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Smyrna times., 1929-09-11
DRY AGENTS GET OFFENDERS
IL Men and Women Lodged in Jail
Are Later Taken to Wilmington

Federal Prohibition Director
George A. Gill and his assistants
in a general dry crusade Saturday
afternoon in and around Dover,
caught II alleged offenders, all of
whom were lodged in Kent County
jail at Dover and later were taken
to Wilmington for preliminary
hearings before U. S. Commission
er Polk. Ed. Dittman, Clayton r.
D., was charged with sale and pos
session. Dittman's place has been
raided several times, but he has
never been apprehended. The of
ficers came up on him in his yard.
Dittman started to rim toward the
woods near his place, with a jug
Of liquor. He dropped the jug, ex-
pecting it would break, but it did
not. II was secured. Adrian Ver-
tier, of near Leipsic, was charged
with sale and possession. Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Scott of Dover, living
in or near the settlement known as
Scotttown, are confronted with
charges of sale and possession.
Three or four pints of alleged
liquor were found at the Scott
home hidden in the chimney. Scott
was arrested and served time for
violation of the liquor laws Caleb
Hughes, near Dover, faces charges
Of sale and possession. c. H. Dav-
is, a West Dover keeper of a SER
vice station, was charged with sale
and possession. Davis has been
suspected before of having liquor
in his possession. John Lejore, a
keeper of another service station
just outside of Dover, was charged
with sale. Sallie M Fisher, white
woman, was charged with possess
sion. John Calvin Simmons, was
charged with sale. William Bell,
Jr., keeper Of another West Dover
service station, was charged with
possession. Mary Williams, of
Townsend, was taken into custody
on Saturday, charged with sale of
intoxicants. With all of the Kent
County offenders arrested and
lodged in Kent County jail until
taken to Wilmington for their pre-
liminary hearings before Commis-
sioner Polk, Sheriff Massey had his
hands full with friends of the diff
ferent accused calling to the Jail to
see them, as well as some who
were ready to offer bail. Quite a
little discussion arose among some
of the friends of the accused as to
why they should have been taken
to Wilmington for a hearing when
the warrants were issued in Dover.
They contended the prisoners
should have been allowed to secure
bail in Dover rather than be taken
to Wilmington. Vertier was the
only one of the above who secured
bail at his hearing Saturday night.
Prohibition Director Hill and as
sistants Sunday raided the Olivier
farm just over the Delaware line
in Maryland where they located
two large stills and several hun
dred gallons of alleged mash. The
operators of the still were missing.
The stills and mash were destroy
ed.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Speed BUILDING
OF IS CRUISERS
Congress Rushes War
Preparations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Along
with it's maneuvers for more arma=
ments at the London Five-Power
Conference, U. S. imperialism is i'm
mediately proceeding to the build
ing of Is 10-000-ton cruisers.
This was the announcement made
by Burton l.. French, of the House
Appropriations Committee. French
points out that war preparations are
to go on even faster than hereto
fore.
Ten cruisers will be laid down this
year, and five next year, French
says the forthcoming race-for-arma-
ments conference will not have the
slightest effect on the naval war
preparations.
at is my opinion that the naval
construction program will not be
changed because of the forthcoming
conference" he said. II see no rea-
son why the cruiser program should
be altered in the least, as there
seems to be no present probability
that an agreement will be reached
will cause any change in our pro-
posed cruiser construction.
In order to speed up the work,
special financing is being prepared.
United States imperialism is rush
ing its war preparations especially
in the face of the growing sharp
crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

