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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
SOVIET filters
READY TO HOP
the ALEUTIANS
Heavy Fog Continues
Over Route
(Continned from Pnae Onel

tCoHtlnNed from rage OheJ
Moscow to New York journey, that
between Habarovsk and Petropav-
lovsk and over the the Komandor
Islands, has been completed.
AS the plane, with the exception of
its twin 10000 horsepower motors,
was constructed entirely in Soviet
plants, and as the flight is sponsor
ed by Osoaviakhim Society for Pro-
motion of Aviation and Chemistry,
popular organization with men,
bership of 100000, the Soviet
workers and peasants feel an i'm
mense pride in the achievements of
Chief Pilot Shestakov and his three
companions and believe that the sue
cess of the tour will prove Soviet
planes to be at least the equal of
those produced in other countries.
The airmen are still faced with
many difficulties, as they must fly
over an uncharted air route above
rocky and unknown parts of the
Aleutian Islands, which extend vir-
tually across the entire width of the
Pacific. After stopping at Unalaska,
Seward and Sitka, the flyers will re-
place the pontoons on their plane
with wheels at Seattle, whence they
will set out for San Francisco, Chi
cago and New York.
The Soviet cutter Krasny Vympel
has been delegated to supply fuel to
the Land of the Soviets until it
reaches Dutch Harbor. Eight tons
of spare parts for repairs or re-
placement of broken parts have been
forwarded from the U. S. S. R. to
Seattle, where the greater part of
them will remain, the rest having
been shipped to Dutch Harbor, Sitka
and Seward.
Commander Semyon Shestakov,
Second Pilot Philip Bolotov, Navi-
gator Boris Sterlingov and Mechanic
Dmitry Fufaev left the Moscow air
drome in the first Land of the So
VETS on Aug. 8 and were forced
down during a thick fog in a wild,
region of Siberia, near
Chita, just north of the Manchurian
border. The plane was badly dam
aged, but the flyers escaped I'M
scathed.
On Aug. 80 they made new start
for the United States in a sister ship
Of the Land of the Soviets, arriving
in Khabarovsk on Sept. 3, covering
the 6,805 KIN. in as hours of flying
time, an average speed of $50 KIN.
per hour.
Between Irkutsk ando Verkhneu-
dinsk the plane ran into a driving
gale which pitched it about like
she'll on stormy sea. The noun
famous country and the possibility
Of being forced down in an unknown
territory made the danger of this
comparatively short hop extremely
great.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Are You of Those
Withholding Days
Pay from the Farty
To Every Party Member!

To Every Party Member!
Tho the DAYS PAY assess
ment was decided upon three
months ago there are still thous-
ands of Party members who
have not yet given their DAYS
PAY.
ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE
STILL WITHHOLDING THE
DAYS PAY FROM THE PAR
TY?
The present situation in the
county, the rising tide of strug-
gle of the masses, the success of
the Trade Union Unity League
Convention, the sharpening of the
class strug gle in Gastonia-sure-
ly in such situation every Par
ty member must rally to the
support of the Party in every
respect.
At a time when some of our
comrades are face to face daily
with the open fascist terror of
the capitalist class there should
not be a single Communist who
fails the Party at such a period.
If you have not yet given your
days pay act at once!
1T you have done your duty to
the Party see that every men,
Der of your nucleus does the
same.
Demand of your nucleus Off
Gals an account of all money COL
lected and see that it is for
warded to the National Office
of the Party.
Let your unit insist that the
district shall send all funds COL
lected on the days pay to the
National Office Immediately.
No Party member will be con-
sidered in good standing who has
not secured days pay stamps
either by giving a days pay or
through unemployment per deci.
sions of the nucleus.
Send all money collected to
Communist Party, 43 E. 125th
St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

rs Union Square. Workers wishing
to take part in the Gastonia strike
play, White TRASH" should leave
their names and addresses at the
Workers School.
Central Body, U. c. w. w.
Meets. Thursday, Sept. 26, $40 D.
m, at the Workers Center, 2s Union
Square. Organization secretaries and
G 3. delegates must be present.
Members welcome.
Bronx Y. G. l.. Dance.
The Y. c. L., Upper Bronx, No. Q.
has arranged a dance for Saturday
evening, Sept. 2s, at the Bronx
Workers Center, 1880 wilkins Ave,
The Workers Laboratory Theatre
VIII present a play. Proceeds to the
Gastonia defense and the League
National School. Exposition OF Init.
Esperanto Correspondence: illustra-
tons of the Pioneer Congress viii
be shown. Tickets in advance ~
cents; at door 35 cents.
Wiiliamsburgh !. l.. ID.
An open cir meetinr will he held
Myrtle AYES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
"MADAME X"

