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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
HOUSE TO ORDER
CRUISERS BUILT
New Imperialist Drive
for War Ships Quick

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90 (UP).-
Chairman Fred Britten of the house
naval affairs committee announced
tonight he would introduce a bill
next week to provide for cruiser
construction work under the annual
navy appropriation bill unless the
senate takes action on the pending
cruiser bill in the interim.
The announcement was made
after Britten had conferred with
President Coolidge, Senator Charles
Curtis and other senate leaders.
Such action, however, would re-
quire special rule, as the house
cannot appropriate on an appropria-
ton bill for an item not authorized
in the measure.
"My thought is to introduce a bill
calling for a rule to make $12,500,-
600 available for construction in the
navy appropriation bill which will
be reported from the committee next
week." Britten said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
NORRIS HlLLQUIT, EXPOSED, ANNOUNCES SUIT FOR LIBEL
Arrest Canada
Communist at
Lenl;n Meeting

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 23.-Mak-
ing use of a new fascist, anti-work-
ing class police order which forbids
in any other language than
English, police today broke up a
Lenin memorial meeting at a local
theatre and arrested Philip Halpern,
editor of Der Kampf, Yiddish Com
munist weekly.
The police order, which was issued
yesterday, is intended as direct
attack on militant workers as it not
only forbids meetings in a foreign
language, but also prohibits "disor-
derly or seditious reflections on our
form of government, the king or any
constituted authority" The order
was issued by Police Chief Draper
after a conference with the Board
of Police Commissioners.
Several hundred workers were
gathered in the theatre at the time
of the police attack. Indignation
swept the audience. Many workers
arose and protested loudly and in
sisted upon continuing the meeting
The theatre manager, however, in
timidated by the police, ordered the
place cleared. Several workers were
roughly handled and the police made
use of tear bomb. The arrest OF
Halpern was greeted with boots and
jeers. Despite the provocative tao
tics of the police, the audience
marched from the theatre in good
order, cheering for the Soviet Union
and singing the Internationale and
other revolutionary songs.
The attack on the Lenin memorial
meeting and the arrest of Ealperr
have caused widespread resentment
among the workers of this city. The
local Communist Party and other left
wing organizations are preparing tc
wage a vigorous fight against the
new police order which practically
puts an end to so-called freedom Of
speech and is especially intended as
blow against the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
IMPERIALISM is
HIT AT COFFIN
OF JULIO MELLA
1asses at Mexico City
Hear Proletariat's
Eloquent Tribute
leila Set an Example
lis Blood in Our Ban
ners, Says Garlic

MEXICO CITY, (By Mail).-At
le Pantheon de Dolores, address,
ig the great throngs which had
altered there to pay last tribute
Julio A. Mella, the Cuban revo-
ltionary assassinated on January
0, by agents of Gerado Machado,
resident of Cuba, Diego Rivera,
-orld-famous proletarian artist and
,ader of the Mexican Communist
arty, charged the murder of Mella
the imperialists of the United
tates.
Speaking in the name of the All
lmerica Anti-Imperialist League,
.ivera declared that "Wall Street
eigns, making dollars at the cost
workers blood; and the conflict
1 Mexico between Yankee imper-
alism and British Imperialism, from
IS inception twenty years back, has
aused thousands of Mexican peas
nts to perish in that conflict,
round to pieces in the imperialist
Machinery"
Symptom of World Situation.
'The murder of Mella is a cow
rdly deed and symptom of the
World situation. The ruling class
an no longer rule without employ
ng the method of murder. The
GENERALS, the rich, whose palaces
inc the streets of this capital from
where we stand to the city's center,
re no longer able to conceal from
is their real character. This is the
ignal which cries out the real sit
ation to all Latin America.
"The assassination of Mella is a
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
WORRY
over EXPOSURE
SecretTax RefundsBut
West Vote Published

