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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

tional Textile Workers Union,
organized in every mill, able TO
maintain the victories won.
Il The General Southern Textile
Conference is called by the Provi-
sional Executive Committee, elected
at the Southern Textile Workers
Conference held Sunday at Besse-
mer City, with 227 delegates, repre-
senting 10000 textile workers di-
rectly, and through shop committees
indirectly representing $4,000 more.
The provisional commi.--e acted on
the orders of the Bessemer City'con-
ference, which voted unanimously
for the new, larger October 1918
General Southern Textile Confer
ence, an organization to outline the
fight against intolerable conditions
in the South.
Following is the call for the Char
lotte conference, 100000 copies of
which are being printed and distrib-
uted throughout the South, reaching
every mill in every textile center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

powers and their hirengs.
The 10000 who gathered in Union Square only
small fraction of the of thousands of New York
who call Communist Party District stopped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
Call for General Southern Textile
Workers Conference


The time is at hand for the tex
tile workers of the South to unite
in one great movement to put an
end to the intolerable working and
living conditions prevailing in the
textile industry. The conference of
Southern Textile Workers, held by
the National Textile Workers Union
in Bessemer City, N. c., July %,
consisting of 227 delegates directly
representing 10000 workers land
delegates from mill and mill center
organizing committees indirectly
representing $4,000 more), from ST
mills, in 81 cities, in the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia,
calls upon all organized and unor-
ganized Southern workers to join
with us in great Southern textile
conference to be held in Charlotte,
N. c., on October IL and 13.
The central purpose of this con-
ference will be to prepare the de-
mands Of the textile workers of the
CONTINUED on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

Fer a Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Against ImteriaIist War
For the 40-H0nr Week SO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
KELLOGG FAvORS
EMBARGO TO HIT
FOES OF empire
Tells House Committee
President Must Watch
Interests of Trade
Protect MunitiOn Trust
Resolution Extends a
Power Already Held

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Ap-
pearing before the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs yesterday,
Secretary of State Kellogg ap-
proved the general principle of the
Porter resolution to give the presi-
dent power to place an embargo on
arms for any country which he
cares to declare is violating the Kel-
logg peace" treaties.
Don't Hurt Trade.
The embargo power, Kellogg made
clear, must not be used where it has
no effect i'll increasing the influ-
ence of American imperialism by de-
priving one of it's enemies Of the
tools of war. An embargo that
merely interferes with the profits
of American munitions makers, Kel-
logg has no patience with.
"The president would have to con-
slider whether the embargo would
be of any value" Kellogg explained.
Cal Says Don't Need 1t.
President Coolidge has expressed
himself, coyly, as not being in favor
of handing the president so much
additional power, and made several
cautious remarks to the effect that
sufficient power already existed to
deprive any country defending itself
against U. S. imperialism, or gov
ernments supported by U. S. imper-
ialism, of its arms.
Coolidge seemed to take the posi-
ton that as the new rights granted
the president under the Porter reso-
luton in the senate were not really
needed it was better to let well
enough alone, and not raise a storm
of controversy and alarm the rest
of the world. Kellogg yesterday
seemed to disagree with Coolidge, or
at least with Coolidge's expressed
views.
Kellogg pointed out that under the
present law the presidents power to
impose embargoes is limited to
South and Central American ma
tions and countries where the United
States has extraterritorial rights,
such as China, Persia and Egypt.
He saw no reason why the presi-
dert's power should not be broad-
ened as proposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
WORKMEN CIRCL.E:
SOCIALIST HEADS
CONDUCT POCROM
"City Cossacks" Slug
Those Who Expose
Scab Union Aid
Fight Over U. S. S. R.
Lifshitz Is for New
Unions in Conference

