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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

brushes IN bubbllng with excuses.
"Oh, it takes me so long to get
over here. They keep me so busy
until late u night. :"
A Clever Minister.
AS you sit opposite the trim
Father Bishop you think of carpeted
floors, wide sunlit rooms, butler
servants and a cook.
"Yes, conditions are bad in Har-
lem," begins Father Bishop, after
listening intently to our introduction
and the purpose of our visit. 1--WE
have not told him that we know that
his church owns a block of tene-
ments.) "Some of the landlords
not all of them-refuse to make re-
pairs unless they get rent raises
Conditions are unsanitary, the peo-
pie live in unventilated and disease
breeding rooms. Not all the houses
are bad, however. There are some
good houses and some bad ones"
"Where are some of the good ones
located?," we ask, hoping that he
will mention among the good ones
the row of rat and vermin- breeding
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
HOOVER MESSAGE
HAS NO PLAN FOR
farmers RELIEF
Breaks All Promises
Made During Vote
Catching Tour
.Sabotages Loan Plan
Wants More Patronage
on Tariff Machine

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Presi-
dent Hoover today handed the spe-
cial session of congress a message
covering the two purposes for which
the meeting was called in the most
cynical and reactionary manner in
which presidential campaign prom
ises have been broken so far in his
tory.
His promise made over and over
again to the farmers while he was
campaigning for the presidency, that
their condition would be relieved,
was simply disregarded in the mes
sage, as far as practical plans or
suggestions are concerned. He didn't
make any.
DenOunces Fee.
The equalization fee and the de-
benture plan for exporting grain,
which have been considered by the
house committee on farm legisla-
ton, though not included in the bill
submitted by the committee, Hoover
publicly denounces.
Hoover's message began, with an
admission that agricaltr is in a
bad way, and then attempted to
blame this on foreign competition"
Hoover does admit, however, that
certain administration appropriation
bills must be considered, and sug-
gests action on the National Origins
bill on immigration.
See Farmer Anger.
The farm bloc, which generally
has supported the president, acted
surprised today that his farm relief
tariff message to congress did not
go further in the matter of at least
making pretense at relief.
The message, opposing the fee or
tax system of handling farm sur
pluses, and strongly opposing gen.
eral tariff revision, was heard by
farm senators solemnly. Afte r
listening, with rather serious man.
ner, some issued public comment in
dicating dissatisfaction.
Senator Smith W. Brookhart,
Rep'n., Ia, who campaigned for Mr..
Hoover, and Senator Capper, Rep'n,
Kas., Hoover supporter and nominal
head of the bloc voiced the first
bloc sentiment.
Fight for Debenturcs.
Chairman McNary of the senate
agriculture committee pointed out
the document did not mention the
debenture plan which his committee
is planning to tack on the Hoover
bill unless 1t receives more discour-
agement from the department of
agriculture than was contained in
the presidents message.
Senator Norris, Rep'n, Neb., who
opposed Mr.. Hoover: 81 have not
found anything new in it. We all
agree that agriculture is in very
unfavorable position. He hasn't
touched the question of surplus. He
hasn't definitely outlined any rem
coy. We are in the same position
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
LITVINOFF HAS
DETAILED PLAN
AGAINST WAR
Enjoys at Preparatory
Arms Conference Hear
It in Silence
Lashes Militarist Plot
Says Leagues Method
Leads to Blind Alley

