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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

dustry enter the coalition) the So
cial democratic ministers were
freed from all responsibility to
their party; secondly, the social
democratic ministers supported the
construction of the new German
navy cynically violating their prin-
cipal election pledge; and thirdly,
they co-operated with the industrial
magnates in the latters' attack
upon the metal workers of the
Ruhr.
In all these three cases, together
with many more of comparatively
minor Importance, the erroneousness
of the social democratic conception
Of the state was exposed. 1t be-
came clear that, under parliament
tary democracy, the state remains
an organ of bourgeois dictatorship,
Notwithstanding the participation of
a working class party in the ad-
ministration of, its affairs.
Betray Workers.
1t also became clear that social
democratic ministers of a parlia-
mentary democratic state cannot in
the least promote or defend the in
terests of the working class (even
if they sincerely want to do SOY;
on the contrary, they can but aid
the bourgeoisie to stabilize their
power. Coalition is not the way to
Socialism; it is a weapon of the
fight against Socialism.
The eyes of the social democratic
workers, not only in Germany, but
throughout the world, who honestly
believed power by exploiting the
possibilities of parliamentary de-
mocracy, should be opened by the
experience gained in Germany dur.
ing the last six months.
Ruhr Sell-Out
Let alone the vital question of
political power. Even the immediate
economic interests of the working
class cannot be guaranteed under
a coalition government. When, three
months ago, the rank and file of the
party demanded that the social
democratic ministers should with
draw from the coalition government,
were they obliged to approve of
the construction of battleships, the
ministers replied that it would be
impractical to do so, for by the con-
troll of the state-apparatus it was
possible to make valuable economic
and social acquisitions for the work
ing class. Presently, about a quar-
ter of a million metal workers were
locked out in the Ruhr. The en-
ployers demonstratively refused to
abide by the verdict of the social
democratic minister of Labor about a
small increase of wages in keeping
with the cost of living.
The coalition was in crisis which
was overcome by the readiness of
the social democratic ministers to
act as the administrators of the
capitalist state, against the workers,
in support of the employers. AS long
as the bourgeoisie own and control
the means of production in given
country, the state is the organ of
their power, and must do their bid
ding. AS the minister of this state,
the social democrat must take his
orders from the bourgeoisie and
thus betray the workers. And the
bourgeoisie cannot be deprived of
their ownership and control of the
means of production so long as they
remain in possession of the state
power.
Open Counter Revolution
The super-class theory of state,
and the policy of coalition, however,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
MAX.
Urbahns Writes to Cannon Group

Dear COmrade!
Your all newspapers and pubcauon
we will gladly fulfill will send all the pamphlets which
have appeared Only must before we DO So
rs whether sending today have arrived
experience that the w we
have packages have evidently not arrived there
sending today does come theh we
begy to of this fact.
Also the samples of which spoke have not
vet into the police here America have
seized packages then would recommend that we send IN
dyduaI numbers We will send the collected
publications through
opportunity to beg also to request the
to letters they 90 not
other that send them We have
Lore that he should put us In touch
with still without We hope that
Lore close enough that you can
the Yorker Volkszung AT the same
time report about the stua
ton for the Fahne DIES kom-
mnmus the Pavd about the explosions but we
have no more Please write in detail
greet that enter into the closest relations
earnestly again to transmit to us more exact
political information.
With Communist Greetings,
H URBAHNS.
Ienn Group Cleft Communists)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
French Renegade Is Ally of Cannon

COntre lie Courant
Organe de POppostion Communists
So Quai de Jammapes
Paris (Xe) November 18th, 1928.
Cheque postal
Contre Courant 116922-Pars.
Dear Comrade
received the statements which have
and have read them with the greatest interest.
In the you speak a document the Right
danger" also all kind of
connection with the crisis of the Workers Communist Party
mailing you today copies of the last number of paper
containing articles Trotsky
acknowledge receipt
With Communist greetings
MAURICE PAZ.
Maurice Paz the leaders the Troyst group aohih
expelled from Party This letter sho0s
connections h the French renegad the Urbahns
letter does with the German.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08
PARIS STAGE HANDS STRIKE