A pogrom in the best style of the
gangster-ridden socialist" union
machines was the method employed
by the right wing clique in an at
tempt to stifle the voice OF the left
wing delegates at the National Con-
ference of Workmen's Circles in
Webster Hall yesterday. The pog-
rom was carried through by a spe-
cial committee of 80, otherwise
known as the Getty Cossacks." In
spite of the severe beating up of a
number of left wing delegates, the
left wing conducted itself so well
that the right wing was forced to
withdraw it's motion to call on the
sheriff to eject Delegate Ben Lif-
bhitz, the spokesman against the
right wing promise of support from
the Workmen's Circles to Schlesin-
gers International Ladies' Garment
Workers strike-breaking company
union.
The following were beaten up: Sol
Fishbein. Branch 1877; N. Fishman,
Branch AT; W. Davidowich, Branch
254; PolIack, Branch 33; Spongin,
Branch rs; J. Sultan, Branch 1896;
Titiefsky. Branch 272; j. Lotker,
Cohen, Kopel, Kelner, Branch 254;
Spizheiser, Branch 375; Rena Green
berg, Branch $50: Altman, Branch
81; Schiller, Branch 608; Smotritch,
Branch FL, and S. Kniazik.
The following were driven out of
the hall: Pollack, Fishman, Cohen,
and Spizheiser.
The Workmen's Circle is Jewish
fraternal organization with a large
membership.
Weinberg Dodges.
The conference was opened by
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
WIN SOAP STRIKE,
RECALL SPEED-UP
Reinstate Leaders, But
Bosses Plan Reprisal

Two hundred and fifty workers
employed in the mechanical depart
ment of the Proctor and Gamble
Soap Company, at Port Ivory, Staten
Island, are back at work this morn
ing after striking one day, as the
result of the capitulation of the
company officials to their demands
that an efficiency speed-up system
be abolished and that the strike
leaders be reinstated.
Though never before organized,
the men in this department walked
out as one, when three of their
leaders were summarily dismissed
by foremen for denouncing the
"Dyer Efficiency Plan" as an inhu-
man, health-wrecking scheme. They
lad threatened to make the strike
general, to include the 1880 other
workers in the plant if their de-
Continued On Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
|"Daily' Will Publish
Expose of Hillquit
|Swindle in Few Days

What happened to the
S150,000 that Norris Hill
quit, corporation lawyer and
leader Of the socialist party, and
other Socialist WORTHLESS
swindled out of the cloak and
dressmakers thru the manipula-
tion of shares of the International
Union Bank?
The Daily Worker has already
published revelations of this
colossal swindle. In a few days
we will begin publishing official
documents and court records CIV
ing all the details and fastening
guilt irrefutably on Hillquit and
his associates.
Watch the Daily" for the first
of these documents. Tell your
friends and shopmates not to
miss this unusual expose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
Argentina Angry at
U. S. for Proposals
to Raise the Tariff

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. IT,
There is wide agitation here to re-
taliate with the same weapon, the
proposal in the United States to
raise the tariff on imports of wool,
meat and agricultural products,
which hits Argentine exports so
hard blow.
This agitation takes the form of
a proposal by the big agrarian
bourgeoisie, to urge the Argentine
government to regulate the tariff
on imports SO that U. S. products
would pay the same rate as at pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to Sane the DaiLv'

trict Nucleus, $3.50; l.. Tis-
sian, So; E. Carroll, 81; A.
Checker, $1.50; Pagan, ST.. 60.5t
White Collar Slaves, Br. A,
Section 5, City .......... $500
Collected by Dora Lipshitz,
Chicago, ILL.,: Nucleus II,
S21; Mr.. & Mrs. Say, $2.... 23.0(
Collected by G. Bron, San
Francisco, Calf: Nucleus
81, $11.50; Nucleus 3, $685.. 16.9;
T. ID. /, SIS. &c, City ...... 15.0t
Shop Nucleus /, Detroit -. 1851
Collected by IF, "a, City:
5. Resnick, zoe; e. Wright,
ST.; Litvin. So; Mr.. Enrich
man, 50; G. Lacher, SOC: M.
Continued on Page Threc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
DAILY TO HOLD
Benefit SHOW
Will Give "Airways' 3
Nights in Fund Drive

