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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
HILLQUlT'S AGENT MAKES
SOME AMAZING ADMISSIONS
Daily Worker Prints Further Revelations Of
Colossal Thievery by Right Wing Gang
Cross Examination Brings Forth Startling
Admissions from Hillqut's Man

In yesterdays Daily Worker we
told why Morris Hillquit, corpora
tion lawyer and leader of the So
cialist party, was so unwilling to
have his criminal libel case against
the editors of the Daily Worker
and the Jewish Communist Frei-
heit tried publicly in a magistrates
court and has, therefore, used his
Influence with the Tammany dis
trict attorney to secure a grand
jury indictment behind closed
doors. We also reproduced let
ter sent by Hillquit on Aug. 8,
1926, to Louis Hyman, then man
ager of the Joint Board, Cloak
and Dressmakers' Union, in which
he gave his personal promise that
the property of the Joint Board
and the union locals, for which he
suggested that his associate, Fred
erick F. Umhey, act as trustee,
would be returned to them. This
property had been offered as Sc
curity to the International Union
Bank in return for a loan of
100000, made by the Joint Board
in order to conduct the cloak
strike of 1926. Hillquit kept his
promise only to the right wing To-
Gals, while the Joint Board and
the Left wing locals were swindled
out of their property, which was
subsequently, sold without the
knowledge of the Joint Board.
The Editor.
At the advice of Morris Hillquit
then attorney for the Joint Board
Frederick F. Umhey, his associate
became the trustee for the Interna-
tional Union Bank shares owned by
5he Joint Board (when the bank was
organized by the international
Ladies Garment Workers Union
he Joint Board and the locals
bought shares in order to provide
sapital for the bank.) The Joint
Board and Locals 2, 8, % and Sc
also turned over as security the
tock of their buildings. Local 10
which does not have a building OF
is own and Local 48, whose build.
ng could not be given as security
herely turned over their bank shares
Jmhey Turns Over Shares to Bank.
The Joint Board already owed the
International Union Bank $4,000
making together with its new loan
total of 1857 900. Because of the
logrom started against the rank
nd file by the Right wing clique
at the advice of Hillquit) in De-
ember, 1926, this debt could not be
laid. Hillquit's trustee, Umhey
again at Hillquit's behest) there
tpon turned over the shares to the
International bank, which by thi:
(Continuo6 on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
SLUG, JAIL, N. J.
SILK STRIKERS
Pickets Get 30 Days;
Many Injured

SUMMIT, N. j., Feb. 27.-Police
and judges Joined here yesterday in
terrorist attack on the striking
silk workers that surpasses in bru-
tality the infamous strikebreaking
-terrorism carried on by Passaic cos
sacks against the textile strikers in
1926.
Half of the police force Of this
little open-shop town were rallied
to slug approximately so workers
who picketed the shops ON strike,
and, after many had been injured
on the picket line, two were singled
out for the courts to handle and
We're given prison sentences of 30
days each.
Lottie Blumenthal, member of the
Young Workers League, and pick
citing as a strike sympathizer, and
George Hamway, striker, were sent
to Jail ny County Judge Williams
for calling scab by his right name.
That was their only "offense." They
were kept in jsil till s o'clock at
night, though their bail was ready
early in the afternoon. They were
kept waiting for the judge.
Despite all this terror, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, lead
ing the strike, announces their de-
termination to organize new picket
demonstrations, where the right to
strike against degrading conditions
will be fought for.
This strike has been long and Bit
ter, having been begun under the
leadership of the Associated Silk
Workers, a reactionary union. This
organization, when it betrayed the
Paterson silk strike, called this one
off several times, failing, however,
to do so. The workers insisted on
staying out till the strike was won.
Recently, at meeting, the entire
Summit local voted, and unani-
mously joined, the N. 7. W., which
is rallying its forces for the support
Of these heroic fighters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
ANTI-WAR DANCER
MASS MEET WILL
OPEN CONVENTION
Memory of Ruthenberg
Will Be Honored
Tomorrow
Thousands to Attend
New Soviet Film at Big
Rally Tomorrow
Thousands to Attend

