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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
IS Workers Arrested.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March %.
With federal and cantonal infan-
try, cavalry and police patrolling
the streets and guarding all public
buildings, workers expected their
anti-fascist demonstrations to be
broken up. Twenty-six of the
workers leaders were in Jail today
The demonstrations, which were
organized under the leadership OF
the Communist Party against Ital-
ian fascist activities in Switzerland
and the activities of the Swiss
"Hakenkreuzler" (fascisti), were
forbidden by the government. The
social democrats refused to partici.
pate. The workers decided to dem.
onstrate despite the government or
der.
The cavalry, which today arrived
to aid the infantry and police il
whatever aggression the govern
ment plans against the workers, was
rushed here from Berne.
Heavy detachments of police have
been thrown around the arsenal anC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
German Red Front Fighters
to Hold Great Meet IN May

the Red Front for battle stands as a
token of the solidarity of the rev.
olutionary workers of all lands with
the soldiers, workers and peasants
of the proletarian fatherland.
The working class must organize
the international battle front for the
defense of the Soviet Union and
against the Anglo-French war pact,
against the battle front formed by
the imperialists from thes Baltic to
the Balkans against the Soviet
Union.
The leadership of the Fed Front
Fighters League of Germany there
fore asks you to help to make out
Of the mobilization in Hamburg a
powerful international demonstra-
ton of the workers of all lands
against imperialism and for the
proletarian revolution by support
ing our national meeting in your
press and in the sympathetic press.
as we'll as by sending delegates t.
Hamburg.
The fifth national meeting is al
the same time a demonstration
against the Second International,
whose parties, as is especially shown
in the defnese program of the Ger
man social-democrats, ally them
selves openly with the bourgeoisie
for the defense of the capitalist
state.
In Hamburg, where in 1928 class
conscious workers mounted the bar
ricades to break the rule of the
bourgeoisie and carried on brave
and heroic struggle for days aaginst
a force hundred times greater, the
Red Front Fighters of Germany
supported by delegations of class
conscious workers from all parts of
Germany and all capitalist lands,
will mobilize:
Against the armament construc-
ton and war preparations of the
imperlallSt powers!
Against fascism and reformism
For an international revolution
airy class front of the workers of
all cOuntriesl
For the defense of the Soviet
I Union!
For the successful proIetariar
revolution.
Red Front!
(Signed)
ERNST .THAELMAN
WILLY LEON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Hundreds to Lose Jobs
as "Talkies" Steadily
Win Over Silent Drama

The battle of the talkies in the
cinema industry reached a peak to-
day when the Fox Film Corpora
ton, one of the largest and oldest
of producing companies. announced
fatty that it was through with the
silent drama forever"
According to Winifred Sheehan,
vice. president and general manager
in charge of production, the rout of
the silent cinema forces is complete
in the William Fox organization,
where il has been raging, and it
means that many screen favorites
will lose their jobs.
"Not only will hundreds of cele-
brated actors and actresses find
themselves affected, but there are
subtitle writer's, directors, super
visors and scenario writer's whose
work has either been wiped cut en-
tirely by the change or else the re-
quirements of the new technique
are so different as to decrease
their Importance or place them in
competition with new blood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
T,v,E.L, OUTLINES
UNITY CONGRESS
New Shop Committees
to Send Delegates

Continued from Page Onc)
union center for all class struggle
organizations, which shall unite all
new unions, revolutionary minorities
ir the old unions, and all movements
for organizing the unorganized, shop
committees, ETC., under a single
direction"
The call assails the corrupt lead
ership of the old unions, proclaims
a policy of organizing the morgan
lied, with special attention to the
Negro workers and the workers in
basic industries, neglected by the
A. F. L. misleaders. 1t exposes the
Music group of "progressives" as
palliators, playing into the hands of
the big bureaucrats of the A. F. L.
Fight War Danger.
1t calls on all workers to fight the
war danger, and to defend the first
workers republic, the Soviet Union
against attack by capitalist nations
1t speaks of the growing military
and rehabilitation of the workers
themselves, who want organization
and will support real unions, con-
trolled by the workers themselves
end not by a group of labor lieuten-
ants of capitalism.
The convention call is issued by
the National Executive Committee
of the Trade Union Educational
League, and is addressed to all trade
unions, shop committees, organizing
committees, and minority groups
affiliated with or in sympathy with
the T. U. E. L.
Workers are invited to write in to
the Daily Worker news of the pro
gress of discussion in their shops or
the call for the Trade Union Unity
Convention. The Daily Worker will
gladly print for the information OF
all militant workers the story of this
most significant struggle for q
united working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
MINERS NOW
LIVE AT POINT
OF STARVATION
Social Democrats Will
Support Coal Barons

