davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Scotch Communists in
Election Take Votes
From the Labor Party

(Wneless to the Daily Worker)
LONDON, Nov. 8.--Results of
the Scottish municipal and parish
council elections show 36 Commu-
mist candidates in "a wards with an
aggregate vote of 7,345. Th2 labor
candidates were decisively beaten at
Lochgelly.
This result follows the improve
ment of the Communist Party's
position in the English elections
when approximately 100 candidates
gained 5000 votes.
While the Party gained no seats
in Scotland, it established definite
in Scottish politics. Sew
eral boroughs showed that the Com
munists almost equalled the labor
party poll. Glasgow results, with
one exception, were poor for the la
Dor party, and it's leaders are very
angry at the Communists ''interven-
ton" in the elections, especially in
Glasgow and Lochgelly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Nearing to Tell Hunts
Point Audience of War
Between u. S., Britain

Scott Nearing, lecturer and econ-
omist, will speak tonight on "The inn
pending war between the United
States and Great Britain" at Hunts
Point Palace, 163rd and Southern
Boulevard, Bronx, tonight at 8
o'clock.
Nearing will point out the grow
ing competition between the inn
perialists of the two great powers in
the markets Of the world and in the
struggle for sources of raw
materials.
He will emphasize especially the
struggle which is taking place in
Latin America, the Orient and other
regions of the earth Cor oil and
rubber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
A.F.I.L0CAL. JOINS
new Mill UNION
To Get Member Books
at Meet Tonight

The members of Local 1915, Uni
ted Textile Workers Union--silk
workers-will apply for membership
books and join in body the new
militant union, the National Textile
Workers Union tonight at p. m.
The meeting will take place at the
Workers Center, 26 Union Square.
Philip Lipshitz, who was dele
gate to the convention held Septem-
ber 1928 by the National Textile
Mills Committee, declared yesterday:
when / reported to the members of
my local the resolution passed at
the convention, and the economic de-
mands put forth, they unanimously
voted approval of my step taken at
the convention, to withdraw in a
body from the United Textile Work
ers' Union and its collaboration
and sell-out policy, and affiliate with
the vigorous and militant National
Textile Workers Union-'a fighting
organization controlled by the work.
ers.'
"At our meeting tonight our men,
bers will put into effect their de-
sire to be part of living instead
of dead organization, and they will
take out membership books. in the
National Textile Workers Union"
Albert Weisbord, secretary of the
National Union, will address the
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
"A KILLED IN BIG
FACTORY BLAST
IN LYNN, MASS.
M a ny Workers Are
Injured; Expect
More Deaths
Four Houses Fired
Mother, 4 Children Are
Among Victims

LYNN, Mass. Nov. (UP).-
Fourteen persons, including a
mother and four children, were
burned to death today when the
Preble Box Toe Co. factory was
wrecked by mysterious explosion.
The mother and children lost their
lives when a flare of flame envel-
oped their nearby home. All the
other victims were at work in the
plant.
Workers Trapped.
Scores of employees were trapped
when, without warning, a chemical
exploded and ignited large guam
tity of celluloid.
The blast blew out the walls and
brought down the roof on the work
ers.
I There was a chance the fatality
list might be increased, either
through the death of some of the
injured at Lynn Hospital or through
discovery of more bodies in the
smouldering debris. Three employees
were reported missing shortly be-
fore noon.
The blast set fire to four nearby
dwellings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blaney and
their seven children lived in one of
TIE houses. Mrs. Blaney and four
of the children were among the
dead. The father and one other
child were seriously burned. The
other two children, Lillian and Ella,
escaped only because they were 60
ing out of the rear door of their
home, en- route to school, at the time
of the explosion.
The intense heat, caused by the
burning of amylacetate, pyroxalin,
acetone, naphtha and celluloid-em-
ployed in the manufacture of shoe
box toes-prevented firemen for
some time from approaching TO res
cue other workers pinned beneath
the wreckage in the inferno of
flame.
So great was the force of the
concussion that some Of the victims
were hurled 40 yards. One eye
witness declared he saw the body
of one of the victims lifted 80 feet
in the air as sheets of flame rose
from the building. Two bodies were
found by police on the sidewalk of
Continued IN Page TWo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09

