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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
AFL LEADERS TO UTW CHIEFS ASK
PUSH SCAB UTW FOR MILITIAMEN
Wants Troops to Guard
House; Strike Goes On
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brought out today was the statement
of Ed Johnson, a striker, a man of
influence, that he had protested the
arming of scabs to Sheriff Oscar
Adkins.
SHERIFF Adkins called me out" he
said, "and asked me what we were
going to do. 1 said, we were going
to do peaceful picketing. He asked
me if I didn't know it was against
the law and l told him l didn't think
it was. / said we were not armed
and if anyone did any firing I'd go
on his side to arrest him. Then l
asked him to disarm his scab depu-
ties and he said it looked like he
would have to have someone. 1 told
him he could do better with his
regular men than with that bunch
of scab deputies. He said it looked
like there was going to be trouble.
"Then l went back and told the
bunch about it and then Adam Hunt
(the mill superintendent asked that
way be opened through the crowd.
The sheriff pulled out his gat and
the crowd surged back. Then George
Jonas struck at the sheriff with a
stick and Broad Robbins jumped in
and hit Jonas with what looked like
a blackjack. Jonas yelled, "Don't
do that" and right then the sheriff
and Broad Robbins drew their guns
and fired. Jim Owens and Dave
Jarrett were in the gate and began
shooting. Old man Vickers fell
right beside me and I saw another
boy go down. l think it was Luther
Bryan. He was right near old man
Vickers.
81 went back to the cement steps
(across the road) and saw my
mother-in-law get shot"
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TUCMEN REBEL ON
union SELL-OUT
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catcalls, and his plea that the men
wait until next Sunday, when
another meeting is to be held, before
acting was howled down with de-
rision. Finally he promised to meet
the tug boat owners today and pre-
sent them with an ultimatum. IL
this is refused, Maher proposes-no,
not to call strike, but to refer the
matter to the Sunday meeting,
where his sell-out machinery will be
put into motion once more.
Following the meeting of last
Sunday, at which Maher over-rode
the demands of over 1000 tugboat-
men for an immediate strike, the lao
Dalzell workers held a meeting of
their own and voted to repudiate
Maher and his dilatory maneuvers.
Representatives from other tug
boat lines were present at last
nights meeting and announced
that they would join the Dalzell men
the moment a strike is called.
The Marine Workers League is
modelling the militant sentiment Of
the tugboat workers, urging them
to elect rank and file dock commit
tees, throw off the misleadership of
Maher, who sold out one strike last
year, and run their own walk-out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
Z" criminal Code ,.
at the National

VXTORKED out b. a cfass-consci-
w Gus playwright, free of the
Broadway tradition, the plot of
Criminal Code" now running at
the National Theatre, would have
made a thunderous denunciation of
the mills of capitalist "justice." But
even with its muddy wash of SEN
sationalism the play is worth see
ing.
1t is about a young worker new
to the city who picks up a girl to
help him celebrate his birthday. She
suggests a notorious dive; they
swallow a pint of gin; the girl is
accosted on the dance floor by a
former flame; the boy rushes to
the defense of feminine honor. The
other man, who happens to be the
son of a rich exploiter, makes as
though to draw a gun from his hip
and the youth smashes him over the
head with water bottle. The para
site dies the next day.
The states att-rney, while admit
ting to his secretary that if he
were handling the defense the I'M
lucky youth would get off scot free,
is hot for conviction to bolster his
political prestige. The young work
er gets ten years for manslaughter.
After six years in the jute mill he
is on the point of moral collapse.
The prison physician suggests, as no
prison sawbones in real life ever
did, a change of occupation. By this
time the states attorney has been
rewarded for serving the mahine by
being made warden of the Jail. The
boy, Graham, is put to driving the
warden's car and under the influ-
ence of the warden's daughter his
broken spirit mends within six
months. The girl goes away to
learn whether she really cares for
the prisoner-not a word of love
has been spoken between them all
this while but there it is. Mean
while Graham's cell-mate, hard
ened crook, has plotted Jail break.
By means of the usual enlightened
torture one of the prisoners in on
the break is made to squeal and is
marked for death by his fellows.
Graham is the only one known to
have been in the warden's office at
the time of the killing-another
though break" He knows the MUIR
derer but will not squeal because
the code of the criminals prohibits
it.
Thrown in dungeon and tortured
beyond endurance, he kills the bully
sent to fetch him to the warden's
office, where a pardon awaits him.
The closing scene, really heart
squeezing bit recalling DeMaupas-
J SAINT, shows the reunion of the girl
and her silent worshipper-too late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
TO ORGANIZE
AUTO union IN
BIGGEST SHOPS
Organize; Convention
Scheduled Feb. |
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(COnCfRueu from fuye OHeJ
ated. Already large shop lacals
have been organized in the Ford and
Chrysler-Dodg plants.
Plans have been made to organize
strong Murray Body shop local
this week as weyy as locals in Hud-
sons Briggs, Fisher Body and other
such shops where we have many
members of the union working.
The Provisional Committee is af-
filiated with the Trade Union
Unity League and is working under
the general guidance and with the
cooperation of the T. U. U. L. in
building a strong provisional organ
ization that will eliminate in the
convention scheduled to take place
here, February 1 and 2.
Organize Unemployed
The Provisional Committee took
up the question of growing unem-
ployment in the auto industry and
the general worsening of conditions.
1t is drawing up plans to organize
the unemployed into a general auto
workwers unemployment council.
The Auto Workers News, the
union mouth-piece, is being trans
formed from a monthly to a weekly
paper. Corps are being organized
to sell the weekly at the factory
gates daily.
Shop gate meetings are being held
mornings and moons and meet with
great solidarity and militancy on
the part of the workers despite po-
lice attempts to breaw them up.
The call for the National Conven-
ton is being sent into all sections
of the country where the auto in
dustry is located and the Provi-
sional Committee, with Philip
Frankfeld as chairman Of the or
ganization mad Philip Raymond as
organization secretary, is getting
down to the task of working for a
big delegation of auto workers to
the February 1 Convention.
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Give
$3.50 for Tractor Fund

