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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
MANY MILLS IN
PHILA. TO CLOSE
AFL, Music Takers Do
Nothing for Workers

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 3d.
Trade journals point out that the
closing down of full-fashioned
hosiery mills here during the holi-
day season is quite different in ma
ture and scope than in recent years.
Thirty of the mills have stated that
they will take long vacations "to
let the market absorb the surplus"
The industrial crisis is smashing
sales, the unemployed are not able
to buy, and the retail stores have
stopped ordering. About 26 of the
mills have indicated complete stop
page of from two to four weeks.
The Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers Union of the United Tex
tile Workers, ALL. and Music con-
trolled, with sell-out as consistent
policy, has, Of course, done nothing
to force the employers to take care
of workers made idle by the ere
cession," and industrial vacation"
One of the main demands of the
National Textile Workers Union in
its present national drive is for So
cial insurance paid for by the
bosses, for shorter work days, that
will not accumulate so much surplus
and for higher wages, so that some
of the hosiery workers can occa-
sionally buy more stockings too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Pioneer Conference
III ears Delegation
Report ON u. S. S. r

Listening to reports about the
conditions of the workers children
and their parents in the Soviet
Union, 72 delegates attended the
conference for the defense of the
Soviet Union at the Labor Temple,
Saturday. They heard reports about
the conditions in the Soviet Union
from Jessie Taft and Henry Hal
perm, two child delegates from New
York who went to the Soviet Union
last summer.
These 70 delegates represented 9
different organizations and clubs,
including the Pioneers, the non
partisan schools, sports clubs and re
lief organizations.
After the reports of the resolu-
tons and credentials committees the
tasks of the delegates were outlined
by Ruth Yukelson and the confer
ence ended with discussion.
After the conference the delegates
saw scenes of the Soviet Union from
the Soviet Film ga Visit to Soviet
Russia" After this two reel Rus
sian comedy was shown and the
delegates and spectators left singing
the international"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

Gods" now running at the Plym-
outh. Howard is that fairly clear
sighted and able playwright who
caught some of the spirit Of the
Wobblies in his "They Knew What
They Wanted. He is a friend of
marriage. His "Half Gods" is a
play about corporation counsel and
his wife whose marriage cracks up
because the wife does not like being
merely a licensed concubine-all that
middle class marriage means, and
who fly to feminism, psycho-analysis,
law, medicine, prostitution and booze
in hope of a relief In the end they
come back to holy matrimony, more
or less under the influence of a
judge who quotes Emerson to them,
and the advice of a children's spe-
cialist whose point of view is purely
biological, and whose prescription
couldn't be printed without losing
second class mailing privileges. But
they come back with their eyes open.
"No one has any right to happiness
in marriage" says the husband, and
81 love you enough to fight it out
with you for the rest of our natural
lives" says the wife. Which is a
confession Of bankruptcy, by one
who wishes to preserve the institu-
ton. The play is a strictly class pro-
duction, even aside from the fact
that few workers can afford to en-
ter a Broadway theatre. The eco
nomic basis of the reconciliation is
that the lawyer can still pay the
bills, and the wife finds that more
comfortable than struggling for a
living. Slams at socialism and Boil
shevism fairly rattle out of the prin-
cipal characters. AS in Shakespeare,
the only workers in the scene are
used for comic relief.
The part of the lawyer husband,
Stephen Terrier, is taken by Dom
Cook; Mayo Methot plays his wife,
Hope. All the cast is good, the dia-
log is sparkling, the satire keen, and
the result is futility.-V.S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Milwaukee Socialists
Quickly Come to A i d
of Open Shop Bosses

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 3d.
The Socialist" administration has
made good to the big open shop
bosses it's oft repeated assurances
that the socialist" party is not
against the business interests, by
invoking a law against distributing
leaflets, and arresting workers who
were giving out leaflets of the Trade
Union Unity League to the workers
of the Western Electric Co., here.
Frequent wage cuts in the diff
ferent departments of the Western
Electric plant have caused great
discomfort among the workers there,
and they have welcomed the TUUL
leaflets with a call for organization
to fight the wage cuts.
The socialist" administration on
Saturday, sent police to surround
the plant with police, in an effort to
prevent the call of the TUUL from
reaching the Western Electric
workers. Norman Satar, worker
distributing leaflets, was arrested
He refused to pay a heavy fine
under the claw against distributing
leaflets" passed for the bosses by
the Socialist" administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
rBa1anov, USSR Head
of Civil Aviation, Here
to Study Air Lin e S