PARIS (By MaiD.-The stage
hands of Paris joined in 10-minute
protest strike between the first and
second acts of all plays on Christ
mas. The stage hands plan a real
strike in their demand for wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

Miss Teae
Harcourt Brace and Company.
My dear Miss Teale,
you enough the bearer Cannon,
clippings file dealing with Trotsky book he
Real Situation in Russia"
will be very grateful
MAX EASTMAN.
Fl, 1925
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

The ver5ati translation from the German Of the
letter H. Urbans renegade expelled from the German Communist
Party engaged counerrevolionary activities The
Komuniss" Banner of Communism referred to as
organ this Totskyst achch calls itself lem
Group Praudn" u.s. of the Of the Communist Party
of Unon enpusons mentioned those of Can
and has group
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

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Evening star., 1929-12-08

These mines were far more gaseous than those
in which open lights were used and were
therefore in much better condition for explo-
sions to start. What the casualties might
have been had open lights been used can not
be estimated of course, but they would probably
have been much greater.
The chances are that the total casualties
would have been 428 greater If rock-dustinp
had not been employed as a safety measure
in many of the mines in which explosions
occurred. Thirteen of the mines having ex-
ploslons were rock-dusted in part, and in six
OF these rock-dust served to localze the blasts
while, in place of 81 who actually were killed
1t is very likely that the 428 who escaped
would also have met death.
Human carelessness plays the greatest part in
the explosions, for study of the various blasts
indicates that they occurred during the hours
when the shifts were changing. News re-
ports of these disasters so often contain the
statement that the casualties would have been
heavier had not the force just left the mine
and only few stragglers been caught or, con-
versely. the shift had just come on when the
blast occurred and the full force was under
ground.
The bureau, having made much headwav
IN It's campaign to convince the mine owners
Is now turning to the men themselves in Al,
effort to bring about proper concern for
safety measures and the elimination of care
leSSneSS.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
fety Measures in Mines.

CAFETY methods of the Bureau of Mines,
which for many years have been earnestly
advocated by the bureaus experts, are be-
ginning to bear fruit. The report of the past
fiscal year shows that the total of deaths from
mine fatalities was only 139. considerably less
than the 342 of the previous year.
Strange it may seem. electricity. which
has gone so far to cut the loss of life, was
the most potent cource of death in the mine
fatalities of the year. Out of the 38 explo-
sions of the year, 18 were caused by electricity
and SO of the deaths resulted. Open lights
and smoking caused IL explosions, with IA
Deaths and explosives caused explosions with
a loss of 26 lives. One blast claiming 6 lives
was caused either by an open light, an electric
arc a spark.
The explosions in closed-light mines we're
greater, but the very fact that closed cleo
trio lights were used is partial explanation of
the reason for the figures against electricity.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Best Si&e for COke.

WITH Winter at hand, the Bureau of Mines
steps forward with information for those
who burn coke in their furnaces The bureau
has conducted exhaustive tests to find which
size Is best adapted to domestic use 1t was
found that size greater than that which would
pass through three-inch screen was imprac-
ticable, while the smaller size from half an
inch to an inch was too small without exceed
mgly good drafts. For general. all-around sat-
lsIaction, the bureau believes that a one-and-a-
half inch screen produces the best size.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

n Representation.
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80 Leap on one foot.
81 Destructive dis
ease of various
plants.
81 Musical drama.
83 Too great for
computation.
85 A note of the
scale.
SO Roman pound.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

so Scandinavian.
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SO Got up.
64 Entices.
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68 Domestic animal.
90 Nothing.
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jurisdictions
into which York
County, England,
is divided.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

90 Throbbed.
81 Appendages
borne at base of
leaf in many
plants.
SO Kind of vegetable
salad.
"a Was of use.
95 Sell.
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lie element.
80 Strike forcefully.
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Across.

