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gro population. Most of the meet
ings were held directly under
Party auspices.
This .was the first time that
mass meetings were held among
Negro workers ON a national scale,
directly under Party auspices.
With few exceptions, the meetings
were quite successful, with large
numbers of Negro workers in at
tendance, and nearly 800 Negroes
signed application blanks for
membership in the Party. We
established a number of Provis-
ional Committees for the Ameri-
can Negro Labor Congress and
made contacts for the distribu-
tion Of the Negro Champion.
Where the Party forces were
mobilized, we had the most sue
cessful meetings, as, for instance,
in Seattle and Buffalo.
The results Of this tour, more
than anything else, are proof of
the fact that not only through
auXiliaries, but also directly, can
the Party appeal to the Negro
workers and organize them imme-
diately into the Party.
The Districts.
Although most of the districts
are still very slow in mobilizing
the Party machinery for actual
work among the Negro workers,
there has been recently decided
improvement. The Party's work
among the Negro masses is being
taken much more seriously now
and an effort is being made to do
something concrete to win the Ne
gro workers for the Party.
The need for a determined eff
fort to carry on a thorough ideo-
logical campaign through the dis
tricts to give the Party member
ship better understanding of the
Negro question is quite evident.
The main obstacle in the way of
the membership participating in
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larger numbers in this work is
their lack of understanding of the
question and methods of approach.
This can only be overcome if they
are acquainted with the facts and
when they are engaged in actual
work.
The recent District Negro Con-
ference, held in New York. at
teded by delegates from units, ac-
tive Negro comrades and white
comrades active in Negro work,
taking up many of the District
problems, was an excellent be-
ginning and indicates the growing
realization of the importance of
this phase of Party work.
We note the efforts made to
build the American Negro Labor
Congress, to help in the formation
OF relief committees, and to aid in
establishing the Negro Champion.
The participation in the recent
mass meeting and conference for
the formation of relief commit
tee held in Cleveland are examples
Of this activity.
At present ten districts have
organized Negro departments,
with one comrade responsible for
the activity of the department in
each district, and in some dis
tricts, like New York, many units
have Negro organizers working in
close cooperation with the de-
partment. In this connection,
the closest cooperation between
the National Negro Department
and that of the districts obtains.
We have at present two District
Negro Organizers, one in New
York, and one in Chicago. The
districts which have shown the
greatest amount of activity and
results recently are Kansas City,
Detroit, Cleveland, Seattle, Chi
cago and New York.
Altho we have had a decided
improvement in the Negro work
recently and our membership has
increased, the Party cannot be
satisfied with the work done. and
the results so far obtained. One
of our greatest shortcomings and
one that must be overcome i'm
mediately is the lack of suffi-
cient number of trained Negro
comrades who can do the proper
organizational and other tasks in
the districts. The development of
strong Negro cadres in all sec
tions Of the country is prerequi-
site to the building of real
movement among the Negro
workers.
The entrance Of Negroes in the
basic industries of the North on
..-- Continued on Pare TtVo)
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EMERGENCY FUND
Latest Contributions IN 'tDaiLy" Dyiue

Clara Rosenblom $1.00... $500
Pauline Shapiro, Bronx, N. Y. 11.00
Chinese Fraction, Workers
Party, city ......., 700
Collected at Hungarian
Workers Singing Society
by B. Weiss, city ..... 600
Sent in by Adolf Korn,
Maimi, Fla-J. Sekiva $4.00
A. Korn S1.00 .....,. 500
B. Kelman, Boston, Mass. :, 500
Joseph Hist, Detroit, Mich :. 500
Alex Klein, Collected by C.
Schwartz, Br. 6, Sec. 5, city 500
Sent in by Louis Kotko,,
Westville, Conn-Louis
Kotko $500,
D. Dalovich S1.00, N. Borisoff
S1.O0, Ban (worker) S1.00 500
Collected by Joseph Reiner,
Continued on Page Three)
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Contributions to the fund to save
the Daily Worker are still coming
in to the office and the total fund
will amount to we'll over $4,000.
Many affairs are still to take place
in various parts of the county and
workers are sending in their con-
tributions, fully conscious Of the
necessity for continued flow of
contributions to continue the fight
against the enemies of the working
class.
Lithuanian Central Bureau,
City ............ l60.12
Collected on a Joint Daily
Worker-Feiheit Drive.
March 3, Los Angeles, Calf $3.50
ent in by Westside Scand
inavian Workers Club,
Chicago, Ill
Westside Scandinavian
Workers Club $500. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11