The Daily Worker will benefit
from the Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday performances of "Airways
Inc.," the New Playwrights produc-
tion which opens Wednesday at the
Grove Street Theatre. The action
of the play, the second New Play
wrights production of the season,
centers around great mill strike.
Tickets are on sale at the Daily
Worker business office. To avoid
last minute rush, workers intending
to see the play and help the Daily
are urged to obtain tickets without
delay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
new BEDFORD
TRIAL PUT Off
Biedenkapp Will See
N. Y. Governor Today

Especial to the Daily Worker)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Feb. II.
The trial of the 25 textile strike
leaders on conspiracy charges, which
was scheduled to start in superior
court here tomorrow, has been post
poned until next Monday. ~-
The 25 workers are facing trials
on two counts, conspiracy to parade
without permit and conspiracy to
disturb the peace, returned by a
grand jury on evidence furnished
solely by police officials. The con-
sriracy indictments include the lead
inc figures in the strike, as well as
Albert Weisbord, secretary of the
National Textile Workers Union;
Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary
of the Workers International Re-
lief, and Paul Crouch, national Sec
retary of the All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League.
The fake conspiracy charges were
trumped up as supplementary to the
mass trial of 662 New Bedford strik-
ers on variety of charges. The
International Labor Defense is con-
ducting the defense work in both
trials, which are looked upon as
among the most significant in the
history of the legal battles of Amer
lean labor. The defense attorneys
are headed by Clarence Darrow, Ar
thur Garfield Hays and Joseph
Brodsky.
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ent, but Great Britain and others
would get lower rate.
The Argentine Industrial Union,
an organization of native manufac-
turers, with their own interest at
stake, want an increased tariff all
around, with no reductions to any
one. The struggle between the two
categories of capitalists to influence
the government, is becoming in
tense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
600 MINERS ON
STRIKE AGAINST
OHIO WAGE CUT
Join National Miners
Union; Struggle Led
by N.M.U. Officers
Answer to Union Call
Will Spread the Strike
to Other Properties

WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. IT,
Six hundred miners employed in the
Powhatan mine struck in a body
early Saturday in defiance of
wage cut by the coal company. More
than 200 of the strikers are Negro
miners. The strikers Immediately
telephoned the headquarters of the
National Miners Union requesting
organizers. Robert Matusek, presi-
dent, and Andy Plechaty, secretary
treasurer of the Ohio district. Ma
tional Miners Union, Immediately
responded to the call. Powhatan lies
back in the mountains far awav
from trains.
Matusek Immediately organized
the strikers into a local union of the
National Miners Union, scheduled a
large mass meeting and selected
various committees. The strikers
unanimously voted to telegraph Pat
Toohey, national secretary-trea surer
of the N. M. u, to address their big
strike meeting.
Speakers Come.
Toohey, together with Isaiah
Hawkins, well-known Negro militant
and member of the executive board
Of the N. M. IT,, together with Will
liam Stinson, executive board men,
Der for the Indiana district, n. M.
u, Immediately went to Powhatan.
Strike committees were organized,
demands were formulated, the or
ganization of the strikers perfected,
and a campaign for militant fioht
outlined.
The strike occurred in response to
the call of the n. M. U. drive against
wage cuts. The N. M. u. last week
distributed $4,000 Fight Wage
Cuts" leaflets throughout Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The company had reduced the
wages Of the ''day men" (hourly
employes) from So to $440 per day.
The N. M. u. drive is taking on
intensity. More strikes are expected
shortly. The entire 600 miners
joined the N. M. Z. at Powhatan.
The N. NJ. u. has a membership Of
$50 additional members organized
in Local Union No. / i'll Powhatan.
making total of $50 members of
the militant new union in the town
of Powhatan. Since the Ohio dis
trict scored victory in having the
miners halls restored to N. M. U.
locals and taken away from the
Company Union, United Mine Work
ers, the work has progressed great
ly.
VIII Spread Strike.
The policy of the N. NJ. U. will
be to spread the Powhatan strike to
other properties. Since the miners
of the three properties of this COM
pany are all organized in the n. M.
u, unless a settlement is made by
the company with the strikers, the
N. M. U. will declare a strike on all
properties of this company and tie
up production completely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
VIII Spread Strike.
FLU RACES IN BERLIN

