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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10
S33,O)D,0OO ARMY
!. AIR FUND IS VOTED
House Adopts Proposal to
Ban Liberty Motors in
New Planes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
After adopting a proposal forbidding
the use of Liberty motors, a leading
World War aircraft engine, in the new
Army airplanes purchased after the
end of the fiscal year, the House yes
tcr1ay approved $33,000,000 carried in
the War Department supply bill for the
Army Air Corps.
The amendment. offered by Repre-
ssntatice La Guardia. Republican, New
York himself World War aviator, was
accepted by vote of "a to IA. He con-
tended that it was not economy for the
Army to use the old Liberty motors in
new planes.
La Guardia said that his amendment
particularly was aimed to provide new
and modern planes for training young
Army flyers. Many wartime planes en-
gined with obsolete Liberty motors are
being used as training planes, he added.
Call Motors Dangerous.
Other contentious voiced by La Guar
dia and by Representatives Mas and
Ft.low of Minnesota, also war flyer,
and Hudson of Michigan. all Repub-
licans. were that planes equipped with
the motors were not only unecOnomlcal,
but dangerous and that it would prove
a menace for the Government to sell the
supply It mas on mana 10 clVlIlaH dVld-
tors.
The debate brought reference to the
testimony of F. Trubee Favison, As
sistant Secretary of War, before the
appropriations subcommittee, in which
he said that he and Gen. j. E. Fechet
had used Liberty motors in their flight
to Panama last year. I'VE had no end
of motor trouble" Dawson testified.
1900 Reported on Hand.
The Assistant Secretary said that the
War Department still had on hand
about 1000 of the old motors that were
built during the latter days of the World
War, characterizing them as relatively
unreliable as contraSted with the mod
ern motors" Gen. Fechet observed that
other motors were about three times as
safe as the Liberty.
The Assistant Secretary, however, de-
clared he did not believe the Liberty
motor was so unsafe that the War De-
partment would be justified in junking
the planes equipped with them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10
Henry Ford Sees
Farm Corporations
AS Way to Relief
Book on Life Philosophy
of Motor Magnate Lists
Many Opinions.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, January 10.-Henry
Ford's book, MY Philosophy of Life,
was to be released today by Coward-Mc-
Cam, 425 Fourth avenue. In it the au-
tomobile manufacturer forecasts revo-
luton of farming methods by corpora
tions entering this field to carry on va
rious phases of the work and in the
home sees the problem of too much
drudgery" met with the proposition of
having meals cooked outside the house
and delivered at mealtime
Under present conditions" Mr.. Ford
writes, there is no way for farmer to
get ahead very fast, unless he uses new
methods. Large corporations. whose
sole business it will be to perform the
operations of blowing, planting. Guilt
waiting and harvesting. will supersede the
individual farmer, or groups of farmers
will combine to perform their work on a
wholesale scale. This is the proper way
to do it and the only way in which eco
non:ic freedom can be won.'
Machinery is accomplishing in the
world what man has failed to do by
preaching, propaganda or the written
word" is one of Mr.. Ford's statements
in the book Others follow:
Thinking is the hardest work there
is, which is the probable reason why so
few engage in it."
What causes war is not patriotism,
not that human beings are willing to
die in defense of their dearest ones. 1t
is the false doctrine, fostered by the few,
that war spells gain"
The fact that pacifists are left in
peace is proof that they are not attack
ing the real causes of war. If pacifists
spoke the truth they would not be petted
as they are today; theirs would be the
hard lot of the martyrs of truth"
"A peaceful nation is one that has
the means to make war and refrains."
1.-THE youth who can solve the money
question will do more for the world
than all the professional soldiers of his
tory"
In common decency the liquor gen.
grafton should be allowed to die in
silence. Its agonies should not be the
constant topic of American journals"
mo one smokes in the Ford Industries.
Tobacco is not good thing for indus
try nor for the individual"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10
SMOOT is HONOR GUEST
ON 9th ANNIVERSARY
Utah Senator Is Given Luncheon in
His Committee Room-His
Son Is Host.

