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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
German Communists
Organize Help for the
Increasing JObless

BERLIN, Feb. 25.-The number OF
unemployed in Germany grows
steadily, due to naturalization of
industry forced at great speed by
the reparations committee. At the
end of January 1914 per cent of the
labor union membership were to-
tally unemployed, in addition to the
numerous unorganized workers and
those only partially employed.
Last year at the same time the
percentage was la per cent. The
3 per cent of wages paid by the
unemployment insurance is proving
to be entirely inadequate since it is
almost impossible to live on this
subsistence dole and the number of
workers applying for it has trebled
since last year. There are no signs
that the government will increase
the unemployment fund.
The Communist Party is now or
ganizing unemployment committees
and committees representing the un-
organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Renew SUMMIT
SILK STRIKE
NTW Holds Men; Fake
Union Powerless

PATERSON, N. j., Feb. 25.-
Complete failure was the outcome of
an attempt of the officialdom of the
Associated Silk Workers Union, to
force the Summit, N. J. silk strikers
to quit the National Textile Work
ers Union and rejoin their reaction
airy and traitorous organization.
This attempt was made Sunday
when Fred Hoelscher, A. S. w.
secretary and a squad of thugs,
came to the meeting of the so Sum-
nit workers and took the platform
before the N. I. w. officers arrived,
using it for vituperative attack
on the new industrial union and it
officers.
After Hoelscher's sulphuric Ian
guage had filled the air for over an
hour, Martin Russak, Paterson or
ganizer of the N. T. w. came to the
Continued on Page TWoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
HEMSTITCHERS,
PLEATERS AND
FUCKERS STRIKE
Dress Strike Spreads
as New Trades Join;
Want 40-Hr. Week
Mass Arrests Y esterday
To Demonstrate at City
Hall Against Police

A strike, to become effective this
morning, was declared in the auxil-
larry trades to dressmaking, the
fuckers, pleaters and hemstitchers
trades. Several thousands of work
ers will this morning walk out un-
der the leadership of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union, to join the
already successful strike of the
dressmakers in struggle for union
conditions.
The time and contents of the Of
ficial strike call were decided upon
and worked out late last night at
% meeting of the executive board of
the fuckers, Pleaters and Mem
stitchers Local Al of the Industrial
Union. 1t was distributed to the
workers in these trades early this
morning by the Organization Com
mittee members.
In declaring a strike in these
trades Local al sets out to wine out
Of existence the company union
NAAtit bilS tttiC1o VI Iftt IHttitdtfOtdi
Ladies Garment Workers Union
have established in their industry, to
bring back union standards and to
gain the 40-hour week. This scab
union, though having practically no
membership, nevertheless is recog-
nized by so-called boss association
which uses it to abolish union con-
ditions.
Wholesale arrests and other acts
Of police terrorism again failed to
break up the mass picketing demon
stration which thousands of striking
dressmakers carried on for several
hours in the garment manufacturing
district yesterday. One hun
dred and twenty-six strikers
and six school children, picketing
for their parents right to earn a
decent living, was the toll taken by
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
MAY RUIN WORLD
COURT FOR U. S
England Hints Powers
to Be Restricted

LONDON, Feb. 25.-British of.
ficial circles are throwing out hints
connected with lavish eulogies of
Elihu Root, special U. S. commits
sioner to the World Court nations,
that a way out of the difficulty
raised by American imperialism's
proposal to join the World Court on
the basis of a privileged position,
has been found.
The new solution partly outlined,
and unofficially declared, is to give
all nations in the court the same
rights claimed by U. S., decision
that could be reached by merely
properly interpreting Article V of
the League of Nations Covenant, but
which would have the effect of prac-
tically abolishing the court.
U. S. Demands Privilege.
The reservations voted by the u.
S. senate to the world court were
that without U. S. consent, the court
should never pass on a matter in
which the u, S. felt itself vitally
interested. If this reservation is al
lowed, American imperialism sees no
reason why it should not participate
Continued or Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
SENATE DODCES
ware SWINDLE
In No Hurry to Act on
Election Frauds

