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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
AOffend None" Is Key
Note of Convention OF
NAACP at Cleveland

CLEVELAND, (By Mail).-"Hurt
nobody's feelings and be as super
fetal as possible" were the watcn-
words which deadened the conven-
ton proceedings of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF
Colored People here. 1t was wei
coined by the Hon. j. D. Marshall
mayor, who in his speech of greet
ing to the delegates hoped that they
would "be happy and comfortable IN
Cleveland"
Most of the sessions were occupied
with financial reports, ministerial IN
yocations and drives for funds which
viii be raised, among other means,
BY "baby parades." =.
"Once was considered a radical
said DR.. Dubois in his speech at the
opening night of the convention.
"Now I am considered conserva-
tive. This makes me happy, for it
proves to me that the ideas for
which have been fighting have
been accomplished"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
By JOSEPH COHEN.
Article ".
The Carpenters Union.

The great union of the carpen-
ters, which bears the impressive
name, United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners of America, is
now sick giant whose condition
grows steadily worse. A great share
of the blame for this must fall on
the corrupt leadership.
Humility and submissiveness in
their relations with the employers
and the iron hand in their relations
with the workers are the chief char
acteristics of the present leaders"
of the Carpenters Union.
Wholesale Expulsions.
The expulsion of honest rank and
filters from the union if they dare
to express an Independent opinion
is mere trifle. Things have come
to such a pass that not only in
dividual members, nor even individ-
ual locals are thrown out, but several
dozen locals at one time. Thus, for
example, President Hutcheson of the
Carpenters Union, with one stroke
of his pen, suspended 65 New York
locals in 1915 because the New York
workers protested against Hutche-
sons Grass betrayals.
Martin ('Skinny') Madden, labor
faker, who ruled over the building
trades in Chicago for many years,
was in the habit of taking graft
from both sides. In this war, he
used to swindle both bosses and
workers. He realized, however, that
if the union became too weak, there
would be no one for him to mulct.
He therefore at times undertook
struggles against the bosses and
even secured certain advantages for
the workers.
Hutcheson, however, is far worse.
He has all of Madden's traitorous
characteristics without Madden's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Another Big Railway
Merger Seen; Wabash
Line in GobbIing Role

WASHINGTON, June 30.-For-
nation of fifth trunk line railroad
to serve the populous and profitable
territory between New York and
mideasten cities was proposed to-
day in a new merger petition which
the Wabash Railway announced it
will file tomorrow with the Inter-
State Commerce Commission.
The road wants to gobble up nine
important eastern lines and to &C.
quire part interest in five other
roads. The merger (if it goes thru
is one of series initiated among
the big railway trusts who are fight
ing for profits among themselves, at
the same time seeking to stamp out
the competition of the smaller fry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Corrupt Misleaders Work
Havoc i'm Carpenters Union
HutchesOn Outd0es Labor Takers of Past;
History of Once-Powerful Organization

shrewdness. Hutchinson is actually
bringing the union to ruin. He re-
minds one of that fable of Krylov
about the pig that destroys the
roots of the tree whose fruit he
feeds on.
My citing of Krylov's fable is per-
haps not as esthetic as it might be,
but after all, what symbol could be
more approriate?. :.
History of Carpenters Union.
Tie beginnings of trade unionism
among American carpenters may be
traced about 100 years back. AL
ready in 1854 and again in 1867
here was unsuccessful, movement for
uniting the local organizations that
existed at that time into one car
penters' union.
1t was not until August, 1881 that
36 delegates from twelve local unions
gathered in Chicago and organized
the present Brotherhood which then
had only about 1000 members. For
a long time after that, however, sew
eral other carpenters unions remain
ed in existence. The New York car
penters, for example, chung to their
independent organization, and it was
not until 1888 that they joined the
new union.
Jurisdictional disputes continued
for a long time between the Brother
hood and the Amalgamated Wood
Workers Union that was in exist
ence at that time. After many de-
structive disputes that weakened
both unions, efforts to unite the two
organizations We're finally success
full in April, 1912.
Another Rival.
The present Carpenters Union
also had many difficulties with an
other rival organization, which was
an American branch of an English
carpenters union. After many con-
flicts the Brotherhood succeeded in
1918 in driving out this rival union.
But the Brotherhood, which once
fulfilled its task with some degree
OF effectiveness, has failed to keep
pace with the requirements of
changed industrial conditions. The
justification of the building trades
can be met only by amalgamation
Of all the existing craft unions. The
present building trades officialdom,
however, is unalterably opposed to
amalgamation since their interests
are bound up inextricably with the
interests, not of the workers, but of
the employers, who are we'll salts
fled with craft unionism and it's
division of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Beal,s Father Rail Worker
to Visit Him.; AIDS Defense