GENEVA, Switzerland, April Is.
speaking in English, Maxim Lit
vinoff, Acting Peoples Commissar
for Foreign Affairs, today held the
preparatory commission on disarm-
ament of the nations spellbound as
he outlined and pied for the Soviet
partial disarmament plan. The total
disarmament plan, which was
brought by the Soviet delegates be-
fore last years league sessions was
rejected by the imperialists.
Litvinoff assailed naval limitation,
pointing out that it in no way diff
fers from previous futile attempts
in this direction which had been
made by the imperialist powers
prior to the world war. He cited
the proposed naval holiday which
preceded the conflict between Great
Britain and Germany.
Scores Rejection of Proposal.
In the absence of sentiment for
total disarmament, Litvinoff pro-
posed the partial disarming plan.
"The acceptance of the Soviet pro-
posa' for proportional reduction Of
all armed forces and categories of
ornaments would have removed
those differences between the sea
powers, which are at present block
ing the work of the preparatory
commission, and obviate the per-
haps still more acute differences al
most sure to arise in the problems
of land and air forces" Litvinoff
stated.
The speaker then emphasized the
sharpened differences which are at
present heightening the war danger
between the United States and Brit
ish imperialism, adding that il was
constantly becoming more acute.
The speaker then lashed the
leagues method of technical inves-
tigation of the armament problem,
calling it ''blind alley" and will
of-the-wisp."
Decide to DISCUSS"
Pointing out that the Kellogg pact
contains no newer guarantees of
security than the Locarno agree
ments, he showed that the Soviet
governments sincere application
ven of this pact to the most troublA1
section of Europe had brought it
to bear as a force in the struggle
against the war danger in eight
European countries. Yet, if the i'm
perialists honestly wish peace, they
must abandon their reluctance to re-
duce ornaments, Litvinoff declared.
The league has decided "to dis
cuss the Soviet plan on it's merits"
and later determine its available
ity."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

to this last number: "Young
Guards" and Pioneers March"
Those wokrers who have already
seen this memorable series of recrea-
tions of Russian revolutionary his
tory are certain to find it even more
enjoyable than ever before.
If you don't see the Duncan Dam
GERS now, you will never again have
an opportunity to see them unless
you go to the Soviet Union. The
Daily Worker has made special ar
rangements by which 1t receives a
percentage all tickets sold from
its office, 26 Union So. See these
wonderful young Soviet dancers and
help your fighting "Daily" at the
same time. Tickets are going fast.
But at once!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Workers to See Duncan Ty0ube
IN Farewell Tomorrow Night

"This isn't dancing; this is mar
velous new art never known before!"
This and similar comments have
been made by thousands of workers
who have seen the Isadora Duncan
Dancers in this country. Tomorrow
night there will be many more such
comments, for tomorrow these re-
markable children of the Soviet
Union will give the opening per-
formance of their farewell at Man
haitian Opera House, 34th st. and
Eighth Ave.
Tomorrow nights program in
cludes numbers from Chopin, Bee
thoven, Schubert, Brahms and Mo-
zart and concludes with the famous
"Impressions Of Revolutionary Rus
sia." Two additions have been made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Lenin May Day Article
on Page 6 Tomorrow.

Tomorrow on page 6, the Daily
will publish a manifesto written
by Lenin in prison in 1896 for
May Day. 1t resulted in giving
the first impetus to the strike Of
10000 textile workers of st.
Petersburg.
Lenin issued the leaflet in the
name of the League for the Strug-
gle for the Emancipation of the
Working Class, which developed
into the MARKHAM Social Demo-
cratic Labor Party, and then into
the Communist Party of the Sow.
let Union.
Look for this article tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

the Gastonia strikers working in the
nationwide relief campaign.
To organize Workers Interna-
tional Relief conferences and pre-
pare mass meetings for the delega-
tion of North Carolina strikers now
in the east, Bonchi Friedman, yes
terday left for trip thru New Jer-
sey and the New England states, in
cluding Elizabeth, Newark, Pater-
son, Union City, Passaic, Perth Am
boy, Jersey City, Bayonne, New
Continued on Page Twol -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
The First InstalIment of
"CEMENT''
The Famous Soviet Novel by
FEODOR GLADKOV
will appear in the special
NJ AY DAY
Edition of the Daily Worker

