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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-24
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

The New York Building Trades
Employers Association on May ID
called off its lockout of $4,000 work
ers ordered for May Is, following the
issuing Of temporary injunction by
Supreme Court Justice Gavegan re-
straining the association. its officers
and members from making the lock-
out order effective.
The senate on May ID passed the
farm relief bill, containing the export
debenture plan, by vote of sd to 33.
American prosperity, which for the
last seven years has been splendid
beyond all human experience" will be
even greater in the future if the eco
nomic balance between production and
consuming power can be maintained,
IN the opinion of President Hoover's
committee on recent econmic
changes, which issued complete re-
port made public on May IA.
Thirty thousand union carpenters of
Chicago won sweeping victory on
May 10 by the signing of two-yea1
contract increasing their wages and
conceding the right of the union to
strike Il non-union men of any build
ing trade are employed by any mem
Der of the Builders Association.
Secretary of Commerce Lamont an
nounced on May 13 that the total
value of American exports for the
four months ending with April was
S1,846,658, 900, an increase of 17.9 per
cent over the same period last year.
The Tennessee Federation of Labor
meeting in convention at Knoxville
on May Is asked Governor Horton to
call a conference of the employers
and textile plant strikers for the pur-
pose of adjusting any misunder-
standing that prevents a peaceful set
tiement" of the Elizabethton textile
strike.
The miners at Rosario mine, near
San Juancito, in the department Oh
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, recently went
on strike with the demand that the
company operating the property in
stall wet machine drills in the slopes
formerly worked with dry drills. The
dust from the dry drills was causing
tuberculosis among the miners.
Col Herbert H. Lehman, acting
governor of New York, resigned or
April Is as director of the American
Glanzstof Corporation and the Amer
ican Bemberg Corporation of Eliza
bethton, Tenn, textile manufacturers
because he did not approve of the
handling of the strike in Elizabeth
ton "by force or by show of force,
the New York Times announced OF
May IS.
Judicial Judges are bringing tn,
entire judicial system into contemp
and are substituting government by
men for government by law, Senator
Henrik Shipstead, of Minnesota
charges in the June issue of PLAIN
Talk.
Four workmen were killed and :
dozen hurt by series of explosions
of the factory in protest against fines
and other obnoxious regulations.
Six years later 800 Dover women mil
workers formed a union, went OF
strike and resisted for some time
wage reduction, monthly payment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-24

of the factory in protest against fines
and other obnoxious regulations. ;"
Six years later 800 Dover women mill
workers formed union, went on
strike and resisted for some time a
wage reduction, monthly payments
and "exasperating rules"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-24

half for overtime, no work with pay
for legal holidays, and where work
is done in an emergency on these
days double wages shall be paid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-24

"The alternative of centralization
is cooperation" said Roscoe Pound.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-24

Q.--What is the National Women's
Trade Union League of America?
A federation of trades unions
with women members and supple
mentary membership of persons who
indorse its principles and accept its
platform. The league was formed
rs years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
AND WE WERE CELEBRATING PEACE.
SYNOPSIS


Samuel Sch0arzard an en-soldier and Freae4
man. returns Ukraine find that the erssrs
quarter blood that day BY the Atawss
PetEuura.
COMBINES forced mothers hold their
with their hands; the neck sliced
the tiny body streaming with blood left in the mothers
they through few moments awhen she had
CULTS despair to their depths
houses they made the victims strip the whole FAM
lily grouped together naked lean old men fat women wowy girls
They raised their legs gamboled danced and
pierced him through forehead chest
topped the heap of his own kith and kin
They naked Jews by their hands the ceiling in
soldiers then had played at sns
off the biggest Jumps of flesh at blow then they roasted these Jumps
Some clothes before being killed
old had his beard shaved off and been made to eat
laughed the sight, they had bed him.
Spector they killed before his fathers
then the father had been ordered lick his chid blood
They hacked off lips disemboweled
pregnant inside the houses they had mostly worked
they had used rifles and machine
to fire those jumping out of the windows to escape
AND they knew shipwrecked floating
IA blood who could only bleed that this in Pros
thousand Victims eighteen hundred of whom
against the which had descended the
held his clutches Prosku-
Esabegrad, Jmr Petchra Flchtine and fifty other
districts the Ukraine only indicates the Of the
worst in the long tale of mardom Between 1917 and
estimates hundred thousand people
massacred innocent in the of heaven
Let said that these exaggeration Aested state
exist reports detailed nqures
documents that facts be questioned and that thing
only many
to light.
themselves blame
their determination the contrary these peaceful tribes
having nothing do with politics.
responsible
for the wdness of his officers the dis
gust feel for those manaced beasts called Semessen Pa
enko Anghe Perov KorZyko and for others besides
who perhaps ourhng and srung about at this moment
in capital like the rffan Maxine Par for all those who
organized the during the vile period of Petura mill
tary Observation-Disclosures is to blame and above them all
(To be Coninued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
ROAD TO PRoLETARIAN REVOLUTION
By CHARLES E. RUTHENBERG.
(From "The Farmer-Labor United Front Is