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European country.
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condiment
sauce.
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potentate.
IS The green wood
pecker.
20 One OF an
ancient tribe of
the Caucasus.
81 Genus of ever
green shrubs.
% Indefinite feeling
of uneasinesS.
% A proposition.
"a Oriental ruler.
25 Battle.
26 Roman date.
81 Dad.
% A drink.
30fGenus of
amygdalaceouS
trees.
80 A style of type.
"a The sun.
35 African river.
81 Indian tribe.
80 At no time.
80 Work-bag
40 Come forth.
AZ Administrative
subdivision of q
fu.
43 Grating.
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formed without
sufficient
evidence.
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impetuously.
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48 Paid notice.
49 Floor covering.
SO Spoken.
So BlemisheS.
Sc The glory
investing an
idealized object.
81 Duenna.
81 Household deity.
So Tree which yields
a starch
66 Clerical collar.
81 Simple terracotta
wind instrument.
701Genus of caeSal-
piniaceous trees.
II Commotion.
70 Fabulous bird.
73 Bite.
IA Combining form
meaning limit.
rs Nerve cell with
its processes.
79 A Mahometan
Bantu people of
Zanzibar.
81 Drenched.
"a Form an opinion
of.
86 Small child.
81 Moisture.
SO Prefix: half.
80 English secretary
to the admiralty,
late seventeenth
century.
90 Animal fat.
SO Depression worn
by running
water.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Sunday Morning Among the Cross-W

O. y INA\
SO Babylonian
storm god.
81 A size of paper:
abbr.
90 An armed force.
1O3 KilnS.
104 Medicinal pellet.
106 Heap.
l08 The first or
beginning.
100 Become frantic:
Scotch.
110 Dwelling of a
householder.
Ill To the side.
113 Distribute.
ia Assistance.
lis Roman god of
the fiery element.
116 First name of
famous English
poet.
118 Snare.
119 French article.
100 Girls name.
12l Pertaining to
oceans motion.
123 Litter.
125 Liliaceous shrub.
126 Omit to notice.
128 Musical study.
129 Greek letter.
13l One of the
descendants of
ESau.
1872 Units of force.
1873 Background.
Down.
l Huge.
? Do away with.
3 Exist.
4 Measure of area.
5 Stupid person:
coll.
6 Egyptian city.
z Concerted move
forward.
8 Persons who flee
to foreign power
for safety.
8 Gotten Up.
10 Lively dance.
IL Painful.
IL Cape on an
island east of
North Carolina.
, IS Looked favorably.
IA Lowest point.
Is Herring sauce.
16 Dance step.
II Jumbled type.
18 Wed.
19 One who devotes
attention to the
real as opposed
to the imaginary.
% Lohengrin's wife.
81 Metal fastener.
33 Greedy.
"a Pace.
SO Daughter of
Agenor loved by
ZeuS.
80 A group of
countries.
Al Heron.
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pendages.
49 Openwork in
Evening star., 1929-12-08

closure.
81 Behold!
So Appease.
81 Paddle.
SIS Group of three.
Sc Triumphant ex-
clamatioII.
81 Machine for rais-
ing heavy weights.
So The internal
regions.
So Concerning.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
ROCHESTER UNION
BARRIERS War on Unsanitary
Shops

Rochester, N. Y. e. L. N. 81
Journeymen BARRIERS Local Union No.
246 is promoting sanitation and clean
illness in Rochester by a campaign
against barber shops which use dirty
towels and otherwise violate sani-
tary laws. Several "cut-rate" nom
union BARRIERS have already been ar
rested for using soiled towels and
warrants are out for others.
Patrick H. Reagan, business agent
of the BARRIERS Union, is leading the
campaign, in which the police and
sanitary officers are cooperating.
Complaints received by the union are
turned over to the commissioner of
public safety, who refers them to
the proper officers for action. Mr..
Reagan says that no complaints have
been made about union shops. He
promises that the campaign will con-
tinue until every barber using soiled
towels is arrested.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
CLEANERS
Start War When Prices Are
Cut

