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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
BRITAIN Rejects
new PROPOSAL
in Imperialist
Blast at Hague
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lions, Premier BRAND Of France
hurriedly called a conference of his
disconsolate colleagues where it was
decided to try new scheme to get
Snowden to back down. The other
creditor nations asked Snowden to
agree to the appointment of COM
mittee of so-ealled experts, to try
to put new wrinkle in the Young
Plan that would be acceptable to
Britain. Snowden accepted and the
committee will meet tomorrow.
Snowden also gave away the real
reason for England's bitter hostility
to the Young Plan. The $10,000,00O
yearly, which is only one-fourth of
one per cent y the British budget,
is merely the pretext; actually,
Snowden indicated, it is national
prestige" that is, the life and death
struggle between British and Amer
lean imperialisms, that is at stake.
Wants Aggressive Policy.
"England's foreign policy in the
past few years." he said, "has been
so weak that the time has now come
for England to resume her place in
international relations to which her
position in the world entities her.
Other nations have taken advantage
of her weakness, and the moment
has come to change that"
Thus Snowden gave notice that
the labor" government intended to
defend the interests Of British cap
'ital much more aggressively than
did the previous tory government.
Hague Collapse Imminent.
Meanwhile the collapse of the
Hague conference seems imminent.
Britain, Unanswered into a corner
by the U. S., which has lined up
France, Japan, Italy and Belgium
on its side by holding the creditors
whip over their heads, is trying to
extricate itself from the corner by
boiling. The conference has result
ed in sharpening and crystalliza-
ton Of the struggle for world mas
terry between Britain and the U. S.,
with the U. S. greatly consolidating
its positions.
The purpose of the Young Plan,
which is child of the House of
Morgan, is to align the imperialist
powers into an anti-Soviet bloc on
enc hand and into an anti-British
bloc of the U. S. and its debtor allies
on the other hand.
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Parties consists in the fact that
they Tor some of them) might limp
behind the developing revolutionary
advance las, for instance, the C. P.
of Germany did in 1928 under the
leadership of Brandler and Thai
heimar). Therefore the task of
overcoming the right de- ations and
the conciliatory tendencies which
the Sixth World Congress placed
in the center of attention, is still
more urgent. At present it is a
question of cleansing the Commu-
mist Parties from the tail politi-
clans, the ~ortunist, semi-social
democratic elements who will not
see the maturing revolutionary adj
vance Cor are incapable of seeing
it), who are not able to lead the
working class in the coming revolu-
tionary struggles, who are laying
down their arms before capitalism
and the social democracy and who
are beginning to play in our Par
ties the role of a inner agency of
the enemy forces.
Hardly any period in the inner
life of the Communist International
has been so full of events as that
since the Sixth World Congress. 1t
is characterized, on the one hand,
by the Strengthening and inner con-
solidation of the Communist Par
ties and their simultaneous cleans
ing from the opportunist elements,
and on the other hand, by the con-
solidation of the Party leadership
on the Bolshevist line Nof the Sixth
Congress. The Communist Parties
of Germany, Czecho- Slovakia, Amer
lea, France and Poland have been
most strongly affected by this pro-
cess. But there are also a number
of our Parties in which this pro-
cess is only beginning or even has
not yet begun. The Plenum empha-
sized the necessity of further de-
termined struggle against the right
and conciliatory elements in all sec
tons of the Comintern.
The Plenum of the E. c. C. I.
drew up the political and economic
balance for the whole period since
the Sixth Congress. On the basis
of the rich experience of this pc
Rod the Plenum pronounced judg-
ment on the right elements, part
Of which are outside of the Comm
tern, while the other part are on
the way to being outside of the Co.
mintern. The position of these ele-
ments is no longer a tactical devia-
ton. AS has been the case with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
GAST0NIk YOUTH
HOLD BIG AFFAIR
AND SPORT MEET
Melvin to Speak, and
Boxing to Feature

