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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
HUDSON TUBES
FIRE HURTS 3OO;
MOTORMAN DEAD
Defective Fuse Burns
Train at Christopher
Street Station
Police Hustle Crowds
Thousands Caught in
Jam; Some May Die

A Hoboken-bound train in the
Hudson tubes at Christopher st. sta
lion caught fire last night. The fire,
and sitting fumes which choked
hundreds of the 1900 people aboard
the train, resulted in approximately
300 persons being injured, half Of
them seriously.
1t is reported that the motorman
was killed and that several others
will die,
Traffic in the tubes was COM
pletely stopped, causing thousands
to gather in other stations, packed
tight and waiting in vain for their
trains. Some of these were also in
jured by lack of air and crowding.
The Hudson and Manhattan Rail-
way Co., subsidiary of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co., and the Penn
sylvania operate the Hudson tubes,
deep under the river. The trains are
inadequately inspected and the cars
are partly inflammable.
Bad Fuse.
AS near as could be learned in the
confusion a fuse blew out as the
train drew near the Christopher St.
station, which is in Greenwich Vii
iage. The inflammable portions of
one car after another took fire un-
~ .o-,o,o1 x,,,,.o b,,,.,,;,,n
The lights went out on the entire
train. Men struggled to break open
doors and windows. Many were
burned more or less severely, but
still more were bruised and crushed,
and it is feared several Of the in
iured viii die. Many women and a
few children we're reported among
those hurt.
Police Lose Heads.
Police reserves were called and
with the aid of firemen and station
attendants fought the crowds. Some
of the bruised were hit by police
men, who indulged in a panic them
selves.
The tube for a considerable dis
tance on both sides of the Christie
pher St. station filled with smoke
and fumes, which added to the dam
ger and made more difficult the
work of rescue. Several of those
taken to hospitals were said to be
suffering from the effects of the
fumes and gas in the tube.
An hour after the fire, which oc-
CURED at about 6:45 p. M, hospitals
had been unable to determine the
number brought in for treatment.
Most of the injured were taken to
st. Vincent's Hospital, where a
crowd gathered and doctors and
nurses worked amid much confusion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
COMMUNISTS OF
AUSTRIA MEET
Letter from Comintern
Condemns Minority
(Wireless By "Tnpyecorr") }

fWueteSs By "InWec0ff
VIENNA, Feb. 19.-The Seventh
Congress of the Austrian Communist
Party opened two days ago, with
speech by Koepling on the results
of the Sixth Congress Of the Conn.,
murist International and the tasks
of the Austrian Communist Party.
The Executive Committee of the
Communist International sent an
open letter declaring the congress
must begin energetically to carry
out the resolutions of the Sixth
World Congress in regard to Aus
tria, demanding struggle against
the right wing.
The letter of the +. c. C. |. con-
demns the minority right win.ers
gathered around Schlamm, Reiss,
Schoenfelder, and Wegerer. as OPP
portunists and supports the majority
in the Austrian Party.
Beat Right Wing.
The minority is completely de-
feated in the party discussion and
Continued on Page Fire)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
CAP WORKERS IN
OPENF FORUMME

Members in the Capmakers Union,
organized into section of the Trade
Union Educational League to fight
the traitorous policies of their right
wing officialdom. are calling an
open forum meeting of the union
membership in order to discuss the
administrations scandalous mis-
handling of the unemployment in
surance fund. The meeting will be
held at Ukrainian Hall, IS f. Bird
St, Hall Four.
The members will discuss ways
and means for rallying the member
ship to fight against the administra-
ton, for their running of union con-
ditions in the shops thru boss CO.
operation methods and for allowing
the huge fund for the relief of the
'jobless members to evaporate.
Left wingers in the union are also
now asking the officials as to why
the membership hasn't the right to
know why A. Dolinko. who, accord
ing to the other officials, was elected
organizer few days ago, has sud-
denly left his job. Is it because the
once rich organization has become so
impoverished thru "mismanage-
ment' that it doesn't pay the hench-
men of the officialdom much? Or
has his quitting the office something
to do with his being fraudulently
elected. a short time ago? Despite
being defeated by about 100 votes in
the election Dolinko was declared
elected by the administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to Sane the D0iN

