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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
HARLEM TENANTS
TO MEET TONIGHT
House Committees to
Be Organized

Negro workers Lying in segre-
gated Harlem, suffering from un-
heard-of rent-raises and evietions,
will meet tonight, under the auspices
of the Harlem Tenants League. to
start an intensive campaign against
these conditions.
At the meeting, which will take
place in the lecture room of the pub
lie library, 103 W. 135th Street,
plans will be discussed for immediate
resistance to rent raises and dis
possesses.
GAS has been stressed by the
Daily Worker in it's exposure of
housing conditions in Harlem, direct
action on the part of organized ten
ants is the only course of action for
the tenants to follow" declared
Richard Moore, president of the Har-
lem Tenants League, to a Daily
Worker reporter yesterday.
"The program which has been
suggested" he continued, "and which
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HUNDREDS out
ON WIR TAG DAY
nyOrganizationsAid
Textile, Mine Relief

Hundreds of New York workers
yesterday and Saturday collected
funds for the Southern textile strik-
ers and the destitute coal miners as
part of the national relief campaign
of the Workers. International Relief,
by participating in the tag day ac-
tivities Of the New York local of
the w. |. r.
All working class sections of the
five boroughs were covered by the
volunteer collectors, who obtained
donations in the streets, subways,
and restaurants, also in front of
theatres. Committees visited houses
in the working class sections, going
from door to door.
Up to a late hour yesterday there
had been no arrests.
Continue to Wednesday.
Due to the threatening weather
yesterday, which slightly interfered
with the collections, the w. l. r.
last night urged its supporters to
continue the tag day activities until
Wednesday, when mass meeting
will be held which will be addressed
by the delegation of four strikers
that came here from Gastonia, N.
c., last week.
Other speakers at the meeting
will be Albert Weisbord, secretary
National Textile Workers Union; j.
Louis Engdahl, acting editor of the
Daily Worker; Juliet Stuart Poyntz,
national secretary International La
Dor Defense; Harriet Silverman,
secretary, Local N. Y. Workers In
ternational Relief, and John j. Bal
lam, acting secretary, Trade Union
Educational League. The meeting
will be held at Irving Plaza, Irving
Place and 18th St.
Jewelry Workers Give.
The meeting will be held under
the joint auspices of the Workers
International Relief, international
Labor Defense, National Textile
Workers Union and the Trade
Union Educational League.
At banquet held by the Jewelry
Workers Club Saturday night, $6l
Continued on Page Fivc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Those Who Saw Them Before
Are Certain to Come Again

When the Isadora Duncan Dan
GERS appear for their farewell per-
formances in this city on Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday there
are sure to be many old faces in tine
audience. In fact, it seems hardly
likely that any worker who saw
these incompatible young Soviet
dancers when they were here before
will miss their farewell appearances
in this country.
Manhattan Opera House, oath st.
and Eighth Ave, will be the scene
Of the Duncan farewell. Following
their performances, they will re-
turn to the famous ,Isadora Duncan
School in Moscow, which is under
the supervision Of the Commissariat
of Eduensen.
The Duncan program will include
several numbers never performed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
International Struggles.