GASTONIA, Aug. 18.-Sophie
Melvin, 19-year-old defendant in the
now world-famous Gastonia case
and Youth Organizer for the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union and
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Southern
representative of the International
Labor Defense, will be the principal
speakers at big affair to be given
by the Youth Section of the Loray
local of the NTWU this Saturday
evening at the Bessemer City Union
grounds.
Besides the speaking there will be
boxing matches and a dance. James
Robinson and Walter Passmore,
both members of the Loray Youth
Section of the N. T. W. U. are
slated to box four rounds apiece.
The proceeds of the affair will be
divided between the Gastonia De-
tense Fund and the Labor Sports
Union, Southern District. 7 he
Southern District of the LSU is
sending a delegation to the Third
National Convention and Third Ma
tional track and field meet of the
Labor Sports Union, to be held in
New York, starting August 21ss.
The Labor Sports Union has pledged
rs per cent of the proceeds of its
Third National Track and Field
Meet to the Gastonia Defense Fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
TRI-CITY POLICE |
TERROR AGAINST
WORKERS FAILS
Fail to Halt Workers
TUEL Meets !.

ROCK ISLAND, ILL.,, Aug. 18.-
Despite official proclamations from
the mayor and strict police orders
to prevent any open air meeting
from taking place as advertised
police orders that were printed on
the front pages of all the capitalist
papers of Davenport, Rock Island
and Moline right up to the evening
of the meeting-the Trade Union
Educational League, Tri-City Unit,
held their street meeting as sched-
uled. The audience of about five
hundred, mostly shop workers, lis
tened very attentively to the local
organizer of the T. U. E. L., S. A.
Krieger, for over an hour as he out
lined the local organization plans of
the League as we'll as its ultimate
aim of workers control and owner
ship of industry.
The successful meeting was DIS
tinct victory for the TUEL and the
workers Of the Tri-Cities. Had the
workers not gathered around the
platform ladder as soon as it was
set up, and pressed close to the
speaker as soon as he appeared, the
twelve uniformed policemen who
were on hand to prevent the meet
ing would have unquestionably in
terfered. AS it happened they were
too confused by the size of the
crowd which had G gathered so
quickly, to know what to do.
The next open air meeting IS
planned for Saturday night in Moline
where the mayor has already an
nounced that no meeting will be al
lowed. Two shop committees have
already been formed in the largest
factories in Rock Island and Moline
at the International Harvester Co.
and John Deere Flows Co.
A Tri-City conference and organ
izatipn mass meeting of the TUEL
will take place on August goth with
Jack tombstone as the main speak
err. At least four delegates will be
sent from the Tri-Cities to the
Cleveland Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Find Auto in Which
Girl Was Murdered

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 18.
The automobile in which police be-
lieve 12-year-old Dorothy Aune was
kidnapped and murdered was found
today abandoned on little fire.
quented road near the suburb of
Hopkins.
Police said they believed the dis
covery would lead directly to the
arrest of the fiend who attacked
Dorothy, mutilated and murdered
her. In the automobile was brown
toupe (Dorothy's slayer is said to
have been bald), Several yards of
Irvine like that with which the girls
body was trussed UP, and clothing
similar to that worn by Dorothy on
the day she was kidnapped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
HAND KENTUCKY
FALLS TO insult
Governor, Federal
Commission in Grab

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 49,
An attack upon the contract where
by Governor Elem D. Sampson of
Kentucky has handed over the Cum
berland River Power Company, a
corporation especially formed by
Samuel insult, power magnate, to
take the falls over, was yesterday
made by Attorney General Camnack
of Kentucky. Camnack, in a COM
plant filed with the Federal Power
Commission, stated that the falls
were about to be destroyed "for the
sake of a power plant that would
only stand as a monument to our
short-sighted folly"
Camnack's attack on the handing
over of the falls to insult is thus
suspected to be due to the fact that
he is backing different interests
than the insult controlled subsidi-
aries.
He revealed many devious work
ings, however, in the handing over
of Cumberland Falls to insult. He
stated that altho the contract was
signed October 8, 1928, he never
knew of its existence or execution
until public meeting of the Federal
Power Commission here in Deem
Der, 1928.
Thus the Federal Power Commits
sion, to which Camnack is appeal
ing" seems to have been a party to
the insult grab of the falls.
An anlysis of the contract shows
that the Kentucky Park Commission
agreed for the Cumberland River
Power Company to take title to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
LAY BASIS FOR
FIGHTING UNION
II Delegates Attend;
Plan More Meets

