youth section tell
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
More Lands to
Conquer, Wish
OF British Peer

LONDON, Nov. 11.-Viscount
Cecil, British representative in the
League Of Nations, is not at all
backward in his imperialist ideas. In
summing up the results of the man
date policy for ten years, he declared
recently as follows:
81 would really like to see the
mandate conception of trusteeship
applied to all the backward peoples
of the world" Undoubtedly Britain
would be willing to take up some
moresof the white mans burden" in
the opinion of Lord Cecil.
Lord Cecil spoke strongly for the
mandate systems "justice," and
cited how the Samoan natives re-
volt last year against New Zealand
mandate administrators was found
to be due to "agitators. He did not
mention that the administration had
violated the laws of Samoa by i'm
posing an administration upon
Samoans not chosen by them and
deported native chiefs who protested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
COOLIDGE CALLS
FOR BIGGER NAVY
Admits Weakness of
peace" Pact

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-Speak-
ing before the American Legion
here tonight, President Coolidge OBJ
served Armistice Day by making a
plea for more cruisers and a
stronger navy.
"It is obvious" he said, that,
eliminating all competition, world
standards of defense require us to
have more cruisers"
Attacks Imperiaiist Rivals.
Throughout his speech the White
House spokesman of American i'm
rerialism made polite but pointed
attacks on England and France, Civ
ing as justification for the demand
for an increased navy the even
greater war preparations being
made by those two countries.
After describing the Kellogg
peace" pact as the most complete
and effective instrument for peace
yet devised, the president admitted
that there is nothing but the prom
ises of the imperialist nations to
safeguard this so-called peace.
$50 long as promises can be
broken and treaties can be violated" /"
he said, 1--WE can have no positive
assurances, yet everyone knows they
are additional safeguards. We can
only say that this is the best that
mortal man can do"
We are against aggression and
imperialism" declared the chief SER
want of the government that has
invaded Nicaragua, oppressed Haiti
and is threatening every Latin
American country that refuses to al
low itself to be fleeced by American
capital, mot only because we believe
in local self-government, but be-
cause we do not want more terri
tory inhabited by foreign people.
Our outlying possessions, with the
exception of the Panama Canal
Zone, are not a help to US, but a
hindrance. We hold them, not as
profit, but as duty"
The leading jingoes of the Amer
lean Legion were among the audi
ence which heard the presidents s
Armistice Day address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12

IS ana OIHeF loiCeS HoW hiONAh6 ANA :"
2new world war.
Dispatches from France indicate
that the celebration" was "a bit
subdued under the growing realiza-
tion of the masses what the war
launched by the imperialist powers
1 in 1914 has meant to the working
class.
Toll of Imperialist War.
The war brought in its wake a
number of devastating diseases
which the war veterans weakened
physically through four years of
trench life, MANNED, crippled, and
gassed, have been the least able to
withstand. Over half a million
victims of tuberculosis alone have
been piled up in France while the
capitalist government admittedly
has taken no effective steps to fight
he plague.
In England the anniversary which
first was celebrated as a great
triumph" was yesterday commem-
Grated as a mark of respect" to
the fallen victims. The war mongers
in order to maintain the spirit Of
1914 which they will soon again seek
to revive, have BEEN forced to adopt
methods of camouflage and conceal
ment They have by no means given
up their aims and preparations.
In Germany no active celebration
of the day took place since the
imperialist clique looks back at No
vember IL, 1918, as merely the end
of their particular schemes. I'm
derneath the surface there is going
on the same old scheming and in
trigue for an opportunity to launch
forth on another drive for world
empire with it's threat to world
peace.
War Mongers' Hopes.
The nationalist, reactionary
'Preussische Kreutz-Zeitung" de-
clares brazenly that the German ma
tion must learn from events and
icdWd lto pOWSlo Win Vic llIll
intention to regain the liberty lost
in November 1913"
The German working class will
have something to say on it's own
account if and when such new
war is launched.
The working class of the world,
in fact, has learned an indelible les
son from the last war. 1t is in
creasingly beginning to understand
its role in the next imperialist
slaughter which, begun by the i'm
perialist war mongers either against
one another or against the Soviet
Union, will be ended by the working
class with the very arms furnished
it, against the world exploiters and
oppressors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
FURRIERS AGREE
ON MERCER WITH
CLOAK WORKERS
Answer Invitation to
Am al G a m a tie By
Their Acceptance
To Hold Joint Farley
To Effect Big Move At
Dec. Conventions

