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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
ALL UNION SOVIET CONGRESS Opens SESSIONS IN MOSCOW
27 Food Strike Rcke Demonstrating Despite Injunction Ban
Political Committee
Endorsed COmintern
AddressUnanimOusly

The Daily Worker yesterday
published the Address of the
Executive Committee of the
Communist international to the
membership of the Communist
Party of the United States of
America, together with the de-
cisiOns of the Central Commit
tee of the Party accepting and
endorsing the Address of the
COmintern.
These decisions of the Cen
tral Committee were adopted
unanimously at a special ses-
sion of the Political Committee
Saturday, May Is. By a tech
nical error the fact that the de-
cisiOn was by a unanimous vote
of the Political Committee was
omitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Taznuamy Hall Hooked
with City Trust Swimdle

were not enough, Pasquale Mancus-
co, father of Judge Mancuso, got a
similar loan of $1,000.
An unsecured loan of $4,000 had
been made to Edward Glynn, nephew
of former Governor Smith, and a
law partner of John ]. Curtin, who
managed Mayor Walkers campaign
in Brooklyn in 1925, and has also
as a partner the son of Governor
Smith, Alfred E. Smith, Jr.
Glynn had overdrawn his bank ac-
count $49.42 when he got the big
loan from the City Trust Co.
Tammany Boss Gets His.
An overdraught of $112.87 was
taken, in violation of the state bank
ing laws, by H. Warren Hubbard, at
present a Tammany district leader
and former sheriff of New York Co..
whose appointment as Deputy Com
missioner of Public Works was one
of the first acts of the new Tam
many chief, Curry.
The officers and directors of the
bank seemed able to draw on it fo1
any sums they saw fit. Egbert's s
records showed a loan of $65,000 tc
Francis S. Paterno, an officer, in
connection with the Park Avenue
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Gelges Swaps
J0bs,; Is N0w
Boss Director
By SENDER GARLIN.

Gustave Geiges, who on May 1
resigned as president of the Amer
ican Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers Union, knew even
at that time that he would not have
to join the thousands of unemployed
hosiery workers in various parts of
the United States.
For, simply exchanging one COM
Portable, high-salaried job for an
other, Geiges has just become the
personal director" of the Gotham
Silk Hosiery Company.
Union Work "Too Strenuous"
The announcement was proudly
made yesterday by S. E. Summer
field, president of the company, who
stated that the appointment of "Mr.
Geiges was for the purpose of bring
Continued on Page FiOe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
CRIMINAL LIBEL
trial or CANTER
TO START TODAY
Try to Railroad Worker
Who Called Fuller
Murderer
Seek to Quash Defense
LID. Fights to Reopen
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Seek to Quash Defense

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BOSTON, May 20.-The trial oI
Harry J. Canter, well-known local
militant, which has been postponed
several times, will definitely start
tomorrow morning, all signs indicate
Canter is being charged with GRIM
inal libel for having carried a pla,
card: Fuller, Murderer of Saccc
and Vanzetti," at an election cam
paign demonstration of the Com
munist Party last Nov. 8.
Try to Dodge Main Issue.
From reliable sources it has beer.
learned that the prosecution, after
considering ways of thwarting the
plan of the International Labor De-
fense, which is defending Canter, to
reopen the entire Sacco-Vanzetti
case, is now ready to start the trial.
The prosecutions plans, which have
in all probability been worked out
with the aid of Ex-Governor Fuller,
call for the saving of Fuller's face
by ruling out all efforts to bring the
Sacco-Vanzetti case into the trial.
The prosecution will refuse to allow
Fuller to be quizzed on his part in
the murder of the two Italian workers
and will attempt to confine the case
to technicalities such as whether or
not Canter actually carried the pla-
card.
Against this effort to shield Fuller
and to railroad Canter to a long Jail
term on a technical charge, the In
ternational Labor Defense is mobili-
zing all it's forces. 1t is planned to
call in witnesses who were either
ignored or not permitted to testify
during the Sacco-Vanzetti case in
order to prove that Ex-Governor
Fuller was the agent of the capital
ist class in the murder OF the two
workers. Among the witnesses will
be William G. Thompson, attorney
for Sacco and Vanzetti, and Frank
Silva and Big Chief Mede, who have
confessed to having engineered the
Bridgewater holdup for which Van
zetti was sentenced to Is years.
Arthur Garfield Hays, who has
figured in many prominent labor
cases, has just been secured to head
the defense counsel and will appear
when the trial opens tomorrow. De-
fense activities are in charge of Rob-
ert Zelms, New England secretary
Of the I. L. D. Immediate defense
funds are needed. They should be
rushed to the New England l. l.. D.
113 Dudley Street, Room 6, Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21

