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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Communist Activities

All units and ali members attention
Main tasks for the Units;
ID The Greater New York Work.
ers Anti-Imperialist War and Defend
the Soviet Union Conference has es-
tnblished n permanent body to fight
imperialist war. 1t is the duty of
all units to take up the task of build
ing anti-war committees in the shops,
trade unions and all labor bodies
with the object of affiIiating them
TO the conference.
ca Everything must be spceded
up for August /. Make arrangements
to check up every Party comrade on
what he is doing for August 1, what
arrangements he has made in his
shop. "Down Tools Aug. /, 4 y. m,
March to Union Square and Demon
strate" is the slogan.
go This week is Gastonia Defense
Week. Connect up the defense of
the Gastonia victims with the anti
war campaign The demonstration
Aug. L for the defense of the Soviet
Union will likewise be demonstra-
ton for the defense of the GastOnia
textile workers. Spread widely the
signatures of protest and help to OBJ
tain the 100000 signatures.
90 Defend the Soviet Union. Fight
against the war danger. This is the
main task of the Party units.
(5) Discussion in the units on len
mist war tactics and aims of Inter-
national Red Day.
90 Prepare the election machinery
for putting the Party ticket on the
ballot.
90 Take the preparatory stems
for the TUUC and the conference on
August goth in preparation for the
Cleveland Conference.
(s) Every Partv comrade must
pay his days wage. Funds are
needed to carry on the struggle
against the war danger.
DIRECTIONS TO ALL FRACTIONS
IN TRADE UNIONS AND LABOR
ORGANIZATIONS. (FraternaI, wo-
mems organizations, workers clubs,
etc.)
Meet Immediately on the war dan
ger, as follows: To prepare for rails
ing the question of the tasks in reIa-
ton to the defense of the Soviet
Union. Mobilize the masses for n
struggle against the war provOca-
tons.
Do everything to make the events
In which the Party participates sue
cessful
Immediate tasks for all New Jer-
sey and upstate New York units in
| line with program of work sent
out today are:
! III Get resolutions passed in all
workers organizations for defense OF
the Soviet Union against the wal
proyOcatiOns of the Marking govern
ment backed by the foreign imper-
ialists Immediate arrangement OF
open air meetings on issue.
| (2) Immediately send material for
special anti-war issue of every shop
paper we issue.
t3) Elect committee of three to
carry thru other preparations for
August LIST An open mir demOnStra-
tion in every town must be arranged
az Immediate mobilization for
Second Metropolitan Trade Union
Unity Conference in New York Au-
gust 10th and National Convention in
Cleveland August 31st.
co Arrange house to house col
lectiOnS and at least one tag day for
Gastonia Defense before July 70.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Harlem Tenants Respond
to Housing Con ference
Continued from Page One)

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held the evenings of August 7 and
8 at st. Luke's hall, 1875 West both
Street. The call points out the op-
pressive conditions under which the
Negro and Latin American tenants,
in particular, are forced to exist in
upper and lower Harlem.
1.-THE oppression of the landlords
has reached the point where it calls
for immediate action on the part of
all working class tenants and their
supporters. There is no end and no
limit to the robbery of the rent
profiteers. They have taken advan-
tage of the housing. shortage to
boost rents constantly.
Rent Raises, Wage Cuts, UnempIoy-
ment.
I'm spite of these outrageous rents
and in the face of constant wage re-
auctions and widespread unemploy-
ment, the landlords are now serving
rent raises and dispossesses whole
sale upon the poor tenants. They
have taken advantage of the aboli-
ton of the state emergency rent law
to demand increases of $40, 500, $50
and even as high as $50!
Negroes Suffer Worst in Jim Crow
Districts.
These conditions are rampant in
the ghettoes of the. east side, lower
west side and lower Bronx among
the foreign born and poor native
workers. They are at their worst
in Harlem among the Latin Ameri-
can and particularly among the Ne
gro workers and in the San Juan
and Brooklyn Negro districts. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
N. Y. WORKERS
TO PAINT HUDSON
RED ON FRIDAY
Daily Worker Arranges
Moonlite Cruise

