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The Washington times., 1929-03-25
TUESDAY, MARCH 26

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
U. S. FIRM BUYS
BRITISH POWER
TRUST CONTROL
Imperialist Raids on
English Monopoly

LONDON, Feb. 15.-British cap
ital is uneasy at the sudden raid in
to it's home territories made by the
Utilities Light and Power Corpora
ton, representing American imper-
ialism. The American concern has
just bought up all the capital stock
Of the London and Counties Trust,
Ltd, which controls seven of the
largest British power companies and
owns important interests in others.
Gets Control.
The new merger will have almost
monopoly of electric service in
South England and is extending into
Scotland. 1t will be the most i'm
portant link in the super power sys-
tenn provided for by a bill for
single control of electric power now
before parliament.
The acquisition of this interest in
British public utilities will make the
gross earnings Of the American COM
pany's system about S43,000,000,
TIE Utilities Power and Light Cor
poration will be s400,000,000 in
dustry from the standpoint of as
sets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
offer Negro, White Needle
Workers Free SCHOLARSHIPS

The Workers School in a letter
that it addressed to the Strike Com
mittee of the Dressmakers Strike
this past week offered free scholar
ships to all Negro workers on strike
and rs additional free scholarships
for strikers to be chosen by the
Strike Committee. These free
scholarships will entitle those Sc
lected to take two courses during
the present Spring term. The Ne
gro strikers are expected to take
as one of the two free courses the
class in History and Problems of
the American Negro" The Workers
School in this way wishes to express
it's solidarity with the striking dress
makers and help them in their pres
ent struggle and in their struggles
to come. The Workers School has
sent it's instructors to the strike
meetings to address the workers
and is calling upon all of these in
structors to go on the picket line
during the mass pieketing demon
strations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
IND office of CuAk Sheriff New York Is Mask tor Giant BoGgglg Rim
The Nightmare Voyage; the
Coffin Ship that NeUeyRetuywed

ing to all-and everybody. He was
happy. For ten solid years he had
been roaming around the world. AT
last he had shipped on vessel to
take him home again, to Freeman
tie, his birthplace. II am supposed
to be Dead" he would say. Mother
thinks I'm dead, for she's not heard
from me for seven years" And
smiling, he would throw out his big
burly, hairy chest, as if to say, "Do
l look it,"
Gee, this is the finest bunch OF
men that l have taken down to a
ship for a long time" said one OF
the guarding angels" to another as
we neared the dock where the old
"hooker" was still loading cement.
The "Inyermark," like a society
prostitute from a distance or in the
paper, seemed to be a fine ship, but
on nearing her one could easily see
under the fresh coat of red and
white paints that she was an ole
hulk with battered rusty sides. She
had old rigging and sails.
r. ]. PETERSON.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
HENRI BARBUSSE
URGES FIGHT ON
FASCIST TERROR
Letter. rgesFormation
of Local Committees

The Anti-Fascist World Congress,
which will be held in Berlin in the
middle of March to organize and
launch an international campaign
against the growing fascist men,
ace, has as it's chief initiator and
hacker the famous French writer
and active worker in the labor
movement, Henri Barbusse. Over
his own signature as chairman of
the International Committee against
Fascism, which is sponsoring the
world congress, Barbusse has sent
out a letter calling upon the labor
circles to cooperate in this work.
The letter is dated Paris, JAN, 1929,
and reads as follows:
Dear Comrades: A committee
under my Craftsmanship is taking
the initiative in calling an Interna-
tional Congress of all opponents of
fascism. The aims and. tasks of this
congress are given in the enclosed
manifesto.
"The plans for the calling of this
congress were enthusiastically greet
ed in all the anti-fascist circles of
Europe and America and every
where preparations are already
under way.
"Organized labor, the chief pillar
of the fight against fascism, must
make a tremendous demonstration
of this congress and make it the
beginning of a systematic interna-
tional struggle against faseism. The
organizing of mass demonstrations
of workers, explaining to them the
significance of this congress and
that the necessity of the fight
against fascism is urgently neces-
sary. See to it that your organiza'
tions join the local anti-fascist com
mittees which are being formed
everywhere.
with proletarian greetings,
"(Signed) Henri Barbusse."
The international Congress Com
mittee has instructed the work OF
launching the campaign in Amer'cs
to the Provisional Committee for tbs
congress, which is composed CT rep
esentatives of the international La
Dor Defense, the Anti-Fascisc Ali
ance. and the Workers international
Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
LOTS OF BOOZE
AND Names FOR
DISTRIBUTION
Sheriff Hides in Big
Florida Resorts

