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New Britain herald., 1929-05-01
HARDWARE OUTLOOK
Market Active, Price Steady-Sprtng
and Summer Business Appears
Well Sartcd.

Well Sartcd.
New York. May 1-Active market
conditions and steady price situa-
ton are features Of the week in the
hardware trade, Hardware Age will
say tomorrow in its weekly market
summary. Reports from important
market centers indicate that the
spring and summer business is al
least started well. April showing a
considerable increase over the same
month last year in most instances.
A noticeable activity is that of the
steel industry. which is expected.
from present Indications. to continue
well into the late summer. This
would seem to reflect a healthy con-
dition throughout the country. espe-
cially as this outlook is augmented
by excellent crop prospects.
Employment continues to main
tain a high level. embracing all
kinds of labor. Altogether the pres
ent and prospective business situa-
alton is most encouraging.
Prices are mainly firm. with COM
few changes.
Collections are improving with the
general development of trade.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-01
Ohio Prima Donna Draws
10000 Persons to Debut

Cleveland. May up - Dreda
AYES. daughter Of Norwalk. O..
minister. drew 10000 residents OF
her home town to her Ohio debut
last night when she sang the role
of Santuzza in the New York Metro
poltan Opera company's presentation
of Mascagni's opera. "Caval1eria
Rusticana.'
A delegation of 500 came by spec
ial train from Norwalk and the
others who honored her were peo-
pie of Cleveland and elsewhere who
claim Norwalk as their home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Greet CAST0NIA
WOMEN MONDAY
To Hit Frame-Up at
Big N. Y. Welcome

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of workers to smash the mill bar
ons' frame up and establish the
right of workers to defend their
lives and property from the at
tacks of mill owners police and
thugs.
The demonstration Monday will
also protest against the sentencing
of Harry Eisman, 14-year-old Pho
neer, to a reformatory because he
defended himself from police attack
while taking part in demonstration
against the Boy Scouts.
In addition to the Bush, Schechter
and Melvin group, the speakers will
include William z. Foster, national
secretary of the Trade Union Edu-
cational League; ]. Louis Engdahl,
national secretary of the I. L. D.;
Alfred Wagenknecht, national secre-
tary of the W. |. R.; Jim Reid, pres
ident of the National Textile Work
ers Union; Louis Hyman, president
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union; Charles Alexander,
Negro director of the Young Com
munist League; and a Pioneer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
CAST0NIA seen
AS RALLY POINT
Union Holds Defense
Meeting Here

The Gastonia frame up and the
textile situation in the South were
seen as the rallying point for fur
ther organization and the basis of
rapid growth for the National Tex
tile Workers Union by Jim Reid,
president, who was the principal
speaker last night at the Caste
MIA defense meeting at Irving Plaza
hall, called by the New York Dis
trict of the Union.
Reid pointed to New Bedford as
proof that after long and hard
fought strike the workers through
out the country are even more will
ing to organize and will follow the
leadership of fighting left wing
union.
Gastonia textile strikers described
their conditions wildly, tracing the
struggle from its beginning to the
murder frame-up against the lead
ers of the strike.
Harriet Silverman, of the Work
ers' International Relief, described
the manufacture of the frame up by
the Manville Jenckes' bosses in CO.
operation with tie police and courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
BIZ; Shoe MEET
IN N. Y. today
Industrial Union to be
Formed

adelphia, Boston, Binghamton, and
other shoe centers. Many of the
delegates from New York and
Brooklyn will be strikers now actu-
ally engaged in bitter struggles.
Need Militant Action.
twentieth century capitalism and
A. F. of L-ism," the call says, "of-
fers the workers no relief from
wage slavery. Daily we witness
long drawn out and bitter strug-
giles of thousands, of shoe and
leather workers, men and women,
young and old. We need but look
at Boston, Haverhill, New York,
Philadelphia, and other cities to
realize the need for militant, unified
and centralized action on the part of
the workers.
"After years and years of dues
and assessment collection by the
Boot and Shoe Union, the Protec-
tive Union, the American Union and
the company unions, the shoe work
ers are left to the mercy of the
bosses. There are still thousands
of shoe workers toiling 70 hours
week for starvation wages. The
piece work system, the speed up
system, the filming system are still
common practise in the shoe and
leather industry.
Graft unionism has failed mis-
erably.
Militant industrial unionism
must be established"
Calling attention to the situation
in Boston, the call continues:
In Boston.
"Here the Henry Meade outfit is
throwing sand into the eyes of the
workers; where, under the slogan Of
fighting against the Boot and Shoe,
they are uniting with the socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
MANHATTAN

