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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
KELLOGG SPEEDS
Vote ON TREATY
Has Plan for Fastening
Both War Measures

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The
strategy of president-elect Hoover in
driving thru both of the administra-
tion's pro-war bills, the Kellogg
pacts and the fifteen cruiser appro-
priation, is becoming evident.
Hoover will arrive Sunday, and
will go into immediate conference
with President Coolidge and with
senators who demand that the first
vote come on one or the other of the
two war bills. The trouble is that
one group demands a vote on the
Kellogg treaties first, and another
demands cruisers first.
Need Pacifist Screen.
The reasons for their preference
is that American imperialism really
wants the cruisers voted at once, and
can wait for the treaties, but SEN
ator Borah and group around him
wish to use the Kellogg pacts as a
pacifist camouflage to fool their
constituents. President Coolidge is
also anxious to end his political
career in a blaze of sentimental
glorification of a so-called "peace
plan," which will really be a step to-
ward war. And imperialism needs
the sugar coating of the treaties.
Hoover's compromise is reflected
by the growing sentiment for letting
the Kellogg pact come up first, and
then rushing it thru. Advance no.
tices of the president-elect's program
brought about a change in enough
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
MEET TO FIGHT
DANGER OF WAR
Minor, Nearing, Dunn,
Pershing to Speak

George Pershing, field organizer
of the All-American Anti-Imperialist
League, will speak together with
Robert Minor, editor of the Daily
Worker, Scott Nearing, well known
Communist speaker and writer, and
Robert w. Dunn, research writer on
imperialism, at the anti-war meet
ing of the League Friday night, at
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irv-
ing Place.
Pershing, who is making coast
forecast tour for All-America Anti
Imperialist League, will tell of his
experiences in Communist and anti
imperialist work in the army.
He and the other speakers will
expose the role of the Wall Street
bankers and their government and
marines in the Latin American and
Pacific republics. They will discuss
particularly recent events in Colom
bia, and Bolivia and Paraguay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
Poverty and Continual
Unemployment Causes
Woman to Kill Herself

Tired and completely exhausted,
at the age of thirty, of life of
starvation and want, Mrs. Charles
Giovanni, of 25S Bradford St.,
Brooklyn, yesterday locked herself
in the kitchen of the little impover-
ished apartment in which she lived
and turned on the gas. A repair
man, coming after neighbors had
reported "leak," found her on the
floor, dead.
In the letter, which she wrote to
her husband before and after the
gas had been turned on, she spoke
OF long days of living only on bread
and coffee; Of her few clothes,
threadbare and too thin to withstand
the rigors of winter cold: Of her
despair of living through another
year such as the past six During
which she had been married) had
been.
Her husband, Charles Giovanni,
told police after the letter had been
discovered that he had been unable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
Build New Union by Building
DAILY" Is Appeal to Workers

When the name of the Daily
Worker was mentioned at the huge
amalgamation mass meeting of nee
die trades workers in Lincoln Arena
Sunday, the. roof shook with the
cheers of the assembled workers,
"Hooray for the Daily Worker!"
The cheers were a spontaneous
expression of appreciation for the
part the Daily Worker has been
playing in the struggles of the nee
die workers against the combined
efforts of the bosses, the police and
the reactionary right wing clique to
grind down their standards of liv-
ing and prevent them from organiz-
ing into a militant union.
The needle trades workers now
have an opportunity to express their
appreciation in a concrete way. The
fifth anniversary of the Daily Work
er means the fifth anniversary of
the paper that has been the fight
ing organ of the needle workers as
well as of the other workers of this
country. By enabling the DAILY"
to fight on, the needle trades work
ers will be strengthening their own
new amalgamated union.
What shall you do? Send greet
ing and donation to the Daily!
Cut out the greeting list on an
other page of this paper and sign
up your shopmates and friends. Do
this at once as only a few days re-
main. You'll be building your union
by building your daily" You'll
be striking a blow against the
Schlesingers, the Abe Cahans, the
Forwards and against all the enc
mics of the working class.
And you workers. in other indus
tries, do likewise. Act now!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
DANCER HANGING
over Z WORKERS
OF BUENOS aires
Frame Up Murder Case
Against Two Held
on Hoover Trip
Allege Bomb Explosion
Old Case Revived To
Terrorize Labor

