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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Shaw Again Lauds
Mussolini; Jeers at
the Italian Workers
Continued from Page One


paraging the war and repudiating
the ideals for which the soldiers had
as they believed, fought and suf-
fered and died.
"This Infatuated them, and they
found their spokesman and leader
4 in Mussolini, a journalist and war
veteran. He organized the fascist
march on Rome, which went thru
the scandalized liberal opposition
like a red-hot shot through pound
of butter. But when he had done
this, and thereby, of course, upset
the existing government, he had to
organize fascist government to
carry on. And he did it. The hour
had found it's man. But he could
not have done it otherwise than as
a dictator.
"Under such circumstances die
tatorship is a life-or-death necessity
for the nation. Wrangling as to
whether it was justified and twad-
die about usurpation and tyranny
are idle"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Oil Workers Lives Are
Endangered in Blaze

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 49,
Lives of oil workers and fire fight
ers alike were imperiled in blaze
that threatened the Bisbee Linseed
Oil Works here.
Bags of sawdust, stacked in the
form of an encircling wall, were
utilized last night to hold in check
streams of blazing oil which threat
ened the plant.
Four fire companies fought wa
terless battle which started shortly
before midnight when an 800-gallon
still boiled over and the contents
ignited from the fire beneath.
The firefighters worked in con.
slant danger of the flames spread
ing to more than score of other
large stills and oil watts. The pres
ent building replaces the plant de.
stroyed by fire several years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
OPEN OFFICES
OF Mill union
IN new YORK
Hold Meet of Women's
Committee

A meeting of the Women's Com
mittee of the National Textile
Workers Union was held Sunday,
November 10, at 10 a. m. in the Of
flee of the National Union, at 104
Fifth Ave. Ellen Dawson came in
from New Bedford and Sonia
Kaross from Easthampton, Mass,
to attend the meeting.
Local headquarters have been
opened in New York City by Dis
.trict 1 of the National Textile
Workers Union, at 247 Sixth Ave-,
Corner 10th ST. according to a
statement of Sarah Chernow, or
ganizer. This district which covers
New York City and vicinity con-
tains about $4,000 textile workers.
Besides the workers on cloth and
rayon there are about $4,000 work
ers on knitgoods alone, making
sweaters, jersey cloth, knitted caps
and gloves. Many of these work
ers get as little as SIP week, with
no extra pay for overtime or legal
holidays. Although they are sup
posed to work only 48 hours a week
the usual week is So or go hour
one. At the American Knitgoods
Co., 1853 West oath ST., for exam
pie, where the working week is sup
posed to be 46 hours, girls work
every night till z o'clock and the
whole day on Saturday. The work
ers at the Franklin Knitting Mill,
511 East 72nd St., and in the great
majority of mills in New York,
work very long hours for extremely
low wages.
ave expect a big membership
from these exploited workers." said
organizer Chernow. "They have
shown they are fighters. In. our
last strike in 1924, we put up Bit
ter six weeks struggle in spite of
the bad leadership of the United
Textile Workers, whose officials
trled TO discourage mass plcketlng
and every other really effective way
of winning the strike"
Local headquarters have also
been opened at ISL Broadway, in
Paterson, N. J. The response of
the dye workers in the organization
drive of the National Textile Work
ers' Union shows it's timeliness and
proves the falseness of the policy
of the officials of the Associated
Silk Workers, who opposed such a
campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
MILITANTS IN
PALESTINE ARE
imp RISONED
Raids, Deport ations,
Arrests Many
(Red Aid Press Service)

JERUSALEM (By MailD Raids,
arrests and deportations against
revolutionary workers are taking
place in all parts of Palestine.
Such reports reach US daily from
various towns.
The worker. Chansch Holdmann,
was deported after he had spent
two months in Jail for taking part
in demonstration against the con-
ditions in the prisons and the pun
ishment of political prisoners.
In Tel-Aviv there were five raids
on workers. homes. Four workers
were arrested, charged with belong
ing either to the Communist Party,
to the Young Communist League or
to the Red Aid.
In Haifa two raids took place, in
Bin-Jamina the police searched two
workers homes and arrested the
occupants.
In Jerusalem the arrest of the
working woman, Sonia Reginska,
and her eight-year-old child has
caused great protest from the work
ers' organizations. All attempts, at
least to bring about the release of
the child, have until now failed.
Both mother and child are to be de-
ported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Poor Relief Officials
Force Down Payments
to British Unemployed

