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$500 OBTAINED BY
union RACKETEER
Amalgamated Official
Pockets Strike Tax
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favor and 10 against. The other
workers did not vote, for fear they
would lose their jobs or otherwise
be Disseminated against by the
Amalgamated clique.
Two additional hand pressers, who
have been hired by J. Friedman,
will have to be paid out of the wages
of the other pressers in the shop,
according to an agreement the firm
has with the union. The Amalga-
mated agreed that the price for
pressing would not exceed a certain
amount, and all additional pressers
would be paid from money deducted
from those already working.
Workers of the Friedman shop
yesterday pointed out that this
agreement, made without the knowl-
edge of the workers, means that the
firm will receive more production for
the same amount Of money, at the
same time reducing the wages of
the individual workers to as low q
level as the firm desires, as each
additional presser engaged means a
general reduction for the other
presSerS
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WANT INDUSTRIAL.
LAUNDRY UNION
Sentiment Strong for
Organization

Widespread sentiment for the
establishment of a Laundry Work
ers' Industrial Union is to be found
among the laundry workers of this
city, according to a statement is
sued yesterday by the Laundry
Workers Section, Trade Union Edu-
cational League.
The statement points out that
delegates, representing Is laundries
were at the Second Metropolitan
Area Trade Union Unity Conference,
held at Irving Plaza on Tuesday
night. These included delegates
from several laundries which have
agreements with the Laundry Dri-
vers' Union, Local $40, affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor.
Among the open-shop laundries
that had delegates at Tuesdays con-
ference were several of the largest
in New York, the statement con-
tinues. They included the National
Laundry, Carolyn Laundry, Sterling
Laundry, Bronx Home Laundry,
and the Independent Laundry.
All laundry workers who are in
terested in the unionization of the
unorganized laundry workers are
urged to communicate with the
Laundry Workers Section, Trade
Union Educational League, Room
205, 1928 Union Square, New York
CitV,
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Brownsville Tenants
Holding Mass Rally
At Eight Tonight

A mass meeting to rally Browns
vile tenants against high rents, bad
housing and for an increase in
wages will be held at 1874 Watkins
ST., Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock tonight
under the auspices of the Browns
vile Tenants League.
The speakers will be Frederick
Makel president, American Negro
Labor Congress and Communist
candidate for alderman, 33rd dis
trict; Rebecca Grecht, Communist
candidate for alderman, 5the district
and election campaign manager of
the Communist Party, New York
district; Richard B. Moore, presi-
dent, Harlem Tenants League, and
Grace Campbell, vice-president,
Harlem Tenants League. Harold
Williams will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-23
Do Bosses Bidding.

In return for small favors from
the shirt manufacturers, the Shirt
Makers Section of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union has writ
ten to Gov Roosevelt, requesting
that no shirts be manufactured in
any prisons in this state. The union
has made this request to the Tam
many Hall governor on the sugges-
ton of the shirt manufacturers,
who, nevertheless, will continue to
have most of their shirts made by
open shops in small towns of New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Militant shirt workers yesterday
stated that the shirt manufacturers
are using the right wing controlled
union as an instrument to secure
more profits, but no advantages for
the mass of shirtmakers. Instead
of appealing direct to the governor
against convict labor being used,
the manufacturers called upon their
ally, the right wing union official
dom, who made the appeal to Roose-
welt, to create the impression that
the unionized shirtmakers would
would gain if the manufacturing was
not allowed to continue in the state
prisons.
The manufacturers have agreed
not to send any work to prisons, but,
instead, promised to have it done
by members of the union. While
some of the cutting will be done by
union members in New York City,
the bulk of the actual finishing will
be done in non-union shops in the
small towns.
Many manufacturers employ union
cutters in New York, and non-union
operators in the outlying sections.
The union is not making any at
tempt to organize the operators,
whose average wage is $14 to SIG
a week for long hours under an in
tense speed-up.
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NEEDLE union
G.E.B. TO MEET
Sessions Tomorrow and
Sunday
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York, Boston, Philadelphia, Newark,
Baltimore. Chicago and other mid
western cities, the Pacific Coast and
representative of the Industrial
Union of Needle Trades Workers of
Canada.
To Take Up Important Questions.
The agenda for the meeting in
cludes discussion of questions of
major Importance to the needle
trades workers. The discussion will
consider the conditions of the work
ers as result Of the campaign
against them conducted by the en-
ployers and the scab International
Ladies Garment Workers IE:licn and
the strikebreakjng International Fur
Workers Union, which has resulted
in extensive contracting, piece-work,
speed-up, reduction of wages and
unemployment.
The sessions will formulate pol
icies to be foil owed by the union to
meet the conditions resulting from
the united front of the bosses and
the company unions against the
workers. 1t will also elect delegates
to the National Trade Union Unity
Conference to be held in Cleveland,
Aug. 81, and take up the question
of rallying the needle trades workers
in support of the 16 Gastonia
strikers and strike leaders who go on
trial for murder in Charlotte, N. c.,
on Monday.
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BAKERY union
DONATES $1,000

