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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
INDIAN REVOLT
CLOUD HOvERS
over CONGRESS
Labor" Scheduled to
Perform a Massacre

London dispatches reveal a grow
ing anxiety on the part of British
imperialism less the toiling masses
of India get "out of hand in the
near future and seize by force in
dependence from British rule under
leadership of Indian working class.
The National Indian Congress of
the Indian capitalist class is due to
open this week at Lahore, and while
the British imperialists do not fear
the Indian capitalists and their
spokesmen led by Mahatma Ghandi
and Motilal Nehru, they do fear the
300, 100000 masses may take the
road of revolution in spite of the
pacifist preaching Of Ghandi, who
is imperialism's best gurantor of the
sterility Of the independence move
ment.
This, then, is the fear prompting
the present fuss in the British
parliament. 1t is clear that imperial
ism demands a new bloodbath, such
as that of Amritsar few years ago,
which imperialists openly boasted
taught the Indians lesson in time
to prevent a wide revolt"
The conserve tives and the liberals,
led by Baldwin and Lloyd George,
respectively, are making noises in
parliament and out of it also, ex-
pressing doubts" about the "labor"
party ability "to handle the situa-
tion." This, however, must be un-
derstood to signify no lack of con-
fidence in the intentions of the Mac
Donald government to do everything
imperialism requires. 1t signifies
only that imperialism requires a
concrete performance of the pro-
gram accepted by r - of
suppression, ruthless and violent,
if need be, of the Indian revolution.
The vague talk, rumors and hints,
suddenly let loose in London about
the possibility of the labor" gov
ernment being put out of office by
the combined votes of the conserva-
tives and liberals, thus can be under
stood as meaning broad hints to the
Macdonald cabinet to further stiff
fen it's resistance to the demands Of
the Ind ---~ses for indenendence
and prepare tie British military in
India to attempt to forestall a wide
revolutionary rising by a bloody
slaughter the very first occasion
offered.
This will likewise provide the "la-
(Coutanued on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
Litvinoff Wires That
Aviators, Dog Teams
Are Hunting Eielson

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 20
A cablegram was receivc ! by Sena-
tor Borah todav from the Peoples
Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of
the Soviet Union, signed by Litvin-
off, and announcing that all possible
means were being taken to saye the
lives Of the aviators, Carl Ben Eli
son and Earl Borland, wrecked
somewhere on the coast of Siberia.
Litvinoff's cable pointed out that
the Stavropol, which the U. S. gov
ernment had mistaken for an ice
breaker and asked to have sent to
Eilson's assistance, is an ordinary
steamer, but said that dog teams
were being sent out from the Stavro-
pol. The message continued:
"Soviet Government is organizing
in a few days an expedition by plane
of type Land of Soviets with Shes
takoff, recently returned from
America, as pilot"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
u. S. KILLED
HUNDREDS IN
HAITI, CLAIM
Struggled Note Shows
Massacre Concealed
by Censorship,
Conspiracy of Silence
Letter Reveals Women
and Children Shot
Conspiracy of Silence

A letter smuggled out of Haiti,
printed in the Negro newspaper, the
New York Amsterdam News" gives
more concrete testimony of the mas
sacre, hinted at previously, of hun.
dreds of Haitian peasants at AlN
Cayes on December 6, where the ly.
ing report of American imperial
ism's "high commissioner" Brigadicr
General Russell, admitted only five
peasants were killed by U. S.
Marines.
The name of the writer of the
letter is withheld by Capt. Napoleon
Bonaparte Marshall, a lawyer and
former attache of the American Le-
CATION in Haiti, who read this letter
at luncheon of the Foreign Policy
Association says the Negro news
paper. The letter in full follows:
Port-au-Prince, Dec. 16, 1929.
Dear Marshall:
"At the American Hotel, where
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
the December figures thus far show little improvement
And then the Times correspondent explains the falure

the December figures thus little
And then the Times correspondent explains the faure
"nstead of the planned increase production
decrease IL the figures
production gain of only 20
first costs"
The capitalist will
much believe the the speup and
slavery of working for capitalist boss combined with
starvation of unemployment the
workers
But in the Soviet Union there lying
which
free from the of capitalist robbery anarchy
The Soviet calls workers
Union shameful the relative failure
sened by Of "ony" pgoiucton
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
its task of outstrppng the en capitalist world its
omic Vance Thus shows the freedom for the
all countries
The workers q this too will learn how 10 throw off the
fsasie capitalist class and to bald society of working
Glass o replace Vie Slavery, auaTchy and misery Of spialm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
SHOW CRISES IN
MANY COUNTRIES
Sharp Glass Struggles
on the Increase

