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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
1000 walk out
CLERKS STRIKE
Police Slug Many, Jail
18 Pickets

The hitherto impregnable wall
presented by the open shop fruit
stores fell with crash as the clerks
in many of these stores thruout New
York answered yesterdays general
strike call of the Retail Grocery,
Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union. Be-
fore the day was over, over 1000
workers from non-union stores had
registered themselves on strike.
Nearly every union store had signed
up, renewing the agreements now
demanded.
Police Club Strikers.
Many strikers, victims to police
and thug clubbings, were later ar
rested. Committeeman informing
workers of non-union stores of the
strike, were severely beaten by po-
lice, who then arrested the strikers
Continued on Page Five)
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The Freiheit, Yiddish Communist
daily, has been barred from Canada.
Apart from an official announce
ment of the Canadian department of
national revenue prohibiting the
importation into Canada of the
newspaper entitled 'Freiheit,'" no
reason for banning the Communist
newspaper is given by the Canadian
government. At a late hour last
night telegram sent by R. Salz-
mann, business manager of the
paper, demanding an explanation re-
mained unanswered.
Second Ban.
Mass pressure in Canada and the
United States forced the Canadian
government to revoke its ban on the
Freiheit last July. The official ex-
cuse for the ban at that time was
the "undesirability" OF paper
which published a cartoon on the
fascist Mobile expedition, by Maui
rice Pass.
"Flan General Attack
"This is only part of a general
attack on the Communist press" !"
Salzmann declared yesterday. "To-
day it is in Canada-tomorrow it
may reach the United States. The
entire labor bureaucracy, from the
Forward" McGrady-Woll- -Schlesin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
WIR BEGINS DRIVE
TO AID STRIKERS
Tag Days to Be Held
April 1914

The mobilization of all the forces
Of the Workers International Relief
to raise funds for the southern tex
tile workers, now on strike, was an
nounced last night by Alfred Wagen-
knecht, national secretary, Workers
International Relief.
"The strike region which now
centers around Gastonia," said Wa
genknecht, "where 5000 workers are
striking under the leadership of the
National Textile Workers Union,
contains 10000 textile workers.
The National Textile Workers Union
may spread the strike to the 100
mile sector around Gastonia. The
strike is spreading daily, hundreds
of workers joining the National Tex
tile Workers Union. This increases
the responsibility of the Workers
international Relief, which will have
to furnish relief for the ever-grow-
ing body of striking workers. Eight
thousand textile workers are al
present on strike.
Revolt Against "Stretchout."
"The rebellion of the southern tex.
tile workers against starvation
wages and the speed-up system may
develop into the largest strike il
the history of the industry. The
process of naturalization in tht
southern textile mills and the eff
cheney schemes of the employers
Continued on Page Fiue)
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Shop Brgades Flying Squads in Chicago District for Daily
Factories VIII be Covered Intensive Die Plan House

To help double the number subscribers the Daily
by May the militant workers Chicago
to do their and
TO the top in raising its quota of $50 subscribers
District (Chago will shops
factories in the Dct flying will Daily
the fly the business the proan neghborhoods
Red Press Sunday Distribution is also planned.
Here is the call to all militant workers in the District
To all Section Executive Committee Secretaries;
To all Secretaries of Units;
To all Daily Worker Agents.
Dear COmrades
countrywide Subscription of
the Daily Worker has launched National Office
for District Eight Hundred and Fifty (s50) subscribers Three
important steps outlined for the building the Daily
Worker in Chicago These be
section executive and shop and nuclei meetings
1-SHOP BRIGADES-Every unit undertake one
factories week with copies
and distribution Members
requested make the Shop Factory
other hand should make the flying squads
2-FLYING SQUADS-To sell Daily The in
the and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
A Block in Harlem-Flimsy
Disease-Festering, Common
Toilets, Robber Landlords
Blind Negro Worker Making Only $40
a Week Pays $35 for Rooms
By SOL AUERBACH.

