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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
PORTES GIL, IN
SPEECH, YIELDS
TO U. S. BAR0NS
Indicates Surrender of
Ideals of the
Revolution "
Lauds Wall st. Agent
North America Will
Have No Complaint"

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30.-Portes
c., the lawyer chosen by the Mex
lean congress for president of Mex
leo, pending the regular constitu-
tional election, made an inaugural
speech this afternoon which indi-
Gated that his administration has
gone over still another step towards
subservience to capitalist interests
at home and in the United States.
Although promising that he would
defend free speech and free assem-
blage, the president put in very
equivocal language the question of
continuing the work of revolution
in Mexico, to which his party is
pledged and from which it has
shown great tendency to shirk
back, saying:
"The administration will carry
out its interior and exterior obliga-
tions to work for the betterment of
the working classes and will live
within the law in its endeavor to
further the realization of ideal.
logical and economic conquest of the
revolution"
Against Advanced Ideas"
The power of labor and the mill
fancy of the poor farmers in Mex
leo is sufficiently strong to make
it advisable for Mexican presidents
to boast of their "radicalism," but
Portes Gil managed to hedge even
here. In defining his personal posi-
tion in the coming campaign, Portes
Gil claimed that he had been a men,
Der of the radical group" but did
not believe that under the present
circumstances it would be proper to
carry out the ends of the advanced
ideas held by the party.
Although he promised a continu-
ance of the revolutionary program.
and especially the enforcement of
t., land and labor articles of the
constitution, the president signifi-
cantly declared for admitting an er-
r when obliged by circums -ccs
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
HOOVER STATUS
QUESTIONED BY
( LATIN AMERICA
Argentina Raises the
Issue, Disturbing
~ Imperialists
Hoover DOdges Policy
Finishes Big Meal and
Prosperity" Report

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Dis-
patches from Latin American coun-
.ries on Hoover's tour indicate that
some Latin Americans have mental
reservations on the good will' fairy
tale advanced as the reason for the
trip of Yankee imperialism's out
standing figure.
White House officials here were
forced today to perform some diplo-
matte lodging when a cable from
the U. S. minister to Argentina, Mr..
Bliss, arrived, stating that president
Irigoyen, of Argentina had INQUIRED
whether Hoover was on an official
mission or not. After much scratch
ing of imperialist heads it was de-
cided not to decide, and leave it up
to Latin American governments as
to whether they wished to accord
Hoover official welcoming cere-
monies or not.
Argentia Cool.
, That Argentina even raised the
Question was an unpleasant indica-
ion that the Argentine government
is not overcome with awe before
American imperialism. In an effort
to help Hoover without making any
decision, it was "unofficially"
pointed out that Hoover received
the presidential salute of 81 guns
when he boarded the Maryland, and
that it was "felt obvious that a
president-elect has risen above the
status of private citizen"
Hoover himself had to dodge this
issue when visiting San Salvador, in
cidentally dodging the still greater
question as to his future policy TO-
ward Latin America.
A Salvadorian reporter from the
Daily Salvador" asked Hoover if he
would change the present U. 5.
policy toward Latin American ma
Continued on Page Fire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
BALDWIN DENIES
ADVISES PARLEy
Loves Dickinson Tells
of War Danger

LONDON, Nov. 80. - Premier
Baldwin today denied in parliament
that his government was taking any
steps to hold naval parleys with the
United States and France, though
he said that it would consider any
steps that might be considered use
full" He put the Britten proposal
of a conference between congress
men and members of parliament in
Canada up to the house, saying that
it was a parliamentary and not a
cabinet matter.
The premier's reply is taken to
indicate that he sees Britten's note
as simply a maneuver in the big
naval race, to which both Baldwin
and Britten and their capitalist
masters are committed. In this con-
nection British newspapers are pub
fishing letter from G. Loves Dick
enson, historian and essayist, who
declares that a real war danger ex-
lists, and criticizes the premier for
using about it the very word, "un-
thinkable" which Lord Asquith en-
ployed in discussing a prospect of
war with Germany, only two days
before England entered the war.
Dickinson says, Everybody is
thinking furiously about war" 1t
is automatic, says Dickinson, that
competition will bring war just as
it did between England and Ger
many.
LONDON, Nov. 80 (UP).-Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin has re-
piled to Representative Britten's
proposal for an Anglo-American
conference on naval affairs, it was
authoritatively learned today.
The message was forwarded
through Sir Esme Howard, British
ambassador to the United States,
who will communicate it to the state
department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
REVIEW W 5 YEARS
OF The DAILY
Agents Plan Campaign
for Anniversary

