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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

one-fourth of all oficial world records
ere held by the Studebaker President
Eight in addition to more international
and world records combined than any
other stock automobile, according to a
tabulation by the Revue Internationale
de 1Automobile, official organ of the In
ternational Automobile Association of
Recognized Automobile Clubs of Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

The Temple Corporation has Just
signed contracts for the construction
of huge new plant In the clearing in
dustrial district here that will provide
sufficient space to permit the manufac-
ture of 100000 radio receivers per year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

Increase in warehousing facilities Of the
Walthal Radio Corporation, a subsidiary
made at once. Simon Wexler, president of
the latter organization, announced today.
The Wathal stores operate in the greater
Friday Saturday and Monday. Walthars
sold 100000 worth Of radio merchandise;
This, according to Mr.. Wexler, is unusual
dull months in the trade, the low period
being reached in August. Walthal sales
forces are being increased to meet the
products.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

Ell PAso, Tex, Aug. 2l.-A Detroit
the first scheduled trip north inaugural
ing air mail and passenger route from
Mexico City to FL Paso In seven hours
and thirty minutes. with stops at Torreon
$50 miles per hour, thus establishing
record time between both cities. also speed
record for commercial lines on this CONT
nent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

More than 100000 cubic feet of nat
for heat and power use at the Fairfax
Airport in Kansas City, 1t was an
nounced yesterday by Mark w. Woods;
chairman of Fairfax AirportS, Inc, and
president of Woods Brothers Corp. The
gas is supplied by nine wells on the
airport property and Is now being. used
to generate power in the score of air
plane factories and flying schools at the
terminal. This is the only airport in
the world which has such an immediate
source of power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-21

Profits of the Lion Oil Refining Com
pany, of FL Dorado, Ark, for the first
Seven months Of 1929 were eleven times
greater than for the same period last
year According to Col, T. H, Barton,
depreciation and depletion but before
federal taxes, while in the seven months
of 1928 they we're only S63,779, after de-
taxes In July the earnings we're $40, 1853,
after depreciation and depletion but be-
fore federal taxes, with no comparison
available,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
q Reich Miners
dead IN BLAST

BRESLAU, Germany, August l.
A coal dust explosion 1850 feet be-
low the shrface of the ground in a
mine at Niederhermsdorf, in lower
Silesia, killed "a men and injured II,
at least 10 of whom were in seri-
Gus condition tonight.
The men were not injured by the
explosion but were killed by a great
flame which covered a 400 foot area
and generated poison gas.
The accident, whcih was at the
Friedenshofftung colliery, occurred
at 7 p. m. last night but was not
known outside of the scene of the
disaster until hours later, due to the
precautions of the owners in the
guise of rescue efforts.
The flame and gas instantly killed
% men, the bodies being recovered
by rescue parties about eight hours
after the explosion Twelve injured
men were removed from the mine,
and one Of them died later.
The others were in very critical
condition, mine officials admitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
ohe Central Executive Committee Of the Communist Party
the War Danger and the Tasks Of the Communist Party

tervention against the Soviet Union,
must organize especially in this sit
uation. Similarly, districts like Con-
necticut, which are large centers for
the manufacture of munitions, must
concentrate on the building of fac
tory nuclei in thees large plants like
the Remington Arms, Winchester
Arms, etc. Districts like Pittsburgh
and Cleveland must concentrate their
work among the steel workers and
miners. The Detroit District, where
there is the manufacture of automo-
biles and tractors and aeroplanes,
must realize the Importance of
strengthening the Party organiza-
ton through the building of nuclei
in these plants. Similarly all dis
tricts must survey the strategic
points in their territory, as, for ex-
ample, the munitions, ports, railroad
centers, ship building, aeroplane
building, chemical works, etc, and
concentrate the best forces of the
Party in these industries. Districts
like California and Kansas, which
includes the state of Texas, ETC.,
where there are large numbers Of
atin-Americans, must carry on spe-
cial work among these masses. Like
wise special attention must be given
iii those districts like New York
and San Francisco, where here are
to be found large numbers of Chi
nese and Japanese.
25. Amongst the inner Party
tasks, it is particularly important to
insure that there should be a serious
presentation Of the Communist line
on all fundamental tactical questions
Of the struggle against war both in
the Party press and in Party meet
ings so that every Party member
will become clear on the tasks of
the Party and how to mobilize the
masses in the struggle against war,
We need also a greater information
alization of the Party within its own
ranks, a concentration of the atten-
ton of the masses on international
problems, the linking up OF these
problems with the internal class
struggles. From this follows the
need for closer mutual contact be-
tween the Communist Party of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