HERE is the news you have all
III been waiting for! The first in
stallment, ONE FULL PAGE, of
CEMENT" the famous Soviet
novel by 4he brilliant author, Feo-
dor Gladkov, will appear in the
International May Day Edition of
the Daily Worker.
This means that the opening
chapters of this Owerful story,
depicting conditions in the Soviet
Unions as they are, will be cir
culated in hundreds of thousands
of copies; powerful reply to the
anti-Soviet, war provoking pro-
paganda contained in the fiction
serial, ''The Red Napoleon" now
appearing j. the weekly magazine,
Liberty" issued by the power
full jingo interests back of the
Chicago Daily Tribune and the
New York Daily News.
Every reader Of the Daily
Worker should Immediately get
busy in two directions: Q Get
new readers (subscribers) of the
Daily Worker, so they will be able
to start reading Cement" from
the beginning, and ca Get
bundle of the May Day Edition and
distribute it. ia; means devel-
oping the possibility of getting
numerous new and constant read
ers for the Daily Worker.
One of the Best Ever.
The special May Day edition of
the Daily Worker will be one of
the best ever Gotten out, if pres
ent plans and the material coming
in are an indication.
We want more articles from
workers engaged in mass strug-
gle-contributions frcn worker
correspondents in the basic indus.
tries and in strikes, soldier c0rre-
spondents, Negro, women and
youth workers, farmers, class war
prisonc-5 now in Jail ard recently
released, ETC., etc.
Workers active in the textile
strikes in the South, in the shoe
strike Il the Gre :er Boston area,
in mine likes, in the New York
eafeterias, grocery clerks and win
dow cleaners strikes, in the re-
cent dress stI.k ETC., are urged
to write short articles, not ex-
ceeding a couple of hundred words,
on the revolutionary mobilization
on International May Day and
their mass struggles, tLeir unions,
and so on.
Many Interesting Features.
The May Day edition will also
have a NUM- r of interesting fea-
lures. These will include sple lid
cartoons j Fred Ellis, Jacob
Burck and other welI-known revo-
lutionary crtists, a history of
May Day demonstrations in car
ist Russia, speeches of Russian
workers at the first illegal May
Day meeting in Petersburg, an ar
ticle of Lenin on May Day, others
by Rosa Luxemburg, C. E. Ruth
enberg, Sun Yat-sen, an editorial
by John Reed on May Day, writ
ten in 1919. an article on May Day
and the eight hour movement in
the U. S., and number of other
features, pictures, book reviews,
etc. A May Day manifesto from
the Central Committee, and special
editorials will, of course, be in
cluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Ministers '.Social Vlsi0n'
Is the vision of q Parasite
Father of st. Philips Wants Good Return On
Investment From His Tenants
By SOL AUERBACH.

Ths IS the eight exposing conditions
der which Negro a0orhers forced ive Yeseday
the Daay orker described Rats and Cats Row
W. 135th Street. By Philips Church. The present
article acquons with fathers church)
wait In the Parish House of ST. Philips
Bishop arrive notice that good condition. well
painted and Clean No cats needed
Father Bishop brisk and
efficient business collar comes late and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
MILL STRIKERS ON TOUR
Gastonla Committee HELPS the w. l. r.

The delegation of textile strikers
from Gastonia, N. c., now in New
York, one man who has worked
years in the cotton mills, two women
toilers and one child slave, are to
tour the cities Of the east and the
middle west speaking for the Work
ers' International Relief, to raise
money to save the starving strikers
in North Carolina and for the coal
miners, it is announced.
Dewey Martin, Iva Fullbright,
Violet Jones and Carl Burger are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Ask Working Women
to Aid Cafeteria Strike

Class conscious working women
especially women cafeteria workers
and relatives and friends Of the cafe
terra strikers are asked to report for
important strike work at IL noon
today at Room 404, 1928 Union
Square, or at the headquarters Of
the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe
terra Workers Union, 1873 w. 51st
o~ - N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

acting editor Daily Worker; Juliet Stuart Poyn
secretary
and Harriet Serman
International Relief The chairman will
Wagenknecht national Of the W. r.
meeting the auspices of the W. R.
L. IL T.. u. and T. E. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
OVERALL LOCKOUT

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, (By Mail)
Thirty garment workers of the
Bates Lang Overall Factory here
were locked out when they refused
to take a proposed wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

