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The daily worker., 1929-01-22
NEEDLE WORKERS WILL
BUILD STRIKE MACHINE

Active members of the new indus
trial union of needle workers in thi,
city will assemble tonight in Web.
ster Hall, 11th st. and Third Ave.
in order to establish the strike ap
paratus for the general strike il
the dressmaking industry, in which
the workers will go on the offensive
in struggle for both the organiza.
tion of the trade and the establish.
ment of union conditions. The meet.
ing will be composed of cloakmakers
dressmakers and furriers.
The meeting tonight, constituting
the most conscious elements of a
fighting organization, after discus
sing the preparations made, will con-
stitute themselves into a huge rank
and-file organization committee for
the strike ahead.
Election Call.
A call to general participation in
the elections was issued by the
United Joint Board of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
yesterday.
After urging the workers to deln-
onstrate their confidence in the new
union Of the needle trad2s workers
and in the general strike IL viii rall
in the dress industry, the I technical
instructions are announced.
All furriers are told to cast their
votes in the Furriers Joint Board
Building, % Z. 22nd st. All ladies
garment workers polling will be
done at either the union headquar-
ters at 16 w. 21st st. or in Bryant
Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd st. Vot-
ing will take place between the
hours of s a. IN. and 7 p. M.
At these elections, officers and
all other functionaries of the United
Joint Board and of all locals will be
elected.
In calling the meeting of the shop
delegates conference, which is to be
held the day of the elections, i'm
mediately after work, the union also
issued instructions to the workers on
choosing their Representatives for
this conference. Besides taking up
various phases of their tasks in the
strike mobilization, the conference is
to elect one-third of the entire Joint
Board delegation. This is in con-
formity with the intentions of the
new union to build the organization
on the shop delegate system. The
one-third quota is decided on as a
transition stage of the Joint Board
composition.
The instructions tell the workers
to hold shop meetings and choose
their regularly accredited delegates
to this conference. The conference
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
Negro Labor Congress
Organizer Stimulates
Its Work in Seattle

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 21.-The
entrance of Otto Hall, field organ
izer of American Negro Labor Con-
gress into the Seattle district has
given great stimulus to the activities
of the American Negro Labor Con-
gress work here.
On Saturday, Hall addressed a
meeting of more than 1000 Negro
workers. Pointing to the conditions
now existing in the United States of
segregation, lynching, Jim Crowism
as applied to Negroes and other op-
pressed races, Hall contrasted this
condition with the position of Negro
workers and other minority races and
nationalities in the Soviet Union,
where to be a worker means free
DOM"
I On Sunday evening, Hall addressed
an overflow crowd of workers at
the Seattle Workers Forum, on
Progress in the Soviet Union"
Many workers had to be turned away
for lack of room. Monday evening,
at meeting held on the "Skidroad
in Seattle, Hall addressed another
l..
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
GROVER WHALEN
TAXI RULES CUT
DRIVERS WAGES
Hackmen Not Allowed
to Get Into Theatre
Zone
Forced Down 9th Ave.
Chaffeurs' Union in
Protest Statement

Hundreds of taxi-drivers with re-
turn calls were unable to get into
the theatre zone last night. The
first results of Police Commissioner
Whalen's loudly touted plan to
"speed traffic in the theatre zone"
was the loss of thousands of dollars
to hard working taxi drivers.
Private cars could enter the
theatre zone, the richest class of
customers was taken care of. But
taxis could not get into the author
lied public hack stands even, in the
theatre zone to hack, tho the ban
was theoretically applied to cruis-
ing cabs only.
One taxi driver, interviewed by
the Daily Worker, reported that he
took fare from Fiftieth and Park
Ave. to theatre on Forty-fifth. In
stead of being allowed to go down
to Foay-fourth, he was forced to
go to Ninth Ave, down Ninth to
Thirty eighth, on it to Sixth Ave. up
Sixth to Fortieth St., and then
forced over to Fifth Ave. Alto
gether miles out of his way, and in
money lost, at least two short fares.
Arrests were expected, later on in
the evening, when the pressure grew
greater, and the police more un-
reasonable. Whalen himself directed
his Czarist maneuver from Booth
13" at Broadway and Seventh Ave.
The business interests Of the city,
and many of the theatre owners,
profess themselves satisfied with the
situation. But the taxi drivers,
beaten out of their regular earnings
by the needs for front page space
which Police Commissioner Grover
Whalen feels he must have for polit-
ical purposes, are not satisfied at
all.
A meeting last week of the Taxi
Chauffeurs Union of Greater New
York has issued the following state
ment:
"Since other vehicles will not be
much affected, cab-men view the
new rules as being aimed exclusively
at them and the forerunner of like
Continued on Page TtOo)
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
WORKER SLOGANS
FLOOD SHANGHAI
Imperialists, Military,
FearCommunistsGrow

SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 21.-
Foreign imperialist and native mill
tarist officials of the Kuomintang
government are alike badly worried
over the powerful recuperative pow
ers of the Chinese labor movement
and the growth of the Communist
Party in China.
They gather in their offices and
clubs and plan futilely to stop the
enormous distribution of Communist
literature and posting of Communist
placards in all the working class
sections of the city.
There are daily raids, arrests and
executions without trial of "sus-
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
Chicago Police Chief
Apes Whalen: Arrests
1884 in a Single Day

CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Police Com
missioner Russell, worried over the
front page fame of Gorgeous Grov-
er" Whalen, head of the Tammany
police in New York, has resorted to
similar publicity stunts. After a
grandiose interview, in which he
stated, "The Chicago police will
block the crime wave" his men ar
rested 1894 men yesterday. Today
they are to pass in review before
5000 policemen, who have been told
to detect the criminals among them.
Chicago is crime ridden, but the
real criminals are members of poll
tical gangs which loot the city treas
ury and take bribes in a respectable
manner, or who conduct the remun-
erative beer graft.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
OKLA. GOVERNOR
NOW SUSPENDED
Senate Orders Him to
Await Graft Trial

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Jan. 2l
U.P)-By vote of 38 to the Okla
homa senate today suspended Gov
ernor Henry S. Johnston, pending
trial before a senate court on
charges of official corruption, in
competency and moral turpitude.
Lieut.. Gov. W. J. Holloway, auto
matically became governor.
With this development, Johnston
and his confidential secretary, Mrs.
0. 0. Hammonds, will cease opera
tions of state, at least temporarily.
Johnston will live in the executive
mansion pending trial.
Mrs. Hammond has been consid-
cred the real directing agent of the
governors deals with contractors,
which. rivals say, involved the pay
ment of graft. She is head of a
secret religious organization which
believes in black and white magic.
and used to advise the governor how
the supernatural powers wanted the
office run. The spooks seemed to
like some business men intent on
getting fat contracts from the state
better than others, and the others
are now virtuously exposing the
governor and Mrs. Hammond
One charge against the governor
is that when previous legislature
was about to impeach him for high
crimes and misdemeanors, he called
out the militia and dispersed it.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
HARLEM REVELS
HERE TONIGHT!
Workers of All Races
to Show Solidarity

Tonight at the Renaissance Casino,
138th st. and Seventh Ave-, dancing
feet will twinkle merry message of
solidarity and fraternity as thou
sands of workers of all races Join in
the gigantic solidarity labor demon
stration dance and concert of the
American Negro Labor Congress and
the Negro Champion.
Large blocks of tickets have been
purchased by many Negro organiza-
tions and a record turnout is ex-
pected. Of the thirty boxes in the
hall, twenty-eight were sold when
this edition went to press. Organi-
cations which have purchased boxes
and will have their banners and slo-
gans on display are:
The Haitian Patriotic Union; Ne
gro Workers Relief Committee;
American West Indian Benevolent
Society; All-American Anti-Imperial-
ist League; Architectural Bronze
and Iron Workers Union; Chinese
Workers Alliance; District Negro
Committee; The Freiheit; The Daily
Worker; Harlem Educational Forum;
Harlem Tenants League; Institute
for Social Study; International La
Dor Defense; Japanese Workers As
sociation; Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union; New Masses; New
York Federation of Working Wom-
en-; Office Workers Union; Proletcos
Cooperative; Spanish Workers
Club; Students Literary Association;
Trade Union Educational League;
Window Cleaners Protective Union,
Local 8; Women's Day Workers
League; Workers Party, District 2;
Workers Party, Section A, District
II; Workers International Relief;
Workers School; Young Workers
(Communist) League.
An excellent program has been
arranged for the occasion, including
the internationally famous Hall
Johnson's Negro Choir, personally
conducted by Hall Johnson himself;
Paul and Thelma Meeres, tango dan
GERS of Comics Inn Revue; Doris
Rheubottom, songbird of the Alham-
bra; Elizabeth Welsh, one of the most
popular members of "Blackbirds," :"
and one or two numbers from the ex-
cellent revue of Club Harlem.
The program will begin at eleven
o'clock, but dancing will start at
$3.50. After the program there will
be more dancing. Jazz of the weird
est, most irresistible sort will be dis
pensed by the Vernon Andrade Rem
aissance Orchestra, which means the
best jazz Negro Harlem can furnish.
Workers of all races are urged to
show their solidarity with the Negro
workers by attending the Harlem
Revels Solidarity Demonstration
Dance tonight.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
u. S. Copper Mine
Imperils Lives of
Workers in Peru