By leadership support
majority working of the
luton and the dictatorship of the proeara?
There two methods through which might be conceived that
that that should the working class indictment Of
the capitalist system facts about the exploitation Of the working class
the theory surplus value the class struggle and the materst
cepon of history and by publishing books pamphlets
the working class to belief analysis existing capitalist
social order and the which the evils of this system be
oy which employed by
socialist labor is the method advocated by the pro
ara party organizations through
aon of the fundamental Communist principles majority Of
the working class for the of these
that fine day the proearan revolution will about Such
If mstRU san T about ns a
million and there would be no pearan revolution die
carry educational Party carry
educational work mpathzers of Party task
principles of Communism but rely that
method alone to achieve the proletarian revolution
The method which has been adopted by the Communist
onal and the Communist Parties the world quite different
distinguishes the Communist Party from previous working
which have sought to bring about the poetaran
capitalist system brings about
order The workers conflict
% q TsS boe1 s ss Ts The workers . s
ment in their working conditions Struggles these questions
capitalists matters
theory They are hard bitter everyday struggles which decide the
Similarly the exploited farmers find themselves in conflict with
bankers who hold the They
conflict with the marketing organizations which they sell their
which transport their goods Thus both workers
engaged continual struggle with the capitalists
The policy of the Communist
workers in the everyday struggle Communists wage
workers and of the demands which
the capitalists because it in these through
that the workers the capitalist
tenn and there developed the will
termination to triumph the who exploits
them
The everyday struggles of the favorable
condition for establishing the influence leadership
munist Party The workers learn by the
capitalist They learn by their experience struggle
the under the capitalist system merely
this not through theoretical presentation and proof
through the hard knocks of their
with the which supports the capitalist system
While fighting with the immediate de-
mands against the capitalists,
point them at of the struggle
that these immediate demands problems
the of the struggle ITSELF the
of their class interests and of their class is process
of struggle that the revolutionary will DEVELOPS
through these struggles they led by the struggle
of the proearan revolution %gSE
-a4NA< A-Aak rs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-20
basic industries The Ga delegates there despite the lack
cal activity in the various districts to draw the Negro workers
tho

basic industries The Ga delegates despite
ca activity the districts draw the
the convention preparations .vs<,4&4 +
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCES.
intensity the work the
which the delegates took their problems the
the 16
Negro YOUTH delegates we'll the
for Latin Americans for building Unity
and the Southern conference further evidence of the
the and deepgong rehabilitation of the
did the conferences according to schedule
and three times continue their unfinished
took the detailed problems of the workers in the various
industries and hundreds of delegates participated the business
the making
Particularly the Negro Conference displayed revolutionary
after all the other conferences had adjourned
ference continued to and take its problems
delegates active industries where Negro workers
ticipated in this conference
The Mining Conference which 200 regular aternal
delegates participated another
which the delegates approached their problems
the best industrial conference young
and corresponds the increasing Importance of the youth
allied industry.
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New "
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convention tended to become
giatonal This was
problems in the re-
but did entirely Much this shortcomng was
however, in the work of the special conferences
delegates displayed growing rehabilitation
their the issue of the defense They
rejected the liberal point
nees thru Frank Vratac and adopted with enthusiasm the
policy of the Party
only did the delegates enthusiastically
hour dy etc. but they showed the high level of the convention re-
fleeing the rehabilitation the in their tremendous ouurt
proeaan enthusiasm for the defense
the fveyear of building socialism in the Soviet Union They
the best the Lovneites and roke Cannon)
who speak about running and the degeneration the proe
tartan dictatorship"
One of the questions most seriously by the
imperialism.
The delegates enthusiastically endorsed affiaion with the Red
International of Labor Unions and the PanPacc Scretaat and
relationship with the Latin Confederation Labor
recognized that the struggle against the A. F. of L. bureaucat the
part struggle against capitalism
and the capitalist state They showed in unhesng that
United States by unanimously defeating the Mustei resolution the
Labor Party forth to the convention by Benjamin Gow
There challenge to the line of the Convention The few
Losone followers who there did dare challenge the line of
TrOtskyite similarly
challenge the line of the Convention The official Mustetes had
support whatsoever in the Convention Mysticism has real follow
the semked uned workers. best reflects
the attitude of the skilled workers organized the of L. who
being robbed of their skill and who will find that only the Trade
Union Unity League will champion their interests the recruits
the main bulk of the workers. the semsked and unsked Music
trying the A. capitalists
reaction only the failure of the Trade Union Unity
organized that make possible for them fool for time
workers with their Cleft The Muste have shown their
sebreakng Ezabehon Marion, S. c. and wherever else
they entered the field Their is the of the A.
bureaucracy attack the left wing They
enemies of the labor The TUUL
merciess struggle against Mysticism.
The Lovesonies while not daring challenge the line of
the Convention while their expert leader Gtow
did take the floor and face the militant poan
of the majority shops
forward resolutions challenging the line of the Party:
Labor Party AMI the Gastona Defense They did
defend these resolutions but handed them writing Both
of the resolutions unanimously defeated the few Loesone
ties could um enough vote for their resolutions
The Lovestontes while putting forward their line
the line of the Party presenting these resolutions
mouthpec of the Cannones line
Party and the Gastona defense the
ties.
TASKS AND OPPORTUNITIES. fEfE#
The Convention the constitution
the resolutions elected national Committee
whom at present working the The bulk of
bers of the National Committee industries among
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TASKS AND OPPORTUNITIES.

