davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
The Illinois Miners Strike
Must Win!

imperative that every worker in the United
states the coal fields elsewhere
sell INTO the fight to help the miners of Illinois
most desperate struggle of their existence
These best sections of our class
OF state
skebreakng the u Fshwck Harrington and
Lewis and the police.
The miners battling minimum
OF fines the sxhor week. abolition all
peedup dangerous conditions discrimination against
and young miners They
y the bosses the state equal rights the
The winning this fight by the
portant victory will
re States, its
fields WELL successful struggle Illinois will very
possible of
whole eounwith unprecedented for the working
class
Every worker every industry country directly or in
directly involved victory
doubt that the revolutionary industrial
It's banner late active majority the
But victory in Him. will impetus this
movement and will greatly hasten the success
The capitalist and its instrument together with
the allies the
significance of this fight They already
beat the workers down. and other methods
prison. The need for legal aid strike relief mounting
The workers support
the Workers International Relief enable that organization give
the The
ported that take the great
of arrested miners and union organizers
The best defense further attack the against
the The
Kentucky big advance that must be completed
Help the National Miners Union o win this fight!
Strengthen the Communist Party which furnishes
OF leadership in this important struggle!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
Aim to Attack
Soviet Union
at Naval Meet

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-One of
the central features of the London
race-for-armaments conference to be
held Jan. 21, is the organization of
the capitalist forces against the So
Wet Union.
This is especially shown in the
maneuvers to incorporate the Kel-
logg peace" pact into an agreement,
backed by naval armaments, and
directed against the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics.
Macdonald in the House of Com
mons yesterday tried to cover up
this fact when he said the Five
Power Conference would consider
naval strength only, and would not
take up policy.
Germany is being drawn into the
naval ornaments meet in order to
Continued on Page TWcI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
ShestakOv, Pilot of
"Land of SOviets"
Seeks U. S. Aviator

BERLIN, Dec. 25.-Dispatches re
port that Soviet airplane has been
sent in search of Ben Eielson and
Earl Borland, American aviators
lost for six weeks off the coast of
Siberia, and two other Soviet planes
have been ordered to join in the
search.
Semyon Shestakov, who piloted the
Land of the Soviets" on its sue
cessful flight from Moscow to New
York and who returned few days
ago to Moscow, has been selected to
command the rescue expedition. He
will be sent at once in an airplane
of the type of the "Land of the
Soviets."
Reports from Northeartern ST.
IBERIA state that the trading ship
Nanuk had heard the missing plane
circling overhead. 1t is thought that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
TUUL CALLS FOR
MILLINERY FIGHT
Exposes Zaritsky, All
to Picket FairWay
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
All needle trades workers are
urged to attend the meeting at
p. nj. tonight at sIrving Plaza
Hall, at which John Schmies, as
sistant secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League, will lead a
discussion on "What are the new
functionssof the T. U. U. L." '
The Cap and Millinery Sectior
of the Trade Union Unity League
has issued the following statement
on the Fairway Hat Shop strike, anc
the millinery workers struggle gen.
orally, and calls all to struggle fol-
union conditions:
"The conspiracy between the
"Fairway Hat CO." and the Zarit-
sky machine in the Cloth Hat, Car
and Millinery Workers Union
which resulted in the discharge ot
the best paid operators in the shop
and in the replacing of them by
others who work for smaller wages
proves conclusively the open be-
trayal of our unscrupulous officers.
''In brief period the Zaritsky
clique has betrayed the strike of
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
SOCIALISTS" | n
DEFEAT ON TRICK
TO USE KAROL. VI
Anti Fascist Speaker
Bans Date Made by
Social Fascists
Demagogic Scheme Hit
"Rand School" Forced
to Cancel Meeting
DemagOgic Scheme Hi