Senator Reed Smoot of Utah today is
celebrating the sixty-seventh anniver-
sary of his birth. The veteran chair
man of the Senate finance committee
was the guest of honor at luncheon
in his committee room, given by his son,
Ernest Smoot.
Those attending were Senator Smoot,
Vice President Dawes, Attorney General
Sargent Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
Joseph H. Hines. L. E. JefferieS, A. F.
Carbon, Max Wulfson of New York
City, A. NJ Nevius, Henry M. Robinson
of Los Angeles, Ernest w Smoot, Harold
r. Smoot H. S. Anderson of San Fran
CISCO Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
Senator Curtis, Clarence Biting of De-
troit, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania,
Robert Fleming, Senator Harrison and
Royal McKenna.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-10

and tie other to Mrs. Stone. Both
contained messages of affection, re-
quests for forgiveness and good-bys.
When Miss Hewitt read the note she
communicated with school officials ana
the matter was reported to police who
broadcast a look out" for the girl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
CANTON LIKELY
TO fall. before
kWANGsI ATTACK
Chang Unable to Aid
for Fear of Feng

CANTON, May 10.-The fall of
this city to the Kwangsi militarists
is momentarily expected. The at
tackers are within 25 miles of the
city, approaching from the North,
East and West. Only the line to
Hongkong, on the South, is open,
and some reports state that the
Canton-Hongkong railroad has been
cut. Other Kwangsi troops are said
to be advancing southwest from
Swatow.
Panic Prevails.
The city is under martial law,
with heavy censorship on all news,
A state of panic prevails, and the
Central Bank has suspended specie
payment.
Four gunboats of the Cantonese
navy, which revolted, were subdued
by the batteries and machine guns
of the Macao and Honan Islands,
across the harbor from the city, and
an airplane with machine guns.
These batteries have done consider
able damage to the city, especially
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
DELEGATION had
S T0RY OF Mill.
BOSSES CRUELTY
Cold Rain Drenches All
Evicted Strikers

WASHINGTON, May 10. - The
manufacturers comr-ittee of the
senate which had advertised hear
ings on the motion of Senator
Wheeler for a senatorial investiga-
ton of the starvation in the textile
regions, the usual fake survey of
conditions with a strikebreaking re-
port eventually, did not remain in
session long enough today to hear
the delegation from Gastonia.
They heard United Textile Work
ers officials on the Elizabethton
strike, which the U. T. W. is try
ing to surrender to the employers,
and adjourned as soon as the Gas
tonia delegation came into town.
The Gastonia delegation is demand
ing its right to be heard, but no
answer has been given so far today.
Child Slaves Arrive.
The delegation came in a truck
provided by the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, and was accompanied
by Karl Reeves, organizer for the
National Textile Workers Union,
Bertha Crawford, w. l. R. chairman
and X. Y. Hendricks, w. l. r. re-
lief agent in Gastonia. They were
,.oaJ,r RI taS+ifu m ct -y.vo tiop Iuappc
and speed-up before the strike, to
starvation and epidemic among the
strikers, to the brutal bayonetting
of pickets by the deputized mill
thugs, and the horrors of the evic-
ton of strikers from their homes
by orders of the mill bosses. Among
the strikers in the group were two
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
Myers Can't Examine
City Trust Documents;
Keeping Dirt Private

The dirt which has smudged sew
eral prominent citizens in the City
Trust Bank swindle will not be COM
pletely exhumed yet, it was decided
at yesterdays hearing. Saul s.,
Myers, attorney in bankruptcy hear
ings into the affairs of Michael
Longo, failed to get the City Trust
records from Moreland Commits
sioner Moses.
However, it was promised that
photostatic copies of the records will
be made when they are made public
at Mondays hearing.
Myers is anxious to use the rec
ords to get further compromising
admissions from ex-State Banking
Superintendent Frank II. Warder,
who sanctioned loans for 100000
for the City Trust Company while
that company was controlled three
months ago by his friend, Ferrari.
Myers brought in state troopers
to guard records at his office at
Broadway. He declares that police
who were officially supposed to be
on duty were removed from the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
NELL ON PROFITS
Up, WAGES FALL
Big Gains in Foreign
Trade, Unemployment