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - The
senate is pledged to get back to the
cruiser bill tomorrow. Word has
been passed around that American
imperialism wants its warships, and
there has been "enough nonsense"
about Secretary Melons tax refunds
to his favorite corporations.
The senate intends to obey, but
finds it difficult to get off the tax
scandal, which compromises the
whole machinery of capitalist gov
ernment in the eyes of some of the
senator's constituents back home.
Senators are also angry at the pub
LEGATION of the supposedly secret vote
by which they confirmed the appoint
ment of the insult power trust agent,
Roy West, as secretary of the in
terror.
Publicity Worries.
The Mellon case and the exposure
of those who backed West got
tangled in the debate. Mellon calmly
refuses to tell the senate who is
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
TO TRY. MINEOLA
CASE ON monday
L. D. in a Special
Appeal for Funds

A widespread and concentrated
ampaign for immediate funds to
provide legal assistance to the vic
inns of the Mineola frame up case,
about to be launched by the In
ernational Labor Defense, which is
arrying on the campaign for the
line workers. Seven of them are to
ome up for a rev trial in the same
dineola Court and before the same
Judge Smith that first sent them to
ong Jail terms, next Monday.
District Attorney Edwards is pre-
,aring to start with the trial Mon
lay, despite the fact that even the
Court of Appeals in Albany made a
iecision which admits that the
rame-up was too thin, by permitting
;even of the nine workers a new
rial privilege. The other two
whose sentences were sustained by
he higher court are already serv-
ng their two and half to five
year terms. The sentences Of the
,ther seven is of the same severity.
That the Ku Klux Klan judge end
prosecutors of Long Island intend to
insist that the workers go TO Jail,
IAN be proven by the fact that the
case is brought up. Usually when a
high court grants new trial the
.ase is dropped.
Financial contributions are ap-
oealed for by the l. L. D. Workers
are to send it to their headquarters
It 799 Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24

tional, issued a statement
promising libel suit.
In a whimpering outburst in
the yellow Jewish Forward" Hill
quits statement, and the editorial
lead that accompanies it, provide
substantiation first of the dis
closures made in the Communist
press, the Daily Worker and the
Jewish Communist daily, the Frei-
heit.
To Print Court Records.
Second substantiation will be
made when the Daily Worker OBJ
tains the court stenograms for re-
printing. These records, to be
printed in a few days, record the
testimony of Hillquit and his sides,
while under cross-examinatior by
Louis B. Boudin, attorney for the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union.
In answer to the wealth of de-
tail, in which fact after fact con-
tanned in the "Daily" expose nails
the Socialist" colleagues to the
wall, Hillquit and his organ can
only find the words "you're liar"
After stating that they have at last
"cornered" those whom they period
ically corner the great socialist
leader and reputed stockholder in an
open-shop coal company, Hillquit
and his Forward" whine that they
will ''bring to responsibility all
those responsible"
Fail to Deny Charges.
By saying only this, they convict
themselves before the eyes of the
working class. Why? Because not
by single word, thru no imphca
ton, does the gang of traitors and
union-wreckers deny single charge
concerning their monstrous swindle.
In lengthy hysterical threat Of
libel suits to come, Hillquit and his
sheet fail to even attempt to refute
the assertions made.
What is there to prevent the
"Forward," or Hillquit, from giving
an explanation of how they managed
to buy bank shares, the property of
the needle trades workers, for 5000
and for S195 when their market
value (as admitted by Hillquit) was
more than S310? Where is their de-
NAL of the fact that their deal netted
profit of $150.O00? If that money
did not "settle" into the pockets of
Hillquit and his partners, why
doesn't the representative of "Inter-
national Socialism" in America tell
Just what he and the destroyers of
Continued ON Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
CALL DIST. 2 CONVENTION
OF THE WORKERS PARTY

The District Convention
Party will be held instructions the Central
Executive Committee this Saturday and Sunday Irving
st. and Irving Pl.
The convention will begin Saturday at D. m
All delegates and alterna elected by
bershp cities
instructed to take note and promptly meeting
cities sending delegates direct the district
included in of the existing sections those lying
haitian Brooklyn Bronx and Queens Jersey
District Executive Committee, District 2,
Workers (Communs) Party,
WILLIAM WEINSTONE District Organizer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
Serial Based on Soviet
Film to Begin in Daily
WorkerM Monday, JANIS

