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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Give Benefit Dance for
Negro Champion, Daily,
Vida Obrera March %

Of a total of over three hundred
Negro newspapers published weekly
in the United States, the Negro
Champion is the one labor paper
calling upon the Negro workers to
assume their historic role in the
ranks of the revolutionary move
ment for the overthrow of the sys-
TEN under which they suffer double
exploitation. both as Negroes and as
workers.
On Friday evening, March %, at
Imperial Auditorium, 100 West
10th Street, Section Four of Dis
trict Two, Communist Party of the
U. S. A., will stage a benefit dance
for the Negro Champion, Vida
Obrera, the Spanish paper, and the
Daily Worker. John c. Smiths
Negro Orchestra will play darce
music. Tickets may be obtained at
the Workers Book Shop, 26 Union
Square; the Champion, 1859 West
133rd Street, and the Spanish Work
ers Club, SIS West 18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
u. S. IMPERIAL
ANYWAYS FIRM
CRABS ROUTES
Wants to GetArgentine
Mail Before Britain

BUENOS AIRES, March IA (UP).
The Pan-American Anyways Com
pany is negotiating with the Argen-
tine government for concession to
operate an air mail and passenger
service from Buenos Aires to New
York via the west coast of South
America, according to Vincente Lo-
pei, local attorney for the Pan
Airway-.
The proposed route would join the
present P7~-Amerio IN route from the
Panama Canal Zone over Central
America, Cuba, and Florida, it was
understood, with branch lines ex-
tending to the West Indies, includ-
ing Trinidad, to hook up the Canal
Zone with Venezuela and Baran-
quilla, Colombia.
A British West Indies company is
being formed to give service over
much of this route, and as airplanes
have unusual imperialist significance
over other forms of commerce, the
America company is trying its best
to get in first and get the mail con-
cessions, say observers here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

ALBANY, March 14.-(LRA)-A
boisterous summons to business men
is issued by Merwin K. Hart in the
current number of "The Magazine
of Business" Hart is member of
the Board of Directors of Associated
Industries of the State of New
York, an upstate manufacturers
lobby organized to fight workmen's
compensation acts, old age pensions
and social insurance bills.
Hart tells his fellow capitalists
how the Associated does it. When
7 the New York State Industrial Sur
vey Commission was set up Ito
which, happily enough for the cap
italists, Mr.. Hart happened to get
appointedD, the Associated raised
a slush fund of $4,000 which they
turned over to the National Indus
trial Conference Board, the major
research agency of American anti
union corporations, to which are af-
filiated all the big national manu-
facturers' associations as well as
the army and navy ordnance depart
ments and the army and military
intelligence services.
With this money the Conference
Board turned out a Survey" that
was submitted to the Industrial Sur
vey Commission. AS result Of
this survey, the commission recon-
mended to the state legislature that
no further benefits be added to the
workmen's compensation law for at
least five years.
Then Hart tells how he beat the
48-hour law for women workers and
got compromise on 51-hour law,
together with the recommendation
that no further consideration be
given to such "unsound legislation
for "some years to come" Thus far,
boasts Hart, the legislature has fol-
lowed his bidding. 1t pays, he
points out, for employers to organ
ize a powerful lobby.
Mark A. Daily, head OF the Asso-
ciated Industries, few days ago,
offered bitter opposition to a mild
old age pension measure introduced
in the legislature. (The bill would
have given a measly dollar day to
any needy person over 70 who had
lived in the state Is years.) 1t is
the business of the Associated In
dustries to keep such legislation off
the statute books and to keep the
workers dependent on employers
private pension slave plans.
DAILY is known to employees Of the
N. Y. State Department of Labor
as the man who personally sends a
box Of cigars as a gift to each man
and box of candy to each woman
in the department at Christmas
time. The Bureau Of Women in
Industry staff are not included in
this subtle bribery. The reason for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Farm Population Less
Than 20 Years Ago;
Driven Out by Poverty