COLOGNE, Germany, March 25.
"A strike, involving 100000 miners
in the Ruhr, which may spread to
other sections of Germany, was fore
cast today when the miners union
determined to denounce the existing
wage agreements. The agreements
expire on May Day.
The precise demands which the
miners will make have not yet been
announced but it is known that the
mine owners are prepared to refuse
any increase in wages.
The miners are making ready for
a struggle of unusual severity, as
the German mine owners are deter
mined to maintain their position in
the international coal market at the
price of the intensified exploitation
of hundreds of thousands of miners
in the pits of the Ruhr and Silesia.
The miners are among the most
frightfully exploited sections of the
German working class, the vast
majority of them receiving a wage
that is very little above the min
imum on which a man can live and
labor.
Statements in the German capital-
list press on the miners decision in
dictate that the mine owners are
prepared to fight any wage increase
to the bitter end. They expect the
eftire support and cooperation of
the social-democratic government in
their struggle with the miners.
The miners, on the other hand,
put their trust in the leadership of
the Communist Party of Germany
which is strong in the Ruhr mining
regions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Hoover to Tell SOlons
Railroads Must Merge

WASHINGTON, March 25 UH.
President Hoover will follow the
course of ex-President Coolidge by
urging Congress to pass legislation
to promote railroad consultations,
it was learned at the white house
today. This will be done in his
message to the regular session of
congress in December. President
Hoover's views on railroad consoli-
dation are similar to those of Mr..
Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

Calling upon the workers of all
countries to draw up the Red Front
battle line between the Soviet Union
and the imperialist war danger
which threatens it, the Red Front
Fighters League of Germany has
announced its fifth national meet in
Hamburg in May.
The text of the call follows:
Comrades! Glass Brothers!
The Red Front Fighters League
of Germany has called it's fifth ma
tional meeting in Hamburg, to be
held from May Is to May 81.
In view of the war preparations
of the imperialist powers against
the Soviet Union, the drawing up of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Harvey Fires 2 Aides
in Fraud Reward Fight

Borough President Harvey of
Queens, heavily involved in the po-
litical and graft fight centered about
the sewer ring, dismissed Frank Nc
Master and Edward James from his
cabinet last night.
McMaster was deputy public
works commissioner of Queens and
James was Harvey's confidential in
vestigator. Harvey said he had re-
moved them because they could not
get along with the other members
CT the cabinet. The fight centers
about the passing out of political
plums such as corporation Inspector
ships which carry with them lot of
money and much graft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Miner Killed in 1000
Foot Fall from Cage;
Leaves 3 Children

SHAMOKIN, Pa. (LRA). = A
miner, William Chesney, 81, fell a
thousand feet to his death soon after
starting work in the morning. He
was pushing a mine car from the
cage and fell down the shaft. A 49,
year old boy, at work near the shaft,
saw the miner disappear. Every
bone in the mans body was broken
in the fall. Chesney is survived by
a widow and three little children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

consulatec and have infested the
railway stations to turn back or de-
tain all workers coming to the dem
constructions from other parts of the
country and from adjacent sections
of Germany and France. Basic is
at the junction of the frontiers of
these countries. Many workers
have already been arrested on their
way to Basle.
While taking these provocative
measures on the streets, the police
were not too busy to attack the
plant of the Basler Vorwaerts,
which they closed, and confiscated
the edition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Reactionary Takers
in Pa. UNIV. Fight
Over Union Remnant