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Cable
dispatches to the Department of
Commerce from various parts of the
world show a general picture of
crisis in many countries. A cable
from Australia says:
Australian coal miners have re-
jected all settlement proposals, and
attempts have been made to extend
the strike to other industries. One
mine has been opened by the state,
with volunteer labor (read scabs J..
Curtailment of important construc-
tion projects because of shortage of
loan funds has been reported from
different sections Of the country"
From Belgium comes the news
that "a slackening of orders in GER
tain important lines since Septem-
Il ont'nHed on Page Tm9J
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Fine! ItCOuldn't Be WOrse!''
Several Encouraging Factors in Steel Trade"
"Soviet's Program for Industry Lags."

Several Encouraging Factors in Steel Trade
"Soyiet's Program for Industry Lags"
These headlines that
Thursday together altogether sgnifanan
funny-to pass in silence
newspaper encouraging
the United States the New York
theory the Journal
whg courageouy about certain orders
reduction stocks (of stee
Street
mill operations have been sharply curtaled, with
units idle for the entire week. Raw steel will
propoonatey counting suspensions
not be than 40 of capacity The
be lower than that for month"; the
of 1924, since the depression of 1921"
And will a
for capitalist OPTIMISM the Journal of Commerce hans explain
"The severity fourth-quarter produc
ton regarded the best promise of early Dem
bers recession rgot output from November
Novembers 10 per drop great
est decline in single previous month Sd
December 1907"
So much for the capitalist optimism" present
economic crisis the land capital which
hundreds OF thousands of until
the present total must be estimated less than 100000
the capitalist press "pessmsm regard
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This
York Times of the date which writes that the
for industry lags."
Workers who have been misguided the
system which being built by the ruling
the Soviet Union will be deeply gryed while
industry showing such industry
working class society of the Union Socialist Republics
tagging"
Yes, the Times, the Industry a whole
has fallen amentably below the during
months-October AMI Novembcro the fiscal year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27

WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Dec.
26.-National Miners Union organ
izers, campaigning in the innsbruck
sections of the Illinois coal fields
find the coal companies and the
United Mine Workers of America
cooperating to victimize all rebel
licus elements, in the hope of ter
rorizing the workers so that they
will not join the N,M.U. in the re-
sistance to wage cuts which are sure
to come in the near future.
The plan of the UNIV. Off
cials and the bosses is to expel from
the UNIV. all who are not ready
to take cuts from the bosses, and
then have the coal companies dis
charge them, under the contract to
hire only UNIV. members.
There is no doubt the miners will
fight under the leadership of the
National Miners Union. General
worsening of conditions continue,
and the workers in each mine have
number of grievances that have
accumulated day by day. The To-
cal U.M.W.A. officials make only
the faintest pretense of fighting to
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
SANDING QUITS
FOR $4,000 BR|BE

Dispatches from Mexico quote the
s. temen tie All-America Anti
Imperialist League and the Hands
Nicaragua Committee to the
effect that General Sandino, former
leader of the revolutionary forces
fighting Wall Street intervention in
Nicaragua, accepted a 100000 bribe
as price for his abandoning his
part in the struggle.
Sandino came, to Mexico several
months ago. The Mexican govern
ment. which has been psr cularly
vicious against the rev = binary
Cuban and Mexican work. per-
mitted him to live unmolested in
Yucatan.
The sudden withdrawal of San
dino from the heroic band of fight
ers against marine rule in Nicara-
qua is given its logical explanation
by the statement of the All-Amer-
lea Anti-Imperialist League of
Mexico.
His force of workers and peas
ants did not give up the fight but
continued in their battles against
the marines.
The bribery of Sandino does not
by any means end the Nicaraguan
masses struggle against u. S. i'm
perialism and its puppet president,
Moncada. Moncada got his job by
the same means that Sandino was
induced to withdraw from the
fight glistsning American dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27