Yesterdays session before the
Moreland Law investigation dragged
out evidence tending to show that
Tammany Hall headliners were part
ners of the Rothstein dope ring, the
fascist newspapers of New York
and various private grafters in the
favor of the City Trust Co., which
failed for $7,000,0O0 and ruined
thousands of poor Italian depositors
and small stockholders in its crash.
State Banking Superintendent
Warder, who resigned when the City
Trust affair became hot, refused to
waive immunity, and therefore did
not take the stand. But examina-
tion OF one of his men, George w.
Egbert, chief examiner of the Bank
ing Department, revealed that $1,000
year SALARY" was paid to Cen
eral Sessions Judge Francis X.
Mancusco as chairman of the board
of directors, and that an attempt had
been made to erase this item from
the books of the bank.
Judge Got Illegal Loan.
In addition to this, an absolutely
unsecured loan of $4,000 had been
made to Judge Mancusco on his per-
sonal note, in direct violation of the
state banking laws. And as if that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
MORE RECRUITED
IN IRON STRIKE
Blind Ads" Fail to Aid
Bosses

Seventy unorganized workers of
the Superb Bronze Company, 3O64
Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, are the
latest recruits to the strike led by
the Architectural Iron and Bronze
Workers Union, which began last
week. This brings the total out up
to 5000, with little over 1000 in
the trade in New York City.
At the Superb Bronze Company,
80 workers had walked out in res
ponse to the original strike call.
Advertise for Scabs.
Desperate because of the solid
front of the workers who are picket
ing all struck plants thruout the
city, the bosses are beginning to ad-
vertise for high-priced strikebreak-
ers. They are inserting "blind ads"
in the capitalist press, not revealing
the fact that strike exists. In most
cases, however, workers reporting to
the plants turn back when they dis
cover that they are wanted for
strikebreaking duty. A large num-
ber of these men have instead come
to the office of the union.
Old Stunt Fails.
The Tiffany Company of the
Bronx yesterday tried the same
gag" as the William H. Jackson
Company attempted on Friday in
an effort to get the workers to re-
turn to the jobs. They sent out tele-
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
FAKE LIBERALS
"o.K." "LENROoT
Exposure of SecretVote
Nips Wheeler

WASHINGTON, May 20.-The
secret vote by which the senate con-
firmed, AZ to 27, the nomination OF
Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, no.
torious power trust henchman, as a
member of the United States Court
of Customs Appeal was exposed to-
day by United Press. The case is
similar to the exposure made by the
same news service Of the secret vote
on West, which resulted in a tur-
moil in the senate, and loud walls
and exhibitions of wrath by the
senators who had hoped to conceal
their support of this other famous
insult agent.
The secret vote for Lenroot in
cluded many of the big figures OF
the senate; Jones of the 5 and 1C
law, Wheeler, who likes to be con-
sidered as does Walsh, who also
voted for the power trust hireling
liberal, McNary of the farm bill
and Capper the self-styled messiah
of the farmers.
The vote is as follows, according
to the U. P:
For Lenroot, AZ: Allen, Allen
Gillett, Herbert, Reed, Bingham
Glenn, Jones, Robinson, (Ind.), Bur-
ton, Goff, Kean, Shortridge, Capper
Gould, McNary, Smoot, Dale, Greene
Metcalf, Steiwer, aDeneen, Hale
Moses, Townsend, Edge, Hastings
Oddie, Vandenberg, Fess, Hatfield
Phipps, Waterman, Watson, Ashurst
King, Steck, Blease, Overman
Stephens, Hayden, Ransdell, Walsh
(Mass.).
Against Lenroot 27: Blaine, How
ell, McMaster, Nye, Cutting, John
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
FIGHT CASE OF
.LIFSHITz ON COP
ALITY issue
Young Pioneers in
Court Dismissed
with Lecture
LID. Leads Struggle
Force Lifshitz Release
Pending Appeal
LID. Leads Struggle

