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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
1900 STRIKE IN
RUBBER FACTORY
Detroit Workers Won't
Let A.F.L. Lead Them

DETROIT, March IA strike is
spreading thru the U. S. Rubber Co.
here. Over 800 men have quit work
already, and strike meetings are be-
ing held to pull out the $500 still
left in the plant.
The strike was a spontaneous, un-
organized revolt against the Fabrum
system of payment, which means
more speed up, piece work, and less
wages altogether.
The strikers have elected a strike
committee, and refuse to follow the
leadership of the A. F. l.. They re-
jected the "offer" of Frank Martell,
president of the Detroit Federation
of Labor, to lead them to the usual
compromised defeat, and gave a
rousing welcome at the first mass
meeting, to Daily Worker represen-
tative Siegler, who addressed them.
The Detroit district of the Work
ers (Communis.) Party has issued
a leaflet congratulating the strikers
on their seeing thru Martell, and re-
jecting the A. F. L., and advising
them to join the Auto Workers
Union. The leaflet calls for shop
committees to be built at once,
Martel, the misleader of labor, is
an advocate of the open shop A. F.
L. policy in organizing" the auto
industry, which means to
spend hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for organizers, who merely try
to convince the employers that they
could get more work out of their
men for less pay if they sign up
with the A. F. L. unions.
He belongs to the local Crossbeck
wing of the republican party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
Working Women Play Leading
Role IN the Struggles OF Labor

the wage cuts and speed-up system
introduced by the textile employ
crs. Women textile workers have
fought bravely against the betray-
ais of the labor bureaucrats of the
textile unions. The women have not
only shown their ability during the
strike on the picket lines, where they
resisted police clubbings and ar
rests, but they have also played an
important role in the formation of
the New Textile Union, under the
leadership of the left wing.
Participate in Struggle.
The dressmakers' strike adds
glorious chapter in the history of
the participation of working women
in the labor struggles and in the
fight against the bureaucratic, re-
dictionary Right wing. The women
dressmakers are PLAYING very inn
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
COPPER COMP ANY
LAYS OFF FORTY
Nichols Plant Workers
Plan to Organize

by q Worker Correspondent
Forty workers We're laid off yes
terday morning at the Nichols Cop
per Company, Laurel Hill, L. l.,
Queens County.
AS part of the policy of the COM
rany to cut down expenses, about
20 workers of the Refinery and
Anode Departments were told to
get their belongings and pay and
leave the works.
1t is believed that all the work
ers laid off were high paid men and
that the company will hire cheaper
men to take their places.
The Nichols Copper Company is
one of the largest copper smelter
and refinery concerns in this coun-
try. About 1000 men are employed
whose wages are from As to So
cents per hour. The work week is
Sd hours.
An effort is now being made to
organize the workers of the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
FIND new PACT
AGAINST U.s.s.R.
Plots Rumanian, Polish
Attack on Soviet Union

KOVNO, Lithuania, March T.
The official newspaper Lietuvos
Aida today published sections of a
secret Polish-Rumanian military
agreement directed against the Sow
let Union and Lithuania. The agree
ment is dated Oct. 1, 1928, supple
menting the -Rumanian treaty
of 1926, the paper said.
"In case of DANGER" the treaty
calls for a united Polish Roumanian
offensive and also a ten day ulti-
matum to the U. S. S. R., if neces-
sary, the newspaper said.
In case of a Polish-R Russian war,
Poland would be entitled to occupy
Lithuania under the agreement.
The newspaper said that the
documents were obtained from a re-
liable source.
Poland Agent of Empires.
Poland, which has an American
financial adviser, and is under
French military supervision, has
never ceased to plot against the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
There have been a series of "bor-
der incidents" and diplomatic
clashes, but the pressure of Soviet
Union diplomacy, directed towards
peace agreements and disarmament
treaties was so great that Poland
was forced recently to sign a joint
treaty with the Baltic states and tie
us. S. R. to "reject war as a
means of international relationship"
At the time Of the treaty, Pravda,
the organ 'of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, warned in
leading article, that as long as Po-
land took orders from western i'm
perialists, it's mere signature did not
mean everything was settled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
BY KATE GITLOW.