England which being Workers international
Relief.
Th spreading of the textile strike the Pkney Mills at South
Gastonia statement issued by the WR last night points Sin
the responsibility the Workers International Relief More work
relief than which that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

Ezabehton also strike with the possibility
joining the wakout time Wednesdays meeting will
City opportunity welcome the
the striking pledge them working class so
darty'
In addition the strikers other speakers at tonighs meeting will
Albert secretary National Textile Workers UnOn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
WORKERS BATTLE
WITH FASC|STS
(Wireless BIZ "Inprecorr" }

TWHbttSS DB IHPTVCUTT
VIENNA, Austria, April 16.-
Bloody collisions have taken place
between the workers and fascists at
Mittelfeld in Obersteiermark.
Six of the fascists were seriously
wounded.
The fighting lasted thruout the
whole night and the police and SOL
diers have been called out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
TROOPS, POLICE
RUSH TO PINCNEY
MILL, CASTON|A
Bosses Trying Hard to
Keep Rest of Rankin
Mills at Work
5000 Out in Tennessee
A. F. L. Fakers Admit
Workers Leave Jobs

GASTONIA, N. c., April 16.-
Troops are being withdrawn from
the Manville-Jenckes company Lo-
ray mill here and are rushed to
South Gastonia to surround the
Pincney mill. The reason seems to
be fear on the part of the employ
ers that if the Pincney strikers
maintain their defiance, the workers
in other mills of the concern that
owns the Pincney plant, the Rankin
Co., will enter the strike. There is
one more Rankin mill in the town
of Gastonia, and many scattered
about the country.
The position of mill guards is SO
distasteful to the enlisted men OF
the North Carolina National Guard
that the practise of withdrawing
militia from the strike zone and sub
stituting hired gunmen deputized as
deputy sheriffs is being rushed by
the employers, the state and city
government. Some of these gunmer
have been imported by the Manville-
Jenckes Co., from its Rhode Is]and
New England areas.
Governor Gardner of North Caro-
lima announced yesterday evening
that he has instructed Adjutant Gen.
eral Nets to withdraw two more
of the three remaining companies
of the militia in Gastonia as soon
as he can, which means as soon as
there are thugs ready to take their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
Strike in Elizabethton.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, April
16.-Two thousand workers in the
rayon mills here of the American
Glanzstoff and American. Bemberg
plants walked out yesterday and to-
day. These strikers have been out
and back twice already within the
last few months, each time getting
promises of better conditions, which
the companies simply refuse to car
ry out after the men are back.
William F. Kelly, vice president
of the United Textile Workers, who
is pretending to represent the
workers here, but is really follow
eing the policy of Edward F. Nc
Grady, of the A. F. L., and has been
fighting against the strike, telling
the mill hands that they should be
reasonable" with their employers,
etc., admitted today that the strike
is Spontaneous in each mill and not
ordered by my union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

striking textile workers from Gasonia c, who arrived
Southern
will speak meeting
tonight 18th St. o'clock They
Violet Martin Cecil After
meeting strikers will leave for of New Jersey
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17

1t is the ultimate aim of this
work ("CapitaI") to reveal the
economic law of motion OF modern
sOcfety.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-17
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a Workers-Farmers G0VerNmeA
To Organize tbe UnOrsa~ixed
For tbe 40-HONr Week
For Labor Party
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06
Money Wisely Expended
on Paint and Varnisa

Cleaning up the individual premises
of home owner or occupant is the
first essential element in improving
the appearance and health conditions
of the property. After this is done
painting and vanishing may follow.
A small amount of money invested
each year in paint and varnish keeps
the property in good condition with
no periods of deterioration or expen-
siYe repairs. A good surface of paint
on the woodwork, both interior and ex-
terror seals up the pores in the wood,
keeping out germs. insects and decay.
The home owner may establish a
system of painting his home. so that
parts of it may be painted one year,
other parts the next. and still more
parts the third year. In this manner
no heavy expenditure faces the home
owl every three years or so. And
at the same time. the home always
appears to be in first-class condition.
Painting also serves as health
measure. Any surface that is painted
regularly cannot harbor germs that
menace the health of the family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06
Problem, Of Nature Lover.