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, March 25.
The reactionary Boylan machine of
District 1 of the United Mine Work
ers of America, a union with Of
ficers and contracts but without
many members, is splitting, some of
it's units going over to the former
misleader district president, Rinaldc
Cappellini.
The U. M. w. A. grievance COM
mittee" at Old Forge endorsed Cap
pellini as district president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
SWISS CAVALRY
RIDE DOWN ANTI
FASCIST MARCH
rs Workers Jailed by
Government

BASLE, Switzerland, March %.
An anti-fascist demonstration of
workers was ridden down by cav
airy in the streets of this city to-
day.
The procession was started on
the main thoroughfare, but cavalry
Immediately attacked it, driving the
participants down side streets,
striking many with the flats of
their swords. Hundreds of pam
phlets denouncing Mussolini were
distributed, however.
The town looks like an armed
camp, with troops and treblsd po-
lice forces reinforced by detach-
ments from other cities patrolling
all thoroughfares.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Demonstrate Against
Fascism at Capacity
Dance Saturday Mite

Demonstrating against fascism on
the eve of the fascist elections, New
York workers met at a dance given
by the Anti Fascist Alliance at the
Manhattan Lyceum, &c E. Fourth
St., Saturday night.
In its program of increasing &C.
tivities the Alliance reports that
more workers are being brought
into the work of the organization
daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
To Celebrate Paris
Commune Thursday

The Yorkville Branch of the I.
L. D. will hold large mass meet
ing on Thursday, March % at $3.50
at the Czechoslovak hall at BAT E.
I'D st. in commemoration of the
Paris Commune. All workers are
asked to attend. Karl Reeve, editor
of the Labor Defender will speak on
the Commune" George Pershing
will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
LIGHTNING HITS SCHOOL.

life like crow in an alley :"
Zoya suddenly turned and pushed
Nadya. Sashok, in an embroidered
shirt, striped pants, and yellow half
shoes, was approaching them. He
had a guitar under his arm. He
removed his boxed cap-in the fash
ion of the Moscow Komsomol-drop-
ped on the grass beside the girls
and shook their hands,:
Dreaming, citizens?"
Anyway, we dream least of you,"
Zoya answered energetically, clos
ing her eyes with laughter.
Nadya fixed her skirt over her
legs; her lower teeth protruded
slightly. Sashok took look at the
sky where another cloud of dust
passed.
"Hottish, citizens. What this tenn
perature will lead a young fellow to
one can simply go crazy -"
LEAD to what, for example ?"
asked Zoya.
Sashok nodded at Nadya, winked,
touched the strings of his guitar,
and began to hum somewhat hoarse-
ly:
81 love the odor of crushed satin
That makes me lose my heart
and mind -"
sRETWEEN the verses sung to the
= air of "Allah Verdy", Sashok
TESTED and passed clever remarks
looking sharply at Nadya. When
they got tired of the music, all three
picked up the blanket and the pill
lows and went to drink tea.
Vassili Alexeievich, sitting neal
the locusts, swallowed all then
poisonous talk in one breath. Smil-
ing crookedly, he wandered to the
river, and sat down on theN clayey
cliff.
What happened? Nothing hap
pened. AS in the first days after
his arrival he, saw and heard the
little things of life with terrifying
sharpness. Today there was moth
ing new. Yet, no; those protrudine
teeth, that tilted head, the bare
shoulder that peeped as if by &C
cident from beneath the muslin
That was new And the gin
nocent" was new 49,.
Khotyaintsev had said: "There il
more manhood ip selling doughnut'
than in rushing with naked blade
into the attack :" Manhood was
necessary, composure, will. And fol
the sensitive-death. Foolishness-
two girls and an idiot with a guita'
had said a lot of foolish things, ant
it was enough to bring down gloon
on his soul, and a leaden hoop OF
his head. A fine builder! Foolish
ness. foolishness. From tomorrow
on-twenty hours of work each day
and in two weeks-Moscow
But if chance passer-by hat
looked at Vassili Alexeievich, HI
would have seen round-shouldere'
Young man in colorless shirt, witt
long, uncombed hair :. The sunkel
cheeks, the sharpened nose, the un
happy face, would have shown tina
this young man, full of contradic
tions, if confronted with one NOR
crucial problem, would fly off tn
cliff into the river 49,.
Il But this did not happen. Whe
the sunset faded beyond the du
fields. and campfires sprang up her
and there in the valley, Vassili Alex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Sarrail, Another World
War Militarist, Dead

