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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
u, S.A. AND Great
BRITAIN IN FIGHT
over ANTARCTIC
Aim Of Byrd Flight is
Control of Rich
Coal Fields
Report Oil Discovery
New Step in Direction
of Imperialist War
Report Oil Discovery

Reports that the Antarctic CONT
nent contains valuable deposits of
coal, mica and other minerals, and
probably parolium, has led to an
open struggle between the United
States and Great Britain for posses
sion Of what formerly was generally
regarded as worthless ice fields.
An American note to Great Britain,
which disputes the British claims to
possession of the Antarctic, which
was sent on Nov. 18th, is kept secret,
but knowledge of the conflict and the
real purpose of the Byrd expedition
became public yesterday as Com
mander Byrd made hasty take-off
from his base for a flight to the
South Pole, 800 miles away, and re-
turn.
The coincidence of the flight and
the first publicity about the conflict
with Great Britain show that the
Byrd expedition was sent to the An
tarctic to enable the United States
to lay claims to potential coal and
oil fields by fright of discovery 1t
is thought that this controversy was
discussed by Hoover and Macdonald
at their conference, but no pros
pect for any agreement is in sight.
The Antarctic continent, which is
under dispute between the United
States and Great Britain, contains
more than 100000 square miles.
Coal fields, practically on the sur
face, are reported to be very valu-
able.
In addition to mineral resources,
the waters around the Antarctic are
very valuable for fisheries and whal-
ing.
The American not disputing the
British claims is in "reply" to Brit
ish note sent almost exactly one year
before, on Nov. II, 1928, stating
that the territory to be explored by
Byrd belongs to Great Britain and
intimating that the exploration would
take place with their permission"
The revelation of the struggle over
the Antarctic between the most
powerful imperialist powers, on the
verge of the naval conference in Lon
don, shows one of the many rivalries
for control of resources and markets
leading to new imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
TWO MORE SHOE
SHOPSONSTRIKE
Trial Of As Postponed;
Judge Prejudiced

Two hundred and fifty workers
struck yesterday morning in the
Dan Potter Shoe Shop on w. 26th
ST., and IT'S in the Goldstein shop.
A worker had been told by the Dan
Potter boss to pay $140 for damaged
shoes. The shop crew decided it
vas not his fault, and the boss sue
cumbed. Then he ordered the men
to work Thursday, holiday. They
refused. In revenge yesterday
morning he fired the man he had
wanted to pay the fine, and all
walked out. The workers are or
ganized in the Independent Shoe
Workers Union. They held a meet
ing and sent a committee to de-
mand reinstatement, of the dis
charged man, and the posting of
$4,000 guarantee by the employer
that he would keep his contract.
Tries Stock Deal.
In the Goldstein shop meetings
of the workers were called by the
boss to sell them stock in the COM
pany. The general chairman ad-
vised them they did not have to
buy, and was cursed in the shop.
An argument resulted, and the
workers all came out, held meet
Continued on Page TUo)
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Away with Errors IN Build
ING NeW Trade Union Center

from a minority movement complex,
in some sections to a greater degree
than in others. In the National
Miners Union, National Textile
Workers Union and National Textile
Workers Industrial Union great diff
ficulty is encountered in making the
complete change from a minority to
revolutionary industrial union car
rying on the class struggle under
the leadership of the T.U.U.L. In
the National Industrial Leagues,
District and Local General Leagues,
the difficulty in making this needed
change is even more pronounced
and in order to hasten the process
it is necessary to have frank and
open discussion, in this short article
| am only going to deal in gen.
eral way, pointing out of few
examples, as an incentive for dis
cussion in the columns of the Daily
Worker and Labor Unity.
Quite generally the organizational
connections of all of the sections of
the T.U.U.L. to the National Office
are loose and spasmodic, while it
must be a well knit, cohesive rela-
tionship. Reports, bulletins, minutes
of executive board meetings of both
unions and leagues, find their way
to the National Executive Board of
the T.U.U.L. only in times of trouble
when these sections require assist
ance.
So loose is the relationship that
some sections do not seem to think
that it is obligatory to pay their
per capita tax to the Center. This
organizational looseness is not some
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Socialists of
Austria Agree
with Fascists
(TVireIess BIZ INprecorrj