Lifshitz declared that May Day
this year will tie up not only the
great national struggles of the
American workers, but will be an
eleGIient expression of the militant
spirit that is characterizing the
struggles of the working class in
ternationally, such as the recent
strikes in Lodz and the Ruhr re-
gion and the struggles of the col
onial peoples against their imper-
ialist oppressors.
This international working class
holiday, said Lifshitz, will lay the
basis for more determined fight
of the workers of New York City
and workers throughout the country
for a seven-hour day and five-day
week in industry. Workers of New
York City will be mobilized to lay
down tools, working class children
in the schools will discard their pen
ellis and pens and working class
housewives will leave their homes to
gather in Union Square preparatory
to huge parade through the work
ing class districts of the city. The
parade will continue for two hours,
after which it will disband to enable
workers to gather in the evening at
the New York Coliseum, 177th st.
and fremont Ave, for the huge
mass meeting, concert and demon
stration.
Engdahl Speaks.
j. Louis Engdahl greeted the con-
ference in the name of the Commu-
mist Party and the Daily Worker,
declaring it to be one of the most
inspiring tasks of the revolutionary
movement in the days ahead to
rouse workers everywhere to mobil-
ize for mass demonstration on May
Day.
Engdahl reviewed the develop
ments since the last May Day, es-
pecially the organization of the new
trade unions, the National Miners
Union, the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union and the National
Textile Workers Union.
He compared the eight-hour day
promise made Immediately follow
ing the war and betrayed by the
Second Socialist International and
the International Trade Union Con-
gress, collaborating with the League
Of Nations, and the seven-hour day
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lay plans Tor the biggest May
Day demonstration and cele-
bration that New York has
ever known.
Proposals for the mobilization and
activization of the complete mem
berships of these organizations were
adopted unanimously in order to
make the celebration rallying point
in the struggles of the working class
for full social, economic and polit-
ical equality for the oppressed Negro
race and for the defense of the So
Wet Union against imperialist at
tack.
In opening the conference, Ben
Lifshitz, acting district organizer of
District 2, Communist Party,
stressed the fact that capitalism is
failing in it's efforts toward stabili-
zation and that the entire drift is to-
ward another imperialist world war.
Realizing this" said Lifshitz," :"
MAY Day must be made the rally
ing point for the defense of the So
Wet Union. On this day we must
gather our forces in the ever
sharpening struggle between the
working class and the capitalist
class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
A,F,L., Offers AID
TO Mill owners

How the American Federation Of
Labor "organizes" the workers may
be seen from the action of the Photo
Engravers' Union in a strike now
going on. This is the union of which
Matthew Woll, vice-president of the
A. F. of L., acting president of the
open-shop National Civic Fedora
ton and arch-hater of the Soviet
Union, is president.
The photo engravers in four open
shops, 35 w. 10Th St., GA Lafayette
St., 224 w. 42nd St., and 143 W.
goth St., recently went out on
strike demanding union conditions.
Most of the workers are Armenians.
When they applied to the Photo En-
gravers' Union for aid in conduct
ing their strike, they were told by
the henchmen of Woll that when
they win their strike and the bosses
agree to union conditions, the A. F.
of L. will admit them to the union.
All immediate aid was refused in
accordance with the policy of the
union bureaucrats of opposing all
strikes and working hand-in-glove
with the bosses.
On Tuesday two of the strikers,
John Savarin and Harry Badhzam,
were arrested for trying to persuade
a scab not to go to work. Yesterday
a committee of the strikers came to
the office of the New York District
of the international Labor Defense
and appealed for aid. The I. l.. D.
Immediately furnished $500 bail
each for the arrested workers and
secured their release from the AS
toria, L. l., county Jail. They will
be defended by Jacques Buitenkant,
l. L. D. attorney, when they come up
for hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15

before. Tho famous impressions of
Revolutionary Russia" which have
been the "hi5" of all their programs,
will have two additions: Young
Guards" and pioneer March,"
There viii also be new numbers
from Beethoven and Schubert.
The Daily Worker has made ar
rangements by which workers who
attend the last Duncan perform
ances will not only say farewell to
these Soviet dancers, but can help
the Daily Worker, too. All you
have to do is to buy your tickets at
the Daily Worker Office, 26 Union
Square. The Daily" receives per-
centage on all tickets sold in this
way. The time is short. If you
wait until the last minute, you're
sure to get stuck. Act nowl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
new C.P. NUCLEI
IN BIG PLANTS
Org a niz a t ion Drive
Makes 13 New Units

