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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
GREAT CASTON|A
DRIVE LAUNCHED
Big. Mass Campaign
Aug. "a : Sept. 2

The gigantic mobilization of 100,-
100000 workers, men, women and
children of America, to save the Gas
tonia prisoners, program the eX-
tent of which has never before been
attempted in the history of the
American working class, began yes
terday by the pooled forces of the
international Labor Defense and the
Workers International Relief, and
endorsed by the National Textile
Workers Union.
Instructions were issued to dis
trict functionaries of the LID and
WIR throughout the land to mobil-
ize the masses for new drive which
begins Aug. "a, few days before the
trial opens, and will continue until
Sept. 2.
Great stress was laid on the in
stitution of a broad national mass
movement among the workers, to eff
feet their theological education con-
corning the issues involved, and to
center this mass movement in large
united fronts in the various cities.
Financial and organizatioual gains
were stressed as of primary import
ance.
The enlarged committee consists
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Cancel Section Meets;
Units Meet This Week
To Discuss the Thesis

The District Committee Secretar-
lat of the Communist Party reminds
all New York comrades that the
section membership meetings origi-
nally scheduled for tonight have
been called off in order to allow
units to meet this week for discus
sion of the thesis of the Tenth PIE
mum. Nuclei whose regular meet
ing night is Wednesday are in
structed to convene tonight as usual.
The Secretariat states that in
making arrangements for the thesis
discussion in accordance with the
directions published by the District,
there is to be no let-down in the
concrete, everyday work in relation
to the Party campaigns. During
this week all units are to take up
seriously and in detail the assign
-ments Of every comrade for work
in the Gastonia defense, T. U. E. L..
conference and municipal election
campaigns.
All units Of Section are to meet
at the Workers Center until fur
ther notice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
CALL COMMUNIST
COUNTY RALLIES
Meet Sept. 8 to Talk
Election Issues

A widespread drive to expose both
capitalist parties and their petty
bourgeois socialist party allies, fur
ther endorsement of the Communist
Party platform in the municipal
elections, and discussion on the po-
litical issues of the campaign -
these are some of the tasks to be
decided at county conferences in
Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx
on Sunday, Sept. 8.
While the call sent by the cam
paign committee of the Party asks
language and fraternal organiza-
tions to send two delegates to the
conference, an important feature of
the preparatory work is the drive
to secure delegates from morgan
lied shops.
The Manhattan conference will be
held at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square. Those in Brooklyn
and the Bronx will be held at the
Brooklyn Workers Center, Sc Man
haitian Ave, and the Bronx Work
ers Center 1880 Wilkins Ave-, re-
spectively.
Part of Election Drive.
The conferences form only part
of the Party drive to secure further
endorsements to build campaign
committees in workers organiza-
tions for the support of the Party
and to insure mass response to the
appeal, stressed in the conference
call, for contributions to the $685.
900 campaign fund.
In line with the general Commu-
mist program of a relentless fight
against the capitalist class and all
its agents, the conference will di.
rect it's fire especially on the So
cialist and progressive" oppo~un.
lists who are even more dangerous
to the workers interests than the
parties of avowed capitalist reac.
ton.
Expose Fake Progressives.
Such type is Fiorello La Guar
dia, self-styled progressive, exposed
in statement of the campaign
committee yesterday, Denouncinl
Tammany police brutality agains
the cafeteria, dress and shoe strik
ers, the statement points out tha
La Guardia actively associated him
self with the employers fight
against the workers.
Where was La Guardia during
these struggles?" the statement
asks. "He had no word to sa,
against police repression simply be-
cause he represents the capitalist
parties of Wall st.
His alleged liberalism was vel
expressed in the world war, when he
served as an officer in the aviation
corps. For his activities he was
twice decorated by Mussolini, mur.
derer of thousands of Italian work.
ers. More recently he supported the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
'STR|KERSATTACK FOSTER TO SPEAK
CITY COUNCIL; Sat T.U.EL. meet
SHOT BY POLICE HERE AUGUST 70
Attempt Stop Jitneys
To Run Scab
So. Buses
Shots, Gas Bombs Fly
Riled Carmen Rush
Scabs, Stop Cars