WASHINGTON, March Ia. -
Farm population of the United
States is estimated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at 27,511, 900
persons, compared with 27,699,000
a year ago and 100000 in 1909.
The figures show that the rural
population is steadily decreasing
and now is the smallest in 20 years
notwithstanding the fact that in
that time the population Of the
whole country has increased more
than so per cent.
The terrific exploitation of the
farmer by middlemen, by the state,
and by those who sell him tools,
and manufactured goods, is the rea-
son. A naturalization process keeps
the supply of farm products up to
normal, despite the lower population
in the country.
The farmers driven from the land
congregate in the cities and add to
the army of unemployed, or cut
wages and place other workers on
the labor market.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
BRITISH TORIES
TALK FOR VOTES
Make Much of Little
and Little of Much

LONDON, March 14,-The Bald
win government of the Conserva-
tive Party is trying to make poll
teal capital out of the slight i'm
provement noted in reports on in
dustrial production. Four big steel
works in South Wales have reopened
after long period of suspension,
and it is said that coal mining has
improved somewhat in Wales.
However, the reduction in regis
tered unemployed workers for the
past week, 5000, is insignificant
compared to the total yet jobless-
figure well above 1,250,000. But
the Baldwin government must have
something to puff up, to exagger-
ate and show off as achievements
of the party" which faces general
election in May.
Another angle of Conservative
Party propaganda is the "pooh-
pooling" of the war danger between
England and the United States. Con-
sentative orators are spreading out
over England the fairy-tale that
there is no such thing as rivalry
or hostility between England and
America, at the very moment when
the intrigues of both these imper-
ialist powers are showing China,
and Latin America as well, into
civil wars to settle" which bunch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Young Communist Infl
c1sder, Schultz, jailed;
|. L. d. Fights Arrest

BERLIN, (By MaiD.-Walter
Schulz, for many years prominent
member of the Young Communist
International, was arrested and
charged with being involved in the
preparation and distribution of GER
tain material containing illegal mat
ter. He has been in prison since
Jan. "a.
The enquiry has been concluded
and Schulz should now be released
on bail awaiting trial, but the
authorities refuse to release him de-
claring that there is danger of col
fusion. This is an excuse to keep
prominent revolutionary imprison-
ed and the German section of the
International Red Aid is agitating
theoretically to enforce his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

Continued from Page One)
eral President Bell, Secretary Treas
urer Yoder, Organizer Weston, Off
Gals Of the local, and Delegate Co.
hen.
fought to be Satisfied"
They began by making pacifist
speeches, telling the workers, who
are badly exploited and suffer from
unemployment. that they fought to
be satisfied" with the agreements
the officials have made.
A worker got up and challenged
the speeches and policy of the Off
cials. He wanted to know when the
next general meeting would be held,
and General President Bell snubbed
him with the remark: "Not until
you act as a civilized bunch!"
Willie Cohen, one of the most dis
liked delegates, was listening out
side the door. When he thought it
was safe for him to come in, he did,
and delivered TRADE against "the
Reds" The local secretary, Anglin,
also spoke along the same line, max
ing many flagrantly false charges
against the Communists and claim
ing that they "broke up unions in
"the west"
Members Not Consulted.
The union members asked ques-
tions of the officials, particularly
about the last contract with the
bosses corporation. One member
said, "Is it a legal contract when
the members are not asked whether
they would agree to it or not?" Sec
retary-T Treasurer Yoder said it was.
When you have a class collaborat-
ing machine in control Of union,
the officials pay little attention to
what the members want.
Each official announced that he
had not grated. But Local Secre-
tary Anglin, after pleading not
guilty of graft, made the important
admission that Systematic robbery.
of the local has been going on fd}
years" He did not answer the i'm
portant question, "Who did it, and
why didn't the officials stop it, or
at least tell the membership about
it," which was in everybody's
mind.
The officials went through the
bluff of demanding that members
make formal charges, but all pres
ent knew that whoever did would
20 down under frame-up by the ma
chine, or would have gangsters used
On him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Reform Poor Law So
to Make Many Jobless;
Scrap Roosevelt Bills

