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Carpet Toilers Wages
Cut Soon; Many Fired
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5 per cent wage cut for all the
workers took place. This was not
announced as the. owners of the
Alexander Smith Co. have consider
able say as to what gets into the
Yonkers papers.
Another symptom of this "phil-
anthropy" was shown about 10
years ago, when a group Of Is
workers went to see one of the
owners protesting against their low
pay-$1.10 a day! "I'll double
your wages" said the boss. Bring
in your wives to work here and
then you'll be getting 1920 a day!"
Many have only 2 or 8 days work
week. This is a strong contrast
to the way they were driven last
fall when a rush order from w. and
]. Sloane came in and all were
forced to work overtime each night
for several months.
Many Bad Conditions.
Weavers often have to wait half
day while their looms are being
fixed. Girls not friendly to the
foremen get the bad jobs. Sinks
and toilets are filthy. Workers, dis
gusted with conditions, are fast
joining the National Textile Work
ers' Union. The union is conducting
a vigorous campaign at the mill
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gates. Thousands of leaflets are
being distributed. Workers want
ing to get more information about
the union, write to the N. Y. Dis
trict, National Textile Workers
Union, 16 West 21st ST., N. Y. c.,
and representative of the union
visits their home. Delegates were
elected to the National Convention
Of the union in Paterson.
The case of the Alexander Smith
Carpet Co.-the wage cuts, speed
up and unemployment; the INSTALL
ing of new machinery, the merging
of the Alexander Smith Co. with
another big concern, the Bigelow-
Hartford, is not an isolated case.
In the thousand or so mills scat
tered throughout New York and
New Jersey, the same conditions
exist-increased speed up, more
wage cuts, widespread unemploy-
ment. Textile workers are realizing
that their only nope lies in fight
ing back, under the leadership of a
militant organization, and they are
fast joining the National Textile
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Meteor" at Guild Tonight
---Hambden in 'RicheIieu .

The Theatre Guilds newest pro-
duction, Meteor" by S. N. Behr-
man, will be presented at the Guild
Theatre this evening. The cast is
headed by Alfred Lunt and Lynn
| Fountanne, and includes Douglas
Montgomery, Lawrence Leslie, Ed
ward Emery and Shirley O'Hara.
Victor Herbert's "Babes In Toy
land" will be presented at Jolson's
Theatre this evening. The company
is headed by Barry Lupino, Leotabel
Lane, Marcella Swanson, Betty By
ron, W. j, Mccarthy and Rupert
Darrell.
Walter Hampden will play the
leading role in his production of
"Richelieu," which he will open at
Hampden's Theatre Wednesday
night. This is new version of Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton's play, made
for Hampden by Arthur Goodrich,
author of "Caponsacchi." In the
company are Ingeborg Torrup,
Evelyn Goodrich Cecil Yapp, Moi
fat Johnson, Ernest Rowan and
Dallas Anderson.
"Woof, Woof," musical comedy,
will open Wednesday night at the
Royale Theatre. Louise Brown,
Eddie Nelson, AL Sexton, Jack
Squires, Gladyce Deering and An
drew Mack are in the cast.
"Top Speed" the new musical
comedy by Guy Bolton, Bert Kali
mar and Harry Ruby, opens at
Chanin's 46th St. Theatre on
Wednesday night. Lester Allen,
Irene Delroy and Paul Frawley and
Harlan Dixon head the cast.
death Takes a Holiday" new
play by Walter Ferris, based on an
Italian play of the same title, by
Alberto Casella, will open at the
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Thursday
evening. Philip Merivale, James
Dale, Viva Perkett, Rose Hobart,
w dliace ErSklHe ana hOlanQ bOC-
tomley are in the cast.
"Seven," a new play by Frank J.
Collins, is scheduled for Friday
night at the Republic Theatre. The
leading players are: Tom Douglas,
Suzanne Caubaye, Robert Strange
and Beverly Sitgreavas.
Synge's play, "The Playboy of
the Western World" will be pre-
sented on Friday by the Irish play
ers - the Greenwich Village Thea
tire.
Grace George will return to these
parts on Saturday night in ST. John
Ervine's comedy, "The First Mrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Communist Activities

