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The Washington times., 1929-03-04
FOX CLICKS ON
STAGE AND
SCREEN

The Fox swung its doors open
this morning at $50 o'clock to
permit the milling crowds to see
one of the most entertaining pro.
grams ever devised for the
Capitals discriminating theater-
goers; and at time when the
city's population is augmented by
an equally discriminating public
from the hinterlands.
Demure Mary Astor in a
charming photoplay and the
popular songster, Johnny Marvin,
heading stage bill, second to
none, are program brightlig1ts.
And, thrown in, is the clever and
attractive youth, Bert Frohman,
who hoped all the way from Los
Angeles to Washington just 10
act as master of ceremonies dur
ing Inauguration week.
Miss Astor, Ea.le Foxe and the
handsome Charles Morton, turn in
splendid characterizations with an
u1excelled cast of fellow players.
The film Is with sound.
The stage frolickers include the
Three Spedie Boys in a fast, but
beautifully done military dance
number; Ruth Hamilton, in some
more or her silly antics that set
the house agog; Betsy Rees, IN
BLACK Mariah" toe dance; Sully
and Goma1y, in an acrobatic az
fair, and the Fox Tillerettes, pret..
tily-costumed, and doing unusual
stepping.
Heading the list, of course. Is
Johnny Marvin, the disc artist,
whose talent and skill is known
hither and yon. Johnny is given
some real assistance by his brother
Frank.
The overture, a rather outstand.
ing accomplishment, was written
and devised by the Fox conductor,
Leon Brusiloff, and Clarinettist
Elwood, M. Wilson.-C. w.
The Washington times., 1929-03-04
REDSKLN rs COLORFJL INDIAN
EPIC IN FILMS

A slender thread is interviewer
in the great love between the
daughter of .he Pueblo tribe and
the son of Navajo. enemies for
SO long, who are finally united by
this marriage. Gladys Belmont
is capable as the Indian maiden
An excellent cast supports. A
number of Indians from Govern
ment reservation lend atmosphere
and realism to the picture. Vita.
phone has provided delightful
musical score.
An appropriate screen tribute IS
accorded President Hoover and
Vice President Curtis. Short sub
iects and a naws release complete
the program. II. A.
The Washington times., 1929-03-04

Richard Dix. who portrayed
The Vanishing American, an
epic of the early American Indian,
q few years ago. is again cast In
q similar role in "Redskfn" cur.
rent attraction at the Earle The
ater. Though lacking. somewhat
the inspiration and splendor of
the earlier success, "Redskin" has
gained by the added attractions,
color and synchronization. The
exclusive grandeur of the South
west country, the fascinating life
of the Indian tribes, is all beauti
fully pictured, and the ceremonials
and rituals are realistic through
the sound interpretations.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-04-11
THEFIRST NATIONAL BANK

welcomes Mr. Mullen and the Vitaphone
to Sank Centre
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-04-11
HILLERUD,S HARDWARE

appreciates Mr.. Mullen's enterprise in giving
Sank Centre better pictures. The Vitaphone
is worthwhile improvement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Workers Defy A. F. of L.
at New Orleans

