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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
TWO COUNTIES STAGE
HUNT FOR BURGLAR
Attempted Attack on Woman Cul.
inmates Many Entries of Homes
and Stores in West Virginia.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, February 4.
Police of Berkeley and Jefferson Coun-
ties today are on hunt for a colored
burglar who attempted to assault a
woman near Shepherdstown yesterday
after. committing many burglaries and
theftS throughout the sections. Stores
and residences have been entered.
Farmers have organized and are ready
to go out on a moments warning If a
new trace of the fugitive is found. He
is described as big and having con-
spicuous gold teeth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
20 YEARS FOR SLAYER, II.
Virginia Colored Man Sentenced
for Killing Employer, 81.
snecial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, February A.
John Martin. rs years old, colored, was
tried here before a jury in the Circuit
Court and sentenced to 20 years in
the penitentiary for shooting and killing
Cornelius Tompkins, 81 years old, his
employer The shooting occurred Deem
Der 6, 1928, on the Tompkins farm at
Casanova, where Martin had been en-
Moved for years. The two men had a
disagreement about storing some corn.
when Martin drew gun and shot
Tompkins three times through the
body. Tompkins died few hours later
Martin claimed in court that he had
carried the same pistol 80 years. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
L0UDOUN FARMER EXPIRES
John William Long, So, Victim OF
Complications From Influenza.

Complications From Influenza.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va. February 4.-John
William Long, farmer and well known
citizen of this county, died yesterday at
his home near Lucketts. He was So
years old and his death was due to
complications following influenza He
is survived by his wife, three daughters,
Mrs. James Clark of Washington and
Misses Catherine and Louise Long, at
home, and two sons, Robert and Harvey
George, at home. His father, j. A.
Long, and brother, H. B. Long of
Lucketts, also survive. His funeral will
be held from Faith Chapel today, with
burial in Leesburg Union Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
G. O. P. WOMEN TO GATHER
Silver Spring Organization to Hear
Wilson L. Townsend.

Wilson L. Townsend.
SILVER SPRING, Md, February 4.
announcement has been made that
the Woman's Republican Club of Silver
Spring will hold a meeting in the
county building at Silver Spring tomor-
row evening. Among the speakers will
be Wilson. l.. Townsend of Kensington,
who is secretary of the Republican
State central committee for the county,
who will discuss organization and other
ways in which the party may be bene-
fitted in the county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

The 200 employees still at work in
the Happiness Candy factory at 431
Hudson st. were called upon to join
their 40 fellow workers in the hard
candy department who have been on
strike for over week, in leaflet
issued by the Youth Committee of
the Food Workers Section, T. U. U.
L., copies of which were distributed
at the door of the factory yesterday.
The leaflet pointed out that the
workers must still together 100 per
cent in order to win the higher
wages and better working conditions
for which the spontaneous strike
was called. 1t urged the immediate
organization of a strike committee
representing all departments, with
the following demands: minimum
wage of $40 per week for young
workers; 20 per cent increase for
those receiving $40 or over; the g.
hour-day and the five-day-week !;
time mad half for overtime and
recognition Of the union.
The Happiness Candy workers are
among the most exploited in the
city, getting an average wage OF
only S18 a week.
The 40 strikers are men, the ma
iority of the other workers being
girls who make as little as S12
weekly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
window WIPERS'
.sTOPPAGE LOOMS

A stoppage involving about 600
window cleaners throughout the city
may start tomorrow as a result of
the insolvency of the Empire State
Mutual Insurance Company, an or
ganization which is supposed to pro-
vide compensation insurance for
window cleaners injured while at
work.
This was the announcement made
by officials of the Window Cleaners
Protective Union at mass meeting
last night of organized and unorgan-
lied workers at Manhattan Lyceum,
&C E. Fourth st. The meeting was
called to mobilize the workers for
the general strike of all window
cleaners of Graeter New York and
vicinity, which will probably be call
ed at the expiration on Oct. Is of
the present. agreement with the
Manhattan Window Cleaning En-
ployers Protective Association.
The st0ppage tomorrow will affect
only those employers carrying in
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
DISARMAMENT
conference TO
Be A 5 WINDL-E: {:
Invitations from u. S.
Get Hostile and Eva
sive Replies
Italian Press Caustic
More Warships for All
Is Certain Result

