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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
GEORGE PERSHINC
SCORES WALL ST.
Appeals for Aid in
Fight on Imperialism

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Ncv. 30.
while Hoover is visiting Latin
America on a battleship and reveal
ing more clearly than ever before
the aggressive and ruthless methods
of Wall Street Imperialism, it is
significant that intensive efforts are
being made to get more young work
ers to join the marine corps for ser
vice in Nicaragua" declared George
Pershing, cousin of the jingo gem
eral, who spoke here under the aus
pices of the All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League. Personally, l
have been asked three times during
the past month to enlist for Nicara-
qua by recruiting officers in Denver.
Kansas City and Indianapolis, "
Pershing said
The audience appla.uded Perish
ing's appeal for support to Sandino
and the colonials who are victims of
American imperialist rule. "Sandino
has declared that only the formation
of firm international workers and
peasants block can guarantee vic
tory in the fight against i'm
perialism. We must support the
Nicaraguan movement for liberation.
We must fight against intervention
in Latin America" Pershing then
pointed out how members of the
working class are deceived and lured
into the armed forces, and how the
lives of many workers who Joined
the marines are sacrificed for the in
terest of Wall Street investments.
Pershing, who was himself a
soldier in the Hawaiian Islands,
spoke about the oppression of e
servicemen, and how the natives of
Hawaii are virtually slaves to Amer
lean imperialism.
The meeting here is one of many
nationwide protest meetings against
the war preparations and the Hoo
yer trip to Latin America, arrange
under the joint auspices of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League. Pershing is on tour for
the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League. During December, he will
speak in Ohio cities, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, W ilmington and
S yrna, Delaware, Baltimore,
Washington and New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
TEXTILE union
FIGHTS SLASHES
U. T. w. Offers Easy
Way to Cut Wages

Following the announcement that
63 Rhode Island textile mills have
imposed a five per cent wage cut
that affects about $4,000 workers,
the National Textile Workers Union
has determined to extend its organ
ization into the Rhode Island field.
The union, which is carrying on a
militant campaign of organization
in answer to the wage cuts in the
New Bedford mills, plans to consoli-
date the New England textile work
ers against encroaching wage cuts.
While the first intimation of the
impending wage slashes were an
swered by the National Textile
Workers Union with a call to the
workers to strike against reductions
in pay, and while that union already
had its Rhode Island organizers ac-
lively preparing for leading the
workers in such a struggle, the
United Textile Workers Union Of
fered the bosses scheme to "nego-
tiate" wage cut "diplomatically," !"
with A. F. of l.. sanction, instead of
using "crude methods"
Respectful Lackeys.
eve make this proposition u the
employers: Let them postpone the
reduction and we will enter into a
discussion with an agreement to
settlement in consideration of the
facts presented" the betrayers of
textile workers struggles announce.
Instead of outright and unqualified
condemnation of the vicious wage
slash, the adjutants of the textile
barons, the U. T. w. chiefs, make
this respectful query: "Why doesn't
the mill owner make a decent COM
parison and agree to 80 days notice
before changing wages?" &
In the statement of the National
Textile Workers Union, the decision
of the American Federation of La
Dor to organize a movement for the
raising of tariff rates on many i'm
ports, comes in for severe condemna-
tion. The A. F. of l.. decided on
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
RED VOTE IN MIDWEST
OutsNibs Socialists IN Heavy Industry

Party has mine nuclei, the out
stripping of the reformist contacts
by our vote is most marked. Thus
in Orient, Illinois, there were IS
Communist votes cast to socialist;
in Benton, county seat where the
population is largely working class,
the vote was So for Foster and AZ
for Thomas. In both of these towns
there are active functioning mine
nuclei of the Party.
Gain in Steel Towns.
In the Lake County, Indiana, steel
region the socialist vots was 242 as
compared with the Communist vote
of 159. 1t is interesting to note,
however, that in one of the steel
towns, Hammond, the 2Sth precinct
Continued ~ Page TUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
While Millions
StarUe, Rulers
G0bbIe Turkey