ALBANY, N. Y, March A.
(U.P. 1.-THE senate today passed
the Fearon-Shonk bill repeating
New York States century and a
half old poor law and replacing it
with a statute approved by the
State Department of Charities. The
measure would permit the elimin-
alton of numerous poor law Of
ficials.
The governors spectacular plan to
have the state manufacture cleo
trio power at Niagara to give to the
private power companies for sale
seems doomed. The republican ma
jority in the legislature wants priv
ate generation of power, and re-
fuses to pass the bill suggested by
Roosevelt.
Not only that, but according to
H. Edmund Machold, the governors
entire legislative program will be
strapped, in retaliation for the
vetoing of $54,000,000 worth of APP
preparation bills few days ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
CAP, MILLINERY
T.U.E:.L. IN RALLY
To Hold Meeting Next
Monday

Opening a drive to gain members,
the Cap and Millinery section of
the Trade Union Educational
League, a left wing organization
fighting the reactionary policies of
the right wing controlling their
union, has called meeting of pro-
gressive workers in the industry for
Monday evening Immediately after
work, at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Place. John J.
BALKAN, organizer of the T. U. E. L.,
will speak on "The Tasks of the
T. U. E. L.
Issue Call.
To this end the League section
issued a call which was distributed
to the workers in the markets yes
terday, as follows:
"The union-wrecking activities of
the Zaritsky clique, the trampling
upon the most elementary rights of
the membership, their plans to car
ry out the program of the bosses
for collective agreement in the
millinery trade, piece work and the
"a hours in the cap trade, the ex-
pulsion of locals and individual
members from the union. Their
support to the Schlesingers and
McGradys, demands the unity of all
progressive forces in our union, de-
mands the organization for strug-
gle against their criminal activi-
ties, demands an organization to
lead this struggle.
"The Cap and Millinery Workers
Section of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League has carried on this
struggle despite the terror and dis
criminatory tactics of the Zaritsky
clique.
THE Zaritsky clique could not
succeed in exterminating the left
wing from the union. We were
strong enough to prevent the estab-
lishment of piece work, 44-hour
week and the collective agreement
in the millinery trade, although
Zaritsky worked hand in hand with
the bosses. But much more can be
accomplished with the aid of all pro-
gressive cap and millinery workers. !"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
USSR FOREIGN
TRADE CROWS
Increase of $3.50 in 4
Months

Especial to the Daily Worker
MOSCOW, (By MaiD.-U.S.S.R.
exports across the European from
tier amounted to 52.2 million roubles
in January 1929 against 65.6 mil
lion rubles in December 1928 and
1873 million rubles in January 1928.
The imports in January amounted
to 51.8 million rubles, compared
with 47.9 million rubles in December
1928 and $751; million rubles in Janu-
airy 1928. In January 1929 the for
eign trade balance was favorable to
the extent of 100000 rubles against
a favorable balance of 17.7 million
rubles in December 1928 and an I'M
favorable balance of 14.3 million
rubles in January 1928.
The total trade turnover of the
U.S.S.R. across the European from
tiers for the four months of Oc-
tober 192S-January 1929 amounted
to 450.2 million rubles, the exports
amounting to 231.6 million rubles
and imports to 218.6 million rubles.
Compared with the corresponding
period of last year the exports show
an increase of 1913 per cent while
the imports remain stable.
The foreign trade done by the
U.S.S.R. during the above four
months across the European from
tier and for the first three months
of 1928-29 across the Asiatic from
tiers amounted to 524.1 million
rubles, which represents an increase
of 6.5 per cent on the correspond
ing period last year.
The foreign trade balance for four
months across the European from
tier and three months across the
Asiatic frontier was favorable to the
extent of AL million rubles against
an unfavorable balance of ISL mil
lion rubles during the same periods
of 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
CLEANERS CALL
AN OPEN FORUM
Militants Will Discuss
Coming Fake Pact

Appealing to the workers in the
cleaning and dyeing industry to
join them in a struggle for union
not controlled by a reactionary and
corrupt clique that sells out the
workers conditions to the bosses,
the Progressive Group of the Clean
ers' and Dyers' Union is calling
them to an open forum meeting to
be held this evening at 8 o'clock
in the Jewish Workers University.
108 f. 14th ST.
In the circular distributed to the
membership, the progressives call
attention to the fact that the Effrat
and Weintraub gang, which is at
the head of the organization, is pre-
pairing to conclude another fake
agreement with the bosses. Even
the degrading conditions provided
in the alleged pact are never obeyed
by the bosses, who openly join with
the officials to reduce standards, the
progressives charge.
The Progressive Group has re-
Gently grown sufficiently in strength
and support to be able to issue a
periodical called the Cleaners and
Dyers' Voice." In this paper the
betrayals of the officialdom are
mercilessly exposed by articles as
well as first-hand testimony taking
the form of letters from workers on
the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
CHARGE harvey
WITH Frame Up
IN CRAFT CASE
Say Harvey Wanted
Boss to Perjure Self