A new serial, story by
Charles Yale Harrison based on
the great Sovkino film Two
Days." will be new feature pre-
sented to readers of the Daily
Worker, beginning Monday, Jan.
%.
The Sovkino film 1.-TWO Days"
on which this serial is based, and
which will be seen in New York
shortly has been hailed by the
foremost European critics as: "A
tremendous psychological study
of an old man torn between his
slave-like devotion to his White
Guard master and his love for his
son, a Red Army commander d.
caught in the changing tides of
the early days of the Russian
Revolution penetrating in
its tragic beauty unforget-
table in its overwhelming pathos."
Watch for it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
HOLD SPIRITED
DRESS MEETINGS
Vote Today; Chairmen
Meet Tonight

Two enthusiastic strike district
meetings, attended by large num-
Der of dressmakers in the two dis
tricts, yesterday completed the es-
tablishment of the very strategic
Block Committees, began the forma-
ton of building committees, which
are to be an organizational arm of
the union among the rank and file
in the coming general dressmakers'
strike.
The meetings were held at the
union auditorium, 16 w. 21st St.,
and in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and
42nd St. Those working on 25th,
26th and 9th Sts., meeting in the
union and those on 37th and 38th
SITS. meeting in the hall. With quiet
efficiency, the workers set about
choosing. their committees after
hearing the report and proposals of
the union spokesman. The func-
ton of these committees is to reach
the organized and unorganized
workers with the union message and
with the strike call when it is is
sued.
Preparations for the elections for
all officers Of the Joint Board and
for the locals are completed, the
union stated. In final call to the
cloak, dress and fur workers, the
Industrial Union declares:
"On Thursday, January oath, you
are called upon to cast your vote
in the first election for local Execu-
tive Board members, Joint Board
members, business agents and gen.
Continued on Page Tyo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
IA Cheswlck, Pa, Miners to Co
ON Trial IN Pittsburgh, Today

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23.-Echoes
of the Sacco- Vanzetti case will once
more arise out of the grave where
the murder justice of the .capi-
talist class thought it had con-
demned them when Ia coal miners,
arrested in connection with a
Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration in
Cheswick, Pa, on Aug. %, 1927,
face trial here tomorrow. The IA
defendants, who are charged with
unlawful assembly, melting to riot
and resisting an officer, have been
out on bonds of from $500 to $4,000
each.
The attack by state troopers on a
mass protest meeting of 5000 men,
women and children, nearly all coal
miners and their families, in Ches-
wick on the eve of the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti was one of the
most brutal instances of state terror
connected with that case. The
mounted troopers rode roughshod
into the crowd, declared the meet
ing dispersed and began swinging
clubs, throwing tear gas bombs and
shooting off their guns recklessly.
Many children were blinded for
several days by the tear gas bombs
and others in the crowd were badly
hurt by horses hoofs and the troop
ers' clubs. In the shooting one of
the state troopers was killed.
One hundred workers were ar
rested, but even the fake evidence"
of the state troopers proved too
flimsy to convict most of them and
they were all subsequently released
except the Ia miners.
Attempts were, made to frame the
miners on charge of murder, but
the state was compelled to drop this
charge and content itself with eff
forts to railroad them to Jail on the
other charges.
The IA miners who go on trial to-
morrow are Tony Camilli, Dominick
Paolini, John Bernabei, Steve Kure-
pa, Ercole Moretti, Antonio Demoro,
Fred Nozaranti, Joe Jtsienski,
George Reikovitch, G. P. Libertoy,
James Marcodi, Ercole Marcodi and
Joe Iacomi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
POPE KNIGHTS BOSSES
BIG y. S. Trust Heads in Order OF Malta

ROME, Jan. 23.--The pope has
made a list of American labor
hating and trust forming corpora
ton officials Knights Of the Order
Of Malta and bestowed the grand
cross of the order on certain others.
The same distinction was given an
admiral and colonel. Those
selected for honors from the Catho-
lie church and the new papal states
in process Of creation are among the
most war hungry and imperialist in
the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
COMMUNISTS OF
BRITAIN FINISH
PARTY CONGRESS
Vote to Pay Political
Levies in Unions;
Much Discussion
Discontinue Left Wing
Plan Struggle Against
Imperialist System
(Wireless By "Inprecor,") j