the New Harlem Casino, 116th St.
and Lenox Ave. Thousands of leaf
lets have been distributed denounc-
ing the Wall Street maneuvers in
the Latin American countries, call
ing upon the workers to stand by
the Haitian workers and peasants
in their struggle against American
imperialism, and calling upon Negro
and white workers to rally to the
support of the militant fighters for
the workers and peasants of Mexico
and Cuba.
Events in the last few days have
proven that the president-el Ru-
bios visit to Hoover, has completed
the sell-out of the Mexican workers
and peasants TO American Imperial
ism. Portes Gil and Gales have an
agreement with the bloody butcher
Machado, of Cuba, to ship the
Cubans, who are in exile in Mexico,
back to the island, which has been
turned into morgue for class con-
scious workers.
Sandalio Junco, Negro militant
leader and Barriero, both fighters
for the workers and peasants of the
colonial countries, organizers of the
Cuban proletariat are now together
with over one hundred others sub.
jected to terrific tortures in the jails
of that country. Barreiro, whose
exile and constant persecution has
rendered him too weak to survive
the torture has gone insane. Junco
is threatened with deportation and
eventual death at the hands Of
Machado.
The All American Anti-Iriperial-
ist League calls upon the workers
Of New York to come to the mass
meeting and mingle their voice with
the similar meetings thruout the
country. Only the solidarity of the
working class and the mass pressure
of the workers can save the militant
leaders of the colonial and semi
colonial countries. Comrade James
Ford, Of the Trade Union Unity
'aeue. who has just returned from
the Soviet Union will speak and tive
comrades will speak in Spanish. One
is leader of the Cuban workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
BOSS IN court
BOASTSLOCK OUT
Elmore Shoe Co. Part
of Hoover Fascism

Attorneys for the Elmore Shoe Co.
argued for the injunction they want
from Justice Selah B. Strong in the
Kings County Supreme Court, yes
terday, and admitted frankly they
broke their contract with the union
and locked out their workers. They
said they did it "because the Inde-
pendent Shoe Workers Union is g
Communist organization" and they
were told by the u. S. Department.
of Labor to have nothing to do with
it.
The Dan Palter Shoe Co., 151 W.
26th ST., is trying to get an injunc-
tion in the formal way, with hear
ing, etc. Other shoe companies were
just given ready made injunctions by
judges who must have started works
ing them out before the strike start-
ed.
Conviction As Evidence.
But Dan Palter wants to go thru
the regular routine, and as part Of
their evidence, they had Jefferson
Market Court yesterday convict s
of 16 pickets arrested before the
shop. The pickets had been told to
move on by a cop, but had come
back, and were militantly register.
ing their protest against police at.
tacks, and the union smashing, piece
work, low wages and long hour pol.
icy of the bosses, when arrested.
Eight of them were released be.
cause there was no evidence at all
to connect them with the charge. The
case has been pending since the first
day of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
DISTRICT N. 7. W.
Conventions TO
START STRUGGLE
Call Of National Office
of Union Points Out
Workers Are Ready
Build More Mill Locals
Reach More Negro and
Women Workers

Over the signature of Clarence
Miller, sentenced to 20 years in the
Gastonia case, and secretary-treas-
.urcr of its National Executive
Board the National Textile Work
.ers Union yesterday issued a call
for district conventions Of the
union in all districts, within not less
than four or more than six weeks.
Representation at these conferences
is to be from mill locals, general
locals, mill committees, unorganized
mills and from unemployed connec-
tions of textile workers.
The district boards of the union
are called to meet Immediately and
start preparations for the conven-
tions.
"The district conventions are raj
lying centers for the struggle" says
the call. 1t points out that the ma
tional convention recently held in
Paterson, N. j., proves that "the
textile workers are ready for strug-
gle not only in isolated textile CEN
ters but in the textile industry as
a whole.
"The increased speed-up system,
the longer hours, the lower wages,
unemployment, that are parts of the
plan of the bosses to rationalize the
textile industry are part of the in
creasing crisis in the industry. The
crisis in the textile industry in turn
is a part of the crisis that is devel-
oping not only in the United States,
(Contlnued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
5905 Workers Defended
by LID Since Its Last
National Convention