The so-called socialist" party,
the party Of social fascism in Amer
lea as in Hungary and other coun-
tries, received a slap in the face
when it attempted to hide its fas-
cist face behind an anti-fascist mask
while at the same time it is fight
ing viciously against the anti
fascists of the Anti-Horthy League.
Karolyi had associated himself
with the Berlin Anti-Fascist World
Congress. He is known as oppos-
ing the fascist regime of Horthy,
the murderous fascist dictator of
Hungary, in which country workers
particularly Communists, are bein~
tortured to death in prison with tt
enthusiastic assistance of the "sc
cialists." Karolyi has just cable
from Europe his refusal to speak {
meeting arranged by the "Rar
School of Social Science" so-calles
actually part of the social-fascis
Socialist" party, at which the so
cial fascists had advertised him to
speak.
The dirty attempt of American
social-fascism to repeat the tricks
of their European ilk, of making
loud noises against" fascism to de-
ceive the working class, while all
their effective actions are turned
violently against the anti-fascist
workers, was crystallized in the ar
rangement by the School" of lee
ture by Karolyi under its auspices
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
All Ont! Mass
Plcketlng Shoe
Shops Today!

In reply to the strike-breaking
action of the Department of Labor,
which called upon the shoe manu-
facturers of New York and Brook
lyn to break their contracts with the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
all shops out on strike as we'll as
all those shops that have broken
their contracts will be picketed in
mass this morning, the union states,
while meetings of striking shoe
workers will be held during the day.
Meanwhile the union is preparing a
program of action for the organiza-
ton of the thousands of organized
shoe workers.
A concert to raise money for
strike relief will be held under the
auspices of the union and the Work
ers international Relief at Central
Oper House, January 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
PROTEST HAITI.
AFRICA MURDER
Col 10 nial Massacres
Branded in LID Call

One hundred Negro newspapers ir
the United States today received q
call to protest militantly against the
imperialist murders of British and
American interests in South Africa
and in Haiti. The call was sent
from the national office of the In
ternational Labor Defense.
The latest reports that at least
forty-four Negro workers were kill
ed in Southeast Nigeria, British
West Africa, and the news that the
slaughter in Haiti by far exceeded
the Official twelve reported killed,
has brought fourth the following
declaration from the international
Labor Defense:
To-day, in far-flung sections of
the world, we see the hand of i'm
perialism stepped in the blood of
colonial peoples, especially those of
the Negro race. In Haiti, Yankee
imperialism slaughters Negro work
ers who struck against the miserable
conditions of slavery forced on them
by the Marines of Wall Street. In
British West Africa, forty-three wo-
men and one man, at least, have
been murdered by the British troops
of the so-called Labor government.
Imperialism seeks profits and
grinds them ont in blood and sweat
of millions of workers.
"The imperialism of each of the
leading capitalist lands is as bloody
as the other. America has Haiti
and Great Britain has Africa.
"The International Labor Defense
calls on the working class, both
white and black, to protest with all
their available power against these
massacres. The Negro masses of
America are considered by their fell
low Negroes of the colonial lands as
the most advanced economically and
politically, and look forward to them
for aid.
"The International Labor Defense
urges all workers, of all races, to
demand that Dollar terror and La
bor' government terror be halted.
Cuban workers, Mexican workers,
Haitian workers, white and Negro,
are being murdered by Dollar ter
ror. African workers are being shot
down by the so-called Labor govern
ment forces.
Workers of all races, by union,
you can halt these murders! De-
mand the withdrawal of military
rule from the colonies! Carry on a
powerful protest, day in and day
out and force Wall Street and the
Labor government to halt the mur-
der of workers, whether white or
Negrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
.PLASTERERS ASK
D A Y
Bosses Refuse Timid
Plea Allowing Cut

The building slump has throw
out of work practically half of th
10000 plasterers in New York.
These men have been working the
40-hour five-day week, theoretically,
and for a union wage of $3.50 a
day. When the building industry,
like all other industries in this per-
iod, began to decline, the bosses
took advantage of the situation to
force some men to work under the
scale and also to keep the number
of unemployed as high as possible
by laying off men while others were
made to do overtime on Saturdays.
Rank and file pressure has forced
the union officials to demand a
siX-hour day, but they do it in their
own way. Monday, at a conference
of building contractors, Michael
Gallagher, president of Local 60 of
the plasterers, appeared with not a
demand, but a request that the en-
ployers "try out" the six-hour day
to give work to some of the thou
sands of unemployed and with full
permission to the employers to cut
the workers wages by 25 per cent.
The plasterers have a three year
contract.
Even this decidedly modest plea
was Immediately and flatly refused
by President Tierney A. Rourke of
the employers association. The ex-
penses of the plan proposed by
Gallagher would be born entirely
by the workers, but the bosses will
have none of it, for they are rely
ing on the presence of masses of
unemployed for smash at the
union wage scale in the near future
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
PLAN DEFENSE
FOR SH|F rim
Conference Jan. 19; to
Aid Mineola Workers

