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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Shoe Workers Delegates from
Shops to Unity Conference

Every shoe shop controlled by the
Left wing Independent Shoe Work
ers' Union will send delegate to
the May 18 Metropolitan Area Con-
ference for the June 1st Cleveland
Trade Union Convention. The shop
chairmen will receive instructions
from the Joint Council of the shoe
union, instructing him to call shop
meetings before May 16 for the
election of delegates. Every shop
will elect one delegate for each hun
dred workers employed, or major
fraction thereof.
Four thousand shoe workers are
expected to attend general men,
bership meeting of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union tomorrow at
6 p. M, at the Irving Plaza Hall,
18th st. and Irving Place, to dis
cuss strikes the union is engaged
in.
Continue Strike.
The strikes agcinst the Griffin &
White, Lipp, and Morgan & Gross
shops, and Wolfelt Shoe Co., which
are now in their 7th week, will be
carried into the next season, if nee
essary, Fred Biedenkapp, general
manager of the union, said today.
The strikers of these shops are de-
termined to stay out until the union
is recognized and the union scale of
wages and hours established.
The Progressive Group Of the
Cleaners and Dyers, at their last
meeting, elected q delegate 20 the
Metropolitan Area Conference of
New York, to be held May Is and
10. In the discussion on the call at
recent meeting the need for a
fighting center of all militant in
dividuals, groups and unions at the
present moment was brought out. 1t
is pointed out the cleaners and
dyers trade is infested with the
worst Tacketeering and grating
gang in the whole A. f. Of L. Only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
HOOVER BL LUFFS
ON ARMS meet
Statement Falsifies the
Actual Facts

WASHINGTON, May Tn a
statement to newspapermen, Presi-
dent Hoover today tried to cover up
the failure of the Disarmament Con-
ference by pretending that "all the
principal naval powers have ex-
pressed adherence to the principles
of the American delegation which
includes reduction instead of 1imi-
tation' of naval strength"
This statement is made in clear
contradiction to the fact of the de-
cision of the conference, which re-
jected the Soviet proposals to make
exactly this substitution. The re-
lection being supported by Hugh
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08

about a thousand Of a possible five
or six thousand workers are organ
lied. With the aid of a few organ
lied workers, some of whom, such
as key men, foremen and skilled
craftsmen, are oribed at the expense
Of the rest Of the workers, they man
age to keep the rest of the workers
lmorganized and at the mercy Of the
bosses. The bosses naturally give
them full support in maintaining a
blacklist of all workers opposed to
the gang and their gangsterism.
Only lately a number Of workers
were fined for attending an open
meeting called by the Progressive
Group. A Negro worker was beaten
up by the officials and their hired
.gangster when leaving his place of
work, the Sunshine Cleaning & Dye
ing CO.
Recognize Need of Center.
Progressive Cleaners and Dyers
at the meeting declared:
liC l-CCu lOl q NClilSI VI Oil ICNO-
lutionary groups and unions is en-
phasized by the close connection of
all the cliqUes in the right wing
unions. Our company union Off
cials did not fail to help the
Schlesinger gang by buying their
bonds through the medium of the
Hebrew Trade Union, with which
they arc affiliated.
Recently, the officials helped the
socialist party by contributing $25
for their May Day celebration,
though all the cleaning shops were
open on May Day, and any worker
who would have dared not to work
would have been fired at the de-
mand of the very same officials
probably.
"How much the eight-hour day
slogan used by the socialist party
means can be seen by the fact that
these officials force the workers to
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
May PUT ACROSS
HOUSING fraud
Mayor Sees Chance to
Use 1t in Elections

The Chrystie- -Forsythe SITS. hous-
ing fake, which has been resusci-
tated by Mayor Walker and other
Tammany politicians to use as a
smoke screen in the coming NUM-
cipal elections, may again be put on
the city calendar following the an
nouncement that Peter B. Cappel
real estate dealer on the East Side.
has induced 112 out of 191 property
owners in the blocks to agree to sell
the property to the city at 25 per
cent above the assessment value.
Realtors Fight.
The Chrystie-F Forsythe proposition
is being used by the Cappel group
Continued on Page TiOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
STRIKES SPREAD
over GERMANY;
PROTEST KILLING
Death List Now 27; All
to Be Buried Today
in Mass Funeral
Many Demonstrations
Mass Meets in Paris,
Prague and Basle
BULLETIN.