At the meeting of Daily Worker
agents, held last night at the Work
ers Center, 1928 Union Square, it
was decided to make the fifth an
niversary campaign of the paper
the biggest yet conducted. Five
hundred thousand copies of the
DAILY" will be printed and dis
tributed in mass distribution
which will exceed even the mass
editions of 3S0,0O0 copies of the
Especial Election issue and the 300y.
coo of the May Day number.
Harry M. Wicks, acting editor OF
the Daily Worker, spoke to the
agents on the political significance
of the past five years of struggle
Of the paper. Harry Fox, campaign
manager, and A. Ravitch, business
manager, spoke on the organiza-
tional aspects of the campaign.
Wicks reviewed the conditions un-
der which the "Daily" was born and
the campaign of preparation which
preceded its birth. He showed how,
despite tremendous difficulties,
which almost resulted in the suspen-
sion of the paper upon a number of
occasions, it had steadily kept up
the fight for the working class. By
its correct editorial and news poll
cies it had under the direction of
the G. E. c. won the leadership of
every movement of struggle for
Unionization and against betrayal of
the interests of the working class,
until practically every strike of re-
cent years has been led by the left
wing, under the influence of the
Communist Party.
The Communist movements of the
Latin American countries, Wicks
said, acknowledged the value of the
Daily Worker in exposing the in
rer workings and purposes of
American Imperialism in these
countries.
With the war danger as the great
est one facing the American and
world working class, and with i'm
pcr.alist conflicts bringing this
danger nearer every moment at
great speed, the role of the Daily
Worker in the coming period will
be crucial one for the entire Com
munist movement.
The discussion of the organiza-
tional phases of the fifth anniver-
sary campaign, which was still 60
ing on as the paper went to press,
will be outlined in detail in Mon
days paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
FRENCH CHAMBER
BACKS WAR PLAN
Radicals" Vote for
Poincare Reaction

PARIS, Nov. 30.-Poincare's war
budget, which assigns many more
million gold francs to war prepara-
tions than in last years budget,
which was already considerably
above the war expenditures of 1918.
sustained the weak and demogogic
criticism of the Socialists" and lib
erals in the chamber of deputies
yesterday, and drew large vote of
confidence in Poincare Imperialism
and reaction, amidst the Kisses and
strong opposition of the Communist
deputies.
The voting indicated a split in the
so-called radical-socialist party, 40
of its deputies voting for Poincare,
DO abstaining, and 40 registering
weak opposition.
Painleve, war minister and mem
ber of the '"radical" party, used all
his energies to defend the program
of extensive war preparations, and
declared that neither Locarno nor
the Kellogg pact justified an inter
ruption in the construction of arma-
ments, but on the contrary made
more extensive war preparations
necessary.
The results of the session indicate
that the Poincare war program will
have clear sailing and that the Com
munist Party remains the only real
opposition to the reaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
SILK WORKERS
/. PLAN MEASURES
TO WIN STRIKE
Broad Silk Dept Will
Hold Membership
Meet Today
Foil Plans to Disrupt
Natl Textile Union
Sends Spokesman
Foil Plans to Disrupt
Especial to the Daily Worker)

