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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Crooked Grundy to Senate,
Honest Worker AccOrsi to
Electric Chair This Is
Capitalist Democracy

Joseph R. Grundy Pennsylvania millionaire abor-expoer
lobbyist who uses such baeced methods of corruption
that the rotnest capitalist newspapers
him. has been appointed to the United States
He takes that Ware another
PENNSYLVANIA millionaire abrXpoier bought his into
ate with such corruption that the ruling class thought
not be wise him. they Grundy
Grudy who is but openly bought
election He only bought senator's after they the This
is done to preserve the so-caled "honor of the Senate
The appointment is made by Governor Fisher Pennsylvania
whose seat of the bought paid
miionare who financed the other
Pennsylvania by family
The chief of all of this pyramid of corruption Andrew Mellon
secretary of the treasury of the United the
of Hoover in the presidential cabinet.
AT exactly time, Mellon clique of labor
eXploers through the which they making
apponment"ao the interest of the ruling capitalist
They appointing" the Pennsylvania mine
worker Salvatore Accors-to sit in the electric chair
The crook Grundy capitalist class helping to grind
profits out Of the working Glass; injury
ruling class) if he is a coruptionist
But the coal MINER Accor showed himself loyal
OF and ubearab exploitation by
this clique headed by the Mellon monaires Accors
coal MINER got in the of the expoiters and need with profits
So the ruling class rewards Grundy and will murder Acors
This is American capitalist democracy"
This is typical capitalist government.
The working class must We stir of
defend Accors!
bloody sacrifice like Sacco and Vanzei!
But do than defend.
build revolutionary fight cap-
aist class and all Of its flunkeys.
We organize the most loyal and
Communist Parywhch will lead class through the whole bitter
struggle to victory.
Victory the only capitalist
rule of the working class
Every Immediately give his
joining the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13

with their fellow workers and fight
through to a victory.
At Buckner the miners came out
on the second day of the strike.
Yesterday Sheriff Pritchard led
gang of armed operators and U. M.
w. A. gunmen into the local meet
ing of the U. NJ. w. A. there, and
threw out all the strikers, leaving
the old reactionary officials of the
U. M. w. A. and a handful of their
henchmen in the hall,
Kentucky May Strike.
News that the u. NJ. W. A. miners
Of Kentucky have voted overwhelm-
ingly for strike was received here
yesterday. The National Miners
Union is calling on all Kentucky
miners to hold mass meetings and
hear the report of the Kentucky
delegates to the Tri-District con-
vention, held December /, at Zeig-
ler, III. This is the convention,
called by the National Miners
Union, which called the present
mine strike in Illinois; they called
for statewide general strike of
all miners. to start December 8, and
to fight on to victory for the de-
mands made on the operators by
the second state convention of the
National Miners Union, Illinois
district, held in Belleville, October
26-27. These demands are for the
six-hour day and five-day week;
$50 week minimum wage; recogni-
tioA If the National Miners Union;
no n,ore check-off; abolition of the
bu light and penalty system; equal
v ges for young miners; Is minutes
rest period during every hour of
coal loading and cutting machines;
one man on each job; no discrimi-
nation against Negro miners.
Thompson Beaten Up.
Eye witnesses state that when
Freeman Thompson, N. M. U. or
ganizer was placed under military
arrest two days ago, at the direct
orders of the superintendent of the
Peabody mines in Kincaid, on which
he was leading several hundred
marching miners, he was beaten,
and injured in the wrist. The sheriff
with five militiamen in his car tried
to head off the marching miners.
They went on and the Kincaid mine
struck too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Aid Haiti Revolt,
ANLC Urges in Call
to TOnight's Meets

