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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
iTEIN ADMITS
IT WILL NOT
help TENANTS
,Deculators Glow Over
Prospects

ALBANY, April Specifically
il principal real estate dealers and
,ndlords were represented at the
earring before Governor Roosevelt
n the fake Multiple Dwellings bill
hich was passed by the New York
tate legislature, to take the place
f the Tenement law of 1901, which
self has proven to be of no use to
snants.
Come of those represented argued
It, some against, everyone of
en- having some particular inter-
which would either suffer or
enefit by allowing the bill to go
ito effect. None of them showed
ny consideration for the tenants.
Some were against because it
'ould limit building construction.
he A. F. of L. attorney was against
because he said it would cause
unemployment among building work
IS, due to the proposed cutting of
he height limit. These considera-
ions apply only to high-class apart
tents, however.
Clarence Stein, of the Regional
tanning Commission, could not help
ut admit at the hearing that the
i'll in no way reached down to the
cal mass of tenants. "The half
)af of bread offered us IN this bill, 4"
II. Stein said, "is the half wanted
the spectators.
1t does not matter much to the
lass of tenants whether Roosevelt
etoes this bill or not. They are
OF considered in it.
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HOUSE WRECKEP
BOSSES BROK
BUT ENJOIN MEN
Many Large Builders
Yield to Strikers

Continued from Page One)
his kind, he has gone over to the
employers.
A number of large building firms
have signed Up with the union, d.
rcctly over the heads of the contrac-
tors. Among them are BENZ. Silk,
Brooklyn; Epstin Wrecking Co., Long
Island; j. Grossgold, Manhattan;
Weisberg & Gold, John David, the
Verheiser Army Corporation, and
Wilcox Contracting Co., these last
five all of New York City.
10 Arrested.
There were ten arrests today of
pickets charged with disorderly con-
duct. Four were held on $500 bail
provided by the union, two were
tried and released; four were tried
and fined $40 each. Pickets yes
terday picked up another bit of evil
dence of the boss controlled com
pany union. the so-called "Demoli-
ton Union" which has been getting
money from the bosses undoubtedly,
to maintain it's headquarters at the
Ambassador Club" POO East Gath
st. Two pickets saw Morris Wales
going into the office, as if he owned
it.
Bricklayers Show Solidarity.
Saturday four policemen held up
and searched five pickets at Hunts
Point.
The bricklayers' representative
spoke at the last meeting of the
House Wreckers' Union and told
them the bricklayers' union would
not handle any scab bricks, or any
bricks coming with a policeman on
the wagon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
DELEGATES SHOW
FISHWICK FAKE
Lewis Gangsters and
Illinois Machine Clash
Especial to the Daily Worker
By WILLIAM F. KRUSE.

PEORIA, ILL.,. (By MaiD.-After
a three-day recess the District Con-
vention of the United Mine Workers
Of America reconvened, and, con-
trary to the hopes Of the machine,
there was even more bitter anti
administration sentiment expressed
than during the earlier sessions.
The officials may have had hopes
of profiting from the goodwill
spirit" of Easter Sunday, but the
militant forces of the National Min
ers' Union took advantage of the
annual April 1 8-hour day celebra-
lions throughout the district to dis
tribute leaflets exposing the wage
cut convention and giving the N.
M. U. program in the coal camps.
Lewis Snubs Convention.
Discussion centered mainly on the
Supplementary report" which Dis
trict President Harry Fishwick
found necessary in an effort to make
John L. Lewis share the response
bility for the wage cut. Several
machine delegates rose to "refute"
attempted propaganda spread by
pro-Lewis, anti-Fishwick supporters
to exonerate the International pres
ident from blame. Meanwhile
Lewis, though watching the conven-
ton doings from Springfield, only
80 miles from the convention city,
has not yet accepted the invitation
to speak, nor have any others of his
official family, such as Kennedy
and Phil Murray.
The rank-and- delegates showed
conclusively that the referendum
vote by which the Chicago wage cut
agreement was ratified" was moth
ing but bare-faced steal. Tom
Flitcraft, of East Peoria, presented
detailed report giving the votes
cast in TIA local unions, each re-
port bearing the seal of the local
union and the signature of the Sec
rotary. These TIA locals alone
showed 14,002 for and 26,981 votes
cast against the wage cut, whereas
the machines count, untabulated,
gave only 25,397 opposed in the
whole $40 locals, and alleged vote
of 26,83S in favor. 1t is no wonder
that the district officials refused to
give a tabulated local-by-local re-
port on the vote, as required by the
constitution, the delegates stated.
+. Fulton, a reactionary from
Gillespie, who was overwhelmingly
defeated by the membership in the
last election, tried to answer by
maintaining that these reports were
not Official" despite the signature
and seals. Another delegate brand
ed him a "crook" and a near riot
ensued, during which fellow-board-
member, Pete Markumas, of DAN
vile, attempted to slug rank and
file delegate.
Lewis Delegates.
The leaders of the anli-F ishwick
forces from Peoria, who were rein
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Communist Activities
Night Workers.