Unit IL, Section Executive.
The Executive Committee of Unit
IL, Section 9, will have a very i'm
portant meeting on Monday, Dec. 23,
at 6.l5 y. m. sharp. at the section
headquarters.
Unit IL. Section 3.
On Thursday. Dec. 26, at $50 p. m.
be held of Unit ~. Section 8 in sec
ton headquarters. Every member
must be present and on time.
Workers School Glasses.
Glasses win be held as usual Dec.
"a and 25. Fall term ends Dec. 81.
except for late classes, and is cele-
brated by Costume Ball arranged by
the school for that night New Years
Eve) at Rockland Palace. 155th st.
vance and s1;oo at door
Section 4 ID. w. Representatives.
Important meeting of all Daily
Worker representatives of Section 4
on Thursday. Dec. 26. at 235 w. 10th
St. p. m. sharp.
Unit Of, Section @.
Meets tonight s p. m. sharp. IS
Unit 15F, Section 2.
This week will meet Tuesday. 6
p. m.' at 1l79 Broadway:
Y.C.L. student Meeting.
There will be a meeting of all high
school and college students in the
Young Communist League on Monday,
p. m. in the district office.
Section 2 Meetings.
All units OF Section having meet
ing on Monday. Dec 23. will meet on
Friday. Dec. q. 6 p. M. at section
headquarters. Unit secretaries must
send special letters to all members
for this meeting.
Unit 12F, Section ..
VIII have a functionaries meeting
Tuesday Dec "a, 6 p. IN. sharp at 1179
Broadway.
Unit OF, Section j.
Important meeting, discussion On
Section Conference Resolution Dec.
23, 6.15 p. M, at 81 e. 4th st. All
members must be present.
Section Attention.
All meetings on Monday are called
off, and all members are instructed to
come to the District membership
meeting al Central opera House. Sec
ton conference Jan. 8.
WHIT 2. section 4.
Special meeting Is called by the in
struction of Section Buro; registra-
ton for the new book TO take place.
nnd discussion on the new dues sys-
TEN, at l43 II. 103rd ST.. roof G. Tues
day. Dec. "a. s p. m. sharp. Executive
meeting 2 o'clock.
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struggle. Organizers in our union
fight side by side with the rank and
lie because our leaders come from
he rank and file. We are on the
ticket line and go to Jail with them.
Jew leaders are being made in the
south every day. Our union is
yrowing by leaps and bounds. The
N,T.W.U. Convention which was
held at Paterson, N. J. was of the
utmost Importance to all textile
workers. We have linked ourselves
up with a great chain of industrial
militant unions. to a trade union
center, the Trade Union Unity Lea
que. Through this center workers
of all industries will go hand in
hand together, stepping, as we
travel, on the A. F. of L. takers
and other agents of the bosses, to
the final emancipation of all work
ers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
MOONEY GREETS
LABOR Defense
IN UNITY" Plea
Build A Mass Move
ment" His Message