an attempt to smother the Bolshe-
vik tactic in the struggle against
the war danger.
There has been serious failure to
carry on work in the army and
navy, and failure to create an lille
gal apparatus.
The work among Negroes has not
been enough. Our everyday propa-
ganda among the Negroes has not
been connected with the preparation
for war. There has been insuffi-
cient development of the mass work
of the Anti-Imperialist League and
in general insufficient struggle
against United States imperialism
in Latin America. There has been
a lack Of literature for mass agita-
ton on the question of the war dam
ger and ways and means to strug-
gle against it.
Lastly, discipline in the ranks of
the Party has been feeble, and
many members and organizations
have been passive,
All these and other shortcomings
must be subjected to the severest
Bolshevik self-criticism in the Party
units and Party press.
27. The war provocation of the
Chinese Government was a further
proof of the imminence of the war
danger and especially of war against
the Soviet Union. This war provo
cation should serve to call the at
tention Of the Party the necessity
of really undertaking broad cam
paign for the mobilization of all Sec
tons of the working class and the
oppressed masses a gainst imperial
list war.
international Red Day, the world
wide protest of the international
proletariat against the world war, is
not an end in itself, but must be
stage in the development of the
struggle against war, the beginning
of a systematic and broad mobili-
cation of the toiling masses against
imperialist war, for the defense of
the Soviet Union, for the struggle
against imperialism and the bour-
geoisie, for the victory of the pro-
letarian revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

gan of differentiation" At the
same time the Communists should
fight against recruiting propaganda,
against the introduction of conscrip-
ton, etc. The Party must establish
a close connection of all members of
the Party with revolutionary ele-
ments in the army and navy; it must
create Communist nuclei in the
armed forces.
%. Already Comrade Lenin indi-
Gated that 'the only possible way of
continuing revolutionary work after
the outbreak of war is the creation
of an illegal organization" But an
illegal organization is also necessary
in the struggle before the war breaks
out. The experience in a number of
countries in the struggle against the
war danger and for the August 1st
demonstrations in France, Czecho-
slovakia, Germany and Japan, fur
nishes proof of the correctness of
Lenin's teaching and the Importance
of immediate preparation of such ap-
paratus.
A general condition for the con-
tinuation of the Party's activity in
period of illegality is the immedi-
ate creation now of a whole net
work of factory nuclei through which
the Party will be able to carry on
its work, to be able to maintain its
contact with the masses. Detailed
instructions on this question will be
furnished to all districts and Party
organizations.
%. With regard to the work in
the most important districts, the
Party must know how to concentrate
on strategic points and to analyze
and distribute it's forces accordingly.
The various districts must survey
the the more important strategic
centers for the mobilization of the
masses. for example, the Party on
the Pacific coast which has a spe-
cial task to perform must strengthen
its organization in general and par
ticularly among the marine work
ers; the Seattle District in which the
workers played an important role in
sabotaging the shipment of NUM-
tons to Vladivostok during the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

