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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
NEEDLE WORKERS
RALLYTOMORR0W
Call Industrial Union
Meet in Cooper Union

The first mass meeting since the
formation of the industrial union of
needle trades workers is to be held
tomorrow evening, immediately after
work in Cooper Union, 9Th ST. and
Fourth Ave.
This meeting will be the first of
series throughout the nation, de-
cided upon by the General Executive
Board of the new union.
The coming struggle to organize
the dress industry thru general
strike, the plans for strike in the
fur industry and other decisions of
the convention which launched the in
dustrial organization will be brought
before the membership at the Cooper
Union meeting tomorrow.
Last night the two Joint Boards
in the cloak and dress trade and
in the fur industry-were merged,
and are to function as a single in
stitution hereafter, though not per-
manently, for the convention de-
cision is that this governing body be
progressively replaced by a board
composed of representatives of the
shop delegates council.
The meetings out of town are all
to be held for the purpose of ANAL
gamating the locals of the cloak and
dressmakers and furriers. A mass
meeting will also be held tomorrow
in San Francisco.
The amalgamation meeting in
Boston will be held Thursday even
ing in Paine Memorial Hall, 9
Appleton st. Louis Hyman, presi-
dent and Ben Gold, secretary-treas-
urer of the new union will address
the meeting there.
Philadelphia needle trades work
ers gather at a mass meeting next
Tuesday for the same purpose while
in Los Angeles furriers, cloak and
dressmakers meet on Saturday, Jan.
II.
The meeting in Cooper Union will
be addressed by convention delegates
as we'll as by the leaders of the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
WAR LOOMS anew
AS POWERS PLOT
ANTI-USSR MOVE
French Arms Help in
Anti-Soviet Pact
\ With Bayonets
Ukraine Faces Attack
Rumania, Poland to Do
Imperialist Dirty Work

BERLIN, Jan. 1.-THE war danger
loomed momentarily more ominous
today along the western frontier of
the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics as reports of arms contracts,
arms shipments and new attempts to
create internal dissension, all direct
ed against the Soviet government,
leaked into western Europe.
Under the guiding hand of British
imperialism, which is still melting
the Afghan tribes in an effort to stab
the Soviet Union in the back, and of
French Imperialism, which is indus
triously fomenting war in Rumania
and Poland against the U. S. S. R.,
generals and military commissions
of these two powers were today re-
vealed scurrying like incendiaries
along the border which capitalism
ends and the workers government
begins.
Close on the report received here
from Dantzig, in the Polish corridor,
that several heavy shipments of arms
have been received from France for
the Polish government, comes con-
firmation of earlier rumors that
rance, Poland, Rumania and Czecho
lovakia have entered into a pact
hose immediate object is war
against the Soviet Union.
The pact is said to have the hearty
endorsement of all the governments
involved and of the armament capi-
talists who are expecting to reap a
tremendous harvest in profits when
the war breaks out. A foretaste of
these profits, the big arms contracts
whose fruits have been shipped via
Dantzig to Stnaislau and Taropol,
fortified cities in Galicia, have al
ready whetted their taste for more.
Continued on Page FiUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
Germany Sank
Deep in y. S.
Debt IN 1928

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE
sale of foreign securities in U. S.
during 1928 amounted, according to
commerce department figures, >
81, 426,487,58O. Of this, over a bill
lion was loaned during the first half
of the year, before the discount rate
was sent toward the sky by the
federal reserve system, trying to
stop corporation loans of call money,
and reckless stock speculation.
This is the largest amount ever
loaned in one year by the U. S. since
the war, with the exception of 1927,
during which the figure was ST.
1886, ,760.
Germany Fakes Most.
The geographical distribution of
the loans showed a change, also. In
1928, instead of loaning mostly to
Latin-America, Germany was the
heaviest borrower, taking $290,000,-
900, of which $47,OOO,O0O was to the
This is for Dawes plan
payments. Canada is second, with
$240,000,000. Denmark, Italy and
Norway are high in the list.
Loans to South America were
almost entirely to the governments.
The U. S. financial colony of
Bolivia got $19,S8O,00O; Colombia,
where the government helps the
United Fruit Co. by shooting strik-
ers, got S74,15S,OOO; Brazil and
Chile, mostly under British financial
control nevertheless borrowed $751;
5000, and $81, ,412,O00 respectively.
borrowed only as part of
a refunding operation, without in
creasing her debt much.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
OFFER MORROW
AS SECY. STATE
Senators Propose Big
Morgan Partner

