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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
TUUL Board
TO Plan Tactics
for Big Fights
Struggle Coming Soon
in Many Industries

A score of weak points in the
capitalist system, where employers
fighting for profits during period
of growing industrial crisis are find
ing increasing resistance from the
workers, will be deeply probed at
the meeting tomorrow night of the
National Executive Board Of the
Trade Union Unity League.
The Executive Board has repre-
sentatives from all the industrial
unions of the T.U.U.L., and of the
industrial leagues and departments.
1t contains within it, therefore,
sources of information on which the
board will base detailed campaigns
for active organization work.
The meeting tomorrow is con-
tinuation of a long session Satur-
day, in which among other things,
it was brought out by general re-
ports of the secretary, organizer and
others, that large scale conflicts be-
tween labor and capital are particu-
larly near in certain industries. The
United Mine Workers of America
is practically smashed in the bitu-
minous fields. In Illinois some 40,-
900 members are held in unwilling
bondage to it by means of the check
off, but are extremely rebellious and
are breaking with the U.M.W.A. and
joining the National Miners Union.
However, the anthracite fields are
perhaps in an even more critical sit
uation. The U. M. W. A. contract
expires next year, and $4,000 dues
paying members 100000 less than
year ago. will be forced into a
strike, with the discredited U M. W.
A. nominally leading it. This move
ment must be prepared for, and the
hope of the miners for victory will
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Leaksville Mill Worker Tells
Why Strikers Must Haze Daily
Only Paper We Can Believe, for It Tells the
Workers Side'

of the Leakvle n c. WoOlen Mill
the big struggles be waged by the Southern mill
workers in the future.
Working shift and IL hours night shift,
S2 to SIG week. the Leaksvle
the Textile Workers Union
their village tell them of the necessity to organize
a militant for the fight against slavery.
T. w. happened to be Fred Beal who
this Bea brought with him of the Daily
Worker.
Daily looked by the Leksvie mill workers
as their since that time.
when the Leksvie workers srkng-heyre 100
ntoerabe slave conditions they're demanding that
they receive the Daily Workermany copies of every day.
they look their fellow workers in the of the
that the Daily Worker is sent them regularly
Therefore it's working class organization adopt Leaks
vile that the strikers get the Daily Worker each day.
Speaking strikers of Leakvle MILL w.
the strikers tells why the Leaksvie workers must have the
Daily Worker.
a fight wages
against the speed
he Charlotte and Gastona began attack right off
the reel
he only we'd believe and the Daily
telling the facts about the strike
Continued Page Threo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Musteites Endorse
AFLDrive Against
NTW in the South

Chairman A. J. Music, of the
Conference for Progressive
Labor Action" has endorsed the
A. F. L. program for a drive
against the National Textile
Workers Union in the South.
Music, in a statement just issued,
says:
"The method of campaign de-
manded by the southern delegates
in no uncertain TERMS" he de-
clares. has been championed for
months by the Conference for
Progressive Labor Action. We
insist that no other means will
avail and if the A. F. of l.. now
fails to use them and respond to
the call of the South, miserable
and disgraceful failure is in
store"
The U IT. w. delegates de-
manded expenditure of huge sums
Of money to establish their or.
ganization and keep the textile
workers real union, the N. T. w.
U. out of the field. They are
asking for help from southern
textile employers associations,
and offer the bosses. arbitration
instead of strikes, and "co-opera-
tion to build up the industry and
make it more efficient"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Big Rallies
PYgCede MI w
Com UentlOn
Expec ct so Delegates
from South

Textile workers in all mill GEN.
ters, preparing for great struggles
against slave conditions, will take
part in a series of mass meetings
between now and Thursday, Novem-
Der %, which will precede the Ma
tional Convention of the National
Textile Workers Union, to be held
November % to 80 in Union Hall,
T "son, N. j.
The series of pre-convention mass
meetings will end With a huge wind
up meeting in Paterson, on Wednes-
day, November 27, the evening be-
fore the conference. William z. Fos-
ter will address this meeting, which
will be held in the Union Hall, 205
Paterson St., Paterson.
Reports from the southern mill
centers state that 80 delegates to
the National Convention have al
ready been elected, and over so are
expected from the South.
Ninety delegates "a expected
from New Bedford. In Paterson, 25
delegates have already been elected
by the textile workers of Paterson.
Delegates will be present from
such mill centers as Fall River,
Easthampton and Lawrence, Mass;
(Continued ON Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
HOOVER CONFERS
WITH R.R. PIRATES
IN CRISIS MEET
Big Drop in Railway
Activity Basis
for Confab
Mellon, n,LamontP
Fear Bi G Increase in
Unemployed Ranks

