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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
BIG DELEGA
GATHERS AT TUE:l- |
MEETING TONIGHT
Considerable Increase
in Representatives
From Unorganized
Eos er to Report
Arrest Hindu Workers
to Stop Union Growth

The considerable increase in rep
resentation from unorganized shops
to the Second Metropolitan Area
Trade Union Unity Conference
which opens tonight at Irving Plaza
hall, 18th st. and Irving Pl., indi-
Gates that the Metropolitan District
has taken very seriously the task
laid down at its first session, of
organizing the unorganized work
ers of New York and New Jersey.
Between four and five hundred
delegates from unions, shop COM
mittees where no unions exist, and
Trade Union Educational League
groups, are expected to participate
in the conference which will elect
a delegation to the Trade Unior
Unity Convention scheduled to oper
in Cleveland August 81.
Delegates elected by the Hindu
dye workers of Paterson, N. j., at q
general mass meeting of all work
ers employed in the industry called
by the National Textile Workers
Union local Sunday evening after g
series of raids from immigration of.
ficials and police, will attend the
conference tonight.
Arrest Hindus.
About six hours before the dye
workers meeting opened, wholesale
raids upon the homes of Hindu
workers occurred. Ten of the most
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
FIGHT CHECK off
PLAN OF |. |. C. W.
Cloakmakers Oppose
Days Pay Tax

Cloakmakers who were recently
sold out by the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, when the
company union ended its so-called
stoppage on terms satisfactory to
the employers, are resisting the at
tempt of the I. L. G. W. to collect
a days wages, which will be used
to continue the strikebreaking activi-
ties Of the Schlesinger-Dubinsky
clique.
The company union decided that
all cloakmakers are to contribute a
days wages, which are to be taken
from the pay of the cloakmakers by
the bosses and turned over to the
Industrial Council, the inside manu-
facturers' association, who, in turn,
will give it to the l. L. G. w.
This method of check-off is being
militantly fought by the cloakmak-
Continued on Page FiUe)
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WORKERS BATTLE
POLICE FOR HOUR;
THIRTEEN jailed
Legionaires Aid Police
in Attack on Racine
Demonstration
Sailors Cheer Workers
Refuse Bail; Prisoners
Held Incommunicado

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
RACINE, Wise, Aug. 10. = Mill
family defending themselves and
their speakers from attack, three
thousand workers yesterday battled
for an hour with police and men,
bers of the American Legion who
attempted to break up a demonstra-
ton against imperialist war and
against the police prohibition of all
indoor and outdoor workers meet
ings here.
Thirteen workers, mostly mem
bers of the Young Communist
League, were arrested. The arrest
ed demonstrators were loudly cheer
ed by the workers and number of
sailors.
All efforts of the international
Labor Defense to secure the release
of the arrested workers on bail have
failed, bail having been refused. The
prisoners are being held incommu-
nicado. Despite the police terror,
another demonstration is being
planned for the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
HAGUE DEADL 0CK
CONTINUES WITH
SECRET MEETINGS
British Say 1t is Use
less to Continue

THE HAGUE, Aug. 10. = As the
deadlock over the Young plan con-
tinues it is apparent that the Brit
ish delegates consider it useless to
go ahead with the conference. AL
though the French premier, BRAND,
and Foreign Minister Stressemann
Of Germany contend that arrange
ments have been made to grant so
per cent of the financial demands of
Britain, Phillip Snowden, as spokes-
man for British Imperialism, insists
that only 20 per cent have been
granted, which is a mere triviality.
Other Issues Involved.
Snowden made it plain that it is
not a question of the 100000
share demanded by Britain that has
brought the conference on the rocks,
Continued on Page Tl0o)
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FIRST COMMUNIST "a HOUR week TO
Meeting IN N. C.NY R0NW0RKERS
Dunno Scores White
ChauVinism

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 10. =
The first meeting under the aus
pices of the Communist Party ever
held in Charlotte, one Of the two
largest cities in the state, took place
Saturday night. William F. Dunno,
Southern organizer of the Commu-
mist Party, the principle speaker,
traced the development of the revo-
lutionary movement setting forth
the role of betrayal played by the
socialist party and the A. F. of l..
and pointed out the tasks of the
Communists in the class struggle.
Dunno stressed the necessity for
black and white workers to join
hands and fight shoulder to shoulder
against the bosses and their agents,
Continued on Page Five)
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Forced by G e n ner a |
Strike