Charles w. Culkin, sheriff Of New
York County and one of the three
1ammany leaders of the Third As
sembly District, a power in demo-
cratic party circles here, is treasurer
of the Monroe Lamp & Equipment
Co., which raiding prohibition Off
GERS charged yesterday is a mask
for a giant bootleg ring.
The accusation is that liquor and
names of prominent patrons of the
bootleg distributors We're found in
The office of the sheriff's company.
Culkiu is not at hand, as he left two
weeks ago for ar expensive vacation
in the high tide resorts of rich men
in Florida.
Assistant U. s, Attorney Robert
B. Watts, republican, is respon-
sible for the charge against the
Tammany leader.
Followed From Brooklyn.
A raid was made yesterday on the
office of the international Postal
Supply Co., of GA Prospect Place,
Brooklyn. A large quantity Of lille
gal liquor was found, and also evil
denee that this firm was connected
with Culkins Monroe Lamp &
Equipment Co., of 214 West 14th
ST. James NJ. McCunn was presi-
dent Of the Brooklyn company and
secretary of the Monroe Lamp &
Equipment Co.
The two offices together yielded
ur half million dollars worth of
liquor. The company of which Gull
kin IS treasurer had on its prem
Uses, it is charged, 1900 sacks of
gin and whiskey and 1000 gallons
of alcohol to be made into synthetic
booze.
Culkin's lawyer, J. Edward Muir
ply, says Culkin bought his way
into the Monroe company in 1922
with $4,000 and has been treasurer
ever since, though mot active" 1t
is said that his contribution was
really official protection, which
failed yesterday through intrigues
Of his enemies and partly by acct
dent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Bedacht to Teach Two
Spring Term Courses

Max Bedacht, head of the Ma
tional Agitprop Department Of the
Workers (Communist) Party of
America, will teach two classes this
term at the Workers School, 1928
Union Square, one in "Marxism-Len-
inism" and the other in History Of
Class Struggles"
These classes, which We're sched-
uled for the fall term, but which had
to be discontinued because of the I'M
avoidable absence of the instructor,
will start from the beginning and
will be held regularly throughout the
spring term. The class in "Marxism-
Leninism" will take place on Thurs
days at $50 p. M, and the course
in History of Glass Struggles" on
Saturdays at 2 p. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Bronx Section to Hold
Banquet Sunday Night

A banquet will follow the installa-
ton of the new executive committee
of Section of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, 6 p. m. tomorrow, at
Section headquarters, 1880 Wilkins
Ave, Bronx.
Films of the mine strike and
musical act by section member will
be featured on the entertainment
program. Sender Garlin, of the edi-
torial staff of the Daily Worker, will
be POSTMASTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
GROCERY union
PLANNING STRIKE
Call Meet Tuesday for
B'klyn Union Drive

