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New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
Funerals

Frank VAlvO
 Funeral services for Frank Valvo, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Valvo of 2S6 Burritt street were held this morning at 3 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Rev. Thomas F. Lawlor was the celebrant of a requiem high mass.
 As the remains were being borne into the church Organist John J. crean played Chopin's funeral march and at the offertory MrA Mary T. Crean sang "Vani Sanctus Spiritus. '' She sang Mother. Dear. o Pray For Me" at the conclusion of the mass. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery. Pese&aiels-AN ktwAs ef Ahsshs and evssyseeas-BeaAtaSs l'Iaats ~f Maas
 varieties.
 ''Owv Hsasiness vs f,e~~iN9"
 Visit BOlI.EAER's G-e~ahcuses Neeee tltM sM~r fhooe soA Q -. lopia st.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
Deaths
Mrs. Charles '. Ham

Mrs. Ellen Nord) Elam. 73 years old, wife of Charles J. Elam of New Haven. was found dead in bed this morning, the victim of heart at tack.
 She was a native Of SouthingtOn. but had been resident Of New Britain for 20 years until she moved to New Haven four years ago.
 Surviving her besides her husban are three nephews, Charles F.. Neal, cashier at Lander. Frary X Clark's, Harold l.. Neal of St. Albans. l.. l., and Charles F.. Lord Of F.lmwood. and a niece, Mrs. Marjorie (NeaD Johnson of Rrookline. Mass
 Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon. at o'clock at Erwin Memorial chapel. Rev. Dr. George w. C. Hill. pastor of the South Congregational church. will oficiate Burial will be in Eairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
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New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
Joseph (. D.aPOrlc

HOSHuHk Ns A0 uVus-
 Word has been received here or the death Of Joseph C. l.aPorte at his home on 41 Britannia street. Meriden. Saturday. He was resi- dent of Meriden for 2S years and was well-known in this city.
 Besides his wife. he is survived by three daughters. Mrs. George l.. kearney of New Britain. Mrs. C. H Rirdsey and Mrs. R. DeCantillon of Neriden: son, William LaPorte Of New Britain. a foreman in Landers, Frary X Clark. and four brothers and six sisters
 The funeral was held this morn ing at S:3O o'clock at st. Laurent r church. Burial was in St. Laurent [ cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
Anna <sut,

 Four hours after Anna Gut, , years old, Of 5S West street. had been admitted to the New Britain General hospital with an acute case of appendicitis Saturday night she died She was daughter of Mir. and Mrs John Gut.
 She was pupil at the Nathan Hale junior high school where she was enrolled in grade 7-o. Surviving her besides her parents are three hroth- CTS. Stanley. Peter and Walter Gut. and two sisters, Jennie and Helen. Funeral services will be held to- morrow morning at o'clock at Holy Cross church. Burial will be In Sa cred Heart cemetery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
Workers Dance Group.
TUUL Gives Dance to
Collect T un d S for
Organization w Ork

Since the organization of the
Trade Union Unity League at the
Cleveland Convention, the TUUL in
New York has made rapid progress.
Many new unions have been estab-
lished, while the TUUL actively par
ticipated in every important strike
struggle.
The struggle of the produce
truckmen, the gasoline workers,
window cleaners, shoe, needle work.
ers, furniture workers and at pres
ent the subway construction work.
ers found in the Metropolitan Area,
TUUL an energetic organizer,
which exposed the treacherous role
of the A. F. of l.. bureaucracy, and
modified the workers for struggle
on the platform of militant class
struggle.
The annual ball of the New York
militant unionists which will be held
on Saturday evening, Dec. 81, 1929,
at Stuyvesant Casino, 140 End Ave-,
N. Y. c., will be the occasion this
year for a real mass festival cele-
brating the rapid growth of the
revolutionary class struggle unions
and the opening of the new revolu-
tionary center in the Metropolitan
Area, TUUL Of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
ANTHRACITE MINERS JOINING
NATIONAL, union BY HUNDREDS
Welcome n NJ L. Speakers at Tamaqua Mnesvle McAdoo;
Form New Local. Lewis Afraid Expel to Fine Them