Beginning Aug. 26, the 44-hour
week will be introduced in all shops
of the Allied Building Metal Indus
tries, leading New York employers
association of the iron and bronze
industry, shop notices posted yes
terday announced.
The same wages formerly received
for the 48-hour week will be main
tanned. The recent general strike
of 5000 iron and bronze workers,
directed mainly against these shops,
forced the reduction.
"The immediate effect of the re-
duction of hours in reducing the un-
employment will be greatly offset
by increasing speed-up and eff
cheney schemes" George Powers, or
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
REPORT RED ARMY DRIVES BACK
NANKING INVADERS; WARLORDS
HOLD COUNCIL; MOBILIZE 10000
Troop Movements Increase in Manchuria as
More Inroads By Nanking Are Announced
All-China Labor Federation Denounces Bandit
Government, Asks Support for R.R. Workers
BULLETIN.

MOSCOW u. S. S. 19.-Another warning China to
Soviet soil curb white
Manchuria Siberia transmitted Marking
the German embassy
warning to Manchurian government at
Mukden Sunday, it announced.
The cited long list of nvasons firing
Soviet
casualties
The Foreign Commsara said that Red soldiers
Chinese SOIL but stated that the the
merely in pursuit of Chinese attackers
published emphasized
SIS creating threatening
demanded cessation warned that otherwise he responsibility
for further complications entirely with Mukden and Marking
HARDIN, Manchuria, Aug. 19-Pursung an invading
force which had penetrated distance into Soviet territory
detachment of the Red Army reported to have engaged
invaders driving them back into Manchura with loss of fifty
Chinese killed
report however lacks confirmation and is believed tc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
A. T. |. UNION IN
new SCAB ROLE
Keeps Cafeteria From
Recognizing Union

The strikebreaking Food Council
of the American Federation of Labor
yesterday again came out as an
agent of the cafeteria bosses when
its gangsters prevented the Hotel,
Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers
Union from signing a union agree
ment with the Ambassador Cafe
terra, 313 w. 36th st. which is sched-
uled to open for business this morn
ing.
The Ambassador Cafeteria was
formerly known as the Sun-Ray
Cafeteria and during the IA week
cafeteria strike which recently end
ed bitterly fought the campaign of
the union to organize the workers.
AS a result of the strike, the Sun
Ray was compelled to close due to
the loss of patronage and decided to
open under a new name.
The bosses of the cafeteria re-
Gently agreed to conduct a union
shop and arranged for representa-
tives of the Hotel Restaurant and
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

The l0orld-famous French Com
munist a0riter, Whose remarkable
new book, II SoW 1t Myself"
starts on page of this issue of
the Daily Worker. This book,
aOhich is fact, not fiction, consists
of a series of graphic, 'mforget-
able sketches dealing aUith the last
imperialiSt aoar, the qohite terror
IN the Balkans and the counter
geUolution during the ciUiL wars
IN the Soviet Union. Bdrbusse,
IN addition to has literary work,
is knoVn throughout the acorlo
for has actiUity IN the anti-fas-
cist and anti-imperialist move
ments. Il SaO 1t Myself" is be-
ing printed seriolly in this coun-
try exclusively in the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
THOUSANDS SIGN
|. |. D. PETITIONS
Speed Up Signatures
as Trial Approaches

Philadelphia, which ran a close
second to Chicago last week in Sc
curing signatures for the mass pro-
test petition for the Gastonia strik-
ers, today forged ahead to the lead
ing position throughout the entire
country.
More than 100000 signatures have
already been received at the Nation
al Office of the Gastonia Joint De-
fense and Relief Committee at 80 f.
18th ST., room 402, according to a
statement issued today.
Philadelphia now has $1,000 sigma
lures of its quota of 100000. Chi
Continued on Page TsVo)
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Latin American Masses
Aid GastOnia Prisoners
Call Militanty in Two Big Walkouts for
Immediate Release