The cases of the nine Young
Pioneers, beaten and arrested by
Tammany police in their raid on
the Workers Center Saturday after
noon for protesting the raid and the
destruction of the huge sign, "Down
With Walkers Police Brutality" on
the front of the building, were dis
missed by Judge George R. Reese
with lecture to the children and
praise for the police in the Chill
dren's Court, East 22nd Street, yes
terday afternoon.
The Pioneers, defended by jacques
Buitenkamp of the international
Labor Defense, all spoke in court
disproving the statements of Lieut.
Hickey who arrested them, and tell
ing of the brutality displayed by
the police in front of the Center.
The Evidence.
Harry Eisman, Young Pioneer,
took the witness stand six times to
testify to brutal handling by the
police. He said that he and the
ether eight Pioneers had been
showed into the crowd by the po-
lice, then deliberately kicked and
stepped on. He pulled down his
stockings to show the bruises on his
shins.
Jessie Taft, district organizer of
the Young Pioneers, was equally
poignant in her testimony against
the Tammany police. She said that
she had been brutally showed about,
showed into the patrol wagon and
then threatened by a police black
jack when she insisted on her right
to sing. She was finally gagged by
patrolman.
Lieut.. Hickey, who charged the
children with juvenile delinquency,
said that the Pioneers were parties
to the sign "Down With Police Bru-
tality" because they knew what was
on it. That was too much even for
the judge, who wanted to know if
the lieutenant should also be held
because he knew what was on the
sign.
Lifshitz in Workhouse.
A certificate of reasonable doubt
was obtained at special sessions yes
terday by the attorney for the LID.
and Ben Lifshitz, acting organizer
of the Communist Party, District 2
who was arrested without war
rant in the office of the Daily Work
er on Saturday afternoon and SEN
fenced by the openly anti-labo1
Judge Goodman Sunday to serve q
Continued ON Page T1Vo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Bad Road Wrecks Bus;
2 Are Badly Injured

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 20.-A
crowded Cleveland-to-P Pittsburgh bue
skidded and overturned at curve
on the Necastle Road today, injurinc
21 of it's occupants. The accident
was due to the bad conditions of the
road.
Two of the passengers, Mrs. Lita
Volz, 81, of Cleveland, and Louis
Ashford, "a, a Negro of Baltimore
Nd, were injured seriously. The
others were treated at Butler County
Hospital and dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
MINERICH ENDS
PRISON Sentence
District Atty Tries to
Bribe Militant

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2O.-An-
thony Minerich, just released from
a 45-day sentence in Licking County
Jail, given him by Federal Judge
Benson Hough of Ohio for calling
for mass violation of a federal in
junction against picketing Ohio
mines, tells of an attempt made by
the district attorney of Licking
County to corrupt him with an Of
fer to speak to club of business
men along lines to be laid down
pretty much by the district attor-
ney.
Soon after Minerich was incar-
ceratcd, the district attorney came
to the Jail and held a conference
with him. The district attorney
proposed that Minerich come ont
and address a meeting of the club,
Continued ON Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
FORCED TO QUASH
YONKERS CASES
Five Workers Freed
After IL. D. Fight

