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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
EXPOSE AL SMITH
AS MISLEADER
Communist Statement
Attacks State A. F. Z.

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ton of the labor movement. Smith
is lackey of the big business in
terests of the country which are
supporting him because he is cum
ming, demagogic, and can pose as
friend" of labor. The oppression
Of the working class by the Wall
Street interests, the extensive I'M
employment in the country, the
lowering of wages and living stand
ards generally, is causing bitter re-
sentiment In the ranks of the mill
ions of toilers thruont the country.
These millions are growing dis
illusioned with the two capitalist
parties who act as one against the
wage-workers of the nation. For
that reason, the big exploiters of
the country try to quiet this dis
content by putting forward cham
pion of the capitalist system who
is shrewd enough to speak the Ian
guage Of the people while acting
unhesitatingly in the interests of
the employers. These labor mis-
leaders assist the big business in
terests in helping Smith to play the
ga.he for which they will get their
Judas reward
Workers Awakening.
But injunctions, the breaking of
strikes, the seven cent fare grabs,
are making the masses understand
the real character of the Walkers
and the Smiths. They are realizing
more and more that the Labor Par
ty of the trade unions masses and
not the partisan" policy of the
trade union officials is the step that
must be taken in the fight to or
ga1ize against their employers.
This act of treachery, the en-
dorsement of Smith by the fedora
ton officials, will only intensity
the actions Of militant workers to
expose the Tammany demagogue,
Smith, and their Tammany bench
men, Matthew VOL, William Green,
Sullivan, Ryan and Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
Finishers Meet Today

"A meeting of all finishers, regist-
cred and unregistered, will be held
tonight at Manhat, an Lyeeum, Sc E.
4th St., at o'clock, according to an
announcement of the New York Joint
Board of the Furriers Union.
In addition to a report on the gem
cral situation in the trade to be made
by the Joint Board manager, Ben
Gold, a special report will be given
on the conditions of the finishers.
Plans will also be mapped out for a
drive against the lining contractors,
a trade evil that has multiplied many
times ever since. the A.. F. of l..
destroyed union conditions in the in
dustry, the circular calling the meet
ing declares.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
union OFFICIALS
PREVENT TAKING
OF STRIKE VOTE
Militancy Among Men
Is Rising
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the union was not even party in the
situation.
The rising opposition of the rank
and file against the continued post
ponement of action under such cir
Z cumstances has led to the rise of
sentiment for rank and file control
of the union and Of the present sit
uation.
Shop, terminal and barn commit
tees have been formed in at least a
score of departments of the road. The
workers have been urged to form
these committees of action as quickly
as possible to guard against betrayal
and to direct the strike when it is
called.
The DAILY WORKER has carried
q number Of warnings which it is I'M
derstood have been heard with inter
est by thousands of traction work
ers. These warnings were directed
mainly against the danger that
strike would be used by the company
for its own. The workers were
warned to make it "Our Own Strike"
embodying their own demands, bet
ter pay, shorter hours, decent con-
ditions. Down with the yellow COM
pany union. For union of our own.
Further demands were suggested:
The demand that the tried and trust
ed leaders who have sacrificed in the
past be given their rightful places;
the demand that a general strike call
be sent out to include not only the
T. r. T. but the B. M. T. and the sur
face lines as we'll; the demand that
the labor movement be mustered to
support the traction workers. The
major warning is, however, that the
workers proceed as rapidly as posi-
bic to form their rank and file COM
mittees in barn, shop and terminals
to insure the carrying out of these
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
JODLESS SEAMEN
CHEER DEMANDS
Warn Against Being
Duped by Army
tContinaed from Paae Onsl