In spite of the lying reports in
the capitalist press which say that
everything is quiet in Haiti, news
leaks through the rigid censorship
informing us to the contrary. In to-
days "Times," we learn that Is
Haitian workers were arrested for
violating the "curfew law" law
compelling all Haitians to be off the
streets by nine o'clock in the eve-
ming. This law does not apply to
the imperialist lords of the island.
The struggle against American
imperialism conducted by the Amer
lean Negro Labor Congress, is meet
ing with great response from the
black and white American workers.
The white workers have gone on
record in expressing their solidarity
with the revolutionary struggle Of
the Haitian workers.
Tonight's meeting promises to be
one of the largest mass protest
ever held in Harlem.
All workers and sympathizers
with the cause should make it their
duty to be early to secure seats.
This meeting will begin promptly
at s o'clock at st. Luke's Hall. 12y
w. 130th St., New York CitA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
NANKINC CLAIMS
CAIN AT CANTON
over REBELLION
u. S. Pays for Chang
Kai Shek's Costly
Silver Bullets
Japan Jokes at U. S.
Toxic Concerned" at
Manchurian Status
BULLETIN.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 12.-Reports
from interior of China are lacking,
one province, that OF Kiangsi, hav-
ing not been heard from since No
vember 80, with missionaries re-
ported the principal city, Kanchow,
as being in the hands of REDS" 3"
probably part of the agrarian
revolutionary movement that is
seething in all the countryside.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 12.-If reports
can be believed, which is doubtful
when coming from Chang kai-
shek's Marking government
sources, the Marking forces defend
ing Canton have repulsed the at
tack of the militarist rebel forces of
Chang Fa-kwei, leader of the Iron
Sides" 1t is said half of these were
either captured or killed in the last
two days fighting. In the north,
fighting is going on. indecisively,
fifty miles north of Marking.
However, it appears that the
other angle Of attack, from the
separately advancing Kwangsi mil.
itarists (British-backed) clique on
the city from the west, has not been
SO badly repulsed, the Kwangsites
still holding their ground, though
the "Ironsides' who came from the
northwest are said to be retreating.
However, one never can tell how
much truth and how much lies are
in Markings claims of victories -
At Nanking itself, the situation
is reported to have ceased" and that
Chang Kai-shek is adopting meth
DDS to "conciliate" rebellious forces
in the central Yangtze valley area.
This probably means that the Uni
ted States, which is fighting with
its back to the wall for maintaining
a foothold of governmental rule in
China, has thrown more finances
Continued on Page TooJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Just a God Damn Wob" Says
Court Humky IN Accoysi Case

where Southern judges and law
yers, hypocritical gentlemen with
flute-like voices, carry hidden in their
black velvet robes the poison of the
bosses hate.
step Lively"
Pittsburgh is brutal, ruthless.
Five hours to pick Jury w11ch viii
sentence a worker to the electric
chair.
No golden sunlight streaming
through wide windows; instead the
sickly, yellow walls and the garish
electric lights overhead. Dull-gray
dust and CRIME of industrial Pitts
burgh, and across the court yard
the iron bars of the Allegheny
county Jail.
The court house takes it's color
and it's tempo from the industrial
hells of the Pittsburgh region:
Carnegie Steel, Westinghouse Elec-
trio Jones' -McLaughlin-grim, hard
boiled, full of hatred for the work
Continued on Page Three
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1W YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929
Haiti Masses
Stand Firm.
Many Arrests

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 12-Mem-
bers of the Young Communist
League yesterday distributed leaf
lets calling for support to the revo-
lutiOnary Haitian workers and peas
ants at Norfolk. Sailors and marines
aided in the distribution, especially
asking for additional copies to hand
out on the warships.
A majority OF the sailors and
marines read the leaflets denounc-
ing U. S. imperialist intervention in
Haiti with great interest and SYM
pathy. One marine who was in
Nicaragua said he was opposed to
going to Haiti and would not shoot
Haitian rebels. eve are selling
ourselves for twenty dollars a
month";" declared another. All of
them reported that marines who
were sent to Haiti disliked the job
and regretted going.
Marine reinforcements are being
sent to China from here as a part
of Stimson's war threat against the
Soviet Union and for duty in be-
half of Wall Streets ambitions for
control of the Manchurian railroad.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec.
12-With hundreds of heavily armed
marines and gendarmes parading
strategic points, and arrests being
made Unfortunately of suspected
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
BELLAS HESS CYP
WORKERS WAGES
Or ganize, Exploited
TOilers Write
(By a WorkoN Correspondent

