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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
SMASH STIMS0N
THREAT ON USSR
District 2 Mass Meet to
Rally Workers

Tomorrow night the workers OF
New York will gather in mass DEM
onstration at Central Opera House,
67th Street and 3rd Ave, to de-
nounce the steps that have been
taken by the United States govern
ment, through the State Department
to intervene in the Manchurian sit
uation on the side of sharpening the
attacks of the Chinese war lords
against the Soviet Union.
Throughout the working class sec
tions yesterday there were express
sions of deep satisfaction with the
declaration of the Soviet Union in
denunciation of the imperiaist note
of Stimson. The organizations of
the revolutionary Chinese workers
in New York have already notified
the Communist Party of their par
ticipation in the demonstration Fri
day night and have sent two repre-
sentatives to speak in their name.
These are James Mo and N. Doom
ping. In addition to these speak
ers, Robert Minor, editor of the
Daily Worker; NJ. J. Olgin, editor
of the Freiheit; Otto Huiswood OF
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party and |. Amter, district
organize in New York, will also
speak.
In a leaflet issued by the Commu-
mist Party Of America, District 2
in several tens of thousands OF
copies, the following slogans for the
struggle against the imperialist wal
now in preparation are:
Defeat the New Imperialist At
tacks on the Soviet Union! Stim
sons Note Is Part of New Imper
ialist War Preparations. Mobiliz,
in Defense of the U. S. S. R., OuI
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
LeaksuiWe Mill Bosses Forge
Statement by the Strikers
Get Local Press to Print SlanderOus Article
Picketing Keeps Mill Absolutely Closed

Sunday, Nov. 8 at midnight, the en-
tire plant was closed down. All but
eight workers struck Immediately
and the eight also followed the rest
Of the workers. Despite this fact
and also the fact that the Charlotte
Observer published an article short
ly after the strike was called, stat
ing that the entire force of workers
had come out, the Observer prints
this statement. 1t is quite evident
from the statement itself, that the
Continued on Page Thrce)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
WIR GIVES AID TO
SUBWAY D!GCERS
Union Mobilizes For
Mass Picketing

A relief kitchen for the striking
subway workers is being opened to-
day by the Workers International
Relief at the new union headquar-
ters, 235 West l29th st.
The strike committee yesterday
decided to mobilize for real mass
picketing beginning today at the
Grand Concourse.
The work of the new union is GO
ing forward at full speed. Organ
ization committees have been formed
to organize construction crews in
Long Island, downtown sections and
in Brooklyn.
A mass meeting of subway con-
struction workers will be held Sun
day, p. M, at Stuyvesant's Casino,
142 Second Ave. A meeting in
Brooklyn will be held during the
early part of next week.
The Trade Union Unity League
is playing an active part in organ
izing the subway construction
workers, and many 7. u. u. L. mem
bers have volunteered for the picket
line of the subway strikers.
Marcel Scherer and Martin Rus
SAX were among the speakers Of
subway construction workers yester-
day evening at Manhattan Lyceum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
SHOE WORKERS
FIGHT TO FINISH
Bosses and State Unite
Against Workers

At a joint meeting of shoe work
ers from three large shops, held at
the Irving Plaza Hall, Monday aft
ernoon, December 2, 1,500 shoe
workers declared their readiness to
fight all winter if need be, in order
to better conditions of the shoe
workers, and to organize all shoe
workers under the banner OF the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
which is the only union fighting the
battles of the workers for better
wages, shorter hours and against
the speed-up and contract systems
in the shoe industry. his is the
answer to the general lockout pol
icy of the Metropolitan Shoe Manu-
facturers' Association in collabora-
ton with the Board of Trade, the
Labor Department and the Boot and
Shoe Bosses A. f. of L. unions is
directed against the organized shoe
workers.
f. G. Biedankapp, general man
ager of the Independent Shoe Work
ers' Union, stated that the bosses
were organized by G. Wood, Of the
Labor Department, in order to de-
stroy the Independent Shoe Work
ers' Union, so as to be able to cut
prices and wages and force the
workers back into 65-hour a week
open shop. Bicdenkapp pointed out
that the Labor Department was ac-
lively engaged in aiding the bosses
to terrorize the workers an dhelp-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
FASCIST BODY
FORMED TODAY
Lamont, Hoover & Co.
Open Wage Attack