tSpec1dt 10 tHe D0Hy W0fbPT)
PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 80. -
Despite frantic efforts on the part
of the little bureaucrats controlling
the Associated Silk Workers Union
to prevent the broad silk workers
from holding membership meet
ing, the defiant stand of the work
ers increases as each move to ham
per the meeting is checkmated by
a countermove of the left wing
Strike Committee. The meeting,
called for tomorrow afternoon, 2
o'clock in Carpenters Hall, Sc Van
Houten St., is to be held under the
auspices of this committee, which
the officials have been vainly trying
to dissolve because of it's militant
policies.
The latest move of the officials
was made yesterday when Fred
Hoelscher inserted into the local pa
pers the announcement that the
membership meeting called by the
Strike Committee is "illegal" and
has nothing to do with the Associ-
ated Silk Workers Union. Unfor-
tunately for him, however, the pa
pers also carried the statement of
the Strike Committee to the effect
that the meeting will be held as
announced.
In addition to this, the militant
strike leaders are carrying on a
wide distribution of leaflets calling
the broad silk workers to action if
they want to provide the strike
with some chances of victory and
if they want to gain union condi-
tions in the so-called settled shops,
where conditions are as bad as they
ever were because of the fake agree
ments which the right wing "1ead-
ers" reached with the bosses.
The determined comments of hun
dreds of broad silk workers made il
clear that they will tolerate no at
tempts of the officialdom to use
Continued ON Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
DIST. 2 URGES WORKERS
TO TON |. L. d. PROTEST

The District Executive OF the
Workers (Communist) Party. Dis.
trict 2, in a statement issued last
night, urges all workers of the city
to attend the protest meeting
against the frame-up of the 662 New
Bedford strikers to be held on Mon
Gay evening, Dec. 3, at Irving Plaza
18th st. and Irving Place, under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense.
The statement reads:
Statement to all Party members
Workers (Communist) Party. Dis.
trict 2, to all class-conscious work
ers:
Comrades:-
The persecution of the capitalist
class against the National Miner:
Union, the National Textile Work
ers Union, against the revolution
airy movement in the United State
is assuming great severity and bru
I'tality.
The capitalist class of Americ;
realizes that the new unions, baset
upon the class struggle, are mobil
izing the workers for struggl
against wage cuts and organizing
the unorganized workers and is ;
challenge to the bureaucratic re
formist cliques that rule over tn,
trade union movement. The capi
talist class realizes that the Com
munist Party is conducting a strug
gle against the war danger and i!
mobilizing in order to fight the
plans of the ruling class to plunge
the workers of America into a wal
against the Soviet Union ana intC
struggle with Great Britain t.
decide in favor of the hegemony Of
American bankers over the world
Mass arrests in New Bedford, the
frame-up of Biedenkap and Weis
bord, the capitalist conspiracy
Continued n Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
PARTY CONVENTION
Statement Issued by Workers Party
To All District Organizers
To All Party Units
To All Editors
Dear Comrades:


In accordance Central Executive Committee
of the Executive Committee OF
Executive Committee has
the following rules the Sixth National Con-
be held in New York City February l. 1929
convento originally 5h has been advanced
February technical neessaed the
change of date.
l. AGENDA
agenda National Convention follows
l. Report Executive Committee Economic
Activities of the Workers (Communist
Party and Tasks before the Party)
2 Report OF National Executive Committee of the
Young Workers (Communist) League.
International.
Report Right Danger and Trotskyism.
s. Report Trade Union Work.
g. Party Organization Problems
T. Negro Work
g. The War Danger and Struggle Against American
Imperialism
g. Election of Executive Committee and the
Central Control Commission.
II. BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
nuclei the convention shall be based
upon the average payments during the months of
August, September and October 1928.
Representation District Conventions to the National
shall based number of dues paid
respective districts during the months August September and
October 100 members major fraction thereof
good standing during this period shall be elected delegate to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
BY ART SHIELDS.
(BV Federated Press)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 80
That the industrial south is largely
an investment colony for absentee
Wall Street financiers is again
shown in the obituary of Thomas
Fortune Ryan and the will of Payne
Whitney. Both men were powerful
figures in the great tobacco COM
panies that are fighting the unions
in Dixie, and Ryan was promoter
of southern railroads.
Nearly $40,000,000 of Whitney's
S194, ,324,514 gross estate was in to-
bacco stocks inherited in part from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
CITLOW TO SPEAK
VAT FORUM MEET
Subject Will Be A.F.L,
Convention