That the socialist party leaders
haze not only abandoned all pre-
tense at building Working class
Increment but are, as far as possible,
Disgusting eUen their name IN an at
tempt to lay the base for purely
liberal" third party is again eUi-
demced from a neaOs item IN the Nil
Uaakee Leader, of aghich Victor
Berger is editor.
Berger is the chairman of the So
cialist national committee, and is a
socialist" congressman from Wis
consin. His appeals to his consti-
tuency haze, hoa0eVer, been made en-
tirely on a liberal, petty bourgeois
basis. One of the last of these here
aoith reproduced from the "MilaUau-
kee Leader" attempts even to dis
guiSe Bergers' connection witk the
socialist party. Note the cdnaoaflaged
description of the gentleman, and
those to 9Ohom has appeal qoas
directed as reported By his oqOn
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
HOOVER Halle BY
FOREIGN CAPITAL
Seen as Worthy Heir of
Imperialist Policies

The election of Herbert Hoover,
candidate Of Wall Street, has evoked
some Illuminating comments in the
press abroad. The real nature of
Hoover, as bulldog of American i'm
perialism, is strikingly brought out
by subtle comments, and in some
cases in a more direct tone. Some
of the reports from correspondents
abroad and from the foreign press
follow:
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. s.
Soviet circles regard the victory of
Hoover as another proof of "Ameri-
can conservatism" While most So
Wet leaders regard Hoover's attitude
toward the Soviets as unfriendly,
they feel that his business realism"
may outweight his personal hostility.
ROME, Nov. 8. U.H.-The news
paper Popolo Di Roma said today
that the American electorate had
shewn in the election of Herbert
Hoover its desire that nothing be
changed, neither the American finan-
cial policy nor its policy on war
debts, prohibition and immigration.
Messagero suggested Hoover's
victory was due to the fact that
finance and labor (meaning re-
dictionary labor officials.-Ed.) trust
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
SHIFRIN SPEAKS
AT CLERK RALLY
Retail Food Workers
Called to Meeting

A meeting especially arranged for
workers in the city's food stores
bakers, grocery clerks, butchers and
delicatessen clerks, for the purpose
of greeting William Shifrin, the left
wing worker now facing charge
of murder, second degree, is to be
held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
in Stuyvesant Casino, 9th st. and
Second Ave. The meeting will be
held under the auspices of the Will
liam Shifrin Defense Committee.
Shifrin himself is to be there to
tell the workers how he defended
his life against the six armed thugs
which the socialist officials of the
Butchers Union had sent to attack
him. The leaders of the militant
Grocery Clerks Union, the left
wing Butchers Union and of. other
left wing labor organizations will
also speak there.
The case of William Shifrin, who,
if convicted at the trial soon to take
place, faces life term in prison,
has aroused the interest of tens of
thousands of workers throughout
the country. The mass meeting in
New York, which was held at the
time his release on $4,000 bail was
procured, was attended by so large
a crowd as to necessitate the hiring
of another hall.
This case is of greater interest to
the workers in the retail food in
dustry because it was while he was
them that the attack on him
was made. In defending himself
against the six knife welding thugs,
Shifrin had fatally wounded one of
them. At that time the right wing
Butchers Union officials were re-
moving all left wingers from their
jobs. Large numbers of the food
workers are therefore expected to
turn out to the meeting.
Other speakers at the meeting
will be Sam Lipzin of the Shifrin
Defense Committee, Okun of the
Bakers Union, Himmelfarb of the
Delicatessen Clerks, Werner of the
Progressive Butchers Union, and
Edward Schwartz of the Grocery
Clerks Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
French Capitalists,
Worried, Want a New
Cabinet of POincare
(By Wireless to Daily Worker)

(By Wireless to Daily Worker
PARIS, Nov. Slate yesterday
the French president, Doumergue,
conferred with political leaders on
the possibilities of forming new
cabinet. The capitalist press de-
clares that Poincare is the only man
capable of reestablishing Frances
weakened capitalism. 1t demands
the maintenance of the national
unity policy in new cabinet headed
by Poincare.
The radical" party is confused,
and nobody wishes to take the\re-
sponsibility of declaring for a new
government of the united left par
ties. The right wing of the social
ist party is issuing demagogic argu-
ments approving participation in the
government.
The Communist Party has issued
the slogans calling for fight
against the policy of national unity
and the Poincare government and
for workers and peasants gov
ernment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
". |. R. TO BEGIN
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
Will Hold Tag Days on
Nov. II, 18