BERLIN, May Post mortem
examinations on II of the %
victims revealed that they were
shot by police, many of them in
the back. This substantiates the
charge that most of those killed
were shot on May Day during the
unarmed mass meetings before the
barricades were built.
Several victims were killed out
side the district where police had
established warlike regulations.
The public prosecutor has opened
proceedings against As of those
arrested in connection with the
riots. They are charged with
breaking the peace. A number of
others have been sentenced to
short terms in Jail on minor
charges. A majority of those ar
rested were released.
Minister of Interior Karl Sever
ing, speaking before the Reich
stag Budgetary Commission to-
day said that the government was
not considering dissolution of the
Communist Party, because such
action would be political folly"
BERLIN, Germany, May T.
Preparations rapidly proceed to hole
an imposing mass funeral for the
victims of the socialist led Berlir
police murders, while simultane-
cusly the wave of protest strikes
grows stronger.
All the Berlin building trades
workers are out on strike as g
protest against the police brutality
1uring the May Day demonstrations
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08

to deceive tenants, but the real pur-
pose of which is to make apartment
house building for the rich easier.
The First Fake.
In 1885 the health commissioner
of New York City came to the sur
prising conclusion that there was
direct relationship between slum con-
ditions and disease. The various in
vestigating commissions appointed
by the state and city could not help
but be struck by the connection be-
tween bad housing and contagious
Continued on Page TOoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Harlem Mass Meeting
for Textile Strike
Relief at s Tonight

The latest developments of the
North Carolina textile strike will be
told to Harlem workers tonight at a
mass meeting at 1900 Seventh Ave,
at 8 o'clock, arranged by the Work
ers international Relief, 1 Union
Square.
George Pershing, Gastonia, N. c.,
union organizer, and five strikers
will address the meeting. These are
Viola Hampton, Raymond Clark, w,
M. Bledsoe, Kermit Hardin, and C.
E. Hathaway. Other speakers will
be Harriet Silverman, secretary, Lo-
cal New York, Workers Interna-
tional Relief and A. Fishman. A
Harlem section of the w. l. R. will
be organized at the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
BY AN OFFICE WORKER.

''In organizing any group of work
ers in New York, where about two
million industrial workers are en-
gagged, the organization of the office
workers is very nearly indispensable
if we are to have a unionized New
York"
Robert w. Dunn, secretary of the
Labor Research Association, and au
thor of numerous books on labor and
industry, the latest of which is LA
Dor and Automobiles" emphasized
the need of a powerful union of Of
lice workers.
Intensive Speed-up.
sLike factory workers, the office
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Shop Papers on May I Rouse
Ire OF Xomkers' EXPLORERS

YONKERS, N. Y, May 1.-THE
$500 workers who slave for the
huge Otis Elevator Co., one of the
powerful open shops controlling the
Yonkers city officials, will rally be-
hind the three workers jailed fol-
lowing their attempt to hold an
open air May Day meeting here last
Saturday night, a meeting which
was to be for and by the Otis work
ers, and near the Otis plant.
The workers arrested, Edward
Wright, Henrietta Cooper, and Max
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Louis Hyman to Expose
Company Unionism at
Cloak Meeting Tonight

Company unionism and how to
fight it" will be discussed by Louis
Hyman, president of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
at the cloakmakers open forum at
Bryant Hall, 42nd st. and Sixth
Ave-, directly after work tonight.
The recently appointed committee
of 100 will begin preparations for
leading the coming fur strike at the
first committee meeting at the
needle union offices at 131 w. 28th
st. tomorrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08