LONDON, Oct. 8.-The official
unofficial" statement given out in
regard to the "five-power conference
on ornaments" remarks that well
informed sources declined to COM
ment on the possibility of Anglo
American difficulties, but believe
that Britain may be influenced by
the attitude of the dominions"-
which is one way of making Amer
can imperialism feel the forces Of
british imper:alist interests in the
ccrn of demands for no weakcnin.",
Of British naval power.
From Paris, where BRAND says
he accepts hte invitation "on prin-
ciple" reports state that Frances
acceptance will be." qualified, con-
ditional" one, and that France will
rot "well receive" any question on
The abolition of submarines.
From Italy, the most caustic COM
ment comes on the initiation as well
as on the MacDonald-Hoover con-
versations, caricatures appearing
-howing the two as fishermen drag
ging Italy, France and Japan into
/ ? 2et. "Il Tevcr" gave the general
$50 of resentment saying:
"There is no warning of this new
western imperialism wrapped in
humanitarian principles as fierce
and unreasonable as puritanism and
animated by the conception that they
are called to fulfill divine mission
of material and idealistic redemp-
ton. We refer to American i'm
perialism, which threatens our an
cient civilization"
Japan is reported to be confer
ring on just how oword the text
of the "reply"-not spoken of as an
"acceptance"-whose nature may be
forecast by the present instruction
given Japan's ambassadors at Lon
dol and Washington to emphasize
Japan's demand for an increase in
her naval armament to reach a 10
1C-7 ratio. 1t is also rumored that
reply on this demand may be
sought before Japan gives any reply
at all.
Since America declares it will
build Is more cruisers regardless CT
any agreement" as well as 10000
tons of other naval craft; and as
Britain is to continue construction
on seven cruisers now building and
three more planned, the "disarma-
ment" conference, or even confer
ence on reduction" of ornaments,
can be clearly seen to be'a swindie
and lie before it begins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
IJrer2 I0OP. C. WalEout Eisnan, in Detention,
in Happiness Shop Goes ON Hunger Strike
Forty Workers Strike and Wins His Demands

Harry Eisman, militant N. Y. Pio-
neer serving six months sentence
in a Jewish reformatory at Haw-
thorne, New York, for participating
in a demonstration against the Boy
Scouts en- July 20, has gone on a
hunger strike against the censoring
of his mail by the reformatory au-
thorities. The strike lasted one day
an das a result Mr.. Klein, the head
of the children's Jail granted his
demands. Now Fisman gets his
mail, but yith "places cut out"
They are kept in strict discipline
and on the slightest misdemeanor
they are given "ticket" which pro-
longs their stay in the "Home" for
six or eight weeks.
While in the reformatory the chill
dren are fed full of patriotism and
religion. There is also a Boy Scout
troop there who are given all sorts
of privileges and are the pets of
the Jail. Nevertheless they are con-
sidered equals when it comes to the
tickets" The international Labor
Defense is appealing to get Harry
Fisman out Of this hell hole for chill
dren. They want letters of protest
against the treatment of Harry Fis-
man to be sent to Mr.. Klein, head
of the Hawthorne Boys Home, Haw-
the ne, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Negro, White Workers
Protest Terrorism on
Them, Meet Tomorrow

Race and class prosecution will
not go unfought by Brownsville
Workers, who will meet with white
workers in mass protest against
brazen lynch terror at Dunbar Cen
ter, COS HeEkimer ST., Brooklyn, at
8 p. M. Thursday.
The mass demonstration will be
under the auspices of the Browns
vile local of the American Negro
Labor Congress, which will be repre-
sented at the meeting by its local
president, Fred Makel.
Other speakers will include Will
Llama Burroughes, of the Congress,
and J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for
borough president of Manhattan for
the Communist Party, whose plat
form, incidentally, includes the de-
mand for, full social, political and
economic equality for Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
MUST Defy ALL
EFFORT TO HALT
REGISTRATION
Workers Register Now
to Vote Communist

