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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

Union and register their sentl-
ment for a strike.
From the storm of indigna-
ton aroused among the thousands
of textile operatives here, over the
dismissal from work and the sub
sequent eviction from their homes
of 60 members of the union local,
it is highly improbable that any
ether decision than that of immedi-
ate strike action will result from
the meeting.
Union Worked Quietly.
Working quietly for a period or
ganizing the locals of the union, the
National Textile Workers Union is
now preparing to come out into the
open to lead the workers in strug-
gle against the slavery conditions in
the mills.
The discharge of 60 union mem.
bers and the eviction of their fam.
lilies from the company houses was
the signal for this open struggle.
At the meetings of the locals ot
the union, held separately, demands
were worked out for presentation al
the mass meeting tomorrow. While
the principal demand is the eight
hour day, union leaders are plan
ming to ask for a wage increase OF
so per cent, thereby drawing atten.
ticn to the inhumanly low wages OF
the workers here. Adult workers
are receiving maximum wages Of
$11 and $12 week.
In Touch With Other Plant.
Definitely challenged, the Left
wing National Textile Workers
Union intends to take up the chal.
lenge and is already in close toucl
with the other plant of this com.
pany located about 10 miles away.
From the wave of strikes that
has been sweeping the South in the
last few weeks, the belief gains
ground that any organized struggle
for the improvement of conditions
may easily become general anc
spread far and wide till it includes
tens of thousands.
That the mill barons are fright
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
DENY DROPPING
I'm ALONE CASE
Justice Dept to Press
Conspiracy Charges

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Jus-
tice department officials said today
they had no information that con-
spiracy charges would be dropped
against Captain Thomas Randell
and his crew of seven captured
when coast guard boats sunk the
schooner I'm Alone, as reported in
New Orleans.
Members of the crew of the Cana
dian rum runner, sunk a week ago
today by the coast guard cutters
Walcott and Dexter after trail
ing 200 mile chase, are to be ar
raigned Tuesday before Commission
er Reginald Carter, Jr.
AS yet the French ambassador
here has not received instructions
from his foreign office, but it is
reported that an apology may be
demanded from the American gov
ernment. The French government
entered the case through the fact
that the seaman drowned in the Pm
Alone sinking was a French citizen.
1t is believed that the Canadian gov
ernment will be permitted to press
charges first on the basis of the Of
ficial report from Washington.
LONDON, March 29.-The weekly
British reviews give their most
prominent space to the "I'm Alone
sinking and many of them assume
a belligerent tone and announce it
has serious international complica-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
WOLL APPROVED
ANT|-STRIKE LAW
Company Unions Will
Make Binding Pacts

Matthew Woll made no effort to
change the present form of the
anti-strike law to be introduced into
the December session of Congress
by the American Bar Association,
julius Henry Cohen, professional
class collaborationist and attorney
fer big employers of labor, stated
yesterday. Cohen is chairman of
the committee of the Bar Associa-
tion, which acted in direct co-opera-
ton with Matthew Woll, vice presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor and acting president of the
strikebreaking National Civic Fed
Grafton.
Company Union Can Enslave.
The bill will establish a so-called
Federal Industrial Council" with
which all contracts made by mis-
leaders of labor like Woll with en-
ployers, shall be registered. There
after, if any member of the union
goes on strike, he will be sent to
prison by the courts for breaking the
contract, under the provisions of the
new law.
If such agreements are made by
heads of company unions, to which
men are forced to belong simply by
taking a job with the company, the
same provisions for jailing them if
they strike will be enforced.
"To the criticism that this may
favor the company union, all that
the committee can say is that the
industry must decide for itself
whether the company union is salts
factory or not" the report contin-
ues. "To the criticism that this
favors organized labor, the commit
tee answers that it neither favors
nor disfavors organized labor. Each
industry must decide for itself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Negro Women Kept
as Slaves on a
Plantation in South

