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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
STARVING CHINA
PEASANTS REBEL
Attack Walled Towns
in Search for Food

PEPING, China, Feb. 21.-Thoa-
sands of starving peasants are re-
belling in Shensi province, attacking
walled towns ir their search for
food, according to report today by
Ernest Oliver, famine relief investi-
gator.
The sownspeople resisting the at
tacks have barely enough food to
keep themselves alive, the report
said.
Starving farmers are likely to
break loose and loot all towns and
cities" Oliver reported. "The places
I visited are in desperate circum-
stances"
The province, center of the fam
ine-stricken area of China, is suffer-
ing frcm a rice crop failure, due to
lack of rain. There have been a
number Of earthquake shocks and
fires recently to add to the disaster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
The results up to last night are:

The full New York tag days not yet n With
collection boxes counted $89S41 is the total
the final total of tag days will be
published.
Hlquit, the socialist-mperialist with his
home OH Riverside Drive, will not even miss the
money he expends in this attempt to cripple the
Daily Worker He will have the fullest cooperation
from the agencies of capitalist government, the
Wos Greens and Lewises) the heads of the bosses.
union in the needle trades and all other centers OF
anti-wOrking class reaction.
The socialist party which Hllquit leads, and the second
international of which it is part long ago aligned ltse
with the capitalist enemies of the masses at home and
abroad. 1t is the enemy of the Soviet Union-the first
workers and peasants republic. The socialist party the
A. f. of L. bureaucracy which supports and Hquit, the
leader of the socialist party enemies of the American
working class.
There could be better proof of this than this latest
attack the only English language daily in the United
States which exposes the agents of mperast reaction ex
plains their connection with the whole system of the rob-
berry and oppression and rallies the masses for struggle
against it.
We know that our supporters will meet this
saught with redoubed energy and determinations None of
the available of financial support will be neglected.
but than is it necessary to concentrate our ef
forts in the mass organizations.
Mobilize behind the Daily Worker the thousands of
members of un0ns c00peratives fraterna and benefit
cieties ETC. who stand ready to fight the Hquits
with their dollars to drive back this attack the
Daily Worker to defeat decsvey this front the enemies
ton for the bigger struggle whose rumbngs already
be heard.
Answer the attack of the socialist-imperialist Hqu
with mobilization of the militant organizations behind
the Daily Worker!
Smash this offensive against the revolutionary
organ Of the American working class!
RedOubled energy in the campaign to put the Daily
Worker on sound financial basis! -~~~>--> - -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
SANDING WHIPS
u. S. INVADERS
OF NICARAGUA
Marine Lieutenant, in
Command of National
Guard, Wounded
Sandino Has 1000 Men
No Yankees; No Canal;
No Naval Base

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 21.
A patrol Of the national guard"
commanded by U. S. marines,
cIashed with the troops of Sandino
northeast Of Jinotega. No casual
ties for the Sandino troops are con-
firmed. The U. S. troops were
forced to withdraw with reports,
evidently minimized, Of two
wounded.
The wounded were U. S. Lieu
tenant Robert Forrest Harris, and
one of the soldiers Of the national
guard commanded by him.
"No Canal-No Naval Base"
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb.
21.-General Since on Montoya,
second in command Of the Nicara-
guam army of independence under
General Sandino, arriving here yes
terday, made the following deelara-
ton:
HThe independence revolution de-
creed the reputation of the Bryan
Chamorro treaty. The principal OBJ
ject of the revolution is the I'M
mediate and complete withdrawal Of
the Yankee forces from the terri
tory of Nicaragua, and besides, the
non-permission of the establishment
Of naval base in the Gulf Of Fon-
SEGA.
"Sandino is ready to overthrow
Moncada. As all the world knows,
Sandino has sufficient numbers he
can count upon. The recent COM
bats in GuaTlacastillo and near Yali,
resulted favorable to the Sandin-
istas.
Sandino Has 1000 Troops.
"The campaign develops under
conditions which could not be bet
ter, as SANDING has 1000 men, we'll
armed and capable Of meeting any
kind of attack"
Regarding the recent capture of
/ the Guatemalan, Giron Ruano, who
was fighting with Sandino, Montoya
said:
"Giron was captured near San
Geronimo, when he was going to
Honduras. Which force captured
him is not known yet. 1t is hardly
possible to capture Sandino, as the
topography of Chipeton does not
permit the marines to enter and ef-
feet capture.
Nothing will make Sandino cease
the struggle, his spirit remains in
alterable."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

