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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
SHOE STRIKERS
OPEN KITCHENS
Will Mobilize in Relief
Tag Days Sat. and Sun.

Two more kitchens for shoe work.
ers were opened yesterday in Will
iamsburg, 90 Havemeyer St., and
one at 200 Yorke ST., Borough Hall
section. There is also kitchen in
Ridgewood, at 26 Porter Ave. The
kitchens give free sandwiches and
coffee, and will provide food pack
ages for strikers families.
The Independent Shoe Workers
Union and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief cooperate in running
these food stations, and will do the
same in the W.I.R. tag days, Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Shoe workers tag day stations
where all workers will bc able to get
boxes for this tag day are 129 Myr-
tie Ave, Brooklyn; 351 Bedford
Ave-, Brooklyn; 81 Havemeyer ST.,
Brooklyn; % Porter Ave-, Brook
lyn; 200 York St., Brooklyn; 18
Wycoff Ave-, Brooklyn; II Wycoff
Ave-, Brooklyn; 1861 Lewis Ave-,
Brooklyn; 81 Boerum St., Brooklyn ;
2370 Pacific ST., Brooklyn; 81
Bleecker St., N. Y. c.; Union Head
quarters, 16 West 21st St., N. Y;
235 Park Ave, Brooklyn; 281 Po-
we'll St., Brooklyn.
Women Meet.
A section meeting of the striking
shoe workers wives was held in the
Brownsville section in 219 Sackman
st. with about so women and men
present. There was enthusiastic
discussion on how wives of the shoe
strikers can help their husbands win
this struggle against the shoe manu-
facturers. Another meeting of the
wives of the shoe workers will be
held Thursday evening, at p. M,
at 16 West 21st ST., N. Y. C.
At a meeting Of the Dan Palter
strikers $23 was collected for the
W.I.R. tag day, the following strik-
ers gave 81 each. Gagliamo Gallo
gero, Jimmy Costa.
A trial of about 100 strikers will
take place at the Gates Ave. court
today at 9:30 a. m. They are on
two charges, disorderly conduct and
violation of the bosses injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

'gress OF the Antl-lmperlallSt League
declares.
"The temporary International T.U.
Committee of Negro workers, elect
ed at the Second World Congress of
the Anti-Imperialist League, in
forms of the convening of an Inter-
national T.U. Conference of Negro
Workers on July 1, 1880, in London,
England. We herewith invite all
proletarian organizations Of Negro
workers, trade unions, factory, shop
groups and committees, and all SYM
pathizing organizations of all ma
tionalities to send their fraternal
delegates to this conference.
The aim of the International Con-
ference of Toiling Negroes is to
create an international fighting or
ganization for a united and organ
lied struggle against imperialist op-
preston. The rising wave of re-
bellion among the Negro masses
thruout the world, SO sharply mani
tested in the militant action of the
Haitian workers, will occupy the
closest attention of the conference.
1t will discuss all the vital problems
of the Negro masses who are brutal
ly exploited, and subjected to every
shade of masked slavery by preda-
tory capitalists in Africa, the West
Indies, South and North America.
The conference will also draw up
measures for the concerted action of
the exploited Negroes all over the
world, and will set up firm connec-
tions between the various organiza-
tions. The conference is of the
greatest Importance to the interna-
tional revolutionary toilers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
BOSS SCOFFS AT
PAY FOR VICTIMS
Oklahoma Law Forbids
Death Compensation

McALESTER, Okla, Dec. 18.-
Fifty-two bodies have been taken out
of Old Town mine, near here, fol-
lowing the terrific gas and dust
explosion which yesterday blew the
life out of at least 60 miners, per-
haps more. Eight men are known
to be missing, somewhere in the
depths of these old workings, nearly
a mile underground. There is no
hope for them. Rescue crews of
workers from the mines are still
risking themselves, hunting through
the gas-filled galleries, trying to
curtain off the most dangerous
spots, and occasionally finding a
body some of them so blasted and
burned as to be unacceptable.
The relatives of the dead cluster
about the mouth of the shaft, watch
CONTINUED on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
Banker Crooks Freed
by Capitalist Court