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 13.-
Thousands of infuriated striking
carmen and sympathizers attacked
the city council today after it re-
fused to act upon a petition signed
by $4,000 demanding that the coun-
Gil revoke the ordinance clearing
away jitneys from the streets to
make way for the operation Of a
bus line by the New Orleans Pub
lie Service Corporation, owner of
the street car line, and the breaking
of the strike.
Danny Young, 5O-year-old strik-
ing motorman and two others were
shot when police fired into the dem
onstrators and threw tear gas
bombs into their midst.
When Acting Mayor Walmsley
adjourned the council Immediately
after refusing to take up the petit
ton, women and men accused them
of openly using their power to carry
out the will of the corporation which
owns not only the car lines, but al
most the whole town, to break the
strike when the attempt to rally
scabs had failed to accomplish this.
The council members and mayor
skunk from the aroused strikers,
some of whom set upon them with
fists until the police rushed to their
defense, viciously attacking the
strikers.
The militant strikers stormed the
few street cars in operation, and
after being repulsed by the police
once, made a second attempt to
rush the city hall. Shouts, booing,
fists flying, gun shots and the hurl-
ing of tear gas bombs stirred the
city hall region. Impromptu pa
rades were attacked and broken up
by heavy police guards rallied from
every precinct of the city.
The carmen's strike in New Or
leans has assumed the form of a
revolt against the A. F. of L., which
is attempting to collaborate with
the operators and is unable to
quell. The strikers are determined
to fight rike-breaking attempts,
no matter what quarters they issue
from.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
READY TO INVADE U.S.S.R.;
TORTURE SOVIET CITIZENS;
CHINESE STRIKE SPREADING
Report Two Thousand Soviet Citizens DepOrted
In Last Two Days; Marched Thru Streets
Strike Wave Sweeps Thru China Total Out in
Shanghai Jumpss From 10000 to $4,000
BULLETIN.

MOSCOW, surrounding
peaists against redoubed
official of three attacks by white Rus
supported by Chinese Soviet Outposs the Manchuan
border.
repulsed Soviet soldiers killed
a said there
O. relations China
The attacks resulted attempts the white Russian
the border Siberia the said.
clash the mouth the Sungar River the north
on Amur A
Khanki
The number of casualties was not definitely reported
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. REORGANIZATION of special
Far Eastern Red Army announced today Vas Konsan
novich Bcher being appointed to the commandershp of all
the forces of the Soviet the Far East His
will be known the Special Far Eastern Army Bucher is
of the foremost Soviet military leaders. He from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
POLICE CLUB At
HARLEM MEETING

Seven speakers at the Communist
Party election rally at 138th st. and
Seventh Ave. were beaten up and
arrested last night when police tried
to break the meeting. The seven are
]. Louis Engdahl, of the Information
al Labor Defense and Communist
candidate for president of the
Borough of Manhattan, Harold Will
liams, Negro Director of the New
York District of the Communist
Party, Leonard Patterson, Solomon
Harper and A. Ross of the Commun-
ist Youth League, A. Ponkin and a
member of the CYL. whose identity
could not be discovered because of
the surrounding police mob which
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
VOTE GIFTS FOR
The USSR FL|ERS

Over $50 delegates representing
$50 working class organizations
met in Irving Plaza hail last night
and voted the presentation of a
number of trucks and tractors to
the four Soviet flyers, who are
making 12,500 mile flight from
Moscow to New York, to be part
of the gigantic reception accorded
the first emissaries of good will
from the U. S. s. R. upon their
arrival here.
The conference, called by the
Friends of the Soviet Union, fur
ther decided to charter the Yankee
stadium, which has capacity of
$4,000, for the welcoming ceremony,
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
MEET TO HEAR OF
BUILDING FAKERS

Who is H. H. Broach? Is he
serving or betraying the interests
of the electrical workers?
What is the Building Trades Coun-
Gil? Is it serving or betraying the
interests of the building trades
workers?
These and many other questions
will be raised and discussed at the
mass meeting of building trades
workers to be held this Friday
CONTINUED on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
BRITISH MOVE IN
VENEZUELA FAILS
Backs Revolt Against
u. s. Puppet
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