bers viewed the war as something
more or less remote and not bloody
reality of today.
The Tenth Plenum of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist
international in a special resolution
on International Red Day warned
the Parties that inactivity in this
connection on the part of some ele-
ments in the Communist Parties is
an expression of general opportu-
mist tendencies bound up with their
underestimate of the war danger,
their fatalist attitude towards it,
with the underestimation of the
strength of the proletariat and the
minimizing of the role of the Com
munist Parties in the proletarian
class war"
Next amongst the defects of the
Party comes its lack of information
alism, its inability to link up the
class struggles of the workers with
international problems. This is to
be found in many of our mass or
ganizations-trade unions, auxiliary
organizations, etc. International
questions are taken up in the alb
stract and are not linked up with
the concrete struggles of the work
ers. There is also an underestima-
ton of the role of American imperi-
alism in the preparation of a war
against the Soviet Union and par
ticularly in the last provocation by
the Chinese government, and also
petty bourgeois pacifist slogans on
the question of war preparations, as
in the previous slogan of mo more
cruisers" Besides this there is a
lack of understanding that the fight
for recognition of the Soviet Union
is part of our mass propaganda
but the slogan of Recognition Of
the Soviet Union" cannot replace
our general slogans of Defeat of
American Imperialism" Secure
Victory for the Soviet Union"
Transformation of Imperialist War
into Civil War;" and so on. To put
forward the slogan of Recognition
of the Soviet Union as a chief slo-
gan of mass mobilization for the
struggle against the war signifies
a petty bourgeois, pacifist attitude,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

came to the workers and shouted:
you're going to stop, if not we are
going to break your lousy heads. "
And they started. -.
The workers courag eously
answered - stones, and bricks
thrown from the factory-came fly
ing out to Sprinkle" the beasts of
the prefecture of police"
The workers, men and women,
signified and let it clearly be I'M
derstood in this way that they in
tended not to suffer the blows of the
bourgeois police, without retaliating,
after the stool-pigeon act of the fac
tory.
With tenacity, they defended
themselves against the "sluggers"
that came to provoke and attack
them.
Until two o'clock the fight-dur-
ing which the women were always
in the front ranks-continued with
increased ardor.
The bulls arrested a few of our
comrades. They were mistreated
and beaten up odiously and ingnom-
inously in their cells - amongst
them a woman.
Reaction of the Workers.
In the factory, the enthusiasm
lasted a long time. In certain shops
on tables and boxes, workers
scandalized by the happenings made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

U. S. A. and the Communist Parties
Of Cuba, Mexico and other Latin
American countries, Canada and
Great Britain; for closer connection
with the Communist international
for special assistance to the develop
ment of the Communist Parties in
the American colonies.
fractional strife must end and Par
ty discipline must be reinforced.
Without strong discipline, without
an energetic combating of every
attempt to disrupt the unity of the
Party, the Party cannot successfully
fight against the war.
The Party must throw it's energy
into exposing the effectively coun-
ter revolutionary role of Thermidor
propaganda, of the theory of the
degeneration" of the Communist
International, and the running
sore" in the C.. I. and C. P. S. U.
1t is no accident that precisely at
the time when the international
bourgeoisie is preparing fresh at
tacks against the Soviet Union that
right wing renegades, by their prop
uganda, should try to assist the
bourgeoisie in its theological prepa-
ration for war. In this respect the
Lovestones, Brandlers, Haises and
others are typical roducts of the
third period, the product of the in
creasing pressure of the world bour-
geoisie and its Social Democracy on
the working class movement.
&c. Already in the Party's work
against war there are to be seen
various shortcomings, which must
be explained, criticized, and cor
rected.
The fundamental defect from
which the Party suffers is an I'M
derestimation of the danger of war,
and especially of the danger of war
against the Soviet Union and an in
activity arising therefrom. Even in
the period of the most acute forma-
ton of the Soviet Chinese conflict,
there were responsible Party mem
bers who proclaimed that war
against Soviet Russia is impossible
in view of the c. tradictions be-
tween American and British imperi-
alism. In general many Party mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
CltY0en SLAVES Hand French
Police a Surprise IN Fight