Low response to yesterdays e5ec-
ton registration is just one indica-
tion that New York workers are re-
treating from support of the demo-
cratic, republican or socialist par
ties.
The Communist viewpoint on the
returns was told by the Daily
Worker yesterday by Rccc-ca
Grecht, campaign manager.
Only 167,257 city voters regis
tered, as compared with 270463 last
year.
"Bitte rexperience in their strike
struggles is proving to many New
York vcSScrs tie folly of voting for
any of the political groups repress-
ing them," GrecLt said.
"Vote--:-atching phrases from
Tammany Hall mean nothing to
militant workers-they know how
the Tammany police club and black
jack 'befriends' them on the picket
line," she added.
The light registrations bemoancd
by the republicans show that repub-
lican dirt-spilling on Tamnany graft
and corruption lis recognized by
many as the familiar exposure"
of politicians who would themselves
control the municipal apparatus as
a source of rich graft, the. Party rep
resentative held.
The socialist party outstrips re-
publicans and democrats. 1t wants
more police efficiency" It's nomi-
nee Rev. Norman Thomas, is praised
on all sides as "a non-partisan can
didate." The Citizens Union is only
one of the pastor-politicians' back
ers.
Undoubtedly bureaucratic ter
rorism is used to discourage those
workers who intend to vote Com
munist," the campaign manager
said. "They must refuse to be in
Inundated and express their support
not of the republican, democrat OF
socialist parties, but of the party
which alone fights for their interest;
the Communist Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Women Workers Back
Communist Party in
Oct. IL GastOnia Meet

New York working women will
demonstrate in solidarity with the
Gastonia strikers while pledging
their support to the Party which
consistently champions their inter-
ests-the Communist Party-at a
mass meeting at Irving Plaza Hall,
Irving Place and 18th St., at 8 p. m.
Thursday, Oct. II.
The necessity of supporting the
Communist candidates-William w.
Weinstone, for mayor; Otto Hall,
for comptroller; and Harry M.
Wicks, for aldermanic president
will be explained by prominent Par
ty leaders.
"Not only in Gastonia, but right
here in New York, workers who
struggle for better conditions are
cruelty attacked and terrorized by
the united forces Of the bosses, the
government, the capitalist political
parties, and the reactionary labor
takers of all stripes" the Party de-
'clares in its appeal for .mass sup
port Of the meeting. -. -. as.ul.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Not GastOnia Cases But Dead
Workers Is Slogan OF Left
Social RefOrmists

Before the blood of the murdered
the cf social reorm the American Federation of Labor
the job planning erayas The identical state militia
owner Tax Gardner
Sheriff Adkins the butcher of defen workers from reprisals
by the relatives and fellow workers of dead strikers has been
realed to in behalf William Ross graduates
special the OF that Institution of class betrayal
has been asked Ross house Ross is perfectly consistent
expecting the militia alike all the good and faithful
of the mill whether they shers and policemen
alleged labor leaders.
III. associate of Ross Francis j. German also an official of the
Union tried again place his organization
strike order again beay the mill slaves of
decisions takers, proposed compromise
the Marion Manufacturing Company.
These officials organization rushed
situation the workers. but be-
had voed the teaherous agreement with
blacklist militia constitute
supplement the forces of the sheriff
and the mill thugs who Ncdc9d@y last murdered in cold blood un
workers. the public highway.
workers. dputes who participated
the muderous attack the strikers out warrants for
strikers charging them with melting riot rebellion against the
irony in the fact that Alfred Toffnan graduate
NIusete included tie complaint Hoffman hastcned to
in light of the main p,oa,s the Platform:
Heaven knows had trorO enough down in Marion trying
thugs Leading strike of 100 cent Nordic native
southernerS largely an exercise IN stn on ne Ia 10 G pe i
sheriffs n kind"
This is nothing otar h-a CONCESSION completely
potagairst vcrrg According Hoffman the task
the American Federation Of Labor to sit
the lid the workers defending themselves against woesa
job organize the workers for militant Struggle
against speedup engtheng of hours the blacklist
other effects capitalist rationazaton but
the d the employers continue to exploit and oppre
He the workers helpless and deenseless
thugs and the mill This
group social reformists fown self defense for the
working Gaona heroism Gas
trials which the hdeous mask OF
justice ripped for all the workers to
Wt these funkeysm with the state
police the the eectroutoners prefer when they
to choose Gagtonia cases. but dead workers
Hoffman clearly reveal the real role
direct for aiding the capitalist
class power the workers. aiding
capitalist naturalization and trying to crush the increasing OF
the working class.
The and workers everywhere should
the leadership these Mustc which lead only
tc1@yal and acath
The the South have confidence in these
capitalism repudate them and rally behnd the
militant Textile Workers Union The South
Conference that Charlotte Saturday
support of all workers in the slave OF that part
the capitalist murderers OF the working
class must determined fight against capitalist ration
suffering and poverty OF the work
ing building powerful unon the creation OF
the dsarmng of the fascist bands
labor of the social eorm OF all
stripes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
W WHITE WASH ;
MARION KILLERS
Hoffman Says Duty Is
to Restrain Labor