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The
senate continues to delay any action
on the Ware election frauds, and ap-
parently will not consider in this
session, if ever, the Reed report,
ssummaa.iAing an aasSslIal number of
election law violations in the election
of Senator Ware of Pennsylvania.
The frauds include the overuse of
slush funds, the voting of persons
not on the register, the voting of
the same person in many different
precincts, the miscounting of votes,
etc. In Philadelphia more votes
were cast than there were names on
the register, and only three election
boards counted the votes fairly.
Ware, as the recognized republi-
can party boss in Philadelphia, con-
trolled the election machinery.
1t was Ware who announced Mel
Ions choice of Hoover for president
at the republican party convention
at Kansas City, and the delegates
duly nominated him, as soon as they
heard their masters voice. Mellon
has the same arbitrary control of
the Pennsylvania state republican
party machinery that Ware has in
Philadelphia. Without Melons con-
sent, Ware could have carried the
other large cities. The Reed COM
mittee found almost as much cor
ruption of the vote in Pittsburgh as
in Vare's own stronghold, Phila-
delphia.
The administration senator's, need
less to say, see no haste in chal-
lenging this powerful partnership.
They debated the Reed report on
frauds for two hours, and postponed
the vote on it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
PLAN CLAPTRAP
\ FOR INAUGURAL
Hoover Still Mum on
3 Cabinet Jobs

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Plans
proceed to invest with as much dig
nifty as possible the change in Wall
Street executives in the White
House and the cabinet President
elect Hoover has relapsed into a
mysterious silence, attending the
Quaker Church on Sunday with his
family, and refusing to say whom
he has picked for secretaries of la
bor and agriculture, or the attorney
generalship. He held a conference
Saturday with Senator Brookhart,
after which the now pretty we'll
tanned "insurgent" came out and an
nounced that ''it seems the presi-
dent-elect has not decided yet"
Hoover even refuses to tell a num-
ber of technically interested and
worrying printers how long his in
auguration speech will be. 1t will not
20 to tho printers tomorrow or the
next day, and will have to be in
print before Inauguration. Hoover's
secretary said 1t might be as long
as 5000 words, or perhaps only half
of that" Hoover won't spoil his
Sunday to work on it.
Coolidge finds it beneath his dig
nifty TO return to the White House
after the Inauguration. Promptly
after the taking of the oath by
Hoover, Cal and his family will be
IN their way to Mellon and Nor
yan's Pennsylvania railroad and a
special Pullman will carry him and
he countless boxes and trunks full
If presents to Northampton and
,uter darkness. Some of the cab
net officials whose jobs end at the
,ame moment as Coolidge's will tell
lin good bye at the station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Negro Farmer, Wife
Killed in Tornado; a
Dozen Others Hurt

DALLAS, Tex. Feb. 25 (UP)-Dip-
ping into two sections of Texas to-
day, a tornado killed four persons,
injured approximately a dozen and
demolished 25 buildings.
The storm struck first near Grand
Prairie where Alfred Gibson, Negro
farmer, and his wife were killed.
Later it swept down on Cooper, 25
miles south of Paris, and killed Mr..
and Mrs. N. F. Jones in the wreck
age of their home.
A path more than 100 feet wide
was cut through the town of Cooper
by the wind. Twenty-Five dwellings
collapsed as the tornado struck.
Five persons were painfully injured
by falling debris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Baldwin AWay
To J0bless at
March s End

London, Feb. 25.-A deputation
representing the 800 unemployed
paraders who descended on London
from all parts of England and Scot
land, called at No. 10 Downing street
today and petitioned for interviews
tomorrow with premier Stanley
Baldwin and other members of the
cabinet.
A secretary received the petition
and informed the deputation that
Baldwin was mot in"
The unemployed marchers, who
converged on London yesterday, and
held huge demonstration in Ira
falgar Square, represent a million
and half unemployed workers from
all industries and parts of Britain.
At the demonstration yesterday,
which was participated in by thou
sands of London workers and un-
employed, Tom Mann, veteran labor
leader, presented the demands of the
unemployed workers and declared
that the object of the march was to
bring sharply to the attention of all
workers the miserable condition of
the unemployed and of how little
avail were all the measures taken
and suggestions by the government
and laborites.
London, Feb. 25.-Unemployment
figures this week show the percent
age of British unemployed to be
greater than at any time since June,
1926, when the general strike was
in progress. On Jan. 21 the per-
centage of Br tits h unemployed
Geached 12.3 per centso the II ,SSas=
900 workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
GENTLY PROBING
FEDERAL JUDGES
Delay Moscowitz Case;
Let Winslow Testify

