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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
FIRST WORKER
CORRESPONDENT
MEET ON MAY 81
Cleveland Conference
Precedes Trade Union
Unity Meet
Workers Enthusiastic
Call To Be Issued In A
Few Days

Preparations are proce d n G
rapidly for the First National Work
er Correspondents conference ever
held in the United States, to take
place in Cleveland on May 81, i'm
mediately preceding the Trade Union
Unity Conference called by the Trade
Union Educational League in Cleve-
land on June l and 2.
A call for the workers CORE
spends conference is in preparation,
and will be issued shortly.
Strength of Movement Grows.
Due to the growing power of the
worker correspondents, in serving as
a medium of expression for the
workers, both in the Communist
press and in the many shop papers
issued by the workers in the various
industries, it has become a necessity
to coordinate the work of the work
er correspondents, and to organize
them into a powerful army of worker
correspondents, which will enable
their power to be utilized in the most
effective way.
The conference in Cleveland is in
line with the recent Fourth World
Congress of Worke- and Peasant
Correspondents in Moscow, which
was attended by over 500 delegates
from the Soviet Union, as we'll as
delegates from foreign countries.
The plans for the conference have
been met with great enthusiasm by
workers in such industrial centers as
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Chi
cago, and Detroit, where the work
ers were informed of the plans for
the conference by j. Louis Engdahl,
acting editor of the Daily Worker,
who spoke in these centers on his
trip to Chicago to participate in the
May Day celebrations there. The
workers in these cities pledged to
cooperate in every way in preparing
for the conference and in choosing
delegates.
A great army Of workers CORE
spondents has been developed in such
Continued on Page FiUe)
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.zARITSKY GANG
|. FOR MORE power
New Scheme to Crush
Militant Locals

AS though to add the cloak of
"constitutionality" to their campaign
of destruction against its militant
locals, and to crush all opposition,
the administration constitutional
committee" at the machine packed
convention of the Cloth Hat, Cap
and Millinery Workers International
yesterday, proposed an amendment
to the constitution giving the Gen
eral Executive Board full authority
to revoke charters of any local for
a decision" or an cor
der" of the General Executive Board.
The convention, which opened on
May l, is meeting at Beethoven
Hall.
At the same time a minority
report was introduced by which re-
vocation of charters would be taken
out Of the hands of the G.E.B. en-
tirely and placed in the hands of
of the International.
Move Attacked.
Delegates speaking for the minor
ity proposal attacked the administra-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Office Workers Hold
Key Position, Powers,
Grecht, Tell Reporter
By an office Worker.

coffee workers hold a very
strategic position in the commercial
world, and in case of strikes or "a
Dor struggles, can give very valu-
able information to workers in the
INDUSTRIES" said George Powers of
the Architectural, Iron and Bronze
Workers Union, and one of the
speakers at tonight's mass meeting,
as he pointed out the key position
which office workers hold IN the
business and industrial world.
Asked what role the office work
ers take in strikes, he replied
"They have the power to make
a strike or break a strike. They
can help the industrial workers
through their knowledge of the
bosses maneuvers and schemes to
thwart active protests; or, if they
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
CHAMPION FETE
TOMORROW Eve
Workers of All Races
Will Assemble

An international demonstration
cf solidarity with the Negro work
ers of America is indicated in the
response to the announcement of
the Champion Dinner" this Friday
evening at $3.50 at the Workers Cen
ter, which is being held by the Com
munist Party, District 2, and the
Negro Champion.
Many racial groups will be Off
cially represented at the dinner, as
we'll as trade unions and party
groups. Five delegates have been
appointed to represent the Haitian
Patriotic League, and the Porto
Rican, Chinese and Japanese work
ers will also be represented. The
international character of the din
ner will be emphasized by one of
the speakers, Louis Gibarti, interna-
tional representative of the Anti
Imperialist League, who will speak
on the international Role of the
Negro in a, Defying ImrPerialist Ag-
gression."
Build champion"
The announcement of the dinner
as the beginning of an intensive
campaign to build the 'Negro Cham
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Union Square Demonstration
Saturday on Berlin Murders

Following up the successful DEM
onstration held before the German
consulate on Tuesday, the New York
District of the Communist Party is
pushing forward with all speed the
preparations for the giant open-air
protest demonstration on Saturday,
May II, at 1870 p. m. in Union
Square.
In commenting upon the effects of
Tuesdays demonstration, the Dis
trict Executive Committee of Dis
trict 2 New York; points to the
fact that first of all the capitalist
press tried in every possible way
to hide the demonstration Tuesday
before the German consulate and
its significance for obvious diplo-
matte reasons, and, secondly, that
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
DELEGATE MEET
ON WEDNESDAY
Needle Workers Back
Cleveland Convention

