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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
HIT MURDER OF
NEGRO YOUTH
Condemn Jim Crowism
at Harlem Meet

Negro and white workers of this
city protested against the brutal
murder of the Negro school boy,
Henry Clarke, at a mass meeting
last night at st. Luke's Hall, 25
w. 130th st.
The speakers were Charles Alex
ander, of the Young Workers
League, R. B. Moore, of the Com
munist Party, Odessa Clarke, moth
er of the dead boy, j. L. Engdahl,
editor of the Daily Worker, Will
llama Burroughs and John Owens, of
the American Negro Labor Con-
gress, Leo Grant, of the Harlem
Inter-racial Club, and Harry Els
man, of the Young Pioneers. Harold
Williams, of the Negro Department
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
FIND RIGHT WING
STOLE Minutes
Unity House Record Is
Suddenly Missing

The lawyer for the corrupt Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union, whose president is Benjamin
Schlesinger, has put his feet in it
again. In court here last week
Julius Portnoy, of the Furriers'
Joint Board, was placed on the stand
and quizzed continually about the
occurrences related in the real min
utes of Unity House, which have
been in possession of Louis B. Bou-
din, attorney for the Needle Trades
Industrial Union.
These minutes are important, for
Morris Hillquit, and the Right wing
in the attempt to take Workers
Unity House away from the workers
introduced fake minutes in the hear
ing last month, and had to retract
them and admit that the Left wing
had the real minutes.
Schlesinger's lawyer, pressing
Portnoy for answers on these min
utes, finally handed him the minute
book which was in evidence in the
court, and asked him to point to
various passages.
1t was then discovered for the
first time by Boudin that the min
utes of March 6, 1925, were missing.
Boudin then stated in court that the
minutes were stolen. The Schlesin-
ger attorney asked who could have
stolen them. Boudin reminded him
that he had sent his office girl over
to copy the minutes, and that she
had been in Boudin's office three
days. He said she could have stolen
them.
But the Right wing attorney, in
stead of growing angry, merely
grinned and remarked, "Why didn't
you watch her?"
Boudin also states that the ele-
vator man in his office building
several times recently, once on April
II and once on April Is, observed
suspicious characters trying to en-
ter or coming out of his empty
office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
THE WORKERS. HOLIDAY
ShoW Solidarity by May Day Greatness

May Day edition of the Daily
Worker! The capitalist press has
its July A and Washington's birth
day editions, but we, the class-con-
scious workers of this country, have
our May Day edition.
The Daily Worker, which today
carries On the militant tradition of
the American working class, out of
whose struggle for the eight-hour
DAY in 1886 arose the international
working class holiday of May Day,
is the only daily paper in the Eng
lish language which has a May Day
edition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Bull DING FAKERS
FAIL TO ACT ON
Workers ATHS
Officials of the Trades
Council, Bricklayers
Remain Silent
Elell Charge Murder
Say Derrick Overloaded
to Double Capacity
Elell Charge Murder

Neither the Building Trades Coun-
Gil nor the officialdom of the
Bricklayers' Union evidently care
about the fact that four building
trades workers were killed last Sat-
urday and IL injured in the col
lapse of an overloaded cable which
dropped three and a half tons of
steel girders down on the workers.
For neither of these organizations,
supposedly representing the inter
ests of the workers, have made any
move towards investigating the
cause Of the disaster, which work
ers yesterday called a murder by
the Western Union Co.
Derrick Overloaded
Workers on the huge skyscraper
construction job at Worth, Thomas
and Church Streets, and firemen
from nearby engine house who an
swered the alarm call yesterday told
the Daily Worker that the real
cause of the death of the four
workers was that the derrick which
collapsed was overloaded to nearly
double its capacity, because the
Western Union Co. had promised
the contractors and subcontractors
on the building a bonus if the job
were completed before the time
cGrced on in the contract.
These workers stated that the
foreman, told to speed the men to
the Limit, ordered two girders to be
hoisted instead of one, thus causing
the derrick to snap and hit a part
c. a ccaffold, killing the bricklayers.
Plan Whitewash
A whiSewash for the contractors
and the Western Union was yester-
Gcy coen with the arraigning of
three of the employees of the con-
tractors on manslaughter charges.
Police Commissioner Whalen ac-
ccptod the company's explanation
that "the blowing out of a fuse" was
the direct cause Of the disaster.
A fireman who aided in the res
cue work scoffcG at this statement,
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