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 29.-
To the millions of starving workers
and unemployed tramping the
streets of the cities of the United
States this raw Thanksgiving Day,
the following account of how the
holiday, turkey and cranberries, was
enjoyed by the rulers of the land
and their lackeys and victims will
prove instructive reading The ac-
count composed of excerpts from
the story released by the United
Press, capitalist news agency.
Note the characteristic generosity
with which capitalism shares its
turkey with the inmates it has
forced into cells for years to ex-
plate some intrusion on its rights
d generosity which is the most hor-
rible tantalization of all. Note the
frank brutality with which the press
story admits the sufferings Of the
soldiers dying for imperialistic
greed in 1918. Very, very irstruc-
tive.
president Coolidge and his wife
had a night dinner, with a 30-pound
turkey as piece-de-resistance, at the
Swannanoa Country Club, Virginia.
"John Coolidge, his son, was the
guest of Governor John H. Trum-
bull and Mrs. Trumbull at their
Connecticut country home, with
particular reason for thanksgiving
after the formal announcement
Wednesday night of his engagement
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
ANCL L0-JAP ANESE
IMPERIALIST BLOC
Menace TO USSR
Ring Around Soviet
Union Is Seen as
British Plan
Jingoes Plotting War
Deal to Divide China;
Attack Worker State

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-Telegraph in
formation received here today
states that Pravda, organ of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union in an article entitled "Anglo-
japanese Bloc?" analyses the
speech of Sir Austen Chamberlain,
minister for foreign affairs of
Great Britain, in which he speaks
of the desire of the British govern
ment to "work in harmony with
Japan" in China, as evidence of an
other step in the encirclement policy
of British imperialism, the ultimate
stage of which the British war
makers hope will be a combined at
tack by capitalist nations against
the first workers republic.
Pravda states that in the present
phase of Anglo-American rivalry
for world empire, England is trying
hard to attract to it's banner France
and Japan, and to hold back the
British dominions such as Australia
and Canada from their drift towards
American capitalist domination.
Plotting War.
There is indication that the con-
versations last summer between
Baron Uchida and Lord Cushenden,
which have been renewed recently
with the Earl OF Cusnenden taking
Birkenhead's place, have for their
Continued on Page Fire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Chile Workers Demand
Higher Pay, No Booze

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 29.-The
widespread discomfort in Chile under
the dictatorship of the reactionary
Ibanez was evidenced by petition
of the workers in the nitrate plants
to the government, asking for higher
wages to meet the much higher
prices of food and other necessaries.
Their petition further charged
that many accidents in the plants
were due to defective explosives,
which resulted from the attempts of
the owners to save money at the
risk of their lives and health. 1t
also demanded that stringent mea-
sures be taken against alcoholism in
the nitrate sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
By WIN. I. KRUSE.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 29.-Altho
nothing like full returns are even
yet available of the vote cast for
the Communist candidates, all indi-
cations point to a marked increase
in strength. What is particularly
gratifying is that in many of the
most highly industrial sections not
only has the Communist vote grown,
but it outstrips that of the socialist
party. Thus in the coal mining CEN
ter of Franklin County, Illinois, the
Workers Party polled 143 votes
against 101 for Rev. Thomas. This
is an almost three-fold growth, for
in 1926 only Sc votes were cast here.
1t is interesting to note that par
ticularly in those centers where the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
MINERICH
TORTURED; HELD
INC0MMUNICADO
Framed Up and Jailed
by Pennsylvania
State Police
A Mine Union Leader
Defense Demands Writ
of Habeas Corpus

