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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Urges Anti lmbeualist
Unity IN the Argentine

(Ca6Ie to the Daily Worker
BUENOS AIRES, Arg, March
26.-There are two Anti-Imperial-
list Leagues in Argentina. One is
composed of members of the CHS
pa" group (the "Partido Comunista
Obrero") repudiated by the Comm
term; the other is the "Liga Anti
imperialista-Grupo de Izquierda"
Cleft group composed of Commun-
lists, sympathizers and socialists.
The latter organization is much
larger than the former. Recently it
proposed to the "Chispistas" a uni
fication of both groups on the basis
of the resolution of the Anti-lmpe-
rialist Congress of Brussels, by ac-
cepting resolutions at a joint meet
ing of members of both organiza-
tons.
The "Chispistas" rejected this
proposition and founded their rejec-
ton solely on personal accusations
against the leaders of the left Anti
Imperialist League.
The news of the assassination of
Mella, except for a few cable lines,
was hardly noticed in the bourgeois
newspapers of Argentina, although
they wrote columns during his hun
ger strike two years ago and the
Argentine parliament at that time
sent a cable to Cuba expressing
sympathy with Mella.
Only the Anti-Imperialist League
Cleft group) called a mass meeting
at which two members of the Com
murist Party spoke, two socialists
and representative of the Anti-Fas-
cist Alliance, the Argentine Liberia
rian Alliance (the "anarcho-bolshe-
vistas') and of the Textile Workers
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
DRY LAW EXPOSE
IN new wet BOOK
Murder, Insanity and
Graft Bred

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 26.
1.-THE Scandals of Prohibition En-
forcement," booklet just issued by
the Research Department of the AS
ISOLATION Against the Prohibition
Amendment, made public today sta
tistics in which graft through liquor
has been proven in Chicago, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Buff
falo.
Official Graft.
Detailed paragraphs under the
city headings speak of the large
bank deposits and indictment of
Philadelphia policemen; of the re-
cent massacre, bombings and gen
eral "brazen recklessness" in Chi
cago; of administration booze" in
Pittsburgh, and the intermingled
Canadian and American troubles in
Buffalo.
The last half of the book deals
with general graft and corruption
activities in dozen other cities; in
creasing number of deaths from al
coholism; increase in insanity; "life
Imprisonment for a pint of gin" in
Michigan; the Ohio mother in jail
with her baby; the problem of jury
trials, and the crisis in federal prison
conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
CAFE WORKERS
RALLY TONIGHT
Meeting Is to Push
Unionization

What IS undoubtedly the most
definite event looking toward the
organization of the intensely ex-
plotted workers in the cafeterias of
New York will take place tonight
when the cafeteria workers gather
at a mass meeting tonight at $3.50
o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Place. The meeting
is held under the auspices of the
Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers
Branch of the Amalgamated Food
Workers Union.
From this meeting the organiza-
ton drive planned by the workers
organization begins in earnest.
Leaders of the union will report to
the meeting the progress in recruit
ing membership made so far and
the plans contemplated for the i'm
mediate future.
Tens of thousands of leaflets are
being distributed among the cafe
terra workers, not only in the gar
ment section, where the first attack
of the union will be made, but also
in the places where the leach-like
unemployment agencies are located.
The organization drive to union
lie the cafeterias was tied UP with
the campaign against the private
employment agencies which fleece
the workers, act as strikebreaking
agencies and help the bosses to cut
wages. Five thousand leaflets, at
lacking these agency sharks, were
handed to the unemployed workers
who crowd the sidewalks in front
of the agencies on Sixth Ave-, wait
ing for chance to pay the sharks
SIS for the privilege of shaving II
hours day in some filthy hole for
s12 to 500 a week. The leaflet
called upon the unemployed to come
to the mass meeting and participate
in the struggle to unionize the cafe
terias so that the union can furnish
jobs to It's members free of charge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
New Inter-Racial Club
in Membership Drive