LONDON, Nov. 18.-Stories Of
harsh treatment told by unemployed
workers and their families show how
the British governments is attacking
the working class for the benefit of
the capitalist taxpayers.
At Newport conference of trade
union representatives. county coun-
cillors and members of parliament, it
was shown that government conf
missioners in the Bedwellty Poor
Law Union had cut relief to the
point where the poor were in utter
starvation.
Children are unable to attend
school for lack of clothes and shoes.
Aged workers are elected from thair
homes for not paying rent because
the entire lack of relief or receipt Of
so little that all is taken on food,
makes payment impossible. Families
of and 6 members are compelled
to live and pay rent on sum no
n re than SIS a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
TRADE UNIONISTS
JAILED IN ITALY
BY FASCIST GOVT
Is Workers Sentenced
for Union Activity
(Red Aid Press Service)

BERLIN, (By MaiD After the
betrayal of a few trade union Of
ficials in Italy, who openly went
over to fascism, trade unionists, who
are opposed to the fascist-controlled
trade unions, decided to organize
unions among the workers and to
propaganda for free unions in the
factories in spite of the fascist ter
ror.
These free trade unions, which
must work illegally, have published
an illegal trade union newspaper,
"Battaglie Sindicala," which was
very much read, especially in Turin
The fascist government has now
for some time carried on a hunt for
those, against whom the fascist
unions had declared war, and arrest
cd a number of workers, who were
suspected Of having taken part in
the organization of these unions.
The arrested workers appeared be-
fore the special tribunal and were
sentenced as follows:
Venegoni to 10 years prison, Bron-
"a to and one half years, Bonte to
and one half years, Buona to G
years; Bianco, Ferraris and Oselln
to years each; Rey, Ceccherini, o.
mollo, Sal, lrone, Atanero to a years
each and Vecchieri to 8 years. All
of the prisoners are denied their
citizenship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Why Organize Labor?
"Selling Efficiency" to
Bosses Is Much Easier

The delegates of the "Big Six'
local New York of the International
Typographical Union to the state
Typographical conference at lthica
in their report back to the "Big
Six" membership show what they
said at the conference. One Of the
delegates, John Sullivan, reports
that he told the conference that his
idea of organization "was ques-
ton of salesmanship." He cited the
fact that his success was to sell
competency to the non-union en-
ployer."
No bother with the non-union
workers, just organize the bosses
and the workers can take care of
themselves or go to the devil, that
is Brother Sullivan's bright idea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19

"When the railway train crosses
the border into the Soviet Union the
very atmosphere changes with the
crew. There is an end of surliness
and suspicion, all are comradely and
friendly"
Thus did William Chopper, revo-
lutionary American artist, describe
his first reaction to the Union OF
. Socialist Soviet Republics, to an in
tSrview for the Daily Worker. He
had just come back from the Soviet
Union, and had stopped on his way
in France, Germany and Austria,
making contacts everywhere with
workers.
His experience is the typical ex-
perience of the newly returned, but
in his case it is even more enthus-
iastic, because more embracing, more
piercing and more understanding.
"In Russia there is life and en-
thusiasm," he almost shouts, ges-
ticulating with his hands. But Bill
Chopper did not even attempt to tell
the interviewer everything. He
limited his remarks to one incident.
Everyone participates in the life
of the country. 1t is all-inclusive
and serious. The feeling of higher
and lower is gone. All that re-
mains is the respect and self-respect
that workers have for their COM
rades and themselves.
"But / was telling you about the
meeting of the Motion Picture
Workers Union" he continues.
Everyone is invited. There are
artists and writers as we'll as ac-
tors, camera men and a director. At
one end of the table sits a worker
or a peasant. They sit sand drink
tea until some one says, perhaps:
What would be interesting?'
"T work in glass factory says
the worker. 4 should like to see a
picture about a glass factory
"The artist and the cameraman
are enthusiastic. They will make
their story happen in glass fac
tory. The man will be a glass
blower and he will fall in love with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Australians Will Vote
Upon Nationalist and
Labor Party Nominees