WASHINGTON. Jan. dwight
W. Morrow, partner of Morgan, the
Wall Street banker, was recon-
mended to President-elect Hoover to-
day for the post of Secretary of
State. Hiso,sponsors were Senator
Edge and Senator-elect Hamilton
Kean of New Jersey.
The fact that this recommendation
has been given wide publicity and is
the first announcement to be made
in this connection, indicates that
Hoover probably intends to put an
other member Of the House of Nor
gan in the Cabinet, along with Mel
Ion. However, Borah is said to be
in the running, partly as reward
for his services in pushing the Kel-
logg pro-war treaties. Morrow is
now ambassador to Mexico, and is
Morgan's special expert on German
Second White House."
Hoover has established his head
quarters in the Hotel Mayflower,
it "second White House."
He arrived in Washington yesterday
on his special train, with an extra
baggage car attached to carry the
presents which South American
thot it wise to give to
the agent of American imperialism.
Among the presents are articles of
Inca gold, of enormous value.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
DICTATORSHIP
PROCLAIMED BY
SERBIAN KING
Full Military Power Is
Vested in Monarch;
Constitution Ended
Parliament Dissolved
Communists Denounce
New Dictatorship

BELGRADE, Jugo-S -Slavia, Jan. 7.
Establishment Of a virtual mill
tary dictatorship with supreme
power vested in King Alexander and
General Peter Zirkovich was de-
creed here yesterday. The decree,
signed by the King himslf, an
nounced that the constitution Of the
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes was abolished and parlia-
ment and all local governing bodies
dispersed. New laws will be en-
acted by. royal decree in the near
future, superceding all legislation
now in effect.
General Peter Zirkovich, notori-
Gus militarist and expansionist,
was named premier and reserved
for himself the post of minister Of
the interior. He will be responsible
for enforcing the royal decree and
maintaining the dictatorship.
Almost the first act of the new
dictatorship was to ban any express
sion of political opinion under
heavy penalties, while the existing
press laws, already brutally strin-
gent, were supplemented with
harsher provisions.
Under the dictatorship, the king
is vested with all legislative and
executive powers. He is wielder of
all authority, and as commander in
chief of the army, has power to con-
fer military rank. Amnesty and par
don are also vested in him and he
will represent the kingdom directly
in all foreign relations.
All local governing bodies are
dissolved and new bodies will i'm
mediately be appointed with the
kings consent.
Announcement of the dictatorship
was received here with tremendous
excitement visible in the unusual
crowds on the streets, at the cafes
and particularly in front of the royal
palace. There were no outbreaks,
however, tho special detachments of
police patrolled the working class
sections of the city, many being
posted along the Danube wharves,
and around the Budapest Sofia ran-
road depot.
Leaders of the illegal Communist
Party of Jugo-Slavia today defied
the dictatorial laws and called di-
rectly on the masses to oppose the
bitter hostility of the dictatorship to
the proletariat. 1t further pointed
out the role of the Croatian national
ist leaders who are jubilantly endors-
ing the military dictatorship as the
supplanter of the parliament which
refused to grant their autonomist de-
mands.
The illegal Communist Party of
Jugo-Slavia points out that the mill
tary dictatorship Immediately made
it clear that it would likewise un-
conditionally refuse the Croatian au-
tonomist demands.
Father Amino Koroshetz, former
priest-premier is included in the new
dictatorship as minister of communi-
cations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
WORLDWIDE PLOT
OF TROTSKYISTS
TO RUIN PARTY, CT.
Cannon Working With
Urbahns, Eastman and
Guest of Coolidge
Working With Lore
The French Trotskyist
Group Is Involved

