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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
70 At CHARLOTTE
lid. CONFERENCE
Cheer Negro Delegate;
Important Decisions

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Dec. 10
Seventy delegates, Negro and white,
from workers organizations and
branches of the International Labor
Defense in Virginia, Georgia, the
Carolinas and Tennessee met
in the Southern Conference of the
I. l.. D. here.
A great ovation was given Ne
gro delegate from Georgia.
The conference elected a delegat>
to the national convention of the
7. L. D., which meets in Pittsburgh,
December 29-31. 1t elected South
ern district executive committee of
%, passed resolutions denouncing
the murder of workers in Haiti, de-
nouncing the Gastonia terror cam
paign and boss class verdict in the
Gastonia case, voted to support the
defense in the Accorsi case, sent
greetings to the Illinois miners and
the Leaksville strikers, demanded
the release of Mooney and Billings,
Centralia boss, Porter, and other
class war prisoners in America, and
passed resolution demanding full
social and political equality for Ne
gro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
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 modifying
all it's 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. HUI,
Leon Plott, G. Green, H. SAFER.
31S Grand st. Brooklyn. Speakers,
j. L. Engdahl, Rose Wortis, j. Will
hanson, Y. Y. Hsu. Hopkinson Man
sions, 428 Hopkinson Ave-, Brook
Ign. Speakers, M. J. Olgin, Otto
Hall, T. P. Hu, Gertrude Welsh. b.
hemian Hall, Second and Woolsey
AYES, Astoria, l.. l." 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 its attacks
on the Soviet Union.
Dozens of organizations will par
tieipate in these demonstrations. At
the Bryant Hall meeting, which
takes place at o'clock instead of
g, as at other demonstrations, lead
ing members of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union VIII
speak also on the organization
movement among the dressmakers
and the false strike of the |. l.. q.
w TT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

the powers except Italy has cruisers
of the ten-inch gun type built or
contemplated.
The total cruisers of the powers in
numbers and tonnage are: United
States, 33 of 300,500 tons; Britain,
81 of 401,791 tons; Japan, 33 Of
206,S15 tons; France, 16 of 130,707
tons and Italy, q of 1871, 041 tons.
Cruisers are a type of craft es-
pecially valuable to imperialist pow
ers to rush aginst rebellious colo
NAL peoples. The cruiser Wright
which was sent against the Haitian
masses is a good example of the use
to which the imperialists put their
cruisers.
All the imperialist powers have
a number of cruisers now in Chinese
waters supporting the reactionaries.
Macdonald rushed a squadron of
cruisers against the revolving Arabs.
And both Macdonald and Stimson
intended to back up their war threat
against the Soviet Union by a squad
ron of cruisers to Manchuria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
SHOE WORKERS
PLAN wide DRIVE
AGAINST BOSSES
Defeat State Aim to
Crush Union