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (By Mail).
"A Negro woman, Mrs. Ella Hun
ter, and her two daughters were
forcibly kept as slaves on the plan
tation owned by ]. 0. Scott, near
Benoit. This was revealed when
charges of peonage were made
against Scott.
Guards employed by Scott kept
the women from fleeing the planta-
ton. The plantations here, as
throughout the south, are described
as hell-holes for the Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
W.L.R. Opens Miners
Relief Campaign at
Film Show Tonight

A campaign for the relief of Brit
ish and American miners will be
opened at midnight tonight with a
benefit performance of "Revolt on
the Volga" at the Film Guild Gin
ema, 81 w. Eighth st.
The Soviet film depicts historic
peasant uprising against the rule of
Catherine the Great. Tickets for
the show may be obtained at the
Workers international Relief, 799
Broadway, or at the Workers
Bookshop, 26 Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
DEPORTATION MENACE
l. L. D. Exposes Tabolcsamw Decision

"The International Labor Defense
will fight to limit in this case"
declares statement issued on the
Tapolcsanyi case by the National
Office at 80 East 18th Street. The
International Labor Defense has
instructed its attorney in Pittsburgh
to file Immediately an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court
against the decisions of the district
court which revoked the citizenship
OF John Ta~ cl-sanyi, Hungarian
worker. on the grounds Of Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

Continued attempts of employers
to rationalize their industries by
cutting ages and speeding work
e-s so that they can reduce their
pay rolls has brought widespread
resentment especially in the textile
industry, and new strike wave has
gathered force during the week.
Many of the recent strikes started
as spontaneous outbreaks, without
leadership. In some of them the
United Textile Workers or similar
reactionary groups were able to in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Hoover Breaks Strike
of 1000 Rail Workers
Scheduled for Today

President Hoover has ap-
pointed a commission to Gin
vestigate" and stop the strike
of 1000 workers who voted a
walk-out on the Texas and Pa
cific road to start this morn
ing, because the company was
swindling them in various
ways. This illegal" strike
breaking was at the behest of
the railroad owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
WAVE OF NEW STRIKES
Workers Revolting Against Speedily

tervepe and betray the workers, in
others militant leadership was pro-
vided by the new unioE3 recently
organized, and victories were won
or are nearly won.
Wilkes-Barre Silk Strike.
Everyone employed on the day
and night shifts of the Wilkes
Barre Weaving Co., silk manu-
facturers, is out on strike, the mill
is picketed, and not even the United
Textile Workers agents and the two
Continued on Page Five)
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20 Hurt in British
Bridge Collapse

LONDON, March 29 U.H.-
Twenty persons were injured, some
severely, when one side of sus-
pension bridge over the Tees River
near Barnard Castle collapsed to-
day.
Persons on the bridge were
dropped % feet into the Tees
River.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
DRESS WORKERS
CHASE THUGS
ScabUnionAgentsMeet
"Obstacles"

A squad of thugs, paid employees
of the scab International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union, yesterday
tried to attack workers in Left wing
shops who had refused to go to the
scab union, and are now nursing
Jumps raised by the irate workers,
who in turn refused to be kidnapped.
Only Register Workers.
Carrying thru the usual scab
union Organization" work, the
group of gangsters had gone to COR
ganize" these Left wing shops,
which were open shop dressmakirN \
plants until the last dressmakers'
strike. All the Right wing unions
organization work consists in trying
to force registration on workers who
are enjoying union conditions in the
Left wing shops. Registration
means the blackjacking of a few
dollars from the workers.
The shops visited by the thugs
were the Academy Dress Co., and
the Goody Dress Shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
PAINTERS SEEK INCREASE.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, (By
MaiD Union painters of Chattan
ooga are demanding scale of
$1.10 an hour, a 51-2 day week,
and payment in cash, and not in
checks. A strike is planned in case
the demands are refused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
sex" EXPULSION PROTESTED.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March
29 W.D.-A letter signed by 22 state
Legislators was sent today to Judge
James E. Goodrich, president of the
Missouri University Board of Cura-
tors, charging President Stratton ID.
Brooks with "incompetency" and
with making a "jack ass" of the
state, by his action in the recent sex
QUESTIONABLE controversy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
JOBLESS, KILLS SELF.