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and Gastonia Defense and Relief
Drive, and in the meantime to ad-
vance $1,000 from the union treas
ury while the assessment on 1900
members is being collected.
In addition to this, the motion was
carried to close the doors and take
up a collection, which brought in
$64.30 which the membership re-
quested be sent Immediately to Gas
tonia for the relief of the women
and children.
One thousand dollars, which Bak-
ers' Local 3 advances to help save
10 militant workers from the electric
chair, is an indication of splendid
working class solidarity and of the
tremendous untapped support thru
out the ranks of the workers in
unions and fraternal organizations.
Others Should Do Likewise.
The membership of the local union
showed a tremendous interest and
enthusiasm in carrying forward the
great fight against the textile mill
barons' conspiracy to continue the
struggle to organize the unorganized
in the South under the leadership
of the National Textile Workers
Union, and expressed concretely
their determination to support to the
limit the struggle to save 10 mill
tant fighters from the electric chair
when the trial reopens on Monday,
Aug. 26.
This response to the appeal made
by Harriet Silverman, secretary, Lo-
cal New York, Workers Interna-
tional Relief, and Bertha Crawford,
a Gastonia striker, should be broad
cast as an example to all other
workers organizations to follow.
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Sunday, the 25th, meeting will be
held at San Francisco, Musicians
Hall, 230 Jones St., when Mother
Bloor. will be the principal speaker
and movies of Gastonia will be
shown.
A mass meeting will be held in
Washington, D. c., Aug. %, when
H. M. Wicks will be the speaker.
Other Meetings.
Youngstown, o., will also demon
strate at Sacco-Vanzetti- Gastonia
mass meeting, Sunday, at 2 p. M,
in the Workers Hall at 1870 Wicks
Ave.
Speakers from Philadelphia, in
Guiding Rudolph Shohan, of the
Young Communist League, and
Stephen Graham, Of Portsmouth,
Va, will speak at the mass meeting
in Portsmouth, Va, and Norfolk,
Va, on Monday, Aug. 26.
The latest reports from Califor-
MIA are that Mother Bloor held
successful meetings in Santa Bar
bara on the 10th; San Pedro, the
goth; Los Angeles, the 21st. She
will speak today at San Diego. in
Oakland at 6449 Benvenue Ave, to-
night land in Los Angeles. Sunday.
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Jersey CAR men
FIGHT LEADERS

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most of the trolley and bus men are
forced to put in from IL to 10 hours
day to get credit for nine hours
work, since they are laid off in the
rush hours.
The revolt is not confined to the
trolleymen, of course. 81 get as
cents an hour for a ten-hour day.
That's why l want to see a strike"
car washer said yesterday"
Organization Of car barn COM
mittees to demand militant strike
action for the 25 per cent wage in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-23
WORKERS SCHOOL
BIG ROLE
IN CLASS WAR
Special Courses TO
Trade UniOnists