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improving the economic conditions
of the workers, but as a force to de-
feat the imperialist war plans.
Foster talked of the rising tide
of militancy among the working
class in many parts of the country,
mentioning specifically the strug-
giles in Gastonia, New Orleans, the
auto workers, ETC., He emphasized
the Importance of the Trade Union
Unity Convention, to be held in
Cleveland Aug. 31-Sept. 2, declaring
that the organization of a new trade
union center will coordinate and
guide these various struggles Of
the workers.
Pick Delegates to Unity Meet.
The conference elected three dele
gates to attend the Trade Union I'm
ity Convention to be held in Cleve-
land Aug. 31-Sept. 2.
Resolutions were passed on the
war danger, Gastonia, the Cleveland
Trade Union Unity Conference and
the All-American Anti Imperialist
League.
Resolutions were also passed on
the Marine Workers Voice, Labor
Unity and Church institutes and
clubs.
"The Atlantic Coast Conference"
the resolution on the Cleveland Con-
ference says, recognizes that the
marine workers cannot carry on
their struggle alone. We can only
hope for success in the fight for
better conditions if we are organize
tionally linked up with militant
workers in other industries. Cleve-
land is tremendous step forward
for the American workers, leading
to eyer sharper struggles and the
ultimate victory over the ship own
ers and the BOSSES"
Gables of greetings were sent to
the Red International of Labor I'm
ions, pledging solidarity with the
seamen of all countries, and espec-
tally to the marine workers of the
Soviet Union which now faces an
jmperialist attack upon it; to the
British Minority Movement conven-
ton which opens Aug. "a; and to the
Pan-Pacific Trade Union Congress
now in session in Vladivostock. A
wire of greetings was also sent to
John Morgan, organizer of the
Marine Workers League now serving
a six month sentence following his
attempt to organize the men on
Standard Oil ship.
Discuss Conditions on Ships.
Actual conditions on ships in
many ports and the tasks now fac
ing the seamen were discussed by
delegates after George Mink, secre-
tary Of the Marine Workers League
gave his report. Mink discussed the
world situation in the marine indus
try, growth Of tonnage, growing
rivalry and conflicts, the thousands
of unemployed, the role of the naval
reserve, the corruption and treachery
Of the international Seamen's Union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SPEED Up HUGE
GAST0NIA drive;
TRIAL week OFF
Sacco Memorials to Be
Gastonia Rallies
ICnntinned frnm pnne Onel

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CARNATIONS, such as the United
Council of Working Women, have
issued appeals to their members to
participate in the mass tag days for
the defense of the Gastonia pris-
oners.
Prepare SaccO Meets.
A letter to all working class or
CARNATIONS of New York has been
sent by the Communist Party, de-
claring: "This week marks the ami
versary of the murder of Sacco and
Vanzetti and the final week before
the opening of the Gastonia trial. 1t
is therefore of tremendous impor-
tance that the Party work with real
efficiency to utilize the week in or
der to mobilize all possible masses
against the contemplated legal muir
ders."
A united front Of all working class
organizations will convert the mass
Sacce and Vanzetti commemoration
meetings Aug. % and % into joint
Gastonia defense and relief rallies.
: Mass Sacco-Vanzetti and Gastonia
meetings are to be held in all sec
tons of the country: New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Kansas City,
San Francisco, Milwaukee, etc.
Mother Bloor is in charge of ac-
tivfties on the Pacific Coast and has
arranged meetings all along the
coast to raise funds and protest for
Gastonia. Moving pictures of Gas
tonia, showing conditions there, are
also being shown throughout the
land.
- I. L. D. Grows in South.
The international Labor Defense
is, growing in the South, reports
from the section showing increased
numbers of the workers are joining
at. each meeting of the organiza-
ton.
The meetings at which Vera Bush
and Amy Schechter, two of the
women defendants, are appearing
are being attended by thousands
everywhere, and wherever the story
of Gastonia is heard there is an i'm
mediate response with funds and or
ganization.
Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of
the Joint Gastonia Defense and Re-
lief Committee, stated yesterday:
'In every city where there are
branches of the l. L. D. and w. I.
R., the secretaries, executive COM
mittees and delegate bodies of these
organizations must join hands in
to Sept. 2. 1t becomes their first
one tremendous campaign Aug. "a
task to unite for the Gastonia cam
paign."
AS a result of the campaign to
date, nationwide leaflet drive has
been inaugurated. Immense city
mass meetings, street and factory
gate meetings, are being held regu-
larly. Unions-all working class or
ganizations-are being visited and
told about Gastonia and are con-
tributing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Leading Article of the "Pravda" of
July 81, 1929.


