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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
T.U.EL. PLEDGES
STRIKE SUPPORT
Mass Meets. Protests
and Organization

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their paid agents in the South to
drown the workers protest in blood.
Starts Organization.
workers! The winning of the
textile strike in Gastonia, N. c.,
means the beginning of the organ
ization of labor in the South and the
solidarity of the working class of
America and the unity of the Negro
and white workers.
"Dowr with the bloody slave
drivers of the South,
"Let labor arise and teach these
murderous, lynch-law South er n
bosses a lesson in working class
solidarity that they will never for
get.
Forward to the Trade Union
Unity Convention at Cleveland, O.,
June IL; there to establish new
trade union center which will organ
;ze the unorganized workers North
and South, black and white, men and
women, and mobilize the workers
under the banners of the T. U. E. L.,
to make forever impossible the re-
currence of such outrages as those
now perpetrated against the Gas
tonia textile strikers.-John ]. Bal
lam, Acting Secretary National Ex-
ecutive Committee, Trade Union
Educational League.
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new YORK WOMEN
meet ON april q
TUEL Calls Delegates
from the Shops

A shop delegate conference to
mobilize the working women of New
York and Brooklyn for the New
York conference and Cleveland
Trade Union Unity Convention has
been called by the Women's Depart
ment of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, New York district, to
meet April 81, at the Labor Temple.
Representatives from the organ
lied shops \ the needle trades, shoe
factories, restaurants and others
will be present but large part of
the representation at this prelimin-
airy conference is intended to come
from the unorganized light indus
tries in New York.
Build Shop Committees.
Shop committees are being organ
lied as rapidly as possible to send
representatives to this April 81 con-
ference, but all class conscious wo-
men workers, whether from formally
organized shop committees or not,
are invited to come, as one Of the
main tasks of the April 81 confer
ence is to speed up the organization
of shop committees, and all workers
in unorganized industries can assist.
The April 81 conferences will lay
the basis for a much larger and
more representative conference to
meet May 1919 in Irving Plaza
Hall, to take UP problems Of organ
izing the workers of New York. This
conference, too, is preliminary to the
National Trade Union Unity Con-
ference meeting in Cleveland, June
1-2, to organize a new militant labor
center and to form plans for organ
izing the unorganized on q wide
scale.
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senate, HOUSE
CLASH ON FARMS
Debenture Scheme for
Fake Relief Offered

WASHINGTON, April IS. - The
old debenture or tariff bounty plan
of faker farm relief" which has
been banded about in congress for
five years, was made the basis to-
day for about the only fight over
farm legislation in President Hoo
ver's special session of congress.
Chairman McNary of the senate ag-
ricultural committee today drew up
the debenturo plan, which will be
included in the senate bill.
The tariff bounty or debenture
plan is not intended to assist the
farmer at all, and will not do so,
but has a real bearing on the tariff
situation. The scheme is for issu-
ance to every exporter of wheat a
certificate for half the amount of
the tariff on an equivalent value of
imports. For 1000 bushels of wheat
at present prices, the debenture
would amount to $420, and this GER
tificate would be sold to importers,
who would use it at face value to
pay tariff duties.
Swindle Farmer as Usual
The farmer would have to sci,
his wheat at the same price as at
present to middlemen, who would
get the additional profit from the
debenture even as they now take all
the profit between the excessive SELL
ing price of wheat products in the
cities and the very low prices paid
farmers.
In actual practice, the farmer
probably never would see deben-
ture certificate as these would be
handled exclusively among export
ers, importers and brokers.
The debenture plan would be OPP
erative only at the discretion of the
proposed federal farm board.
House Opposes Debenture.
Debate on the farm bill was OPEN
ed in the house today, with Repre-
sentative Williams, rep, Illinois, as
serting in speech that the $780,
100000 agriculture bill just placed
before it will give the farmer bar
gaining power and control over mar
keting as well as production of his
commodities.
President Hoover's support of the
measure was claimed by Williams
who said his views were Incorporated
in the measure. The house bill does
not include the debenture export
bonus plan Incorporated in the SEN
ate measure.
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| AbOR DEFENSE
DENOUNCES RAID
Defends All in Jail;
National Campaign