Continued from Page One)
the railroad bosses laid off most of
the watchmen anyway"
81 told those labor takers that
was proud of my boy, and I'm
prouder now than ever of Fred, now
that he's facing the fight of his life
because he dared to stand up for
the Gastonia strikers"
Beal has worked in most of the
textile mills in Lawrence, his father
said. He started to work in the
mills when he was under 16. Two
of his brothers are mill workers.
Knows Mill Workers Hardships.
"My boy knows something of the
hardships of the mill workers, for
he shaved for the textile bosses in
Lawrence for long time. Since he
was 16 he has worked at some of
the worst slave shops in Lawrence.
He worked in the Crescent Worsted
Mill, South Lawrence, as a bobbin
setter for 81 a week.
'He's shaved in the Pacific Print,
Wood, Everett, Arlington, and
Ayre Mills in Lawrence. My boy
always stood up for his fellow
slaves in the mills. He was fired
from the Pacific Mill for union &C
tivities.
Erred was a strike leader of the
textile workers in Dover, N. H., five
years ago. One time the mill bosses
had their thugs set upon him and
beat him. But they didn't scare him
any.
HE edited paper one time. The
mill bosses tried to buy him off, of
fered him advertising to sell out.
Threatened to wreck the paper if he
didn't sell out.
swell, guess you might know
he didn't sell out.
"Fred's my own flesh and blood,
and | naturally feel bad to see him
in jail, but I'm proud of him.
erred it was who introduced me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
RENT STOPPAGE.
EXPECTED TODAY.
Tenants League Backs
Movement

Beginning today a large number
of Harlem tenants are expected !;
join in a rent strike organized by
the Harlem Tenants League. All
day yesterday the office of the
League at 235 w. 10th St., was
swamped with cases where rent
hogs have boosted the already high
rents on old and otherwise unfit
apartments occupied by Negro
workers.
st. Phillips Church, bath St.,
near Seventh Ave-, which is said to
own over $1,0O0,000 worth of
property collecting from praying
Negroes), has increased rents as
much as $11 per apartment over the
old rents.
Circularize Tenants.
The Tenants League has circu-
larized the block, which extends
from Seventh to Lenox AYES, on
135th St., and also the Watt Terry
block. Several apartments in this
section are already organized. I'm
employed workers are asked to re-
port to the Harlem Labor Center to-
day to distribute thousands of cir
culars on the mulcting of the work
ers by the landlords and the be-
trayal of them by the A. F. of L.,
because of its discrimination policy.
An overflow meeting is expected
to take place at the Public Library,
l03 W. 135th St., tonight at 7:45.
Speakers will include Richard B.
Moore, president of the Harlem Ten
ants League; Grace Campbell, vice
president of the League; and J.
Louis Engdahf, editor of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01

to the Daily Worker and that's an
other thing that makes me proud of
him. / couldn't be without the
Daily Worker for a day. l GER
tainly hope and expect that every
class-conscious worker will help to
see the Daily Worker thru"
BeaPs people for generations back
were New Englanders, all of them
workers, w. w. Beal revealed. His
grandfather was a teamster.
UNLESS every thinking worker
rallies to the defense of my boy
and the 10 other Gastonia strikers
who are faced with electrocution at
the hands Of the North Carolina
courts, the mill bosses will do what
they want with these peoples lives"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
refuse MAIL Of
MARINE LEAGUE
Branch Post Office Not
Taking It's Literature

The post office branch in the Sea-
ren,s Church Institute, 20 South
M refuses to accept for mailing
fine literature of the Marine work.
ers' League. When packages OF
Marine Workers League literature
were presented for mailing by a
member of the league the postai
clerk refused to accept it.
When asked why, he referred 70
the return address, which is 70
south St., the address of the Inter-
nationa, seamen's Club, where the
league is located, and gave no otnef
reason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
MANHATTAN

