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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
GIGANTIC RUM RING
EXPOSED IN HAVANA
Millions of Dollars Involved in
Plot to SmuggIe Liquor
Into U. S.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, April 9.--An international,
liquor smuggling plot, involving millions
Of dollars, well organized gang OF
runners through the United States and
headquarters in Havana as a central
distributing and shipping point, was
exposed here today by Cuban secret
police.
Alfonso Fors, chief of secret police
said the gang had been negotiating for
the purchase of large distillery here
but the recent arrest Of Sydney Hoff
man. American chemist believed to be
its leader, exposed the entire scheme
Hoffman had made a full confession
prior to his deportation last week to
the United States.
Police are In possession of names of
lS Americans residing in Cuba said to
be implicated in the rum-running plot.
A close watch is being kept by police
and Cuban immigration agents to block
departure Of the men. all Of whom are
said to figure on the black list of boot
leggers in the United States embassy
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
Armenian Churches Closed.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 40 CP).-
Reliable information from Angora stated
today that the Soviet government had
closed Armenian churches at Baku,
Tif1is and Erivan. Police later broke
up an Armenian meeting of protest and
arrested many persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
Hold-up Booty" Cancelled Checks.

NEW YORK, April 30 (P.-Can-
celed checks for 100000 were the sole
contents of leather bag seized BY
three hold-up men today from a mes
senger for the Manufacturers Trust
Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
BARON N0PCSA lRED.
Hungarian Geologist Angered Be,
cause Government scorned Advice

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 90 Cp.-
Baron Franz Nopcsa. president Of the
Hungarian Geological Society, caused
a sensation yesterday by tearing up his
diploma Of the society and returning
the society's medal of honor because
the government had drilled for hot
springs in certain areas against his
advice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
COTTON BREAKS So A BALE
Heavy Selling Is Caused by Favor.
able Crop Reports.

NEW YORK. April 20 P).-A fur
ther break OF 2 to s2.35 bale occurred
in the cotton market today, making a
net decline of So to 50 a bale from
April /. The decline was caused by
heavy general liquidation prompted BY
favorable weather and crop reports
which have given rise to expectations
of large crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29

A judge Of Oonre ticut town court
decided the police force was overweight. q.
ne leads them In daily reducing eexr-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
RAIL WAYS PLEAT0 BLOCK
/. C. c. RATE CUT DENIED
Petition to Restrain Reduction of
Refrigerator Car Charge Il
Rejected by Court.
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, April pa spe-
cial STATUTORY court here today denied
the petition of six trunk line railroads
seeking an injunction to restrain the
Interstate Commerce Commission from
requiring the roads to put in effect re-
duced refrigerator car charges on fruits.
vegetables and other perishable products,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
LIMITATION VOTED
AS GUIDING POLICY
FOR ARMS FARLEY

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
HOUSE FARM GROUP
ADOPTS FOUR BILLS
TO AID AGRICULTURE

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
INQUIRY ON WHISKY
CHASE ACCIDENTS
ORDERED BY PRATT

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
PIMLICO ENTRIES
ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW.

William Garth-Samuel Ross entry.
SECOND RACE-Purse, $4,000 the Pat
apsco Steeplechase; 4-year-olds and up;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29

Apprentice weisht S pounds claimed.
weather clear, track good
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
Final Fur Strike Plans at
Cooper Union Meet Soon
Joint Board Announces Important Meetings to
78HsYgyEsszgsr4sg Plan Vital Struggles Soon