Tomorrow night the workers of
New York and vicinity will welcome
the delegates to the Sixth National
Convention of the Workers tCom-
munist) Party at big mass meet
ing in New Star Casino, 107th st.
and Park Ave. The meeting, which
will formally open the convention,
will sound the keynote of this his
toric gathering of the representa-
tives Of the American working class
by raising the slogan Of the fight
against the war danger and for the
defense of the Soviet Union. The
convention sessions will start Satur-
day morning at Irving Plaza, 18th
st, and Irving Pl.
The mass meeting will not only
be the official opening of the Work
ers Party Convention, but it will
also honor the memory of the foun-
der and leader of the Party, G. E.
Ruthenberg, who died two years
ago. Ruthenberg led the fight of
the. left wing against the last i'm
perialist war and the part he played
in this fight will be tied up with
the present struggle against the new
var being prepared by the imperial
list powers
The mass meeting will also serve
as celebration of the tenth ami
versary of the founding of the Com
munist international, the central
body of the Communist Parties Of
the world.
AS special feature the remark
able Sovkino film, "A Trip Through
Soviet Russia" will be shown for
the first time in this country. This
film, in addition to showing scenes
of every phase of Soviet life, pre-
sents some OF the most dramatic
events of the tenth anniversary cele-
bration of the Soviet Union.
Tremendous interest has been
aroused by the unusual character of
tomorrow nights meeting and from
present indications New Star Casino
will be packed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
"NORDIC SUPERIORITY"
"SOciety" Folk IN Gh0uish Pastime

MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 27.--One of
the most vicious and degenerate ex-
amples of "Nordic superiority" was
staged last night as one of the pre-
liminary attractions for the Shar-
key : Stribling prizefight. Named
by its hacker, Jack Dempsey, "bat-
tie royal" 13 giant-sized Negroes
were blindfolded and placed in the
ring at one time with orders to
pummel each other. The widespread
poverty in the South, especially
among the mistreated and intimi-
dated Negro workers, made it easy
for Dempsey and his big society
hackers to find the men to partici-
pate in this melee.
The battle royal continued, after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
MITCHELL GIVEN
POST BY HOOVER
Donovan Returns to
Job on Mexico Border

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-While
Herbert Hoover, general representa-
tive of all big capitalist interests in
his new position as president of the
United States, which ne will for
mally take over next Monday. petu-
lantly squelches shocked and deserv-
ing republican aspirants for the post
of attorney general who protest at
The appointment of a democrat
there, it is unofficially announced
that William D. Mitchell, the demo-
crat, has accepted the post, offered
him at the usual "breakfast consul
tation."
Hoover assured virtuously excited
members of the "party of Lincoln"
and Mellon, that he ''was greatly
concerned about the reports that
Mitchell is a democrat" but that
anyway he wasn't a very regular
democrat, had been known to follow
his job interests in a republican adj
ministration as well as any-and,
besides, Raskob, the democratic
party campaign manager, is a rich
and respectable man, too. you know,
and we have to consider General Mo
tors interests.
wild Bill' Gets Wilder.
One of those most piqued, rumor
has it, is William J. ("Wild Bill'O
Donovan, who wanted the job. DON
ovan was offered a consolation prize
in the form of secretaryship of
war, but rejected it and walked off
in huff, back to the Rio Grande,
where, as a member Of a mixed
commission, he mas been rendering
good service wheedling and threat
ening the Mexican government into
surrendering valuable water rights
to U. S. power companies.
Most of the big. graft heretofore
has centered around the attorney
generals job. made popular by Pal
mer of the war raids, and Daugh-
erty, who has been tried several
times but has so far kept out of
Jail.
The present ince.nbent, Sargent,
has to go out, because of fire con-
centrated on him for actions favor
able to men accused of stealing land
and oil from the Indian wards Of the
government. The war department
has never been considered as a lu-
crative post, though there is some
thing to be made there, too, by
throwing contracts IN the right di-
!, rection.
Ku Kiux Klan opposition to Dono-
van, a Catholic, was the main fac
tor against him in his ambitions for
attorney general.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
BERRY MACHINE
never TO STRIKE
100000 "Organizing
Fund" to Squander

