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The Washington times., 1929-06-26
GiDe Dinner Party
In Former Home
OF General" DnuUes

War and Mrs. Patrick j. Hurley
will entertain at dinner this eve
ming in their home at 1920 Bel
mont Rd.-which was formerly
occupied by the Ambassador to
the Court of st. James and Mrs.
Dawes during the formers Pc
riod of service as Vice President.
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From Kansas
Capt. George ]. Forster has as
his guests Major Barnwen r.
Legge and his mother. Mrs. C. L.
Legge, who have motored here
from Fort Leayenworth, Kan.
Capt. Lionel K. Legge, of Charles
ton, s. c., is also here and guest
Of Captain Forster, who enter
tanned at picnic supper last eve
ming at the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps Country Club for his
guests.
Major Legge was formerly sta
toned at Fort Myer. He was
transferred to Fort Leavenworth
a year ago.
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Mrs. Fred bennett, accompanied
by her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Patton Wise Slemp,
of Kentucky, are motoring to
New Jersey today.
Mrs. bennett and Mrs. Slemp
will spend three months on the
Jersey coast.
Lieut.. Comdr. Frederic w. Neil.
son, u. s. NJ, and Mrs. Nelson
(the former Mrs. Eula Jackson
Alsop) and her two children, will
leave Washington July for
New York. From there they will
go to the west coast where Com
mander Nelson win be stationed
for two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Karrick
have gone to their summer home
at Stickbridge, Mass.
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Mrs. Mary Sullivan and her
daughter, Miss Sydney Sullivan,
have sailed to pass the summer
in Europe.
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
"The Fourth

Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Rap
ley will go to Philadelphia for
July 4, and will be guests of the
latter's mother, Mrs. Henry FL.
Lineaweaver and Mr.. Lineaweaver.
Mrs. Rapley's sister, Miss Sally
Huntress, who has been her guest
here for some time will return to
Philadelphia with them.
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DIR. and Mrs. Henry Cook Mac
atee and their daughters, Miss
Mary Paxton Macatee and Miss
Gertrude Macatee, will spend the
next six weeks on the Pacific
Coast, returning to Washington
early in August by way of Pan
anna. DIR. Macatee will represent
the Medical Society of the District
of Columbia as delegate to the
American Medical Associati tion con-
vention, which meets in Portland,
Ore, early in July.
Miss Julia whiting has gone
to Bar Harbor, Me-, where she
will spend the summer. With
her will be Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
P. Barnett.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17

hold the rank which it possessed
in 1914. We are grateful to NJ.
Tardieu that he has expressed
himself so clearly, without delay,
on the question of naval disarma-
ment."
There is steep disagreement be-
tween France and Italy over naval
ornaments. Neither disagrees with
the fundamental question of the
London conference-further arma-
ments for all the powers.
But the point of difference be-
tween these two powers is: which
shall arm the more? Italy asks par
ity with France in all craft. France
insists on superiority for the con-
troll of the Mediterranean with it's
rich colonies. One of the chief ex-
ponents of Frances position is Paul
Boncour, the social-fascist deputy.
He is even more rabid for more
ornaments and French superiority
in naval strength over Italy than
some of the other imperialists who
make less claim to be Socialists"
The French delegation will pro-
pose at the London conference that
no decisions be reached-because
they realize beforehand that the two
leading powers are agreed to limit
their nearest competitors. They will
attempt to organize the Smaller
powers against the United States
and Great Britain. But in this they
are thwatted by their differences
with Italy.
The capitalist class is not able to
hide the war nature Of the London
naval conference. Even the attempt
to palm off the London confab as
disarmament" conference has
miserably failed.
The bitter struggle between the
imperialist powers is of such sharp
nature, their demands for increased
armaments-more cruisers, more
submarines-that they find it diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Here Are Some OF the Things
That Caused the III. Mine Strike

work man could go home at any
time. This fellow had faulty work
for several weeks and was able to
make only $40 and SIS each two
weeks, and the first day he actually
made fair days work he was dis
charged.
The men see quiet clearly where
they are going. They know the
United Mine Workers is a burden
on their backs and a hindrance.
They are lining up and following
the program of the National Miners
Union.
This is the only hope for the
miners-the N. M. U. is truly a
rank and file union. It's constitu-
tion is different in every respect
from the old union. The old union
crucified leadership, the new will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
a o t z k y In Legal
T a II G e Over His
Anti Communist Book

