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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
FURRIERS OKAY
STRIKE PLANS
Big Rally Votes to Gird
for Fight

thousands of fur workers, assem-
hled in Cooper Union at a mass
meeting last night, demonstrated
that they were conscious of the fact
that The only way to regain their
union conditions is through the call
ing of a general strike in the fur
industry when the moment for such
a step is ripe.
The demonstration took the form
of prolonged cheering and applause
when their leader, Ben Gold, after
recounting the struggle of the last
two years declared that a general
strike is the only answer the work
ers must give to the newest attack
On the left wing union.
With Cooper Union Hall crowded
as it hasn't been crowded for a long
time, practically 5000 workers lis
tened to the speakers of their own
Joint Board and the union with
whom they are soon to amalgamate,
the cloak and dressmakers union.
Louis Hyman, chairman of the N.
0. c., was the spokesman for the
garment workers.
With biting sarcasm, Gold, in the
beginning of his speech used leaf
let of the right wing union which
demonstrates clearly what an instru-
ment of the employers it is. The
leaflet was issued on the occasion of
the announcement of the fur trim
ming bosses. Derisive laughter
from the assembled workers greeted
the reading of the sentence, cat last
we have one union!"
With idiotic hypocrisy, the scab
Joint Council charged in its leaflet
that the left wing Joint Board did
nothing to get union conditions for
the workers in the trimming bosses
shops. This, too, was read by Gold,
Hyman's speech was devoted to
telling the workers of the similarity
of the struggle the cloak and dress
makers were putting up against
their own bosses and betrayers and
urged the furriers to fight on, pre-
dieting that with an amalgamated
union the workers enemies will be
beaten.
Liebowitz, assistant manager of the
Joint Board, elaborated in his speech
en- facts to prove that the bosses
ranks were demoralized and sharply
divided, despite a seeming unity.
/ The meeting with unanimous
vote went OIL record to give the
Joint Board full power to mobilize
for a general strike when the time
is ripe. This decision was fully de-
tailed in resolution which was put
| to vote.
One of the most important
achievements of the meeting was the
decision to endorse the plan Of the
Joint Board to allow all furriers
who are not in good standing in dues
payments to become full-fledged
members with payment of five dol
lars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
KELLOGG DODCES
'DAILYS' QUIZ ON
CHACO OIL CRAB
NERVOUS Nellie" Uses
Conference to Open
Way for Oil Steal
Says ignorant of Oil"
Bolivian Minister May
Rejoin Conference
(Special to the Daily Workerl

Especial to the Daily WORKER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-In an
interview today with Harrison
George, correspondent for the Daily
Worker, Secretary of State Kellogg
made the astonishing statement
that he "never heard of oil in the
Gran Chaco country" over which
an actual state of war, altho un-
declared, now RACES between the re-
public of Paraguay and Wall
Streets oil and metal-mining do
main of Bolivia. Kellogg at the
same time stated also that he did
not know of American bankers con-
troll of the government Of Bolivia,
and that he "did not have time to
look it up"
Suspicious Ignorance.
Every act of Kellogg, as chair
man of the Pan American Confer
ence for Cancellation and Arbitra-
ton" now in session here, has been
to lay the basis for American in
tervention in case the present con-
flict in South America does not turn
to the advantage of American oil
companies, who hold their titles to
enormous petroleum deposits in the
Chaco district from the corrupt
government of Bolivia, and the Ana
conda Copper Mining Co., and Gug-
genheim interests who own the
metal mines of that country and
work them with practically slave
labor.
More than that, Kellogg and
Hughes, representatives of Amer
lean big business in the conference,
had a special subcommittee ap-
pointed to handl ethe whole question
Of the Boliyia-Paraguay war. and
this committee is made up Of repre-
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
new DAILY SONG
HIT SWEEPS CITY
Meet Me at the Ball"
Is Title