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 27.-Speak-
liz in measured phrases entirely ap-
ropriate for a speech to a chamber
{ commerce luncheon, Major George
/. Berry, president of the Interna-
onal Pressmen's Union, addressed
bur thousand press room workers
/ Ashland Auditorium Sunday af-
ernoon on the subject of concilia-
on.
The mass meeting was the cul-
Eination Of Berry's campaign Of
lany years duration to finally
&ing the Chicago locals of his union
nder the whip hand of the Interna-
onal board and it's policies of en-
loye- management cooperation.
Under the slogan Of 'unity" and
nth the announcement that it was
be "the start of drive to or
hnize the commercial printing shops
Chicago 100 per cent" what was
lrmed the greatest turnout of
Eessmen in the history of the In
| Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

the gong sounded, with every man
for himself, until there remained but
two exhausted survivors, who divided
meagre prize offered by Dempsey.
Fashionably-dressed women in the
ring-side seats, society danes and
wives of big financiers shrieked with
delight at the spectacle of the Ne
groes hammering each other about
the ring, spreading great clouds of
resin dust over the open stadium
Indicative of the complete degen-
eracy of the present ruling class,
this exhibition, as vicious as ancient
tortures and so-called "uncivilized"
sports, was greatly applauded by the
pedigrced collection Of Americas
bluest blood at the ringside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Gil Destroys Photos
of Lindbergh's Wreck

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27.-The
Mexican war department has or
dered the destruction of all moving
and still pictures of Lindbergh
wrecking his plane on arrival here.
The imperialist hero went for a lit
tie joy ride with the daughter of
U. S. Ambassador Morrow, whose
promise to marry him is big news
in the reactionary press.
He landed somewhere on the trip,
and lost wheel, but didn't notice
it until the plane turned over as he
landed again here. Anne Morrow
was shocked, but otherwise unin-
jured. Lindbergh had a dislocated
shoulder. Neither would talk.
The Portes Gil government fears
that photos Of the crash would be
exulted over by the working class
of Mexico, which does not like inn
perialism or its agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
PROTEST AGAINST
POLICE TERROR;
PICKET CITY HALL
Demonstrants Demand
Mayor Return Right
to Strike
New Arrests Yesterday
Shop Delegates Parley
Tonight at 7 p. m.
New Arrests Yesterday

Starting from strike headquar-
ters, over 500 picket captains and
shop chairmen of the dressmakers'
strike marched down to City Hall
yesterday afternoon. and, after hold
ing a protest demonstration for
over an hour, had u committee bring
to the secretary of Mayor Walker
statement demanding a halt in
police terrorism and the restoration
Of full ricketing rights.
The demonstrating workers pa
raded in picket formation in front
of City Hall for about one hour,
with Rose Wortis, secretary of the
Strike Committee, IN the lead. Rose
Wortis then addressed the strikers
and thousands of sympathetic on
lockers from City Hall steps.
Placards> reading "Down With Po-
lice Brutality" "Stop Police Terror
ism," "We Demand the Right to
Strike Without Police Interference"
etc, were carried by the marchers.
In her speech to the assembled
crowd, Rose Wortis declared that
the purpose of the strike is to abol-
ish the sweatshop. She said that she
did not expect the Tammany Hall
administration to prevent further
police brutality or wholesale ar
rests. The purpose of the demon
stration, she stated, was to call the
attention Of the public to the facts,
to win mass sympathy for the strug-
gle of the dressmakers for decent
wages and working conditions. She
contrasted the reception which Wis
iting princes, aviators, ETC., receive
with the cold reception of the strik-
ers. "We will not accept evasions
of this ISSUE" she declared.
Milton White. militant worker
who was arrested and held for dis
orderly conduct when he successfully
resisted the attack of a yellow So
cialist scab on the steps of the City
Hall, was removed to the Second
Precinct Police station.
He will be defended at his trial
by jacques Buitenkant, attorney for
the International Labor Defense.
Shop Delegates Meet Tonight.
Representatives from the factor
les, taking in all departments in the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, cloak, dress and furmaking,
Continued on Page TtOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
House Passes Motion
to Investigate Graft
Charge on MOscOwitz

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The
House of Representatives today
passed the judiciary committees
motion for an investigation of the
conduct of Federal Judge Moscowitz,
of New York. Moscowitz is charged
by two brothers named Levine with
driving their bankrupt father to
suicide, and holding them in con-
tempt of court so they could not
practice law, until a go-between ar
ranged for a $4,000 bribe to the
judge, and other bribes to other
members of the bankruptcy ring.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
CACH|N ATTACKS
KELLOGG PACTS
French Govt Says the
Treaties useless"
(Wneless By "Inprecorr"l J