WASHINGTON, Feb. % (UP).-
Chairman Graham of the house ju-
dietary committee, announced the
committee would meet tomorrow to
consider charges against Federal
Judge George M. Moscowitz of New
York. He said the petition of Rep
Iresentative Somers, democrat, New
York, requesting an investigation
into the official conduct of the Judge
was turned over to the committee
today but "other pending business
delayed consideration"
The charges against Moscowitz,
filed with the speaker of the house
of representatives, it is alleged, are
by two brothers named Levine,
whose father committed suicide after
going thru Moscowitz' court, and
the brothers were held in contempt
of court. The young Levines allege
that they were told by a "go-be-
tween" that sundry payments made
from a mortgage not subject to the
bankruptcy law must be made to
creditors, attorneys of the creditors,
their own attorneys and that $4,000
had to go to Judge Moscowitz, in
order to get the contempt lifted, so
they could become lawyers too.
A federal grand jury sitting in
New York yesterday had before it
for one hour Federal Judge Francis
A. Winslow, accused in the house
of representatives of various crimes
and graft connected with a bank
ruptcy ring he is said to have been
operating. Winslow appeared as a
voluntary witness, after the grand
jury had shown an inclination to
concentrate on charges of improper
parole of convict, letting the bank
ruptcy graft charges quietly drop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

AS was expected, Hillquit demon
strated that he has enough influ-
ence in the district attorneys circle,
to get indictments handed down by
the grand jury against the Commu-
mist editors without many of the
preliminary steps that are ordinarily
taken in these cases. The indict-
ments charge criminal libel, for ex-
posing Hillquit's participation in a
swindle in which profits of $150,000
were made through Juggling shares
of international Bank stock belong
ing to the needle trades workers.
Going directly to the district at
torney's offices, Hillquit, the most
prominent figure in many betrayals
of the working class, here appealed
to his capitalist colleagues u, stifle
the voices of the working class press
that has so often and so mercilessly
exposed his treacherous role as an
agent of the employers against the
workers.
Getting his case Immediately into
the hands of the grand jury is by
no means a meagre accomplishment.
it was learned. 1t is practically un-
precedented to begin a criminal
libel suit without a prior hearing
before magistrates court. But
Morris Hillquit avoided such an un-
pleasant experience, where the
DAILY" and "Freiheit" would have
had the opportunity to expose him
more completely and before public
view
The arrest of the editors and lead
ing members of the Communist
press, is expected momentarily.
The Daily Worker and the Frei-
heit have challenged Hillquit to tell
what became of the $150,O0O stolen
from the needle trades workers, but
Hillquit and his yellow Forward"
are still keeping quiet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to S0ue the DQiW

assure you that this is the begin
ming. More money will follow"
M. Puzz, worker from Pow
hatan PIT, Ohio, sends the following:
I'VE are answering your call to
the help of the Daily Worker. Nu-
cleus No 101 OF Powhatan had a
supper for the Daily Worker and
collected $50 to help Save the Daily
Worker. And also find enclosed
S4.25, collected by White Nelson
Continued on Page Fire)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Send Material for the
WOmen's Day Daily
Worker Immediately

In preparation for the Women's $
Day Edition of the Daily Worker,
which will appear during the first
week III March, request has been
made that material for this cdi.
ton be sent in Immediately. Ar.
ticles from women workers in the
shops are especially asked for.
Worker correspondence from
women workers in all industries
is also wanted for the special
Worker Correspondence Page in
the Women's Day Edition.
All such material should he ad-
dressed "Women's Day Edition
and sent in care of the Daily
Worker. rs Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

From all parts of the country
workers are rallying to their revolu-
tionary organ, the Daily Worker.
The letters, which accompany their
contributions, speak Of real prole-
tartan devotion to the Revolution.
From Omaha, Nebraska, Jennie
Rovinsky writes:
Enclosed find money order for
$3.50 as contribution to the
"Guider' of the working class, the
only English Communist paper. !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
ANCLO-JAPA PANESE
ACCORD FIGHTS
The U. S. IN CHINA
Kuomintang Elections
Being Contested On
Battlefields
Congress Due March Is
Shantung Warfare Is
Against Marking
(By News Service, Pan-Pacific
Trade Unicn Secretariat.l

