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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
WORKING WOMEN SANDING TROOPS
CREATE UPR0AR WIN BATTLE; ONE
AT PEACE MEET YANKEE WOUNDED
Yankee Deaths Hidden
Sandino Man Claims;
Two Dead Admitted
u. S. Retreat Forced
"Nicaraguan Guard" a
Part of u. S. Army

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. Is.
That the forces of General San
dino of the Nicaraguan army of
liberation is far from being disposed
of and is on its promised new Of
fensive, is shown by the casualties
inflicted by Sandino troops on the
mercenaries of the traitorous Mon
cada government who are led by u.
S. marines near San Juan de Tel
paneca, in the northern province of
Nueva Segovia near the Honduran
line.
The mercenaries, who go under
the name of the Nicaraguan ina
tional guard" admit only two
"guardsmen" killed and Yankee
marine officer, Lieutenant William
II. Smith was among the many
wounded. AS it is also stated that
the engagement was the most severe
in many months, it is believed that
the mercenaries suffered many more
dead and wounded than is admitted.
The dead were buried after the mer-
cenaries were forced to retreat.
The marines and "guardsmen"
could not tell if any of Sandino's
troops were killed, or even how many
troops were in his attacking columns.
From the nature of the punishment
Continued on Page FiUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
SILK union IN
WAGE CUT FIGHT
Calls Strikes, Defeats
Many Bosses, Fakers

PATERSON, N. j., Jan. 15.-The
Paterson locals of the National Tex
tile Workers Union are proving
themselves the staunch defenders of
the interests of the silk workers in
the ruthless drive of wage cutting
and hour lengthening which the
bosses here are now carrying on.
This can be seen when the activities
of the union in the past few days
are enumerated.
The workers in the plant of the
Wolf and Opper Silk Co., on Sum-
mer ST., were faced with the prob
lem of accepting a IL per cent wage
cat. knowing that the N. T. w. for
the past period has prosecuted, with
remarkable success, numerous single
shop strikes against similar cuts in
other shops, the workers refused to
accept the cut and went out on
strike yesterday. In doing this they
accepted the strike leadership of
the N.T.W. organizers, despite their
being members of the Associated
Silk Workers Union.
The problem of under whose lead
ership the strike was to be carried
on, whether under the fighting N.
T.W. or by the traitorous Associ-
Continued ON Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
N. M. U. Growing.
Coal Anti-Strike Law.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
iaittee is conducting hearings on the
Watson bill, a new law for the coal
mines, like the Watson-P law
for the railroads, practically out
lawing strikes by a cumbersome
machinery Of arbitration and con-
eiliation, working always to the ad-
vantage of the employers, and per-
mitting greater combinations of coal
companies under government super
vision" At the hearings today, VIM.
F. Belden, representing the Ohio
Coal Operators Association told the
senate committee that his organiza-
tion was able to break strikes with
cut the new law. He stated that
such "half way measures" were not
as useful as complete government
regulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
MELLA MURDER ST7RS
WORLD LABOR PROTEST
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.-Mass
protests against the assassination Of
Julio Mella, Communist leader, by
agents of the Machado government,
are taking place throughout Mexico.
Hundreds of workers and students
demonstrated in front of the Cuban
and United States consulates in
Vera Cruz, where revolutionary
leaders delivered speeches attacking
the Cuban government and Ameri-
can imperialism. Both the Cuban
and American consulates were
closed all day and heavily guarded.
President Portes Gil of Mexico
has ordered an investigation of
Mella's murder, as we'll as full pro-
lection for the Cuban embassy. The
Mexican government at the same
time authorized that MOPR and the
League for Prosecuted Workers be
given facilities for an independent
investigation of the murder. Mella,
before his assassination, was secre-
tary of the League. The Mexican
Communist Party is receiving pro-
test cables from revolutionary or
ganizations in all parts of the world.
The Mexican police are working
on three hypothesis regarding the
motives of the assassination. While
admitting the possibility that Mella
was killed by agents of the Macha-
do government, the police are plac-
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
POPE TO UPHOLD
FASCISM OPENLY
Gift of Money, Land
Rribe by Fascists

