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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Labor and. Fraternal
Organizations
japanese workers Dance. Exhibit

japanese Workers Dance, Exhibit.
\ dance and revolutionary poster
exhibition will be held by the Jap
anese Workers Association this Fri
day evening at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum. Sc E. 4th st. Tickets in adj
vance IS cents; 500 at door.
UCWW Council 10 Lectures.
"MacDonald's Visit to America" will
be the subject of a lecture given to
Council 10 Thursday, $50 p. M, at As
Bay 2Sth St
Council 10 Vetcherini<a.
Council 10 of the UCWW has ar
ranged an original Vetcherinka for
this Sunday. p. M, at As Bay 2Sth
st Admission 35 cents,
Bronx Youth Banquet, Concert.
The Bronx Workers Youth Club has
arranged a banquet and concert for
the benefit of the Gastonia prisoners
at 1872 Boston Rd. this Saturday
Bronx 1. L. d. Mass Meeting.
The Bronx Cooperative Branch, 1.
L. D., will hold mass meeting
tive Auditorium, $500 Bronx Park
East, at which Red" Hendryx. one
of the Gastonia prisoners now out on
bail, viii speak. Admission free.
Brighton Workers Lecture.
Com. Constrell will speak on Right
DeYiations in the Communist move
ment of the L. s" Friday. $50 p. M,
at 227 Brighton Beach Ave. All work.
ers welcome. Auspices Brighton
Beach Workers Club.
=
Freiheit Gesang Verein
-, Now open to new members. Apply
Tuesdays at 1872 Boston Rd., Fridays
at Cooperative Colony Gym"
U.C.W.W. Council Lecture
Com Goreltk will sneak on 'Naf-
tall Botvin" Friday. $50 pm. at 563
Stone Ave, Brooklyn
Skand Athletic Club Rail-.
The Skand Workers Athletic Club.
affiliated with the L.S.U., will give a
grand ball this Saturday evening at
Hermax Hall, 9Th. Ave. and list ST.,
Mount Vernon. Boxing bouts: ac-
cordeon artists hambo contest; ref
reshments. admission one dollar.
Worker Students Hike.
The Workers School student body
win conduct hike to Alpine Woods
this Sunday. starting from &c Union
Square at $40 am. Movies of the
mixers will he taken.
italian Workers CASTOR Dali
grand ball for the benefit of the
Gastonia prisoners will be given at
3l4 East 104th st. this Sunday even
ling. Auspices of Italian Workers
Club of Harlem. Di Vagno Section
LIP, and Italian Harlem Section
LID.
Bronx Workers Lecture
Under the auspices of the Bronx
| workers Athletic Club, lecture on
the Human Body" will be given this
Sunday. 1880 pm, at 1900 Boston Rd
Lower Bronx Gastonia Meet
\ Gastonia protest meeting will be
held tonight at the corner of 10 st
ana lst Ave. Louis A. Baum. secret
airy OF the Photographic Workers
Union, will be the principal speaker.
Lower Bronx Open Forum
The Lower Bronx Open Forum, us
East 1873 St, will inaugurate the sea i
son with a lecture by A. Markoff on
Ihe Role of the British Labor Par
ty' this Sunday, $500 pm Discus
sion and questions
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DEMONSTRATE AGAINST
LABOR GOVERNMENT.

CARDIFF (By MaiD Over 1900
unemployed demonstrated against
the labor governments policy of
forcing workers off the Give" regis
ter before the Tonypandy Labor Ex-
change.
Three Communist members of the
National Unemployed Workers Com
mittee movement were elected to in
terview the court of references. The
demonstration forced its way into
court. 1t later succeeded in lower
ing the daily average of workers
dropped from the register.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
Tenn. Printer Union
Takers Pretend Fight
on Increase Refusal

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. Is.
While a probable compromise, in
typical ALL. style will be reached,
both Chattanooga newspaper publish
ers and the officials Of the Typo
graphil Union here are outwardly
flying the decision of Judge
Ba hiram, arbitrato-, who i-cted
the printers demand for a SO week
raise but awarded the 7-hour day.
Bachman tickled the owners silly
by calling the demand for q So in
crease from the present S43-$t5 realc
unwarranted, because, he said, "the
cost of living has not increased"
No mili...it action by the union Of
fic,als il expected.
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NEGRO COTTON
HANDS ARE ALL
FOR UNIONIZATI0N
Pickers in Mississippi
Kept Starving