LOS ANGELES (By MaiD I'm
able to find work for long time,
Peter Mershdorf, 81 year-"'d tailor.
committed suicide by hanging.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Lis Fate Doubtful.

SHANGHAI, China, March 29.-
Reports from Marking still leave in
ooubt the fate of Ii Chai-sum, COM
inander of Kwantung province,
when last heard of a prisoner in
Nanking. The fate of WI Tse-hui
is also in doubt.
Ii was reported to have been exc
cuted yesterday, and as the Marking
government has officially denied
this, no information can be learned
of Lii.
WI Suicide Reported.
WI, who was at first reported to
have committed suicide on learning
of the execution of Ii, whose safety
he had guaranteed, is now said to
have been imprisoned by the Nank-
ing government when he pressed too
hard for Wu's safety. 1t is said
that he is at liberty, but as in Lis
case, there is no trace of him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
munist Beliefs"
Deportation Danger.

"This decision" says the I. L. D..
statement, "is notice served by the
United States government that all
foreign born workers may be de-
ported to certain death at the hands
of foreign white guard fascists for
holding BELIEFS, and for struggle
against exploitation and oppression.
"The attempt to deport Tapolcs-
anyi can not be separated from the
Continued on Page T,0o)
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N. Y. Executive Meeting.

Announcement was yesterday
made of meeting Of all New York
members of the General Executive
Board of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union on Monday
evening o'clock, at the National
Union headquarters. The situation
in the cloak trade will be the prin-
cipal order of business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
5000 NORTH CAROLINA
TEXTILE WORKERS WILL
VOTE TODAY ON STRIKE
Left Wing Union Leads Revolt; Demand SIR.
Day. 500 Wage Increase
Negro Workers Joining Union; See Mass Strike
Wave Sweeping South

the 5000 workers employed in the Loray plant Of the Man
enckes Co., textile manufacturers, will assemble IN mass
meeting under the auspices of the National Textile WORKERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Feng Gathers Troops.

PEKING, China, March With
both Marking and Wuhan claiming
his allegiance, General Feng Yu-
hsiang is continuing to seize the
rolling stock along the Peking Han
Low railroad, it is reported from the
interior. He is also concentrating
large forces at Chengchow, juno
ton point. Whatever his participa-
ton in the Hupeh fighting, it is al
most certain that he will race with
Chang Kai-shek for the occupation
of Shantung as soon as the Japan
ese withdraw their troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
ALL China IN WAR
KUOMINT
CONGRESS ENDS
Reinforcements for the
Wuhan Troops as
Marking Gains
Feng Forces Active
Chang Pursues Army
of Liu Chen-nien

SHANGHAI, China, March 90
The third Kuomintang party con-
gress came to an end yesterday with
all China in outbreaks and the Nan
king troops reporting a victory over
the Wuhan generals on the Yangtse
river.
Reports from Hupeh province
stated that Marking forces had adj
vanced along the river from Kiu-
kiang, where severe fighting was
reported two days ago, and had cap
tured Wusueh in the direction of
Wuhan.
Large Battle Forecast.
The Wuhan generals are reported
to be sending reinforcements down
the river and a large battle is fore
cast. 1t is also said that prepara-
tions are being made for the evacu-
alton Of Wuhan, which comprises
the three cities of Hankow, WI
chang and Hanyang, while the gen
erals position would be consolidated
in Human province. The capture OF
the cities would mean the loss of
the important Hanyang arsenal.
Banks Assessed.
At the same time, reports of dis
content among the business ele-
ments in Wuhan are reported. They
are said to be aroused at the WI
han generals demands for S5,000,-
600, Mexican, for their war chest
The Chinese banks have been as
sessed $2,000,O00 and the cotton
guilds $1,500,000.
The United States gunboats Tu-
tuila and Monocacy are in the
Yangtse watching developments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
MEXICO FEDERAL
TROOPS ADVANCE
Reactionaries Fleeing
from Jininez