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Hoover
meets today with 200 leading eX-
ploiters of labor actually to form
his fascist economic council.
Julius H. Barnes, secretary of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, reports
acceptances already received from
over $50 capitalists, in reply to leS-
ters sent out inviting them to take
part in the attacks on the American
workers wages and conditions.
Among those who will gather to
build this new fascist apparatus
are: r. H. Ashton, chairman Of the
American Railway Execut iv
Thomas F. Lamont, secretary of
commerce, Gerald Swope, president
(Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
GRAHAM TRIAL
BEGINS TODAY
Three Other Big Cases
in Next 7Days

When Stephen Graham goes on
trial today in Norfolk, Va, charged
with "inciting the Negro populace
to insurrection against the white
citizens" he leads a list of four
cases of tremendous Importance to
the masses of American workers
coming up before juries within sew
en- days.
Graham's trial, which involves
the right of white and Negro work.
ers to organize into the same union,
is followed Monday by the Saliva
tore Accorsi cast in Allegheny
County, western Pennsylvania, Ac-
sorsi's case, which viii, result in his
electrocution unless the workers Of
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
National Textile Union
Mass Meeting Tonight
Report on the Situation

The National Textile Workers
Union, victorious last week in the
Treco Knitting Mills strike, will
hold mass meeting of it's New
York membership at s p. m. today,
in its New York District Headquar-
ters 16 w. 21st st.
There will be a general report on
the situation, and on preparations
fo. the second national convention,
which will be held in Paterson, N.
j., Dec. 21-22.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
By GEORGE MAURER.

The vicious anti-union campaign
@ the capitalist press has been re-
newed against the strike of the
Leaksville Woolen Mills workers.
On Sunday, Nov. "a, the Charlotte
Observer published long statement
supposedly signed by the majority
of the workers. The statement was
a poisonous one, slandering the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
containing obvious lies.
When the strike was called on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

as representative as possible all
working class organizations that
have not already done so are urged
to send in credentials for their dele
gates to the office of the New York
|. L. d., 700 Broadway, Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05
SOVIET UNION STANDSFIRM
AGAINST. THREAT OF U.S..
and BRITISH IMPERIALISM
Litvinoff Says Stimson Note Seeks to Disturb
Peace Agreement Between USSR and CHINA
'Tzvesta" and "Pravda" Say U. S. Imperialism
Wants Control of Manchurian Railway

MOSCOW, Dec 4.-MaXm Litvnoff commissar TOR Tor
egn affairs Soviet Union speech today pointed OUT
line with the note which the workers government sent
the imperast that threatened Intervention over
the Manchuran dispute that .the KELLOGG Pact was not m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

Build Up the United Front of
Tie Working Class From the Bot
,o.a up--at tie Enierpiis,sl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-05

H00Uet'S War-Like Attftudc To.pard
the Soviet Union Is the Attitude
of the Capitalist Glass To-
rVard the Working Glass.
Workers, Defend the
Soviet Union!
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
GIRL DIES, TIED
To CHAIR

Continued from First Page)
life. She had evidently struggled
to free herself from her bonds and
had succeeded in working her left
arm free but by that time she was
so weak from inhaling the gas
fumes she was almost dead
Police Are Quiet
Smith at first expressed the belief
the girl was murdered, probably by
q robber, who surprised her in the
house. The finding Of the brief note
today, however. gave q different
trend to the investigation.
DR.. John G.. Simpson, coroner's
physician, performed an autopsy
last night and announced he would
await a pathologist's report before
making his finding public. =.
Mother and daughter had lived in
the Narberth home since their re.
turn from France three years ago,
where the girl was educated. The
family is reported to be wealthy.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17

weather for Lady DrummODd- Has
the entire flight thus far, but
we foresee that we are to strike
a depression tomorrow, coming
from the north
Plenty of Fuel
DR.. Eckener announced at
dinner that 1--WE still have 100
hours Of fuel" He said:
''We have only used 5000 cu-
bic meters Of fuel gas out of
$4,000 we started with, and we
have burned three tons of gas
Oline out of our supply Of 10
tons"
The passengers are beginning
to speculate as 90 what time
we will arrive at Tokyo. They
are all in high spirits despite
the fact that they have had to
get inside of all the woolly and
furry clothes they possess.
We all are realizing and TAX
ing full advantage of the extra
ordinary privilege which has
been given as to see Russia
from one end to the other as no
mortal eyes have even done be-
fore. But we cannot forget the
cold. / have my feet in fur
lined arctics.
Games Cease
All Of the passengers have
quit indulging in games and
recreation, and all have turned
to taking notes, making obser-
vations, and studying technical
manuals.
Hour by hour we are con-
fronted by new strange sights.
And not the least strange Of
them is the spectacle of the
superstitious villagers flying
from the sight of US, in mortal
fear of the wrath Of the di-
vine, as this unthought of, un-
imagined, unconceivei Viking of
the air throbs it's steady way
through the vacant skies of the
trackless waste.
So far away from civilization,
these Siberian nemlets. So
stepped in their religious being
and - unaware Of outside life
many Of the Inhabitants hayN
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
RECTOR 'sG[INIC
IN P. D. PROBE