A brazen about-face, ludicrous as
it was unahashed, was performed
yesterday by the Yonkers court
when five workers appeared there
for a hearing on charges in connec-
ton with the breaking up of two
open-air meetings of the Commu-
mist Party in Yonkers.
While the puppet district attor-
ney, Wilmer, stormed and fumed
and demanded that the five work
ers, Max Shalkin, Henrietta Cooper,
Charles Cooper, Edward Wright and
l. Zimmerman, be drawn and quar-
tered or given some similar severe
penalty, a puppet magistrate,
Thomas Broderick, played his role
to the hilt in an entirely different
Continued on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
ONE WORKER IS
SENTENCED TO
6 MONTHS TERM
. Striker Is Viciously
Slugged During the
Demonstration
Judge Abuses Strikers
Try to Bully Workers
in Court
Judge Abuses Strikers

In the face of vicious in
junction forbidding even in
dividual picketing, several hun
dred workers joined in a mass
picketing demonstration in the gar
ment section yesterday noon in sup
port of the food workers strike.
Defying both the court order
issued last Friday by the labor
hating Supreme Court Judge, Henry
L. Sherman, and the studied bru-
tality of the Tammany police, the
workers met at three points in the
needle trades section, carrying pla-
cards urging support of the strike
Savage Sentence.
Twenty-seven of the demonstra-
tors were jailed following the dem
onstration. Angered by the per-
sistency of the pickets, police swung
their clubs freely.
The most savage sentence yet i'm
posed on any of the 1,277 strikers
arrested since the strike began six
weeks ago was yesterday meted out
to John Taylor, 23-year-old cafe
terra worker. He was sentenced to
serve six months in jail by Magis-
trate Edward We'll in jefferson
Market Court on the usual charge
Of "disorderly conduct" Taylor was
arrested, with four others, at the
Consolidated Cafeteria, at 9th st.
and Seventh Ave. Two of those ar
rested, 18-year-old girl members of
the Communist Youth League, were
fingerprinted and given suspended
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21

cant, according to Fred Biedenkapp,
general manager of the union, be-
cause this is the dull period of the
shoe trade and because the company
had put up an especially stubborn
fight against the union. In this
they had the full support of the
Board of Trade and the Shoe Manu-
facturers' Association, which, ac-
cording to its own admissions, has
spent over 100000 in fighting the
Independent Shoe Workers Union
Continued on Rage Eive)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Ships Crew Donates
$40 to Support of the
GastOnia Mill Strikers

The crew of the steamship Lake
Flua made a collection aboard the
ship of 500 for the Gastonia strik-
ers. A representative of the Ma
rine Workers League took up the
collection while the ship lay in har-
Dor in New York.
The marine workers realize the
solidarity of labor needed, and know
that while their fellow-workers are
en- strike in the southern textile
mills, 1T is the duty of all workers
to assist.
The money is to be turned ever
by the Marine Workers League to
the Workers International Relief for
forwarding to Gastonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
court DECIDES
0'FALL0N CASE
Decides Roads Must Be
Given More Profits

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-The
Supreme Court of the United States
today announced its decision in the
famous O'Fallon rate case. By a
vote of five to three, Justices
Brandeis, Holmes and Stone dis
senting from the majority, and
Burke taking no part whatever, the
Holy Nine" granted the railroads
of America ruling that amounts
to gift Of incalculable millions of
dollars extra profits for them, and
higher freight rate in almost
every section of the United States,
with corresponding lower prices to
the farmers for their product and
higher costs for food for the work
ers in the cities.
Road Prices Up.
Immediately on receipt of news
of the decision, there began in the
New York and other exchanges The
strongest and most active railroad
stock buying this year. Gains of
from one to ten points we've re-
corded in the principal carriers and
prices jumped one or two points at
a time, coming out in long strings
on the tape.
Bleeds Farmers, Workers.
This decision, amounting to an
enormous new and involuntary sub
sidy to the roads from the farmers
and workers, comes at a time when
millions of farmers are being driven
into tenancy because they cannot
pay their mortgages, and workers
are suffering a reduced standard of
living because of naturalization"
wage cuts and unemployment. The
speed-up system and unemployment
have been particularly severe on the
railroads, the great companies i'm
mediately and directly benefited by
the supreme courts permission to
go out and loot "all the traffic will
bear"
lest case.
The formal order cf the court ma
jority was that the decision of the
lower three-judge st. Louis Federal
Court, upholding the Interstate
Commerce Commission, should be
vacated and the other reversed.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission purposely made this test
case, the governments decision di-
recting the nine-mile st. Louis and
O'Fallon road in Southern Illinois to
pay over $226,000 as excess profits
for the period 192O-24, this being
calculated on the commissions valu-
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
HyMAN TO SPEAK
AT FORUM TODAY