The Workers School, 1928 I'm
ion Square, which has just announc-
ed it's fall opening for September
80, registration to begin on Sept -
enters upon it's seventh year Of ser
vice to worker-students with a. rec
ord of steady growth from some
five or six classes in 1924-25, with
a total registration of less than 100
students, to a total of 100 classes
in 1928-29, offering over 70 courses
to a student body of over 1900.
The Workers School is more than
training school for active par
Elephants in the labor movement; it
is a part of the labor movement.
1t supplies speakers for strike meet
ings and organizers for unorganized
workers. It's student body, and the
school as an institution, participat-
ed in such campaigns as the fight
for Sacco and Vanzetti, for Miners
Relief, and the struggle against i'm
perialist war. 1t has stimulated
workers education in the trade un-
ions Of New York and many other
cities, and cooperated with work
ers' fraternal organizations and va
rious workers clubs in the estab-
lishment Of classes.
For the 1929-30 sessions, the
Workers School has arranged a Sc
ries of group courses, especially de-
signed to train groups of workers
for leading positions in their chosen
fields of work. Such classes will be
held for trade union groups, for
Negro workers, women workers,
Latin American workers, young
workers, Young Pioneer leaders
and Communist Party functionaries.
Glasses for Trade Unionists.
The school offers a group course
to trade union workers designed to
train and develop active workers
for leading positions and effective
service to workers organizations.
For such workers the following
courses have been arranged: His
tory of American Labor Movement
and Choice Of Fundamentals of
Communism or Principles of Marx
ism.
Also choice Of Theory and Prac-
tise of Trade Unionism; Lessons OF
New York Strike Struggles, and
American Trade Union Problems.
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CASTOR WOMEN
DE ENDANTS A T
CHARLOTTE MEET
Oehler Scores U.T.W.
Betrayal at Marion

Continued from Page One)
day night, two days before the trial
opens, for huge international La
DO Defense rally, and demand free
dom for the IS, the Manville-Jenckes
attorneys now representing the state
insist be put to death, and the ten
others for whom they demand long
penitentiary terms.
The principal speakers will be
Vera Bush, Sophie Melvin and Amy
Schechter who will return here by
then. D. E. Macdonald and Robert
Litoff, who will face trial along with
five others in Gastonia, Oct. Is, on
charges of assault with secret
weapons with intent to kill, and
Dewey Martin and Hugo Oehler will
speak for the National Textile Work
ers Union, and tell about the grow
ing struggle that the terrorism of
mill operators and police have not
been able to stem. Scott Nearing,
prominent lecturer, and Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, representative Of the I. L.
D. will also speak.
Hear MiIvin.
At the first National Textile
Workers Union meeting ever held in
Wake Forest, N. c., last night, more
than 500 textile workers heard
Sophie Melvin tell about the unions
program for struggle. A local union
will be organized here within few
days, organizers state.
The night before. Franklinton mill
workers heard Melvin, Binnie Green,
14-year-old but already a textile
worker of years experience and
Robert Litoff, one of the defendants.
Other meetings were held in Hender-
son, Gastonia, Bessemer City, and
scores of other mill towns.
Meetings in Kannapolis, Green's
vile and Hickory were arranged by
the newly established sub-district
office in Greensville, S. c., which
William Murdoch and a corps of
local organizers are using as a union
center for that state. Many Of the
meetings are held under the joint
Ihuspices of the union and l. L. D.
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crease is urged by locals Of the
Trade Union Educational League.
For distributing T. U. E. L. leaflets
outside the Carpenters Hall yester-
day, Joseph Shift and Abe kirsch-
baum were fined one dollar. They
were subsequently dismissed on
parole.
eve know what we want and we
are going to get it." over 200 mem
bers of local ten had shouted at
Harry Jones, local president, as they
left the hall in disgust. With the
Mayor Of Newark and the Public
Service general manager, Jones Of
ficiated-that means fixing" the
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street car workers say-at the open
ing of the ballot.
In the traditional A. F. of L..
style, Jones denounced the militant
stand of the men as being engineered
by "Reds." "Our whole organization
has been built up by arbitration"
he said, to refuse it would be fatal,
and especially as it is offered by
the company itself.
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Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra.

The orchestra, under the leadership
of Jacob Schaefer, is preparing for
it's sixth annual concert, to take place
in Town Hall next April, and invites
workers who play the mandolin to
join. Exceptional players will be in
Quoted into the orchestra; others will
receive instruction in the classes now
being conducted. The club rooms,
106 e. 14th St, are open Mondays and
at 500 D. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-23