"Organize the unorganized" is
the aim of the drive planned by the
Independent Shoe Workers Union
of Greater New York and announced
at a mobilization meeting called by
the General Strike Committee at
union headquarters last night.
Giving the main committee re-
port, Fred G. Biedenkapp, union
general manager, told how wide
spread protest against the state
move to smash the union because of
it's Communist leadership" forced
representative of the state Labor
Department to deny all knowledge
of the Misunderstanding letter sent by
Conciliator Charles w. Wood to en-
ployers having agreements with the
Independent"
However, while official disclaim-
ers are made, bosses are attempting
to act on the government instruc-
tons. Against these shops the
union is directing it's main activi-
ties and will develop its mass tie-up
through progress made in these
fights.
A membership meeting of the
Ridgewood section will be held to-
morrow at headquarters of the
Mackay strikers at % Porter Ave,
corner Grattan St., Brooklyn, at 2
| p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
.BELL.AS HESS GYP
WORKERS WAGES
BY CRUDE TRICKS
Or 6 anize, Exploited
TOilers Write
On a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
In the November issue of the
"Bellas Hess Worker" shop paper
issued by the workers of the Ma
tional Bellas Hess Company, work
err 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. l don't believe one of us knows
exactly when the week begins
whether on Wednesday, Wednesday
afternoon las the time cards are
being collected on Wednesday after
noon) or Thursday morning. l did
not know when the week begins
until I read the article on this in
the "Bellas Hess Worker" On the
first day of employment the fore
women are not instructed to explain
when the week begins-(or l should
say are instructed not to explain)
they hand over a 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 or 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
paid for only two days. When he
inquired about it the fore-womar
explained that "they probably dc
not pay for Wednesday," and that
Wednesday,, she supposes, goes on
the next week. After working there
for three months he discovered that
the week begins on Thursday morn
ing.
This particularly helps the bosses
as in the busy season they employ
many girls, and when the rush is
off all extra help is fired. Saving
a days wages on several thousand
girls a year is not bad income at
all for the bosses.
This is just another instance
where the bosses are taking advan-
tage of the workers because we are
not organized. The bosses of the
National Bellas Hess Company meet
every week to discuss how to i'm
prove their business and make more
money-the Board of Directors
meets every month to discuss how
to exploit the workers more, how to
make more profits. But the workers
of the National Bellas Hess Com
pany do not meet to discuss their
problems and for this reason do not
know how to run their business.
Fellow workers! Learn from the
bosses. They are organized and for
that reason are strong. Only by
organization will we workers be
able to fight against the treacherous
schemes of the bosses. Organization
is strength!
Workers of the National Bellas
Hess Company! The next number
of the ''Bellas Hess Worker" is now
being prepared. Rush your articles
to the "Bellas Hess Workers." 1928
Union Square, Room 202, in time for
the next issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
peace ANGEL" STIMSON LEADS
FIGHT FOR More WAR CRUISERS
Delegation of Imperiaists Meets in Washington Plan
Struggle For More Amamens at London Naval Conference
WASHINGTON, Dec

WASHINGTON, Dec 12.-The
American delegation to the race-for-
amaments conference to be held in
London, January q, met here to-
day. They mapped out plans for
their fight for bigger, better and
more cruisers. Two meetings were
held under the leadership of the
world-renowned peace angep Hen
ry L. Stimson.
The delegates attending the two
meetings were Henry L. Stimson,
Secretary of State, who is to be
chairman of the delegation; Charles
Francis Adams, Secretary of the
Navy; Senator David A. Reed of
Pennsylvania, Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas and Dwight
w. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico.
Ambassador Morrow was accom-
panied by George Rublee, New York
lawyer, who will go to the London
conference as Mr.. Morrow's personal
adviser.
As pointed out in the Daily Work
er heretofore, the main question to
come up at the London conference
is that of scrapping WORKOUT cruis-
ers and building new ones more ad-
aptable to modern warfare.
The United States militarists want
twenty-one 10000 ton cruisers, and
will not agree on less than eighteen.
The British imperialists insist on
fifteen new cruisers to use against
Hindoo and Arab workers as we'll as
against the Soviet Union. They like
wise insist on cut in U. S. cruisers.
The sharpest fight at the confer
ence will be between the two lead
ing capitalist powers on the number
of cruisers each will add to their
navy.
In cruisers of the eight-inch gun
type the United States has % built,
building and authorized, with ton
mage of 100000; Britain, IS, with a
tnonage of 176,800; Japan, II, with
tonnage of 108,400; France, 6, with
a tonnage of $4,000, and Italy, 6,
with a tonnage Of $4,000, and in adj
dition 2 of the ten-inch gun type,
with tonnage of 1855. None of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Gastonia Verdict Hit
from ClassWar Front
of Australian TOilers

