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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
LABOR RALLIES TO
STRIKE AID MEET
Unions, Other Groups
to Aid Dress Workers

Great interest is being shown by
large numbers of trade unions,
shops and labor fraternal organiza-
tions in the conference called by the
local New York, T. U. E. L. to sup
port the dressmakers' strike, to be
held on Saturday, Feb. 23rd, at 2
p. M, at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Place, New York City.
Credentials so far received show
that there is broad response from
all sections of the labor mofsment,
such as, building, food, shoe and
leather, textile, machinists, and
others and that this conference will
be well represented by numerous
labor organizations.
Arrangements are being made for
the leaders of the Needle Trades In
dustrial Union to address the con-
ference where the delegates present
will be informed of the methods of
organization and strike strategy
employed by this militant industrial
union.
Those workers organizations and
shops which have not yet acted upon
the sending of delegates to this most
important conference must do so
without fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
BRITAIN SEEKS
NO NAVY TRUCE
Chamberlain Denies He
Will Farley With us.

LONDON, Feb. 2O.-The British
government has no intention of en-
tering into negotiations with the
United States on the matter of
ending the naval race and for naval
limitations and Kellogg's proposals
for such negotiations are inaccept-
able to Britain, Sir Austen Cham
berlain, British foreign secretary in
formed the house of commons today.
He further let it be understood
that Kellogg knew that the terms he
proposed for naval limitation in his
note answering the Anglo French
naval accord were unacceptable to
Britain even before he sent that
note.
Chamberlain also sharply rebuked
Sir Esme Howard, ambassador at
Washington, for his statement to
the press last week that negotia-
tions between Britain and the United
States were soon to begin and said
that was not the official position
and that Howard had spoken only
as an individual. On questioning in
the house Chamberlain made it clear
that Britain had no intentions to
call new. naval conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
5 ILL. MINERS
Die IN WRECK
200Hurt as Work Train
Jumps Tracks

PEORIA, ILL.,, Feb. 20.-Five min
ers are known TO have been killed
and at least zoe seriously injured
when four cars of the miners special
No. / of the Peoria Terminal Rail
way Company went over 20-foot
embankment five miles south of
here.
Many Of those injured are so Sc
riously hurt that it is certain they
will die.
Following the derailment, flames
from the coal stoves in several of
the cars spread through the wreck,
burning the victims who were not
able to extricate themselves from
the smoking wooden coaches.
Probably only the quick action of
the engineer, F. 0. Fisher, in un-
coupling his locomotive from the
wreckage and rushing to town to
summon help, saved the victims
from greater suffering. As it is,
the injured were exposed for an
hour in the zero weather.
The eleven-car train, crowded
with nine hundred miners on their
way 10 work at the Crescent Coal
Mines, fifteen miles south of Peoria,
left here early this morning.
The train had proceeded only five
miles and was moving at from IL
to Is miles an hour when the engi-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
A. T. |. IN FAKE
STEEL DRIVE"
New Tall Talk to Fool
Workers

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20.-The ex-
ocutive council of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor made a fake ges-
ture at organizing steel workers
yesterday, when, after discovering
that the U. S. Steel Corporation had
cut wages from 7 to 10 per cent in
the Elwood, Indiana, plant, it said
that "the executive council proposes
to give this matter special consid-
Grafton and attention"
When asked what that meant,
Vim. Green replied: "Use your i'm
agination." 1t is taken to mean that
the wholly moribund committee,
headed by P. H. Hannah of the In
ternational Association of Machin-
lists, which started out with blare
of trumpets some two years ago to
''organize the steel mills of Gary"
is to be given some more life, at
least mere publicity.
At that time, in spite of the trum-
pet blasts, steel workers hunted
high and low around the steel towns
of Indiana to find either Hannah, or
anybody sent by him, but to no avail.
AS foretold at that time by the
Trade Union Educational League,
ihe whole Campaign" was fake,
intended only to give a few takers
big salaries for a time taken from
the fund collected for organizing
during the strike of 1919, a part OF
which remained and was turned over
to the A. F. of L. by William z. Fos-
ter, the leader of the strike.
Thus, if one follows Green's ad-
vice and fuses imagination" the new
Organization campaign" can be seer
to be the same as the old one.
The council also had some kind
words for the unemployed, to check
them from getting out of hand and
keep up hopes never to be realized
under capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
MEET WILL OPEN
". P. CONVENTION
Ruthenberg Memorial
on March |