At a meeting Friday night in the
Manhattan Lyceum, the Ukranian
Workers Club raised $3.50 for the
truck mad tractor campaign of the
F. S. u, the members pledging
themselves to purchase at least one
tractor for presentation to the So
Wet fliers upon their arrival in New
York. The membership also voted
to present the Land of the Soviets
crew with a silk banner commemor-
ating the Moscow to New York
flight at the reception in Madison
Square Garden on Oct. 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
Ship Blast Kills Three,
and Injuries 7 Seamen

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. The
explosion which killed two men and
one boy and injured seven others
on the deck of the steamship Elbeck
yesterday was reported as due to
another "unascertained cause" often
synonymous with company neglect.
The blast occurred when an acety-
lene and a kerosene torch exploded
as repairs were being made in the
ships hold.
The dead are H. B. Hilquist, so,
II w. 10th ST., New York; P. w.
Hansen, Brooklyn, N. Y; and boy
named Moser. Torlus Hanse, As,
265-62nd St., Brooklyn, N. Y. is
among the seriously Injured.
The Elbeck is owned by the
United States Shipping Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
LEWIS READY TO
EXPEL. ILLINOIS
PART OF UMWA
Harrington Readmitted
Miners Joining NWU

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sidered out of the union, and John
L. Lewis will set up a dual admin
istration, as he has done for so
many other districts, Kansas, Nova
Scotia, etc.
Graft Story.
The libel suit is the Fishwick
machines answer to an article in
the United Mine Journal, controlled
by Lewis, in which evidence is of
fered that certain deposed U. M. w.
officials in Franklin County con-
fessed to having "mishandled" a
$4,000 relief fund.
The Fishwick board met Friday,
but it did not take action on Lewis
letter. Fishwick states that it will
be considered at the next meeting,
and meanwhile the suit goes on.
Farrington's Policy.
Fishwick has begun more and
more to follow the line of his old
chief, Frank harrington, president
Of the district while Fishwick was
vice president. harrington was ex-
posed in 1926 as being on the pay
roll of the Peabody Coal Co. for
$3.50 a year. He was thrown out
of the union, universally execrated,
and his picture turned to the wall
in all union halls. For his policy
of a separate Illinois miners union,
in which all the graft would go to
the local mislaeders is now Fish
wick's proposition, and it is highly
significant that Frank Harrington
was re-admitted into the Fishwick
local at Ithica, Illinois, Friday
night. There is no assurance what
ever that he is not continuing to
draw his bride from the coal bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
Toronto Convention to
Fight Textile Workers

