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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
EXPECT LARGEST
| YWL CONVENTION
Textile Strikers Will
Be Delegates

The Fifth National Convention of
the Young Workers (Communist)
Laegue of America, which opens
April 26, 1929, in New York City,
will be the largest and most repre-
sentative in the history of the
League.
More than 100 delegates will at
tend, including fraternal delegates
from the Communist Youth Leagues
of Canada and Mexico. This will
serve to establish cooperation be-
tween the Canadian, Mexican and
American Leagues and will help in
coordinating the struggle against
American imperialism, the United
States League declares.
There will be fraternal delegates
from many working class youth or
ganizations, youth sections of trade
unions and other fraternal organiza-
tions.
One Of the features Of the con-
vention will be a delegation from
the South, largely of young textile
workers, who have been active in
the recent strikes. This will be the
first time that the South will be
represented at National Commu-
mist Youth Convention.
The list of delegates from the
League districts and from the Com
munist Party follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
MASS PICKETINC
BY CAFETERIA
STRIKERS TODAY
Walkout of Restaurant
Workers Spreads in
Garment District
a National Guardsman.

A mass picketing demonstration
for the noon hour today was the
policy decided upon by the leaders
of the Cafeteria Workers Union as
an answer to the mass arrests of
pickets peacefully marching before
the struck restaurants in the gar
ment district here.
On just what street the mass
picketing demonstration will take
place is not known, but that it. will
be in the ladies' garment district in
the upper thirties, is practically
certain.
Thousands of needle trades work
ers are expected to respond to the
special appeal broadcast by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. The union called on these
workers to assist the cafeteria work
ers, by picketing as we'll as in other
ways.
Twenty applications for settle
ments have been received by the
union. Settlements will begin to-
morrow, the union stated.
Eleven of those arrested Satur-
day were women and girls who were
among the most militant fighters.
Sylvia Weiner, Rose Plotkin and
Gertrude Welsh were all beaten up
by the "private detectives" when
they entered the Traffic, Ccnsoli-
dated and Monroe Cafeterias to
urge the scabs to throw down THEN
aprons and join the ranks of the
strikers. James Alphonse was
seized by the boss and manager anc
knocked unconscious with a bottle
He was later arrested, charged with
assault, and released on $500 bail
The efforts of the strikers were sue.
cessful in spite of this brutality, ane
the crew of the Traffic came out
Saturday morning 100 per cent.
Harry Eisenman and Leonard
Rosen were kidnapped Saturday by
the bosses gangsters and taken tt
the cellar of the Blossom Cafeteria
on 9th st. and beaten. They re
turned later with several othel
strikers and succeeded in taking ou
a majority of the workers on strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
PRESIDENT OF
KAREL|A dies
Nuorteva Helped in
Building Socialism

MOSCOW, April 7-Santeri Nuor-
teva, president of the Karelian Auto
nomous Soviet Republic, has died
suddenly in Leningrad, according to
a report from that city.
Nuorteva, who has been ailing for
some time, was receiving treatment
at clinic in Leningrad when the
end came. The late president had
many friends among the American
workingclass in whose struggles he
took an active part during his resi-
dence in the United States. The
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Repub-
lie was one of the most flourishing
in the Soviet Union, the president
having introduced American tech
nique in the interest Of the workers
in many of the mills and factories.
In Petrovodz, the capital, Nuor-
teva took an active part in the in
stallation of the new power houses
and aided in the construction of a
number of new pulp and paper fac
tories.
When the newest of these factor
les is completed this summer, the
newspapers thruout the Soviet Union
will be definitely freed of import
ing paper from Finland and Sweden,
the present principle sources.
The Karehan Autonomous Soviet
Republic is on the border of Fin
land. It's capital Petrovodz is on
Lake Omega.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
PLAN MAY DAY
ANTI-WAR RALLY
Big Coliseum Is Signed
for Demonstration