/. Wednesday,, August IA, all Sec
lions are to have section member
ship meetings. Attendance at these
meetings is compulsory. There will
he Gee and DEC representative to
speak on the next tasks ia the Party
campaigns.
2. All section and unit Industrial
organizers are to meet Thursday,
August Sth, IN. sharp, at the
Workers Center.
). A meeting of all unit and Sec
ton women worker organizers will
be held Wednesday, August 9TH, Mt
s p. IN. sharp, at the Workers Center.
4. All speakers and unit agitprop
directors are to attend the speakers
conference Thursday, August 8. : y.
m, sharp, at the Workers Center.
5. Trade union work: During the
week of August IL, Party assistance
to the distribution of special issue
of Labor Unity. Distribution of spe-
cial IeafIet of the TUEL Party sup
port to this distribution.
q. All F-rty comrades are to give
special assistance and support 10 the
meeting to welcome the GastOnia
prisoners released on bail. to be held
August IL. This meeting will also
be a protest meeting against the
Imprisonment OF Harry Eisman. our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
| killed, 7 HURT
IN TANKER BL. Asst
Standard Oil Guilty of
Murder

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sive explosions shortly after 7 a. m.
today, as she lay at a pier in Bay
onne, near the Standard Oil re-
fineries.
Thirty-five seamen aboard the
ship. were thrown into the waters
of New York Bay, waters which in
a few minutes were covered with
blazing oil.
Four of the seven men injured
re expected to die. Some of the
eamen were asleep as the first ex-
Dlosion threw them out Of their
berths. A much more serious cal
amity was averted only by the sea-
mems prompt action and hard work
in dumping into the bay the bulk
of the cargo of the tanker.
The blasts shook most of Northern
New Jersey, lower Manhattan, and
smashed windows several miles in
land on Staten Island.
The first explosion was immedie
ately followed by successive flashes
of flame, which, igniting more of
the oil, caused four more blasts.
The Standard Oil Co., as is the
usual policy when company neglect
causes disaster, hurried its Off
Gals to the scene, and at their be-
hest, the Observation-Disclosures po-
lii, of Bayonne threw thick net
of censorship over the blasts.
Gag Workers.
Standard Oil Immediately at
tempted to further prevent the truth
# the blasts cause from leaking
but by imposing secrecy on its en-
9loyees, using threats of dismissal
if they talked.
Despite this, however, the fact
that the steam pipe had been broken
for some time before the blast, was
revealed by members of the crew.
1t was also revealed that Edward
Haley, 20, of So seth St., Brooklyn,
! crew member, had been overcome,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Music group of misleaders and
fighting against real progressive
shoe workers who correctly point
out that the Henry-Meade and
Music combination is the same A..
F. of L. craft and graft policy IN
der a new name"
At the same time the policy Of
betrayal in Haverhill is cited.
The call concludes with the fol-
lowing fighting slogans:
Fight for industrial unionism
Fight for the shop delegate system
Fight for the 5-day, 4O-hour week.
Fight for job and union control.
Away with arbitration and five
year contracts! Away with the speed
up and filming system! Away with
low wages and long hours. Away
with craft unionism and labor mis-
leaders!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
NEW STIMSON
NOTE PREP Ares
ATTACK ON USSR
Chiang's Minister Very
Secretive About It .

(Continued from Page One) !
whether by rebels against the hide
ousIy bloody regime Of General
Chang Hsueh-liang, or through sheer
incompetence of the new railroad
administration, appointed by him to
supersede the Soviet officials ban
the government announced today.
A limited number of women will
be admissible to certain technical
military schools and will be subject
to military discipline the same as
the men.
The action of the women workers
represents the serious conviction of
the workers of the USSR that the
imperialist powers contemplate in
vasion, and the determination of
both men and women workers to do
their part in the defense. 1t also
shows the extent to which equality
of sexes is recognized in the USSR.
ished or arrested, is not known here.
The militarists here, Of course,
claim that the fire was set by "Bol.
shevist spies.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
TRY TO COW COOLIES.