(Wieless By "Inprecorr")
PARIS, Feb. 27.--The chamber of
deputies took up yesterday the dis
cussion of the ratification Of the
Kellogg pact. Only hundred depu-
ties We're present when the govern
ment defended the pact, but ad-
mitted that the interpretations made
Of IL by Foreign Minister Austin
Chamberlain Of England and by the
American senate rendered it use
less"
The Communist deputy, Marcel
Cachin, declared in the name of the
Communist fraction in the Chamber
of Deputies that the Kellogg pact
represents only concealment of
warlike intentions Of the imperial
lists against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
EMERGENCY FUND
Workers Contribute to Save Daily

Workers from all parts of the
country are responding in true revo-
lntionary fashion to the call of the
Daily Worker. The attack Of the
,Iillquit-Tamman clique brings an
answer from class-conscious work
ers. Tom Roy, Of Mcdonald, Pa,
writes:
please receive under same cover
1920 to help out the campaign to
Save the Daily Worker, and at the
same time help in the defense Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

our comrades against the prosecu-
tion of the notorious social reform
ist. Morris Hillquit, millionaire law
yer, who has been exposed in the
Daily Worker as crook of the right
wing leadership Of the socialist
party and the old craft unions"
WHO is nextf" is the head over
the following letter:
"The workers cf the Alchas Dress
Co., of 10 West 21st St., were among
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

MINOR, FROM PRISON, IN
PLEA FOR AID TO DAILY


yesterday dictated the following statement appeal
ing for the workers to rally in support of the Daily
Worker, now in financial crisis. The statement
which the Daily reporter took down from the
other side Of the cell gate, also calls upon the
workers to exert greater efforts in exposing the
yellow socialist party.
'The socialist party, which is trying to sup
press the working class press, is the instigator of
these arrests.
''The socialist party is the enemy of the work
ing class, and is in fact party of the police and
agency Of the capitalist class against the working
class.
"All class-consciOus workers must fight the So
cialist party and destroy its last connection with
the working class. When you fight the socialist
party you are fighting strikebreakers.
Morris Hilquit leader of the yellow party of
betrayers appeared publicly as complainant in this
case. Hilquit was the states witness on whose
testimony, and at whose request indictments were
made. A representative of Hilquit and the So
ciaist party preceded the detectives and waited for
the detectives at the door of the Daily Worker
office, when they came to make the arrests.
'This socialist greeted the detectives cordially
when they arrived saying: You are on time The
detectives, who are men now commonly used in all
labor struggles in New York against the workers,
when they came to make the arrests, were accom-
panied by young woman representing the New
This gives true picture of the S. P. today We,
the Communists, defy Hlquit and his yellow strike
breaking organization the socialist party and his
capitalist police and courts
My instructions to the staff are: The exposure
of the Hillquit fraud against the needle trades
workers of New York must be continued to the last
available fact and all of the political connotations
1--WE defy HilIquit in his police conspiracy At
the trial he will be the defendant before the work.
ers to answer for his thievery of $15000O from the
needle trades workers.
We expect no consideration from the police
or the courts, we will soon be in position to give
the most startling revelations between HiIlqut the
socialist and Tammany politicians. The facts will
show the most sOrdid money basis of relations be-
tween Hquit and these capitalist politicians, with
whom he is on such cordial terms as to secure the
unprecedented procedure of having us locked up
without hearing in magistrates court.
workers! Fight your deadly enemies, the vel
low socialist party and the trade union bureau
cratS
"The left wing will win!
Build your Workers Communist Party, the
Party of the class strugglev'
(Signed) ROBERT MINOR, Editor Daily Worker.
Tombs Prison, Wednesday, 9 P. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
TRAIN DERAILED.

MOBILE, Ala, Feb. 27 (UP).-
south-bound Mobile and Ohio pas
niger train was derailed at De Soto,
|iss., at three o'clock this after
ION, but no one was seriously in
lred, officials Of the road said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
JAIL COMMUNIST EDITORS
FOR REVEALING THIEVERY
OF SOCIALIST" LEADER
Hundreds of Workers Cheer Them After They
Are Arrested at Their Desks
Minor Exposes Socialist -Tammany Alliance to
Crush Press of u. S. Workers

Robert Minor editor of the Daily Worker and Moissaye
Ogn editor of the Jewish Communist Frehet are in Tombs
Prison today.
They lodged in cells yesterday afternoon after de-
tectives attached to the New York district atoeys office
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28

REACTIONARY EDITOR DEAD.
Briton Hadden, editor of the
weekly news magazine "Time," died
here today after protracted illness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For Workers. Farmers Governmeni
To Organize the Unorganized
For the 4O-Honr Week
For Labor Party
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
JAPANESE STEAMER
 Is A TOTAL LOSS