(WtreteSS By "Inprecor'')
LONDON, Jan. 23.-The congress
of the Communist Party of Great
Britain has just ended. 1t started
on the nineteenth, and made deci-
sions as to left wing tactics, to pol
icy in the fight with British i'm
perialism, and the British labor
party.
The opening address was deliv-
cred by Campbell, justifying the
new policy. Speakers discussing the
situation declared that the party had
not carried thru the new policy
firmly enough.
On Labor Party Levies.
Other speakers stated that the
party leadership did not do enough
criticism. Other stated that a
right wing danger existed.
A closed session dealt with the
question of payment of the political
levy in the trade unions. Pollitt
urged the expediency of contribu-
tion to political funds of the unions,
despite the fact that these funds
are used in the interest of the labor
party.
Murphy opposed the payment of
such political levies, demanding i'm
mediate independent Communist ac-
tivity in the unions, based on re-
fusal to pay the levy.
Two Policies.
Murphy demanded the formation
of an independent fund against the
Labor Party.
The discussion revealed two sharp
ly opposed tendencies, but the ma
jority favored continued payment
on the general grounds there out
lined.
However, Murphy, in his closing
speech, declared the whole resolu-
tion for payment was unavoidable as
the basis of fight against the
labor party. The real victory over
the labor party, he said, would come
thru factory activity, winning the
masses.
Resolution Carried.
Pollitt, in his closing speech, ap-
pealed to the congress to "be real
lists" and wait and see what mass
Continued on Page Tqoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
Arab Tribes Battle
Fascist Imperialist
Forces; Many Killed

ROME, Jan. 23 (UP).-Italian
native troops in Africa fired on re-
voting Arab bands advancing to-
ward the bases Of Augila and Elleba
Sunday, it was announced today.
Ten italian native soldiers were
killed and 20 wounded in the fight
ing that followed. The Augila and
Elleba oases are the furtherest
points of Italian occupation toward
the Sahara Desert, about 200 miles
from Jthe coast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
TAXI DRIVERS
drive WHALEN
Spontaneous Strike in
Zone Gets Stands

A spontaneous strike of taxi driv-
ers who could not stand the car
running, wasteful regulations against
cruising cabs and prohibition of
hack stands in the restricted theatre
zone has forced Police Commission
Ell Whalen to begin to weaken.
The commissioner, whose grand
stand publicity stunts are driving
the Rothstein case out of public
mind, and driving taxi drivers to
give up their best chances to make
a living wage, now admits that he
will have to modify his rules.
Whalen will establish eight hack
stands on the edges of his restricted
zone, within which empty cabs are
not allowed to take customers, and
will use police as car starters, on
orders from the hotels. Only forty
cabs will be utilized in these hack
stands, however.
According to police figures, an
even thousand fewer cabs entered
the restricted zone on the first night
of the strike than on Monday night.
Cab drivers say it was much more
than a thousand that stayed away,
and they expect to continue their
fight against Whalen's arbitrary
rulings, that cost drivers their much
needed fare, get men who work for
the big companies fired for not max
ing the minimum collections, and
cut the tires and break the springs
of cabs which have once entered the
zone by forcing them to drive down
the rotten pavement on Eighth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
SMASH MOSCOW
TROTSKY GROUP
Workers State Arrests
$50 Enemies
Wireless BN "Inprecorr") J

(Wireless By "Inprecorr")
MOSCOW, USSR, Jan. 2S.-An il
legal Trotskyist organization has
been discovered here, and broken up
by the arrest of a hundred and fifty
of it's members. A quantity of Trot-
skyist illegal literature was discov-
cred in their possession, and was con-
fiscated.
The arrested persons are treated
as elements hostile to the proletarian
dictatorship and are held in isola-
ton.
Among those arrested are the fol-
lowing: Midvani, Pankratov, Globus,
Drobnis, Kavtaradse, Vorinski, Ga
yevski and Grinstein.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
General Meeting Of
Left Wing Tailors'
Leagues for TOnite

A general meeting of all sections
of the Trade Union Educational
League Of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union will be held tonight
in the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square, according to an announce
ment issued yesterday by the secre-
taries.
The newest developments in the
Amalgamated, which include not
only the well-known facts of the
decentralization in the union, but
even more far-reaching develop
ments, require that every left
winger attend the meeting without
fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
New Earth Shocks Felt
in Venezuela as Ruins
Are Searched for Dead

CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. %
(UP). Renewed earthquakes were
reported from Cumana today as re-
ief workers continued their task of
removing bodies from the ruins of
.he buildings razed by last weeks
luakes.
The correspondent of Ell Diario at
Cumana reported today that fifty
bodies had been identified, but the
;otal number of deaths could not be
officially reported due to the slow
progress of relief work. About 200
persons were reported dead in early
ldvices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
FINN PROHIBITION FAILS.