NEW YORK. Aug. 17.--What the
Rev. DR.. Empringham described as
his Chinese Plan Of health sales.
manship, a mail order branch Of his
now defunct Health Education so.
eiety, is being carefully crutinized
by postal authorities today.
The new inquiry may bring the
vanished EpiscOpalian minister into
still another clash with the &u-
fhorities and force his return for
the prosecution awaiting him at
the hands of the board OF health
and the State medical authorities.
Promised Diets
Evidence placed in the hands Of
the Federal authorities by the
boaRd Of health showed that En-
pringham solicited annual fees Of
IS on the promise that diagnoses
could be based on the answers to
; his medical questionnaire. The mail.
order business promised that labora.
tory findings and dietetic directions
would be forwarded to his distant
clients. ~
United States Attorney Charles
II. Tuttle has designated an as
sistant to confer early. next week
with Health Commissioners Shirley
lWynne and Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Sol Ullman on the new develop.
nlent in Empringham's affairs.
The city and State officials pointed
but that Empringham cannot be ex.
tradtted to answer q charge OF prac-
ticising medicine without a license
but the Federal authorities can
bring him back II the mail laws
have been violated.
Empringham is reported to have
gone to California following the
granting Of his divorce in Reno
Seeks Requests
The literature Of the health So
ciety, a branch Of the Episcopal
Temperance Society, shows that
requests as we'll as fees were So
licited by Empringham. 1nvestiga.
tion into the financial affairs of the
society brought forth the statement
from one doctor who quickly re.
signed from the organization, that
'sThe Health Education Society Is
q paper organization and is used
to mask the medical activities OF the
Rev. Empringham and his associate,
Miss Annie II, Dawson"
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
IS NAkING
70 MILE
An HOUR

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70 miles an hour, judging from re-
morts Of her progress.
II she maintains the same steady.
Hlstance-sating pace on the re.
nnainder Of her journey, the huge
Graf will easily arrive at Tokyo
within the 12O hours set as a mini.
mum by Dr. Hugo Eckener, her
commander.
1t is believed DIR. Eckener will veer
6lishtly to the southward toward
Lake BIkalg ana then head still fur.
! thsr in that direction over Man.
churia to VlAGivostok and thence to
Tokyo.
The Zeppelin's trip SO far has
been unmarked by any accident to
mar it's smooth steady progress.
From the time she left Friedrich
shafen at 4:sB 4. m. (Berlin tinne).
Thursday (lO:s5 p. m. Wednesday.
washington time), DR.. Eckener has
picked his course carefully and man.
aged to avoid any atmospheric con.
ditions which might hamper the
Eeppelin's speed.
Well Stocked With Fuel
Reaching Berlin six hours after
4he start the Graf continued on a
northeastarly course, passing over
the Baltic Coast, then crossing
Lithuania and Latyia and entering
Soviet territory.
Continuing on q Hortheasterly
course, the Graf passed halfway
between Moscow and Leninerad and
cut across the northern part Of
Russia. She crossed into Siberia
over the UraI Mountains at about
sundown last night after traversing
Russia proper, from its western to
eastern border, in about 10 hours.
The Graf has sufficient fuel
aboard TO last $50 hours. She is run.
ming on four motors most OF the
time to economics on fuel in order
to forestan the possibility OF running
short IL she meets headwinds on the
latter part Of her journey.
Until she comes within the ordi.
uary range Of japanese and Chinese
wireless stations, direct MESSAGES
from the Graf are expected to be.
1nfreduent. e.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Peasants Terrified
BY Big Airship
-Photb by international