Officially replying to the letter of
invitation they received from the
left wing cloak and dressmakers
union, the subcommittee of the
Provisional National Executive Com
mittee for a furriers' union at its
meeting Saturday in the Joint Board
headquarters, % East 22nd ST., de-
cided to send a communication ac-
cepting the invitation to confer
ence of the two unions for amalga-
nation at the conventions of both
organizations. The conventions are
to be held at the end of next month.
At the recent meeting Of the
cloak and dressmakers national or
ganization committee, letter was
drawn up and sent to the N. E. c.
of the new national furriers union,
carrying the proposal for amalga-
nation of both organizations at
their respective conventions.
The letter of acceptance, which
was sent yesterday, declares that
the fur workers realize the vital
economic necessity for the workers
in the cloak, dress and fur manu-
featuring industries to amalgamate
their organizations for the good OF
the werkers in those industries.
The letter announces that ANAL
gamation should long ago have been
affected among the workers in all
the needle trades unions. They
pointed out that the rank and file
of all workers in this huge indus
try have many times registered their
desire for the consummation OF such
plan, and that the fur workers, IN
particular, have, in the overwhelm-
ing majority, declared themselves
for amalgamation. The 1925 con-
vention of the furriers union, held
in Boston, was pointed to as proof
BY the letter Of the National Elk.
ecutive Committee. At that conven-
ton a unanimous vote of the dele
Continued on Page Tro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
BRAND ATTEMPT
TO BETRAY STRIKE
Rap ALL. Organizer
at Michelin

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MILLTOWN, N. j., Nov. IL
Samuel Brody, labor organizer, to-
day branded as false, reports which
appeared in the New Brunswick pa
pers stating that a settlement had
been reached between the 1900
strikers here and the Michelin Co.
"a sell-out agreement has been
reached between Harry Hilfers and
the Michelin bosses is what they
mean," Brody stated, and his state
ment was absolutely backed up by
the strikers. Harry Hilfers is the
American Federation of Labor or
ganizer in the state of New Jersey
where he is carrying out his usual
service to the bosses by posing as a
friend of the workers and selling
out and smashing spontaneous
strikes.
Scores of strikers this afternoon
are indignantly demanding what
right Harry Hilfers has to reach an
agreement with the bosses after the
strikers themselves have unanimous
ly turned down Michelin's insolent
offer to retract half his wage cuts
Defiantly repudiating Hilfer's eff
forts to sell out their strike hun
dreds of men and women strikers
were still enthusiastically picketing
the Michelin Tire Company's fac
tory here.
The determination of the strikers
kand tkGr. keenness in understanding
Continued on Page Fivs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Film Explosion Kills
20 In U.S.S.R., Report

BERLIN, Nov. lit is reported
from Moscow that at Voronezh, in
the southern part of the Soviet
Union, at special entertainment
arranged for children in a building
obtained for the occasion, a film
explosion set fire to the building
and in the fire and panic which en-
sued twenty children met death.
The entertainment was furnished
free by the state to the children and
accompanying mothers. The ma
chine operator is also believed to
have been burned to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
h m y worker MONT
s
Aynuistice Day..
Thomas Weebs
For S. Baldwin

MoNTCLAIR, N. J,1NWith a few
words lovingly chosen, in which he
expressed sympathy for the point of
view of the British Liberal Party
and called poor Stanley Baldwin"
Sincere" Norman Thomas, recent
socialist candidate for president of
the United States, added his con-
tribution to the general flood of
capitalist misrepresentation and
lies on the occasion of the Armistice
which halted the late imperialist
war when the brigand powers were
at last gasp. Thomas spoke al
Unity Church Forum.
Using the anniversary which is
inextricably connected with the
slaughter of millions of workers Of
all nationalities, as pretext, the
leading socialist ghoul lamentec
that the bungling of Chamberlir
and Cushenden "nullify poor Stan
ley Baldwin's sincere but vague pro-
testations of love of peace and al
legiance to the Kellogg treaty.
Thomas principal objections were
levelled not against the secret
Anglo-French naval pact, but
against the failure of its trainers tC
put across their game.
The socialist closed with expires
sions of affection for the British
liberals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Hunt for a Statue
of Peace: Find Only
Statues of Victory

PARIS, Nov. lit was ap-
preaching Armistice Day, and the
organizers of the mutilated war
veterans association wanted to stage
procession in the Place de la Con-
corde around state of Peace to be
placed there. The sailed out to OBJ
tain a statue of Peace, blessed
Peace, of which they had heard so
much from Poincare and Albert
Thomas, the socialist who represents
France on the League of Nations.
But vain was the search. Not in
one public square, nor in the many
museums, nor in the Ministry Of
Fine Arts famed throughout the
world, nor in any art store, ancient
or modern, neither large nor small,
in neither bronze, stone or marble,
could statue of Peace be found.
But they found many and many
statues Of Victory, brandishing a
sword.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Cop Put Under $1,000
Bail; ExtortiOn Charge

