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The daily worker., 1929-12-24
HOW TWO WORKERS JOINED
THEIR OWN PARTY.
(Rn q Worker COrrespOndeNt)

(By q Worker COrreSpOpdent)
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-We are
looking for work. George and my
self have been doing so for the past
six weeks. George has been doing
it for more than five months be-
cause he is a laborer and am a
skilled mechanic, and he was laid
off sooner than I, and he is 20 years
older than 1 am. Maybe that's got
something to do with it too.
We stop at the Merchandise Mart
Building, the biggest of its kind un-
der contract in the world. 1t isn't
half finished yet, but took so far
some five dead and scores manned
from the workers.
We see machines working. Elec-
trio saws cutting the lumber con-
veying belts carrying the bricks and
mortar excavating machines were
digging out foundations.
l said to George, eve are not
wanted for here are the machines
doing all the work"
"Say," George says to me, "How
is it that workers have brains enough
to build nice buildings but don't
think themselves good enough to
live in them? And workers make
the machines but they don't own
them or it's products.
"Well, George, you and are both
to be blamed for we are slackers
from the Communist Party whose
program is just what you said it is
everything to the, workers that
they produce-but we like to hear
radicals talk but we don't help to
achieve what they teach u.s."
And George and l are going up to
the district office and ask to be ad-
mitted into the only Party that is
fighting for the workers only. And
when all the unemployed will do the
same the wheels of industry will
turn not for the bosses but for us
the workers.-A. S.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
Imperialist Powers
Want More Arms;
Unite Against USSR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The
fight for naval ornaments between
Japanese and United States inn
perialism, which the capitalist press
tries to palm off as friendly dis
cussions" continued yesterday in
the discussions between Stimson
and the Japanese delegation.
The conversations were kept Sc
cret. The information given out by
Stimson was in line with the Hoover
"peace" propaganda which is aimed
to cover war preparations.
s.
LONDON, Dec. 23 - Admiral
Beatty in the House of Lords de-
clared that British imperialism has
no intention of even discussing "dis-
armament" Beatty said that the
British imperialists need a vast
navy to keep the colonial masses in
slavery.
BERLIN, Dec. 23.-Great Britain
is proposing that the German capi-
talists send representative to the
London race-for- -armaments confer
ence in the capacity of an "observ-
er." An effort is being made by the
big capitalist powers to draw Ger
many closer in the alliance against
the Soviet Union, which will be one
of the main objects at the Five
Power meet on January 21.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
Fight Boss Thugs;
Build NTW IN South

