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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
Rob South African Farmers,
Then EnslaUe Them IN MINES

CAPETOWN, South Africa, Feb.
PA story Of farmers suffering
from drought, attacked by police,
living under martial law ard finally
forced to work III the diamond mines
or starve, was told by men arriving
here from Namaqualand. 1t is the
first fairly comprehensive account
Of the rumored uprisings against the
government by the workers in the
diamond fields of South Africa.
Namaqualand, one of those SUM-
scorched. sand-swept wastes CT At
RIGA which produce the finest dia-
monds in the world in large guam
titles, was to have been the scene
Of an attack on government forces
by settlers who had been aroused to
the fighting pitch because of police
and government Intervention in the
diamond fields.
There has been no rain in Mama
oualand for almost three years.
Once prosperous farms have been
deserted and many farmers have
been ruined. Simple Dutch settlers,
who just made ends meet before the
great drought, have been forced to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

Iron, Bronze Shobmen
Prepare ttoy Struggle

organized shopmen to do the out
side work.
Want United Action.
Genuine united action of these two
groups with the rest of the build
ing trades unions would be a big
step in the right direction, towards
100 per cent organization of all
workers in the building industry.
However, faced with lack of coop
Grafton, the iron and bronze workers
realize that they must therefore fur
Their intensity their efforts to or
ganize, as a vital part of the pre-
paration for the struggle which will
come with the expiration of their
agreement with two associations on
April 80, 1929.
The following demands are being
made upon all the bosses:
IA minimum scale for helpers
of $40 per week on the 44-hour
basis.
"A minimum scale for finish
ers, bronze filter, weiders, black
smiths and automatic riveters Of
$50 per week.
"A minimum scale for appren-
tees for the first six months of
apprenticeship of s24 per week, with
a 50 raise every six months during
the total of two year term of ap-
premiership.
A general increase of 81 above
the wages received at present for
all finishers, helpers and appren-
tees. ~ - DO ~.-,..s
: 5.-0nly one apprentice allowed in
each shop.
6.-Non-union foremen shall not
be allowed to handle any tools.
Helpers shall not be permitted
to do any blacksmith work. IL
8.-Nos shop chairman is to be
laid off without the consent of the
union.
9.-Equal division of work among
the men of each shop in time of
slackness. A4 ... Us.
l0.-Employes discharged at any
time before the expiration of the
day shall be paid for such full day.
To win these demands calls for
the, highest possible degree of or
ganization and. activity. This means
that every one of the $500 iron and
bronze workers in Greater New
York must join the union and take
part in the further necessary pre-
parations for the big fight just
ahead. @
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
GENERAL STRIKE
or DOCKERS IN
ARGENTINE seen
10000 Harbor Workers
Demand More Wages

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 24.-Al-
though the partial strike of dock
worl:e"s ended, a new general strike
throa,2aed by the Maritime Work
ers' Federation embracing 1000 men
in Buenos Aires, and others in
Rosario, Santa Fe and other ports
to the total of 10000, may break out
at once over the wage increases de-
manded by the union.
President Irigoyen, after a con-
ference with owners of river boats,
lighters and launches, which will be
affected by the strike, stated that
the owners refuse to give wage in
creases, on the excuse that they
Cannot afford it."
The government is trying to make
the union recede from its demand
on the basis of what the bosses
claim, in spite of the increased cost
of living. The matter has been
taken up by the Minister of the In
terror, DR.. Elipidio Gonzales.
The strike is certain to have
material backing by solidarity ac-
ton of workers in Uruguay and
Paraguay and internationally on a
larger scale, as did the recent ship
ping strike, because of the unifying
force present in the form of the
Provisional Committee of the Latin
American Trades Union Confedera-
ton, which is located at Montevideo
where a congress is to be held in
May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

sell everything to buy food and
clothing.
The farmers discovered diamonds,
and these stricken farmers saw a
way out of their troubles.
But the government intervention
made the fields state diggings and
all the farmers were allowed was
"an opportunity to work in the
mines" The Namaqualanders felt
it was a great injustice and they
watched with growing dissatisfac-
ton.
Under Martial Law.
Armed police were sent to. guard
the field and the Namaqualanders
felt that this was but another
method CT preventing them from en-.
ioying what was rightfully theirs,
and they demanded SIS a day from
the government in payment for
what they had lost" and they
threatened to rush the diggirgs IL
the government refused.
The government answered by
sending in more armed police. No
open outbreak has as yet occurred,
and the situation is hanging fire.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
WILL SUPPORT
DRESS STRIKE
Labor Unions, I. L. D.
lat T.U.E.L. Conference