Shulkan, members of the Commu-
mist Party, will come up for hear
ing next Monday, on charges of
"disorderly conduct" A permit had
been obtained from city officials to
hold the melting, but when the Otis
officials learned that a May Day
meeting was to be held, and that
copies of the Otis workers fighting
shop paper, the "Otis Lift" were
to be distributed, they Immediately
got their puppet police force busy
Continued on Page TaOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Dunn Tells of Effect of Naturalization on
Office Workers; Speaks Tomorrow Night

workers are equally subjected to
speed-up and naturalization. The
General Electric Company in Schen-
ectady, for instance, has introduced
$50 debating machines, and have
centralized all the typists in one
room to increase the efficiency.
They use three transcribers who are
familiar with the work of each
executive and in this way continuity
of the work is secured"
Continuing, Dunn said: Hundreds
Of workers have been disposed OF
from this new scheme. They also
have adopted piece work and the
bonus system with the introduction
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Oil Trusts of U.S.S.R.
Place Huge Order Here

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By MaiD.-
Orders for the Soviet oil industry
worth two million dollars have re-
Gently been placed in America, ac-
cording to a statement by Oparin,
representative of the Soviet Oil
Trusts in America who has just re-
turned from New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
WORKERS SCORE
BERLIN TERROR
BEFORE CONSUL
Demonstration Assails
Socialist Murderers
of May Day
Mass Meeting Saturday
Called by Communists;
Unions Represented

Carrying placards with slogans de-
nouncing the bloody police attack
on German May Day demonstrations
and cheering loudly the speeches
pledging solidarity to the heroic
Red Front Fighters, defenders of
the barricades in Berlin, several hun
dred workers who had first assem-
bled yesterday before the Interna-
tional Seamen's Club, % South St.,
demonstrated in a body before the
German Consulate in New York.
Gastonia Striker Leads.
They were led by Viola Hampton,
Gastonia mill striker, who carried
a placard reading: Southern Tex
tile Strikers Declare Solidarity with
German Workers" Other placards
stated: "Zoergeibel- Bloodhound of
Berlin" 'Down with the Socialist
Murderer of German Workers."
Down with Police Brutality Against
the German Workers." Hail the
Red May Day of the German Work
ers," Hail the German Red Front
Fighters" Hail the Solidarity of
the Working Class"
Three Negro workers, Harold
Williams, John H. Owens and w. A.
Jones, marched in protest demon
stration, together with white work
ers, before the German consulate.
The crowds of workers who wit
messed the demonstrators marching
to the consulate, and the audience
at the meeting i'll the Seamen's Club,
raised cheer when they saw their
Negro fellow-workers demonstrat-
ing solidarity for the striking and
fighting toilers over in Berlin.
Another Meeting Saturday.
The demonstration yesterday is
preliminary to larger one called
by District 2 of the Communist
Party, for 1870 p. m. Saturday, in
Union Square, at which prominent
speakers from the left wing unions
and the Communist Party will speak.
Among them will be Robert Minor,
j. Louis Engdahl, George Pershing,
Paul Crouch, Ben Gold, Rose Wor-
lis, Fred Biedenkapp, John Owens,
John Ballam and others. There will
be speakers and representatives as
well as masses of the membership
to represent the striking cafeteria
workers, the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, the National
Textile Workers Union, the indie
pendent Shoe Workers Union of
Greater New York, the Window
Cleaners Union, the Trade Union
Educational League, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, the Anti-Im-
perialist League and others.
This meeting, like the meeting
yesterday, will have speakers to
point out the part played by the So
cialist servants of capitalist oppres-
sion in Berlin, the bloody police
chief, Zoergiebel, and Grzesinski,
Prussian minister of the interior.
Yesterday, the police, taken by
surprise by the appearance of the
workers before the consulate, failing
to break it up themselves, did their
best to rally German Consulate Of
ficials and other elements from
steamship companies and Wall
Street offices to attack the demon
stration.
These fascist rowdies tore up the
signs and under police supervision
and protection attacked the crowd,
which stood fast, however, and gave
rousing reception to the speech of
Bert Miller, organization secretary
Of District 2 of the Communist
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
BY SOL AUERBACH.
XXIII.

From 1885 to 1929.
Let him remember that the Tene-
ment House Law of 1901, hailed as
an achievement in reform by some
people, was so much scrap paper
that might just as well have been
thrown into the waste-basket stand
ing beside the governor when he
signde it.
Let him also remember that the
new Multiple Dwellings, Bill, which
has just been signed by Roosevelt, to
take the place of the 1901 law, is
nothing but a brazen fake, intended
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
ElizabethtOn Strikers Parade.