The blue coats of Tammany, in
cordial alliance with the yellow So
cialist misleaders, has provoked the
masses of New York workers to mil
liant anger, through the transpar-
ent attempt to push through the con-
viction of William Shifrin and the
Mineola workers.
By no chance have the courts
called the Shifrin case and the Min
cola case almost simultaneously,
and the united front of social
fascists and Tammany, has brought
the mass protest of thousands of
needle trades, food workers and mil
liant workers in other industries.
A Shifrin- Mineola conference,
January 19, in Irving Plaza, at IL
a. M; a mass meeting for defense
of Shifrin and Mineola workers at
Irving Plaza the oath; tag days
throughout New York, January 25
and Goth, are few of the replies
to the attack on the workers.
Shifrin's case comes up February
II in Superior Court of Bronx. The
Mineola case will be called in Janu-
airy. These cases, dating back sew
eral years, both grew out of attacks
by right-wing gangsters upon Left
Wing workers who defended them
selves. and who NAV. therefore. pet.
savage sentences as the Gastonia de-
PENDANTS for the same deed. The
International Labor Defense is fight
ing both cases.
The metropolitan area confer
ence of the Trade Union Unity
League and the national convention
of the National Textile Workers
Union passed resolutions calling on
all affiliated workers to fight for
the freedom of these workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26

M. u. and u. M. W. members.
These committees are the
strike leaders in all localities,
and Spread the Strike" is the
main slogan.
These leaflets of the N. NJ. U.
also call upon railroad workers and
truck drivers to refuse to carry
scab coal, and urge miners and all
workers to rally to the strike.
Don't let the sheriffs, militia, or
Lewis and Fishwick gunmen break
the STRIKE" "Spread the STRIKE"
march from mine to mine," form
mass picket lines" "elect rank and
file strike committees to lead the
strike" say the leaflets and the or
ganizers wherever they go.
Blow to Fascists.
The Illinois miners strike has hit
hard the plans of the ALL, of
which the UNIV. is a part, to let
the employers walk rough-shod
over the workers during this period
of industrial crisis. 1t is the first
great flare back to the Hooverian
program of a grand fascist council
of corporation heads and labor
takers to put through the wage cut
ting, naturalization" schemes of
employers. 1t is the inspiration of
countless thousands of unorganized
workers, everywhere, suffering and
exploited, and in constant danger of
unemployment. The National Mi
ners Union feels confident that the
workers will support its struggle,
and that they will send funds to the
National Miners Union, 119 Federal
St., N. S., Pittsburgh, to win this
strike.
The miners fight for a number of
Continued on Page ThreeJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
N MARINE LEAGUE
IN ORLEANS BUSY
LID. Secures Release
of All Arrested

NEW Fans, La. Dec. 25.-
The last meeting of the local branch
of the Marine Workers League here
showed active organization work
and preparations under way for the
Gulf Coast Conference of the
League to be held here January 18
and 10. This will be the third of
such regional conferences, preceding
the calling of a general marine
workers convention next April at
which real industrial marine work
ers union will be established.
Reports at the meeting showed
seamen and longsboremen lining up.
The Negro organizer of the league
reported that he had been threat
ened with violence by the police at
the docks and watchmen on the
ships for talking organization to the
Negro longshoremen, of which New
Orleans has thousands, or going
aboard ship. The companies are
trying to scare the longshoremen al
so, threatening them with all sorts
of things if they listen to the
M.W.L.
All Arrested Are Free.
Stephen H. Allison, secretary of
the local international Labor De-
Tense branch, reported to the meet
ing that all of those, recently ar
rested and made the center of a big
"Red Raid" by the ship owners, po-
lice, mayor of the city, commander
of the American Legion and federal
detectives are now released, charges
dropped, and bondsmen freed of all
obligations. This was accomplished
through the prompt attention of the
LID, and of their attorney here,
r. A. Darling. Those released from
jail are Victor Aaronson, William
Davids, Leonard Brown Negro sea-
NAM and John S. Morgan, MW.L.
organizer.
The Marine Workers League Hall
here, 30S Chartres St., has been
painted white and blue by the M.
w. l.. organizer, John S. Morgan,
and a banner and signs are being
displayed. 1t seats 15O. Seamen
and longshoremen are beginning to
drop in and discuss their problems.
The local branch has sent to the
M.W.L. national office in New York
for 1000 copies of the Marine Work
ers Voice, for literature in Spanish
and Greek, for Labor Defense and
Labor Unity, and is distributing
5000 copies of the call for the Gulf
Coast Conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
Socialists" Ask Ethics
In Mayors Pay Raise:
7avOr Strike-Breakers