Collected by H. Dosik, New
York Ci5y: Harry Dosik,
81; Jael; Tiber, 81; Jack
Herman, 81; M. Rasnow,
Soc; Louis Hechtman, ST..
Louis Cuperstain, 81
Slovak Workers Society, Br.
36, Chicago, Ill. ..........
Jose Perez, Portland, Oregon
Collected by Alex Matsaots,
New York City: Mrs. NJ.
Grove, zoe; H. Jusisans,
25c; M. Roomas, 25c; F.
Bruno. 81; Herjio, 25c; r.
Eckert, soc; James r. Hen
ry, soc; Rachel Crew, soc;
Joe Martin, 25c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
T0sTART MINERS
RELIEF CAMP AIGN
.I.R. Will Launch Big
National Drive Soon

The Workers International Relief
announced yesterday that a nation
wide campaign for the relief of the
destitute coal miners of America will
be launched soon.
The National Office of the w. 1
R., l Union Square, New York City
is in communication with the Gen.
eral Executive Board of the Ma
tional Miners Union, Pittsburgh,
Pa, and has offered that organiza-
ton its active support in the raising
of funds on nationwide basis. II
also intends to bring before the
American working class facts re
lating to the great suffering of the
Continued on Page TWo)
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poets to realize several thousand
dollars for the fund to be used to
unionizc Brooklyn.
The meeting last night held by
the Grocery Clerks Union of Brook
lyn workers was huge success,
with many non-union workers at
tending. When the meeting was
over many had signed up, and paid
the especially reduced initiation fee
Of $3.50, instead of the regular fee
of $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
Clerks Join Union at
Meet; Theatre Party
for B'klyn Strike Fund

The Retail Grocery Fruit and
Dairy Clerks Union. in preparation
of an Organization Fund in its con-
templated drive to organize food
stores IN Brooklyn, is to hold a the
atre benefit in the Jewish Art The
atre, 14th st. and Irving Place, to-
night. The union has hired the en-
tire theatre for the purpose and ex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20

Collected by Bertram Field
man, Bronx: Jacob Weiss,
81; A. Berger, 81; Robert
Marion. 81; N. Howard, 81:
Sam Weiss. 81 .. SOC
800 Cook Young Workers League,
Cook, MINI. ...... 4.2e
1.S6 Ludwig Altsehoff, Reading,
800 Pa. 4OO
Collected by Mrs. f. Collins.
Wilmington, Del: E. Collins.
so; John Volkman, SO; A
Friend, soc ........... 4.5O
Agricultural Nucleus, Petalu-
ma, Calf. ........,.. 400
Comrade Ason, Section 4, Unit
100 Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
CLOAK BOSSES
PAN|CKY over
DRESS STRIKE
Express Fear of New
Union at Assn
Meeting,
Arrest 6 More Pickets
Yellow Forward Froths
at Strike Success

That the employers in the needle
trades openly confess to feeling the
power Of the young Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, because
Of its conduct of a struggle for the
improvement of conditions of the
dressmakers through brilliant
strike, now over two weeks old, was
again made clear yesterday. This
and the six pickets arrested were
two or the most interesting develop
mcnts in the fight of the dressmak-
ers against their employers and
against the socialist company union
yesterday.
The admission this time was made
at a meeting Of the Industrial Coun-
Gil of Cloak Manufacturers, held
Monday night, where the leaders of
the boss association expressed the
fear that the new union may men
ace them when the time comes for
renewing their fake agreements with
the socialist company union.
Fake Agreement.
The fear was expressed after
Samuel Klein, the employers leader,
had made report in which he told
of how the agreement" with the
right wing union had never been
cbeyed and how wages were openly
slashed with socialist permission.
The particular occasion was when
an employer, member of the or
ganization, made the suggestion that
no agreements be signed with min
ority group. He proposed that the
workers be canvassed to see whom
they supported, the left or right
wing union. Since such a canvass
would show overwhelming support
for the new union, the boss was i'm
mediately siieneed by a TRADE from
the association head. He launched
into q frothing denunciation of the
lefts and their "pernicious influ-
ence," and announced that business
can be done only with an A. F. of L.
union, BENJAMIN Schlesinger union.
Six Pickets Arrested.
Although the six strikers arrested
yesterday were released when they
appeared in court, past experience
shows that this is only temporary
letup.
Cases in magistrates courts, in
New York and Brooklyn, resulted in
fines for several and others had
their cases postponed till Feb. "a,
25 and 26. Among them are: Leon
ard Rcsen. Ray Sapperstein, Irving
Hatcher, Sarah Cohen, Louis Bortz
and Alex. Furtenstein.
To date there have been 1000 ar
rests in the bosses efforts to break
the solidarity of the strikers, who
defy this method as well as all 9TH
crs their enemies use in efforts to
destroy their morale.
The rage of the yellow socialist
Forward at The success Of the strike
reached ridiculous level yesterday.
In face of the fact that all the cap
italist evening papers of Monday
were compelled to print the story
of the remarkable demonstration Of
mass picketing, the Forward printed
a story saying that there was no
picketing!"
In an effort to stem the tide of
dress manufacturers who are rush
ing to the office of the strike head
quarters with appeals for settle
ments, the racketeering outfit that
terms itself the Dress Manufactus.
Continued or Page Tro)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20