Especial to the Daily WorkeT.)
PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad),
Aug. 13-A seditious movement
against the Gomez-Perez dictator
ship of Venezuela. under the reac-
tionary leadership of General Roman
Delgado Chalbeaud, former admiral
of the Venezuelan fleet and eX-sup-
porter of the present regime, failed
to materialize when an invasion
planned to take effect at Cumana.
capital of the State of Sucre, was
repulsed by government forces last
Sunday.
The "Directorio" of this movement
is composed of the most vicious and
reactionary elements such as Gen
erals Delgado Chalbeaud, Rafael NJ.
Barabano, Francisco Linares Alcan-
tara, Pedro Elias Aristeigueta,
Doroteo Flores, etc. A number of
anti-labor intellectuals, ex-ministers
of the Gomez tyranny, as Doctor
Santos A. Dominica, formerly accred.
tied at Washington, are also men,
bers of this movement, which is ap-
rarently supported by the British oil
interests represented by the Royal
Dutch Shell trust. General Antonio
Aranguren, president of one of
' Continued on Page Five)
Pleasant Bay Park, Sunday.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

locomotive factory worker tC
deputy commander of the
Ukrainian military district
was placed in command of all So
Wet forces in the Far East, in an
order dated August 6.
Blucher is familiar with Eastern
Siberia and with Chinese troops
which are massed on the border
During the civil war he commanded
all Red troops in East Siberia and
became war minister of the Far
Eastern republic which later Joined
the Soviet Union.
He joined the czarist army at the
outbreak of the world war, and rap
idly rose to high position through
a brilliant series of accomplish
ments. His reputation today is sec
ond only to that of General Bu-
denny in the U. S. S. R.
Announcement of the creation of
the Special Army followed close
upon reports that white Russian
forces continue to mobilize on the
Manchurian frontier where they are
maintained by the Marking gov
ernment, acting for the imperial
ist powers.
The extremely grave" situation
described Saturday by Leo Karak-
han, acting foreign commissar, in
an interview with the United Press
correspondent was given additional
force by the developments today
when \. B. Melnikoff, former So
Wet consul at Harbin, Manchuria
reported that the white Russian
forces in Manchuria still continue
to assemble in great numbers near
the frontier, ready to invade Soviet
territory.
The white Russians are COM
manded by General Bardzilovsky
and General Volodechko, he said.
The Soviet press carries indig.
nant headlines featuring Toxic anc
Shanghai dispatches reporting in
tense war preparations by China
and reign of terror against So
Wet citizens in Manchuria. The
atmosphere of the capital, which
had been quiet for several days
again was tense.
Reports state that at least 2,00t
| Soviet citizens have been arrested
and thrown into jails and deportec
within the last two days.
Stories of groups of Soviet citi
zens with bleeding faces marche,
manacled through the streets O
Manchurian towns are also current
Announcement that Marking of
fers to negotiate the seizure of tn
Chinese Eastern Railroad has bee
rejected after the refusal of tn
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throughout the South generally for
the last six months. The mill own
ers dare not reduce wages and for
the first time in the center of the
cotton textile industry in the South
a reduction of work hours per week,
in order to curtail production be-
cause of the market prices, has not
been accompanied by a reduction in
wages.
"There has been no increase in
the wages of the mill workers. The
strenuous efforts made to create this
impression shows that the mill own
ers know that under the leadership
of the N. 7. w. U. the mill work
ers are preparing demands for a
substantial increase in wages and
for the eight-hour day.
Increase Stretchout.
"The reduction in hours from go
to 55 per week per week is already
being used to increase the stretch
out. Workers will be required not
only to produce as much as before,
but to produce more in IS hours than
they did in 60 hours.
"In the last six months, and par
ticularly since the raid on our union
headquarters in Gastonia on the
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Gastonia Colony Is
In Need of Clothes;
W.I.R. Asks for Help

Clothes are badly needed in the
tent colony near Gastonia, accord
ing to Caroline Drew, relief rep
resentative in the South. The
Workers International Relic f
urges workers everywhere to send
bundles of clothes Sof every de-
scription, and shoes to the W.I.R.
store at Ais Brook Ave-. New
York City, IN care of Louis Baum.
Baum, who manages the store,
announces that a truck will call
for bundles if they cannot be sent
direct. A cleaning establishment
is also operated under Baum's
supervision, which not only mends
and cleans garments before they
are sent South. but also does ex-
pert cleaning and dyeing for pa
irons, to cover the expenses of
operating the store.
All sympathizers are urged to
patronize the store. Garments are
called for and delivered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
MONTHLY NEEDLE
Meeting TONIGHT
Shop Delegates Will
Hear Reports