Growing unemployment was the
main threat which stalked into the
conference of rail heads called by
Hoover today. This was made plain
by the official statement issued
after adjournment of the gathering.
'The railway presidents" said
Hoover, "were unanimous in their
determination to cooperate in the
maintenance of employment and
business progress"
No action was taken. The phrases
that came out of the conference will
be passed on to the American Rail-
way Association which is to meet in
Chicago next Friday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Today
Hoover took his first step in an at
tempted effort to stem the growing
economic crisis, by comforting with
all leading railroad executives who
may be in the East.
The drop in freight car loadings
for October of nearly four per cent,
and a drop of 32,292 cars for the
week ended November 2, will be the
main consideration of the leading
railroad bosses in their conference.
Commenting on the proposed con-
ferences of imperialist experts who
will try to put the breath of life into
industry, the New York Times says:
at is necessary to get rid of panic
fears as well as of wild and impos-
sible hopes" The capitalist press is
preparing the minds of the workers
for a failure of the imperialist econ
omic confabs, and the wage slashing
campaigns which will undoubtedly
follow.
Besides the leading executives of
the country's important railroads,
(Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
COURT RULES NO
LIMIT TO RENTS
Declares SIS a Room
Law Unconstitutional

The last act in the farcical jug
Cling of rent laws, emergency rent
laws, city rent laws and state rent
laws was played yesterday when
New York Supreme Court Justice
Nathan Blur, with Justices Joseph
M. Callahan and Richard Lyden con-
curing, ruled that there is no limit
to the amount of rent a landlord
may dem I'd of his tenants.
From now on, if the tenart wants
any relief from the landlords eXtor-
tion, it is up to him to organize and
battle for it, through his tenants
leagues, such as the Harlem Ten
ants League, which long ago point
ed out the cruel deception in the
fake Tammany Municipal Emer-
gency Rent Law" now declared un-
constitutional by the appellate term
- 10 supreme court.
The last session of the legislature
killed the state rent law, providing
that rooms renting for lower than
SIS month could not have the
rates raised. The democratic"
New York City government, facing
an election campaign, made the ges-
ture of passing a city law, to carry
on the terms of the defunct state
law.
But now the election is over
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
16 Conferences
Mobilize for
Big lid Meet

Seventy-five thousand booklets
summarizing % important cases
against workers current today and
$4,000 letters calling upon workers
to hold tremendous demonstrations
and mass meetings of mobilization
for the Gastonia and anti-terror
drive of the International Labor De-
Tense are being sent from the ma
tional office.
Sixteen conferences TO mobilize
the workers for the fourth national
convention of the International
Labor Defense at Pittsburgh, De-
cember 20, 80 and 81, which will
intensity the drive for $4,000 new
members and $4,000 by January Is,
are to be held in the following cities:
Philadelphia, Sunday, Nov. "a, 10
a. M, at Grand Fraternity Hall, 26
Arch ST.; Boston, Sunday, Dec. l.,
at 10 a. M, Robert Burns Hall,
Caledonian Building, 53 Berkeley
Hall; Anthracite, Sunday, Dec. /,
sos Lackawanna Ave-, Scranton,
Pa; Detroit, Sunday, Dec. /, 10 a.
M, New Trade Union Center, 1882
Woodward Ave; Chicago, Sunday,
Dec. s, Peoples Auditorium, 2457
w. Chicago Ave; Charlotte, N. c.,
Sunday, Dec. 8, 10 a. M, N. T. w.
U. Hall, Caldwell and Belmont Sts.;
Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. Is, 10 a. M,
Gardina Hail., 6201 st. Clair Ave-;
Pittsburgh, Sunday, Dec. Is, 10 a.
M; New York, Sunday, Dec. Is, 10
a. M, Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and
18th ST.; Los Angeles, Saturday and
Sunday, Dec. 21 and o., and the
Buffalo section conferences Dec. l.,
8 Is and 25 at II different cities.
/. e. d. Week First Week in Dec.
The first week in December will
be declared an II. L. D." week over
the land most systematic house
to house and shop collection will
take place in all industrial centers.
Seventy-thousand coupon books
have been printed which carry the
history of % major cases, such as
Gastonia, Mineola, Salvatore Ac-
corsi, the Los Angeles cases. These
will be distributed for mass collec-
tions the land over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
CAST0N 7 SPEAK
AT IL. D. MEETS
Will Help Campaign to
Members