The Harlem Inter- Racial Club,
recently organized for the purpose
Of carrying on inter-racial social.
educational and athletic activities,
has started work with great deal
of energy. The baseball team Of
this young workers club is prac-
ticing every Sunday morning at 1C
o'clock in Central Park East at
lend st. The club is member OF
the Labor Sports Union.
Among the plans for the near
future are lectures on Negro prob
lens by prominent speakers and an
inter-racial dance. A membership
drive is now being conducted. Meet
ings are held the first and third
Tuesdays of the month at the tem-
porary headquarters, 7 w. 18th st.
For further information write to
Leonard Patterson, 772 st. Nicholas
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
N. Y. TEXTILE
WORKERS MEET
To Hold Mass Meeting
Thursday Evening

A mass meeting of unusual i'm
portance for all knit goods and tex
tile workers in Greater New York
las been called by the New York
district Of the National Textile
Workers Union. The meeting will
be held tomorrow evening at
o'clock in the Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Place. This meeting
will spur to renewed efforts the or
ganization drive among the thou
sands Of New York's textile work.
ers.
Albert Weisbord, well-known lead
er of the great Passaic and New
Bedford textile strikes and Ben Gold
secretary of the Needle Trades In
dustrial Union will be the principal
speakers.
The campaign to organize the
tens Of thousands of knit gooH
workers of New York is we'll on
the way. Many workers are joining
the union. The National Textile
Workers Union realizes that never
before was the need SO great for
the organization of the knit goods
workers. Perhaps in no industry in
New York are conditions so miser-
able as in the knit goods and textile
mills. The hours are from rs to so
and more. Wages are extremely low.
Thousands Of workers make about
$1,000 per week, especially is this
true of young girls and women gen
orally. There is no protection on the
job. The bosses do what they please.
Side by side with the ever growing
speed-up, wages are being cut III
mill after mill while the bosses are
making huge profits and the indus
try is prosperous.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
PLAN HAvERH!LL
RELIEF CAMP AIGN
W.I.R. to Show Benefit
Movie Tomorrow

HAVERHILL, Mass, March 20
Notwithstanding the attempt on the
part of the shoe union officials to
prevent the Workers international
Relief from functioning in Haver-
hill, in denying it headquarters, de-
nying it the right to hold its con-
ference in the hall rented to the
Workers International Relief almost
month in advance, the w. l, R. is
proceeding with organization work
and making preparations for the
holding of conference in the near
future.
The w. I R. is arranging mo-
ton picture show, featuring "The
Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, and a
second film, "The Miracle OF the
Russian Soldier Ivan," portraying
Russian army life during the reign
of Alexander H. The showing will
take place Thursday, matinee and
evening. at the Lafayette Theatre,
Haverhill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
FIRE DESTROYS
GERMAN ship
Origin of Fire Remains
a Mystery

HAMBURG, Germany, March 26
The mysterious fire which virtu-
ally destroyed the new North Ger
man Lloyd liner Europa was expect
ed tonight to have an important eff
feet on the North Atlantic traffic
war.
The Europa, a 46,000-ton vessel
was being built for five-day service
with the Bremen between New York
anG the English Channel, and was
considered a challenge to the Cum
ard, White Star and Hamburg
American lines.
The ship caught fire early today
while only a few workmen were
aboard her. She was scheduled to
make her maiden voyage in July,
and construction was nearing COM
pletion when the fire broke out sud-
denly.
Cause of the fire probably never
will be known, it was said, since it
started in four places simuitane-
6ously, deep in the hold.
When the North German Lloyc
Company challenged its competitors
by building the Bremen and Europa
the White Star and Cunard Lines
decided to await developments. The
Hamburg American, however, re-
built its vessels, increasing their
speed.
There was some question in Ger
man shipping circles today whether
the North German Lloyd would at
tempt to build another ship, a mat
ter of two years. or whether it would
rely on the Bremen to wage the
traffic war, at the same time in
creasing the speed of its other YES
sells. The Bremen, it was pointed
out, probably could not offer suffi-
Gent competition alone.
None of the few workmen aboard
when the fire started were injured
but fireman was overcome. Eight
hundred men were thrown out of
work by the fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
General Motors in Race
With Ford for Control
of EurOpe's Auto Mart