Continued from Page One)
600 bride is what is relied upon to
convict Berg and Levin. Levin is
charged with being privy to the
transaction.
Expose Harvey as X. X. X.
Frederick Sasse, secretary of the
Borough of Queens, testified that
Styles told him that unless he
got a post in Harveys cabinet he
would cause publication of a picture
of Harvey in his Ku KluX Khan
regalia.
A former official of the X. K. K.
testified the day before that Harvey
Joined the organization, in one of
its undercover branches, called "The
American Krusaders." Berg testi-
fled the same day that Harvey took
the $4,000 sent by Paino and told
him to use it to suppress proof that
he had joined the Khan.
Styles is himself a Klansman. al
though he says he was, Eborn. bap-
tised and brought IN a Roman
Catholic"
Stop Quiz on Khan.
Paino took the stand yesterday,
and swore he was in the habit of
carrying around with him twenty
or thirty thousand dollars in ten
Thousand dollar bills, and that he.
gave Berg the $4,000 "for CAM
paign expenses" altho he was &C
tually supporting with much more
money, the democratic candidate,
Patten.
Judge Abel ruled out of order a
direct question from an attorney
addressed to Harvey; "Did you ever
apply for membership in the Ku
Klux Klan,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
1880 Census Plans to
COunt Noses of Nation

WASHINGTON, March Ia. -
Plans for the census of 1880 pro-
vide an appropriation of $39,000,-
900, and the field work is supposed
to begin Jan 1, next. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 enumerators and
$40 supervisors will be employed in
the field, while 5000 or 1000 office
employees will be working at Wash
ington. The work in cities is sup
posed to be finished in two weeks
and in the country districts in four
weeks time. Enumerators in cities
will get four cents for each name.
Those in the country districts will
be paid according to scattered or
concentrated population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
NO A. FL. FIGHT
TO AID J0BLESS
Green Will Merely Ask
u. S. to Do Something
Continued from Page onel

Continued from Page One)
those made unemployed by machines
because of their great numbers"
Militant workers regard Green's
plan as nothing but an easy way
of dismissing problem in which
he is not much interested, as the
U. S. Department of Labor has
never made the slightest effort to
do anything for these unemployed,
and Green proposes no way to force
action.
Workers who have studied the
problem want a fight all along the
line to absorb as many as possible
of the unemployed by cutting down
the hours of the employed workers,
without reducing day wages as the
best Immediately practicable method
of reducing the misery of unemploy-
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
ACCUSED TAKERS
PREVENT STRIKE
OF CARPENTERS
Halket and the Gang
Chiefs Aid Tammany

The strike resolution presented by
the Dock and Pier Carpenters Union
local 1,456) to the District Council
of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
lea, for strike of 5000 men forced
to work under the scale and with bad
conditions on city jobs, was side
tracked by reactionary delegates
there and turned over to the execu-
tive committee for action, where it
can be quietly choked to death.
Action was taken after long de-
bate at council meeting, 100 Madi-
son Ave, during the night, and an
nounced yesterday morning.
John Halkett, the president of the
Building Trades Council went out of
his road during the preceding day to
campaign against the strike. He is
sued a statement to the press that,
"there will be no strike or tie-up of
work on the subways, schools or
any municipal buildings or struc-
lures"
Accuses Takers.
The president of Local Lass still
threatens that the dock and pier
carpenters will strike, at least on
the job of underpinning the buildings
on Nassau St., the most dangerous
part of the work.
When announcing that his LEGAL
would demand a general strike, he
accused the leaders in the Building
Trades Council of permitting all man
ner of injustices against the carpen-
tiers on city jobs because they were
influenced by Tammany patronage.
Among them is Halkett.
"The influence of the City Ad-
in the Building Trades
Council can be seen readily by look
ing over the appointments of dele
gates to important city positions"
said johnson.
"Francis X. Sullivan, chief coun-
sci of the Building Trades Council,
has been appointed member of
the board of transportation. Others
are County Clerk Thomas M. Far
ley, William Kennedy, democratic
district leaders and member of the
board of aldermen; Deputy Street
Cleaning Commissioner James j.
Nugent and John Halkett, head of
the council, who was appointed by
Gov. Smith to the state housing
commission"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
(Red Aid Press .Service)