starter, only a beginning of the
struggle of the miners. This walk
out is also the beginning of the end
CT the rule of the Lewis ishwick-
Harrington machine. The struggle
now must be spread and must in
volve the miners of other states,
and gradually of the nation. The
present strike can best be spread on
the basis of the struggle for local
demands and local issues. Our per-
spective must be to extend each
struggle and to connect up the local
demands with the general demands
of the NM.U.
Lesson To Learn.
The strike for the last three weeks
must teach US the lessons that if
we are to win the strike against
the combined enemies of the miners,
we must prepare ourselves.
The miners must build the Inter
national Labor Defense and the
Workers International Relief.
Another essential problem for the
miners at this time is to prepare for
self defense. The best answer to
the company thugs and Lewis gang
sters is a strong miners defense
corps.
Side by side with the building of
the miners union we must also build
the N.M.U. womens' auxiliaries, and
the childrens' clubs (N.MU. chill
drens' auxiliaries).
Mobilize for Further Struggle.
The miners must now mobilize for
further struggles, for fiercer battles
in the immediate future. The vic
tory of the miners over the coal
operators and the Lewis-Fishwick
machine will mean victory for the
whole working class movement over
the bosses and thei: social fascist
agents. The crisis in the mining
industry, which is growing, the ell
mination of large sections of the
miners from the industry, with the
growing speed-up, all these will
bring further resistance, and the OPP
portunity for greater struggles. The
capitalist state and all of its depart
ments in conjunction with the A.
F. of L. bureaucracy, will always
be on the side of the bosses. These,
the workers generally and the min
ers in particular, must prepare to
face. The whole unity of the work
ing class is essential for the victory
over the common enemy, the boss
class. The miners have shown the
way. The workers in other indus
tries must follow the example of
the fighting miners of Southern II
linois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

ployed with the employed workers"
The capitalists attempt to create
a division of unemployed and en-
ployed strikers, pitting one against
the other in order to achieve drastic
wage cuts.
These demands must be stressed
in the fight against unemployment:
1. Complete insurance, provided
by the government, with benefits of
full wages under the supervision of
the workers.
2. Abolition Of private employ
ment agencies; free employment
agencies controlled by the workers.
3. A seven-hour day, five-day
week; no overtime; abolition of the
speed-up system; abolition OF under
ground, night work and work in
dangerous industries for youth and
women.
4. Recognition of the Soviet
Union. This is a central political
demand of the working class, and
also would alleviate unemployment
through the development of in
creased volume of trade with the
Soviet Union.
6. Link up the struggle against
unemployment with the campaign
against the war danger and for the
defense of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
ILLINOIS STRIKE SHOWS need
OF ORGANIZING WOMEN, YOUTH
Discriminate Against Young Miners; Pioneers
Add Life to Picketing at WATSON

One Of the most outstanding
features of the Illinois miners
strike is the part in it of the young
miners.
The first day of the strike and
the days that followed proved con-
clusively that the young miners
are ready to take leadership in the
struggle AMI put up a real fight
against the coal operators and
their henchmen. The young miners
know that they are replacing the
adult workers on the jobs so that
the bosses can get more profits
and more production out of them.
Even so the young miners feel the
sting of unemployment in the min
ing field, and the traitorous role of
the U. NJ. W. of A. machine. The
young miners know that the Lewis
and the Fishwick cliques leading
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea have never paid any attention
to the % per cent of the miners
who are young workers and they
have deprived the young miners of
all rights in union affairs.
Today the young miners are fac
ing the national guardsmen, the
company thugs, and the whole ma
chinery of the state, and have
shown that they are ready to stand
their ground. In Taylorville, in
Buckner, in Collinsville, in Pana,
the young miners under the leader
ship of the youth organizers of the
National Miners Union have shown
some splendid examples of fighting
spirit and alertness.
Women and Children Picket.
The present struggle of the min
ers also brought out two other very
important facts. From the very
first moment the women and the
children of the miners were on the
picket line, putting up very strong
resistance to the police and deputy
sheriffs. The Young Pioneers in
WATSON deserve special mention.
As early as 5 o'clock in the morn
ing the Young Pioneers were out
on the picket line, singing, cheer
ing and fighting. This should serve
as an example to the workers as a
whole and to the miners in par
ticular of the Importance of at once
initiating a, campaign of organiza-
ton among the women and children
of the miners.
Just Beginning.
The walk-out of 10000 miners on
December 9, although in itself an
historical event, and very clearly ex-
pressing the militancy and the fight
ing spirit of the miners, is only a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Crisis Bares Growth
of Unemployment
Continued from Page .0ne)

