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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
American Workers Help Haitian Fight
Against Imperialism!

The demonstrations carried through by the Communist Party
against the of Haitian by the u
immediate and unconditional independence of Haiti and all the
and for defense of the Soviet Unon essential
portant contribution the world Imperialism
All those thousands of workers who participated the dmonstr
tons and the hundreds thousands who ympahze1 with
Be glad learn that these actions Immediately effective
Strengthening the fighting the oppressed peoples
to this effect that bloodhy u
perasm the Chicago Tribune In its Dec 16 ISSUE this
story from its special William
Port Au Prince, Haiti which contains the following paragraph
martial law continues here and the homes that would he
lifted day blasted by of demonstrations
by radicals in New agita-
tors to extremes with result that the martial law is
being kept tighter Efforts by the American location officials
keep the reports of sympathetic oubursts the United
States quiet failed almost the received
leaders of the opposition the occupation
ing the word through the country
In the light of this from the capitalist ud
at its true value the attempts of Hoover the
pedal the demonstrations
promote their slogans against eap the Commun
These gentlemen do not hesitate
the 0year sentences in Gastona
Of young girls in California for the crime Of displaying FLAG
to and 0year in Ohio
speeches." They nrati X 40 i,
this particular the maryom woull
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

that 95 of every hundred leave school
before they reach the 4th grade and
go into the mill. And although there
is a high rate of illiteracy, the De-
partment of Education has no record
of the number that never even see
the inside of school house, and
enter the mill below that age.
Thus stated Sophie Melvin, Gas
tonia defendant in the first trial,
and South Carolina organizer for
the National Textile Workers Union.
She continued:
"In the State of South Carolina
As per cent of the number employed
in the textile industry are young
workers below the age of 81. Half
of them are between the ages of IS
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
KENTUCKY MINERS JOIN
ILLINOIS STRIKE; OVER
400 OUT IN TWO COUNTIES
New National Miners Union Leaflets Call to
Spread Strike; DenOunce Attack ON Pickets
Appeal to Railroad Workers and Truck Drivers
to Stop Scab Coal Worker Relief Helps

HARTFORD, KY, Dec. 19.-The Illinois miners strike
spread to Kentucky today Two hundred and fifty miners of
the Duncan Co. mines in Muhlenberg County, $50 from
the Louisville Gas Electric Co. mine in Ohio County and
unknown number at Gibraltar KY, walked out strike with
waiting the Sanction the international officers of
the United Mine Workers of America to which the Kentucky
T. takers referred the nearly unanimous strike vote of
all Kentucky miners taken about week ago.
The Kentucky delegates to the TrlSate Conference OF
the National Miners Unon held in Zeiger Illinois, Dec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
De PRIEST AIDS
HOOVER FIGHT
HAITI REVOL7 |
N e gro Congressman
Acts Against Negroes

WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.-Presi-
dent Hoover's commission, which is
to rivet tighter imperialist shackles
on Haiti, was approved by the
House of Representatives, with
very few votes against.
One of the chief upholders of this
measure against the Haitian work
ers and peasants was Oscar De
Priest, Negro petty-bourgeois Con-
gresham, from Chicago.
De Priest made a vicious attack
on the Haitian masses. He praised
the murder of thousands of Negro
Continued on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
The Coal Strike Spreads

The strike of 400 coal miners Kentucky today gives the
lie direct to the capitalist claims that the strike
Illinois and led by the National Miners wane
The strike is spreading. 1t is spreading in spite of
forts of the Lewis Fshwck and Harrington
coal barons The strike spreading spite mobilization of
hundreds of deputy ser and the
The strike is spreading in spite of the militia their gun
highways leading to the mines
In the Brey basin Joined strike
French miners. The strike in France is spreading.
The shock of the Illinois money and
organizers Organize aid for the
tries! Their struggle is the struggle working
The miners be financed and fed they
their fighting union and-spread the strike!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
women A FACTOR
IN SHOE STRIKE
Garry On Real Fight;
Bosses Meet Fails