A mass meeting of furriers to
be held in Cooper Union, Sth st. and
Astor Pl. shortly, to make the final
preparations for the Forthcoming
general strike of the furriers-this
was the principal decision arrived
at by the Joint Board of the Needle
Workers Industrial Union which met
last night at 16 West 21st st.
This is expected to be one Of the
most significant mass meetings in
weeks, inasmuch as the mobiliza-
tion campaign among the fur work
ers will then reach its climax.
Many Vital Meetings.
The Cooper Union meeting, al
though the largest, will be but one
of the large number of other sig
nificant meetings to be held within
the next few days in preparation for
the great struggle Of the furriers,
which exceed the 1926 general strike
in the display of militancy, courage
and fighting power on the part Of
the workers.
j. Borochowitz, general manager
of the Joint Board, in his report de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
Mine FAKERS
FIGHT IN COURT
Cappelini Injunction Is
Against Boylan
JAKIRA's TELEGRAM FOLLOWS.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, May 21.-
Misleaders of the United Mine
Workers Union, District 1, are
quarreling among themselves over
the nomination for president and
secretary-treasurer of the district.
On petition Of Rinaldo CappelIini
and Thomas Lavelle, who have taken
part in many betrayals of the Dis
trict 1 miners, and who claim to
have been nominated, Judge Mclean
has granted a preliminary injunc-
tion directing the officers and board
members of District 1 to preserve
the ballots, books and records of the
nomination, and produce them in
court at the hearing to be held
Thursday.
Cappellini and Lavelle claim they
were nominated by more than Is
locals for the offices of president
and secretary-treasurer respectively,
Continued ON Page Ttoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
LONG JAIL TERMS
FOR MANY FOOD
STRIKE PICKETS
A. F. of L. Local Expels
3 Who Back Strike

AS it becomes more evident that
the food workers are determined to
carry on their strike for union con-
ditions, despite the injunction which
prohibits even individual picketing,
the courts are becoming even more
severe and is imposing excessive Jail
sentences. Eleven strikers were SEN
fenced to 80 days in the workhouse
by Magistrate Edward We'll in JEFF
ferson Market Court yesterday.
Fourteen got sentence of S25 or
2 days; they chose the Jail term.
Twelve strikers were arrested yes
terday in picket demonstration at
the Marvin Cafeteria, $50 w. 39th
st. Five of them were released in
$500 bail for trial May 27, and 7
we're among the ID who will go to
Jail for two days. In the West 54th
st. Court, nine who were arrested
last night were adjourned to May
81 in $25 bail.
A. F. of L. Expels 3.
At the same time, the corrupt and
reactionary officialdom of Local 719
of the Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes International Alliance of the
American Federation of Labor joined
hands with the labor-hating courts
and the brutal police in their efforts
to break the strike of the courage
Gus food workers. They announced
the expulsion from this local, yes
terday, of three Robert
Long, of the executive board; Harry
Annis, organizer, and Harry Fox, on
account of their outspoken support
OF the struggle of the cafeteria
workers.
Michael Obermeier, organizer of
the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Union, characterized this
action as further evidence of the re-
dictionary character of the A. F. of
L. officials, who have engaged in
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
STRIKING CLERKS
TELL OF FRAMEUP
Held Three Days in the
Raymond ST. Jail

After serving three days in the
Raymond Street jail, three striking
members of the Retail Grocery,
Fruit, Dairy and Butcher Workers
Union were yesterday released.
Immediately upon their release,
they came to the office of the Daily
Worker and told the story of their
arrest, and how it was deliberately
engineered by representatives of the
corrupt socialist United Hebrew
Trades who is now, as usual, work.
ing hand in glove with the bosses
in an effort to break the strike.
The arrested workers are Max
Rappaport, recording secretary of
the union, Louis Bortz, and David
Zaroff. They are now free on $500
bail each and will appear for hear
ing in Jersey Ave. Court, Brooklyn,
tomorrow morning.
Describe Frame-Up.
They were picketing at the store
of Silverstein Bros, 366 New Lots
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22

A committee composed of
big corporation owners, their
lawyer and college professor
servants, meets ostensibly to inves-
tigate prohibition, but actually, ac-
cording to their written instructions,
which mention prohibition only in
cidentally, to devote their first and
main efforts to propaganda for the
creation of a larger and more vi
cious secret police service, a strike
breaking, labor-hounding gendarm-
erie, and by recommending changes
in the laws concerning the selection
of jurors, to do away with as many
as possible of the already flimsy
safeguards of workers facing frame
up charges in the courts, thus to
make the conviction and jailing, and
the deportation of foreign born
workers cheaper and more efficient.
Prohibits Revolutionary Writings.
At the same time this crusade
against revolutionary labor and its
organizations is started directly by
Hoover through his newly appointed
committee, the new tariff law which
was practically written by Hoover,
and is now ready to pass, this week
or next, the special session called by
him for that purpose, contains,
suitably misnamed and deeply buried
in the text, undebated and hardly
noticed, provision which can easily
be interpreted by any of the preju-
diced courts to exclude from the
country every variety of class con-
sciods news, printed matter or draw
ings of the international revolution
ary working class movement. The
workers are to be dragooned in
America, and as far as the law can
be enforced, isolated from the world
movement of the Communist Inter
national and the Red International
of Labor Unions. Practically all of
the books and publications of the
state printing plants of the workers
of the Soviet Union, and the news
services of the Communist Interna-
Continued on Page TOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
CALL MEET TO
HIT BRUTALITY
Will Protest Raid at
Union So. Saturday

