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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-02-16
PROMINENT VISITORS.

Grand Master Wilson Hamlin of
Hampton and Ben. Evans of Lynch
burg were among these. When the
funeral cortege arrived at the church
a solid mass of people had filled the
galleries and the two sides of the
spacious ed.fice. However, the mat
ter was easily arranged and after a
brief wait Funeral Director A. D.
Price Jr. rolled the handsome state
gold bronze casket into place before
the altar where profusion of floral
designs was placed, making pic
ture of surprising loveliness. :.
DIR. RANSOME'S EULOGY.
Rev. W. l.. Ransome, D. D.
the pastor took as his subject, "a
Man Worthy of Remembrance" and
his text from Genesis 40:23. "Yet
did not the chief butler remember
Joseph but forgat him" He declared
the deceased to have been man Of
striking personality, so we'll formed
and proportional as to have the ap
pearance of an uncrowned king. The
eulogy was one of the most impress
i've ever delivered in this section.
At its conclusion, Rev. w. 7. John
son, D. D. spoke.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
END RUM CHARGE
On I'm ALONE"
CAPTAIN, CREW
us. Admits No Proofs
Ship Had Liquor

NEW ORLEANS, La, April o.
Charges of conspiracy against Cap
tain John Thomas Randell and seven
members of the crew of the sunken
Canadian schooner I Alone, were
dismissed at the preliminary hear
ing before U. S. Commissioner Reg
inald Carter, Jr., today.
The motion for dismissal was
made by U. S. District Attorney
Edmund Talbot, who contended that
the pursuit and sinking of the rum
laden Pm Alone by the Coast Guard
Cutter Dexter in the Gulf of Mex
leo was justified, however.
American Investigators have been
unable to obtain evidence showing
violations of the law within the
three mile limit, Attorney General
Mitchell said today.
The district attorney declared that
any further indemnity action for
the sinking of the boat would have
to be handled between the Canadian
and United States governments.
The American officials intimated,
however, that they would retain
their "right" to similar action in
dealing with British and other for
eign craft in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
oor Administration Order Congress Change Lam Morgan Merge
KID NAP PING Of
MCCRADY RAISES
ROW; men Lose
Let Boss Win as Meet
to Revenge" Faker

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, April 9.
While President and Vice-presi-
dent McGrady of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor are raising loud
howls about McGrady's kidnapping
from this town by textile bosses,
and giving all their attention to
securing justice" the strike, which
McGrady came here to break any
way, is dwindling.
The American Glanztoff Corpora
TONS rayon plant here, operated at
full capacity today for the first
time since the strike opened. About
$500 employees were at work.
McGrady is calling a grand con-
ference tomorrow of prosecution at
torneys, himself, and other mislead-
ers including w. C. Bierthright, Sec
rotary of the Tennessee Federation
OF Labor, to take place at johnson
City, tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
ARREST 20 IN
BOSTON STRIKE
Dress Union Begins
Organization Drive

BOSTON, April 9.-Twenty strik-
ing dressmakers-12 girls-mem-
bers of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, were yesterday ar
rested while picketing at 35 Knee
land ST., in front of building hous-
ing dress manufacturers against
whom strike was declared.
The workers had struck in re-
Spouse to the unions call urging a
drive to organize the open shop
dress industry here. Singing and
shouting, they were led off to the
LAGRANGE st. police station.
A large crowd had gathered be-
fore the police came. The pickets
were held on charges of "obstruct-
ing traffic"
The dressmaking industry here is
mostly non-union, the reactionary
officialdom of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union
never having attempted to organize
the trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
SWINDLE, BEAT WORKER
Brutal Treatment for Girl Who Asks Paw

ed in his place. She went to the
manager and insisted that she be
paid. She was finally given $3.78-
for four and half days work. When
she protested, she was beaten and
thrown out.
Sadie decided to come around
again the following Monday, taking
friend along with her as a wit
ness. She again demanded that she
be paid in full and was again beaten
and thrown out. Going down the
elevator, she was told by the ele-
vator man that this was nothing
unusual. 1t happens often, he said.
The yourg worker took her case
to the New York District of the
Labor Defence, who
ra.c-. l:er TO tha !. l.. d. attor-
ney, Jacques Duitcnsant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Make Ceremony Over
Giving Largest u. S.
Ship to Private Firm