The monthly Shop Delegate Con-
ference of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union will be held in
Webster Hall, 18th st. and Third
Ave-, next Wednesday, Immediately
after work, the Joint Board an
nounced last night.
Due to the general situation in
the fur and cloak industries, the
Forthcoming conference is of vital
importance. Among the immediate
and important problems to be taken
up at the conference are the follow
ing:
The Forthcoming general strike in
the fur industry; the fake lockout
and the fake stoppage which the
cloak manufacturers, together with
the treacherous International gang
are planning to foist upon the work.
ers. With their new fake maneuvers,
the right wing gang is striving to
make the miserable conditions of the
workers even worse than they are
at present.
One of the most important points
on the agenda of the Shop Delegates
Conference will include the selection
of delegates to the Metropolitan
Area Conference which the Local N.
Y. Trade Union Educational League
is calling for the purpose of mobil-
izing for the Trade Union Unity
Convention in Cleveland on June /
and End. The Metropolitan Area
Conference will be held in New York
on May IS and 10, and delegates rep
resenting thousands of workers are
expected to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SHOE WORK ERS TO
MEET THIS EVE
Hear Strike Progress
at Irving Plaza

Stirring reports of organization
activity and progress of strikes
throughout the city will be made at
the general membership meeting of
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union tonight at 6 o'clock at the
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Ir-
wing Pl.
Fred Biedenkapp, general man
ager of the union, will report on the
general situation, and J. Magliacano,
organizer, will tell of the series of
militant strikes in various parts of
the city.
At this meeting details will also
be told of the plan for each shop
to send delegates to the May 18
Metropolitan Area Conference for
the June / Cleveland Trade Union
Convention. Ten shops have already
chosen delegates.
Yesterday the bosses Of the Lipp
Shoe Company, 33 w. 10th St.,
where SIS workers have been on
strike for union recognition, wage
increases and the 44-hour week for
nearly two months, called for con-
ference with the union. The bosses
finally surrendered to the demands
for the union and 44-hour week, but
baked on the wage increase. As a
result the strike continues.
Workers in the Gintell Shoe Co.,
1873 W. 25th ST., yesterday, discov-
ering that they were working on
scab material, walked out. Sixty
ere now on strike under the leader
ship of the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union. The same situation pre-
walls at the Ettina Shoe Co., 397
Bedford Ave-, Brooklyn, where a
strike occurred yes ):erday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Series of Articles on
Conditions inBuilding
Trades StartsMOnday

Beginning Monday, the Daily
Worker will run a series of articles
en- the building industry, written by
Joseph Cohen. Now, with the build
ing boom on the downgrade, with
union bureaucracies expelling milf
tants who want 20 put up a real
fight against the open-shop drive
that is coming, and when the five
day week and the unemployment
problem are simultaneously occupy
ing the attention of the workers,
this series will be particularly in
terestine and timely. The articles
will be on the general situation, ac-
cidents and special trades, such as
carpenters, painters, plumbers, cleo
tricians, brieklayers, plasterers and
oaers. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BERLIN WORKERS
MASS AT CRAVE
OF DEAD heroes
Socialist Police Chief
Loses Nerve; Halts
Order to Attack
Many Strike Half Hour
Post Mortem Shows
Slain Were Unarmed .

BERLIN, May S.-Huge demon
strations at the cemetery where the
victims of the police terror carried
on against May Day paraders in
Berlin were buried today testified to
the hatred of militant German work
ers toward the capitalist govern
ment and its. social democratic of
5icials.
At the last moment, the social
democratic chief of police, Zoergie-
bel, lost his nerve and with his men,
DRY fresh of the four days fighting
on the barricades, when the Red
Front Fighters and workers of Ber-
lin drove back the well-equipped po-
lice and shock troops of this city,
ne averted similar battles today by
con5enting to the demonstrations
Workers Come in Masses.
An attempt to save the prestige
Of the government and of the social
democratic party by strict order
against parades to the cemetery
availod them nothing Workers
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SICK EvICTED;
PICKET LINES
THRU Streets
Leave All Furniture on
Company Land; Drive
Deputies From It
County Refuses Relief
Chicago Workers Hold
Tag Days, Meetings