Citroen-Javel auto factories in
Paris.
by Worker Correspondent
PARIS (By MaiD Yesterday the
police in their usual way, tried to
arrest an African worker in front
of one of the Citroen-Javel factories.
They had to account for the mill
fancy of the workers.
One hundred or so of the bulls"
accompanied by a few jack-asses in
civilian clothes were parading in
front of the factory under the leader
ship of an "officer of the peace"
Provoking, rushing and knocking the
crowds about, they tried to have
them driven back into the plant be-
fore l o'clock.
1t was then that group of work
ers, thinking rapidly, answered,
singing the International and cry
ing loudly; Hurrah, for Marty! =.
Hurrah for the Amnesty! :.
Down with repression =.
The Fight
The "officer of the peace" then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

these are tasks to which the Party
must give the greatest attention.
20. The growing Importance of
youth in rationalized industry, the
fact that soldiers of imperiahst
armies are recruited from the South
these facts dictate policy of
the greatest attention to the devel-
opment of the Young Communist
League into a mass organization
and special attention to the organ
ization of youth in the various mass
organizations, sports, etc, working
in the bourgeois sports organiza-
lions, and working especially in
military organizations &C. M. T. c.,
etc.,. The Young Communist
League must reinforce it's work of
combating military training in the
various military training schools,
training camps, ETC., by sending in
forces into these training camps
and schools to carry on propaganda
against imperialist and capitalist
militarism. The Pioneers must in
tensify their activities against the
Boy Scouts, etc.
81. Women are more and more
drawn into industry. Nine million
women are today in the work shops
and factories of the United States.
The Party must pay special atten-
ton to work among these women.
Simultaneously the prol e ari n
housewives must be modified in the
struggle against American imperial
ism and imperialist war.
%. The Party and the Young
Communist League must energetic
ally conduct work of propaganda
and agitation in the army, navy, ma
rines and, all armed forces, formu-
lating a program of economic de-
mands and complaints (such as in
creased pay for soldiers, improved
maintenance. the establishment of
regimental committees composed of
soldiers representatives, right to
organize in trade unions, and so on,
linking up the struggle for these i'm
mediate demands with the struggle
against imperialism and the strug-
gle against imperialist war. The
general political slogan of the Party
in this propaganda must be the slo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
DEFENSE paper
BLASTS BOSSES
FAIRNESS" PLEA
Shows Gastonia Case is
Legal Lynching Bee

A torchlight shedding a flood of
light through the Shiny maze of
the bosses press in the South, is the
latest issue of the weekly Gastonia
Labor Defender.
The textile workers have already
snatched up the latest edition, which
gave the lie to the mill owners
press and their hypocritical talk of
"fair trial"
The issue, received today at the
National Office of the International
Labor Defense, room 402 at 80 E..
18th Street, N. Y, exposed the
sneaky maneuvers of the bosses and
their courts.
"The new theory put forward by
the papers, the Gastonia Gazette,
the Winston-Salem Journal and the
Charlotte News is that the sixteen
working men and women are to be
tried for murder and nothing else,"
it stated.
"They will be tried for murder
according to the law and the evil
dence" said Charlotte News with
approval of the Gastonia Gazette.
Defended Themselves
The LID. publication declares,
"The international Labor Defense
states that these workers defended
themselves, their families and their
headquarters as they had not only
a right but duty to do. Rarely
in labor history in the United States
have workers shown the patience
and the fortitude displayed by the
Loray Mill strikers and N. T. w. U.
members and organizers in the face
Of deliberate and continual brutal
attacks upon working men and vo-
men and children by police acting
directly under the instructions of
such robber corporations as the
Manville-Jencks Co. and by private
bands of thugs recruited and paid
by such a corporation"
The /. L. D. publication further
states, "The only way to save the
lives of our fellow workers and re-
store them to their places in the
ranks of the working class is to let
all workers know the issues in this
case and on the basis of the clear
issues, build protest movement so
powerful that it will stay forever
in the minds of millions of workers
any illusions as to the impartial
character of the courts and all other
agencies of capitalist government"
Help Called
And the vehicle through which
this can be achieved is the Gastonia
Defense and Relief activities-un-
swerving support of the Information
al Labor Defense and the Workers
International Relief.
Today and tomorrow, the work.
ers Of the country must descend into
the streets with the collection boxes
for Gastonia and swell the funds
by thousands Of dollars. These boxes
can be obtained at. the National
Office of the I. L. D., 80 E. 18th
Street, room 402 or at the district
office.
Thousands of names Of protest
for the petition are arriving there
daily. With the delay in the trial,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