May Day this year will be utilized
for mobilization against the immin-
ent war danger, and many thousands
of workers in New York will take
part in the huge mass meeting. The
New York District Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Party has
announced that the Party, together
with left wing trade unions, has
signed a contract for the Coliseum,
at 117th street and Bronx Rixer
Avenue, which seats 10000.
Many militant trade unions al
ready have arranged to participate
in the May Day demonstration,
which assumes especial Importance
this year on account of the inter-
national situation and the prepara-
tions for a new world war.
Preparations are practically COM
pleted for the united front confer
ence of labor organizations at Irving
Plaza Sunday, April IA, beginning at
p. m. This conference will prepare
plans for the May Day demonstra-
ton and for mobiIizing the workers
of New York for this occasion.
All militant labor organizations
which have not already elected dele
gates to this conference are request
| ed fo do SO at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

Textile Workers Union.
The High Shoals plant of the
Manville Jenckes Co., II miles
from here, is to be struck today. A
strike call to the workers in Chad
wick -Hoskins mills in Charlotte
will quickly follow.
Eager to Strike.
Difficulty in holding back the
workers from nearly every mill in
this region until strike machinery is
organized, was reported by Fred E.
Beal, organizer in charge of the
Gastonia strike. The early arrival
of a relief organizer will facilitate
the spreading of the strike, Beal
reports.
More than one hundred mills are
in CASTOR County alone, and many
working in other mill villages here
and in Mecklenburg County have
come into Gastonia to ask the Loray
local of the N. T. w. to organize
them. They joined the union here
and were sent back to organize g
local unit.
The union aims to tie up Is mills
in the next ten days, according tc
Real and Pershing. Well function
ing units are established in these
many plants.
Trouble is expected here tomor
foW, when thasmill and town. author
tiles begin their program of forcibl'
evictions of some workers who hav,
Joined the union. The greatest de
termination to answer this threa
with mass resistance, was expressed
by the strikers all week.
More troops are being prepared
for strike town duty, whether tn
| Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
GROCERY,FRUIT
CLERKS General.
STRIKE TODAY
Mass Meet Unanimous
in Adoption Of Strike
Call Yesterday
Sympathizers to Aid
Demand Abolition of
Slavery Conditions

A general strike of all grocery,
fruit and dairy store clerks, was de-
clared yesterday to take effect at
10 o'clock this morning.
With tremendous enthusiasm, al
most 1000 members of the Retail
Grocery Fruit and Dairy Clerks
Union, assembled at mass meet
ing in Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st.
and Irving Place, yesterday after
noon, unanimously voted into effect
the following strike call:
Call Issued.
Grocery Clerks, Fruit Clerks,
Dairy Clerks!
CAT general meeting of our
union, a general strike was pro-
claimed to take effect this Monday
morning, April 9Th, at 10 a. m.
sharp.
Demands.
"Our main demands are: 81 hours
a week for grocery clerks, 62 hours
for fruit clerks; a 6-day week with
one day of rest; s5 raise in
wages per week. f
Brothers, join our co-nnlittees,
quit work and come to union.
Our demands are just. 7 80 sure
to win!
"The Strike Comnai<<,-cc'
With this call, the horribly ex-
plotted food store workers, who
slave innumerable hours and seven
days a week, will begin fight to
spread the control of their union to
non-union stores, SO that more
bearable conditions csn be forced
from the bosses.
Workers Respond.
That this is easily the biggest
strike movement undertaken by the
union in its Is years of existence
could have been easily seen at the
meeting yesterday. The presence Of
many non-union workers from al
sections of the city, $50 of whom
Immediately joined up, proved thai
the strike call will meet with {
great response.
The workers also received assur
ances of assistance from friendl!
organizations. Juliet Stuart Poynt;
of the international Labor Defense
Kate Gitlow, of the Working Class
Women's Councils and j. ]. Ballan
from the Trade Union Educationa
League, spoke for the organization
they represented and pledged al
aid. Ed Schwartz and Dav
Vacker, union leaders, also spoke.
The Working Glass Women
Councils, in past strikes of thi
union have proven an invaluabl
aid in winning the struggles TO
better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Double the Newsstand Sales Of the Daily Worker!