This Tuesday evening at o'clock
the membership of the Retail Gro
Gerry, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union
are to hold the first meeting for the
purpose Of considering the plans for
the coming organization strike
which the union is planning to call
in the borough of Brooklyn.
With the whole strength of the
organization focused on its struggle
against the union-wrecking gang of
the United Hebrew Trades, who
tried to destroy their organization
by vicious fight in Manhattan and
the Bronx, in which they went to
the extent Of frame-ups and scab-
bling, the union was compelled to use
all its efforts in winning their fight
for control of the industry in New
York. Now that the socialist scabs
are beaten in their own strongholds,
the union can turn its attention to Or
ganizing the entire trade.
a general Strlhe Oh al grocery
fruit and dairy clarks may be re-
ouired to organize Brooklyn, which
includes Borough Park, Queens, ia
maica and all other sections of
Brooklyn.
Part Of the preparatory steps in
this drive is the theatre benefit at
the Yiddish Art Theatre, out of
which the union expects to realize
funds for campaign purposes. The
affair is to be held next Wednes-
day in that theatre at 14th st. and
Irving Place. The union has taken
over the entire house for the eve
ming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
TRY TERROR TO
silence DYERS'
union MILITANTS
Progressives Fight On,
Correspondent Says
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
The class collaboration schemes of
the Cleaners and Dyers' Union and
the bosses c that trade entered in
more than a year ago by calling
strike" to organize the bosses as
ISOLATION and to form a closed mar
ket for the bosses, have finally re-
suited in open company unionism
and terrorism in the shops.
AS an example of this We can take
the story of worker who has lately
been fired from the Colonial Dye
Works on suspicion of being a SYM
pathizer of the Progressive Group.
In order to silence the protests of
the workers against their policies
of friendship for the bosses, the
union officials expelled all known
progressives from the union in spite
of the protest of the membership.
And the bosses helped them by
throwing these workers out of the
shops. The bosses of the Colonial
Dye Works, Dol E. 22nd ST., who
also own a shop in Brooklyn, the
Sunshine Cleaning and Dyeing, So
Broadway, Brooklyn, were the first
to throw the left wingers out of
their shops.
But the work Of the Progressive
Group did not cease after this. We
still managed to get our leaflets to
the workers in that shop as well as
in other shops. Lately the bosses
of the Colonial and the officials Of
the union were exasperated by find
ing that the shop was literally plas-
tered with our leaflets every time
they appeared. Of course, they
understood that this was an inside
job, but they could not discover the
source. After Saturday, January IL,
when our leaflets were found in the
shop, the bosses questioned about
ten workers on whom suspicion fell.
In their desperation they finally dis
charged one worker who was known
to be acquainted with one of our
sympathizers, Sol Kalowsky. The
shop chairman, one Oberlander, a
henehman of the union clique, was
the first to accuse the worker OF
this heinous crime. The shop chair
man, together with the business man.
ager of the union, came to the shop
on Monday, Jan. IA, when the shop
chairman was not working, to in
stigate the bosses against the work
ers who might have distributed the
leaflets in the shop. The fact that
this worker, Samuel Blum, was
questioned January 16 and was not
discharged until February s shows
plainly that they have no definite
evidence against this worker, but
that this is a final act of despera-
ton, because of failure to find the
source of our activity in this shop.
We hope that the worker who
was fired by the boss and union Of
ficials will now see the necessity
of having really strong union that
affords protection for all workers,
and that he will be with the Pro-
gressiye Group in the fight for such
a union. This should also serve as
lesson to all workers, who are yet
working, not to wait until they are
themselves Disseminated against,
but, in an organized manner, to
fight the attacks of the bosses and
the corrupt officials. Protect the
others and help them, for tomor-
row it may be your turn and you
many need help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
by a Seaman Correspondent