had "a farmer that gave chickens to
the textile workers. The bosses have
also started the evictions this week.
Seven must hit the cold without
anywhere to go if the working class
of the whole world don't come to
their aid and show that they want
to join shoulder to shoulder and
fight a winning battle against the
bosses and their government and the
government tools, like President
Green of the A. F. of L. and his
flunkeys.
The workers told me that they
had local for 10 years in Concord
of the U.TW. and their wages were
continually cut from time to time
till the N.T.W. came South and then
the bosses knew that the time had
come for them to put fight, for
they knew what kind of union was
here and what it was for.
They knew that the N.T.W. was
for the workers and not for the
/ bosses. That is the reason that we
had such a rough time.
/ The bosses of Marion were afraid
of the N.T.W. and not the U.T.W.,
for they had made a settlement with
Hoffman and not the workers. They
knew that the workers were learning
the difference between the two
unions, that the workers could see
: the difference in the strike at Gas
tonia, N. c., and their own strike
which was like all the other strikes
handled by the U.T.W.
DEWEY MARTIN.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
Miners Stop UNIV
Scabs; p e n a ze
Zeigler M a n
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frame-up. In the Zeigler, local
some years ago, the Harrington ad-
ministration of the UNIV. District
of Illinois, sent in members of the
Ku Klux Klan and other gunmen
to raise disturbances and eject the
Left Wing leadership of the local.
During the course of this struggle
the Harrington gangsters started
shooting, and one of them killed a
Left Winger.
| No attempt was made by the
courts to punish the murderer, but
several of the Left Wing were
charged with murder and framed up,
with legal representatives of the
UNIV. aiding the prosecution.
Among others, Corbishley was SEN
fenced to prison. Paroled in ac-
cordance with the law he flung him
self back into the struggle, becom-
ing a leader of the National Miners
Union. This is now interpreted by
the state authorities as violation
of parole" They will now try to
victimize him by sending him back
to prison.
A hundred and ten of those ar
rested during early days of the pick
citing in Taylorville mines were re-
leased today on their own recog-
nizance. But four more were ar
rested today for picketing.
Need Funds.
"Scores of families are hungry
and practically destitutc. You must
act quick"
This telegram, signed by Pat
Toohey, William Boyce and Free
man Thompson, three of the leaders
of the National Miners Union, was
received yesterday by the National
Office of the Workers International
Relief. Ludwig Landy, executive
secretary of the W.I.R., has issued
call to the entire American work.
ing class to reply to this telegram
at once. Rush all funds for the re-
lief of the Illinois miners to the Ma
tional Office of the W.I.R., 949
Broadway, Room 512, New York
City.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. pa
large number Of mine delegates are
expected to attend the district con-
vention of the Trade Union Unity
League of Western Pennsylvania to
be held in this city Saturday, Janu-
ary 4, at 2 o'clock, at the McGeah
Building, GOT Webster Ave-, this
city.
The intense naturalization and
speed-up, particularly in coal and
steel, has caused a sharp decline in
production and is alarmingly in
creasing the army of unemployment,
the official call for convention,
signed by John Kaspar, district
organizer of the T.U.U.L. declares.
Representation to the convention is
based on one delegate to every five
members. The convention will take
up the following major problems;
Organization Of the unorganized (;
fight against speed-up; building the
T.U.U.L. in this district. For further
information, write to Trade Union
J Unity League, Room $50, 119 Fed
eral ST., N. s.. Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
Indian Trade Union Congress
Joins Pan-Pacific Movement
Tremendous Swing of Masses to Left Forces Right Wing
Retreat; But Danger Of Reaconary Maneuver Exists,
Says General Secretary Browder of PP.TUS.;
Real Left Must Lead

The swift political development
of the working class Of India, indi-
Gated by the enormous spread of
strike movements and mass demon
strations against British imperial
ism, is registering a new stride for
ward if the report be true that the
All-India Trade Union Congress has
affiliated to the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Secretariat.
Last year the congress was still
dominated by the Right Wing, which
wished to harness the Indian prole-
tariat to the international of treach-
cry at Amsterdam and to the "La-
Dor Office" Of the League Of Ma
tions. But even then the tide of
rvolt against the Right Wing was
so strong that, in spite of organiza-
tional stupidities which prevented
anything like true democratic eX-
preston of the ranks reaching or
ganizational form in the congress,
the right wing could dare no more
than postpone all action on interna-
tional affiliation.
1t appears that since then, the
Left Wing, upon the background of
intensified oppression by the 'labor"
imperialist British government, as
symbolized by the Meerut trials of
32 trade union leaders, has pro-
gressed far rallying mass support
to the motion made at. last years
congress to affiliate to the P.P.T.
us, the trade union center uniting
all trade unions of the gigantic Pa
cific basin in struggle primarily
against imperialism.
Pan-Pacific T.U.S. Comment.
Indian unions were the chief great
national group in the Pacific area
which had remained until now iso-
lated from the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Secretariat. The significance
Of the reported affiliation, and the
perspectives it places before the
genuine revolutionary elements of
the Indian unions is set forth in the
following statement issued by Earl
Browder, General Secretary of the
P.P.T.U.S.
According to reports from India,
as yet unconfirmed, the All-India
Trade Union Congress voted to affi-
late to the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Secretariat, and that Bose, Left
Wing trade union leader, was elect
The daily worker., 1929-12-24

rapidly, is the Communist Party.
The Hertoz government National
ist) is aware of this and hence
whole system of police terror, fas-
cism and military repression is be-
ing loosed against the Communist
Party in hope to break its influence.
In South Africa we see full and
tangible proof of the correctness Of
the Communist International estima-
ton of growing colonial struggle.
The upsurge is spreading to every
corner of the clark continent" 1t
n eds guidance and leadership.
American Negro proletarians must
join the Communist Party and school
themselves in practical tasks of lead
ership, fitting themselves to give
guidance to the revolutionary masses
of Africa. Long live the African
revolution, part of the world revo-
luton.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24