VIENNA, Nov. 29.-Y Yesterdays
negotiations between the head of
the fascist government, Schober,
and the Austrian socialists, resulted
in complete agreement. The So
cialists agree that the president of
the republic (Schober) have power
alone to proclaim "state of emer-
gency," amounting to martial law,
without the consent of parliament.
that the schools be under federal
government supervision instead of
under municipal control, and that
Vienna lose all it's rights as an in
dependent state within the federal
Austrian government, while retain.
ing merely the title of a state.
This latter matter of retaining
the title of state (the state of
Vienna is ruled by solialist admin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
TRY FRAME-UP
MNL IN orr. .E:ANS !:
FOR CAR BOMBS
Prison 5 in Pittsburgh
48 in Frisco Courts

The ground is now being laid, ac-
cording to news stories in the New
Orleans capitalist press, to railroad
the four organizers of the Marine
Workers League and members Of
the International Labor Defense to
long terms in prison on a framed-up
charge of "dynamiting" New Or
leans street cars, in the street car
strike still on.
In story in the Times-Picayune,
New Orleans) it is stated that po-
lice and federal agents are investi-
eating the connection between the
dynamitings and the organizers"
and states that they have been in
New Orleans since the beginning of
the car strike, although they have
been there only three or four weeks.
"This is an effort to frame-up the
New Orleans organizers just as
Mooney and Billings were framed-up
in California, and numerous other
strike leaders and organizers have
Continued on Page TaO0)
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YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1929
National Metal
Conference OF
TUUL, AbWI5

A national conference of metal
workers to meet in Cleveland, April
5 and 6, and work out plans for
national campaign to organize par
ticularly steel workers, but also all
others in the metal industry, was
announced yesterday by Jack John
stone, national organizer of the
Trade Union Unity League.
Johnstone stated that he was just
returning from a meeting of the
District T.U.U.L. Executive Com
mittee in New Haven, where the
basis is laid for conference of
metal workers in the New Haven
district, at which delegates will be
elected to the Cleveland national
conference.
Other metal workers district CON
ferences are scheduled for the near
future in Pittsburgh, the Chicago
Indiana area, and other places. At
these conferences will be the nation
al organizer, and the secretary of
the T.U.U.L. national metal COM
mittee, Andrew Overgaard.
Textiles, Munitions.
Johnstone reports plans worked
out for an intensive campaign for
7. U. U, L. organization in New
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
IC.FASCIST
BODY aimed
AT WORKERS
| m p lis is, Rich
Farmers and Labor
Fakers Combine
A ct as Government
Building Work Drops
$40; Jobless Grow
A ct as Government

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Out of
the White House crisis conferences
has grown a powerful fascist organ
ization that embraces the United
States Chamber of Commerce, with
200 leading capitalists; the reaction
ary rich farm groups, the Farmers
Union, Farm Federation Bureau, Ma
tional Grange, and the misIeaders Of
labor in the Farmers Equity Union;
the American Federation of Labor
and the railroad brotherhoods.
The leadership of this gigantic
collection of imperialist forces is
vested in the United States Chamber
of Commerce, of which Hoover will
act as the guiding spirit, and julius
H. Barnes, is the organizationaI
head. The first meeting is called
for December 5, in Washington.
1t is the task of this fascist group
to direct the blows against the stand
ard of living of the working class,
to attempt ward off mass unem-
ployment demonstrations, and to en-
deavor to crush militant organiza-
tion of the workers.
Hoover and his cohorts find the
usual democratic" machinery of the
capitalist state inadequate to meet
the onrush of the growing crisis and
home created this new, more facile
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
GastOnia Labor Juror
Sees BOss's Justice
Against Shoe Workers

After sitting through the Gasto-
MIA cases as member of the labor
jury, Henry Buckley visited Judge
Dunn's court to get an insight into
capitalist justice for strikers in the
North.
"The attitude of the judge" said
Buckley, "was vicious towards the
strikers, and was a very good ex-
ampleaof capitalist justice, applied
to workers."
Buckley said, "In many respects,
Judge Dunn's actions reminded me
of the Gastonia case. The capitalist
courts are an instrument of the
bosses in their struggle against the
workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Yellow Labor Union
Gets Court, Police OK

