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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
.DI PA0LA WILL
talk TOMORROW
ON BANK LOOT
To Prove Steal Was
Shared By Officials

That responsibility for the $5,0O0,-
900 City Trust Company crash was
shared by all the bank directorate
and not individual "goars," is ex-
pected to be the contention of An
thony Di Paola, former cashier of
the looted bank, when he takes the
stand at the special grand jury to-
morrow.
.Di Paola, right hand man of the
late Francesca M. Ferrari who led
the Tammany-fascist clique in the
swindle, holds that directors knew
all of the proceedings he noted in
his minute book. They knew of the
forged loans and Of the "discipli-
nary" but purely formal letters from
the state banking department then
under Frank H. Warder's admins
tration, he will maintain.
Once the indictments are out of
the way, Di Paola is expected to
spill even more dirt on the sordid
story of the steal.
However, with so many of its
sons in the dark mire, those close
to the inquiry believe that it is
largely due to Tammany's protect
ing hand that responsibility for the
crash is fixed on Warder and few
others rather than on the much
greater number of Tammany Off
Gals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Strong Growers Trust
Urged BY Farm Board

WAPAKONETA, O., Sept. 2. -
Strengthening and expansion of ex-
listing food farm trusts (stylcd "co-
operatives") and "sound managerial
and financial policies" IN connec-
ton with them was urged by Jas.
C. Stone, vice-chairman of the Fed
eral Farm Board before picnic of
wealthy farmers today.
The policy of the board, he claim
ed, aimed at bringing about co-or-
dination of efforts on the part of
cooperatives."
Stone is active in what his board
calls cooperation" The function
of the farm board as an instrument
to enable rich growers to control
the market and force out the petty
producers is indicated by his own
record.
A rich tobacco merchant, he form
ed the Central and Planters Tobac-
co Warehouse Company in 1917. He
is president and general manager of
the Burley Tobacco Growers Coop
erative Association, which he found
ed in 1921 and which coordinate"
$50,000,000 business yearly. He is
also a director of the Fayette Ma
tional Bank and the Joint State
Bank at Lexingtol, Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
.IRT AIDS WALKER
IN NY. CAMP AIGN
Traction Co. Gives
Money to City

Continued from Page One)
the money, at the same time hoping
that they will forget that the same
Tammany Hall attempted to award
bus franchise to the Equitable
Coach Co., controlled by the traction
interests.
Address Meeting.
Mayor Walker and Major La
Guardia were busy yesterday adj
dressing Labor Day meetings in an
effort to line up the working class
vote for the democratic and repub-
lican parties, respectively, in the
coming city election. LaGuardia ad-
dressed the convention of the post
office laborers in Brooklyn and the
convention of the post office clerks
at the Commodore Hotel, at which
Mayor Walker also spoke. Late yes
terday the republican candidate
spoke at several picnics arranged
by American Federation of Labor
unions.
Leads Parade.
La Guardia led a parade in the
afternoon through Harlem, heading
group of members of the Loyal
Labor Legion, strike breaking out
fit. Later, he attended their outing
at Whitestone, L. I.
1t is in Harlem, which La Guar
dia represents in congress as mem
Der of the house of representatives,
that he is connected with Italian
fascist elements of the republican
party. Recently at a meeting of
Italians he was greeted with the
fascist salute.
Had POyntz Jailed.
Harlem workers still remember
that La Guardia, WHO in 1924, was
the socialist party candidate for
congress, caused the arrest of Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, his Communist oppo-
nent, because she was addressing a
larger body of workers at the cor
ner of Lexington Ave. and 111th St.,
than he was. The workers objected
so strenuously to the arrest, La
Guardia did not press the charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
R EgIS TER FOR
WORKER SCHOOL
Offer Widest Choice of
Courses