CONGRESS TODAY
Delegates to Meet at
Labor Temple at 2

Typical Of the response among
workers which the call for a con-
ference to combat fascism is calling
forth, is the following letter received
yesterday from Ohio by the Pro-
visional Committee, which has
charge of the American conference
being held today at 2 p. m. at the
Labor Temple, 14th st. and Second
Ave.
Dear Provisional Committee
read in the II Lavoratore of Feb. 9
of the great and noble initiative of
the International Congress in Berlin,
/ herewith enclose one dollar as a
Continued on Page Tp0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

for criminal libel. The New
York statutes provide a penal
ty of one year in prison and a
$500 fine for this offense.
On January % the Daily Worker,
in a story based on the records of
court proceedings before Judge AL
bert H. Townley, made public the
fact that Hillquit, while acting as
attorney for the right wing of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, had sold to a group
headed by himself. some 375 shares
of stock in the bank owned by the
l. L. G. W.
The stock had a market value of
$310 per share but was "sold"-to the
Hillquit group for $500 per- share
by Hillquit, the attorney for the
right wing officials who posed as
the union.
The Daily Worker estimated that
the Hillquit group profited by this
transaction to the tune of something
like $150,000 and said so. The Daily
Worker story, backed by the court
records, caused a sensation in labor
circles and furnished further proof
of the corrupt character of the .ele-
ments gathered around Hillquit and
other socialist party leaders irfs tfe
needle trades section of the labor
movement.
The procedure followed by Hill
quit, after intimating that he would
file civil suit for damages in a
previous interview, shows that his
pa,atial home on Riverside Drive,
his immense fortune collected in
large chunks as attorney fees from
needle trades workers and his close
connection with big business inter
ests in New York City give him
privileged access to the district. at
torney's office. Only by the con-
sent of the district attorneys Of
flee could Hillquit, socialist party
boss and delegate to the last con-
gress of the Second International,
he allowed to go over the head of
magistrates court, where the
Daily Worker attorneys could ques-
tion him, and appear as a volun-
tary witness before the New York
County grand jury where the proce-
dure is secret and the accused has
no opportunity to question his ac-
cuser.
1t is clear that this is not "pri-
vate" controversy between a lawyer
whose feelings are injured and the
Daily Worker, but that Hillquit has
enlisted, in his fight to put the Daily
Worker out of business and its edi-
tors and business manager in Jail,
all the forces Of Tammany Hall.
As this is written the arrest OF
the editors and business manager
appears to be imminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

cent record of proletarian spirit and
daring. All workers throughout the
city are urged to see the film to-
night or tomorrow, especially since
the proceeds will be turned over to
the striking needle trades workers.
Additional features will also be
presented to the audience on these
two nights, including Chaplin film
which has never before been shown.
Tickets may be obtained either at
the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union
Square, or at the office of the Work
ers International Relief, Room 226.
100 Broadway, or by calling Stuy-
yesant 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
Restaurant Workers
Rap Ryan Scabbing
at Central Trades

Tammany Ryan, boss of the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council, ex-
perienced a few uncomfortable mo-
ments yesterday at the meeting of
that body of fat takers, in Beeth-
oven Hall, E. 5th St.
One Of three delegates, represent
ing two locals Of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees. International AL
lance and the Bartenders' Interna-
tional League of America, asked for
the floor, and not knowing what
was coming, Ryan, chairman, gave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

it to him.
The delegate declared that the
membership of his local had con-
demned Ryan and the rest Of his
strikebreaking gang for calling on
the New York police to terrorize
the striking dressmakers by jail
ings and sluggings.
After getting over his astonish-
ment, since he thought the c. L. U.
free from any breath of progress
sivism, Ryan launched into vi
triolic TRADE against the agents of
Moscow and the Trade Union Edu-
cational League. The demand of
another delegate from the second
local to read like resolution of
condemnation was refused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
WOmen's Councils Call
Four Mass Meetings to
Aid DreSsmaker Strike