Continued from Page One)
Party, Bakst for the Marine Work
crs Progressive League, Harold Will
liams for the American Negro La
Dor Congress, Sidney Jonas for the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
and Florence Celler for the Office
Workers Union.
Charles Zimmerman, vice-presi-
dent of the Needle Trades Workers
industrial Union, appealed to the
delegates to urge the members OF
their organizations to give actual
support to the strike by taking their
place or the picket-line. He was
enthusiastically received.
One hundred dollars in cash was
contributed by the delegates for the
support of the strike and 5000 was
pledged. This was in addition to
$500 given by the bakers, $500 by
the grocery clerks and $500 by the
building trades workers.
I Resolutions were unanimously
passed pledging full and active sup
port to the dress strike, protesting
against the police terror, support
ing the Daily Worker and the Fret
heit, and endorsing the work in be-
half of the strike of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Work
ers International Relief. as we'll as
the |. l.. D. bazaar on March $40.
The conference elected ways and
means committee of seven to carry
on ana extend its work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
COP. clean UP
PURELY A FAKE
Gust Negroes in South,
Ohio Gangster OK.

Continued from Page One)
leadership in the South, under the
highly moral banner of "extricating
the party from one of the worst pa
-tronage messes in history"
The result will be that the "new
South" which turned four states re-
publican in November, will have
some new, and white, faces, to speak
for that section of the republican
party hereafter. Now it can be
told" after the November elections,
all the traditional methods of both
the republican and democratic par
ties of selling appointments to Of
flee and protection to bootleggers,
will be neatly fastened on the Ne
gro republican leaders and they will
be politically lynched by Hoover on
the high moral grounds of "clean-
ing out corruption"
Ohio Gangster Rewarded.
How much this amounts to, may
be seen also from another angle.
Senator Brookhart, who is head of
the senate committee to serve as. a
broom in the "clean up campaign"
emerged from a conference with
Hoover to declare that the 'Daugh-
erty-Fall regime has been stamped
out for good" Why it was put as
has BEEN" as something already
done, may be surmised when it is
known that at the same time, def
mite confirmation was given that
Hoover would appoint Walter Brown,
one of the "Ohio gang" whose head
quarters was the 'little green house
on X Street." as Postmaster Cen
eral.
Incidentally, this same Mr.. Brown
of the same 'little green house" has
right along been assistant secre-
tary of commerce under Herbert
Hoover as secretary. So the Lilly
Whites" of the South will be die
tators of the republican party in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
new SOVIET FILM
AT Big Meeting
Worker Party to Open
Convention Friday

Continued from Page One
Proletarian Fatherland of all the
workers.
The necessity of rallying to the de-
tense of the Soviet Union will be
graphically brought home by the
showing of "a Trip Thru Soviet
Russia" Every phase of the new
life that is being built in the Soviet
Union under the banner of Leninism
will be shown on the screen. Mos
COW, Leningrad, all the important
industrial centers, workers clubs,
rest homes, the Red Army, peasant
life-it will be such a trip thru the
Soviet Union as few actual visitors
to the U.S.S.R. are ever privileged
to take.
The struggle against imperialist
war will also be linked up with the
life of one of the most valiant fight
ers against it, C. E. Ruthenberg,
late leader of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. The mass meeting
will also be a Ruthenberg Memorial
Meeting, concentrating the second
anniversary of the death of the man
who led the fight of the workers of
this country against the last i'm
perialist war.
Jay Lovestone, executive secretary
of the Workers (Communist) Party,
William z. Foster and Ben Gitlow,
members of the secretariat, William
W. Weinstone, district organizer, and
other leaders of the Party will speak
on the opening night. Tickets should
be bought at once as accommoda-
tons are limited. They are on sale
at the district office of the Party,
26 Union 3d., and the national Of
flee, 43 E. 125th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
NEGRO WORKERS
IN RELIEF BODY
Cleveland Com m ttee
Helps Flood Victims

