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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-31
suicide OR MURDER
QUESTIONS PUZZLE
STATES ATTORNEY
Analysis of Mike Skachenko's
Stomach Shows Deadly
Drauoht Killed Him
SUSPECT ESTRAN0ED WIFE
Woman Exonerated Of Suspe-
cion, However, BY Evidence
Presented to the Jury
SUSPECT EsTRANoeD WIFE
Tribune Special Service)


Killdeer. n. D.. Oct. 3i.-Did Mike
Skachenko know he was drinking .
poison potion when he quaffed
stein OF beer over the breakfast table
with Z neighbor?
was there . sinister Borgia In the
life OF the Killdeer farmer who de-
liberately mixed q deadly poison IN
the breakfast beer?
Suicide or murder?
Those are the two questions that
Tom johnson. Dunn county states
attorney, must answer In the death
riddle confronting authorities inves-
tigating the strange case.
Skachenko died from drinking
draught Of deadly poison. That has
been definitely established by chem
lists at the University Of North Da-
kota who analyzed the stomach It's.
sues Of the dead man.
Death Due To Poison
A coroner's jury at an inquest last
niel,t held that skachenko came to
his death by drinking beer contain
ing poison but there was no evidence
to indicate II he had taken It with
suicidal intent or II It was planted
BY some other person.
Was Mrs. Mike Skachenko q Lucre-
xia Borgia? Did the, estranged wife
OF the dead man pour the poison into
Skacl1enkois batch Of beer? Did she
deliberately paan his death 50 she
could tSke over tho 6lIaclsefk0 estat6,
estimated to be worth 32O.O003
That was Tom Johnson's first sup
position after preliminary investtga-
tion OF the case. Evidence presented
to the coroner's jury has caused
johnson to change his mind. however.
Blood relatives Of the poisoned man
and his former wife are now engaged
in litigation over the disposition Of
the estate.
Thinks Poison Planted
johnson said he feels that the
poison was planted" for 6kachenko
to drink but that the man. depressed
by domestic difficulties. may have
decided to commit suicide. On the
other hand. johnson said, 6kachenko
had invited . neighbor to drink with
him from the same bottle and there
was no reason for the dead man TO
wish to poison his neighbor Is well
as himself.
Evidence taken yesterday showed
that the neighbor tasted the poisoned
beer but refused to drink It. warn
ing Skacl1enko that It Was bitter. The
latter paid no attention to the re-
mark and drunk Q glassful. He died
In convulsions q few minutes later.
johnson said skachenko was known
as . heavy drinker and probably
would not pay attention to 50 small
an item as an unusual bitterness In
his beer.
Tracing rsisen 6surce
Efforts ore being made to trace the
source Of the poison but it is Of .
kind which can be obtained from
mailorder houses IS well rs druggists
and Is widely used BY farmers 70
poison wolves and coyotes.
Difficulty in investigating the case
has been caused by the fact that few
Of the witnesses speak English. john
son said, and It Is necessary to ask
questions through m interpreter who
understands Russian.
Members of the coroner'S jury were
A. Z. Luke, cashier Of the Security
state Bank; n. n. Weydahl. vice
president q the First National Bank.
and Anton Wstsch. local merchant.
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UTILITIES MAGNATE
BACKS employees

Chicago. Oct. 3l.-(PeAnOther
Chicago multi millionaire has come 70
the succor Of his employees threatened
With financial loss through margin
accounts on the stock market.
Samuel insult. Public utilities own
q, announced that margin accounts
q employees Of his companies would
- guaranteed until they were no
loneer In danger Of being sold out.
The announcement followed similar
guarantee by Julius Rosenwald. PHI
lanthropist and chairman Of the
board q Sears Roebuck and company.
lnsull declined 10 .laborate On his
heief onnoacement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-31