not seen q railroad train, not to
mention a giant airship.
Below as, these poor, ignorant,
almost tribal towns, gathered
their broods about the churches
as we sped by above. They
cringed as the Graf's giant
shadow overlook their open
hiding places:
But we, above, sped on for
Tokyo, peering intently into the
distance ahead and below, pass
ing over Russia's highest noun
tains and Siberia's most DESC
late, blank forests-plying the
first commercial and passenger
airship track from Europe, over
Asia, to the Orient. 1t has
taken centuries to find the
quickest eastern passage to
Marco Polo Land!
With four and five motors
running--one now and again
shut down to conserve fuel-the
Graf is speeding along at be-
tween IS and 20 miles an hour
at s in the evening, Siberian
time 60 a. m. Washington
time), having accomplished q
dash to the north to avoid head
winds that would have held US
back after negotiating one-third
of our journey. Our average
speed for "a hours has been
6S miles, and 1900 of our more
than $500 have fallen quickly
behind us.
American Ill
Dunaberg. Ustizhna, VolOgda,
.Wyshnii, WoIotscek, Viatka,
Perm, Tiumen-how strange it
all sounds, how utterly beyond
human ken. We are in strange,
foreign lands; in desolate dreari-
ness not even pictured by
others even of our own world.
The tale of cities, the never
ending, sing-song names of
Russian towns, the dense forests
burning fiercely and known
only by the peasants-no air.
planes for forest rangers-and
not even the rangers to man
an airplane with.
Lieut.. Jack Richardson, of
the United States Naval Air
Service, went to bed tonight
with violent cold, a sore throat
and a slight temperature. But
the illness is nothing serious
Lieutenant Jack expects to be
out of bed by tomorrow. Karl
Won Wiegand and William B.
Leeds are doctoring him.
It is chilly tonight, and we
have all donned our leather
togs. Sir Hubert wilkins,
veteran of many an expedition
to the polar regions, has finally
been forced to seek heavier
clothing than his vaunted cameI's
hair coat. He's the butt of
many a jest as ] write this
message.
Cat Slowed Away
A stowaway has been dis
covered aboard--a jet black cat.
Rigger Ludwig Knorr brought
the shivering pussy to me and
it is now berthed in my cabin.
There is only one sad man
on the Zeppelin-Prof. Karklin,
the Russian weatherman, who
is detected because we were
prevented from flying over
Moscow. But we axS al sorry
toas
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
5000 AT 7 END
HOOVER FETE
CONTINUED from First Pagel

Continued from First Pagel
and. of more Importance than the
fact itself, everybody comedies that
the fish will not bite In the presence
of the public.
Fishing seems to be the sole ave-
nue. left to Presidents through which
they may escape TO their own
thoughts and may live In their own
imaginings and find relief from the
babble of constant personal con.
tacts.''
The event was the biggest obscure
Madison ever had and the authorities
and residents made a day of it. while
Mr.. Hoover remained only long
enough to greet the gathering and
deliver his prepared speech. He did
not tarry for the dropping OF boards
to the monster open-air barbecue or
to watch the athletic contests that
are on the program for the after.
noon. At around 1890 he and his
party motored back up the grade to
the presidential mountain camp.
Big Affairs For Va.
For weeks the affair was being
arranged, even to the detail OF I'M
porting a gun so the Presidential
salute could be fired upon Mr..
Hoover's arrival. Today was a
holiday in Madison and gayly dressed
men and women migrated to the
fair grounds. The Marine Band
from Quantico, and the Stonewall
Band from Staunton played martial
airs all the while. An Army blimp
scared overhead.
The Richmond Blues. with their
colored plumes blowing with the
wind. were the Presidents guard of
honor, while State motorcycle police
cleared the way.
Representative j. A. CARRIER CR.) }
Of Harrisonburg. presided. He in.
troduced Governor Byrd who ad.
dressed his remarks to the Presi.
dent. Then came Mr.. Hoover's re-
ply. his departure up into the noun.
tain and the barbecue!
At the invitation of the Executive
the newspaper men who regularly
accompany him on his : weekend
1aunts into the Blue Ridge made an
early morning trip up the mountain
side and paid his mountain camp an
informal visit. With them went the
Still photographers to record the
camp scenes usually for the public.
The little party that trekked up
the Hountainside particularly was
impressed with the obvious perma.
nency of the Hoover camp. The
Marines built with view to having
It stand, this, of course. being in
line with the Presidents intention
of later turning II over in tie en-.
tlrety to become part of the Shen.
andoah National Park.
Scene of Rare Beauty
Set up in a triangular space
formed by the merging of another
little mountain stream with the Ra-
pidian, the camp presents a picture
OF rare rustic beauty. Facing on
the Rapidian is the cabin, with two
porches, sitting room. two bed.
rooms and two baths. Along the
fork are six smaller cabins and four
de luxe tents, all completely equip
ped as to plumbing and lighting.
In the center stands the dining
hall, and behind that the kitchen
and the servants quarters. She'll
lined paths connect the cabins.
Around the buildings grow pro-
| fusion of ferns that Mrs. Hoover
dug up in the woods and trans
planted.
Along the stream are numerous
handmade, dams, the product of
the weekend labors Of the President
and his male guests, each dam form
ing an enticing pool for, the willy
brook trout.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Railway Property to Go
In Condemnation Suit