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present at the seamen's club meeting
not to be fooled into joining the arm.
by misleading promises made in re-
cruiting posters.
Attacks Seamen's Institute.
H. Waite, chairman of the meeting,
attacked the Seamen's Church Insti-
tute, which he charged was hiring
scabs for the /. r. T. The assembled
unemployed workers showed their
firm determination not to scab on
the traction workers by their long APP
plause of Waite's denunciation of the
Seamen's Church Institute.
WOmen's Meeting Today.
The first meeting Of the unem-
ployed women Of this city will be held
today at 2:30 p. m. at 101 w. 27th
St. The meeting has been arranged
under the auspices of the newly
formed Women's Section of the New
York Council of the Unemployed, so
st. Marks Place, and will be adj
dressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz and
other speakers. Marion Emerson
will be chairman.
Workers To Demonstrate.
Demonstrations of unemployed
workers will take place at the open
ing of each of the kitchens Adults
will be fed from 9 to IL and chill
dren from $3.50 to 5.
A huge open air mass meeting,
which viii rally unemployed workers
from all sections of the city, will be
held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
in Union Square. John Di Santo,
secretary Of the New York Council
of the Unemployed, an ex-seryice man
and other speakers will address the
meeting and call upon the city to take
action to relieve the present critical
situation.
Conference Called.
A city-wide conference on unem-
ployment has been called by the New
York Council for Saturday, March IL,
at 2 p. m. at Webster Hall, 119 E.
18th st. Labor and fraternal organ
izaitons and committees of unem-
ployed workers are being asked to
send delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
MRS. KNAPP GETS
OFF WITH EASE

ALBANY, N. Y, March 6. - Fol-
lowing the conference between Gov.
Smith, Attorney General Ottineer and
District Attorney Charles ]. Herrick
it was practically a foregone conclu-
sion that the charges against Flor
ence E. Knapp, former Republican
secretary of state would be side
tracked.
Political expediency is to be served,
it is stated here, despite the fact that
Mrs. Knapp, during her adlninistra-
ton of the 1926 census, is accused of
misappropriating at least s29, 900 of
the state funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
s'Hoboken Blues" Cast
at New Masses Ball

The entire cast of Michael Colds
"Hoboken Blues" now playing at the
New Playwrights Theatre will attend
the annual New Masses Spring Fro
lie Friday evening, March 8 at Web
ster Hall, 18th St. and Third Ave,
AZ was announced last night.
Gold, co-direc. or Of the New
Playwrights was one Of the founders
Of the New Masses" and also a con-
tributor to its predecessors, the
Masses" and the "Liberator."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07

The New York Council Of Unem-
ployed will hold the following meet
ings this week:
A women's meeting will be held to-
day at p. IN. at IL w. 2Tth st.
Another women's meeting will be held
tonight at p. m. at 1872 Boston
Road.
The opening of the kitchen will be
celebrated Thursday with meeting at
so st. Marks Place at 2 D. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
WON'T ABOLISH SUBMARINES.

WASHINGTON, March 8. - The
rockingham resolution to put con-
gress on record for the abolition of
submarines in naval warfare was de-
feated, 6 to S, in the house foreign
affairs committee today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
Party Literature Agents
to Meet Thursday Night

William w. Weinstone, organizer
of District of the Workers Com
munist) Party and D. Benjamin, agit-
prop director of the district, will
speak at district conference of Par
ty literature agents and literature
squads Thursday evening at 8:15 at
l08 E. 14th St., Room AZ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
District Literature Conferences.

A district conference Of literature
agents and members of the literature
squad will be held Thursday, March s
at 106 K. 18th St, Room AZ. at s:i5 p.
m. The speakers will be William w.
Weinstone, j. Benjamin and A. Gussa-
koff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
Shop Terminal and Barn Committees Aorped by Traction Worker
Labor and FYateYmaI
Organizations

The following courses are scheduled
to begin this week at the Workers
school, los e. 18th st.
Sunday at $3.50 p. M, American His
tory FOR Pioneers, Tom Foley, instrue-
tor
Sunday at S.S0 p. M, Fundamentals
of the Youth Movement for Pioneers,
Leon Piatt Instructor.
The week Of March 10 will witness
the beginning Of three courses for
Young workers, students and Young
Workers League members--Conrse for
Pioneer Leaders Problems of the
Youth Movement and League Func-
tionaries Course.
!. L. ID. Bnsaar.
The annual bazaar of TIE information
days beginning tonight at New star
Casino, Park Ave. and forth ST. All
articles and contributions should be
sent to 7ss Broadway, Room 422.
r. q. f. Il. Dance.
The Trade Union Educational League
VIII hold dance saturday, March 81
at Harlem Casino, Lenox Ave. and
Junior Friends Of Nature.
The Junior Section of the Friends Of
nature VIII hold its monthly meeting
Friday at p m. at the Bakers Union
Han, $50 e. S5th st.
u.
hike Sunday to Buttermiik Hill.
Foreign Born Affair,
Inc New York Council for the Pro-
tectlon of the Foreign Born workers
VIII hold an affair Sunday, March is,
At Manhattan Lyceum, &C e. Fourth
Mohegnn School Dance.
me Michigan Modern School will
hoid It's fifth annual concert, bazaar
and dance Friday at $3.50 D. M at
Beethoven Hall. 210 L. Fifth st. Pro-
ceeds will be used for a new school
building at Peekskill, n: Y.
Frcihcit Ballet.
rehearsal Of the Freiheit Jubilee
Plaza, 10th st. and irving Pace, today
1880 sharp, Edith segal announced.
BOro Park Concert.
The Workers Club of Boro Park will
hold concert and package party at
1873 4Srd ST., saturday, March 10.
Rebel Poets Night.
Rebel Poets Night at the Labor Tenn
pie, Second Ave. and 14th ST., Tuesday,
March 1s, at SIS p. m.
Mohesaa Modern school.
The Mohegan Modern School will
hold Its fifth annual concert, bazaar
and dance Friday, March 8. at $3.50 p.
m. at Beethoven Hall. 21d E. Fifth St.
Proceeds will be used for a new school
building at Peekskill, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
paris Commune Celebration.