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,
Dec. 22.-Tom Mooney, buried alive
within the grim walls of San Quen-
tin for the past twelve years has
sent out a call to the workers of the
land, in behalf of the San Quentin
prisoners, bidding them build mass
International Labor Defense, and
expressed a fervent wish for IAN
immediate unity of the entire work
ing class
His message, given verbally to a
committee OF six from the East Bay
conference of the International La
Dor Defense, is as follows:
"To all delegates, friends and
sympathizers of the International
Labor Defense and to all your local
conferences and the National Con-
vention to be held in Pittsburgh,
Dec. 20, 80 and 81, greetings. !
extend my fraternal greetings and
most heartiest wishes for a success
full building Of mass defense or
ganization for the militant labor
movement. I hope for an immediate
unity of the entire working class.
Let us solidify our forces. On to
! Victory!"
The message was taken verbally
and presented verbally at the con-
/ ference because of the restriction in
taking letters from the visiting
room at the prison.
The conference of the East Bay
LID. closed with the slogan Unto
the factories with the LID All
branches showed increased activities
for the year just passed, an indica-
ton of this being in the growth OF
the sale of the Labor Defender from
! % last March to 1000 in December
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T. u. U. L. Conference
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should openly battle for the over
throw of capitalism must be fought
within our ranks, if they get there y
said Schmies, amidst cheers from the
delegates,
"Our conference is to make plans
to lead the struggle Schmies added
"Our policies are not just for man
euvers against bosses and the A.
F. L., Music, socialist party and
other misleaders-our policy is to
fight and overpower them, our form
of organization is industrial.
Rose Wortis reported on the
needle trades situation, and Fred
Biedenkapp on the shoe strike, Wor-
It's told of the growing opportunities
of the needle workers to organize in
their own union.
Correct Some Mistakes.
Wortis showed number of mis-
takes made by the N.T.W.I.U. in
recent months. One was the maneu-
vering with the clubs in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, with
Hillman able to buy up the leader
ship in the clubs and wreck the left
wing movement temporarily. The
left wing in the Amalgamated will
now be built up through the rank
and file, by shop committees.
The other chief mistake of the
N.T.W.I.U. was in failing to suffi-
GENTLY emphasize the program of
struggle as against the fake strike
of the IL.G.W., scheduled for Janu-
airy /, said Wortis. 1t should have
been a program for continued and
sharp struggle to organize and win
union conditions for all the dress
shops. Strikes are needed to force
these union conditions, and they will
take place before, during and after
the IL.G.W. fake strike, with which
the bosses cooperate. This has
since been corrected by the Trade
Union Unity League.
Shoe Strike.
Biedenkapp told of the united
front of federal, state and city gov
ernments, with the ALL. and the
bosses to try and break the indie
pendent Shoe Workers Union, which
has contracts in A shops, and is
now locked out in % of them are
effectively assisted by the right
wing elements in the union.
Communists Party Greets.
l. Amter, representing the Com
munist Party, brought its greetings
to the convention. He was hailed by
a great ovation, and the delegates
rose and sang The International and
Solidarity Forever Amter denied
the possibility of separating the
political and industrial struggles.
After Amter's speech a resolution
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TRY SCH!FRIN
CASE TODAY
Resume Attempt to
Railroad Him
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investigation of the unions finan-
ces.
The expulsion was followed by an
immediate attempt to remove them
and all other left wingers from
their jobs. In conducting this ex-
pulsion campaign, thugs were sent
to the butcher shop of A. Oxman,
sos Prospect Ave, to order the en-
ployer to deprive Louis Lassowitz,
left winger, from his job. The en-
ployer refused and the gangsters
threatened the workers that if he re-
manned on the Job "he would be
carried out"
Lassowitz called up several
friends, including Schifrin and Max
Kluger. The latter, while on their
way to the shop, were halted by an
automobile at Beck st. and Johns
Ave-, and attacked by five men,
knives in hand.
Kluger had time to run, but not
Schifrin, who was forced against the
wall of a building. Desperately try
ing to save himself from the on
slaught. Schifrin drew a pen-knife
and swung it back and forth.
Harry Silver, leader of the at
lacking squad, received a wound
from which he died later in the Lin
Coin Hospital. Another of Silver's
men received cut on the arm.
Testimony at an earlier trial was
so overwhelming against the thugs,
that three of them caught on the
scene of the battle with drawn
knives were held under 81, 800 bail.
The International Labor Defense
defending Schifrin urges all New
York workers to rally behind his de-
Tense and save him from this frame
up, which threatens to send him to
the penitentiary for a long period
of years.
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carried unanimously for the dele
gates to return and demand of those
they represented the right to have
Communist Party speakers address
them. Other resolutions greeted the
present plenum of the R.I.L.U., the
miners and shoe workers strikers.
During the six-hour discussion
participated in by the majority of
delegates, in which they dealt with
the immediate struggles and build
ing of new unions and intensified
ton of struggles in the reformist
unions. During the discussion the
Lovestonites exposed themselves as
agents in the T.U.U.L. of the right
wing. Delegates from many indus
tries condemned the treacherous role
of the renegades and endorsed the
analysis and program of action of
the T.U.U.L. in this district.
Reports on women's, Negro and
youth organizations were given and
accepted by the conference. Cheers
greeted the delegation from the
National Textile Workers Union,
which with Eulalia Mendez, of New
Bedford, as spokesman, greeted the
conference. A committee of five,
one Japanese worker, and consist
ing of shoe, food, needle trades and
metal workers was elected to greet
the textile convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Dan Palter Picketed
Meets Mon. Morning