Two historic mansions are sought
10 be condemned as part Of the site
Of new Government buildings in pro-
ceedinSs instituted by the Depart
4nent Of Justice at the request Of the
Treasury.
, The premises sought to be con-
aemned are 40s Thirteenth st. N.
W. and 1909 D st. n. W., situated
in square 256, which includes the
Southern Railway building. now oc-
cupied by Government bureaus.
The petition today declares that
Congress has appropriated $2,6SO, 900
for the purchase OF the entire
square, a large portion of which has
been used to purchase the building
Of the railway company. Assistant
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
SNA Assistant Attorney General
aeAsS II. Classic appear for the
oSeEan4aue, :.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
ENDS 43 YEARS.
IN ?. D. DEPT.

"Uncle Jack" Cotter, superintend-
ent of the Treasury Department
branch postoffice, started on his
forty-fourth year in the Govern.
ment service today. It is just a
few days more than 43 years since
he became convinced that a sol.
dier's life was not for him and ran
away from West Point, where he
had been appointed by Representa-
tive Benjamin Lesgar of Iowa.
Cotter came to Washington and
Lesgar got him appointed to the
Postoffice Department and he was
sent to the u Street branch office,
the first in Washington. He was
made superintendent of the, office
and stayed there until 1919, when
he opened the substation in the
Treasury.
Cotter, whose real name is John
w. Cotter, and who is IS years old,
was busy yesterday receiving con.
gratulations at his office and at
his home, 1866 Perry st. N. w. He
is the foster-father Of the Rev. John
w. Fitzgerald. assistant pastor of
the Church Of st. Francis de Sales.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
[0CRER,F
SENATOR, DIES

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Aug. II
Q.N,S.l-Former United States
Senator cyrus I.ocher, 81, died at
st. Luke's Hospital here today fol-
lowing a complete relapse late Fri
day from the effects OF an opera
ton for gall stones two weeks ago.
A third blood TRANSMISSION opera
tion was performed early today,
but the former Senator failed to
rally.
Mrs. Locher, his wife. was Mt his
bedside when the end came.
Although his condition was con.
sidered serious. hope had been held
for his, recovery until late last
night when the former Senator
suffered relapse. accompanied BY
a complete collapse.
Gov, "A. ". Donahey appointed
Locher State director OF commerce
in 1928. Later he quit that position
to become United States Senator.
being appointed by the Governor
to fill the unexpired term of senator
Frank b. Willis. who died at Deia.
ware, Ohio, during a political
meeting.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
To End It's Celebration

The fifty-sixth annual anniver.
sary celebration of the Mount Olive
Baptist Church, Sixth Street be.
tween L and NJ Streets Northeast.
will come to q close tomorrow.
The Rev. J. /. Loving, secretary
OF the Baptist Conference of the
District and vicinity, viii preach at
the morning services. The Rev. J..
Harvey Randolph, pastor of Mount
Mariah Baptist Church will deliver
the anniversary sermon at $50 p. m.
The Rev. J. r. Scott, will speak
at the evening services.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Peasants Flee to COUer

When we crossed the Ural Mountains with Mount
Konjakofs the south peekng through the Clouds the
Graf began panic the ignorant peasants below This
kept throughout Siberia and had been noticeable in the
unpopulous regions of Eastern Russia.
Many Of the peasants who have never train
evidently mistake the Zeppelin with its drumming motors
We villagers wildly into forests and and
gather around churches, gazing the sky in and
terror.
Many of the streets of the small villages and towns
utterly deserted everybody apparently had sought
Few people in the world have the comprehensive mental
dreary and melancholy.
At sos p. m. (7:05 a. m Washington time) we had
crossed the Kama River 68 miles north of Perm passing
over vast expanse of almost endless forestaon. There
had been little to since passed Wishy Wolots
chek at 40 this morning, when burning house
in the village. Rckard Leeds and in the lounge but
all the other passengers sleeping We then
heading for the Urals north of Ekaterinburg