The liner Leviathan, largest pas
senger steamship afloat flying the
American flag, formally passed from
government to private ownership
yesterday.
The flagship of the United States
lines, which was sold to interests
headed by Paul w. Chapman, was
transferred to it's new owners by
T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the
United States Shipping Board at IL
a. M, during ceremonies in the
presence of large number of
guests.
The Leviathan was the first Of
the fleet comprising the eleven ves-
sells of the United States Lines and
American Merchant Lines, which
are to be taken over one by one,
by the new United States Lines,
Inc, as they arrive in New York.
The sale is part of the government
campaign to strengthen U. S. rivals
to the British shipping firms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
COMMUNICATION
TRUST TO FIGHT
BRITISH RIVAL
Telephone, Telegraph
and Radio Monopoly

WASHINGTON, April "a
strong hint was thrown out at the
White House today that congress
should Immediately enact legisla-
ton amending the recently passed
radio act, which prohibits the mer-
ger of the Radio Corporation Of
America with the International
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Each of these companies has re-
Gently taken over cable lines. wire
less stations and subsidiaries, so
that the merger, agreed upon a few
days ago, would have meant world
wide trust on communication, and a
monopoly in the United States, un-
der the control Of ]. Pierpont Nor
gan & Co.
Congress is practically ordered by
the administration, say radio men
who called on Hoover recently, to
PASS this bill.
The new British merger, which be-
came effective April 1, now gives
the British empire an important adj
vantage in world communications
which can be countered by the
United States only through con-
solidation of this nations far-flung
communication systems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Rumanian Landlord
Government Orders
Raids on Communists

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April
8.-A new series of red raids has
been decided upon by the peasant
landlord cabinet which now holds
power in this country.
Ever since Communist Party
members repulsed an attack by
a troop of gendarmerie yester-
day upon the funeral of Com
munist, the government has been
in secret session to decide what
to do.
A series of outrages and ar
rests, with torture in prison is
expected. The government order
issued today is to suppress all
Communist organizations"
One policeman was killed, four
wounded and four workers badly
hurt in the fight Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10

A badly bruised leg and other in
juries-this is the reply Sadie Miz-
rahi, 146 Ludlow St., received when
she demanded that her employer
pay her in full for work that she
had done.
The young worker, after being un-
employed for some time, got job
as an operator at the Gertrude Silk
Underwear Corp, at AZ W. 35th st.
After working here for four and
half days she found the speed-up
and the long hours so unbearable
that she quit. She asked for her pay
and was told to come back Satur-
day, the regular pay day.
When Sadie returned Saturday,
the boss pretended that he didn't
know her and that she hadn't work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
RUMANIA IN new
ANTI-RED DRIVE
Manu- Regime Orders
Further Suppression

Continued from Page One)
the streets of Temesvar yesterday,
when the authorities tried to break
up a demonstration at the funeral
of leading Communist. One po-
liceman was killed during the strug-
gle.
The Manu- government has been
ruthless in suppressing all revolu-
tionary working class and peasant
organizations from the TIM it took
over power from the equally reac-
tionary Bratianu regime. Hundreds
of working class and peasant lead
ers have lain unknown for years
in Rumanian jails on the mere sus-
picion of police spies or the charges
of government agents.
The turning over of the land to
the Rumanian peasants, by which
the Bratianu government sought to
save the country from revolution,
was largely thwarted by the big
landholders so that masses of the
unsatisfied peasantry supported the
National Peasant Party of Juliu
Manu-. Utilizing this discomfort the
Manu- group ousted the Bratianu
party of landholders and banking
capitalists.
But as it becomes increasingly
evident that the Manu- party is
itself the betrayer of the masses
of peasants in the interests of the
minority of rich peasants, the poor
peasants are again FESTIVE and the
government is becoming more re-
lentless is suppressing all peasant
and working class organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
WheelerW LOOting
of Nicaragua to Cost
Less; Opposes a Canal