Washington.-An insight into the
war between clothes cleaners, which
is often marked by bombs and de-
struction of property, is shown in a
suit filed in this city by Hyman
Diener.
The plaintiff asks 100000 dam
ages from several wholesale cleaners
who are charged with maintaining a
monopoly. Diener started small
cleaning establishment two years ago
on $50 borrowed money. He now has
l9 shops.
IL had no money to buy a plant and
subcontracted my cleaning work, like
all small tailors, to the big cleaning
firms" said Diener.
81 had figured out that carrying
charge accounts and running a de-
livery service cost about So cents per
job. So | cut 55 cents off the stand
ard price for such work
"Then my business grew and a
committee came to me and told me |
would have to raise my prices, but |
refused. / lost business right and left.
To add to my troubles the cleaning
company doing my work shrunk the
clothes | sent them. | took the work
to other plants in the city, but they
refused to do it,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
Philadelphia Textile Unions
To Discuss Trade Depression

Philadelphia, Pa, U. L. N. 81
Not satisfied with just sitting idly by
and helplessly watching their meager
resources being consumed while wait
ing for the closed factories to open,
the textile workers of the northeast
section of Philadelphia, once the
greatest center for textile productiv-
ity, are planning conference on
Textiles as a Community Problem"
for Saturday and Sunday, April 27
and 28, at the Kensington Young
Women's Christian Association. The
conference is sponsored by the United
Textile Workers of America, and is
endorsed by groups interested in the
welfare of the community. The con-
ference is arranged by the Labor Col
lege of Philadelphia.
The purpose of the conference is
not only to discuss the factors under
lying the present situation in the tex
tile industry but also to bring to the
attention of the community the relat-
ed problems which total and part-time
unemployment develop. Among the
speakers who will appear on the pro-
gram are Gorton James, chief of the
Department of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, United States Department
of Commerce; Ethelbert Stewart, COM
missioner, U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics; Prof Broadus Mitchell, Johns
Hopkins University; Prof. Roswell
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
A. F. Of |. Representatives Deported and Brutally
Treated By Elizabethton, Tenn, ''Business" Mob;
Green Wires Governor He Will Order McCradv Back

his sister came to his rescue with a
rifle. There were many shots fired
and the mob in its haste left one auto
which was taken by the sheriff. State
warrants are being issued, it is said,
for several members of the alleged
business mems committee whose
names are known. Threats were also
made that the same medicine would
be given L. S. Gurganius, j. D. White
and f. S. Stubbs
Mob Wants "No Union"
"All the men attacked were told
that no one would be permitted to
organize the workers in the rayon
mills which are said to be owned by
a German corporation The underpaid
employees of the mills are anxious TO
organize, and at their request sew
eral representatives of labor We're
sent to EliZabethton.
81 have appealed to the governor
of Tennessee and other public Off
cials. | have told them that | intend
to send Mr. McGrady back to Eliza
bethton, and if any harm comes to
him the authorities will be held re-
sponsible. If necessary / will visit
Elizabethton as a challenge to this
gunmen lawleSsness"
In his telegram to Gov Henry H.
Horton, President Green said; MIR.
McGrady was on peaceful mission,
was acting under my official orders
and instruction, and there was no
reason why he should be subjected tc
this terrifying experience Of danger
and humiliation" and declared Mr..
Hoffman on a similarly orderly mis-
sion.
Demands Punishment Now
Continuing his message to the gov
ernor, President Green said:
'In the name of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, protest this out
rage, and | call upon you as the gov
ernor of the state of Tennessee to
bring these criminals to justice and
to extend protection to the lives and
persons of Mr.. McGrady and Mr..
Hoffman. | cannot believe that you
will permit such an outrage as this to
which | am referring to go .unnoticed
and the perpetrators of it to go un-
punished.
81 am planning to instruct Mr..
McGrady to return to Elizabethton
for the purpose of completing the
peaceful mission upon which | sent
him, and / ask you to advise me If
you will guarantee him protection to
his life and person.
"For the information of the mil
lions of working men and women
identified with the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and for millions OF
others who are loyal friends, ! ask
will you exercise all power vested IN
you by the state of Tennessee in
bringing the guilty who perpetrated
this outrage upon Mr.. McGrady and
Mr.. Hoffman to account, and will you
guarantee protection to their lives
and persons if they return to Eliza
bethton?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
CANADIAN WORKERS
NOT TO BE DEPORTED