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 1.-The
Argentine police, whose ability at
frame-ups of labor men is beaten
only by the police of the United
States, are preparing to railroad the
two prisoners seized during the
Hoover visit here, on the charge of
other incidents rot connected with
the call here of Yankee imperial
ism's salesman. Since they are to
be connected with the death of a
man that occurred months ago, their
lives are in grave danger.
The "crime" to be laid at the door
of the two workers, Alexander
Scarffo and Gomez Iliver, who are
now in prison, is that of a bomb
which was found on the steps of a
cathedral several months ago. The
police story is that such bomb was
found in such a place and when a
policeman was carrying it away it
exploded, killing passerby.
The Buenos Aires police are
known to use bombs themselves fire.
ouently in framing up labor organ
izations, and it is presumed that the
police were taking the bomb in ques-'
tion to plant in strike then going
on, in order to use as basis for at
tacking the strikers.
Now, however, with the arrest of
Scarffo and Iliver, the police are
trying to load all the bomb activi-
ties of recent years, including this
enc of the cathedral, upon the two
workers, in order to murder them
legally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
St0ckExchange Throws
Fits in Joy Over Easy
Pickings During 1923

With the Dupont Morgan General
Motors stock roing to the top of the
list Of price gains, the hired gam
blers of the stock exchange celebrat-
ed riotously in the last session of
1928. A huge orchestra, the yipping
of 500 invited visitors, and showers
of confetti marked the brokers' ap-
probation of "good hunting" The
out-of-town spectators who have
been fleeced of millions of dollars
this year were not present to enjoy
the affair, perhaps wouldn't nave
enjoyed it anyway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
Cannon, Indicted For
Graft, Secures Good
Ruling and Acquittal

Frank J. Cannon, suspended su-
perintendent of the street cleaning
department, in Brooklyn, was ac-
quilted today of the charge of hav-
ing financial interest in the Brook
lyn Ash Removal Company, which
has contract with the city for the
removal of ashes.
Justices Herbert, Solomon and
Salmon, in Special Sessions, Brook
lyn, made the acquittal certain by
ruling from the bench that Cannon
had no illegal interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
HAYWOOD TO TELL STIRRING LABOR HISTORY
Intimate Revelations the Early Battles Western Federation of Miners

The Western Federation of Min
ers was for years the most feared
and loved organization of American
labor. Feared by its enemies,
chiefly the western mine owners,
and loved by the miners of the
early days. The Mine Owners As
sociation, organized by John Hays
Hammond, used every sort of cum
ming and violence to destroy the old
"W. F. NJ"
On the other side, the miners of
the Rocky Mountain region, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
go AND KILL"
BALBO'S ORDER;
LABOR PROTESTS
Mass Meet Tomorrow
to Denounce Visit
of Fascist
Statement By Party
Socialists, Capitalists,
Tanmany Honor Him