Again the international vanguard
Of the workers takes account of
what was accomplished during the
past year in the way of organizing
and educating the proletarian
women to take their place with the
class-conscious workers of the
world; to carry on the struggle for
the emancipation of the workers, of
all toiling peoples, for the overthrow
Of the capitalist dictatorship and
for the establishment of workers
dictatorship. The year 1928 has
made history for the working
women in the United States.
The active participation of women
in the New Bedford textile strike
will take up considerable space in
the history of the textile workers
struggles, where, together with the
men, they have vigorously resisted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
To Demonstrate Tomorrow
Against A. c. W. Mbulsioms

A demonstration of protest, which
ill at the same time be mobiliza-
ion to struggle against the reac-
ionary Hillman administration in
he Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union, is the purpose behind the
alling of the mass meeting this
aturday noon at the Irving Plaza
TALL, 18th st. and Irving Place. The
,eeting is called by the Executive
Committee of the Rank and File
hop Delegates Conference.
1t is planned that the meeting
lall consider plans for fighting to
einstate Anna Fox, secretary Of
Ne Delegates Conference, whose ex-
ulsion from the union and removal
rom her job is the cause of the
rotest.
The corrupt and traitorous Hill
ian regime again turns to its old
lethod of terrorization to stiflc the
ank and files protest against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
DRESS STRIKE is
TERMINATED BY
INDUSTRIAL union
First Struggle of New
Industrial Union a
Great Victory
400 Shops UniOnized
Win 40-Hr. Wk.; Union
Plans Fur Strike

At full meeting of the General
Strike Committee held last night in
Manhattan Lyceum, &C East 4th St.,
the dressmakers' strike was ter
minated.
Thus the new Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union brought
to- a victorious close the first open
struggle to be conducted by it
against the garment manufacturers
and their agents, the scab Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
Called exactly four weeks ago,
the general strike of the New York
dressmakers on it's termination.
boasts of having won union condi-
tions, among them the 40-hour five
day week, for over four hundred
shops in the industry, and of hav-
ing made union men and women of
thousands of. non-union workers.
While officially called off, the
General Strike Committee definitely
declared that the campaign for the
unionization of the dress industry
in New York and environs, and the
determination of sweatshop condi-
tions in that trade, is by no means
over. Plans were drawn up, to be
executed by the Dress Department
of the Industrial Union for the
tackling of every non-union shop in
the industry, till the conditions en-
joyed by the union workers are en-
forced here too.
Though comparatively short in
duration, as needle trades strikes
go, the four week struggle was one
of the most bitterly and heroically
fought strikes in needle trades his
tory. All the strength of the gar
ment bosses of all trades and all the
scabbing power of the A. F. of l..
and socialist |. L. c. w. u, in adj
dition to a terrific police offensive,
were overcome before conditions
were won. Fifteen hundred strikers
were arrested for picketing.
The militant strike strategy, how
ever, soon broke the ranks of the
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
OBSERVE INT'L
WOMEN'S DAY
Many Meets in U. S.;
N. Y. Rally March II

Today is International Women's
Day. Revolutionary working wom-
en-, led by the Communist Parties
throughout the world, will make
this the occasion for an expression
of their international fight, shoul-
der with the men, against the loom
ing imperialist war and the accen-
tuated naturalization which is part
and parcel of the war preparations
and the attack on the working class
All The principal cities and indus
trial centers of the United States
during this week will hold mass
meetings of working women, as a
part of the united campaign against
the coming war and the rationaliza-
tion of industry.s In New York City
working women will gather in
masses March II, at New Star Ca
sino, 107th st. and Park Ave-, at
2:3O p. m. A huge pageant will be
staged representing the historic
struggles of the working women.
The chief slogans which the Wom-
ems Department of the Workers
(Communist) Party has issued for
the demonstrations are: Struggle
Against the War Danger! Fight
Capitalist Naturalization! The i'm
mediate tasks which the working
women will take up are: recruit
ing drive to bring women into the
Party and the building of the new
left wing labor unions.
SEATTLE, March 7.-Interna-
t.onal Women's Day will be made
into militant demonstration of
working women against the war
danger and the speed-up at the mass
meeting and dance to be held at
Finnish Hall tomorrow night, under
the auspices of the United Council
of Working Women and the Work.
ers (Communist) Party. The prin-
cipal tasks will be broadening out
Continued on Page Thrsc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
.COMINTERN ASKS
WOMEN TO RALLY
Women's Day Appeal
to Workers, Peasants
(Wmeless Bu "Inprecorr0