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Pope
Plus XI is reported about to sign
the contract made with Mussolini by
his negotiators, Borgongini-Duca
secretary of state for extraordinary
affairs at the Vatican, and Pacelli,
another priestly diplomat.
The contract would re-establish
the papal states, with a small ter
ritory, and give the worlds chief
dispenser of religious opium $751;
631, 1000 theoretically as recompense
for papal property seized by the
Italian state in the uniting of Italy
in 1870.
Open Support To Blackshirts.
Mussolini has declared he will
sign the agreement as it stands. The
pope is reported hesitating a little
because of the terms involved, which
mean a more open and recognized
attack on all "liberal" enemies of
fascism than he has followed so far.
Within Italy the Catholic church
supports the black shirt rule of club
and clubbing and assassination, but
outside of Italy, where most of the
papal revenues come from, there
are many Catholics not so friendly
to fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
KELLOGG'S FAKE
PEACE TREATIES
RATIFIED IS TO |
Senate Fight Ends in
Shallow Compromise
on Wall st. Order
Make Way for Cruisers
Read Committee Re-
port for Information

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The
senate this afternoon after a mean
ingless compromise" ratified the
Kellogg treaties, (vote 85-D involv-
ing SO governments, and constitut-
ing what is practically new league
of nations, with U. S. usurping the
place of power, prestige and moral
control formerly held by Great Bri-
tain. The treaties also form the
basis for a united attack against the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
The U. S. S. R. was permitted
merely to adhere to provisions of
the treaty, not to take part in for
mulating them, or to be one of the
original signatories, even to the
weak and misleading statement that
"war is to be outlawed."
The treaties have served the pur-
pose, also, of "peace offensive"
being disguised in descriptions given
of them as peace treaties"
All authorities on international
law and world politics agree that
the statement on which their spon-
sors rely in calling them "peace
treaties" namely, that the sigma
tories "forsake war as a means of
international relationship" is worth
less than the paper it is written on,
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
MOsC0u Party
Backs P0lbMYO
Against Rights
(Wweless by "Inprecorr'')

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. IS
The district conferences of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
the first of which has begun here,
have approved the policies of its
Political Bureau. They c0ngratu-
lated the Party on its victory over
Trotskyism, and demanded the con-
tinuation of the struggle against
right wing deviations.
Comrade Molotov, member of the
Political Bureau, was one of the
speakers here. He stated that the
speeches of the workers showed that
they had complete confidence in the
Party and its leadership. Despite
the postponement of the world revo-
luton the Soviet Union had suffi-
cient forces to build socialism in
that one country.
Kalenin, president of the Soviet
Union, also spoke, taking up the
necessity for a struggle within the
Party against deviations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
|b'KLYN TEXTILE
RALLY TOMORROW
Weisbord to Speak at
Organization Meet

A mass meeting of knit goods
workers will be held tomorrow
night by the Knit Goods division of
the National Textile Workers Union.
The meeting will be held in the
brownsville Labor Lyceum, Sack
man St, Brooklyn, Immediately
after work.
This meeting is the inaugural
step in the organization campaign
among textile workers in New York
and vicinity.
Special preparations were made,
through distributions of the union
organ and circulars, to get to the
meetings as many workers as pos
sible from the big Julius Kayser
Silk Hosiery Mills. This plant gives
employment to- 4,5000 workers in
the busy season.
/ Albert Weisbord, national secre-
tary-treasurer of the N.T.W. will
be the chief speaker at the meeting.
Sara Chernow, knit-goods organizer
for the union will also speak at the
meeting.
The workers in the Kayser fac
tory are compelled to work under
a most intense exploitation. The
sentiment for unionization is strong
and growing since the union con-
centrated it's forces there.
The next few weeks will see the
spreading out of the unions drive
till it encompasses not only Greater
New York but also the suburbs up
state and in New Jersey.
The schedules of other meetings
is as follows: Thursday, Jan. "a in
Williamsburgh; Jan. 81 for the
Harlem, Bronx district; Tuesday,
Jan. % in Astoria, L. l.; Jan. 25 in
Yonkers, where huge carpet fac
tory gives employment to about
1000 workers; Feb. 1 in Hudson
City, New Jersey. AS wind-up
to the section meetings a big mass
rally is planned for Feb. 7. The
time and places for the above
enumerated meetings will be an
nounced later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
DRESS WORKERS
CIRD FOR FIGHT
Enthusiastic Meeting at
Bryant Hall