Continued from Page Ons)
ping courses eliminated and the con-
tent of each course carefully exam
ined.
The English department, now un-
der the craftsmanship of V. I. Je-
rome, has in line with the general
policy of the Workers School, re-
duced the period fol the study of
English to seven terms instead of
eight, thus covering the subject in
three months time less than was
previously necessary.
In other departments like changes
were made. In all, about forty OF
the courses given last year were
either reorganized OF eliminated be-
cause the same ground was covered
under different headings. This will
be of advantage to all students be-
cause with the elimination of these
courses it becomes more possible for
students to take classes with leading
instructors.
Among the instructors who will
take a leading part in the faculty
of the school are Max Bedacht, Scott
Nearing, Robert Minor, M. j. Olgin
w. w. Weinstone, A. Markoff, j. l.
Engdahl, Sam Darcy, H M. Wicks
A. Landy, w. z. Foster, VIM. F
Dunno, Jack Stachel, Julia Stuart
Poyntz, Cyril Briggs, and others.
Also the administration staff Of
the school has been changed. The
new director is Max Bedacht; assist.
ant director, Sam Darcy; executive
committee, Max Bedacht, Sam Oar.
cy, w. z. Foster, a. Markoff, Scott
Nearing, Alexander Trachtenberg,
w. w. Weinstone.
Registration is now going on. Cat
alogues and other material are avail.
able at the school office. Comrades
are urged to register early so that
ti.sy can have the widest choice OF
r~~-es before they are file
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
XXX. Fails to
Drive Members
From the lid

The white sheets and hoods of the
Ku Klux Khan in the South do not
have a strong enough hold to pre-
vent the members from joining the
International Labor Defense.
This was the unusual news
brought north by Walter Trumbull,
representative of the l. L. D. in the
South, who has returned after sew
eral months intense activities in the
Carolinas.
He reports especially strong
I. L. D. activity in Charlotte, Gas
tonia, Bessemer City, Kings Noun
tain, Cramerton, Mt. Holly and
Hickory. The latter town, almost
exclusively Negro, gave a splendid
welcome to the l. L. D. despite at
tempts made of the mill bosses to
stir up race riot, Trumbull re-
ported.
"The workers of the South are
practically 100 per cent on behalf
Of the Gastonia strikers" Trumbull
said. Conditions everywhere in the
pellagra-rotten South are the same,
and the workers feel a strong SOL
idarity toward one another.
"A most surprising fact" Trum-
bull said, "was the number of men,
bers joining the LID. who wrote on
the membership cards that they
were members of the X. X. X. also.
The latter organization cannot pre-
vent the members from joining the
|. L. D. once the workers become
acquainted with our aims"
Trumbull reported that the de-
PENDANTS were in good spirits, con-
fident that the mass protest of the
working class would save them.
They are certain that American
workers everJw, re are taking most
active part in the ten-day campaign
for funds of the Gastonia Joint De-
tense and Relief Campaign Commit
tee.
at is class against Glass;" Trum-
bull said. "The class lines are so
sharply drawn as to be apparent to
everybody, despite the attempts of
the mill bosses to hide them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03

The policy of the A. F. of L. from
the time of Sam Gompers (remem-
Der his infamous defense of mob
rule against Negro workers?) has
been one of open antagonism to the
Negro workers. Prejudice, race ha-
tired, discrimination in the union and
on the job-all the forms of the
theology of race hatred Of the white
ruling class-mark the dealings of
the A. F. of L. leadership with the
Negro workers. The A. F. of L.
leadership encourages jim Grow
unions. Most of the A. F. of L.
unions have color bars Where
these racial bars have been removed
such removal was effected by the
left wing workers in those unions,
who alone have agitated and fought
against these color bars and other
devices of barring Negro workers
from the benefits of trade union or
ganization.
Left Wing Unions Fight Jim
Crowism.
And now, again, the left wing
workers lead the fight against the
Jim Grow policies of the A. F. Of
L.-against the bosses theology OF
Negro inferiority and race separa-
ton which the A. F. of L. leader
ship so faithfully defends No lon
ger content with merely carrying on
inside the A. F. of L. the fight for
working class solidarity (unity OF
all workers, black and white) anc
for the militant waging of the class
struggle, the left wing workers are
building new unions and new labor
center. Already affiliated with this
new labor center are over half q
million workers. The new left wing
unions are easily differentiated
from the A. F. of L. unions by the
following facts:
p 1. The left wing unions seek tc
organize the black and white work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Utney FakeS Message Class Collaboration
A. +. OF L. Is Openly
Against Negro Labor