CERRO DE PASCO, Peru, Jan. 81
Cracks, caused by the under
ground operations of the Cerro de
Pasco Copper Company, an Ameri-
can corporation, threated to denol-
ish the whole city. The cracks have
appeared in the streets and squares
and are due to insufficient propping
of the mines.
The situation is one Of extreme
danger and despite the repeated ef-
forts of the inhabitants the Amer
lean company has refused to
strengthen the underpinning of the
mines and proceeded with excava-
tions at the foundations of the city.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
Many Workers Seeing
Duncan Dance Troupe

The performances of the 1sadora
Duncan Dancers at Wallack's Thea
tire, AID St., west of Broadway, con-
tinue to arouse great interest. Hun
dreds of workers are seeing them
two, three and even more times,
finding the art of these youthful
Soviet dancers an inexhaustible
source of delight.
Irma Duncan, adopted daughter
and favorite pupil of the great Isa-
dora, is herself leading this troupe
of prize pupils of the. famous Isa-
dora Duncan School in Moscow. The
programs this week consist of the
troupe's best numbers, including the
remarkable impressions Of Revo-
lutionary Russia" Matinee per-
formances will be given Thursday,
Saturday and Sunday. The Sun
day afternoon appearance will be
the last, after which the dancers will
leave for tour Of the country.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
SHIELD FULLER
IN LIBEL CASE
Trial Of Harry Cantor
Starts Today

Especial to the Daily Worken)
BOSTON,, Jan. 21.-In a move to
protect Ex-Governor Fuller and pre-
vent him from being put on the
stand and grilled on his part in the
murder of Sacco and Varzetti, Chief
Justice Walter Perley Hall, of the
Superior Court, here today denied a
motion for continuance made by the
defense in the trial of Harry J. Can
tor on a charge of criminal libel.
Cantor, who was Workers (Com-
munist) Party candidate for secre-
tary of state, was arrested with
20 other workers during an election
campaign demonstration on Nov. 3.
While the others were charged with
sauntering and lettering, an addi-
tional charge of criminal libel was
brought against Cantor, based on
the fact that he carried a sign:
"Gov. Fuller Is the Murderer of
Sacco and Vanzetti."
The International Labor Defense,
which is defending Cantor, plans to
reopen the entire Sacco-V -Vanzetti
case and to make a national issue
of this attempt to victimize mill
tant worker. William Thompson,
for several years chief attorney for
Sacco and Vanzetti, and other i'm
portant witnesses, many of whom
were originally not permitted to tes-
tify, will be called by the defense
in an effort to prove that Governor
Fuller, acting as the agent of the
capitalist class, was the murderer
of the two Italian workers.
Want Fuller on Stand.
The defense also decided to sub
poena Fuller as a material witness
and for this purpose asked that the
trial be postponed. Tho such a re-
quest is nearly always granted in
ordinary cases, Chief Justice Hall
hastened to shield Fuller by denying
it at once.
The justice, to show his "impar-
tiality," gave the defense time to
prepare new affidavit this after
noon. The trial will open tomorrow
morning. The International Labor
Defense is calling on all class-cons-
cious workers and workers. organ
izations to back its fight to save
Cantor. Should he be convicted, he
may be sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
Workers Int'l Relief
to Show Film of Big
Mine Strike in Chicago

CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-The local
Workers international Relief is pre-
pairing to present the remarkable
film of the great miners struggle,
"The Miners .Strikew This picture,
made on the field of struggle, pro-
vides living record of the heroic
fight of thousands of coal miners
against the bosses, the police and
the union betrayers.
The mine explosion at Mather, Pa,
mass picketing in violation of the
injunction, the senate "investiga-
tion," leaders of the National Miners
Union are all shown in this picture.
The time and place of its showing
will be announced in the near future.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
SENATE SECRET
VOTE PUTS WEST
IN The Cabinet
Insults Power Trust
Agent Is Secretary
of the Interior
Tn Two Graft Scandals
Wife Has Edison Stock;
Aided Land Grab

WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-The
nomination of Roy o. West, an agent
of the insult power trust, selected
by President Coolidge to fill out a
term in the administration as sec
retary of the interior, was con-
firmed today by the senate after
three days of secret debate by a
vote which is said on good author
ity to have been 81 to 27.
After the vote a motion was made
to make public the roll call, but this
was defeated and the senate became
involved in a row over procedure.
Opponents Of the nomination con-
tended the vote should be published
by the secretary of the senate.
Defeated in their first motion, the
opponents then moved that the vote
by which their motion was defeated
be made public. This was also lost.
The vote on confirmation was
IdhSH III ClOoSu SASCuClNS SeSSlOn dL
2:30 p. M, in accordance with an
agreement adopted Saturday.
Holds Power Stock.
West admitted before the senate
land committee that the Chicago law
firm, of which he is a member, had
taken heavy fees from insult as late
as last year, and for some time be-
fore had been on their payroll, also
that his wife owned a large number
of shares of power company stock.
West will be in position to grant
Cumberland Falls, and any other big
power sites, to insult that he may
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
USSR HISTORIANS MEET
42O Delegates Attend First Conference

of 1928 Soviet historians appeared
publicly on two occasions abroad, in
Oslo and in Berlin, is not due to the
fact that there is any special love
for us abroad, but to the fact that
at the present time there is a great
wave of interest in western Europe
for our country and its instruction.
This interest is strongly reminiscent
of the interest of the decadents in
the second century for the Teutons. :"
Professor Pokrovsky then dealt
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
DEPORTING MEXICANS|
Hundreds Expelled ON 24 Hours Notice

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21.--An in
dication of what the wonderful new
friendship" between the imperialist
government of the United States
and the Mexican government Of
Portes Gil means for the Mexican
people, is seen in news arriving here
from border towns Of Texas, telling
of hundreds of Mexican workers and
their families being victimized by
Yankee authorities.
Not only are the usual brutalities
Of race-prejudiced Americans in
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, (By MaiD.-Four
hundred twenty delegates from uni
versities and higher schools from
all parts of the Soviet Union took
part in the first conference of
Marxist historians which opened re-
Gently at the Communist Academy.
Professor Pokrovsky in the open
ing speech referred among other
things to the public appearance of
Soviet historians in Europe.
"The fact that during the course
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
INDICT BANK HEADS.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 81 (UP).---
Paul A. Perus, former treasurer of
the st. Paul Federal Land Bank and
Thomas O. Ofsthun, his assistant,
were indicted today by a federal
grand jury on charges of conspiracy
to defraud the government. Defal-
cations were said to amount to more
than $1,000,000.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22

flicted on Mexican workers along
the border, but as result of the
encouragement given the United
States government by the recent at
tacl- of the convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor on Mexi-
can immigrants, and with further
passivity toward American i'm
perialism by the new Mexican ad-
ininistration, the Yankee immigra-
tion officials are rounding up hum
dreds Of Mexican working class
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
INDICTED FOR MURDER.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, JAM. 81
(UP).-Frank Ferrante Provio, to-
day was indicted by the grand jury
here on charge of first degree muir
der. PROVO is accused of killing his
common law wife, Josephine Lanni,
of Rochester, last December.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
2 WORKERS KILLED.