TUNICA, Miss. (FP)-"Where d
you reckon l could find an organi-
cation to join? In Memphis?"
The questioner was Negro cot
ton farmer of the delta region in
northern Mississippi. He lived with
his wife and 7-year-old boy in the
characteristic cabin of the district,
/ room with little hole adjoining
that serves as kitchen, pantry, and
storeroom. He and his kind present
the spectacle of stark poverty on
some of the richest farming land in
the world. The organization to which
he referred was a protective organi-
cation of tenant farmers. So natural
did the idea seem to him that he
wanted to join as soon as the sub
iect was raised in conversation. IN
fortunately there is no such organ
ization.
Mighty few of us ever gets out
of debt on this plantation" he pur-
sued. "At the end of the year the
landlord tells US how much we owe
him. Yes, / can figure, but it don't
do much good. For instance, l bor-
rowed So from the boss and worked
two weeks for him to pay it back.
l figured I'd paid it back twice over,
but he said | still owed him Sc.
When he lends you money the in
terest is two bits" lie. twenty-five
cents on the dollar, or % per cent).
Land in this delta country is not
for sale to Negroes. The prevailing
system of tenantry is on shares:
half the crop goes to the landlord
if he furnishes the live stock, and
one-quarter if the livestock and pillow
are supplied by the tenant himself.
Land for corn is rented at S12-$15
an acre, or third of the crop. But
cotton is the favored crop because
it is the cash crop. Moneylenders
will lend only on a cash crop. This
is the rock on which diversification
of agriculture in the south has
foundered.
Last year this land yielded only
four-fifths of a bale to the acre.
said the Negro farmer Il put fer
tilizer on it this year and I'll get
better'n a bale. Did l pay for the
fertilizer myself? Yes, sir! 1 I'M
derstood the landlord would pay
half, but when the bill came in it
was charged up to me. And we pay
for the extra labor at picking time,
too"
Eve don't hardly see no cash less
we borrow it." he said. "I'm going
to move next year if he don't repair
this house. Rains right in through
the roof like there weren't nothing
there"
The new houses that are going up
in this section are no larger than
the older ones: in other words, the
standard of living is not rising
markedly. The Negro tenants all
complain that the price they get for
their cotton (which is ginned by the
landlord himself) is lower than the
market price. The district is ripe
for a protective organizatoin-rot-
ten ripe.
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RIGHTS SABOTAGE;
WINDOW STRIKE
Attack Union Fighters,
Defend A. F. of L.
Continued from Page Onej


to demoralize the strike, and the
militants exposed it as such, with
the result that the strikers twice
voted to retain Darck. But this
only made the bosses, and their
spokesman of the right wing in the
union more vicious than ever, and
many members not fully under
standing how the bosses have their
propaganda put over in unions, a
week later the right wing managed
to have Darck removed.
The bosses thought they had the
strike spirit broken so they granted
conference. They were so sure
the right wing had done the job of
breaking the strike morale that they
offered nothing but what could have
been won without a strike. This
opened the eyes of many, and the
men not only unanimously rejected
the terms of the bosses, but put
back Darck on the Committee.
One of the tactics of the right
wing which clearly exposed them
as dominated by the bosses, was
their attack on the union leaders
for the leaders attempt to spread
the strike to the janitors, porters,
scrub-women, etc, throughout New
York. This would have strengthened
the Window Cleaners enormously,
and would have brought the bosses
to terms, while helping to organize
all the unorganized in the Building
Maintenance trades.
But the right wing fought this,
with such foolish assertions as that
women cannot be organized" that
the leaders did not have the con-
sent of the A. F. of (which never
visited the strike and never contrib
uted cent. 1t never helped, but it
did send a telegram the night the
strike began, forbidding the men to
strike, a part of the general sell
out that began six months before
when the International officials COR
responded with the bosses.
The right wing, which opposes
even the idea that the strike is
part of the struggle of the whole
working class against the whole
capitalist class, and which calls the
militant leaders strike breakers"
are the same who two years ago
split the union because they could
not run it, and formed scab union.
They used to come to the union hall
with the police of the industrial
squad" and points out workers, ac-
cusing them of attacking scabs.
These police informers are at
their wits end, and it is expected
that to help the bosses break the
strike, they will call in the A. F.
of L. officials to try to force the
membership to expel the militants
as Communists, and put over lot
of soft soap about what fine terms
the union will get if it expels the
ulillIdHJ lcducIS. vi SOul DE- dlICl
the militants are kicked out and the
right wing given control by the A.
r. of L. bureaucrats, the bosses will
give the workers nothing.
The workers must be awake
against such an attempt to sell-out
their strike, and stick to their de-
mands no matter who tries to kid
them into giving them up or post
poning" them, no matter how hard
the A. f. of L. misleaders beg them
to Ego back to work first ami every
thing will be fixed" A strike is
won by staying off the job. And the
basic demand TO five-day, forty
hour week, must be held to by every
striker.
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TERROR JAILS WORKER.