\Dy w ofhoF FCo'feoPo"u0fteJ
IN the November issue of the
"Bellas Hess Worker" shop paper
issued by the workers of the Ma
tional Bellas Hess Company, a work
er depicted how the workers are
being cheated out of their first day
or half days pay.
The bosses do this through con-
fusing system of paying off Friday
with the week ending on Wednes-
day. don't believe one of us knows
exactly when the week begins
whether on Wednesday, Wednesday
afternoon (as the time cards are
being collected on Wednesday after
noon) or Thursday morning. | did
not know when the week begins
until / read the article on this in
the "Bellas Hess Worker" On the
first Gay of employment the fore
"omen are not instructed to explain
when the week begins--(or | should
say are instructed not to explain)
they hand over temporary time
card and tell us to punch it the next
morning, and they are supposed to
Okay it for the first day--but some
how the cards are not being Okayed
and since we do not know exactly
when the week begins, especially so
when we are new, we never know
whether we get full pay for the first
week OF not.
The worker who wrote the article
in the "Bellas Hess Worker" relates
that he began working on Monday
and on the following Friday got
SContfuued nm p11e T1Dol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Z
Organizing
Mil TOileXs

Released Gastonia defendants
are among the most active of the
National Textile Workers Union
members preparing for the unions
second national convention to be
held in Paterson, N. j., on Decem-
Der 81, it was stated at the national
office of the union today.
Clarence Miller, sentenced to 20
years, is actively organizing young
workers in the textile industry, and
urging them to send delegates to
the National Textile Youth Confer
ence, to be held in Paterson, during
the convention. He will speak in
Philadelphia, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, and will then proceed to
other districts.
Harrison, Hendryx, Beal.
Joseph Harrison, also sentenced
to 90 years, is still in the South,
where he is leading the Leaksville
strike. But he will mobilize the
workers there for the convention.
"Red" Hendryx, sentenced to
seven years, is again in the Char
lotte region, after a successful
speaking tour through the northern
cities. He is organizing for the
union and for the convention.
Fred Beal, sentenced to 20 years,
is on tour for the convention in
New England, making the textile
centers of New Hampshire this
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
BY SENDER GARLIN.

PITTSBURGH, PA foreign
born worker, a coal miner, who but
a few years ago was peasant lad
in Italy, is being hustled to his
death by the bosses of this state.
In Allegheny county criminal
court has begun the present
phase of the legal conspiracy to
make 3S-year-old Salvatore Accorsi
tread the same fiery path as Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Accorsi is being railroaded to his
death on the trumped-up charge
that he shot John Downey, state
trooper. Downey was killed after
nearly hundred mounted police at
tackled a Sacco-Vanzetti meeting in
Cheswick, Pa, Aug. %, 1927, and in
jured large number of workers.
The defense will prove that Accorsi
was eight miles from the scene at
the time and was not even present
at the meeting.
North Carolina is soft, gracious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
SMASH ATTACK
ON HAITI, USSR
Mass Meets Mobilize
Against Imperialism

Tonight in six great demonstra-
tions the New York workers will
protest against the butchery of
thousands of workers in Haiti and
China and will denounce the Ameri-
can government, which is mobilizing
all its forces for war against the
Soviet Union, Fatherland of the
workers of the world.
Meetings will be held at St.
Luke's Hall, 125 West 130th St.;
Manhattan Lyceum, &c East Fourth
St. Speakers, H. Benjamin, Anna
Daman, George Siskind, James Mo.
Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd
st. Speakers, l. Amter, Max Bed
acht, Harriet Silverman, Joseph
Boruchowitz, Alexander Trachten-
berg, T. H. Ii, Sam Darcy. Rose
Gardens, 1347 Boston Rd., Bronx.
Speakers, Bill Dunno, T. Y. Hu,
Leon Plott, G. Green, II. SAFER,
318 Grand st. Brooklyn. Speakers,
IJ. L. Engdahl, Rose Wortis, J. Will
hanson, Y. Y. Hsu. Hopkinson Man
sions, 42S Hopkinson Ave, Brook
lyn. Speakers, M. J. Olgin, Otto
Hall, T. P. Hu, Gertrude Welsh. Bo-
hemian Hall, Second and Woolsey
Aves., Astoria, L. I. Speakers, A.
Markoff, Richard Moore, Tong Ping.
Tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 New
York workers are urged to gather
at Park Row and Broadway in front
of the Federal Building to demon
strate against Wall Streets oppres-
sion, aided by the Washington Ex-
ecutive council, of the colonial and
American workers and it's attacks
on the Soviet Union.
Dozens of organizations will par
ticipate in these demonstrations. At
the Bryant Hall meeting, which
takes place at 6 O'Clock instead of
s, as at other demonstrations, lead
ing members of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union will
speak also on the organization
movement among the dressmakers
and the false strike of the l. L. G..
w. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Shoe WORKERS
PLAN BIC drive