July q, 1929.
The Plenum of the Z. C. C. l.,
which recently concluded its work,
has adopted decisions of extreme
Importance for the international
Communist movement. The Plenum
analysed the economic and political
situation after the Sixth World Con-
gress. This analysis confirmed to
the fullest extent the line of the
Sixth World Congress. The Plenum
at the same time took into account
all changes in the economy and pol
itics of the capitalist countries and
in their relations to the Soviet I'm
ion which have taken place after
the Sixth Congress.
The Plenum recorded a further
decline of capitalist sterilization, a
further intensification of its con-
tradictions lin spite of the Paris
Conference and of the Macdonald
government, a further deteriora-
ton of the poisoning of the working
class, upon which the burdens of
capitalist naturalization are being
cast, and it recorded a further in
crease of the war danger and be-
fore all of a military attack upon
the Soviet Union lin spite of the
Kellogg Pact, in spite # the con-
tinual disarmament conferences and
in spite of the solemn promises of
Macdonald to recognize the Soviet
government.
At all junction points of world
economy and politics, development
is proceeding in the direction fore
seen by the Sixth -Torld Congress.
But some changes have taken place
since the Sixth Congress. The Sixth
Congress recorded the left develop
ment of the working masses in the
capitalist countries. The extent of
this left development already justi-
fies US in speaking of growing rev.
dictionary advance, especially in
such countries as Germany, France,
and Poland.
The strikes in the Ruhr, in LODI,
and North France, the mass actions
of the Berlin workers on the LIST of
May, the May demonstrations in
Germany, Poland and in other coun-
tries, the brilliant successes of the
German Party during the factory
council elections, the agricultural
strikes in Poland are facts which
go to prove growing revolutionary
ferment in the big capitalist states,
ferment which social democracy,
the main support of capitalism with
IN the working class, can neither
check by the social-fascist methods
of Zorgiebel nor by the lying, fraud
ulent revolutionary" phraseology
of the whole left wing.
In the present circumstance the
main danger for our Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
CORRECTION.

In the review of "Paris on the
Barbados" printed in Saturdays
Daily Worker, the name of the pub
Usher was, due to a misprint, given
as workers Literary Publishers"
and the address as 55 E. 125th st.
The publisher of paris ON the
Barbados" is the Workers Library
Publishers, at 43 E. 125th St., New
York City. (This review appeared
in Mondays National Edition).
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and the need for the organization of
new fighting Marine Workers
Union.
One Of the most significant re-
ports was the one made by Hines.
delegate from Baltimore, who de-
scribed the working of ship COM
mittees in various ports. "The ship
committee must be the basis for our
organization if it is to grow into
real fighting instrument" Hines
said. The model of ship committees
he declared, was to be found in the
Soviet Union.
Harry Summers reported on the
growing war danger, and for the
defense of the Soviet Union. He
pointed out all the forces that bring
an imperialist world conflict ever
closer.
Pledge Defense of USSR.
Following Summers report, the
following resolution was adopted;
"The Atlantic Conference declares
that the defense of the Soviet Union
must become one of the basic tasks
of the Marine Workers League.
Numbers of marine workers have
already shown by their response to
the demonstrations arranged by the
Marine Workers League and other
organizations that they are deeply
in sympathy with the Soviet Union.
The Marine Workers League must
see to it that this sympathy is broad
ened and give it organizational form,
cooperate with all other working
class organizations for the realiza-
ton of the great slogan Defend the
Soviet Union"
Amy Schechter, one Of the three
Gastonia women defendants, was
given a big ovation. The delegates
were deeply stirred by her simple
and moving story of the Gastonia
struggle and the conspiracy of the
mill owners against % of its lead
ers. "The terror that has been used
against the textile workers in the
South" she said, "is not peculiar to
textile workers or to the South. AS
soon as the marine workers start
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
ROUND TRIP FLIGHT

ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. l., Aug.
IS. - The Sun God, first plane to
attempt a round trip nonstop jour-
ney across the continent by the re-
fueling method, arrived here at 4:45
p. m. today, completing the first
half Of its long test.
1t prepared to take on gasoline
and other supplies and then head
into the west on the return to Spo-
kane, WASH, which it left Thurs
day ever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
PEASANTS FIGHT Fascist.