BELGRADE, (By Mail) A spe-
cial court sentenced the machinist
Ferdo Hoffman, to one year in
prison for having distributed leaf
lets. The prisoner confessed that
he has given to friends about leaf
let's which he had found in his coat
pocket One year in the peniten-
tiary was the verdict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
WORKERS SOLID AGAINST
Fascist.

BERLIN (By Mail)--A factory
meeting of the A. K. G. works in the
Brunnenstrasse here adopted a reso-
luton appealing to the Berlin work
ers to support both ideologically and
materially the heroic struggle of
the Austrian proletrait against fas-
cism.
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BOSS THUGS SLUG
NY SHOE PICKETS

Continued from Page Onc)
tinue their picket duty with greater
determination.
At present there are 500 workers
locked out by s different shops.
Manufacturers are growing desper-
ate, because the workers are GEM
enting their forces and solidifying
their ranks.
The lockout strikes are conducted
by the Independent Shoe Workers
Union Of Greater New York and
vicinity. The workers are more than
certain that the bosses WA have to
capitulate before many more weeks
have passed.
This is the slowest period of the
season, and that gives the bosses
the advantage. The bosses have been
waiting for the moment to carry out
the plan of action as recommended
by the state labor department.
Agent Woods, who is a plain tool
of the bosses.
The Shoe Workers however are
determined not only to keep the
shops already organized, but to or
ganize the unorganized shops as
well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
SOLD OUT BY TAKERS.

EVANSTON, I'll. (By MaiD. -
Sixty building workers of the
Schmidt Brothers Construction Co.
here, who struck against the en-
ployment of non-union workers on
the same job, were ordered by union
officials to return to work under
the old conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
UPHOLsTERERs STRIKE.

ST. LOUIS (By MaiD The re-
Gently organized bosses Wholesale
Departing is Upholsterers' Union is
attempting to import scabs from the
East, in a strike Of upholstery work.
ers against the association. The
men demand better wages.
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Ignore 8-Hour Law.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, (By MaiD -
Organized carpenters here have
cited no less than 81 separate viola
tons of the 8-hour day law in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
ATLANTA THEATRE LOCKOUT.

ATLANTA, Ga. (By MaiD.-The
lockout of workers at six theatres
here continues with the workers
showing great solidarity.
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BEAL And RED At
WELCOME Friday
N. T. w. Mobilization
Meet Tonight
Continued from Page One


tional Textile Workers Union, both
of whom have just come from the
South. J. Louis Engdahl, national
secretary of the LID, will be the
chairman.
1t is still possible to bail out one
or more of the other five defendants
in time for them to be present to-
morrow night provided contributions
or loans are rushed at once to the
office of the New York LID, 100
Broadway, room 1922.
The reception, which is held un-
der the auspices of the International
Labor Defense, and the National
Textile Workers Union, New York
district, will be attended not only
by the members of the union, but
there will also be a large attendance
of non-union textile workers. Thou
sands of leaflets are being distrib-
uted every day at the mill gates by
union members.
A special membership meeting of
the New York district of the Ma
Textile Workers Union will
be held tonight at 8 O'Clock, at the
union headquarters, 16 West 81 St.,
to further mobilize the members for
the Gastonia meeting. A definite
program for organizational activity
in New York will also be decided on
at this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14
GAIN FOR WOOL WORKERS.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (By Mail) -
A hundred weavers at the Pontusac
Wooden Mills who struck against the
low price on top winding gained a
cent a yard increase in rates.
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 daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14