A mass picket demonstration took
place yesterday morning near the
Dan Palter Factory, 81 West 26th
ST., city. Nineteen workers We're ar
rested and the hearing will take
place today in the jefferson Market
Court. The police were exceptional
ly brutal here, but the picket lines
will be maintained.
Shoe workers should come in
masses on Monday morning to the
following halls: 1T Gratten St.,
sroollyn; 81 Blocker St., New
r--t r''.'. 81 7 a. M, sharp.
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BIG Rail MERCER
IN prep RATION
FOR COMING War
Need Unified System
for Military Use

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York, Newark, Baltimore, Norfolk,
Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Milwaukee,
st. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines
and Omaha, will connect the large
industrial districts with important
coal fields, as well as the Atlantic
coast with the chief gateways of the
/ West.
/ While the Interstate Commerce
Commission formerly played the
role of a negative" body, function
ing in the interests of the railroad
companies, and coming out "posi-
lively" against the workers when
ever it could be used to break strikes,
the publication of its railroad con-
solidation plan clearly exposes it as
an official Organization committee"
for the railroad companies. Trust
busting has given way to trust
building, the government organs re-
vealing themselves as the open in
struments of the Wall Street finan-
ciers.
The I. C. C.'s pious assertions
about the maintenance of competi-
ton are intended for mass consump-
ton, which cannot obscure the fact
that huge railroad merger is about
to be put over.
w. H. Williams, chairman of the
Wabash road, in a statement issued
few days ago admitted the strate-
gle Importance of the Commissions
proposals. The role of the railroads
in the last imperialist war has shown
the War Department the necessity of
unified system that canbe adjusted
for military purposes at a moments
ncsice. The consolidation plan is q
vital part of the war preparations
of the American imperialists.
This latest move, which will result
in the merging of the railroads on
a large scale, and will still further
concentrate the power of finance
capital, can only mean the introduce
ton of wholesale Economies the
drastic reduction of the working
crews, and the still further use of
"labor-saving' devices. Speed-up
and unemployment will be further
Now more than ever, the
railroad workers will be faced with
the necessity of meeting a new Of
fensive by organizing into new and
powerful industrial unions embrac-
ing all railway and traction workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
500 Negroes Sent from
Charlotte to Florida to
Work as Poems There.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Dec. 22.-
Negro workers from the Charlotte
section are being sent to Florida into
a condition of actual peonage. Five
hundred were sent about two months
ago by agents here, a man by the
name of johnson and a Negro tool
of the organization.
Representatives of the Crusader
News Service, investigating this in
cident and the practice of recruiting
poems here for work in Florida, have
been threatened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
RED ART NIGHT, DEC. 2s.

Preparations are in full swing for
Red Art Night, Saturday evening,
December 28, at Labor Temple, 14th
st. and Second Ave. This will be a
feast of revolutionary prose, poetry,
music and dancing, arranged by
Local New York, Workers Interna-
tional Relief and the John Reed
Club.
Tickets at rs cents are on sale
at the W.I.R. office, 799 Broadway,
Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
WORKERS COSTUME BALL
NEW YEARS EVE.

An entertainment program is be-
ing arranged for the big Workers
Costume Ball at Rockland Palace,
155th st. and Eighth Ave, on New
Years Eve. Local New York,
Workers international Relief and
the Workers School are sponsoring
this ball which will raise funds for
the relief of the fighting Illinois
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23

Though our union is only a little
over a year old and December q
and % was our second convention,
it is known from coast to coast by
all workers for its militant stand in
the every day struggles of the tex
tile workers. said Beal.
"The union has shown by honesty
and courage in the South its fitness
to lead the workers to greater
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
TEXTILE union GROWING BY LEAPS
AND BOUNDS" DECLARES FRED BEAL
Tells Convention 7. u u. L. Is Center for All
Militant Industrial Unions

Fred Beal, lead
er of the New
Bedford S t rik e
last year., SEN
fenced to 90 years
by the bosses
courts in the Gas
tonia case, was a
delegate to the
Second National
Convention of the
National Textile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
REMEMBER.