While the brilliantly successful
campaign for union conditions and
unionism in the dress industry, has
closed its general strike period, the
Dress Department of the Union is
still conducting a determined strug-
gle against many shops, many new
non-union shops having been added
to the few remaining from the gen.
eral strike.
A declaration to the workers in
the industry, which called on them
to come to the Joint Board head
Continued ON Pare TUoJ
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PRAISES NEGRO ARTICLE
Moroccan Congratulate Hall Analysis

Otto Halls descripti>n n of the liv-
ing conditions of the Negro workers
in the industrial centers of the coun-
try which was recently published in
the Daily Worker has brought a
letter of appreciation from Moham-
med Ali Dayen, a French Moor,
whose people have suffered the op-
preston of the French and Spanish
imperialists. The letter follows:
The Daily Worker, ..-A........s..iu-....
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TAILORS SCORE
ACW EXPULSION
Phila. Militant Ousted
By Hillman Clique

| Crowding Irving Plaza Hail to
capacity, hundreds of workers in the
mems cothing industry last Saturday
afternoon demonstrated their pro-
test at the fascist tactics of the re-
dictionary Hillman-Rsman machine
in the Alamgamated Clothing Work
ers Union, where they are beginning
a campaign of terror against pro-
gressive and left wing members.
Resorting to the same acts as al
ways greet the beginnings of any re-
volt against their company-unioniz-
ing policies, Hillman and his thug
boss colleague Risman removed
Anna Fox from her job, because of
her secretaryship of the shop Del
egates Conference. This was a con-
ference Of rank and file representa-
tives from the shops, who met re-
Gently to plan strugge against the
policies of the administration which
have reduced the condit ms of the
workers here to the standards of the
sweat shop.
Other leaders of the rank and file
in the Amalagated nearly all of
who have already paid for their mil
liant activities with expulsion and
loss of menas of livlihood, spoke at
the meeting.
Nina Sirakis, leader among the
I+a1;o,, +a;lors -, Dooboefar xr,ho x.,oc
expelled by the ruthless machine in
control, spoke to the meeting in
Italian, Peter Tim, one time Joint
Board delegate in the Rochester A.
C. w. spoke in Russian. He was
driven out of the organization by the
same gang of traditors. Sam Lip
sin, New York left wing leader, who
was expelled some time ago, spoke
in Yiddish. Nelson, was chairman Of
the meeting. Anna Fox the secretary
of the Executive Committee of the
Shop Delegates Conferenence, the
position which served as the ex-
cuse for the expulsion leader, also
addressed the meeting.
While the meeting was going on
| it was learned that Dominick Flaiani,
one time Italian organizer of the A.
C. w. in Philadelphia, had just been
expelled by the little clique that
claims to be union" in that city.
The excuse used by the gang there
was an article written by Flaiani,
which exposed the corruptionist
machine as having squandered mil
lions of the unions money in fake
Organization drives. Periodically the
PhHillman gang sent henchmen to
Philadelphia to conduct drive. Most
of these "drives" netted not single
union shop, and only a handful of
workers are members of the union,
with conditions in so-called union
shops, as degrading as are the con.
ditions in the outright open shops,
which make up nearly 100 per cent
of the industry in the city.
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Workers in Coobey
Union Rally this Wednesday

In a call to be issued today the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union calls upon its membership to
come to the big mass meeting in
Cooper Union, Eighth st. and
Fourth Ave-, Immediately after
work.
At this meeting, it is stated, the
leaders of the union will deliver a
full report of the accomplishments
of the union in the general strike
in the dress industry, and Of the
preparations afoot for the coming
general strike in the fur industry.
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Robert Minor, editor.