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in 1929 has 2,933,545 members. 1t
claimed 2,896,O63 in 1928. This is
admittedly a decrease from the A.
07S,740 given for 1920.
These Figures Lie.
But even these 1929 figures are
inflated, for they accept the num-
bers given by John Lewis of the
United Mine Workers of nearly half
million members, the same as be-
fore he betrayed the 1927-1928 strike
and reduced his union to a corporaPs
guard. The same applies to such
other unions as the international
Seamen's and Mahon's Amalga-
mated Association of Street and
Electrical Railway Employees.
T.U.U.L. Exposes Green.
A complete exposure of ALL.
strikebreaking, and the new policy
by which Mahon agrees to never or
ganize a Mitten railroad unless he
can show greater services to the
company than its own company
unions, also the pushing of the U.
T. W. in the South to prevent the
textile workers from building their
own organization, in the National
Textile Workers Union, will be
made at the great mass meeting
scheduled for Wednesday, under the
auspices of the Trade Unicn Unity
eague and the Trade Union Educa-
tional Leag1e Ct Canada. 1t will be
held in Torsntc, during the ALL.
convention, and tbs principal speak
er will be VIM. z. Foster, general
secretary of the T.U.U.L.
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Food Workers Push
Union Organization
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favorable conditions for a further
struggle, reports showed.
Two union shop members and
delegates from unorganized shops
will be represented at an organiza-
ton committee meeting next week.
Pledging solidarity with the Gas
tonia strikers the board members
voted to send delegates to the Youth
Conference for Gastonia Defense and
Relief at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving
Pl. and 155th ST., Oct. Is.
A food worker will join the dele
cation selected by the Friends of
the Soviet Union to participate in
the Twelfth Anniversary Celebra-
tions of the November Revolution.
The union will also present ban
ner of welcome to the Soviet Filters
expected in New York next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
NEEDLE WORKERS
CONFER TONIGHT
AT IRVING PLAZA
To Discuss Gastonia
Defense, Relief
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trades have been especially active
during the Gastonia campaign in
raising funds and protests, and have
determined that even greater pres
sure must be brought to bear to
save the workers from LIVING death,
Ben Gold, Rose Wortis, Louis Hy-
man, and other we'll known leaders
will speak tonight at 7.
Contribute $4,000.
The Relief Committee for the
Famine Sufferers in Lithuania has
sent another contribution of $500
to the international Labor Defense
for Gastonia defense, raising their
total to $4,000. A branch of this
organization in South Africa has
sent approximately $50 from their
far-off land to help the Gastonia
prisoners.
Milwaukee Active.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, now on a
national tour as an I. L. D. organ
izer, will speak in Milwaukee tomor-
row night in Harmonic Hall, when
a conference of workers organize
tions will be held to increase the
membership of the international La
Dor Defense, during the $4,000 mem
bership drive, and for the aid of
Gastonia.
English Workers Protesting.
The following facts appeared in
English working-class newspapers
on Gastonai." The International
Class War Prisoners Aid British
section) have written to the Amer
lean section for a Gastonia textile
striker to come to England in order
to cfonduct two months campaign
on behalf of the Gastonia prisoners.
This will commence at the Trafal-
gar Square demonstration on Oct.
27.
"No meeting must go by without
definite reference being made to the
Gastonia case in order to mobilize
the British workers in defence of
their American comrades.
"The' American ambassador must
be flooded with resolutions of pro-
test. Demonstrations against the
Gastonia bosses have been held in
Liverpool and Newcastle-on-Tyne.
In Newcastle workers demonstrated
outside the U. S. consulate. The
Consul refused to see them. In
Liverpool and Plymouth demonstra-
tons to the American consulates
fvused much support.
Workers in Chicago are meeting
tonight in Peoples Auditorium, 2457
w. Chicago Ave-, when Juliet Stuart
Poyntz will talk on Gastonia. A
memorial meeting for Ella May will
be held in Detroit Sunday, Oct. 10,
at 2 p. m. when Ben Wells, N. I.
W. U. organizer will speak. The
meeting will be held in Danceland
Auditorium at Woodward Ave. near
Forest.
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there that they would join the strike
if the market began scabbing on the
union.
The Trade Union Unity League
yesterday distributed thousands of
copies of statement pledging soli-
darity with the striking truck
drivers and called upon all food
clerks and dock workers to cooper
ate with the strikers by refusing
to handle foodstuff delivered by scab
drivers.
The T. U. U. L. urged the drivers
to organize stable and garage COM
mittees and fight the secret deals
which union officials and Tammany
politicians are attempting to sell
out the strike.
"The Grocery and Fruit Clerks,
Local II of the Amalgamated Food
Workers, sent committee to strike
headquarters which promised to aid
the strikers in deeds, not merely
words, after it had been unanimous
ly decided that members of the local
should refuse to sell fruit and pro-
duce delivered by scabs, and to call
strikes in markets supplied by
scabs," Max Titleman, told the Daily
Worker. "We are also launching an
organization campaign embracing
all workers employed in the delivery
and distribution Of food, with the
aim of winning them to the A. F.
w. U. and aiding the truck drivers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
FRUIT TRUCKERS
STRIKE SPREADS;
1000 OUT TO-DAY
Solidarity Pledged by
T. u. u. L.
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500 truck drivers quit work in sym
patty with the local truckmen last
night. There were also rumors that
the Longshoremen's Union may be
called out, bringing about a really
complete paralysis of the city's sup
ply of fruit and vegetables.
Huge details of mounted, motor
cycle and foot police have been pa
trolling the strike zones here and in
other affected centers since the be-
ginning of the strike, and although
picketing has been going on before
all of the struck markets, police
provocation has so far failed to
create an opportunity to break up
the picket lines on the score of pre-
serving order"
West Street along the Hudson
River and the streets on which the
wholesale produce and commission
merchants houses are located, are
piled high with cases and bags of
fruit and produce. The only deliv-
sries allowed by the strikers are
those consigned to hospitals and
homes for the aged and infirm. The
only effort to move produce Sunday
night was in Jersey City, where a
number of boss truckmen unloaded
some of the freight cars under the
protection of a heavy police guard.
Mayor Walker and Acting Gov
ernor Lehman told the bosses yes
terday that they stood ready to do
everything possible to force the
strikers back to work before their
demands are met. Federal and state
sell-out artists were expected to at
tend a meeting of the boss truck
men. owners and operators of the
fruit trucks, and the fruit and pro-
Guce trade association called for 8
o'clock last night.
The contractors are seeking a
higher carriage rate before granting
the demands of their workers, pre-
tending that on their present margin
of profit they Cannot afford" the
union demand for an eight-hour day
and time and half for overtime.
This stand, in conjunction with
the threatened imbargo, is seen as
clever ruse designed to aleniate
from the strikers the sympathy of
other New York workers, as in
creased carriage rates would auto
InaticalIy hoist retail prices.
The tie-up has not yet made it
SELF felt in the neighborhood stores,
the supplies laid in on Saturday
having sufficed for the weekend,
but beginning with this morning
housewives may have difficulty in
getting greens and fruits.
Nearly all drivers employed in
other branches of trucking have
been conceded the demands for
which the fruit men are striking, it
was pointed out by rank and file
members of the union, and it is in
evitable that these workers obtain
terms already granted to their fell
lows.
The Bronx Chambey of Commerce,
in offering the use Of Bronx Ter
nlinal Market to the shippers, was
met by the threat of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
SCOTLAND YARD AT SAM
HARRIS.