Benjamin Gitlow, member OF the
Political Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party, will speak at
the Workers School Forum, 1928
Union Square, tomorrow evening on
"An Analysis of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Convention"
In announcing the lecture, D.
Benjamin, assistant director OF the
Workers School, said:
"Gitlow will show how the New
Orleans convention just as the De-
troit and the Los Angeles conven-
tions of the past has betrayed the
American workers; how the bureau
Gratis are serving American imper-
ialism and are acting as agents OF
the American capitalist class both
at home and abroad; what steps
must be taken by the American
working class to fight against
fraitorist and corrupt leadership of
The A. F. of L.; the question of
l1ew unions and the question of
working within the reactionary
trade unions; how the A. F. of L.
has acted on the important prob
lens facing the workers and how
the working class must act on these
same problems.
The Workers School wishes to call
the attention to those who attend
the Workers School Forum that it
is advisable to come early. Last
week the doors had to be closed be-
fore the lecture began, due to the
capacity crowds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
RYAN ROBBED WORKERS
Tobacco, Rail Labor Yielded Fortune

his uncle, Col. Oliver H. Payne,
Standard Oil magnate. Payne help
ed Ryan and James B. Duke to or
ganize the tobacco trust.
"Walk Mile" for S11 Week.
About S12,000,000 of this Whitney
tobacco money was in the r. J. Rey-
nolds Company, manufacturers of
Camel cigarets, which the North
Carolina labor movement put on the
scab list this summer. There are
10000 Reynolds employees in Win
ston Salem, N. c. If they read the
will and are good at figures they
will find this one New York sports
Continued on Page Tco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
WI APPOINTMENT
BOW TO WALL ST.
Belgian Capitalists Aid
Chang by Treaty

SHANGHAI, Nov. 30.-Further
recognition of the Chang Kai-shek
government subservience to English
and American imperialism was
given yesterday in the announce
ment of appointments of C. C. WI
as minister to Washington and of
Sao-ke Alfred SEE as minister to
London.
WI has been foreign minister of
the Nationalist government during
the period of the persecution of
Chinese labor unions and peasant
organization and has lent a ready
ear to all imperialistic demands re-
Gently. His appointment to Wash
ington is not demotion, Chinese
officials made clear in comment on
the move, but is recognition of
the Importance to the new govern
ment of close relations to the U. S.
capitalist government.
Closely connected with this ap-
pointment is the announcement that
the Washington ministry will soon
be made an embassy, as will also
the British position.
Belgium Supports Chang.
AS means of support to the
bloody Kuomintang rule, various
small countries under financial dom
ination of either U. S. or England
are expected to make friendly treat
les with Marking in the near fu-
ture.
The Belgian treaty is also signed,
and provides for possible revoca-
tion of extra-territoriality, which
shall, however, not come into effect
before Jan. 1, 1890. The treaty
says: Before such date the Chinese
government will make detailed ar
rangements with the Belgian gov
ernment for the assumption by
China of jurisdiction over Belgian
subjects. Failing such arrangement
by the said date Belgian subjects
are thereafter amenable to Chinese
laws and jurisdiction whenever the
majority of powers now having ex-
tra-territorial privileges in China
shall have agreed to relinquish
them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
POLICE SHIELDING
ROTHSTEINK|LLER
Tammany Anxious to
Cover Up Own Graft
BY ]. K.

Today, almost a month after the
murder of Arnold Rothstein. Tam
many inside man and gambler, the
police-under the direction of Mayor
Walker, Commissioner Warren and
the entire gang of Tammanyites
whose corrupt regime Rothstein
supported-have not yet made a
single definite move to apprehend
the murderer. Some have been ar
rested, so-called investigations"
and inquiries" have been made, but
no trace of the murderer has been
found, at least not for publication.
And still the Tammany-controlled
police continue to announce that
they are on the track Of new "clues, !"
that different people connected with
Rothstein's Tammany activities are
being quizzed. The entire "investi-
CATION" which began so slowly and
reluctantly on the part of the city
administration, is gradually falling
to pieces, tagging, dying out. Roth
stein was killed in the Park Central
Hotel, in a room whose inmates
were known to the management, but
the claw" which finds definite evi-
dence against workers and petty
cases of misconduct in few hours
usually, has stopped here.
The entire case has resolved it
self into an obvious and almost un-
concealed attempt on the part of
Mayor Walker and the Tammany
administration to cover up its own
rottenness and corruption which
would surely be exposed if the true
facts of Rothstein's murder were
divulged. McManus, who was ar
rested and charged with the murder
several days ago, is taking the case
very lightly, sure that the Tammany
administration will not allow him
to go to the chair or to the prison,
in view of the knowledge of Roth
STEMS graft activities which he
possesses.
Yesterday, all that was done was
the postponement of what the prose
cutors had promised would be a final
Showdown" on the case. Nc
Manus's appearance before the
Grand Jury was deferred for five
hours, under the excuse that new
witness" had been found. Moth
ing concerning this new witness,
however, was disclosed, and the case
was allowed to lag, as usual, for an
other day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01