Plans for continued struggle, of a
more intense type, and better or
ganized, were made by the general
strike committee of the Independent
Shoe Workers Union meeting last
night at the union headquarters.
Fred Biedenkapp outlined the
present situation, and free debate
on principles and details took place,
with strong majority for the most
militant forms of struggle.
The report of women's speakers
and mobilization committees were
rendered The women's report
showed how these members of shoe
workers. families are becoming a
strong factor in the struggle. They
are handling the relief and kitchen
work, joining the demonstrations
organizing demonstrations them
selves outside of scab's houses, and
sending visiting committees to call
on the scabs.
Boss Trick Fails.
Striking shoe workers rallied to
a meeting the William Goldstein Co.
had called at the McAlpin Hotel
yesterday, thoroughly exposed his
scheme to break the strike, and DEM
onstrated militantly in front of the
hotel. The boss lost out altogether.
Thetrial of rs shoe strikers for
violation of the injunction did not
take place yesterday in Gates Ave.
court, as advertised. The bosses
lawyer looked over the situation, and
decided to postpone it ad tnransfer
it to Special Sessions Court in
Brooklyn. The judge does whatever
the bosses want, so it was transfer
red and $50 bail for each worker
demanded.
A very enthusiastic meeting of
the Ridgewood section strikers was
held in the afternoon at the Flush
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

1GastOnia defendants, sentenced up
to 20 years apiece by the textile
barons' courts of North Carolina
because strikers at Gastonia val
iantly repulsed a murderous raid
led by the chief of police on their
tent colony in the Gastonia strike.
The Gastonia heroes will be
there. They are: Clarence Miller,
William McGinnis, K. Y. Hen
bricks, Fred Beal, Joe Harrison,
Louis Mclaughlin and George
Carter.
Miller and others will speak on
the situation in the southern tex
tile industry. Other speakers will
be James P. Reid, national presi-
dent of the N. T. W.; Dewey Mar
tin, its southern organizer; Mar
tin Russak, Pennsylvania organizer
for the union; James Ford, Negro
organizer of the T. U. U. L. and
Sophie Melvin, N. T. w. organizer
Tor SOuCn Carollna.
Paterson Workers Interested.
The workers of Paterson are on
the eve of a decisive struggle with
their employers, who are making
conditions worse and worse in the
silk mills and dye houses. The ex-
periences of the southern struggle
of their union will be of great ad-
vantage to them.
The main sessions of the conven-
tion will begin Saturday, in the
afternoon, and will be preceded by
conference of young workers, for
many of the mill slaves are chill
dren and young workers.
Battle Is on.
The dispersal of three members of
the National Textile Workers Union,
Astoria, L. l., distributing calls for
the national convention Saturday
in Paterson, the barred meeting of
the union in Woonsocket, r. l.,
where Fred Beal, sentenced to II to
20 years Imprisonment in the Gas
tonia trial was scheduled to speak,
and the outbreak of a strike under
the N.T.W.U. leadership in Mystic,
Conn.,, were preliminaries today to
the national gathering in Paterson,
which will decide upon a general
strike in the silk industry, and in
tensification of the union drive in
the South.
Clarence Miller, another union
member sentenced to a term of 1920
years in the Gastonia trial, an
nounced today that 400 workers of
the Sadonia Silk Co. mills, in Mys-
tic, Conn.,, walked out on strike this
morning when they were unable to
Continued on Page Threel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
labor" REGIME
SHOOTING NEGRO
AFRICAN WOMEN
18 Fall in Fight With
Troops in Nigeria

Reports from London Thursday
show that the '1abor" imperialist
government among other crimes, has
now resorted to wholesale murder
of Negro women in Southeast Nj
geria, in British West Africa.
The Under Secretary of the State
for the Colonies, DR.. D. Shields, re-
ported in answer to a question in
the House of Commons, that in 9
clash between natives and the Rolay
West African Frontier Force, both
of troops and police, eighteen native
women had been shot. Shields would
not tell how many were killed of
the 18 Casualties.
The anger of the native masses
was aroused at the imposition of
poll taxes, and to enforce the bless
tings of British civilization in the
form of paying taxes to King George
", the ''labor" government sent
troops and police to stop the native
Negro demonstrations that took
place last week, and on Sunday the
Governor of Nigeria reported that
enough police and troops were on
hand to hold down the Negro masses.
But on Monday more were sent,
and when large bodies of natives
heroically attacked the officials who
were forcibly trying to collect taxes
by seizure Of native goods, the troops
were ordered to fire, and shot Is
women. Shields reported that only
women were shot, and tried to put
the crime in the best imperialisu
light possible as "regretting" such
misunderstanding" etc.
The world conference Of Negro
Toilers called to meet at London on
July l, next year, will take up the
Nigerian and other situations, such
as the American occupation of Haiti
and the oppression of the Negro
masses in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

ing Mansion, over 300 workers at
tended. The present situation of
the struggle was discussed and plans
for the future were laid. Fred G..
Biedenkapp and j. Magliacano were
the principal speakers.
All workers are requested to re-
port at 2s Porter Ave. at z p. IN.
A meeting of the New York sec
tion of the Womens' Council of Shoe
Workers was held last night at 16
w. 21st St., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS
NEWS.
(WireIess By InprecoTr)