P. |. Baranov, chairman of the
Soviet Council of Civil Aviation, A.
n. Tupolev, constructor of the
plane, the Land of the Soviets, f"
which recently completed a flight
from Moscow to New York, and sew
eral engineers of the Council of
Civil Aviation, have just arrived in
this country for a short visit, ac-
cording to an announcement made
yesterday by the Amtorg Trading
Corporation. The delegation will
ldy the aviation industry and COM
orcial air lines in the United
5ates.
Baranov, at the offices of the
Amtorg yesterday, saiG. "The need
for new air lines in the Soviet
Union is so acute, due to the ire
mendous distances, particularly in
northern Siberia that the Council of
Civil Aviation proposes to more
than double the present length of
lines within the next three years.
In 1929 we had 10000 miles of COM
mercial Always to which some 5000
miles will be added in 1880. Our
plans call for 10000 miles in opera
ton by 1888, and there's every like
lihood that this program will be ex-
ceeded,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Internal Contradictions
In Bourgeois Marrt0ge

The beginning of the end of bour-
geois marriage, founded on private
property, was noted by Marx and
Engels in the Communist Manifesto.
1t does not collapse at the will Of
the opponents of bourgeois morality,
but like the whole capitalist system,
because of its failure, as a form, to
change and adapt to a new way of
life, based fundamentally on a new
form Of production, it becomes OBJ
solete. 1t cannot really adapt itself
without destroying itself.
A feeling of this contradiction, not
possible of solution under capital
ism and it's codeSof morality, per-
vades lately, all capitalist literature
and drama, and shows itself in Gym
icism, pessimism, licentiousness-and
hoplessness.
The latest and one of the best
examples is Sydney Towards "Half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
lid. CONFERENCE
P RESSES FIGHT
AGAINST TERROR
Over 1000 Workers
Are Represented

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ers. Over 100000 workers are rep
resented directly.
There are CT delegates from the
Pittsburgh district, many of them
from the mines and steel mills.
Philadelphia has 80, comprising
needle trades workers, textile work
ers and anthracite miners. There
are % delegates from the South.
including the Gastonia defendants.
Other delegations are as follows;
New York, 81; Ohio, az; including
miners, steel and rubber workers
Michigan, 20; Northwest, 2.
There is a total of 1892 delegates.
Seventy per cent of the delegates
have been in Jail for their class ac-
'tivities. Twenty per cent of the
delegates were women, and IA per
cent Negro; 10 per cent youth.
Besides the Gastonia defendants
there are present the following class
war victims: Shifrin,, Graham,
Stromberg, Accorsi.
At the Monday morning session
A Jakira made the organizational
report. William F. Dunno delivered
report on trade union work. George
Maurer spoke on the struggle in
the South.
Jakira reports an increase in
dues-paying members from $500 in
1927 to $500 in 1929, and a great
progress in the collective member
ship since the last convention. He
pointed out some shortcomings and
said these would have to be cor
rected. Jakira said there was not
sufficient basis in the shops and
insufficient attention was paid tC
Negro problems. Defense Commit
tees are to be formed The member
ship drive will be extended to Marcl
|1S.
Delegate Frank reported on Ne
gro work. Frank stressed the need
for wide campaign against lynch
ing, etc. Maurer said the South IL
Illustrates a period Of greater strug-
giles for the use Of the state power
as we'll as illegal means by the boss
es against the workers.
He characterized the Charlotte
LID. conference as a rallying point
for further struggle. The LID. is
better grounded in the South now
than ever before, he said. eve must
increase our fight against face dis
elimination. The use of the state
power shows the war preparations.
He called for an increase of a hun
dred-fold in the anti-terror cam
.paign in Gastonia.
AS result of the demonstration
in the Monongahela Hotel against
race discrimination, 25 workers join.
ed the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
ORGANIZE FIGHT
AGAINST YNCH
BOSSES IN south
Demand Race Equality
at Charlotte Meet

