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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11
PARTY PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION SECTION

mains largely a skeleton organiza-
ton in most localities and indus
tries. No efforts were made by the
Gee to follow up the recent ma
tional conference of the TUEL by
an active campaign to establish To-
cal groups. The return of the
Profintern and trade union delega-
tons have not been utilized to build
a TUEL.
The TUEL nationally and its re-
spective National Industrial Com
mittees must be brought more
prominently to the front in a lead
ing role in industrial struggles.
There is strong tendency to push
them aside and liquidate them by
conducting all industrial activities
directly through Party fractions.
The official organ of the TUEL,
Labor Unity" now neglected by
the Party, must be strengthened
and developed into a weekly mass
organ.
XI. Pacifist and Petty Bourgeois
Liberal Tendencies in the Anti-War
and Anti-Imperialist Work.
The Party manifested many paci-
fist and liberal deviations in it's
anti-war and anti-imperialist work.
The following illustrates this point:
1. Calling upon the workers to
protest against the death of Amer
lean marines in Nicaragua, and
treating the death of these marines
as OF greater consequence to the
American workers than the murder
of hundreds of Nicaraguan rebels
by American marines. Central
Committee Nicaraguan Manifesto.
July, 1920 never repudiated by the
Gee nor repudiated by the Love-
stone group.
2. Tendency to obscure the indie
pendent and aggressive role of
American Imperialism Uovestone
group theory of American imperial
ism being the "catspaw" of British
imperialism, and it's newest theory
Of American imperialism support
ing Japan in China.")
8. Failure of the Polcom to pre-
vent the issuance and stop imme-
diately the use of pacifist slogans
in the Nicaragua campaign, Enlist
with Sandino-Stop the Flow of
Nicaraguan Blood"-a mistake cor
rected lately by the Polcom.
4. Pacifist and liberal appeals to
the marines (leaflets in California.
Boston and elsewhere, corrected by
the Polcom).
5. The tendency to build the
united front in the All-America
Anti-Imperialist work, chiefly upon
petty-bourgeois liberal elements and
failure to draw labor elements into
this movement (also corrected by
the Polcom in formal decision).
6. By failure to carry on active
anti-militarist work among the
American forces in Nicaragua and
China.
7, Pacifist theology in work
among women. "We cannot even
stop that terrible scourge of hu-
manity-war" first issue New
York Working Woman).
The above deviations flow from
the general right wing orientation
and main line of the, Lovestone
group.
XII. Underestimation and False
Conception of Work Among Negro
Masses.
The problem of Communist work
among the 100000 Negroes in the
United States, the overwhelming
majority of whom are workers and
working farmers and their families,
must be approached from the Len
mist viewpoint that this most ex-
plotted and oppressed section of the
population forms an immense re-
serve for the proletarian revolution.
The main tasks are:
The development Of a revolution
airy Negro race movement led by
the Negro proletariat.
Systematic work among the Ne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11

The Daily Worker will be five
years old on January 5. Workers
from all parts of the country are
sending in greetings. Have you
sent in yOursf IL not, send IL I'm
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11
HOOVER TRIES
TO BUY Chile
Completes With British
Imperialism

Continued from Page One
to express to your excellency my
good wishes for the success of the
administration over which your ex-
ce-c.-g Will preside: ar it is the
unanimous desire of the Bolivian
people that the powerful nation of
the n will continue to he the
promoter of progress and regulator
of justice in the destinies of the
world.
"HERNANDO SHES"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11

! the Party of an unhealthy character
The upper stratum of the Lovestone
group leadership is composed main
ly of a special type of intellectuals
developed by New York City College
and graduating from it or similar
institutions into leadership of our
Party, without appreciate experience
in the class struggle. The connec-
tions of the Lovestone group with
dilettante elements, and their allow
ing these elements special privileges
creates feeling of resentment in
the ranks of the proletarian men,
bers.
The decisive elements of the Love-
stone leadership is composed of COM
rades who were students, teachers,
artists, philanthropic society and
commercial investigators, Insurance
agents, etc. before their rise to
leadership of our Party.
XVII. Summary and Proposals.
The Party has extended it's influ-
ence among the workers during the
past year, but has not taken advan-
tage of the opportunities offered by
the favorable objective situation. 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
COMPOSER WILL APPEAR WITH
BEETHOVEN ORCHESTRA