VIENNA, Dec. 19.-Forty of the
fifty-two workers accused before the
Bulgarian fascist court of "reviv-
ing the Communist Party" have
been sentenced to terms totaling
326 years at hard labor. The rest
were acquitted.
Those convicted were also fined
sum totaling 100000 levas (the
unit of Bulgarian money!. Stoyan-
off, Panoff and Kessyakoff were
sentenced to serve Is years each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
TEXTILE YOUTH
MUST ORGANIZE
Sophie Melvin Tells of
Terrific Exploitation

Pale, anemic.
understood, are
t h e Southern
young textile
workers. Long
hours in the
5 La We pc n S
from e a + | Y
| childhood has
stunted their
| growth. i n e
| great majority
enter the mills
at the age Of
, IL and 13. The
school enroll
ment for the
State of South
| Caroline cbov.,e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

declared that the Kentucky
miners would join and support
the Illinois miners in their
struggle. The tactics of the
U. M. W. are clearly to post
pone the Kentucky strike in
hopes of smashing the Illinois
strike first, and then betraying
the Kentucky miners at their
leisure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
WATCH FOR THEM,

The Daily Worker calls attention
to the Importance of every worker,
especially every Communist, clearly
understanding the colonial move
ments, and in this connection an
nOunces two articles, 'The Haitian
Masses in Notion" by Harrison
George. Watch for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Emergency!
Membership Meeting

Monday, Dec. %, 8 p. M, Cen
tral Opera House, 9th St. and
3rd Ave. An important develop
ment which involves the interests
of the entire Party will be re-
ported on and dealt with. All
members of District Two must
be present. All other Party
meetings are called off. Bring
your membership card.-Secre-
tariat Dist. 2, C.P. U.S.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
3O,0OO.P RI TEST
MURDER OF Miner
Police Break Up Crowd
1000 More French Out
(WirelesS by fnprecorrj

PARIS, France, Dec. 10. A
thousand miners of the Briey Basin
have Joined the strike of the miners
of Piennes, with the demand for a
daily wage raise of five francs.
The Piennes miners originally
went out on December 16 because
of an attempt of the bosses to dis
charge a miner for membership in
the militant miners union, affiliated
with the Red International of Labor
Unions. The wage demands were
made after the miners struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. ia
tremendous protest demonstration
of 10000 workers was organized by
the Sydney Trades Council, the
dominating body of the New South
Wales trade unions which is affili
ated to the Red International of
Labor Unions and the Pan-Pacific
Union Secretariat, against the mur-
der of the Rothbury miners by po-
lice. The Sydney police attacked the
workers demonstration with great
brutality, 80 workers being taken to
hospitals.
The miners at Rothbury, New
South Wales, went on strike some
time ago for improved conditions.
The right-wing union officials sold
them out. The miners refused to go
back, and picketed. The govern
ment sent police, who, on Saturday,
fought a pitched battle with the
strikers, killing one and wounding 40.
The miners rallied, and i" spite of
heavy police reinforcements sent by
the state government, picketed to
the number of 5000, and cut off all
communications.
The indignation of the rank and
file forced the miners central COM
mittee to declare a strike of all
mines in Queensland, Victoria and
New South Wales, that is, general
strike for Australia. The railroad
workers refused to haul scab coal,
and this is the situation at present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
Call On r. r. Workers.

WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Dec.
19.-The Illinois district grievance
committee of the National Miners
Union urges the. spreading of the
strike. In a meeting yesterday it
made plans to defeat the terror
being conducted against the pickets,
and to call out yet more mines.
Twenty-Five thousand copies of a
leaflet were issued a couple of days
ago by the Illinois office of the
union, Ill 1-2 West Main ST., West
Frankfort, ILL.,, under the title,
"Spread the Strikel Do Not Per-
nit the Sheriffs, Militia, and Lewis
Fishwick Gangsters To Break the
Strike! Organize and Garry On
Mass Picketing! March From Mine
To Mine! Organize Broad Rank
and File Strike Committees, Which
Must Lead the Strike!"
More Must Join.
The leafiet is addressed to rail-
road men and truck drivers, as well
as miners, and says:
"The strike of the Illinois miners
is spreading and gaining strength
daily. The Indiana miners are join
ing the strike. The miners in other
fields are preparing for struggle.
"In the first three days of the
strike in Illinois, the Midland Sec
tion is out 100 per cent solid. In
the Springfield territory the strike
is gaining. In Franklin County the
Cecilia Mine is shut down. Buckner
is paralyzed. Hundreds of miners
in other mines have walked out. In
Saline County the Wasson Mine is
Continued on Page Tkree)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20
National Textile Con-
vention Meets in Atmo-
sphere of Class Struggle
Great Mass Meet Tonight in Paterson Greets
Gastonia Defendants; Sessions Open Tomorrow
National Silk Strike and Increased Organiza
tion Activity in South Are Main Points

PATERSON N j. Dec 19The Second National Convention of
National Workers night with
rally of the this vicinity, at 1880 the
Union Hail. 205 Paterson ST., Paterson, N J.
William Dunne the Trade Union Unity League which the
n T. w militant section will officially the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Build the United Front of the
Working Class From the Bottom
Up-in the Industries,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

71o from the Gastona tent colony
t raid and the strikers defense. Abovc photo of the
Workers International Relief food ia the coony Belo
photo of the headquarters building NTIVU built bv
the aorkers Themselves before this police led by
Ade'hoH opened fire the strikers guards
rned resistance from the strikers. AderhoH ked
etotdtioH the mill men terms
upto go wih SoylorS, to be tried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-20

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up--at the Enterprises!
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
Ann Pennington at Last
Ln1,gd BY MOUie Dollars

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14.-Ann
Pennington, famous for her smile,
her knees and her dancing ability,
is going to bring all these charming
attributes to the attention of the
nations movie fans just as forcibly
as she formerly impressed them on
the consciousness of the revue
patrons.
AS a star in various "Follies" and
Scandals" productions of former
years, Miss Pennington developed q
great popularity-but theatergoers In
the smaller cities seldom or never
saw her, for the reason that her
revues stayed in New York most of
the time, venturing out only on brief
road tours that confined their
itineraries to the larger cities.
Now, however, the movie audience
has its inning.
In a new Warner Brothers pro-
duction, Miss Pennington has a
prominent part. and movie-goers
of the country will add her to their
list of favoriteS.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
ROPE BREAKS,
PAINTER DIES
Another Seriously Injured as
SCaffoId Falls.

Plunging thirty-f1ve feet to the
ground when their scaffold broke,
one painter was killed and another
seriously injured Thursday after
noon.
Edward Newcomb, 55, of 206
North Beville avenue, died instantly
from skull fracture received when
his head struck an iron railing
around a cellarWay.
Claude Harding, 56, of 1924 East
Eighteenth street, fell into the Gel
larway and received fractured leg
and internal injuries.
The men we're painting the home
of Lon Corbin, 1860 Broadway. A
rope from which the scaffold was
flung, broke.
Surviving Mr.. Newcomb are son,
Edward Newcomb Jr., indianapolis,
and three sisters and one brother;
all of Bradfordsville.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
MANY INDICTED
BY u. S. JURY
100 Persons Are Accused in
Partial Report.

