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The Washington times., 1929-01-31
LEGION BALL
NOTABLE
EVENT
Great Company Attends
Fete in Willard
Ballroom

presidents are bound by prece-
dent. They hesitate to start
anything-or to stop anything,
which has a background of tradi-
ton. Consequently, in spite q
his dislike for balls, President
Coolidge attended the Charity
Ball that hardy annual Tor the
benefit OF the Children's Hospital,
every year until 1t passed into
history through the affiliation OF
thA Chjldren's Hospital with the
Community Chest. And. 1t was
nof until last year, when the end
81 his term was in sight, that the
President thought It best to show
his very enthusiastic interest in
the ..anerican Legion by attend
ing one OF It's annual balls. al
though he and Mrs. Coolidge
have always headed the list OF
patronesses for the event. Pre-
siimably he did not want to
establish another precedent.
I. If the President and Mrs. Cool
idge were not present last night
al the Legion's brilliant ball at the
Willard, many other notables were,
headed by Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes. General Dawes is Lee
gionnaire.
The list OF patrons and patron
esses for the bail was one of the
longest and most distinguished OF
any event given this year, al.
though those attending last night
were mainly from the service get.
The Chief of Staff and Mrs.
Charles r. Summerall, the Cbm-
mandant Of the Marine Corps and
Mrs. John A. Lejeune, and the
Chief Of Naval Operations Admiral
and Mrs. Charles F. Hughes were
among the ranking guests present.
National Commander Paul v.
McNutt, OF the Legion, and Mrs.
McNutt, and Mrs. Boyce FickIen,
national president Of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary, occupied
boxes and entertained friends.
Members of the women's patriotic
conference of National Defense.
now holding sessions III this city,
were also present as guests Of
Mrs. Ficklen.
The Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes are the guests in whose
honor the Congressional Club win
entertain at reception this eve
ming at 10 o'clock.
~
The Belgian Ambassador and
Princess de Ligne ,.sre the honor
! guests at dinner last evening 81
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander 81 I.egare,
who entertained a company ef i 6.
Che German Ambas e0g and
Malae son Prittwitz-G Gaffron are lii
Qf where they are staying
at tiie bassador Hotel
= &
Called Home
BARONESS De Cartier. wife of
the Belgian Ambassador to the
Court Of st. James, viii BE the
guest in whose honor Mrs. Joseph
Letter win entertain 1T dinner
on Monday evening. Baroness de
Cartier is staying with Mrs. Rich.
ard Townsend while III Washing.
ton.
Mrs. Letter has as her guest
her sister, Mrs. Frederick Al.
CONTINUED on PAGE a.l
The Washington times., 1929-01-31
MISS POMEROY
MARRIED I'M
ROME
Weds Baron Luigi Flip
DO Marincola di San
Floro Today