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Workers Union headquarters and
the relief store there.
"The action of the militia and
state and city officers in not only
permitting this outbreak of violence
against the workers, but in actually
aiding it by coming in, obviously
with pre-knowledge that the attack
was being prepared, and making it
safe for the gangsters by arresting
all possible defenders in the head
quarters, is as wanton and provoca-
tive as it is illegal" said the state
ment.
"The l. L. D. takes notice Of this,
one more act showing the unity of
the state and city officials, the
militia and police, with the mill own
ers who are trying to starve their
workers back to the 12-hour day
and $40 weekly wage. 1t is nothing
new to workers to find this COM
bination and the I. L. D. will re-
double its efforts because of this
latest outrage. We will defend the
strikers, and we call on all the work.
ing class to help US in this work"
Telegram to Governor.
kilograms have been sent by the
/. L. D.. national office to the gov
ernor of North Carolina and the
mayor of Gastonia, denouncing their
complaisance with the use of vio-
lence against the strikers.
The telegram to each official
reads:
"The International Labor Defense
protests most strongly against the
outrageous attack of hired thugs of
the mill owners and military forces
of the government on the strike
leaders and headquarters of the
union and relief in Gastonia. Our
national organization stands ready
to defend the strikers to the limit
against these barbarous attacks and
will maintain the right of the tex
tile workers to strike, to picket and
to organize. We will defend the
slaves of The textile mills to the
utmost in their heroic struggle to
build their union and struggle
against the exploitation by the mill
owners. We demand the immediate
release of the imprisoned strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
Protest Killing of
Negro Schoolboy at
ANLCMeetMOnday

The killing of the Negro school
boy Henry Clarke by his white
schoolmate will be protested at a
mass meeting to be held under the
auspices of the American Negro La
Dor Congress and the Young Work
ers Communist League at st. Lukes
Hall, 125 w. 130th St., at 8 p. M,
Monday, April %.
Speakers v-ill be Harold Williams,
of the Negro Department of the
Communist Party, chairman; Will
liam BURROUGHS, of the American
Negro Labor Congress; Leo Gran,
of the Harlem Inter-racial Club;
Charles Alexander of the Young
Workers Communist League; John
Owens, recently returned from the
Southern textile strike; Richard B.
Moore, of the Harlem Tenants
League; R. Steele, secretary of the
Eastern District of the Labor Sports
Union, and Harry Eisenman, of the
Young Pioneers of America.
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masked THUGS
Wreck Textile
STRIKE OFFICE
Destroy Relief Store;
Militia Assists

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deposited with the bonding COM
panies.
Previous Attacks.
The strikers are much aroused
over this gross attempt at intimi-
dation and starvation, but are made
more determined than ever to win
They have been striking for weeks
and their strike has spread through
Pineville, Lexington and other North
Carolina towns, and into Anderson,
South Carolina.
The hired thugs carrying deputy
sheriff's badges here, and the North
Carolina militia, are posted at the
mills, arrest workers without war
rant, and recently have bayonetted
a striker.
Paul Crouch, speaking for the
International Labor Defense, will
address the strikers in Lexington
tomorrow, and will speak in Gas
tonia Saturday.
To Hold Parade.
Before the raid took place, the
National Textile Union had called
through the medium of leaflets dis
tributed in surrounding towns for
a mobilization of mill workers in
Gastonia, and parade through the
streets and around the mills to pro-
test the brutalities of the deputies
and defend the right to strike.
Herbert Hutchens, IS, a cotton
mill scab, was shot by a deputy
sheriff at Bessemer City, N. c., last
night. Hutchens was one of a few
who had remained in the struck mill.
Carroll Holland, the deputy sheriff,
said the shooting was accidental.
Hutchens' wound was only slight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
aoa Textile Workers Union Fully Endorses Union Unity Convention
MOBILIZE FOR MAY DAY

