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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
BOSS THUGS SLUG
NY SHOE PICKETS
Strikers Determined to
Win Despite Terror

Since the metropolitan association
of the manufactures began their
lockout campaign against the organ
lied shoe workers weeks ago. the
gangsters and professional strike
breakers have found fat paying jobs
with the bosses.
Yesterday one of the thugs at
tempted to assault the pickets at the
Elboe Shop, while the police on duty
conveniently disappeared. One of
the strikers was struck in the face,
and before the rest of the workers
could reach the scene of trouble the
scab was wisked away, in a high
powered auto. The police in this
shop have shown open and bitter an
tagonism 20 the workers. One police
man in particular continuously cur
ses the pickets, spits at them, and
threatens them with bodily violence
Several strikers have been arrested
during the past week and let go for
lack of evidence.
Gangsters are often Dragging of
shooting the strikers and at times
exhibit their guns. The strikers,
however, are not frightened and con-
Continued on Page TNo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Many Worker Bodies
to Greet UCWW at 9th
Year Celebration Soon

Representatives of number of
militant working class organizations
will greet the United Council of
Working Women at the big celebra-
tion of the sixth anniversary of the
council at Stuyvesant Casino, Sec
ond Ave. and Ninth St., on Friday
evening, Nov. %.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, Women's Depart
ment of the Communist Party and
International Labor Defense will be
among the organizations to greet
the Council and to tell of the part
it has played in the struggles of the
workers for the past six years.
An unusually attractive program
OF entertainment is being arranged,
in which members of the United
Council, as well as professional per-
formers, will take part. Tickets can
be bought at the office of the Coun-
Gil, 799 Broadway, Room 535.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
What to Do to Free
the Five G a S tOnia
Prisoners in ] a j |

Five Gastonia strike leaders
are still in jail!
The southern workers are
seething with revolt, revolt is
breaking out among the workers
of the entire country.
These tried leaders could be out
on bail to lead the restive work
ersl
But they have to wait for the
workers to free them!
To date the national office of
the International Labor Defense
has received about $4,000 of the
$4,000 needed!
These five men risked their
lives for the workers, they are
only waiting for the opportunity
to risk them again. The work
ers must tear them out of Jail.
The ]. L. D. calls upon the
workers to do the following
things to raise the necessary
bond:
Canvass for individual loans.
Contributions and shop collec-
tions.
Fraternai organizations to vote
for loans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
START TO FRAME DEFEND M!NEOLA,
MARION WORKERS CAST0N VICTIMS
Great Conference of
NTW at Greenville

MARION, N. c., Nov. 13.-While
evictions of the families of mill
strikers of the Marion Manufactur-
ing Co. continued here today, the
selection of the jury to railroad five
mill workers to prison on charge
of Conspiracy to overturn the gov
ernment of North Carolina" was be-
gun.
The trial of the five mill workers
is the first of a series of trials, in
which 112 strikers are involved.
AS one maneuver of the Marion
mill bosses and their course to throw
a pretense of impartiality over the
trials, Alfred Hoffman, collaboration
with the Marion and Clinchfield mill
bosses during the strike at these
mills, is being tried together with
the five workers.
The first step in the second trick
of the mill bosses courts to facili-
tate the railroading of the 112 mill
workers was the return of true bills
by the Mcdowell County Grand Jury
here today against the eight sher-
ifs deputies who took part in the
massacre of six Marion Mfg. Co.
strikers on October 2.
Sheriff o. F. Adkins, who is now
leading the evictions IF the mill
strikers and their families, was
whitewashed for his part in the muir
der of the six strikers, although he
led the massacre.
The men who died as result
of the shooting were George Jonas,
Randolph Hall Sam Vickers, Tilden
Carver, James Roberts and Luther
Bryson. Bryson was former Lo-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
ACT TO DEFEAT
WINDOW SELL0UT
Cleaners TUUL Calls
Meeting Tonight

The striking window cleaners will
tonight take action to prevent their
strike from being sold out by the Of
ficials of the American Federation
of Labor who are coming in tomor-
row to make settlement" At a
meeting at z o'clock tonight in
Stuyvesant Casino, End Ave. and
9th St., called by the Window Clean
ers' Section of the Trade Union
League, the workers will be mobil-
lied to defeat all efforts to betray
the strike and expel militants from
the union. They will be called on
to extend the strike to include all
building service WORKERS.
Porters and other building service
workers, as well as window clean
ers, both organized and unorgan-
lied, who want to fight for the
building service workers.
union, are urged to attend tonight's
meeting.
Many window cleaners are aroused
at the Vaccinations of the right
Continued on Page T1Oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
RIGHTS SABOTAGE
WINDOW STRIKE
Attack Union Fighters,
Defend A. F. of L.
By GILBERT LEWIS.