(By O. Seaman correspondent
The "Invermark" was a square
rugged coffin of 1884 register tons,
and carried a crew of "a men all
told. On Jan. Is, 1915, the writer,
sailor, shipped in the said vessel
at Liverpool, bound for Freemantle
Australia, where we arrived after
long and boisterous passage of
lat days of violent gales, dead
Gains and head winds. A nightmare
voyage starvation, mutiny and
death.
/ happened to be the only man
who left the ship at Freemantle be-
fore her sailing from that port
never to be heard of again.
Missing.
Bound for Iquique, Chile, and six
months overdue, "Lloyds" had her
registered as missing, and conse-
quently paid the insurance, if the
owners carried any.
The Inver Line fleet of sailing
vessels were all rotten hulks, some
being so unseaworthy and old that
even 1.-THE Insurance"-gamblers as
they are, was reluctant in taking
chance on these hulks. Yet the
British Board of Trade, knowing
this, allowed them to sail-hence
the outcome.
The ship that never returned.
they never come home;
Outward bound from Liverpool
town. .hurrah my boys were
outward bound.
We are bound for the Southwark,
where strong winds do blow,
She's bloomin' old hooker, oh
Lord, let her go
To the Devil we've signed away
our souls,
So the sharks can tickle the soles
of our feet.
So the seamen sang. We were
sixteen men before the mast in the
old barque rugged "Invermark,
that in few days was to sail fol
Freemantle, Western Australia.
| Standing in line before tht
drunken, leering "capitano" wht
was giving US the once over, .ane
the equally drunken, sneering Boart
of Trade official we affixed oul
signature in the ARTICLES" in {
clumsy, awkward style, spilling ant
upsetting ink upon "His Majesty's'
coat of arms.
We were sad, sullen, menacing
having sold ourselves for anothel
IS months hardship and slavery
"She," the old coffin, was loading
cement at Ellesmere Port, few
miles up the Mersey River. Closet!
guarded by couple of shipping
crimps, we were taken to the trail
and sent to join the ship.
The crew was a fine looking
strapping bunch of men, mostl!
Scandinavians; sentimentally the.
kept on singing their mournfu
melodies as the train pulled out o
the station. One tall, good look
ing Norwegian played something Oh
a small mouth organ. Once II
awhile he would stop playing AM
burst forth in a strong, melodiou
voice, "Around Cape Horn and hom
again." Soon we were all takini
I'D the strain and sang with grea
gusto. A big, burly Australian
with a squat face and small up
turned nose, like button, was a
laughs and smiles. He was talk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

Many of the most active workers
in the strike have been and are
students at he Workers School.
The Workers School takes this OPP
portunity to call to the attention of
the workers the Importance of their
training themselves as better fight
ers for the working class thru study
ing at the Workers School, while
they are carrying on their concrete
activities on behalf of their fellow
workers in the shop, in the union
and for the working class as
whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
MASS PICkETINC
IN DRESS STRIKE
Hu ge Demonstration
for Monday Morning

Continued from Page One)
in Bellevue hospital with a frac-
tured jaw as a result of an argu-
ment with an employer, A. Rosen-
berg, the police and scabs at a
shop at 519 Eighth Ave. A. Thomp-
kins was arrested with Paul, and
has been bailed out at $500 by the
union attorneys. Seven others were
arrested on the picket line and
charged with disorderly conduct.
They are out on $500 bail, to ap-
pear in Jefferson Market Court to-
morrow morning. Of the Al arrest
ed this morning, Ia were fined SO
each, Is chose to spend a day in
Jail rather than pay a 81 fine, and
IA more are out on $500 bail. The
rest were dismissed.
The arrests today were mostly of
the women dressmakers organized
yesterday into "women's battalions"
under the Craftsmanship of Virginia
Allen, Negro dressmaker. One
such battalion is organized for each
of the four meeting halls of the
strikers. The purpose of these bat
talions of militant strikers is to
bring more shops out on strike.
A letter to all workers organiza-
tons, issued by the Trade Union
Educational League, affiliated with
the Red International of Trade
Unions, was distributed in leaflet
form to thousands of workers at
factory gates today. 1t called upon
all organizations to send delegates
to a conference to be held Saturday,
Feb. 20, at Irving Plaza, to protest
against police terrorism" and to
make plans for spreading the strike.
Another call was issued by the New
York Federation of Working Women
and the United Council, of Working
Women to a conference at Irving
Plaza tomorrow Saturday to
mobilize all working women to sup
port the struggle of the dressmak-
ers against the sweat shop" Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, Ray Ragozin, Kate
Gitlow, and Rebecca Grecht, Off
Gals of these organizations, will
speak. The International Labor De-
Tense has also endorsed the strike
and will hold meeting Monday eve
ming at Irving Plaza.
At the strike meeting yesterday.
workers spent several interesting
hours being entertained by artists
sympathetic to the revolutionary
and left wing trade union movement.
The popular Jewish humorist and
artist, Joseph Golfer and his col
league in fun, A. Maud, yesterday
presented their Modacot Marion
cites, who performed several hui
morous sketches to the intense de-
light of their audience. May Ser,
singer and Leon K. Malamut, who
| played the concertina, also provided
keen enjoyment to their striker
hearers. The last two were sent by
the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra
and the Freiheit Singing Society.
Hemstitchers To Strike.
With the call for the dressmak-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

response, the workers in the pleat-
ing, tucking and hemstitching trades,
and work auxiliary to dressmaking,
are preparing to go on strike under
the leadership of Local Al, afflicted
with the Industrial Unions New
York Joint Board.
At a membership meeting of the
active members held last night in
Joint Board headquarters, 131 w
2Sth St., the locals forces were
modified for the struggle. This is
the last meeting before the genera
membership meeting of the union
Monday night, where the strike vote
will be put. The demands OF the
workers are for renewal of the
agreement from the employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
German Workers Give
Shop Paper Play Tonite