strike starts. The formation of
Workers International Relief and
International Labor Defense branch
es in the area to be struck must be-
gin even before the strike, if pos
sible.
Once the strike starts, all avail
able force, all organizers and Off
cials of the N.T.W. and representa-
tives of the W.I.R. and LID. must
move into the field of action.
In addition to the immediate local
demands of the workers ready to
strike, slogans of general nature
are to be used during the prepara-
ton of the strike, such as Prepare
for Struggle Form Mill Commit
tees Form Committees of Action
"Organize Workers Defence Com
mittees," "Smash the Fakers of the
U.T.W.,' "Join the N.T.W.U."
All parts of the union and all pos
sible sections of the labor movement,
through the T.U.U.L. and other
agencies, shall be drawn into the
support of the strike, and support of
the strike shall be made part of
the regular work of all N.T.W. locals
in other parts of the country. All
the best elements among the workers
in the struck mills must be drawn
into leading politions in the struggle.
Picketing and Self Defense.
Once the strike starts the empha-
sis is on mass picketing, in which
young and old, women and men, and
the strikers families particularly,
as well as sympathizers in other
lines of work, take part. The tactics
of picketing are to be suited to the
occasion, but all picketing is in the
n ature of a demonstration of
strength, with special concentration
at times on especially important
mills, or around particular areas.
The workers must know the dan
gers of gangsterism by the bosses,
and be prepared to defend their
right to picket against mill owners
thugs and their hired police.
The resolution on strike strategy
points out that the N.T.W. demands
particularly in the South; disarmine
of the terrorist, black hundred bands
the right of the workers to organize
and arm for defense, and to defend
themselves against mill bosses ter.
rorists; the right to organize, to
strike and to picket; and the righ.
to free speech and free assemblage
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Textile Union Board
Is Planning Struggle
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to the council, removable at its pleas
ure. This insures collective and con-
tinued leadership.
Elect Gastonia Defendant.
The council has elected an execu-
tive board of Is, also representative
of the whole field, which is to hold
monthly meetings, between the ses-
sions of the national council, and to
keep immediate control of all cam
paigns, organization drives, strikes,
etc. The chairman and secretary of
the executive board and of the coun-
Gil are to carry on somewhat the
same work as the president and sec
retary of the union under the old
constitution. The chairman is James
P. Reid, formerly president of the
union, and a veteran of the Law
renee strike, the Textile Mills Com
mittee and many other struggles
in between and since. The secretary
of the board is Clarence Miller, who
was secretary of the convention, and
is one of the Gastonia defendants,
sentenced to 20 years and out on
bonds during the appeal of his case.
All officers of the union, according
to a provision of the new constitu-
tion, cease drawing pay when a
strike is on in their district, and
get necessary expenses only.
Other members of the executive
board are Fred Beal, Lawrence,
New Bedford and Gastonia; Pitta,
New Bedford; D. Martin, South; J.
Rappaport, N. Y; E. Mendez Ia
woman worker), New Bedford; M.
Russak, Allentown; Summe, South ;
Burlak, Scranton; E. Totherow,
South and Youth; Lieb, Paterson;
Salzberg, Paterson.
Protest Strike.
The convention voted for gen
eral one-day strike if the North
Carolina supreme court upholds the
class verdict of the Charlotte trial
court in the Gastonia case. Thou
sands of workers will shut down the
mills that day to protest against the
railroading to prison for terms up
to 20 years of the seven workers
sentenced because Gastonia strikers
defended their tent colony from a
murderous raid of mill-boss hire
lings, led by the Gastonia chief OF
police last April.
But widespread strikes will take
place for economic demands. The
question of a great silk strike is
the first order of business in the
executive board meeting today. The
convention itself adopted resolution
summing up the lessons learned SC
far from the strikes led by the N
T. w. The resolution, guiding
principal for the board in its present
deliberations, emphasizes the need of
preparatory organization and prop
aganda. 1t points out that strikes
should be led by rank and file strike
committees, elected by organized and
unorganized workers in the mills
snd this includes the rank and file
OF even such reactionary strike.
breaking concerns as the United
Textile Workers Union, Associated
Silk Workers, etc. But no official
participation in the strike commit
tees is allowed to the bureaucrats Of
those unions. The strike committee
is united front from below.
Build Strike Fund.
The work Of creating strike fund
shall begin, with collections at mill
gates, etc, and among workers oi
other industries, even before the
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
SPREADS THE DAILY WORKER
AMONG NEGRO WORKERS.
-(Bu q Worker. .Correspondent)