MOSCOW, Feb. ia special
session of the State Political Ad-
ministration, popularly known as
the Gaypayoo, has decided to cxpel
Trotsky from the Soviet Union be-
cause of anti-Soviet activities. His
family is accompanying him, at his
own wish.
Isvestia, the official organ of the
Soviet Government, declares that the
Trotskyists are now a completely
anti-Soviet organization, with basic
ideas which fight against the Com
lmunist Party of the Soviet Union
and against the Communist Inter
national.
Trotsky, it goes on, carries the
banner of counter-revolution, and
uses the same slogans as the white
guards, as the mensheviks did in
1921, such as the demand for the
secret ballot, etc. The Trotskyists
over-estimate their strength. The
Trotsky group are bankrupt adven-
turers who are consciously conduct
ing counter-revolutionary activity
against the proletarian dictatorship.
1t concludes with the reminder that
in the struggle against Trotskyism
the fight against the right wingers
and conciliators must not be for
gotten.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
IRON WORKERS SEEK
INCREASE

ST. LOUIS, (By MaiD Struc-
tural iron workers here getting S1.50
an hour, demand an increase of 25
cents more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20

Comrades fellOw-wOrkers, sympathizers, you
can see from these amounts that we are travelling
very slowly towards the total needed to wipe out our
debts and overcome the crisis. While last week the
amounts received in day were rarely below $780,
the money received thus far this week shows steady
and menacng decline. You must not work so slowly
you must work up steam. We want to bring this
drive to end as quickly as possible. But we must
bring it to SUCCESSFUL end.
MORE ENERGY, MORE IMPETUS, MORE
FORCE IN THE DRIVE TO SAVE THE DAILY
WORKER!
In reviewing the list of those organizations
which have thus far contributed to the fund we find
hundreds of organizations affiliated and sympathetic
to our movement which did not yet help the Daily
to overcome the crisis. We are depending upon all
classconscious workers organizations to join in the
drive and give us active and energetic support
We also find that the number of individual dOna-
tiOns falls far short of the number of our readers
This means that the readers of the Daily Worker are
not all contributing to the drive to overcome the
crisis. EVERY READER must give donation
large or small Every reader must see his her
in the list of contributors as sign that he has helped
to the Daily Worker.
Comrades, you have by no means done all you
can do in the shops. Do you know that the workers
arrested by the hundreds the picket lines in the
garment district of New York have contributed to
the Daily Worker from their prison cells?
Singing cheering the as set up cry:
SAVE THE DAILY WORKER The pckets digged
pockets and much they could They gave by
In the packed prison of Jefferson they
again set the cry: SAVE THE DAILY WORKER.
again they their pockets.
s361S.
Ii workers strike can do this, the workers in
the shops can do much more. There are hundreds of
shops throughout the country where there are many
workers willing to help the Daily. You must get to
them Comrades. They will be glad to help.
The workers of the Union Square Press sent in
S25 for the Daily Worker. This is the spirit Well,
what do you say, workers in the shops? Let us see
quickly.
Here is letter we received from worker out
in Wichita Kansas:
Dear Comrades l will stretch a point % my
scrpton at this time. the ship
to take advantage of the Big Bills
memoirs
have been reading daily instalments is
stuff" Enclosed find check dollars.
contribute seventy times
Fraternaly,
w. F. KEENY.
EVERYONE TO THE FRONT MORE
ENERGY IN THE DRIVE TO SAVE THE DAILY
WORKER
THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.
Rush all funds to-
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ICAN DAILY STTRVTVE?|
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS
MUST SAVE The DAILY
Comrades:

COmFadeS'
With IS per cent of the collection boxes used in
the New York City tag days for the fund to save the
Daily Worker opened, the total thus far amounts to
only $S19 The fact that the proceeds far below
the amount expected from this source, left the Daily
Worker in critical position.
The donations received since then have been
dangerously low. Yesterday the Daily Worker re-
ceived only S31220.
The receipts from the tag days-up to
last night (Tuesday) are:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
EXPEL TROTSKY
FROM USSR AS
SOVIET ENEMY
Trotskyists Now Are
Completely Anti
Soviet Group
Family With Trotsky
Must Fight on Against
Right Wingers

(This IS the first authentic report
from t1'uSt10orthy sources received
IN this country on the erpulsion of
TrotSky from the territory of the
SOUiet Union. 1t comes by special
rodjogram to the Daily Worker
from the international Press Core
spondence.-EDITOR)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For WorkerS-Farmer Government
To Organize the Unorsanized
For The 40-Honr Week
For Labor Party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13

The United Association Of Journey
men Plumbers and Steamfitters of the
United States and Canada this week
took possession of large quarters on the
fifth floor of the Machinist Building,
8i5 Mount Vernon place, adding ar
other organization to the long list of
national and international associations
having home offices In the National
Capital
The newcomers to Washington moved
here from Chicago. following the leas-
ing of the entire area of the fifth floor
of the building from the Machinists
International Union, owners Of the
property, and location of the headquar-
tiers of the organization here being In
conformity with decision reached at the
convention of the association last Sep
TENDER at Atlantic City.
The association has a five-year lease
with the option of an additional 'flve-
year term. In the quarters are offices
Of John Coefeld, general president OF
the association, who is a vice president
of the American Federation of Labor;
Thomas E. Burke, general secretary and
treasurer, and Frank Kennedy, assistant
secretary. The association has about
0OO0 members in about 900 unions over
the country and in Canada.
The quarters here formerly were &C.
cupied the headquarters of the In
ternational Brotherhood OF Electrical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
DRY LAW VIOLATION
|MPER!|LS LEASE
Realty Board Counsel Warns
Renters of Penalty for
Illicit Liquor Traffic.

ANY violation of the prohibition law
on the part of a renter Immediately en-
ables the owner to cancel his lease, even
If there is nothing in 1t to that effect,
because this provision Is in the Vol
stead act. the National Association OF
Real Estate Boards declares today in its
weekly lesson on subjects having to do
with land.
Does the property owner have to en-
force the prohibition law? asks the as
ISOLATION. YES" says its general colln-
sci, Nathan William MacChesney OF
Chicago. THE law expects the owner
of property to know If tenant makes
moonshine In his cellar or sells liquor
in his parlor. and the discretion of local
courts may paddock private dwellings
sven If the owner did not know what
was going on.
THE law expects property owners to
watch over their holdings SO far as the
Volstead act is concerned. The act en-
beavers to help owners in this situa-
ton by a clause that is little known,
under which lessons are empowered to
compel forfeiture Of leases when this
law is broken"
Operation Of Law Outlined.
In any violation of the prohibition
law TWO HCblOHS Call NC OdhCA, NCAA.
MacChesney points cut. "A criminal
action can be brought against the per-
son guilty of the violation on the basis
that he committed a nuisance, and a
civil case can be brought against the
property itself. Whether one or both
of these actions is taken lies in the
jurisdiction of the local courts. And
in either instance both the owner OF the
property, who may not have actually
known. of the. violation of the law, and
the renter, who did, are held jointly &C
countable.
although the law provides that
structures in which such violations &C.
cur may, in the discretion of the local
courts, be padlocked for a year. the act
also gives the courts some latitude IN
this connection and permits them, also
at their discretion, to allow such prop
critics to be occupied under bond, and
also under the condition that liquor will
not be manufactured or sold in them
from that time on.
When Harsh Penalty Is Incurred.
''The law deals harshly with a person
who has knowledge that liquor is being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
RESTRICTIONS GAIN
IN OWNERS FAVOR
Many Realty Buyers Want
Assurance Homes Will
Be Protected.