In Nature Magazine Charles Sum-
ner Bird, Jr.. chairman of the Massa-
chusetts committee on Needs and
Uses of Open Spaces. had most in
tefesting article, in the course of
which he says:
1T is recognized today that beauty
is not luxury. but an absolute
necessity to the complete life of
every normal human being. The
man who does not crave the beauties
of nature has a twisted soul and
should be an object Of pity; and, If
he should be the slave of blind
commercialism which impels him to
destroy for others the beauties of ma
ture, he is a bad citizen. Every prob
lem of Importance today is common to
all countries; and England. the cradle
of the Industrial age. faces difficulties
corresponding to those which nature
lovers in America are mobilizing to
solve. 1t may be said here that the
sooner this mobilization on as large a
scale as possible is consummated the
sooner will the ravages on the face of
nature be stayed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06
News Gathering Both
sr Simple and Effective

Life in the highly sophisticated
South Sea isles is by no means as
newsless as one might hazard by
measuring the number of miles separ-
ating them from Fleet street (writes
globe-trotting correspondent. The
Papeete planters have bestowed the
pleasing name of coconut wireless on
the means by which their wives and
daughters keep up with all the news
that really matters. Every sun-up the
native maids meet at the market-place
and pool the previous days domestic
log while they. do the forthcoming
days shopping. These reporters bring
back their gleanings to the housewife
news editors, who publish to their
yawning spouses, over the breakfast
coffee, "All the News That's Fit to
Print" (and great deal that isn't).
In consequence, what every family
does not know about every other fam
lily can positively be sprawled across
the head Of pin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06
Human Mineral

A large deposit of vermiculite, a
recently discovered mineral, has been
found near Libby, Mont, by a pros
pector. This substance, flaky and mi
ca-like in appearance, is unique in
that it exhibits human characteristics
when brought into contact with heat.
Upon introduction to a flame the min
eral commences to twist and writhe
as if making an agonized attempt to
escape the burn, meanwhile giving
off drops of water apparently per-
spiration caused by it's violent effort
and the heat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06

Strong wire cable scientifically in.
stalled in the tops of trees will
strengthen the forks and hold the
branches safe from storms that would
otherwise be fatally destructive. To
be effective the job must be done cor.
rectly and carefully. The weight of
the limbs. the strain Of the wind. the
strength of the wood and the man.
ner of branching must all be consid.
cred If proper results are to be Sc.
cured. 1t is work for trained men.
Even so, it is comparatively mex.
pensive work and certainly is more
than justified as means of insuring
trees against the ravages of the wind
storms of summer and the sleet storms
of winter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-06
-l.-4 49, 4i-r
Community
;, BUILDING
Few "Small Towns" Not
Thoroughly Up to Date

The average small town now offers
about everything the city has except
the "rush hour" and a few other in
conveniences. Convincing proof of the
changes taking place in the life of the
small centers is found on almost every
hand. Particularly is this true in
many of the older centers, which a
few years back were inclined to be
satisfied with conditions as they were.
There is now a new life and re-
newed interest. In times gone by
many towns were prone to slumber on
after the arrival and departure of its
few daily trains. Now most centers
of any consequence either are on or
near one Of the arteries of the states
road system. This has resulted in an
almost constant traffic. such as the
operation of bus lines on regular
schedules and parades Of motor cars,
in addition to rail service.
1t is rather slow locality of any
size that does not have it's chamber
of commerce working for the towns
welfare and advancement. Country
clubs. golf courses and swimming
pools are becoming common. Like
wise the "talkies" are about as preva-
lent in the smaller communities as in
the cities. And the radio is tuned in
on the same offerings furnished else
where. The women are playing as
much bridge as their sisters in the
more populous centers. The girls are
just as modern and the boys just as
sheikish and up-to-date as those in the
city.-Exchange