ELIZABETHToN Tenn- May 1.-THE rayon strikers in the
American Bemberg and Ganzso mills here the
ran in to the statement that they
ready to return to work The mills
union to do the work of 5000 strikers
machine around the plants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
French SeamenStrike
to Secure Pay When
Between Voyages

ST. NAZAIRE. France, May Z.
Eight hundred seamen en-
pIoyed by the Companie Generate
Transatlantique declared a strike
today after the employers had
failed to agree to wages between
voyages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
DRUG CLERKS MEET.

A special membership meeting of
the New York Drug Clerks Asso-
citation will be held at Hunts Point
Palace, 163d st. and Southern Blvd,
Bronx, at $3.50 tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Youth Held On $4,000 Bail For "Sedition.'

BETHLEHEM Pa, May Fourteen of the
May Day held today charges of edn
Among them Michael Buak aged H. and his
They jailed the snce of Lloyd principal of
the South Side High School because of Mhaes distribution
Young Workers May Day call at the school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Court Shields Sinclair Privacy.

WASHINGTON May WH.-An official order barring
from visiting the district Jail during the incarceration of
Harry F. Sinclair multi millionaire 80 days for contempt
of the Senate issued tonight by George s. Wilson, district dir
ectOr of pubic welfare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
Another Bankruptcy Ring LAWYER Quits.

Samuel Rose attorney in III bankruptcy often
the Federal Judges Wnsow Mokowitz
have been
for bankruptcy frauds resigned from the bar because of these in
vesigatOns yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08

Struggle Against Imperialist
War! Get Ready to Turn an I'M
pcrialist War Into Class Warl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
A Century of Fake Housing
Measures in New York State

(Ths is the t0enty-thid IN a of articles appearing
uvy the Daily Worker opposing the conditions ander whicb
the UOrkeS live articles
dons the districts. The
bluffs the enpOters n housing lgisa
ton n York This CU conclude
BY SOL AUERBACH.
in the housing situation from legislative quarters let him remember
that 1885 there has been talk by politicians
relieving housing situation City
violations of the first law rampant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For WorkerS-FarmerS Government
To Organize the Unorgamized
For The 4O-HOur Week
For Labor Party
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
CLIPPED IN THE BUD

Last week over in Wisconsin, a
number of young boys and young men
were arrested for committing several
robberies 1t seems that they had
formed a gang, which operated all
over that section with many of the
earmarks of the professional gangs in
the big cities. After being arrested,
they confessed to several of the depre-
dations that have been committed in
that section this winter, and it is ex-
pected to lay several others to the
operation of this gang. The ages of
the scoundrels ranged all the way
from IA to 25 years, and already there
had been created considerable loyalty
and enthusiasm among the various
members. But, the law was too wise
for their young brains to devise ways
to dodge for long. They will be pun
ished and some, if not all, will prob
ably, or at least it is hoped, will be
induced to give up the career that
they started. Their life of crime has
been nipped in the bud before it had
progressed very far. With a good stiff
sentence in punishment for their
crimes, these youngsters will have
plenty of time to think over the folly
of their deeds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
WISER SCHOOL NOTES
District 3S.

School began Monday morning after
a two weeks vacation. For some it
had not been very pleasant vacation,
as it had been spent in bed. However,
all were back and smiling but two of
the beginners who are still "cooped
up"
The Friday evening before the va
cation was one of excitement and
pleasure as we gave our Christmas
program, which was enjoyed by a
full house.
Our school sold $685. worth of
Christmas seals. We chose the Their
mometer as our premium and find it
splendid addition in the schoolroom.
All but two sold stamps enough to
receive pin, and many sold enough
to receive a game.
Joseph ROsga, an eighth grader,
went to Minneapolis to have his glass
es changed.
Ethel Gruett was chosen chief re-
porter for news and school notes, and
Gertrude Weser and liver Johnson, as
sistants. Next month new reporters
will be chosen.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
TALKING VARIATIONS