BERLIN (By MaiD Ten emer-
gency barracks for influenza pa
tients are being hastily run up in
Berlin, as all hospitals are full fol-
lowing a great increase in the mum
Der of sufferers from the epidemic.
Several hundred workers have died
in the last two weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
SILLOWAY NOW
RUNS TO COVER
Advantageous to State
Cops Didn't Kill 7

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Major Fred
D. Silloway, deputy prohibition
agent for Chicago, who Friday, so
all the reporters said, charged the
police of the city with being the
murderers Of seven members of the
Moran gang of bootleggers lined up
and shot down in a North Clark st.
garage, has seen great light.
He has decided that such exposes
interfere with a mans political
career and that it is more profitable
to retract them. He now says he
dion't mean that the policemen ac-
tually did the shooting, and that
every reporter who thinks he heard
him say that is entirely wrong. He
still does say today that he has evil
dence connecting police with the
vest side gangs of Al Capone and
others in beer running.
No Arrests.
After more than 72 hours of Sin
vestigaiior" police could not point
to single important arrest that
could be linked directly with the
slayers who killed their victims per-
haps in reprisal for "hi-jacking" of
liquor trucks.
Members of the Paul Morton boot.
Logging gang, who, with the Purple
gang of Detroit, were aligned with
a Canadian Gistillery in running
LIQUOR trucks into Chicago were
sought. The Morton-Purple gang
blamed the Bugs" Moran followers
in Chicago for the 'hijacking" OF
liquor trucks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
February 16, 1929.

February 16, 1929.
Lithuanian Central Bureau,
Brooklyn, N. Y. :. 75.I
Collected by A. Sokolov,
Phila., Pa: Shaffendler
(collected) So; Mirell, SOC;
r. Rotman, 81; Trenton, N.
j. COLLECTED by B. Herman)
Josephon, $40; Lehman,
$40; Wishnewski, So; Aft
ner, 81; Pilich, So; ukrain-
ian, $5; Gold, 81; Safir 81;
Rewage, 81; Babot, 81;
Ialonne, 81; Copoulus (col-
lected) SOC; Radkowski, 81;
B. Shatz, 81; II. Rubin (col-
lected, 81; Fuman, 81; l..
Gittelman, soc; Factory Dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
IsAirways' Show Sunday
Night for N. Y. Anti
I'm perialist League

The performance of "Airways,
Inc" at the Grove Street Theatre,
Sunday night, will be given under
the auspices of the New York
Branch of the All-American Aati-
Imrerialist League.
Members and friends of tn G
League may obtain tickets for the
show at the local office, 100 Broad
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
Biedenkapp Before Governor Today.

Especial to the Daily Worker)
ALBANY, N. Y.-While the trial
of 25 labor militants on fake con-
spiracy charges in connection with
the New Bedford strike draws near,
Fred Biederkapp, national secretary
Of tie Workers International Re-
lief, viii for the second time appear
tomorrow for hearing before Gov
ernor Roosevelt to combat efforts
to extradite him to Massachusetts
as one of the defendants in the con-
spirs,y trial.
Biedenkapp will be represented by
Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for
the New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense, which is
fighting the attempts to extradite
him as we'll as Paul Crouch, ma
tional secretary of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League, and Albert
Weisbord, secretary of the National
Textile Workers Union.
Biedenkapp appeared before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18

war. Arrested and beaten insensible
by the police during the strike,
blacklisted now by the bosses so
that he is unable to get a job, Pinto
knows the necessity of keeping the
mighty organ of the working class
alive. In a letter to the Daily
Worker, he writes:
"When l hear that the Daily
Worker is in danger 1 feel very
sorry that l can't help towards our
Continued on Page Three
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governor last Monday, when testi-
mony was given proving that on the
day when the so-called conspiracy
is alleged to have taken place he
was not in New Bedford. At to-
morrow's hearing two witnesses
will appear to give further testi-
mony to this effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
SUPPORT DAILY
Is Plea OF Mil
Strike Leader