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it has ever happened in Charlotte
before. Many gave in their names
and wanted to attend more meet
ings. Young Negro workers took
the Daily Workers and distributed
them after the meeting all over the
Negro workers section.
Sol Harper, district organizer OF
the Young Communist League, sent
the following statement to the Daily
Worker:
"The American Federation of La-
bor' has made lame gesture to
'organize' the 100000 oppressed
white slaves in the mills and on the
farms in the South; but Negro
workers are not even considered by
the A. F. Of L.
"In the meantime, the mill bosses
are gloating over the fact that they
control the farms with unorganized
Negro workers keeping the poor
white farmers down at the same
time with social equality bunk, and
thus force them into the mills to
work harder than the Negro slaves
did before the Civil War.
"The state tax department shows
that only one out of every SO of the
populs ion is paying federal tax,
thus showing that 81 of them are
actual slaves in the mills.
"The murder of Ella May Wig
gins and six t xtile workers in Mar
ion, N. c., where President Hoover
spoke last year and promised the
mill slaves prosperity along with
the lynching of Willie McDaniels,
22-year-old Negro farm worker, was
the turning point of the southern
mill and farm slaves. We demand:
Full social, economic and political
equality for Negroes! Down with
mill and farm slavery! Stop lynch
ing by workers unity! Organize
workers defense! Organize the
black and white workers. Fight I'M
employment Build the N.T,W.U."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
DISTRICT T.U.' I'LL.
Meet, CLEvELA
Bill Dunno to Speak at
Mass Meeting, Jan. 5

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 3d.
Preparations for the Ohio-West Vir-
GINA District Convention of the
Trade Union Unity League Jan. 5
are going forward.
Definite progress has been made
by the T.U.U.L. in District Six since
the Cleveland Trade Union Unity
Convention. A number of locals OF
the NJ tal Workers Industrial
League have been established as well
as other T.U.U.L. groups and local
unions in auto, building trades,
needle trades and food, with a be-
ginning of work among the railway
and street car men.
A district center has been estab-
lished and it is for the purpose OF
further co-ordinating and centraliz-
ing all activities throughout the
district and developing definite pro-
grams of action that the convention
is being called.
The conditions are ripe for reaI
Iorganizational work. Unemployment
and wage cuts are increasing. anc
the workers will rally to the Trade
Union Unity League, the center OF
revolutionary trade unionism, rails
ing the banner of militant struggle
against naturalization.
Dunno to Speak.
The convention will open Sunday
morning, Jan. 5 at 10 a. M, sharp
at the headquarters of the T.U.U.L.
1926 w. Srd ST., room BOT. A good
sized body of delegates is expected,
Bill Dunno, editor of Labor Unity
national publication of the T.U.U.L
will represent the National Com
mittee of the f.U.U.L. at the con-
yention and in the evening he will
speak at mass meeting to be held
at Gardina Hall, 6O25 St. Clair
at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
New YEARS EVE
BALL FOR MINERS
Rockland Palace Frolic
Tonight

A bang-up time will be had by
thousands of New York workers,
who will also be helping the Illinois
striking miners at the same time, at
the Workers Costume Ball at Rock
land Palace, 155th st. and Eighth
Ave, tonight, New Years Eve.
The affair has been arranged by
local New York of the Workers In
ternational Relief, and the Workers
School.
Snappy dance music that will keep
everybody on their toes will be pro-
vided by Vernon Andrades Negro
Syncopators. Tickets, if bought in
advance are rs cents; at the door
they will be 81. They are on sale at
the local WIR, 799 Broadway, room
221, and the Workers School, 26
Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
LAY-0FFS IN
ST. paul. Get
MORE FREQUENT
Wages Hitting at Rock
Bottom
(By q Worker Correspondent

ST. PAUL, Mimi, tBy MaiD.-
Regarding conditions in st. Paul,
unemployment is worse now than
it has been for several years and is
getting worse every day. Industries
in general are laying off men.
The shoe workers are practically
all on the street. Shops who used
to employ 300 to 400 men have only
three or four men working now.
Ford has laid off his best-paid
workers. The packing houses are
laying off workers right and left.
Wages are low. Building trade
workers scale is $1.00 per hour, but
many of them are working for rs
cents to IS cents and some few even
less.
Most of the common labor is being
obtained for 35 cents per hour.
Workers at Montgomery Ward
and Sears Roebuck, men with fam
lilies, are working for $500 per
week. Speed-up, yes, we have it
here, the packing houses have again
been speeded up at terrific gait,
you can imagine what workers get
ting IS cents per hour, and $500
per week have to do, with thou
sands of others waiting to grab
their job if they only could.
The workers are unrestful, but
they are either so doped by the cap
italist press, or so afraid of their
jobs, or to be known as radical,
that it is very difficult to get them
to subscribe to Daily Worker or
any other of the Party Press. If the
press of he city and the labor
takers have stampeded the workers
into inaction, we know that the
present unrestfulness will break
out sooner or later and the stam-
pede will be toward the T. U. U. l..
and the Communist Party. In the
meantime we must keep pegging
away, and doing the best we can.
A. N. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Lovestone Stabbing of
Young Workers Shows
Role Against Workers

HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 3d.
The Young Communist League OF
Hartford yesterday issued state
ment showing the attack OF the
renegade Lovestoneites here on
Bonnie Levine, a member of the
Y. C. L., as part of the Lovestone-
ties role against the militant
workers.
The statement follows in part:
"On Saturday, Dec. 81, Comrade
Bonnie Levine, a member of the
Young Communist League of Hart
ford. was brutally assaulted with
knife by Kenneth Epstein, a degen-
crate Lovestone renegade of the
Party. Comrade Levine received
five stabs in the back which ser
iously injured him, requiring the
care Of doctor.
"The fact that Dan Gray, the
leader of the Lovestone group IN
Connecticut was passively looking
On at this assault and his threaten
remarks few minutes before
e act, that Levine is going to
ret it shows that the attack was
premeditated by the most active
counter-revolutionary elements. The
removal of Comrade Levine from
he ranks of the Y. c. L., since he
; an active shop worker in a large
actory, would destroy the work OF
he League, in their estimation.
"This act and the leaflets they
have issued against the Party and
League expose the lies of the Love
stoneites and the fascist role which
they are trying to play in the labor
movement. We call upon the
League and the militant young
workers for a relentless light
against these black forces. We call
upon the comrades all over the
country to theoretically build the
League with new proletarian ele-
hnents, since this is the only guar
antee against counter-revolutlonary
Lovestoneism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
CATER Tells OF N. 7. ". drive
in chester TO ORGANIZE JOBLESS
Mill Owners Build Fascist Groups in Aim at
Terror; Try to Strangle Union

"It will continue its efforts to or
ganize Viscose in spite of terror
istic methods of the bosses.
No Discrimination.
"The National Textile WorhCrs
Union will organize all the ra"o
workers here into one local. The
will be no discrimination; skillc
and unskilled workers-both Negro
and white-will be taken in on the
basis of equality.
"The Eddysone Print works is an
other textile mill where the workers
are working long hours for low
wages and in the near future de-
termined effort will be made to
establish the N.T.W.U. in this mill
and also in another mill under the
same management, the Bancroft
mill in Wilmington, Del. Several
other mills around Chester where
conditions are equally rotten also
need organizing.
What has been said about the
textile workers is true of the other
workers in Chester. The thousands
of steel workers, the Ford workers,
and the waterfront and transport
workers need organizing. The in
dustrial union, under the leadership
of the T.U.U.L. will undertake this
task.
"The T.U.U.L. will conduct cam
paign in preparation for the coming
district convention which is to be
held in Philadelphia, Feb. 8. Chester
must be well renresented.N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

"The Trade Union Unity League
win begin at once to organize the
unorganized workers in Chester. We
must stop talking about organizing
and organize Clesters' working pop
ulation and prepare them for an
effective struggle against the open
shop employers said George Car
ter, Gastonia defendant sentenced to
20 years and one of the delegates
to the Second Convention of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, in a
statement to the Daily Worker
Carter told of the unemployment
-. speed-up in the textile mills of
Chester.
Struggle in Viscose Mill.
Irving Mills are again running
part time with less than half of
their workers. Similar conditions
exist in the Aberfoyles two mills.
The Viscose Mills are preparing to
attack their workers and drive the
wages to the levels now being paid
to the rayon workers in the South.
Already the bosses in the Viscose are
preparing to strangle the union. A
special squad il being organized and
although they are nothing else than
anti-union strong-arm men in the
pay of the bosses they will be given
police power. These thugs will try
to run every leaflet distributor out
of Marcus Hook.
"The National Textile Workers
Union will accept the challenge of
the Yiscose company" said Carter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
TAMMANIC THUGE
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
phone number of WHALE, under the
heading of numbers frequently
called" it was revealed.
1t was revealed how Vitale re-
turned Johnson's weapon to the de-
tective, an hour after it had been
taken from johnson by holdup men
at the Vitale dinner.
johnson testified that Vitale had
advised him to delay reporting the
holdup.
These are some of the facts
which showed Whales close connec-
ton with gangsterdom, a connec-
ton which Tammany Hall is des-
perately trying to hide, because it
might bring about revelations of
the connection Of all Tammany Hall
with the gangsters.
The pyangsters whom WHALE is said
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
BEAL TO TALK AT SCHOOL
FORUM.