Workers of cities near New York
are eagerly waiting to hear Fred
Beal and other Gastonia defendants
at the mass welcomes being arranged
for them under the auspices of the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. The meet
ings will be notifications for inten-
styling the campaign to free the
seven victims of mill owners JUS
tice and for building the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
At 2 p. m. Sunday Beal and w.
M. McGinnis, who has just been re-
leased on bail, will speak in New
ark at Krueger's Auditorium, Bel
mont Ave-, near Springfield Ave.
They will speak in Yonkers Mon
day night at o'clock.
Next Tuesday night meeting
will be held in Brownsville at Hop
kinson Mansion, 42s Hopkinson Ave.
Continued on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
TWO MORE SHOE
SHOPS LOCK OUT
Workers Determined
to Carry on to Victory

About 100 workers, members of
the International Shoe Workers
Union of Greater New York were
locked out yesterday by two shops
in Brooklyn. These are the Barlin
Bros. Shoe Co., at 70 Bridge ST.,
and the Kados Shoe Manufacturing
Co., of 2401 Pacific st.
The whole crew responded en-
Enthusiastically to the call of the
union and all are determined to go
through with the fight until the
bosses realize they must carry out
the terms of their agreement.
These were organized shops, and
the union had a contract. But the
Metropolitan Shoe Manufacturing
Association of New York conducts
a consistent policy of breaking
agreements with the workers, and
has deliberately engaged on the
present struggle.
Advised By Government.
The U. S. Department of Labor
recently sent letter to the New
York bosses suggesting that they
break their agreements and try to
eliminate the union. The lockout
campaign followed. There are now
ten shops out.
There will be mass meeting
Thursday, $50 p. m. in Brownsville
Labsr Lyceum to. which all workers
in organized and unorganized shops
in Brownsville are invited to hear
Continued on Pags Twol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
YL TO Hail
ANNIVERSARY
YCI Sunday
Eastern Celebration at
Workers Center

An eastern celebration, including
three districts of the Young Commu-
mist League, will be held this Sunday
evening at Workers Center, % Union
Square, on the 10th anniversary of
the Young Communist International,
a section of the Communist Inter-
national and the leader of the world
working class youth.
"The Young Communist Interna-
tional was born in the struggles of
the working class youth and in the
revolutionary wave which spread
thruout the European countries after
the war;" a statement of the Y. C.
L. National Executive Committee
says.
"For ten years it has conducted
an untiring and heroic struggle in
the interests of the working youth
of the East and West.
"We call upon all Party comrades,
young and adult workers, Pioneers
and working class children to parti-
cipate in this celebration and turn
it into a mighty demonstration of
international solidarity of the work
ing class under the leadership of the
Communist International and Young
Communist International"
National leaders of the Communist
Party and Y. c. L. will speak, and
moving pictures showing Interna-
tional Red Day demonstrations will
be shown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
% % NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY,
CAPITALIST Justice i'm North
Carolina