Plans for a drive for new mem
bers and funds for the Workers In
ternational Relief were elaborated at
meeting of committees from vari-
Gus units of the Workers Party and
trade unions held at the Labor
Temple recently. The drive will be-
gin with Tag Days on Nov. II and
18.
Addressing the meeting, Albert
Weisbord, secretary-treasurer of the
National Textile Workers Union
pointed out the necessity of building
the membership of the Workers In
ternational Relief.
"There are always large numbers
of strikers" the speaker declared,
"who are blacklisted after strike.
The bosses discriminate against
them because Of their militant strug-
giles on behalf. of the union. The
aftermath of strike is the time to
intensity our efforts to organize the
workers. 1t is also the time Tor us
to build up a strong centralized re
lief organization"
The New York branch of the
Workers international Relief empha-
sizes the Importance of distributing
posters, collection cans, ETC., for the
tag days, and appeals for volunteer
workers from all organizations to
help in this work.
Volunteers are urged to report at
the local office of the Workers In
ternational Relief, 799 Broadway,
Room 226 or telephone Stuyvesant
1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
HOover's Boy Friends
Wire They're Tickled

= PALO ALTO. Calf, Nov. s.
Among those from whom tele-
graphic congratulations were re-
ceived today by Hoover, the speed
up president ELECT who will see
that capitalist Imperialism will get
what it wants for the next four
years. are the following:
Andy Mellon.
William Green.
John l.. Lewis.
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.
This sort of collaboration having
been reached between big capitalist
spokesmen vnd Green and Lewis
of the A. F. of L., Hoover evident
ly feels that he has support for
intensified exploitation of Amer
ican workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
AFFIRMS CHARGE
OF TAMMANY-S.P.
100000 FUND
Statement by Baldwin
Knocks Props From
Under Fakers

Charges of the Daily Worker and
other Communist organs, that Ben
jamin Schlesinger, new president of
the scab International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, had received
and spent a 100000 fund contribu-
ted to by Tammany Hall leaders,
were completely substantiated in a
statement issued by Roger Baldwin,
Civil Liberties Union director on
Nov. 6.
The expose by the Communist
newspapers brought to light the fact
that Schlesinger had received $780,
900 "loan" from Colonel Lehman,
banker and Tammany chieftan to
whom the cloak and dressmakers'
votes were promised by the social
ist" union heads, which funds Schles-
niger used to fight off the attempts
of the workers to build real union
under the leadership of the Trade
Union Educational League.
Didn't Want 1t Talked About.
The dragging into the sunlight
of this corrupt and odorous mess.
was accompanied by demoralized
howls Of rage from the press of
the socialist party and the socialist
trade union officialdom. Hartmann,
demogog in chief of the Hillman
machine controlling the Amalgama-
ted Clothing Workers Union, went
to special pains to convince the
readers of the Advance, A. c. w.
organ, that Roger Baldwin would
deny such a Communist lie-that
Schlesinger had received money from
Tammany Hall Lehman.
Baldwin's statement, therefore,
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09