Five thousand nine hundred and
five workers were thrown into prison
in the United States and defended
by the International Labor Defense
since the past national convention,
is the gist of a partial report of
the years activities to be delivered
at the Fourth National Convention
of the LID. to be held in Pittsburgh
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in
Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller st.
More Than 800 Delegates to Attend.
Credentials have been received n
the national office of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense of 327 dele
gates from all sections of the United
States. Included among these are
20 delegates from the South; Negro
workers, the seven Gastonia defend
ants, Salvatore Accorsi, Fred Beals
father, delegate from Boston.
Yetta Stromberg a 19-year-old girl
sentenced to a maximum of 10 years
in California.
Mass Demonstration. Tomorrow
Night.
The convention will be preceded
by a mass demonstration tomorrow
night in North Side Carnegie Music
Hall, at Federal and Ohio Sts., when
famous class war prisoners and
fighters will address the workers.
The convention itself will be held
in Labor Lyceum, at 35 Miller st.
Delegates should report to the dis
trict office of the LID. in room
205, 119 Federal St., North Side.
Enlist Your Shop Mate in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27

financial and commercial organs of
the capitalist class, admit "se-
we're economic crisis"
Says = financial writer in the
New York Times December 26):
OF the scope of trade reaction
ut the moment there can be no
question. Steel production is down
TO 40 per cent of capacity. the
lowest Of any winter month since
1921 and comparing with 80 per
!. Continued ~ Eses Thnss)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
Wage Cuts and UNEMPLOYMENT
GyOu' with SeUeye Decline

Each day capitalist sources Of in
formation add to the fact that the
economic crisis in the United States
is taking a sharper and deeper
trend.
During Christmas week an at
tempt was made to decorate the
newspapers with the Hoover dope
that "things were better than ever.s'
But even these lame statemen9
wither in the light Of the facts.
In hesitating manner, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
Negro Tennis Players
Too Good; Drop Them

Two Negroes, Reginald Weir and
Gerald L. Norman, Jr., have been
dropped by the Lawn Tennis Asso-
citation from the National Junior in
door tennis tournament. The sole
reason for the discrimination is the
fact that the two tennis players are
Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
Negro T0iIers
Join c. P. al
Haiti Meets

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 20
Twenty-eight workers, u of them
Negro workers, joined the Commu-
mist Party, ut five mass meetings
held in Detroit Tor the defense of
the Soviet Union and in solidarity
with the Negro workers of Haiti.
At one meeting, out Of 200 workers
present, 20 joined the Party, eight
of these being Negroes. OF the so
new Party members secured thus
far in the Party Recruiting Drive
here, 27, or over one-third are Ne
groes. These facts show the grow
ing militancy of the Negro workers,
and their turning to the Communist
Party as their leader About 1,000
workers attended the five meetings
last Sunday for the defense of the
U.S.S.R.
CHICAGO, Dec. G6.-As chal-
lenge to American Imperialism II
Negro workers Joined the Commu-
mist Party at the mass meetings for
the Haitian workers, held here De-
cember Fl and %, in District 8. At
the Milwaukee meeting alone II Ne
gro workers joined the Party. Reso-
lutions passed by the Negro and
white workers at the meetings
pledged support of the Haitian
workers revolution. The Communist
Party is arranging to commemorate
the heroic work of Frederick Doug
las, famous Negro leader, in Febru-
ary IL, as an answer to the bour-
geois celebration of the birthday of
Lincoln, pseudo-liberator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
PROTEST MEXICO
TERROR TONIGHT
nti-Imperialist Meet
at Harlem Casino
The attack on


the m Hit a n t
leaders and the
vicious W h i It e
terror and tor
ture conducted
by the lackeys
of American i'm
p e ri a Ii S m in
Mexico will be
answered by the
New York work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
pYAK PEASANTS REVOLT.