The kind justice that given
is strange unusua only unusually understand 1t
typical prevails
acter in capitalist country.
break the strike the Loray Gastona open
ence ent Illegal supported
state government used the strikers The leading strikers
and attacked with would killed
they had defended themselves Having defended themselves
openly unlawful violence and having committed illegal acts them
selves, they railroaded to living deaths in prison
During the prosecution those committed me
workers Gasonia open illegal
the paid agents ncudng
Carpenter and Buwnk who cour
nued undisturbed against workers Armed thugs with the
ment and protection of the legal authorities openly
country Deliberately attacking workers. they
sho ito death heroic leader of the strikers Ella May
The law Immediately the of the
ing the release OF those who openly and identified the
Before the sentence long
resisted the attack themselves Gasona
c, affair Sheriff Adkins who the little unkey
BOSSES is fit symbol of the state with eight
the of the Marion Mfg MILL happened
amazing lesson capitalist justice working has
not yet had its eyes opened to this sor tof thing:
Every device and the entire machinery put
protect the murderer whom publicly
murderous fire of the mgen
against the state and for nsurrecton" with
All workers ought slightest
danger agent of the mill bosses being anything
matter what the crime may be- And
to do anything for the working conditions
conduct NAV be- will be- Struck bv the b sa bd Of M par @ Th ms
you a capitalist owned by the bankers
and other simply purpose of suppress
ing the working class for their enslavement
And now something happening C. saylors,
workers who kidnapped and fogged by the agents
help of the authorities the two big
penter the mob of criminals
saylors identified the two soundre under OATH
chery OF the law motion bu
of the mill Bulwnke Carpen-and the Grand jury
owned by the mill has indicted because
he told the truth.
Next the filthy lying Charlotte Observer newspaper organ
the mill owners ntmates that of the
workers to indicted Also the that Say
ors to tell the truth which the law calls anything
against the mill owners is perjury
This is capitalist justice This capitalist government This is
class cannot be free as long the capitalist government
There only other kind working class
ce But working class justice working
class government In only workers
SO FAR their That the class
struggle (such Gasoa the high
stage where the working class overhrew class govern
ment and established their working class
the mills mines and factorieshe whole country everything in
lifelong to the workers.
Only under such conditions working class Justice
There the former mill thugs dicks police
the working class building the democracy known
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
The Communist Party in fighting every te"
struggle like that Gastona Ezabehton in fighting
to save Gastona brothers from capitalist prisons da
IN and day out to make all put this co
try and the whole world under the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
SCAB CLEANERS
MEETING is FLOP
Strikers at Big Union
Rally Hit Betrayers

The attempttof American Fedora
tion of Labor and right wing agents
of the employers to split the Win
dow Cleaners Protective Union, Lo-
cal 8, fizzled miserably yesterday.
In reply to the betrayers' call for a
scab meeting in Bryant Hall, the
workers crowded the regular union
meeting in Manhattan Lyceum where
they enthusiastically expressed their
determination to continue the fight
for the five-day week and their other
demands.
Several bosses who considered the
formation of company union real
occasion for rejoicing attended Bry-
ant Hall. The meeting was run by
Alexander Marks, we'll known A. f.
of L. faker, the two fat-boys of the
Building Service International, C. F.
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Senator Moses Works
With Sugar Lobbyists
to Aid MachadO Rule

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Sena-
tor Moses was exposed today as
working hand in hand with the
Cuban sugar interest who are lob
bying for a cut in tariff on Cuban
sugar.
In order to favor his imperialist
bosses, Moses handed John. H. Car
roll, Washington attorney, who re-
ceives $4,000 yearly from Ameri-
can bankers controlling the Cuban
sugar industry, copy of a resolu-
Continued on Page TaOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
COMMUNIST CAIN
IN Ger NJ ANY IS
AMONG WORKERS
In May Day Barricade
District 2 to 4 Over
Socialists
Red Vote Sweeps Ruhr
SaXony Decreased But
4 Provinces Gained
(WTeless By Imprecorv)


BERLIN, Nov. 19.-The class
vote in the Berlin elections is re-
vealing the thinness of the claim
that the great gain in the Commu-
mist vote was due solely to the ex-
posure of grating by the socialist
mayor and other socialists. All of
the most important proletarian dis.
tricts-Wedding, Neukoelln, Fried
richshain, NJ it tie, Prenzlauerberg,
Kreuzberg, Moabit and Lichtenberg
gave the Communist Party more
votes than given to the socialists
This proves that the workers arc
behind the Communists.
The voting in the main district
where barricades were the scene of
street fighting on last May Day,
showed that the Communists re-
ceiyed two, three and even four times
as many votes as the socialists.
The Communists suffered much
persecution in the election campaign.
a great part Of their posters, leaf
lets and so on being confiscated. But
in the three days around election,
there were over a thousand new
members applied to join the Commu-
mist Party. The election also show
ed large fascist gains.
. The provincial elections showed
that the Communists lost ground in
Saxony, but gained in Cassel, Wies-
baden, Silesia and the Ruhr. At
Essen, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen,
the Communists won more votes
than the socialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
MQchadO GiUes
% Workers TO
Chang Terror
Wall St., Marking, and
Fascists Cooperate