Rosario, Argentina, city of the
most militant workers in South
America, and Montevideo, Paraguay,
will commemorate the second ami
versary date of the acco-Vanzetti
execution Friday, Aug. 23, to protest
against the terrorism at Gastonia,
by calling general strikes.
The longshoremen of Rosario, who
paralyzed the port throughout July,
have decided to quit work again in
sympathy with the street car strikers
and are insisting that the other un-
ions remain out with them until all
the pending labor troubles in Rosario
have been definitely settled to the
strikers satisfaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
Marine WORKERS
Open CAMP A|GN
Organization Drive on
West Coast

An intensive organization drive on
the West Coast was decided upon by
the national committee of the Ma
rine Workers League, which held its
first session Saturday night at the
International Seamen's Club, %
South St., after the adjournment of
the two days East Coast conference,
attended by 72 delegates. The ma
tional committee decided to imme-
diately send organizers to Norfolk,
Va; New Orleans, La; Houston,
Texas; San Francisco, CAL; San
Pedro, CAL, and Seattle, Wash. Plans
Continued on Page Two)
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their line.
National guardsmen from
Asheville were modified, ready
to be rushed to the industrial battle.
front when it becomes clear that this
U. 7. W. officials will not be able
to stage another sell-out without
their help.
Several men were hurt when the
attempt was made at five o'clock
this morning to bring the strike.
breakers through the solid picket
line. After Sheriff Adkins, speak
ing alongside Of Hoffman, threat
ened to call the state troopers un-
less the line dispersed, the strikers
shouted their defiance in unison
Bring on your troops!" Hoffman's
counsel for retreat was scornfully
jeered down.
When National Textile Workers
Union organizers passed through
Marion on their way to South Caro-
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
Z NEGROES DIE
IN TRAIN CRASH
Jim CroWism Insures
Death at Oklahoma

HENRIETTA, Okla, Aug. 19.-
Twelve Negroes might have escaped
when northbound st. Louis and
San Francisco train jumped the
rails en- route from Sherman, Tex,
to Tulsa, Okla, today, but jim crow
segregation insured their deaths.
They were killed by steam when
their separate compartment jack
knitted beside the engine.
The only whites who failed to
escape were Pete Wolff, the engi-
Continued on Page TWo)
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They will also militantly demand
the immediate release of the Gas
tonia prisoners, and insist that no
repetition of the Sacco-Vanzetti mur-
der occur.
The Joint Gastonia Defense and
Relief Committee, with national
headquarters at 80 f. 18th St., room
402, New York City, has received
petition from the French Inter-
national Labor Defense, stamped
with the seals of 18 French trade
unions, calling for the release of the
Gastonia strikers.
The strike beginning at Rosario
is expected to spread rapidly to
Continued on Page FiUe)
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BRUSHMAKERS OF
L. |. ON STRIKE

Three hundred men and women
workers, who went on strike three
weeks ago in the plant of the Star
Brush Manufacturing Co., Hunters
Point Ave. and 31st ST., Long Island
City, continue their struggle with
their lines unbroken. They form
daily picket in front of the plant.
CONTINUED on Page TtUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
Pam Pdclfc Trade Union
Conference OPENS First
Session IN Vz0dlu0st0R
Tremendous Demonstration of Workers Greets
Delegates; BrOwder's Speech Begins Sessions
Red Army Representatives Hailed; Many Dele
gates Halted by Imperialist Governments

said, it had become necessary to
change the name of the meeting
from Congress" to Conference, and
limit the agenda accordingly.
The Conference then adopted an ap-
peal against the white terror in the
Pacific countries.
Representatives Of the Red Army
who addressed the Conference were
greeted with a tremendous outburst
of applause.
Among the chief speakers at this
session were Losovski and Johnson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
POLICE BREAK UP
PICNIC IN PH|LA.
4 Jailed; Big Gastonia
Protest Meet