The latest song-hit seems to be
"Meet Me at the Daily Worker Frei-
heit Ball." In fact, it is said to be
all the rage now. Workers all over
New York City are singing it, in
New Jersey they are singing it, in
all sorts of out of the way places
"Meet Ne at the Daily Worker-F -Frei-
heit Ball" is on everyone's (that is,
every real proletarian's) lips.
But like all popular song-hits, it
looks as if this one is going to be
short-lived. In fact, "Meet Me at
the Daily Worker -Freiheit Ball. is
going to be sung only until Saturday
night (or Sunday morning?), reach
ing the height of it's popularity
where do you think? Why, at the big
Daily Worker-Freiheit Soviet Ball
in Madison Square Garden of course
The first Soviet ball of the two
fighting workingclass dailies is go
ing to be some ball! Costumes, cos
tunes galore. Dances of all kinds
tableaux showing the Soviet system
of government. And prizes for the
best and most original costumes. A
proletarian jury will pick the win
ners. The members of the jury are
William w. Weinstone, Robert
Minor, Meilich Epstein, M. j. Olgin
H. M. Wicks, Michael Gold, Fred
Ellis, William Gropper, Ben Gold,
Louis Hyman, Moishe Nadir and
David Bergelson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

of the capitalist system invents lies
for the purpose of creating racial
prejudices against Negro workers.
"The International Trade Union
Committee of Negro Workers of
the Red International of Labor
Unions protests against this vicious
capitalist method of vilification,
which is designed to create divisions
in the ranks of the workers. We
urge that the only means for COM
batting this vicious capitalist sys-
TEN is the organization of all-inclu-
sive seamen's unions, towards which
we will assist in every way possi-
BILE.
international Trade Union Com
mittee of Negro Workers of
the RILU."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
GREET PORTER
PRISONERS HERE
Glass War Fighters
Cry On With Battle

"When we left the Occoquan work
house, we were not docile as they
thought we would be, but instead
we were full of the spirit to fight,
to fight for the release of John
Porter, to fight for our class broth
ers in New Bedford, to fight Amer
ican Imperialism and militarism, to
fight side by side with our Latin
American working class brothers
against Wall Street." said Ben
Thomas, Philadelphia machinist,
who had just finished serving a
thirty day sentence together with
% other workers for carrying the
struggle against imperialism to the
Navy Building in Washington and
demanding the release of Porter.
He spoke at a reception to the
released class war prisoners giTen
by New York workers last night at
the Manhattan Lyceum, under the
auspices of the New York section of
the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League, the International Labor De-
fense, the National Textile Work.
ers' Union, the Young Workers
(Communist) League and the Work
ers (Communist) Party, all Of
which were represented at the dem
onstration in Washington at which
the workers were arrested.
Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor
Defender; Paul Crouch, national Sec
retary of the United States section
of the All-American Anti-Imperialist
League and Benjamin Gitlow, menu
ber of the Secretariat of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, all united
in pointing out that the capitalist
court at Washington had sentenced
the workers because they were mill
tant fighters in the class struggle
and that the only appropriate an
swer would be for the workers to
intensity the gtruggle for the releass
cf John Porter and fight side by
side with the workers and peasants
of all the Americas against the ag-
gression of United States imperial-
ism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
URGE SEAMEN'S UNIONS
Red MtI Scores Lies ON Vestyis Crew

Thru the Daily Worker the Inter
national Trade Union Committee of
Negro Workers of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions forwards
from Moscow strong protest
against the vilification of the Negro
members of the Vestris crew in the
bourgeois and reformist press, and
makes an urgent call for the organ
ization of all-inclusive seamen's
unions in which it promises to as
sist in every way.
The message follows:
"a part of the bourgeois and re-
formist press states that Negro
seamen Of the British steamship
Vestris, which sank in the Atlantic
Nov. 13, conducted themselves in
cowardly manner. This lying press
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
By HARVEY O'CONNOR
(Ru Eedernfod Preesl