Restriction and its corresponding
protection are apparently more and
more the demand of the purchaser of
subdivision lots. IL the statistics on "a
subdivision developments, compiled and
tabulated by Helen Monchow and pub
lished by the Institute for Research IN
Land Economics and Public Utilities.
are to be regarded as showing q fair
indication of the general trend.
The man who buys a subdivision LOT
today looks to 1t carefully to see that
the deed to his lot limits him as to
just what he can build thereon in order
that he may be spared a shack, rae
tory, garage used as residence, or some
other inappropriate building on the lot
adjoining his property or at the corner
of the block, and so that he may be
sure of the color and race of his next
door neighbor, the survey showed.
Reports to Be Issued.
OF the "a developments studied 40 in
clude in their deed restrictions re-
straintS as to alienation and occupancy,
and 80 of these 40 are recent deyelop-
ments; 80 of these restraints are upon
both alienation and occupancy; are
upon alienation alone, and are upon
occupancy alone.
According to the tables in this COM
pilation, which constitutes one OF a
series Of subdivision research mono
graphs now in preparation, which Will
be published by the institute. the most
common period OF duration OF restric-
lions is for 20 years, although in the
most recent development the duration
period tends to cluster about the 80
year mark, on the theory that man
buys his homestead when starting his
career, and that a 33-year restriction
will keep his property desirable as a
home for him during the most active
years of his life. There is one example
of a development in which the restric-
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tons are imposed for q period Of i0l
years, and two other single instances of
SO and 40 year restriction periods. The
shortest duration for restrictions is the
10-year period.
Building Plans Studied.
The most important of the restric-
tons pertaining to the type and use of
structures is that which requires ap-
proval Of building plans. Nearly half of
the developments studied contain such
clauses in their deeds. This type Of
restriction, as are the ones on aliena-
ton and occupancy, Is a new device
whose use is increasing. Setback pro-
visions for the buildings are almost in
yariably among the deed restrictions
Enforcement of restrictions is usually
accomplished through property owners
associations. The usual method of re-
straining violators of restrictions is
through the serving of injunction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13

manufactured or sold on his premises by
a tenant and has taken no steps to stop
it; then, says the Volstead act, such
room, house, building. boat, vehicle,
structure or place shall be subject to a
lien for and may be sold to pay all fines
and costs assessed against the person
guilty of such nuisance for such viola
ton, and any such lien may be enforced
by action in any court having iurisdic-
tion.' In such a case the owner might
lose his property for the payment of
fines for the violation he condoned on
the part of his tenant.
But happily the law never proceeds
in such cases against rented property
without the owners knowledge if he can
be found in the jurisdiction of the
courts. Section SO of the Volstead act
provides that in all cases wherein the
property of any citizen is proceeded
against or wherein judgment affect
ing it might be rendered, and the citi-
zen is not the one who in person vio-
lated the provisions of the law, sum-
mons must be issued in due form and
served personally, if said person is to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13

found within the jurisdiction of the
court
Both the lessee, out of the jurisdic-
ton of the court-say, for instance,
summing himself on the Riviera and
thinking affectionately of the income
from his rented properties-is just out
of luck should his tenants turn boot
leggers. His property can be padlocked
in his absence, though it isn't likely
that it will be unless a local Judge is
particularly mad about the situation.
In all events, the law expects the prop
erty owner either to remain at home
and keep an eye on his tenants or see
that some competent agent does So"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
Rev. w. D. Jarvis to Preach.

Rev. William D. Jarvis will preach at
New Bethel Baptist Church, Ninth. and
S streets, tomorrow at IL am. on Our
Lords Second Appearance to the
Church After His Resurrection" Chris
tan Endeavor Society viii meet In joint
service at Lincoln Temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
SERMONS FOR BAPTlSTS.
Metropolitan Pastor to Preach
Twice Tomorrow.

Pastor John Compton Ball will
preach in the Metropolitan Baptist
Church tomorrow morning on Gods
Ornaments or Adjoining the Doc
trine" A number of new members
will be received into the fellowship Of
the church
In the evening the faculty and stu
dents Of the Columbia Bible Training
School Of this city will be the guests
OF the church and take part in the
service.