The International Labor Defense
is beginning this years Christmas
Fund campaign. At present there
are important cases being defended
by the |. L. D. There are 662 tex
tile strikers who have already been
sentenced in the lower courts in
New Bedford and are now up before
the Superior Court.
One hundred miners, members of
the National Miners Union, are
either in Jail or out on bail as re-
suit of the attack of the employers
and the reactionary labor union Of
ficials on the new militant labor
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
LID. CHRISTMAS DRIVE
Calls ON Workers to Aid Mil MlhtantS


The International Labor Defense
is leading the fight to free Mooney
and Billings, to free the Centralia
victims and to free the Illinois min
ers. The International Defense is
helping the dependents of the class
war prisoners.
1t asks all to join the campaign
for funds for the prisoners and their
families, and it urges all workers
to support the organization which is
the shield Of the working class,
which defends the workers against
the attacks of the employers, against
the persecution meted out by the
capitalist courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
District 2 Organizers
Will Meet Today at 3

An important conference of all
section, subsection and unit or
ganizers of the Workers (COm-
munist) Party, District 2, will be
held today at 8 p. m, at 1928
Union Square, Room 602, accord
ing to a call issued yesterday by
John J. Ballam, industrial organ
izer of the district.
Attendance at this meeting is
most urgent, says the statement,
and no one should fail to be pres
ent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
Seamen's Club Meet
Tomorrow Night to
Hear Foster Speak

Tomorrow night, at o'clock, Will
liam z. Foster, once a seaman and
recently Communist candidate for
president, will speak at the Inter
national Seamen's Club, % South
st. Foster will speak on the prob
lens of all marine workers, both
on ship and ashore. All marine
workers are invited to attend
Admission is free to marine
workers, but others at the meeting
will be asked to contribute 25 cents.
Longshoremen, harbor workers and
seafarers from all departments of
ships are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
UglanOv Named Labor
COmmissar of USSR

wireless to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, Nov. 30.-UglanOv,
who until recently was secretary
of the Moscow Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, has been appointed Com
missar of Labor of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
WeinstOne Will Discuss
Elections at the Bronx
Open Forum Tomorrow

"The Lessons Of the 1928 Elec-
tion" will be discussed by William
w. Weinstone al the Bronx Open
Forum, 1880 wilkins Ave-, tomor-
row at 8 p. m.
The prosperity of Hoover, the
progressivism" of Smith, as well
Us the treacherous role of the social
ist party, will be critically examined
and analyzed. Emphasis will be laid
on the lessons the workers must
draw from the recent campaign.
Questions and discussion from the
floor will follow the lecture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
Workers and Peasants
Correspondents Open
6th Congress in USSR

(Wueless to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 30.-
The Sixth Congress of the Workers
and Peasants Correspondents move
ment opened here today in the Red
Army House.
German, French and Czechoslo-
vakian delegates were present. Uli-
anova opened the congress, Bucharin
spoke on the tasks of the press, and
Bell greeted the congress in the
name of the Communist Interna-
tional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
OppressOr of German
Workers Aids Marking

SHANGHAI, (By MaiD Colonel
Max Bauer, a former leader Of Ger
man militarism, with notorious
record Of suppression against the
German workers, has arrived here
to become military adviser to the
murderous Kuomintang government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
Soviet, Dane, Norway
Seamen in Unity Meet
at Copenhagen Dec. 5

(Wireless to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, Nov. 30.-A delega-
ton Of Soviet seamen left Moscow
today to participate in a joint con-
ference of seamen of the Soviet
Union, Norway and Denmark.
Thus another step towards inter-
national workers solidarity will be
inaugurated at this conference
which will take place at Copen-
hagen Dec. 5.