Night Workers.
By order of the Section Executive
Committee all Night Workers must
attend a special meeting of the
Night Workers international Branch
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at
26 Union Square. Important matters
to be taken up.
Unit 4. section 4 Dance.
A dance and entertainment will be
held at the Italian Workers Club, "l4
e. 1O4th St, Saturday. Proceeds to
Daily Worker and II Lavatore.
AnH-wnr Meet. Brooklyn.
An anti-war meet under the aus
pices of the Communist Party, Young
the All America Anti : Imperialist
League will be held at Royal Palace,
6 Manhattan Ave, Thursday.
Bronx Section Dramatic Club.
"The, Little Red Devil, Prolet
of peasants in the U. s. S. r.. will
be presented by the Bronx Section of
the Y. w. C. L. Saturday, s p. M,
at 1S47 Boston Road.
Jazz Instrumentalists Wanted.
Trumpet players, banjoists, saxo-
phone players, are wanted to organ
ize a Y. w. l.. jazz band, Write to
o, Rabinowitz, 63-37 E. 111th ST.
MORGAN Mt Unit b. Section 4.
Alberto Moreau, of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League, will speak
on THE Situation in Mexico at the
educational meeting of the unit
tomorrow, $3.50 p. m, 35 E. S1st st.
Nern Smith Mt Morning Branch.
Vern Smith, of the Daily Worker
editorial staff, will speak on the
Significance Of the Cleveland Trade
Union Unity Convention" at an open
forum of the Morning International
Branch tomorrow morning, 1890, at
the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Dealer, Landlords Argue Dwellings Bill IN Albany Harn
Fraternal Organizations

Schools at the 1890 a. m. session
Sunday, at 21S Madison Ave. At the
afternoon session Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, will speal
On THE Menace of a New Imperialist
War"
Freiheit Symphony Orchestra.
A rehearsal will be held tomorrow
evening at the Workers Center, 1885
wilkins Ave, Bronx.
Anti-JIm Grow Meet.
A mass meeting against lynchine
and police terrorism will be held
under the auspices of the American
Negro Labor Congress at 1872 Putnam
Ave, Brooklyn, Friday, p. m
Speakers will be Harold Williams
chairman; Richard B. Moore, Com
munist Party; Ray Ragozin, Work
ing Womens Federation; Henry
Rosemond, American Negro Labor
Congress: Otto Hall Trade Unior
Unity, and william Burroughs, Ne
gro Champion"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
WollHeads High Tariff
Delegation Calling on
Hoover to Raise Costs

WASHINGTON, April 8.-The
American Federation of Labor bu-
reaucracy's "Wage Farmers Protec-
tive Conference" a body of interna-
tional union chiefs organized at the
New Orleans A. F. of L. convention,
today presented its memorial to
President Hoover. asking Tor a
higher tariff on many products.
The delegation calling on Hoover
was headed by Matthew VOL.
The proposals it makes are class
collaboration scheme to assist the
employers, without regard to the
raising of the cost of living implied
in the higher taxes.
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stated by Lewis against Fishwick's
ruling, disassociated themselves
from their more vigorous support
ers. Thus Joe P. Goett, the new
Peoria sub-district president, when
he argued against accepting the
wage-cut report Of Fishwick, stated
explicitly that this would not brand
the district officials as dishonest but
solely as having made a mistake.
eve are not Reds" he said.
Immediately one of the admins
tration henchmen, Joe Loda, board
member for Springfield, was on his
feet waving copy of the Daily
Worker, trying to prove Goett a
fred" But the temper of the dele
gates had changed somewhat from
last Saturday when Loda had used
similar tactics to have some rank
and-file miner from Franklin Coun-
ty expelled from the hall because
he had in his pocket copy of the
Daily Worker which someone had
given him.
N. NJ. U. Issues Leaflet.,
In order to dispel all illusions
about the relative Innocence" of
Fishwick and Lewis in the matter
of the wage cuts, the N. M. U.
issued a leaflet which was distrib-
uted to the delegates when they re-
convened. "Who started the wage
cut campaign and carried it to a
successful conclusion? Lewis and
Fishwick." This and % other "who"
questions and answers make up the
bulk of the leaflet, showing incon-
trovertibly that the blame for the
destruction of the United Mine
Workers rests squarely on the
shoulders of these traitors who,
wherever it is not all gone, have
turned it virtually into a company
union.
The little leaflet is jammed with
facts of greatest Importance to min
ers. For instance, it lists the diff
ferent expiration dates of contracts
in adjoining districts which is in
tended to make impossible all joint
struggle, and also the different
wage scales which make cut after
cut inevitable as each district is
pitted against its neighbors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