Militant workers of New York
City will gather in a demonstration
at Union Square, Saturday, May 25,
in mass protest against the brutality
of the Tammany police against
strikers and in the raid on the
Workers Center last Saturday after
noon.
This demonstration, to be held un-
der the joint auspices of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, the left wing
unions and District of the Com
munist Party, whose organizer, Ben
Lifshitz, was given a 30-day SEN
tence in the workhouse by the anti
labor Judge Goodman, was an
nounced last night by the New York
district of the l. L. D.
The Brutality.
The brutality Of the Tammany po-
lice, accentuated by the reign of the
"gentlemanly" Grover Whalen, has
been directed with increasing vio-
lence against the cafeteria strikers
many of whom are brutally beaten
every day and given long Jail SEN
tences.
Added to this, while Whalen was
displaying 5000 of his best-armed
forces in an effort at intimidation
Tammany police raided the Workers
Center and arrested Lifshitz in the
building without warrant. With
the arrest of the II workers and
nine Pioneers there went the usual
brutality, fully testified to by the
Pioneers in court Monday.
Criminals"
The only comment that Police
Commissioner Whalen made on pro-
test from the l. L. d. was to say
that the workers were criminals" :"
that he was not concerned with them
and that his police are fully justified
in handling them as they do.
Militant workers will not take the
Tammany police brutality, decorated
A!r Continued on Page Five) .a,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22

clared that only a general strike
soon of the cloakmakers will EXTERN
mate both the fake company union
known by the pretentious title "In-
ternational Ladies Garment Work.
ers' Union," and the scores of sweat
shops which this scab union breeds.
Urges General Strike.
Denouncing the framed maneuvers
of the right wing clique and the
fake "stoppage" which is being
threatened with the aid and conniv-
ance of the cloak manufacturers,
Borochowitz declared that "only a
general strike will succeed in giving
to all the cloakmakers union condi-
tions and improved living stand
ards"
All the energies of the Needle
Workers Industrial Union must flow
in this direction from now on,
Borochowitz stated.
Joint Meeting Soon.
The Joint Board will also soon
call meeting of the Joint Execu-
tive Boards of all cloak, dress and
.stg Continued on Page Five) Sst
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
AMERICAN
CENTER OF CLASS
UNIONISMFO
CongressofTradeUnion
Confederation Opens
In Montevideo
w ide Representation
Against Pan-American
Reformist Center
Wide Representation

The congress for the formation of
a Latin American Trade Union Con-
federation, based upon the class
struggle, opened yesterday in Monte
video, Uruguay, marking another
step in the advance of the world
trade union movement toward COM
plete unity of one International of
class struggle.
At the same time, class labor
union centers are in the process of
construction in the industrial CEN
ters of the United States. The Trade
Union Educational League has sent
two fraternaI delegates, including
a Negro worker, to the congress.
First Steps Taken.
An initial meeting of Latin Amer
lean trade union representative
took place in Moscow at the tenth
anniversary of the October Revolu-
tion, on larger scale than was pos
sible in any of the Latin American
countries. There a common plat
form in the united struggle against
Yankee imperialism and its agent
in the labor movement, the Pan
American Federation of Labor, dom
mated by the reactionary American
A. F. of L. officials and Morones,
the Mexican Gompers of the GROIN,
was decided upon.
The common policy was further
formulated and organizational steps
for the formation of the new center
were taken at later conference III
April, 1928, at which a Provisional
Committee was formed to issue the
call to the Latin American prole-
tariat for the formation of the Latin
American Trade Union Conference.
The Agenda.
The following agenda was out
lined for the Montevideo congress:
/. The Report of the Provisional
Committee on the work done; 2, the
fight against Yankee and British
imperialisms and against the in
terror reaction; 3, the attitude to-
ward the Pan-American Federation
Of Labor; a, the Program of Econ
omic Demands; 5, Trade Union
Unity, National and International;
G. Problems of immigration and
Emigration; 7, the Problem of the
Continued on Page TVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
CAN'T FIX CHARGE
ON N. ]. CRATER
Ignore Rivals Appeal
for Contempt"