GASTONIA, N. c.. May s.
Deputies set to work by the Man.
ville-Jenckes Textile Co. are busy
again today throwing strikers out
of their houses, and the strikers con-
tinue to defy the evictions, refusing
to leave company property. There
is a picket line throughout the
streets of the company town. Depu-
ties have pointed guns at the strik-
ers, threatening to shoot them down,
and the strikers and their families
shout back at them, "Shoot if you
dare" So far none has dared, but
a massacre is not impossible at any
moment.
Evict Sick Children.
Eta Mcclure, a mother of five
small children and pregnant, was
evicted while her husband was coll
lecting strike relief in Ashville. The
six-year-old daughter of j. A. VAL
entine, member of the strike COM
mittee, was thrown into the road by
deputies, although the girl has small
pox. The company doctor gave his
official consent to this. Chief
picket captain Cox, and his four
children were evicted, although the
youngest child, baby of eighteen
months, has influenza.
Such general resistance to these
evictions has been aroused that in
several cases the deputies failed.
One was at the house of Bertha
Crawford, chairman of the local
branch of the Workers International
Relief. Bertha Crawford and her
husband held their house so vig-
orously that the deputies had to
leave. The Robinson and Carol
families locked their doors. The
deputies secured reinforcements,
crashed down the door and pointed
guns, threatening to shoot, and de-
fled to shoot by The family.
"Stick To The Union"
There are large demonstrations in
the company town. Mrs. Robinson
made speech amongst the furni-
ture in the road, laying:
Look what the dirty dogs are
doing. Stick to the union! 1 am
willing to give my life for it.
Fight it out, and continue living
right here in the road every
night"
A gang of mill owner thugs,
claiming to be deputy sheriffs came
upon Roy Stroud, a striker, at mid
night, where he was sleeping in the
road amongst his furniture. He
drove them away at the point of
gun, claiming and enforcing his
right to self defense.
Parents Jailed; Children Evicted.
Seven children Of the Byers FAM
lily slept amongst the furniture of
their house after it was thrown into
the street. Their parents were ar
rested because one little child kicked
deputy who was throwing the fur
niture into the road.
Need More Tents.
The evicted families yesterday
decided to let the furniture stay
where it was thrown. No matter
how many are evicted, the policy is
not to take the belongings from the
company property, and put the next
Continued on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SENATE ADOPTS
farm DEBENTURE
CompleteDeadlockNow
Most Probable

WASHINGTON, May s WH.-
Efforts of President Hoover's sup
porters to strike the debenture plan
from the farm relief bill failed in
the Senate today when the admins
tration amendment proposed by
floor leader Watson was rejected.
The debenture clause provides
that whenever the order is issued by
the farm board, a bounty may be
paid by the treasury on any ex-
ported farm commodity, the amount
Of the bounty to be equal to one
half the import duty on that pro-
duct. In the case of wheat, the tar
iff is AZ cents bushel so that the
debenture certificate would have a
face value of 81 cents.
II
The debenture plan does not in
any manner assist the actual farm
DIS, and at most raises the price of
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

good done for the tenants, whatever
they say will be lie, for there has
never been a more brazen housing
fake law put across than this one.
Mayor Walker is now busy con-
structing a mask of housing fakes
which will be worn by the landlords
and their soap-boxers during the
campaign. He is now preparing
what he calls model housing
scheme for Forsythe and Chrystie
Streets in the lower East Side. He
Continued on Page T,Vo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
AGAIN JAM meet
AT THING PLANT
Tell of 1000 Dividend;
Bosses BOoed

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., May s.
Aided by the whole-hearted support
Of the workers, who attended er
masse, the Trade Union Educational
League held another MONDAY mass
meeting in front of the American
Encaustic Tiling Company plant
here today. The girl workers were
in the vanguard, coming out first
and in the greatest numbers.
Speakers were Veronica Kovacs,
John Marshall, of the Trade Union
Educational League, and James
Szepesy, worker in the plant who
Continued on Page TUo)
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situation or with promises of what
they will do when they get into Of
flee.
Prepare Fake Screen.
The Tammany speakers will point
to the Multiple Dwellings, Bill,
passed by the New York State legis-
lature and signed by Governor
Roosevelt with almost the unani-
nous support of the realtors and
land sharks, as progressive"
step in restrictive" housing legis-
lation. When they speak of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
SHOOT If YOU DARE" Mill STRIKERS WARN DEPUTIES