"Organize the unorganized" is
the aim of the drive planned by the
Independent Shoe Workers Union
of Greater New York and announced
at mobilization meeting called by
the General Strike Committee at
union headquarters last night.
Giving the main committee re-
Continued on Page TWo)
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new MINES JOIN STRIKE
ALL OVER ILLINOIS; UNIV
GANG TO ATTACK.PICKETS
Battle Looms at Auburn; WassOn, Pana, Cecilia,
Miners Walk Out; March on HarcO, Waller
Belleville, Staunton Regions Ready to Join;
Sheriff Drives Militants from Hall for UMWA
BULLETIN.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec 12Deputes tear gassed the
picket There pcketng at WassOn by men,
women and children families Pana strikers held
march mines Bulp and Nokoms
of County 49 members OF
three of them The militia
have been sent to Pana and
The Workers Relief national office 949 Broadway
from Henry Corbshey secretary
National Miners Union; I'VE need funds
at once to establish the strike We need
Women children and have been beat
sherifs Rush relief Immediately and send
to the field"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
SUBWAY DIeGERS
UNION IN GAINS
Negroes Join It; Meet
Sunday to Push Fight

The marked success of the subway
construction workers fight against
A. F. of L. officials who are openly
allied with contractors and city gov
ernment to tie the men to the job
instead of fighting against scab
wages will be expressed at a mass
meeting of the diggers at Stuyves-
ant Casino, 142 Second Ave, Sun
day afternoon.
The meeting is called by the Sub
way and Construction Workers In
dustrial Union, a fighting organiza-
: Continued on Page TUo)
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NOTICE TO ALL PARTY MEM
BERS IN DISTRICT 2.

All members must receive di-
rcctions from Section and Unit
organizers on the demonstration
which takes place Saturday at
l.15 p. M, at the Federal Build
ing, Park Row and Broadway.
Every member of the Party is
instructed to drop work if neccs-
sary and participate in this
demonstration.
Organization Department,
District ,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
REVOLT
IS CRUSHED
But Prisoners F g h t
Against Repressive
Laws Grows

AUBURN, N. Y, Dec. II. -
Thousands of state troopers and
armed guards crushed the valiant
revolt of 1,700 goaded prisoners who
were fighting against miserable con-
ditions and refined torture. Eight
were killed and one flunkey guard
lost his life.
The outbreak was the second in
six months in Auburn. 1t again
showed that the spirit of resistance
of the prisoners against the inhu-
man laws of the capitalist class,
which are mainly directed against
the working-class victims, cannot be
squelched by even the most severe
tortures, whose only rival is the in
QUESTION of TorQuemada.
That the outbreaks. in various
prisons in the United States, OF
which the Auburn revolt was the
fifth in one year, are due to the
growing repressive laws of the cap
italist class, is admitted by even
reactionary upholders of the present
system.
DR.. Hastings H. Hart, head of
the Russell Saga Foundation, de-
clared apropos the Auburn riot:
Another inducing cause has been
the fact that hope for the prisoner
has been very largely shut off. He
is no longer able to earn third
of his time off for good behavior.
Then, too, the Parole Board is not
so much inclined today to release
prisoners on parole as they used to
be-"
Vile conditions in the 100 year.
old Auburn den, and rotten food,
were also admitted to be a contrib
uting cause by William Lewis But
cher, member of the New York
State Crime Commission, which is
responsible for the perpetuation of
the indeterminate sentence and
Baumes Laws. Butcher said:
81 have only the same reaction
to this that / had when it hap
pened last Summer; that is, that
society has got to provide proper
sanitation, proper conditions and
proper food"
The revolt in American peniten-
tiaries is not "estricted to Auburn.
1t is an outgrowth of the general
crowding of the jails with broken
down workers, unemployed; and
other victims Of capitalist exploita-
tion and oppression.
On July %, 1900 prisoners in
Clinton Prison at Dannemora, known
as the "Siberia" of New York penal
institutions, revolted and were
crushed.
An outbreak occurred a. ~
eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, on August /.
Another revolt broke out in the
Colorado State Prison at Canon City
Col. This uprising of the mad
dened prisoners broke all records in
the spirit and daring of the revolt
ers against the torture of grating
politicians and vicious capitalist
laws.
With the growing repressive laws,
the prison outbreaks will become
more frequent and severe. Not only
are the capitalists filling the pris-
ons with wrecks of their speed-up
factory system, but more efforts are
being made daily to throw revolu-
tionary fighters into the dungeons
of the master class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13