TRENTON, N. j., May 21.-The
Hague machine triumphed again
over its republican rivals with the
ruling by Nee-C Chancellor John j.
Fallon that Freel1 Hague, demo-
cratic mayor of Jersey City, could
not be punished for contempt.
The appeal arose out of Hague's
ignoring the subpoena of the Case
legislative Investigating" commit
tee, now known as the McAllister
commission, which at it's last ses-
sions proved by testimony from over
300 witnesses, recorded in thousands
of pages of evidence, that Hague
and his henchmen had made thou
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
MINERS ELECT
DELEGATES FOR
UNITY CONGRESS
.221 Delegates Already
Assured; Unorganized
Will Send Additional
Convention Endorses 1t
Mine Youth, Women to
Be Represented

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 21.-The
fighting miners, whose experience
of years of struggle against the coal
barons and the labor takers in their
ranks has convinced them of the
necessity of establishing a new trade
union center to really represent the
interests of the workers in the
mines, mills and factories, are rally
ing to the support of the Trade
Union Unity Congress to be held in
Cleveland and will send more than
two hundred delegates to Cleveland
to help establish such a center, ac-
cording to an announcement today
by the National Office of the Ma
tional Miners Union, 119 Federal St.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
New Committees.
All over the country, the miners
organized in the National Miners
Union are holding meetings and
electing their delegates, direct from
the mine.
The response to the call upon the
miners to support the Trade Union
Unity Congress may be judged by
the fact that even in localities where
no local unions of the National
Miners Union are as yet in existence,
the unorganized miners are forming
organization groups to select repre-
sentatives to Cleveland.
This is particularly true in the
previously unorganized territory of
Observation-Disclosures, Westmore-
land, Fayette and Greene Counties
in West Virginia and in the Southern
mining territory.
Information to hand so far, which
is not yet complete for the unorgan-
lied groups, indicates that the
miners will be represented by 221
delegates at the Trade Union Unity
Congress, which will be distributed
as follows:
From local unions and District
Executive Boards, 201; National
Executive Board of the N. M. u, s.;
National Youth Section of the N. NJ
u, 5; Ladies Auxiliary Section of
the N. M. u, 10.
This number will undoubtedly be
increased as more unorganized
Continued on Page Tl0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
SENATORS HEAR
textile BOSSES
BUT NO STRIKERS
Scabs in Elizabethton
Fake Some Shooting

WASHINGTON, May 21.-The
senate committee on manufacturers.
which has been going through the
form of taking public testimony on
the Wheeler resolution for senate
investigation of starvation among
southern textile workers and strik-
crs, concluded it's hearings last
night, without listening to any of
the real strikers at all. 1t heard
representatives of the strikebreak-
ing United Textile Workers Union,
and it gladly gave the floor and
abundance of time to the manufac-
turers. 1t listened politely to Paul
Blanshard of the new fake liberal
group of union officials and editors.
Blanshard told them the wages, to
be sure, were low in the south, but
the housing was not so bad, better
than workers in the north enjoy.
Shut Strikers Out.
The delegation of Gastonia strik-
ers, which arrived a week ago in
Washington to testify to the real
conditions, got the door slammed
in its face. AS soon as it became
known that they were in town the
committee adjourned and did not re-
sumo sessions until after they had
gone back to their North Carolina
picket lines.
On resumption of hearings, the
committee listened to the sort of
evidence it really wanted to hear.
Bosses Talk at Length.
Ralph V, Reece, assistant super
intendent of the Bemberg mills at
Elizabethton, said the strikers had
rothing to strike about; A. w.
Smith, president of the Brandon
mills, where there was a spontane-
Gus strike, said the workers were
unjustifiably prejudiced against the
speed-up system which the need for
profits made necessary for him to
install; H. A. Ligon, president of
the Mills No. and Arcadia mills
in South Carolina, declared he was
always good and kind to his work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
Striker Tells Story.