The New South Wales Labor
Council, representing 10000 work
ers, has cabled a protest on the
Gastonia case to Governor o. Max
Gardner, of North Carolina, a let
ter received today from Sydney,
Australia, by the International La
Dor Defense announced.
Inclosed in the letter was pro-
test list signed by many workers.
The letter, from the International
Class War Prisoners Aid of Aus
tralia, declared that the Gastonia
case revived much publicity in the
working class and capitalist press of
Australia. The letter declares also
that due to the big class conflicts
in Australia, over $1,000,000 was
spent in conducting the recent tim
Der strike and the defense of VIC
TINS of police frame-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Win Fight for Hall
in Pittsburgh for
Defense Convention

Refusing to take mo" for an an
swer, the International Labor De-
Tense finally pushed through to vic
tory in the struggle to secure the
North Side Carnegie Music Hall for
a mass meeting Saturday night,
December %, opening the fourth
national convention, lasting three
days. The battle for the hall was
waged against Pittsburgh's most
powerful coal and steel reaction
aries.
Carnegie Music Hall, scene Of
many a struggle between workers
and agents of Andy Mellon for
years, was at first denied the I. L.
D. as a meeting place.
Included among the speakers will
be Yetta Stromberg, 19-year-old
Los Angeles militant, sentenced to
term of one to ten years for VIC
lating the fred flag law; Fred E.
Beal, leader of the Southern textile
strike, whose sentence to 20 years
in prison is being fought by the
l. L. D.; Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor,
beloved battler for labor for many
years; Charlie Guynn, a miner, SEN
fenced to five years for criminal
syndicalism in Ohio yesterday; K. Y.
"Red" Hendryx, sentenced to seven
years in the Gastonia trial; Charles
Frank, Negro worker and member
of the Labor Jury at the Gastonia
trial; Henry Corbishley, militant
Illinois miner, who served several
years in prison as result of the
Ziegler frame-up; Louis Nyman,
president of the Needle Trade Work
ers' Industrial Union; ]. Louis Eng
dahl, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense; Pat
Toohey, secretary of the National
Miners Union, and others.
District conferences, drawing
many delegates from hitherto I'M
reached sections of the working class
continue to be held throughout the
country, leading to the national con-
vention. The successful conference
held last Sunday at Charlotte, and
at Chicago, will be followed this
Sunday by Cleveland, New York
and San Francisco. Philadelphia,
Boston, Seattle, Detroit and other
large centers have already held
their sessions and elected delegates.
In addition to these, conferences
have been held and are continuing
on behalf of Accorsi by the Italian
and other foreign-born workers.
The New York conference last Sun
day will be followed up throughout
Pennsylvania and other sections of
the land.
A mass meeting for Accorsi will
be held in New York at Central
Opera House, December 10, it was
announced today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
TUUL Dance to Help
Get New Headquarters

A dance to aid the Trade Union
Unity League get new headquarters
to enable it to carry on its program
of organizing American workers
along the lines of the class struggle
in revolutionary unions will be held
Saturday, Dec. 81, at Stuyvesant
Casino, 142 Second Ave.
Arranged by the Metropolitan
Area T.U.U.L., the event will be the
first of its kind since the historic
Cleveland Convention.
Greetings from the striking miners
of Illinois will be brought by an
Illinois N.M.U. delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
SUBWAY DICCERS
union IN GAINS
Negroes Join 1t; 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
eminent to tie the men to the job
instead of fighting against scab
wages will be expressed at 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-
ton. 1t was formed by members of
Local 63 of the international Tun-
mel, Compressed Air and Subway
Workers when they split away from
the corrupt A. F. of L. local in pro-
test against its continued sabotage
of the rank and file strike activities.
Sentiment is growing in favor of
the new union, pledged to program
of class struggle instead of class
collaboration" Marcel Scherer, or
ganizer, said yesterday.
"In our campaign we have exposed
the A. F. of L. officials as agents
of the contractors. Our series OF
mass meetings as part of the organ
ization drive will aim especially al
organizing men on Long Island anG
Brooklyn jobs.
"Negro workers are showing 6
particularly lively interest in oul
campaign work." Scherer added
"and they are demonstrating theil
eagerness to wage a united fight
with their white fellow workers il
their service on leading committees
Our headquarters are continually
visited by Negro and white workers
anxious to join up and get behint
the fight.
Four Negro workers will be dele
gates at the Metropolitan Are,
Trade Union Unity League Confer
ence Dec. "a.
The unions demands include rec
ognition, control Of the job condi
tions through councils including
representatives of all workers OF
the job, and these wage scales:
Laborers and muckers, $3.50 6
day; timbermen helpers, So; blast.
ers' helpers, $3.50; carpenters, $13
blasters, SIS.
The men are also fighting foi
abolition of Sunday work, compul.
sorry insurance paid by the city
against accidents and sickness ant
an unemployment fund controlled by
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Fight PrOvocations
on U.S.S.R. at Meet;
Chinese, Russian Talk