MOSCOW, March THE Exc
cutive Committee of the Communist
International publishes an appeal to
the working and peasant women of
all countries on the Eighth of March,
International Women's Day.
The statement points out the in
tensifying world situation, intensi-
flying danger of war, above all war
against the Soviet Union, the grow
ing rehabilitation of workers in cap
italist countries, and the developing
new wave of revolutionary move
ment in colonial countries.
1t gives examples of the great role
of working women in the class strug-
gle and concludes by appealing to
the working and peasant women to
continue the struggle against war
and for the transformation Of war
into civil war for the overthrow of
the capitalist dictatorship and the
establishment of proletarian dicta-
torship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
Intervention BY
GRMS SHIPMENTS
N MEXICAN WAR
Munitions to Gil and
Embargo Against
Any to Rebels
Zig Battle for Juarez
Secapture Of Vera Cruz
Completed

WASHINGTON. March 7. - An
oplication for license to export
unitions to Mexico was received at
le state department today and will
: granted, perhaps tomorrow. The
oplication came from private
rm, and visit by Mexican AM
assador Teller to Kellogg indicated
lat the Mexican government was
'rtifying the purchase as required.
Department officials were most
.cretive and would give out no
ames and every effort is made to
)nceal the route by which the NUM-
ons would be sent to Mexico.
The request to export munitions
) Mexico follows the Hoover policy
1nounced two days ago, that the
exican rebels would have no arms
srmitted as the embargo would be
Iaced on them while shipments
ould be allowed to the Gil govern
ent.
WASHINGTON, March 7s-With
le recapture Of Vera Cruz BY fed
al troops of the Mexican govern
ent yesterday, the Gil regime, with
president Gales as acting minis
r of war, turned its attention to
le campaign against the rebels in
le north, dispatches to the state de-
artment state.
The Washington government has
ranted official permission to the
il government to transport 1000
.exican federal troops over U. S.
)il, from Matamoras, on the Gulf of
.exico at the U. S. border, to Juarez
trough Ell Paso, in an effort to split
le rebellion in the north. Juarez
750 miles by rail from Matamoras
rough Texas.
From Vera Cruz, consular reports
ate that several rebel leaders were
lied during the fight for the city
asterday, among them Luis de la
Terra and General Cana. General
guirre is supposed to have with
rawn" after an armistice was de-
ared by request of the consular
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
iORE WORKERS
AT lid. BAZAAR
German andHungarian
Program Tonight

An even greater crowd Of workers
asterday attended the second day
the big bazaar of the New York
istrict of the International Labor
efense than on the opening day.
he doors of New Star Casino,
l7th st. and PaSk Ave, were
lrown upon at 2 p. M, tho the
azaar program did not start until
p. m.
Tonight a musical and dramatic
rogram of unusual interest will be
resented by the German and Hun
arian workers.
The bazaar is open every night
ntil 2 a. m.
Tomorrow afternoon will be
hildren's Day, and in the evening
le big International Costume Ball
i'll be held. On Sunday afternoon
2 o'clock the official commemora-
on of the anniversary of the Paris
ommune will be held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
Negro Working Women Must
Take Place IN the Class War

workers, not only by the capitalist
system and the employers, but by
the unenlightened race prejudice
which is found even in the work.
ing class, and is used by the en-
ployers to drive a wedge between
tie black and white workers and
thus destroy their unity and fight
ing power. This effort of the en-
ployers must be energetically COM
batted by the working class. Women
workers must stand together, re-
gardless of race and color. in or
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
BY GRACE LAMB.