oily with stretching yward luxurious
business offices and high class apartment stores
This Fifth Avenue bumpy and cobbed places
tends towards the sky five six story buildings which offer
the sky and crumb Fapes their fronts dngy
line the pavement There fruit stands and peddars
this along Street
the slop and muddy puddes the sidewalk you turn
look at the gloomy candy factory the street and at the row of
dark warehouses side had been raining and the brick side
walks water revuets and baby lakes Refuse and
garbage pals line the street Here and there bundle of op has
broken open coughed its contents the
This soughray which called street has been turned into
playground by Negro children group Of girls with Jumping ropes
of black stockings torn at the knee turned over Shoes and coats com
house fronts brick extends its jagged edge here and there There
gaping hole where bricks once rested The mortar has SO
all of missing; window lodges
weatherbeaten and worm-eaten
On smooth and straight
the gstenng roadway itself Here off the Fifth Avenue of
hanging loose their hinges wide You step
wobb vestbule door with glass missing and
in No 16 East 134th Street
IF you anyone particular would have
knock of the eight apartments in the four story house.
for there doores and the mail boxes look like pigeons nests
And there mail boxes and bells with names on them you would
not be able to see them for lack of light
gloomy hallway. There is jet jerked in
know that not because can see the actual
color the paint thru the CRIME but because you see OF
peeng paint sticking out into the dim light from the
On the hall floor you scrape along walk
wooden stairway The steps crek
painfully and their edges worn smooth and round
light thru the glass of door at
the of second floor As walk towards 1t
the you caught entered becomes
more pronounced Enthusiastically to door hat
of closed doors which lead
to
1t is the community toilet
this cubb whole The floor Shiny and
which has been used The seat of the toilet
work right and water rises to the
string This apparently not been cleaned
for time and not repaired for
knock the door right
the home of Negro worker Harlem,
largest of the prosperous country in the world
wife of a Negro worker
Mrs Williams is tall anky and get to know her and
surrounding better lights the small the table,
"We have gas" she pointing fixture drop
the from the ceiling "Bu only the when
want to milk quickly for my baby"
Gas is when the coal stove burns.
The walls of the kitchen different than walls
She points places the wall ceiling pipes
where the drtgreen paint has off the crumbing
On the floor propped pillows infant with his
brother who is few older An older girl is pong
around the coal which takes the wall
Mrs. Williams knows that she lives place and indignant
the condition this which
of $33 month.
She her husband and children years
She subes part of her Apartment Eight
in this five-roomed
The apartment the length of
Continued
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INJUNCTION ON
HOUSE WRECKERs
TemporaryWritIssued
Case Is Argued Today

1t became known last night to the
House Wreckers' Union that the De-
molition Association, the contrac-
tors organization with its $50 jobs
tied up by the strike of 1900 house
wreckers, has only $700 left in the
treasury with which to fight its en-
ployees. These facts were reported
to certain bosses, and overheard by
the union.
The president of the bosses asso-
citation, Morris Wales, succeeded,
however, in getting his court writ
for a restraining order served on
Charles Glenn, a union delegate.
Glenn was caught at the Municipal
Court building where he had to be
on union business. The writs are
for a temporary injunction against
the union, and the union is called
to be present today at 10 a. m. in
the Supreme Court, Part 1, "to
show cause why it should not be
made permanent"
WALES Is Labor Traitor.
The union attorneys are Rice and
Mcclure, 122 w. 43rd st. The De-
molition Associations lawyer is J.
Leon Fred. This Wales, now head
of the bosses, and the man who ap-
piled for the injunction, was once
the organizer of Local 95, House
Wreckers' Union. Like others Of
Continued on Pdge Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
7-CENT FARE TO
STATE COURTS
Supreme Court Evades
Decision on Steel

WASHINGTON, April 8. - The
supreme court of the United States
today overruled the decision of the
three Judge federal court rendered
a few months ago, deciding that the
decision to grant the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company a seven-cent
fare was illegal, and that the dirty
work of taking four to eight cents
more day away from New York
workers should be done in the state
courts, to which the case is now re-
turned.
l. R. T. stocks fell in value on
the New York Stock Exchange
nineteen points when the ruling was
announced. They had gone up in
value recently under pressure Of ru-
mors that the increased fare would
be allowed by the supreme court.
Justice McReynolds, who read the
opinion of the court, objected to
considering the l. R. T. and BIN. 7.
holdings as one company for pur-
poses of the suit, and held that the
supreme court did not consider the
five-cent fare confiscatory.
General public resentment against
the subway steal has recently been
made more extreme by publication
of figures of big subway profits on
the five-cent fare, by extra bad SER
vice, and state commerce depart
ment figures showing that the sub
way company was charging as op-
Grating expense the money used to
propagandize for the seven-cent
fare, amounting to millions of dol
lars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
DISCRIMINATE FOR sCABs