BERLIN, Dec. 16.-Trotzky is
enmeshed in legal suit with Karl
Reissner, a Dresden publisher, over
his anti-Communist tripe, which
goes under the title of 'Lenin and
His Epigones."
The ground of Trotzky's sudden
awakening o fconscience in not per-
hitting the capitalist publisher to
issue his anti-Leninist diatribe is his
claimed new discovery that Reissner
had published similar book by
Alexander Kerensky. Trotzky's
book attacks the Communist Inter
national in such counter-revolution
airy terms as to be confused with the
Kerensky output. Trotzky feared
the odious comparison which the
workers would make between his
filth and the anti-working class
poison of Kerensky.
The "New York Times" a favor
lite authority with Trotzky's Ameri-
can friends on the "Militant") re-
ports chat Trotzky owns some
property in Berlin, and the case
may eventually be heard here"
Newspaper reports state that
Trotzky will call on General Erich
Ludendorff, junker militarist and
Kerensky if the case comes to trial
in order to clear himself of charges
made in Kerensky's book.
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ficult to cover up their war maneu-
vers.
A Liberal member of the House of
Commons childishly asks Macdonald
against whom Great Britain IS arm
ing. Macdonald does not deny grow
ing ornaments but replies: "Great
Britain is not arming against any
body. Our defense establishment is
decided upon after consideration Of
every factor that determines its
existence"
In other words, British arma;nents
is based o. the fact that the grow
ing struggle for weird mar;.ets is
becoming more severe as the crisis
in capitalism intensifies; and that its
most formidable competitor IS me
United States.
Macdonald is quite ready to
spent billions for almaments to
further The competition Of the 1rit-
ish imperialists, but he cannot dis
cover funds for unemployed relief.
Hoover is using the growing crisis
in the U. S. as an excuse to rush
the building of cruisers, even before
the London conference. This is just
part of the vast war preparations
scheme that Hoover is carrying out
under the guise of "public works."
But the London naval ornaments
conference meets in the shadow of
growing class struggles.
The workers and peasants in
China, India, Africa and Latin
America are showing signs of in
creased resistance.
The Communist Party of the
United States is modifying the
working class against the war dam
ger and the threat against the So
Wet Union.
Mobilization against Hoover's
"grand fascist council" which is
part of the war maneuvers, is ex-
pressed in such movements as the
Illinois miners strike and the dem
onstration against imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
'GYQud Duke"
Is RiIed BY A
Workers Song
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-Monday
evening, December 10, the "Grand
Duke" Alexander, brother of the
car of imperialist Russia, was guest
of dinner given by one of Chi
cago's parasites.
AS the party entered the dining
room all of the workers employed
there had to stand in a bowed posi-
ton until the party was seated.
The leader of the orchestra was
then asked to play the Imperial
Grand March. He replied that he
did not remember it but would play
something Russian, and the party
commenced their meal while the or
chestra started playing the Volga
Boatman.
The "granl duke" was highly in
suited that the first selection should
be song of the workers, and imme-
diately threw down his napkin and
rose. The entire party did likewise,
end only after much persuasion and
the discharging of the entire orches-
ira at once did the meal continue,
without music.
The American Federation of La
Dor has taken no steps to have these
workers reinstated on their job as
yet and judging from the policy of
the Musicians Union and the A. F.
Of L. nothing further can be ex-
pected.-MUSICIAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Turkey, the Model for
Bourgeois Nationalist,
, Proven to Be a Dud
Bankruptcy and Stagnation Hangs Over Naon Mustapha
Kena, Whom Chang Kai-shek Sought to Emulate as
Futile as His Disciple; Proletariat Has Freedom
to Wear Secondhand Clothes and Shine
Boss Shoes