ers in the same unions and locals on
a basis of absolute equality, full par
ticipation in leadership and equal
opportunities on the job.
2. All the left wing unions have
Negro workers on their executive
committees. In addition, the vice
president of the National Miners
Union is a Negro, the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union has a
Negro vice president, Oh. Henry
Rosemond.
8. The National Textile Union
which is leading the strike of tex
tile workers in South Carolina re-
fused to retreat on it's principle of
race equality and in the face of the
most vicious attacks of the capital
list press, which worked the race
issue overtime in its efforts to turn
the white strikers against the N.
T. u, the union won it's point and
against the capitalist-injected pre-
JUDGES of the Southern workers,
won these strikers to its principle
that the Negro textile workers must
be organized side by side with the
white textile workers and that there
must be absolute equality within the
union. And won them so complete
ly that the white strikers were not
only willing to accept a Negro or
ganizer of the union, but learning
that his wife was threatened by the
ku kluXers and chamber of COM
merce, appointed a bodyguard to
protect him. And, when, following
the unprovoked attack by the police
on the strikers meeting and the
shooting of the chief of police, the
mill bosses police and thugs tried
to lynch this Negro organizer, the
white strikers modified and spirit
ed him out of town, putting him on
train for New York forty miles
from Gastonia. This left wing union
was denounced and attacked by the
capitalist press of the South for its
race equality policy. And, of
course, the A. F. of L. joined the
attack. But the N. T. N. stuck to
its guns and achieved a notable VIC
tory against the bosses theology of
race separation and antagonism in
the very center of reaction, in the
South itself! AS a result of its
stand on the race issue, fourteen of
its organizers are today menaced
with the electric chair, following
frame-up by the mill bosses in con-
nection with the shooting of the
chief of the police.
The United Textile Workers
Union, an A. F. of L. outfit, is also
conducting strikes in the South.
But the capitalist press finds no
necessity for attacking the U. T. w.
on the race issue. Nor will the mill
bosses and their police agents find
any necessity for framing the U.
I. W. organizers to stop their ad-
vocacy of race equality. The U. T..
w. is not advocating race equality.
1t is not even trying to organize
Negro workers. It's policy on the
race issue is the same as the bosses
policy.
The Trade Union Educational
League is building a new trade
union center for all the workers.
Among the leaders of the T. U. E.
l.. are workers of all races, Negro,
white, japanese, Chinese ,etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Try Wife of Pantages
For Murder; He Faces
Forced Love" Charge

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2. - Mrs.
Alexander Pantages, wife of the
wealthy theatre magnate, faces trial
tomorrow on a second degree murder
charge.
She is declared responsible for
the death of Joe Rokomoto, Jap
anese. H was killed when the Pan
tages automobile crashed into his.
With the huge wealth obtained
from his vaudeville circuits, Panta-
ges is able to retain the high-priced
New York lawyer Steuer for the
defense.
Steuer is also trying to defend
Pantages from charges made by the
dancer, Eunice Pringle, who gave
elaborate evidence setting forth de-
tails of an attack which she said
Pantages made on her following
her rejection of certain cash pro-
posals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Communist Activities

will be held at Fleet ST. and Myrtle
Avenue.
Unit IF, Section 1.
The regular Monday meeting hav-
ing been put off on account of Labor
Day, Unit Of, Section l. will meet
today, els p, m.
&
Unit 1. Section 3.
special meeting of the unit will
be held Wednesday, Sept. 4, 6 p. M,
at 1179 Broadway.
Unit 1, Section 4.
A special meeting has been called
for Thursday. Sept. S, $50 p. m, at
142 e. 103rd St, for discussion of the
Tenth Plenum thesis.
Unit 5, Section Z.
The executive meets Wednesday.
Sept. 4, 500 p, M, at w. 29th ST and
Mermaid Ave, Coney Island. Mem
bership meeting at 8 o'clock
Init. Branch. Section 2.
Meets today, $40 p. m, at 1879
Broadway.
Unit L., Section 2.
Meets today, $50 p. M. at l179
Broadway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
IL DIE IN ENGLISH FIRE

SMETHWICK, Staffordshire, En-
gland, Sept. 2. - Eleven lives were
lost in fire here which spread from
q confectioner's shop to an apart
ment in which % persons were liv-
ing.
Six of those who were burned to
death were members of one family.
In addition to those dead, three of
the occupants of the house are now
in hospital suffering from severe
injuries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Prepare Bookings For
Gastonia Strike Play