The four bankers who were ar
rested because of their graft in the
City Trust Co., and for robbing the
savings of a number of workers,
were let off easy by the capitalist
judge, Arthus S. Tompkins of the
Supreme Court. Two were given a
$3.50 fine and two were let off scott
free--on suspended sentences.
All pleaded guilty to wrecking the
bank and paying bribes to state bank
examiners to overlook their robbery.
Bankers always get gracious treat
ment in capitalist courts, while
workers are sent to Jail for long
terms for strike activity and for
distributing Communist leaflets. This
was the case in Ohio where Commu-
nists received 5-year sentences for
distributing leaflets after few
minutes trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
N. Y. Textile Workers
Meet Tonight to Elect
A Convention Delegate

A pre-convention membership
meeting of the New York District
of the National Textile Workers
Union will be held this evening at
s o'clock, at 16 West 21st st. Final
preparations for the delegates and
visitors from New York to the con-
vention in Paterson on Saturday
and Sunday will be made. The New
York Local, because of the increase
in membership is entitled to elect
another delegate to the convention.
The election will take place at to-
nights meeting.
All the textile workers of New
York, who are out of work, are
asked Co register with the union at
the district headquarters, at 16
West 21st ST., so they can be noti-
fled of any Jobs. Members who are
working, are asked to report any
vacancies in their mills to the union
Call Watkins 062S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
TRUST Gets US.
W A R SECRETS
Cuba Co. Gets Inside
Dope from CroWder

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The
sugar robbers, with whom Hoover
was working very closely through
his friend, Edwin Shattuck, who got
a $4,000 bribe, were given U. S..
war information by General Crow
der. Crowder also is on the pay
roll of the Cuba Co., the largest
sugar trust in Cuba.
Lakin, head of the Cuba Co., wrote
about the inside war information
he got from Gen. Crowder, to M.
c. Rionda, a New York sugar
broker. His letter said:
General Crowder has learned the
plans of the general staff provide
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
War Danger
Mo IL n is I'm
Race for Arms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-Yes.
terday, Henry L. Stimson, who
heads the U. S. delegation in its
fight for more arms, met the Jap
anese imperialist representatives to
the Five-Power Naval conference.
The Japanese, maneuvering for a
big increase in armaments to
strengthen their position against U.
S. imperialist encroachments in
China, presented their demands for
more cruisers and submarines.
Stimson rejected the proposals of
the Japanese imperialists. Though
it was not mentioned in the official
communique issued by the "peace
pact" secretary of state, who is the
chief representative of U. S. i'm
perialism in its frantic race for more
armaments, the American naval
delegation will insist on additional
cruisers to offset the Japanese
Anglo re-alliance.
A despatch from Toxic to the
"New York Times" quotes the "Hoci
Shimbun," Japanese capitalist
newspaper, as saying that the Jap
anese naval demands are directed
against the U. S., and not the Brit
ish. The "Hoci Shimbun" says:
"J2pan's demand for a 20 per
cent ratio concerns the American
NJ y. IL the British navy only were
involved Japan could accept a
smaller ratio. If Japan and Amer
lea cannot sgree on this point
limitation will be hopeless"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
J0bLESS BATTLE
AND WIN RELIEF
Two Days Fight With
Police in Germany
(Wireless By h1precorr)

BERLIN, Dec. 1S.-Tuesday eve
ming bitter struggle took place at
Frankfort on Main between police
and unemployed workers. The police
tried to disperse demonstration of
unemployed, firing volleys whereby
many of the jobless workers were
wounded.
The unemployed workers defended
themselves with sticks, stones and
bottles. Windows were broken,
street-car service disorganized and
numerous arrests made.
Dispatches Wednesday from capi.
talist sources state that the city
council at Frankfort on Main, under
pressure of the spirited fighting in
the streets by unemployed, met in a
session which was frequently inter-
rupted by disturbances in the gal
leries, and granted some relief t.
the jobless, making an allowance OF
20 marks, about $3.50, as a scale Of
relief.
1t is added that 81 demonstrators
were arrested and A persons, includ-
ing the police, however, injured. The
demonstration began Tuesday night
when the council was considering a
motion by Communist members of
the council, to grant additional re-
lief to the unemployed for the winter,
since the unemployed dole is too
little to live on.
The demonstration formed outside
the city hall, but was attacked vio-
lently by police. But the demonstra-
tors fought back and the fight
spread all over town, jobless workers
cornering police in places and giving
them blow for blow. Six thousand
are said to have been in the demon
stration.
Not only did the unemployed re-
fuse to be dispersed and fight back
on Tuesday, but they returned We'd
nesday to new demonstrations and
renewed fighting with police thru
out the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
Talk Disarmament; /;
Build War We S S e | S