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. To-
Since the example of Mustapha
Renal, in Turkey, has been the in
SEPARATION of many bourgeois nation
lists, it might be we'll to see just how
far Turkey has got under bourgeois
nationalism. And the more one looks
the more the impression grows that
underneath the patchwork of petty
and passing reform measures, Turk
ish bourgeois nationalism is bank
rupt.
a Right now a financial crisis is
skipping this independent" coun-
". The Turkish pound is sinking
tx relation to the British pound and
the American dollar, and all the
government can do about it is to
make dire threats against "panic
mongers"-which doesn't change
anything in the nature of causes,
which lie in the inevitable inclusion
of Turkey in the general crisis of
the capitalist world economy.
We see, then, that the basic idea
of bourgeois nationalism is unsound,
precisely, because it is bourgeois;
that the only genuine nationalism
that would be possible for Turkey or
any other so-called backward"
country is revolutionary nationalism,
based on the revolutionary power
of a workers. and peasants govern
ment and not on bourgeois rule.
Everything the Turkish bour-
geoisie does to remedy" conditions,
only intensifies the difficulties, only
postpones crisis until later when
it will be still worse. 1t was claimed
that what Turkey needed was high
tariff, and it put one in effect. But
the merchants, it is said, bought
so much before the rates We're
raised, that payments for these for
eign goods is the cause, it is stated,
of the present collapse of the cur
rency.
a Industries Bankrupt.
However, that cause cannot ac-
4unt for the failure of big con-
Germ manufacturing neckties and
other such specialties, which failed
recently for a sum of $S80,000, nor
for the fact that trade is stagnant,
the harbors deserted and the docks
idle but for occasional passenger
boats. Kemal's advertised cure-all
for this is the establishment of a
state bank.
But of what essential good is a
state bank in solving the basic cap
italist economic contradiction Tur-
key lacks factories, and while some
machinery is being imported to es-
tablish more, they are to be capital
list factories, not socialized as in the
Soviet Union, trying to sell behind
the tariff war to masses who have
no money to buy because of the in
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herent gap between wages and value
of their product.
Anyhow, since these factories
don't really exist yet, the troubles
they will encounter need only be
foretold. At present the agrarian
basis of Turkish economy is in a
deep crisis. The filbert crop failed
and the leading export item, dried
fruit, is said to have suffered from
excess rains-moreover, neither fill
berts nor dried figs can be said to
constitute sound basis for a ma
tional economy.
Wears Uncle Sans Old Pants.
One Turkish bourgeois nationalist
paper, in the hunt for causes in
which the bourgeoisie finds every
thing to blame but itself and its sys-
TEN, shows anger at the importation
and sale (note this you who con-
tribute to the "Near East Relief')
of secondhand clothing from the
United States.
at is without doubt very kind of
Uncle Sam to send us his old pants
and out-of-date jackets, commerce
in which is becoming more and more
flourishing among our merchants.
While such importations from the
United States continue to animate
our market, our own cloth factories
lack trade and our tailors face a
disastrous situation remarks LA
Republique."
The so-called nationalist" gov
eminent which has been taken as a
model for all bourgeois nationalists
of India and China and pointed at
with pride" by those who thought it
an antidote to Bolshevism in the
settlement of semi-colonial indie
pendence, thus car be shown to have
attained the dignity of a dealer in
secondhand clothing.
Numerous remedies" of Musta-
pha Renal are being proposed. The
1920 White Guard Russians whose
noble ancestry in Tsarlst Russia has
little value on the Turkish market,
but inhibits in them all ideas of
work outside of prostitution and
petty shop keeping, are being ord
cred to move on. They compete
with Turks in these trades, appar-
emily.
Then a decree forbids foreigners
from engaging in a whole list of
trades, from lawyer to boot-black.
The Turkish bourgeoisie, which the
Chinese bourgeoisie tries to emulate
with Chang Kai-shek in place of
Mustapha Kemal, thus has won for
the Turkish proletariat the wonder
full blessings of bourgeois national
ism: the fright" to wear the cast
off clothing of imperialist America
and black the boots of its own cap
italist oppressors!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Detroit JOBLESS
ARE ORGANIZING
T a k e art in Many
TUUL Mass Meets