Ever since pithecanthropus erectus
split up his life into years, divided
the year into months, and whitfield
down the month into weeks, and be-
gan to put out Poor Richards AL
manac, Friday has been significant
day in the history of mankind.
First of all, it comes but once a
week. Then it drips with all sorts
of high and ghostly connotations or
something. For instance, we have a
Black Friday, "holy" Friday and
the allegedly ill-starred Friday the
18th, not to forget Robinson Cru
soe's man Friday.
But Friday, August 9th will not be
marked by any particular "holi
ness" and as for anything sinister
happening on that occasion - well,
that thought will be taken for a
ride Ga boat ride). And far from
running under the color of reaction,
this particular Friday will be stain
ed deep and palpitating red
Because Friday, August 9th is the
date of the moonlite cruise and CO.'S
tune ball arranged by the Daily
Worker, which has chartered the
Peter Stuyvesant, one of the whales
of the Hudson River Day Line, for
the event, and corralled Vernon An
drade's Famous Negro Renaissance
Orchestra for good measure.
There are only limited number
of tickets, on sale at the business of
flee of the Daily Worker and all
Party stations, and at present going
for $1.50 a piece, although there is
rumor abroad that pasteboard
spectators are endeavoring to cor
ner the few that remain. The lucky
holders of the priced stubs will
strike work Red Friday evening and
dust to the pier at the foot of West
42nd ST., boarding the boat before
s p. m. Many a Red plans to paint
the Hudson River red on Red Fri
day. Eft tu?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
20 Needed to Help
LID on Gast0nia Case

During Gastonia Defense and
Relief Week, July 27-August 3,
one quarter million letters will
be sent from the national offices
of the International Labor De-
tense, Room 4O2, 80 East 18th
street, New York. In order to
fold, stamp, address, and do the
other technical details in the Of
flee, twenty more persons are
needed in the office. Unemployed
workers will be paid their tx
penses to aid in the mass of work
for the defense Of the Gastonia
prisoners. Apply at the above
address anv time throughout the
day after a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
SING SING ASKS new YORK LABOR
ARMED CRUISER PREP ARES STRIKE
Prison Chief Admits
Auburn Congested

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Auburn prison, moved today to OBJ
tain an armed cruiser to patrol the
Hudson River nearby.
Eight machine guns were mount
ed atop prison walls and four on the
prison docks along the river front
while 1913 armed keepers patroled
the institution.
AUBURN, N. Y, July 29.-Fear-
ing that horrible and discriminating
facts about vile conditions, over
crowding, poor food and abuse may
seep through following the prison
mutiny here yesterday, DR.. Ray
mond F. C. Kieb, Commissioner of
Corrections, today urged an "inves-
tigation" to determine the cause of
the mutinies both in Auburn and,
last week, in Dannemora.
The obvious purpose of this Gin
vestigation" is to forestall the pos
sibility of these facts coming to the
fore and to save the face of the
prison officials.
A gang of desperate New York
criminals" -some of them now con-
fined and others free-these were
blamed by Kieb for the Dannemora
and Auburn prison break attempts
in a -and-bull story handed out
today.
When asked if any such trouble is
anticipated at Sing Sing, the states
other principal penal institution,
Kieb said that apprehension had
been felt concerning all three pris-
ons for some time, due to overcrowd-
ing and the incarceration of large
numbers of long-term prisoners dur
ing the past few months.
AT least one cell block was dam
aged and the prisoners today are
huddled in the remaining cells and
in several large assembly rooms,
where they are under guard of men
with machine guns.
The trouble at the prison, though
it broke out at a moment when it
had not been expected, was long
brewing. While the prison has
capacity of 1900, there have been
more than 1,700 prisoners inside its
walls for some time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30