Magistrate Maurice II. Gottlieb
and police Captain Dittmar did
everything but abjectly apologize to
the Union Theological Seminary out
fit. who were distributing leaflets for
the reactionary international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, advertising
a meeting at which daughter of
United States Attorney Charles H.
Tuttle, convert to the social-fas-
cist coterie, spoke.
The yellow trade unions make
strange political bedfellows in their
unity with the bosses, the governor,
the social-fascists, slly-pilots and
daughters of U. S. prosecuting attor-
neys, against the militant needle
trades workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Marion Textile Strike
Case Goes to the Jury;
Lawyers Debate UTW

MARION, N. c., Nov. 29.-The
case of the three Marion strikers,
and A. Hoffman, organizer of the
United Textile Workers Union, all
charged with rioting, went to the
jury at $50 today. The trial lasted
six days, and followed another trial
for rebellion and insurrection," :"
which Judge Cowper dismissed.
The last two days of the rioting
trial were largely filled with the
attorneys statements, which turned
on the advisability of having the U
7. w. as company union in the
Southern textile industry. The mill
owners themselves do not agree on
this point.
Hoffman's case is being more and
more separated from that of the real
strikers, whom Hoffman in his own
testimony accuses of going on strike
without his instructions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
70 Mine LOCALS
READY TO FIGHT
Pana Conference Gains
Workers for n. M. u.

WEST FRANKFORT, Nov. 90
A mass conference of the northern
section of the Illinois coal field was
held on Sunday, November "a, at
Pana, Ill. This conference was call
ed by the National Miners Union to
prepare the miners of this section
for open struggle and strike. The
100 delegates at the conference un-
animously adopted the following
motion:
"That the Pana Conference, re-
presenting the northern section of
the coal fields of Illinois, instruct
all locals of the N.MU. to held
Continued on Page TWc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
By JACK TOMBSTONE
National Organizer T.U.U.L.

1t is to be expected that during
transitory period of changing the
structural form and main tasks of
the T.U.U.L. from that of minority
movement to that of a revolutionary
and authoritative union center that
some confusion would naturally pre-
vail. The T.U.E.L. as a minority
movement, was basically a propa-
ganda organization, working within
the old craft unions and the out of
date structure of the A. F. of L.
1t is now necessary that this OBJ
solete form be discarded and the
industrial form adopted, that the
main emphasis be placed on organ
izing the unorganized in militant
industrial unions. This is not only
true of the T.U.U.L. national indus
trial unions, but equally true of
the various industrial leagues.
Lenin said:
There can be no revolutionary
practice without revolutionary the
ory." This feminist rule of action
has to be applied to everyday tasks.
While we correctly expound the
theory of building revolutionary
unions we continue the practice of
a minority movement. when this is
being done it simply means giving
mouth service to theory while
going into class struggle action in
manner that hinders and blocks the
growth of our revolutionary union
movement.
Overcome Minority" Complex
In all of our activities we suffer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
OTjreieS8 by Iuprecogr)

MOSCOW, Nov. 20. - Com
.menting on the Manchurian sit
uation, the daily organ of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, "Tha Pravda," warns that
the offer of the Mukden (Chang
Hsueh-liang) government to nego-
tiate for settlement of the disputs
arising from the violation of the
Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1924 by
China's seizure Of the Chinese East
ern Railway may be a trap to Sc
cure the withdrawal of Soviet
troops, to gain time and deceive
public opinion while Marking strives
to secure imperialist intervention.
The "Pravda" states that the
greatest vigilance by the Soviet
Union and by the workers of all the
world is still necessary, lest the
present acceptance" of Soviet
terms by Mukden turn out to be
trick only to prepare an armed at
tack Of world imperialism on the
Soviet Union.
The Far Eastern Red Army will
not withdraw from its present posi-
tion until the Mukden government
gives proof Of the honesty it pre-
tends.
Dispatches from China indicate
that the usual imperialist hypocrisy,
with the addition of Chinese mill
tarist trickery, is busy trying to do
two things at once which are aimed
to a final single purpose-the
maneuyerng of the Soviet Union,
and of the world proletariat which
must defend it, into a feeling of Sc
curity, meanwhile a plotris going
forward to make war upon the So
Wet Union. AT Shanghai, the Tass
News Agency, sympathetic to the
Continued on Page Threc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Farmers GlUe
Chickens to
Mil Strikers

