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New Britain herald., 1929-02-20

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New Britain herald., 1929-02-20
Where Danny's Family Had Gone
By Thornton W. Burgess

Uneasy youth the world must see And on the move incessant be.
 -Old Mother Nature
New Britain herald., 1929-02-20

IT vou lose it-lry 3 Her 'A Clas- sifled Id.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-20
Menus for he Tamil,

By Mrs. Alexander George
 Dinner Menu
 Crowned fish, chil sauce. hash cd brown potatoes, Maryland corn Sticks, butter, head lettuce and French dressing. steamed cherry pudding, lemon sauce, coffee.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-20

fThiS may b" preferred 10 fho m
 nlf SauCe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Textile Youth
Meet and Plan
TO Win Masses

Over forty delegates, young
workers from the textile mills, met
Sunday morning in New Bedford
in the Textile Youth Conference of
the National Textile Workers Union.
There, in busy half day, they
worked out a program of special
lied youth activity and demands as
we'll as a form of organization,
which was all adopted later in the
day at the second session of the
Second Convention of the N.T.W.U.
The youth section program calls
for building of a mass youth sec
tion in the union, but not separated
from it, for all young workers be-
long to the N.T.W.U. just the same
as the adults and attend all union
meetings with full rights, including
that of holding office.
The youth section is. "the special
apparatus of the N.T.W. for recruit
ing and holding the young workers
in the union" Members of the youth
section while attending it's meetings
discuss the specific youth problems
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Crisis GyOus,:
Wage Slashes
Face Workers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-While
the 20-keymen Of Hoover's semi
fascist council meet in secret ses-
sions, planning its drastic wage
cutting drive, reports of the eco
nomic crisis show sharpening of
the decline of capitalist economy.
AS a part of the Hoover Young
Lamont attack on the American
workers, Green, Woll and Lewis, of
the American Federation of Labor,
are conducting campaign of "no
Strikes" and confidence in Ameri-
can imperialism, in order to attempt
to break the rapidly growing resis-
tance to wage slashes manifested
by the workers.
All the "labor" journals connected
with the A. F. of L. print long state
ments of Green about the necessity
of cooperating with the scab bosses
in their attempts to pull the ma
TONS business out of the temporary
slump"
But reports from capitalist
sources show that the crisis is by
no means temporary. Unemploy-
ment is spreading it's cancerous
growth rapidly among the ranks of
the workers. The total unemployed
numbers at least 100000, and will
soon reach 100000 and 100000.
The Hoover building program
promise is huge flop. AS an ex-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25

Tor nlmSel1. g
A Mellon politician then approach
ed Lewis and told him that Presi
dent Coolidge would like to appoint
him Secretary of Labor, as Secretar!
Davis was resigning, but that Ca
could not do it as long as Lewis
was at least nominally leading g
Goa! strike.
Operators Win.
Lewis met the operators and
granted everything they asked, set.
Ting the. strike, "almost overnight.
Then Davis decided to go on be-
ing Secretary of Labor, and the Mel
Ion interests had good laugh. But
the miners were sold out just as
completely as though Lewis had goi
his price.
However, a new deal is being made
now, which Harrington does no,
b-ther to explain. With Harrington
and Fishwick gloating, over the ar
rests of National Miners Unior
pickets, and supplying strike break.
ers to the employers, they forget
that a new miners strike is COM
ing when these anthracite miners
will, under the leadershipcof the Ma
tional Miners Union, and with the
bituminous miners. striking too, pu;
an end to the slave conditions es-
tablished by Lewis, and by Earring
ton and F;shwicn too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Mother Jones, Active
in Strikes, Very Iii

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. a.
Mother Jones, over 80 years old
lies dangerously i'll at the home of
a friend near here. She has had p
long and militant career, actively
leading rank and file miners not
only against the bosses, but at times
against the corrupt officials of the
union. She was one of the first to
expose President Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers, when he sold
himself to the bosses, and has fre.
quently stated that John Lewis was
worse than Mitchell.
Workers will remember her as a
militant, as one of those who helped
raise relief for the Passaic and other
strikers though in her extreme old
age she has been taken advantage
of at times by scheming politicians
and labor takers and led into com.
promising company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Harrington Tells H0m Mellon
S1Vlndled Lewls Ont of Byibe