MARION, N. c.. Oct. S.-The
deputies who perpetrated the Mar
lon massacre, week ago, from
which five strikers have died, and
others may still die, are being of
ficially whitewashed. Three of
them were released from all charges
today by Judge Harding, who is
pretending to conduct hearings on
the case.
One of the most ridiculous feat
ures of the case of rebellion"
against The strnkc-3 is that Alfred
Hoffman, partner in the betrayal of
the Elizabethton and Marion strik-
ers, is indicted along with them
Hoffman is an organizer of the Hos
iery Workers Federation, part of
the United Textile Workers, but was
lent to the U. T. w. main office be-
] cause Of his known expertness in
the sell-out.
The Federated Press reports Hoff-
man as saying:
Heaven knows / had trouble
enough down in Marion trying to
prevent armed insurrection against
Sheriff Adks and his armed thugs.
Leading strike Of 100 percent Nor
die native southerners is largely an
exercise in setting on the lid to pre-
vent them %%com an --cring the vio-
lenec of the mill owners and their
sheriffs in kind"
This gives good indication of the
watchfdlness to the bosses of the
U. T. w. officials in Marion and
assures them that whatever happens
to the r1:l,; and file who really
wanted to win the strike. Hoff-
man and his friends will be leniently
dealt with.
The case is the first of its nature
to be prosecuted since 1878 funder
laws passed by tho northern carpet
beggarsto suppress the native south
erners after the Civil War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
OFFICIALS
Sell. |. !. OUT STRIKE
OF TRUCkDRIvE:RS
T.U.U.L. Told Strikers
Of Betrayal, Urged
Rank-File Fight
Follows Secre t Meet
.8-Hour Day, Overtime
Demands Sold
Follows Secret t Meet

Adding one more black deed to the
record of the A. F. of L. betrayals,
the misleaders of the International
Brotherhood OF Teamsters and
Chauffeu-a, Lo2l .02, yesterday sold
out the strike of the 1000 fruit and
vegetable truckmen which had eff
fectively tied up the local produce
market since ~lturday.
The Metropolitan Area Trade
Union Unity League in statement,
copies of which were distributed
among the strikers earlier in the
day warned against the impending
sell-out in the following words:
"ou must not and cannot rely upon
your officials who are ready to sell
out your demands. You must imme-
diately take the situation into your
own hands. You must Immediately
set up your own rank and file strike
committee and defc-t the attempt
to betray you"
Neither the eight-hour day nor
time and a half for overtime, the
demands for which the struggle was
called, were granted the drivers
under the agreement signed yester-
Gay afternoon by Joseph Hahn
wright, president of Local 202; Mar
tin Thompson, secretary, and repre-
sentatives of the contractors or boss
truckmen and the fruit merchants.
The Grass nature of the betrayal
was heightened by the fact that the
strikers had complete control of the
situation, as was admitted even by
tCoati3aUed an Page TaVo1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
National Miners Union Moves
to Organize the Iron Ranges
Unemployment, SpeedUp, Low Wages, Finger
Printing Rouse Militancy of Mesaba