The Daily Worker must estab-
hsh mass circulation among work
ers in industries. Order a bundle
Of the Sixth Anniversary Edition.
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Labor and Fraternal
Organizations

Glass in Trade Union Problems.
Morris Rosen, National Secretary
Building Trades Section of the 7. T.
y. l.. will take the class Monday, Dec
%. 1t is conducted by oRbert Dunn
every Monday at the school, &c Union
So. at Z p. IN. Special admission 25
cents to those not registered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23

Fraser" opening at the Playhouse.
Other members of the cast will be
A. E. Matthews, Lawrence Gros-
smith, Carol Goodner and Anna
bella Murray.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Lenin Memorial pngent.

The Lenin Memorial Pagent to be
presented by the Workers Dramatic
Council at Madison Square Garden,
Jan. IS is now in rehearsal under di-
rection of Comrade Edith Seeal and
Emjoe Basshe. One hundred COM
no experience necessary Come to re-
hearsal Thursday, Dec. rs, 7.30 D. m,
at Workers Center, room 402.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
Cuban Deportees Murdered.

CUBAN QlSpaCcneS sunday stated
that Chinese deported from Cuba to
China are being executed. Hypo-
critical solicitude at their fate is be-
ing voiced by the very ones respon-
sible for their deportation and death,
the Chinese legation (Chiang Kai-
shek's murderous AGENT who turned
over the list of several hundred
Chinese in Cuba to the Cuban police
and had them G0ported to China to
be executed, now being stated to be
comforting on their behalf with
the Cuban secret service.
These Kuomintang murderers at
the Chinese legation in Cuba, say
that their victims are being executed
through a misunderstanding" upon
landing in China, but the fact is
there is no misunderstanding about
it. The Chinese arrested and de-
ported were charged with connec-
tons with the Alliance for Support
of the workers and peasants revolu-
ton in China, as opposed to the
bloody rule of the Kuomintang. The
Cuban lackey of U. S. imperialism,
Machado, promised after mass pro-
test was made, not to send them to
China, but evidently has deliberately
sent these Chinese workers and stu
dents to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
u. S. Makes WAR
AGAINST China
Yet Dares to Send
Stimson Note to USSR

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perialist forces are there to suppress
the Chinese masses, since the dis
patch tells of heavy machine gun
fire by American forces upon
Chinese who are termed bandits
the word used by imperialists
against revolutionary masses. How
many Chinese were killed is, of
course, concealed.
Forcing Chang kai-shek Out.
Further Chinese reports show
that far from boastful victories,
Marking has attained only humil-
iating truce with the militarists OPP
POSING Chang Kai-shek land Amer
ical domination). 1t is stated that
to "save face and give the semblance
of governmental continuity, the foes
of Chang Kai-shek have permitted
him to announce that "peace is re-
stored but only on condition that
he and a part of his American-boss-
ed cabinet gave out of the country
and the Marking government be re-
ORGANIZED with militarists tools or
British and japanese imperialisms
in dominant role.
This reorganization of Marking.
taking the form of an unstable coali-
ton, is being pressed by Yen Hsi-
shan, the so-called "model" governor
of Shensi who is dominating Picking
and the north. While Yen is alleged
to be conciliating the fake cleft" led
by Wang Ching-wei, by giving Wang
a leading post as civilian govern
mental head, Yen aims at military
control in the Marking government.
Even this arrangement, however,
limits Marking as a government
to shadow, and Yen may be plan
ming to maintain even this shadow
only to move the seat of government
back to Picking, where all the north
ern militarists wish it to be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23

Is arranged by the Bronx Workers
Athletic Club on Tuesday evening.
Dec. "a, at Rose Garden. 1347 Boston
Rd.
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Organize Shop Nuclei.
Enlist Your Shop Mate in the
Drive for 5000 New Members.