The former Illinois district pres
ident of the United Mine Workers,
Frank harrington, the $4,000 year
agent of the Peabody Coal Co., ex-
PEELED from the N.M.U. when he was
caught taking the mine owners
bribe, continues to reveal the mis-
deeds of the superior office, Inter-
national President John Lewis of
the U.M.W.A. Harrington is back
in the U.M.W.A. now, and one of
the lieutenants of Harry Fishwick,
his successor in office, if he isn't, 5
is more probably the case, Fishwick' s
real commander.
Harrington and Fishwick have q
little war on with Lewis now ever
who, is going to operate the check.
off in Illinois, and they are "show-
ing up" Lewis.
History of Two Crimes.
Harrington in the last issue Of
the Illinois Miner tells how Lewis
sold out the anthracite strike, and
was then double-crossed by the Mel
Ion interests and cheated out of his
price. According to Harrington,
when the anthracite bosses demand
ed an arbitration clause in the agree
ment, by which they could prevent
new strikes and reduce wages, Lewis
hesitated, knowing the intense re.
sentiment Of the miners against such
an agreement, and fearing trouble
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
|RICOyEN, union
FOE, IS SHOT At
New Fascist Frame-Up
by Mussolini

Dispatches from Buenos Aires
telling of an attempt to assassinate
President Irigoyen, give laudatory
account of Irigoyen far different
from reality. He is said to be a
'foe of foreign penetration yet his
tendency to subject Argentina to
British Imperialism as against Amer
lean imperialism is shown in many
acts, such as the recent trade agree
ment with England.
Irigoyen is a great demagog, with
a feudalist background he assumes
a patronizing attitude toward labor.
but crushes strikes ruthlessly and
with callous cruelty has ordered
troops to shoot down striking dock
workers of Rosario and Buenos
Aires. He has refused to pardon
the most famous working class poll
tical prisoner, Radowitski, whose
case is as famous as that of Tom
Mooney.
The alleged assassin was killed by
Irigoyen's bodyguard, and is said to
be an anarchist, Gualberto Marinelli,
an Italian. One of Irigoyen's guards
of the secret service was shot in
the stomach and another slightly
wounded.
Reports yesterday from Belgium
reveal new attempt to justify
Italian fascism's effort to persecute
anti-fascists abroad, similar to the
one recently when Crown Prince
Humbert was alleged to have been
subject to attack at BRUSSELS. In the
present case there was no attempt
to assassinate anybody, but only
fairy tales about supposed "plot,"
which is used as a basis for wide
spread arrests of anti-fascists and
their possible deportation to death in
Italy.
In both instances, the fascist
propaganda has instilled monarchist
ideas with slobbering over the we'd
ding between the Italian royal cub
and the Belgian princess, Marie Jose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
MEXICAN RULERS
TORTURE CUBAN
union LEADERS
Wall Street Puppe t
Government Uses
Electric Chair
Drive BarreirO Insane
LID. Organizes Mass
Protest Demonstration

The electric chair is being used
to torture Mexican and Cuban work
ing-class leaders, and one of the
arrested workers, Barreiro, leader
of the tobacco workers Of Cuba has
gone insane in prison with pain,
a telegram calling on American
workers to demonstrate against this
furious White Terror declared to-
day.
The telegram stated, Government
wants to close Confederation Sindi-
cal Unitaria Mexicana. Leaders ex-
pect death. Mexican comrades ar
rested and sent to Mary Islands.
Foreigners deported to Guatemala.
Barreiro has become insane. Fiurme
.Cotono tortured by electric chair.
New arrests. Frame-ups. Sending
letter with news. Send money
quickly. Demonstrate on Mella an
niversary against White Terror of
Mexico and Cuba" The C.S.U.M. is
the revolutionary trade union center
of Mexico.
The telegram was signed by Con-
treras, head of the Mexican Red Aid.
The call was sent to the national
office of the international Labor
Defense.
The following statement was
made today by the United States
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Churches, AFL, Using
Hunger to Try Make
Marion Strikers Scab