SYDNEY, Australia, (By MaiD =
Premier Bavin of New South Wales
has introduced bill in the state
parliament to give preferential treat
ment in seniority rights to $50 rail-
way strikebreakers in return for
their services to the bosses in the
1917 general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
FAsCIsTS WORRY OVER SKIRTS

ROME, April 8 (UP).-Augusto
Turati, general secretary of the fas-
cist party, sent a circular to women
fascist leaders today lamenting the
fact that members of "young and
little Italian girls organizations"
wear excessively short gowns, caus-
ing unfavorable criticism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Turn to Page 3

And read the first installment
of "The Lawbreakers," short
story by Lydia Seifulina, the out
standing woman writer of the
Soviet Union. This story de-
scribes with unusual vividness
and humor the life of the So
called homeless waifs," whose
welfare is the constant concern
of the workers and peasants
government. Follow this story
every day in the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Official Strikebreakers Fail.
GREENV1LLE, S. c., April s.
All efforts of mill owners and de.
partment of labor "mediators" to enc
the dozen strikes now on in this state
have failed. Workers stick to theil
demands. Strikers are also becom
ing insistent in their demands OF
their strike committees to ally them
selves with the National Textil
TENNESSEE FAKERs MEET

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail.-
The misleaders of the Tennessee
State Federation of Labor will hold
their convention here May 13, ID
and Is. The head of the state fed
Grafton is Aymon, who helped sell
out the rayon strikers in Elizabeth
ton y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Duncan Troupe Will
Perform Two New
Dances in Farewell

Two new numbers, never per-
formed before, will be on the pro-
gram of the Isadora Duncan Dane
ers when they make their farewell
appearance in New York City at
Manhattan Opera House, 34th st.
and Eighth Ave, on April 18, 10,
20 and 21.
The two new numbers are called
young Guard" and pioneer
March" and are said to be among
the best in the entire repertoire of
these remarkable young Soviet
dancers.
Hundreds of New York workers
are preparing to give the Duncan
Dancers a rousing welcome when
they return to this city. They are
now in Montreal, having toured
various cities thruout the country.
AS on their previous appearances,
the Duncan troupe will perform in
this city by special arrangement
with the Daily Worker. Tickets are
already much in demand and should
be bought at once at the office OF
the Daily Worker, 26 Union Square
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Plan Stand in Sonora.

aJUAREZ, Mexico, April s.-Rebel
leaders today indicated that General
j. G. Escobar, rebel chieftain, dur
ing the next three weeks plans a
concentration of forces in Sonora,
with capture of Naco as the first
objective.
The clerical force now besieging
Naco has withdrawn about two miles
from town, apparently somewhat
dcmoralized by their repulse in two
attacks during the last two days.
Many Desert Escobar.
OBJECTIONS from the Escobar
forces continue. About half Of the
garrison at Ojiniga, on the border.
revolted, killed Lieutant- Colonel
Raul Cardenas, the Escobar COM
mander, and seized the town after a
two-hour battle.
All the "rebel" troops at Palomas
also mutinied and went home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
u, S. AIRPL lanes
Menace mexico
Many "Rebels" Desert
as War Moves West
BULLETIN.

JUAREZ, Mexico, April s.
General Jose Gonzalo Escobar was
proclaimed provisional president"
of Mexico by the insurgents here
before they fled to the westward,
to join Governor Fausto Topete
Of Sonora, if they can.
Ell PASO, Texas, April s.
Eighteen U. S. army airplanes have
been ordered to attack any planes,
either federal or "rebel," which cross
the national boundary, said Briga-
dier-General Frank S. Cocheu, COM
mander of all American forces here.
u. S. cavalry patrols have also been
strengthened and will participate in
fighting if any troops Of the "reb-
els" approach the border.
The U. S. officials here are max
ing it clear that Hoover's aid to the
federals means active Intervention
at the slightest opportunity. Ten
thousand United States soldiers are
either on the border or very near it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
NEW CARPENTER WAGE SCALE