MELBOURNE, Nov. 1S.-Voters
of Australia are to ballot Saturday
for offices Of the Commonwealth
government between the Nationalist
Party led by Stanley Bruce. present
premier. and James Scullin, leader
of the Labor Party.
Twelve of the 36 seats in the SEN
ate are to be filled by SATURDAYS
elections. The conservative Ma
tionalist Party has now majority
Of 26 in the senate.
Following much the same schem-
ing policy as Baldwin of ENGLAND
Bruce attacks the wishy-washy la
Dor leaders as "reds." Following
the example of Macdonald of Eng.
land, Labor Party leaders deny the
charge vigorously and have expelled
all elements who, by their fight
against class collaboration and de
tense of the interests of the workers
are suspected of being Communists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19

girl who etches decorations on
finished glass. There will be beau
tiful and modern pictures taken
through sheets of glass, through
tumblers; the glass worker will be
shown at his work and the girl at
hers. And there will be pictures as
we'll of the nurseries the factories
have built for the children of wom-
en- who are employed, of the clubs
and the method of factory govern
ment and recreation.
"This is the method by which a
picture is made as well as by which
life generally is carried on. Every
one is worker. Everyone belongs
to a union. There are unions not
only for peasants and artisans, but
for philosophers, teachers, must
clans, actors and writer's as WE'LL"
In the six months that Comrade
Chopper spent in Russia he worked
as an artist for a number of news
papers and magazines including
Pravda and Bezbozhnik. After his
first month in Moscow, spent. as a
guest of the Voks (USSR Society
for Cultural Relations) on the occa-
sion of the celebration of the Tenth
Anniversary of the Revolution, he
travelled through the country, into
the Ukraine and the Caucasus. In
the latter country he and his wife
worked in the fields among the
peasants.
While he was in Berlin Comrade
Chopper worked with the revolu-
tionary workers paper, the organ of
the Communist Party, the Rote
Fahne (Red Flag) and in Paris on
Henri Barbusse's LIE Monde. In the
latter city Comrade Chopper ar
ranged for the publication Of vol
ume of Russian drawings, copies of
which, in Yiddish and English, will
shortly be on sale in New York.
In the little time that the reporter
could take to look through proofs of
this volume, as well as in folios of
other drawings, it seemed to me that
the Russian experience has been of
great advantage to Choppers work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
50 KILLED in FOUR
DAY STORM OFF
EUROPEAN COAST
Many Workers, Seamen
Among the Dead

PARIS, Nov. 10 U.P).-The tail of
a four-day storm, which took the
lives of more than go persons in
England and Europe, lashed the
coast of France today, battering
sea and land communications and
wrecking a number of buildings in
its dying tremors.
The wind was of such intensity
that ships which ordinarily make
as high as 10 knots an hour were
, reduced to less than one-third speed
as they attempted to make Cher
bourg Harbor. Many of the YES
sells which filled the harbor today
were damaged.
Death Total Rises.
Reports of additional deaths in
! the storm continued to pour in to-
day, making totals of at least IL
in France, 20 in England, II off
the coast of Holland and many
others in isolated towns.
{ A belated dispatch from Amster-
! dam told of the death of sea cap
tain, his wife and their ten chill
! dren. All were drowned when their
small sailing vessel, Noordster, was
/. sunk in the storm off Terschelling
Island. Vessels arriving at Dutch
ports reported terrific gales and
high seas which struck terror to the
hearts of passengers and sailors
but no other disasters were reported
Workers Killed.
Two sailors in the naval encamp-
ment at Fecamp, France, on the
English Channel, were washed from
their boat and carried out to sea al
the height of the storm today. Both
were drowned.
At Bethune two workmen repair.
ing wire line were struck by
lightning and killed. At Hazebroucl
three houses were washed away by
the rain. Hazebrouck is in the de-
partment of Noord.
WhelcSo messages IeCSIN6Q d
Dunkerque indicated that two
schooners had beena abandoned by
their crews. One vessel was al
Stables D'Olonne, on the Bay of Bis.
cay, and the other was wrecked
apparently in the same vicinity
The crews of both vessels were
saved, the report said.
Fishing Boat Sunk.
Five men drowned in a terrific
gale which wrecked and sunk &
fishing boat off the coast of Spain
dispatches from Aviles, Spain, said
Other dispatches reported higl
rivers in France, with damage o.
several million francs in the Isert
River Valley where floods wrecked
houses at Avignon and Grenoble.
1t was feared that the total O.
deaths would be increased as de
layed reports reached Paris.
number of fishing vessels wer'
caught in the gale and some of then
have not been reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
II Dead When Small
Sailing Ship Sinks