Section Industrial Organizers.
Section 5 Branch Industrial Organ
M, 1873 wilkins Ave, Bronx. Ac-
ton will be taken against those alb
sent.
Units Of. Sd.
Negro Work" will be discussed al
the Joint educational meeting of the
units today ! p. m.
Hall at Branch G, Section 5.
Otto Hall, Of the Negro Department
of the Party, will discuss 1.-The Negro
Problem in the L. S." at the branch
meeting tomorrow, $50 p. m.
Bronx, Branch 1, Section 3.
The Music movement will be dis
cussed by a speaker from the Dis
trict Office, p. m, today, us E
13Sth st.
Newark Meet.
The Newark unit will meet today
$3.50 p. M, SO Mercer st.
Unit 3F, Subsection "a.
The unit meets Thursday, 6 p. m,
1O1 w. 9th st.
Branch 3, Section 5.
Branch meets today, $3.50 p. m.r
1880 wilkins Ave.
Shop Nucleus 4.
Nucleus meets G p. m. Thursday,
10l w. eth st.
Unit FD1, Subsection &c.
A section preventative will be
present at the meeting of the unit
at 80 Union Square tomorrow, p. m.
Coney Island Unit.
An executive meeting will be held
today, $3.50 p. m, 2901 Mermaid Ave.
Educational Meet, COney Island Unit
The Policy of the New Industrial
Unions" will be discussed at the edu
cational meeting of the unit at 2901
Mermaid Ave, tomorrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Strike Closes Pottery
Plant i'm Ohio Town;
Put on Cut in Wages

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, (By
MaiD.-After 1875 employees of the
East End plant of the American
Vitrified Products Co. here struck
against a 10 per cent wage cut, the
plant closed.
East Liverpool is the center of
pottery manufacture. The vast ma
jority of the pottery workers here
are unorganized, and other wage
cuts are threatened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
INTIMIDATES SHOP GIRLS