Those interested learning how tie
Bank of England is robbed of bonds
worth one million pounds should see
Scotland Yard" by Denison Cliff,
which A. H. Woods is presenting at
the Sam H. Harris Theatre.
With a superior cast Of English
and American actors and actresses,
it developes a fairly entertaining
play, altho on the whole it is quite
improbable. However, for a few
hours Diversion it is not the worst
of the murder and detective plays
now on Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations

Iron and Bronze Workers.
Important membership meeting OF
Structural Workers Union will be
held Tuesday, Oct. s, at p. m. at
Z z. 18th st. Reports on the condi-
lions in the trade and the activities
Of the union win be given
Gastonia Mass Conference.
A Gastonia mass conference for de-
Tense and relief will be held Tuesday,
Oct. is, p. m, at Irving Plaza. 18th
st. and Irving Pi Send e Teo, ynr,s
District, i. L. D.. or Harriet Silver
man, secretary w. l. r.. 7ss Broad
way.
Downtown I. l.. ID.
Special meeting OF the Downtown
Branch. I. L. D., will be held Tuesday
evening, Oct. 8, at the workers
Center
Dramn Fraction.
All Party mad League members af-
filiated with dramatic groups are
called to fraction meet on Tuesday.
Oct. 8. D. m, at 2s Union So. fifth
floor by order of the ssitprop'
Cooperative Colony Lecture.
Comrade M. Olgin will speak in
viddish on the 5-Year Plan of the
Soviet Union on Thursday evening,
Oct: 10, in the Cooperative Colony
Auditorium.
Brownsville Lecture.
Under the auspices of the Browns
Vile English Branch, !. l.. D.. Com
rade II. M wicks will lecture on
Workers Defense in America" Fri
day. Oct. II, D. m, at the Browns
Vile Youth Center, l22 Osborn st.
wnIiamsburgh ]. L. ID.
A general membership meeting will
he held Wednesday Oct. 9. $40 y. m,
az Sc Manhattan Ave. Every Browns
Vile worker is urged to become a
membe1of this organization,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
LID. ASKS VOLUNTEERS.