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 16.-Un-
employment is growing so rapidly
in Detroit that it has reached the
point where the great majority of
the workers in the auto and allied
industries are now unemployed. With
this demonstration of the falsehood
of the prosperity preaching of the
Wall Street government and its
agents, the militancy of the workers
in and around Detroit is rapidly ris-
ing and they have demonstrated by
their attendance at mass meetings
their eagerness to be organized.
The Trade Union Unity League
and the militant Auto Workers
Union have taken the initiative in
the organization of the unemployed
workers in this section. Proving at
previous meetings that they are
ready to fight under the lead of
militant labor groups, the unemploy-
ed workers will take part in eleven
open air meetings under the aus
pieces of the T.U.U.L. this week.
;, The meetings follow:
4 New Workers Home, 1343 East
Vl'erry: Tuesday, Dec. II at 10 a.
IN; Friday, Dec. 20 at 2 p. m. (Fish-
er Body No. 10, 81, %, Murray Body
Briggs, Rich Tool, and American Car
Foundry.
Carpenters Hall, 935 Alger: Mon
day, Dec. 16 at 10 a. M; Thursday,
Dec, 10 at 2 p. m. Chevrolet, L. A.
Young, Chrysler).
Ukranian Hall, 1859 Marin: Wed
nesday, Dec. 1S at 2 p. m. (Turn-
stead, Lincoln, Cadillac and Fisher
No. 1S).
International Workers Home, 3014
Yemans, Hamtramck: Monday, Dec
16 at 10 a. M; Friday, Dec. 20 at
p. m. dodge, Chrysler, American
Radiator).
Cofland Hall, $500 COPELAND: Tues
day, Dec. II at 2 p. m. (Solvay
American Copper and Brass, Detroit
Steel and Casting and Ford, Rouge
Plant.
Party Headquarters, 1867 Grand
River: Monday, Dec. 16 at 1 p. m.
Thursday, Dec. 10 at l p. m. (em-
!oloyment agencies).
Finnish Hall, 5000 18th St.: Wed.
nesday, Dec. Is at 2 p. m.
These meetings will follow dis.
tribution of literature and meetings
held at the various factories where
the unemployed workers gather
daily In search of work. The meet
ings have been SO arranged that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17

develop new leadership. 1t proposes
to use special efforts in developing
the young miners. 1t will not only
give equal rights to the Negro
miner but has helped him elect his
representatives in all its branches.
The boss has decreed, through in
stallation of the machine, that the
worker must go-and thousands of
them will be driven from all indus
tries till he organizes.
There is but one remedy, there is
but one correct policy-the policy of
the National Miners Union-to be
put into effect regardless of the
cost. Every miner must be a mem
Der and also an organizer of
the National Miners Union. All
power to the National Miners
Union! &C. V.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
FORD'S MOTIVES BEHIND
RAISE"
CBy a Worker Correspondent

Dg u ~ " fS6I W. opOtNNftb/
PITTSBURGH, (by mail)-1 have
been travelling through the vicinity
of Pittsburgh today and getting and
eyefull of economic conditions in one
of the most vital industrial sections
of the country.
1 glanced through the wheeling
Intelligence" Afte-, pages of ath-
letic dope, find in a corner: Belaire
No. z coal mine of the w. and L. G.
mine will suspend indefinitely Tues
day, November 26. The miners about
the town, here in Morrisville, dis
cuss in worried, hushed whispers,
the closing of their slave hole, the
Nc. 6 Of the w. and L. c. And is
it not uncommon at the present
time. Three, four, five hundred men
thrown out of work en- masse. Three,
four, five hundred men added each
time to the mass of workers look
ing forward drearily to the newt
ability of a hungry, under-clothed,
mountain winter.
The U. M. w. was here some time
ago when common labor was payed
$3.50 a day. AS a convenient OPP
portunity for betrayal of the work
ers they organized a strike "to raise
the scale one dollar" In the midst
of the fight they sold out and de-
camped. Now wages are down to
about $3.50 day. The field is now
a fertile one for the National Min
ers Union organizers.
In Pittsburgh, Ford's Interior mo-
tive in the headlined proclamations
of wage increases came out. Henry,
the benefactor, has shut down his
Pittsburgh plant until "after the
first" and three thousand workers
are added at a stroke to the al
ready monumental list of unem-
ployed.
They are faced with the problem
of feeding and clothing their fam
lilies from non-existant pay envel-
opes. Other Ford workers speed up
with the added burden left by 5000
disemployed, to keep up with mad
dening work standard rates of pro-
duction. They must take away the
other workers loaf and may have
a crumb of it thrown back at them.
The time is now ripe for the
workers to organize with the work.
ers of all other industries and with
a solid front fling defiance in the
teeth of capitalistic slave driving,
and arm for the coming crisis.
WORKER CORRESPONDENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
FIGHT TO FREE
HARRY CANTER
Mobilize Workers of
New England