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. "a
A Cleveland Negro Workers Relief
Committee was formed here last
night at a conference attended by
thirty-odd delegates representing
sixteen working class organizations
of both Negro and white workers.
The conference was called by the
Cleveland Inter-Racial League, for
the purpose of setting up a broad
committee to aid in providing i'm
mediate relief for the oppressed
Negro victims of the recent Florida
West Indies hurricane disaster. 1t
was decided that the conference i'm
mediately affiliate the Cleveland
committee to the New York Negro
Workers Relief Committee, which
has already launched national
campaign to raise funds to re-
habilitate the Negro workers and
farmers of the devastated area.
At the conference, Sadie Van
Veen, of the League, gave detailed
and moving description of the terri
BILE conditions of the Negro workers
and farmers in the hurricane area.
She told of the outrageous discrim-
nation against the Negroes prac-
ticed by the Red Cross in it's relief
work and cited case after case from
the report of the New York Commit
tees representative in Florida, show
ing the brutal treatment of the
Negro population by the Florida
police and national guards on duty
after the disaster.
1t was decided to call second
conference in six weeks, in order to
draw in more organizations. In the
meantime the Executive Committee
elected by the conference, was in
structed to proceed at once with is
suing contribution lists,-calling on
unions and workers organizations
generally for funds-the organiza-
ton of a mass meeting to acquaint
Cleveland workers with the need of
relief and to organization of an In
.ter-Racial solidarity dance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
MAY SEND BACK
WORKER TO DEATH
UNDER H0RTHY
May Bar Communists
from Citizenship

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. "a
Will foreign-born workers be allowed
to take out final citizenship papers
when they are members of the
Workers (Communist) Party? The
vital question will be put before the
legal apparatus of Pennsylvania
when the high courts will seek to
revoke the citizenship of John
Topolcsamyr, Hungarian worker,
because of his membership IN the
Workers (Communist) Party. As
part of the formality Of obtaining
second papers some years ago
Topolcsamyr was obliged to swear
allegiance to capitalist institutions.
Judge R. NJ. Gibson, presiding at
the courts Of the Schwab steel town
of Bentleyville, Pa, has already ruled
that Topolcsamyr cannot become
citizen because of his political af-
filiations. At the higher court hear
ing Isaac E. Ferguson, who is hand
ling the case for the International
Labor Defense, will fight for re-
versal of this decision.
Seven years ago, while living in
Pennsylvania mining town, Topolc-
samyr wrote to his brother, a gend-
arme under the Horthy government
of Hungary, censuring him for his
aid to the Hortny government in its
campaign of anti-working class
terrorism and appealing to him to
drop Immediately his connection
with the gendarmerie and fight in
stead in behalf of the working class.
The letter was intercepted by the
Horthy Government and sent to the
U. S. immigration Department,
while in the meantime Topolcsmyr
had obtained final citizenship
papers. Arrested on a deportation
warrant, he was later released and
in 1922, two years after he became
8 citizen, he Joined the Workers
(Communist) Party. In March,
1925, the government instituted pro-
ceedings to revoke the citizenship.
In letter sent last week to the
international Labor Defense, Topol-
csamyr indicates the close relation
ship between the company town cos
sack police and the legal authorities
whose ends they serve. A house
boss, spy of the coal company, the
foreign-born workers relates, en-
gagged Topolcsamyr in argument. De-
nounced as spy, he Immediately
went to the local police and reported
Topolcsamyr. Five cossacks raided
the house next day, while Topolc-
samyr was attending meeting.
They revisited the house five times.
When Toplocsamyr appeared before
the local judge he was given war;
rant charging him with striking the
houseboss. Bail was fixed at 81 900.
The International Labor Defense
wired its Pittsburgh representatives
Immediately on receipt of the letter.
They are making a close investiga-
ton of the case, and decision is
expected early this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
New Plant to Speed
Plane Construction

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. "a (UP).
Plans for erecting a $3.50, 900
building to produce it's new Diesel
type oil burning airplane engine,
were announced here today by the
Packard Motor Co.
The proposed factory will have a
capacity Of five hundred engines a
month. Packard engineers claim the
engine will increase the range of air.
planes between 20 and 80 per cent
at an operating cost thirty per cent
less than standard gasoline engines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
TAIL0RS' MEET
LAUNCHES FIGHT
UPON HILLMAN
Ally With New Union to
Fight Company Unions