All but a few of the American
marines now in Nicaragua should be
withdrawn at once according to a
statement made by Senator Burton
X. Wheeler, DEM, Mont, when he
arrived on the liner yesterday.
Senator Wheeler, who has been
making a personal investigation of
the affairs in Nicaragua, said he
was also opposed to the construc-
tion of new canal across Nicara-
qua. He said he had information that
made him feel that the Panama
Canal would be adequate for all
shipping for the next forty years.
Senator Wheeler pointed out that
it was costing S250,000 a month to
maintain the present force of ma
rines in Nicaragua and said there
was no need for such a large num-
Der.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
PLAN ELABORATE
MAY FIRST meet
N. Y. Asks Program of
Other Cities

The New York district of the
Communist Party is planning a big
May Day this year, and it wants
to know what other districts are do
ing.
So far, dozen May Day meetings
have been arranged in New York
and New Jersey. Some are street
demonstrations and meetings, others
will be held in halls.
In New York City a parade will
precede huge meeting in Union
Square-the local "Red Square
The workers will later pack the
largest hall in the city-the Coli
scum, with seating capacity of
over 10000. Features of the Coli
scum program will be a Red ballet,
a mass pageant depicting what the
new left wing unions will do to the
A. F. of L. one of these days., mass
dances Showing the workers turn
ing the next imperialist war into
civil war and the defense of the
U. S. S. r., chorus, singers and
speakers.
Meetings have been arranged for
the following cities in the district
on a united front basis with labor
organizations: Newark, Jersey City,
Passaic, Paterson, New Brunswick.
So far the Daily has received news
from very few other cities and dis
tricts, and it expects that this ac-
count of plans for District 9 will
arouse other districts into sending
post haste, even telegraphing (pre-
paid), US the names of cities, ad-
dresses, dates, speakers and pro-
grams for their May Day meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
NORWAY ANGRY
over SHOOTING
u. S. Defends Making
Target of Steamer

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The
prohibition navy, whose real purpose
is to keep competition down and let
the really big bootleggers profit,
and to practice up for the next war,
when the fast cruisers of the dry
navy will be added to the regular
navy, continue to prod and poke
ether seagoing powers.
Although Assistant Treasurer
Seymour Lowman today defended
the firing on the Norwegian fruit
ship Juan in Chesapeake Bay as ZEN
tirely within the law" it is known
here that, the Norwegian press is
outspoken in its resentment.
Shouldn't Shell Ship"
The Norwegian Journal of Com
nerce in Oslo is reported to have
stated editorially:
1T is highly astonishing" behavior
on the part of the American cutter,
the Journal remarked. 1t pointed
cut that the Juan had been in the
banana trade for many years and
the cutter should have recognized
the vessel was employed in peace
able and legitimate traffic.
LEXINGTON, Mo-, April 8 (UP).
An inquest was ordered today
into the killing Of Fred Harrington,
40, in a dry raid at his home near
Dover, Mo, Saturday night, in which
prohibition agents confiscated
Pint of liquor.
Harrington was shot by Eugene
Seitz, deputy constable.
RICHMOND, Va, April 9 (UP),
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
liquor, hidden in tomato crates, was
discovered in a freight car here to-
Cay and confiscated by county au-
thorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
MILLIONS USED IN
BRITISH ELECTION
Parties Make Big Bids
for Parliament Seats

LONDON, April 9.-Approxim-
ately 1900 candidates in the British
general election started spending
more than S6,250,O00 in a campaign
which will end in the general cleo
ton probably late in May.
Sir Laming Worthington- Evans,
using the radio last night, inaugu-
rated the conservative party heavy
artillery" offensive which the party
leaders hope will keep Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin in power. The
liberals and laborites will alternate
with the conservative speakers on
the radio.
The campaign promises to be the
most exciting in years and to bring
into play all Of the tricks familiar
to veteran political campaigners.
Many of the candidates spend as
much as $4,000 although they usu-
ally have party aid also. The con-
servatives raise funds by private
subscription, the liberals have an
election fund of $1,500,000 received
from the Lloyd George fund and the
labor party has collected a large
IBID for power" fund. AS the CAM
paign grows hotter these funds will
be supplemented by local funds
raised for the individual candidates.
At the same time the Communist
Party of Great Britain was pre-.
pairing to wage campaign exposing
all three boss parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Labor Unity NouU a Weekly;
First Issue Is Full Of News