Again the striking street workers of New Orleans
have faced the fascist attacks of the police their struggle
for living and endurabe hours of labor and against
unonism By vote of 1oo9 to 81 they rejected
the agreement which signed in New York days ago
against the interests of the workers by William Green presi
dent of the American Federation of Labor and General
Manager Patterson of the New Orleans
pany and which had the approval of W. D. Mahon national
president of the carmens union
Green and Mahon
employers and to force the workers accept nebe conditions
thought that the New Orleans strikers facing
sanpuinav STRUGGLE that bev could he beed bac IN tho COW b
and onto the street bound and gagged This
accord with the traditional policy the deliberately
wears the workers down with the hope weakening their resistance
that reacheous secretly arrived
the bureaucracy be imposed them The rejection of the
treacerous agreement which allowed discrimination
unonsts, direct rebuke to these labor berayers.
That the working class of New Orleans standing
determined street strikers evidenced by the
tons of solidarity during the the strike The defiance
the police the storming the gun poison
gas and hand grenade typical of the determination the working
class of the United States to fierce battles
betrayal by the American Federation ociadom
plainly the class agnments that bsevan worker
of rehabilitation of the working
mped the series of strikes the South the heroic textile struggle
in Gaston rejection by workers of the
in the plants Eizabehtown
V Nw orleans IN e auto and other industries are opera
Only those who like Loveone his followers
theology of the appalled, the might
OF American imperialism will fail to realize the tremendous
canoe the rehabilitation that manifest throughout
ranks OF the working class The elemental of the
that developing these United States will sweep path
vacilang and opporunist elements.
The New Orleans strike primarily against
unionsm hence the workers
eacherousy by
Federation of Labor Officials would
of the cames union into what would be- all
unon The Orleans strikers
by Green Mahon illustration as agents
capitalism Of the American Federation
at the Cleveland convention which the
the Trade Union Unity League
The further show that only militant
revolutionary leadership achieve
The determination the tremendous will part
New Orleans strikers though handicapped cowardy and
eacherus labor bureaucracy by exceptional
today 1t is characteristic great
OF industrial workers in this country Not that the
etward drift in the working class already brought large num-
bers OF workers OF A. F. of L.
and has made the
bureaucrats for the leadership of the
tremendous opportunities
unions in all basic industries and all the
leadership of the Trade Union Unity
States section OF the Red International of Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Foster to Speak at
T ailOrs Conference
Here Tomorrow Morn

William z. Foster, general secre-
tary of the Trade Union Unity
League, will be the principle speaker
at the shop delegate conference
called by the Amalgamated Section,
T. U. U. L. which will be held to-
morrow at II a. m. at Stuyvesant
Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St.
The conference will discuss and act
on the question of mobilizing the
rank and file members of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union
against the Sidney Hillman clique
which now controls the organization.
Other speakers at the conference
will be Ben Gold, secretary, Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union;
Sam Liptzen, S. Weisman and A..
Osweldo.
Grating Exposed.
The amount of graft, and corrup-
tion within the Amalgamated has
been disclosed as the result of a
fight between two right wing
groups in the organization. A. Yam
ofsky, business agent Of the Vest
makers Trade Board was accused
of accepting graft from contracts.
An investigating committee was
elected, but Yanofsky did not appear
before it. In fact, he even stopped
coming to the union office at 35 W.
18th st. The committee then Went
to his home, where Yanofsky stated
that he is "sick man" and does
not know anything about graft. In
the next breath he admitted that
his son-in-law Borrowed" $1,000
from contractor IL years ago,
adding that he had nothing to do
with the transaction. The Yanofsky
group in the union headed by Peter
Montat, secretary of the Vestmak-
ers Trade Board, appointed another
of their henchmen named Weinstein
ss business agent in place of Yam
ofsky. Then B. Margolis, leader of
an opposition right wing group in
the union, charged that the entire
Monat- Yanofsky administration is
guilty Of graft, and has been for
more than II years. The investi-
eating committee, then "investigat-
ed" the charges and whitewashed
Montat and his associates. The
committee were all members Of the
Monat administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Shoe Workers Hold
Meeting Tonight at
Cooper Union Hall

The Independent Shoe Workers
Union will hold a general member
ship meeting tonight at p. m. at
Cooper Union, Third Ave. and 8th
ST., when questions of vital impor-
tance to the organization will be
taken up. All union members are
urged to present, also on time.
A report will be given on the re-
cent attacks on the union by the
U. S. Department of Labor and
Tammany Hall r,lce. Methods to
combat the attacks will be acted
upon.
During recent weeks, the U. S.
Labor Department has written to
the shoe manufacturers having
agreements with the union and
have ordered them to break their
contracts with the union. 1t has
also sent aoents of the department
to union factories and attempted to
have the workers fill out question
aires of an anti-labor character.
The speakers will be Ere d
Beidenkarp, general manager of the
union; Ben Gold, secretary-treas-
urer, Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union; Joseph Magliacano,
Italian organizer and a representa-
tive of the Trade Union Unity
League. Steve Alexanerson, presi-
dent of the union, will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
SOPHIE ELVIN
VISITS NEW YORK
Welcome Banquet Will
Be Held Tomorrow