New York. Oct. 3l.-R)-Heavy
profit taking halted q wild stampede
Of buying in totiays stock market aft
er scores Of issues had been marked
up S. to so a share and gains Of SIS
and sos share had been registered
by . couple Of high priced specialties.
Losses from the high levels ranged
from 81 to 412 In most OF the pOpu-
lar shares. Trading was conducted
at q furious pace. sales from noon,
when the market opened to l:3O p. M,
t0taling 4.472. 400 shares.
Heavy buying resulted In q turnover
OF l0.727 $50 shares. with gains of /
to 36 points for leading issues. Frantic
LIQUIDATION Tuesday had thrown 49,
10000 shares into the market and
driven prices to record lows until last
minute support halted the rout.
The rally yesterday began early but
did not reach its greatest momentum
until John .. Rockefeller Sr. author
lied = statement from his home at
Pontico Hills, N. r.. that he and his
son. John D. Rockefeller Jr., did not
believe there was anything in the
business situation to warrant the de-
struction Of values such as had
taken place during the past week
and that they were buying common
stocks which represented good invest
ments.
A few minutes earlier stock ex-
change officials had announced that
the exchange would not open until
noon for today's session and would Be
closed all day tomorrow and Saturday.
The physical exhaustion Of the
army Of Wall street workers under the
strain Of the unprecedented business
Of the past week was given as the
reason for the two-day suspension.
Not only are brokers' staffs at the
limit of their endurance after working
Continued on page uine)
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PRICE
RALLY
Values Rally in Spectacular
Fashion at Opening Of
Today's Market
CONFIDENT WORST IS OVER
Comeback Accelerated by News
John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Is Buying
CONFIDENT WORST Is OVER

Washington. Oct. 3l.-tF)-A
resolutton authorizing the ap-
p0tntment Of > committee Of five
senators 70 investigate speculative
operations on all stock exchanges
and report remedial measures not
later than February 1. 1880. was
prepared today BY Senator Nye,
Republican, North Dakota.
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The Weather

Cloudy tonight ond Friday; proba1
snow tonight. Temperature unchane|
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
VIM. GREEN PLEDGES HELP
TO The OPEN SHOP BOSSES
AGAINST WAGE MOVEMENTS;
TO SUPPRESS CONFLICTS"
Hoover Drops Three Billion Dollar Plan in
Crisis Meeting as Fakers Aid
Overproduction Admitted as Basic Cause of
Depression by Bosses in Washington

WASHINGTON Nov 21.-The greatest openly fascist
between the bosses and the American Federation
of Labor bureaucras against the working class this country
reached today at Washington under the direct guidance
of President Hoover This the of HoOvers
ment on the pact reached between capital and labor
AS repeatedly pointed by the Daily Worker especially
since the crash the Stock Exchange American capitalism
launching drive to cut hoping to itself from
lessening profits at the expense of the workers.
HOOvers statement opens with hypOcritica declaration
that the employers will not initiate wage reductions when
matter of fact of already
and in any event such promises seriously
only to deceive.
But that the further that the A. F. of L.
leaders have pledged to initiate for
of wages is definite promise to fight against any wage
which the employers making and will increasingly make
And further the promise by the A. F. of L. who
have failed to betray workers in struggle that they twill
give cooperation to industry the handling of its prob
ems constitutes the pledge of Green Wo and company
fascstze the trade unions of the A. F. of L. instruments
break the strikes of unOrganzed workers and particularly
to direct all fire against the only leader of struggle against
cuts and for higher wagesthe and revolutionary
trade union center the Trade Union Unity League and the
unist Party which recognized the backbone of the class
struggle throughout the country.
The sanction and seal of the capitalist government this
nefarOus bargain at the time sets the mark upon
step and long step the assassination of American demo
cracy, for surely tOmOrrOws will the attacks
revolutionary labor by the employers and the A. F. of
will be Jointly carried out by and with full participation of the
government But what the of the workers will be
that will be the American working class responds
must respond to worsening conditions by bigger
strikes and increased rehabilitation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22