Trade Union Secretariat.>
SHANGHAI, Feb. 25.-The key
to understanding of the re-opening
civil wars in China is found in
imperialist rivalry in conjunction
with the congress of the Kuomin-
tang party, which is due to take
place March Is. Obviously, this
rivalry is tending in the direction of
new war between the imperialist
powers themselves.
The significance Of revolt against
Marking authority having broken
out into armed conflict in two widely
separated districts, Shantung and
Human, ore under Japanese and the
ether under British, influence, is
that on an informal basis the old
Anglo-Japanese alliance has been
revived and the British and Japan
ese are joined against American i'm
perialism, which has bet its pile on
hegemony control Of the Marking
government.
Vote With Bullets.
The Kuomintang elections are
taking place IN preparation for the
congress, and the British and ia
panese are participating, voting
with bullets, both in north and CEN
trail China, Britain already having
secured the south through control
of the Canton general, Ii Chi-sen.
News from Shantung shows the
situation to be almost hopeless for
Marking. Within the last twenty
four hours, a nationalist general
with $4,000 troops has deserted to
Chang Tsung- chang, making the
rebel forces a total which outnum-
bers that Of the supposedly "loyal"
forces by ten to one. These are
rapidly closing in on Chefoo, where
the '1oyal' general, Liu Chen-nien,
is desperately calling for reinforce
ments which cannot pass the Yellow
River on the west, or the Japanese
guarded Kiachow Railroad on the
south, and can only come by sea to
Chefoo in numbers altogether too
small to help matters for Marking.
Shantung 10 Japan.
Only a small force of Marking
troops on Marking government
'warship' is being sent to Chefoo
as reinforcements. Other troops
are supposed to be marching over
land from Tsinan, but if they get
to Chefoo before it falls TO Chang
Tsung- chang it will be in spite of
the latter who occupies the territory
between, and in spite of the Japan
csc who occupy the railway running
east and west.
General Liu at Chefoo has also
appealed to Pal Chung-hsi, COM
inander at Peking, but any troops
which come from either Peking or
Mukden will more likely take sides
with Chang Tsung-chang than with
Marking. Mukden has gunboat at
Shefoo as sort Of interested spec
tator.
Marking Grows Timid Overnight.
This Shantung rebellion is, as a
Marking foreign office spokesman"
yesterday said, undoubtedly backed
by Japan. Today the foreign office
had touch cf cold feet on confirm
ing yesterdays statement, and
would not affirm or deny yester-
days assertion that positive proof
existed of Japanese aid to Chang
Tsung- Chang. 1t is clear, however,
(Continuel on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Important Notice to
N. Y. Party Members

Party comrades wanted for inn
portant work to help the striking
dressmakers. Please report with
out fail tomorrow at Irving Plaza
Hall. at IL noon.
District Executive Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
MINOR, DUNNE, OLCIN And
EPSTEIN INDICTED AS BLOW
AT DAILY WORKER, FREIHEIT
Police and District Attorney Come to Aid of
Millionaire Lawyer, S. P. Boss
Hillquit's Role in S15OO00 Will Be Exposed in
Criminal Trial of Communists

Warrants for the arrest of Robert Minor editor and
William F. Dunne assistant editor of the Daily Worker and
Mossaye Ogn and Meich Epstein editor and assistant
editor the Jewish Communist daily the Freihei have been
secured by Morris Hqut millionaire lawyer and leader of
the socialist party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
FALL KILLS WORKER.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, (By MaiD.
Ray Marsh, a worker, was killed
vhen he fell from a roof he was
epairing at 2167 22nd st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
MURDER QUEENS
CRAFT WITNESS
TO SILENCE HIM
Kill Street Cleaning
Chiefs Chauffeur,
About to Testify
Like D'Olier Shooting
Fire Stevenson, Charge
100000 Loot