Blah, blah, blah! Almost seeming
ly without enG is the new fad, or con-
tests, we should say which have been
staged in the larger cities of the east
in order to draw public interest and
also the public's dollar for some new
scheme or other Yes they have
started Talking marathons" now and
it would seem that some of the flap
pers and others of that sex have an
edge on the somewhat recently made
weaker SEX. Yes, Miss so-and-sO
won the prize. Yah, she talked long
er than any of her competitors. We
don't know what she talked about and
we doubt if she does, but she talked
and that was all that was necessary
to get the prize. Well, at any rate
these talking marathons may be rec
ognized as a public benefit, because
when we run across one of those who
have lot to say and has a difficult
time in getting an audience. we can
recommend one of these marathons as
a cure for time at least.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
OGEMA
T. J. Ryan sawed wood for l.. Irons

T. ]. Ryan sawed wood for l.. Irons
Monday.
The Misses Swans and Benson, went
to Hinckley Sunday afternoon. Nal
and Ire Swan drove the truck and it
was a cold trip as the roads were
drifted in places.
Percy Schaefer from Hinckley, spent
part of his vacation in Ogema.
Miss Hilda Westlund left for Rhine
lander, Wis.,, to her school, Sunday af-
ternOon, after spending two weeks at
the home of her father.
Bud Ryan got kicked in the face
by mule Sunday, and is absent from
school, as his face and one eye is
sore.
Lem Irons had veterinary from
Hinckley, out to see a sick cow Mon
day.
H. Hamm came up from Cleveland
Mimi, to cut wood for Mr.. Curry.
Miss Selma Miller returned to
Hinckley Sunday.
Mrs. Harding and Miss Role re-
turned to their schools Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
Youngquist Appeals
Case In Supreme Court

Ben Youngquist, who is serving a
term in Saltwater state prison has
appealed his case to the Minnesota
State Supreme court asking for a new
trial. Youngquist was sentenced for
life by Judge Stolberg on April 49,,
1928, after trial for the murder of
Milo Smith in January, 1928. The
case will come before the Supreme
Court on Jan. IS, 1929, Youngquist
appealing from the order of the Dis
trict Court denying him retrial.
Youngquist's appeal for new trial
is made on the grounds of the adj
mission of evidence given by him in
the trial of Budd Snoek for the same
crime, into his (YoungquiSts) trial.
The attorneys for Youngquist i'm his
appeal are j. j. Jenswold and Albert
Johnson, who also represented him in
his trial in District Court last April.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
EDWIN PEARSON SUCCUMBS

Friends and neighbOrs were shocked
to hear of the death of Edwin Pear
son, resident of this district Mr..
Pearson would have been 36 years
old in February and was an active
and pleasant young man. The day
after Christmas he was taken i'll with
The flu, which developed into pneu-
monia and caused his departure
Thursday, January 3. He leaves to
mourn, wife and two children,
Hjalmar j., aged 3 years, and Royce
L., aged Is months. Besides he leaves
to mourn, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Hokanson, two brothers, Arthur
and Dolliver, and two sisters, Gloria
and Mrs. Russell Swain. the latter
residing at Hinckley. Funeral SER
vices were held Jan. 9Th at 1870 at
the = Hinckley funeral parlors.
The pallbearers were: Hiding,
Gilbert, and Axel Hakanson, Frank
and Harry Johnson and Ambrose Hoff-
man.
Mrs. Edwin Pearson and children
are staying at the Peter Pearson
home at the present, and the SYM
patty of the entire community is eX-
tended to them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
WHO WOULD PAY?

We note an editorial comment in
the Anoka Herald about a young miss
who announced with every evidence OF
satisfaction that the members of her
class had purchased their class pins
and commencement invitations in Chi
cago and thus avoided paying any
thing to the local dealer" iu is a
shortsighted view ana it is regret
able that schools permit such buy
ing but they often do.
Who would pay the taxes which &c
toward the education of these young
sters if everybody made their pur-
chases in Chicago in order to avoid
paying anything to local dealers?
1t is just such shOrtsighted pol
icies as this which are injuring the
small town. The practice is gross in
justice to local dealers and should
cease.-Spring Valley Tribune.