James Mo, a Chinese worker, and
K. Radzie, a Russian worker, will
be among speakers at a mass meet
ing Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock, at
Labor Temple, 18th st. and Second
Ave, to protest the American inn
perialist governments intervention
in the Manchurian situation. The
meeting is called by the Friends of
the Soviet Union.
Other speakers will be Robert
W. Dunn, of the Labor Research
Association; Roger Baldwin, of the
American Civil Liberties Union,
and Henry Hunt, ex-mayor of Gin
cinnati, chairman.
A feature of the meeting will be
the film, "The Flight of the Land
of the Soviets."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Labor Athletes Called to Haiti
Demonstration.

The Eastern District of the Labor
Sports Union of America calls upon
all L.S.U. members and workers
sportsmen to actively participate in
the mass demonstration to smash
the attacks of U. S. Imperialism on
Haiti and the U.S.S.R.
The demonstration is to take place
Saturday, Dec. ID at LIS p. M, at
the Federal building, Park Row and
Broadway. Every member Of the
Labor Sports Union must be present
and actively participate.
Eastern District, Labor Sports
Union of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become a
Worker Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Her-
bert c. Lakin, president of the
Cuba Co., which has S170,000,OO0 in
vested in Cuba, and is connected
with the National City Bank of New
York, today testified that he tried
to enlist Latin-American govern
ments to bring pressure to bear on
Washington in favor of the sugar
trusts. Lakin said, Hoover told
Shattuck, who got $4,000 from the
Cuba Co. to enlist Hoover's aid, that
Hoover was very favorable to the
sugar barons. Shattuck got lot
of encouragements from Hoover in
a conversation with the president in
Miami.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

AS far as 1 am concerned, 1 can't
claim to have discovered the ex-
istence of classes in modern society
or their strife against one another.
Middle-class historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles, and political economists
showed the economic physiology of
the classes. 1 have added as IA new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tiOnsi - that the existence of
classes is bound up with certain
phases of material production; -
that the class struggle leads neces-
sar1Iy to the dictatorship of the
rrOletnriat; - that this dictatorship
is hut the transition 80 the abOIi-
ton of NIL classes and 10 the cra-
alton of n society of free and equal.
Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

The international Labor Defense
annual bazaar will be held at Peoples
Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Ave,
Dec 13-14-15. There will be music
dancing, excellent entertainment and
prizes. All workers from the, trade
unions, fraternal or other. working
class Organizations are invited to par
ticipate. For information as to ad-
mittance, tickets, etc, call Interna-
tional Labor Defense, 20 So. Lincoln
St., Seeley 1862.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

A New Years eve dance has been
arranged by the Milwaukee Local of
the ] l.. ID. for Tuesday, December
81, 1929, at Germania Hall, corner
Third and Vine SITS. A good program
has been arranged for the evening
with good music and refreshments
of the 7 L. d. at SO2 w. warer st..
Room 22,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Youngstown Metal workers Affair.

The Youth Section of the Metal
Trades Industrial League of Youngs-
for December ii at Workers Hall, 100
Wick Ave. The program will include
boxing, chain breaking, dancing and
refreshments. Also prominent speak
ers will speak on coming Youth Con-
ference for December % and the or
ganization of the young steel workers.
All steel workers are asked to sup
port and attend this affair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
WASHINGTON.
Dance I'm Seattle.