New Communist Party nuclei have
been established or are in process of
being established in shops employ
ing over $4,000 workers. These are
in airplane, munition, chemical, auto,
textile, steel, railroad, etc., shops in
the New York district 2, and in the
Buffalo (4) and New Haven (15)
districts, although reports from the
latter two districts are incomplete.
With this inspiring start, the
Build-the Party drive, which begins
today and will last until June Is,
will go ahead at full steam to ac-
complish it's tasks.
The nuclei in the New York dis
trict (Which covers Northern New
Jersey and Southern New York
State) are in the following indus
tries and employ the following num-
Der of workers. Textile mills in Pas
sale, $500 workers; carpet shops,
Yonkers, 5000; elevator plant,
Yonkers, 1000; auto plant, Newark,
1000; chemical plant, New Bruins
wick, 1000; electrical company. New
York City, 1900; airplane and NUM-
ton plants in the district, 5000;
metal shops, New York City, 1000;
Textile mills in central New York
State, 1000, together with tile (150),
copper (1,000) plants.
Steel, Camera, Shoe Nuclei.
In the Buffalo district, which
covers Western New York, nuclei
have been established in steel,
camera and shoe plants with 16-
1900 workers. In the New Haven
district, covering Connecticut, Win
chester Arms plant nucleus is build
a shop committee, which is holding
weekly factory gate meetings every
to organize a union, with
an average attendance of 500 work. !
ers at these meetings.
At many of these plants shop
papers are being issued or being
worked on for issuance soon. At
the Endicott-Johnson plant in Bing-
hamton shop paper is being issued, |
a shop committee has been organ
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
WORKING WOMEN
TO join PICKETS
Support Food Strikers,
Asks Communist Party

Vigorous participation and full
support to the mass picketing DEM
onstration for the striking food
workers today at noon is urged in
a statement issued by the District
Women's Department of the Com
munist Party.
The call appeals especially to the
militant needle trades workers who
have recently been engaged in in
tense and bitter struggle. The state
ment follows:
"Women workers of New York:
The recent dressmakers' struggle,
supported and fought to its success
full conclusion by many workers of
other trades, standing solidly be-
hind the militant fighting dress
makers, by milliners, capmakers,
furriers and many other workers
from every kind of industry, showed
the value of a solid class front.
First Call"
"Now the food workers, for the
first time, have gone out with a
splendid start to organize into the
Amalgamated Foodworkers Union.
The workers in this most important
industry, who can be of invaluable
Importance in times of the strikes
of all other workers, call on the
working women and working men
everywhere, especially in the most
militant section of workers, the
Eeedle workers, to back them with
the utmost energy and activity.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
CASTONIh MILL
RELIEF SQUADS
SCOUR COUNTRY
Strikers Stand Solid;
Will Win If Food
Comes in Time
Guns in Pineville Fight
Attempt to Intimidate
Meets Resistance

GASTONIA, N. c., April IA
Sunday was spent by the striking
textile workers here in furthering
their organization Of relief work.
Squads of strikers are securing the
surrounding country, where the
farmers are friendly to the strikers,
asking for small amounts of food
from each. They cannot get much,
for the farmers themselves are very
poor.
The strikers are determined to
stand out until real gains can be
secured for all the textile workers
here. Attempts were made by the
bosses yesterday to break up strik-
ers' meetings by sending in small
groups of hired agents TO throw rot
ten eggs, stones and other missiles
at the speakers, but this program
did not accomplish anything.
Relief will win this strike, if re-
ceived in time.
PINEVILLE, April 14.-The
-Haskins mill here is still
closed down tight. An attempt by
a scab tc carry a gun with him to
work was one of the immediate
causes Of the shutdown. The strik-
ers demanded that the sheriff take
the gun away from him, and were
They considered that what
was fair for one side was fair for
and part of the pickets ran
to their homes for shotgurs and
rifles. The deputy sheriffs fled.
The workers here will fight for
their right to organize, but they
must have food soon. Relief is
badly needed. With wages of only
50 to $12 a week, starvation begins
IS soon as the strike starts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Negro Hero in Rescue
of 60 Show Girls in
Burnin e Apartments