Fred Beal will speak at the Work
ers School Forum, stressing the his
torical role of the National Textile
Workers Union in the South.
Workers will be at an advantage
by coming early. The subject in
vites crowds, especially with Beal
speaking. The lecture is held at 26
Union Square, Sunday, Jan. 9Th, at
5 p. m. Admission is rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations
U.c.w.w. Annual BANQUET.

Council IT of U.CW. w. Tuesday eve
ming. Dec. 81. p. m. at 227 Brighton
Beach Ave. Admission 70 cents
Miners Play, New Years Eve Ball.
Marching Guns" a mine play by
John De Santes, will be presented at
the big workers costume ball New
Years eve by the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre The ball, which will
and Sth Ave. has been arranged by
Local New York. W.I.R., and the
Workers School A large part of
proceeds will go to the striking IL
linois miners. Tickets rs cents in
advance cat W,IR. local office and
at Workers SCHOOL, and 81 at the
door.
Standing of the METROPOLITAN Workers
Soccer LEAGUE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31

All members of Section must at
tend the unit meetings to elect dele
gates to the Section convention. IF
and IS Tuesday. $50 at Manhattan
Ave.
Workers school.
All students are advised that school
will terminate Tuesday. Dec. 81, eX-
cept the late-formed classes. To marx
the occasion all students are urged
to come with friends to the Costume
Ball arranged for New Years Eve at
Rockland Palace, 155th St and Sth
Ave. Tickets rs cents in advance and
81 at the door: obtainable at school
office and Workers Bookshop.
New Years Eve Dance.
New Years Eve Dance will take
place Tuesday, Dec. 81, at 1880 vii;
kins Ave. Arranged by Section 5 of
the Communist Party and the Hun
garian Workers Club of the Bronx.
Come and bring your friends
Workers school.
All students leave en-masse for
Workers Costume Ball arranged to
close the schools Fall term and for
benefit of striking Illinois miners.
at the door. Tuesday. Dec 81 at
Rockland Palace. 155th st. and Sth
Ave.
Oo"h ApNh -Nps -
Industrial Committee will meet
Tuesday, Dec. 81, Z p. m. at 26-2S
Union 3d., room 207.
Unit ST. Section L.
Special meeting to be held Thurs
day, Jan. 2, at els p. m. at q E. 4th
st. Election of delegates to section
convention. Every member must be
present.
New Years Eve Dance.
At 1880 Wilkins Ave. Bronx. Tues
day, Dec 81 Good music. buffet.
Everybody invited. Auspices Section
5, Communist Party and Hungarian
Workers Club.
Unit Of. Section l.
A special meeting will be held on
Thursday, Jan. 2. at 81 E. 4th St
Election of delegates TO section con-
vention will take place.
Unit IL. Section 3.
On Thursday Jan. 2. $50 p. M
sharp, a very important meeting will
be held in section headquarters
Every member must be on time.
+
Unit 3, Section Z.
Meets Wednesday at $50 sharp al
the section headquarters. All must
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Amalgamated Urge s
Food Workers Strike

One hundred thousand leaflets are
being distributed among 100000
culinary workers by the Amalga-
mated Food Workers asking work
ers to prepare for general strike
against bad conditions and low
wages, it was announced yesterday
re Hotel and Restaurant Branch.
Workers are urged to join the Anal
gamated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
eat Enthusiasm for
LID in PlentywOOd

FLEETWOOD, Mont, Dec. 30.
Over 100 Plentywood people
card Mother Bloor talk on the In
irrational Labor Defense, and on
Soviet Union and its great in
strial progress. The meeting was
ID in Farmers and Workers Tenn
!. Great enthusiasm was shown
the audience. ....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Show Farmers Poverty

The low buying power OF the
masses of American farmers which
is being still further reduced by the
growing economic crisis, is reflect
cd in the mid-winter catalogues Of
Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Mont
gomery Ward & Co., two of the
largest mail order houses in the
country.