WARREN, Ohio (By Mai).-En-
closed you will find a money order
for 81. Three are for the copies
and one is a donation from myself.
Things are very bad here, so mary
are starving and on top of this the
Republic Steel Co. cut the wages.
The Negro workers are the first 70
go out and l have given them The
Daily Worker for week free. We
got today many sympathizers to the
movement. They come here every
day and ask for The Daily Worker
and they bring their friends.
Before l close 1 am going to say
that if we spread The Daily Worker
it is easy to build the movement.
&C. S.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
British Get Contract
in Greece Against US

Dispatches from London give jub-
liant statements Of the British at
having gotten a $30,000,000 reclama-
tion contract from the Greek govern
ment Sin the face of keen competi-
tion from American contractors"
The British firm Of Henry Boot
and Sons of Sheffield, get the con-
trart TO drain the plains Of Thessaly
and Epirus, building a seven-mile
tunnel to carry water through the
mountains. The contract, of course,
indicates that Greece has no inten-
tion of breaking away from Britain,
to which it has long been subject as
nearly semi-colonial country.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24
SOME EXAMPLES OF "PROS-
PERITY" FOR I'HILA. WORKERS

(By Worker COrrespondeatJ
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By MaiD
An example of the prosperity"
the Philadelphia workers are enjoy
ing. The Warner Co., building ma
terials, have shut down their
Bridesburg Yards completely, throw
ing about $50 yard men, mixers,
barge men and truck drivers out OF
work. This company specializes in
cement and gravel. This reflects
the depression in building in Phila-
delphia.
The Edwin H. Titler Co., the
largest cordage works in Philadel-
phia and making every conceivable
kind of rope and cable, employing
normally 1000 men, is now working
on half time.-C. r.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24

Soviet Union, is an equal right for
ATHEIST expression, because the athe-
lists always win. So these hypo-
critics don't want real religion free
dom at all.
The daily worker., 1929-12-24

Beal, Clarence Miller and the others
of the National Textile Workers
Union and they will understand
which leadership is theirs.
"The workers will remember how
the A. F. of L. deserted them in
Gastonia in 1921, in Charlotte at
the same time, in dozens of other
places. The workers will sec the
differ nee between an organization
controlled by agents Of the bosses
like Green, Hoffman, Mcmahon,
$4,000 year officials and fighting
organizations controlled by the
workers themselves, like the N. I.
w. u, N. M. u, etc.
"The A. F. of L. besides helping
the bosses to speed up the workers
and break strikes, is active in help
ing to force the American workers
into new world war for Wall
Street. The leadership of the A.
F. of L. has not uttered one word
Of protest 6 the sending of ma
rines to crush the revolt of the
Negro workers and peasants of
Haiti. No! 1t approves of all these
acts, because it follows slavishly
the dictates of Wall Street and the
Wall Street ,vernment in Wash
ington.
T. U. L. L. Will Organize.
"The TU.U.L. will go on with
the work of organization of the
great masses of workers in the
Sc tn. The T.U.U.L. will constantly
point out to the workers that their
worst enemies are these agents in
the ranks of the workers, the
Greens, Wells, Mustes and Hoff-
mans, especia : the Music type, for
they use the most deceptive phrases
and the biggest users of fake fight
phr1-c5 but in deed are the biggest
fa'--~s.
"The T.U.U.L. will strive to UNI
the rank and file workers of the
A. f. of L. throug IT, T. U. u. L..
with ihc workers in the unions af-
filiated the T.U.U.L. md the
unc S., I'd = yrkers in one common
front against the bosses and the
4 IS the lc5or move
ment, from Green to Music.
"The T.U.U.L. win not stop it's
organization work until the south
e. workers ore organ ITO mass
Industrial unions based on the class
struggle and until the workers have
v-l tctter c. -ditions and freedom" ."
The daily worker., 1929-12-24

GREET YOUR PAPER.
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Worker. Send greetings from
workers and organizations.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
new BOOK DESCRIBES
EARLY IDAHO DAYS
Making Of State Deals With
Political Life of Former
Senator Dubois.