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. 49,
Submarine VS., the largest under
sea boat ever built for the U. S.
Navy, was launched yesterday un-
der the supervision of navy Off
cials. A whole new fleet of SUBJ
marines are under construction.
Work is under way on five of the
proposed Is new 10,000-ton cruisers
voted by Congress. While the capi-
talist papers are flooded with "dis-
armament" propaganda, the capital
i. IS are building their navy for war
purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
ACC0RS| TO
SPEAK IN n. Y,
Mass Meeting to Greet
Him Tonight

The great mass welcome for Sal
vatore Accorsi, Italian worker, to-
night, will be tremendous demon
stration for the release of all work.
ers still in the clutches of the capi-
talist legal machinery. Hundreds of
New FORK workers will be present
in Central Opera House, 9th st. and
Third Ave-, to greet this victim of
the Pennsylvania coal bosses frame
up who has just been freed through
Continued from Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
HOOVER HELPS
FRIEND CRAFT
Aids S Sugar Lobby
Which Paid $4,000

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-Presi-
dent Hoover is sinking deeper into
the sugar lobby mire. The imper-
ialist chief helped his friend Edwin
Shattuck earn $4,000 graft that
was paid to him to enlist Hoover
support for the Cuba Co., which con-
trolls $170,000,00O in sugar interests
in Cuba, and is the backbone of the
bloody Machado regime.
A letter written by Herbert c.
Lakin, president of the Cuba Co..
exposes the fact that Hoover Joined
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

the officers.
The headlines of the leaflets
read, "Wall Streets Government Is
Your Enemy; Eight Side by Side
With the Workers." and similar
slogans in connection with the Hal
tian revolution.
The demonstrations in solidarity
with the Haitian workers and peas
ents will continue despite intimida-
,icn. The Communist Party will
lead these demonstrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
members FORCE
General Strike
PicketS Massed Around
Rothbury Pits
(Wireless bu Inprecorrl


SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 18.-
The miners of Queensland and Vic
toria have declared strike in pro
test against the police shooting OF
the striking miners at Rothbury in
New South Wales. Although 700
armed police are guarding scabs,
the Federated Enginemen's Union
of the railways has refused to
transport scab coal.
The New South Wales govern
ment has been trying to break the
Rothbury strike for some time.
Monday pitched battles were fought
between police and the miners, in
which one miner picket was killed,
nine were seriously injured, and 81
less seriously injured.
Eight thousand pickets mobilized,
and the rank and file pressure
forced a meeting Of the miners
union central committee to vote the
general strike now on. The labor
party government of Australia was
just arranging a conference of
reactionary union leaders to stop
the picketing when the murder took
place at Rothbury. The miners
were striking in defiance of an
agreement made by the treacherous
union officials with the New South
Wales (Liberal Party) government,
to call off the strike.
The armed police are still in pos
session of the mine, with the miners
and their families camped around
and cutting all communications
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
TRUSTS CROW
IN C R | 81 S
Form $3.50, 1000, Steel
Merger

"Crises of every kind-economic
crises most frequently, but not
only these--in turn increase very
considerably the tendency to con-
centration of capital and to for
nation sof monopolies." - Lenin,
Imperialism"
CLEVELAND, Dec. 1S.-Follow
ing the rapid justification which i:
growing out of the present crisis
Cyrus S. Eaton, head of a powerful
financial group, announces the for.
nation of the third largest merger
of steel companies in the United
States.
This consolidation will merge ;
number of Middle West independent
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
CHRISTMAS FOR INDUSTRIAL
IZATION.
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