MAZATLAN, Sinaloa, March 20.
An engagement between federal
and reactionary insurgent troops
was expected momentarily tonight
north of Mazatlan.
The Southern Pacific Of Mexico
railroads expects to run a train
south of Mazatlan to Guadalajara
Sunday by shooflying the track.
Fifteen bridges between here and
Acaponeta have been burned, with
an estimated damage of $4,000.
Communication to the north are
indefinite, with damage estimated
at $500,000. Trains reached Mo-
desto, Sinaloa, by shooflying.
Clericals in Nogales, Sonora,
claim their force under General
Francisco Manzo is proceeding to-
ward Guadalajara after besieging
Mazatlan, and the federals hold that
the rebels are in flight northward.
MEXICO CITY, March 29.-The
Mexican federal army, commanded
by Minister of War Plutarco Elias
Gales, continued rs advance against
the reactionary insurgents on the
Sinaloa and chihuahua fronts to-
day, Gales reported to the govern
ment at noon.
Reactionaries from Jiminez were
fleeing towards Bachimba Pass,
Gales said his aviators reported.
Bachimba Pass, 80 miles from Chih-
uahua City, is the historic battle
ground of past Mexican revolutions.
Almazan Nears Escalon.
Gen. Juan Almazan's federal
troops were approaching Escalon,
which the rebels evacuated after a
short fight yesterday. Almazan
already had passed Zabalsa.
The Mexican air service still
played an important part in the ad-
vance against the clericals and land
holders today. A special aerial
squadron organized at Torreon was
dispatched from Durango to Mazat-
Ian to aid Gen. Lazaro Cardenas,
commanding federals on the Sinaloa
front. Meanwhile, airmen on the
Chihuahua front were ordered to
continue bombing insurgents re-
treating through that state.
Retreat "In Panic
The retreat of Gen. Francisco
Manzo, insurgent commander in the
state of Sonora, was described by
the minister of war as continuing
"in panic"
The governments official bulletin
today was prefaced with the remark
that Gen. J. Gonzalo Escobar and
Gen. Manzo "have decided to con-
centrate their forces at Nogales and
Ell Paso, whence everybody can hold
a reunion at Los Angeles, or else
where, on the planet"
Five Killed in Blast.
A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Five Killed in Blast.

CALEXICO, CAL, March 29.-An
unexplained explosion took five
lives and destroyed a federal am
munition building on the Packard
Ranch, five miles east of here last
night over the Mexican border.
Three Mexican soldiers and Fritz
Won Schulenberg, a German bomb
maker, and his daughter, were the
victims. Nine kegs of powder and
number of aerial bombs furnished
the material for the explosion.
Won Schulenberg Yas employed to
prepare bombs for use of federal
aviators in the present reactionary
uprising.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
FRANCE RATIFIES FAKE PACT.

PARIS, March 20 (U.PD.-The
French senate today unanimously
ratified the Briand-Kellogg anti-war
pact.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31
QUAKER PRESIDENT
WANTS CONSUMPTION

Washington-(FP)-At the request
of old Jim Good, sleek politician and
power trust lawyer, now secretary of
war, a general CONSUMPTION bill has
been introduced in the House by
Chairman James of the committee on
military affairs. While this bill bears
on its title the claim that it was of
fered "by request of the War Depart
ment," everyone who knows Jim Good
realizes that he did not take that po-
litical responsibility without getting
the explicit approval of Herbert Hoov-
err, his chief. So this CONSUMPTION bill
is not to be credited to James nor to
Good, but to the Quaker President.
Coming on the day after Mothers
Day, when reams of gush over the
mothers who "gave their sons" in the
draft were uttered by Good in a speech
at Arlington, this further move by
the administration to make conscrip
ton the appointed end of American
boys has met with sharp comment
1t is recalled that Hoover sent Gibson
to Geneva a few weeks ago to hell
wreck the discussion of disarmament
of land forces by "conceding" univer
sal peace-time military conscriptiol
for Europe. And now comes the at
tempt to drive the opening wedge in
to the American mind, which ha
hitherto scorned militarism except Il
time of war.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31
NOTHING ABOUT CON-
SCRIPTING PROPERTY