Class-conscious organized work
ers should endeavor to reach work
ingclass women, since women are
even more oppressed as workers,
than are men. 1t is particularly
necessary that Negro women work
ers should be brought to a consci-
BUSINESS of their position in the
working class, and drawn into the
class struggle.
Negro women workers are the
most abused, exploited and discrim-
mated against Of all American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
7 WORKERS HURT :.
IN L SMASH UP

Seven workers, six of them
women, were injured in the second
elevated line crash of the week,
when northbound local train
crashed the rear of another north
bound train on the Third Ave. line,
near the 133rd st. station, shortly
after noon yesterday.
The reason for the crash is re-
ported as Undetermined"
Suffering from decorations, abra-
sions. confusion and shock, the in
jured were treated by doctor from
the Lincoln Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
George Pershing, John
Steele, Will Address
Y. w. L. Meet Tonight

George Pershing, field organizer
of the All-AmSrica Anti-Imperialist
League, will address an anti-mili-
tarist meeting of the Young Work
ers League of Williamsburgh at 8
o'clock tonight, at Sc Manhattan
Ave, Brooklyn.
Pershing will be supported by
John Steele, an ex-soldier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
SCIENTIST REvIvES CORPSE.

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March T.
That persons ordinarily called dead
can be brot back to life providing
no material injury has been done to
vital organs, was the statement to-
day of Prof. Theodore Andreiev. He
told Of permanently resuscitating
fishes, dog that had been killed
with poison, and man for 20 min
utes. The principle was established,
he said, and it was now only neces-
sary to work on the technique.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08

Not only has the bOurgcOisis
orged the weapons that bring
death to itself, IL has also called
into existence the men who are to
WELD those weapOns-the modern
working class-the prOletarinns.-
Karl Marx Communist ManifestOD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08
LOVESTONE MAKES REPORT
ON POLITICAL SITUATION,
PARTY ACTIVITIES, TASKS
Also Reports on Right Danger and Menace of
Trotskyism; Commissions Elected
Negro Workers Head Negro, Trotskyism Com
missions; Greetings Teegraphed

The fourth session of the Sixth National Convention of
the Workers Communs Party opened Wednesday night
8:15 at Irving Plaza Hail. 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For W0rkers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
For The 4O-HOnr Week
For Labor Party
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
CR|PPLEDLADYB|RD
 WOULD FLY AGAIN
Viola Gentry, Hurt in Crash,
 Winning Health Battle

Penniless and in a charity ward of a New York hospital, where for months she has been fighting to re- gain the use of her body. Viola Gentry is looking toward eagerly to the time when she can fly again.
 New York, Dec. 13-"Since I have 10 spend my Christmas here, I'll just hang up three stockings. two for presents and one tor luck. I be- licve in luck as I never did before I'm so lucky to be alivc.'
 The lucky girl speaking was Viola Gentry. She wore two plaster casts and was in the charity ward of a hospital. Six months ago she took off in a plane with Jack Ashcroft to establish an endurance record in the air. The crash, for lack of fuel, which cost Ashcroft his life, smash cd both of Miss Gentry's arms, broke a collar bone and some ribs, and gashed her head But her spirit was unshaken.
 'Why look-my left arm is getting along so we'll that can go mp in the workshop and weave a little with it to give it eXercise-and folded bandagcs with it vest crday-to get the fingers limbered up. And look at my right arm"
 She'll Fly Again
 She delightfully."- Wigslcd the fling CTS that emerged from the white bandage.
 "Of course the arm is still in . cast, and probably the shoulder will always be a little stiff, and 1 cant raise it very high. But you don't need that upward motion in flying.
 Miss Gentry may leave the hos pital by the first of February
 'IVe got 10 be out by that time" she said. You see, 1 must get in
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY DECEMBER 13 1929

being foolish in it or plying myself. And they've given me such good caru that I can get well and fly again. What else matters?"
 Would Make Flying Safer
 Miss Gentry will not try for any more air records-she says, the in tcrest now is not in records, but in making flying safer and working out tCChical problems. During the months she has been on her back she has read all the flying news, kept track of every new develop ment in acron&utics, and dreamed of wings.
 "People may forget about me tenn porarily." she said, but l don't care. I'm coming back-with luck all in my favor.'
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

cludcs about 90 officers and men. American destroyers have cost from $76G,0O0 to $2,25O,o00. with an average investment of s1.50O,- GOO, It costs from $2O000O 10 $325- 900 annually 10 keep q destroyer in commission, depending on repairs.
 The United States has 2S4 de- stroyers, totaling 290.00o tons. Eng land has 153 aggregating 159.0O0 tons, is building 20 more Of 27.000 tons and has authorized another nine of 12,OGO tons.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
May Insure Athletes
 Against Grid Injuries