Robert Minor, editor.
Dear Sir:
Kindly allow me space in the most
liberal-minded paper in America -
the Daily Worker---to congratulate
Otto Hall on his wonderful article in
regards to living conditions Of the
Negro in different cities of this
great, accursed, capitalist govern
ment.
Respectfully,
Ricardo Mohammed Ali Dayen,
....4...- "a French Moorl.o ...-..-
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Something else, however. must he
said of the other enemy of BOlshe-
vism in the working class movement.
1t is not sufficiently known abroad
that BOlshevism grew up, formed.
and hardened itself in long years of
struggle against petit-bOurgeOis rev.
OlutiOnism, which resembles. or bor-
rows something from. anarchism.-V.
I. Lenin ('.Lefto COmmunism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11
HOUSING COMMISSION REPORT

MOSCOW (By MaiD.--A little
while ago commission was ap-
pointed by the Moscow Soviet in or
der to work out measures for guar
anteeing class-policy in the hous-
ing problem. This commission has
now concluded it's work and has
communicated its conclusions to the
Moscow Soviet in the form of a
draft of new regulations for hous-
ing. As..-...
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COMMUNIST CONVENTION
CLOSES; ENDORSES OPEN
LETTER OF The COMINTERN
Supports Central Committee of Soviet Union
Against Right Danger
Raises Question of Bukharin's Continuing in
c.. l. Leadership

The Sixth National Convention of the Communist Party
Of the United States to it's close early Sunday morning
after taking momentous decisions among which the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
HUGE CHARLOTTE
DEFENSE MEET

Continued from Page One)
to get richer exploiting workers,
the workers children have to go to
work as soon as they can get a job
with barely enough to live on.
Elizabeth McGinnis told about the
brutality of the Manville Jenckes
crew during the strike leading up to
the raid on the tent colony on June
7. Ethel Hardness and Binnie Green
sang workers songs which were
composed by Ethel and Ella May.
These songs made tremendous ap-
peal to the audience.
Daisy Mcdonald told about the
workers loyalty to the National
Textile Workers Union and how dis
gusted they are with the treachery
of the United Textile Workers I'm
ion. She said that the workers
need the 16 defendants as union or
ganizers to lead the coming strug-
gle for better conditions.
Dunno Speaks.
Bill Dunno indicted the Manville-
Jenckes Company for the murder of
Chief of Police Aderholt. Reading
the letter of F. L. Jenckes to his
superintendent who introduced the
stretchout according to Jenckes HIM
self, robbed the workers at Loray
Of 100000, or 5000 apiece annually.
This stretchout system resulted in
the strike, and Manville-Jenckes then
adopted the method of terrorism
which lead to the raid in which Alder
holt lost his life. The Manville-
Jenckes Company is responsible not
only for the death of Aderholt but
for the hundreds of deaths from the
dread Pellagra that follows starva-
ton.
"The Manville Jenckes Company
sent its hirelings to raid, destroy
and shoot. Their hands are red with
the blood of Aderholt and of men,
women and children whom they SEN
fenced to a living death in the Loray
mill long before the night of June T."
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BRITAIN INCITES
PALESTINE FEUD,
90 KILLED
Labor" Govt Sends
Warships, Troops

Continued from Page One)
streets after 6 o'clock. A rigid CEN
sorship has been clamped on by the
British authorities to prevent the
masses in other parts of Palestine
and the outside world from learning
the true facts.
The ancient Wailing Wall, the
ruin of the second temple, is again
the storm center, British imperial
ism's policy of playing off the
Arabs against the Jews and the
Jews against the Arabs by melting
religious hatred having born bloody
fruit. The large number of dead
and wounded, despite the fact that
only documentary weapons were
used by both sides, is directly at
tributable to the callous behavior of
the authorities, who first allowed
the clashes to get well under way
and then dispatched the police, who
ruthlessly dubbed both Jews, and
Arabs.
The Wailing Wall controversy,
which, judiciously stimulated by the
British authorities, has served to
divide the Jewish and Arab masses
for many years. flared up again at
the beginning of the month, when,
despite protests, the Moslem Su-
preme Council was given permission
to begin building operations near
the ancient ruin. Since that time
there have been sporadic clashes,
eliminating in the bitter street
fighting of Friday and yesterday.
The Arab leaders have found %
no difficult task to incite the Arab
masses, as they have since the Brit
ish occupation of Palestine in 1917
been the victims of one of the most
shameless robberies in history. Out
numbering the Jews more than
seven to one, in a country which
they had inhabited for centuries,
they have been appropriated of great
portions of their land, have been
ruthlessly exploited in field and fac
tory by English and Jewish capital
lists and have suffered under the
insolence and prosecutions of the
British authorities and their Zionist
lackeys. ..
The Communist Party of Pales-
tine, though it is illegal in this
"free land" has issued an appeal to
the Arab and Jewish masses to ig-
more the inflamatory speeches Of
their misleaders and instead to join
forces for a struggle against the
common enemy-British imperialism
and its Jewish and Arab retainers.
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Fraternal Organizations