y
wedding bells rang this morn
ing in far.off Rome. for ? pretty
washington girl, Miss Josephine
CowIes Pomeroy. daughter Of Mr..
ana mrs. Eugene cowles Pomeroy.
who was married to Baron Luigi
FiIlppo Marincola Di San FIoro.
son OF Baron and Baroness Eve
limo Marincola Di San Floro.
The ceremony was set for noon
in the ancient Church OF SIS.
Apostoli, but, owing to the diff.
ference in time, took place while
Miss Pomeroy's friends were still
sleeping.
In accordance with the Italian
custom, the civil ceremony had
been performed the day before at
the Capitol. This was followed by
a large reception At one of the
hotels and the religious service
today by q breakfast for 100 reIa.
tives and friends of the bride and
bridegroom.
Miss Pomeroy had her sister
''Kiki' Ckatherine) as maid Of
honor and her bridesmaids were
one OF the bridegroonl's sisters
and Miss Pan Boardman. an
American girl living in Rome.
The maid of honor's costume was
of orchid and silver brocads and
the bridesmaids wore orchid vel
vet, bit darker in tone--all the
costumes being made on medieval
( lines and completed by tricorne
hats trimmed with ostrich
plunnes. The brides gown was
also of medieval inspirations. 1t
was fashioned OF white velvet.
with train five Yards long and
she wore a veil of beautiful old
lace. the properly Of her Aunt
Josephine.
This aunt. Miss Josephine
Pomeroy. for whom Miss. Pome-
roy was named. has been for the
winter with Mr.. and Mrs. Pome.
roy and their children at the
villa they are occupying in Rome.
Mr.. PomeroY expects to return
early in February TO New York,
where he has business interests.
The Pomeroys have 4 house in
Washington. and visit us inter-
mittently btt Of late years they
have spent most oS their time
abroad.
Baron Di san Fioro comes of
an ancient Italian family. with
estates iii Ca1abfia. but he and
his bride expect to I've in Rome,
He Is in the naval reserve and
win have two aiaanths duty this
summer. so iffs Tune and July
the new Baroness 1ssss tss1n Floro
viii make her headquarters Fl
RapAlIo 10 near his ship m
thes earI autumn the cnsiple egy
poets 70 come to this eosln " for
q Visit.
Mrs. Harlan F'iske Stone fe-
turned yesterday I'd Washington
after a fortnSgh 81 visit with her
son and datlghte fnsiaw, Mr.. and
( Mrs. Marshall H Stone. IN cam.
bridge. Mass. Justice Stone, who
rs in Florida with the President
elect and Mrs. Hoover, is ex-
pected to return to town on
Monday. but should he prolong
his visit. Mrs. Stone win prob
ably join the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
UnOyganlzed
to be at NTW
mention

Not convention of handpicked
delegates such as are the A. F. of
L. textile unions affairs, but a
mass convention, representing a
mobilization for the coming great
struggles of the mill workers-this
is what the Second National Con-
vention of the National Textile
Workers Union will be. 1t will
open December 81, in the Union
Hall, 205 Paterson St., Paterson,
N. ].
Delegates are being elected in
every mill center-both North and
South, for the convention. A mini
mum of so delegates elected by the
southern textile workers is expected,
Although the skilled workers,
such as loomfixers, Wrappers, ETC.,
will be represented, the convention
will chiefly represent the bitterly
exploited unskilled workers, the cot
ton spinning workers of the South,
the mill workers of New England,
the dye workers and silk weavers
of Paterson, Allentown, Easton and
other centers, the young workers
from the anthracite throwing
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Stand by Haitian Revolution!

Among the Imperialism is more brutal
and bloody than the being
poverhed and disarmed Negro oeT of Haiti in ba i@bt for %
republic independent of Imperialism against ackeys
as the decabe scoundre whom the bayonet of the u Marines
have made president"
The Negro of Haiti of century
struggle is their they
the best imperial against
rulers and in the drive Of American inneria eynanso TO make I
Caribbean lake
@ the United States armed forces invaded Haiti July 28 1915
And the United States Marines have remained Haiti
not without meeting fierce resistance which the repeated blood baths
and thousands Haitian independence fighters
quenhed True the rather by
bourgeois politicians
is again rising to struggle rejecting the soced "eaty" signed be-
tween imperialism and the native enthroned
ism itself
Sadonic pasteboard angel peace
Hoover advanced his threat the Soviet Union
tboso b +id ~ dvi b e;+ IT; m m as 80 wen S
and Hoover tries to from by falsely claiming that the
on obscure though there third force that prevents"
him from ordering the Marines get 0
There is though it,
the mpeast interests which he himself American imperial
t interests insist that the Marines working
where they peeded and their farms lost by
closure butcher their brother workers and farmers Haiti
continued Yankee control Such control desired Haiti
Cypress Haitian people,
robber mperast England and fory Americas
with England against the British naval base neghbo
ing island,
Obviously scope United mperaist
interest in Mexico by United States intrigue gaining fight
back All LatnA becoming, China already battle
mpera rivals robbery oppression
the time rising tide popular against
peraism by the toiing
The force which the the
not third force preventing him his w from ordering the
Marines of Haiti On the Hoover the personcation
of the of Imperialism which them there That
orders Marines and apane to Haiti But the workers
farmers the United States have interest supporting but rather
opposing this mperia bandy murder the Haitian
The Marines themselves and brothers of the workers and
who exploited American soil by the Imperialism which
them to Haiti will learn that they have interest with
the Haitian than with the American capitalist whom
they asked o shoot.
The Haitian workers and whatever the of the
present revolt will learn that they and the bougeo Haiti
must take the leadership of their struggle They will learn unite
their struggle with that of other Latin
and particularly with the workers and farmers of the United States
1t is for the workers of the United States
to the heroic fighters for Haitian independence with the leadership
of the Communist Party forward the revolutionary overtrowa
of mperiast only Haiti but in the United States
Down with American imperialism Withdraw the
Haiti Nicaragua and China! Fight the mperia
oppressed
of workers and farmers in the United States
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
The Collapse of Chang
Kai-Shek