THE Daily Workers fight against the housing evil
4 of the big problems that haunts the whole working
class, begins in today issue.
This campaign will expose not only the actual condi
tons that prevail in the dsease-breedng frctraps that
the homes of the greater section of the working class
in New York City, with the worst conditions to be found
in Harlem, the center of the Negro population, but will
also review the housing horrors that prevail in practically
every population center in the nation.
This campaign should attract greater numbers of
readers to the Daily Worker than before 1t is the
task of present readers bring this campaign the
attention Of other workers urging them to get the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

Worker the newsstands, to help distribute special
bundles in their neighborhoods.
All workers are urgently requested to write of the
conditions they actually face These letters from worker
tenants will be published part of the campaign Spe
cal viii be devoted to this purpose Only the work
ing class itself viii fight against the housing evils i'm
posed on it, The landlords strongly organized. The
organization of the tenants must be made part of this
campaign. Harlem already has its Harlem Tenants
League This should be strengthened and built into pow
cTful mass organization The Daily Worker win aid in
this direction. 1t give greater help its newsstand
circulation in New York City is doubled during this
pagr ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
BOMB Sent TO
N, Y. Governor

Thomas Calligy, a porter in the
parcel post room of the general post
office, yesterday risked his life to
stamp out the fuse of bomb, be-
lieved to have been mailed by a
lunatic to Governor Roosevelt.
Later police were called, who in
trepidly lifted the now harmless
bomb out of the water and busted
themselves connecting the bomb with
the one which they probably planted,
in the West Thirty-third street sub
way station during the Sacco and
Vanzetti demonstrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
$4,000 Workers Crowd Freiheit Jubilee

clared that the F'reiheit has been the
great instrument in building the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and that the meeting is an
eloquent testimony to the support
which the paper has among the
masses.
Rose Wortis, secretary of the
Joint Board, greeted the meeting
adm pointed out the assistance which
the Freiheit had given the needle
trades workers in their struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

A huge demonstration for the
Communist Party on the occasion
Of the seventh anniversary of the
Freiheit, Jewish Communist daily,
was held Saturday night, when
$4,000 workers filled the big hall Of
the Bronx Coliseum at 177th ST.
Addressing the gathering in the
name of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party and the Daily
Worker, Robert Minor, acting sec
retary of the Communist Party, de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
MOBILIZATION CALL

A meeting of extraordinary i'm
portance for Section 2 and 3, is
called by instruction of the D. E.
c., for Tuesday, April 9th, at 6
p. M, at the Workers Center. All
members of Sections 2 and 8 are
asked to lay all other meetings
aside and be present to this meet
ing.
District Executive Committee,
B. Lipshitz, Acting D. o.,
L. Litvin, organizer Section 2.
H. Bydarian, organizer Section 3.
The District Executive Com
mittee, Dist. 2, calls upon all
unemployed comrades to call at
the District Office, 1928 Union
Square, Monday morning, 9 a. m.
Very important.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Instruct Unemployed
to Report at Center

Unemployed Communist Party
comrades are instructed by the New
York District Executive Committee
to report for important Party work
at the Workers Center, 26 Union
Square, at 8 o'clock this morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Special Textile Page

Today's Worker Correspondence
Page is special page for the tex
tile workers of the United States.
Special distributions of this issue
are being made in all the textile
centers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
SEARTH FOR FLIERS.

SYDNEY, N. S. w, April 5 (U.P.
Intensive search was continued to-
day through the unexplored Drys-
dale River region of Northern Aus
tralia for the missing airplane
Southern Cross and its four occu-
pants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
YOUTH RESTLESS.

PARIS, April U.H.-The cult
Of nudity, one of the outgrowth of
youthful unrest in Europe in early
postwar days, has spread to France,
where boys and girls today in
augurated the nature city on an is
land in the Seine. i !; s.,alsyss d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Daily Worker Exposes Evils of Housing in Harlem;
Show How Negro Workers Are Plundered by Landlords
N. Y. State Commission Admits 1t W1N
DO Nothing for Tenants
BY SOL. AUERBACH.