To the left IN tor Major s. B. Doly commander of the
North Carolina National Guard IN Gastond His
being hdraOn and hired gunmen armed Vik revouers rifles and
bdyonets taking their places. With the major Chief Police
o. F. Aderho Who today led attack these ganmn
the picket line and had has thugs bayoue strikers fire
tUo Uys the others. They ercdIy reading strike leaf
let many of Vhich haze been issued during the struggle
To the right is the 0reckage of National
Workers headuarers by masked mob Dh They chopped
all the mill the middle of the night The board
carrying the strike demands Which niamen holding
reads National Tene Workers UnonOur Demands ) Eimi
nation of all piece ork and standard scale. (2)
standard oey for all Worker of $2O 81 Foyhou fv
Ueek ID Abolition of all speeding doubng-up
Equal Oork and youth. 90 Decent
sanitary Corng and housing conditions Immediate installation
baths IN the homes ithou ertG charge to the orkes Screening
all houses Vhout erG charge to the a0orke Repair toilets
mills and houses ~ Reduction of rent and light charges.
funds for relief Workers Relief
Square, Ne10 York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
DAILY WORKER
IN COURT TODAY
Hillquit Fighting to
Cover SWindling

Attorneys for the Daily Worker
and its editors have been called to
court, Part 9, General Sessions of
the Criminal Court, this morning, in
connection with the libel suit of
Morris Hilquit against them for
their. proving that he was connected
with $15O,O0O swindle Of the
needle trades workers.
1t is not known what maneuver
Hillquit, who is so close to the dis
trict attorneys office that he was
able to- get the indictment without
any preliminary examination, may
be trying to carry out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
BERRY, BETRAYER,
IN RAYON STRIKE
Pressmen Union Head
Aids Mill Owners

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, April %.
At the request of Governor Henry
Horton, of Tennessee, Major George
l.. Berry, president of the Inter-
national Printing Pressmen's Union,
has written to the American
Glanzstoff and Bemberg companies
here, stating that he is ready to
settle the strike of the 5000 rayon
workers, which is now in its sec
ond week.
Major Berry is the man who hired
scabs through detective agencies in
us. and Canada and sent them to
break strike in his own union in
New York several years ago. He
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Needle Trades Union Endorses
May Day Rally at Coliseum

In ringing appeal to the needle
workers of New York City, Joseph
Boruchowitz, general manager of the
New York Joint Board of the Needle
Trade Workers Industrial Union,
calls upon the needle workers to
demonstrate their working class
solidarity at the May Day meeting
at the Coliseum, E. 177th st. His
statement, issued today, reads in
part as follows:
May Day, 1929, will assume par
ticular significance for the needle
workers of this cit. This will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

the first day May Day celebrated
by the new Union.
I'm the past we have celebrated
May Day, while still under the heavy
yoke of the Right wing, the Sig
mans, the Schlesingers, the socialist
betrayers of labor.
This year we will demonstrate
on May Day, the fact that we have
once and for all cast aside this
yoke, and have built up for our
selves new union, which will fight
for the interests of the needle work.
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
| 100 TEXTILE STRIKERS WIN in 2 CONNECTICUT Mills

SHELTON, Conn, April 22.-
Over 500 strikers in this city, walk
ing out today in sympathy with 600
on strike against the same company
in Bridgeport, won all their demands
and established their formerly semi
company union, "The Club" as an
independent union in both cities.
The employers, the Blumenthal
Silk Co., cut wages up to so per
cent in Bridgeport some time ago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

The capitalist press gets it's greet
ings from its capitalist supporters in
the form of huge advertisements.
Morgan, Lamont, Vanderbilt and all
the leading exploiters of labor send
their greetings to their press. That
makes it possible for the capitalist
press to run spe jingo editions.
The Daily WorAer must also have
greetings to make It's May Day edi-
ton a success. We can only get
our greetings from our supporters.
That means workers and working
class organizations must send in
Continued on F1ss lFireJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Supreme Court Rejects
Sinclair Plea for New
Contempt Case Trial