Unit 3, Section 4.
Meetings are held every Tuesday
night at 235 w. 10th st. Open air
meetings arc held every Wednesday
night at 1928 Lenox Ave. or Fifth
Ave. and 133rd S.
Units IF, OF. Section 1.
Industrial activities of the Com
munist Party and lessons from recent
left-wing lead strikes will be dis
cussed at the meeting at q e. Fourth
St, at $50 p. m. tomorrow.
X
Unit RI.
A meeting will be held at 81 E.
Fourth ST. at 1880 Wednesday.
4
East n. Y. International branch.
meeting will be held at 313 Hins-
dale St tonight.
Brownsville international Branch.
A meeting will be held at $3.50 u.
m Wednesday at 154 Watkins st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01

(This is the fourth in a series
of articles by rank and file
building trades worker on the con-
ditions of the workers in that in
dustry. 1t is particularly timely
at the present time when the OPEN
shop drive of the bosses, the intro
duction Of naturalization schemes
and the betrayal tactics of the
corrupt officials Of the building
trades unions are attempting to
beat down the standards of the
workers.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
DAIRY COMBINE

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (by mail) -
A new combine of dairies, the Brit
chard Diaries, Inc, composed of
three of the largest dairy concerns,
has begun operation in the Tidewa-
ter area. It will act towards in
creasing prices. it is reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
P liver TRUST
CHIEFTAIN ON
MANvILLE BOARD
Foe of Loray Strikers
Bribed Press

Continued from Page One)
of the sharpest attorneys in Caro-
lima TO railroad to the electric
chair Is textile strikers because
the mill-owned Gastonia chief of
police was killed during his at
tempt to commit a second Ludlow
Massacre in the tent colony of
The evicted strikers.
Graustein first became notorious
when, in April of this year. it be-
came known by accident that his
International Paper and Power Co.
had bought control of two Boston
newspapers, the Herald and the
Traveller.
Later, the facts come out, stated
by witnesses in the Federal Trade
Commission hearing, that Graustein
had taken over the editorial policy,
in secret, of the Chicago Daily
Journal, along with 100000 worth
Of the preferred bonds and million
dollars worth of the common bonds.
Particularly significant in this pur-
thase is the fact that Samuel Emory
Thomson, publisher of the Journal,
is the chairman of the Publishers
Association Committee on paper.
Part of the graft consists in max
ing contract with bought-up
uapers that they will buy the I. P.
P. c. print paper and boost the sale
of it.
Controls Southern Papers.
In the latest meeting of the Pub
fishers Association, the owner of the
New Orleans States and the Shreve-
wort Times, Ewing, charged that
The I. P. P. c., through Graustein,
had bought control of the editorial
rolicy of many papers in the South.
Graustein's activities extended to
Mobile, Atlanta, and into the Caro-
linas.
Yesterday, in Augusta, Georgia,
William Lavarre, one partner in
control of the Columbia Record, the
Augusta Chronicle, the Spartanburg
Herald and Spartanburg Journal,
threatened during a law suit with
another partner, Harold Hall, to ex-
pose the whole Power Trust-Grau-
TEN deal in connection with these
four papers. Lavarre and Hall had
taken $4,000 from Graustein to
buy control of the papers before the
two conspirators had their falling
-
Spartanburg, S c., is the town
in which Fred E. Beal. southern cr-
,anizer of the National Textile
Workers Union, was arrested and
brought back to North Carolina to
be framed-up on murder charge.
It is not known how mary textile
mill town papers Graustein con-
trolls.
Graustein's method has been
secret one. The papers he con-
trolled in general failed to declare
the Power Trust as part owner OF
their plants when they filed their
statements of ownership with the
government. This lays the basis
for prosecution-except that such
big concerns as power trusts are
never very seriously prosecuted by
any capitalist government.
And in Gastopha? The Gastonia
Gazette has rot appeared in the list
Of papers made known so far as be-
ing controlled by the shadowy. secret
hand of the Power Trust. But II
i notorious that the Gastonia Ga
-ette is the creature and hireling OF
RE Manville-Jenckes Co. And one
If A. R. Graustein's jobs is to be
director of the Manville-Jenckes 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
BRONX
Mckinley Square Unit, G. Y. l..