ATHENS (By MaiD The terri
bic distress among the peasants
near Patras and the continual pro-
vacations of the government give
rise to daily conflicts between the
authorities and the peasantry which
is trying to vindicate the last ves-
tiges Of its ancient rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
BLAST HURTS 16.

NEWCASTLE, Eng, Aug. 49,
A terrific gas explosion wrecked a
building here, injuring sixteen peo-
pie, several Of whom may die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
DONATE FOR GASTONIA.

Workers at an open air meeting
held at Washington and Claremont
Parkway, Bronx Thursday night
collected $5.47 for the Gastonia de-
Tense and adopted a resolution de-
handing that the Gastonia prison
ers be freed. The meeting was held
by Section 5, Unit 5, Communist
Party. sad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19

land embracing the falls and lake
created by the proposed dam. The
Park Commission possesses no pow
er to hand the fall over for "such
a mess of pottage," said Camnack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-18
Dog Muzzling.

Mai. Pratt has issued orders in
structing the police force to be on the
alert for infrinsements of the dog
muzzling regulation.
It will be we'll for all dog owners
10 cooperate with the police In this
matter, as violation not only exposes
children and others to danger. but
makes the owners subject TO arrest.
Those who love dogs the most will
be the FIRST TO comply with the regu-
lation. MuZzles can be- fitted so that
they work no particular hardship upon
pet. and at the same time they do
what they are intended to do--safc-
guard the general public.
Several letter carriers Of the Wash
inston City Post once have been Sc
verely bitten by dogs. In addition nu-
merous children have been victims.
These infringements of peace and
order on the part Of dogs have been
tolerated by mankind as a part of the
animals nature. It has been found
expedient however, to mu2zle them
during certain months.
Kindness to animals Is in no way
violated by properly fltted muzzles. and
at the same time kindness 10 human
beings is secured by their use.
II all dog owners we're perfect, and
took perfect care Of their pets. there
perhaps would be no necessity for jaw
binders.
As long as dogs have neas. however;
as long ss they are, not perfectly fed.
or have not sources Of drinking water
open to them, so long will there he
danger of their biting their human
friends.
Real dog lovers are cooperating with
the police. not only for the sake Of the
public at large. but also for their dogs
sakes Indifferent and negligent own
ers must meet the District-wide drive
to keep dogs muzzled.
These latter should realize that two
or three or more persons are being
bitten almost every day. far too high
proportion, and that most OF the victims
are children. This Is a matter calling
for the complete cooperation Of the
public,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-18
New Orleans Railway Strike
Reminder of Human Passions

the railway company and its employees,
that the authorities Of this city and
state will take any steps that may be
required
Remarking that descriptions Of the
scenes of violence are like page out
Of Carlyle's French Revolution" the
Birmingham News comments: rs II
passionate Gallo blood breaking out?
Or is 1t honestly incensed Americans
breaking lances with unjust overload
ship? Or is it some frightful miscor-
ception? Whatever be the
genesis. II is grievous thing that
intelligent men composing the manage
ment and intelligent men composing the
union could not or would not. use every
strength at hand to avert this bitter
pass
Incidents which have accompanied
the strike remind the New York Eve
ming Post of the days when trolley
strike. with all these forms of violence.
was going on so continuously in one
city or another that the maintenance
Of a standing army of strikehreakers
was a profitable enterprise" The Post
adds that the automobile broke the
trolley strikes in Detroit and Chicago.
just as it practically broke the subway
strike in New York" and that cities
learned that they could transport tnrnn-
selves by motor. even If an industrial
war kept the street cars in the barns"