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-Alum-
mum production in U. S., prac-
tically half of which comes from
Massena, N. Y, had value in 1928
of $47,899,000, an increase of % per
cent over the previous year, the U.
S. Bureau of Mines states.
"The record production of auto
mobiles in 1928 and the wider adop-
ton of aluminium pistons and con-
Meeting rods in the manufacture
thereof combined to greatly increase
the consumption of aluminium by
the automotive industry in 1928
Aluminium furniture has come into
a position of prominence rapidly
and many railroads have adopted
aluminium chairs as standard equip
ment in their dining cars, and in.
stallations have also been made ir
offices and libraries" says the state
ment.
The American Aluminium Trust is
owned by the Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon.
Commerce More Profitable.
The Department of Commerce
states that the value of imports anC
exports for the first three months
of 1929 is larger than the value:
for the same period in 1928.
The value of imports for the three
months was listed at 1,122,107,980
compared with $1,069, 1888, 1897 for th'
same period in 1928, while exports
for 1929 were placed at S1,419,503,
982, against S1,202,842,190.
Wages Worse.
The wages paid workers in thes,
industries in which greater profit
are now being made than ever be
fore have not gone up anywhere
have decreased in many plants, ant
have been accompanied by speed-ul
and unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
EXPOSE AT OF |
STRIKEBRE:AKERS
IN FOOD STRIKE
Food Workers Appeal
to Rank and File

The strikebreaking role Of the
reactionary bureaucracy of the A.
+. of L., which has already joined
with the restaurant owners in a
fight to break the cafeteria strike,
was denounced by the Hotel, Res
taurant and Cafeteria Workers
Union in an open letter sent last
night to the members of A. F.of L..
Locals /, 2, 16, 500 and 719.
"The American Federation of La
Dor officials made no effort to or
ganize these workers." the letter
says in commenting on the indiffer-
ence of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats
to the exploitation of the cafeteria
workers, who, "for eleven and twelve
hours of slavery get miserable
wages"
"Our victory will be your victory"
the letter states in a concluding ap-
peal for "rnoral support and imme-
diate financial aid" The text fol-
lows:
Fellow Workers:
You already know about the de-
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
Call for First Congress
of Worker Correspondents
Cleveland, O., Friday, May 81, 1929

the First National worker
Cleveland May 81 has met with great
soldier and sailor
The Organization the First National worker
issued the call for the
of the committee published IN order
to protect by their employers The call
follows:
TO ALL WORKER, FARMER SOLDIER AND SAILOR CORRE-
SPONDBNTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
sailor correspondents the arc
exploited ng of the United States are
fighting vanguard the class struggle Through the worker
become powerful weapon OF
raonazaon the lowering OF the shp
workers and for the organization OF the
unorganzed.
the of the Communist Pa
the cssconscious workers ana
through their great of the workers
joining in the class struggle
Continued Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
BOMB TEXTILE
STRIKER HOUSE

ELIZABETH, Tenn, May TO-
Scabs or mill owners provocateurs
today dynamited the home of Mack
Elliot, mechanic in the Bemberg
rayon plant here, but out on strike
with the rest of the $500 workers
in Bemberg and Glanzstoff plants.
The bomb, which seems to have con-
tanned either nitroglycerine or dyna-
mite, was placed under the floor of
the living room while Elliott was
at strike meeting and his wife and
children were visiting a neighbor
The house is badly wrecked.
A week ago some dynamite was
thrown into Elliot's car, but it failed
to explode.
The strikers are standing firm
and this is only one of the acts of
terrorism practiced upon them. The
town is full Of militia, with machine
guns. The officials Of the United
Textile Workers are busy trying to
sell out the strike, as they did the
previous walkout in March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
GANG ISLANDERS
LOCAL 43 WORK
cleft" Meet Success;
Banquet Tonight

A symphony of downright lies,
Misrepresentation and slander
against the best, fighting workers in
Local 43, marked yesterdays ses-
sion of the machine-packed conven-
ton of the International Cloth Hat,
Cap and Millinery Workers Union,
which is meeting at Beethoven Hall.
The convention" which opened on
May 1, has thus far consisted for
the most part in the hand-picked
administration committee white
washing the union-wrecking activi-
ties of the bureaucrats in the or
ganization during the two years
which have elapsed since the last
convention.
Refuse Floor to Local 43.
A total of two and one half hours
was consumed in the discussion as
to whether representatives from Lo-
cal 43, which was expelled by the
administration when it came under
left wing leadership, should be al
lowed to speak. The result of
the hocus-pocus was that Local 43
spokesmen did not get the floor.
Car Zaritsky Of the union, who
is presiding at the convention"
fearing that even his own hand
picked committee would recommend
(Continued on Page Fire)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
Dinner OPENS
NEGRO WEEK"
Nearly 1000 White and
Negro Workers There