PEORIA, ILL.,, (By Mail)--William
Marchand and Herbert Bush, both
employees of the Schultze Baking
Company, were killed on he hard
road two miles north of Peoria, when
the truck in which they were riding
skidded and plunged over a ten-foot
enbankment.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
FJJMES KILL TWO.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa, Jan. 81
(UP).-Fumes escaping from a gas
heater in the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars Home here killed Carl H..
Eckels, 40, war veteran, and John
Barker, Ga, farmer, today.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (By MaiD
-Four Negroes will die here on the
prison farms in the electric chair.
They are all convicted of murder
and the sentences were given after
a hasty trial with inadequate evil
dence.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22

TAMPA, Fla. (By Mail) Police
man ]. E. Darlington resigned to-
day to avoid questioning on violation
of the liquor law cases. The cases
will be dropped for lack Of evidence.
The daily worker., 1929-01-22
GARFIELD PASSENGERS LAND.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. Il
(UP).-The 83 passengers taken
from the steamer President Garfield,
standed off the Florida coast, were
landed at Nassau at noon today, ac-
cording to wireless reports reaching
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-08
Playing TO the Galleries.
Seattle Times


In proposing that all Executive nominations
lbe considered by The United States Senate in open
session. Senator Wesley L. Jones, shows a DISPOSE
ton to trucAle to the publicity-seeking rabble-
reusinS element of the upper House At present
appointments to Federal offices are considered
behind closed doors unless two-thirds of the Sem
ators order otherwise The Jones plan would
enable Senators to talk to the galleries and to
give wide publicity to their petty grudges against
worthy men.
1t viii be argued that in a represent alive
government al matters should be discussed in the
open but sound public policy is opposed 10 this
plan. for instance. treaties considered in
executive session unless ordered otherwise. so
that Senators may give their opinions without
onense TO Other nations In the case of an an
pointee to the Cabinet or to some other Federal
position sometimes things are said which can
De attributed only TO personal spte The nublic
session gives senators opportunity TO air hair
venom anu to lnjure the reputation Of othars
without risk TO themselves.
Fhe Constitution gives member of Conpress
certain lmnunities. They are exempt from arrest
except Tor treason, felony and breach of the
peace, ana they cannot be held to account else
WHERE LOT any speech made in either House They
codiu not De questioned outside of Congress for
anw untruthful slanderous statemant roaao
against a citizen OF the Republic
The effect OF Senator Jones's nlan would -
| TO give radical and reckless minority nnnan
tuhlty 10 blacken the names of men who miah )
aitef"drd ne confirmed as high officials os a.
uo'erhhient 1t is well known that OWL rann.
ifequentiy outrun the truth In any event a.
charges nave so little foundation that tbav a.
~ IMPRESS the majority of the Senate thew
g.'i mo- De broadcast TO the galleries Senator
'0nes proposal should have short shrift
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-08
More Or Less True

more Or Less True
You know girl is modest now
if when she sits down, she makes
bluff at pulling her skirts over
her knees before she gets out her
compact and mirror to give her
nose the attention it needs
During a flu epidemic father gets
about as much use of his grand
old bed sheet handkerchiefs as he
does Of his car when son is home
for the holidays.
You meet a wife now and then
who convinces you her father went
out and celebrated the day the
poor sucker who fell for her took
her off his hands and pocketbcok.
A divorce is Just sign another
man has learned too late the wis
dow shown by the groom-to-be
who skipped and left the bride-to-
be waiting at the church.
1t doesn't take a kid long to get
wise to the fact that Don't do
that again, or mamma spank" is
only a bluff to impress tae guests
mother is entertaining
The worlds champion optimist
is the widower with three children
who marries a widow with three
and expects her to love his three
more than she does her own be-
cause they are HIS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-08
A Two-Man Town.
New YORK Times.l


COeval with the rise Of the City of Cleveland
into the position of industrial Importance which
lit now occupies has been the ascent of the Van
lSweIngen brothers. A Watch-Tower letter from
Cleveland in The Times today gives a more
Istrikng illustration of how high that ascent has
gone chan any that has been published for some
time For so completely related to everything
that concerns transportation in the Ohio metrop-
oils these brothers that every traffic problem
rests upon what hey propose 10 do
For food terminals New York looks 10 Irving
T. Bush. For subway discussion it deals with
several companies and individuals. The great
railroads themselves built its huge stations and
the suburban and surface lines have other rela-
tonshp s But in Cleveland The name of all this
is Van Sv eringen They built the great new
railroad terminal; they control the food stations;
the suburban service is in their hands; and now
until they say what is their plan as TO city rapid
transit improvements, Cleveland will not even
consider other propositions that have been made.
Subways are proposed but it will not be said
with shovels until the two men are heard
Their story is now well known: how from a
beginning in suburban real estate development
they nave come to be railroad owners and local
nlagnates Of such consequence that here is no
concentrated match for them in any other Ameri-
can city.