Iine with it's functions an
third capitalist party, and bidding
for the place of official loyal oppo-
sition in the ranks of American
capitalism, the socialist party thru
that crassest of social fascists,
James Oneal, pleasantly smote the
wrist of Mayor Walker for giving
himself salary raise to $4,000.
Oneal, voicing the opinion of his
fellow social-fascists, objected to the
ethical method of procuring the
raise. On principle, the Oneals are
not against such raises-for does not
the future promise such plums in
the capitalist administration to
these very social-fascists?
They have no scruples about sully-
ing their palms with the blood
wrung out of the workers. Aren't
millioaires, exploiters and general
blood-suckers of the working class
freely invited into the socialist party
ranks? But Oneal wants these
things done legally, in a good CAPT
talist manner.
Common decency," pleads Oneal,
requires that man should not vote
for an increase in his own salary
Above all things the socialist party
wants to appear decent in the eyes
of the capitalist class. Do these
things decently-make war, cut
wages, Jail Communists-but do il
in legal, decent fashion, is the song
of the socialist party.
And in order to add little radical
spice to his bald and unconvincine
argument, Oneal at the tail end of
his criticism" actually declares
that the poorly paid city employees
got no increase The consideration
of the socialist party for the work
ers is really touching.
The bulk of the poorly paid cit,
employees" that Oneal and the
socialist party are interested in arc
their friends, the rike-breaking
police. The socialist party and their
right wing union leaders feel crate
full to Whalen and his club-wieldinp
strike breakers for their yoemen
service in helping the bosses smash
strikes. Better pay for their com
rades-in-arms, the strike-busting
police was one of the main demands
of the socialist party in their mayor
atty campaign.
The road of social-fascism is 4
broad avenue along which travel the
staunehest upholdcrs of the capital
list system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
CALL PAINTERS
TO WIN ELECTION
Unity League Exposes
Fake Progressives

The Trade Union Unity League
section in the Brotherhood of Paint
ers, Decorators and Paper Hangers
of America urges every rank and
file member to go to the meetings
Friday, and vote for the candidates
who follow the militant program,
the candidates proposed by the rank
and file groups.
The T.U.U.E. section has issued a
statement sharply criticizing the
fake progressives in District Coun-
Gil No. 8 union who have so han
died matters in their fight against
Zausner, the notorious employers
tool, that Zausnerism and now Zaus-
ner's machine men are much in
power. The statement says:
"The Left Wing has in the past
faithfully and energetically carried
on the fight to drive Zausner out of
office. We thought that these fake
rrogressives wouli take the next
step and proceed with the cleaning
cut of Zausnerism as an institution.
Events proved conclusively that
was not their aim. The reactionary
class collaboration policies have
completed the work done by Zaus-
ner, the weakening of the union.
The union has now become no more
than an adjunct to the bosses asso-
citation.
"The Left Wing made a cardinal
mistake last year by Withdrawing
its candidates from the field on a
plea from these fake progressives.
"The minute Zausner's man, Nc
Continued ON Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
ILD AIM TO CAIN
NEGRO WORKERS
Membership Drive Un-
til March 18th