TMAQUA, Pa, Dec. 1O.-The re
volt against the Lewis machine and
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea spreads. National Miners Union
speakers are welcomed in this
Panther Valley section of the an
thracite. Friday 500 of them gath
cred here to listen to Pat Toohey,
national secretary treasurer of the
N. NJ. u, who explained the situa-
ton and the betrayals Of the United
Mine Worker officials, who unite
closely with the bosses, and will
help them try to put over a wage
cut when the contract expires in
September next year.
At this meeting 23O miners joined
the N. N. L., and Local 912 of the
n. NJ. U. was organized, and off
GERS installed. The miners made it
a spirited meeting, being prepared
to beat off any attack by Lewis or
operators gangsters.
At Minersville a crowd of 200
miners attended the mass meeting
to hear the N. NJ. U. speaker, and
60 of them joined on the spot. The
others will be in the new union
after the next pay day. A similar
meeting, with similar results or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
The Eccentric IN
the Soviet Union Cinema

"Our cinema has reached such
high degree Of development that
we already have group of film
artists who have a right to be
wrong" This is one of the argu-
ments of the affirmative" in the
stirring debate now taking place in
the Soviet cinema press and in the
artistic and intellectual circles in
and outside the film industry. The
debate revolves about a group of
film iconoclasts calling themselves
Feks, an abbreviated term that
stands for "Studio of the Eccentric"
or else "Studio of the Experimental
Actor"
The right of the Feks to be wrong
is now generally conceded, but it
took four years of raging contro-
versy, of earnest work and of start
ling achievement for the Feks to
establish their right to be wrong.
At that they may not be wrong at
all. AS the Soviet public is grow
ing accustomed to the Feks films
Give of them have been produced
to date), the "eccentricities" no
longer appear as shocking, and the
new treatment of screen material
finds more and more admirers. In
deed, many of the orthodox critics
who came to scoof, remained to
praise. While the last production
of the Feks, New Babylon" which
is now showing at the Cameo The
atre, brought about a lively cross
fire of controversy, it won the sig
nal distinction Of being placed by
the official Film RepeEtory Com
mission in the first category" of
the Soviet cinema products, i. e., in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11

ganizationally took place at Nc
Adoo, Pa.
The miners here are preparing
future mass meetings. They all
support the Illinois strike, and are
determined not to succumb to the
sell-out the U. NJ. W. A. is plainly
preparing for September. They are
electing rank and file committees
to carry on the N. NJ. U. organ
national work throughout the dis
trict.
The u. NJ. W. A. is so much wor-
ried by the mass movement of the
miners that it is afraid to start ex-
pulsions. 1t has adopted the curious
policy of filming all of its members
who join the N. NJ. U. The amount
Of the fine levied, but not paid by
miners, is $25.
The miners absolutely reject the
loudly advertised U. N, w. A. but
ton. The Lewis gang does not have
the check-off here, and tries to force
the miners to pay their U. M. W. A.
dues, and get in exchange a big
button. The miners won't have it.
Many of the U. NJ. w. A. locals here
refuse to pay any per capita to the
Lewis officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
MOBILIZE FOR
Soviet union
N. Y. Communist Mass
Meetings Friday

Throughout the city on Friday,
December 10, there will be a series
of mass meetings which will turn
into mass demonstrations upon
closing of these meetings. These
meetings will be held in the follow
ing parts of the city at the follow
ing addresses. The Chinese Work
ers' Alliance have sent the follow
ing speakers to speak at these meet
ings. Comrade James Mo will
speak at the Manhattan Lyceum,
66 East Fourth St.; Comrade 7. H.
Ii will speak at Bryant Hall, Sixth
Ave. near 42nd ST.; Comrade 7. Y.
HUI will speak at Rose Gardens, 1347
Boston Rd.; Comrade Y. Hu will
speak at Miller's Grand Assembly
Hall, 318 Grand ST., Williamsburg;
Comrade T. P. HUI will speak at
Hopkinson Mansion, 42S Hopkinson
Ave, Brownsville; Comrade Tong
Ping will speak at Bohemian Hall,
Second and Woolsey AYES, Astoria,
L. |.
These speakers that are being
sent by the Chinese Workers ALI
ance will answer the attacks that
are being made by the Imperialist
countries on the Soviet Union. The
United States not satisfied with
having carried on it's murderous at
tacks on Nicaragua in Haiti.
Are we vicious to stand by and
see the Imperialist powers attack
these countries thart fighting for
their independence, are we to stand
by and let the Imperialist Powers
attack Soviet Russia? Shall we
stand by and let the socialist party,
Hoover, Green, Wall Street and
their allies, the pacificists, saddle us
with even greater burdens?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
''Must Give Relief to
S trikin G Illinois
Miners" - WIR

