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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
SMITH SLApS AT
farmers RELIEF
Satisfies Demands of
Big Bankers

Governor Alfred E. Smith today
finished another Of his long list of
hypocritical maneuvers in an
nouncing that the McNary- Haugen
bill is mot acceptable as o form of
farm relief"
After carrying on campaign of
propaganda calculated to convey the
impression that he was completely
in sympathy with the farmers eff
for to secure agricultural relief, Al
Smith today made clear his real
position. He still insists that he is
for farm relief" but makes it plain
othe banking interests who are op-
posed to the McNary- -Haugen bill,
that the democratic party no more
than the republican party will Of
fend the eastern bankers.
The McNary- Haugen bill, while
in reality a camouflaged measure,
which can afford no real and per-
manent benefit to tn efarmers, rep
resents the issu earound which some
Of the farming forces have fought.
Smiths announcement is taken
therefore as a sort of defeat in
principle for those unreliable lead
ers who within the past few weeks
have sought t oturn tn efarm dis
content to the advantage of the
democratic party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
COLORADO PARTY
N0MINATES saul
Communist Convention
Held in Denver

Sixty-three delegates from all
parts of the state attended the
Nominating Convention Of the
Workers (Communist) Party in
Colorado on July %. The conven-
ton was held in the Barnes School
Auditorium, Denver.
In addition to the delegates scores
Of Interested visitors attended and
intense enthusiasm prevailed
Many Industries.
The delegates came from At
wood, Pueblo, Lafayette, Frederick,
Erie, Walsenberg and Denver. They
represented exploited farmers. min
ers, painters, bakers, walters,
clerks, working g-class housewives,
printers, nurses, packing house
workers, boxnnakers, teachers, tail
ors, steel workers, truck drivers, the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
MEXICAN nun TO
FACE LONG TERM
Prosecutor Still Aims
at Labor

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8. - A
twenty-year Jail term, it was an
nounced, faces Maria Conception
Acebeda de la Llata, mother su-
perior of a local convent who has
been revealed as one of the leaders
in the clerical conspiracy to assas-
sinate President-elect Obregon.
Juan Correa Nieto, attorney gen.
eral of the federal district who Is
nj charge of the prosecution an
nounced that he would ask for a
twemty-year maximum sentence for
the nun. The Mexican law does not
permit the execution Of a woman.
Jose de Leon Toral, the slayer IS
awaiting trial for murder and will
probably be executed.
Toral and Manuel Trejo, one of
the leaders of the Mexican Fedora
tion of Labor whom the prosecutro
in conformity with the general aims
of reactionary forces, is trying to
connect with the shooting, are said
to have spent considerable time at
the convent Of which the nun was
head. There the conspiracy was
worked out although the informa-
tion as to who exactly was present
has not yet been and may never be
made public.
The prosecutor asserted that his
investigations disclosed in the
mother superior's house or convent
a branding iron with the letter "I.
H. S." The iron was used to mark
the members of the secret clerical
society of violence and assassina-
tion.
The date of Toral's trial is to be
fixed soon and it will probably take
place within fifteen days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
PHILA. TEXTILE
meet TOMORROW

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.--A big
district conference of the Textile
Mills Committees will be held in
Philadelphia Sunday at 1:30 p. M,
at Free Let's Hall, 531 N. Seventh
st.
Albert Weisbord. national secre-
tary of the Textile Mills Commit
tees, will be one of the chief speak
ers. This conference will have dele
gates from textile mills in every
important center around Philadel-
phia. including Easton, Bethlehem,
Reading. Chester, Trenton. and the
various towns and cities in the an
thracite region, as well as a num-
ber of mills in Philadelphia.
This conference will mark a be-
ginning in the organization of the
textile workers in these centers.
There are no organizations of the
workers in Easton, Bethlehem, Ches-
ter and Trenton. In Philadelphia
and Reading only a small percent
age of the textile workers are or
eanized, chiefly within the reaction
ary United Textile Workers of
America.
The district conference in Phila-
delphia will be the first step for
ward in the establishment OF COM
mittees of rank and file workers in
every textile mill in this district.
Here the preparations and plans
for building a new, fighting textile
:aion in this section will be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
Miners FAIR
here SUNDAY