NEWARK, N. J. (By MaiD Ell
fective May 1, scale of S1.50 an
hour and $12 day, with five-day
week, will go into effect for organ
lied carpenters in Essex County.
The scale also provides for an in
crease to $13.20, beginning next Oc-
! tober 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
BOURGEOIS BLOC
INAUSTRIA MAKES
FASCIST THREAT
| Communists Pull Auto
Workers Again on
Strike
Smash Fascist Parade
Fascists Threaten Will
March on Vienna
Smash Fascist Parade
Wireless Bu "Inprecorr" J

(WWeteSS By "InpTec0TT
VIENNA, April 8.-The negotia-
Ions of the bourgeois parties have
resulted in complete unity on the
hasis of the previous governments
program. The bourgeois bloc di-
rected demands, in the nature of an
ultimatum, to the social democrats
to be accepted by 8 p. m. yesterday.
The chief of these was acceptance
by the social democrats of the aboli-
tion of the legislation protecting
tenants.
Should the social democrats re-
ject these demands the bourgeois
parties threaten a Strong hand" +"
meaning probably government
without parliament, i. e., dictator
ship.
Labor Fakers Betray Strike.
The metal workers union has de-
clared the auto workers strike off,
without any gain to the workers.
The Communist Party appealed to
the workers to continue the strike,
and, upon the rejection of the de-
mands of the workers, who went
back last Monday only in order to
hold meetings at which new demands
were formulated and presented to
the employers, they went out on
strike again.
The bourgeois press unanimously
declares that the Communists are
responsible for the strike. The con-
tinuation of the strike against the
wishes of the reactionary officials
of the unions have depressed the
social democrats greatly.
Il y
Fascists Threaten March.
Last Sunday there were collisions
again between the workers and fas-
cists. In Hallein, in Salzburg, the
ITeimwehr (fascisti) parade was
broken up by the Communists.
There were serious collisions in
Krems, near Vienna, where the
Heimwehr had organized parade.
The Heimwehr leader, Pfreimer,
warns. the government that an
openly rcactionary policy must be
followed and that if even a pact
with the social democrats is made
the Heimwehr will organize march
on Vienna.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
Friends Mourn
Mrs. SWindle

Mr.. and Mrs. S. O. Lingo of this
city have returned from San Ber,
nardino where they attended the
funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Lula
Lee Swindle, who died in that city
last week.
Mrs. Swindle was well known in
Imperial Valley, having lived here
for several years prior to going to
San Bernardino. The deceased had
been i'll for the past two years, dur
ing which time her friends marveled
at her fortitude during her suffer
ing. Her husband, William Swindlc,
died a year and five months ago.
Mrs. Swindle was active in church
work and was loved by wide cir
cle of friends for her Christian life.
There are four surviving daugh-
ters, all of whom are married. and
living out of the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
CHAMBERS WILL
DISCUSS BETTER
HOMES CAMP PAICN

One of the more important mat
ters to come up for attention at to-
morrow evenings joint dinner meet
ing of the senior and junior di-
visions of the chamber of commerce
viii be the launching of better
homes for El Centre campaign. w.
w. Wheatly, manager Of the Build
ing Service Bureau, will address
the meeting on the subject. 1t is ex-
pected that President Hetzel will
name a committee to handle the
preliminary work. The junior divis-
ion of the chamber has already made
plans to devote some Of its attention
to such campaign of town better
ment, and has committee under
the chairmanship of p. V. Harrigan.
The work of the two committees
viii be merged, so that all Ell Centre
sEall become engaged in a unified
campaign for the Identification and
Improvement of individual homes.
Wheatly has given much time
and study to the conduct of such a
contest, and has assisted in several
similar and successful campaigns in
ether cities. He feels certain of 100
per cent cooperation in Ell Centre
OF home owners, merchants, and even
temporary tenants of the city s
residences. In no other place in the
world, Wheatly declares, can more
Favorable conditions for the growth
,of ornamental trees be found, and
perhaps no other areas need to be
tfee-studded SO much as the reclaim
ed and irrigated desert sections. The
plan of campaign and contest which
he proposes has been tried with
Wonderful success in numerous other
cities, and must succeed in the beau
tificaton of hundreds of dwellings
here, he feels certain.
Further discussion of the plan for
On annual Barbara Worth pageant
will be discussed. The committee in
charge has invited Phil Whiting, who
produced the Ramona pageant ut
Hemet, and who, with the late Gar
nett Holme, was responsible for sew
eral other successful western spec
tacles, to visit Ell Centre and give
his ideas for producing pageant in
Imperial Valley, and he is expected
to arrive here tomorrow and address
the chamber Of commerce dinner
guests.
President Hetzel and President
Smith of the two chamber organi
cations; ask that there be full
attendance. The Juniors will make
fin la ,1la 10 ,pf t,a ha
quet rendered the president and staff
Of the United States Junior Chamber
Of Commerce at Phoenix on Septem
ber Q, and several other matters of
moment.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
Marvel Crosson
Dies In Crash
fOontinued From pao. !,