A play, Scarlet Pages" on exhi-
bition at the Morosco Theatre, is
described as new American
drama" by it's authors Samuel Ship
man and John B. Hymer. While the
setting is supposed to be New York
the theme is sort of reversed YER
sion of the old French drama,
Madame x" that served long and
faithfully as a tour de force for
transformers. In Madame x" the
climax Is reached when the young
defense attorney discovers that the
forloren bag he has been defending
in court is his own mother. In the
current play at the Morosco Mary
Bancroft elsie Ferguson), a lady
ornament of the legal profession,
discovers at the end of the second
act that the cabaret performer she
has been defending is her own
daughter. Of such clap-trap is the
play constructed.
The lines are equally inane; there
is not one clever moment in the
whole performance. Even the actors,
most of whom have given creditable
performances in the past, simply
grope through their parts.
The audience is asked to believe
that Nora Mason (played by Clare
Luce, an inmate of q cabaret dive,
managed to gouge as much as 5000
week out of male patrons Of the
place and she killed her foster father
when he invaded her bedroom and
displayed what can be mildly de-
scribed as an excess Of fatherly af-
lection.
In the course of the trial, as de-
picted in the second act, a nun from
maternity hospital, produced rec
ords to show that the girls lady
lawyer is really her mother. That's
that!--H.M w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

officially called off. All League
comrades are expected to attend the
Party membership meet at webster
Hall, 18th st. and Fourth Ave.
Unit AT. Section q.
Meets Wednesday, Sept. rs, $50 o.
m, at 253 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, 70
mobilize for the election campaign
and the Gastonia defense.
Section 4 lid Directors.
All unit LID directors of Section
are instructed to report at 143 E,
lO3rd St Wednesday, Sept. 25. .. m.
Init. branch /, Section 8.
p: m. membership at S:3o sharp,
Wednesday, Sept. rs, at the Browns
Vile Youth Center, 122 Osborn st.
Bronx Election Rally Postponed.
The election campaign rally sche-
duled for tonight at Longwood and
Prospect AYES. has been postponed
by the U. C. w. w. New date will
be announced shortly.
Unit 8, section :.
The executive meets Wednesday,
Sept. rs, p. m, at w. 29th St. and
Mermaid Ave, Coney Island. Mem
bership meet at 9 o'clock.
Branch 3. Section s.
The Tenth Plenum of the c. I. will
be discussed at 1890 wilkins Ave.
today at p. m. All comrades well
come.
Unit RI. Section 4.
Meets Wednesday, Sept. rs, 1880 d.
m, at ~ e. 4th st. Executive meets
at sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
| Communist Candidates
At Latin America Ball

Next Saturday evening will be the
first big Red Night in Harlem dur
ing the present election campaign.
The Spanish Bureau of the Commu-
mist Party has arranged Latin
American election campaign rally
and ball that night at Harlem Ca
sino, 10th st. and Lenox Ave,
which, according to the Arrange
ments Committee, promises to be
the greatest Harlem event of the
season. On that night the leading
candidates of the Communist Party
in the next municipal elections, to-
gether with the two Latin American
candidates, Alberto Moreau and
Libertad Narvaez, will make their
official appearance before the work
ers of Harlem, particularly the
workers of the 18th Assembly and
Aldermanic Districts where they are
running. VIM. w. Weinstone, Com
munist candidate for mayor, will
also be there.
Of course, the night will not be
entirely devoted to speeches, and a
nice program of Latin American
dances and songs has been prepared
John Smiths Harlem Devils will
furnish the music for dancing.
Tickets may be secured at the
Workers Bookshop, 1928 Union
Square, at the Spanish Workers
Center, and at the Harlem Progress
sive Youth Club, 1892 Madison Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

closed, and the growing strength of
the National Textile Workers Union
and rallying for the Charlotte Con-
ference, Oct. II, IS, was probably
responsible for Edgerton's sugges-
ton that Southern bosses improve
their Tabor conditions" The ac-
Invites in the mill towns are called
growing palms," and little in
crease in wages, he proposes, will
alleviate them.
The Southern textile workers are
preparing for struggle-this must
be apparent to everybody who goes
into the South--even capitalist re-
porters who write lying reports.
There is no mistaking the mood for
struggle, and the bosses have recog-
nized this-consequently the pro-
posed bone. This will not stem the
rising tide of militancy, textile union
organizers declare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
MELVIN, WELLS
IN PITTSBURGH
Speak, Labor Lyceum
Wednesday Night