The struggles of thousands of
men, women and children in the
mine fields will be brought to
Pleasant Bay Park Sunday when the
miners strike film will be shown
for the first time at the great
Miners Solidarity Fair that has
been arranged by the National
Miners Relief Committee.
This film was taken in the strike
fields, not in a studio, and tells the
story of the heroic struggles of the
miners in scenes that are vivid and
gripping, The early scenes show
the men working in the mines. Then
the strike is called. The men leave
the mines in a body. Picketing
scenes, scenes of women and chill
dren, babies with empty milk bottles.
Evictions, building of barracks. Scah
mine accidents, ambulances, corpses.
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
MOBILIZE ACTIVE
CLOAK WORKERS

Preliminary mobilization steps
for the great drive to build & clcak
and dressmakers' union were COM
pleted last night with the holding of
an enthusiastic meeting of the ac-
tive workers in Manhattan Lyceum,
6e E. 4th St.
In his opening remarks the chair
man Of the meeting, Saseha thinner
man, of the National Organization
Committee, declared that the drive
for union would be officially
launched next week with the holding
of the huge mass meeting of all
cloak and dressmakers in Bronx
Stadium Wednesday night. The first
stage of this drive, during which
an intensive organization campaign
will be waged thruout the trade, will
last about five weeks. All the ac-
tive cloak and dressmakers will have
to serve as volunteers in this drive,
devoting at least three days to the
work, he said.
Right Wing Frantic.
In a speech full of irony and
humor ]. Boruchovich described the
sad state of the pirate right-wing
clique and pointed out the tasks that
Continued on Page TiCo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
TROOPS
NEAR LITHUANIA
THREATEN WAR
Pilsudski Will Mass
10000 at Wilma
BY FREDERICK KuH


BERLIN, Aug. 3 (UP).-Poland
and Lithuania are massing troops
along the Polish Lithuanian from
tier, according to authoritative in
formation reaching here today.
Considerable fear is felt in
Lithuania regarding the possible
outcome of the congress of Polish
legionnaires, which Marshal Pilsud-
ski, dictator of Poland, will address
August 12 1t is believed possible
that the 10000 legionnaires who are
gathering at the congress may be
stampeded by fiery address by
Pilsudski and begin an invasion of
Lithuania, supported by Polish regu-
lars.
Polish regulars are said now to
be moving toward the frontier.
Meanwhile, Lithuania, as a precau-
tionary move, is reinforcing her
border guards and organizing the
people into bands along the border
to meet the invasion if it comes.
Mobilize Troops.
On the other hand, it is reported
from Warsaw that the entire situa-
ton is viewed as critical there. Ac-
cording to Polish information, Lith-
uania would be able to station one
artillery and four infantry regi-
ments among the important towns
with .strongholds at Olida and
Bolosy.
The Poles assert that the cavalry
division of the First Ulan Regi-
ment and two air force seuadrons
are now concentrated at Olida. Ac-
cording to Polish circles. these do
not comprise unit, but belong to
artillery contingerts.
From Kovno, Lithuania's capital
it is reported that President Sine
tona, in an address before $4,000
peasants who gathered along the
frontier to demonstrate their sup
port of the governments policy,
urred that the people maintain
their unity to "face foreign pres
will not make any concessions in
the Wilma question.
The speech was greeted with
cries of "Vilna must remain Lithu-
anian."
May Leave League.
A conference of Polish and Lith-
uanian representatives is scheduled
to meet at Koenigsberg shortly in
an endeavor to find some solution
to the entire problem between the
two countries.
Semi-official Lithuanian circles
declare that Lithuania will with
draw from the League of Nations
unless the conference "gives Lith-
uania justice" and this is generally
interpreted to mean settlement of
the question of the jurisdiction over
the key city of Wilma in Lithuania's s
favor. 1t is said that Lithuania in
withdrawing from the League OF
Nations would do so on the grounds
that it was not an organization
capable of protecting the rights OF
the smaller nations of the world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04