"Go and kill. god will choose his
own" screamed Italo Balbo, fascist
leader, to his cohorts in Faenza, in
1925, and the slaughter of workers
that followed sickened even the
bloody rulers of Italy, until they
thought it wise to call halt. To-
morrow Balbo will be in New York.
Tomorrow at 8 p. m. the workers
of New York will assemble at Irving
Plaza Hall, 18th Street and Irving
Place, to denounce the crimes of
Italo Balbo, who will also on that
day be given an honorary reception
by combined committee of en-
emies of the working class. The
committee welcoming Balbo has on
it, or supporting it, Mayor Walker,
Police Commissioner Whalen, vari-
Gus industrial and banking capi-
talists, and one Fiorella La Guardia,
republican congressman from New
York, but supported in the 1924 elec-
ton by the socialist party, and for a
long time lawyer for the yellow So
cialist administration in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers of
America.
Party Statement.
The Workers (Communist) Party
of America, District 2, has issued a
statement condemning Balbo and
calling on all workers to attend the
mass meeting and protest against
his trip to America, and pointing to
the united front between Tammany
Hall, republican-socialist La Guar
dia, and fascism.
The speakers at the mass meeting
will be Vanni Montana, of I'll Lavo-
ratore;" Norman Tallentire, of the
International Labor Defense; Will
liam W. Weinstone, of the Workers
(Communist) Party; Carlo Tresca,
editor of II Martello, and T. De-
Fazio, of the Anti-Fascist Alliance
of North America.
Balbo the Murderer.
This is the kind of a monster the
workers denounce, and capitalism
together with socialist-party La
Guardia, supports and honors.
Out For Loot.
Balbo began as a republican in
Italy, and pacifist.
He took part in organizing the
fascist party when he saw that it
would be profitable to the insiders
in that party. He became one of the
"wild men" of the party, extreme in
his commands to loot co-operatives,
and kill workers.
Balbo actually commanded many
murder expeditions against the
workers. He murdered Minzoni. He
ordered the slaughter in the prov
ince of Ferrara. He was one of the
men who stabbed to death Anteo
Zamboni, an innocent boy who was
made to pay for his life for the at
tempt by some one unknown to as
sassinate Mussolini in 1928.
Temporary Retirement.
In 1924 he was charged in the re-
publican party paper 'La Voce Re-
bulicann," with instigating h e
murder of Minzoni, in the town of
Argenta. The publisher was in
dicted by demand of Balbo, tried in
a Roman court, but the trial ended in
an acquittal. Fascism had its
troubles those days, and Balbo had
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

be told in all its marvellous detail
of plot and counter-plot by Hay
wood himself, than whom there is
none better fitted to tell of those
early days of struggle.
Haywood, through the Daily
Worker, will tell his own story of
the old Western Federation of Min
ers, how it was born in jaii-the
county Jail at Boise, Idaho; born as
the result of earlier struggles for
which its pioneer founders were
then in prison. 4,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

Those who wish to know the in
side story of the W. F. NJ, and many
other vital phases of the American
labor movement, must get the Daily
Worker regularly for the serial of
articles by Haywood which will be-
gin in the Dailys Fifth Anniversary
Number, Saturday, Jan. 5.
DAILY" Has Sole Rights.
This series, known as "Bill Hay
woods Book" will run exclusively
in the Daily Worker, this paper
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
African Negro Workers
Threatened by Police
in New Diamond Fields

CAPETOWN, Jan. / (CNS).-
Two hundred police today were pa
trolling the rich diamond fields of
Namaqualand, where diamonds were
recently discovered, to prevent the
half-starved white and Negro work
ers, who had been laid off, from
rushing the field, and starting mines
OF their own.
Clashes between the police and
the workers, who have been reduced
to desperation by unemployment,
and peasants in the vicinity whose
crops had been ruined by prolonged
drought have created serious stu
alton here and forced the govern
ment to establish censorship over
news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

thhN Ih~NNA~ AAANN1oAy 'N~1
pleted by the delegates repre-
senting many thousands of
cloak, dress and fur workers
from every part of the country.
The convention was an ANAL
gamation of the furriers and cloak
and dressmakers' unions.
After a day of three sessions, each
crammed full of periods of great
intensity and excitement, the his
toric task of foundation-laying was
completed,
Great Union Born.
The first real union launched
. /. No,Aers that already had
many years of tradition Eof struggle
against the boss class and their
agents behind them.
Ending over two years Of the Bit
terest struggle against the socialist
and American Federation of Labor
bureaucracy, and the employers, the
needle trades workers yesterday
wrote brilliant page of American
labor history by establishing a union
built for rank and file control, and
with class struggle principles.
Altho the last session had still
another hour to go before final ad-
journment, with the choosing of ma
tional officers still to come up, all
the other complicated machinery of
the new union had been completed
before we went to press. A report
of those picked for leadership will
be given in full tomorrow.
Although the many discussions
had marked the earlier sessions, the
last day of the convention sparkled
with a brilliancy of understanding
on the part of these experienced
trade unionists of the major issues
before the working class.
Suddenly while speaker g We
talking few handclaps near the
door were heard. Followed by
shout, Foster and then pande.
monium broke loose as VIM. 2. Eos,
ter, head of the Trade Union Educa.
tional League and a prominent
Workers Party. member, appeared in
the auditorium. Like burst OF
thunder, cheering, handclapping anc
shouting from everybody in the hal
which was crowded by worker visi
tors. This lasted for ten minutes
while Foster bowed appreciation OF
the platform.
In his speech he drew to the at
tention of the assemblage the fac
that they were performing func
tion in launching the new union tha
would go down in history as a turn
ing point in American labor history
"All fighting unions in this coun
try must unite against the labo
fakers," said Foster.
mot only nationally but inter
nationally"
international Solidarity.
He then called upon the conven
tion to make an international ALI
ance against the betrayers of tn
working class by affilating the nes
union to the Red International
Labor Unions. This he did afte
describing the traitorous role of th
Amsterdam International whic
makes it an open ally Of the in
perialist masters of the world.
He also advised the developmer
of an alliance with the Pan Pacif
Trade Union Secretariat and wit
the Latin-American working class
Benjamin Gitlow, an old need
trades union leader and member
the Secretariat of the Workei
Party, was given thunderous we
come when he appeared to addre
the delegates. AS the Daily Work,
went to press, Gitlow was speakin
his remarks punctpated by rollir
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