The Sixth National Convention Of
the Workers (Communist) Party
will open with a huge mass meeting
against the war danger, and a
Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting at
New Star Casino, 10th st. and
Park Ave. on March /. There will
be shown at this meeting new g.
reel of the u. S. S. R. entitled "A
Visit to the Soviet Union In 1925"
made in connection with the visit of
the American rank and file trade
union delegation last year, and an
other film dealing with the role of
Ruthenberg.
The speakers will be the Party
leaders and delegates to the conven-
tion, among them representatives of
Continued tm Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
Negro Boy, Taken
from Prison, Is
Murdered in Tampa

TAMPA. Fla. Feb. 2O.--An 49,
ycar-old Negro boy, charged but not
even given a hearing on mythical
statutory offense, has been found
dead after being murdered by white
iynchers here.
The boy. Buster Allen, was in the
Tampa Jail, when on Monday night
two men presented letter signed,
Sheriff Cobb Of fernando County,"
instructing them to transfer the boy
to another Jail. Although this is
an old trick, the jailer made no eff
fort to certify the order.
Tampa police today, however, dis
covered the boys body buried be-
meath cotton wood tree near
Rrooksville. The body was riddled
with bullets and indicated ttat he
had been hanged first.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
SANDING SHOT
DOWN q PLANES

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb.
20. (UP).-The newspaper Gel Sol"
printed an interview today with Cen
eral Simson Montoya, said to be
second in command of the forces of
the Nicaraguan rebel leader, Gen
eral Augustine Sandino, in which
Montoya said it was "quite impos-
sible to capture Sandino."
"Ihe last fights with marines
took place near Yali and Guanacas-
tillo," Montoya was quoted as say
ing. "'Sandino's troops had quite the
best of it. Nothing will induce
Sandino to abandon the fight against
the Yankee marines. He is ready to
defeat President Moncada of (Nic-
aragua) and he counts on sufficient
support.
"Up to the present Sandino's
troops have shot down 21 airplanes
of the enemy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
TMloxs Pick Delegates to
Big Lett Wing Conference

The oppressed and enslaved work
ers in the mems clothing industry,
members of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Union, are breaking
loose from the domination of their
betrayers, their union leadership
and are organizing themselves to
oust an officialdom that has been
debasing their organization to mere
company unionism and aiding the
bosses in enforcing wage cuts and
inhuman speed-up systems. Thou
sands of workers in the shops of
New York are now busy electing
rank and file shop delegates to the
conference called by the Amalga-
mated section of the Trade Union
Educational League.
The conference, to be held this
Saturday and Sunday at Stuyvesant
Casino, 142 Second Ave, promises
to represent a large majority of
the workers in the industry. 1t is
the outcome of left wing move
ment that has sufficiently crystal
lized till it encompasses a majority
of the union membership.
The anti-administration movement
formed over long period as the
Hlllman-Beckerman administration
piled one betrayal after another on
the heads of the workers. The dis
integration of the New York organi-
zation, the fight between Beckerman
and Hillman, resulting in the resig-
nation of the former and the ap-
pointment of the Chicago thug lead
er Rissman to his place, brought the
movement to head and the work
ers are now rallying in a concerted
attempt to oust their betrayers.
The call for this conference has
aroused more enthusiasm than any
OF the attempts made in the past
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
WHITEWASH FOR
TUBE DISASTER
BY COMMISSION
200 Injured Told 1t
Was Merely by a
"Coincidence"
Why Blazing Tracks?
Fault of the Company
Wholly Concealed
Why Blazing Tracks?

