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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
MANHATTAN
office Workers Mass Meet.

Robert w. Dunn, Geo. Powers and
Rebecca Grecht will speak at a mass
meeting of the office workers Union
at Labor Temple, 14th st. and md
Ave, today at 6:30 p. m.
Champion Dinner.
champion Dinner" for the benefit
of the Negro Champion, only Negro
mass newspaper for Negro workers
and farmers, tomorrow, $50 p. m. at
the Workers Center.
National Textile Union Wants NOlun-
teers.
Volunteers to prepare membership
books for the Southern textile strik-
ers are asked to call at Room 1907,
National Textile Workers Union, 104
Fifth Ave, between a. m. and 8
p. m. daily,
Moore Debates Sunday.
Can the Masses of the British
West Indies Achieve Emancipation
Self Government Within the
British Empire?" will be debated by
tor of the Negro Champion, and A.
NJ. Wendell Malliet, of Jamaica,
under the auspices Of the West In
dian Club at st. Luke's Hall, 1875 W
130th St, at 4:l5 p. m. Sunday.
Die Naturfreunde.
The English and German sections
will hike from Ramsy to Suffern
Meet at GAS a. m. at the
Chambers st. Ferry of the Erie r. r.
Fare, S1.60.
A mass meeting of the English sec
ton will be held at the A. f. w. Hall
1873 w. 5lst St, tomorrow night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Reap the benefits of the May
Day demonstrations by getting
into the Communist Party work
.rs who participated. ~ .s,s..,,s...
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
NEW JERSEY

NEW JERSEY ETAOINU MI Nj
n. j. Workers Soccer League.
The finish of the season will be
celebrated with a banquet at Hispano
A. c. clubrooms, 6S1 State St, Perth
Amboy, N. j., beginning at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

A spring festival will be given by
the -Vanzetti branch at Rose
Garden, 1347 Boston Road, Saturday
evening at $40. Dramatic Rotations,
vocal and instrumental solos and
dancing will be featured. Carl
Hacker, national organization secre-
tary of the ]. L. D., will be the only
SPEAKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Communist Activities

Unity Cooperative Unit.
A membership meeting will be held
at $50 p. m. tomorrow, at 1900
Seventh Ave.
Downtown init Two, Communist
Youth League.
Unit meets tomorrow evening at
l0l w 27th St
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BROOKLYN

Council 10. Bensinhurst.
]. Garelick win speak on 'Peretz's
Works" at $3.50 u. m. today, As
Bay 2Sth st.
United Council of Working Women.
The Needle Trades Workers In
banquet and concert to be given bv
Food Workers Council / at the Stuy-
yesant Casino. 140-142 Second Ave,
tomorrow night.
Council Z, L. c. W. w.
The third jubilee of the council will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

As far as am concerned, 1 can't
claim to have discovered the ex-
istence of classes in modern society
or their strife against one another.
Middle-class historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles, and political economists
showed the economic physiology of
the classes. j have added as new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tiOns; - that the existence Of
classes is hound up with certain
phases of material production; -
that the class struggle leads neces-
sariIy to the Dictatorship of the
prOletariat; ~ that this Dictatorship
is but the transition to the abOli-
tion of all classes and to the ere
alton of a society of free and equal.
Marx.
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
fon, ITu-at thc Entprnrises'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

A living newspaper will be pre-
scented at the Cooperative House,
2700 Bronx Park East, at $3.50 p. m.
Saturday. Refreshments will be
served.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
GOIdens Bridge Colony.

Workers Center, 9Th floor tomorrow,
500 p. m. An outing viii be held
every other Sunday starting from
the N. Y Central Railroad at 125th
st. at 9:45 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Banquet Saturday.