PARIS, March 25.-Gen. Maurice
Sarrail, once co-worker of Marshal
Foch in the task of directing the
slaughter of millions of workers in
the world war. died yesterday. Ig-
nored by the French public, he clay
in state" here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
ROOFERS DEMAND RAISE

ST. LOUIS by MaiD.- Slate
and tile roofers' helpers have an
nounced their intention of demand
ing a wage raise. These workers
are organized into a union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Miners Starve, Govt
Says, Let Wives Go
! Learn Quilt-Making'

NEW STLE, England (By
MaiD The Coalfields Distress
Fund, of the British government.
has decided to teach the miners
wives quilt-making, in order to put
them to work at this low-paid in
dustry. The small "dole" will then
be cut off from the miners, it is
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Emergency Fund
Factory Dist. Unit, Section 8,
New York City: /. Zelker,

Factory Dist. Unit, Section 8,
New York City: l. Zelker,
81; I. Girschkovitz, 81; S.
Knazick, $1.40 .......... 3
Mrs. I. Monsoon, Ashland,
Mont. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3
M. Gerst, N. Y. C. ....... 2
Jack Luches, San Jose, CAL. 2
Sc, Of, New York City,. 2
Sent in by V. G. Flovea, E.
Chicago, Ind: V. G. Flovea,
SOC; T. M. Burya, SOC; B.
Tonut, SOC ........ /
Mrs. John Mikkila, Knowles,
Calf. ............. /
Collected by Abe Tetenman,
Brooklyn, N. Y: L. Ruvit-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

Anarchism was often a kind of
punishment for the OppOrtunist sins
of the working class movement.
Anarchism and OppOrtunism are two
defOrmities. one Complementary to
The Other.-V. L. Lenin ("Left" Conn
munism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

eievich went home. In the Alley of
Marat stone whistled past his nose,
and again some ones footsteps
drummed thievishly across the
wasteland.
Hot Days.
THERE aren't enough wishes to
wish for everything" Nadya
would say. She had a great deal
of common sense. But the days be-
came hotter and hotter, and at night
even the sheets seemed to burn. And
willy-nilly, Nadya would find herself
each day in the Maslovs' orchard
on the pillows under the apple tree.
Common sense was all right in it
self, but the hot evening, the dry
saving of the grasshoppers in the
moved grass, the blooming locusts
and the bees, the Longing in the
satin kimono Ga present from Zoya)
and the impudent Sashka-all this
just seemed to come along of itself.
Zoya whispered slyly of her own
"unnaturally' passionate love affair
with the young married doctor"
Nadya thought at times: "The whirl-
pool of the July days is sucking me
in" And yet it did not seem ter
rible.
The townspeople had not remem-
bered such heat at the end of June
for long time. The leaves began
to fade. Fog hung above the fields
beyond the river. 1t was said that
the wheat was burning. The walls
cracked at night from dryness. In
the offices the employees drank
water, all of them as lifeless as
stewed meat.
DUZHENINOV was finishing his
Dwork for the academy. From dawn
to twilight he sketched, drew
painted, studied in the overheatec
room filled with the buzz of flies
All that supported him was his un
believable tension. The canvas with
the plan of the Azure City he nailed
to the wall, and worked over it il
his minutes Of rest. With each new
day the city seemed to him to grow
more perfect and more beautiful.
He had decided to go to Moscow
the following week. His mother, i
seems, found three golden ten-rubl'
pieces for his way there. "Take it
Vassya, l was saving it for my
funeral, but they will bury me some
how Only don't tell Nadya.
And he would have gone away, thin
as a stick, enthusiastic, in the feve
of imagination and work, if it hat
not been for an unexpected shock
His sudden tension broke out in an
other direction.
Life, it is very possible, does no
excuse those who escape from it.
the fantasts, the dreamers, the en-
thusiasts. 1t grips them and dig
them vulgarly in the ribs: "You'v
dreamed enough, rip open your eyes
you've flown too high -"
To call this the wisdom of life i
terrible. The law, rather. Physio
logy. Life, like raw, evil woman
, does not like to be looked at iron
, above. Wisdom consists in master
ing her, in putting her in the prope
place-so, anyway, Comrade Khoty
| aintsev had explained on the cliff a
, twilight.
(To Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
International Publishers.
Copyright, 1929