HELSINGFORS, Finland, (By
Notwithstanding to government
statistics, customs authorities seized
million litres of spirits in 1928 on
the Finnish coast. They estimate the
Finnish consumption of spirits at 8
million litres, twice the consumption
before prohibition in Finland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
3 Firemen Injured in
Atlantic City Blaze

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Jan. %.
(UP).-Three firemen were hurt,
one seriously, in an early morning
fire which today nearly destroyed
the Hotel Loretta, 1923 South Ken
lucky Avenue, this city, in the heart
of the small hotel district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
Anaconda Heads List.

On the list made knights are:
Cornelius Kelly, president of the
Anaconda Copper Company.
Henry 0. Havemeyer, president of
the Brooklyn Eastern Terminal
Company.
Frederick ]. Fisher, vice-presi-
dent, General Motors.
George Macdonald, president of
the Nassau-Suffolk Lighting Com
pany.
Continued on Page TiOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24

PARIS, Jan. 23 W.D.-The min
lister of colonies tonight presented
a posthumous medal to the famous
japanese scientist, Noguchi, who
died during his yellow fever re-
search work in Africa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
SOCIALIST LEADER FAILS
TO DISPROVE CHARGES OF
THIEVERY OF UNION FUNDS
Hillquit Indicates He Would Cover Stock Steal
Trail With Civil Suit
Court Records, to Be Published Soon, Will
Substantiate All Charges Made

Exposed yesterday by the Daily Worker ringleader in
gigantic steal of $50000 of needle workers union property
Morris Hqu chief of the American socialist party and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
RUBBER WORKERS DECREASE

WASHINGTON (By Mail) y
There was a decrease in the number
of employees in The rubber industry
from 41,S00 in 1925 to $1,000 in
1928.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a Workers. Farmers Government
To Organize The Unorganized
For the 4O-H0ur Week
For Labor Party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12
MERCER ISSUE
= Up IN CHURCH
United Brethren in Christ to
Ballot in May.

Bdy United Press
LANCASTER, Pa, April 12.-An-
other step toward the union of
churches all over the world will be
taken here when the general con-
ferences of the United Brethren in
Christ meets here May II to %,
and a vote is taken on the pro-
posed merger of the United Breth-
rem in Christ, the Reformed church
in the United States, and the Evan
gelical Synod of North America.
The new church, formed by the
combination at these three if the
members of at least two of the de-
nominations favor the merger, will
be known as the United Church in
America.
The United Brethren congrega-
ton will be the first to vote on the
matter
A week later, the Reformed
church at the general synod session
in indianapolis, Ind, will act on
the merger. The Evangelicals will
vote on it at their general confer
ence in October, at a meeting place
not yet announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12
PAINS IN HER
BACK AND HEAD
Lady Took Cardui and Was
Surprised at How Soon She
Began To Feel Better.

Mrs. Henry Rick, of 6253 ST. Louis
Avenue, Wellston, Mo-, gives the fol-
lowing account of how she suffered
several years ago:
II was very much rundown, and
my health was giving away. This
alarmed me, because after trying
several things I was no better. 1
suffered with bad headaches, and
often had severe backache until I
would have to lie down, and as I
was so weak I could not stand long.
"One day, Cardui was recon-
mended to me as reliable tonic,
so I thought I would get bottle
and try it. This I did, and I was
very much surprised to find my
self improving in just a short time.
began to pick up almost at once.
I gained some in weight, but more
in strength.
"My health began to mend stead
lily. I was delighted with the re-
suits, so l continued taking Cardui
for some months and my general
health continued to improve until
1 was feeling quite like my former
self. In fact, I was better than 1
had been in years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12

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