Bookings for "White TRASH" by
Louis A. De Santes, a play of the
Gastonia textile strike presented by
the Workers Laboratory Theatre,
will be accepted commencing Oct.
Is. Preference will be given to
those Organisations whose enter
tainment is being run in behalf of
the International Labor Defense and
the Workers International Relief.
The Workers Laboratory Theatre,
it was announced yesterday, is ar
ranging to give course in proletar-
ian plSwrighting and producing at
the Workers School, 1928 Union
SQUARE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
WARNS NEGROES,
keep OFF BEACH
Chauvinists Aided by
Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO (By MaiD In an edl-
torial that appeared in Mondays
issue of the Chicago Tribune,
leading capitalist and anti-labor
paper here, Negroes are advised and
practically warned to keep away
from Jackson Park Bathing Beach,
and to heed the threats of white
chauvinists.
The beach was the scene week
ago of the driving away of a troop
of Negro girls scouts by the chau-
vinists, who threw stones at the
girls. Many of the girls became
disguised with the girl scouts as the
result of this discrimination.
The editorial states that "to a
very large section of the white popu-
lation the presence of Negro, how
ever well behaved, among white
bathers is an irritation"
1t warns the Negroes to avoid the
beach, less serious race troubles re-
suit.
Racial Conflict at the Beaches.
Two letters recently published in
the Voice of the People have to do
with displays of race antagonlsm
at or near the beach in jackson
Park. 1t appears that twenty-three
Negro girls organized as a Girl
Scout troop, were stoned away from
the beach on one evening and on the
previous evening several Negro
couples were threatened with bodily
injury if they did not leave at once.
In the one instance several Of the
girls were injured and in the other
only a prompt withdrawal appears
to have prevented physical violence.
The legal rights and duties are
clear and they are all on the side
of the Negroes, but there is good
deal more involved in these Incl
dents than mere legalisms. We
should be doing no service to the
Negroes if we did not point that to
very large section of the white
population the presence of a Negro,
however well behaved among white
bathers is an irritation. This may
be a regretable fact to the Negroes,
but it is nevertheless fact and it
must be reckoned with. Moreover,
it is fact which has frequently con-
tribute to discords and notably to
the race riots Of decade ago. I'm
der the circumstances it would seem
that the Negroes could make a
definite contribution to good race
relationships by remaining away
from the beaches where their pres
ence is resented.
We do not doubt that Negroes, for
the most part, are willing to make
whatever sacrifice is involved. The
South Park Board should, without
delay, provide adequate bathing
facilities along the miles of beach
between Roosevelt Road and PERISH
ing Road which Negroes now may
use and do use without hindrance,
The Negroes of Chicago are among
the principal beneficiaries of the
millions of dollars spent upon the
outer parks. In addition, they have
inherited two of Chicago's finest
boulevards, and the presence of col
ored people in Washington Park,
one of the largest, most b. autiful
and best equipped in the city, is not
resented. Their voluntary waiver
of the right to battle at the Jackson
Park Beach would seem then to be
a small price to pay for peace be-
tween the races, particularly after
proper facilities have been provided
| for them elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Room 304.



"Icor'' Concert.
The 'Icor" has arranged a concert
for Saturday, Sept. IA, $50 p. m, in
Town Hall, for which Nicholas Kar-
lash, bass baritone, Victor Peclker
and Wolf Barrel, Jewish actors, the
Russian trio composed of Victor
Kutchero, Basil Belaieff and Joseph
Maranz, and the Soviet pianist, va
scha Fisherman, have been engaged.
All proceeds go toward the rehabili-
tation of Jewish workers and peas
ants in the Soviet Union.
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
The Workers Laboratory Theatre
will open it's 1929-30 season with a
general membership meeting Wednes-
day, Sept. 4. $50 p: m. in room 607,
Workers Center, % Union So. All
workers interested in the drama, re-
5gardless of experience, are invited.
After the business meeting the direc-
tor will commence casting for the
Gastonia play. white Trash"
Other plays to be produced this sea-
son are 100000" an anti-fascist
play; SIS. Hell-en- back" revolt
aboard a freighter; Revolutionary
Interlude," Soviet Commune: March
ing Guns" miners play (2nd sea-
SOM; and 'R. U. r." a mass panto-
mime of world revolution. For in
formation apply Workers School. 2S
Union So, or address l.. A. DeSan-
ties, 1871 55th St, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03

The rs gear old
coast qUiSe liner San
Juan, on aVkich II, IN
GLIDING many members
of the cre1O, acre
droaoned an q crash
auith the oil tanker
Dodd last Thursday
night, so miles south
of San Francisco. Fed
eral authorities are
blamed By sedHten for
Gtt0,Oing such an old
and unseaUorthy boat
to sail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
With PRIDE They.
POINT TO RECORD
OF TREACHERIES.
De m an d Cooperation
With Bosses