The strike is led by the Ma
tional Miners Union.
Yesterday Wasson mine, in
Saline County, in the southeastern
part of the state went on strike, and
strikers are maching in force to pull
out the men in Harco,
Coello mine, Franklin County, in
which is West Frankfort, the head
quarters town of the Illinois Dis
trict of the N.M.U., came on strike
yesterday after a successful march
upon it of strikers from other mines.
This demonstration was led by
George Voyzey, Illinois district pres
ident of the National Miners Union.
In retaliation, Voyzey was arrested
at the command of the coal oper-
ators, and is confined in the Buckner
Jail.
Strikers are now marching on
Waller, also in Franklin County.
ditbItE SIGGh oH DtIlhSs
Five hundred marching miners, US
ing caravan of 100 automobiles and
starting from the solidly struck Tay-
lorville area southeast of Springfield,
have swept all Panther Creek sec
tion, including the Panther Greek
Coal Company's mines at Auburn,
out on strike. And the strikers are
proceeding onward to Springfield,
where the Capitol mine is already
striking, and the police are trying to
keep the mass picket line broken up.
In Springfield, where the Fishwick
administration of the UNIV "A, Il
linois district is established in a
palatial office building paid for by
miners money, combined gang of
U.M.W.A. thugs, sheriff's deputies,
state motorcycle policemen, and plain
hired gLnmen from the coal COM
panies are mobilizing this morning
for an attack on the Auburn picket
lines. The motorcycle cops have
orders from the state government 70
sweep the roads clear. The miners
are in no mood to submit quietly to
this assault upon them, or yield to
the state and U.M.W.A. strike break
ing attempt,
Pana Miners Strike.
The workers in the Penwell Coal
Co. mine at Pana, where in 1898 a
desperate battle was fought between
armed strikers and scabs, accom-
panied by gunner, have followed
the militant traditions of their faith
ers, and joined the National Miners
Union, fighting now for the right
to have their own union and livable
conditions and wages, as the miners
fought here before. The mine went
on strike today.
Belleville, Staunton Voting.
Reports received here from the
Belleville and Staunton areas, north
west of here, are that the strike
sentiment is very strong, and that
several mines will probably go out
on strike tonight.
Rumor Troops Withdrawn.
All Christian county, where the
500 state militia are stationed, is
still solidly on strike. The hatred
of the class-conscious miners for
those who have attempted to over
awe them by sending in the militia
and menacing them with machine
guns, and bayonetted rifles, is so
great that the state authorities have
started a rumor they will recall the
troops. They hope that the 1000
U. M. w. A. rank and file miners
who struck when the first soldier
set his foot on mine property will
then go back to work. The troops
have not been withdrawn yet; the
authorities are trying to feel out the
disposition of miners to return to
work first. The N. NJ. U. is con-
fident that all these men will stfk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
Unemployed Force Demands.
Wireless bU I1lprecOrr,

BERLIN, Dec. 12.-Yesterday the
unemployed demonstrated before the
town hall of Berlin to support the
demand of the Communist members
of the City Council that the unem-
ploycd be given assistance to meet
the winter. The capitalist and $50
cialist' members intended to vote
down the proposal, but the sgreat
masses of unemployed in the street
outside caused them to change
their minds and the proposal was
adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 12-Continual spreading
Of the miners strike into the northern coal fields into the
extreme southern part of the state into the historic Pana fields
with marching miners calling out mine after mine the
main news at strike headquarters today The United Mine
Workers of America organizing OF thugs for attack
on the strikers mass picket lines The UMWA cooperates
fully with the sherffs and business mems giane groups
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International
Wireless
News
Communist Deputy Fined.
(TVireless By TnprecOrr)

BRUSSELS, Dec. 12.-The Bel
gian parliamentary authorities have
confiscated the salary of the Com
munist Deputy Jacquemotte, the ed
itor of the "Drapeau Rouge (thc
RED FlagO. The fine is imposed
on the excuse that the paper
charged that the Belgian war minis
try was guilty of culpable negli-
gence in the death of a soldier re-
Gently. Jacquemotte has no prop
ertV.