The Workers international Relief
is launching a nationwide campaign
to furnish relief for the striking IL
linois miners. 1t announces that spe-
cial headquarters, are being estab-
lished in Chicago and relief stations
will be opened in the strike field as
soon as possible.
"The calling out of the National
Guard" says the W.I.R. "on the
first day of the strike of the Illinois
miners shows that the bosses are
wasting no time in modelling all
their forces to crush the fight of
the brutally exploited coal diggers.
"The fight of the Illinois miners
is the fight of every worker, every
enemy of capitalism. Against them
are united all the reactionary forces
that the bosses can command-state
troops, police, thugs, and the strike
breaking company union agents of
the Lewis and Fishwick machines in
the United Mine Workers. The six
hour day and fiye-day week, increase
in wages, abolition of the speed-up
and the Infamous checkoff system
these are the chief demands of the
miners who are fighting under the
leadership of the militant National
Miners Union"
eve must have the support of
every worker, every workers. or
ganization. Send contributions of
money and food at once to the Ma
tional Office of the W.IR., $40
Broadway, room 512, New York
City"
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the same class with "Potemkin,"
Ten Days That Shook the World"
and "The End Of st. Petersburg"
The Feks comprise a group of re-
bellious modernists who chose the
screen as their new stamping
grounds. They are the direct de-
scendants of the rebels who a de-
cade or so ago rose against the
traditional method Of the Russian
theatre. AS innovators and icono-
clasts they belong in the same camp
with the great leader of the the
atrical rebellion, Vsevolod Meier
hold. Like the Futurists of a gen
Grafton ago they were at first con-
cerned principally with the task of
shocking and scandalizing the man
darins of established tradition. In
this they thoroughly succeeded.
Their first production was a film
named The Adventures of Comrade
Octobrina, preposterous farce
poking fun at the housing conditions
in Leningrad. It's manner was more
Eccentric" than it's matter. With
impish disregard for the "rules of
the game" the Feks heaped all kinds
of incongruities into this film,
which by it's general tenor re-
sembled an American "comic" more
than a piece of artistic ultra-mod-
ernism. The Feks obviously had
"good time" with this picture, like
mischievous truants on spree.
They had men furiously riding BIZ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
Collect Funds for
Mine and n e G die
Strikers i'm N. Y.

The Workers International Relief
of New York has planned mass
collection on Dec. q and % for the
miners and needle trades strikers.
"The employers are driving full
speed ahead attempting to smash
the ranks of the workers" says the
statement issued by the N. Y.
branch of the w. |, R. "There is
only one course for the working
class, the strongest resistance
against this new offensive, the
united forces of the workers for
solidarity"
Collection boxes are now ready.
Call or phone for the amount you
will use. The office of the N. Y.
Workers International Relief is 799
Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11

cycles on rooftops and most irrever-
emily they made the domes of the
st. Isaac Cathedral, in Leningrad,
serve as a platform for the antics o,
acrobats.
In another way their irreverence
before tradition was exhibited in
the treatment of well-known story
by the immortal Gogol. The tex.
was turned topsy-turvy by the
scenarion writer, and the orthodo..
intellectuals who considered Gogoi
national shrine, were thoroughly
outraged at the manner in which
the pathetic story of the govern
ment clerk who was robbed of his
new great coat was treated. One on
The ardent defenders of the good
Did traditions in literature proposed
n dead earnest, that the Feks be
placed on trial as common felons
lie urged thus: Gogol's writings are
The property of the Soviet Republic;
the Feks wilfully and maliciously
mutilated literary relic, the prop
erty of the Republic; ergo, they are
felons and must stand trial as such.
But, as the Feks went on with
their "eccentricities" they lost a
good deal of their ardor for icono-
clasm, and gained much wisdom by
way of positive style and manner.
Dropping their rogueries they be-
came true experimenters in the
cinema. The Soviet Government,
with it's fine broadmindedness to-
ward every school and departure in
the realm of art, did not deny the
Feks it's financial support, and they
were allowed to continue with their
experimentation under a constant
barrage of criticism, abuse and in
vective. And now the Feks brought
out "New Babylon" film officially
pronounced of the first category"
The moving spirits of the Feks are
G. M. Kozintsov and L. Z. Trauberg,
directors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
Shoe Pickets Stand Up
to Cop Who'd Shoot