The Daily Worker herewith pub
fishes a number of documents re-
alizing the efforts being made on
national and international scale
by the Trotskyists to wreck the
Communist international and its
various sections.
The Central Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party has
charged the renegade Trotskyist
group of Cannon with working hand
in glove with such out-and-out So
cial-democrats, -Marxist, coun-
ter-revolutionary forces as those
represented by Lore, Eastman and
Sard, the guest of Coolidge.
The documents presented prove
beyond any question the correctness
of the charges made by the Central
Executive Committee of our Party
against the opportunist Trotskyist-
Cannon group.
The letters from Eastman speak
for themselves as damning docu-
ments which reveal most sinister
plot to destroy the American section
of the Communist international.
Note the letter from Urbahus, the
notorious German Trotskyite, to
Schachtlnan, Cannon's lieutenant,
laying down the appeal for close
cooperation between Cannon and
Lore. Since this letter came into
the possession of the Central Ex-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
Magistrate Forced to
Dismiss Picket Cases

Charges of disorderly conduct
against six workers picketing the
Ward Theatre, Westchester and
Boynton Aves., Bronx, were yester-
day dismissed by Magistrate Ewald
in Morrisania Court.
Two of the strikers, who carried
placards worded "Strike at this the
atre-Motion Picture Operators Lo-
cal Union 306, A. +. of L." and who
we're picketing the theatre peace
fully, were arrested Dec. Z. The
remaining four were arrested the
following day.
Although lawyers for Joseph l..
Dillon, manager of the theatre,
fought hard to have the strikers
Jailed or fined, Magistrate Ewald
was forced TO dismiss the charge
because of the weakness Of the evil
dence. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
DUNCAN TROUPE
TO DANCE AGAIN
Appear for Workers
Children Saturday

Responding to the demands of the
thousands of workers who were
turned away at the fifth anniversary
celebration of the Daily Worker
last Saturday night, as well as of
large proportion of those who did
manage to squeeze into Manhattan
Opera House, the Daily Worker has
made arrangements for three ad-
ditional performances of the Isadora
Duncan dancers from the Isadora
Duncan School in Moscow.
The performances will be given
next Saturday afternoon, Sunday
afternoon and Sunday evening at
Manhattan Opera House., 34th St.,
west of Eighth Ave.
Children's Performance Saturday
The performance next Saturday
afternoon will be arranged especially
for workingclass children. All men,
bers of the Young Pioneers and
students of the various foreign
language left wing schools from the
ages of eight to ID will go in a bloc
to the performance and will be ad-
mitted at so cents each. Teachers of
all left wing schools are asked to
communicate with the business Of
five of the Daily Worker, 26 Union
Square, Stuyvesant 1896, to make
arrangements for their pupils.
Nv C,trIaxy of+
popular-priced performance will be
given and on Sunday evening the
Duncan dancers will appear for the
last time before leaving for their
national tour. The Daily Worker is
arranging to have them appear in a
number of other cities to give work
ers the opportunity to see the amaz-
ing art of these young Soviet
dancers.
Tickets for the three Manhattan
Opera House performances may be
secured at the office Of the Daily
Worker.
Five hundred dollars was con-
tributed to the Daily Worker at the
anniversary celebration by the
Prolet Cooperative Stores, Inc, own
ers of the Proletcos Cooperative
Restaurant. The committee that
made the contribution consisted of
N. Polak, secretary of the organi-
zation, A. V. Brusila, A. Lefkowitz,
L. Landy and Adolf Wolff.
Other contributions were: New
York Working Women's Federation,
$1O0; Progressive Fancy Leather
Goods Workers, $40; B. H., $100 and
Leo Kiln, Daily Worker agent Of
Section /, 500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
.SCAB CANGSTERS
|NJURE PASSERBY
Millinery Union Thugs
Try to Break Strikes

Exasperated to the point of reck-
lessness at the tenacious fight the
girl milliners are putting up for
their union, the Organization conf
mittee" thugs of the right wing in
Millinery Union Local "a, yesterday
attacked girls picketing struck shops
and, when a passerby protested this
brutality, they slugged him severely
too.
J. Nelson, a worker employed in
dress factory on West 36th ST.,
while on his way home from work
with two women, shop companions,
protested when the Zaritsky gang
sters tried to assault girl members
of Local 43, who were picketing 3
uck shops because their members
were dismissed from the shops on
the order of the right wing officials
The sluggers attacked him, break
ing his glasses. Despite this, the
police who ran up arrested him as
we'll as his assailant. Both were to
come before the night court magis-
trate.
Local 43 is fighting for its exist
ence and for the right of its mem
bers to work in the shops. This
union, because of its militant leader
ship was expelled from the Hat
Cap and Millinery International
Since that time numerous strikes
many ending successfully, were call
ed when the employer tried to dis
charge it's members because they re-
fused to register in the right wing
Local "a.
The shops which are strike bound
and at which the slugging took place
are: the Moon Hat Co., Herschenson
Hat Co., and the Arcade Hat CO.
All are on West seth St., in the block
between 9th and 9th Aves. Many
dress factories are located here too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
Radiunl Co. In
Legal Victory
Over Victims