The Convention unanimously the constitution
the resolutions and elected national Committee nearly half
whom present working the factories The bulk
be of the National Committee the basic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
LEATHERWOOD Dies
PLANNING HOLIDAY
Utah Representative, III for
Several Years, SuccumbS
in Hospital.

A CHEEKY conversation concerning
Christmas arrangements Immediately
preceded the death of Representative
Elmer o. Leatherwood of Utah yester-
day at Garfield Hospital. In i'll health
for some years, his condition became
more acute. and during the last two
weeks he had been confined to the
verSation with his wife, who then left
his bedside to do some shopping, be-
fore the end came suddenly from a
heart attack.
Funeral arrangements were being
completed today.
Representative Leatherwood's vigorous
contest against the Swing Johnson
Boulder Canyon Dam bill was blamed
for weakening his constitution, for he
fought the measure In the House fri
CATION committee and upon the floor
of the House.
Ee was prominently identified with
legislation concerning the Western
States during a congressional career
that started in 1921. He had been re-
elected to each successive Congress
He was 81 years old.
Representative Leatherwood and Miss
Nancy Albaugh of bingham, Kans.,
were married in 1896 and they had one
child. Margaret Jane. They resided at
Representative Cotton, Republican. OF
Utah, visited the hospital after learn
ing of the passing of his colleague. He
deeply regretted to lose his friend. he
said, adding that the people Of Utah
will mourn his loss.
Senator Smoot of Utah added his
tribute in saying that Representative
Leatherwood was held in high regard
! by the State and that his labors had
been highly appreciated.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Leatherwood arranged
| to give their daughter Margaret a
birthday party at the Congressional
Club on Friday evening. While the Rep
resentative was unable to attend, he
had taken an active part in the ar
rangements. Mrs. Leatherwood's nephew,
Clarence Albaugh of Salt Lake City,
who came to Washington for the holi-
days. will accompany the family back
to Salt Lake City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Shoppers Throng
Florence Streets
On Christmas Eve
Masses Are Held in All
Famous Churches of
Italian City.
BY the Associated Press.


FLORENCE, italy, December 49,
Florence, the city of flowers, celebrated
Christmas eve last night in a fashion
typically and additionally Florentine.
After 6 pm. the streets were damned
square to another, laughing and shout
ing to one another.
The Florentines do not believe in do
ing their Christmas shopping early.
They wait until Christmas eve, and at
8 o'clock the crowd on the sidewalks
and streets was so great that 1t inter-
fered seriously with vehicular traffic
For three hours the people marched
about with no fixed destination in mind
and then they all went home leaving
the streets temporarily deserted. Three
quarters of an hour later the streets
were magically filled again by crowds
on their way to the midnight masses.
Homes were abandoned. Mothers and
fathers carried their youngsters, one on
or under each arm, to church, where
the crying of the babies and the loud
talking of the children drowned the
sound Of the priests voice.
Masses were held. in all the famous
churches Of Florence, in the Cathedra.
Of st. Lawrence, in Santa Maria Novella
in San Nicolo, Santa Maria Maggiore
San Marco and many others,
The Americans here-Florence ha:
the largest American colony in Italy
celebrated Christmas eve by first go.
ing out into the city to see the crowds
and then retiring to their homes fol
private celebrations. Many of then
joined the F1orentines at midnight mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
SENATOR RANSDELL
TO TALK IN FORUM
Flood Control in Mississippi
Valley to Be Topic of
Radio Address.