What is regarded as the season
most important musical event, is
the visit to American, of the nrted
Russian composer Alexander Crotch
aninoff. For years, Gretchaninoff
has resisted the urgent invitations
Of American musicians and orches-
tras. 20 come ever as quest IN
ductor end pianist. Final cable re-
go RI .tions have been closed ane
Gretchaninoff will make his Amer
lean debut with the Beethoven SYM
phony Orchestra.
Georges Zaslawsky invited his
countryman to take over the baton,
conducting some of the Gretchanin-
off music which has made the COM
poser certain of Immortality in his
own day. Yesterday, Zaslawsky was
unable to ssy which compositions
Gretchaninoff would conduct with
the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra
at his American debut. The Russian
composer also plans to give num-
Der Of recitals here with Nina
KoshetZ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
might HOSTESS THRILLS
Philip Dunnings Play at the Martin Beck
Throws More Light on the Great White Way

herself and cannot see the Interior
motive behind Mr.. Miller's interest
in her welfare.
After the necessary number of
mistakes the play ends happily for
everybody concerned except Chris
Miller who fell down an elevator
shaft and presumably broke his neck,
the lucky gambler who was done to
death in a chop suey joint and the
whisky-bottle-bl blonde, and a hostess.
who was suffocated to death by
Miller because she "knew too much"
1t must be understood that Mr..
Miller took the leap into eternity
after the latter two victims of Mr..
Cummings art, passed out. Retribu-
ton, by heck.
The audience takes the loss in
human life quite good-naturedly and
when the dead arose in response to
curtain call they were greeted as
cordially as key of beer at a dry
picnic.
Norman Foster as Rags Conway.
performed his duty with neatness
and dispatch, Gail de Hart, as the
detectives wife, permitted herself
be smothered peacefully, Averell
Harris as Chris Miller was noble
villair and the good-hearted gam
bling king was so generous to the
grating limbs of the law that one
was frequently tempted to hit him
up for a loan,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
ESPERANTO HAS
RAPID GROWTH
u. S. S, R. Workers in
Lead
(By a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
Sat is an organization composed
of Communists, socialists, anarchists
etc., tendencies that claim as
their purpose the emancipation Of
the worlds proletariat from CAPT
talist oppression and the establish
ment of a cooperative common
wealth. 1t is not political party.
However, since it recognizes the
class struggle, its cultural mission,
according to Marx must be of a
political nature.
Its congress lasted from Aug. ID
to 10. 500 delegates represented the
Worker Esperantists of % countries.
The Soviet Union contributed at
least one-fourth of that number I'M
der the leadership of Comrade
Drezen from Moscow, an important
official of the Communist Party
there.
The session was opened, with sing
ing of the International, under pro-
lection of the Metal Workers Union
of Goteborg and the All-Swedish
Seamens' and Railroad Workers
Unions. Comrade Nathans of the
International Transport Workers
Union greeted the assembly in the
name of so locals from 80 countries
and emphasized the feasibility of
Esperanto as a means of universal
understanding for the workers to en-
able them more efficiently to combat
capitalism. Comrade Drezen re-
ported that official recognition of
Esperanto, as a universal language,
by the Soviet authorities is not far
distant, as semi-official recognition
is already fact Postal and Tele-
graph Opt. etc..
Communist youth in the U. S. S.
R. is eager and anxious to communi-
cate with Communist youth in other
lands" said Comrade Drezen.
Admirable were the tactics of the
Communist delegates. Altho in
majority, they have proven ex-
tremely tactful in not openly show
ing, and throwing in the faces of
the social-democrats and anarchists
their dominance. Thereby the Off
cial leadership of Sat not only re.
NAMED in Communist hands, but il
was even strengthened.
A letter from Marcel Cachin was
read in which he urged the Commu.
mist Youth not to remain dumb, but
take up the study of Esperanto anc
begin to speak directly to one an.
other, not depending any more or
faulty translations of the speeches
of their leaders.
A vote of commentator had beer
given to Comrade Paul Crouch o.
the U. S. A. who SO ably had full
filled the pioneering aims of Sat
while in the U. S. S. R. he virtually
had forgotten his native languag,
and had spoken to workers anC
soldiers, before large and small
meetings, in the Internationa
language.
GEORGE SAVILLE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