The will of the working against placed
upon it by capitalism makes itself felt first in ndustn the shops
means addition to the specialized statistical knowledge of economic
factors which Lenn always insisted he knowledge of
and develop revolutionary tendencies struggle
This is the main task of
try Particularly is the pressing task our leading comrades
of the capitalists and the
the struggle behalf workers. actually for
of smashing all struggles of needle
very WE'LL bacay necessary to denounce
the mobilization as antwokng class in character planned
promoted and financed by the bosses their oasct
But something and far this something has been
almost entirely lacking in the preparation the leading
needle trades comrades To the fascist mobilization they have opposed
ehaTacer p"''' therefore Oh 0c"rsl0m'S'
emphasis raising strike struggle slogans
based fight against the miserable and working conditions
in the industry The emphasis has not been the mobilization
who make the majority the industry
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Unio
units leading the workers against the united front of
bosses, bureaucrats and their government machinery
This is where placed
accurately only understand
but to be willing and able to the basis of this knowledge
Precisely because the bosses and the ociaase know that the
of workers ready to because they know
that Lower ns the speup and a char
tan and determination of because they know
that in this period evey spark of discomfort the workers. and
still actual strike has the kernel of revolution
be developed the stage in which into revolutionary
battehy unhead lengths
The initiative be wrested the
This done by rank and file committees with militant leadership
based primarily the economic needs of the needle
trades workers Every shop must become battle-ground while the
time the preparation broad in the industry
Energy tered
be general struggle
emphasis however, must be strike struggle for the
Revolutionary leadership built struggle
the struggle trained the struggle In the article Number "a
the Communist International entitled The Fight Against Oppor
tism the Sections of the Comntern the following
plcabe Party members all industries well the needle
trades, is made:
T is for each small of Communists the
factories understand their political oe understand
that for the Party they by
bershp and carriers of loads They realise that
the essential links the representatives of the advance
the Masses"
This the line of action for comrades in the needle trades:
struggle all passv capuaton
Observation-Disclosures
shop factory the defeat of the anworkg drive
building Industrial
the of the in the sharpening class conflicts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
NATIONAL miner
UNION LEADERS
MEET SATURDAY
Executive Board Will
Issue Call for Big
Convention
Bosses Aid Fishwick
Enter Court F g h t
With Lewis

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 21.-
Sixty leaders of the National Min
ers' Union will meet when the Ma
tional Executive Board of the N.
M. U. gathers in this city Saturday
and Sunday, Nov. 1924. Present
will be % National Board members
from as many districts, and repre-
sentatives of the District Executive
Boards of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, West Virginia, and the Anthra-
cite.
The meeting, one of the most sig
nificant in the history of the Ma
tional Miners Union, will take up
measures for extending the struggle
in Illinois and in the anthracite re-
gion; it will issue call for a ma
tional convention of the union, which
will be held either in Pittsburgh or
in Columbus, Ohio. The conference
will also consider charges brought
against John J. Watt by the recent
Belleville convention, which passed
resolution demanding that he be
removed from the presidency of the
N. M. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
FIGHT TERROR IN
N. Y. VICINITY
Hackensack 81 F a C e
Deportation

The New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense is now
fighting to secure the release OF
81 Spanish and Portuguese work
ers of Hackensack, N. j., who were
arrested last week in a series OF
police raids. The workers are now
at Ellis Island and are being
threatened with deportation to their
native countries where they will fall
into the clutches of the fascist
Spanish and Portuguese Dictator
ships.
Though the official charge against
these workers is "illegal entry"
actually they are being victimized
for their militant labor activities.
The federal government, which is
responsible for the raids, is co-op-
Grating with the open-shop concerns
in its drive against the foreign
born. Isaac Shorr is the l. L.. d.
attorney in the case.
Another militant worker is also
being detained at Ellis Island,
Henry Rosemond, Negro vice-presi-
dent of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, and fugitive from
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
PLAN TO SPREAD
BUILDING STRIKE
Cleaners and Service
Workers Meet

Plans for suppressing the strike
of the window cleaners and other
building service workers will be dis
cussed tonight at a joint meeting
of the members of the Window
Cleaners Protective Union, Local g.,
and the Amalgamated Building
Service Workers Industrial Union
at 7 o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum,
&C E. Fourth st.
The two unions are now conduct
ing a joint drive to organize porters,
floor scrubbers, firemen, elevator
operators and other building service
workers into a single industrial
union. The workers of several
apartment houses in the Bronx, in
Guiding the cooperative houses of the
Jewish National Workers Alliance,
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
CLASS FIGHTERS
HEAR GASToN|A I
In Chicago Sun d ay
Prepare LID Meet