going China one must see
through behind the foreground the surface
Revolution
collapse mtarist adventure in Manchuria he seizure
of the Chinese Eastern Railway the of
deadly blow Nanking regime,
lated the upward of revolutionary activity of the workers and
recovering from their defeat 1927 preparing
assaults against the mlar their masters mpeaist
These developments against international
pesm At the time England and Japan attempting
relative victory themselves against
the United States American Imperialism
mediate blow through the crbng of its
throughout China Marking Feng Yusang
in the Northwest the Anhu generals Tng Shn-sh in
central China, Chang Fakwei
South constitutes the mobilization of all the of the Anglo
Japanese bloc and the deseron the mercena mtarss
second order from the u Sontroled Marking the
ial The mperast united in their hatred
Chinese the
rvaes that they carrying actual against
byNneans of Chinese agents.
In China witnessing the first the mpeas
which
ing simultaneously Imperialism against
and the war between the imperialist powe% themselves
The unknown factor yet in the siSation how quickly will
the revolutionary be able mobilize their begin
the organization of the revolutionary of workers and
the Soviet Government Of China Approaching the Second Anne
OF the Canton Soviet of December H. 1927 which showed the road
which the Chinese must travel at the time
preaching revolutionary situation, with rising
revolutionary activity.
What the capitalist the activity "bandts
have occupied important Central China including the i'm
pant city Kanchow the rising the
the leadership of the Chinese
These risngs Of the background
current developments China and will fling aside the squabbng
mtarst drive out the mpeats who occupy Shanghai ongong
llenn Iankow and other of
ganlzation OF China a proearan basis.
The next of the Chinese struggle for The
Soviet Power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
WAGE CUT PLANS
MADE BY BOSSES
Committee of 20 Starts
DriveAgainst Workers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Fearing
exposure of the fascist nature of his
organization IF the 400 leading ex-
ploiters of labor, Hoover announces
that this new grouping of crisis ex-
perts, under the leadership of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, "is not
permanent body"
While Hoover was creating an ex-
ecutive committee of 20 bankers
and industrialists who will make the
detailed wage-cutting plans and at
tempt to lift U. S. imperialism from
the bog of depression, William
Green at the International Ladies
Garment Workers Convention in
Cleveland repeated his support of
Hoover's anti-labor program.
Green said the A. F. of L. will
not rock the imperialist boat. This
means Green and his cohorts will
not disturb the wage-slashing cam
paigns Of the big capitalists--in
fact, will give them hearty support.
The mass of reports which were
handed to Julius Barnes and Will
lam Butterworth, head of the Cham
ber of Commerce, by the assembled
big bosses Friday, were not COM
pletely made public. These reports
show a severe slump in every in
dustry in the country. Latest re-
ports of bank clearings and rail-
road loadings point to = further
depression.
Robert Lamont and Hoover will
work very closely with the 400 big
bosses in their semi-fascist machine.
In spite of Hoovers pronouncement,
these scab corporation heads are as
suming government functions in
their drives against the working
class.
The executive committee Of 20
will press the fight for world mar
kets and prepare for further armed
support Of American penetration in
Latin-America and China, as well
as against Soviet Russia.
An insidious means of covering up
mass unemployment and of prepar-
ing the way for lowering the stand
ard of living of the American work
ers is the plan advocated by the inn
perialists in Hoover's grand fas-
cist council' of keeping as many
workers as possible on the job un-
der speed-up conditions on short
time employment. In this way the
workers pay is cut in half or more
and his production increased.
This is means of trying to elimi-
nate militant demand for unemploy-
ment relief and of drastically low
ering the workers living standard.
Green and the A. F. of L. heads ac-
lively support this most vicious plan
of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
What Are You Doing?