Charles Val-Verdi, Negro elevator
operator at Corn IL Apartments,
No. la West 47th St., was the hero
of a rescue of 60 showgirls from
the burning apartment building yes
terday. A short circuit in the tele-
phone switchboard started the fire,
early in the morning.
Val-Verdi awakened Peggy Rut-
ledge, vaudeville actress, first, and
she placed wet towel over her face
and assisted him to rouse the rest.
The girl was finally overcome by
smoke and had to be carried out.
Due to the quick work and heroism
of these two, no lives were lost.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Plumber Describes the Terrible
Conditions IN Workers. Homes

In response to the housing CAM
paign now being carried on by the
Daily Worker with the help Of the
Harlem Tenants League and to the
request that workers write in about
housing conditions, the following is
one Of the letters we received:
How is the worker housed? AS a
plumber for Is years in New York
City, work every day in different
houses. Most of the old houses the
workers live in are not fit to live
in.
The toilets in the halls breed
germs. There are two tenants for
every toilet, no lights in the toilets,
and the toilet seats are defective.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15

Many are without toilet seats at all.
There is just toilet bowl.
Always Out of Order.
The water apparatus is always
out Of order, and does not flush.
Since there is no light, the ten
ants have to step in dirt, and thus
carry the filth thru their homes.
The floor is always wet.
| worked in house on Avenue D
near S1st Street. There are four
toilets in the hall. The tenants who
live on the first floor have to use
the toilets on the second floor, and
those on the second have to walk up
to the third floor. The house is
Continued on Page Fiuc)
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Negroes in New York
Rally to Aid of Mill
Strikers at GastOnia

At a meeting of the Harlem
Educational Forum, an organ of
the American Negro Labor Con-
gress, yesterday the strike situa-
tion in Gastonia, N. c., was dis
cussed and collection was taken
up for relief, as a beginning of
a campaign among Negroes in
Harlem to help the workers and
an expression of the solidarity of
the Negroes with the Negro and
white striking textile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
HERRZCK'S CORPSE JUST
PUBLICII Y STUNTLNN.Y. Y.

CLEVELAND, April 14.-The
body of Myron T. Herrick arrived
here tonight in the city of the late
ambassadors youth, and banking in
terests.
Extraordinary efforts to con-
vince American workers that the
late Ambassador Herrick was a
great and good man, the main bull
wark for his country, and that the
only way to save it now he is dead
iskto build a bigger army and navy
and extend the American Empire,
obviously did not convince any Of the
hired men of the police force, or
TIE army and navy. AS cogs in the
propaganda machine of Wall Street,
they did the job of honoring Her
rick, when his corpse arrived in New
York City yesterday, as they would
any other dirty job in the days
work,
Conflict of Tunes.
To begin with, the French slung
Herrick's coffin aboard a cruiser
with a winch, like SO much coal.
When the parade started in New
York, The police band of 60 pieces
groaned out a ponderous funeral
march: your cop is bloody mind
ed individual, and likes funeral
marches. But the National Guard
band that followed 240 mounted po-
lice and led a regiment of infan-
try, jazzed things up a little with
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
INJUNCTION OF
BOSS WILL Be 7
DEFIED BY MEN
I.L.G.W. Lawyer Aids
Frameup of Strikers
in Boss Court
Clerks Behind Struggle
Plan Mass Rallies to
Raise Funds