(Specadt 10 the D0lty w ofheT.J
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 49,
Ranked by the growing mass pro-
test against the threatened railroad
ing of the Gastonia defendants, po-
lice yesterday broke up a picnic ar
ranged by the international Labor
Defense at Fairmount Park.
Four workers, one of whom was
an Indian, were arrested. At a late
hour last night the local I. L. d. had
not succeeded in freeing the work
ers on bail. They are: Rudolph Sho-
hen, district organizer of the Young
Communist League; Milton Rattle,
Anna Ketnos and Schinchook. Many
other workers were roughly ham
died.
AS an excuse for breaking up the
Continued on Page TtVo)
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WORKING WOMEN
TO MEET TONIGHT
Communist Conference
to Aid Campaign

In call issued by the Communist
Party of the United States of Amer
lea, New York District, the work.
ing women of this city are called
upon to awake to their interests and
participate in the coming municipal
elections as class-conscious workers
and vote for the candidates put up
by the only Party which represents
them and leads them in battle
aaginst the bosses and the boss gov
ernment of this city.
Conference Next Tuesday.
"To mobilize the working women
of New York to support the Com
munist platform and candidates, the
Communist Party of the United
States of America, New York Dis
trict, is calling a conference of all
working women's organizations,
trade union representative and shop
delegates, to be held on Tuesday,
Aug 27 (tonight), at 8 p. m. at the
Workers Center, 26-2S Union So"
Working women are urged to bring
the call before their organizations to
! Continued on Page Fia(
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
LOVING CHARGES
ON OLD PANTACES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.---More
charges of forceful lovemaking
against Alexander Pantages, wealthy
theatre magnate, were filed at the
District Attorneys office today by
young women who were formerly in
Pantages' employ as ushers.
Elaborate evidence against the
theatre owner is contained in a 1885,
page deposition charging how Pam
tagcs had tried by force to induce
Continued on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

Square demonstration, IL mobiliza-
tion meetings will be held in vari-
Gus sections of the city tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock. On Thursday, in
addition to the main Union Square
demonstration, there will be three
section meetings in the evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

Gastonia Defense and Relief meet
ings have been arranged by the New
York l. l.. d. and the w. |. R., with
the cooperation of many militant
working class organizations. Speak
ers will include such prominent lead
ers of the working class as William
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
JEER UTW RETREAT PLEA:
FORM IRON PICKET Line
ALL AROUND MARION MILL
Sheriff, Hoffman Music Leader Urge Strikers
Cease to Stop Scabs or Face Troops Brutality
Recently NTW Organizers Warned Strikers
Against Betrayal; WIR Relief for Marion
BULLETIN.

MARION, n c. Aug. 19.-Only the protection of police
Alfred Hoffmans 3OOOdd pounds of bully the
tuaed strikers after he ordered before the
violence against them effective
the Clnchfied MILL the
that the the mill
A. townsend of the
state troopers who expected here tonight
Saturday learned today the mills opening
T. A Wilson, president of the State Federation Labor
aed that the militant stand which broke the attempt
open-shop contrary
The strikers declare their determination fight
operators accede to their demands.
MARION N. c., Aug. 19.-Hooting down Albert Hoff
man, United Textile Workers Union organizer when he or
dered them to stand by peacefully while Superintendent Hen
derson tried to bring 400 srkebrakers into Cnchfe
MILL nearly 1000 strikers completely dislusoned with the
Music misleaders pcketed mtanty and got thru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
(Wweless By Inprecorr.)

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 19.-In
the midst of tremendous demon
stration of workers, the Pan Pacific
Trade Union Congress has opened in
Vladivostok.
The sessions were opened by Earl
Browder who stated the aims of the
Congress, drawing. attention to the
fact that, owing to the measures
taken by the bourgeois governments,
the delegates of only eight countries
were able to be present. Hence, he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

zetti memorial this year will have
as its chief purpose the rallying of
thousands of workers behind the
Joint Gastonia Defense and Relief
Campaign now being conducted by
the |. i. d. and w. l. r.
In prenaration for the big Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

z. Foster, Max Bedacht, William w,
Weinstone, j. Louis Engdahl, Alfred
Wagenknecht, James P. Reid, H. M,
Wicks, M. ]. Olgin, Ben Gold, Louis
Hyman, Fred Biedenkapp, Sam Dar'
cy, George Pershing, Kate Gitlow
Bebecea Grecht' and others. As,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

Demonstrations are also being ar
ranged in Military Park, Newark;
Ukrainian Workers Home, 140 Mer-
GER ST., Jersey City; Main and Bank
Sts., Paterson, and in Perth Amboy.
All these meets will be held at s pm.
The Saceo-y -yanzstti Var i.s Memorial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20
WOMEN WHOOP UP WAR.