mckinley Square Unit, G. 7. L.
An open air meeting-the first of
the League to be held in a Negro
section--will be held tomorrow at
D. M, at 165th ST. and Brook Ave
Branch ]. Section Z.
Bloomfield will lead discussion on
New Developments in the Music
Movement and the S. p at IT'S l..
13Sth ST.. at $40 p. m. tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Fur Boss Goes On Rocks.


manufacturer, Henry Berg, in whose
shop the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union had been conduct
ing strike for the past 20 weeks,
yesterday formally went into bank
ruptcy.
The struggle against this boss
was a bitter one, all the enemies of
the fur workers having pooled their
forces in the fight. Moreover, the
yellow Forward" the bosses and
the scab company union, the Joint
Council" had engineered frame
up, the Skolnick case, by means of
which they hoped to send four work
ers to prison. Last week this
frame-up attempt finally fell to
pieces. So flimsy was the evidence
concocted by the right wing gang
that a jury in supreme court was
forced to free the defendants.
Meeting Today.
The Industrial Union calls upon
all Boston furriers, cloakmakers
and dressmakers to a general meet
ing tomorrow, Monday, Immediately
after work, at % Harrison Ave. A
report on the progress of the New
York furriers' strike will be given,
and also on the situation in Boston.
A meeting of the Boston cloakmak-
ers' branch will be held on Tuesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations
MANHATTAN


A mass meeting to protest against
the Gastonia frame-ups will be held
this evening at the Russian Club.
G52 Fourth Avenue. Speeches will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01

1t Is the ultimate aim of this
work ("Capital") to reveal the
economic law of motion of modern
s0ciety.-Mnrx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Sacco-Vanzetti International Labor
Defense,

sydney Leroy will lead discussion
on the Gastonia strike at the month
~ meeting of the branch at $40 D.
M, today at 1472 Boston Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
Communist Activities
BRONX

be given in Russian, Polish, English,
and Ukrainian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-01
CALL POCKETS IN
FUR STRIKE THIS
MORNING At 793O
Boston Boss on Rocks
After Union Fight

Continued from Page One)
n etine tomorrow, Immediately
after work, at Stuyvesant Casino,
149 Second Ave, where leaders of
the strike will report regarding set
Elements which have already been
made. At the same time they will
review the entire strike situation,
and prospects for the near future.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
\ Listen to 1t GrotU

If you wish to try an unusual ex-
perience find clump of eulalia on
the first really warm day of spring,
when the trees are Ieafless the ground
bare, and the thermometer hovers be-
tween 70 and So Then stand quietly
and listen to it grow. You will soon
hear sharp click among this hardy,
tall-plumed plant that grows on lawns
in all parts of the country. 1t viii
sound as loud as a snap of your fin
gers. New shoots are trying to push
between the stalks of last year, and
the fiinty hardness of the dead culms
holds them back. Youth will not be
denied. The shoots shoulder their way
between the bases of the old canes,
expanding quickly in the spring sun
shine. The strain increases until the
old wood gives way with a snap.-
Nature Magazine.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
Need for Missionaries

A missionary in the Solomon islands
who asked his home board to send
him help probably didn't read his let
ter after he wrote 1t. Here 1t Is !:
"Our small force Of brethren seem to
be absolutely unable to cope with the
distress which prevails in this dark
and benighted land of cannibals
Many of the natives are starving for
food. Please send few more mis-
sionaries. '-Capper's Weekly.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
Primitive Counting

While enjoying holiday In Fin.
land, writes an English traveller, flew
across by seaplane to spend day in
was very interested to see. that in all
shops they still use the ancient and
primitive abacus, the frame with col
ored balls, used in kindergartens, for
purposes Of adding. l went first to
a bank to change sovereign. They
accepted the coin with some suspicion
and checked the notes they gave m
on one of these ball frames, and
when | went to the post office to get
a set of stamps as souvenir they
totaled the amount | had to pay by
the same method. | am no mathe-
matician, but ! got my total first.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13