Workers employed in the dress
manufacturing shops on 35th and
Seth Sts., yesterday packed Bryant
Hall, 42nd st. and Sixth Ave, and
gave ample demonstration of the
fact that the workers in the indus
try are ready to give battle to the
employers and their company union
scab agents, and thus organize the
trade and win for themselves decent
conditions of work.
This was the first district meet
ing of dress workers and was held
in that large hall yesterday by the
Industrial Needle Trades Workers
Union. Many more district meet
ings will be held as direct mob
ilization step for the general strike
in that trade which the union is to
call soon.
Due to the fact that the whole
current week will be taken up with
meetings of all the locals where
nominations for all Joint Board and
local officers will be made, there
will be only one other dressmak-
ers' district meeting this week. 1t
will be held Thursday for all those
working on 39th and 10th Sts., in
the auditorium of the union offices
in the Garment Center, 480 Seventh
Ave.
Objection and election committees
were elected and all nominations
were made by the members of the
Fur Cutters Local l and Fur Oper-
ators' Local 5 at the union head
quarters, % E. 22nd st.
Dressmakers' Local %, Pressers
Local 35 meet for the same purpose
tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E
4th st. Operators Local and Fin
ishers' Local meet tonight in Stuy-
vesant Casino, 142 Second Ave-, at
7 p. m. Fur Nailers' Local 10, Fur
Finishers' Local Is meet right after
work tonight at % E. 22nd st.
Tonight, also, the fuckers Local
Al meets in 16 w. 21st St., on the
top floor; the Cutters Welfare
League meets in the same place or
the ground floor, while the Sample
Makers Local 3 meets in the same
building on the second floor. AL
will gather Immediately after work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
HIT MURDER OF MELLA
Sbdnish Bureau DenOunceS Wall Street

The following denunciation Of the
role of Wall Street and it's puppet
government in Cuba in the murder
of Julio Mella, Cuban revolutionist,
hes been issued by the Spanish bu-
reau of the Workers (Communist)
Party of America.
Our valiant comrade, Julio An
tonic Mella, has fallen under the
bullets of the bloody dictatorship Of
Machado, instrument of American
Imperialism. Though young, Mella
was leader beloved by the work.
ing masses of Latin America for
his intelligence, his abilities, and his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
DEPRIVE WORKER
OF JOBLESS AID

Methods of keener and more bru-
tai suppression are being resorted :
to by the officialdom of the Inter-
national Cloth Hat, Cap and Millin-
cry Workers Union as the member
ship learns thru the left wing of
the corruption of its leadership.
Because H. SAFER, leader of the
left wing in the Capmakers' Local
1, dared to write an article in which
he exposed the officialdom's Grim
inal mishandling of the unemploy-
ment insurance fund, he was refused
relief from that fund, being unem-
ployed, despite being member in
good standing.
When he came to the union Of
flee Friday for the pittance with
which to keep himself and his FAM
lily going during the severe unem-
ployment crisis which the officials
are equally responsible in bringing
on the industry, he was informed
that because of his article, which
appeared Thursday, he is to be de-
prived of the fund to which he had
contributed while working.
The article that had offended the
ttender feelings" of the expulsion
experts and union wreckers, had
pointed out that the officials had
neglected to collect the percentages
the employers were to contribute,
because they wanted to remain in
the good graces of those bosses.
In addition to publishing long
list of firm names, in which he
showed that even in busy season
times many bosses had been behind
in payments from 15 to 32 weeks
each. Certainly" SAFER pointed
out, eff in the busy season bosses
were so much backward, then in
slack periods they were behind still
greater amounts"
In addition to other forms of mis-
management, that is why, SAFER
charged, the fund had been shut
down when the iobless workers most
needed it. The article also showed
that taxes and dues were taken out
of the dole, leaving practically moth
ing for the worker with ! large
faplily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
Urge Young Workers
Attend Member Meet
at Center This Friday