liquidation of the strike upon con-
ditions unfavorable to the strikers.
The Workers (Communist) Party
of America does not need to defend
itself against the SANDER that it is
attacking the strikers. Our Party,
which stood Loyalty by the miners
in their struggles, by the clothing
workers and which is Loyalty sup
porting the struggles of the textile
strikers, has given sufficient proof
of its loyalty to those who fight
against capitalist exploitation. The
Workers Party in Milwaukee is
Loyalty supporting the struggle of
the Adler Strikers and is doing its
duty in exposing the reactionary Of
ficialdom and it's failure to conduct
this strike militantly. We stand for
mass picketing and are opposed to
policy of individual terror and sab
otage as ineffective in the struggle
for the winning of the strike.
Only by modifying all the strikers
for mass picketing to break the
court injunction and to prevent the
scabs from entering the shops will
the struggle be won. This mobiliza-
ton cannot be effected by the reac-
tionary leadership of the Amalga-
mated, but only under the left wing
militant leadership. The Adler
strikers will learn the truth of the
position of our Party through their
own experiences with their reaction
airy leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

THEY are still rafting the skele-
tons along Broadway. Philip
Dunning in his play might Host
ess" has contributed to the rapidly
accommodating store of knowledge in
the process of collection by those
who are interested in learning what
takes place in thespian dressing
rooms and in the mysterious hang
outs of gamblers and wealthy roy
sterers behind the barred doors of
Broadway's night life.
Ben Fischer, an honest night club
impressario was driven into the
gambling business by the exactions
of prohibition agents who would not
stay paid. They wanted more and
more. His ambition to run a
straight gambling joint was frus-
trated by crooked employees who be-
came corrupted in the process of
Fleeing the suckers. Chris Miller,
his chief of staff, with the aid of
bartender and others of unques-
tionable integrity made business
brisk for Ben but when he tried tc
balance his books, the poor fellow
almost keeled over.
This is condition that no self
respecting sportsman will stand for
so Ben sent for Rags Conway, who
used to play the piano for him in
the Half Moon," to get the goods
on his own crooks. 1t happens that
Rags is in love with Buddy Miles
a hostess at the Little Casino"
where the action of the play takes
place. This is just about what Rags
would like to find in his sock on
Christmas morning.
Rags soon realizes that he is in
for man-sized job but he buckles
to it. He foils the attempt of the
villianous Miller to inveigle Buddy
to Chicago. Buddy by the way likes
Rags but she wants to improve"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
JAIL FOR CRIME
OF BEING J0BLESS
Aiding Coal Miners Is
Another Crime
by Worker Correspondent

10y a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Calf. (By Mail)
Guilty" said the jury.
Sixty days." said the judge. And
the city of Los Angeles was saved
again.
A young, pale, hungry-looking,
unemployed worker was brought
into court, picked up by our savers
of liberty. He was found asleep in
one of the employment offices. He
was charged before the jury with a
furious crime, "vagrancy," while
Mr.. Julian Peet and Teapot Dome
gentlemen are back at their good
work, robbing people of their saw
ings through oil schemes. Men are
picked up for a crime consisting of
being out of work"
And at the top of his vol-e> che
prosecuting attorney shouted, as
though to overcome his conscience.
calling his victim "a menace to So
ciety," "a dangerous character" for
going around without work. when
there is plenty of work to be gotten.
Yes. Mr.. Prosecutor, plenty of
work in Los Angelesl Only 100000
people without work here, and about
100000 throughout the country.
Guilty" said the jury; "sixty
days" said the Judge.
Next" said the court.
Three sympathetic, plainly-dressed
working women prisonersl Caught
in the act! Two big detectives saw
them with their own eyes! Solicit
ing help for striking miners!
A new atmosphere surrounds the
courtroom; these were not ordinary
prisoners. You could see that in
their clear, steady eyes. No fright
or pleading there! They seem to
know what to expect in this court
room. They were to follow their
comrades, already convicted of the
same crime. But prosecution worked
overtime when it seemed as though
the defendants would he let free
for lack of evidence. The country
had to be saved, so Justice Sheldon
suggested to the prosecutor that
some amendment could be founc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