WASHINGTON, April % W.D.-
One of Harry Sinclair's few remain
ing chances of evading a three
months Jail sentence for contempt
of the Senate faded today when the
Supreme Court refused him a re-
hearing of the case in which it de-
cided two weeks ago that he was
properly convicted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

for the re-establishment of the
Bridgeport scale before the cut for
both towns.
The strike started today and was
settled with a victory within a few
hours.
Sentiment runs high for the for
nation of a local to include the
members of "The Club" in both
cities and to affiliate to the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Correction

In an article by George Padmore,
entitled Negro Masses and Commu-
nism, published in the Daily Worker
issue Of April II, it is stated, by
error: Green, Woll and John L.
Lewis and other bureaucrats are the
most open opponents of white
chauvinism." This should read:
Most open exponents of white
chauvinism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
MASS MEETING
after ATTACK
DEFIES TERROR
Scabs Deputized; Twice
Attack Picket Line;
Arrest Twenty-Five
Relief Key to Victory
Prevent Two Lexington
Mills Reopening
BULLETIN

GASTONIA, N. c.. April 22.--
Organizer Vera Bush and Amy
Schechter, Workers International
Relief director here, were arrested
today with 20 of the mill strikers.
The charge is not known.
A gang of thugs, led by depu.
ties, broke into the relief station
this afternoon while food was
being distributed to the pickets,
and drove everybody out, stopping
the distribution.
Deputies staged a new assault
on the strikers this evening, and
gangs of deputies are roaming
the streets, slugging and bayo-
netting all they meet. While
Carl Reeve, of the International
Labor Defense, was at the Jail
bailing out striker, deputies at
tackled Legett Blythe, a reporter
for a Charlotte newspaper who
had accompanied Reeve and At
torney Unison. They blackjacked
him and bayonetted him inflicting
a cut at the base of the skull and
other injuries from which he was
still unconscious at a late hour
last right.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

GASTONIA, N. c., April pa
new wave of terror broke loose here
today. The National Guard was
withdrawn and special deputies, con-
sisting for the most part of profess
sional thugs, with revolvers, rifles
and bayonets, were sworn in. The
deputies, welding bayonets, charged
the picket-line this morning, bayon-
cited several strikers and fired two
rounds Of shot. The strikers re-
treated across the railroad tracks,
but the thug deputies were out for
blood. They attacked the defense
less strikers with bayonets and
clubs, brutally beating many of
them, including a woman, Maud
Robinson. Carl Holloway was ar
rested after being beaten and
pricked with bayonet.
Leading the charge was Chief of
Police Adderholt, who declared he
has authority forcibly to prevent all
picketing, and will try to do it.
Beat Up Children.
1t was established that deputy
named Rhodes was responsible for
the brutal beating of Maud Robin
son and also of John Robinson.
Among other victims were R. Ellis,
who was bayonetted, Jack Smith, a
16year-old striker, and Louis Nc
Loughlin, both of whom were beaten
and jabbed with bayonets, and
Frank Pickelsimer, who was beaten.
During the attack the deputies
shouted insults at and punched and
prodded women strikers freely.
News has been received that the
mill bosses are holding meetings of
what scabs they have, and have or
ganized them in squads of twenty.
The scabs are being coached to kill
the pickets, and are today being
sworn in as deputy sheriffs and
| given weapons.
Huge Mass Meeting.
The strikers, so far from being
lntlmidated, came in great numbers
to one of the most enthusiastic mass
meetings this afternoon that has
been held yet, and cheered loudly
the speakers announcement that
the brutal tactics of the deputies
| Continued on Page TVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Instruct C. p. Members
to Get May l Leaflets

Communist Party members are
instructed by the New York District
Office to call Immediately for May
Day Demonstration leaflets and
stickers at the District Office,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Shelton Workers Respond to Call of National
Textile Workers Union and Gain Victory

and the workers there struck. The
National Textile Workers Union is
sued leaflet to the Shelton work
ers, calling on them to show soli-
darity and defend the interests of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Discuss TUEL Meet

The Cleveland Trade Union Unity
Convention will be discussed at a
meeting of Section Two of the Com
munist Party at the Workers Gen.
ter, 26 Union Square, at 6 p. M,
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Warder Quits in City Trust Scandal.