"That Negro and white workers are
forming more solid bond fer the
struggle against imperialism and
the overthrow of the capitalist sys-
tenn under the leadership of the
Communist Party is the significance
of this gathering" declared Ben
Lifshitz, acting organizer of District
. of the Communist Party, in open
ing the "Negro Champion Dinner"
last night at the Workers Center.
In large. room, especially deco
rated with legions bearing the
names of the Negro revolutionary
leaders of America in the past,
nearly 1000 Negro and white work
crs filled the room to overflowing
in the opening affair in New York
City of National Negro Week.
A rousing welcome greeted John
Fl. Owens, Negro tenant farmer
from California, who although stat
ing that he suffered from the short
coming CT being poet as well as a
AOllIlullloI, SdfS q sIlllll dSCuuiiI
of the historic repression of the Ne
gro toilers and of the leaders who
led the sporadic revolts Of the
slaves.
How the landlords, Negro and
white, exploit the Negro workers to
the bone in Harlem-made all the
more possible by the system of seq
rcgation-was explained by Richard
B. Moore, president of the Harlem
Tenants League. "The Daily Worker
was the only metropolitan newspaper
which really exposed the frightful
conditions existing in Harlem" he
said.
"a detailed report of this event
opening Negro Week will appear in
Mondays Daily Worker.) ..s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
NY. COMMUNISTS
APPEAL TO 'G0bS'
TO COMBAT WAR
Circulate Leaflets to
Sailors on Many
Battleships
Navy Officers Worried
Expose Imperial Aims
for New Slaughter

Considerable interest, much of
which was very favorable. was
aroused on board of a number of
battleships floating in the Hudson
River, due to the fact that leaf
let directed to the "Sailors of the
Navy" and published by the New
York District Of the Communist
Party of the U. S. A, and the Com
munist Youth League, has been
widely distributed throughout the
fleet.
Hurried meetings of the men on
board have been called by the of
ficers seeking to counteract the eff
fects of the propaganda in the
leaflet. In the case of the cruiser
New York, all visitors have been de-
tanned on board and have been sub
jected to severe cross-examination
and search. The following war YES
sells have been reached: Florida,
Concord, Cincinnati, Marblehead,
New York. and number of others.
IN iSo1iSe duo III pdIt do lOllO.SS
Sailors of the Navy!
"Fellow Workers!
"Today Ar,rican yaarires arc in
Nicaragua fighting against the
Nicaraguan workers and peasants.
American gunboats are today IN
China threatening the Chinese
Workers and Peasants Revelation
with another blood bath. The navy
is the police force abroad for the
same gang of imperialist robbers
who are fighting the workers at
home.
Sailors! Fellow-workers! You
must organize your ship committees
on every ship in the fleet. Do as
the sailors of the Soviet Union did
in their struggle against czarism.
Remember the Black Sea Mutiny of
the French fleet, when the French
imperialists tried to attack the Sow
let Union. Remember the example
of Guardsman John Porter, who re-
fused to aid the textile barons in
their fight against the textile work
ers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11

Minor, Crouch, George
Pershing Speak at Big
Anti War Meet Today

Robert Minor, Paul Crouch, and
George pershing will be the speak
ers at an open air meeting today
at p. M. at Broadway and 5th
St., two blocks from North River,
where part of the Wall Street ravy
is at present stationed.
All members Of the Communist
Party and the Communist Youth
League are instructed to attend this
important meeting. The subject
will be american Imperialism and
the Navy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
union "KNIFES"
FRAMED striker
SHOT BY POLICE
Teamsters' Chief Will
Not Aid Dying Worker

While Garry Smith, As, lies at the
point of death in the Lincoln Hos
pital and the police frame-up net
is being drawn more closely about
him, it is revealed that the union
with which he fought in the strike
of the George L. Storm Lumber
Company in the Bronx is taking
steps to disavow all connection with
the worker.
Smith was shot in the side by a
policeman late Wednesday after
being trapped defenseless in tene-
Continued on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
HOOVER RANKS
SPLIT ON TAXES