committed to obey the commands of
the biggest banks and industrial
trusts in their foreign policies"
which means the unlimited use Of
the diplomatic, naval and military
power of the government to impose
the imperialist profit making
schemes Of these capitalists upon the
whole world.
Imperialism
The development of the forces of
production in each capitalist country
drives it's ruling oligarehy to secure
for itself more and more territories
into which to pour its products and
its surplus capital, filched from la
Dor, for investment in the greedy
scramble for more profits.
Already, before the War of 1914,
the entire world had been divided
up for exploitation, into colonies,
possessions" and spheres of influ-
ence." Each imperialist power, striv-
ing for further territory and more
subject peoples to exploit, is forced
to fight another imperialist power
for possession. 1t was this imperi-
alist struggle and not moral
causes, not "to make the world safe
for Democracy" that caused Ger
many and Great Britain, Japan,
czarist Russia, and France to go to
war in 1914, and the United States
to enter that war.
The cause of imperialist wars lies
in the nature of imperialism itself.
1t is this same cause which is
pushing the imperialist powers now
to another and a bigger war.
IT,. S. and Britain to Fight
But, whereas Germany and Great
Britain were the two chief powers
at daggers' points in 1914, so the
United States and Great Britain are
today the two biggest imperialist
rivals. The problems of petroleum,
of control of the sea, the problems
of the market and of export of capi-
tai, drive the rapacious finance-cap-
italist oligarchy of Wall Street to
penetration of the territories of the
isn Imperialism, stricken VIII decay
but still mighty world-force deeply
British empire. The powerful Brit
intrenched in all quarters of the
globe, faces the new and more pow
erful American Imperialism which is
driven inexorably to fight to displace
it's older rival as exploiter of the
world.
Other Antagonisms
At the same time the imperialist
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
U.SS.R. GRAIN PLENTIFUL
Peasants Sell Their Best Grain to Govt

MOSCOW, Aug. 3.--Official gov
ernment reports published here to-
day show that considerable amounts
of grain have been bought up by
the Soviet buying cooperatives and
that the peasants are reacting very
favorably to the new legislation
governin gthe buying of the crops.
The harvest is not only plentiful
but Of especially fine quality. Dur
ing the last few days of July,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 8
To the workers and peasants of all countrie
To all oppressed peoples!
To all Communist Partiesi

To all oppressed peoples!
To all Communist Parties!
Fourteen years have passed since the outbreak the
world slaughter The mperass declared that the World
War the last but today there signs
where the nations feverishly
The mperalsts openly conducting armed nterven-
ton against the Chinese Revolution Thousands being
killed because the mperass demand the control of the Chi
markets The present Intervention threatens world peace
War Against U. S. S. R.
The for plain
day The mpaists Strengthening their
Millions of dollars being
The bitter only Today
than 1914 preparations
pafist mask the League Nations the Kellogg
is possible within the frame work of capitalist society
The capitalists
that the only abolish ovrwng
ing dictatorship Of the proearat
Impersist
The socialist and "pacis assisting the imperial
into
appeals with the cv:
Down with the mperast war; Fight with all against war;
"Side with the Soviet Union against nperaists"
The Communist International
the fourth of August these
end their "pacifst" and Socialist"
The workers energetay The
clouds the horizon the
take energetic defend the
energetic struggle the workers position
rerias whether it
imperiaGsts from their hatred of
All Communists revolutionary
turn the imperia civil
geosie.
Long live the Chinese
Long live the Soviet Union!
Down with international imperialism
Signed) The Communist International in its Sixth Congress
Assembled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
YOUNG WORKERS TRAINING
SCHOOL.