vicious system of segregation and
race division which forces the Ne
gro masses to herd into Jim Crow
districts, makes them the special
prey of INSCRIPTIONS and oppressive
landlords and real estate agents,
both black and white. Negro work.
ers get the lowest wages, are hard
est hit by unemployment, and are
already forced to pay rents almost
twice as high as others. Now their
rents are being raised still higher
and they are being dispossessed. So
oppressive are the conditions of
these workers that they fall i'll and
die from two to six times faster
than the people of other sections.
Tenants and Workers Must Unite
and Fight.
"All oppressed tenants and work
ers are called upon to unite upon
basic program for united mass ac-
ton against rent robbery and vile
housing conditions. All tenants and
workers organizations and individu-
ais sympathetic to this aim, are in
vited and urged to join in this rent
and housing conference"
The League has also begun issu-
ance of a special bulletin to keep
the tenants more closely acquainted
with work of the League in fight
ing rent increases, in defending ten
ants in the capitalist courts against
the landlords, in so far as the who'll
ly inadequate capitalist laws can be
used for such defense, and in the
preparation of further action to pro-
tect the tenants against rent OPP
preston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Huge Demonstrations
on August LIST
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
the organization of other antrim
perialist war groups, to launch a
campaign for war funds and inau-
gurate efforts to establish contacts
with world organizations having
aims similar to its own. The mobi-
lization of the toilers, including
working women, the Negro masses,
the youth and workers children, for
the struggle against the rapidly ap-
preaching attack on the fatherland
of the working class, is to be the
chief task of the Conference.
The Conference, representing
practically every militant trade
union and workers fraternal organi-
cation in New York City, voted to a
man for the general strike at d
o'clock, August 1, International Red
Day, and for the participation of
the organized workers it represents
in the Union Square demonstration.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week will be utilized to stage
factory gate meetings before every
large factory in the city, Sam Darcy
of the Workers Action Committee
said yesterday, their purpose being
to mobilize the workers for the
August 1 strike demonstration.
The Workers Action Committee of
43, which was elected to facilitate
the handling of Conference work, is
listed below.
Jim Reid, president Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union;
Alexander Anderson, vice president;
Alexander Anderson, vice-president,
National Textile Workers Union;
Fred Biedenkapp, general manager
of the Independent Shoe Workers
Union; AL Thibauld; Louis Hyman,
president of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union; A. Gross,
manager of the fur department,
same union; Rose Wortis, secretary
of the New York Joint Board,
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union; J. Cohen, furriers depart
ment, N.T.W.LU.; Sylvia BECKER,
Local 48, Milliners Union, N.T.WI.
u; Anna Fox, Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers; J. Anderson, Marine
Workers League; Michael Obermeier,
Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Union;. D. Gitz, ditto;
Fotis, Bakers Local 1854, Amalga-
mated Food Workers; Leo Hoff-
bauer, Architectural Iron and
Bronze Workers Union; M. Rosen,
Carpenters Union; Owerking, Win
dow Cleaners Union; Keppel and
Heder, A.I.B.W.U.; Albert Moreau,
All America Anti Imperialist
League; w. Simons, ditto; M. Aus
tin, Laundry Workers Section, T.U.
Ell; Richard B. Moore, president of
the Harlem Tenants League; H.
Williams, American Negro Labor
Congress; George Pershing, Young
Communist League; Saltzman, Oxen,
Abe Epstein, Sultan, and Sherman,
Independent Workmen's Circle; Y.
Y. Hsu and James Mu, the Chinese
Alliance for the Support of the
Workers and Peasants Revolution;
John d. Masso, glassworkers; Kate
Gitlow, president of the United
Council of Working Women; A.
Landy and A. Wagenknecht, Work
ers International Relief; J. Louis
Engdahl and Juliet Stuart Poyntz,
the International Labor Defense;
VIM. w. Weinstone, Rebecca Grecht,
Ben Lifshitz, Pasternack, Sam
Darcy, New York District Of the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
/. L. G. w. Balls Thugs.