BOSTON, MASS, Dec. 15-A
demonstration by Boston workers
next Sunday, evening, December
%, at Lincoln Hall, Berkeley St, and
Warren Ave, for Salvatore Accorsi,
freed by the efforts of the Inter
national Labor Defense, will fire
the opening gun of the campaign
being organized by the Interna
tional Labor Defense, turnout New
England states, for the uncondi-
tional release of Harry Canter, now
serving a years sentence at Deer
Island prison, following his convic-
ton of charges of criminal libel
against ex-governor Fuller. In the
election campaign of 1928 Canter
led a demonstration at the State
House, carrying sign which read
Fuller, murderer of Sacco and
| Vanzetti.
Canter was tried and found guilty
by the Superior Court, which ex-
cluded all the evidence of the Sacco-
Vanzetti case, and the State Su-
preme Court has just upheld the
verdict.
The campaign of the I. l.. D. for
Canter will include the collection of
thousands of signatures of workers
resolutions and the holding of mass
meetings. The mobilization Of
thousands Of workers into the ranks
Of the l. L. D. for the present men,
bership drive will be linked up with
the Canter campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
Farce Election
OF WOYRCOunClJ
atN.J. OIRamt
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
BAYONNE, N.J.-Dear Editor:
The Tidewater Oil Company is
again 6 lg to put thru the annual
farce of trying to kid us into think
ing that we're "electing" the Works
Council, the company union which
is supposed to handle the complaints
of the workers and see that they
are adjusted.
Nominations for the office of
employee representatives" on the
Works Council at the refinery in
Constable Hook here in Bayonne
takes place today TUESDAY, Dec.
~, in all of the six divisions of the
plant, and then on Friday the cleo
lions of representatives takes place.
Here's how it works.
The votes are counted behind
closed doors and by the company
officials straw bosses and stool pi-
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geons. Then Of course the compa-
ny's men are elected.
If we complain to them about
anything, lack of proper safety
projections, such as masks, for in
stance the man who is supposed to
represent" us goes to the super,
comes back and tells us, the COM
pany is such a big company, we
ought to be proud to work for it;
we should try to help it save eX-
penses so that it can make big pro-
fits, and then cur stocks will be
worth more. Those stocks-that's
another company scheme to keep
US in being willing sheep.
We remember how the Works
Council sold US out in our 1928
strike. Lots of us are looking for
ward to something to fight that
Works Council-and what we need
is our own shop committee.
-McD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
TO AID STRIKING MINERS.

"a Visit to Soviet Russia" and
"The Miracle of Soldier Ivan," two
unusual Russian films, will be
shown in Boston Friday evening,
Dec. 20, at 1880 at Franklin Union
Hall, Berkeley and Appleton SITS.
The movies have been arranged by
the Boston local of the Workers
international Relief and all the
proceeds will go for the striking
Illinois miners.
M. j. Olgin, editor of the Fret
heit, Yiddish Communist daily, will
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
GENERAL MOTORS UNEMPLOY.
MENT UP.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 16.-Pro-
duction of automobiles by the Cen
eral Motors Co., declined over $4,000
for the month of November. There
is increasing unemployment in all
the branches of the General Motors
Co. Output has been going down
steeply since July.