An entertainment and dance will
be given by the Seattle Working Wo-
mems Council, December 81, at the
Polish Hall. 18th and Madison. for
the Daily Worker benefit. Program
will include Lithuanian chorus. South
Slavic Clrildren's Orchestra, Pioneer
Chorus, Cauca sian dance and music,
and Russian Piroshki.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
CONNECTICUT

New Haven vel Inter-racial Dance.
The New Haven Unit No. 2 of the
Young Communist League will hold
it's first inter-racial dance at the
Masonic Hall. &c Webster ST. on Jan.
II. All workers invited to attend. All
organizations are urged to keep this
date open
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
ILLINOIS
bicago working Women Meet.

All Chicago organizations of work.
ing women and working class house
wives are urged to send delegates to
the annual conference of the Chicago
Plantations, to be held Sunday NOR
ming, December Is, 10 a. m. at the
Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago
Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

The International Labor Defense of
Milwaukee will have its first house
toulouse collection for the Gastonia
and Anti-Terror Drive on Sunday.
December Is and all comrades are to
report at 10 a. m. at the club rooms
of the Fret Arbeiter Club, Eighth and
Walnut SITS, for their supplies and
instructions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
NEW YORK STATE


An entertainment and dance under
League will be held Thursday eve,
Dec 10, at 159 Order ST., Buffalo.
Fine program. good music, refresh
ments. Tickets at the door SO cents,
in advance 40 cents. For the benefit
of the Young Communist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Detroit Workers Forum

To be held Sunday nights at 1880,
Dec. 15.-George Powers-"The Role
of the New Unions in Organizing the
Unorganized." -. -, -. $50.
Dec. 29--Jack Stachel-"Commun
ism, Social Reformism and the Fight
for the Masses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Cleveland Daily Worker Ball

International Costume Ball on New
Years Eve. Tuesday, December 81,
s p, m. till midnight at Public Audi
torium, Lakeside entrance. Prizes.
Thurtson's Novelty Orchestra. Aus
pices Daily Worker and Party Press,
Tickets on sale at Daily Worker of
flee, 2046 E. Fourth ST., and Freiheit
office. 1927 Kinsman Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

The working class cannot simpi,
lay hold OF the reaay-mnde state
m machinery, and WELD II for its own
purpose. This ne-s Commune Pari,
Commune) breaks the modern state
pover.-Murx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Cbicago wIR school Concert

Sunday, December ~, p. m. the
Workers International Relief School
of Applied Arts will hold q grand
concert at the Peoples Auditorium,
Orchestra of Gary, Wyzanskfs Ballet,
and solos by Many@ Mailer. Fred
Glatzer and other artists will be
featured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee "BaIoon Dance"

WIIWNUkee "bHIUOh D"Hce
A Balloon Dance" arranged by the
Young Communist League Sub-Dis-
trict of Wisconsin, will be held Sat,
December II at the South Side Turner
Hall, 473 National Ave-. Milwaukee.
Doors open at p m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Cleveland Press Costume Ball.

New Years Eve the annual costume
ball OF the entire left wing press will
be celebrated at the Public Hall of
Cleveland, Tuesday, December 81, 1923.
Music by fine union orchestra, solos
by members of the orchestra, Valu-
able prizes will be given for the best
costume.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
Chicago Party membership Meet.

A special mobilization membership
meeting of all Party members in Chi
cago will be held Monday, December
Is, s p. M, at the Peoples Auditorium,
2457 w. Chicago Ave. The two main
points on the agenda will be the
Miners Strike in Southern Illinois
and the Party Recruiting Drive.
Every Party member must absolutely
be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14

Build The Daily WOrker-Send
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
OHIO

Cleveland +. 6. u. Celebration.
The Cleveland Friends Of TIE So
viet Union will end its Se.ve ro~ trac-
tor and truck fr~is Tor tho IISS.R
:. celebration at Moose Hall. Dec.