Wives of all needle trades work.
crs and working women are urged
to attend mass meetings called to
organize support for the dressmak-
ers in their strike. The meetings,
called by the United Council of
Working Class Women, are to be
held in four halls tonight.
Three of the meetings will be
held in Brooklyn in the following
places: 1874 43rd ST.. Borough
Park; New Columbia Hall, Stone
and Blake Aves.; Workers Club, 313
Hillsdalc Ave. The other meetings
will be held in the Bronx at Ambas-
sador Hall, 1876 Third Ave.
The U. G. w. w. has done re-
markable work in aiding the strike.
In addition to many of their MEM
bers and leaders being jailed for
picketing, they are raising large
sums for the strike fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to Saue the DAILY

soc; H. Makela, 25c; E. e.
Saarinen, Soc; E. Kajas-
lampi, 81; L. William, 81;
0. E. Heino, $1.25; W. o.
Barland, Soc: J. w. n nd
gren, $1.50; Finnish FIac-
tion, S. ...$ 21.75
Sent in by Artmeis Stavria-
nudakis, Thermopolis, Wyo.
Crosby Miners, $7.25;
Gebo Coal Miners, $3.50. 1916
Sec. 1, ST, City. ........,. 11.00
Milford Workers Party, Mil
Continued on Page Three/
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
February 81, 1929.

February 81, 1872
Collected from Finnish Poul-
try Men, Cotati, Calif.-W.
Eliason. 81; F. Stenroos
81; Hilda Mattson, Soc; G.
Lasko, 81; G. Snugg, 81; c.
N. Wirtane, Soc; c. Ahola,
SOC; Chas. Sarlin, Soc; v.
Heikell, 25c; X. Lahti, 25c;
0. Johnson, SOC; M. F. Hea-
ney, 81; N. P. Ahlstrom,
25c; X. Nordman, 81; 0.
Pellinen, Soc; G. Hamalai-
men, Soc; Mrs. A. Koski,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
TRoYEs WORKERS STRIKE.

TROYES, France, (By MaiD.-
Textile workers in this center al
most unanimously took part in a
24-hour demonstration strike in ia
vor of a wage increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
DEMANDS JAILNG OF DAILY WORKER STAFF
WORKERS MUST SAVE DAILY;
Is UNDER GRAND JURY FIRE
Colnrades:


The New York grand jury is considering
charges of criminal libel preferred against the
Daily Worker staff by Morris Hillquit, the Million
aire lawyer who leads the socialist party.
The charges, growing out of the Daily Worker
exposure of Hilquits connection with the ex-
tremely profitable manipulation of some 800 shares
of the bank of the international Ladies Garment
Workers Union during the height of the period
when the Sigman and A. F. of l.. bureaucracy were
making open war on the union membership in CO.
operation with the police and courts, if sustained
will result in year in prison and heavy fines for
prominent members of the Daily Worker staff.
This blow, delivered at time when the Daily
Worker is fighting for its life, shows more
clusveIy than the most elaborate thesis, the inti
mate relations existing between Hillquit, the
acknowledged leader of the socialist party, who
has grown rich on the misery of underpaid workers
in the garment industry, and the other forces of
imperialist reaction against which the ID ally
Worker fights.
Hillquit, the millionaire socialist lawyer, head
ing the dark forces which are trying to put out of
business the only daily paper in the United States
which speaks for the working cass-this is one
part of the picture. The other part is made up of
the thousands of workers who will rally to the
Daily Worker and the struggle it stands for, who
will see in the Hillquit attack one more concrete
testimonial to the continual difficulties and danger
which surround our Communist organ OF the class
struggle and which can be met, overcome and dis
solved only by the concentration of mass support
at the point of attack.
Another big financial burden has been placed
on the Daily Worker. In addition to the debts and
expenses which the present campaign was intended
to liquidate, the Daily Worker now must pay heavy
attorney fees court costs and other legal expenses.
This to large extent explains the attack.
Even before this socialist lawyer appeared
before the grand jury to demand the criminal
prosecution of the Daily Worker staff the returns
in the drive were inadequate.
The results up to last night are:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
ASKS GRAND UURY'S AID
IN SMASHING COMMUNIST
PRESS FOR STEAL EXPOSE
Still Fails to Answer What He Did With
S150,O0O Swag; Daily to Print Court Records
Seeks Indictment of DAILY" and the Jewish
''Freiheit";; Would Avoid Public Hearing

Morris Hquit millionaire lawyer and boss of the socialist
party of America appearing voluntary witness before the
New York grand jury yesterday demanded the arrest and
prosecution Robert Minor editor Wm F. Dunno assistant
editor and Ravtch business of the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