FinaI meeting OF the summer COm-
mittee takes place $50 p. m, Tues
day Aug. 81, at the Workers Center,
&c Union So, 9Th floor. Arrange
ments will be made for the opening
of the 1929-3o season on Sept. and
the presentation of our first play,
white Trash" dealing with the Gas
tonia strike.
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Raise FUNDS TO
Send DEL. ECATES
TO UNITY MEET
Gary, West Frankfort
Plans Meets
Continued from PAGE One)

at the conference towards the $4,000
drive, which, according to the deci-
sion Of the body, will be payable to-
day.
Two Headquarters.
Because the work of the Metro
politan Area is broadening out to
reach more and more of the unor-
ganized workers within its district,
the conference made provision for a
headquarters in New Jersey, and
larger quarters for the head office
in New York City.
SAFER announced at the conference
that a workers defense corps has
been organized to protect picket lines
from gangsters, whether they appear
in uniform or plain clothes, and
urged the young workers especially
to join.
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The Scandinavian Workers Clubs
of Brooklyn and New York are ar
ranging an outing by bus to the big
summer festival in Bridgeport, Conn,
which the Scandinavian Workers
Club there is holding on Sunday,
Sept l. Every worker who wishes
to go along should send his name and
address to Bert Carlson, 1877 e. seth
St, New York. All welcome.
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GARY, Ind, Aug. 22.-The Lake
County Trade Union Unity Confer
ence will be held in Gary, a steel
center on Aug. rs. Delegates were
elected by shop committees in many
industries, but steel mill representa-
tives will predominant, it is expected.
WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Aug.
22.-The National Miners Union is
calling a youth conference here on
Aug. Is, five days before the Cleve-
land Trade Union Unity Conference
opens. Problems facing young work
ers in the coal fields and other in
dustries will be discussed, and a
program of offensive against them
will be drawn up and presented in
Cleveland, Aug. 81.
ASHLEY, Pa, Aug. %. - Two
delegates to the Cleveland Conven-
ton were elected by the anthracite
miners of the Ashley pit. When a
mass meeting was called by the
Trade Union Educational League a
week ago, police arrested Anthony
| Minerich, organizer of the National
Miners Union, an affiliated union of
the 7. U. E. L., and held him until
the meeting was dispersed.
Another meeting was called yes
terday which elected the delegation.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. o.
Credentials for rs delegates have
already been received by the Trade
Union Educational League head
quarters, from unions and shop COM
mittees. Rubber, steel and coal mine
workers are listed among them.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. pa dele
cation to the Cleveland Trade I'm
ion Unity Convention was elected
at a meeting of stockyard workers
here, called by their shop commit
tee. Eight new members were add
ed to the shop committee at the
meeting.
William z. Foster, secretary
treasurer of the Trade Union Edu-
cational League, whose name is
signed to the convention call read
az the meeting, is we'll known to
stockyard workers as secretary of
the committee which built up mass
organization in the stockyards in
1918. Since then the organization
which was in the hands of the A. F.
of L., fell to pieces and conditions
and wages in the stockyards are at
an extremely low level.
Jack Johnston, T.U.E.L. national
organizer now touring the middle
west, was also a leading figure in
the stockyard workers organiza-
ton when it was at its height.
AS part Of its general campaign
to organize the unorgSnized, the
Trade Union Unity Convention
which opens on Aug. 81, will lay
plans for intensive work in this
industry.
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KILLED IN AUTO CRASH

PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. 22.-One
man was killed and two companions
perhaps hurt in an automobile COLI
sion here today.
Frank O'Brien, 40, was dead on
arrival at Maine Central Hospital.
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Communist Activities



The following outdoor election cam
paign rallies have been arranged for
Brooklyn by Section Z: Friday
Aug. %, SEQ p. m. 50th st. and Fifth
Ave: Saturday, Aug. "a, 500 D. m,
25th st and Mermaid Ave
Section Executive
All members of and candidates for
the executive committee of Section 2,
unit organizers. unit buro members.
members of all section sub-commit-
tees, will meet to discuss the thesis
of the Tenth PIenum of the c. l., Fri
day Aug. %, p. M at the Workers
Center 5th floor A representative
of the c. E. G. will be present.
Unit IA, Section .
A special meeting for the discus
sion Of the Tenth Plenum thesis will
be held Friday, Aug. %, G. 80 p. m. in
the Workers Center.
New Headquarters, See. . and =.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 26, all
units of Sections 2 and will meet at
the new headquarters, l179 Broadway,
corner of 2Sth St.
Y. c. l.. Upper Bronx
Meets at 26 Union So. tonight. $50
p. m, the Thursday meeting having
been called off because of the Sacco-
Vanzetti demonstration.
Unit If, Section =.
VIII meet tonight at the Workers
Center, 9Th floor 500 p. m, to dis
cuss the thesis of the 10th Plenum
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band and invites worker-players to
register with Comrade Cohen at it's
office, l Union So. room 606, any day
between and 6. or to send in appi-
cations by mail A meeting vii be
called as soon as a sufficient number
of players have signed up.
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$4,000 IN SACCO-
GAST0NIA NEE T
IN new YORK CITY
Workers Pied ge to
Fight Conspiracy
Continued from Page One)
sands of dollars for defense and re-
inf
Police On Hand.