LONDON (By Mail. -According
to news from Sumatra the Dutch
government is conducting a cam
paign of terrorism against the ma
tive workers. Twenty-nine Chinese
coolies were arrested on two plan
tations. 1t is alleged that they were
making Communist propaganda and
melting the workers to rise against
the Dutch planter, their employer.
Police detachments were detailed to
several other plantations as it is
feared that riots will ensue as con-
equence Of the arrests. y51Ss@s.s:s5t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
COOK AND smith
HOODWINK COAL
miners At Meet
7-Hr. Question Dodged
By British Misleaders

LONDON, Aug. 9.-The annual
convention Of the British Miners
Federation held at Blackpool and
dominated by the reactionary Her
bert Smith and A. ]. Cook, the be-
trayer of the left wing miners, has
totally side stepped the crisis
among the mining workers: the re-
cent Dawdon strike, the Binley
strike now in it's sixth week, and
the seven-hour day which was so
generously promised the miners by
the labor party in it's election cam
paign.
In Herbert Smiths presidential
speech he had to admit that the
once powerful Federation now had
nearly $4,000 less members COM
pared with last year.
Praises Boss Charity.
Smith, instead of demanding i'm
mediate and concrete relief for the
tens of thousands of jobless miners,
praised the charitable" societies
for their small doles, handed the
miners with much pious singsong.
He gave no hope that the FEEDER
alton would again act as trade
union, instead of a company union.
He then went on to suggest ways
and means for "bettering" the
plight of the miners. He suggested
that the conference should instruct
the executive to approach the coal
owners association and begin dis
cussions on a new national agree
ment with a vague reference to a
new minimum wage.
Charges by militants that the
present minimum wage was being
violated in nearly every pit were
ignored by the officialdom. Recent
months have witnessed a host of
strikes by miners against these vio-
lations in which the Smith machine
has ordered the miners to return to
work and has punished locals refus-
ing to do so.
The most recent case Of this was
at Bolden, where the miners were
each fined 10 shillings for striking
against a wage agreement violation.
A. J. Cook, who so shamefully de-
serted the minority movement prior
to the last election, announced that
legislation on the long promised
seven-hour day had been put off till
the late autumn l. the government,
and told the miners to bear with
the government. The executive, in
order to avoid a vote on the ques-
ton, which would be "embarras-
sing" to Labor" asked free hand
to negotiate with the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Fraternal Organizations
French Workers Center Opening.

French Workers Center Opening.
The French Workers Center, club
d Education Sociale." at 143 West
1O3rd St, will hold opening exercises
eaking-admission free.
Die Naturfreunde.
The English Section will meet at
East 1SOth st. subway station. sun.
Quarries. Fare 50 cents.
Note, Working women's Councils.
All working Women's Councils are
conf to be held on tuesday
night, Aug. 10, at Irving Plaza. 18th
st. and Irving Pl., at 1880 p. m. for
the purpose of organizing a delega-
ton to receive the Soviet filters who
left the Soviet Union a few days ago
and will end their world flight in
New York. If your council does not
meet in time to elect delegates, the
organizer. secretary or any other &C
Gil. United Council of Working Wom-
en-, Kate Gitlow, secretary.
Communist Esperanists.
VIII hold meeting Saturday, Aug.
10, at $3.50 p. M, in the cafeteria or
E. S1st st.
U. C. w. w. Beach Party.
A beach party for the benefit Of
the Gastonia frame-up victims. will
be given Saturday, Aug. II, at Coney
Island, beginning at 1 p. m. Bathing,
supper in the evening at 1901 Mer-
maid Ave, C. I. There will be q So
cial and educational program. Tick
cts, rs cents; children free.
Iron and Bronze Workers.
A general membership meeting of
the Architectural Iron. Bronze and
Structural Workers Union will be
held on Tuesday evening, Aug. 10. at
the Rand School, E. 18th ST., at 8
p. m. sharp.
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CALL BUILDING
WORKERS meet

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unemployment grow with the same
intensity.
eve must wake up to the fact
that our unions through the union
officials are controlled by the
BOSSES" the call concludes, "and we
must put stop to this by taking
the control in our hands (the rank
and file) and running the unions
for our own benefit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

Not only has the bOurge OisIe
forged the weapons that bring
into existence the men who are to
WELD those weapOns--the modern
working clnss--the proletarians.-
Karl Marx Communist ManifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Communist Activities
Pioneer comrade, who got six
months imprisonment.
w. w. WEINSTONE,
District Organizer.