Deportation proceedings begun by
the labor department against AZ
Canadian employees of the Connect
cut River Development Company, en-
gagged in construction near st. Johns
bury, VT, have been dismissed in the
cases of all but one or two of the
men.
The Canadians were arrested last
fall on complaints to the Montreal
office of the immigration service that
their employment on the Connecticut
river job violated terms of the con-
tract labor law. The departmental
findings, approved by Secretary Davis,
indicated no ground for the mainten-
ance of charges against some 38 of
the men,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12
Il Will Go There Myself
As Challenge if Needed"
A. F. of L. President Declares

ers, employed in German owned
factories, ending a week ago with
victory for the workers and with a
union established with fully 1000
members. Mr. McGrady was ordered
there by President Green to assist in
perfecting this new local union of the
United Textile Workers. Mr.. Hoffman
was there on the same peaceful mis-
sion. He had served as one of the
leaders and advisers throughout the
strike.
Authentic information reached
American Federation of Labor head
quarters today" said President
Green's public statement, that a
committee of alleged Southern busi-
ness men of Elizabethton, Tenn, per-
petrated an outrage upon representa-
tives of the American Federation of
Labor on the night of April 3. This
committee of alleged leading citizens
of Elizabethton, Tenn, entered the
Lynnwood hotel, seized those repre-
sentatives of labor escorted them to
the edge of the city, terrorized and
outraged them and then threatened
them with death if they ever returned
Told McGrady, Take Ride"
Shortly after midnight 25 mem
bers of this so-called reputable bust
ness mems committee entered the
room of Edward F. McGrady, who is
the legislative representative of the
American Federation of Labor at
Washington and told him he had to
take a ride. Against his protest
they packed his valise, escorted him to
the entrance of the hotel, placed him
in taxicab and drove to the edge of
the town There additional members
of the business mems committee
awaited and they proceeded to make
serious threats against the life of
McGrady if he ever returned to
Elizabethton. They then ordered the
taxi driver to take him to Bristol, Va
Another business mems commit
tee composed of at least 20 men ap-
preached A. Hoffman, representative
of the United Textile Workers of
America in the main lobby of the
hotel, showed a gun in his back, took
him to a back room and then out of
the hotel, blindfolded He was placed
A. F. of l.. rep 49,. 49,. ...........
Galley (2) A. F. of L. Representative
in a car with four men, carried below
the North Carolina line, escorted by
six cars, taken out and the blindfold
removed
Death is Threa,eaed
"The mob then ordered Hoffman out
of the state under the pain of death.
All his papers and personal records
were stolen and he was threatened
with tar and feathers. This business
mems committee was composed of
realty men, police officers and others.
The business mems committee
then returned to Elizabethton and 800
of them went to the home of j. B.
Penix. Penix was told that they
wanted to talk to him about the union.
When he opened the door he. was
seized around the neck and dragged
to the ground. At his call for help
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-04-12

Henninger, University of North Caro-
lima; Prof. Richard Landsburg, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; Rev. Philip
Burkett, st. Joseph's College, Phila-
delphia; Thomas Mcmahon, president,
United Textile Workers of America;
John Snowden, secretary of the Up
holstery Manufacturers Association,
and others representing political, pro-
fessional and business groups Of the
Kensington district.
The conference will open on Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock. William
Smith, secretary-treasurer Of the
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers, will be chair
man.
Saturday evening there will be
dinner session following Sunday morn.
ing with presentation of Specific
Factors Affecting the Textile Indus.
try" The final session Sunday after.
noon will be given over entirely to
the presentation of the situation ex.
listing in the northeast section as it
is affected by the depression in the
textile industry.
1t is expected that the forthcom-
ing conference may be a sort Of
weather vane showing what hope
there may be in the future of arousing
the community as a whole toward
problems which affect all citizens.