Labor Unity, organ of the Trade
Union Educational League, appears
with the issue of April 6, in new
form. The heightened tempo of the
class struggle, in these weeks of
developing strikes, and the determin-
alton of the broad masses of unor-
ganized workers especially, has, be-
sides lending to the calling of the
Trade Union Unity Convention for
June /, forced the T. U. E. l.. to
change it's monthly magazine to a
weekly newspaper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Union Takers, Bosses
Will "Arbitrate" in
Plan to Sell Men Out

GLASGOW, (By MaiD. - The
Glasgow dock workers stand firm
in their refusal to work overtime
without proper overtime pay. The
employers have now agreed to the
union misleaders' proposal to refer
the question to the National Joint
Council for Dock Labor, in London.
The council has always made deci-
sions which in the long run bene-
fitted the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
PICKETS STOP
PAISLEY Mines
None Working in Four
Pursglove Properties

M0RGANTOWN, W. Va, March
9.-The four mines of the Pursglove
Mining Company, with all four OPP
erations, I, 2, 8, 4, in the SCOTS
Run area of West Virginia, employ
ing 700 miners, struck in body
when the company announced a
drastic wage cut to affect both day
and tonnage workers. The strike is
led by adjoining local union of the
National Miners Union. Charles S..
Close, of West Virginia, and Vim
cent Kemenovich, unorganized field,
executive board members of the Ma
tional Miners Union, are in charge
Of the strike.
The second day of the strike 27
men reported for work, but there
vas no work for them, due to the
strong picket lines launched by the
National Miners Union strike COM
nittee. Mass meetings are being
arranged and the mines will not
work if the National Miners Union
has anything TO say about it until
they settle with the union.
Owned by Paisley.
The Pursglove Mining Company
is said to be subsidiary of Paisley.
the National Miners Union struck
the Pursglove Mine at Powhatan,
with GOO miners affected, when they
levied a wage cut there recently.
The union declares its intention of
spreading the West Virginia strike
to all properties of this company
and compel them to settle with the
union on the unions demands.
Sporadic strikes ale occurring all
ever the coal fields, particularly in
the unorganized field. The Ma
tional Miners Union, without excep-
ton, leads these struggles. The
United Mine Workers of America
no longer exists there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10

The first issue is an eight page
tabloid size paper, with one whole
page of live pictures about mining,
steel, machinists, farmers and the
imperialist war front. The rest of
the paper is also illustrated. The
articles are short, good, and timely,
and the price is only 5 cents. 1t
should make hit.
Convention Call.
The leading article is on the resist
ance to the naturalization offensive,
and the response to the call for the
Trade Union Unity Convention.
Bill Dunno has an article on this
convention, in his column, "Notes on
the Glass Struggle" il which he
points out that not only has the A.
F. L. turned imperialist, but that
the so-called independent unions"
aside from the new militant unions
just formed, have also been be-
trayed by their officials.
Article By Watt.
Other articles are one by John
Watt, National President of the Ma
tional Miners Union, one on rational
ization by Sidney Bloomfield, re-
view of the strike strategy confer
ence held recently in Strassburg,
Germany, under the auspices of the
Red International of Labor Unions.
letters pledging aid to the T. U. u.
Convention, especially letters from
Negro workers, and general news,
with particular reference to the
Southern textile strike.
There is a strong editorial page.
a youth column, and movie reviews.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Expect Whitewash
for Mine Company in
Blast That Killed 8