On October 16 the Window Clean
ers went on strike for the 5-day,
40-hour week and 10 per cent wage
raise, granted to all other building
service unions affiliated with the
A. F. of L. That these demands
have not been won already is due
largely to a disruptive right wing
group playing the game of the
bosses.
They have attacked all militant
fighters for the union, and con-
cealed the strike-breaking role of the
bureaucratic leaders of the A. F. of
L. shown in strikes all over the
country. They not only conceal the
many betrayals of striking workers
by the A. F. of L., but they defend
the A. F. of L. leaders with the
same propaganda as is used by the
capitalist press.
The right wing group spread the
slander against Peter Darck, one of
the best militants on the Settlement
Committee, that he was secretly
demanding from the bosses more
than the union demands. This
slander was the work of the bosses
Continued on Page TVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Huge Soviet
Budget Shows
Industry Gain

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 13.-
The great strides forward of indus
trialization in the Soviet Union are
shown in the budget for the coming
year. The budget shows a total of
$685., 100000 and is As per cent
more than last year and the larg-
est in the history of the Soviet
Union.
Of this sum 345,OOO,OOO rubles
will be devoted to education, this
being more than 60 per cent above
last year, while to agriculture is
assigned 617000,00O rubles, cleo
trification 310,0OO,O0O rubles and
waterways 100000 rubles, and
60,000,000 rubles will go for the
formation of state grain fund.
All previous Soviet budget figures
are eclipsed by the estimated pro-
fits from state trade, which are
placed at 230,000,000 rubles or 61S
per cent more than last year. In
come from foreign concessions is
placed at 5,026,0O0 rubles while rev.
enues from the forests are placed
at 450,000,000 rubles and from the
mines at 78,000,000 rubles.
The appropriation for the develop
ment and extension of new railroads
exceeds last years sum by 108 per
cent, while 1,848,O0O,O00 rubles
will be assigned to financing Soviet
industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
ACCORSI TRIAL
OFF TILL Dec;
BAIL CHICAGO 5
WoodlaWn Workers to
Start 5-Year Term
on Nov. 26 .
Chi. Mass Meet Sunday
State in Maneuver in
Accorsi Case
BULLETIN.

CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-ChicagO
workers have arranged a huge
mass meeting for Sunday, Novem-
Der "a, at 3 p. m. at Peoples Audi
torium, 2457 West Chicago Ave-,
to protest the reign of terror
against the Communist Party and
all militant sections of the labor
movement. The meeting will also
be protest against the railroad
ing of the seven Gastonia mill
workers and National Textile
Workers Union organizers to long
prison terms. Three of the Gas
tOnia class prisoners, Hendryx,
Carter and Miller, will speak, if
the last two are released by that
date.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 3D.
Milan Restar, Pete Musolin, and
Tom lima, the three WOodlawn
steel workers railroaded in the
bosses courts reign of terror
against the Communist Party and
all militant workers, to five years
in prison on sedition charges, will
go to Allegheny WorkhOuse on No
vember 26, when they will start
to serve sentence of five years
at hard labor.
A class-war farewell banquet to
the WOOdlawn defendants will be
held Saturday night, November 16
at Labor Temple, 35 Miller ST., al
which Pat Devine, Salzman, Pat
Toohey will speak. A mock tria1
of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Co
will be a feature. The Gastonia
Labor Jury will be present.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-The mill
tant workers have raised the amour
of bail necessary to release the fiv,
remaining Chicago members of tn,
Communist Party in prison for near
ly a month after they were arrested
on sedition charge and charge O.
hold-up at the point of a gun
charges made through stool pigeor
named Billig. Six were arrested
district organizer of the
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
STOCK EXCHANGE
CHECKS MEMBERS
Settled Terror Hangs
Over Wall Street
BULLETIN.