have always been known as one of
the most militant groups of Amer
ican workers, were, in those days,
led by the fighting spirit that was
"Bill" Haywood, and were ever
ready to rush to arms for real war
with the army of professional scabs
and gunner the operators brought
in to break the union.
Haywood Tells Story.
The stirring story of those days
is rich legacy to the present day
American labor movement. II will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
Hindenburg's Speech
Asks Free Rhineland

BERLIN, Jan. /. (UP).-Presi-
dent Paul Won Hindenburg, speak
ing at the presidential New Year
reception today, renewed Germany's
demand for evacuation of the occu-
pied Rhineland, Palatinate and
Saare Basin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
TO WHITEWASH'
1000 LyNCHERS
Tortured, Burned at
Stake, Fleeing Negro

ROME Miss. Jan. 1.-Governor
Bilbo today took the first steps to-
ward "whitewashing" of the mob
of over thousand Mississippi busi-
ness men and plantation lynchers of
Charles Shepard, Negro who fled
several days ago from a prison farm
where he was being held in slavery
and brutally mistreated.
Although several men escaped at
the same time Shepard did, and any
one of them may have committed
the crime for which Shepard was
executed" by being burned at the
stake, Bilbo will appoint a commits
sion that is expected to excuse the
whole thing on the ground of public
policy and "sanctity of Southern
womanhood."
Usual Demagogy.
After the escape, a prison guard,
Sergeant j. B. Duvall, was found
dead, ard his daughter returned
nome next DAY with story OF nav
ing been kidnapped by Shepard and
finally released.
A woman plantation owner, on
whose property Shepard was hiding,
arrested him and took him to the
authorities. A detachment of ma
tional guardsmen started to take
Shepard along a road, where they
would surely meet the mob. He was
surrendered peacefully to the mob,
which carried him to a cotton field
near Rome and Parchman, Miss.
There he was stripped, carved
with knife, the usual confession"
cXtorted from him by torture, tied
to a stake, piled around with oil
soaked wood, and burned to death.
Volleys of bullets and shots were
poured into the charred body.
j. R. Walters, jailer at Summer,
was present and witnessed the
lynching, but made no effort to stop
it. He told details today of the
numbering of Shepard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
COMPLETE ORGANIZATION
OF BIG UNION; BASE TO Be
SHOP DELEGATE SYSTEM
Constitution Adopted at Morning Session After
Spirited Discussion
Foster and Gitlow Address Convention; Given
Big Ovations
BULLETIN.