Sophie Melvin, 19-year-Old men,
ber of the Young Communist
League and one of the 16 defendants
in the Gastonia murder trial, who
arrived in New York yesterday will
be welcomed at banquet to be
held at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square, tomorrow at 5 p. m.
The program in addition to
speeches by members of the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
munist League will include dancing
and other features.
This will be the first time that
Melvin has been in New York since
she was charged with murder after
the police attack on the Workers In
ternational Relief tent colony in
Gastonia, June 7, and large turn
out to welcome her is expected. Tic
kets for the banque are 50 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
FEDERAL PRISON
is HOOVER PL AN
TO STOP STRIKES
Part of Preparations
for World War

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The
Hoover administration has set the
stage for placing on the statute
books federal legislation against
strikes in an effort to stem the ris-
ing tide of militancy on the part OF
the working class of the United
States.
National Syndicalist Law.
One of the republican members OF
the house of congress, Arthur NJ
Free, of San Jose, California, an
nounces that he will introduce legis-
lation at the December session
"aimed at suppression of Commu-
nistic activities" He said the bill
he will introduce is framed along
the line of the infamous criminal
syndicalist bill now operative in the
state of California.
Free is a Southern Pacific lawyer
and notorious as a labor hater
While prosecuting attorneys of San
Jose County, he utilized his office
constantly against attempts of work
ers to strike or in any other way
seek to improve their conditions.
Wartime Legislation.
The California criminal syndicalist
law, like those of many other
states, was passed in the postwar
period 2s an attempt to suppress
the wave of strikes that swept the
country at that time. The proposed
federal criminal syndicalist law will
place the prosecu on of labor lead
ers and strikers directly in the
hands of the government and those
convicted under its provisions will
be railroaded to Leavenworth, At
lanta and other federal prisons.
This proposed bill is a part of the
war preparations of the government.
AS it advances toward another
world war, American imperialism
takes advantage of the lessons it
learned in the last world war. There
is no denying the fact that the
strike struggles in the newly indus
trialized South-Gastonia, Eliza
bethtown, Marion, New Orleans
and the recent struggles in the
North have alarmed the war mon
gers.
Drive At New Center.
Nor is it regarded as accidental
that the announcement of the pro-
posed federal criminal syndicalist
act comes just after the successful
Trade Union Unity convention at
Cleveland, where plans were made
for intensive drives against wage
cuts, the speed-up, lengthening of
hours and other effects of capital
ist naturalization in every indus
try.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
5000 WORKERS
DEFEND MEETING
Broken by Police After
Zionist Attack Fails

After several hundred Jewish
fascists and socialists were unable
to break up Communist Party open
air meeting at Stone and Pitkin
Ave-, Brooklyn, last night which
was defended by an iron ring of
members of the Workers Guard, the
police were called upon to attack
the demonstration against British
imperialism and it's Zionist ally. The
meeting was attended by more than
5000 workers.
The police charged, brutally hit
ting left and right. More than a
score of workers were severely
beaten, one having his head cut open
and another left lying unconscious.
The police yefused him any medical
attention. Six workers were ar
rested including Harold Williams,
Negro District Organizer of the
Communist Party.
Reign of Terror.
For several hours afterward a
reign of terror prevailed in the
working class section of Browns
vile.
Ehe fascists attempted to break
up the meeting until 10:45 without
success, when they called upon the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
To Answer us. Attack
on Shoe Union at Bkyn
Affair Tomorrow Mite

The attack of the United States
Department of Labor on the mill
tant shoe workers union, as part of
the government drive against ag-
gressive left wing union leadership
and policies, and against the rapid
increase of Communist influence
among the workers, will be an
swered at the Communist Election
Campaign Banquet to be held in
Williamsburg tomorrow night, at
the Williamsburg Workers Center,
Sc Manhattan Ave-, Brooklyn.
Among the speakers will be Will
liam w. Weinstone, Communist
candidate for mayor, and Fred
Biedenkapp, general manager of the
Independent Shoe Workers Union
and Communist candidate for presi-
dent of the Borough of Brooklyn, as
well as other Brooklyn Communist
standard bearers.
Mobilization of the workers of
Williamsburg to resist this govern
ment onslaught as well as the at
tacks of the Jewish Zionist-fascists
will be the keynote of the banquet,
the first indoor election event in
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Communist Candidate
for Mayor Flays Police
Terror Against Negroes
Weinstone Calls Smashing of Harlem Meetings
Part of Capitalist Subjection Policy
Demands Mass Protest of Negro and White
Workers at Red Night Rallies