The threatened fake "organiza-
tion drive of the International Ladies
Workers, company union of the man.
ufacturers; the appointment of the
Governors Commission to further
enslave the cloak workers-the un-
covering of Schlessinger's Supple
mentary agreement" on the mini
mum scale-these will be among the
questions discussed at the monthly
Shop Delegates Conference Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union to be held tonight at 7.30
in Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and
Irving Place.
The Industrial Union calls upon
all its members in all needle trades
shops to send their shop delegates
to this conference.
A number of important reports
on the present situation in the needle
trades and the activity Of the union
will be given at the conference. Fol-
lowing this general discussion will
take place on the present tasks of
the Industrial Union, especially the
organization drive among the dress
makers which will begin soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Form New NJ arin e
Union at Big. Confab
August II 18
Back Cleveland Meet
Expect Railroad Men
at Cleveland Meet

I. Atlantic Coast Conference to
be held in New York Aug. 17-1S
will form industrial union of ma
rine transport workers and choose
delegates to the Trade Union
Unity Convention in Cleveland,
Aug. 31-Sept. 2.
2. Several hundred delegates,
representing thousands of organ
lied and unorganized workers of
New York, New Jersey and vicin-
ity, are expected to participate in
the Second Metropolitan Area
Conference in preparation for the
Cleveland meeting. The confer
ence will be held next Tuesday
evening, Aug. 20, in Irving Plaza
Hall, 18th St. and Irving Place.
William z. Foster, national secre-
tary of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Foster at n. Y. Meet.

William 2. Foster, national sec
retary of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, will be the principal
speaker at the Second Metropolitan
Area Conference in preparation for
the Cleveland convention, to be held
here next Tuesday evening, Aug.
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Fifth Ave. busses will take you
to the park from the sub. station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the UnOrganized
Against ImteriaIist War
For the 40-Honr Week
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05
LOCAL TOPICS
Do you still write "192s"?

Is that New Year resolution still good?
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

L. J. Brotherton, late of &c., attle, has taken charge of the Traversy barber shop and will specialize in ladies' hairdress- ing in addition to attending to the barbering requirements of the male population. Until re- gently MT. Brotherton operat- ed the Nifty Beauty Parlor and Barber Shop in Seattle.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

c. A. Banks, manager of B. c. Silver, has been appointed managing director of the Duthie Mines Company in con- nection with a proposed en- largement of the activities of that company.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

William c. Ross, former Stew art. attorney, who left the dis tritt about -four years ago, passed away recently in Gran brook, B. c.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

The holiday vacation of the public school will continue un- til Monday but the school will probably not resume sessions until later, according to Q
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

Mrs. o. F. Hill was a passen- ger to Ketchikan on the Fair banks Wednesday.
Hyder weekly herald., 1929-01-05

Mrs. Harry James returned Monday from a visit in Van couyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
SAYS CHAIN STORES.
ARE THERE TOSTAY
Assistant Commerce Secre.
tary Discusses Difficulties
Facing Individual Dealers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 24.-Holding
that the chain store is here to stay
DR.. julius Klein, Assistant Secretary OF
Commerce, told the National Chain
Store Association today that the dim
culties of independent retailers are due
almost entirely to their own incom-
petence and not TOT competition.
Repeated analyses of failures and
near-failureS among retailers In all
parts of the country" he said In pre-
pared address, bring out the fact that
considerably less than per cent Of the
failures among Independents last year
we're due to competition. On the other
hand, incompetence is responsible for
anywhere from 80 to, 30 per cent of the
casualties in their ranks, dependent
upon the locality and the trades in
volved"
Explaining that 1t is a commonplace
of modern economic history that any
sudden change in the functioning OF
industry or commerce has Immediately
brought about inevitable confusion and
alarm, he said that today lone hears
from many quarters the more or less
panicky cry that the chain store must
be, If not destroyed, at least draSti-
cally curtailed."
THE battle cry of Down with the
chain storep seems about as reasonable
to the casual byStander," he went on.
las campaign for the prohibition of
all beefsteakS because of some inde-
structible specimens encountered at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
REPORTS LOSS 1
OF CASH AND BANK BOOKS
Miss Bertot Seeks Recovery Of
Pocketbook She Left in Tele-
phone Booth.