will go in, and if she is there l will
say that :" Just then there
was laughter behind the locusts. He
bent down, and between the tree
trunks he saw Nadya and stout,
red-cheeked girl. They lay in a
meadow on a blanket and muslin
pillows. Before them stood short,
rniddle-aged woman holding her
dress in her hands-a seamstress,
it seemed. Her large lips were
stretched and smiled kindly and fool
ishly. The red-cheeked girl, curled
up among the pillows, was saying:
ooh, 1 can just burst! Then why,
Yevdokia Ivanovna, didn't you
marry?"
'Porphyri Semyonich begged me
terrible number of times; he wept:
Yevdokia Ivanovna, change your
decision. But, said I, Porphyri Sem
yonich, how shall 1 marry when I
can't bear tickling?"
ooh, l simply can't. Well, and
he?"
swell. what could he do? I
wouldn't give in. Well, and from
grief he started counting Nastasia
Churkina. Nastasia was glad, oh,
very glad,-she prepared her dowry,
and had bridal dress made. Then
the wedding. But on the eve of
the wedding Porphyri Semyonich
appears drunk before his bride, and
spoils her bridal dress. 81 says he,
cant forget my first love-"
The seamstress amused them for
a while. and left. The girls lay on
their pillows, weak with laughter and
heat. A gust of the hot evening
wind carried a cloud of dust above
the orchard. Red-cheeked Zoya Mas
Iowa lifted herself, and primping her
hair, her arms bare to the shoulders,
said:
"Why doesn't he come, the un-
happy fool?"
She lay down again, and embraced
Nadya's waist. "Chickadee, kitten,
don't pay any attention. Spit at it
let their tongues scratch if they are
not too lazy. Live, my rabbit. as
your young heart tells you. Live
as hard as you can-while you can
live"
CHE laughed and bit Nadya's neck
= playfully.
"You'll get old, and it will be toe
late, my cuckoobird."
After a silence, turning grass
blade in her hand, Nadya answered
Its all right for you with your
money. But I have to feed that ole
woman and that innocent. I hoped
wrote to him, that, he would help
that he would Tighten my load.
A terrible disappointment, Zoya. Ant
besides, imagine, he is in love with
me-"
Ioya threw up her hands. Nadys
continued in a subdued voice:
| 81 have decided that if 7 give
myself to man, it will be in lega
marriage, so that he may improv
my circumstances. Then perhaps
will go to Moscow, to dramati
school,"
cts true, then" Zoya cried warm
ly, chat your brains are all in
whirl. Find yourself a rich fool a
once, and marry. have told yo'
hundred times that Sashka can
, marry because his father won't lie
him. And SO you'll sit your Who'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
DOCKERS AGAINST OVERTIME

GLASGOW, (By MaiD. = The
Clyde lockers have demanded the
abolition of overtime between a a. m.
and 8 a. M, and between 1 p. m.
and 5 p. m. on Saturdays. The en-
ployers, scared by strike threats,
offered to "arbitratc."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

The proietarian movement Is
the sclf-c o n Sc % N =. Independent
movement OF the immense major
jty.-karl Marx (COmmnnIst Maui
fcstOl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26

We have seen above thnt the first
step I'm the revolution ny the work
ing class is to rinse the prOletnrint
to the position of ruling class. to
win the battle of demOcrncy-knri
Marx (COmmunis Mnnifest0D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
Damaged Soviet Liner
Now Safely on Way

HALIFAX, N. S., March 25.-The
steamer Kathleen, from the Soviet
Union, was bound for its destina-
ton, Portland, Me-, today after run
ming into trouble on the Atlantic.
The Kathleen locked here yester-
day for coal and proceeded for Port
land last night.
She reported she had damaged
some of her hull plates after leav-
ing the Soviet Union, but that re-
pairs were made at Madeira.
LIGHTNING HITS SCHOOL.
BATON ROUGE, La (By MaiD
Perkins Road Elementary School
was struck by lightning and destroy
ed by fire. All pupils escaped.