8 WORKERS KILLED IN FALL.
LYON, France, (By MaiD.-
Three workers were killed when a
scaffolding gave way in a house
under construction here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

The proIctnrinn movement Is the
self-conscious. independent movement
~ the immense mniority.-karl Marx
(Communist ManifeHtOl. -...-.-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

MANY BUILDERS JOBLESS.
LONDON, (By Maii. Owe,
10000 building workers are unem-
|ployed in England. ..,s. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For a WorkerS-Farmers Government
To Organise the Unorganizcd
For the 4O-Honr Week
For Labor Party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06

avenge the outrageous treatment of my
followers at the polls"
It was claimed by the anti-re-elec
tionists that the revolutionary party
took possession of polling places, deny
ing the VaSconcelistas the ballot.
"No more revolutions" has been the
theme of the President-elect and his
party during their stay in Texas. II
was reafirmed at testimonial dinner
in Houston at which Gen. Perez Trevi-
no acted as the presidential spokesman.
"Our people," Gen. Trevino said, "are
turning from the military to social
leadership, as evinced by the election OF
Ortiz Rubio, distinguished engineer
not a military man. The government
headed by him hopes to offer all neces-
sary guarantees to everybody, from the
lowly peasant to the capitalist"
New Orleans has arranged joint re-
ception for Plutarco Elias Gales, for
mer President of Mexico, and the Pres
ident-elect for December IL.
While there appeared some doubt as
to the route Ortiz Rubio would follow
from Houston to Hot Springs, the best
information obtainable was that his
special car was on a train routed
through Palestine, Tex, and Texarkana,
thence to Hot Springs. Earlier it had
been announced he would go through
Dallas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
MEXICAN RIVALS
TRAVEL OVER i. S.
Ortiz Rubio Leaves Texas for
Hot Springs, Ark.-VasCon-
CeIos Visits Ell Paso.
BY the Associated Press.


HOUSTON, Tex, December 6.-Mex-
ico's two leading candidates in the re-
cent presidential election-the loser and
the winner-both were on this side of
the Rio Grande today. the winner en-
route to Hot Springs. Ark, the loser
motoring to points east" of FL Paso.
Pasqual Ortiz Rubio. revolutionary
party candidate who polled the largest
majority ever accorded a presidential
candidate in his home land, was on a
special car, which left Houston at IL 80
o'clock last night.
Jose Vasconcelos, defeated candidate
of the anti-re-electionist party, passed
through FL Paso Wednesday, his coming
known only to a few intimates, who
withheld the news until today. With
friends there he left word for the people
Of Mexico-that he would not return
until called there by armed forces to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
PRIZE BEEF BRINGS
SS25 PER POUND
Youth Gets $685. for Grand
Champion Steer at Chi.
cago Exhibit.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 6.-Dreams Of
glory faded before thoughts of gold at
the International Live Stock Exposition
today.
With cups and ribbons attesting their
labor and efforts tucked away, owners
of prize winners learned from the teas
ing drone of the sale bankers what
their laurels were worth in dollars and
cents.
The grand champion wether from
Purdue University went on the block
this morning. along with Walter
Mommsen's junior feeding contest
champion steer from Iowa. the prize
dressed beef carcass from Kansas, and
the champion cattle, swine and sheep
carcasses. Down the runways to the
sale rings went, too, the dozens of class
and breed champions, the winners Of
secondary places and hundreds of others
that were just fine animals.
1885 for Steer.
Hopeful owners drove them down the
dusty paths, wondering what all the
work and pai-s would mean to them
They saw yesterday what a grand
champion steer meant to 20-year-old
Elliott Brown-$7, 1886 and freedom from
worry about his expenses at Iowa State
College which he will enter in Fall.
Beef on the hoof at the record-shatter-
ing figure of $6.25 a pound-50 times
the high on the Chicago market for
the same day-waS the story spelled
by the check of j. C. Penney, chain
store magnate. who last year doubled
the best previous mark by paying 81 a
pound for another young Iowan'S prize.
But there is only one grand cham
pion steer, and the other winning
breeders gagged their hoped-for re-
wards in far less staggering numbers.
They saw quite a gap. for example, be-
tween s8.25 a pound and the $35 a
hundred which the champion car of fat
cattle brought to E. P. Hall. Illinois
most habitual stock-prize winner. And
the spread was still greater to the $40
a hundred which the grand champion
barrow returned to Kansas A. & NJ.
College or the $1,000 hundred that
Iowa State College received for its blue
ribbon pen Of barrows.
Prices Remain High.
Nevertheless. Halls cattle and the
Kansas hog brought more than twice
the best price on the Thursday Chicago
market, and the barrow-pen from Arnes
was well above yesterdays Top. The
new high peak of interest in the cur
rent show seems certain to keep most
prices high.
Meanwhile, competition for swine
awards drew to close with the judg-
ing of breeding Hampshires and spotted
Poland ChinaS. Suffolks were being
scored in the horse department, leaving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
ALBANIAN IS KILLED
AS DICE GAME BANDIT
Gambler Declares Victim Attempt
ed to Hold Up Players at
Birmingham Hotel.
BY the Associated Press.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, December g.
James Davis, who said he fired five
shots to prevent a masked bandit from
making away with several hundred dol
lars at stake in a hotel room dice game,
was held in Jail today, pending the COM
pletion of coroner's investigation into
the fatal wounding of A. M. Searcy, real
estate office secretary.
Davis told Coroner J. D. Russuk that
a man, who police said was identified
as Searcy, invaded the room last night,
lined the players up at the point of a
pistol and seized the money.
Davis said he gave chase and upon
overtaking the man, as he fled through
a window, opened fire with a gun he
had obtained from his overcoat.
Searcy was wounded once and died en-
route to a hospital.
Davis, who said he was professional
gambler, declared Searcy had lost $25
or $50 in dice game Wednesday.
Four others substantiated Davis story
of the hold-up, but said they did not see
the shooting, as Davis was the only one
to pursue the bandit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
Welsh and shetlands for Sat-