PARIS, France, March 26.-Re-
ports that the General Motors Cor
poration is negotiating for the own
ership of the Citroen Automobile
Company bring renewed attention to
the war between General Motors and
the Ford interests now being waged
IN Europe.
Ford is reputed to have the edge
on General Motors in France owing
to superior organization of selling
and filling stations, but the acquisi-
ton of the Citroen concern would
alter the situation in favor Of the
General Motors.
Citroen, often called the "Ford of
Europe" is manufacturer Of cheap
priced cars.
Ford meanwhile is about to open
plant at Dagenham in Essex, Eng
land, which he will use as a distri.
button point for Ford cars all over
Europe.
Yesterday General Motors offici-
ally took over the Opel Automobile
Works, their recent big acquisition
in Germany. Ford is reported to be
planning to build his own German
plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
KILL labor"
LEGISLATION
Frail Tiger Demands
Swept Aside

ALBANY, March 26.-The So
called Labor Legislation" of the
democrats, passage of which was
requested by Governor Roosevelt,
with full knowledge that the repub-
lican majority would throw it out
and provide political capital, was
killed today in strictly party vote.
The measures included the frail
and useless injunction bill, spon-
sored by the New York State Fed
Grafton of Labor, providing for a
hearing during "a hours delay when
an injunction is applied for in a
labor case, very low minimum
wage for women and children, the
48-hour week for women and chill
dren, and inclusion of Chinese laun-
dries within the scope of workmen's
compensation statutes.
None of this had any chance of
passing republican legislature, and
it is we'll understood here that none
of it. however weak and useless,
would have ever been proposed by
the democrats if they thought it
would be accepted.
Destroy Direct Primary.
The legislature today rushed thru
the multiple dwellings bill, to per-
nit the erection of towers which
make possible thirty-story tenement
houses. The bill was fought by
Mayor Walker of New York as Gin
terfering with home rule" and will
probably be vetoed.
Another bill that will perhaps be
rejected by the governor is the poll
teal party conventions bill, passed
by a straight republican majority,
and wiping out the direct primary
system. 1t is not SO certain that
Roosevelt will fail to sign this bill,
as it has been freely rumored that
Tammany really wants it to go
through, in order to give the ma
chine in New York a better weapon
against such interlopers as former
Mayor Ryan, who might get in
under the direct primary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Six Drowned, Much
Damage from Floods
in Eastern Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 26
(UP).-Six persons were drowned,
rail and highway traffic was dis
rupted and communication lines
were broken by floods in eastern
Kentucky, according to reports re-
ceiTed here today.
Five persons lost their lives at
Barboursville, where the Cumber-
land River burst it's banks and drove
hundreds of residents from their
homes.
Amos Thompson, IS. Of Page,
and an unidentified Negro also
we're drowned in the Cumberland
flood at Barbourville.
A 17-year-old boy was drowned at
Hazard, where considerable damage
WIS reported and 200 homes were
surrounded Ly water. Coal mines
i'll TIE Harlan area were closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Bessarabia Are Made
Homeless by Floods

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 26.
Forty thousand persons, most of
them peasants, have been made
homeless by floods on the Danube
at its estuary on the Bessarabian
border, reports from Bucharest
state.
The peasants are reported to
have lost cattle and buildings and
to be destitute as a result of the
flooding waters. Casualties are
not reported.
The Bessarabian floods are due
to the melting of ice which froze
deep in Europe's unusually severe
winter. Similar floods are still dew
astating large sections of Czecho-
Slovallia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Speed UP shoe
union CAMP AIGN
Begin Sharp Fight on
Bench-S Shoe Firm

Continued from Page One)
in full force and shop meetings in
dica'e that the 200 strikers are de-
term med to stick it out to the end.
The crew of the Griffin and White
Co., large firm adhering to the
Board of Trade. an open shop en-
ployers' association are actively en-
gcged in getting the entire plant to
Join the strike. Meanwhile the union
is spreading the decision Of the shop
delegates conference among the rank
and file membership Of the union.
BY this decision the membership le-
vies a voluntary tax of one dollar
q week as a "Union Protective
Fund" to be used to intrench the
union in the industry so that the
bosses will fear to challenge the
union when the season is over.
The sudden onslaught OF the
unions drive in the height Of the
reason has brought the membership
from 600 to 1000 in a few weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
EXPOSE FRAME UP
AGAINST MOONEY
IN BOMB" TRIAL
Witness Confesses to
Perjury