Plans for organizing the famous
Mesaba Iron range into the National
Miners Union are going forward,
according to Pat Devine, writing in
recent issue of The Coal Miner.
The Coal Miner is changing its name
with the next issue to something
else (suggestions now being re-
ceived) because the N. M. u, is en-
larging to take in metal miners as
well as those in the coal industry.
The article states that the Steel
Trust spy system, lnog a barrier to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
MORE PROSECUTION LIARS
in CAST0NIA CASE ADMIT
BEING BOUGHT BY COMPANY
Policeman Gilbert Boasts of Pay from L0ray;
HOrd Admits Previously Killed Man, Boy
Southern Textile Workers Conference Starts
With Big Mass Meeting Saturday

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Oct. SIT be apparent today
to conservative fundamentat jury of land owning
hat the testimony the Gastona produced by
the mill bosses prosecutors of contradictory perjury
1t nut also be evident that nearly all of the states wit
Loray hrengs Mrs Connie Neal for instance has
openly boased about being rewarded for her testimony Grace
uffy has been promoted from the job Of low paid steno
grapher to of a highly paid Secretary"
Policeman Gilbert of those who followed AderhO in
the raid the strikers tent colony in Gastona June T. and
helped shooting which resulted the death of Ader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Worker Delegates to U.S.S. r.
to See 5 Year Plan Working
Actual Visit to u. IS. S. r. Will Refute Lies of
Capitalist Press and Socialists

The workers and peasants of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics,
confident tina tthe actual facts Of
their socialist reconstruction of the
country they control will answer
any amount Of slander by imperial
lists and exploiters abroad, are in
viting another group Of workers
from America to come and see, and
to celebrate the 18th year.
The invitation is extended through
the Frends of the Soviet Union, and
is as follows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

Working Men 'and Working
Women!
Workers of all Races. and Creeds /!
Industrial and Land Workers!
"While the bourgeoisie, with the
help of the socialists and the whole
capitalist press are increasing daily
their slander against the Soviet
Union and spreading lies about the
building Of socialism, for the pur-
pose of killing the growing SYM
pathy Of the workers towards the
lContinusd on Page Thrss)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

organization will be of no avail
against the rising discomfort of the
workers and their determination to
fight for better conditions. Ration
alization, speed-up, long hours,
wage-cuts mad unemployment, so
typical of all industries in the
United States, is especially empha-
sized in the metal mines.
The introduction Of machinery on
the Mesaba Range has reduced the
number of men employed fromsIS,-
-. Continued on Page 7Hree)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Norfolk Workers Hear
Schechter, H a m pit o n

NORFOLK, Va. (By MaiD.-Amy
Schechter, who recently faced elec-
trocution by the Carolina mill
bosses, spoke at the Norfolk work
ers Gastonia Joint Defense meeting
here Sunday, Oct. 6. Del Hampton,
who also was on trial in Charlotte,
also spoke. Over $50 workers were
present. A resolution for the Gas
tonia prisoners was adopted and sent
20 the seven still held, and to Gov
ernor Gardner Of North aCrolina.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Fascists of Austria
Get Worst of 1t in
Clash with Workers

VIENNA, Oct. Sin the last few
day snumerous collisions between
workers and fascists have taken
place in Austria, for instance at
Modelling where the fascists were
soundly thrashed; at Fuerstenfeld,
where three persons were seriously
injured; at Haidach, where three
were injured; at Payerbach, where a
fascist was seriously injured, and
at Kapfenberg, where worker ath-
letes fought the fascists and sent
six to the h .jpital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
FOOD FRACTION MEET.

A general meeting of all Party
food workers, hotel, restaurant, cafe
terra workers, grocery clerks, butch
ers, bakers, Amalgamated Food
Workers, A. F. of l.. locals, will be
held on Wednesday, October 9, 1929,
p. m. sharp at 1928 Union Square,
by the order of the District Indus
trial Department. All comrades are
urged to be present and on time as
a roll call will be taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
Marking on Defensive
Against Rival Armies

HONGKONG, Oct, T. From
Marking government sources re-
ports state that endorsements loyal
to Marking Cat this moment) have
arrived at Canton and are moving
into northern Kwantung with orders
not to enter Kwangsi. This last
proviso illustrates the weak position
Marking feels before the threat of
Kwangsi-a defensive position.
Build Up the United Front of &,