is moneys: $4,000 securities, and
$500 real estate.
Marriage Licenses
/ Eldon Fouts, driiler, Of Corning,
and Violet Slater, Ringgold.
Robert Glendenning, of Zanes-
vile, tile worker, and Hazel Knox,
McConnelsville, daughter of Grover
and Bessie Cunningham Knox. Rev.
Kendle is named as officiating min
lister.
Kenneth Corbin, Springfield. weld
er, and Epsie Medley, Stockport,
daughter of j. r. and Margaret Mil
Ter Medley. Rev. Eaton.
RECORDERS OFFICE
Ella Woodward, deceased, to L.
b. Woodward, probate court certifi-
cate.
Emmor Bowman -et al to The
Ohio Fuel Gas Co., 40 acres lease,
Marion, 81.
Margaret Curran to w. G. Glenn,
right of way for road.
Chas. Edward Handle, ST., de-
ceased, to Mary Celesta Handle,
probate court certificate.
Roxie Leggett to Mabel Baker,
ABS acres, Windsor, 81.
The Logan Natural Gas Fuel Co.
have released their leases in Bloom
township, of Lizzie Barr ct al; G..
w. and Norma Barkhurst and Ell. j.
and Alice X. Clifford.
James Heskett to The Ohio Fuel
Co., right of way, Penn township.
G. Reverdy and j. Arthur Ham
bleton to Edna Hambleton, "A acres,
Windsor, 81.
Thos. j. Bauer to Elizabeth Bauer,
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
Danger in Transplanting

Trees, like people, lose adaptability
with advancing age, and a compare.
lively minor change in their environ
ments may be fatal.
Entomologists Of the Department Of
Agriculture say that transplanting al
most always is severe test for trees
of considerable size and many trans
planted trees are attacked by insects.
If most of the large trees iE a grove
are killed. leaving only a border of
trees or small groups, the survivors
often suffer serious damage and die
This may be the result of a dis
turhauce of moisture conditions and a
change from general shade to large
areas of sun-baked soil. Borers then
may complete the deadly work.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13

If you need the services of a first
class pugilist just ring up a bureau In
Bethnal Green, England which makes
business of supplying professional
fighting men, who are as meek to mas
ters and ferocious to his foes as a po-
lice dog. The emporium of swatters,
although naturally not advertised, Is
being well patronized, especially by
rich mems sons who had gotten into
trouble and fear being blackmailed
Bookmakers also are good patrons and
at general election time the firm is
busy. The fees run from So upward,
and the men who do the job are guar
anteed to be not bullies, but simply
strong young men who know how to
use their fists.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13

to safeguard the best interests of the
government Were this not the case
the local government might adopt
policies which would embarrasS the
President and Congress. A cabital
without policies was the ideal of the
fathers who made the constitution
Washington does not belong to the
residents of the District of Colum-
bia, but to al of the people of the
United States, who govern it through
their representatives. Those who
live ON the government reserva-
ton" called Washington and the
District of Columbia have no part in
it's administration Pathfinder
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
Grange Essay Contest

The national grange is sponsor
ing a Highway Safety Essay con-
test All members of subordinate
oranges who are not more than 1S
years of age on July 4, 1929, are
eligible to enter the contest. The
subject of the essay is Safety on
the Highways for Children and
Adults
Each one entering will write an
essay of not more than 500 words,
and submit it to the lecturer of the
subordinate grange, by July 4. The
master will appoint committee to
review the papers, and the essay
selected by committee as the best,
will be mailed to the state master,
not later than Aug. L. The winning
essay of each state will be mailed
to the national grange. The first
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1929-06-13
Rube Band Makes Brief Visit Here

Rube Band Makes Brief Visit Here
Marietta people and visitors at
the u. c.. r. convention heard SER
les of street concerts on Saturday
by the famed GAINESVILLE Rotary
Rube band, an organization that has
had part in the many convention ac-
tivities about Ohio in recent years.
The band, an organization of about
dozen members, is crack musical
outfit. 1t was organized by Fred
Geiger about Is years ago. He Is
the conductor, and handles the job
in a way that provokes much mirth.
One of the outstanding members OF
| the organization is Henry Stemm,
city auditor of GAINESVILLE, who was
with the Al G.. Fields Minstrels for
number of years. He is tenor
singer, and sang several popular Sc
lections here in addition to playing
the clarinet in the band Marietta
Times, June s.
The Rube band stopped here on
their way back TO GAINESVILLE Satur-
day afternoon, and played several
selections in front of the court
house, delighting large crowd OF
persons that gathered very quickly.