The federal grand jury, which
Friday returned seventy-eight in
dictments involving about 100 per-
sons, will reconyene Monday for ten
days.
Defendants named in the partial
report Friday will be arraigned be-
fore Federal Judge Robert G. Bait
zell Sept. 81.
Persons indicted on narcotic
charges include: Howard Harding,
Negro, 2307 North Indianapolis ave-
nue.; Mrs. Edna M. johnson and
Edward L. Siersdorfer, 1903 North
Pennsylvania street; William Hill,
Negro, 739 Blake street; Albion N.
Johnson, Negro, $40 Roanoke street;
Clarence Jones, 609 Torbett street;
Charles r. OFT, 1901 Lombard ave-
nue.; Joseph T. Dawson, Negro, TIA
North Senate avenue; Alton Whit
lock, Negro, 1920 North Illinois
street; Earl Campbell and Wallace
Schuler, Negroes, 52615 North Mis-
souri, street; Clifford Hughes, Negro,
1919 North Illinois street; William
Risk, Negro, 814 Locke street; Fran
ciS Easton, Negro, Gil North Senate
avenue; Robert Jones, 327 West
Eleventh street; Theodore N. Brad
field, 318h North Alabama street.
and Roscoe Jones, Allen Lowe, Carl
Tinder and Fletcher Neal.
John c. Sharpe, a former clerk
in the Indianapolis postoffice, is
charged with a postal theft.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
PREM|ER'S VISIT
APT TO REVIVE
SOCIAL DISPUTE
Gann-LongWorth Row Over
Seating at Functions
May Be Renewed.
BY JOHN r. MORRIS,
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-The
desire of every social matron in
Washington to entertain Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald. mand
his daughter Miss Isabel on yheir
visit here early next month will be
far from fulfilled.
In fact, it is learned definitely
no invitations to private homes will
be accepted owing to the brevity
of the visit
A large state dinner at the White
House, an equally formal banquet at
the British embassy and a reception
to which Washington society will be
invited by Sir Esme Howard, British
ambassador, and Lady Isabella are
the principal social events awaiting
the prime minister and his daugh-
ter.
A most delicate situation con-
fronts Lady Isabella over the seat
ing of guests at the embassy
banquet. 1t undoubtedly will revive
the celebrated row between Mrs.
Dolly Curtis Gam, sister and official
hostess of Vice-President Curtis, and
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of
the speaker of the house.
1t is unlikely either of these prom
inent women would be unlimited to
the embassy or the other official din
ners to be given for Macdonald. II
both accept the embassy invitation,
Mrs. Gam will be seated, as decided
by the diplomatic corps, in the posi-
ton ordinarily occupied by the wife
of the Vice President of the United
States, which, at diplomatic func-
tions, at least, is nearer the host
than the seat given the wife of the
speaker.
That Mrs. Longworth might de-
cline her invitation to the ambas-
sador's dinner as she did one last
spring in the case of an American
officials dinner when she learned
she was to be seated below Mrs.
Gam at table, is conjectured by
many here.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
Freed by Verse
Migrants Poem Tells of
WhiSky's Woes; Wins
Release in Court.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. IA poem
entitled Whisky Did 1t All" has
won freedom from a six month va
grancy sentence. for 70-year- -old
Thomas Powers. Touched by the
composition Powers handed him in
police court, Judge Mattingly suS-
pended sentence on condition the
poet leave town.
The judge read the fifteen stanzaS
aloud. Some of the lines follow:
81 am growing old as I face the
world cold:
In disgrace and shame I travel,
as through the world roam.
Friends long since have left me.
And now 1 have no home.
Now, reader, let me tell you
That this is my disgrace
Was caused by bad whisky and now
I sadly roam,
FennilesS, friend, and that's why
1 have no home"
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
SET LIGHT JUBILEE
Fiftieth Anniversary to Be
Observed Here.

Plans for observing lights golden
Jubilee" Oct. 81, the fiftieth ami
versary of Thomas A. Edison's in
vention of the incandescent lamp,
were under way today, following ap-
pointment of committees Friday.
F. A. Montrose, Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company president and
general manager, was named general
chairman at conference Friday at
the Chamber of Commerce.
Committee chairmen include: G.
Harrod. chamber general manager,
arrangements; I. L. Oppenheimer,
financial committee; R. C.. Rottger,
publicity committee, and Karl o.
Wolfe, program committee.
The program will be held on the
War Memorial plaza at the same
hour Edison is entertained at Dear
born. Mich. by Henry Ford.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-09-14
GRAIN HANDLING
WORK PLANNED
New -Co-0perative Com
pany Will Get Equipment.

The new $2.OOOOOO Farmers Co
Operative Company of Indiana soon
will begin to acquire equipment for
the purchase, sales and storage of
grain. John G. Brown of Monon,
president, announced today.
Brown was elected president at a
directors meeting Friday Maurice
Douglas of Flatrock was named vice.
president, and Earl Crawford of
Milton, secretary and treasurer.
The officers, w. A. Alexander of
Rushville and Charles A. Hubbard
of Martinsville, compose the xecutive
committee.
Other directors are j. J. Riggs of
Sullivan, L. M Vogler of Hope, L.
o. Casey of Marion, secretary to
Governor Harry G. Leslie, and John
]. Brown of Rockport, state highway
director.