The great work undertaken by the
Federal Government and the States re-
lating to flood control in the Mississippi
Valley will be discussed by Senator
Joseph z. Ransdell of Louisiana in the
National Radio Forum, arranged by The
Evening Star, Thursday, December 26,
at 1890 pm, Eastern standard time.
The national hook-up is sponsored by
the Columbia Broadcasting Co. and will
be heard locally through WMAL.
Senator Ransdell Is an authority on
inland waterways and flood control.
During his long career in the
House and Senate he has given
much study to the problem re-
lated to flood control. He is a men,
Der of the Senate commerce committee,
which had charge of the flood control
legislation put through in the last Con-
gress. The Louisiana Senator, in his
address, will tell the latest develop
ments in the work of flood control. The
Government has undertaken an enor-
nous engineering project in connection
with the control of the flood waters of
the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Upon the success Of this project rests
the future, in large part, Of millions of
people living in the Mississippi Valley
States.
Senator Ransdell Is a native Of Lou
isiana. He was first elected member
of the House in 1898. Thirteen years
later he was chosen Senator and has
served in the Upper House of Congress
ever since. For 10 years he was presi-
dent of the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress. In 1919 he organized
the National Merchant Marine Associa-
ton and has since been its president
taking very active part in all matters
relating to the development Of the
American merchant marine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
BROTHER POLICE
RESCUE RESCUER
Officer Numbed After Plunge Into
Icy River Is Saved With
Fall Victim.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-A po-
liceman plunged into the East River
today to rescue a man who had fallen
from a pier near Jefferson street, but
he was so numbed by the icy waters
that he was unable to extricate himself.
The policeman, Peter Franchini, chung
to a pile for As minutes until a police
emergency crew arrived. Then Patrol
men Edward Kelley and Robert Krizek
jumped in and tied ropes around the
two men. Their fellow officers pulled
all four to safety
Franchini and the man he attempted
to rescue, Herman Schwartz, 40 were
taken to a hospital dangerously Ill.
Reilly and Krizek we're treated for sub
mersion and chill and sent home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
FEW TRACES OF STORM
MAR HOLIDAY IN SOUTH
Mild Temperatures Prevail in Dixie
1and-Miami Enjoys Semi
Tropical Weather.

ATLANTA, December Is CR.-Traces
of Winters heaviest snow dotted iso-
lated sections of Dixie on Christmas
day, but in the greater part of the
South the sun had cleared the ground
Of white flakes and mild temperatures
prevailed.
Thermometer readings ranging from
40 degrees upward were reported early
in the day in the Carolinas, Georgia.
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Tennessee. Atlanta had small amount
of snow left on its house tops and few
fakes remained in North Mississir$i
and in Arkansas, where the fall reached
a maximum Of IL inches several days
ago.
After an unusually cool Christmas
eve temperatures rose rapidly in Central
Florida. Farther South Miami enjoyed
semi-tropical weather and some con-
templated ocean bathing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

The party had been forced down by a
storm at an Isolated point.
Meanwhile, word from the fur trad
ing ship Nanuk, icebound at North
Cape, to which EielSon and Borland
were flying when lost, revealed tina Pr
lots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillian
had made a short flight over the snow
fields near North Cape, but had return
ed without finding any trace Of the
missing flyers.
Plan New Search Today.
Provided the weather cleared up, they
were scheduled to make another search
today. They had prepared a snow house
sufficiently large to protect the motor
of their planes from the frosty atmos-
phere while warming the machines up
preparatory to flights. They had also
arranged to borrow fuel from the Rus
sian ship Stavropol, icebound at North
Cape, in order to continue their scout
ing trips.
Three large planes and six Canadian
airmen en- route north on the Coast
Guard cutter Chelan were scheduled to
arrive in Seward today, from where the
planes will be shipped to Fairbanks
assembled and then flown to Teller tc
aid in the search.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Children's Appeals
Blamed by Father
For Store HOld-Up
Out of Job and Without
Funds, Man Slugs Grocery
Clerk and Seizes $500.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December 25.-Out
Of a Job, his pockets empty. three small
children at home watching for Santa
So Leslie Snyder hid a Ratchet UNI
der his coat, police say, stepped into
q grocery store, where he had once
worked, late yesterday and asked the
clerk to give him three pounds Of po-
tatoes. AS the clerk, Patrick Resinsky
reached under the counter for bag
Snyder, the police assert, struck him
on the head, seized $500 from the cash
register and fed
Police found Snyder at his home last
night.
GO ahead and take me away" police
quoted him as saying.
IT don't care any more. Only ]
couldn't stand it. No work for months;
my wife worrying herself sick; the chill
dren asking me every day, every hour
what Sanity was going to bring them
I wanted to give them a merry Christ
mas. That's all there is to say"
Snyder was charged with hold-up and
aggravated assault and battery. Resin
sky's condition was said to be serious