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23.-Sophie
Melvin, 19-year-old defendants in the
Gastonia trial, and Ben Wells, or
ganizer of the National Textile
Workers Union, who was beaten by
mob of gunner and mill officials
near Gastonia last week, will be the
main speakers at a Gastonia protest
meeting which will be held Septem-
Der 25, s p. m at the Labor Lyceum,
35 Miller St., Pittsburgh, Pa. The
meeting is being held under the aus
pices of the Gastonia Joint Defense
and Relief Committee. Other speak
ers will be Pat Devine, District Or
ganizer of the Communist Party,
and Sam Herman of the Young
Communist League. Max Salzman,
Pittsburgh Secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, whose head
quarters are at 119 Federal Street,
will preside.
Sophie Melvin, youngest of the de-
PENDANTS in the Gastonia murder
trial, will tell the story Of the trial
as we'll as tell of her experiences in
the Gastonia strike. She was per-
sonally acquainted with Ella May
Virgins, textile striker and mother
of five children who was murdered
last week by gunner Of the mill
bosses.
Wells will tell the story of his ex-
perience in the strike as well as the
story of the kidnapping and beating
of himself and two other union or
ganizers. - -....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Rank and File q. 7. ".
MIWW0ykexs WithNTWU
In S. Carolina Conference

I GREENVILLE, S. c., Sept. 23.-
Over 100 delegates attended the
first conference held by the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union in
Greenville, the textile center of
South Carolina. Delegates from the
Monaghan Mill, Woodside Mill "the
largest mill under one roof in the
United States" Brandon Mill, Poe
Mill, Poinsette and Duneen Mill
were present. A large delegation
from Anderson and Seneca, S. c.,
were there and workers formerly of
the U. T. w. and still in the U.T.W.
were present.
The conference was opened by
Sam Phifer, acting sub-district or
ganizer at Greenville, formerly a
Loray striker, developed into a lead
err through the struggle. For the
union, S. W. Gerson spoke and HUI
bert Carroll, 10 year old Loray
striker
The keynote of all speeches was
organization, struggle against the
streteh-out system, for the eight
hour day, against child labor and
against bosses terrorism, and to up
hold the right of self-defense.
The speakers scored sharply the
murder of Ella May Virgins and
pointed out the necessity for organ
ization of workers defense commit
tees.
In the discussion period the work
ers showed their support of the
N.T.W.U. policy. The following reso-
lutions, quoted in part, were adopted
unanimously, even the U.T.W. work
ers in the conference, voting for
them.
On Organization.
THE textile workers of the South
work under unbearable conditions.
We work II, II and more hours, day
and night shifts. The life-sapping
stretch-out system, makes us work
faster and faster. Our wages are
miserably low. The workers of
South Carolina average s12.65 a
week-when they work all year
around. In short, the bosses have
been steadily pushing US down into
slavery. Pellagra, a disease of NAL
nutrition, disease, the basic cause
of which is low wages, is common
among the southern textile workers.
This is our lot:-the stretch-out,
long hours, low wages, pellagra,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
LABOR NOTES
POLICE IN sCAB ROLE.