New details concerning the causes
of the strike of 10000 fruit planta-
ton workers in Colombia, South
America, to reach New York indi-
cate that the United Fruit Com
pany's failure to carry out an agree
ment regarding labor conditions
made in 1924 is at the root of the
mass uprising. These reports, in
the form of a printed appeal to the
Soldiers of the Republic" accom-
panied by letters, have been made
public by the All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League.
The Magdalena Workers Union,
an industrial union comprising all
the organized workers of that prov
ince of Colombia, is sponsor of the
strike. Its appeal for a general
strike against the United Fruit Co.
enumerates a dozen violations of
the contract made between the huge
American fruit monopoly and the
Colombian government regarding
labor conditions it was to regard in
exploiting the banana lands.
Soldiers of Republic"
The plantation workers are urged
to regard themselves as the "sol-
diers of the republic" fighting for
their rights against the invasion of
Yankee imperialism. Thomas Brad
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
7 HOUR DAY IN U. S. S. R.
Workers ON NelU Schedule IN Oct. 1888

MOSCOW (By Mail).-The Coun-
Gil of Peoples Commissars has sub
mitted for the approval of the Gen.
tral Executive Committee of the u.
S. s. r. resolution which in ac-
cordance with the manifesto of the
tenth anniversary Of the October
Revolution provides regulations as
to how the seven-hour working day
ia to be introduced in the industry.
All enterprises of industry, trans
port, communication and communal
households belonging to the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
SHOW West Gets
POWER co. Cash
Secretary's Family Has
insult Stock

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Sen-
ators who are afraid that the record
Of Roy o. West, President Coolidge's
appointee for the post of Secretary
of the Interior, is just little too
rank and likely to do the social sys-
tenn they support more harm than
good, established case against him
today without word of new testi-
mony at the opening of the public
lands committee investigation into
his nomination.
They had read the record of
Vests 1926 appearance before the
primary investigating committee,
when West admitted he and his
family had a Substantial invest
ment" in the public utilities corpora
tions of Samuel insult since 1897.
Sam insult is the super-power king
of the Middle West. The Reed in
vestigation in 1927 showed him
buying up both republican and
democratic parties there.
Pass On Own Application.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon
tana, who started the inquiry, con-
tends Vests investments make him
ineligible for his office, which in
cludes Craftsmanship of the Federal
Water Power Commission. insult
now has a permit application for a
dam in Cumberland Falls in Ken
lucky pending before the water
power body.
The old testimony showed West
collected $4,000 for the Deneen
faction in the 1926 primary, of
which $4,000 came from Samuel In
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
ELECTIONS IN
J LEATHER union
Call on Membership to
Dust S. P. Fakers
(By q Worker Correspondent /,

(By q Worker Correspondent
Today begins the election for
new administration of the Pocket
book Workers Union, and will con-
tinue until Saturday, Dec. Is. The
candidates running on the ballot,
with the exception of few endorsed
by the Progressive Leather Goods
group, consist of the same old
clique with Shirlakoff at the head.
1t is known beforehand that this
election will bear the same charac-
ter as all the previous elections un-
der the Wolinsky and Shiplakoff
misleadership-its chief feature be-
6ng the Tanmany Hall method of
Aiidetracking members who are dam
&yerous to Shiplakoff's clique rule.
- The policy of suspension, taking
members off the ballot under one
rretext or another, terrorizing the
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

as well as municipal and private,
from October 1, 1888, must start to
work on the seven-hour day.
In all the new enterprises of
heavy industry and big enterprises
of light industry the seven-hour day
must be introduced from the day
they start to work.
In all other new enterprises the
seven-hour day is introduced on the
same basis as in the existing enter
prises, in accordance with the lists
approved by the special government
commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
VILE SPEED-UP AT
.INT'L TAILOR CO..
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
We workers Of the International
Tailoring Co. will soon be laid off
because we were speeded-up and
made too many garments. The firm
calls this lay-off our vacation"
Every year after Christmas we
workers of the International Tailor
ing Co. receive vacation" with
out pay. When our boss takes va
cation does he not get paid? Of
course he is paid whether he is
working or not. He takes a nice
long vacation with plenty of money
Continued on Page TiDo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
WeinstOne to Lecture
at the Workers Forum