The District Committee calls the
attention of all members of the
Young Workers (Communist)
League to the membership meeting
which will be held this Friday at
$3.50 p. m. at the Workers Center,
26 Union Square.
The discussion will be on the let.
ter of the Executive Committee of
the Communist Youth International
to the American League. There
will be a representative of the Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
Young Workers (Communist)
League, and speaker for the N.
E. c. minority.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
BUTCHER WORKER
is HURT BY THUGS
Defends Self, Routs
Four Gangsters

If not for the fact that Sam ST.
wax, a leading member in the left
wing Progressive Butcher Workers
Union, was courageous enough to
stand up defend himself against a
squad of four thugs sent by the
right wing butchers union, he would
have been seriously injured.
Because he backed up against a
wall and warded off the blows from
slugging instruments used by the
gangsters, he escaped with minor
injuries only and assured himself
that the thug leader, regreatted hav-
ing made the attack after the en-
counter.
Max Cohen, hireling of the right
wing officialdom, had come with a
few of his underworld colleagues to
carry into life the threat made
against Sivak and his employer,
who refused to discharge the left
wing worker when ordered to do
so by the right wing.
Cohen and his squad awaited the
left winger till he had finished work
and began the assault as he stepped
from the butcher store at 26 st.
Marks Place, where he works. The
tussle followed.
The reason for the assault is
ascribed to the fact that the left
wing union, Of which Sivak is
leader, is gaining adherents among
the workers and greater control of
the trade, while the right wing
union is losing membership and SUBJ
sequent control.
Despite declarations that they
would not pursue the same ganster
tactics as did the last corrupt ad-
rninistration of the right wing
butcher union, the new clique is now
pursuing the same policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16

constant struggle in behalf of the
proletariat. He was at the peak of
his activities when he was taken
away from US by the treacherous
bullets of the two servants Of Ma
chado's tyranny who purposely came
to Mexico to commit this hideous
crime. Mella was not accidently
murdered. Mella was the object of
prosecutions by the Dictator Macha-
do since the very day that our revo-
lutionist took position against
American imperialism. During the
recent months, the high courts of
Mexico were prosecuting Mela at
Continued on Poge Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
FIND PART OF AMUNDSEN
PLANE.

PARIS, Jan. IL W.H.-The French
builders of the Latham plane in
which Roald Amundsen and his COM
panions were lost while hunting the
wrecked dirigible Italia in the Arc
tic, today announced that fuel tanks
found floating off Norway exactly
conformed to those used on the
Amundsen plane. Five others were
lost with the famous explorer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
Lovestone to Speak at
NewarkL LeninMem
Meet This Friday Eve

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 15.-Jay
Hovestone, secretary of the Workers
(Communist) Party, will be the
principal speaker at the fourth an
nual Lenin Memorial Meeting, to be
held at the Ukrainian Hall, 81 Bea-
con ST., near Springfield Ave. this
Friday evening.
A special musical program has
been prepared, including recitals by
the Freiheit Gesangs Verein and
the Mandolin Symphony Orchestra.
The memorial is being held under
the auspices Of the Newark branch
of the Workers (Communist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
Dock Workers Strike
at Havana May Become
General Port WalkOut

HAVANA, Jan. 15.-In spite of
the provocations of the secret police
who wish an excuse to kill the
leaders of the present dock workers
strike as they have killed many
others, the strike continues without
decisive events.
The bosses are depending on the
Machado police and the power of
hunger, however, to bring the con-
flict to an issue. The workers, on
the other hand, are notifying the
bosses that if their demands are not
conceded shortly the partial harbor
strike will become general.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
Government Ships for
Sale Cheap to Proper
Companies; Bids Asked