In an attempt to allay the panic
which today swept the stock market,
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
with President Hoover's approval
announced last night that another
tax reduction amounting to about
S100, ,O00,GG0 will be turned back to
corporate business if congress so
decides next month. The capitalist
state is doing what it can for the
capitalists.
The word "panic" as applied to
the stock crash is turning into a
profound and continuous terror" as
day after day sees more billions of
stock "values" wiped out in the
steady dropping of stock prices. Yes
terday hit still another new low rec
ord for the cream issues of formerly
stable" and reliable" issues.
From Rochester came the news of
another millionaire suicide, caused
by stock losses on the street, when
Robert M. Searle, one of the leading
open shoppers and president of the
Gas and Electric corporation, was
found dead with the gas jets open.
He lost more than a million.
So deep have the biggest of big
gamblers been hit that the Stock
Exchange itself has started check
up on it's own members solvency, de-
manding-beginning Saturday a
daily check of members accounts.
This is a new thing, and proves the
depth of the crisis.
Of course, something is being
done to try, in a dazed way, to stop
the flood of selling. Rockefeller is
reported" to have posted $50,000,-
900 to hold Jersey Oil at $50 share.
But nobody in the Street ventures
to say what the cause of the panic
is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
TUNNEL WORKERS
STRIKE AGAINST
WAGE SCALE
Manhattan Men Plan
To Follow 1000
Bronx ToilerS
Warned By T. u. U. L.
Against Betrayal of
A. F. L. BureaucratS

Overworked and underpaid, nearly
/ 900 construction workers on the
Grand Concourse extension of the
Lexington Ave. subway struck yes
terday when contractors refused
their demand for higher wages and
better working conditions.
Unless their demands are met to-
day, they will be joined by fellow
workers at the 18th st. and Eighth
Ave. subway construction gang in
Manhattan, where rotten planking
spanning the construction section
caved in Monday. The contractors
had refused to shore up the struc-
ture although it had sagged notice
ably for weeks.
Five hundred tunnelmen were
members of Local 753 of the Tunnel
Workers Union. The other strikers
are organized in Local 63 of the
Timbermen and Drill Runners
Union-both A. F. of L. locals.
The tunnelmen, getting $4 a day
now, demand $3.50 for their hazar-
dous work. The drill runners are
fighing for $3.50 a day as against
their present $6.40.
Bosses Refuse Demands.
These demands have been rejected
by the contractors, Di Marco and
Rieman Co., and the Slattery and
Lyons Co.
Immediately on request of the
contractors, the Bronx police division
inspector sent his forces to various
points "to prevent disorder" They
made several arrests when workers
Continued on Page TaCo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
3RD PERIOD DANCE
TO make HISTORY
Saturday Event Helps
Rush Daily South

The mystery of the reported alb
sence of talented proletarian dancers
from their Communist unit meetings
will be explained at Rockland Pal
ace, w. 155th st. and Eighth Ave-,
this Saturday night, when the alb
sententees will help pack the Dance
of the Third Period.
sAnitra's dance and Phil the
Fluter's Ball have their place in his
tory, but they will both pale into in
significance when workers meet Sat
urday to hasten the drive to rush
the Daily Worker South:
Five thousand new readers is one
of the objectives of this campaign.
1t will be officially initiated Dec.
10. Five thousand is the expected
attendance at the dance.
While the Daily Worker mail box
is choked with appeals from south
ern toilers to rush their only paper
to the hells in which they are ex-
plotted, workers are advised to get
busy and make sure they are not left
behind in the rush for tickets.
They may still be had at rs cents
each at the Daily Worker business
office, 2S Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
BeaI Writes of
MO0neyandO Of
Billings Case
By FRED BEAL
1ooney and Billings.

Those two names made a deer
impression ON my mind years be.
fore / went South to organize fol
the National Textile Workers Union
Those two names signified fol-
lme class-injustice, a number Of
years before l was to taste its bit.
terness myself. Today, | and six
more comrades sentenced to as high
as 20 years in the Gastonia case
call upon the working-class to de-
mand the release and free Mooney
and Billings.
1t was only July 27, 1916, that
Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
were placed in the county Jail at
San Francisco to be tried in the
so-called bomb cases.
The case started in San Francisco
following car strike. Mooney, a
prominent member of Local No. 1874
Of the Molders Union, was appointed
to lead the workers of the United
Railways. Just at that time the
preparedness movement was sweep
ing the United States into the world
war.
The star witness for the state
was former prostitute, Estelle
Smith, who afterward repudiateed
her testimony.
Mooney was sentenced 20 death
and condemned to be hanged. Bill
ings to life Imprisonment.
Mooney would have hanged had
it not heen for international mass
pressure-as the New York Times
admitted in Mondays paper, "mass
pressure caused President Wilson to
intervene and commute MONEYS
sentence to life Imprisonment.
Today, the world is reading of
an alleged confession of Lewis
Smith, who died in Cleveland sew
eral years ago, that he had thrown
the bomb. This latter by all in
dications was an agent provocateur.
The world knows that the United
Railways, street car company and
the Pacific Gas and Electric Com
pany were behind the perjured
evidence. Just as the Manville-
Jenckes Company was chiefly be-
hind the oerjured evidence in our
case.
So, fellow-workers, in your fight
to free the seven Gastonia strikers,
five of whom are still in Jail for
need of $4,000 cash bail, you must
demand the freedom of Mooney and
Billings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Needle Toilers Protest;
Hear Labor Jurors