How is the worker housed?
day the factory in the shop the building opera
digging gangwha the home Hike to which he comes
for rest?
Under what conditions must his wife and children live!
After being exploited industry how he exploited by the
landlords?
What Pay?
The of the factory worker said be about $40
week York City. This that by far the greater
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
MFRCJTRY REtCHFS ss

MERCURY REtCHES So
Yesterday was t.ie hottest April
r on record, with the mercury regis
tering SO degrees at 3:45 p. m. This
vas the hottest April 7 for New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
TEXTILE UNION PLANS TO
TIE Up Is SOUTHERN Mills
in 10 DAYS; STRIKE GROWS
Hundreds from Other Plants Come to LOray
Local to Join Union s.s IL
Workers Plan Resistance to Evictions from
Company Houses, Scheduled for Today

GASTONIA N. c. April PLANS to stop mill production
in and around CASTOR County first step toward general
Southern textile strike almost completed by the National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
u. S. MAY Invade
MEXICAN SOIL
Advance of Federals in
Chihuahua Continues

WASHINGTON, D. c., April T.
American invasion of Mexico to aid
the tool of the American govern
ment, the Gil regime, in finishing
up the reactionary outbreak in the
north appeared probable today.
Sweeping authority has been
placed in the hands of Major GEN
eral William Lassiter, commanding
on the Mexican line, virtually en-
(powering him to invade Mexican ter
ritory if the pretext can be found.
1t has long been thought that it
was the intention of the American
government to help the federals
mop up the remnants of the clerical
forces, once the Gales army had
done the major part of the heavy
work in crushing the outbreak.
10000 Troops Ready.
The state department has de-
clared that the situation chad as
sumed such grave proportions" that
it has ceased to be a problem for
diplomacy" and will now be turned
over to the military forces of the
United States.
Ten thousand troops are under
Lassiter's command and within easy
striking distance of the International
line. Transportation facilities are
present to enable them to be rushed
into Sonora to the aid of the fed
erals ct a few hours notice.
Send u. S. Planes.
NAC0, Sonora. Mexico, April r.
Eighteen fast United States army
rursuit planes were brought into
service to patrol the border today
Casualties Slight.
Casualties suffered on the Amer
f, lean side of the boundary line Sat-
: urday were slight, it was indicated
today. Private John Finizee, Ne
gro of the Tenth Cavalry, still was
in the hospital, but al the others
injured had been dismissed. Finizee
/ was shot when the fire extended
{ across the line.
Z The Mexican reactionaries today
apparently had lifted the siege Of
: Naco after their failure to carry
Nhis base in the second strSng
ground assault Saturday. \, s,Isssa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

TIE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a .Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Umorganized
Fer the 40-Honr Week
For a Labor Party
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-20
WOMEN IN POLITICS

The recent conviction in Pittsburgh OF three women,
active in civic affairs, Of ballot %"stuffing' conceded
with the decennial Of the nineteenth amendment. extend
ing equal suffrage to women.
This case and numerous others involving women In
election frauds revive memories of tho agitation preced-
ing and attending the adoption Of woncns suffrage. The
Immediate effect Of adoption OF the amendment, its
advocates preached, would be to purify politics and cxat
civic ideals. These arguments were so sincerely and
earnestly stressed that many politicians Of the old school
we're apprehensive lest votes for women would render
difficult the familiar ~intrigues by which political power
was acquired.
Ten years Of votes for women have left political NOR
atty much as it was before. Just as womanhood Is on a
par with manhood In honesty and idealisrn. the lady poll.
ticans arc the equal Of men in potential and ACTUAL cor
ruption. Looking backward the old school Of politicians
who feared the women would crab their act may both
chuckle at their fears and feel a little c~hagrincd over
their stupidity and ~gunibilty.
No commission on law observance and enforcement is
needed to determine whether women are by nature more
or less law-abiding than men. We have the female
election crook, besides a great prcpondevancc of women
among s%hopliftcrs, blacknlailcrs and n"oil-commercial
jewclry s~rnugglers. After all. Adams rib isn't far removed
from Adam.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-20