N%A
tion steals in the various cities
in which the capitalist politi-
clans have been made to feel
the power of the working class.
Chief Of these, New Bedford,
scene of the historic textile strike
offers proofs of election steals of
between three and four hundred
votes. Canton, Ohio is not far be-
hind in this respect.
Reports from Chicago as yet un-
official due to the fact that figures
of minor parties" are not published
by the Chicago authorities, indicate
that the Communist vote in this city
has been increased 100 per cent.
Election watchers of the Workers
(Communist) Party are now rapidly
checking up on the vote. The radi-
cal and proletarian northwest sec
tion of Chicago according to incom-
plete figures shows Foster and Git
how leading Thomas and Maurer, So
cialists, 8 to l. In the industrial
Pullman section the Communist STAN
dard bearers are leading the social
lists to l. For members of congress
in the First Congressional District
unofficial incomplete reports show a
vote for Foster and Gitlow of 101.
The Communist vote in this district
in 1924 was 80. In the Ninth Con-
gressional District the vote thus far
noted is 223 as against "a four years
ago.
Whole Town Votes Communist.
Communists received practically
The whole vote in Powhatan, Ohio.
mine town the whole population of
which is about 400 with perhaps no
more than sixty or seventy voters in
all. The miners generally and those
in Ohio and Pennsylvania in partic-
ular have been learning through
their own experience during the past
few years that there is only one
Party which really represents them.
Incomplete returns from Luzerne
County, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
show 1877 votes for Foster and Git
low as against 122 for Thomas and
Maurer. Foster and Gitlow ran
both on the Communist and on the
Labor Party ticket receiving 83 on
the former and 81 on the latter.
Incomplete returns from Hennepen
County, Mimi, show vote of $40
for Foster and Gitlow; $40 for J. o.
Bentall, candidate for U. S. Senator;
920 votes for V. R. Dunn candidate
for State Senator; $50 for o. r. Vo-
paw.
Incomplete returns from Youngs
town, Ohio, show a vote for Foster
and Gitlow of 100.
Votes Stolen.
The best estimates agree that be-
tween three and four hundred votes
were stolen from the Communists
in New Bedford. The city gave
Harry j. Kantor, candidate for sec
retary of state, 728 votes as against
664 for Williams, the socialist can
didate. The Red candidate for
lieutenant governor, John C. Corbin,
received SIC votes as against 602
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Brooklyn Teachers
After Higher Wage

Efforts are being made to get the
10000 low grade and kindergarten
teachers of Brooklyn to cooperate
with the higher grade teachers in a
demand for higher pay, it being un-
derstood that S3,000,O00 is available
for increases.
In the last pay increase, the low
grade teachers, who are also the
lower paid section, were left out
The teachers have an association
which is too timid and conservative
to be called union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
.ODRECON KILLER
is GUILTY; GETS
DEATH SENTENCE
Catholic Nun Is Also
Convicted, Receives
20 Years
Lawyer Exposes Clergy
Court Heavily Guarded
as Trial Ends

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 8.-The jury
in the trial of Jose De Leon Toral,
murderer of President-elect Obre-
gon, today brought in verdict of
guilty. Mother Superior Concep-
cion, in whose convent the plot to
assassinate Obregon was worked
out, was likewise found guilty.
Toral was sentenced to death and
the Catholic nun to 20 years. i'm
prisonment.
The young craftsman who shot to
death the president-elect of his
country in the Bombilla Restaurant
in San Angel, sat almost motionless
as Judge Alfonso Aznar read the
words which sentenced him to death
before a firing squad. Once he
lifted his eyes slightly and his
tongue moved quickly over his dry
lips.
Mother Conception showed no
emotion. She sat with lowered eyes
and impassive face as she heard the
sentence which she had said would
be worse than death"
Court Guarded.
A thunderous cheer from the
spectators packed into the little
courtroom greeted the verdicts of
guilty and the sentences. More than
200 heavily-armed guards prevented
any disorder on the Plaza, where
hundreds of persons had gathered to
hear the closing arguments and the
verdict.
The jury of nine men returned
verdict, finding Toral
guilty. The vote was eight to one
in the case of the nun. Defensive
attorneys will be allowed five days
to appeal the verdict to higher
courts, which they have announced
their intention of doing. If the ver-
dict is sustained in the high court,
the place and date for Toral's ex-
ecution win be fixed by the court.
Attacks Clergy.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. s (UP).--
Under the eyes of $50 heavily
armed guards and spurred by the
shouts of an approving crowd, Cen
eral Ezequiel Padilla, federal prose-
cutor, attacked the defense claims
Of Jose De Leon Toral, assassin of
President-elect Obregon, in stir
ring climax to the trial today
Matching his oratory with the
brilliant pleas of defense counsel,
Padilla attacked the statement of
Mother Superior Maria Conception,
on trial as an accomplice, that
Toral's act was Goods will"
Did Toral act in the name of re-
ligion?" cried the prosecutor.
Clergy Are Corrupt.
Then, bringing in the issue of re-
ligious revolt, which has. been the
keynote of the trial, Padilla re-
counted the history of religious diff
ficulties in Mexico, alleging that
the clergy was corrupted.
"How can you compare such men
with Obregonistas, who have worked
for the uplift of the people?" he
demanded, in defending the govern
ment's position in the religious con-
fiict. He denied that there had been
general opposition to the govern
ment and said the clergy "had been
defeated in every struggle in Mex
ico."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Czech Communists in
Parliament Hail the
Soviet Anniversary