Defective insulation and dan
gerously dirty roadbed were respon-
sible for a fire that stalled q Ho
hoken-bound train of the Hudson
tubes near Christopher st. station
Tuesday night, threw hundreds of
passengers into panic and sent
nearly 200 to the hospital.
The Hudson and Manhattan Rail
way Company, operators of the
tubes, were practically .whitewashed
when the Transit Commission, after
a brief investigation" contented
itself with a mild reproof and de-
clared that Coincidence" was
equally responsible with the COM
pany's negligence.
The Transit Commission evil
IDENTIFY waited to see if any of the vic
tins would die, before making its
whitewashing report, for if any of
the injured died, the commission
would have to "talk up to the anger
of the public, and stall off the mat
ter with words. Though Is persons
We're still in the hospital late last
night, the commission thought it
could safely proceed with the white
wash at once. The Fire Depart
ment and the Interstate Commerce
Commission also must make re-
port, but not much more is expected
Of them.
The first attempt, as in the YES
iris wreck, was made by the capi-
talist papers, to lay the blame for
the fire on the train crew. The
motorman of the train, named Van
Zandt, when reporters tried to
question him at his home, 176 Ton
nele ST., Jersey City, refused to
talk. "I'm not talking. Go to the
office. The company is giving out
statements. I'm not"
According to the stories of wit
nesses, the train was about 1000
feet from Christopher St., station
when the motorman saw the tracks
afire ahead. He evidently thought
he could run over it and threw on
more speed. When the third car
was directly over the fire, however,
the train suddenly came to a grind
ing stop, as someone, said to be E.
Kusha, trainman between the fourth
and fifth cars, had chanced to no.
tice smoking junction box under
the fifth car and pulled the
emergency cord, cutting off the
third rail power and halting the
train over the fire.
With fully 1900 people on the
train, halted in darkness lit with
fire and filled with smoke, panic
ensued. Then the lack of common
sense of company-intimidated en-
ployes made matters worse, as those
trapped in the third car were or
dered forward, only to be ordered
back again. They, and the people
In three following trains which came
up behind, were forced to scramble
through broken doors and windows.
thru the other train and along the
track to air and safety. In the Jam
and panic hundreds were injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21

few years to fight the Hillman-
Schlossberg- -Beckerman gang in an
organized form.
Noted speakers of the left wing
movement, Ben Gitlow, and Will
liam z. Foster, Communist Party
leaders will address the conference.
President Louis Hyman, National
Secretary Ben Gold of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
will also speak there. M. Olgin,
Communist writer and speaker will
be there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
Will Discuss Needle
Trades Strike Today

An open forum on "The Present
Strike and The New Needle Trades
Union" will be held under the aus
pices of Section 2 of the Workers
(Communist) Party at 101 W. 9th
st. at noon today.
All workers are invited to attend
the forum which was postponed from
yesterday to today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
Hunger Banquet to
Aid Daily Tonight

A Hunger" Banquet for the bene-
fit of the Daily Worker will be
given by Branch 1, Section 5, Work
ers (Communist) Party at head
quarters, 715 E. 13Sth St., tonight.
A varied program of speeches, en-
tertainment and dancing will be pre-
sented.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to Sane the Dniy'

Cigar Workers, Tampa, Fla. $3.50
Section 5, New York City ;. 5000
Hungarian American Singing
Society, Cleveland, Ohio. -. $500
Collected by Lolich, Akron, O. 1900
Collected by V. P. Phillipov,
Gary, Ind: V. p. Phillipov,
$40; X. Apostoloff, 81; J.
Maslinoff, 81; B. koynoff,
81; N. S. Keneoff, 81; j.
Josofoff, 81; DR.. +. Nickol-
off, 81; c. Miteff, So; Sym
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21

pathizer, SO; S. Argiroff, 81 23.0O
Collected at Nucleus POI meet
ing, Cleveland, Ohio: I. Ath-
anasiaches, So; X. Pitz, So;
P. Matrena, 81; E. Hage-
dom, 81; D. Patranshas, 81;
p. Csont, So; M. Lucich, So;
Nucleus Treasury, SO ..... 20.00
Collected at General Member
ship Meeting, Oakland. Cal. 1900
Collected by the Ambridge
Continued or Page Fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21