Cable reports from Manila stats
that she peasants in the Dyak coun-
try ia Central Bornea are revoltinR.
The Provincial Commander, J. L. ~
QUAINT was killed hv the rebels
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27
MINERS MASS MEETING
IN TAYLORVILLE TO SMASH
TERROR BY BOSSES, lJMWA
United Mine Workers Actively Aid Operators
to Cut Wages More; Men Have Grievances
National Miners Union Draws Up Local De-
mands; Pay for Dead Work; Safety Devices

TAYLORVILE Ill., Dec. 26Under the leadership of Freeman
miners of TayOrvie and vicinity preparing
of local miners and from outside territory
of the bosses the militia and the depuzed
of the Workers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27

Enlist Your Shop Mate in the
Drive for 5000 New Members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-27

Unemployment Is Growing in Every In
dustry More Than 100000 Workers
Are Walking the Streets. The Commu-
mist Party Demands: Full Wage Unem-
ployment Relief by the State, With Su-
pervision by the Workers! Unity of the
Employed and Unemployed!
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-12
SEELEY

SEELEY, July 12.--Mr. and Mrs.
Andrews and daughter left for the
coast Wednesday evening, They
expect to be gone two months.
Delmar Upshaw and family have
lust re ;urned from a fishing trip at
Lake Hodges. They also sperr n
few days in Escondido.
Rev, Berry and family. haye left
fer L,hg Beach to spend the cum
MGR. They will return Sept smb'r
l. Tie library is being taken care
OF ly Mr.. r,atley during Rev.
Berry s abscicc.
2ir. and Ms. L. W. Copeland aud
family, also Miss Mary Copeland
from San Diego, spent the any III
Seeley on their way to Tenr cssce.
Thev are making the trip by auto
and win spend month visiting rela-
tives and frieucs.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kunklcr, from
Ramona, visited in Seeley recently.
They also visited Walter Downcy a;
the county hospital who is brother
in-law of Mrs. Kunkier
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Curtis lavc
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-12
-45-s- sssa sass t-s-
MELON FEED AT
HOLTVLLLE IS
HUGE SUCCESS

An entire truck load of luscious,
ripe, ice cold watermelons was de-
voured at the annual melon fiesta
of the American Legion at Hoh
Vile last night and this morning
members of the Holtville post were
busy cleaning up the remains on
the lawn surrounding the cluo
house.
just how many melons make up
a truck load is not known but. at
least 10 good size barrels were fill
ed to the brim with the rinds after
the large crowd that helped to dis
pose of the melons had finished.
The Ell Centre Bugle and Drum
corps attended the festival in a
body and after parading around
the park attacked. the melons with
as much gusto as they showed when
they played.
After everyone had had his ill
the corps gave an exhibition on
the parade ground back of the
Legion club house. More than 800
persons, not including the numer-
Gus children, watched the Ell Cen
tro organization go through its
PAGES.
The watermelon fiesta is an an
nual affair with the HOltville
Legion and as usual was a complete
success. Members and their frienIs
were invited and most of the prom
inent citizens of the town both in
official and business life were pres
nnf
Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-12
PERMITS ASSURE
new BUILDINGS
FOR Ell CENTRIC

Buildings to be erected valued at
Approximately 100000 with equip
ment of almost equal value, was as
sured FL Centre this week when the
Cramer Bakery company of San
Diego ard +. }. Lindeman of Los
Angeles took out building permits
for immediate work on bakery
plant and a filling station respec
lively.
The Cranier bakery. a long talk
cd OF building project here, has
been started and it is expected will
be completed early in the fall. The
permit, taken out in the city en-
gineer's office Yesterday by p. A.
Murray, IIoltvilIe contractor, calls
FOR a structure that vii cost st9.
700. However, it is expected the
building win cost several thousands
of dollars more to complete.
According to the plans on file in
the engineers office the equipment
Of the latest design will in all
probability cost more than the
building. The latest type electiic
ovens, coHveyors, bread wrapping
machines, dough mixers and other
machinery necessary to operate a
baking plant is to be installed.
The building, which will occupy
a site just off Imperial avenue on
Main street, will be concrete and
steel affair plastered both in and
outside. The plans call for plent.y
Of the latest type air and light steel
and glass windows.
A special cooling and ventilating
system is also TO be installed.
Numerous special rooms for the var.
ious processes Of the baking art are
included in the plans.
There viii be no arcade in from.
Of the building but the plans are
50 dtawn that an arcade can be
erected later without spelling the
beauty Of the structure.
The service station to be erected.
at the corner of Third and Main
streets by Idndeman is also an all
steel and concrete building. II is to.
cost approximately $500 exclusive.
Of equipment.