She was graduate of the Logan
county high school in Sterling, Colo.
A She first became interested in
Joseph, now noted pilot, started
f9ying. Her brother subsequently be-
came a pilot and mechanic with
Sir Harry wilkins expedition to
the south pole.
In 1925 she went to ALASKA with
her brother and they both did com
mercial flying there.
On June zS, 1929 ,.i,iss Crosson
established worlds altitude
record for women when she took
off from Glover Field, Santa Moni-
ca, and climbed to 23,996 feet.
AS soon as Il wagon can force its
way to the spot where Miss Crosson
crashed her body will be brought
here and then sent to Yuma, Ariz.
CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 90. U.P)-
Investigation of the death of Mar
vel Crosson and of charges of sabo-
tage made by participants in the
Women's Air Derby, was begun to-
day by Floyd j. Logan, chairman of
the national air meet here.
A statement from Logan said:
~ have asked Yuma to report if
there is any foundation for rumors
that there had been tampering with
any of the contesting planes and to
lay the facts before the prosecuting
attorney in the district that he
might take immediate action against
the fiends who would do such a
thing.
"We have wired the people in
charge of control stops along the
route to report to us if a contesting g
plane does not reach the station
within the proper time
Logan said he personally would
direct an inquiry of sabotage charg-
es On arrival of the women flyers
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
TO GUST MALONE
AAA -

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20. U.P)
The resignation If A. G. Malone,
president of the civil service and
efficiency commission, was asked
in resolution passed yesterday by
the county board Of supervisors on
grounds that his acute differences
of opinion were disrupting the harr
mony of the commission. Malone
had expressed the opinion that IN
creascs in the salaries of various
city officials were excessive.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
Newport Defense
To Close Today

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20. W.D-
The defense at the trial OF f, I.
Newport, millionaire real estate
man, and Robert d. Clarke, charged
with having attempted to bribe
Judge Daley Stafford, was eX-
rected to close today with intro
duction of character witnesses for
Clarke.
Clarke was cross-examincd short
ly before noon and denied the
charge against him. Prior to the
oross-examination, six character
witnesses testified for Newport.
1t was charged that Clarke, am
employee of Newport, offered
money to Judge Stafford to influ-
ence a decision in favor of New
port.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20

fornia star and seventh seeded
American, in the third round of the
18th annual Newport Casino invita-
tion singles tennis tournament. The
Frcnchman won in straight sets,
10, 63.
In another third round match,
George NJ. Lott, Jr., of Chicago,
Davis cup star, eliminated Brad
shaw Harrison of Tacoma, Wash,
60, /.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
North Carolina
Mill Reopens

MARION, n. c., Aug. 20. (U.P)-
While tive companies of national
guard were held in readiness near
bv, the Clinchfield textile mill
scene of strike disorders yesterday,
reopened today with 3S4 strike
breakers as operatives.
No disturbances marked resump
tion of operations, although picket
lines of strikers continued to patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
DR.. A. B. Hanson, Dentist, Davis
Gldg. Extraction specialist. adv

District Directors Meet-Imperial
Irrigation District directors con
vened this morning in their regular
weekly meeting. Only routine mat
ters were expected to como to the
attention of the directors as Gen
eral Manager Dowd and Attorney
Childers are in Mexico City attend
ing the international water confer
encp.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
BANK QUOTATIONS

Occasional wheat fields are found
in Colorado where 65 per cent has
been destroyed by smut. Fields SOW
ed with treated seed have no smut.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-08-20
Johnny Doeg
Gets Trounced

NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 90 WH-
Paul Dericou of France. sixth seed
ed foreign player, furnished some
thing of an upset here today when
he eliminated Johnny Doeg, Cali