The forces of history moving fast in these days
Wall Street moves its emergency into Washing
ton preparing for fascist dcatOrshp Latin American re-
volt against Dollar Imperialism rises again. this time in
Haiti the house of cards laborousy built up by Ameri-
intrigue in the of Chang Kashek i'm China
crumbes and falls Hoover Macdonald and consors parade
their forces in threat against the Soviet Union while
capituates; the struggle between Britain and the IT, S.
breaks out in Mexico in subsidized strike on
the BrshOwned railway to Vera Cruz the course of IT, S.
economy punges further downward Truly the past weeks
have underlined correct estimate of present period as
one of crises upheava sharpening class struggles leading
to revolutions
On domestic cassstruggle front the A. F. of l. and
socialist party complete their amagamaOn with the gov
ernmen and the BOSSES Green's pledge Hoover aban
don all demands for better conditions for workers and
the SchlesingerG Green compact in the Cleveland WJ
meeting with the employers and state in the garment indus
try The miners of Illinois and the anthracite are moving
into battle against the joint forces Fshwick Far
rington the bosses the state the renegades And in
dozen cities comrades who have been leading the battles
are going before the courts be tried their lives
some to face 10 to 20 in prison. hundreds serve to
Il months In three states attempts openly announced
to outlaw Party.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE FIGHT? There are
tasks for everyone. If you not on the picket line if YOU
not of those in court if you receiving directly
any of the blows of capitalism against novemen-sl
there important tasks which you should help perform
Not the least of these tasks is to BUILD UP THE
EMERGENCY FUND of $4,000, being collected by the
Party. HAVE YOU DONE YOUR PART? If NOT DO IT
NOW.
Send all remittances to Communist Party i3 East l25th
ST. New York City. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
SUBWAY DICCERS
FOR Ne W UNION
To Increase Picketing;
Hold Open Air Meets

Subway workers filled the hall at
Stuyvesant Casino yesterday and
voted to endorse the formation of
the new Subway Construction
Workers Industrial Union, started
when the members of Local 63 of
the Compressed Air, Tunnel and
Subway Workers, an A. F. L. union,
caught their officials selling out the
Bronx Concourse strike.
They voted with enthusiasm for
greater activity in the Bronx Con-
course strike. The strike commit
tee announced more picketing there
today.
1t was also decided to organize
the other sections of the subways
for the purpose of spreading the
strike to all the sections which
would embrace the fifteen thousand
subway workers. Rank and file
workers spoke in favor of a new
union which would take in all crafts
and make no distinction of race or
nationality. They urged those sub
way workers who are not members
as yet of the new union to join and
strengthen the organization. The
spirit ran high.
Representative Of the Scandina-
Wan Workers Club reported their
organization had elected strike re-
lief committee of seven and decided
to call meetings in the Scandina-
vian section of Harlem to get Sean
dinavian workers in the Bronx on
strike.
The strike committee consisting
of fifteen members, met after the
mass meeting and decided upon fur
ther organizational work and to
hold open air meetings throughout
the city. The strike committee will
meet again tomorrow at IL am. at
the strike headquarters, at 235 w.
129th st.
Relief is being given out to the
strikers by the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, which established a
kitchen at tho strike headquarters.
A subcommittee was elected to
consult with the r. U. u. l.. on the
question Of immediate affiliation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Mine MEETINGS
USHER IN STATE
WIDE STRUGGLE:
Sheriff Openly States
Will Defend Fakers
and Coal Operators
Fishwick in T hre a is
Boss Press Hysterical
Over New Gastonia"