BUDAPEST, (By Mail). - The
Hungarian parliament has adopted
q law prohibiting the publication Of
statistics calculated to "incite" the
population. The occasion for this
remarkable law, according to the
speech of the secretary Of state.
Schandl, was the publication Of sta
tistics showing that only IL per
cent Of the land is in the hands of
the working peasants and that two
thirds Of all the peasant and land
working population possess no land
81 III.
No objection was made to the
eorrectness of the statistics, but it
" Justly observed that the publ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
AFRAID OF STATISTICS
Hungary Figures Willie, Liars Figure

cation of such figures was calcu-
lated to incite the population
against the state. In the future the
publication Of all forms Of statistics
must be controlled by the minister
Of the interior, and without his per-
mission nothing may be published.
Further, only state institutions
have the right to collect statistics.
No private institutions, organiza-
tons or persons may collect stats
tics concerning property, property
owners, income or concerning the
moral condition Of the country, sta
tistscs Of illegitimate births, abor-
tons, etc. In the future, therefore,
figures in Hungary will lie and fas-
'cist liars will figure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Discuss Democracy,
Negro at Harlem Meet

American Democracy and the
American Negro" will be the sub
icct Of n lecture to be given by DR..
David N. Snedden at the Harlem
Workers Forum, 169 w. 133rd ST..
at $3.50 p. m. Sunday. Members of
the Communist Party Of the United
States of America are urged by
Grace P. Campbell, chairman Of the
forum, to attend and stress the
Communist viewpoint in the discus
sion which will follow the lecture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

No sooner is the expIoitation OF
the laborer by the manufactures,
80 far at IN end. that he receives
his wages i'm cash, then he IL set
upon by the other portions Of the
bOurgeOisie, the landlord, the shop
keeper. the pawnbroker, etc.-Knrl
Marx Communist ManifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
STIMSON WILL NAME DAWES.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-It
was stated at the state department
here today that as soon as the new
secretary of state, Stimson, arrives
from the Philippines, he will name
Charles Evans Dawes as ambassador
to England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Businessmen Organize to
Defeat old Age Pensions

the bribery is not lost upon the
state factory inspectors, who are
thus urged the bosses Lobbyist to
overlook violations and to favor the
manufacturers organized in the
Associated Industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15

Annrchism was often kind 81
punishment for the 0pportunist sins
Of the working class movement
Annrchism and opportunism nre two
the other.--y. l.. Lenin cleft" Conn
muniam).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
LATHER FAkER
ADMITS ROBBERY
Evade Blame, Beg Men
to Avoid DAILY"

Continued from Page One)
,ral President Bell, Secretary-Treas-
irer Yooer, Organizer Weston, Off
.ials Of the local, and Delegate Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-23
.St1u7U Takes
Important
Role in Hats
BY FRANCES FACET

fCOp-riE6t, lSIS, By StNle sources
NEW YORK, April 23.-What
Paris creates in millinery always
has something of more than pass
ing interest, so with this in mind
there follows a rather detailed de-
scriptiOn OF models from two proml-
nent Paris mOdistes.
In the collection Of Camille Roger,
straw assumes q position OF chief
importance for town wear, shown
in rather elegant styles, While for
sports. this house is still faithful TO
felt
Fine straWs in particular are APP
proved: panama laque, bakon. aka
tou. This last straw also could be
put in the category Of exotic straws
1t has. however. this popularity
that, like panama laque. it is shiny.
Rough Straw Used
Fancy rough straws are also prom
inent in this collection, in large
Weaves, light in weight, and woven
with a mixture Of several colors.
Out Of fine threads OF coin, Cam
lille Roger has made a sort of lace.
which is used for the brims of GER
tain models. and is ornamented with
small macaroons of azou. q round
straw like the sticks of broom
For the moment, velvet ribbon is