THE Making of a State" recounting
the events leading up to and following
the birth of Idaho as a full-fiedged
member of the States of the Union. has
just been written by Fred T. Dubois,
territorial delegate and first Senator
from Idaho, who is now member OF
the International Joint Commission.
The book embodies a political auto
biography of former Senator Dubois
from 1880 to the present The portion
covering the first 10 years Of Senator
Dubois career is being published in
Boise, and the whole autobiography
will be published serially in the Sunday
Statesman.
Rich in tales Of the trials of the en-
bryo state, and the disputes which en-
livened its coming into statehood, the
book also gives a vivid picture of from
tier life and early political battles, en-
bellished with the rough humor OF
cowboys and frontiersmen.
Fred r. Dubois went from Yale into
the sage brush plains of what Is now
Idaho in $780, He recounts that his
capital when he arrived in Bingham
County was $34, and that he worked as
a. cowpuncher, butchered for the Indian
reservation at Fort Hall and performed
other as rough tasks to exc out hVell-
hood.
He went through the battle with the
State of Washington over Idaho
northern counties, the so-called Nor
mon dispute and test oath, the constl-
tutional convention and the jockeylng
in Congress before Idaho was lifted TO
statehood and was leading figure In
all those events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
DEFEAT OF RUM ROW IS CITED
TO SHOW DRY LAWS SUCCESS
Only Will to Make Regulations Effective
Needed, According to Former
Assistant Attorney General.

hdt considers
the routing
propriaton the smashed the RneJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

which she furnished for her appear
aYlce for O preliminary hearing the fol-
lowing day. On the appearance day,
however, she was absent, but was repre-
sented by an attorney, who moved for o
continuance Of the hearing as TO her OF,
the ground that she was at home in
bed suffering from nervous prostratfon.
Had not her attorney forgotten to OBJ
tain q doctors certificate showing her
health to be as represented, and had
not Marie met and talked with q special
undercover customs agent over in
Bimini the night before. 1t is quite
possible that o continuance woulc have
been granted and the embarrassment OF
furnishing o $1,000 bond In place Of the
$500 bond avoided.
Booze Prices Mount.
The effect of the special patrols &C.
ton was being keenly felt at this time
both by the bootleggers and the thirsty
Florida tourists. Prices for running In
liquor had jumped from $50 to $3.50 a
load, cash money for release on bond In
case OF arrest being demanded in ad-
vance of the trip. Liquor prices had
scared from $35 to $125 o case and
notices reading CLOSED for business"
were to be found posted on q majority
throughout Miami
A check of the Bahaman customs
house statistics disclosed that during
three months operation Of the special
patrol, January /, 1928, to March 81.
1928. there was q decrease OF 1929
pounds sterling on liquor imports into
the BahamS and O decrease Of 1929
pounds sterling ON liquor exports from
that place during that period.
A total OF ITO liquor-running vessels
were seized during the special patrols
four months operation In those waters.
Arrests aboard these vessels, or made In
connection with the seizure Of them,
totaled between 800 and 400. Practically
all the seized vessels and their cargoes
were condemned. Conspiracy indict-
ments were returned against nearly
all those arrested On pleas of
guilty to two of these indictments,
one defendant was sentenced to
IA months in Atlanta Penitentiary and
another awarded sentence Of six
months in jail in consideration of his
valuable information and having al
ready spent four months in jail await
ing q trial because of the failure of the
man for whom he was running the
liquor to furnish the SO 500 bond re-
qulred for his release.
This is merely one piece of evidence
as to what can be done II there Is q
real will cooperation between Govern
ment forces and determination to en-
force the prohibition law. But 1t rs
far from being the only evidence or
proof Of that fact.
TN her next instalment Mrs. WILLIE
brandt will discuss an unusual prohibit
ton victory.)
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