HAVANA, Nov. 19.-Wall Streets
president of Cuba, Gerardo Machado
has signed DEGREES of deportation
for % militant Chinese workers, to
be handed over to the Kuomintang
authorities for Imprisonment, tor
ture and probable execution.
Most of the % are members of
the Cuban branch of the All-Amer-
lean Alliance to Support the Chi
nese Worker-Peasant revolution.
No charges were made against the
Continued on Page TWo}
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Mock GastOnia Trial
Friday by Section /

A mock trial of the capitalist
class, on the Gastonia verdict, will
be held by Section / of the Commu-
mist Party, at Clinton Hall, Clinton
ST., this Friday, at 7.30 p. m. M.
J. Olgin will act as the lawyer for
the defense, Sam Darcy as the pre-
siding judge, and Robert Minor as
prosecutor for the working class.
Fred Beal and X. Y. Hendryx will
be witnesses for the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
Fakers Expel Three
Militants of Local
900, BARRIERS Union

At a packed meeting in which on
y henchmen of the takers were al
owed to vote, the membership
laving been bulldozed into abstain
ng, S. Weinrib, A. Granditti and /.
spivack, militant members OF Local
100, were expelled from the Journey
men BARRIERS International for dar-
ng to expose the corrupt misleader-
hip.
A mass meeting of all New York
,arbers will be called in the near
'uture to denounce the expulsions,
'how up the betrayal program of
he barber fat boys and map out
,lans for future work among the
.ank and file Of the locals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
''HUNC JURY" IN
GRAHAM CASE
Use Every W e a n S to
Railroad Va. Worker

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 19.-After
the Tidewater region open shop
bosses and their courts had used
every means within their power to
railroad to prison Stephen Graham,
a member of the Communist Party
and representative Of the Trade
Union Unity League, the trial of
Graham on charges of "inciting to
riot" and attempt to cause re-
volt of the Negro race against the
white" ended with chung jury"
The jury was out about three hours,
and could come to no agreement on
just how to railroad Graham, and
on exactly what charges.
Graham was arrested at an open
air meeting of the Negro and white
workers at the plant of the South
ern Spring Manufacturing Co.
The trial opened last Thursday
in the corporation court. Much ar
gument went on among the prose-
cution as to what charges to make
in order to railroad Graham. A
threat of deportation to fascist
Jugoslavia was also held over Gra-
hams head.
Finally charge Of "breach of
the peace" was made against Gra-
ham, and he was fined $3.50. The
case was appealed. One of the
prosecuting lawyers was man en-
ployed privately by the Sam Finkel-
stein Clothing Co. of Norfolk.
Against the lies of police and of
stool-pigeons hired by the state, the
defense presented six workers as
witnesses, two of them Negroes.
The prosecuting lawyers attempted
to use the Gastonia case to aid in
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
New York Official Admits
Girls Get No Livimg WQge

Quoting government figures COM
lied during the week ending Sept.
4, of this year, Frances Perkins,
lew York industrial commissioner,
Omitted in public speech in the
lotel Pennsylvania that thousands
working girls in this city get
ages below the lowest minimum at
'hich healthy life is possible.
The figures the government fur
ished showed the following scale of
'ages paid by leading Manhattan
Employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20

RS"iiiS ihaSHlIic operators 10 TO oU
Perkins admits that in New York,
city OF slums and high rents, a room
and three meals day cost a girl
Sl4.69 week, if she is content with
the worst. This amount leaves moth
ing for carfare, clothes, laundry,
amusements, newspapers, or any,
thing else. And many of the wages
paid are not as much as $14.69.
Even Perkins had to say:
There is something defective in
our civilization, something wrong
with the economic machine, else the
worker, out of what she produces,
could buy back at least enough to
feed and house herself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
T.U.U.L. Leads Strike
of Laund dr. y Workers

Organized by shop committees led
by the Trade Union Unity League,
workers of the Real Cleaning and
Dyeing Company, Corona, L. l., con-
tinued picketing yesterday. They
had struck Monday in protest
against the discharge of a worker
who had demanded back wages.
Workers applying for jobs in re-
sponse to the laundry bosses appea!
Joined the strikers when they dis
covered they were wanted as scabs.