''MacDonald's Visit to America" will
be the subject of lecture given to
Council 10 Thursday, $50 p. M, at As
Bay 2Sth St
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
FORMER MILFORD MAN
LEFT LARGE FORTUNE
rContinued from srst paael

be like today had Fortune smiled on
Mr.. Johnston sixty-three years ago.
"a barren parcel of land near
Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was con-
sidered worthless by its lessee, an
American mining engineer who died
in 1917, contains fortune in oil, it
was learned yesterday when the
State filed a transfer tax appraisal
in the Surrogate's court in Brook
Ign appraising the worthless"
property at more than $1,000,0OO.
1.-THE mining engineer who labor
ed many years on the property in
the hope of discovering minerals,
mineral water or salt was Albert T.
Johnston, who died on August 4th,
1917, leaving no will, and virtually
no property except a lease on the
Mexican land.
"Johnston's hope that the land
might ultimately produce some
thing, however, led him in 1906 to
transfer the lease he held to the
Tuxpan Petroleum Company, but he
reserved the right to per cent of
any profits that might eventually
clCCA uC lAOlu ulhAoOOhClC lCoOul OCo.
"In 1921 the Petroleum company
started drilling oil, and soon af-
terward gushers began to pour out
about $4,000 frels of oil a day.
The company / newed its lease, but
the 5 per cent royalties provision
continued in force and will continue
as long as the property produces
oil.
ION the basis of the income de-
rived from oil up to the present time
the appraisers fixed the gross value
of the engineers estate at $1,073,-
$40, and the net value at $9S6,366.
Gas Johnston died without leaving
a will, the estate was distributed
among his survivors. They are Mrs.
Martha S. Johnston, the widow, of
972 Park Place; three children, AL
bert T. Johnston, of $50 Madison
Avenue, Richard H. Johnston, of 1893
Seventh Avenue, Miss Florence
Johnston, who lives with her moth
err, and three grandchildren. The
widows share was put at $32S,7SS,
and that of each of the children as
$164,394. The three grandchildren
receive a little more than $4,000
each"
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
In The Winter WhirL

Invitations have been issued for
a bridge party on Saturday evening
by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles e. Varney.
Ak
On Friday evening of last week,
Miss Dorothy Derrickson entertained
at four tables of bridge in honor of
her house guest, Miss Elizabeth
Tamblym. The party was in full
George Washington ragalia and the
bright colors of the occasion lent
warmth and brightness to the affair.
Mrs. Rachel Griffith received first
prize, Miss vi Stadler, the second
and the guest of honor lovely guest
prize.
~
Mrs. Louis Ryder entertained at
three tables of bridge on Saturday
evening in honor of her guest, Miss
vi Stadler. A very delightful evening
was spent in playing bridge. Miss
Aileen Arnston won first prize, Miss
Elizabeth Tamblym second and Miss
vi Stadler the guest prize. i.
III. v
Miss Virginia Smith, daughter of
William G. Smith, entertained six
teen of her friends of the University
of Delaware on last Friday evening,
at which time she announced her en-
gagement to Frank r. Grier, son of
DR.. and Mrs. Walter L. Grier. Miss
Smith will graduate from the Uni
versity this June and Mr.. Grier is
also a graduate of the same institu-
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
SENATOR TOWNSEND
MAKES SON SECRETARY
[Contingsd from first pagel

succeed William ]. Storey, who was
one of Senator duPont's secretaries
and continued in that position with
Senator Hastings when he assumed
Office. Mr.. Storey will move back
to Delaware after March 4 and will
apply at Dover for admission to the
bar, he having studied law while in
Washington. Mr.. Storey was in
charge of Republican headquarters
in Wilmington during the last cam
paign.
Mr.. Wilson is a son of D. Mifflin
Wilson, of Dover. He is a graduate
of the University of Delaware and
for many years was in the automo-
bile business in Delaware. He is
known to hundreds of Delawareans.
Senator Hastings also has appoint
ed Miss Margaret Barnard, of Do
yer, as his assistant secretary. Miss
Barnard was employed for eight
years in the State Highway Depart
ment when Governor Buck was
chief engineer.
Senator Hastings will soon move
his Washington offices from the
fourth floor of the Senate Office
Building to the first floor, occupy
ing Suite 100.
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
"ABIE'S IRISH ROSE" AT
REESE THEATRE

"Abies Irish Rose" it might be a
flower of some kind, but to the de-
voices of the theatre, and this
means nearly every citizen in the
world, that title means much.
"Abie's Irish Rose" has been
hailed as the worlds greatest and
most successful play. Five and a
half years of continuous perform
ance ON Broadway, New York, and
record engagements in every city,
town, hamlet, state and nation in
the world have made "Abie" the
outstanding theatrical event in CEN
turtles.
1t has now gone into the movies,
and the film version, made by Para
mount, will be exhibited on the
screen of the Reese Theatre, located
at Harrington, Wednesday and
Thursday, March and Z, with one
show each night at o'clock.
Charles Buddy Rogers and Nam
cy Carroll have the featured roles
in the film version of the play. Jean
Hersholt and ]. Farrell Macdonald
also contribute no little to the sue
cess of performance as the fathers
of the pair.
The feature of the Reese Theatre
presentation is the symphonic must
cal score rendered by the cinema
tone, the latest method of motion
picture sound and music reproduc-
ton, as we'll as the Reese Theatre
low scale of prices.
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01