Miss Hurtensia Bertot, apartment 222,
1920 r street, asked police Of the first
precinct to make an effort to recover
her pocketbook she left in telephone
booth in the Washington Building, New
York avenue and Fifteenth street, yes
terday. She said the pocketbook con-
tanned $l87 in cash, drivers permit.
cards and two bank books.
Theodore ChaconaS, 3065 M street.
reported the taking of sic in change
from the cash register in his store
Sunday night. Entrance was gained
through window that had been LETT
open.
John Smothers, 10 Hickman street
southeast. returned home last night
and discovered an intruder had been
there during his absence. Entrance
had been gained with duplicate key,
he told police, and watch, valued at
$50, stolen.
Carroll Michael. 948 Golden street
southwest, reported the loss OF $35. He
said the money was snatched from MIN
by colored man. residing In South
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24

EMPLOYMENT in Greece is gradually
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
Files Accounting Suit.

Suit for an accounting of an alleged
in the conduct of the In
surance Clinic, conducted by the WASH
ington Health, Institute, at 1928 Rhode
Island avenue, has been filed by DR.
Edward G. Morse against Andrew A.
Crawford, who is said to have con-
tracted with Morse to take care of the
and administrative business Of
the clinic on a. partnership basis.
Morse is represented by Attorneys Van
doren, Rafferty, & Rogers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
PLAN SPELLING BEE.
capital and Baltimore Clubs to

Capital and Baltimore Clubs to
Compete October /.
An old-fashioned spelling bee between
the Capital City Spelling Club, or
ganized less than year ago, and the
waysrly Spelling Club Of Baltimore
will be held Tuesday, October 1. a. 8
pm, in the Pytliian Temple, 1912 Ninth
street. Forty-two contestants will
participate.
A particularly keen rivalry exists
between the two organizations, largely
because the local club administered
decisive defeat to the Waverly group
on the occasion Of the latter clubs
thirty-hrst annual contest last April.
Elmer G. Helm Is president of the
Capital City Spelling Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24

waySide iunchrooms last Summer"
This year, he recalled, marks the
SEVENTEEN annivezsayyRsof, the chain
idea in this country, and ut would
seem strange, therefore, that so much
uproar should be caused by such
venerable patriarch in our business
family"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24

resided together less than q year.
There wers- no children born of the
marriage, so the court was informed,
and the decree entered today permits
her to resume the use Of her maiden
name.
Attorneys Raymond 'Neudecker and
william G. Ashford appeared on be-
half Of the wife
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
Struck by Falling Box.

Arthur Conan, colored, AZ years old,
was severely injured yesterday tEter-
noon while working at. Massachusetts,
avenue and Garfield street when struck
by q falling box. He was U:eated at
Emergency Hospital by DR.. Schwarzman
for an injury to his back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
MRS. RUTH G. THOMPSON
FUNERAL TOMORROW
Services Will Be Held at Almus r.
Speare Parlors at Hour to
Be Named.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth @.
Thompson, who died yesterday at her
residence, at the Falkstone Apartment
House, Fourteenth and Fairmont streets,
will be held tomorrow afternoon at the
Almus r. Speare funeral parlors, 1928
Connecticut avenue. The hour If tie
funeral will be announced later.
Mrs. Thompson had been resident
of this city for nearly half a century.
She was born near Gainesville, Ohio,
in 1850. and. came to Washington in
1884.
Mrs. Thompson Is survived. by three
sons, Harry w. Thompson of Richmond.
Calf; iWilfred A. Thompson of East
st. Louis, Ill. and Edward c. Thomp-
son Of Hillsbury, N. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24

The ancient ONCE Of bell ringer of
Millport, Scotland, is to be continued,
and Robert Hunter has succeeded the
late James Hunter, who made the pub
lie announcements for many wears