BALTIMORE, Nd, May 21.-The
actual state of affairs in the Gas
tonia strike and in the mills before
the strike was related to a workers
mass meeting, held under the aus
pices of the National Textile Work
ers Union here yesterday and the
Workers International Relief. Will
liam Bledsoe spoke and appealed for
all workers to rally to the call of
the Workers International Relief
and gather funds for the feeding
and clothing of the Gastonia strik-
ers and their wives and children.
Bledsoe stated: people in the
south have been working their days
away without getting anywhere.
Parents have been unable to give
their children an education. Sons
and daughters go into mills at the
Continued on Page T1Oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
BOYD SAYS NEEDS
NO MARTIAL LAW
Senate Comm. Hears
Bemberg Bosses

ELIZABETH, Tenn, May 21.-
Adjutant- General Boyd today an
nounced that he was not Immediately
applying for declaration of martial
law. He felt that the five companies
of militia there now, deputized as
sheriffs, but using their national
guard uniforms, rifles, bayonets, tear
gas bombs, hand grenades, machine
guns and other artillery can club
and shoot the strike to pieces with
out the formal declaration of martial
law.
The cases of more strikers ar
rested in the latter part of last week
Continued on Page TWo) az
Il. - -. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
A00YERS TARIFF TO BAR REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS
Party District Organizers
Endorse COmintern Address
Join with the Unanimous Action Taken by the
Political Committee

of
selves the
International to the membership of the Communist
U. S. A. Abram Jaa organizer Pittsburgh;
Ball. district organizer Benjamin.
ganizer Philadelphia Norman Taenire, organizer
in Detroit.
JAKIRAS TELEGRAM FOLLOWS.
Il fully endorse COminern letter and Polcom decisions and
have begun yesterday decisions become
win membership for unqualified endorsement
Thursday.-A. Jakira."
Balls TELEGRAM FOLLOWS.
"COmntern letter indicated clearly and sharply ECCI
mnatiOn smash factions eliminate
aniComnern methods of faction fighting
correct line for Party replacing incorrect line both
convinced
broader leadership nOnfaiOna Definitely dis
Approve strongest against vacas opponents
intern letter Will do all mobilize membership
Alex Bail"
BENJAMINS TELEGRAM FOLLOWS.
Gas loyal in our revo-
uonary international leadership pledge
support for the final decision ECC This decision excludes all
of
points, lays basis which Party forward
pered by of old faconal considerations the
tasks which
Live Party Long
ternational-Herbert Benjamin"
TALLENTIRE'S TELEGRAM FOLLOWS.
urge in leadership and its pro
rank and file elements reservedy
do the decision of Communist Innationaboth
organzatona political Implications
modified the spirit of this latest decision build
Party of Communism without
tonal grouping As of the longest
faction pledge
the Central Committee the line
mist Party of America.-Norman H. Talentire
kilograms the
decisions of Committee adopted unanimously by the
Political Committee Saturday May 49, accepting endorsing
the COmntern address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
Otis Company Fears SHOP
Paper; Plans to Hire Spies

YONKERS, N. Y, May 21.-
Proof that the awakening of the
$500 workers at the plant of the
Otis Elevator Co. here and their
establishment of a fighting shop
paper, the Otis Lift, under Com
munist leadership, has struck fear
into the Otis bosses, is given in a
letter to the Otis Co. from the
Eagle Detective Agency.
After failing to halt the Otis
workers through using the local po-
lice to terrorize the May Day meet
ing of the workers, the Otis Com
pany, evidently begin bidding for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-22
BERLIN WORKERS .
IN BIG PROTEST
Hold Meet in Spite of
Prohibition
(Wireless By "Inprecorr"


BERLIN, May 21.-The workers
of Berlin demonstrated against the
killing of 27 of their comrades by
the police of the social-democratic
police chief Zorgiebel during the
May Day demonstrations and de-
manded his removal, despite the gov
ernment ban on the meeting.
The demonstration took place in
Frankfurter Alice on Saturday and
was marked with severe collisions
with the police.
The appeal of Gregor Grossman,
Berlin correspondent of the Moscow
'Pravda," against Zorgiebel's order
that he be expelled from Germany
because of his reports of the May
Day events, has not yet been re-
piled to.