PITTSTON. Pa, Nov. 29.-An-
thony Minerich is still held incom-
municado in Wyoming barracks of
the Pennsylvania state police, where
so many miners have in recent
months been "third-degreed," beaten
and tortured nearly to death.
Utmost activities of. the local
miners to have him released for
hearing or on bail have so far been
frustrated by the police, acting for
the coal operators and the united
Mine Workers of America which now
wishes to be the official company
union of the anthracite fields.
Anthony Minerich, National Exec
utive Board Member of the National
Miners Union has been struggling
along with the 5000 miners recently
striking in Pittston, to create an
efficient strike organization, after
their betrayal by Frank McGarry,
leader of the independent" union
which was at first in charge of the
strike. The strikers are being vic
timized by the coal companies. dis
is practised against sew
eral hundred of the more militant in
the last strike, and the mayor of
Pittston forbade meetings of the
miners until Minerich organized a
mass meeting Tuesday, and broke
through the restrictions.
History of Frame-up.
On coming out of the meeting hall
Minerich was arrested by state de-
Continued on Page FiUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
FAIL. TO SETTLE
RUHR LOCKOUT
Workers Demand Less
Working Hours
(Wireless to the Daily Worker

(WwelesS to the Daily Worker)
BERLIN, Nov. 29.-The media
tion of Bergman. social-democratic
representative of the Prussian gov
ern,r ent, between the Ruhr indus
tria'ists and lcformist leaders of
the locked-out metal unions has thus
far been without result. The ses-
sions have been postponed until Sat
urday.
The "Vossische Zeitdng.' liberal
newspaper, reports that the gCy-
ernment has undertaken to bring
the dispute to an immediate con-
clusicn Beth the industrialists and
the union officials have been asked
to commit themselves in Vance to
accept the decision of an "indi-
vidual with special authority"
Should they agree the individual
will hear both sides tomorrow and
give a decision, upon which work
must be resumed.
The Reich's labor minister, the
social-democrat Wiser, has also
undertaken mediation and has in
vited representatives of both sides
to attend session in Berlin tomor-
row in which the government will
participate.
The fighting spirit of the work
ers is good and many mass meet
ings demand that the leaders give
notice that the present working
hours agreement must be ended. In
the beginning, however, the leaders
even agreed to lengthen the work
ing hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Philadelphia Marine
Workers Meet Friday
on Vestris Disaster

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.-Ma-
rine workers of Ph'adelphia will
hold a meeting this Friday at p.
m. at 1T Walnut Street, in the In
ternational Seamens' Club, in pro-
test against conditions on ships
which imperil the lives of seafarers
and passengers and as graphically
shown by the Vestris disaster.
George Mink, national secretary
of the Marine Workers Progressive
League, will speak, and general dis
cussion by all sailors and shore
workers will follow. All marine
workers, both from ships and from
shore are urgently invited to at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Insist on Meeting.

4 membership meeting of the
Broad Silk Department to discuss
the strike situation and conditions
in settled shops will be helc at
Carpenters Hall, Sc Van Hcuten
St., Saturday, December !, at 2
p. m.
The meeting is called to enable
all members of the Broad silk De-
partment to free and complete
discussion of the situation.
Order of Business: Strike situ-
alton, condition in settled shops;
attitude of the Textile Workers
Union.
Attendance by membership book
only.
STRIKE COMMITTEE ASS0CI-
ATED SILK WORKERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
S25, 900, Merger in
Pottery Industry Will
Be Practical Monopoly

Practically the entire pottery in
dustry of the country is involved in
a new merger now under way. This
includes twenty companies in Ohio
and other states who are to combine
in a S25,OOoO00 monopoly.
When this merger is completed
only few companies in the coun-
try will not be in the trust, and the
probability of their being gobbled
up sooner or later is very great.
When this occurs, we shall have an
other industry practically completely
monopolized. The financial interests
behind the merger have not yet been
disclosed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Company Goes to High
Court to Cheat Worker

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 20 (UP).-
Counsel for the American Car and
Foundry Co. were prepared yester-
day to file appeal of a circuit court
jury award of $290,000 in favor of
John c. Scrivner, Camden, N. j., a
former bricklayer, who charged
breach of contract on an iron smelt-
ing process he perfected.
Basis of the suit was Scrivner's
claim that the company, by which he
once was employed, contracted for
the exclusive rights to use a hydro
cabron furnace he patented and that
it paid him nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Anti MbeyiaHst
Meetings in West

CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-Workers
of the middle west will make
their voices felt in protest against
Wall Street imperialism in Lat
in-Anierica at nine huge meet
ings, beginning with a demonstra-
ton in Chicago on Dec. 16. Other
demonstrations will be held at
Gary, Ind, on Dec. II; Milwau-
kee, Wis.,, Dec. 81; Jacksonville,
ILL.,, Dec. 81, and st. Louis, Dec.
23. Otto Hall, organizer of the
American Negro Labor Congress,
and other nationally known
speakers will address the meeS-
lgs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Section 2 FunctiOnary
Meeting Is Postponed

"A meeting of all functionaries
Of Section 2 Of the Workers (COm-
munist) Party, which was origin
ally called for tonight, has been
postponed until further notice be-
cause of the fact that unit or
ganizers' meeting for the entire
district was previously called for
tonight by decision of the Secre-
tariat, at meeting Nov. 26.
All functionaries of Section 2
take notice of this postponement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
BY JACK CARNEY

DUBLIN, (By MaiD within
the narrow confines of one room
12x12, I found fourteen people liv-
ing and sleeping" wrote the Supt.
Assistance Officer, r. f. O'Mahony,
to the Kerry Board Of Health, "there
was no window and no bed"
During the last six MONTHS" his
report continues, "over 1000 per-
sons were assisted; the average
weekly allowance of home rol.ef be-
ing two shillings (fifty cents).%
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
IRISH POOR STARVING
Thousands in Kerry Kept Barely Alive

"Their existence is nothing more
than protracted starvation. Chill
dren are denied necessary nourish-
ment, and, consequently, in almost
every family, there are either i'm
beetles, cripples, or consumptives-
certainly caused, in most cases, by
mal-nutrition.
No Beds, Sleep On Rags.
"In large number of houses
there are no beds. Piles of filthy
RAGS are often used for night cover
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
German Imperialists
Gain Balkan Influence

BERLIN, NoY. 30 (UP).-German
industries were reported today to be
negotiating approximately S12,500,-
900 credits for the Rumanian gov
ernment, of which the German gov
ernment would guarantee a part.
The credit would be an important
move, reviving German influence in
the Balkans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Changes in Moscow
Committee of arty
(Wweless to the Daily Worker

TWW6I6oS % N6 DuUY " OTheTI
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 90
The plenary session of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of the Moscow district yesterday
granted the request of Uglanov and
Kotov that they be relieved of their
posts as secretaries of the Moscow
Molotov and Baumann were
elected to replace them.
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
RADIO PROGRAMS MONOPO-
LIED.

ST. PAUL, Nov. 29.--Close mono
polization of the radio broadcasting
industry was complained against
today by the director of WCCO
here, who said that the National
Brcadcasting Co. held the monopoly
end compelled broadcasting sta
tors to h"n1'e - programs exclu-
sive Of all others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
TEXTILE union
| Halls HER0ISM
/ OF JOHN PORTER
Telegraph Boss Victim
That Workers Salute
Jailed Leader
Held in Army Dungeon
Tortured for Bein g
Communist
Held in Army Dungeon

In response to the news story
carried in the columns of The Daily
Worker, which reprinted a letter
from Kansas City attorney, Caro-
line Lowe, to the International La
Dor Defense, telling of the brutal
torture John Porter was compelled
to undergo in the army prisons at
Fort Leavenworth, the National
Textile Workers Union has sent a
telegram to Porter who is an organ
izer for the union. The wire praises
the heroic endurance shown by Por-
ter, confined because of his service
to the working class.
Earned Boss Hatred
Porter, who was one of the lead
ing figures in the big six month
strike of 10000 textile workers in
New Bedford, earned, thru his mill
tant and popular leadership, the
hatred of the mill barons. They
promptly decided to shut off the
sound of a voice so effective in
threatening their profits and had
him arrested, tried and convicted for
"deserting" the army of American
capitalism. Porter is now serving
two and a half to five year sentence
for his refusal to belong to the U.
S. army, which is used by all bosses
in suppressing the working class.
The International Labor Defense is
now mobilizing the American work
ing class for campaign of protest
against his Imprisonment and pos
sible death by torture.
The telegram sent Porter by the
National Textile Workers Union fol-
lows in full:
Text of Telegram
"We are tremendously gratified
that, in spite of the beatings and
vicious treatment given you by the
bosses government, you are holding
firm and carrying on the heroic
traditions of the New Bedford
strikers. The National Textile
Workers Union is now beginning
big campaign for your release and
for the freedom of other textile
workers now on trial. Be of good
cheer. We will try to do everything
we possibly can to force the Jail
doors open for you and the other
fighters of the textile industry.
(Signed) National Textile Workers
Union. James P. Reid, president;
Albert Weisbord, secretary"
The union also states: Sowing to
the secret military process by which
he was tried and the fact that the
capitalist press carried no reports
of the case, the details of his trial
and arrest are almost unknown to
the general public. Notwithstand-
ing which, the National Textile
Workers Union plans to make every
worker familiar with the case, so
that the pressure of working-class
opinion can finally be brought to
bear on the release of John Porter"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Unit Organizers Meet
at the Center Tonight