MARION, N. c., Dec. 24,-The
Federal Council of Churches which
has been distributing a few free
meals to the evicted and blacklisted
families of Marion strikers has be-
gun to show the motives of the
bosses back of their charity.
An announcement yesterday by P.
W. Moore, of the Friends Service
Committee" in charge of food in
Marion, gave it away completely.
The only thing to do with these
strikers, says the representative of
the churches, is to ship them to
other mills, and the plan will be
laid before the American Federation
of Labor discussion of strike break
ing plans and war against the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union which
meets Jan. 6 in Charlotte.
The A. F. L., of course, will send
them to whatever N. T. w. struck
mills there are at the time. If any
refuse to go, starvation will be
used by church and A. f. l.. as a
whip. "There are a number of
ne'er do wells. amongst them," said
Moore yesterday, "this can't go on,
of course"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
mill WORKERS
DEFEND GRAHAM
Have Many Grievances
Against the Bosses

The arrest and possible conviction
to five years Imprisonment of
Stephen Graham, a young organizer
for the Trade Union Unity League,
in Norfolk, charged with ''inciting
the Negroes to riot" because he
tried to organize them into unions
such as the National Textile Work
ers Union, is one of the principal
reasons we are driving for the or
ganization of white and black work.
ers into the same unions throughout
land, Clarence Miller, organizer for
the N. T. w. u, declared today.
He told details of the drive of
the textile union, affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League, to or
ganize white and Negro workers,
regardless of the laws prevailing in
the southern states, tending to
separate the races in industry. Mil
ler told of the arrest of Stephen
Graham, in Norfolk, Va, who is
charged with the "inciting the
Negroes to rebellion" because he
spoke to a meeting October Is, of
white and black workers.
"After the meeting" Miller said,
Graham was warned to leave
town or else. The organizer re-
fused and the charges were brought
against him. He is now out on
$1,000 bail supplied by the Inter-
national Labor Defense. The case
comes up again in Corporation
Court of Norfolk, January 13."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25

measure by majority of rs. And
last Friday, the coal miners bill was
carried only by a majority of s.
With 2SS "labor" seats in the
House of Commons against a COM
bined 319 of the Liberal Conserva-
tives, Macdonald has good
formal excuse to offer the British
working masses as reason for
carrying out capitalist policies.
AS matter of fact, Macdonald
does not require any special warning
from the British capitalists, and they
know it very well. These warnings
are intended primarily for the rank
and file masses that put the Labor
Government" into office.
The naval negotiations between
Continued on Page Tkree)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
COPS STOP ANTI
LYNCHINC MEET
200 Negroes Come to
Communist Protest

CHESTER, Pa, Dec. 24.-The
police of Chester, in an effort to
prevent the Communist Party from
carrying on organization work
among the Negroes broke up a mass
meeting called last night at Benn
Theatre. Under the clumsy pretext
of not having any permit, they
drove out about zoo Negro workers
together with several white workers
at 1880 p. m. before the meeting
could be opened.
The meeting was called to protest
against the lynching spirit stirred
up by the editorials and articles of
the Chester Times" and threats
against a Negro worker that unless
he moves out of the "lily white"
section Of Seventh and Jeffrey SITS.
he will be lynched.
This was for the first time that
Chief Vance refused to grant per-
nit to the Communist Party as a
result of the intensive campaign
carried on among the workers of
the Sun Ship Yard, Viscose and
other large plants besides the sue
cess of the Communist Party among
the Negro workers.
Instead of being terrorized by the
uniformed thugs, many workers
came down to the Party Headquar-
ters, at 120 West Third ST., where
there was successful meeting held
The speakers at the meeting were
E. Gardos, D. o., of the Communist
Party; Wilbur Upshaw, Negro long
shoreman, member of the National
Executive Board of the T.U.U.L,;
George Carter, one of the Gastonia
defendants, sentenced to 20 years,
with Comrade Wolford, of the Ches-
ter Unit of the Communist Party,
acting as chairman.
This very successful meeting re-
suited in applications for the Com
munist Party and three for the
Young Communist League, all Ne
gro workers, not speaking of a
number of contacts made among the
Negro workers and the many copies
of the Liberator and the pamphlet
why Every Worker Should Join
the Communist Party" sold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
CHRISTMAS USED
TO FOOL WORKERS
Speed-Up, Wage-Cuts
Gifts from Bosses