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10 (UP) =
Reports today told of the death of
the captain of small sailing ves-
sci, his wife and their ten children
when the craft was sunk off Ter
schelling Island.
Although no other disasters were
reported here all vessels arriving at
Dutch ports had encountered fierce
winds and rain. Sailors said seas
were running high and probably a
number of smaller vessels had beer
wrecked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
GRAFT INQUIRY" IS
ON IN PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 49,
The mock grand jury investigation
Of police corruption and racketeer-
ing in this city adjourned at 2:15
a. m. today after an extraordinary
session during which the twenty
three employees of the Piccadilly
Cafe were quizzed more than five
hours.
District Attorney Monaghan left
City Hall shortly before 3 a. M. aft
er leaving sealed instructions for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
TERROR RECORD
IN YUCOSLAv|A
Workers Arrested on
Many Counts
(Red Aid Press Service)


ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, (By NALL
The royal minister, Jankowitsch,
has instituted libel proceedings
against the widow of the murdered
Croat leader, Raditch. At the same
time three press processes were
started against the widow.
Newspapers report that in Novi-
grad, Mate Ostritsch, who had just
returned from America, had been
arrested, because he is said to have
spread various Communist pamph-
let's and leaflets, written in Serb
Croatian language, among the
school children.
In Serajevo Magdalena Leonnar-
itsch was sentenced to one year
prison becausein 1927 she is said
to have insulted the parents of the
king.
In Novisad, a gardener, Macy
was sentenced to three years in
prison for insulting the king.
On September Is the police Of
Laibach arrested the worker, Vladis-
Law Maximov, on his way from
Odessa where he had worked. He
was brought by two secret agents
to the political department of the
police. Since then he has disap.
peared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Grill Negro Seamen of 'Vestris"
The Negro seamen

The Negro seamen
of the "VestriS," a0ho
shaved hardest and re-
ceived the 10 ~ e s t
aOages, haze been Vici-
ously abused by many
1Uhite passengers and
flunkies of all sorts.
But despite the s e
ISLANDERS the truth of
the heroic role they
played is coming to
light. Noi0 the Negro
surViUorS are being
put on the lUitness
stand in an effort to
,hro10 the blame for
the disaster on them
and their q0hite fell
Io7D-1D0rI.ers d home
are three Negro sea-
men and q Negro pas
senQer Who haze been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
IL Firemen Overcome
by Fumes in Blaze

Seventeen firemen were overcome
by smoke, sewer gas and carbon
monoxide while attempting to put
out a fire in the basement of the
Melrose Stock Paper company
plant at 1922 E. 133rd St. early
yesterday morning. Ten of these
were overcome so badly that they
needed medical aid.
To keep the blaze from spread
ing throughout the entire building,
most of the firemen stayed in the
basement until the fire had been
put out, and until many of them
had almost succumbed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
South Africa Fears
New BubOnic Plague

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Nov. 16 (U.H.--An army of rats
guided by blind instinct, fled snap
ping in panic across the plains in
the Cape Province today to escape
what they seemed to know, though
human experts cannot yet be GER
tain, was an outbreak of bubonic
plague.
Three Europeans have died with
in 48 hours and three others are
gravely i'll of what physicians be-
lieve is an outbreak Of the plague.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Irish Bus Drivers
Win Belfast Strike

BELFAST, Ireland, Nov. 49,
Four hundred busmen of Belfas,
who have been on strike against the
victimization of a union worker
have won their demands. Also the
Belfast Omnibus Company has beer
forced to recognize the Amalga.
mated Transport and General Work.
ers' Union. The worker who wa,
fired has been Slstated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
English Farm Owners
Fire Union LabOrers