Continued from Page, sOne)
ing pictures of capitalism says I'M
employment increased nearly 4 per
cent in Illinois in one month.
"The downward trend of employ
ment shown in October" says the
Bank Continued during November.
Heavy recessions were reported
in the rubber, food products, leather
and vehicle groups"
Even food products production
dropped. The workers are begin
ming to eat less. The unemployed
are pulling their few pennies out
Of the bank fast. reports the Fed
eral Reserve. "The Nov. 80 figures
(of savings bank Deposits COM
pared with year ago showed de-
clines of Al per cent"
Further declines in steel produc-
lion are reported. The Wall Street
Journal says (Dec. 30:
''U. S. Steel Corp. during the
current week will be operating at
considerably in excess of most of
its competitors. While the Holt
day shutdown has affected the
output of the corporation it is in
Dictated that production will be at
approximately so per cent of its
capacity.
This is in sharp contrast with
other concerns. The estimates are
that for the entire industry the
production of ingOts will not he
more than 35 per cent to 40 per
cent Of capacity during the cur
rent week. This means that many
CT the smaller independents have
closed lmost entirely. while
others are at rate much lower
than the leading interest"
In this situation the organization
of the unemployed is being stressed
as a major campaign by the Com
munist Party.
"The first and basic principle
upon which all struggles against
unemployment must be developed,
says the program of the Communists
Party for work among the unem
ployed, sis the unity of the unem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
NEW YEARS EVE BALL FOR
MINERS RELIEF.

A great crowd of proletarians IS
expected to tear the roof off Rock
land Palace, 155th st. and Eighth
Ave-, the big Workers Costume
Ball on New Years Eve. In every
section of the city and vicinity work.
ers are now busy preparing the cos
tunes for one of the biggest events
of it's kind ever held.
Local New York, Workers Inter-
national Relief and the Workers
School are arranging the ball, a ma
ior portion of whose proceeds Will
20 for striking Illinois miners. pe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Ask Big Navies
For War, Colonies

Continued from Page Ome)
should agree that the imperialist
powers build their navies big enough
for this purpose. Hoover and Mac
Donald under the slimiest pacifist
phrases have been trying to hide
this fact.
In the reshuffling of alliances
that will take place at the London
conference, the French imperialists
want to make the best bargain for
the next year. AS slap against
U. S. maneuvering for world hege-
mony, in the guise of joining the
World Court, ETC., and the advocacy
of the Kellogg "peace" pact, the
French imperialists declare that the
London conference would have to
be within the framework of the
League of Nations.
The League of Nations is mainly
British controlled and is the rally
ing ground against the encroach-
ments of U. S. imperialism in the
world market. The French are in
voking the authority of the League
against the United States.
This brings out clearly the sharp
conflicts and contradictions which
animate and will dominate thu dis
cussions at the race-for-armaments
conference.
The French fidelity to the League
of Nations smacks of their military
alliance with Great Britain, directed
against the United States.
On one point there is more or less
harmony-the strengthening of the
Kellogg war pact (misnamed for
publicity purposes "peace pact") by
strong military alliance of the
capitalists. The main object of this
backbone to the Kellogg war pact
would be an attack on the Soviet
Union.
The French point out that public
opinion" is to weak force behind
the Kellogg pact. They mean par
ticularly the Stimson note threaten
ing war on the Soviet Union, in the
name of "public opinion" Litvinoff
mercilessly unmasked the imperial
list war ambitions of U. S. imperial
ism in this instance. 1t is to insure
more drastic measures that the
French ask for stronger guaran-
tees"
The sharpening world economic
crisis in this Third Period is driving
towards war. The imperialist pow
ers are already building their navies
and armies.
There is one outstanding fact that
is overlooked at the present moment
in the confusion created by the
capitalist press in repeatedly call
ing the London Five-Power Confer
ence, disarmament meet" Every
capitalist power involved is busily
engaged in building a strong navy,
without even waiting for agree
ments of alliances.
Inc FTeIlCIl nave CiiC Di6SSS.s DN
get for war purposes in their his
tory. Great Britain is at work on
its naval bases and number OF
cruisers. And Hoover admits that
the United States is spending faster
than any other country for war pur-
poses. Every day submarines are
launched, and The work of the 10
10 ,OOO-ton cruisers poceeds rapidly.
The capitalist powers are grim IN
their determination to strengthen
their war machine. The London con-
ference is in reality the doorstep
of the coming world war. In order
to threaten and browbeat one an
other to obtain the most valuable
alliances, the imperialist delegates
will come in and throw into each
others faces their tremendous naval
strength and their threat and de-
,,,and for future ornaments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Enlist Your Shop Mate in the
Drive for 5000 New Members.
EXPOSING THE "PEACE" PACT.