London, June 9th, R)-Lloyds message from Yokohama said that the Japanese steamer Ugo Marn is total loss from fire. The crew and passengers are believed to have been drowned. The fire start ed May 2Sth, of the Kamchatka coast. Other dispatches reported the ship ablaze. She carried seven hundred passengers, all Russian, them women, and crew of 43.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
CANADIAN EXPEDITION
 COMING NORTHWARD

SEATTLE, June 5, P)-Captain Charles Klingenberg, veteran Arctic trader. and party of 20 men, will leave Vancouver this Summer for Coronation Gulf, in the Canadian Arctic. The expedi- tion is being organized by Colonel James Cornwall, Vancouver min ing man, who will prospect the Canadian Arctic for gold and other minerals.
 Cornwall and some of the party will sail on the Hudson's Bay Company boat. Baychimo, due in Vancouver, June 22. from London. The ship will go as far as Hers chell Island where it will leave Klingenberg and his men. The rest of the party will go to Ed monton, then to Athabaska, land ing at Fort McMurray, and down the Mckenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. An airplane will be used for exploring Coronation Gulf. Quantities of oil and gas are being planted at Herschell Island and Coronation Gulf for the plane.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
FRIDAY lTEt-EGRAPHlCj
FRINGE HENRY WILL
 RESUME CANADA TRIP

VANCOUVER, B. C., June 2, (P Prince Henry, Duke of Glouces- ter and son of King George, who fractured his collar bone Tuesday in a polo game, will resume his trip across Canada on June 10, ;"cording to an official announce ment. Whether the Prince will be able to meet his engagements prev iously planned, depends upon his condition during the next few days. He was to have sailed for England Friday.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
WILL PUBLISH BOOK OF GOLD.

SEATTLE, June 6, R)-The AL aska Book of Gold, which will con- tain roster of former AlaskanS and Yukoners, is adding hundreds of names weekly. The roster is published in connection with q Sourdough Stampede, to be held in Seattle, August 18th to 18th, in anniversary of the discovery of gold in the klondyke.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
MARINE FIRE REPORT FAKE

LONDON, June 7th, R)-Tokyo dispatches to the Exchange Tele- graph said that the Japanese stea- mer Ungo Maru arrived at Ram chatka. The authorities are in vestigating the reports that the vessel burned with crew of 43 and seven hundred passengers lost. The Soviet officials contend that the report was circulated to make difficult the rescue of the Russian fishing fleet.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
OUTSIDER CAPTURES DERBY

EPSON, England, June 6, (P- Trigo, owned by w. Barnett, an outsider at thirty-three to one, ran away from picked field of twenty five rivals, in the one hundred and forty-nineth English Derby Mill ions changed hands as result of betting. which was estimated at one hundred million dollars. Wal ter Gay came in second and Tir- ienz. third.
 G. L. Brillian, twenty-six year old clothier, won the second prize, estimated at three hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars. The first prize wnner is reported to be an obscure resident of Capt Town South Africa.
 sTBSCRyPF FOR THE NUGGET
 Sf OO unr month
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
STEAMSHIP SUBSIDIES
 IN CANADA DECREASE

OTTAWA, June 7,P-The sub sidized steamship services for 1927 and 1928 cost Canada twenty-eight thousand one hundred and seven dred and fifty-one thousand, seven hundred and nineteen, in 1921 and 1922. The Secretary of the Dom iniOn, Bernard Reinfret, reported that the service was subsidized to South Africa, Brazil. Uruguay, Ar genuine, New Zealand. Alaska, and the British West Indies.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
!AIRPLANE NEWS.

In a telegram to J.S. Stangroom of the Miners and Merchants bank, from Noel Wien. Fairbanks, dated yesterday, Pilot Wien states that he expects to take off for Nome June Sth, (Saturday) The plane will bring two passengers and the mail. The names were not men
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
Cl.EGHORN FIGHTS \ DRAW

TACOMA, June s, (Py-Walter Cleghorn, the middleweight, fought draw with Knockout White, Chicago negro, in six rounds, the main event of the Garden Club program last night.
The Nome nugget., 1929-06-08
BOAT MOVEMENTS

Silver Wave and Tug Sawtooth are awaiting the lifting of the fog before proceeding through the ice on their way to Golovin.