Two more victims of the radium
paint poisoning which workers for
the United States Radium Corpora
tion contracted while making watch
dials luminous are being forced into
a court of the company's own choos-
ing, in order to deprive them of
damages. Most of the victims were
frightened into accepting mere ex-
penses for their last year or so of
life by threats that if they did not
waive their legal rights to damages,
they would get nothing.
1echnicality Favors Boss.
The United States Radium Cor
poration, defendant in the suit of
two women radium victims was to-
day granted a motion to, have the
case removed from the supreme
court to fedora court, on the
grounds that the concern is in
corporated in Delaware.
The two women, Mrs. Esthel-
wynne Metz, 29, of Newark, and
Mrs. Helen Puck, 27, also of
Newark, were employed by the
Radium Corporation and contracted
radium necrosis from handling
radium paint.
Mrs. Puck is able to open her
mouth only half an inch. Her jaw
has been locked for about two
Mrs. Metz is in the initial
stages of the disease. There is no
cure known. Several others poisoned
in the same way have died.
Suits for $25O,OOO each have been
filed against the radium company
by the women. Their husbands have
also filed suits for $4,000 each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
FASCISTS JAIL
FOUR MILITANTS
(Red Aid Press Service)

ITALIAN FRONTIER (By Mail).
Charged with building Commun-
ist Party cell in their town, four
workers were brought before the
fascist special tribunal on Dec. 10.
One of the workers was also charged
with having attempted to obtain the
key to one of the offices of the
fascist militia.
Three Of the workers openly de-
clared before the tribunal that they
were Communists and said that they
were proud of it. The fourth said
that he belonged to no party.
The court accepted the verdict of
the state attorney and sentenced the
workers as follows: Domenicc Re
Amedeo Gambertini and Antoine,
Brina to 5 years prison each and the
loss of status as citizen and close
police surveillance for three years.
The fourth prisoner was set free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
7tS4ai ~ +
ELECT TEXTILE
union OFFICERS
2ussak, Pippin Chosen
at Paterson Meeting

PATERSON, N. J., Jan. g.
More than three hundred silk work
ers met here at the first general
membership meeting of the Pater-
son local of the National Textile
Workers Union at Oakley Hall,
Saturday afternoon.
The meeting, which was enthu-
siastic from the start, chose as its
officers, Martin Russak, militant
textile worker as secretary-organ-
zer, and John Pippin as Italian or
ganizer.
1t further elected three represen-
,atives to the National Committee
If the union and one member to the
National Council.
An executive board Of thirty was
also elected, three places being left
open for the dye workers.
Lena Chernenko, who has been
active in the Paterson local for two
months, reported to the meeting
hat the local has been making
steady progress in organizing the
broad silk workers and the dye
workers.
Chernenko also reported that the
National Textile Workers Union
vas in the process of organizing
several new locals in Paterson.
Every Member an Organizer!
Following Chernenko's report,
ussak, the newly-elected secre-
ary-organizer, outlined plans for
he future work of the union and
caised the slogan, Every member
If the union an organizer for the
lnion."
Plans have been made to divide
Ill the shops in Paterson into sec
ions according to the mills so that
mass meetings can be called for
he individual districts directly after
work.
The Executive Board met imme-
]iately after the general member
ship meeting and elected B. Leib
as it's chairman.
PATERSON, N. j., Jan. DE
spite the announcement of the
posses of the Park Silk Company,
,trike-bound here, that they will
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
Tammany Grafters to
Lay New Cornerstone

The cornerstone Of a new and
more dignified monument to graft,
corruption and fraud will be laid
by Grand Sachem John r. Voorhies
at dedication ceremonies of the new
Mmmany Hall at E. 18th st. and
gnion Square, two blocks from the
revolutionary Workers Center, at
2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Former Governor Smith and the
wisecracking Mayor Walker. will be
among the chief speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
CONFER ON AUTO
ORGANIZATION IN
DETROIT SUNDAY
Trade Unions, Other
Workers Groups to
Be Represented
A.F.L. Won't Organize
Foster Will Represent
T.U.E.L. at Meeting