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Wil-
liam Green's message to the work.
ers on Labor Day consisted of
thanksgiving that collective bar
gaining is coming to be more and
more adopted as a preventative of
labor disputes and that there were
only 18 strikes taken part in by the
A. F. of L. in 1928"
Despite the fact that the period
between |; Labor Day and this
Labor Day was one replete with
wage cuts, frightening of hours,
and great increase of speedup, Green
said that organized labor could
look backward over the past year
with satisfaction"
Green waxed unconsciously humor-
Gus when he stated thu "the or
ganization of the unorganized by
the A. F. of L. has gone ahead with
startling success" This statement
was made with straight face by
the leaGcr of the labor '~'-ers, de-
spite the fact that the A. F. of l..
has neither desired nor attempted to
organize the automobile, packing
house, oil, rubber, lumber, metal
mining, and other workers of the
basic industries.
Green pointed with pride to the
record of the A. F. of L. in the
south, a record which in the past
year included the betrayal of the
Tennessee rayon strikers, various
Carolina textile strikes, and the sell
out of the striking New Orleans
carmen.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Sept. 2.
-"Deploring" present conditions
existing in the coal industry, Frank
Morrison, secretary of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in Labor
Day speech here today made an ap-
peal for collective action and CO.
operation between coal operators
and miners to solve the problems of
the industry"
Misleaders of the United Mine
Workers Union, who are the very
% ones responsible with the coal bosses
in bringing about the starvation con-
ditions the eel miners now enjoy,
also spoke. Morrison am the mine
union misleade-5 made it clear that
they were more concerned with solv-
ing the problems of the industry
from the operators angle than from
the miners!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Berlin Fascists Bomb
Reichstag; Part of
Terrorist Campaign
Wireless BIZ inprecorr)

7 7
BERLIN, Sept. "A bomb ex-
ploded in the Reichstag building at
o'clock this morning, breaking
windows and damaging the mason
ny. The explosion is obviously a
continuation of fascist terrorism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
STRIKE AGAINST OPEN SHOP,

WASHINGTON (By MaiD.-
Union workers at the Rust En-
9ineering Co. here walked out when
non-union men from the Virginia
Engineering Co. weres placed on a
job in the same building. I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03

Not only has the bOurgeoisie
forged the weapons that bring
death to itself; il has also called
into existence the men who are to
WELD those weapOns-the modern
working class-the prOIetarfnns.--
Karl Marx 9(COmmunisu MaBifestob.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
Distribute Leaflets to
Czech Soldiers; Arrests
wireless by Inprecorr)

PRAGUE, Sept. ARRESTS are
being made following the distribu-
ton of leaflets among troops par
ticipating in the annual mane1vers
Of the Czech army in Kremsier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03

The working class cannot simpI,
lay hold of the ready-made state
machinery, and WELD II for its own
purpose. This ne.- Commune paris
COmmune) breaks the modern state
pOwer.-Mnrx.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-21

BOSTON, May 21.-tPAThe Bcs-
ton Post in q copyrighted story to-
day says Dwight w. Morrow, am
bassador t0s Mexico and father OF
Anne Morrow, fiance Of Col. Charles
"A. Lindbergh. has been made sub
ject Of a $4,000 extortion plot.
The money. the Post asserts. was
demanded under penalty OF torture
and death OF his youngest daughter.
15-year-old Constance Morrow, stu
dent at Milton academy.
The newspaper says 1t has learn
ed the receipt by the girl Of two
threatening letters was responsible
for last Saturdays secret flight by
Lindbergh and members OF the Nor
row family from the Morrow home
at Englewood, N. j., to their sum
mer place at North Haven. Me.
1t was also responsible for the de-
tective guard which has since stood
vigil over the island retreat OF the
Morrows In Maine and for the i'm
PRESERVATION OF Constance by an
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-21
Establish Factory
For Manufacture of
Automobile Polish

A factory for the manufacture and
distribution Of automobile and fur
niture polishes. top dressings and
soap for mechanics is being estab-
lished in Victoria Heights by the
Jewel Chemical company OF Beau
mont, 1t was announced Wednesday
by DR.. O. F. Vivier, general mana
ger and in charge of the factory
here.
A small building 10 house the
plant will be erected In the heights,
Dr. Vivier said. The plant win en-
ploy two persons at present, while
three viii be used on the road, in the
territory south of San Antonio. DIR.
Vivier viii be assisted by Mrs. WV
Ter.
The company will sell only 70
dealers and jobbers. DR.. Vivier said.