GAI ool4No lG G<hS1 HSis
A dispatch to the New York
World, by Elliott Thurston, in
Washington, commenting on the
efforts of Stimson and Hoover to
strengthen the capitalist alliance
against the Soviet Union, says:
zone of the main criticism haised
by the Republican isolationists
against the action of this govern
ment in concerning with others to
exert pressure Of world opinion up
on Russia and China to observe the
anti-war pact is that the Kellogg
Treaty authorizes no such action.
This admitted deficiency would be
supplied by general pact"
This is further exposure of the
fact that the Kellogg "peace" pact
is capitalist war maneuver. The
London Naval Conference will at
tempt to strengthen the attacks on
the Soviet Union. Hoover and Slim
son are taking the lead In the war
threats on the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

bosses could hire and fire whenever
they pleased.
The Independent Shoe Workers
Union has put stop to all those
evils. Conditions in the factories
have improved, the 44-hour week
has been established, prices have
been raised, the open shops stopped,
the wage cuts and conditions in
general have been improved in the
shops.
A Counter Offensive.
We must not overlook the, stra-
tegic position of the bosses, the
metropolitan Manufacturers Asso-
ciation," composed of the Independ-
ent Shoe Manufacturers, most of
them having agreements with the
union. They have the full support,
morally and financially, of the
Board o. Trade, composed of large
manufacturers and of the United
States Labor Department, the
American Federation of Labor, the
socialist party, the courts and the
police.
The independent controls 40 shops.
The employers schemes are to
starve the shoe workers, take away
their right to picket, send gorillas
to their homes, use the frame-up,
make wholesale arrest of the shoe
workers and try to bring dlssention
into their ranks. After which they
hope the shoe workers will come
back for their jobs. But the manu-
facturers are greatly mistaken. The
shoe workers still remember the
misery that prevailed under the
open-shop system. Still fresh in the
minds of the shoe workers are the
long hours they worked and the
wage cuts. The 5000 workers would
rather starve on the picket lines
than go back to work without their
union.
Immediate Struggle.
The lookout has reached it's eli
max, the busy season is approach
ing, the New York shoe manufac-
turers have lost hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in the Wall Street
crash. They must make shoes. The
Board of Trade, the labor depart
ment, the courts, the police, the
gorillas cannot make shoes. The
only ones who can make the shoes
are the shoe workers who are out
On strike. The shoe manufacturers
go to visit the wives of the strikers
appealing to them to send their hus-
bands back to work, promising
them higher wages and steady work
Now more than ever We must carry
on the struggle of the unorganized
shoe workers. We must organize
the unorganized shoe workers.
Our demand must be: Establish
shop committees in every shop; 90
hour 5-day week; Abolition Of the
piece-work system; General increase
in wages.
Only on such demands will we be
able to establish a strong union in
the shoe Industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
II MIN ME- MORTAL
MEETS ARRANGED
Held in Many Cities
Turnout Country