Carrying banners de-
nolncing the bloody at
tack on the German May
Day demonstration IN
Berlin by the socialist
police, and pledging their
solidarity 1Oith the prole-
tartan Red Front Fight
ers, 2Oho fought heroicaI-
ly on the barricades of
Bertin, seUeraL hundred
Nel0 York qOorkers DEM
onstrated before the Ger
man Consulate Tuesday.
Photo shOlUS the aUorkerS
at the German Consulate,
aOhere they marched
from the International
Seamen'S Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Equal Pay for Equal Work!
Communist Housing Program
for Workingclass Tenants
No Segregation; State Houses for Workers;
Low Rents; No Evictions; Good Houses

(ThS as the conuding article IN the q0hicb has appeared
exclusively the Daily Worker the conditions dr l0hich
ors forced to ve Nw York City Precious articles described
detail conditions Upper LoUer Haem here
the unsantay conditions Whch also est other
worngclass DISTRICTS and used by the landlords vious rent
raising scheme
After the conclusion of this series the Daily Worker 0W continue
th the publication of housing conditions IN other cities
and letters received from WortingcasS tenantS)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Steel TRUST IN
WORKERS TRIAL.
Gives Orders; Frameup
Imminent
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BETHLEHEM, Pa, May 8.-The
drama of the class war unfolded it
self with unusual vividness when II
workers, arrested when police at
tackled May Day meeting here last
Saturday, came up for hearing in
the local court held at Alderman
Greenstein's office. On one side were
officials of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, the chief of the COM
pany police, foremen, consulting
with and instructing the district at
torney while the puppet judge went
thru the motions of administering
"justice."
On the other side, filling the
courtroom, was a crowd of 1000
workers, the majority steel slaves,
eager to learn the fate OF their COM
rades.
Two Still Held.
Of the II workers arrested, all
but two were released on $1,000 bail,
four on the unusually high bail OF
$4,000 and two, Morris Birnbaum
and William T. Murdoch, Philadel-
phia district organizer of the Trade
Union Educational League and vice
president of the National Textile
Continued en- Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Building Zinc
Distillery in USSR

ARTEMOVSK, U. S. S. r. (By
MaiD.-In the Donetz Basin, near
Konstantinovka, the construction has
been started of a zinc pipe distillery
with an annual turnover of 10000
tons,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Big Gain IN
Paris Vote OF
Communists
(WireIess Bu "Inprecorr"

(WafeIeSs By "InpfecoT''J
PARIS, May 8.-The municipal
elections give the Communists five
seats in the Paris municipal council
against two in 1925. The elections
show a growth in Communist votes
of ten per cent while the socialist
vote was considerably less.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BY SOL AUERBACH.
XIV.

THE municipal election New York City approaching Housing
the intimate of the lives will by
capitalist parties and the rom socialist party for their purposes
in the election campaign.
the three parties the capitalist
will the either what they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

We have seen above that the first
step I'm the revolution by the work.
ing class is to rnise the prOletnrfnt
to the position of ruling clnss. to
win the battle of democracy--Kar
Marx (Communist Manifesto)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
TRUCK DRIVER KILLED

WAKEFIELD, R. I. (By MaiD y
Rufus Gardner, truck driver for
the Holley Transportation Co.,
was killed when a train
struck the truck he was driving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Strengthen International Prole-
tartan Ties Over the Heads of the
Amsterdam Disruptersl ss.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
AGAINST
THE BRUTAL
POLICE
TERROR IN
THE CAFETERIA
STRIKE

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Workers-Farmers Governme 1t
To Organize the Unorganized
For The 40-HoMr Week
For Labor Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

AGAINST
THE ATTACK /
AND MURDER
OF GERMAN
WORKERS ON
MAY DAY
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-03-14
T. b E T III E

Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Bowers and Mr.
John Bowers, Morgantown, w. Va.
are spending this week with THEN
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Bowers.
Messrs. Arthur Fitzwater, Robert
Thomas, Andy Day and Herbert
Steiding were calling on Wilmer Fitz-
water Sunday.
The children of Levi Glotfelty and
William Fitzwater have the measles.
Mr.. Keith Steiding, of Martins
burg, W. Va, spent the weekend
with home folk.
Married
INTERCHANGEABLE ISIS Catherine
Fitzwater, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Fitzwater, and Mr.. How
ard R. Wilt, son of Mrs. John Albert
Wilt, both of Swanton, were married
March 9, the Rev. Louis P. Chastain,
pastor of the First M. E. church,
Westernport, performing the cere-
mony. They are spending a short
visit with the BRIDES parents, where
they were awakened Monday morn
ing by an old-fashioned serenade.s
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-03-14

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