SACRAMENTO, Calf. March 26.
"Details of the confession of Es-
telle Smith, witness against Mooney
and Billings in their preparedness
day bomb" frame-up in 1916, indi-
cate that Fickert. the district attor-
rey, threatened her with prison if
she did not testify as he said, that
she was offered brides by other wit
nesses for the prosecution and by
the detectives of the Pacific Gas and
Electric Co., and that she was under
the influence Of morphine when she
testified falsely against Billings.
Estelle Smith was a dentists as
sistant. Her testimony that she
saw Billings carrying suitcase to-
ward the scene of the bomb explo-
sion was the last remaining bit of
evidence" of the prosecution that
had not yet been exposed as per-
jury. Jack Mcdonald, a prosecu-
ton witness, confessed perjury. The
Edeau woman confessed several
times and also developed internal
contradictions in her story.
Gas Firm Wanted Blood.
Now Estelle Smith says that when
subpoenaed she told Fickert she
could not be sure the man she saw
was Billings, and he told her that
unless she swore he was Billings
she would go to prison herself.
Martin Swanson. detective for
the gas company, which was anxious
to hang Billings and Mooney be-
cause OF their organization work
among its employees, she says. was
Tickert's right hand man in franz
ing up the case. They wanted her
rot only to identify Billings, but to
say she saw Mooney there, too,
Oman came to her dental office
ard told her that he was authorized
t. offer her "a sum in five figures"
if she would commit perjury for the
gas company and Fickert.
Estellc Smith ends her confession
by tire statement that she took NOR
phina tablets throughout the trial,
and if she had not, would not have
had courage to go through with the
f5'.rac-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

CHINA WORKERS
HOLD CITY OF
100000 PEOPLE
Chang Diverts Feng to
Shantung Prc,ince

(CcVtinaed from Page One)
Chinese negotiators on the Tsinan-
flu incident is believed here to open
a race for the Shantung between the
forces of President Chang Kai-shek
and those of Feng Yu-hsiang.
While it was generally supposed
that the Marking government
wished to draw out the Tsinan-fu
n citations in order to delay the
evacuation of Japanese troops and
prevent Feng from Selling Shan
tung, it now appears that Chang
has determined to attempt to gain
the rich province for his dwindling
Marking government.
Move Northern Army.
1t is suggested that Chang also
hopes in this way to divert Feng's
interest from support of the Han
kow generals with whom Chang is
now fighting and Feng dickering
for terms of alliance.
Four of Chang Kai-shek's divi-
sions, previously stationed north of
Picking, have been ordered to take
up positions along the Tsinan-fu
lines.
At the same time, Feng Yu-hsiang
has ordered two divisions from
Tientsin to proceed to Yen-chow.
Yen-chow is south of Tsinan-fu.
n
100000 Starve.
Twelve million Chinese workers
and peasants are facing starvation,
according to the report of CAPT.
talist relief society here. The grow
ing struggle for power in China be-
tween the Wuhan and Marking
forces is aggravating the already
critical situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
LEFT WING union
IN PHILADELPK IA
MEMBER DRIVE
Mass Meet of Tailors
Tomorrow Night

PHILADELPHIA, March 26. -
The Mems Clothing Workers Organ
izing Committee of Philadelphia is
sued an announcement yesterday of
the arrangement of a big mass
meeting of clothing workers for
Thursday evening at o'clock in
Garden Hall, Seventh st. and Nor
ris Are.
This meeting starts campaign
by the Organizing Committee, which
is affiliated with the Needle Trades
Section of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, for the unionization
of the almost totally unorganized
Philadelphia market, and for the
winning of union conditions in these
open shops.
Chief among the speakers at this
meeting will be Ben Gold, national
secretary treasurer of the left wing
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. Other speakers will be ].
Miller, manager of the local Joint
Board of the industrial union; Sam
Burt, manager of its fur depart
ment; Nino Siracusa and Dominick
Flaiani, two mems clothing workers
who have been expelled from the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union for their progressive views
and activities.
The Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers Hillman gang have repeatedly
started so-called organization drives
which were converted quickly by
the Hillman officialdom into an orgy
of squandering the thousands of
dollars they came here with for
ostensible organization purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Hoover Admits Must
Change Patronage to
Avoid Wide Scandal

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 25.
President Hoover today admitted
at the press interviews in the White
House that the patronage system,
now under investigation by Con-
gress. was so bad it would have to
oe changed or widespread scandals
would result.
He took the opportunity to make
a bid for free publicity in favor of
more republican party organization
il the South alleging, "The welfare
q the nation requires the breakdown
4 sactionalism" as his motive. None
,sthe reporters were so impolite as
. smoker before going outside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
WORKER is BURNT.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Grono-
vicz, a worker at the Paper Pulp
Product Manufacturing Co. was Sc
verely burnt about the face and
hands by hot shellac when spray
ing machine he was operating ex-
ploded. Gronovicz is in serious con-
dition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
British Paners Wild.