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Nov. 29.
Joseph Harrison, president of
Passaic local of the National
Textile Workers, and one of the
GastOnia defendants sentenced to
at TO 20 years." was released
this morning or $4,000 bail pro-
ivded by the |. L. d. He will
speak to meeting of the Leaks
vile Mill strikers this evening.
Those remaining in the Mecklin-
burg County Jail, waiting release
on bail are George Carter and
Clarence Miller.
- x
CHARLOTTE, N. c. Nov. 49,
The workers and farmers in this
showed their support of tht
200 striking Leaksville Woolen Mil
workers by providing them with {
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
Harper and Buckley to
Speak, Harlem Forum

Sol Harper, one of the two Negro
members of the Labor Jury at the
Charlotte, N. c. trial; Fred Beal
and six others, and Henry Buckley
will speak at the regular Sunday
Forum meeting of the Harlem Edu-
tational Forum at 235 w. 129th St.,
Sunday, December list, at p. m.
sharp.
Harper will outline "How to stop
lynching of Negro and white work.
ers in the South"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
MILITANT RAILROAD WORKER
KILLED.

HUBBARD, O.. Nov. 29.-Joseph
Stajduhar, 40, we'll known as a mill
tant among the Jugoslav workers,
was instantly killed while repairing
P. and i. +. freight car at
Youngstown. Company negligence
was the cause. He leaves widow
and six children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
AID GAsTONIA PRISONERS,

MAIDEN, Mass, Nov. 29.-Mili-
tant workers and working class
groups here co-operated to show
their solidarity with the Gastonia
class prisoners, and a collection
made by them netted $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30
War PLOT AGAINST SOVIET
SEEN IN ADMITTED JOINT
NOTE DIVULCED in PARIS
Red Army Will Not Withdraw Until Chinese
Carry Out Pro--ise and Prove Honesty
U. S. Government Lying; Dawes at London in
Secret Deal with Labor Imperialists
BULLETIN

Late yesterday it reported from Paris that the
United States and France had reached agreement to act
in with other imperas powers in sending hostile
note to the Soviet Union 1t is stated that the note has not
been sent yet. What other powers joined in the
threat is not revealed whether Japan of them
not is also dark secret French officials say the note
not sent because of the MukdenSOyet negotiations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

istration) was demanded by the So
cialists to avoid them losing pres
tige.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-30

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR a W0rkerS-FarmerS Government
To Organise The UmOrganized
Against Inperiatist War
For the 40-HonY Week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12

and sidewalk assessments levied under
the old paving law, 1t was voted to di-
rect Mr.. Burnside TO institute suit
in equity designed to collect these as
sessments.
Daniel G. Fahey, jr., Of Riverdale. ex-
pressed the opinion in a letter to coun-
Gil that that town has definite need
for some one to work with members of
the Maryland-Natio Capital Park
and Planning Commission in town
planning work here. He suggested that
such an official might be called super
intendent Of parks and public buildings
and believed that he has the training
to fill such position.
Mr.. Burnside was directed to notify
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad officials
that conditions of Railroad avenue Fave
become "intolerable."
It was voted that the Washington
Railway & Electric Co. be given pernis-
sion to retain its bus tsop signs in
Hyattsville in their present locations
and to place such additional signs as
may be necessary.
DR.. H. T. Willis, mayor, presided over
the meeting, which was attended by
these councilmen: DR.. I. K. Anterior,
G. D. Anderson, George H. Morley,
Harry Boswell, E. M. Cover. Dwight B.
Gait and DR.. Perlev F. Brookens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
DIPLOMAT LECTURES
ON RUMANIAN ART
George Boncesco Tells Bethesda
Club Of Spirit Behind
Works.