Il IL. u. w bdliS
An assistant of Samuel Marke-
wich, lawyer for the International
Ladies Garment Workers, company
union of the cloak manufacturers,
yesterday walked into court and
posted $4,000 in bonds for the pur-
pose of freeing on bail three hired
gangsters who Saturday invaded the
shop of the Style-Made Cloak Co.,
241 West 9th St., for the purpose
of attacking members of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
who have an agreement with the
firm.
Because the Industrial Union en-
forces the 40-hour week, and its
workers do not work on Saturday,
the thugs didn't find those they were
looking for. Reluctant to leave with
out performing some kind of a
"job," however, the Schlesinger en-
issaries beat up cutter of the Du-
binsky outfit, the foreman and one
other person not, however, I'M
til they had shot up the place more
or less recklessly.
Schlesinger's "boys" were released
for hearing in jefferson Market
Court tomorrow morning before
Magistrate Gottlieb.
Two are charged with felonious
assault and malicious mischief, and
one is charged with malicious mis-
chief.
Who were these individuals for
whom the counsel for the scab Gun
ion" was making such d valiant
plea? Here are their records as re-
vealed at the preliminary hearing
yesterday:
Schlesinger's Assistants.
/. Joseph Cohen" (name given
yesterday; arrested in 1925 for fe-
lonious assault under the name of
paul Berger; discharged by Mag
istrate Oberwager. The following
day he was arraigned on a separate
charge of homicide; discharged by
Magistrate Hause. Arrested again
in 1925 charged with felonious as
sault, freed by Magistrate Hause.
Arrested in 1927 for felonious as
sault, this time giving the name of
Sam Gold; discharged by the grand
jury. In 1928, giving the name of
Harry Weinstein, he was arrested
for felonious assault; freed by Mag
istrate Goodman. Arrested again
in 1928 for malicious mischief, CIV
ing the name of "Paul Goldstein,"
he was released by Magistrate Good
man.
Little Frenchie."
The second character, who gave
his name as Harry Klein" is bet
ter known in the garment center as
Little Frenchie," a notorious gang
ster of many years standing with
the corrupt right wing unions. This
worthy, from 1922 ON was charged
at various times with grand larceny,
felonious assault and unlawful entry
and each time he was freed by an
accommodating magistrate or judge.
The career of the third thug, "Irv-
ing Zaraich," is very much the same
as that of the other two,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
SHOE SHOP MEET
Called TONIGHT

For the purpose of extending ana
spreading the organization drive
among the thousands of unorganized
shoe workers, the Independent Shoe
Workers Union will hold a shop del
egates' conference tonight in Irving
Plaza, 18th St. and Irving Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial began July 20! Twenty three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms, Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27--August 3, Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, so
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
BROOKLYN
Section 6 OPENS Air Meets.

Section 6 has arranged the fol-
lowing outdoor mass meetings:
Flushing Ave. and Cumberland.
Thursday, Aug. l, u noon; Myrtle
Ave. and Lawrence St, Wed. July 81,
u noon; Flushing Ave. and Wyckoff
St. We'd July 81, p. M Myrtle
Ave. and Nostrand, Wed. July 81, IL
noon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
MANHATTAN


Unit 4 5, Section 3.
Unit S, Section 8, meets tomorrow
night, p. m, at 101 West 27th st.
Section 4,
The executive committee of Sec
ton requests that members of
units A, 2 and 8, as well as upper
and lower Harlem units of the Young
Communist League, report at 235
West 10th St at 1880 p. m. sharp
tomorrow to do important Party
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Brighton Beach /. l.. ID.

meeting of the Bill Haywood
Branch I. L. D., will be held Friday
evening August at 227 Brighton
Beach Ave. at which report on
the l, l.. DIV, 1 r. conference
will be given
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial began July 20! Twenty-three
workers face electrocuti0n or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 3! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
MANHATTAN


Workers understanding Esperanto
or who are interested in learning it
and want direct correspondence
with workers in the U. S. S. r. are
asked to write to Esperantist Branch,
care of Hungarian Workers Home,
$50 E. S1st St, N Y c., or to the
Daily Workers Esperanto Correspon-
dence Department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations
BROOKLYN
Brighton Beach Open Air Meet.

Brighton Beach Open Air Meet.
An outdoor mass meeting will be
held al East 7th St and Brighton
Beach Ave. today at $40 p. m. under
the joint auspices of Council IT,
United Council of Working Women
and the Brighton Beach Workers
Club Speakers include Cherenoff,
Robbins and Harper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Escape From Reformatory.