When the Gastonia prisoners speak
at the mass meeting of welcome in
Chicago, next Sunday, Nov. "a, 3
p. M, at Peoples Auditorium, they
will be heard by 26 workers in
danger of 10 years Imprisonment
charged with sedition for member
ship in the Communist Party.
The greeting for the Gastonia
prisoners, precedes by a week
the fourth district conference
of the international Labor Defense
on Dec. s, at 10 p. m. in the same
aWlitorium at 2457 West Chicago
Ave.
In the call to the Chicago district
conference the following statement
was made: "Since the third nation
al conference of the LID. held in
1927, we were faced with the seri-
Gus problem of taking care of hun
dreds of cases which grew out of
the miners strike, the textile
strikers, needle trades strikes, and
sedition cases. The murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti left behind it a trail
of prosecutions of workers who par
ticipated in the movements and
demonstrated to save these victims
from the clutches of capitalist just
ice the attempt TO railroad to Jail
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
Mill Workers Prepare
for Struggle, Need the Daily
Workers, and Workers Groups Must ADOPT
This Big Textile Center

How acute the need of the southern the Day
Worker strkngl illustrated in the following the Daily
Worker by the National Union in
This is plea to the Daily Worker the Daily
here every day. Wv '
81 know can't afford hundreds of Daies that the
mill workers in Atlanta Macon Forythe and The other mill
towns and villages in Georgia
However. send thirty we can at
least out copies individual workers Daily ourselves
"a rare luxury here but q absolute necessity!
Would appreciate would sending Daily at once
AS in to the appeal of this comes the
action OF Unit RI Section with % resolution
Continued Paa- -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
NO WAGE INCREASES, NO STRIKES" A. F. OF l. FASCIST
AGREEMENT WITH HOOVER, TRUST HEADS AND BANKERS
Labor Juror on
TouYtoyTUUL
Fights the Klan

BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 21.-Sol
Harper, Negro worker and member
of the Gastonia case labor jury, will
speak tonight to meeting we'll ad-
vertised throughout the Negro work
ers' section. The meeting is at 200
Willicott ST., and Harper will de-
scribe the railroading of the seven
textile strike leaders by the mill
owners court, the Jim Growing of
the jury, and the need of organizing,
North and South, Negro and white,
in the unions and industrial leagues
of the Trade Union Unity League.
He will also point out the necessity
of Negro and white workers alike
supporting the Workers Information
al Relief, and the International La
Dor Defense. Harper is building or
ganization as he goes. He is speak
ing under joint T. U. U. L. and 1.
L. D. auspices.
Harper's tour takes him to meet
ings in Niagara Falls tomorrow,
Syracuse Sunday, and perhaps an
other meeting in Rochester Sunday.
Last Saturday Harper spoke with
Fred Beal in Paterson, N. j., and
addressed a good meeting in Bing-
hamton Sunday. Binghamton is a
headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan.
The shoe bosses are building the
XXX, to divide the protestant from
the catholic workers. The "Endicott
Square Deal Association" was or
ganized by a Klan boss. Harper
exposed this, and other schemes to
split the workers.
A meeting will be arranged for
Harper in Elmira, N. Y, where
there are many Negro workers. This
town has the La France Fire Engine
Co., the Morrow Plant (auto parts)
and the American Bridge Co. works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
Needle Workers
Will Organize
Thru ". IT, Il.
Shop Strikes Instead
of ILG Fake Stoppage
BY VIM. y. FOSTER.

The definite policy of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and its af-
filiated unions is to cooperate with
the employers for the rationaliza-
ton of industry, for the speed-up
of the workers, and against the de-
velopment of militant unionism and
struggles amongst them. In carry
ing out this employer-inspired pro-
gram the A. F. of L. unions are
reduced practically to a policy of
company unionism and strike-break-
ing. The unions have become mere
auxiliaries of the employers for eX-
plotting the workers and checking
their revolutionary development.
In no industry do the A. F. of L.
leaders carry out this policy more
consistently and disastrously for the
workers than in the needle trades.
There the Socialist" heads of the
old craft unions have formed the
closest alliance with their masters,
the employers. They are simply the
naturalization agents of the clothing
manufacturers. What the needle
workers confront is a united front
of their enemies-the employers,
the labor bureaucrats, and the capt.
talist state.
In the ladies' garment section of
the industry this anti-worker COM
bination is especially active. Its
aim is4 to demolish the militant
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and to reduce the workers to
helplessness by rebuilding the COM
pany-unionized I.L.G.W.U. Their
method for accomplishing this is
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
BOSTON MEET OF
NEEDLE WORKERS
FIGHTS BETRAYAL
Plan to Organize NTIU
Against the Bosses
and Fakers
TOilers Fill Auditorium
Union Veterans Of 25
Years at Meet