ROCKFORD, Ill, Aug. 3.-A
training school is being conducted
by the Young Workers (Communist)
League at Rockford, closing Aug.
25. Most Of the young workers in
attendance come from the Illinois
mining area and from the iron and
steel mills extending from 'Wauke-
gan through Chicago to Gary and
beyond. Max Appelman is in
sharge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04

sufficiently to be discharged.
Medical aid to the injured has
been in vain and deaths have been
averaging one every two hours.
The disaster occurred while the
refinery's fire brigade was fighting
a small fire in nearby still. When
the second fire alarm was turned
in, the workers, complying with
company orders rushed out only to
find themselves drenched in flam-
ing oil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
SACRIFICED TO PROFIT
20 Dead, Many Dying in Oil Explosion

VINCENNES, Ind, Aug. 3.-The
toll of deaths as result of the
explosion Wednesday morning of an
old steam oil still Of the Indian
Refining Company has already risen
to 20, and only one of the Is re-
naming survivors of the blast is
expected to recover The deaths of
five more workers are expected mo-
mentarily.
Of the 81 brought here after the
explosion only TWO nsye recovered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04

0S1 1udtl lSliOW-WOThSES lOI VIC
tory of the Allies which would make
secure the billions of dollars which
American bankers had at stake up
on the Allied cause.
Today, fourteen years after the
beginning of the "War to End
M the same InaperiaIists are
preraring for a bigger and bloodier
world war.
Today, ten years after Woodrow
Wilson's hypocritical "Peace," the
armaments of all capitalist nations
of the world are larger than be-
fore August a, 1914 Since the i'm
perialist "Peace" hardly a month
has passed that there has not been
in one or another part of the world,
armed conflict against weaker
nation, conducted by signatory Of
that treaty. Today the democrat
ic" United States, ruled by the big
gest bankers, the finance7capitalists
of Wall Street, is in open warfare
against Nicaragua, and in armed
intervention in China
But in 1927, after the "War to
End War" the United States spent
$757, 100000 on the army and navy.
All army standards have been in
creased. Military and naval bud
gets of all capitalist governments
are bigger than ever before. Mill
tary methods have been mechanized
for the slaughter of whole armies
and whole populations of large cit
les by wholesale. The wars which
are coming will be more terrible
than any that have gone before.
The wars Of -Ne imperialist states
against the so-called "undeveloped"
nations, China, Egypt, India, Mic
aragua, ETC.. are proceeding and the
monstrous crime of Imperialist pow
ers in attempting to crush the Chi
nese revolution may itself precipi-
tate a world war. The first sparks
of the coming holocaust of war be-
tween the great imperialist nations
are already in the wind.
Cause of War
The cause of the World War is
now clear to millions of workers.
The cause is in the capitalist sys-
tenn itself. Imperialism is the mon
opoly stage of capitalism, in which
great cartels, combines and trusts
are the dominant force in the life
of the capitalist nations. In the
United States the big mergers of
giant corporations proceed openly,
and there is no longer any pretense
of enforcing the famous "Anti-
Trust Laws" Except against La
Dor unionsl). The final stage of
classification is reached by the COM
plete merging of the giant banking
houses together with the mergers
Of industrial corporations. These
financial industrial mergers have al
ready reached the point in all capi-
talist countries where they hold COM
plete domination over the lives of
the peoples. The governments of all
advanced" capitalist countries are
mere adjuncts of the national oil
garchies of finance-capital. In the
coming so-called democratic" cleo
tion in the United States, both of the
two candidates of the big capitalist
parties are representatives of the
same ffnance-capitalist oligarchy,
and each competes with the other to
prove that he has the support Of the
greater number Of the lords of fl
nance-capitsl. Both Smith ard Hoo
yer ana the parties Denma trfem are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
Right Wing Frantic.
Railroad Worker Is
Killed in Collision

VALLEY CITY, ILL.,. August 8.
GU. Pc. E. Miller, Wabash Fire
man, was killed today when Wabash
passenger train number 3 Crashed
into the Caboose of freight train.
the freight was pulling into siding
to make way for the passenger but
the caboosr rad not cleared the right
of xyny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04

Souyzchleb, the largest all-Union
grain purchasing organization,
bought $4,000 tons, 200 per cent
more than during the five preceding
days.
Big progress was reported in
Northern Caucasia where large
quantities Of barley and wheat of
the highest quality were bought up.
Favorable repotrs have also come
in from all parts Of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
w r
AUGUST A. 1928, FOURTEENTH ANNIVER-
SARY OF THE WORLD WAR
TO THE WORKERS AND EXPLOITED FARMERS
OF THE UNITED STATES.