CONTINUED from Page One)
all there had been on strike from six
to ten weeks.
The jailed workers passed a reso-
luton to fight the battle to VIC
tory, pointing out the united front
of the bosses, the AL. and the
department of labor all trying to
break the strike, and only the soli-
darity of the workers to defend it.
All were released without bail, but
two. These are Max Helm, charged
with assault. bail 5000, and George
Spyranious, no one present to make
a charge, but held in $500 bail, after
having been followed around from
his home to a restaurant, to union
headquarters, and quizzed by detec-
tives. He is held on $500 bail. Trial
date for all 3S is set for Dec. 10.
Trick Fails.
Some employers spies yesterday
tried to call meeting Of strikers,
presumably to oppose the strike.
They had handbills signed simply,
COMMITTEE" printed in English and
Italian, saying this strike is ell
advised" assigned a meeting place,
None of the strikers went there ex-
cept small committee sent by the
union to see who was attempting
this defeatist tactic, But the bosses
men saw they had failed, and did
not show up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11

teal equality for all Negro and
other oppressed people!
Support the Chinese, India, Hal
tian, and all colonial uprisings!
Long live the Communist Inter
national, the leader of the oppressed
against capitalism
Defend the Soviet Union, our So
cialist Fatherland!
Communist Party of America,
New York District.
Working men and working wom-
en-, demonstrate against the murder
Gus butchers and oppressors of the
masses of workers and peasants of
Haiti
Show your solidarity with the
courageous fighters against the
American imperialist ruling class
which is using the same measures
for the subsection and exploitation
of the Haitians which they use
against the workers of the United
States!
The Communist Party calls upon
all workers to come in masses to
the demonstrations which will be
held on Friday night in all sections
of the city to protest against the
atrocities of the U. S. marines in
Haiti; against the Stimson note
which aims to mobilize the inner
ialist powers for war against the
Soviet Union.
Come in masses to the demonstra-
ton in front of the Federal Build
ing on Park Row near Broadway
Saturday at Ills p. m. and demand
the immediate withdrawal of Amer
lean forces from Haiti.
District Executive Committee,
Communist Party of the U.S.A.,
New York District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
LONC PRISON
Ter MS FOR 3
Ohio Workers
Steel Trust Railroads
in "Syndicalism" Case

St. CLAIREVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 10.
The steel-trust controlled court
here today refused the demand by
the international Labor Defense for
a new trial for Tom Johnson, MEM
Der of the Communist Party, Lillian
Andrews, District Organizer of the
Young Communist League and
Charles Guynn, organizer for the
National Communist League, and
convicted on November 20 by steel
bosses hand-picked jury on charges
of criminal syndicalism," arising
out of their arrests when steel-trust
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY"
AT FILM GUILD CINEMA

The Film Guild Cinema is present
ing the silent version of the latest
Ufa production Hungarian Rhap-
sody," picture of Hungarian life
directed by Hans Schwarz, under the
supervision of Erich Pommer, who
produced "The Last Laugh"
The drama portrayed by Lii Dag
over, Willy Fritsch and Dita Parlo,
The surrounding program also in
cludes con Zola's Money"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
DAILY WORKER AGENTS
ATTENTION!

A very important meeting of all
unit Daily Worker representatives
in the district will be held on Thurs
day, December II, at 8 p. m. at the
Workers Center. Party Recruiting
Daily Worker Drive, Sixth Anniver-
sary Celebration, and many other
important questions will be taken
up. Section D. W. Reps. will make
a check-up on the attendance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
Belgian Workers Show
Fine Fighting Spirit
In Current Struggles

BRUSSELS, Dec. 1O.-On Satur-
day the Brussels street car men
pulled off a demonstration strike of
"a hours to give point to their de-
mand for wage increases.
At Ostend, fishermen striking for
more pay have rejected the agree
ment which treacherous reformist
leaders fixed up with the employ
ers. They are continuing the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-11
.ILCW AFRAID OF
HILLQUIT'S SUIT
Attack on the Daily
Exposes Misleaders