Another of convention will be
o'clock until be devoted to the
election officers Contrary expectations the business still to
be transacted last night could not be finished in last nights session.
The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of the
United States of America launched last night after five
convention session New Star Casino 107h ST. and
Park Ave Formation of the industrial union Of workers in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
Court Checks Sale of
Texas State Oil Land

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 1 (UP).-
District Judge George Calhoun, this
afternoon issued a temporary in
junction against sale of oil and gas
leases on approximately fifty thou
sand acres of University of Texas
land. The leases had been adver-
tised for sale on January 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

to find any steady employment dur
ing the six years of their marriage.
and that their continued poverty
had probably been the cause of her
suicide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02

"Thc prOIetariat struggles for
the conquest of pOwer."-Lcnin.
Lenin memorial meeting. January
10, in Madison Square Garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-02
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a Workers Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
For The 40-H0Mr Week
For Labor Party
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
against workers.

against workers.
 A thOrough-gOing radacle her esy may even prove to be suffi- cient ground, as a certain recent tragic event has shown, for sending aliens to the electric chair without their having fair opportunity to prove their inno- cence of the crime charged against them. MonstrouS ab- surdities are perpetrated in the name of patriotism. A small boy was taken from the custO- dy of his parents because their religious tenets forbade him to salute the flag. A young man was arrested in New York and fined by a jocular magistrate because he failed to take off his hat while the Star Spangled Banner was being sung in honor of Colonel Lindbergh.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
JO8LESS IN FRANCE, 1855 Total Is One of the Smallest Re- corded ill Country Since War

:. With Great Britain, Germany and the United States all re- porting Out-Of-WOrk armies of 100000 or more, considerable interest is attached to the off, ci2l figures of the aggregate number of persons unemployed throughout France on March IS.
 The number is now reduced to the amazing low figure of 1895, of whom 264-are women. This is one of the smallest totals in the history of the postwar industri- prOnOsed to stock. More of such a1 life of France and is regarded as an excellent indication of the present widespread prosperity. The bulk of unemployed, 1,148, were in the Paris district. For the week ended March IS the number of foreign workers per- mitted to enter France was l. 853. while 550 left the country.
 Editors NOte:-The unemDlOv- ed in Alaska alone is greater than the above in spite of the great improvement in trans nOrtatiOn which Governor Parks says is proof of our prosperity.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15

sent and the new idea for the new or different state of things as against ancient conformities and the status quo.
 The most significant thing that has happened in Western Pennsylvania, apart from the Brutality of the police, the breaking up of lawful meetings of strikers and the restrictions on free speech, is the employ ment of the injunctiVe process in behalf of the operating com panieS. The SchOonmaker in junction, issued to the Pittsburg T m n a l Coal Corporation, makes effective picketing impos- sible. It prohibits the United Mine Workers from expending monies to keep families in com pany houses by paying their rent, when ejectment proceed ings are started against them. The Langham injunction, issued to the Cleardeld Bituminous Coal Corporation, is similar but harsher in it's restrictions. Tn both cases this judge-made law is based on the theory that to give support to a coal strike is to enter into conspiracy in re- straint of trade. The anti-trade monopoly provisions of the Clayton and Sherman Acts are thus converted by the sophistry of judges into weapon to use
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
OPEN DOE SEASON IN PENNA.

Tn order to reduce the large surplus of female deer and re- duce starvation, the Pennsyl- vania Game Commission, by re- the last hunting season, when 25O97 female deer were legally killed. The illegal kill, which gulation, permitted the killing of adult doe deer only during would include buck deer and lawns. numbered approximately
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15

1900, says a bulletin of the Am erican Game Protective Associ- atiOn.
 The value of game in Penn sylvania is greater than that produced by Alaska The off, cials there are responsible to the elected representatives of the people. How different it might be if the responsibility were with the bureaucrats of Washington. 25,097 doe deer were killed in the state Pennsylvania last sea- son. Tn Alaska there would have been wholesale prosecu- tions and also considerable per SecutiOnS.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-19

DAY
the
fourteenth Block have decided make TFR
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-19

For Greater Shopping Comfort:
Shop in the mornings for greater con-
venience.
Garry your small parcels whenever pos
sible. 1t may mean little to.you, but will mean
much in added service to others.
Look at the red bulletins in every depart
ment for items on sale there.
-Foresee the fall and winter needs of your
self, your family and your home. 1t will pay
you well.
Remember, we prepay parcel post, express
or freight charges within a radius of 200
miles of indianapolis on all purchases of $500
or more.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-19

But so great have been the valu
TWO days became inadequat
SERVICE. Hence these Four
for THREE DAYS, during VIII
and rushing, ALL of our frien
their hearts content.