Nothing is said in this bill of con-
scripting property. And on its face
it is just a war measure, thoughtfully
prepared in time of peace. But if en-
acted into law it would at once en-
holden the military enthusiasts to Of
fer another bill, providing for COM
pulsory training, or for peace-time ac-
emulation of equipment for these
prospective soldiers. A;ad year by
year the logic of military prepared
ness would be urged, until something
similar TO the European universal
military service law, for time OF
peace, would be demanded.
If that is not the aim of the Wal
Department, why the hurry over
CONSUMPTION bill that would be enact
ed in an hour when war had been de
clared? Coupled win the Gibson as
sistance to compulsory military train
ing, at Geneva, the thing does no
look quite innocent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31
HOOVER CONSUMPTION
SAME OLD SCHEME

This Hoover CONSUMPTION scheme is
the same in general scope that has
been fought for years by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as well as
by the radical labor movement and
the pacifists. It opens the way to
militarizing all the factories, railroads,
stores, and other places of employ
ment, even though it does not refer
to any but EARNED" forces of the
United States. 1t brings under the
draft every man between the ages of
18 and 46 The President is author
lied to start the draft machinery "dur--
ing any national emergency declared
by Congress to exist, ; Mnltn d IN on ode
the immediate increase of the armed
forces of the United States"
Of course the vice-President, Con
gress. and "the officers, legislative
executive and judicial, of the United
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31
Paradise May Be Pigment; ;.
But This Sounds Like Il

london, April 5.-This IS a V''-s
for the tired business man!
picture a beautiful island-state o.
100 oersons. a climate that knows not
frost or sunstroke, common llcoilie
generously shared according 10 age
and only one months work year loi
adults. =, ;.4s ond is
lew, DC Lord Howe island, 3O0 mlle's
s,.O,oo the ~, coast of New South Wales
T. T. o - v;v;dIv described by DR.. Darnell-
9Th director of the Botanical Oar
80 IF sydney. Australia, IN an ~ at-
ticle in the "Kew Bulletin ene -
sial publication of the Kew Do'dil-0''
Gardens, London. e -.
'1Through the benevolence OF !i1.
+,,re y writes DR.. Darnell-SnllCh
obese fortunate islanders are assure'
of most comfortable existence Il
one of the most beautiful ISLANDS Il
tbe world at a minimum eXpendltur,
of their time in earning their income
The income of the island, ne goe
on r. saw. is derived wholly from tn
sale of the seed of the beautl1ul hen
bia palm, monopoly regarded as IN
nropertv of the community. Order
for the seed are obtained from man
parts of the world through board Q
: control in Sydney, and after IN
charges have been met, the proceed
: are held in trust and distribute
among the islanders in regular month
ly payments. A.
} Upon the islander attaining tn
: age of 21, he or she alike, is allotte
| 25 shares in the seed industry. Upo
reaching 81, another % shares IS a
. loted. In addition >there is an allo
ment of Is shares for each child u
: der 81 years. Thus lnan and VII
{ with four children, between them CO
5 hold total of 160 shares, which
e the maximum allowed one family.
On the basis of each share bringir
7, : in SO a year-which is the avera&
} dividend per share-the aggregate i
q come of this holding would therefor
: be $1,000 a year.
. Now listen!
: "The time taken in harvesting Il
d seed CROP" writes DIR. Darnell-Smit
IS "is only ABOUT one month out of t
d r."
C Don't crowd, gentlemen There a
:, tickets enough for all!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31
RENEGADE LENROOT
UNDER NORRIS FIRE

By Laurence Todd, Federated Press
Washington = (FP)-One of the
most stubborn and spectacular fights
of his long career is the one which
Chairman Norris of the Senate judi
ciary committee has led against the
confirmation of former Sen. Lenroot
of Wisconsin to be a member of the
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
In this struggle, made behind the
locked doors of executive sessions, the
progressive leader has drawn the line
against renegade progressives. He
has for many years denounced out
right purchase of government through
money bribesJ Now he has forced the
Senate to go on record as to the re