SCRANTON, PA.-City detec-
tives are threatening to use violence
on pickets of the butcher workmen's
and transfers union on strike
against the Armour, Cudahy, Swift
and Wilson meat packing companies.
Pickets are being told that the strike
is lost cause and that trough
stuff" will ensue if the pickets do
not cease their activities against the
packers.
Detectives and police motorcycles
have been driving up to the pack
ing plants and taking away choice
rolls of meat. At the Central Labor
Union is is charged that this is their
reward for service to the unfair
firms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Fraternal Organizations

Bronx Gastonia Defense Meet.
All workers organizations are
urged to elect delegates to the Gas
tonia Defense Conference called by
the Bronx I. l.. ID. and w. /. r. for
the evening of Wednesday, Sept. rs,
at 1900 western Road.
Bronx Palestine Lecture.
A lecture on the Arabian uprising
in Palestine will be given Wednes-
day, Sept. rs, sac y. m, at 1851
Weeks Ave. Bronx. under the aus
pieces of Council "a, U. G. w. w.
WflIiamsburgh Palestine Lecture.
Under the auspices of williams
burgh Council 4, u. G. w. W., a lee
ture on the Arabian uprising in Pal
estine will be given at Sc Manhattan
Ave. Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Sept
- at sac y. m.
Section lid Directors.
All unit LID directors of Section
I are instructed to report at 143 r.
lotrd ST. Wednesday, Sept. %, s p. m.
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
Meets every Monday. "Wednesday
and Friday. $3.50 .. m. in Room 6o7,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
BEING SOLD OUT?
PITTSBURGH (By M.

PITTSBURGH (By MaiD. -
Building workers on city jobs who
went out on strike because the union
scale was not being paid were told
by union officials to return pending
further negotiations. Zone hundred
and eighty men struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Wilkes-Barre Workers
to Hail 10thC Communist
Anniversary Sunday

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept. %.
The triumphs of the Communist
Party, especially in the Pennsyl-
vania coal area, from it's inception
to the present time, will be recount
ed by speakers at the Tenth Party
Anniversary Celebration at picnic
at Inmore Park next Sunday.
The event will be held at FOG S.
Main ST., above the Irving Theatre,
at 5 p. ms in case of rain.
An attractive program of enter
tainment will be presented. Speeches
will be given by D. A. German, dis
trict organizer, and William Albert
son, district organizer of the Young
Communist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Dress ShO pChairmen
Will Meet Tomorrow

All shop chairmen of the dress
division of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union should attend
q special meeting which will be held
tomorrow, right after work at the
union headquarters, 16 w. 21st St.
A report will be given on the con-
ditions in the dress industry and
will be followed by q general dis
cussion from the floor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Drug Clerks Organize
Union; State Demands

The New York Drug Clerks
Association changed its name to the
New York Drug Clerks Union at
meeting held at Stuyvesant Ca
sino, 142 Second Ave.
Pointing out that the drug clerks
now work so to 10 hours week,
the union stated that it is fighting
for AZ hour week, recognition Of
the union and job control. The union
also demands a living wage for the
clerks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
Another Injunction.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Westlake
Electric Co. is trying the virtues of
an injunction to get its union cleo
tricians back on the job. The men
quit when the firm violated the
standards for electric installations
set by the Electrical League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
TEXTILE UNION
CONFERENCE TO
PLAN STRATEGY
Strong Demand for
Union in Georgia
Continued from Page One)

tCOnttnheG from rage OneJ
ridiculous yarn, Hugo Oehler said;
"The accusation is another of the
malicious and contemplate lies con-
tinually being spread about the n.
T. W. U. More of them will be in
vented against US. l have denied
about one every day but the brains
Of our class enemies are fertile fac
tories fo- such libelous and baseless
lies. One Of the reporters Of the
capitalist press, Robert Barry, spent
about two days with Major Bull
Wrinkle and the Loray gang and sold
his pen to them, writing a series of
articles in which one classification
followed another. Not one of his
assertions is true as anyone familiar
with the situation well knows. There
is not one newspaper correspondent
in the South that does not know how
maliciously false Barry's statements
are. The figures of the U. S. gov
eminent on wages in the Southern
textile mills gives the lie to Barry;
the average wage of the mill work
ers in the South is $1283, according
to the U. S. Census on Manufac-
turers."
Gets Even Less.
Actually, the average workers,
taken into consideration time lost by
unemployment, sickness, etc, re-
ceives about $40 a week for So to
so hours health-wrecking work. The
North Carolina Bureau of Health re-
Gently stated that pellagra has in
creased amonk mill workers so per
cent during the past six months"
These conditions, Oehler declared,
are rallying the workers of the tex
tils mills to the union, and is max
ing them eager for the struggle to
be concretized at the Charlotte
Conference, Oct. II, IS.
GASTONIA, N. c., Sept. %
With the coming of cold weather
and rain storms, workers living in
the Workers International Relief
tent colony here are suffering great
take proper care of all the black
listed and have been unable to get
jobs here. The National Textile
Workers Union is sending as many
as possible into mills throughout the
five states to carry on agitation and
crganizational wori;.
The relief organization, Caroline
Drew, it's Southern representative
said today, is doing it's utmost to
take proper cars of all the black
listed workers, and is now finding
houses for them as rapidly as pos
sible. The Gastonia Joint Relief
and Defense Committee, so E. 18th
St., N. Y. c., is collecting funds to
help the southern textile workers.
Possibly one outgrowth of the
conference Saturday between Gov
ernor o. Max Gardner, Arthur Dick
son, president of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Assn, John M.
Sport, president of the North Caro-
lima Cotton Manufacturers Assn.
and Stuart M. Kramer, big mill
owner was the letter sent out by
John E. Edgerton of the National
Association of Manufacturers, to
Southern employers.
The situation in the textile fields
was thoroughly discussed, it was dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
STAGE HANDS GAIN.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (By MaiD.-
Organized stage hands, at threat of
going on strike, have gained a wage
increase here of seven and half
per cent. Mon picture operators
stated they would strike with the
stage hands if the wage increase
was refused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
OPEN AIR MEETS