With $4,000 letters going out from
the national office Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, calling on
workers throughout America to in
crease their activities on behalf Of
the seven Gastonia prisoners, the
LID requests volunteers turnout this
week. Apply any time at 80 East
18th St., Room 402, .---e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08
CZECH COMMUNIST JAILED.

PRAGUE, Oct. THE editor OF
the Communist paper "Delnicky
Denik" has been arrested together
with the Party secretary. Those ar
rested are named Cerny and Hruby,
respectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08

EASTON, Pa. - Three women
trade unionists, Claire Norelli, bru-
nette and 10; Mae Swanson, blonde
and %, and Edith Christensen, sec
rotary of the Philadelphia Trade
Union League, were arrested in
Bangor Oct. l for distributing cop
les of the Bangor Hosiery Worker
without a permit. Chief Of Police
Joseph Grigg made the arrest.
They were released on their own
recognizance, and will be held for
trial.
Appeal Kirkpatrick Injunction.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (FP).-
has been taken to the U. S.
circuit court of appeals against the
astounding injunction of Federal
Judge Kirkpatrick aimed at paralyz-
ing the organizing campaign of the
Clothing Workers in
Philadelphia. The Judge forbade
the Amalgamated to call strikes or
carry on strike activity against the
eight firms which asked for the in
junction. Four of the clothing COM
panies have since signed up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-08

IIl.l:1 Organizations Who Are Planning
[1LLE/EkLOVL. to Greet the Soviet Flyers
All collected for the Truck and Tractor Campaign
buttons and tickets for the gigantic reception MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN ETC., should be sent at once to
FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION
ITS Fifth Ave., Room 512, New York City
Telephone algonquin 2745
We shall be glad offer late of the the Land
Of the Sove well further plans for the welcoming of the
aviator Organizations who interested in placing ads in the
pamphlet being by the FISH, in honor of the flyers
urged to communicate with at The rates 500
for full $40 will be the lowest accepted from
organization Personal greetings be inserted for ST.
Now ID the time
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-07-20
DEVELOPMENT OF
 JOSEPHINE GROUP
 IS CONTEMPLATED

The Josephine group, situated on the south side of August Mountain adjoining the St. Eu- gene and Sunrise groups and owned by William Holden, of Vancouver, is receiving attent- ion and may become the scene of extensive development, ac- cording to F. c. Outland, man. aging director of the Outland Silver Bar Mines, Ltd, the ex- tensive holdings of which are directly across Salmon glacier from the Holden property.
 Development operations are now in progress on the Joseph inc under the supervision of MT. Outland, who is associated with Mr. Holden in the new enterprise. A crew of several men is employed on a general prospecting program at pres ent. MT. Outland informed the Herald that the property ap- pears very promising, judging by the surface aspects. Mess IS Stewart and Batten will make an examination of the ground later in the season, af- ire which Mir. Holden, who is the owner of the Holden block in Vancouver, has in mind a more extensive program of development.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-07-20
.RR SURVEY ID BEAR RIVER PASS
 IN PROGRESS

The party of Canadian Pacif- ic Railway engineers who ar rived last week in connection with the projected rehabili- itation of the Canadian North eastern railway, are now en- gagged in making 8 survey for an extension of the present line from the vicinity of Amer ican Creek to the head of the Bear River Pass. The party is headed by A. McCulloch, chief engineer of the Kettle Valley line of the c. P. k. system and includes thirteen railway en- gineers and surveyors. A camp has been established at Amer ican Creek for use as a tempo rary base in connection with the survey, which will extend from the Bear Pass to the vii cinity of Bitter Creek.