Capitalist class justice expressed
in the Mineola-Gastonia verdicts
was assailed last night by 1000
needle trades workers who pledged
to fight for the release of the vic
TINS of both frame-ups at a meet
ing called by the Mineola-Gastonia
Defense Committee at Webster
Hall, 119 E. 18th st.
Speakers were Jack Johnstone,
national organizer of the Trade
Union Unity League; Charles Frank
and Ida Rothstein, Labor Jurors
who reported their verdict of "not
guilty because we believe in the
workers right to picket and self
defense; Ben Gold, secretary-treas-
urer of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, and J. II. Cohn
N. T. W. I. U. vice-president.
A substantial sm for the defense
was collected.
Mineola and Gastonia were not
isolated incidents in the class strug-
gle, every speaker stressed. Both
cases grew out of the growing re-
sistance of the workers to wage cuts
and speed-up.
The development of this rational
ization program and the intense
class war it produced, was explained
by Johnstone.
Ben Gold told the story of the
Mineola frame-up involving seven
workers, two of whom, Maxim and
Franklin, are already in Jail foI
from two and half to five years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Shoe Workers Hold
Meeting Tonight

The November shop delegate con-
ference of the independent shoe
workers union will take place to-
night at 8 o'clock at the union head
quarters, 16 West 21 Street, New
Y fork City.
Besides the usual union business
the conference will concern itself
with the lock out and strike sitla-
tion, also with the request of several
bosses who are seeking a renewal
of the agreement for 1880.
Every shop delegate must be pre-
sent and on time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Demonstrate Against
Horthy Terror Sunday
A. M At Open House

Joining their fellow workers
throughout the country who are pro-
testing the Horthy terror in Hun
gary, New York workers will swell
the protest at Central Opera House,
9th st. and Ord Ave-, at 2 p. m.
this Sunday.
The International Labor Defense,
Anti-Fascist Federation, An t l.
Horthy League, the American Civil
Liberties Union and the American
Committee for the Release of the
Horthy Prisoners will be among or
CARNATIONS represented at the united
front meeting.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Nov. 13. -
Five hundred workers gathered at
masy meeting here to protest
against the Horthy terror. Tele-
grams of protest were sent to the
Hungarian government office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Bosses Courts Want $4,000
Cash to Free GastOnia Boys
Are You Helping to Keep Them jailed By
Not Sending Money to Bail Them?

With bonding companies intimi-
dated by the southern bosses, alb
solutely refusing to post bail for the
five Gastonia prisoners, and with
court officials in Charlotte, N. c.,
refusing property bond, capitalist
wall has been raised to prevent the
freedom of the strikers.
The international Labor Defense
today found every means baked of
freeing the Gastonia prisoners--ex-
ce1t that Of raising $4,000 in cash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14

The southern courts absolutely re-
quire cash.
Workers and sympathizers in
Washington, d. c., sent $500 in cash,
lending it for bail, today. A Ger
mar branch of the International La
Dor Defense in New York loaned
500; member of the Jugo-Slav
Bro 60 IT. ,aned S400.
This is good beginning, but re-
member il is only a beginning. I'm
Continued on Page Thyee)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Wicks Talks Tomorrow
Before Metal Workers

"The Red International of Labor
Unions" will be the subject of a
speech by Harry NJ Wicks before
the Metal Workers Industrial
League of the Trade Union Unity
League at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th
st. and Irving Pl., at 8 o'clock to-
morrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Show arsenal" Film
to Aid CASTOR Defense