WASHINGTON May dedicated
on the farm issue in the senate, the
two months old administration of
President Hoover faced opposition
in the house today on the tariff
question.
Hoover's forces got the tariff bill
out of the ways and means commit
tee to the floor of the house by a
strictly partisan committee vote of
Is to 8.
Cordell Hull, democrat, Tenn,
Continued on Page TWo)
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Pershing Talks on
Textile Strike at
School Tomorrow

George Pershing, one of the
leaders of the present strike of
the Carolina textile workers, who
recently came to New York with
committee of the striking tex
tile workers, will speak tomorrow
evening at 8 p. m. at the Work
ers School Forum, 1928 Union
Square, OH the Southern Tex
tile Strike" A committee of the
southern textile strikers will also
be on hand at the forum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11

and struggle on the part of the
workers. Every indication
shows Union Square will be
jammed at 1:30 today with thou
sands upon thousands of workers
who have been reused to the utmost
by the fascist tactics employed by
the city government, loyal to en-
ployers and anxious to visit every
brutality upon workers who defy
them.
Walker and Whalen, and their
predecessors who were just as bad,
have taught the New York workers
what Hindenburg and Zoergiebel are
like.
Know the Socialists.
The socialist chiefs in the needle
trades unions sent their gangsters
and gunner with blackjacks, knives
and revolvers against the militant
left wingers in every recent strike,
and still do it. These workers of
New York feel deep bond of soli-
darity with the workers of Berlin,
when they hear that the socialist
Zoergiebel sends his uniformed gun
men with rifles, bayonets and hand
grenades against them.
Coming as it does on the heels of
the recent outrage in Berlin, where
scores of workers have been shot
down in cold blood by the minions
of the Socialist Police Chief Zoer-
giebel, the meeting on Union Square
today will be part of an interna-
tional protest movement on the part
Of labor throughout the world.
Many Speakers.
Speakers will include representa-
tiyes of the Communist Party of the
U. S. A, International Labor De-
tense, the Needle Workers Indus
trial Union, National Textile Work
ers' Union, Independent Shoe Work
ers' Union, Hotel Workers Union,
Anti-Fascist Alliance and many
other working class organizations.
Among the speakers will be Rob-
ert Minor, Louis Engdahl, Ben Gold,
Fred Biedenkapp, NJ. J. Olgin Earl
Browder, Jack Johnstone, Harold
Williams, Richard B. Moore, Julia
Stuart Poyntz, Paul Crouch, George
Pershing, John Owens and many
others.
W. I. r. Endorses.
The Workers International Re-
lief, Union Square, New York City,
yesterday endorsed the demonstra-
tion against the German police, to
be held this afternoon in Union
Square, and called upon all it's mem
bers and supporters to attend the
demonstration.
I'VE urge all members of the w.
/. r." reads the statement, "also
all other workers to be present at
the demonstration and voice their
disapproval of the numbering of the
militant German workers by the So
cialist butchers. Make the demon
stration a real manifestation of
working class solidarity.
Needle Workers Call!
The Joint Board of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
at a meeting last night, in a vig-
orous resolution, denounced police
terror both in the socialist" ruled
city of Berlin and the Tammany-
ruled city of New York, and called
upon the thousands of New York
needle trades workers to join the
demonstration at Union Square to-
day.
Shoe Workers Also Called.
| A resolution similar in spirit was
passed by the Independent Shoe
Workers Union and the Window
Washers Union, both organizations
at present conducting strikes in var
ious parts of the city, and both hav-
iror ~, Y,apoa oated opra eiOps hanD the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11
WORKERS FACING CLUBS
OF N. Y. COPS DENOUNCE
BLOOD Bath in BERLIN
Communist Party, Many Unions, TUEL, LID,
Workers Relief Show International Solidarity
Bronx Laborer Shot by Tammany Police Proves
Agents of Boss Murderous Everywhere

The latest brutal crime of the New York City Police De-
partmen the shooting of Gerry Smith, the striking Bronx
lumber aborer has filled to overoWng the cup indignation
the ranks of the local labor against campaign
of police terrorism instituted by the Walker administration in
effort the tide of mltancy and will to oroanze
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11

Due to lack of space we are forced
to postpone until Mondays issue the
printing of the first of William z.
Fosters series of articles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11

Long Live the Revolutionary
Struggle of the Oppressed Colo
NAL Peoples. II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-11

AGAINST THE MURDER OF BERLIN
WORKERS ON LABOR'S MAY DAYl