August C. G. Pinto, one of the
rank and file leaders developed by
the New Bedford textile strike,
knows what the Daily Worker means
to the workers fighting in the class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
ORGANIZED JANITORS' DRIVE

MILWAUKEE (By MaiD.
drive to enroll women engaged in
cleaning in theatres and also to en-
roll theatre porters is being made
by the Theatre Janitor's Union here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
|. l.. d. To Ask Hearing For Crouch.

The New York District of the
international Labor Defense last
night announced that it also plans
to demand hearing before Gov.
Roosevelt in the extradition case of
Paul Crouch. Crouch was arrested
in New York City last Wednesday
and is now out on $1,000 bail. He
is scheduled to receive a magis-
trate's hearing next Monday.
Should Albert Weisbord be ar
rested on an extradition warrant, the
/. L. d. declares that it will also
carry the fight for him to the gov
ernor. The I. l.. D.. once more
points out that the efforts to extra
dite Biedenkapp, Crouch and Weis-
bord are actually attempts to crush
the three militant working class or
ganizations which they head. In
order that they may be saved from
being sent for trial before the MUIR
derers of Sacco and Vanzetti, the
!. l.. d. declares. immediate funds
must be sent to its office, 799 Broad
@ay. Room 422.
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SAVE DAILY FUND.- IS VERY Low
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Members Meet Tonight.


Division of the Industrial Union
whether striking or working in set
tied shops, are called upon to at
tend a membership meeting tonight
in Webster Hall, 18th st. and Third
Ave, Immediately after work.
Chief among the problems to be
taken up at this membership meet
ing, the general strike committee
announcement states, are further
plans for broadening out the strike
till it includes plans not hitherto af-
fected by the walkout.
IS New Settlements.
The meeting will also have before
it the task of taking action on the
proposal that all dressmakers work
ing in settled shops work ore day
for the strike, so that funds be OBJ
tanned for carrying out the unions
strike program of eliminating the
sweatshop from the dress manufac-
turing trades.
Besides the agreement with the
Protective Association, union Off
cials announced 25 additional agree
ments have been reached with inde-
pendent shops, bringing the total of
agreements outside of the associa-
tion to $50 to date. These victories
do not, however, end the strike,
which continues to spread to new
shops where the workers are en-
couraged by these victories to join
the union and go on strike to abolish
the sweatshop.
Hold Protest Meeting Tonight.
The outrageous manner in which
the New York police force is set
ting about trying to break the strike
through mass arrests and clubbings
Of pickets has aroused storm of
indignation among New York work.
ers.
The New York District of the In
ternaticnal Labor Defense, the
Trade Union Educational League
and the Workers (Communist) Party
have all joined in calling a protest
meeting against the "Whalen round
ups" and sluggings Of workers ex-
ercisipg their legal right to picket
for bread and butter demands.
The meeting will be held tonight
at o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall,
18th st. and Irving Pl. Speakers at
the meeting will be: Ben Gitlow, for
the Workers Party; Norman Tellen-
tire, for the I. L. d.; H. SAFER, for
the r. U. +. L.; Ben Gold, secretary
Of the Industrial Needle Trades
Union; Rose Wortis, secretary of
the General Strike Committee; Rob-
ert Dunn, lecturer and writer; Rich
ard B. Moore, of the American Ne
gro Labor Congress, and George
Powers, Of the Iron Workers Union.