Sections and will celebrate the
Paris Commune at an entertainment
and dance, Saturday evening March II,
at New Harlem Casino. 116th st. and
Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
Lecture ON Birth Control.

DR.. Hannah NJ. Stone, director, Birth
Control League clinic, win speak on
Birth Limitation and the Workers"
at the Cooperative Colony, 2700 Bronx
Park, E., Sunday at III a. m DR.. b.
Liber viii preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
WORKERS PARTY
ACTIVITIES
NEW YoRK-N Ew JERSEY


PIenum Report Tonight.
A report on the recent pIenum win
be given tonight at 8 o'clock at
meeting of Section Z at 1910 Benson
livered by member of the Central
Committee.
Downtown Concert.
Unit 3, Section /, will hold a concert
March II at 60 st. Marks Place.
instructions To All Units.
The membership drive leaflets and
the unemployed leaflets are for sale to
Party units at 81 thousand at 1OS
&c. 14th st.
The Ruthenberg leaflets must be dis
tributed from March to 8. They can
be secured free of charge at the dis
trict office. Copies of The DAILY
WORKER should be distributed at all
traction barns and power houses by all
Party units.
Unit BE 3-F.
Unit BE 3-F meet tonight at 6:t5 p.
m. at lOl w. 27th st
Plenum Reports.
Meetings to discuss the last Party
plenum viii be held in the units in the
New Jersey subdistrict SO far the fol-
lowing cities have arranged meetingsl
Newark, Friday, at p. m, at the
Mercer st.
Jersey City, Sunday at p. m.
Elizabeth, Wednesday, March II, at
the Labor Lyeeum, SIS Court St., at
p. m.
nounced later.
Speakers at all these meetings will
be representative of the Party central
executive committee.
Sexyupe SanndnI nfac,,s.tou
The Queens sewer scandal will be
discussed al mass meeting arranged
at the Long Island Section at Boz
hemian HAN, Woolsey and Second
Ave-, Astoria, l.. L., Friday, March 16,
at $40 p. m. Speakers will be w.
W, Weinstone, Bert Miller and Fl. NJ.
Traction stickers Ready.
Traction stiekers at SO a thousand
are now for sale at the district office.
All Party units must come for their
quota at once
Organizers Meeting Friday.
a meeting of all unit, section and
day at y, m at los L. 14th st. Unit
organizers Will report on their exper-
fences in the membership drive.
Young Workers Dance.
The Young Workers League, Upper
Bronx, will hold a Spring Dance Sat
urday' March a. at 1874! Boston Road
Dance For Striking Box Workers.
( The Downtown Section, Y w. L.,
will hold dance Saturday night at so
st. Marks Place for the benefit Of the
paper box makers. Admis
sion will be free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
intermediate EnglIsh Glass.

There will be no session of the In
termediate English class tonight at
the Workers School The next session
Will be on Monday at Z p. m. F. Bax-
ter is the instructor.
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Organizers Meeting Friday.

| A meeting of all unit, section and
day at s 70. M al los y 14th 81. Unit
organizers viii report on their exper-
fences in the membership drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07
Young workers Dance.

/ The Young Workers League, Upper
Bronx, will hold a Spring Dance Sat
urday, March a. at 1347 Boston Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07

Dance For Striking Box Workers.
( The Downtown Section, Y. W. L.,
will hold a dance Saturday night at go
st, Marks Place for the benefit Of the
striking paper box makers. Admis-
sion will be free.
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Traction stlckers lReady.