BOSTON, Nov. 21.-Over 500
cloak and dressmakers and furriers
filled the Ambassador Palace here
last night for the purpose of dis
cussing and adopting policy for any
fake strike that may be carried
through by the company union mad
tos mobilize for an extensive organ
ization drive to organize the Needle
Trades Industrial Union. This was
the most enthusiastic meeting in re-
cent months in spite of the slack
season when few workers are in the
city.
1t was essentially a rank and file
meeting.
After Paul Goldberg, the chair
man, explained the purpose Of meet
ing, Koretz, manager of the Boston
union, reviewed in most thorough
Continued on Page Tp0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
STAY ON JOB, AFL
CHIEFS Tell men

"Wait till you're called" is the
advice of officials of Local 63 of the
international Subway Tunnel and
lCompressed Air Workers Union to
subway diggers anxious to strike for
union wage rates and job conditions.
The message of betrayal was
again given to Brooklyn diggers
working for the Hart and Early con-
struction firm yesterday and repeat
ed at a meeting at Harlem Terrace,
104th st. and Third Ave.
John McPartlan, union secretary
who has been calling out the men
tomorrow" ever since 500 Bronx
workers struck two weeks ago, open
ly advised his organizer to go to a
Long Island job to keep the men
steady"
Sell-out by arbitration was again
advocated by McPartlan and other
A. F. of L. union officials yesterday
(Cont,nued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
Mock Gastonia Trial
by Section One to Be
Held Tomorrow Night

Workers will issue their own yer
dict on the Gastonia case tomorrow
night at Clinton Hall, when the
seven Gastonia class war prisoners
will be tried by a workers court,
M. j. Olgin, active among the
Jewish militant workers, and editor
of the Freiheit will be the attorney
for the defense; Robert Minor, ed
itor of the Daily Worker, will be
prosecutor for the working class;
and Sam Darcy, director of the
workers school, will be presiding
Judge. Two of the Gastona class
prisoners will be witnesses. The
mock trial is being arranged by
Section of the Communist Party.
All workers of New York have been
invited to participate in the trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
MASS MEET WILL
HAIL DELEGATES
Rally for Convention
of N.T.W.U.

To hail the second annual conven-
tion of the National eTxtile Work
ers' Union, which will be held in
Paterson, all textile workers of New
York are called to a mass meeting
Tuesday evening at o'clock, at the
Irving Plaza Hall, E. 18th St. and
Irving Pl.
This meeting, held under the aus
pices of the New York district of
the National Textile Workers
Union, will be the rallying point
for the National Convention of the
Union, and for the drive to organ
ize the $4,000 textile workers in
New York. Workers in silk, knit
good, rugs, passementerie, in all the
branches of the textile industry are
suffering from unemployment in
New York, and a vicious system of
wage cuts and speed-up. While
thousands of textile workers are
out of work, or only working part
time, others are driven on 12-hour
shifts. New York textile workers
will voice their protest against this
whole system of naturalization.
William McGinnis, Gastonia strike
leader, sentenced to Is years, is just
out on bail, an dwill bring greet
ings from the textile workers of
the South. The other speakers at
the meeting will be Bill Dunno,
Trade Union Unity League repre-
sentative, recently returned from
the southern strike area; Clarina
Nicholson, New York District Or
ganizer of the union, and Martin
Russak, of the National Textile
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-22
To Mark Anniversary
of Working WOmen's
Council T O n i g h t

Tonight at $3.50 New York work
ers will join in celebrating the sixth
anniversary of one of the leading
working class organizations, the
United Council of Working Women.
The celebration will be held at Stuy-
vesant Casino, Second Ave. and
Ninth ST., and promises to be gala
event.
M. j. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit,
and Sylvia Bleeker, representing the
Women's Department of the New
York District of the Communist
Party, will be the chief speakers.
They will bring greetings to the
United Council and point out its
splendid work in the leading strug-
giles of the working class for the
past six years.
All councils are called on to come
to the celebration in a body and to
bring their banners. Tickets should
be bought in advance. They are on
sale at so cents at the Council Of
flee, 799 Broadway. Room 535.