CROTON, N. Y, July 29.-Two
prisoners, Harry Brown, IA and Jo-
seph Icowicz, Is, committed as Gin
corrigibles" from New York City,
escaped early today from Haw-
thorne Institute. They broke from
separate rooms in a dormitory on
the second floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
STRIKE BUDAPEST.

VIENNA, (By MaiD.-It is re-
ported from Budapest that all the
workers of the large-scale engineer
ing works in Budapest went on a
24-hour protest strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Gnstonia Defense Concert.

The Brighton Beach Workers Club
will give a midnight concert and
movie at the Lakeland Theatre
Brighton Beach Ave. and Lakeland
Pl., Saturday, August 10 at 11:3o
p. m. Tickets are so cents and can
be obtained at the w. | R. office,
1913 Broadway, and at 249 Brighton
Beach Ave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Prison Vile, Ancient.

Auburn is the oldest and vilest
prison in the state, and is now more
than 100 years old. Even the Ma
tional Society of Penal Information
described the region around the
Owasco River where it is located
as "a damp and unhealthy place"
The cells are tiny, and because of
its age and general neglect, the
prison has been overrun by vermin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
DRESSMAKERS TO
NJ EET TONIGHT
TO PLAN DRIVE
IL. G. w. u. Balls Out
It's Pet Thugs
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limited to a few staged conferences
with the dress bosses, similar to the
recent fake fight with the cloak
bosses.
A capacity attendance is anticipat-
ed at the mass meeting in Webster
Hall tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Office Workers Meet.

VIIICE NUTNeTN NEFtEs
All office workers are urged to at
tend an open air meeting to be held
under the auspices of the Office
Workers Union at 26th st. and Madi-
son Ave. today at 1880 p. m.
w. !. r.. Wants Chauffeur.
A chauffeur is wanted to drive a
Workers International Relief car.
Phone Mott Haven 1854, asking for
Louis A. Baum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30
Conference of Women Directors.

A conference of unit women's work
directors will take place Friday, Aug.
2, p. m, at &c Union Square. Very
important questions will be dis
cussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-30

Word comes from Detroit that
the preliminary auto conference,
scheduled for August II, has been
postponed to August "a. A large
number of delegates have already
been chosen for this conference
which, in turn, will choose represen-
tatives to the Cleveand meet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-06
Reeds Statement

United States Senator from Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6-This
tariff bill will pass because it is
economically sound.
On the whole, it is a good bill, the
honest product Of hard work, seri-
Gus study, and a conscientious ef-
fort to write legislative measure
which will provide reasonable pro-
lection for the people of our own
country against competition of
cheaper labor in other countries.
It will be the policy of its oppon~
entS to ridicule some of its pro-
visions, denounce others, and by
appeals to prejudice attempt to de-
feat it. These methods will not
succeed. No partisanship can OBJ
scure the fundamental fact that the
bill answers a national need.
1t is too much to hope that the
tariff ever can be taken out of
politics. Essentially an economic
issue, it becomes a political issue
when the economic interests Of
political groups come into conflict.
But with the spread Of industry
into the south and west, and as the
average citizen comes to understand
that agriculture and industry are
interdependent, and that the pros
perity of each depends on the pros
perity of the other, we approach the
subject today less as sectionalists
and political partisans than as
Americans concerned with common
welfare.
Mass prosperity depends on difu-
sion of wealth. In our own country
this is brought about very largely
by high wages. And high wages and
the opportunity to profit in compe-
tition with other countries depend
directly on tariff protection.
So long as our living standards
are so much higher than those of
any other country, We must look to
the tariff and to the restriction of
immigration to maintain them.
There Is no other defense against
the hard-driven competition Of th1se
willing or forced by circumstance TO
work for fraction of what our
own people receive in wages.
We either can stick to the pro-
tective policy which has made us
prosperous, or abandon it and
lower our wages and living stand
ards to the world level. giving up
our automobiles and radios and
many of the other comforts and
luxuries which contribute to human
happiness, to pursue a will-o-tne-
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