which the Scandinavian Workers
Club there is holding on Sunday,
Sept. l. Every worker who wishes
to go along should send his name and
address to Bert Carlson, 167 E. Goth
St. New York, All welcome.
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
Final meeting of the Summer Com
mittee takes place 7.3O p. m, Tues
day, Aug. p, at the Workers Center
26 Union Sd, 18th floor. Arrange
ments will be madesfor the opening
Of the 1929-3O season on Sept. 4 and
the presentation of our first play,
white Trash" dealing with the Gas
tonia strike.
Unity Cooperative.
A membership meeting will be held
Monday, Aug. 20, p. m, at 1900 18th
Avenue.
Shoe Workers Picnic.
The Independent Shoe Workers I'm
ion has arranged picnic for Sunday
Sept. !, at Harmony Park, Grasmere,
S. l. Good program; nationally well
known speakers.
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Communist Activities

international Branch.
Meets tonight, $50 p. m, at 1179
Broadway.
Unit 3F, Section 3.
VIII meet Tuesday evening. Aug.
p, at 1l79 Broadway.
Unit IF, Section 3.
Meets $50 tonight at the new sec
ton headquarters, 1179 Broadway,
corner of 2Sth St, for discussion of
the Tenth Plenum representative
of the district will be present.
Unit 4, Section 4.
A very important meeting for the
discussion of the Tenth Plenum the
sis, to be led by a representative of
the district, will be held tonight at
143 E. 103rd St, beginning at p. m
Unit 2, Section 4.
Meets Tuesday, Aug. q. 500 p. M.
at 143 E. 103rd St, for discussion of
the Tenth Plenum. A representative
of the district will be present. All
comrades must attend.
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Graf Makes Hop From
Toxic to California in
Sc Hrs; Tailwinds Aid

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25.
The Graf Zeppelin, carrying a
group OF German and American cap
italists and American naval officers,
was sighted at 6:10 p. M, Pacific
time, at San Francisco, having made
the trip across the Pacific from To-
kio, by a somewhat short northern
route, in about 65 hours. The old
sailing ships used to take as many
days at the best, and the usual time
for steamers is about three weeks.
The Zeppelin took less than three
days in making the first aerial non
stop flight over the Pacific.
This flight was blow at British
prestige by the German airship
manufacturers and their American
allies. The Yep refused to touch at
London. True to the millionaire out
look of his hackers, Captain Eckener
took advantage of the meteorological
and other data generously laid at his
disposal by the Soviet government,
but snubbed u. S. S. r. wireless
operators when they asked for news.
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AFL TO throttle
n, ], CAR STRIKE
Call for Walkout in
TUEL Leaflet
(Continued from Paae Onel