Declaring that the breaking up of
Communist Party meetings in Har-
lem by the police is part of the
policy of the capitalist class to keep
the Negro masses in subsection,
Comrade William w. Weinstone,
Communist candidate for mayor, in
a statement issued last night, calls
upon the Negro and white workers
to fight against race discrimination
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party. The statement reads as
follows:
The violence of the New York
police in breaking up election rallies
of the Communist Party of the u.
S. A. in the Negro sections of Har-
lem, going even to the point Of
threatening to shoot the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13

workers who defended their right to
freedom of speech, is not a casual
incident of arbitrary action by the
police. 1t is part of the systematic
attempt by the capitalist class to
intimidate and suppress the Negro
workers that are beginning to under
stand in ever greater numbers the
necessity for following the Commu-
mist leadership in order to secure
full economic, political and social
equality. 1t is part of the settled
policy of the exploiting class to
perpetuate race discrimination,
dividing the ranks of the working
class, and to prevent the develop
ment of class solidarity among the
black and white workers for a united
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
7. u. U. |. WIRES
ORLEANS CARMEN
TO RUN STRIKE
Mahon, Green Unite to
Compel Them to
Accept Sellout
Picketing Is Resumed
Police Hurl Tear Gas
Bombs; Hurt Woman

eve congratulate you on your
overwhelming rejection of the sell
out of your strike, engineered by
President Green of the American
Federation of Labor and President
Mahon of the street Garments un-
ion," states telegram sent yester-
day by William 2. Foster, in the
name of the Trade Union Unity
League, of which he is general sec
rotary.
"This sell-out is in line with the
whole policy of the A. F. of L.
leadership, as corrupted agents of
the employers in the ranks of the
workers. Take your strike COM
pletely out of the hands of these
misleaders and control it yourself.
That is the way to win," the tele-
gram continues.
Green, Mahon, Strikebreakers.
About the time the Trade Union
Unity League, the new trade union
center organized by $50 representa-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
CITIZENS union
ON LOOKOUT FOR
STRIKE BREAKERS
Choose Thomas and In
junction Judge for
Jobs Says Wicks
Flags Socialist Gang
Bosses Know of Class
Fight in Election

"When the Citizens Union praised
Norman Thomas, socialist party
candidate for mayor as "a man of
ability, learning and high ideals it
proved that it is really class con-
scious," declared H. M. Wicks, Com
munist candidate for president of
the board of aldermen, in an inter-
view yesterday.
"The Citizens Union," continued
Wicks, "is a capitalist body that
chooses among the capitalist candi-
dates those it considers will best
serve it's interests. When it con-
silered the qualifications of Thomas
along with the Tammany mayor,
Jimmy Walker, and the republican
congressman, La Guardia, the Citi-
zen's Union proved that it was fully
aware of the fact that the three
parties, republican, democrat and
socialist all alike stand for the in
terests of the capitalist exploiters
against the working class"
Also Endorsed Callaghan.
"There is absolutely no inconsis-
tency in the action of the Citizens
Union in endorsing the notorious in
junction judge, Justice Callaghan of
Brooklyn, one day and approving
Norman Thomas the next" said the
Communist candidate.
"Both of them have proved their
ability as strikebreakers. The fact
that Callaghan issues vicious injunc-
tions from the bench while Thomas
and the socialists encourage and
organize fascist attacks against
New York strikers indicates only a
difference in method of serving the
interests of capitalism and fight
ing the working class, but not diff
ference in principle.
"The Citizens Union is to be
congratulated for its clear percep-
tion of class lines and for the fact
that it is not fooled by socialist
labels" sarcastically said Wicks.
at is a tribute to the Commu-
rist Party and to it's candidate for
mayor" added Wicks, "that in con-
sidering candidates for it's approval
the Citizens Union did not even
mention him. No greater insult
could be meted out to a working
class representative than to be re-
garded as a possible candidate for
approval by such an aggregation of
capitalists and their henchmen as
the Citizens Union.
"This again emphasizes the fact
that this campaign is one of class
against class, with our Party alone
representing the working class
against all other parties in the field.
The endorsement of Thomas by the
Citizens Union should be convinc-
ing evidence to all thoughtful work
ers that the socialist party is one
of the parties of capitalism The
Citizens Union probably strives to
pick out the candidates it regards
as the most effective strike break
ers from the three capitalist par
ties, hence its fulsome praise of
Thomas"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
AID WORKERS IN
PALESTINE WAR
W.I.R. Exposes Role of
Zionist Imperialists