The Gastonia defense will benefit
from the matinee performance of
Arsenal" at the Film Guild Cinema
Sunday. The show will be under
the aupsices of the Downtown Unit
of the Young Communist League.
Tickets. which cost rs Gets, may be
had at Room COS at the Workers
Center, 1928 Union Sd, or on
Thursday or Friday night at 27 Il.
lth ST
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Drivers, Oil Workers
in Mass Meet Tonight

A mass meeting called by the or
ganization committee of the Chauf-
feurs, Garage Workers and Oil Fill
lers' Union Of Greater New York
will be held tonight at $50 in Irv-
ing Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irving
Pl. Important organization prob
lens are to be taken up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprises!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-05-22

picture. She interrupted crisply, And
YOU want Sandy to marry her. Mom?"
Better to hear the worst and get 1t
over $500.
Nom Ross chuckled. Reckon 1t
amt what I want but what Sandy
wants that counts. Tony. He don't
take her serious yet. but he gets so
much fun out Of her that I wouldn't
be surprised If he did wake up some
fine mornin' with the idee that 1t
be a good thing to keep her
around to be laughed at and played
with. She's a sweet. pretty little
with a heart as big as all out
doors"
Yes, she's-very feminine" Tony
said slowly. Somehow 1 never real
lied that Sandy would fall for that
type. though"
There amt no tellin' what a man
will fall for" Mrs. Ross replied ju-
Ciciously. 'Of course, If the good
Lord had left the job of pickin' out a
wife for Sandy to me. I'd a-picked
you. But you and Sandy was just
pals, chums. and neither n of you
couldn't stir up a spark Of romance
for the other to save your life. But I
was sorta worried for fear that was
all Sandy was lookin' for. Looked like
I might never have any grandbabtcs
to spoil. and these fat old arms Of
mine just achin' for EN-"
"I'm-glad you're going to-be
happy" Tony managed. "And-and
Sandy. too"
We'll. l shan't count my chicks
yet" Mrs. Ross answered cheerfully.
but I must say the prospects is a
little brighter than they was before
Mary Burns moved in next door. !.
Where you going. Tony?"
TO sec Pat!" Tony choked. as she
fled.
NEXT: Tony knows the truth at
last.
0Copyright. 1929. NEA Service. 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-05-22

WASHINGTON
N LETTER@
%~ %
the 1923 loss to the taxpayer va;
much nearer 81, OOO. OOO, 900.

the 1923 loss to the taxpayer vas
much nearer 81, OO0. 0O0. 900.
Mr.. Pickett, asserting that prohi-
bition has been worth S72 900 DOC, 900
to the country since 1920. begins with
the sum OF $2,438. 037 1896 as the retail
liquor bill OF the American people In
1916. With higher prices. he says.
this bill would surely have doubled
by 1920.
He estimates that the liquor
trade" probably did 20 per cent as
much business last year. He on
cludes: The American people have
been saving approximately four BILL
lion dollars annually in the direct
liquor cost and the indirect or conSe-
quential saving due to increased ef-
ficiency. and the sobriety which has
permitted mass production and has
stimulated consumption has amounted
to as much more. This makes a net
saving OF eight billion dollars a year.
f. indicating that prohibition has
been a major and indispensable fac
tor in raising the standard OF living
in America to a higher plane"
Mr.. Gebhart's figures are worked
out in a l5-page pamphlet replete
with tabulations. Mr.. Pickctt's are
equally difficult to disprovc because
they are not documented and appear
to depend on gueSswork. No one
knows what the bootleg industry's
income is at prevailing prices, nor
whether liquor prices would have
doubled without prohibition between
1916 and 1920. Mr.. Pickett doesn't
allow for pre-l92O decrease of con-
sumption in states which went dry
after 1916 or those about to when
national prohibition became effective.
No one knows what the indirect or
consequential saving" Of prohibition
has been. The total national income
has risen from $40. 00O. O0O. 900 in 1916
to probably about 500, 000, 900. 1000 to-
day. OF this increase Of sixty bill
lions, Mr.. Pickett claims credit for
only four billions, nevertheless citing
prohibition as a major and indis-
pensable factor"
OF course il both Mr.. Pickett and
Mr.. Gebhart are right. then Mr. Geb-
hart's little billion looks even sick
lier.
And in any event. this little Skin
mish between the rival research d.
rectors over dollars and cents does
not end c~onclusively. Arguments be-
tween vets and drys never do.