The proletarian theatre organized
BY the German-speaking workers
will present play depicting the
role Of shop papers in the class
strurgle tonight at the New York
Labor Temple, 243 E. Saith st. Max
Belaeht, national agitprop director
X ~ j Workers (Communist) Par
Y. viii sEsak-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
MARKET FLUCTUATES

Directors Of the New York Fed
cral Reserve Bank yesterday voted,
after a session lasting nearly four
hours, to retain the per cent re-
discount rate at this center. Wide
movements occurred on the stock
exchange.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS

All telegraph messengers who be-
long either to the Young Workers
(Communist) League or the Young
Pioneers, and others who are sym
pathizers, are urged to be present
at meeting in the Workers Center,
26 Union Square, Room POT, Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
PROLAR THEATRE.

The Prolab Theatre, a workers
dramatic organization, will present
two plays tonight for the benefit
Of the Daily Worker Emergency
Fund, at its theatre, 231 w. Ninth
st. The two plays, both one-acters,
are "The Cripples," by David Pinski,
and 'The Pest by Max Geltman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Long Island Workers
Hold Dance Tonight

An entertainment and dance has
been arranged by Section 9, Long
Island, of the Workers (Communist)
Party for tonight at Fessler's Dance
Hall, on the corner of Steinway and
Woolsey Aves., Astoria, L. l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Children Meet Today
to Aid Dress Strike

A mass meeting for the purpose
Of forming a children's auxiliary of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union will be held at Is W.
21st St. today at 2 p. m. A leader
of the militant union will be the
principal sren':er.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

No sOoHe. ~ tae exploitation OF
the lnborer by the manufacturer,
so far mt an end, TINT he receives
his wages in cash, then he IL set
upon by the other portions of the
bOurgeOIsie, the landlord. the shop
keeper, the pnwnbroker, etc--Karl
Marx Communist MunifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Anna Louise Strong to
Talk on USSR Tonight

"Soviet Russia Today" will be the
subject of lecture by Anna Louise
Strong, author of "China's Millions"
and The First Time In History" az
the Labor Temple forum, $3.50 p. m.
tomorrow night, Second Ave. and
18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16

Get out-afd do YOUR
SHARE of the work
n the Two Red Tag
Days TODAY and
TOMORROW and prove
That this is a
feminist analysis;
Prove that no matter how
Hard enemies try to
Attack it, destroy it, YOU,
THE WORKERS, will
Keep it alive,
Fighting your battles
Az you march in the
Struggle, the vanguard
Of a WORKERS and
FARMERS GOVERNMENT Ii
This country!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
The
Day
Arrived

And hundreds of
Workers, jumping
)ut of bed with
Che same sun that
Awakened others
throughout New York
lily, hurriedly dressed
And ate and rushed
Go their section
Stations, Immediately
Grabbed collection
Boxes, and set out
TO make the Red
Tag Days to save the
)aily Worker a
success!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
success

)ne entered the
Hall of a workers
Club that was meeting
chat day. Another
Ran to a dance where
hundreds had
Jongregated. A
Third entered the
Nearest subway, a
Fourth the nearest
Elevated train, while
hundreds of Others
Took up their
standsiafst the
Busiest street-corners
Of the9cityaeach
Equipped with
\ collection box,
: red band q and
Iundredsgef little
Red tags i to decorate
Those WHOM
DID THEIR BIT
TO save the.
Daily Worker.
bs2aqGn
-eviJpccU
They kept this up
The entire day and
When the next day
came theysjust UP AND
DID III ALL OVER
AGAIN! 1;anc