Comrades:
Fourteen August 1914 the World
which ten million workers and killed thirty millions
That called the War End War Fearing the of the
working class the capitalist politicians declared
the Last War With hypocrita phrases
modified shambes to fight their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
SELLS CEMENT MIXERS
TO U. S. S. R.

COLUMBUS, O., August 8, (F.P)
The Jaeger Machine Co. of Colum-
bus is shipping carloads of cemen,
mixers to the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
WORKERS MUST DEFEAT
IMPERIALIST ATTACKS
AGAINST SOVIET UNION
Turn Capitalist Slaughter Into Class Conflict,
Is Slogan
Warn That Socialists, ," "Pacifists, Are Smoke
Screen for Armament Preparation

The owing appeal to the oorkg class of the d has been
received By the Daily Worker the Srth World the
Communist International the fourteenth anniversary
perintist World
Evening star., 1928-01-30
COTTON ADVANCES
IN TODAY'S TRADING
Buying for Both Trade and
Investment Account-Liv-
erpooI Steady.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 30.-The cot
ton market opened firm today at an ad-
vance OF 8 to 10 points active months
selling II to % points net higher in
early trading on rather active covering
and fresh buying supposed to be for
both trade and investment account.
Demand evidently was promoted by
relatively steady Liverpool cables, re-
ports that notwithstanding recent low
temperatures. there was still danger Of
boil weevil damage to the coming crop,
and a. theory that the recent decline in
prices might have a tendency to check
increase in acreage
May sold up to 1774 and October to
l7.42 and while the advance met fur
ther liquidation and southern selling,
prices were within few points of the
best at the end of the first hour.
Private cables reported trade calling
covering and buying for a reaction In
Liverpool, but that the Manchester cot
ton goods trade was depressed with
business restricted.
The early advance extended to 1871
for May and 1850 for October. or
about Is to 80 points above Saturdays
closing figures. The demand tapered
OF somewhat at these quotations, how
ever, prices reacting several points from
the best under realizing by buyers of
late last week. This seemed to be
coupled with some further liquidation
and Southern selling. At midday Nav
was selling around 1867 with the gen
eral market i to IL points net higher
Evening star., 1928-01-30
New Bond Issues

NEW YORK. January 30 (Special -
Goldman. Sachs & Co. Lehman Bros
and Prince & Whitley offer today S35.-
00o. 900 National Dairy Products Cor
porztion 5i4 per cent gold debentures
maturing February !. iS4s. The bonds
are priced at 80 TO yield about 5.33 per
cent
A new issue Of sl2. .O0o. 900 Terni-so-
cieta Per LIndustria z LEllettricita
tItaly) first mortgage hydro-electric 6z
per cent sinking fund gold bonds, series
A due February !, 1853. and priced at
s0i4 70 yield about TBS per cent is being
marketed today by w. A. Hartman g.
Co. Harris. Forbes d. Co. and Banca
Commerciale Italiana Trust Co.
Offering is being made today Of s4.-
$50 900 Fox 81. Louis Theater Building
CThester Realty Coz first mortgage fee
and leasehold 6i2 per cent sinking fund
gold bonds due October /. 1912, by Hal
sey. Stuart d Co. West 6c So, Joiner
d. Co. Inc; A. c. Allyn ds Co., and E.
Il Rollins a. Sons. The bonds are
priced at 100.
Peabody, Smith d. Co. Inc: Booming
d. Co. and Timberlake Estes &. Co. offer
today So. ESQ 900 Advance Bag & Paper
Co, Inc, hrSt mortgage, series "A &"
Der cent sinking fund gold bonds.
maturing June J, 1852. al par.
The Royal Securities Corporation viii
offer early next week an issue Of
81 500 900 Eestigrouche Co, Ltd.
formerly Stetson, Cutler 6s Co. 5iz Der
cent first mortgage Z0-year sinking fund
gold bends, series "A
EpeJer & Co. and the National City
Go. viii offer tomorrow 1000 900
Greek government 40-year per cent
secured sinking fund gold bonds nla.ur-
ing February :. 1853, al 81, 10 yield 665
per ert