SYDNEY, Australia (By MaiD.-
Shop girls in Sydney department
stores charge that they are being
brutally inundated by private de-
tectives hired by the companies, and
often forced to sign confessions to
having stolen sums of money which
they have never taken.
Third degree methods are en-
ployed.
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vIR BEGINS drive:
TO AID STRIKERS
az Days to Be Held
April 1914
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
hich the workers have labeled the
tep-up end stretch-out' system, is
airg n1ilitently resisted by the
'o-kers.
Another Civil War"
Zone of the striking workers of
astoria stated at strike meet
lg: It seems as if another civil
ar moy have to be fought to free
lie white slaves in the south This
the spirit displayed by the south
n strikers.
Besides the armed forces of the
ate. as represented by the police,
2e Gastonia Howitzer Company,
re Shelby infantry and Lincolnton
.valry of the National Guard, the
nployers are conducting an I'M
rupulcus leaflet campaign to dis
dit the textile workers and the
,tional Textile Workers Union,
ich is leading the striking work
g. The mill owners agents are
stributine leaflets which aim to
'ejudice the American workers of
Re south against the foreign textile
orllers and union leaders Of the
)rth. A special attempt is being
ade to discredit the New Bedford
xtile strike.
Relief Committees.
"The Workers International Re-
# is issuing a call for the organ
alton of w. I. K. relief commit
es in cities throughout the United
ates. All workers desiring to as
IT. all sympathetic organizations
shing to cooperate. should imme-
atelv organize a w. I. R. relief
mmittee and begin house to house,
on and tag day collections.
Local w. I. r. committees should
lmediately send committees to all
mpathetic organizations and Sc
re contributions and organiza-
nal support for the relief drive.
ass meetings should be arranged
once where al! those present can
enrolled as members of the w.
r. and the basis for an energetic
al campaign started.
Tag Days.
"All w. I. r. locals and sympa-
atic workers and organizations in
northern textile centers should
)nce organize W. I. r. relief COM
tees in all textile mills for regu-
weekly collections for the south
~trikers.
"For the purpose of raising funds
-'"'v all w. I. r. locals and
Dor organizations should arrange
days. Funds for relief must be
warded at once to the national
ice Of the w. I. r. Immediate
;ef for the southern textile strike
II directly assist in organizing
ESQ programmed workers. The N.
4 w. u. reports that hundreds Of
ikers are joining the union. The
Z possibility Of the Workers Inter-
onal Relief is great. We must
i tn, thousands of striking work.
:, as we'll as their wives and chill
IN. Money is needed at once. All
ltributions should be rushed to
w. I. R., Room GOA, 1 Union
lare, New York City.
New York Tag Days.
ag days for the striking textile
kers of the south and the starv-
coal diggers Of Pennsylvania and
D will be held April -, IL and
by the New York branch Of the
rkers international Relief, Room
Stuyvesant 1881. All unem-
; yed workers should report at the
/. r. local office now to help
~are the material that will be
i.
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Defense Branch will hold a special
meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock, at &c Union Square, top floor,
Freihcit symphony Orehestr" Con-
A concert and dance will be given
by the "Freiheit" Symphony Orches-
ira at 2O75 Clinton Ave. Bronx,
Saturday.
United Council Ann-nI Ball.
The annual concert and ball Of the
United Council of Working Women
will be given at the Manhattan Lyce-
UNI. 66 E. Fourth St, Saturday night
Tickets may be obtained at the Of
flee, so 4. 18th St, Room 553.
Cutters Local @.
ball will be given by cutters
Local 6, N.T.W.LU., at Park View
Palace, Fifth Ave. and 10th St, Sat
urday. Tickets at 1S1 w. 2Sth st.
I. L. ID. Bazaar Tickets.
Comrades are urged to settle for
outstanding tickets for the lnterna-
tional Labor Defense Bazaar at the
N. Y. District office, Room 422, 799
Broadway.
BorO Park Jewish Workers Club.
Socialist Construction in the U. S.
S. r." will be discussed by J. Louis
Engdahl at $3.50 p. m. Friday at the
Club, 1873 43rd St, Brooklyn, N Y.
RusEy GOIos Concert, Dance.
A dance for the benefit of tn
John Reed Colony in the U. S. 5. X.
will be given Saturday at WEBSTER
nd
nue.. Nina, Tarasova, Soviet folks
song singer, Soviet News Film and
a balalaika orchestra will contribute
to entertainment program.
German Council 23, U. C. w. w.
Tinie Litinsky will speak on "Our
Children and We" at the Hungarian
workers Home, $50 f. S1st St, Mon
day, April Is, p. m.
L. c. w. w. Conference.
working Women's Councils are
urged to send delegates to the May
Irving Plaza, Irving Place ana lott
St, 2:30 p. m.
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
The Theatre, 334 E. 18th ST.. will
accept bookings for Marching Guns
for performances up to April 30. Re-
hearsals for it's second production
IS. S. HELEN Back" are held every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday az
$3.50 D, m. Several parts are still
open, and those interested in a work
ers theatre are invited to attend.
Rumnnian Workers Dance.
A dance to raise funds for the re-
issue of the Desterptarea, the only
.ka,N
q. S. A, will be given by the Ru-
manian workers Club at the Czecho-
Slovak Workers Home, BAT E. 72nd st.
Iron workers Meet.
The question of general strike
will be discussed at the meeting OF
the Architectural Iron, Bronze ana
Structural Workers Union at the
Rand School, Z e. 18th St. p m''
today.
YorkviIIe I. l.. ID.
Yorkville international LABOR Pc
tense will meet today at the
Czecho- Slovak Workers Home, BAT H.
72nd st.
Moore at Yonkcrs Forum.
Democracy, Labor and the Negro
Race" will be discussed by Richard
B. Moore, of the Harlem Tenants
League, at the workers COOPERATIVE
Center, 252 Warburton Ave-, Yonkers
Sunday night
Labor Temple Poetry.
A poetry recital will be given at
the Temple, 242 z. 14th St, S:l5 p m
Robert Dunn, Poyntz, Mt Summer
school Conference.
Robert Dunn, of the Labor Ke-
search Association, Will discuss the
Conference of the Alumnae Associa-
ton of Bryn Mawr, Barnard Summer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