A minimum of 1000 Negro work
ers among the $4,000 new member.
Of the International Labor Defense
the quota set for the membership
drive which will continue unit
March Is, will be one of the prin.
cipal aims stressed at the Fourth
National Convention of the Inter.
national Labor Defense in Pitts
burgh, Dec. 20, 80, 81.
A number of Negro workers are
to be placed on the national commit.
tee Of the LID. and all districts
are to be instructed to add Negro
members to their respective district
committees. At least one Negro ma.
tional organizer will be chosen to
head this work among the Negro
masses.
The formation of branches and de.
fense committees in the shops, fac
tories, mines and mills, as a guar.
antee of turning the international
Labor Defense units into real mass
organization is one of the proposed
changes to the constitution.
The resolution on organization de.
clares that not enough attention has
been paid to organizational work.
Seldom were the local prosecutions
used for the purpose of popularizing
>the International Labor Defense
among the masses and to build the
organization locally. The fact that
during the last few months when
some attention was being paid to
organizational problems there has
been a steady increase in the dues
payments, shown that with correct
policy the LID. can be built into
a real mass organization. if suffi-
cient attention is paid to the organ
national problems"
The resolution declares the LID.
has made considerable progress in
I !reasing it's collective membership.
he LID. has now in it's ranks
such important militant organiza-
tions as the National Miners Union,
with membership of approximately
10000, the National Textile Workers
Union, the Hungarian Working
mems Sick Benefit and Education
Federation and many others.
Since the third convention the
LID. has succeeded in establishing
itself in at least 19 new states. There
are at present six states where the
LID. is yet TO be organized.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 25.-A
caravan of workers, four automo-
bles full from the South--busses
from Philadelphia and New York
trains bearing worker delegates
from all sections of the United
States are heading toward Pitts
burgh to the Fourth National Con-
vention Of the international Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26

pronouncements for the future. But
the facts point to long, and severe
depression with no upturn in sight.
Several weeks ago the New York
Tines financial section carried the
announcement that the car loadings
for the first e. weeks in December
would tell the STORY of what capital
ism is to expect III the coming
months. If there was continued
drop. the future was indeed black,
Continued on Page ThreeD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
TEXTILE BUREA AU
DIRECTS FORCES
FOR SILK STRIKE
Mill Committees in All
Mills, Shop Bulletins,
Prepare Struggle
Fight Pay Cut, Speedup
Orders District Meets;
Places Organizers

Active preparation for a strike in
silk mills, and rapid distribution of
organizers and building of local
leading committees in all the most
important centers of present and
impending struggle in the textile
industry occupied most of the time
at the meeting Tuesday night of
the bureau of the executive commit
tee of the National Textile Work
ers Union. The meeting was at 104
Fifth Ave, the National Office of
the N.T.W.U.
This bureau is body of five to be
constantly within call and to hold
frequent meetings and direct the
general organization work of the
union between the monthly meetings
of the executive board. 1t is made
up of president of the Executive
Board, Jim Reid; secretary of the
Executive Board, Clarence Miller;
Sophie Melvin, Rappoport and
Lieb.
Wage Cuts and Speed-up.
The Paterson organizer, Kushin-
sky, reported to the bureau in de-
tail on conditions in that big silk
mill center. Wage cuts continue
and unemployment grows rapidly,
largely because of the present pol
icy of the companies to force work
ers to handle twice as many looms
per worker as before, and then to
fire those they no longer need.
Workers have been coming into the
union office, 205 Paterson ST., and
(Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
MINERS NEED AID.

The following telegram was re-
ceivcd yesterday by the National
Office of the Workers International
Relief from Henry Corbishley, Sec
retary-treasurer Of the Illinois dis
trict Of the National Mine Miners
Union:
"Many miners victimized. Need
relief at ,nce. Rush funds"
Workers are asked to reply to
this call at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
MINERS BUILDING RANK
AND FILE COMMITTEES TO
LEAD ENLARGED STRIKE
Refuse to Let Gunmen and Militia Drive Them
Back to Underground Slavery; More Arrests
Call Whole Working Class to Save Corbishley,
Threatened With Long Sentence for Activity

WEST FRANKFORT Ill, Dec 25-Organzers of the
National Miners Union and committees elected by the strikers
standing firm against every variety of terror pracced by
militia deputy sheriff mine and United Mine Workers
and skebreakers penetrating the UNIV locals
and innsbruck sections of the Illinois coal fields with bundles
of the second strike call of the Grievance Committee of the
Illinois District of the n NJ u.
They working rapidly to organize rank and file
mttees elected by the miners organized and unoganzed N