Police On Hand.
AS on international Red Day, the
Tammany police were plentiful, a
Gordon of them being stationed
around the demonstration and an
other squad outside the Workers
Center.
The militant spirit Of the demon
stration was embodied in countless
banners and placards which expos
ed the hypocrisy of capitalist Gus
tice" and called on the workers to
smash this new conspiracy of the
same class that tortured and legal
ly murdered Sacco and Vanzetti
Some of the slogans carried were;
Fair Trial? That's What the
Capitalist Courts Gave Sacco and
Vanzetti"; "The Gastonia Bosses
Say All 10 Must Burn. Will You
Let Them?"; "Down with Bayonets
and Clubs against the Working
Class; Support the Fighting Tex
tile Strikers; workers, Unite,
Beat Back the Murderous Attacks
of the Bosses; Don't Let the
Change of Venue Fool YOU; Cup
hold the Right of These Workers
to Defend Themselves; Hail the
New Trade Union Center, Cleveland,
Aug. 31"; Fight to Free All Glass
War Prisoners; "The International
Labor Defense Is the Shield of the
Working Glass, Build IT,; "The
Workers international Relief Is
Your Strike Weapon, Build It."
Many Speakers.
From three platforms a large
number of speakers addressed the
demonstration, being frequently in
terrupted by cheers and outbursts
of approval. Among the speakers
were William z. Foster, Robert Mi
nor, William W. Weinstone, J. Louis
Engdahl, Max Bedacht, Alfred Wa
genknecht, H. NJ. Wicks, M. j. Oh
gin, Rebecca Grecht, Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, George Pershing, Rose
Wortis, George Maurer, Fred Bic
denkapp, Harold Williams, Solomon
Harper, Sidney Bloomfield, Harriet
Silverman, Walter Burke, Joseph
Shandler, Ruth Youkelson, George
E. Powers and Ben Intrator.
Practically all the speakers also
denounced the new attempts of the
imperialist powers of the world to
provoke war against the Soviet
Union through their militarist pup
pets in China, and pointed out the
connection between these imperialist
war plots and the attack on the
American working class represent
ed by the Gastonia case.
A resolution was adopted express
ing Revolutionary solidarity with
the workers and peasants of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies" and calling upon the workers
OF this county ito rally for the de-
feat of the new imperialist war
against the Soviet Union, the So
cialist Fatherland of the worlds
workers."
A tremendous "Aye!" greeted the
reading of the resolution which de-
manded the immediate, uncondi-
tional release of all the prisoners,
declared the right Of workers to de-
fend themselves, and pledged the
workers of New York to strive I'M
remittingly to secure the freedom
of the Gastonia prisoners.
Harry Borach, a member of the
Amalgamated Food Workers Union
was arrested while distributing leaf
lets at the demonstration. He will
be defended by the I. L. D.
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Soviet FIiers. Reception Committee.

Soviet Filters, Reception COMMITTEE,
The delegates who represented the
following organizations at the Aug.
10 conference called by the f. S. u,
are to take part in the special meet
ings as noted:
Language Groups: Friday. Aug. %,
$50 p. m, IT'S 5th Ave-, room 304,
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Fraternal Organizations
ScIf-EducntinnnI CImI

party for Saturday Aug. "a. 500 p. m.
at 1874 Watkins St.
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Harlem Dance.

The Harlem Progressive Club will
give it's fourth summer dance this
Saturday Aug. "a, in its club rooms
at 1892 Madison Ave. A good jazz
band has been booked for the eve
ming. All workers welcome.
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workers school Volunteers.

The Workers School needs volun-
teers to do work the office in prep
aration for the fall term. All COM
rades who are unemployed, on vaca-
ton, or who have any spare time
whatsoever are asked to report at
the Workers Center, 5th floor. No
knowledge of office work is neces-
sary.
Brownsville /. l.. ID. Concert.
The Brownsville Branch 1. l.. D.,
has arranged a concert and package