Two thousand workers are ex-
pccted to join the open forum called
by the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union for 1 o'clock today
at Bryant Hall, AID st. and Sixth
Ave-, where Louis Hyman, president
of the organization, will speak.
To Expose Clique.
Hyman, who was scheduled to
speak at the open forum called last
week, was unable to be present due
to the fact that he was called to the
convention of the Canadian Needle
Workers Union at Toronto. Today,
4 Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
"SMELL-FILMS.~

PARIS, May 20.-The next devel-
opment in the motion picture indus
try may be "smell-films" capable Of
reproducing the fragrance of rose
garden or the scent of perfume,
according to the well-known French
critic, Georges Chaperot, writing in
the weekly magazine, "Pour Vous."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Item.

AUBURN, N. Y, May 20 (UP).
Auburn Prison set a new high
record for population today when
the count reached 1,706. At pres
ent there are 423 more prisoners
than there are cells. Part of the
surplus is accounted for in the
prison hospital and at the prison
farm but the majority of the over
flow is housed on cots placed in
the cell corridors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Claim Invention
of Machine to Take
Place of LinOtypers

: A device which transforms spoken
words into neat columns of type,
reading for printing, may be demon
strated within the next few months,
it was learned today.
Robert M. Werblow, secretary
treasurer of the Photographic Cor
poration of America, confirmed re-
ports that his company was work
ing on an invention known as the
"talkie-typesetter," which adapts the
principles of the talking motion pic.
lures to use with the linotype anC
metal for setting type.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
New, Significant Victory Won
By Striking Shoe Workers
Lipp Firm Surrenders to the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, Agrees to All Demands

Following hard-fought strike
lasting more than seven weeks, the
Lipp Shoe Company, at 80 w. 18th
ST., finally surrendered yesterday to
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union and signed up an agreement
granting all demands of the work
crs, including union recognition.
AS result, 95 workers in this
shop will return to their jobs this
morning.
Is Defeat FOR All Bosses.
y. This victory is especially signifi,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
POLICE BRUTALITY
Tammany police brutality.
Yesterdays record:

Tammany police brutality.
Yesterdays record:
Tammany police swinging their
clubs, attacked cafeteria workers
on the picket line and then arrest
ed II. One worker, after being
clubbed TO unconsciousness, was
lifted by a Tammany policeman,
punched full in the face, and then
taken to the police station.
Tammany police brutality!
A cafeteria worker, arrested for
no other reason than for walking
by a cafeteria on strike was ar
rested and sentenced to 6 months
in jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Mass Meeting of Bronx
Laundry Men Thursday

Progress of the strike of the
Bronx laundry drivers will be re-
ported at a mass meeting to be held
this Thursday at s p. m. at the
Royal Mansion, 1915 Boston Road.
Thousands of circulars telling of
the strike and the mass meeting are
being distributed among Bronx
workers, it is announced.
Pickering is continuing at all
struck shops and efforts are being
made to spread the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-21
Fake Building "Peace" Scheme

The basis fake arbitration the building
being laid with the hearings being conducted by
mtee of architects engineers and investors formed last week by
Robert D. Kohn of the Institute of Architects The
mee yesterday heard representatives of the Electrical Contractors
Association c. G. Norman head of the Building Trades Employers
Association, will appear before the committee today.