THE following partial International May Day meetings
by the Communist Party
cities halls and speakers of their May Day meetings
otherwise noted, meetings on May l.
CALIFORNIA
Francisco p m Eagle Hail. s Golden Gate Ave Speakers:
E. CARLOS, others.
CONNECTICUT
Hartford p m, Labor Lyceum. 2oOS Main ST.
Port Chester Finnish Workers Home, AZ n Water
DELAWARE
Wilmington p. Speakers: F. Mozer L.. Meldin.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore p. m Speakers: Murdoch YwCL speaker.
MASSACHUSETTS
Bedford. p Speakers A.
weibOrd, f. Keller, and Southern textile striker.
Gardner May s. p. m. ,,,c,,c,v
Detroit 1880 Danceland Auditorium, Woodward
Flint, 1880 m. Speaker A. Gerach
Saginaw 1880 p. m. Speaker: A. Neger.
Grand Rapids, 1880 p m. Speaker: j. Schmies.
Muskegon, 1880 M. Speaker, P Raymond.
NEW JERSEY
Newark, p. m, Progressive Center SO Mercer ST.
Jersey City, Ukanan Workers Home,
Paterson p m Carpenters Hall 5i-s Van Houen St.
Passac Workers Home, 25 Dayton Ave.
Union City, $3.50 p m, Nepvoda's Hall, 2st
Perth Amboy, s p. Workers Home, 3Os Elm St
Elizabeth May 5, p. Liberty Hall, E. End St
NEW YORK
p N. Y. Coliseum, ST. Bronx
River Ave.
Yonkers. May 5, p. m. Workers Cooperative Center.
May A. mr meeting Manor House So.
Cleveland p. (Ban ROOM.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Pittsburgh, 1880 p m. Labor Lyceum, Miller
Philadelphia p. m. Speakers R. Minor, H. Benjamin
Negro speaker
Chester Speakers: Ben Thomas and speaker.
Allentown, p. L. P.
Wilkes Barre, m.
Scranton, p. m.
Mnersvile, p. m.
and Bethlehem m.
RHODE ISLAND
Providence m. Speakers: J. r. Reid L. Nardella.
There will be May Day meetings in the following
which Haven
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
r. r. WORKERS INJURED.

ITHACA, N. Y, April 1S.-"Up-
The engineer and conductor of a
fast Lehigh Valley passenger train
we're injured seriously and many
passengers were thrown from their
seats today when the engine and
seven cars plunged into creek bed
near here. The track had been
weakened by washouts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
FORCE PROBE OF DRY KILLING

SPRINGFIELD, III, April 18.--
Public opinion is so inflamed over
the slaughter of Mrs. De King in
her own home at Aurora recently
by dry officer who forced his way
in on liquor search warrant OBJ
tanned by perjury that the state leg
islature felt forced to take some &C.
ton, and today by a vote of 81 to
so ordered special investigation.
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(C0ntlnued from rage OHej
That is certainly situation to
alarm the patriots of that govern
ment of theirs. Just take a walk
thru the Lower East Side or thru
the tenements in Harlem and then
take walk along Riverside Drive
and if you are at all class conscious
you cannot help but ask yourself
this question:
'How long will it be before we
workers of the tenements will
march and take possession of
Riverside Drive?"
Police and Landlords
That is a fear that always turks
in the minds of the masters. That
is why Rockefeller builds "model
apartment" to at least win over a
very small section of Negroes living
in Harlem.
These Investigators for the CAPT
talist state urge more stringent
methods in the fighting of crime in
the workingclass districts. The CAPT
talist state has it's police and its
courts to root out" immoral prac-
tees in tenement districts. But the
task of roofing out these practices
will never be accomplished by these
police and courts. They are an inte-
grail part of the landlord system.
The landlord system means that
many workers living in segregated
district such as Harlem, where the
mountain of rents knows no summit,
will have to play numbers" must
have rent parties" must practise
prostitution in order to crafty the
profit stomachs of the landlords.
The Real Criminals.
AS long as workers are the sub
ject of exploitation by boss and
landlord, there will be "crime" in
workingclass districts. The state
will use its courts and police against
this result of capitalist exploitation.
This very same state will help the
landlords in the exploitation of the
tenants.
1t is this state and the class of
landlords who are the real criminals.
They perpetuate one of the greatest
crimes in all of history.
Are not Riverside Drive and Fifth
Avenue among the greatest criminal
galleries in the world?
A Forced Issue"
TAKE the case of the building at
1 Seventh Avenue. Eleven years
ago this building was inhabited by
white tenants. During and after the
war period when Negro workers
flocked into the cities to furnish
cheap labor power for the exploiters,
they were all, in the words of men,
Der of the State Housing Com
mission, dumped into Harlem"
The result was that the landlords be-
gan posting notices like these:
"We have endeavored for some
time to avoid turning over this
house to colored tenants, but as a
result of the rapid changes in con-
ditions during the past month, the
issue has been forced upon u.s..
X. X. X. and Profits.
The landlords were not as dis
pleased with the prospects as it
might seem. They saw an oppor-
tunity for more profits. How strong
their profit urge is can be seen from
the fact that they ignored letters
such as these:
Dear Sir:
"We have been informed of your
intention to rent your house at
No.. $50. to Negro tenants. This
is wholly un-American, and is
totally against our principles.
eve ask in a gentlemanly way
to rescind your order, or I'M
pleasant things may happen.
MAY your decision be the right
one.
"(Signed) X X r."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19