Hundreds of members of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, the United Council of Work
ing Glass Women and the New York
district of the Communist Party will
be largely represented at the mass
picket demonstration at noon today
in the garment section cafeterias
against which the Hotel, Restaurant
and Cafeteria Workers Union has
been conducting a strike for improv-
ed conditions. The demonstration
will be primarily in protest against
pending injunctions through which
cafeteria owners hope to force the
strikers back to the open shop.
Strikers Continue PicketiRg.
Printed copies of the injunctions
were served on every striker in the
strike zone Saturday, as, in defiance
of the court edicts, they continued
picketing of their own volition. Hear
ing on the injunctions will take
place tomorrow before Judge Henry
Sherman of the Supreme Court of
the New York State. The business of
the Willow Corporation and the
United Restaurant Owners Associa-
ton has been cut considerably since
the strike started, both companies
charge in the affidavits attached to
the restraining order served on the
union.
Right wing interference with the
strike continued Saturday when five
more shops were struck. Four strik-
e~s were arrested at Gingolds Mar
ket, 10th st. and Jerome Ave-,
Bronx, Saturday. At the 57th st.
Night Court, they were dismissed on
charges of contempt of court, for
picketing in defiance of an injunc-
ton. Three strikers courageously
resisted the attacks Of thugs in
Brooklyn till they were later ar
rested.
Picketing continues at every store
in the strike zone, union organizers
Open-air meetings viii be
held at Wolpon's Market, goth Ave.
and 65th ST., Brooklyn; Riverdale
Ave. and Hinsdale ST., Brooklyn, be-
tween 5 and p. m. today.
Heavy Sentences.
Severe sentences were imposed on
strikers arraigned before Magis-
trate Gottlieb Saturday. Sam Mac
Donald, an American-Indian active
in the strike since its inception, was
sentenced to ten days in the Tombs.
James Demetrius was sentenced to
ten days, and Morris Topper and
Harry Milton were both given five
days in Jail. The vigorous protest
of jacques Buitenkamp, union at
torney, who offered to produced wit
nesses to prove that the strikers had
been attacked, forced Gottlieb to re-
consider his original sentence of 80
days each.
l. L. G. U. Aids Bosses.
professional gangsters and Boil
sheviks who had been arrested in
the dressmakers' strike" was the
characterization against the strikers
used in testimony by Reiss, assistant
to Sam Markowitz, l. L. G. w. U.
company union attorney.
A charge of disorderly conduct
against Albert Rescigne, 19-year-old
Italian worker who was violently at
tackled on Monday and Thursday last
week, was adjourned until Thursday.
Rescigne's case was postponed, it is
believed to enable the policeman who
clubbed him into unconsciousness for
20 hours to bring witnesses to build
a frame-up case.
Three others were fined So each,
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Harlem Tenants Meet
Tonight to Plan Fight
on RObber-LandlOrds

Protests against the housing
conditions in Harlem, together
with the organization of fight
against these conditions and the
expiration of the Emergency
Rent Laws, will be leading points
of interest at the meeting of the
Harlem Tenants League IN the
lecture hall Of the Public Library
at 103 w. 135th st. tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Peru and Chile Confer on Tacna- africa.

SANTIAGO, Chile April Ia WD.-A meeting Of the pres
dents of Peru and Chile in effort to reach final settlement
of the longandng TacnaArica province
in usually wel-informed circles heret0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Arrest N.TW. Textile Organizers at Plymouth

WILKESBARRE, April 14.-Carina Nicholson and several
otho Rational Textile Union jail at Plymouth
tonight and held 2O0 bonds each because attempt
organize strikers the Hess-Goldsmih mill in that city,
reported here the union Offices Details lacking late
hour last night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
British Trade Delegation Knows u s. S. R. Possiblitie

MOSCOW April 4"The delegation leaves the Soviet with
the realization possibilities
trey with the British government said the vesta
today and continued he solution of questions OF further trade
development fully dependent the position the
ment takes the question of resumption of normal diplomatic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April IA U. S. marine officer and
non-commissioned officers killed today
crashed Lake Nicaragua They mapping the
proposed Nicaraguan canal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-15
Switalski Premier of Poland.

WARSAW, Poland, April Ia WD.-Presdent Ignacy Moscck
today signed official decree appointing Col Casim Swtas
premier succeed Dr. Kamierz Bare who
OF his failure to reach working compromise with the Sejm
financial affairs. Switaski previously