Pier Id at IL noon, speaker, V.
Smith; Pier SO at IL noon, w.
Burke; 26th st. and Madison Ave.
(office workers), at 1910 noon,
speaker, Pollock; Independent Laun-
dry Workers, Herzl and Levonia
Ave-, at 5 p. M, speaker, w. Burke;
Zuker Bakery, 635 Marcy Ave-,
Brooklyn, at $50 p. m, A. F. w.
local 3, speaker, L. Baum.
All meetings off for evening
membership meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
OREGON wIREMEN STRIKE.

SALEM, Ore, (By MaiD.-Or-
ganized electricians here struck for
a wage of so day and the 40-hour
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

Not only has the bourgeoisis
forged the weapons TINT bring
tntO existesce the men who are 10
: WELD those wcapons--the modern
working class--fhe -pfoie "a Itan s.---
Marl Marx (Conmuniat AanifeStol.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

Our own age, the bourgeois age,
f. distinguished by this--thnt II
has simplified class antag0niSms.
More and more, society il splitting
mp into two great hostile camps,
into two great and directly contra
posed classes, bourgeoisie and pro-
letariaf--Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
PENN R.R. GOBBLEs BUS LINES

PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).-
The Pennsylvania Railroad has OBJ
tanned a controlling interest in the
huge Greyhound Bus Lines, it is re-
ported. The Great Northern Rail-
road has sold to the Greyhound it's
Northland Transportation Co., with
$500 miles Of bus lines. Reduced
wages are threatened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

The working cIaSa cannot simply
lay hold OF the reauy-made state
machinery, and WELD IL for Its own
purpose. This new Commune tParis
Commune) breaks the modern state
power.-Mnrx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24
TRUCK DRIVERS ORGANIZE.

ROCKFORD, H., (By MaiD.-
Truck drivers here have organized
into a union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-24

Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises! ...
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-14
Denial OF Higher Car Fares
Should Bring Merger

DENIAL by the Public Utilities Commission Of the appli
- cations Of the Capital Traction and Washington Railway
and Electric Companies for higher fares Enthusiastically
step in the direction of legislative merger of the two
car lines. +"
The street railway companies have two open to
them prompt to the courts the plea that
the denial Of higher fares conscation and of line
with decisions that public utilities entitled to
per cent returns valuation.
The courts are always sensitive pleas of property
fiscation and have the power override the commission
they wish.
Immediate appeal to the courts might bring about long
legal fight however and not the early relief the street rail
ways are seeking and demanding.
The other and sensible for the railways to accept
the decision ana join with the Public Utilities Commission in
getting through Congress merger bill that will permit Of
economies Of operation sufficient to avoid higher fares
The ultimate aim Of the Public Utilities Commission has
BEEN from the first Of merger the influence Of that
body bring it about Its has been consistently
that direction despite the indifference of the railway magnates
and officials These will doubtless the matter in another
light since the decision.
the street railways, the Public Utilities Commission and
the citizens Of Washington will get together upon merger
bin Congress win pass such legislation and that ought to end
t% RanA years y leass demands for higher car fares