The lower middle class, the small
manufacturer. the shOpkeeper, the
artisan, the peasant. all these fight
against the b0urGeOisie, to snve
from extinction their existence ms
fractions Of the middle class. They
are therefore not revolutionary. but
ronscrvative.-karl Marx (C0mmu-
MIST Manifest0).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19

The first step in the revolution
by the working class is to raise
the prOletariat to the position of
ruling class, to win the battle of
demOcracy.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
ROYAL DIPLOMATIC VISIT.

BRUSSELS, April 1s. (U.P)-
King Boris of Bulgaria, arrived to-
day for a two-day visit with King
Albert, who met him at the station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
FRENCH IMPERIALIsT PROTEST

PARIS, April 1S.-The govern
ment today protested to the Nank-
ing government the firing on
French gunboat by an unidentified
band in the Ichang vicinity.
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RHODE ISLAND.

Providence, p. Speakers j. r. Reid, L. Nardela.
will be May meetings following
which
May Bridgeport and other cities
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deposited with the bonding COM
panies.
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The Brass Band.
THE white tenants living in this
l building on Seventh Avenue paid
$37 for six rooms. The first Negro
tenant to move in paid SAL for the
same apartment. Negro workers
were welcomed to the Grassland
tune of rent-raise.
Today, the rent for the same
six rooms is sos.
The tenant we spoke to living at
this address was a longshoremar
and received an average Of $25 q
week in wages. He has to pay sos
for his apartment.
How does he do it? He rents out
most Of his rooms to dodgers. He
cannot be choicy about these dodgers
They are hard to find and one must
accept what one gets. This tenant
is fortunate for he has been able to
avoid an atmosphere of gambling
drinking and prostitution for his
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09

Americas bloody Imperialism will
be exposed through first hand evil
dence at the Madison Square Gar
den, Saturday evening, Jan. 10, in
connection with the Lenin Memorial
meeting. Official announcement
was made last night by the arrange
ments committee that at the dem
onstration the banner captured from
United States marines in Nicaragua
by General Sandino's revolutionary
forces will be placed on exhibit in
full view Of the thousands who will
come to protest against the grow
ing war danger.
Gustav Machado, representative
to Mexico of Nicaragua's working
class government, has sent a reply
to the Lenin Memorial Committee
complying with the request to ship
the flag to America. In his reply,
Machado writes:
"Will ship flag for Lenin Mem
orial meeting in New York. The
captured trophy, symbol of Wall
Streets INSCRIPTIONS, unwarranted,
imperialistic and inhuman interven-
ton in Nicaragua's domestic affairs
should arouse every American work
er to the full significance of the
growing war danger.
american marines, hired tools of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09
"Witchcraft" Trial Is
Exposing Superstition
Shielded by Mellon Men

YORK, Pa, Jan. 8.-Clayton
Hess, brother of the Wilbur Hess
who is on trial along with John Bly,
meyer and John Curry, in his testi-
mony today brot the witch angle"
into the trial of these three for
numbering Nelson Rehmeyer. He
testified that Blymeyer told him
that they had to go to Rahmeyer and
hold him while they cut off his witch
lock and buried it eight feet deep in
back of the Hess chicken house, to
lift spell Rehmeyer had put on the
Hess hens.
The prosecutor fought hard to pre-
vent the use of The word, witch"
The Mellon coal and steel machine
which controls this state has en-
couraged ignorance and superstition,
to keep the farmers and workers
divided and occupied with other
things than organization. But the
ruling class here is not anxious to
have the situation exposed, and it
was arranged at the trial that there
should be testimony of murder and
robbery only, without any word of
witchcraft decisions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09