The other classes decay and finally
disappear in the face of modern in
dustry; the prOIetariat Is its special
md essential pr0duct.-karl Marx
Communist Manifcsto).
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CAN DAILY SURVIVE?
Funds Vital IT Ou1 Press is to Live

Respond Immediately to the appeal of the Daily
Worker for aid in its present crisis.
The Daily Worker, 1928 Union Square, New York
After reading appeal aid Daily send
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Names of contributors will be published Daily" without
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-21

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
For the 40-Hour Week
For a Labor Party
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

and the way he talked-a woman
who would make him wait for her
in the rain-with the wind blow
ing and he soaked to the skin.
"a woman who would flirt with
other men right under his very
eyes, and ask what he was going
to do about it.
Ten chances TO one this very
man was in love with just exactly
that kind OF woman when his wife
shot him for saying that he was
going to leave her.
The poor abused wife has gone
out of fashion, and the meek. long
suffering husband lever was in
fashion.
Men and women have learned
to treat each other like human be.
inTs even when they are in love.
The human doormzt Is no longer
an object of pity.
/ knew u dog once. q pretty lie.
tie dog, with big soft eyes. and a
silky coat. This dog could do al
kinds Of tricks, and his name wa,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

Sebastian Cabot. after one Of the
lesser explorers.
He wasn't quite q Columbus.
but he was a Cabot
The whole family started in by
loving Cabot, but one day when
some one said something sharp TO
him, he turned over on bis back
and held up his paws and waited
to be kicked.
Nobody kicked Cabot-but no
body liked him either. after that.
There is something in a cring-
ing couard-male or female that
turns the heart of any normal per.
son 10 water.
Yes, i am sorry for the poor
woman In Kansas City-not BE-
cause she shot her husband but
because she didn't have spirit
enough or sense enough TO leave
him the very minute she found
him out for what he was.
How do you feel about IL!
] oupsrtEhL ur. JNsSspHpsr Posture ef-Eias Ine
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

President, Mrs. IA. CIV. McklEnu
Vice-presider., Mrs. A. HI. Hir-
gardner: recording secretary. IRIS.
T. - Taylor; corresponding secrc-
tary. Mrs. r. KendrIck: treasurer
Mrs. Robert Chisholm local treas
urer, Mrs. =. r. Sanders super
Intendent OF study. Mrs. ". :.
Chambers; superintendent or pub
licity. Mrs. o. +. Davis; super!a-
tendent or supplies. Mrs. E. O.
Carmack; superintendent on social
service. Mrs. Alma Neal: local
chairman MRS. Leona Timm.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

neglected her. Re Initiated the way she walked.
and the way she talked. He was. 20 they are
saying In court where the woman is being tried,
. drug addict
Well. Of course there's something odd about
tie woman. No one can help being sorry for her
not because she shot the man. but because she
wanted him to. stay with her, no matter how he
treated her.
II what they say about the dead man is true,
you don't wonder he wanted TO get away from
. woman who would follow him around the
earth just TO be starved, neglected. and abused.
No man In his senses could have anything
but contempt for n poor-spirited creature like
that.
No. l don't admire this woman for going
without food SO that her husband could eat. Was
she trying TO buy bis gratitude?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

president OF the Business and Pro-
feSsional clubs and Miss Marguerite
Warren OF Bolton. state chairman
Of programs. will be guests for the
evening.
The following program has been
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19
WESLACO