LONDON, March 26.-The Brit
ish foreig2 office has received re-
port from its ambassador to Wash
ington on the sinking of the British
ship "I'm Alone" by U. S. armed
cutter in the middle of the Gulf of
Mexico, but maintains as yet an
ominous silence. Not so the London
newspapers. They run long articles
lauding the courage of the British
ships captain and crew, under such
headlines as: British Seamen in
Manacles," British Flag Fired Upon
by American Coast Guard" and
British Subject Killed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

novices in France
at an earlier age
than the existing
laws was passed
by the French
chamber today,
t h e opposition
forces abstaining
from the vote.
T h e Poincare
government made
the issue a vote
of confidence.
There are nine
separate religious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

which must be debated individual
ly. They remove many of the re-
strictions which were formerly
placed upon the activities of cath
Ole religious orders in France.
The government is behind the
bills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

nue. cutter which
sank the ru m
runner I'm Alone
so do the British
officials back up
their ship. The
sinking is daily
becoming m o + e
of an interna-
tion al incident
British c o n S u |
General H e n r Y
Ton, todaxy ctatod
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Party Unit Organizers
to Meet Friday, s p. m.

A meeting of Unit organizers of
the Communist Party will be held
at the Workers Center, 26 Union
So, Friday, 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
LOW WAGE FOR CHILD SLAVES

TRENTON, N. J. (By MaiD.-
The average earnings Of 81 per cent
of New Jersey child workers is Is
cents an hour. Twelve per cent av-
erage less than 5 cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
BARRIERS UNIONIZE

KENT, Ohio fBy MaiI Jour
neymen BARRIERS in Kent, Ohio, have
decided to ocganize into a union.
Their present wages ere far below
the union scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

step in the revolution by the work.
ing class r. to rinse the pr0Ietnriat
to the position Ut ruling clnss. tn
win the battle Of democrncy--karl
Max (COmmun Manifest0)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Not only Inns the bourgeoIsis
forged the weapons TINT bring
death 10 itself, II Inns also chilled
into existence the men who nre ia
WELD those weaDons--the modern
working rInss--the pr0letarimns.--
Karl MARI Communist ManifestUD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

Anarchism was often kind of
punishment for the OppOrtunfst sins
or the working class movement.
Annrcbism md OppOrtunfsm are two
defOrmitfes. one Complementary 10
The Other.--v. I. Lenin ("Left" Conn
munism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Poincare Pulls Thru
Reactionary Religious
Laws in Chamber Fight

: PARIS, France, Mar. &c. - The
first of the religious articles which
will permit catholic orders to recruit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
BRITISH REPLY
IN ship WAR
I'm Alone" Sinking
RouseS Press

NEW ORLEANS, March 90
Just as the American imperialist
government rallies behind its reve-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
RACINE STEREOS GAIN.

RACINE, Wis, (By Mail).-
Stereotypers of Racine have won
an increase to S4S.33 for day work
ers, and S51.31 for night workers.
This is a gain of So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27
Stack Exchange Affected.

LONDON, England, March 26.-
Betting on the coming elections on
the British stock exchange is being
influenced by the revelations con-
corning the forgery of the fake
"Zinoviev letter" which has come TO
light in the trial of Orloff and other
forgers in Berlin.
It is limited that the fake letter
which was designed to return the
conservatives to power may now re-
suit in their rout and the return Of
the labor party.
The ",Zinoviev letter" purported
10 be instructions from the head OF
the Communist International to the
Soviet embassy in London, urging
The staff to organize "celis" or
nuclei in the factories and III the
british army and navy. Its anthem
ticity was at once denied by the
Communist International.