Frank H. Wader state superintendent banking been
charged with undue friendnss with the wnder
City Trust Co.. bankrupt and who as
sound just before failed for 00O00 today He
about to be called witness investigation
collapse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

the workers in both mills. AS re-
suit of the enthusiastic response of
the workers to this appeal, "The
Club" voted to strike for recogni-
ton as an independent union, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Tammany Committee Votes On Chief Today.

The 20 district and ward bosses who make Tammany
executive committee will today
head of Tammany Hail. the political dspenses pa
tronage and contracts for New York City,
Fifth District said to have been decided upon moneyed
terests who pull the strings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Eleven Hurt When Brakes Give on Trolley.

One crowded trolley slipped standing
1S1st ST. and Nicholas Ave. injured
in the hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
Hoover Tells Associated Press More Must Be Jailed

Yesterday Hoover in spent most
that time aorousy informing the luncheon
that people shouldn't break the entire
address appeal for easier convictions
ference with the rights of defendants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

PARIS April 22Thc delegation today asked for an
other meeting of the Dawes plan board experts
sas Perkins and Lament with their
remark last week that Germany
victors took all her rickcst territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23


3class lines.
In the matter of housing, just as
in the whole economic and social
life of capitalist country, the work
ingclass is segregated in the base
ment of society. The answer to the
question: How is the worker housed :?
gives the story of his exploitation.
For when we visit the workers home
we have the concrete evidence of
what his years of toll have brought
him, and what sort of life he can
look forward to after his day of
labor.
Network of Fences.
The story of the growth of city
like New York, with it's network of
class and racial fences, gives a part
OF the story of the development of
capitalism in the United States, from
from its very colonization to i'm
perialism, its last phase of life, with
all the characteristics of brutal
bourgeoisie. The house-fronts of
New York City are actual walls.
Walk thru New York City and you
will Immediately know in whose
territory you are walking. 1t is a
matter of block, in many cases, to
leave so; id worlingclass district
Continued on Page Tpo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
BY SOL AUERBACH
VTTT

ALTHOUGH Negro workers group
country and the most exploited practically
suffers the effect of the prejudice bourgeoe The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23
MORE STOCK GAMBLING.

Realization of the expected ease
ment in the credit situation buoyed
up the Stock Market today and trad
ing picked up in volume, with total
sales above 3,500,O00 shares.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

On May Day-LOng live the al
lance of the working class and
the poor farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-23

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize tbe Umorganized
For The 4O-Hour Week
For Labor Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28

thinking of doing Jak?" George suddenly asked
startling manfuly fighting to avoid the swallowing
a recalcitrant bone from the
Get ioo..." managed to mouth full Georg
continues
working Light Company been since
blooming bed you but
chap starving He finished while gougng his mout
full of the red beans.
Starving thought eating the of swl that
eating could but would darn close refece
unknowng that day would Haiti that would jump
q chance o cat the of swi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28

sault, but charges against all but
ten were dropped. Attempts were
made to frame these ten on murder
charges, but so feeble was the evi-
dence that the charges were changed
to melting to riot, disorderly con-
duct, etc. They are still to come
to trial and are being defended by
the International Labor Defense.
The arrest two years later of Ac-
corisi, who was not even present at
the demonstration, but was at his
home four miles from Cheswick, is
an effort to find scapegoat at any
cost. The methods of the capitalist
police are well known in such cases
and it is feared that if he is ex-
tradited to Pennsylvania, Accorisi
win be put through the brutal third
degree in an effort to extort a "con-
fession"
The International Labor Defense
is planning to wage a vigorous fight
to smash this new frameup of mil
liant worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28
Luther" at the Little
Carnegie Playhouse