The National Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union is built
on an industrial basis and differs
in its organizational form as well
as in its aims, tasks and objec-
tives from the old unions, which
are under the domination of the
corrupt right wing clique. The
new industrial union has raised
the banner of the class struggle
and seeks to awaken the idealism
and aspirations of the fighting
working class in their struggle
against their common enemy. The
bloody attack that the labor
traitors together with the bosses
have organized against the cloak
makers, dressmakers and furriers
has broken the unions and placed
the workers at the mercy of the
bosses. The new industrial union
is taking up the struggle to free
the workers from the exploitation,
terror and oppression of the bosses
with their company unions, and
for union conditions and union
control in the shops.
The new industrial union calls
on the cloakmakers, dressmakers
and furriers to Immediately join
the union, to unite with the class
conscious and fighting workers,
who are conducting an energetic,
fearless and brave struggle
against the enemies of organized
workers, and to help the new
union in every possible way
morally, financially and thru ac-
tive participation-in the impend-
ing struggles to win back all
union conditions and improve
ments for the workers and their
families.
Thousands of needle trades
workers at mass meeting in
Lincoln Arena have greeted with
flaming enthusiasm the establish
ment of the industrial union,
which awakens new hope and
strengthens the faith in the or
ganized power of the workers, and
is source Of inspiration to the
workers in their determined strug-
gle against their enemies. The
industrial union blazes a new
trail in the class struggle on the
economic and political fields for
the American labor movement.
The National Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union is en-
titled to the fullest support Of the
American workers. The success
of the Needle Trades Workers
Union will be the success Of the
entire American labor movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09
FRANCE JAILS
z COMMUNISTS
Spaniard, Hungarian
in Prison
(Red Aid Press Service }

PARIS, (By MaiD The bour-
geois press reports that at the close
of a meeting two foreigners were
arrested, one a Spaniard named
Canga and the other an Hungarian
named Ladislaus Aradi.
Both have been turned over to the
foreign police and remain in Jail.
Cango was said to have entered
France under false name, having
been banished from France in July.
Aradi is said to have had with him
q false passport.
Naturally, the French newspapers
knew enough to report a "secret
meeting" and the Organization of
groups of the Third International"
While in France, as the Nissa
case showed, fascist who threaten
anti-fascist workers and are en-
gagged in espionage for Mussolini.
are allowed to run around free, a
false pass is enough to extradite
Communists and start arrests and
trials.
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PIONEERS ACTIVE
IN MIDDLE WEST

suffer greater wage-cut than even
the adult miners, were issued and
attributed effectively by our League
and Pioneer members.
Youth Work in Election Campaign.
Turnout the district, the entire
League energetically participated in
the election campaign: distributing
thousands of leaflets, holding open
air meetings, factory gate meetings,
indoor meetings-bringing the Com
munist platform for the youth before
numerous youth organizations, etc.
Many young workers were arrested
and jailed in the course Of this ac-
tivity.
Many new members were drawn
into the League and our Communist
youth movement brought before
many thousands of old and young
workers, who had never heard of US
before.
A special election campaign tour
was made thru the coal fields, to-
gether with the Workers (Com-
munist) Party organizer.
We are today building up small
initiative groups, whose task is to
concentrate the bulk of their activity
on large factory in an attempt to
build up Communist youth nucleus.
The st. Louis members have sue
ceeded in building up a club COM
posed of young needle trades work
ers. This club will be an important
factor in "speeding-up" the organi-
zation Of the $4,000 needle trades
workers, of which women and young
workers make up majority.
Kenosha Strike.
For the past year a strike has
been taking place in Nhe Allen-A
Hosiery Mill, Kenosha, Wis. For
months we maintained youth or
ganizer in the strike. Some import
ant demonstrations were held in con-
nection with this strike. Just few
weeks ago, when 20 of the strikers
were jailed, the League organized a
picket line before the judges home
in Milwaukee. The police broke it
up and arrested some of the demon
strators. The next week a picket
line of the Pioneers was again or
gained and a large open air meet
ing held.
Some inroads have been made in