(WWeless By Inprec0fTJ
MOSCOW, Dec. 1S.-The Presi-
dunn of the Soviet Labor Unions
has declared Christmas Day to be
Industrialization Day. The Moscow
Soviet prohibits the cutting and
transport of fir trees for sale as
Christmas decorations. Great anti
religious celebrations are organized
for Christmas week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
illinois Grievance Committee Meets Today to Call Out More Mnes
Militia Tayorvie M. u Office Relief Badly Needed
McAeer Victims Taken Out; Still Missng Mine Was
Merely Death Trap; Many Mexican and Negro Miners
UNIV BOASTS IT
IMPORTS SCABS
Sheriff Uses Fishwick
Gunmen Against Strike

WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Dec.
1S.-Mass pickets are stationed be-
fore the mines on strike in Staun-
ton and Livingston today. They are
Drawing binding snow storm,
fighting heroically in spite of short
rations and periods of unemployment
which has cut down their weekly in
come for months before the strike
to win the right to organize in their
own mines, and the demands adopted
at the second state convention of the
National Miners Union.
The United Mine Workers, the
state and federal governments, and
the operators continue their joint at
tempt to break this strike. Today
the militia at Taylorville forcibly
invaded and seized control of the
N.M.U. local office there, and the
miners hall. Fifteen miners were
arrested today, and will probably be
charged with the usual "incitement
to riot"
Today the Illinois District griev-
ance committee meets at West
Frankfort, to dev:3e further ways
and means of spreading the strike.
The heroism of the pickets so far,
and their determination to win con-
tinue unabated, and they are anxi-
Gus to swing the masses who have
not yet come out into this fight,
which is for all miners, for the six
hour day and five-day week, for un-
employment relief paid for by the
bosses and by the state, for Is min
ute rest periods every hour on all
machines, for more men hired on
machine crews, against check-off,
against the penalty system, against
unsafe conditions such as murdered
81 men just yesterday in McAlester,
and killed 7 in Mine ID of the Old
Ben Company at West Frankfort
about two weeks ago. They are
striking, and call all Illinois, Ken
lucky and Indiana miners to strike,
for equal pay for young workers
and for Negro workers.
The sheriff of Franklin county
yesterday seized all records and
mimeograph machine, supplies, etc,
in the Illinois district office of the
N.M.U. at West Frankfort, and still
has them. He still holds in Jail
Henry Corbishley. Sheriff Pritchard
lis particularly venemous against
Corbishley because the miner Che is
secretary-treasurer of the Illinois
district of the N.M.UD has been
publicly exposing the strike breaking
and gangster methods of the sheriff.
Vincent Kemenevich, field organ
ize: in southern coal fields for the
N.M.U. was arrested at a. m. yes
terday, along with another miner.
They were taken up on the street,
while mobilizing pickets for mass
picket line, and were held until six
that morning and released.
The United Mine Workers of
America officials state that they are
cooperating with the employers to
furnish 1000 scabs and that these
are being imported today from over
the state line.
Relief is needed in this strike. All
workers are urged by the union to
send in contributions to the Workers
International Relief, which is feed
ing the miners, and to contribute to
the International Labor Defense,
which is providing them with de-
tense when arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
International
Wireless
News
BELGIAN TAXICAB STRIKE
(Wireless By Inprecorr)

VI Ut OVooo DU ITtPToOVTT/
BRUSSELS, Dec. 1S.-The taxicab
strike has ended with the owners
recognizing the union and agreeing
to submit wage claims to arbitra-
ton. They had refused to recog-
nize the union and tried to run cabs
with scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
PrOvOcatiOns of i. S.
and Japan in China
Thwarted by USSR

KHAMARAOVSK, Siberia, Dec.
1S.-Despite the war threat of Stim-
son which was designed to disrupt
the peace negotiations between the
Soviet Union and the Chinese gov
ernment in Manchuria, and in spite
of the attempted provocation of the
Japanese with their international
train negotiations for the final
settlement of the Manchurian rail-
way question are progressing rapid
ly.
Julius Rudy, who was appointed
manager of the railway by the So
Wet Union, is expected in Harbin
soon, according to an Associated
Press despatch-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
MOVIE EXTRAS STARvE.