Charged with extortion, Patrol
man Francis X. Blatzheimer was ar
raigned in Mirrisania Court yester-
day and held in $1,000 bail.
A clothing salesman testified that
Blatzheimer approached his car and
after ordering him to drive to the
Kingsbridge Station agreed to let
him go for So.
Blatzheimer is suspected of being
the policeman who has been trying
to ~shake-down" automobile drivers
in Van Cortland Park. He was
wearing the badge which another
policeman lost last August. q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
SILK STRIKERS
PUSH PLANS FOR
8-HR. .DAYPARADE
w. |. R. Head Promises
Relief; Speaks at
Meet Today
Call Left Wing Rally
Militants Fight Glass
Collaboration
(WWeless to the Dailu Workerl

Wireless to the Daily Worker)
PATERSON, N. j., Nov. IL
Plans for the huge "8-hour Dav
Parade" which is being ORGANIZED
hv the Associated Silk Workers
Union as demonstration of
strength and solidarity hv Paterson
labor for the silk workors' strike.
are fast maturing. The demonstra-
ton date is Saturday afternoon,
Nov. II.
The Associated has already dis
patched a letter to the Paterson
Central Labor Union of the A. F. of
L. to it's affiliated bodies and to all
fraternel labor organizations, ask
ing them to participate in making
this "a monster parade to advocate
the 8-hour day."
Conference Thursday.
The letter announces a special
conference of all representatives
from all participating organizations
to be held Thursday evening at
o'clock. This conference will work
out all the final details of the
parade.
At the strikers mass meeting
Monday morning, Fred Biedenkapp
head of the Workers international
Relief, the organization which has
provided strike relief to nearly every
recent great labor struggle, is sched-
uled to speak. 1t was learned that
Biedenkapp has definitely complied
with the request of the Associated
Silk Workers Union that his organi-
zation step in to lend assistance tc
the Paterson strikers.
w. |. r. Will Help.
At the mass meeting Biedenkapr
will tell the workers what the Work
ers' International Relief intends tc
do in order to organize a nation
wide relief campaign for the silk
strikers here. Always the victims OF
terrific exploitation, the Paterson
strikers, have long since gone thru
their meagre savings. borrowed all
they could and are now sorely in
need of this ally of all strikers-the
Workers International Relief.
Because Rebecca Salzberg, a silk
strike picket, lodged a complaint
against Joseph Hurst, scab, that
he had assaulted her while she was
picketing, Recorder Johnson, magis-
trate, was compelled to dismiss the
charge of disorderly conduct against
Fred Koodary, active striker, who
had come to the girl strikers de-
fense by beating off the scab. In
order to squash the action against
the scab, which the judge did at the
same time, he had to forego punish
ing Koodary.
In line with the policy of the left
wing in the Associated-that of in
tensifying the struggle against the
BOSSES for the final victory of the
strike-the militant workers there
began a fight against the class col
Continued Pn5e TWo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
MussOlini Bans Movie
Called Street Angel

ROME, Nov. 1.-THE movie,
"Street Angel" which was shown
in America for long time in many
places, has been prohibited further
showing in Italy by direct orders of
Mussolini, acting as minister of the
interior, and the whole commission
which authorized it to be shown has
been fired.
The film tells of life in the slums
Of Naples.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
ELECTION FIGHT
LEAVES LESSON
Need Additional Aid
Immediately

One of the lessons of the election
campaign is that workers who wish
to support Communist candidates
must be ready to aid more than
with their votes. The terror exer-
cised aaginst the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, the expensive fights to
overcome the reactionary capitalist
state officials who tried and in two
cases succeeded in keeping the
Workers Party off the ballot, has
left many debts which must be dis
charged.
While the fight is over so far as
the election is concerned, these debts
must be met by those workers who
understand the necessity of q con-
tinued fight on capitalism on all
fronts, a fight which cannot be car
ried on if debts are burdening the
Party. Of the $4,000 asked, only
$1,000 has been received.
Upon a careful estimate of what
would be needed, $4,000 was bor-
rowed. This must now be repaid and
contribution during the next few
days must meet this need.
Dig down and help! The Commu-
mist Party is not simply an election
party. Communist work goes on,
with the election campaign simply a
period of intensified work. Fill out
the blank printed elsewhere in this
issue, and collect from all your
friends and sympathizers who were
with the Workers Party during the
campaign.
WORKERS COMMUNIST PARTY
Election Drive Anti-Terror
Emergency Fund
CONTRIBUTION BLANK
Comrades,
Enclosed herewith please find. :.
dollars as my contribution to settle
the debts of the election campaign.
Fraternally yours,
Name .................
Address ............. .............
Communist work must go on!
Money is needed at once! Contribute
your parting election blow at tri-
umphant reaction! Wind up splen-
did campaign by winding up our
election debts!
Send your contribution direct to
National Election Campaign Com
mittee, Workers (CommunisD Party,
Az East 125th St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12