Continued from Page One)
proceed with negotiations without re-
gard to the number of votes cast
at the next ballot-if any are cast
at all.
ct was possible for us TO declare
the vote of 20 per cent constitution
al" Wepner said. The matter of ac-
cepting the votes is left to the "dis-
erection of union officials" he added.
Wepner, who met with his aides of
ten other locals at his office at POT
Main St., made no bones about his
strikebreaking intentions. No strike
may be called without first offering
to arbitrate, he quoted from the by
laws of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric En-
ployees as he waved the constitution
aloft.
A. F. of L. VIII Break Strike.
"If such strike is called, it will
be repudiated by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor" he threatened.
"Repudiatedl" driver sneered
when told of the threat. "The A.
F. of L. does not repudiate strikes
it breaks them" he added.
Wepner's clique tirelessly repeated
the "Red" scare as reports from the
entire state made it clear that the
car and busmen were prepared to
thrust them aside and organize their
own fight for the % per cent raise
and the eight hour day.
The value of the union bureau
crazy to the Public Service was
editorially expressed by the Newark
Ledger yesterday. "a riotous Red
strike can be averted if the unions
follow the sound, sane leadership of
their officers and accept arbitra-
ton"
T. Z. E. L. for Fight.
"They cannot fool us with arbitra-
ton" the T. U. E. L. leaflet. thou
sands of which We're eagerly read
by the workers, states. eve know
that arbitration would mean in prac-
tice-that two representative of
Public Service would choose third
P. S. representative to decide our
fate. It is clear that our reactioriary
officials have been carrying on the
same propaganda and actions against
us as the companies. We refuse to
have our rights gambled away
around the arbitration table.
eve must Immediately organize
rank and file committees in every
car barn, garage and shop and take
the situation into our own hands"
the call declares.
Meeting halls of the Public Service
Employees Section of the 7. U. E. L.,
full use of which has been extended
the carmen in their preparations for
the fight, are at 205 Paterson St.,
Paterson. N. j.; SO BERGER ST., New
ark. N. j.; Is Dayton Ave-, Passaic,
N. j., and 305 Elm ST., Perth Amboy,
n. j..
Expose "Red" Scare.
"Do not let the P. S. companies,
their kept press and the reactlonary
union officials divide our ranks with
the cry of "Reds!" the T. U. E. l..
call urges.
''In fight like ours, every worker
who is not yellow who fights for
his convictions, is dubbed a "Red."
The decisive question for us is: Who
is selling us out and who is fighting
with us? The Trade Union Educa
tional League, the organization of
militant labor, is fighting for u.s."
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Greek Fraction.
A special meeting will be held
Monday, Aug. 26, $50 p. m, at the
Workers Center. &c Union So.
Unit 3F, Section 3.
Will meet Tuesday, Aug. 81, at
1879 Broadway.
Unit 8, Section ..
A special meeting for the discussion
of the Tenth Plenum will be held
Monday, Aug 26, $50 p. M. at the
new Section headquarters, 1879
Broadway, corner of 2Sth St, and
not in the Workers Center as stated
in the letter sent out to members.
Unit IF, Section 6.
Meets to discuss the Tenth Plenum
thesis tonight, $50 p. m, at 46 Ten
eyck ST., Brooklyn.
Unit 1, Section 3.
There will be a discussion of the
Tenth Plenum thesis, led by a repre-
sentative of the district, tonight at
the new section headquarters 1879
Broadway.
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"DISARM W Kite.
GUARDS" DEMAND.
U,S.S.R. WORKERS
Violation of Border Is
Tensing Situation

Continued from Page One)
mater is under serious discussion.
that a sharp ultimatum should be
sent to Marking and Mukden de-
handing within a term of hours
actual steps on the part of these
militarist governments, to restore
joint control of the road stop viola
ton of the boundary and stop tor
ture and imprisonment of Soviet
Union citizens.
PEKING, China, August 25.-The
Chinese militarist officialdom here
is much perturbed by news that
Yen-Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi
province has acquired machinery
with which to establish a huge ar
senal in his territory. Yen has al
ways held aloof from the Marking
government and seems to be draw
ing closer in policy to Feng Yu-
hsiang, who is openly accused of
planning to attack the Chang Kali
shek group in Marking, at the first
opportunity. Feng was the only
outstanding military leader who did
not go through the form of promis-
ing support to Marking when the
seizure over the Chinese Eastern
Railway started.
1t has been learned recently that
Feng is quietly but rapidly buying
for his army and storing in his north
western provinces a huge supply of
ammunition.
BUKDEN, Manchuria, Aug. 25.-
The first consignment of an order
VI 100 French pursuit and bombing
planes, for the government of Chang
Hsueh-liang here. arrived today.
Changes war ministry is known to
De actively negotiating for more war
supplies, suitable for attack on the
Soviet Union.
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uSSR filters OFF
ON WORLD FLIGHT
Resume Moscow N. Y
Tour in New Plane

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 3D.
The four Soviet flyers whose mono
plane crashed during heavy fog
near Chita, Siberia, resumed their
Moscow to New York flight at three
o'clock this morning in new plane,
which like the damaged machine has
two engines of 1900 horsepower and
is known as the Land of the So
viets.
Semyon Shestakoff, crack pilot Of
the Red Army and the Red Fleet.
who in 1927 flew from Moscow to
Toxic and return, said that the
Soviet government proposed to es-
tablish in 1881 an air line between
the U. S. S. R. and the American
west coast as a continuation Of the
trans Siberian service.
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East Hampton Textile
Workers Will Take Up
Wage Cuts Tomorrow

EAST HAMPTON, Mass, Aug.
25.-A mass meeting of the textile
workers of the West Boylston mill
will be held Tuesday at $50 p. m.
on the Common. 1t has been ar
ranged by the National Textile
Workers Union, and i'm Reid, presi-
dent of the union will be among the
speakers.
The meeting will take up the plan
of the West Boylston mill to again
cut the workers wages. Organiza-
ton of the workers to oppose this
cut will be discussed.