which would put the charge on legal
grounds, thus enabling them to con-
Wet the prisoners.
Our women comrades were not
surprised when the jury found them
guilty, and the Judge gave them the
extreme sentence for so small a
crime, "ten days" or $50.
The judge praised the jury, COM
menting on the good service rem
dered to the community; the good
Christian ladies and gentlemen
thanked the judge for the wonder
full time this afternoon, your honor.
And so, another page is written
in history, the page of Los Angeles
class justice! A. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
os Police Terrorism Fails Break Solidarity Steel Strikers Canton Ohio
Cooperative Workers
Donate Part Wages to
Red Election Campaign

The workers of the United Work
ars' Cooperative Association recently
decided to donate five per cent of
their weekly wages to the election
campaign being waged in New
York City by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
At meeting of the cooperative
workers held recently at 2700 Bronx
Park East, one of the workers, a
member of the Workers (Commu-
1ist) Party, proposed that all mem
oers of the party present voluntarily
saX themselves with five per cent
# their weekly wages for the Red
election fund. The rest of the mem
Hers agreed unanimously. Follow
,ng this, worker who is not Party
member took the floor, and point
ing out that all progressive workers
who are engaged in struggles
against exploitation and reactionary
nisleadership appeal for aid to the
Workers (Communist) Party, stated
t as the duty of all progressive
workers to help the Communist cam
paign fund.
This was taken up by other nom
Party workers present. Many of
them took the floor and seconded
the proposal of the original speaker,
with the result that all workers
present. those of whom are members
of the Communist Party and those
who are not, will donate per cent
Of their weekly wages to the Work
ers (Communist) Party for the re-
mainder of the campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
FORCE WORKERS
TO BUY CLOTHES
FROM THE BOSS
Men Cheated; Must
Pay for Raffles
(By q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
Here is a neat little scheme prac-
ticed against the workers in the
Heidelberg and Wolf Shop of mems
clothing at 65 Blocker St. Since
1922, when the Amalgamated knife
and blackjack picket committees
lost the strike, the shop has been
unorganized, and Mr.. Hilman has
never made an attempt to reorganize
the shop.
The shop is on piece-work basis,
of course, and as soon as the work
ers speed up sufficiently to make
more than $25, the rate is reduced,
and so it goes in this witches cal
dron.
But here is the funny scheme
which my father who works in the
shop told me. The workers are
forced to buy suits and overcoats
from the shop whether they need
them or not, and in this way the
shop gets back one fourth of the
wages it pays them. 1t might not
be so bad if the suits were sold at
shop prices, for after all, workers
must dress, but the same suits can
be bought much cheaper in the stores
than the prices the workers are
forced to pay in the shop, and the
suits are usually damaged goods
which cannot be sold otherwise. l
know workers who have to buy these
suits in the shop and then sell them
for half price outside to get back a
few dollars which they need to pay
rent or buy bread for their families.
And here is another little scheme,
refinement in graft and efficiency.
When all the workers in the shop
have been stocked up with suits
which they do not need, the suits
which are left over are ratified off
to the same workers again. Workers
are forced to pay dollar a week
for raffles, and those who refuse
are fired Immediately. Suits which
have a value of SIS are in this way
ratified off for $50.
do not know whether this little
graft goes into the Golfers of the
Heidelberg and Wolfe Co., one of
the biggest in the trade, or if it is
divided between the foremen and
management for pin money for their
wives and sweethearts. Anyway,
this little scheme robs many workers
of their lunches and other neces-
sites.
I M. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

You're IN the f4gsss rhen you
write for The DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
browns IN WATER PAIL.