Wireless to the Daily Worker)
PRAGUE, Nov. Sin the Czech
parliament today the Communist
deputies demonstrated for the elev-
enth anniversary of the birth Of
Soviet Russia.
The Communist deputy, Stern,
compared the achievement Of the
Soviet Union for its workers with
the wretched conditions of the
Czech workers forced upon them by
Czech exploiters and the Czech
capitalist government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
FINAL c, 0. P. VOTE
REACHES21,O0O,OOO
IN UNITED STATES
Reaction Triumphs as
Hoover and Gang
Sweep Country

Establishing record both as to
popular vote, the number of states
carried and the new sections in
vaded, the republican party, as a
result of its Tuesday landslide finds
itself strongly entrenched in both
houses of congress and with a ma
iority of the offices in the various
states within its column. Late re-
turns trickling in yesterday from
the outlying agricultural sections
continued to enforce the sweeping
victory of Herbert Hoover. who, ac-
cording to leading republican Off
cials and cabinet members, has been
given a mandate to carry out his
program of American world DOM
nation and effective exploitation Of
the working class at home.
The number of states carried bs
the republicans has been definitely
set, at 40. The Hoover vote in the
electoral college. the indirect method
by which the president is finally
chosen, will be 444 as against 81 for
AL Smith. The popular vote for
Hoover will approximate 2I.000,0 900.
figure some 100000 over that
ever secured by any previous candi-
date. The popular vote for Smith
is set at about 100000 which is
itself a record compared with that
cast for any previous candidate.
Breaks Into South.
For the first time s.nce the civil
var the republican party broke into
the solid south, capturing Florida
by over $4,000 votes, Missouri by
nearly $4,000 votes, Kentucky by
the surprising majority of 10000,
Virginia by $4,000, West Virginia by
about $4,000 votes, Texas by about
$4,000 votes and North Carolina by
about 1000 votes.
Only two states furnished any sur
rrises following the first returns
which indicated an overwhelming
republican victory. These were
Massachusetts, which Smith .arried
by about 5000, and Rhode island,
which he carried by abou. 1900.
Smiths victory in Massachusetts,
normally strong republican state,
is attributed by the capitalist press
to the textile depression as re-
suit Of which textile and other
workers indirectly affected, in order
to repuoiate the republicans, as the
democratic dopesters put it, voted
the democratic ticket.
Tammany Weakens in y Y.
One of the other features of the
vote was the loss of New Ycrk state
by the Tammany governor d what
was considered a surprising loss of
votes in New York City. 4sa re-
suit of the loss of over 10000 votes
in New York City, the 7. nmany
Hall machine is said to be uAdergo-
ing an inner crisis, in which the old
ward heelers are said to be in open
conflict with the representatives of
the so-called "New Tammany Hall"
Hoover yesterday issued smoothly
worded statement of gratitude to
''the American people" thanking
them for their overwhelming con-
fidence" in him. He spoke ON
inously of the obligation which the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Socialists Want One
More Fake Arms Meet;
New Plot on SOyiets

Wireless to the Daily Worker)
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8.-The Hol-
land socialist party has proposed to
the Second International that it call
an executive session Immediately to
confer ON agitation preparatory to
the disarmament conference, which
has done nothing more than reflect
the imperialist preparations for
war.
The Amsterdam Telegraph" to-
day demands an international united
front of old Russian creditors and
that the government support the
petroleum claims against the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
Several Workers Hurt
as Policemen Fire on
Red Demon s t r alton

ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Nov. s.
A number of workers were injured
and a score arrested tonight when
soldiers fired on them after Com
munist demonstration. Stones we're
thrown and revolvers fired during
the attack of the troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
New York Is Plunged
Into Sudden Darkness
(By United Press.)

New York was plunged into dark
ness for a few minutes shortly after
8 p. m. yesterday The sky became
almost black, and office workers had
to turn on all lights in order to see.
The Weather Bureau reported the
darkness was caused only by an un-
usually intense formation of clouds,
which a veering wind had collected
in heavy bank just above the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
3 KILLED IN PLANE FALL.

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Nov. 8
U.D.--An airplane fell in the CEN
ter Of the city today, killing both
occupants and woman pedestrian.
The engine buried itself eight feet
in the ground.