A meeting of all unit organizers
of the Workers Communist Party,
District 2, will be held tonight at
8 o'clock at the Workers Center,
1928 Union Square.
All unit organizers must be pres
ent. A roll call will be taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
NANKING WAR PRACTICE

SHANGHAI, Nov. 80 (UP).-The
monoplane Canton, piloted by Chang
Hui-Chang, is expected here Friday
from Mukden, Manchuria, inaugu-
rating the preliminary step in devel-
opment of air mail service through
out China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
SILK WORKERS
MEET TO PLAN
STRIKE VICTORY
NJ EN- b e rship Meeting
Called by Left Wing
Strike Committee
OfficialdOm Is Defied
Broad Silk Operatives
Behind Left Wing
Especial to the Daily Worker)

PATERSON, n. j., Nov. 20. -
Profoundly conscious Of the serious
ness of the strike situation here, the
broad silk workers are making ready
to take the most determined steps
to improve conditions in the shops,
which the officials of the union
have allegedly settled, but which
have proven to be worse than ever.
For this, the most important reason,
the sentiment among the broad silk
workers forecasts a record attend
ance at the membership meeting
called by the left wing Strike Com
mittee for Saturday afternoon,
o'clock in Carpenters Hall, 56 Van
Houten st.
Insist on Meeting.
The humor the workers are in,
after seeing the reactionary officials
of the Associated Silk Workers do
everything possible to defeat their
struggle against the bosses, makes
it apparent that they will brook no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
ACCEPT KELLOGG PACT

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30
The foreign affairs committee of the
national assembly today approved
the Briand-Kellogg pact for "out-
lawry" of war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30
Forty-two Men on Ship
Calling for Help Off
Seattle May Be Lost

SEATTLE, Nov. 29.-Nothing
more has been heard of the crew of
the Chief Maquilla, which sent in a
distress signal yesterday, and then
became silent. Grave fears are felt
for her crew of AZ men.
The Chief Maquilla, which sailed
from Kildonan, B. c., Nov. II, for
Shanghai loaded with Puget Sound
and British Columbia products, is a
vessel of 9,100 gross tons and was
built in Scotland during 1919.
The only way to abolish unem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-30

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a WorkerS-Farmers Government
To Organise the Unorganized
For the 40-Hour Week
For a Labor Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-13
Boston Tories
Sniff at Book
on Oil, Bar It

BOSTON, Oct. 12.- Boston has
suppressed another book.
Ludwell Denny's volume, eve
Fight for OIL" has fallen afoul of
Boston's Sense" of what is decent
and fit to print and be read ;n'this
Center of Culture" revolutionary
mementoes, monuments and graves.
Whilst in the past Boston censors
for the most part have contented
themselves with suppressing edi-
tions that seemd to tread the bor-
der of morality, this time they
choose a book that rubs the rotten
economic system of this country.
The book deals with oil and its sig
nificance as a factor in international
relations.
When asked why the book could
not be bought or sold in their lily
white city, the book store clerks pro-
fess profound and complete ig-
norance. eve 90 not know why we
can't sell it, but we can't" was the
hook store reply to a request for a
copy. The author, Ludwell Denny,
is a staff writer for the Scripps-
Howard newspapers.