Annrchism WINS often kind of
punishment for the OppOrtunist sins
of the working class movement.
Annrchism and OppOrtunism are two
defOrnftfes, one cOmplcm entary 10
The Other.-V. 1. Lenin ("Left" Com
munism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

KELLOGG FOR HERRICK'S JOB?
PARIS, April 8 (UP).-Frank B.
Kellogg, former American secretary
Of state, has been suggested by the
newspaper La Liberte as the next
United States ambassador to France.
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Night Workers international Labor
Defense Branch will hold a special
meeting tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock, at 26 Union Square, top floor
Freihcit symphony Orchestra Con-
cert.
A concCrt and dance will be given
by the "Freiheit" Symphony Orches-
ira at 2O75 Clinton Ave, Bronx,
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Lewis Delegates.

The leaders of the anti-Fishwick
forces from Peoria, who were rein.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Robert Dunn, Poyntz, Mt Summer
school Conference.

school Conference.
Robert Dunn, of the Labor Re-
search Association, will discuss the
Future of Trade Unionism at the
Conference of the Alumnae Assocla-
ton of Bryn Mawr, Barnard summer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-25

pea soup In such tearing haste when
an enemy attack is reported. SIM
ply because he can not be sure that
m an hours time he will still be
alive.
We have discussed at length,
whether it is right or not to do SO.
Kat condemns 1t, because, he says.
a man has to reckon with the pos
sibility of an abdominal wound, and
that is more dangerous on a full
stomach than on an empty one.
Such things are real problems,
they are serious matters to us, they
can not be otherwise. Here, on the
borders of death, life follows an
amazingly simple course, 1t is limited
to what is most necessary, all else
lies buried in gloomy sleep; in that
lies our primitiveness and our sur
vival.
Were we more subtly differenti-
ated, we must long since have gone
mad, have deserted, or have fallen
AS in a polar expedition. every ex-
preston of life must serve only the
preservation of existence, and is
absolutely focused on that. All else
is banished because it would con-
sumo energies unnecessarily.
Ito Be Continued)
Copyright 1929. by Little, Brown &, Co.,
Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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Az QUIT On 1HE Wf)1ERN FROM rS EsSsssr|

were not here with us he would have
shot himself long ago. But now he
is over the worst of it, and he often
looks on while we play skat.
I get convalescent leave.
NY mother does not want to let
me go away. She is so feeble 1t is
all much worse than it was last
time.
Then am sent on from the base
and return once more to the line.
Parting from my friend Albert
Kropp was very hard. But man
gets used TO that sort of thing in
the army.
We count the weeks no more. If
was winter when I came up, and
when the shells exploded the frozen
clodS of earth were just as
dangerous as the fragments.
Now the trees are green again.
Our life alternates between billets
and the front. We have almost
grown accustomed to it; war is a
cause of death like cancer and
tuberculosis, like influenza and
dysentery.
The deaths are merely more fire.
quent, more varied and terrible.
Our thoughts are clay, they are
moulded with the changes of the
days-when we are resting they are
good; under fire, they are dead.
Fields of craters within and with
out.
Every one is so, not only our
selves here-the things that existed
before are no longer valid, and one
practically knows them no more.
Distinctions, breeding, education
are changed, are almost blotted out
and hardly recognizable any longer.
Sometimes they give an advantage
for prof1ting by situation; but they
also bring consequences along with
them, in that they arouse prejudices
which have to be overcome.
1t is as though formerly we were
coins of different provinces; and
now we are melted down and all
bear the same stamp. To rediscover
the old distinctions, the metal it
self must be tested.
First, we are soldiers and after
ward, in a strange and shamefaced
fashion, individual men as we'll.
1t is a great brotherhood, which
to condition of life arising out of
the midst Of danger, out of the
tension and forlornness OF death,
adds something of the folk song, of
the feeling of solidarity of convicts,
and of the desperate loyalty to one
another of men condemned to death
seeking in a wholly unpathetic
way a fleeting enjoyment of the
hours as they come.
If one wants to appraise 1t, it is at
once heroic and banal-but who
wants to do that?
1t is this, for example, that makes
Tjaden spoon down his han-and-