Milwaukee. Dec. 13 (UpD-Ad- vent of insurance policies for pro- toclion against injury of high school athletes was seen here when Andrew Brunhart. assistant city attorney eX- pressed the opinion that a school could legally compensate an athlete for injuries received in d football game.
 At present high schools collect q percentage of gate receipts which generally IS used for upkeep of the teams," Brunhart said Under d fund recognized and controlled by the school board, insurance polici2s might be provided"
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

Destroyers are the one type of ship ill which American strength greatly exceeds Great Britain. But their effective age limit is only I6 years and most Of the U. s. de- stroyers are 10 years old, none hav- ing been completed since 1921. They were built in large numbers to meet German submarine warfare. At this time 1G7 are out Of commis- sion because of lack of personnel 10 man tMnM.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
Stuart X of California
 Claims Shortest Name

Oakland, Cal, Dec. 13. (UP)- Any name shorter than the shortest in the Oakland telephone directory would be just nothing at all, The short est is x, believed to be the only Mr. X in the country. His full name i; Stuart x and he lives at 5G4 San ta Clara St. X is a legal name adopted for convenience.
 Second shortest name in the di- rectory is An, family name of Chinese subscriber. And to second place he says An Men, his full name. In Chinese the surname pre- C"dcs.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

The destroyer is navy's most efficient vessel against submarines and is also a serious menace 10 capital ships.
 It has quick manouvcrability, high speed rapid-fre guns, tor pedoes and depth bombs. The depth bombs are the terror of submarines and torpedo broadsides, especially at night, are the dcstrOycr's method of attack on battleships.
 This type of ship carries from eight to 12 torpedo tubes. Most
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

American dcstroyers are equipped with four sets Of triple tubes which can fire throc tOrpcdoes at once. The dcstroyers run about 315 feet in length and most of them reach q m2Nimum tonnage of 1215. Eng land. however, has been building dsstroycrS up 10 HOO and 1S0O tons and has 17 of more than 1900 tons. The average calibrc of a destroy CTS guns is four inches, Speed is from 32 to @5 knots.
 The personnel ordinarily in
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

ten hours of flying by the last of February, or my license expires. But 1 can do that all right. Just as soon as I get out of here, I am go- ing right into a plane, and get up into the clouds aGam. When 1 can close these fingers again over a stick, and take off, I'm going to be the happiest woman in the whole world"
 Long Wanted to Fly
 Her devotion to flying dates back to her childhood, in Florida, when she saw her first plane. and her parents refused to take her up for a ride. Viola saved up her money until she was able 10 pay for one with her own nickles and dimes. The spanking she received later was accepted philosophically as a small price 10 pay for so thrilling an eV- perienCc.
 "And from that time on. I never though seriously about any hing else but flying" she said.
 She had no money 10 buy T plane or take instruction. so she earned it working as cashier in a restaurant. Mornings she flew, and afternoons and evenings she counted out change. She hircd,a plane for her first stunt flying. After she ob- taincd her pilots license. she became a prominent figure in flying cir Cles. She made q tour Of the coun- try in an airplanc. and at one time she established q record for women in an endurance flight.
 Wasn't Expected to Live
 She had only two minor accidents before the crash in June but this accident was so serious. and she was SD badly hurt, that no one expected her to live, much less fly, again.
 For some time she was at q Long Island hospital, and was finally dis charged as il seriously crippled per- son. Then sh. swallowed her pride and went into the ward as q charity patient in the Hospital for the Grip pied and Rupturcd ill New York city.
 "It was the only way | could get the treatment needed" she cX- plain. "I was broke, and l couldn't pay for the expensive type of care needed. After all, it wasn't my fault that I hadn't been working for the last five months, There was no use
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13
CHANGE ROAD. SAVE TREE

Champlin. Minn.. Dec. 13 (P-' Residents of Champlin wanted new state road, but they also want ed to keep a 3O0-year oak tree doomed by the surveyors line. They appealed 10 the highway commis- sioner, who rerouted the road. Champlin held d civic celebration. f
New Britain herald., 1929-12-13

Xmas gift suggestions are being featured just now in the Herald's Classified Ads.