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is (UP).-
Bids for the sale of the U. S. Ship
ping Boards two largest and most
important lines, the United States
Lines and the American Merchant
Lines were opened by Chairman T..
v. O'Connor today. The bids were
referred to the Merchant Fleet Corp.
for a report. The Shipping Board
has already loaned is fastest boat,
the President Roosevelt to the Ward
Line to compete with the English
Cunard Line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
MINERS BURIED
IN ". VA. BLAST
6 Burned; Conflicting
Reports on Entombing

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. Is W.D.
Six men were burned seriously,
and it is feared that many are
trapped, as the result of an explo-
sion in the Sands mine shaft of
the Continental Coal Company, a
report from Fairmont, w. Va, said
tonight.
The headquarters of the Bureau
of Mines here had announced that
800 men were trapped in the mine.
This may be true also, but later
information does not mention the
300 entombed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
ITALIAN SHIP SINKING.

ROME, Jan. Is W.H.-A French
steamer radioed today that the Ital-
ian vessel, the Madonna Di Pompei,
was in danger off Cistitavecchia.
The French vessel, which was not
identified, was unable to rescue the
imperilled crew. Tugs put out from
Anzio and Cistitavecchia but failed
to find trace of the sinking ship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
TREACHERY RISKS
week
Broach Clique Breaks
Union Solidarity

Inordinate ambition of II. H.
Broach, president of the Inter-
national Electrical Workers Union
to maintain his clique in power, and
to put thru the dues increase which
the membership rejected last August
is the cause of the separate contract
for a five-day week made by the
Electrical Workers Union officials
over me heads of the building trades
council in New York, which was
forced by the union rank and file to
demand &C eral increase in wages
and five-day week for the whole
trade, sas progressives in the unions.
Has Employer Friends.
The Broach clique has class col
laboration understanding with GER
tain of the big contractors. On Jan.
3 the Electrical Contractors Asso-
ciation held an election, and the con-
tractors whom Broach has been ia
voring over other contractors, won
the control of their organization.
rro Ich, who is not on the best of
terms with the chiefs of the building
trades council, a body made up of
representatives (union managers) of
the various unions in the industry,
disregarded the negotiations going
on between John Halkett, president
of t e council and G.. G. Norman,
chairman of the board of governors
of the Building Trades Employers
Association for a general five-day
week, with increase of pay, and
drove thru a contract for the cleo
trical workers alone on terms of a
five-day week and ten per cent in
crease in wages.
Breaks Solidarity.
The result is to weaken the rest
of the building trades unions. The
painters and carpenters especially,
tho numerically strong, have no such
control over their jobs as the cleo
tricians, and have been working
under the scale. For them to in
crease the scale, now that Broach
has withdrawn the electrical union
as far as he can from the general
fight, means little, for without soli-
darity of other trades they cannot
enforce their agreements.
Broach, will however, now be able
to demand the increase from $85 a
year to 500 year dues, which he
has been trying to get for months.
There seems to be probable in
dependent scramble of union official
doms now, each by itself, to get what
it can, with the weaker unions get
ting little more than five-day
week which means o, day a week
unemployment, because there will be
only formal increase in wages, not
real increase. Workers will have
to work under the union scale, and
the reactionary union official will
encourage this.
Scramble Starts.
The Marble Workers Union has
notified the Marble Industry En-
ployers' Association that it wants a
five-day week and $14 day instead
of the present five and a half day
week and $12 day. Their contract
expired Dec. 81.
The bricklayers' Off nave q
contract expiring M md have
stated an Independent land foi
$3.50 a day instead o. Ia, with
the five-day week.
The Building Trades Employers
Association is considering expelling
the Electrical Employers Associa.
ton, and confiscating its bond Of
$45,000, SO it's officials say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16
.Lay-Off of Palestine
r. r. Workers Stopped
by Threat to Strike

JERUSALEM, (By Mail).-The
railroad administration has decided
to discharge $50 Jewish and Arab
workers, but strike threats have so
far prevented the action. The threat
to strike has even brought about a
reduction of half an hour a week
in working hours.