Christmas is not merely day fol
decorations, gifts, drinking and
noise. No holiday is without it's sig
nificance and its definite aim
Christmas serves the interests OF
capitalism perhaps even more effec-
lively than July 4, Armistice Day
and other more openly nationalistic
Saffairs because of the more subtitle
ideologyAthe opium used by the
church to blind the workers.
The capitalists, through their tool
the church, use Christmas for talk
of Glove and peace" while the i'm
perialist war preparations, wage
cuts and attacks on the working
class 60 on more viciously than
ever. Christmas is a pretty mask
for all the ugly realities of capital
ism-and weak gestures of "gifts,' y
ETC., are but crumbs to disarm the
workers so,they can be more easily
robbed, and to blur the sharp lines
of the class struggle. With the
growing crisis in the country the
capitalists are more than ever using
Christmas to boost retail trade
which is suffering greatly because
of growing unemployment.
Even revolutionists often are led
by custom and the environment to
surrender to formal observation, at
asleast. of Christmas customs--with-
@Rut realizing that we must expose
Fthe role of Christmas as we'll as of
all bourgeois holidays.
We must utilize Christmas to
point out to the workers the prepa-
rations for imperialist wars and for
an attack on the Soviet Union, which
60 on behind all the Christmas talk
Of "love." We must show every
worker how the Christmas gift to
him from the bosses this year is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Macdonald to PLAY Role
of Mbewallsts at Farley

The five-power naval conference
scheduled for next month at London
will give England's "labor' Prime
Minister another opportunity to show
his loyalty to the interests of Brit
ish imperialism. Three times within
less than a month, Ramsay MacDon-
old was warned by the open capi.
talist beral-Tory parties in Parlia.
ment that his services might be dis.
pensed with at any moment should
he slip up in executing the pro
gram of British capitalism.
On Nov. 27, a Conservative-Iib
erA maneuver helped him to secure
the passage of the new Dole bill.
Five days later, the government
carried its unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Congress to Push
New Rail Merger

The next step in the scheme for
the consolidation of railroads in the
United States, report on which was
submitted to Congress by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission last
Saturday, ,+will be taken by the U. S.
government. The House Committee
on Interstate Commerce will begin
hearings on legislation proposed for
this end some time next month.
According to Senator Fess of Ohio.
who introduced a bill on railroad
consolidation in the last Congress.
Congress is committed to the policy
of railroad consolidation, and legis-
lation is necessary from the stand
point of the carriers, the shippers
and the public.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
COMMUNISTS HIT
BACK AT FASCIST
STRIKE Breakers
Bureau of District 2
Defies Threat by us.
Commissioner
Government Likes AFL
Workers Will Go with
Party Into Struggle