Beginni-C today the Little Car
negie Playhouse will present the
American Premiere of Luther" a
film of the reformation roriod, on
the life of Martin Luther.
1t was produced by Cob-Film, Ber-
lin, and enacted by cast of we'll
known European artists with Eugene
Kloopfer in the title role. The direc-
tor and scenarist is Hans Kysor.
A special accompanying music
score has been arranged from the
music of Wagner, Gluc',, Bach and
original L u t h e ran hymns and
chorals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28
"A IA us = "a ~ rs
ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS
ARE APPEARING ABROAD

S. Hurok, manager for the Duncan
Dancers who is now in Europe, has
arranged an appearance of the Isa-
dora Duncan Dancers in Paris on
July 2. After this performance the
well-known Russian artists will make
a short tour of France, Belgium and
Italy. The Isadora Duncan Dancers
return to this country for second
tour in October, opening in New
York in Carnegie Hall with four
performances.
Hurok, also cables his office that
he has just signed contract with
Askudaro, the noted Spanish dancer.
He may be seen here early next
season. i+ '
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28
GOVERNOR BACKS
ExTRADITION OF
FRAMED WORKER
New Cheswick Victim
Charged With Murder

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
ALBANY, N. Y, June 27.-The
new 'Cheswick frame-up, in which
an innocent worker is being charged
with murder, was given a great
thrust forward today by Governor
Roosevelt when he held effective the
oStradition papers issued for Sal
vatore Accorisi. Accorisi is now in
Staten Island jail, having been ar
rested on the report of an officer
as the person who fired the shot
that killed state trooper Holt dur.
ing Sacco-Vanzetti demonstra-
ton in Cheswiclz, Pa. Aug. %, 1927.
Governor Roosevelt, getting his tip
firm the state of Pennsylvania, re-
fused to hear the two witnesses for
the defense who appeared before
him. Despite the proofs advanced
by Isaac Shorr, attorney for the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, which is fight
ing the extradition of Accorisi, he
decided to uphold the extradition and
adjourned the hearing to permit the
district attorney to submit corrected
papers.
The Cheswick cases are the after
math of brutal onslaught on Sac
CO. Vanzetti demonstration in Ches-
wick, a Pennsylvania mining town,
by state troopers, who ruthlessly
rode down and slugged men, women
end children. State trooper Holt
was killed by a shot fired by an Tn
known hand. A large number of
workers were arrested after the as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28

as a weapon against the workers.
Over 1000 workers were sentenced
under it during the 1924-25 period
to long prison terms. 1t is needed
especially now, that German work
ers are beginning to GUST socialists
from trade union positions and to
demonstrate against suppression of
the Red Front Fighters League and
imperialist war. Zoergiebel, the So
cial democratic chief of police of
Berlin needs it as a legal backing
for new massacras of the workers
like the May Day blood bath he pre-
rared this year.
No Two-Thirda Majority.
The motion to extend the claw
for the protection of the republic"
was made by social democratic
deputy. The most vigorous speakers
for its extension were socialists.
The vote was 263 for extension
of the law to 1G6 against it. with
WV IJ9NllLSs DuG SIGEp was not q
two-thirds majority as required for
passage.
On announcement of the defeat
the socialists Kissed. For a moment
there was danger Of an exchange
of blows between Professor Bredt.
the economic party leader, and
Deputy Breitgcheid, the socialist
chief.
The government announced that a
new law with the same aim as the
defeated one will be introduced later.
Hindenburg Denies War Guilt.
A government manifesto, denying
absolutely that Germany bears "sole
guilt" for the world war and signed
| by President Paul Won Hindenburg
and members of the cabinet, was is
sued tonight in connection with the
10Th anniversary of the signing Of
the Versailles peace treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28
Harlem Progressing Youth Club.

summer dance will lie held to-
morrow night at headquarters Mt 1892
Madison Ave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28

be given in Russian, Polish, English,
and Ukrainian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-28
FAII.
TO PASS GERMAn
"SEDITION" LAW
Hindenburg Statement
Denies War Guilt

BERLIN, June 27. - The social
democratic party failed today to get
through its proposed extension for
three years time Of the infamous
claw for the protection Of the re-
public"
The socialists had participated in
a bloc with several other and re-
dictionary parties to pass this legis-
lation, which has been very useful