LONDON, (By MaiD.-An Gin
vestigation" has been opened by
Wynne, chief inspector of mines,
into the mine disaster at the COMBS
Wood Colliery, Worcestershire, ear
ly in March, in which eight miners
were killed. The lack of proper
safety devices was blamed by min
ers, but whitewash for the COM
pany is expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
POSTPONE TRIAL
OF COMMUNISTS
A. F. L. Attacks Mimi.
Building Workers

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April O.
The trial of Is Communists who
picketed the leading big open shop
building trades job here with de-
mands for mass picketing and real
fight against the union smashing
drive of the employers came up for
trial again yesterday, their case
having been adjourned on Saturday
The newspapers during the last
three days have been carrying on a
furious anti-Communist campaign,
charging the Communists with
gangsterism. The local A. F. of L.
officialdom, besides testifying
against the pickets at the trial had
issued a statement attacking the
Communist pickets for interfering
with the peaceful settlement of the
dispute"
Trial Again Continued.
In the anti-Communist atmos-
phere in court the Communists
awaited trial after having been in
jail overnight because $25 bail had
been demanded from each of them.
Divorce and petty larceny cases pre-
vented the cases from coming up.
1t was held over until Monday. The
defendants were allowed out on the
recognizences of Attorney w. A.
Anderson of this city.
Mass Demonstration.
A mass demonstration is being
held Sunday at which the arrested
workers will speak on the role of
the city government, labor takers
and open shop bosses. A call will
be made urging workers to rally to
the picket line and make the strike
a real force. Preparations will be
made for a general strike call of
the building trades against the open
shop drive.
A feature of the campaign will be
its connection with the Forthcoming
T. U. E. l.. Cleveland Congress. 1t
is anticipated that a strong rank
and file organizing committee will.
be elected, which will send delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
JOiners in
England Demand Pay
Increase or Strike

LONDON, (By Mail. -Organized
shipyard carpenters are demanding
that action be taken by the union
on the bosses refusal to grant them
their demands for a three shilling
week increase in wages. The ex-
ecutive of the Amalgamated Society
OF Wocdworsers has succeeded in
deiclring action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
Name Fusion Ticket
Against Hague in NJ.

A fusion ticket has been named
against Frank Hague, mayor of
Jersey City, and democratic Scar"
of New Jersey. The ticket is head
ed by Joshua Ringle, open shop
manufacturer. Hague is also an
anti-labor man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10

The lower middle class. the smaIi
manufacturer. the shopkeeper, the
nrttsnn, the peasant. NIL these fight
against the bOurgeOisic. to save
from extinction their existence nv
fractions Of the middle class. They
are therefore not revolutionary, hut
conservntive.-karl Marx (Commu-
mist MnnifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10

OF Al tae cInsses that stand face
10 snce with tre bourGt oisie toda,
the Dr0.etnrint alone n a really revo.
iutionnry clnss.-knrl Marx (C0m.
nunist ManifestoD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
British Comment Acid.
LINEMAN BADLY HURT.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, (By MaiD.
~ feet from ladder,
Fred Voss, 81, lineman of the
Western Union Co., suffered severe
head wounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-10
u. S. ADMITS IT
FIRED SHOTS AT
NORWE CIAN ship
England Ridicules the
big Banana Capture"

WASHINGTON, D. c., April O.
The United States coast guard to-
day admitted officially that enc OF
its boats had fired five shots at the
Norwegian fruit steamer Juan in
Chesapeake Bay last Friday. Only
one of the shots was blank, tie 9TH
ers being SHARP" shot.
The coast guard officials state
that the Juan was ordered to heave
to and that when she disregarded
the coast guard commands the cut
ter fired. No liquor was found on
the Juan, but a cargo of bananas.
The Norwegian minister in Wash
ington has ordered a complete re-
port Of the firing to be made, which
will then become the basis of an
international situation somewhat
like the British I'm Alone case.
y x
British Comment Acid.
LONDON, England, April 9.-The
tension between the British and
American governments was shown
today in the ridicule which the Brit
ish press is heaping upon the firing
of an American coast guard cutter
on a Norwegian banana boat last
Friday.
One paper refers to the incident
as Sensation" all say "astonish-
ing" amazing" The grand banana
capture" is the expression generally
used in mentioning the capture.