YUMA, Ariz., Aug. 19.-Emelia
Earhart, woman pilot who flew the
Atlantic some time ago, finished
first at this control in the national
women's air derby, stunt to lash
up the war fever among the female
bourgeoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

the New York Local Of the Work
ers international Relief and of the
Committee of Action Of 35 of the
Gastonia Defense and Relief Con-
ference, which was held last night
in the Workers Center. This meet
ing emphasized that the Sacco. Yam.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

With the unforgettable date, Au-
gust %, only two days away, all
preparations are being made for the
largest and most militant Sacco-
Vanzetti demon~trTt'~r e'~ra the
great working class martyrs were
burned in the electric chair hv. the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

capitalist class two years ago.
Final plans for the demonstra-
tion, which will be held Thursday at
5 p. M, in Union Square, were work
ed out at meeting of all function
aries of the New York district Of
the International Labor Defense and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-20

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For WorkerS-Farmer Government
To Organize the Umorgamized
Against ImperiaIist War
For the 4O-H0mr Week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
PARTY LIFE
WEEKLY DUES IN OUR PARTY

The Polcom of the Central Committee Party
following DECISIONS effect January l. 1880.
a. To institute uniform system of dues payments based
two of the received by each member be payable
weekly, per National Office the
district 10 the section and 10 to the unit
(2) levy every receiving
comparatively high be collected by the district office and
be divided so the District and so the National
Office carry plan worked the Fin
Commission.
This that January registration of
bershp will membership books will be issued and the
membership will be higher than before when comrades paid
only so of such dues have been that
sections and districts working under the financial
don funds and compelled
to make heavy Further Party members with higher
dues
will be supplemented by heavier taxation of comrades
higher wages Party maximum
have contributions the Party and members with
fortune will be extra taxed by the Party treasury
The financial difficulties of Party of the for
of taxing membership too heavily from all Some
times other activity has taken place except ticket selling for Party
affairs for non-Party affairs (such LID and WR
bazaar etc. which should be carried by nonPry masse inns
has be stoppdParty affairs and selling of tickets to them will
continue but considerable smaller SCALE and with lower prices
and when the Party through this rational dues system will be
financially sounder basis also the collections the financial
membership point where will be impossible for them to give
Introduction of this system means financial regularity IN
stead of financial chaos.
The dues so higher paid members rs cents
which be considered too low Party
high but not too high Communist Party
which demands sacrifices To this
decided that extra taxation will be al
units neither by the section district except by PERMISSION
of the Central Committee
The Pocom accompanied by other decisions
e through establishing financial committee taken steps to quae
policy leadership which left the National
Office with debts $4,000 and with almost no income Now these
considerably qdaed and other by the
Committee will bring stability in finances establish reg
organized efficient system of financing the Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
NOVEMBER COMMUNIST IMPORTANT ISSUE

The November because the rich and
valuable contains be read by Party member
November of the Communist the
articles the E. c. c. L. well the October
Pnum of our Party membership famazes itself
with general political line laid down by the Tenth Plenum and
of the Communist Party of America
Party.
the struggle of Party against Lovesone
the Communist has detailed analytical
article background of the right Amer
International Concerning the present state OF
article Organized Capitalism in each country
theory of organzed capitalism and the
contradictions of capitalism exposed by Buk
Loveston the international right
organized capitalism is not Bukarin
1916 and met with the most meess
criticism Comrade Lenn No Party unctonry
Party afford to read this valuable article
Independent Leadership" in the Commu
Britain offers the American Party
The struggle the Brit
ish Party the political line of the Communist ntena
the American Party and must be closely
Party member of the P u s. A
In addition valuable material already mentioned the
Anniversary the October Revolution the achievements
of socialism, revolutionary significance of the
Five Year Plan.
November of the Communists must not only be read
also that revolutionary
the Communist must there
energetic steps the circulation of the heoret
cal organ of the Party.