hackneys, Welsh and Shetlands for Sat-
urday.
The books were closed on the cattle
division yesterday with the selection OF
Linwood Golden Lidia, owned by Tracy
e. Warye of Nashua. Iowa, as the grand
champion red polled shorthorn COW,
and Hillcreek Milkman, owned by Olsen
Bros. of Hannaford, N. D., as grand
champion milking shorthorn bull. An
Iowa boar and a Wisconsin sow took
the purple ribbons in the breeding
Yorkshire swine section, the only hogs
Judged Yesterday, while a half dozen
states shared in the additional sheep
prizes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
Oil Leaders Notify
Hoover Conference
Industry Must Cut

BY The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 6.-D1-
rectors Of the American Petroleum
Institute, meeting in connection
with the tenth annual convention
of the organization, yesterday an
nounced they had sent Capt. j.
r. Lucey of the Lucey Petroleum
Co., Dallas, Tex, to President
Hoover's business conference with
instructions to state that the oil
industry must practice even
further curtailment in produc-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
Trouser Dress Favorite.

At one Of London's smartest dance
clubs recently a vote was taken to de-
termine which dress had the most ad-
mirers. The winning dress was Of
transparent net revealing close hitting
satin trousers trimmed in lace. Almost
every woman said, II would love 2
dress like that"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
TRADE APPRENTICES
NEEDED BY U. S. JOBS
Applications Will Be Received by
Civil Service Commission
Until December 81.

Applications for apprenticeship in
various trades at the Washington Navy
Yard are invited by the Civil Service
Commission, it was announced yesterday
by the secretary of the fourth United
States civil service district here. A
considerable number of appointments
are expected to be made. There is
especial need at this time for appren-
tees in the trades of boilermaker, buffer
and polisher, joiner and blacksmith, it
was stated.
Receipt of applications will close De-
cember 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
MARRIED MAN CONVICTED
OF WILD PARTY MURDER
Preston, Facing Death Penalty,
Told Court He Could Not Remem-
Der Details of Strangulation.

BY the Associated Press
WHEATON, Ill, December 6.-John
Preston, %, who testified he could re-
member nothing of the wild party that
ended in the death by strangulation of
Agnes johnson October IL, was con-
victed last night of her murder, ver-
dict calling for the death penalty.
Counsel for Preston had not sought
acquittal, but asked the jury to consider
Prestons condition as mitigation. Pres
ton claimed he had drunk so much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06

liquor he had no knowledge Of what
happened.
Miss johnson was strangled as she
fought against Preston's advances. An
other sgirl, Matilda Murphy, escaped.
Preston is married.