Lenin Memorial Meetings will be
held in dozens of cities turnout the
country between January II and 26.
Many of these meetings have al
ready been arranged and others will
be announced in a few days. Meet
ings which have not previously been
arranged for another date should be
held on January 81.
The following is a partial list of
the Lenin Memorial meetings.:
District One.
Tuesday, Jan. 81, 8 p. M; Frank
lin Union Hall, Alexander Trachten-
burg, speaker, Boston, Mass. West
Concord, N. H.; Quincy, Mass; Long
Cove, Mass; Fall River, Mass.
Fitchburg, Mass; Gardner, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass; Keene, N. H.;
GAINESVILLE, Mass; Lawrence, Mass.
Maynard, Mass; Newton Upper
Falls, Mass; Norwood, Mass; New,
port, N. H.; Peasbody, Mass; Prov
idence, R. l.; Wilton, N. H.; New
Bedford, Mass; Manchester, N. H.;
Lynn, Mass.
District Two.
49, - -'i'j
=, Madison Square Garden
speaker, Robert Minor; Perth Am
boy, N. j., Ukranian Hall, 752 State
st.
Friday, Jan. "a, s p. M, Broadway
Arena, Broad and Christian, Phila.
delphia, Pa; Sunday, Jan. 20: Scran-
ton, Pa; Minersville, Pa.
District Five.
Friday, Jan. IL, New Kensington
Pa; Saturday, Jan. 10: E. Pitts
burg, Pa; Ambridge, Pa; New
Castle, Pa; Sunday, Jan. 10: Pitts.
burgh, Pa; Monessen, Pa; Wednes.
day, Jan. %: Canonsburg, Pa;
Avella, Pa; Clarion, Pa; Friday
Jan. "a; Masontown, Pa; Browns
vile, Pa; Saturday, Jan. rs: Johns
town, Pa; Daisytown, Pa; Bentley.
vile, Pa; Sunday, Jan. &c: Portage
Pa; McKees Rocks, Pa; McKees.
port, Pa.
District Seven.
Detroit, Mich, Sunday, Jan. 10
$50 p. M, speaker, VIM. F. Dunno
District Eight.
Chicago, ILL.,, Tuesday, Jan. 21
Ashland Auditorium, speaker, Mas
Bedacht.
District Thirteen.
Los Angeles, Calf, Tuesday, Jan
81, 7.30 p. m. Columbus Hall, 61t
S. Flower st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Not only has the bourgeoisis
forged the weapons that bring
death TO Itself, II hnA ais1 called
INTO existence the men who are TO
wtrih those wrnpous---thc IN odern
working rinss--the proletarinns.-
Mari Mara iC"mmnniss Manifested.
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BIockers Come to N.T.w. U

At Berg and Aronoff eight block
ers were locked out. The trimmers
in this shop belong to local AZ, in
the N.T.W.LU. The right wing
union officials did not permit these
blockers to come to the industrial
union for help, but they came any
way, and the militant trimmers
forced the boss to call up the chair
man of the strikers and reinstate
them, and settle their grievances.
This is unity in the shop over the
heads Of the right wing officialdom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
ATTACK AND COUNTER AT.
TACK.
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W1TeteSS ~ inpfecOfTJ
BERLIN, Dec. 27.-The state con-
troll imposed upon Berlin's munich
pal administration, probably is the
result of the city councils decision
to grant a special winter assistance
to the unemployed, involving the
expenditure of S1,250,000. On
Christmas Day the Berlin unem-
ployed demonstrated in the prosper
Gus districts of the city, the West
End, under Communist leadership,
and in spite of the police.
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As far as ! nm concerned. . emit
claim 10 have discovered the ex-
istcnce Of classes In modern society
or their strife against one another.
Niddie-ciass historians long nE0
described the evolution Of the class
strnggies. ana political economists
showed the economic phy siOlOgy ut
the GLASSES. ! have ndded m new
con tributi0n the following prOp0si-
tiODsi ~ thnt the existence Of
classes II bound mp with certain
phases Of material production, -
thar the class struggle lends neces-
sariiy TO the dictatorship Of the
rroletnrtat, ~ that this dictnt0rshtp
In hut the transition 90 the nbOIi-
ton Of NIL classes and 70 the crc-
alton at society Of free md equal.
--NarS
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