All press reports from Palestine,
now smothered with British troops
equipped with all the panoply of
war, indicate that the Zionist lead
ers are embarked upon campaign
of financial ruin and oppression of
the Arabian peasantry. The boycott
against Arab market produce is con-
Quoted most vindictively. Yesterday
group of Zionist gunmen poured
gasolene over grapes brought into
town by peasantry for sale. Arabian
porters are denied work, and are
starving.
w. l. r. Asks Aid.
The Workers international Relief,
No. l Union Square, New York, has
issued an appeal to workers to aid
the Arabian and Jewish worker and
peasant families, the victims of Bri-
tish imperialism and its Zionist
agents. 1t will be published tomor-
row.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Utilize the Chicago Trial to
Spread CASTOR Defense Drive
On Way to Judge Lyle's Court Defendants
Rally Workers for Aid

Workers throughout the nation
are responding instinctively and in
increasing numbers to the support
of the textile strikers and organ
izers facing death in the electric
chair in North Carolina. This is
the direct result of the attempted
lynching and the beatings of strike
organizers by the fascist "Black
Hundred" as well as the utter fail
ure of the mill barons' prosecution
to support their murder charges
with the least tangible evidence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
REPORT Chinese
WARL ORDS Raid
Puts 1t, Hard
Fighting on Border

The Kuomin news agency, which
is a propaganda organ of Chang
kai-shek's Marking government, re-
ported today that there was again
"severe fighting on the Pogranitch-
maya front" Unless this is a sheer
invention it indicates that the mer-
cenaries of the Mukden government
have tried another raid over the
border.
1t is doubted, however, because
the latest announcements from the
Chinese war lords admitted that
their troops at Pogranitchnaya were
so shattered by their decisive defeat
during their last attempts to raid
into the U. S. S. R. Sunday and
Monday, that the lines had been
withdrawn 40 miles from the border
town to the vicinity of Mulin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
South Africa Workers Send
IA Pounds for Gastonia
international Solidarity Again Shown by Con-
tributiOn to Defense

The ten thousand miles distance
between Gastonia and South Africa
are bridged by the message of work.
ing class solidarity and the funds
amounting to fourteen pounds, that
came to America from there today.
The Organization to Support Poll
tical Prisoners in Lithuania, strong
In South Africa, sent 10 pounds,
and other workers organizations
contributed four more pounds. Their
contribution was sent to the Gas
tonia Joint Defense and Relief Cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
Fur Workers Again
De at Gangsters;
New Cloak SellOut

Remembering the decisive beating
they were given Wednesday by the
Defense Committee of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union in
front of the Henry Fucker fur shop,
235 w. 26th St., gangsters of the
scab International Fur Workers Un-
ion ran for cover yesterday morning
when they saw the strong union
committee in 90th St., where they
had intended to attack left wing
fur workers.
AS soon as the thugs saw the mil
liant workers ready to repel their
attack, they Immediately ran for
cover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
LELL DESCRIBES
M|LLMEN'S RAID

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 12.-
C. M. Lell, who exposed the false
alibi of Solicitor Carpenter who is
Investigating" the bloody attack
upon National Textile Workers
Union organizers and accused the
prosecutor directly of participating
in the raid, presented the following
affidavit to the court today:
"On September l was sit
ting on the porch at 512 West Air
line Ave. saw a string of cars
go down West Airline Ave. They
hollered and blew their horns as
they passed by the house.
Threaten to Kill.
about 100 men came into the
front room. There were about 500
men in the yard. They asked me il
| was one of the organizers. told
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