Traction stickers at 50 thousand
are now for sale at the district office.
All Party units must come for their
quota at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07

The Mohegan Modern School will
hold Its fifth annual concert, bazaar
and dance Friday, March 8, at $3.50 p.
m. at Beethoven Hall, 211 e. Fifth st.
Proceeds will be used for a new school
building at Peekskill, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-07

The Queens sewer scandal will be
discussed at a mass meeting arranged
at the Long Island Section at Boz
hemian Hail. Woolsey and Second
Ave-, Astoria, l.. L.. Friday, March 16,
at $40 p. m. Speakers will be w.
W. Weinstone, Bert Miller and II. NJ.
Wicks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
WILL SEEK REPEAL
OF BORLAND LAW
Corpora ton Counsel Bride to Ask
Paving Cost Relief Next
Session.

Repeal of the Borland law, under
which abutting property owners are as
sessed one-half of the cost of street sur
facing, will be sought at the coming
session of Congress by Corporation
Counsel William w. Bride.
Bride has already submitted to the
Commissioners an opinion that prop
erty owners cannot be legally assessed
for street pavement in two payments.
In laying concrete streets surfaced with
sheet asphalt the practice is to make a
concrete base and let that serve as a
complete pavement until the surface de-
teriorates when an asphalt coating is
added. Under the Borland amendment
one-half of the cost of each operation
is levied against abutting property. The
Bride opinion held that the assessment
may be levied for either operation, or
for both if combined, if all the work is
done at one time and the assessment
made in one levy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
HOOVER TO INVADE
NEW YORK OCT. IS
Date of Sally Into Smith
Stronghold Changed-To
Speak at Garden.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Herbert Hoover's invasion of the
Smith stronghold, New York City, Is
to take place October Is. instead u:
October IT, as originally planned. and
his address will be delivered in Mad
ison Square Garden and not in Car
negie Hall.
The Republican nominee IS free OF
superstition and admitted it today. Oc-
tober Is, however, falls on Saturday
not Friday, and the Madison Square
Garden in which he will speak is not
the old garden in which the Democratic
hopes were crushed four years ago at
the time of the Democratic national
convention. The new garden is located
much farther uptown and seats about
10000 persons.
At the same time that the announce
ment of the change in plans for the
Hoover invasion of New York was made.
it was reported that President Coolidge
was about to take steps to aid the Re-
publican national ticket in his own
home State, Massachusetts, which is re-
garded as a real battle-ground. 1t is I'M
derStood the President will send today
a message to the Republican State con-
vention, which is meeting in Boston to-
morrow. in which he will strongly urge
the voters of the Bay State to go to the
polls and support the Republican ticket.
The President it is believed. may I'M
dertake TO do something more. than this
for the Hoover-CurtiS ticket at later
date.
Subject Not Decided.
The subject of Mr. Hoover'S address
to the New Workers has not yet been
finally settled. 1t comes week later
than his address at Elizabetkton, Tenn,
and the candidate probably Ntll be guild
ed somewhat in writing his New York
address by the events of the campaign.
New York is a doubtful State and up
to the present time the Smith forces
appear to have the best of it in that
State. Some Republican leaders re-
Gently have described New York as q
6-to-5 bet in favor of Smith. But they
are working hard to overcome the odds
against the Republican candidate and
hope to do so.
The change from Carnegie Hall to
Madison Square Garden for the Hoo
yer New York address has been made
because of the demands for greater
seating capacity to accommodate the
crowds that will come to hear the Re-
publican nominee in Greater New
York. The meeting and address in
New York. it was explained today. is
to be under the auspices of a long
list of Republican clubs and organ
izationS. including the Union League.
the National Republican Club. the Ma
tional Women's Republican Club. the
Mems Republican Club and
the Young Mems Republican Club. Mr..
Hoover's address will be the only adj
dress delivered at the meeting 1t was
said except the Introductory remarks
of the chairman.
The Republican State convention is
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
BYRD OFF ON FIRST
LEG OF POLAR TRIP
Leaves Gotha midnight on Way to
Coast-Sailing Set
October 6.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 28.-Comdr.
Richard E. Byrd leaves New York to-
night on the first leg of the long land
and sea trail that will take him to the
Antarctic continent, where he and 80
comrades expect to spend the next two
years.
Byrd is going first to his home in
Boston, whence he will take train for
San Pedro, Calf, to catch the whaler
Larsen for the voyage to Dunedin, New
Zealand, rendezvous of the expedition.
The Larsen, carrying four airplaneS and
the aviation personnel, is now on her
way from Norfolk to the California
port, and is expected to leave there
October 6.
The ice breaker City of New York,
flagship of the Byrd flotilla, was in the
Pacific about 500 miles southwest of
Panama today, chugging along under
sail and steam on her long, slow trip to
the meeting place. The freighter Flea
nor Boiling was 1900 miles this side of
Panama, while the steamer Ross, a
mother ship for whalerS, was expected
to reach the Canal in few days. She
is carrying the expeditions 100 dogs and
their nVe drivers.
The expedition hopes to reach the
Bay of Whales on the Ross Sea, ice
barrier of Antarctic, where the perma-
nent base is to be established, by the
middle of January. The exact time OF
arrival, Byrd explained today, is profile
NAUTICAL because of the uncertainty Of
conditions in the heavy pack ice
through which the City of New York
and the Larsen. carrying the men and
supplies from Dunedin, must force their
way.
The four airplanes may not see much
service during the first half year be-
cause the expedition reaches Antarctica
too near during the SiX-month polar
night. This interval will be spent in
establishing the base camp and pre-
pairing for the scientific work which is
a major part of the Byrd program. The
attempted flight to the South Pole will
probably come soon after the reappear-
ance of the sun.
Capt. Sir George Hubert wilkins
now on his way to Antarctica. Will be
based in Graham Land, 1000 miles
from the Byrd party.
I've told him. said Byrd. that
when he few over our way, I'd be very
glad to give him any help l could and
TO have him use our base"
wilkins station will place him about
1000 miles from the pole, while Byrd'S
position on the Ross Sea ice barrier
will be 800 miles from the geographical
bottom of the world. Because Graham
Land is comparatively near to South
America wilkins win reach Antarctica
first and can therefore be first in the
air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
13ARE ARRESTED
IN SER|ESOF RAIDS
Seven Places Entered by Po-
lice in Drive Against Sus-
peCted Lottery Ring.