Once more the graft ring in Queens
has used murder to remove trouble
some witness against it. Raymond
Clark, chauffeur of officials of the
Queens department of street clean
ing, was shot thru the head and
stabbed in the back just ten hours
before he was to appear before a
grand jury and tell what he had
overheard of events connected with
millions of dollars of graft in the de-
partment.
Clark died in the hospital from
the effects of his wounds, and
whether he made a statement impli-
eating anybody in graft or murder
is not known, as he was in the con-
slant custody of the police from the
moment he reeled out of a Corona
rooming house and left a trail of
blood to the nearest traffic cop. The
police are not anxious to expose the
administration during which most
of them got their jobs.
Like Other Murder
The murder of Clark is strikingly
similar to the killing of William 1.
D'Olier last year. D'Olier was
president of sanitation" company,
and was ready to appear and testify
in the $S,000,000 sewerage graft
against Borough President Maurice
Connolly afterwards convicted) and
various sewer pipe manufacturers
and contractors, who formed a ring
for exploitation of the city treasury.
(ContinuoG on Page TVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

Christinn Socialism is but the holy
water with which the priest conse-
crates the heartburninEs OF the nris-
tocrnt.--knrI Marx tCommunist Mau-
ffcstvl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26

81 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS -
i For Workers. Farmers Government
To Organize The Unorganized
For tbe +0-Honr Week
For Labor Party
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-08-14
B A N GAR0USEL
At CARNIVAL

Everything Is not peaches and
cream at the carnival entertain
ment Of the Junior Order OF United
American Mechanics, which Is lead.
ing a hectic existence at Commodore
Barney Circle, Seventeenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast.
In the first place, the officers of
the order received permission from
Col. u. s. Grant, 3D., head OF the
Department of Public Buildings
and Public Parks, to use the circle.
That permit, however. did not give
the right to operate a merry.go-
round anywhere except on unim.
proved land having an area OF at
least two acres. Barney Circle Is
completely out on that score. On
top of that rule the order must
have the written consent OF three.
quarters Of the residents OF the
neighborhood. before the police will
issue permit.
There Is nothing wrong with the
permit to sell ice-cream, soft drinks
and such like and the order Il at.
tempting to- make the grade finan-
cially on them, while the man who
owns the merry.goround il won
dering where he gets off. He is
out the freight in moving his equip.
ment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-08-14
TENANTS To PAY
RENT tod. c.

The District win shortly be in
the real estate and hotel business.
and the question Is now being asked
by officials in charge OF the pur.
chase OF land for the municipal
center just how to run a rental
office.
Within q week or two negotiations
for the National Hotel and q mum.
Der OF smaller buildings on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue between John Mar
shall Place and Sixth Street will
have to be completed and the ten
ants will be permitted to remain.
A plan is being worked out by
Major L. e. Atkins, Assistant Engt.
neer Commissioner, to, permit ten.
ants OF houses purchased in the
municipal center to remain and in.
place OF paying rent to present
owners to hand over the monthly
sum to the District.
There will be no slash in rentals
Major Atkins said, but the same
sum viii be charged az the. tenants
now pay. There will be no leases
on any buildings. but all will be
rented on d month-to.month basis.
Where owners are occupants of
dwellings q schedule OF rents pro-
portqnate' to similar buildings In
the neighborhood will be worked
out.
From present Indications Major
Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor,
viii be the agent for the District,
and 1t win be up to him to see that
his tenants pay up each month or
move.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-08-14
Lee Highway Widening
Assured in CherrydaIe

Widening Of Lee Highway through
cherrydale, win be undertaken i'm.
mediately. following an agreement
by the Washington and Old Do
minion Railway today to move its
tracks off the State right Of way.
William G. Cloth, commonwealth
attorney for Arlington county, said
he had received a letter giving the
company's decision and closing nego-
tiations< that have been going on
for years.
Work Of shifting the tracks about
s feet over stretch of 8 blocks
will be started at once and the road
widening will proceed simultaneously.
When completed the road will be
2S feet wide instead OF Is feet, as
at present.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-08-14
Farm Board Members
Salaries Are DELAYED

Members Of the recently organized
Federal Farm Board will not re-
ceive their salaries until the Senate
confirms their nominations, because
they were appointed to positions
that were vacant during the last
session OF Congress.
The law declares that workers
who receive their appointments can
be paid only when their positions
became vacant while Congress was
not in session.