spontaneous speeches.
Starting today, using this incl
dent, Citroen will try without douot
to fire the best workers, the most
militant-the ones that didn't like
to "cash-in" without paying back.
Against this the women workers
in every shop will form their shop
committees, and constitute their
groups Ct "auto-defense."
We will not permit the firing of
single one amongst u.s.
We will continue to lead the fight
in the factory!
To protest against this new ag-
gression we will assist at the Con-
ference of factories that will soon
take place, against the rationaliza-
ton, the repression and for the i'm
mediate liberty of the workers ar
rested. We will prepare this way
the international Red Day the First
of August.
-CITROEN SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

The French imperialist author
tiles have been thoroly scared by
the great preparations for August
First, International Red Day, be-
ing made by the French workers
under the lead of the Communist
Party. They have begun a cam
paign of terror against the Com
munist Party and the militant
workers which the Party leads.
Hundreds have been thrown into
Jail, and terrorization goes on in
he factories in an attempt to crush
in advance the August First
Demonstrations. Read below a let
ter from a worker in the huge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

The GastOnia Textile Workers
trial began July %! Twenty-three
workers face electrOcutiOn or
prison terms! Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week Ju. 27-August 3! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
international Labor Defense, so
East 18th Street, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

the working class can go far above
the goal of million and shower
Governor 0. Max Gardner with these
evidences of working class soli-
darity.
Remember the $4,000 defense
fund!
Remember the 100000 members
for the l. L. D. by the end of the
trial!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

Citroen-Javel auto factories in
Paris.
The Washington times., 1929-11-27
Buried City Yields
Home a Brew
Barley

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-Three
lots of barley, about 5000 years
old, which may have been part
Of a stock used by ancient Su-
merianS in brewing homemade
beer, have been eXcavated from
the ruins of the buried city of
KiSh by the Field Museum
Oxford University Joint EXpe-
dition to Mesopotamia. They
are now in the collections of
the Field Museum of Natural
History. =
The barley was. found by
Henry Field, assistant curator,
of physical anthropology, who
for a time was member of
the expedition, in a jar in a
room of an ancient building
which had been burned. The
grain is charred but still recOg-
nizable. and its authenticity
has been certified by five
United States Government
grain specialists. -
The Washington times., 1929-11-27
M 'MANUS TRIAL
PICKS Up

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 0.N.SD.-
Nathan L. Raymond. known as
Niger Nate" and another gam
bier or two are scheduled to inject
little pep" into the trial Of
George McManus for the murder
of Arnold RothStein.
Raymond is the big shot"
gambler to whom RothStein owed
upward of $500, 900, lost in a poker
and high-Spade game in which
McManus participated. This game
took place less than two months
before "A. r." was shot in the
Park Central on the night of No
Vember 4, 1928. 1t is the States
contention that this no limit"
game led to a gamblers feud
which precipitated the shooting Of
RothStein.
Today, the McManuS trial Is
catching up where it left off last
week. The illness Of Eugene A.
Riker, a salesman, Juror number
two" necessitated the selection
yesterday of a new juror, Edwin
A. Shotwell, automobile salesman.
Judge Charles c. Mott, jr.. con-
cerned over charges that one OF
the jurors talked about the Roth
stein case to two newspaper men
in Greenwich Village night
club, has warned the jury again
not to discuss the case with any
body
He abSOlved the juror in ques-
ton, Norris B. Smith, rebuking
the press in SO doing for annoy
ing" the jurymen. The judge
pointed out that it has been
necessary only in four major
murder cases as far as he knew
in the last 80 yearS-the Thaw,
the Becker and two other cases
to SequeSter the jury and he
hopes it will not be necessary in
this case.