LOS ANGELES (By MaiD.-Out
Of 11,000 movie extras registered
last year only an average of 756
worked each day. Only 1873 men
and 81 women worked more than
two days a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
LABOR" RULE JAILS INDIAN
UNIONIST.

(WWeleSs by Inprecorrl
LONDON, Dec. 1S.-Dispatches
from India state that Ranadive, the
Secretary of the Indian Railways
Union, has been arrested by the
British-Indian government charged
with melting class hatred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
MILITARY PRISONER TRIES
ESCAPE.

A military prisoner seized gun
from one of his guards on Cover
nor's Island and attempted to es-
cape on tug. lie was recaptured
after tussel with several guards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
World Meet of Negro
Toilers at London july |
International Negro UniOnist Committee Calls
Meet to Unite Race on Working Class Base
Revolt of Oppressed Negroes in Haiti, Africa
and Other Lands Proves Need of Unity

While Hoover dispatches the armed band of American imperialism
que the the Haitian the call
forth International Conference Tong
London England July L. 1880.
The CALL which is signed by the Temporary International Trade
Union Committee Negro Workers elected the World
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
STEEL WORKERS STRIK e.

PITTSBURGH (By MaiD. -
Twenty-Five clippers at the Union
Casting Co. struck for better work
inq conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

Workers! This Is Your Paper.
Write for 1t. Distribute 1t
Among Your Fellow Workers! :,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
u. 5. EMBARGO
FLORIDAFRUIT
HALTS VALLEY
Letter From Terrell
Says Federal Quar-
antine Would Make
Texas Law Void
WASHINGTON, April 29.-(P)-
The senate today passed the house
bill making $4,52O,0 Immediately
available for combating the Med
iterranean fruit fly in Florida.
(Special to The Herald)


SAN BENITO, April 29.-Possibil-
ity that the quarantine against Flor
ida decreed by the United States de-
partment of agriculture may inter
fere with the permanent quarantine
against products of that section to
be sought by the Valley, was seen
in a letter received by j. E. Bell,
manager of the San Benito Cham
Der of Commerce
Bell is a member Of the commit
tee of three appointed to draft the
bill and have it introduced before
the legislature. Other members Of
the group are l.. E. Snavely, Har-
lingen citrus grower, and T. M. Mel
den, manager Of the Texas citrus
fruit growers exchange, with office
at Mission.
The letter is from George B. Ter
rell, head of the Texas department
of agriculture, and states that the
federal quarantine now in force will
take precedence over any state quar-
antine. This ruling has been up
held in the courts, Terrell informs
Bell.
Members of the committee had
planned to 60 to Austin for con-
ference Wednesday with Terrell and
a representative of the attorney gen.
erals department at which the bill
declaring a permanent quarantine
was to be drafted. A meeting will
Continued on page five.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
FREIGHT RATE
MEET TONIHCT
Pawkett Declares Prospects
Good For Removal of
Differential
Especial to The Herald)


SAN BENITO, April 29-ProSpectS
are good for success of the state
wide campaign to remove the diff
ferential freight charge, in the opin-
ion Of U. S. Pawkett, freight traffic
manager Of the South Texas Cham
ber of Commerce, who arrived Mon
day morning to attend meeting on
the subject to be held at the cham
ber of commerce quarters here to-
night. The session is to begin at 8
p. m.
Ray Leeman, general manager of
the South Texas body, was to arrive
by automobile later in the day and
leaders in the campaign were to con-
fer with these men on program for
the meeting. j. E. Bailey OF HouS-
ton, general freight agent of the
Missouri Pacific lines; S. G. Reed,
also of Houston, assistant freight
traffic manager Of the Southern Pa
cific railroad and a representative
Of the Western Weighers and In
spectorS association are to attend
the meeting tonight.
From 5 to 100 Valley shippers,
chamber of commerce executives
and other interested in the move
are expected to attend the meet
ing.
A fund of $4,000 is being raised
in Texas to carry on the statewide
fight for removal of the differential
and $4,000 has been subscribed out
side the Valley.
Commissioners courts Of Cameron
and Hidalgo county have indicated
a willingness to subscribe to the
remaining $4,000.