Leaving police headquarters simulta-
down upon seven alleged gambling es-
adjustments throughout the city, ar
resting the So-called proprietor and a
dozen other persons interested in a
chain of places dealing in Numbers"
a gambling game operated on the daily
clearanceS of the Federal reserve banks.
When they returned to headquarters
from 1922 Girard street, the home of
John Garter, colored, the police carried
with them a suit case full of bank notes,
an iron box filled with silver, two add
ing machines and several boxes full of
slips" and other paraphernalia.
All OF the prisoners were detained in
the squad room on the first floor OF the
District Building, where detectives queS-
toned each of them individually and
started on the long task of counting the
money. which is expected to total many
thousands of dollars.
One Chance in 1000.
The game, it is explained by police,
leaves the player but one chance out OF
a thousand to win anything. When
one does pick winning number, how
ever, he is paid at the rate OF 600
to /. The sizes of the bets range from
| cent up to any amount that the player
wishes to wager.
A player selects any number of COM
binationS of three figures, betting what
he wants on each that it will be the
winning combination. His selection is
pure guess work, since the winning
number is composed of the last two
numbers in the balance and last num-
Der in the clearance, as indicated by
the afternoon papers each day. Hence
yesterday the clearance amounted to
Sl,372 100000 and the balance to $1l5,-
10000. Zeros do not count, so the
winning number would be 725.
Each of the places operated by the
syndicate has representatives to take
bets there the police charge, and run
ners to take the original slip and money
to headquarters. They each wear
badges bearing the letters &C. & A" and
number.
While other squads were raiding
places at 634 T street, GIG T street,
30l Second street southwest. 932 Fourth
street, 20 G street and % G street. De-
tectives Waldron. Sweeney Wolfe and
Ogle went to Carriers home. There
they found completely equipped Of
flee on the second floor
Large Sum Seized.
In the Office there was large safe.
several strong boxes. desks. two adding
machines and an elaborate telephone
system. Carter was there and cheer
fully displayed to the gaze of the de-
tectives a safe almost full OF green
backs and silver
The money was placed in suitcase
and strong box. The suitcase was car
ried by Carter himself and Wolfe took
the strong box of silver, staggering
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