(Contipued from Page One)
ton of the New York tailors. The
piece-work system installed by the
Acknowledgement gang was
grinding the life out of the workers
in the shops. Dismissals were made
in wholesale with approval from
the union. Wages are being slashed
with the same approval. Hours are
unlimited-at the discretion IF the
employer. The union, under Hill
man leadership is openly a COM
pany union. From scores of thou
sands of members in New York, the
union now has no more than $4,000
with only 5000 Of these paying dues.
The Hillman gang must resort to q
check-off system to get dues, even
this failing, because of revolving
workers.
From reritals of these facts the
delegates all came to the following
opinion: That the endurance of the
workers and their patience with con-
ditions and with the repeated be-
trayals had passed the stage of
passivity. They We're ready to
fight. That the forces Of the work
ers in fight were now far greater
because of the existence of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, whose representatives had
come to the conference to offer their
leadership and assistance in the
fight. That the Hillman gang is
no longer as powerful because of his
squabbles with his henchman Becker
man, recently ousted. That the
threat of terror thru gangsterism is
no longer so imposing because Of
the bankruptcy of the New York
Joint Board, who lacks the funds to
pay expensive underworld hirelings.
By far the greatest enthusiasm
was aroused when Ben Gold, general
secretary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, Satur-
day declared that the new union in
tends to include in its membership
all trades and crafts of the needle
industry. ''If any of Hillmans
spies are here" Gold declared. tell
him that the new Industrial Union
will carry on the fight against YOU"
The Industrial union was repre-
sented by other Spokesman, the entry
Of each of which was greeted by
tremendous ovations. Charles S.
Zimmerman; vice-president of the
1ndustrialrUnion and Rose Wortis,
secretary Of the Dressmakefs Strike
Committee, spoke and stayed many
hours at the conference. Nationally
known leaders of the left wing, also
spoke. Ben Gitlow, expelled from
membership in the A. C. W., and a
Communist Party leader addressed
the conference. Henry SAFER, head
of the Needle Trades T. U. E. L.
was seated. Every mention of the
new union and its purpose in aiding
their fight was heartily applalded.
The resolutions adonted are: Sup
port for the dressmakers strike,
against. class collaboration policies,
for becoming part of the N. T. w. /.
Z. Against the checkoff system of
dues paying. For the 40-hour week;
for the development of special work
among women organized and un-
organized; for real amalgamation
as against fake Hillman amalgama-
ton; against labor banks; against
the speed-uD systems of the Hill
man machine; for the organization
OF the unorganized; for the organi-
cation of young workers in the in
dustry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
Iron, Bronze Workers
Will Hear Report at
Meeting Tomorrow

Organizational problems will be
discussed at the meeting of the
Architectural Iron, Bronze and
Structural Workers Union at E..
10Th St., s p. m. tomorrow. The
program of the union in its fight to
win union conditions for the trade
in shops in Greater New York will
be reported on by the secretary and
discussed by the membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
BRITISH .JQBLEss GROWS.

LONDON, (By Mail) 1.-THE total
of registered unemployed workers in
England last week was 1,d25, 900.
This is 100000 more than a year
ago this time q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

AUSTRIA JOBLESS INCREASE
VIENNA (By MaiD.-Over 250,-
900 workers unemployed in Austria
have applied for unemployment dole
in January. This is $4,000 more than
in December,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

OF all the classes that stand face
TO face with the bourgeOisIe today
the proletnriat alone is n really revo-
iutionary cIass.-knrl Marx Conn
munist NInnifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
LABORERS DEMAND INCREASE,

CHICAGO, by MaiD Organized
building trades laborers in Chicago
are demanding an increase of 10
cents an hour, bringing the rate up
to 81 an hour.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1929-10-04
sVEDocTvo ORA KOs1KA.

nj ktcreho som zdiktoval steno-
grafke mole svedoctyo nasledo-
vne:
Nv roku 1926 zaciatkom, augu-
sta som navstivil Sloyensko - a.
ko sdkromna osoba, skumaj1c
vsak stav Slovenska, ktore nina
ako narodneho slovensk6ho cini-
tel'a "a poslednych 90 rokov "a
ujimalo. Ma ziadost obhajcu u
dayam a k tomuto pripojuje sa al
statny zastupca, De Dol som din
nym d6astnfkom odboja techov q
SlovAkov pocas svetovej valky 3
tcastnfkom tvorenia Pittsburgh
.slEaj Dohody, ktor6 dl'a mojej
.mienky, 1ahrnnje p9aHa slov4n-
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1929-10-04