ton. At the present, no definite
plans have been made for the we'd
ding.
4k
During the last few weeks, Sum
day evening parties seem to have
come into vogue again. Small groups
of friends gather to chat and have a
social time together. On Sunday
night last, Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. Holz-
mueller entertained a few of their
friends. The guests were: DR.. and
Mrs. Walter L. Grier, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. V. Sipple, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E,
Varney and DR.. and Mrs. Willard R,
Pierce.
III.
James K. Pettyjohn and George
Fl. Draper, Jr., entertained very de-
lightfully on Sunday evening at
dinner at the Sussex Farms. Those
present were DR.. and Mrs. S. M. D.
Marshall, DR.. and Mrs. Elmer T.
Williams, DR.. VIM. Marshall, Mrs.
Stanley Deakyne, Miss Laura D.
Salevan and Miss Elizabeth V. Car
Isle.
III
Mrs. Frank L. Grier entertained
the usual Wednesday Night Bridge
Club on Tuesday evening of this
week.
-Ak
The regular Monday Night Bridge
Club met with Mrs. Thomas Davis.
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

See Virginia Mason concerning
the Rummage Sale.
Notice-Don't forget the Business
Girls Club next Monday at o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid of Wildwood will
meet in the Community Hall tonight,
March LIST. All invited.
The, Business Girls Club is going
to have a Rummage Sale on Satur-
day, March 23rd.
First-class vaudeville with the
Odd Fellows Benefit at the Plaza
Theatre tonight. Don't miss it.
How about an evening with the
Odd Fellows Degree Team? See
Forgotten Faces" at the Plaza
tonight.
The Ladies' Aid of Slaughter
Neck will meet with Mrs. T. c.
Farens on March 9Th. All are in
vited.
The Faithful Circle of Kings
Daughters will meet with Mrs. Wal
ter Barrett on Thursday, March Z,
at three o'clock
The Degree Association of Crystal
Fount Lodge, No. 10, 1. o. o. F., is
giving a benefit moving picture and
vaudeville show in the Plaza Theatre
tonight.
The w. c. T. U. will hold Dues
Social" at the Chapel on Wednesday
evening, March 9Th. An interesting
program will be given and refresh
ments served. All members are
invited to be present.
The regular meeting of the Mil
ford Business and Professional
Girls Club will be held in the Com
munity Building next Monday,
March 4th, at O'Clock. A large
attendance is required.
The movie Forgotten Faces" is
one Of the best pictures running in
the East, and in connection with
frst-class vaudeville, will make an
evenings entertainment. This is
the second of a series of entertain
ments sponsored by the Milford Odd
Fellows. Tickets may be secured
from any member of the 1. o. o. F.
Dover will stage it's first annual
Auto Show at the Armory for five
days and nights, beginning Tuesday,
March 18th. The committee, under
the Craftsmanship of ]. Lester Nc
Coy, has succeeded in interesting
most all dealers in Kent county, and
success is now assured. No time or
expense is to be spared in the decor
ating of the show room. AS yet the
music has not been engaged, but
the committee has assured that all
persons who attend will have no
cause for regret, and will, without
doubt, look forward from year to
year to a show that will be unsur-
passed by any town on the Del-Mar-
Va Peninsula
Milford chronicle., 1929-03-01
SEED CATALOGUES

Still and cold my flowers sleep,
Winter winds beat at my door;
All my gardens frozen deep,
Yet the postman's left a score
Of little books with vivid CLEANS
Of bright-hued blossoms flashing
gay.
And so 1 plan with radiant dreams
The garden 1 will make in May.
There's tall foxglove and hollyhocks
With baby's breath and blanket
flower,
Proud coxcombs and star eyed
phlox,
Spiced velvet pinks and virgins
bower,
Frail columbines with Queen Anne's
laces,
The larkspur's blue and poppy's
rose,
Forget-me-nots, blithe pansy faces,
Silver lilies and goldenglows.
My garden grows the while 1 read,
A paradise without a blot,
With hungry worm and wicked weed
And cruel drought and blight for
got.
Summer laughs within my rooms
While out-of-doors the snow drifts
higher.
1 am growing perfect blooms
In my garden by the fire.
Farm and Fireside.