AaANkSGTvING THEME
MrS. Harold Tobin was hostess
n1Isoay afternoon with five tables
- nrluge. The THANKSGIVING motif
weS used with fruits and flowers
AAaalhg pretty decorations.
Mrs. Harold Pugh won high score
NarS. T.. O. Gressner the second
nlen and Mrs. L. w. Derby the cut
served. 0~4sS "@S
THOSE enjoying this seasonable
hospitality were: Mcsdames Blake
WlAAains. Harold Pugh. L. 7. Bru-
III. 2 Mason. Harry Matliff. j.
Y. Friday, Z. X. Ewinz. Dan Co.
dle, NJ K. Armstrong: q II. Stew
euson, L. w. Derby. G. b. Ramsey
oL Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nelson p
WlmDeriy. W. S. Ray. T. G. Gres-
Snes, j.. l.. Curlee, G. M. Rives.
Clement Fl. Lawton of Mercedes.
=, q; kurz Of Progreso and Miss
Madeleine Huppert.
ATTEND CONFERENCE
those from the local Business e.
professional Tomen's club attend
ing the Fourth district conference
"a ~ state Federation Of Business
LLoLesslonal Wcmen's clubs held
saturday and Sunday. November
70 and IL in Corpus Christi were:
MIS- Wave Stebbins, president Of
ne local club, Mrs. Byron Hutto,
MI@ Arthur H. Ullrich, Miss Ma
delienc Huppert and Miss Florrie
Aagar. They left here SATURDAY.
morning and returned SUNDAY
evening.
REGULAR MEETING
regular meeting OF the local
auxiliary Of the Good Government
League was held at the Commune
lty Hall Thursday afternoon with
= good attendance. Mrs. J. Il.
montgomery. president presided at
the business session. Mrs. w. RI.
Baxter ST.. and Mrs. M. L. Dew
were afternoon speakers.
Music In the form of a quartet
was furnished by Mrs. Delbert
Hoge, Mrs. George G. Jones. Mrs.
VIM. LeMay and Mrs. G. A. Lyon.
TIE next meeting will be held,
December 10.
DEMONSTRATION CLUB
The Llano Grande home demon
stration club met Friday afternoon
with Mrs. E. r. Vaughan as host
ess. This was the regular business
and social meeting with Mrs.
George Morrison presiding.
A report from the county ccun-
ell was given by Mrs. II. A. Coul-
tas. After a discussion Of a num-
Der Of club business matters the
hostess served delicious refresh
ments.
Members and guests present we're
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

Mrs. c. L. Duncan who lived here
a number OF years.
J. 7. Jamison left this week on
IN extended trip to Washington.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

Why couldn't the poor blind creature zee that the more she did
for q mar like that, the more he would despise her?
What he needed was a woman who would laugh mt him. and make
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19
a Human DOOr-M0t
and Tragedy!
This Wife Stood for Everything Abuse, Ridicule
and Hunger but When Her Husband
Threatened to LeaUe Her

BY A

AVE you been reading about the woman out In Kansas City who
~ went without food 70 that her husband might eat-and then
when the husband threatened to leave her she shot him dead?
The husband beat her, abused her and laughed M her. and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19

arranged: Address or Welcome. Miss
Marguerite Hutto, president of the
Donna club: introduction or VAL
ley presidents; vocal selection, AIRS.
q. II. Mann: address. Miss Mary
Jane Higgins: reading. Mrs. w. A.
Wright: address. Miss Marguerite
Warren. A report or the Corpus
Christi convention. by Mrs Blanche
Fulgham. and music by Miss Mary
Chumbly and John Clack will con-
clude the program.
BANQUET.
TIE men or the Presbyterian
church OF the Valley were enter
tanned with 4 banquet Thursday
evening bv the Donna church. Kent
Manning OF Harlingen presided. The
visitors were welcomed by Rev.
Herbert McDegmott OF Donna and
Cicve Tandy Of Brownsville re-
sponded.
Rev. u. r.. Purcell OF Atlanta.
Ca. was the principal speaker or
the evening and discussed nc length
the Men and the Church. Rev.
wv. r.. Dickey OF Kerrville spoke on
the eyangeliStic work OF the year.
Thirteen Presbyterian churches
OF the Valley were represented and
McAll@1 and San Benito tied for
attendance h0nors. The women OF
the church had charge OF the
banquet which &as carried out in
a most excellent manner. About
$50 were present.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-19
UULDEN7SW
landed Sweet Potatoes
BATATAS GARAPINADAS

Golden Sweets"-Batatas Garapi-
MADISON batatas escogidas, deliciosaS,
doradas, que crecen en- ell fertil suelo
arcilloso dc Luisiana, en- la famosa re-
gion %productora de batatas, y va pueden
c~onseguirse en- cualquiera tienda de CO.
mestibleS.
Estan perfectamente c~ocisas. \ enva-
sadas en- la fabrica en- sirope puro dc