" Katolickom Sokole" dina
Is. sept. t. I. redaktor tohoze Ca
sopisn, dr. Gustav Kosik podava
americko-sloyenskei verejnosti ma
sledovn6:
Je sn&mym, ze som Dol po6as
nAjej poslednej navdtevy M Slo-
vensku predyolany krajskym So
dom \ Bratislaye, aby som svedeil
Il procsse dra Tuku, ktoreho 6es-
kossIoyensky stat ma zaklade o.
anameaia podaneho dr.. Ivankom
II pols6nlkni, obvihuje preei-
nn vlastizrady. Yyslneh moi 50
kenak u s1kromnej kaneelarii
.pks ~ sliip dha n. jala 1929
4 tryal Alt * hodi1iy, po hkosds-
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1929-10-04

NarodnJ Slovensky Spolok Spojenych Statoch "A
arv bude osavovat ma buduci rok 4O vyrocle svoJEo
zaozenia. Vyroeie chce oslavt' najprmeraneJsm spo
sobom: zvysenim poctu svojho clenstva
Ktsze bv nezGil vzrastu n. s. S. tomuo otcovl slo-
venskych podpornych organizach? koze by mai co le
sovko proti teto baste sovenskeho pro
tomu bahodarnemu ustavu ktory pritoh seoe kazoeo
slovaka Slovenku, kazdd slovensku rodinu Amerke
ktora sa nemu zladaY y #t
my 1nu zicime vzrastu to vel'keho. AM my ne
name slova ktore by mohl prot nemu pozdvahnut
preto volame: Kazdy Sovak a Slovenka ma byt cle
nom Narodneho slovenskeho spolku
Narodny Slovensky Spook je pre- kazdeho. Pre- ka
tolika, evanjeka kalvna baptistu: pre- robotnka re-
meselnika obchodnika pre- chudobneho bohateho Ma
len podmienku ably I'll mravnym krest anskym zvotom
ably boil Slovak-Savian.
Dneska je uz malo Slovakov ktor by neprsllchah
do daktore slovenskej podpornej organizacie Ale Je
este vel mi mnoho takych co prischaju LEN do edneJ
jedna ma dnesne easy nedostacuje Dneska posmrtna
podpora edne organzace zaokryje len pohrabne tro
w popati drobne dzoby lekarov, nemocnicu inc,
takze vdove-matke krom drobnch sirot nezostane mic
alebo len vel mi ao ktoryze otec by chcel zanechat
syoiu rodinku ndzi trpeni? Jeden spook tiez nedo-
stacuie Tych pat doarov podpory nenoci ME Je dost
ami ma lekara Nemocny zadlM talk re ked ozdraVle
robi aspon rok na dlzoby.
Uz len pre- teto priGny kazdy Slovak Slovenka mai
by prSuchat 90 trOch-StyrOcn slOVenskycn ofSaAacA
spokoy ($8 do $40 mesacne prispevkoch je minimum
ma poistene zvota otca rodiny ychto rochstyroch
organizaci jednou ma byt' Narodny Slovensky Spook
Narodny slovensky spolok je organizaciou vsenarod
nou netriednou, co tay ma pravo Madat ably vsetcl
Soyaci bez rozdieu nenu prislucha. Je najstarsou
slovenskou organizacou Amerke ktora nielen re sl
lila "a vzor nJm ale al vykonala velmi mnoho pre-
budeni narodneho povedona slovenskom pude tn ia
Slovensku.
Sd tn rozumove citove d6vody, preco kazdy ameri-
cky Slovak Slovenka mmo svoje triedne organizacie
by NAL byt' clenom Narodneho Slovenskeho Spolku
Kto mahoninskych Slovakov este do n. S. S. neprslu
cba mech hned hasi do ktorehokolvek Odboru tetc
dolne S tn diva Odbory sired mesta g. Gill;, jedel
Odbor ma Steeltone jeden Campbell eden struthers
jeden Warren mich ie yyse 1000 dospelych Gle
nov malo by byt' aspon 5000 Miesta e dost' pre-
move Odbory ma tomto okoll.
Narodny Slovensky Spolok zalozeny bol 16 februara
1890 Ma 4oO00O00o majetku, $4,000 clenstva (43oOo
dospelJch $4,000 dietok) 700 Odboroch pc srej Anne
rike Kanade. Je to organizaca, ktor je kazdy e
ellen hrdy ktoru e hrdJ cey narod sovensky Bud
te Wy jeho hrdym cenom, jeho hrdou clenkou!
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1929-10-04

s ktorymi by som ia boil stal 'vo
spojeni.
Dl'a mojho nazoru, prevazna
vacsina v Amerike byvajucich
slovakov je autonomneho smysl a
MIA a veri, ze Pittsburghska doho-