mOnknSF
w. w. WEINSTONE,
District Organizer.
Section 2 Meeting Place.
All units of Section will meet
in the Workers Center. &c Union
Square, until further notice.
Units of Section Note.
Units of Section which have been
meeting at 101 West 9th st. will
meet at the Workers Center until
new headquarters are obtained
East n. Y. Unit Y. G. l.. Hike.
The East New York Unit, Y. G, L.,
has arranged a hike for this Sunday,
Aug IL, to Van Couruandt Park.
Comrades wishing to come along
meet at the headquarters, $40 Brad
ford St, Brooklyn: at a. m. sharp
Open Air Meetings Saturday.
147th st. and 18th Ave. at Sis p. m.
Speaker: OVergard.
Pier IA at 1880 a. m. Speaker l..
Perth Amboy, N. j., 3OS Elm ST.. at
1880 p. m. Speaker: L. Baum.
25th st. and Mermaid Ave, Coney
Island, at p. m. Speakers: NJ. Reiss,
v Smith and NJ. Ziebel.
Paterson, N. j., at p. m. Speaker:
S. Harper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
DEATH FOR IS is
demanded The
n. c. PROSECUTOR
Strong Protest Defense
Is Imperative
(Continued from Page One J

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ports to man the position their
leaders take, and the defense takes
a primary place in all the work of
the union.
To help save their fellow-workers
from the chair, Amy Schechter and
Vera Bush are making a tour of 81
major cities, and will reach millions
Of workers eager to hear the truth
about the intense class battle in
Gastonia. They are travelling I'M
Ger the joint auspices of the Inter
national Labor Defense, the Work
crs International Relief, and the
ufion.
Begin Tour.
The workers of Washington, DC,
gave the two strike leaders a rous-
ing welcome last night, pledging
their support for the % facing trial.
Tonight they will speak in Pulaski
Hall in PawtucEet, Il. l., where the
northern plants of the Manville-
Jenckes company are located
Massachusetts textile workers will
hear their union leaders at Sylvan
Grove, New Bedford, Sunday after
noon, and at Liberty Lot, Fall River
III the evening.
A huge rally in Central Opera
House, New York City, is arranged
for Monday evening. To reach a
larger number Of meetings, Schech-
te2 will appear at one meeting while
Bush will speak in a different city
On Z few occasions.
The remainder OF the tour will in
Glade:
Russian Literary Hall, 287 Erv-
IL, st., Lawrence, Mass, Tuesday
cFninG; A. c. A. Hall, 1855 West
minister St, Providence, R. l., We'd
resday evening; and Textile Union
Hall, 205 Paterson ST., Paterson, N.
j., Wednesday evening; Passaic
Workers Home, % Dayton Ave,
Passaic, and Allentown, Thursday
evening.
Labor Institute, $40 Locust St.,
J Philadelphia, Aug. 10; Boston, Aug.
); Pittsburgh, Aug. II; Wheeling,
". Va, Aug. IS; Buffalo, the 18th;
Cincinnati, tho 10Th; Cleveland, the
18th; st. Louis, the goth; Detroit,
tho goth; Minneapolis, the 21st;
milwaukee, the 21st, and Chicago,
the 22nd.
The campaign to raise $4,000 for
the defense of the strikers and COL
lect 100000 signatures on the mass
protest petitions, conducted jointly
by the defense and relief organiza-
tons is progressing successfully.
Every branch in the country is ac-
lively collecting funds and sigma
lures, swelling their membership at
;he same time.
GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 9. Vera
Bush and Amy Schechter, two of
the three women strike leaders re-
Gently released on bail pending their
trial on murder charges which grew
out of the raid on the tent colony
early in June, left here tonight for
lie first mass meeting of their
bur, scheduled for tomorrow night
Washington, D. c. Sophie Mel
win will remain in the south to aid
in the organizational work for the
Charlotte conference, Oct. IL and
10, and help the International La
Dor Defense raise funds for the de-
tense of the % arrested textile lead
ers, of whom she is one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
JACOBS STILL IN
CRITICAL STATE
Gangster Victim Near
Point of Death
Continued from Page Ome)