The District Bureau of District
Two, Communist Party of U. S. A.,
has issued a statement in answer to
a letter sent by Chas. G. Wood, U.
S. Commissioner of Cancellation,
Department of Labor, to the shoe
manufacturers of New York and
Brooklyn, who are in contractual re-
lations with the Independent Shoe
Workers Union. The manufactur-
ers in turn have mimeographed the
letter and sent it to the men work
ing in their factories. The state
ment of the Communist Party is as
follows:
"The United States government
has sent a threatening letter to the
shoe workers of New York. In this
letter Mr.. Wood, commissioner of
conciliation of the U. S. Department
of Labor, openly declares that
workers who follow the leadership
of the Communist Party have no
right to even capitalist justice in
this country. Mr.. Wood threatens
open violence against the workers.
and warns the foreign born work.
ers of the denial of citizenship if
they continue to follow the leader
ship Of this union.
"This statement of the United
States government is nothing new.
The same practices are indulged in
at all times, when the capitalists
know that the workers recognize
the methods of the capitalist gov
ernment and prepare to fight them.
"At the present time, with the
workers enjoying Hooverian pros
perity' in the form of wage slashes,
lengthening of hours, with mass .un-
employment which grows day by
day, with part-time work increas-
ing, and with the speed-up tearing
into the lives of the workers, the
employers recognize that the work
ers no longer are content to accept
these conditions and are fighting
back.
"In this fight, they have but one
leadership: the Communist Party of
U. S. A., and the revolutionary in
dustrial unions affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League. To be
sure, Mr.. Wood prefers the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, the A..
F. of L., ETC., for these unions are
turning the unions of this country
into company unions, which openly
cooperate with the National Fascist
Council recently organized by Hoov-
er and the United States Chamber
of Commerce.
"To be sure, the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor does not like the In
dependent Shoe Workers Union any
more than it likes the National
Miners Union, which is leading
$4,000 Illinois miners in strike not
only against the coal operators, but
against the vicious traitors, Lewis
and Fishwick, and also against the
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
The Reply to Wood---Wall
Street Governments Lackey---
and HOOver's Fascist
Program

The Wall Street government for the third time within the present
appears through its department of labor as fascist strike
breaking specific struggle of workers. against whom they
attempt to mobilize all possible forces
The latest action of kind the the
takes the form of letter the bosses anderg the leadership
the militant Union Unity
League and calling publishers Italian language papers
mand an examination of the books of the union.
Wood the
me however, goes foregnborn
workers with citizenship These foreign
must be backed by it the
foreignborn section the proetara
aced by this agent of Hoovers fascist council?
grave they
struggle for better and working conditions
put stamp approval sending troops
textile workers. Wood said in public statement:
81" is not strike as strikes are defined it is form of
revolution created by those committed revolutions by
action No Cancellation possible until the msed workers
divorce themselves from their Communic leaders Until then
the only meet the situation is just what being done
in the of protecting the rights of organized
by the police and military the community In
this connection to commend for his prompt
mediate preservation of order"
The textile of South whole
Americanbom for generations Against them used and
still with sanction of Davis secretary of
labor the Hoover cabinet AMI his staff of strkebrean
York shoe wokersmeods from destruction of their head
by gang composed militia officers mill supenendens
dnappngs and floggngs wholesale aings and
bangs the armed attack the union headquarters where the
National Textile Workers Union face to 20 prison
by isolated incident it merely
expression of opinion by Wood individual.
Woods the policy Wall Street
proof of that line the suppression, by
other available all struggles the
= this country.
American Labor
ouawng
struggles aud by Wood his fascist letter
clear that Wall Street looks these of the
workers its strikebeakng policy They instruments
Of imperialist government.
The Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated today
in the forefront of struggle More and the millions of
uorgad workers look these class struggle for aid
direction They alone have undertaken seriously the huge task
organizing the workers the decisive nlues leading their
struggle against the speedup sretchout, cuts
To crush these struggles Jail murder the leaders of these
struggles the first the of Hoover fascist council
This is the line Of the Wood letter.
More militant shop committees. More shop papers.
conventions like that of the National Textile Workers Union
where Negro and white workers from the mills Of the North and
South their Wall Streets fascist Increased
militant action defend all the
threatened by Wood the spokesman fascist
Build the revolutionary More struggles M
nos. Build the Trade Union Unity League.
Build the Communist Party in all these struggles This
reply to Wood Wall Street governments ackey and the CAPT
talis class which both