Continued from Page One)
ally made the motion to ask him to
drop the case, now provides this ex-
cuse. -
The convention, which is expected
to end today, has been almost as
long already as a special session of
congress. 1t was packed in the be-
ginning, being made up of the Off
Gals and their gangsters, and is a
rubber stamp for the employers.
It's principal other actions, besides
authorizing a fake strike for jan
uary 1, were to vote heavy assess
ments on the members, demand that
locals charge more dues, and vote
to lobby for expulsion of Philippine
garments, to help the American
bosses.
Militant. picketing was resumed
yesterday by the Needle Trades In
dustrial Union before all struck
shops. A considerable number of
bosses who relied on the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers.
fake "strike," which was supposed
to be contemplated for the first of
the year to fool all the workers and
establish a company union, are find
ing out their mistake. The workers
are doing some real striking, and
pushing through their organization
campaign with vigor.
The union yesterday called on all
active members to come up to its
office at once to be assigned to
organization work.
Today, in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave.
and And ST., at l p. H., Paul
Yudich, labor editor of the Freiheit,
will speak on the topic, "Why the
Bosses Support the Schlesinger CO.
Union" (Schlesinger is head of the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers' Union.)
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Communist Activities


Industrial Registration.
All industrial organizers and. all
section organizers are instructed TO
complete the registration of all Party
members. Those who are not as vet
registered should do so Immediately
This registration is of utmost import
ance in the building of the T.U.U.L
District Industrial Department.
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Volunteers Wanted, N.T.W.U.
Volunteers for technical work
tile Workers Union. Comrades should
report for work during the day time
or in the evening.
wIR Chorus.
The first rehearsal of the w. ]. r.
chorus will take place Thursday, Dec
II, at the Hungarian workers Home,
% Z. Slst st, at s p. m. Registra-
tions can be made at the WIR Office,
$40 Broadway, Room 511, phone AL
gonquin SOS.
w. 7. u. Camera Club.
The WIR Camera Club is going to
Workers Homes, labor sports, ma
chimes, etc. Prizes viii be awarded
for the ten best piGtures Send all
photos to the Workers Camera
League Room 512 949 Broadway.
LID. Lecture.
George SpirO will lecture on the
role of the LID in the class struggle
72nd St. Under the auspices of the
International Labor Defense. York
vile branch. Dancing after lecture.
Gastonia Meeting in Bronx.
meeting arranged by the Bronx
question will b held Wednesday. Dec
Il at the Workers Centre. 715 f.
12Sth St, Bronx. Henry Buckley, a
member of ths LABOR jury will speak.
Gastonia Banquet Friday.
The seven Gastonia defendants will
be the guests OF honor at the Gas
tonia AntiTerror banquet at Stuy-
yesant Casino, $40 Second Ave, at
New York LID. Convention Sunday
Dec. 10 t 10 .. m. at Irving Plaza,
18th ST. and Irving Pr. Working class
organizations are TO send delegates.
\ Might in China.
Is arranged by the Bronx Cooper
ative colony. Chinese tea will be
served and there will be Chinese
mattresses.
Youth Section. N.T.wLU.
Class VIII be held on Wednesday,
Dec. II at the Union HEADQUARTERS,
l81 W. 2Sth St. Bring your fellow
Benefit for Striking window Cleaners
a benefit performance Of the Soviet
film Ivan the Terrible has been ar
Second Ave, on Friday eve at p. m,
by the WI-R. 7s9 Broadway.
Jelly Dance in Harlem.
Given by the Harlem Progre ssive
Youth Club Wal be held on Sunday,
Dec. -, ct 40 y. m. at 1892 Madison
Ave- near lo2nd St.
Nearing Lectures to Osfice workers.
on Monday. Dee Is at $50 D. m at
labor Temple. 14th st. and Second
Ave. All workers are invited.
Section .. Init 12F.
80 D. m: on Thursday before the
membership meeting at 1879 Broad
way Be earlv
Workers school Hike.
An educational hike to the Museum
Of Natural History is being arranged
by the Students Cuueil Of the Work
| from the School SUNDAY. Dec. IS, ~
0.30 a. m. Comrade Adolf Wolf will
he with the mixers as n guide. Be
I on time and be sure to bring your
ahop-mate along
Workers Dance Group.
4 pageant is being prepared which
orial Meeting at Madison Square
1 Garden, January IS. 1890 The Work
/ ers Dance Group under the direction
1 Of Comrade Edith Segal, win partici.
/ pate. More dancers are wanted tC
/ Join the group at once. Comrades
7 good form and a sense of rhythm are
eligible for the group The next re-
4 hearsal takes place at Irving Plaza
/ 18th st. and Irving PI. Saturday
( Dec. is, at $50 p. m. sharp. Bring
your bathing suit.