HERSHEY, Pa, Sept. 27 W.D.-
Playing on the floor near a bucket
Of dish water, Mary Romano Hen
ry, nine months old, fell in and
drowned while her mother was
working in the yard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
SEEK MISSING STUDENT.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Sept.
27 U.H.-Authorities are investigat-
ing the strange disappearance Of
Robert j. Waterfield, 9, of Irving
ton, N. Y, who left Rutgers Uni
versity here shortly after he had
registered for his junior year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
BANK LOANS INCREASE.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 81 W.D.-
Loans on stocks and bonds to brok-
ers and dealers by reporting fed
eral reserve member banks in New
York City on September 26 in
creased $54,232,000 over the pre-
vious weeks total Of s4,470,4 900
to 4,524,70S,0 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

LEBANON, Pa, Sept. 81 UH.-
Melancholy because of schoolmates'
taunts about recent minor opera
ton, Richard Willett, Ia, hanged
himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
SOCIALISTS LICK
JUDGES BOOTS IN
WISCONSIN COURT
Misleaders, Injunction
Judge Join Hands
(By Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. ~
Yesterdays session of Judge Gus
tax Gehrz's Court was the scene of
bitter attack against the Commu-
rists in which the Adler Co., repre-
sentative attorney Lamfrom, the
representative of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union, the $50
cialist" lawyer VIM. F. Quick and
the Amalgamated Union bureau
cracy represented by G. Piepenhagen
and the injunction Judge Gehrz
joined hands.
The session of the court was de-
voted to the hearing of the case of
the burning of suits manufactured
in one of the Adler Co. scab shops
several weeks ago for which the
company blamed the union. During
the hearing without any connection
with the case whatsoever, circulars
were introduced which were attrib-
uted by the above mentioned indi-
viduals to Communists. The leaf
lets in question contained criticism
of the union bureaucracy for their
DISQUALIFICATION policy and failure
to conduct mass picketing in viola
ton of the court injunction. 1t also
exposed the fairness" of the Judge
whose injunction is helping the Ad-
Ter Co. to fill its shops with scabs.
The Amalgamated Union official
dom and the socialists of this city
have hailed the decision of the judge
as fair at the time it was rendered.
This criticism was represented as an
attack upon the entire union al
though it was directed only against
its leadership. The object of this
attack upon the Communists =
three-fold
(1) To create the impression that
the Communists are responsible for
such acts as the burning up of the
suits, etc.
(2) To antagonize the striking
clothing workers against the Work
ers' (Communist) Party of America.
(3) To pave the way for the get
ting together of the union official
dom with the scab company for the
Evening star., 1928-03-13
WASHINGTON WOMAN
PROSECUTES SUIT
100000 Bonl Sale Litigation
Finds Plaintiff cs Own
Attorney.

'norisl n,,',a;.h 10 The star.
f>ALTlttD~T, March ia r9trial
IL tes; thc validity cf tho sale of bonds
Of til, Sp,c.S Sand &; Cay WORKS OF
Ann Arundel County In 1873 was
started yesterday in Federal Court pc
fore Judge Elliott Norttcott. member
ci the United States Circuit Court oi
Appeals of Richmond.
Charges of prejudice and bias against
Judge Morris A. Sopcr resulted III ap-
noin;incnt of Judge Northcutt.
Mrs. Mary W. r. SpcerS of Washing
ton Is acting rs her own attorney IN
thc suit. which involves 81 900 900.
Mrs. SpcerS charges combination OF
raitimorc and New York business men
have dctraudcd her out of Anne
Arundel County land containing chem
icals which maze The land worth, ac-
crydin- to her estimate. SAo,009.0 600.
The Circuit Copyt CT Anne Arundel!
Count, ordered thc assets OF tho con-
Germ sold in 1925. pursuant to the pc
tition of the American Trust Co. of
New York. trustee Of the corporation,
which was originally capitalized at
Il 100000
Later Mrs Speers, principal owner of
;hc company. petitinncd the Federal
Court for the removal of the case and a
ohearing because of diversity of Citi-
z&:1SniD This petition succeeded, but
,h> Anne Arundel County courts dcci-
SION was upheld by Federal Judge Nor
r:1 A. Super i'll 1926.