The artistic genius of the Rumanian
peasant was pictured by George Bon
cesco, financial counselor of the Ru-
manian legation, in an address today
before members of the Bethesda Club
at Bethesda, Md.
The note of sadness and fatalism
which prevails In the colorful Ru-
manian folklore and music was explained
by Mr.. Boncesco as resulting from the
hardships suffered under foreign in
vaders.
From early Spring to late Fall both
men and women are engaged in field
work and have little or no time for
leisure or any other kind of occupation,
he said. AS soon as Winter sets in the
soul of the Rumanian peasant finds ex-
preston in works of art.
1.-THE younger wives and daughters
turn out colored embroideries. Others
are weaving the cloth, as fine as a
spiders web, or blending the colors and
quaint designs Of wooden rug" Mr..
Boncesco said
1.-THE men are engaged in woodcarv-
ing or making pottery, which in shape,
color and design closely resemble the
ancient Mediterranean pottery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
CAPITOL HEIGHTS
HITS TAX MEASURE
Town Asks Legislators to
Oppose Bill Limiting
Levy Rights.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, February IL
AS an incentive for manufacturing
plants to locate within the town the
mayor and common council last night
unanimously adopted an ordinance
exempting these institutions from the
payment of personal taxes on theil
machinery.
The council addressed a letter tc
State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer, rep
| resenting Prince Georges County, and
| the county members of the lower house
of the Legislature, urging them TO OPP
pose bill introduced by Senator Walter
J. Mitchell of Charles County, which
| would prohibit municipalities from max
| ing assessments against property
within the corporate limits Of towns
| in Prince Georges County. The town
authorities contend that the passage OF
such bill would hamper the towns
| progress.
The council addressed letter to the
county commissioners urging the con-
| struction of about flve-eighthS of mile
of concrete road from Halls Station, in
Queen Anne district, to the Washington
Annapolis Defense highway. Central
| avenue passing through Capitol Heights
now Stops at HANS, ana It's COfnQleClOu
to the Defense Highway would make
the shortest direct route, 1t Is claimed
from Washington to Annapolis.
It was ordered that an electric stop
sign be placed at Sixty-first street and
Central avenue for the protection OF
| school children.
Despite that the Washington Subur-
! ban Sanitary Commission has given
certain property owners in Capitol
Heights permission to connect their
premises with abandoned wells as a
means OF disposing Of sewerage and
waste water, the council passed an order
| that these connections should be dis
penSed with on or before February IS
otherwise the owners would be prose
cuted under the towns health regula-
lions.
The session had Mayor Thomas J.
Luckett presiding, with Henry A. Noel
clerk. Members Of the council attend
ing were Leon Litz, president; Frank
Lawrence, Charles E. Hunt, Joseph
Lare. Harry Snail and Frank Weis-
hacker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Md, February II (Spe-
ciaD John A. Lochte, a native of
Montgomery County, died Sunday in a
Washington hospital, aged 10 years. The
funeral will take place at 8 O'Clock
Thursday morning from the Catholic
church at Bethesda, burial to be in
Rockville Union Cemetery.
MFR. Lochte was son of the late
Andrew Lochte and the last of his
family.
r, Thomas Lowe has instituted suit
In the Circuit Court here for an alb
solute divorce from Mrs. Maize e. Lowe,
also of near Rockville, charging de-
sertion. They have four children.
Arthur e. Theurer, 81. and Miss Helen
M. Bergling, 10, both Of Washington
yesterday afternoon obtained marriage
cense from the clerk Of the Circuit
Court here Z -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
.GLEBE ROAD WORK
FROM PIKE URGED
GlebeWood Citizens Favor
Granting of Permit for
Auth Abattoir.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GLEBEWOOD, Va, February ia
movement to have Glebe road improved
from the Columbia pike toward Ballston
as an alternative for the announcement
that 1t should begin at the Lee high
way was launched at the monthly meet
ing Of the Glebewood Citizens Associa-
ton at the home of its president, o.
Borcherding, last night.
Robert H. Forman, chairman of the
road committee, announced that the
real object had been accomplished at
the meeting of the State Highway Com
mission recently in allocating the
$4,000 from the Lee highway main
tenance fund
I'VE have heard the cry for a cross
county road" Forman declared, land
with the improvement of the road from
the Columbia pike to Ballston, with
slight detour on Wilson boulevard to
Clements avenue, which is concrete
road, will give us an outlet to the Lee
highway"
The association went on record as
indorsing the application of N. Auth
Provision Co. to establish an abattoir in
Arlington County.