William W. Weinstone, delegate
to the Sixth World Congress of the
Communist International, and men,
ber of its Program Commission,
will lecture on the Program of the
Communist International" this Sun
day, Dec. 18th, at the Workers
School Forum, 1928 Union Square,
9th floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
FORUM ON WAR

CLEVELAND FORUM ON WAR
CLEVELAND (By Mail.--A lee
ture on "The Coming War" was
given at the Cleveland Workers
Forum, 2046 E. Fourth st. The
speaker was Israel Amter, district
organizer of the Cleveland district
Of the Workers (Communist) Party.
On Sunday, Dec. 20, M. d. Collen
will speak at the same forum on
Taxation and Labor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

For WOrkerS-FarmerS Government
To Organize the Unorgamized
For tbe 40-Honr Week
For Labor Party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
MRS. KNAPP FACES
GRAND JURY PROBE
Ex.NeW York Census Official
Charged With Forgery
and Larceny.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY. N. Y, January ga
grand jury investigation involving Mrs,
Florence E. S. Knapp, dean of home
economics at Syracuse University and
formerly New York's secretary of State.
was regarded today as certain.
Recommendations that criminal pro-
ceedingS be instituted are contained IN
the report of Randall j. lie Boeuf. jr..
who. as special commissioner appointed
by Gov. Smith, investigated Mrs.
Knapp's administration Of the State
census In 1925. Mrs Knapp. Repuoll-
can. the only woman elected 10 State
executive office in New York. was then
secretary Of State.
Charges Forgery.
The report accuses her OF grand
larceny, forgery. false auditS and illegal
removal of State records. II says that
Of disbursements under her charge
totaling Sl.le9 902.S7. there was SIZE
7o7.76 in illegal disbursements and SIS..
l25 26 in waSteful ones. making totai
of Sl97.S33.o2 questioned.
Criminal action against four other
persons connected with the census also
is recommended by Mr.. lie Boeuf' Ihese
are Mark Stern OF ScnenectaoH. ueputy
secretary of State under Mrs. Knapp
and under her successor. Robert Moses:
Anna A Little of Albany. auditor in the
secretary of States Office: Julia M.
RYAN of Albany. chief clerk OF the State
civil service commission, and DR.. Walter
Isidlaw Of New York. head Of the Cities
Census Committee. Inc. and an empioye
Of the State census bureau.
DIR. Laidlaw Accused.
Dr.. Laidlaw is charged with violation
o. the legislative code by acting as
legislative agent without having regis
tered at the ONCE Of the secretary OF
State. as required by law. DR.. Laidlaw
preferred the charges against Mrs.
Knapp which resulted in the invesu-
CATION
stern, who was in charge Of the CEN
sus paw rolls. certified salary payments
to persons whom he knew rendered no
services. among them his own daughter.
the report says. Mr.. lie Boeuf also
found that the deputy secretary cashed
checks for Mrs. Knapp bearing the IN
dorsement OF payees when he knew 1t
was physically impossible for the payees
to have Endorsed the checks In person.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
WHEREABOUTS A MYSTERY.
Mrs. Knapp Disappears After Leaving
Syracuse.

NEW YORK. January % OT.-The
whereabouts of Mrs. Florence z. S.
Knapp, former secretary Of New York
State, who faces criminal prosecution on
charge OF administration Of the
State census. was q mystery today.
Mrs. Knapp left Syracuse Sunday
morning q few hours before the report
vas made public.
Upon arriving in Boston, she at first
denied her identity 10 reporters. Later,
after answering O few questions, she
boarded q New York-bound train. but
could not be located upon the arrival
Of the train In this city. Inquiry
among Mrs. Knapps relatives In New
England developed no information as to
her whereabouts.
She denied In Boston that she had
left Syracuse because of the report and
said she had gone TO Boston because OF
the serious illness of member Of her
family She said she would later return
% Syracuse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
Named Head of Idaho U.