WEST FRANKFORT, H., Dec. 8.
Strike mass meetings in dozens
of mines all over the state of Illi-
nois, scare heads in the local papers,
the frantic preparation of the
sheriffs and the coal company, gun
men to do strike breaking, the dec
laration of the United Mine Work
ers of America officialdom that
they will try to send in scabs, call
by the National Miners Union on
the working class of the whole
country for funds to win the strike,
featured yesterday and today.
Rank and file strike conferences
are arranging final details. Tomor-
row morning the general strike in
the Illinois coal fields begins; the
mass-picket lines will march down
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Bargain With Boss.
U. S. ImpeTialism m
Enters World Court;
Struggle for Markets

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Today
representatives of United States i'm
perialism sign for entry into the
World Court. American capitalism
is endeavoring to establish its hege-
mony in the struggle for word mar
kets nd the entry into the World
Court is a maneuver against Brit
ish imperialism.
The question of entry will be
brought up in the Senate. The World
Court has no power to enforce a de-
cision, but is a ground for maneuv-
ering between the imperialist powers
in their fight for colonies and mar
kets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09

>hand fighting.
At the same time, a L. S.
warship, the cruiser Galveston,
was ordered rushed from the
u. S. naval station at Guam
tanamO, Cuba, (Cuba being an
ether colony of American inn
perialism) to the Haitian port
of Jacmel, while the airplane
carrier wright is speeding
South with 500 marines to re-
inforce the 700 marines now
occupying Haiti, and bombing
planes meant to spread death
and destruction among the Hal
tian towns to hold the sO-called
independent republic" in the
grip of Wall Street.
For months, the administration of
Hoover has concealed the rising
wave of popular anger at the des-
potism of American imperialism,
and the sO-called impartial news
agencies of the capitalist press have
hidden it from knowledge in coIlab-
Grafton with the military forces of
repression. Now HoOver's message
to Congress merely tries to justify
the present war against the Haitian
people with evasive indications that
something has been wrong in the
past and pretense that the "solu-
ton is obscure" when the solution
is very simple and plain--to get out
of Haiti and stay out.
Imperialist Commission.
But as getting out of Haiti is
far from the thought of the imper-
ialist Hoover, he is sending more
marines and warahips and bombing
planes-and a Commission" is
asked from Congress, in the hope
that if it will not placate the Hal
tian masses to learn that they are
to be investigated" it will fool the
workers into believing that
the commission will "do something"
The commission is meant to "do
something; it is meant to serve as
a camouflage behind which the
Haitian people will be slaughtered
and the depotism of Wall Street i'm
perialism will be whitewashed after
years of investigation"
All the pretenders of Opposition"
to imperialist crimes, led by hypo-
crite, Senator Borah, are rushing
into print to "criticise," but to ap-
prove of the warfare against the
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
FOOD MILITANTS
URGE ACTIVITY
Half of Amalgamated
Convention for TUUL

The Amalgamated Food Workers
convention which met in Labor Ly-
ceum, Saturday and yesterday and
may continue today, showed a sharp
clash on principles and tactics be-
tween the representatives of the
New York bakery local 1 and 8 of
highly skilled workers, opposed by
the hotel, restaurant and cafeteria
workers, the food clerks and other
semi-skilled branches of the union.
The cafteria workers who have
waged a militant strike in New
York brought in 1000 new members,
and the forces which last year were
heavily in favor of the conservatives,
are now nearly equal. Out of the
33 delegates present, nearly half
were ready yesterday to vote for
Continued on Page TaOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Save Accorsi, Italian
Toilers Demand; Form
Committee at Meeting

New York Italian workers formed
a "Save Accosi" committee yes
terday at Irving Plaza, when rep
resentatives from 19 workers or
ganizations met at the invitation of
the Italian section of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The delegates passed a resolution
demanding that Accorsi be immedi-
ately freed and pointed ou the
frame-up nature Of the case They
elected two delegates to the Fourth
National Convention of the l. L. D.
to be held at Pittsburgh, December
20, 80 and 81.
Louis Candella, secretary of the
Italian |. L. D. section, stated the
organization would be permanent to
help, not only Accorsi, but the Gas
tonia strikers and all class-war
prisoners.