STEAMER CROSSES OCEAN
On June 20. 1879. the first steam
ship succeeded in crossing the At.
lAntic ocean.
This was the Savannah. Of 800
tons, measuring 100 feet in length.
originally built to ply between New
York and Savannah Is Z sailing
packet. She was purchased by Sa-
vannah merchants and fitted with
steam machinery. the paddle wheels
being constructed to fold up and be
laid upon the deck In stormy weather.
Under the command Of Captain
Steven Rogers. this vessel sailed from
Savannah May 20. 1919, but did not
venture on the high seas until the
2Sth Of the month.
She reached Liverpool. England,
June 20. after q voyage Of Is days
during Is Of which she used her pad
dies. OFT Cape Clear she was mis-
taken for Z ship on fire and was pur-
sued BY the British cutter Kite. The
Savannah afterward visited 81.
Petersburg, Copenhagen. Stockholm
and other foreign ports.
Captain Rogers. having failed ia
dispose Of his :Iessel to the king OF
Sweden, started for home and
reached Savannah Nov. 80. ISIS. The
engines and boilers, were afterward
removed end the ship was used Is Z
sailing packet. She was finally
wrecked of the south coast Of Long
Island.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-20
THE NEW

The new department Of commerce building, of which
the cornerstone was recently laid by the president, will be
IN $4,000 900 structure covering three city blocks and
will stand as an inspiring monumen to American COM
merce and industry. But OF far more significance at the
moment is its place as inaugurating the building program
for the New Washington" a long cherished dream Of
the nation.
Completion of the so-called Pennsylvania avenue tri-
angle scheme, which contemplates a huge triangle of new
government buildings and parks having as its three cor
ners the capitol. the white house and the Washington
monument. will 60 far toward realizing the vision OF
Pierre Charles LEnfant. The national capital is destined
to be the worlds most beautiful city.
That LEnfant was no impractical visionary is borne
out by the perfect adaptability OF his wheel" to the pres
ent plans for the glorifcation Of the federal city. The
Pennsylvania avenue triangle would not be possible had
Washington been planned after the manner Of other
cities. Her radical arteries make her not only q unique
city but the city best adapted to modern traffic condi.
lions.
Washington is the greatest moral Of all time In city
planning. Australia, In building her new federal city
needed that moral, and old cities throughout the civil.
lied world are needing its dictates wherever they cut new
traffic arteries. What 4 pity there were not more LIN.
fants when America was built!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-20
HELIUM
New York Times

NNVW XVVk 1lmCS
Announcement has been made of the discovery Of a
natural gas in Utah running as high as TOT per cent in
heltum. II this is confirmed to the satisfaction Of the
government, the United States will be fortunate. Hithcr-
10 the navy has depended upon the CliffSide natural
gas structure in the Panhandle district of Texas for the
helium used in initiating the $500. 900 cubic feet of the
dlrieihle Los Angeles. The hclium content Of the natural
gas found there is only LIS per cent. In November last
the commerce department stated that from the Amarillo.
Texas. source enough helium could be developed to sup
ply the needs OF military dirigibles for some time to
come. That was an optimistic view. in the opinion Of
some of the experts. Recently the bureau Of mines was
Of the opinion that in those rather rare natural gas de-
posts which contain any helium at all, no more than
between ! and 2 per cent Of volume Of the gas can be e.
not had all the helirm that was wanted for cruising. but
in part that may have been due to the process Of ex-
traction.
There has been composition in finding natural gas
with = good heliurn yield. Two years ago such a gas was
reported IN the Dexter. Kan. region. About the same time
lngleWood. Ont. claimed q natural gas as rich In helium
e the product Of Amarillo. But heiium has remained
scarce, and is stil high in cost Of extraction. President
Coolidge In Z message to Congress in january. 1927. said
that the helium produced ct the Fort Worth government
plant had fallen OF 50 per cent. and that the production
e that time was less than halt the quantity required ITO
meet army and navy needs" Nj. Coolidge asked for
$685. 900 to construct additional heuum plants. Evi-
IDENTIFY the non-inflammahle gas, 50 much needed by
military airshtps and the hope Of commercial dirigibles,
. debate in the house. Representative Taber Of New York
stated that the production Of helium was 100000 cubic
feet 2 month, and that the Los Angeles alone required
100000 . year. The government has since been seeking
reserves.
The new Utah deposits are reported to be IN the neigh
b< hood Of Government Helium Reserve No. /. The dis
covery Il said TO have been made after months Of In
further. Through It's counsel. that 1T . not beyond rea-
son that We ooon may locate d supply that will prove IN
cxhaustible and which would b sufficient to supply the
! fine thing for transportation and industry Il 10 til,
Gaze II had 4 so&o BASH.