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. IA con-
ference for the organization of the
auto industry will be held at 55
Adelaide, Sunday, Jan 19, at 10 a.
M. This conference, which is COM
posed Of many trade unions and
working class organizations through
out this city. is going to lay the
basis for big spring drive among
Detroit auto workers as a beginning
of the organization of pow erful
national industrial union in the in
dustry.
Conditions for Organization
Favorable.
The intense competition between
the various automobile concerns,
particularly Ford and General Mo-
tors, is bringing with it a tremen-
dous over-expansion of the auto in
dustry, wage-cuts, speed-up and I'M
employment. The heavy burden of
the workers is being increased al
most daily by the bosses in their eff
forts to cheapen' their products and
put their competitors out of bust
ness. With production plans for
over seven million cars for 1929 and
curtailed market capable of alb
sorbing only about four million cars,
considerable unemployment can be
expected before the year is out.
A. F. of L. Refuses to Organize.
At its Detroit convention in 1927
the A. F.>of L. made lot of noise
about organizing the auto industry.
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
Canada Builds New
War Boats, Preparing
for Imperialist War

SOUTHAMPTON (By MaiD.-
Thornycroft, Ltd, shipbuilders. have
secured contract to build two new
torpedoboat destroyers for Canada.
The vessels will be of the Amazon
type, will cost $3,35O,000, and will
be delivered in 1881.
Z The contract marks another step
in the increase of ornaments of the
British colonies and dominions, in
preparation for the coming imper-
ialist war with the U. S. Recently
it was announced that similar prep
arations were being made by Au-
stralia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

Atlanta Biltmore,
Atlanta, Ga.
En- Route
My dear Mr.. Eastman:
After reading your Trotsky book,
/ venture to suggest the formation,
under your leadership, of a selected
group equivalent to a "Lenin So
ciety" or a MARKHAM Historical So
ciety." First step to organize a
worldwide distribution of the Trot-
sky Platform. Follow-up steps to
be discussed.
/ shall not be squeamish about
submitting personal history and
credentials, if you think the sug-
gestion a feasible one. Should
Stalin's course nullify Lenin's work,
it would give the capitalist press a
Carlylean holiday.
Home in a week. My home ad-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
British Workers Aid
Labor Election Fund

LONDON, (By Mail).-The cleo
ton fund of the Communist Party
of Great Britain will benefit to the
extent of $4,000 as a result of a
successful Red Bazaar given by left
wing workers in the Shoreditch
Town Hall.
Although Shoreditch, one of the
poorest sections in the east end of
the city, has suffered severely from
chronic unemployment ever since
the post war industrial depression,
it was estimated that 10000 workers
attended and danced to music pro-
vided by Communist orchestra.
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right danger, which is the main
danger before the Party.
"The district convention must be
the expression of the entire men,
bership," the statement says. The
Party will be able to fulfill its tasks
only if the entire membership un-
derstands these tasks and partici-
pates wholeheartenly in the formu-
lating and guiding of its policies.
The statement concludes with a
final appeal for 100 per cent at
tendance at unit meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
District 2 Calls All Party
Members TO Attend Units

In view Of the final discussion and
the elections to the section conven-
tions which are to take place in
New York City this week, the Exec
utive Committee of District 2 has
issued an appeal to all Party men,
bers to attend their unit meetings.
Emphasizing the necessity of all
members participating in the discus
sion of the Party's shortcomings and
in making proposals for overcoming
its weaknesses, the appeal further
stresses the necessity of fighting the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
&c. E." LOSES PATENT.

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE Gen.
eral Electric Company, Schenectady,
today was denied U. S. supreme
court review of a circuit court Of ap-
peals decision which held its inn
valuable patent on ductile
tungsten, used now in all electric
lamp filaments was invalid. Other
capitalist interests want this patent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
German Peasants in
Tax Rising, Win Out

BERLIN (By MaiD Complain
ng of tax oppression, German pea
,ants Of the small village of Barbel-
.ath armed themselves with picks,
,cythes, pitchforks and shovels and
;tormed the local administration
)uildings. They turned out the Of
sciaIs and took possession Of the
buildings and succeeded in obtaining
over tax rates.