LONDON, Nov. 10. - William
Holmes, of the National Union of
Agricultural Workers, has issued an
account of the fight the union is
making'to organize the land workers.
Land owners, he says, uses every
effort to prevent organization, and
that there have been 400 union men,
bers discharged by the land owners
so far this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19

attaches of his office. He declined
to reveal what he had learned from
the grilling of the night club work
ers, but said important arrests will
be made today.
1--WE obtained some SUI prising fig
Tres and information" the district
attorney commented; "there will be
several important arrests. We
learned among other things that the
Piccadilly Cafe has been getting S25
a Quart for wine and $40 pint for
whiskey."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Drive to Organize
Paper Bag Workers

An organization campaign is be-
ing conducted in the paper bag fac
tories of New York, by the Inter
national Brotherhood of Pulp. Sui
phite and Paper Mill Workers, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
brotherhood. A mass meeting of
these workers will be held tomor-
row at 8 p. m. at Grand Mansion,
73 Ludlow ST., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
WIFE SLAYER TAKES LIFE.

NEIGH, Neb., Nov. 18 U.H.-
Ernest Witmere, young farmer who
killed his wife on September 26
because she smoked cigarets," com
mitted suicide in his cell in the coun-
ty Jail here by taking strychnine
poisoning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
l.. I. r. II. KILLS SIX

Six persons were killed by Long
Island Railroad trains within seven
hours yesterday. Four brothers
were killed when car in which
they were riding was struck this
Afternoon. An elderly man and his
wife were killed few hours later
in similar crash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Loco British Silk
Workers on Strike

LONDON, Nov. 18.--At Peterbor-
ough there are 1000 workers on
strike at the Celia Artificial Silk
Works. The Celia Mills have always
refused to recognize the trade union.
The workers are fighting for better
conditions Negotiations are going
on, but the workers refuse to go
back to work until final settlement
is made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
Young Pioneers Form
Branch in Chester, Pa,

CHESTER, Pa, (By Mail) "A
Chester branch of the Young Pion-
GERS Of America has been organized.
The branch has II members. At a
meeting last Sunday. Comrades
Gittelman and Robinson spoke for
the Workers Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
BUSINESS REJOICES

BLOOMBERG, Pa, Nov. ia
banquet and parade organized by
business men here, with the favor
of the bankers, yesterday in
auguated the opening of the four
teen mile improved road between
Benton and Shickshinny. The road
taps farming country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
British Mill Workers
Threaten WalkOut

MANCHESTER, England, Nov.
ia strike is threatened at the
big cotton waste mills of the Fails
worth Co. The workers are de-
manding an improvement of the
miserable working standards they
are forced to endure.
The mill does not belong to the
Master Spinners' Federation, the
employers organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19
TREASURY BALANCE.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S U.H.-
The treasury net balance for No
vember Ia was $136,726, 768.73.
Customs receipts this month to the
18th were $22,56O, 908.69.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19

The Workers tCOmmunist) Party
fights for the organization OF the
unOrganized workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-19

The Workers (CommunTrty Party
Fights far the enactment Of the 40
hour, S-dny week.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-20
WOMAN IS JAILED
 UNDER 'DRY LAW
Must Serve lt Lolst Ten Days
 Of Year Sentence

Mrs. Rose Trzaska of q Clark street, this city. was fined $150 and costs and sentenced to jail for one year with the privilege of applying for probation after serving 10 days. in superior court yesterday. She was bound over in local police court and has 8 record for convictions on liquor law violation charges.
 Adolph Mankus. aged 22. was giv- en a suspended jail sentence of 10 months on the charge of theft of an automobile owned by T. P. McAu- life of this city.
 Hans Christopher. who appealed from a fine in West Hartford court, was fined $25 without costs on the charge of reckless driving.
 Walter Szdylowski of Smith street pleaded guilty to the charge of vio- lation of the liquor law; Henry J. Smith of Hartford: bound over from local police court on the charge of criminal negligence. pleaded not guilty: Russell Waugh pleaded guilty to the charge of violation of the moral code; William Hoffman pleaded not guilty to charges of drunkenness and breach of the peace, and violations of the liquor law; William Jones pleaded guilty to the charge of being a common drunkard.