Continued from Page One)
The two gorillas who were ar
rested following the attack upon ia
cobs are to come up for hearing be-
fore Magistrate Stern in Jefferson
Market Court this morning. The
lawyers for the I. L. G. w. will in
all probability again demand the re-
lease of their "boys" on bail.
y
Ready for Drive.
At the office of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union it was yes
terday announced that all was in
preparation for the organization
drive among the dress makers. The
Union again urges all members to
enroll in the organization commit
tee, and thus through a successful
drive help put an end to the gang
ster rule by which the right wing
company union agents hope to ter
rorize the rank and file workers.
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BrISOtOn Beacn AOhCCEs'
The Brighton Beach Workers Cen
and concert for the benefit of the
Gastonia strikers and frame-up VIC
tins on Saturday, Aug. 10, 1880 p. M,
at the Lakeland Theatre, Brighton
Beach and Lakeland AYES. Tickets
are so cents and are on sale at the
Women Greet Frame-Up Victims.
Members of all the local councils
of the United Council of Working
ers (Vera Buch, Amy Schechter and
Sophie Melvin), who were framed-up
in Gastonia during the textile strike.
On Monday night, Aug: II, at the
Central Opera House, 9th st. and
3rd Ave, Council members will gather
in the dressing room of the hall and
enter the meeting room in Dody.
All local councils should bring their
banners and slogans. Be sure to
come on time.
United Council of Working Women.
KATE GITLoW, Secretary.
Sunday Bont Excursion.
The Biellese Workers Progressive
Club has arranged an excursion TO
Hook Mountain via the Hudson River
on the steamer Ossining for sunday
Aug IL There will be dancing on
the boat ana games at 1ooh NV
tain. The steamer leaves the foot of
West 35th st at SIS am. and puts
off from Hook Mountain at 6 pm.
Tickets in advance. S1.50; children
under -, $500; can be obtained at
the club headquarters, sol w. 29th
Street.
Harlem Youth Club Hike.
The members of the Harlem Pro-
gressive Youth Club will go for
hike this Sunday, Aug. IL, to Coney
Island, meeting at 1892 Madison Ave,
o'clock. Bring along your bathing
suit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

USSR Women Army Officers.
MOSCOW, USSR, Aug. "a de-
mand of group of Soviet Union
women workers for equal rights in
the military service has been granted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Among Most Exploited.

The members of the crew of the
Standard Oil Company tanker are
among the most exploited of all sea-
men. The Marine Workers League
is carrying on an organizational
campaign on these slave ships. 1t
was while distributing leaflets for
the Marine Workers League that
John Morgan, a seaman, was at
tackled by officials of the Standard
Oil Company and officers Of the
tanker. AS result of this, Morgan
was sent to prison on a framed up
assault" charge. He was sentenced
to six months, a term he is now
serving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

by oil fumes aboard the ship an
hour before the blast, and it was
presumed that the gas which over
came him later caused the blast.
1t was definitely established that
large quantities of oil fumes pre-
ceded the explosion.
Shortly after the fifth blast,
while flames four stories high shot
upward from the tanker, tugboats
edged toward the Rockefeller and
towed her through the mouth of the
Kill van Kull and into the flats OF
the upper bay. Crews of tugs and
fireboats labored heroically for
hours in the Red Flats to extinguish
the blaze.
Kept for Investigation"
When the blaze was completely
under control, the tanker was towed
back into pier 6, Bayonne, scene OF
the blasts, where the Standard Oil
officials, aided by New Jersey au-
thorities, threw a web of secrecy
around her. "The tanker is being
kept here for company investiga-
tion," officials said.
Later the body of Ward, the
Waterman who was killed, was
found floating in Kill van Kull. By
then Robert Hague, the vice-presl-
dent and general manager of the
Standard Shipping Co., the Stand
ard Oil subsidiary operating its
tankers, was jubilating over the fact
that the damage was only $4,000
land might have been more had it
not been for the fact that the tanker
was of STEEL"
1t was indicated today that the
Standard Oil would escape with a
complete whitewash. This was fore
seen in the promptness on the part
of Jersey authorities in allowing the
company to do the investigation"
Among the injured workers are:
Amadeu Pebero, A, of 101 York ST.,
Jersey City, burned on both arms
and face; Jack Giemellon, IS, Baton
Rouge, has Commissions of both legs
and sprained back; Leo Herbert, "a,
st. GabriePs, decorations and contu-
sions; Frank Marillow, A, of 302
Broad ST., Stapleton, S. l., burned on
forehead and face; John Beirne, SO,
of 218-24 Tooth Ave-, Queens Viii
lage, burned on both arms and la
cerated scalp; Van Kennedy, 20, Ba-
ton Rouge, La, compound fracture
of left arm and burns.