MOSCOW. Idaho. January % Lp.-
Dr.. Frederick James Kelly. A. dean Of
administration at the University Of
Minnesota. Minneapolis. was elected
president of the University of Idaho
last night. succeeding DR.. A. H. Upham
He has accepted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

THE Little House of How"
our complete 8-room bungalow on
the 4th Floor. is an inviting place
to view the effect of new furni.
ture IN proper settine-rather
than "en masse" on the Aoor.
Here also. the service OF three
interior decorators IS offered. to
give you suggestions, or ESTE
mates. for all manner of home
treatments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

We are now in preparation for
the Half Yearly Furniture Sale.
As fast as the new furniture ar.
rives from Grand Rapids. Chicago
and other centers it is being
placed on the Fourth Floor. where
its inspection is invited.
Prices are always we'll within
reason and reach. even on the
rarest of imported pieces.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-24
MRS. CREACER

Continued from page one.)
retained n clear recollection Of the
liberator or Texas.
She was married at Huntsville IN
Frank A. ". Creager. a Confeder'
ate veteran. and from that place
went to Waco. where her only child,
RI. Y. Crearcr. was born. In 1854 the
family moved to Brownsville. ane
after the death Of her husband. Mrs.
Creager made her home with her son.
She became a member Of the
Church Of the Advent, Episcopal
shortly after moving TO this clty.
and has been Identified with that
congregation ever since. taking al
active interest IN church affairs up
20 the time Of her death. For many
wears She was prominent III social
and charity work and had an extern
sive Acquaintance throughout ne
city and the lower border country.
Mrs. Creagsr had one brother. v.
r.. Bentfrc Sri, who died nm Bow nt-
willie several years age. Relative -
the funeral included her son. n. y.
Creager, and family, Judge +. =
Rentfro and family, and DR.. j. j.
Rentfro and family.
r. II. Creager. who was in Dallas
At the time Of his mothers death AZ
GAS Tuesday morning. arrived in
Brownsville on the Wednesday mora
ing train.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-24
START FERRY
SERVICE MOVE
Would Establish Line
Across River Up
Military Road

"A move was launched Wednesday
70 interest small capital in the estab-
hshment of a ferry service across the
riser about six miles out from
Brownsville on the Military Road.
The idea for such a service was
conceived by A. Z. Munday, city man.
ager' and II. Sterling, city tax col
lcctor.
we want to talk the idea around
n %little,' Munday said, land see If we
can get somebody interested. A ferry
service up the river would prove
profitable 10 the operators and also
to Brownsville"
In discussing such a project. Mum
day and Sterling declared that there
were numerous settlements and i'm
mense plantations situated up the
river on the Mexican side, and un-
der present conditions those people
living up the river are forced 10 70
many miles out Of their way in order
to get to Matamoros or Brownsville
to do their buying. What roads there
are on the Mexican side are very
poor under best conditions and i'm
passable TO automobiles during the
rainy season. The meanderings Of
the river force traffic miles out of
q direct path.
eff ferry service was established,
say about six miles from Browns
vile where the Military Road comes
down the river" Munday said, "peo-
pie living in settlements and on
plantations on the Mexican side could
cross over and come into Brownsville
in buses over the Military Road
Nhir Is rnu heinz uayed. They
would probably do all their buying
in Brownsville instead OF crossing
over 10 Matsmoros and that would
mean more money 70 this city"
These men were of the opinion that
regular bus service would be estab-
lished between Santa Maria and
Brownsville as soon as this road Is
completed but If regular inter-city
bus service is not inaugurated, II
would pay for drivers Of Browns
willie buses to run an hour or two
hour service between this city and
the ferry, they thought.