at flrSt estimated.
Partial returns from Cali
fornia indicate that the Work
ers Party may secure 10000 or
more votes in this state, not
withstanding the fact that voters
were forced to write in the name
of the Red candidate when the Par
ty was prevented from being put
officially on the ballot.
1000 Red Votes.
In the doth state Assembly Dis
trict, California, the Communist
Party was the only opposition to
the republican party, the democratic
and the socialist parties not being
in the race. The Communist candi-
dates received over 1000 votes in
this district as against 10000 for
the republicans.
In the 36th Assembly District,
Jesse Reed, Red candidate, mustered
1900 votes in a three .cornered fight
In which $4,000 votes were cast in
all.
In Alameda County with the
ftabulation three-fourths complete,
Norman Thomas has secured 870
votes while the Communist vote is
about five times this number in two
districts alone.
Incomplete reports from the state
of Oregon indicate that so far 1875
votes have been recorded for Fos-
ter and Gitlow, with the prospects
that 1000 votes will be secured in
the state.
No reports for the state of Wash
ington are yet available.
How Red Vote Steals Were Made.
TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 1.-THE
extent of the steal of Communist
votes in this city have become evi-
dent from the numerous accounts
which are coming in to local Com
munist headquarters. The vote re-
ported for Foster and Gitlew for
the whole city was 20, whereas four
years ago the Communist vote was
rs here leaving out of account the
: steal that was put over four years
ago. The admitted aim of the boss
election officials this year was to
'show that the Party lost ground in
the city.
What the votes cast actually were
may Ne judged frop one city dis
trict, the 11th ward This is a ward
sparcely populated on the outskirts
of the city. The Workers Party did
not consider that it had any influ-
ence there at all. The ward is
largely Polish and many of its
workers are non-voters. But here
for some unexpected reason the
Continued ON Page Fave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
White Southern Boss
Forces Negro Worker
To Drown Himself

SEARCY, Ark, (By MaiD.-R. H.
Austin, white levee contractor is be-
ing held in jail here without bail, Oh
a murder charge which developed
frcm the charge that he forced Lige
Sholder, a Negro worker on the
leeves, to drown himself.
It is alleged that the gang fore
man became angry with Sholder
when he (Sholder) refused to obey
orders and then forced him into the
river at the point Of gun. Sholder
was drowned after he had swan a
short distance. It is said that Aus
tin fired one shot at him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Nearing to Speak on
Soviet Union Tonight

Scott Nearing, Communist speaker
and lecturer, who recently spent
several months in the Soviet Union,
will address an audience at the Hun
garian Workers Home, $50 E. S1st
st., at $50 o'clock tonight.
The subject of the lecture will be
Soviet Russia: Eleven Years Old"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Believes Sex Can Be
Controlled in Humans

The hope--or threat-that control
of sex in human beings will soon be
possible is held out by DR.. Oscar
Riddle, A. B., Phi. D., in the De-
cember issue of Science and lnven-
ton" DR.. Riddle is Of the research
staff Of the Carnegie Institution
Station for Experimental Evolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
Z ReactiOnary Spies
Arrested in u. S. S. r.

LENINGRAD, Russia, Nov. IL
(UP).-Seycn persons have been
arrested and held for trial on
charges Of military and naval
espionage in behalf Of Latvia, il
- announced today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
JAIL 29 IN ARMISTICE
DAY MARCH IN CAPITOL
Demonstration for Release of John Porter and
Against Militarism Attacked
Crouch, Reeve Jones, Out on Bail to Bring
Porter Issue Before Working Class

WASHINGTON D. c., Nov. 11.-To bring the campaign
for the release of John Porter former soldier and New Bedford
textile strike leader prominently before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
PRISON GUARD KILLED.

BOSTON, Nov. II lUP).-One
prison guard was killed and Sec
ond guard wounded in Charlest own
State Prison today, when Charles
Trippi, p, serving an 18-year term
for robbery while armed, made a
desperate but futile attempt to es-
cape.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
DIpHTHERIA ON OCEAN LINER

PLYMOUTH, Eng, Nov. II (UP)
The officials of the Cunard liner
Albania reported tonight that when
the vessel requested diphtheria anti
toxin in mid-Atlant:c, the White
Star liner Alberto retraced her
course 200 miles to comply with the
request.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
ARMISTICE DAY FINDS
WAR MONGERS ACTIVE

day. mperast holiday yesterday COM
and other forces moving tor