A Proletarian Banquet given in
honor of the militant fighters of
the Cap and Millinery Union will
be held this Saturday evening, May
II, at $3.50 at Irving Plaza Hall,
18th st. and Irving Place. Hun
dreds of workers are expected and
thus aid the fight to build a gen.
uine, militant union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Build shop committees and draw
the more militant members into
the Communist Party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
CLEMENCY DENIED
Ex-ED|TOR BURNS
Georgia Prison Commission
Forwards Report on Case
to Governor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga, August 24.-Disap-
proval Of the appeal OF Robert Elliott
Burns, erstwhile Chicago publisher, for
clemency from 6 to 10 year sentence
for robbery. was appended to the report
of the Georgia State Prison Commission
forwarded to Gov. L. G. Hardman today.
The prison commission heard the ap-
peal of the former editor of the
magazine, Greater Chicago, on August
8, but delayed its decision until today,
when refusal of clemency also was
recommended for three men under death
sentence.
Missing Nearly Seven Years.
Burns attracted wide attention when
he was arrested in Chicago in May after
being at liberty for nearly seven years,
having escaped from the Campbell
County chain gang after serving few
months Of his sentence imposed in Full
ton County Superior Court in March.
1922, for his part in robbery netting
himself and two others $685..
At the hearing his eStranged wife.
whom he charged was responsible for
police taking him into custody. pro-
tested his being granted clemency, and
senting the State, declared that Cook
County authorities had said that Burns
would be prosecuted for bigamy in event
he was released. Evidence also was
introduced to show that he was wanted
in New York to answer a charge there
Appearing in behalf of Burns was his
brother. Rev. Vincent G. Burns of
Palisades, N. j.: DR.. c. o. Jones, head
of the Anti-Saloon League Of Georgia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
BOWER IS LEADING
FLORIDA-OHIO SHIPS
Les Bowman Arrives First at
Jacksonville on Flight
From Tampa.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla, August "a
&C. D. Bowyer. Westfield, N. j., fly
ing a Cessna plane, led the Miami
Beach Miami to Cleveland Air Derby
at the first overnight control here to-
night by about 112 minutes. Les Bow
man, registered from Buffalo. N. Y. who
landed first at the Tampa stop and who
also set his little blue Monosport down
first here this afternoon, was second
in total elapsed time from Miami.
The IA planes in quest OF $500 in
prize money and other awards filtered
across the finish line here in rapid
precision. In landing the plane piloted
by E. 2. Newsom. co-piloted by Miss
Jean La Rene of Birmingham, and
that piloted by Maj ]. c. Cone, Little
Rock. almost collided.
The flyers will begin taking off at
9 o'clock tomorrow morning for Macon.
Ga. their next stop en- route to Cleve-
land. Ohio. where they expect to arrive
Tuesday afternoon.
The oflcial elapsed time standings
Of the flyers from Miami to Jackson
vile were announced as follows:
C. D. Bowyer, Westfield, N. j.,
Lester H. Bowman, Buffalo, N. Y,
3:06:20.
George E. Halsey, Buffalo, 3:06:43.
Earl Rowland, Jacksonville, ILL.,, 3:07.
r. E. Drake, Pittsburgh, Pa, 3:15:22la.
C. A. Burrows, Los Angeles, 3:15:37.
w. j. McDonough, Farmingdale, Long
Island. 3:l5:57.
c. e. Meyers, Cleveland, 3:16:57.
E. Newsome, Birmingham, 3:17:11.
F. F. Courtney, New York and Eng
land, 3:18:52.
j. C. Gone, Little Rock, 3:19:49.
Bert Hassel, Cleveland, 3:38:30.
". A. Grant, Cincinnati, 4:03:18.
G. e. Messer, Birmingham, 4:07:54.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Short History of Canal Boats.

The first canal boats were for freight
only and provided quarters merely for
the captain and crew. But the de-
mand for passenger accommodations
brought canal boats with two cabins,
one at the bow and one at the stern,
with cargo matches amidships, the for
ward cabin for women and the after
cabin for men. Within a few years pas
senger trafflc became so heavy freight
was carried entirely on freight or cargo
boats, while fast expresses were oper-
ated for passengers alone. The boats
were drawn by two or three horses.
which followed a towpath along the
bank. The express boats averaged
about miles an hour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25

Only one week remains for Washing
ton mothers to enter their babies and
carriages In the decorated baby car
riage event OF the firemen's annual
Labor day parade and jubilee, 1t was
announced last night by Sergt. A. j.
Bargagni, parade marshal.
Scores of entrants have been listed
to date and the work of Transforming
prosaic baby carriages into miniature
noats is progressing rapidly. Although
some of the parents have made start
on the task Of decorating their baby's
carriage. .Sergt. Bargagni wants 1t
known that 1t Is not too late to enter
the meet.
Entries should be. made at the Fire
mems Training School at 637 North
Carolina avenue southeast, where the
parade marshal has his headquarters.
The baby and carriage adjudged win
ner Of first honors will receive $50 in
gold and a sterling silver bowl. The
second place winner will be awarded
S25 in gold, while the third place win
ner will receive SIS In gold. The baby
carriage event will be held this year
at the American League Base Ball Park.
The parade will be staged in the after
noon Immediately after the band con-
cert at the ball park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
The Law Of Arrest.

The policemen of Madison. Wis, are
going to college. At the request OF the
Madison Police Commission. Prof. A. @.
Barry of the Wisconsin University has
been giving q university extension
course for policemen on the Law Of
Arrest" Prof. Barry is q specialist on
police problems, and the police are
studying how to arrest lawbreakers and
suspected persons without making
themselves liable to prosecution for
false arrest or trespass.
Questions Of arrest with and with
out warrant, search and seizure. pre-
cautions necessary In arrest. use Of
force. and the constitutional rights ann
liberties of citizens receive special con-
sideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
URGE ROAD RULES.
Pan-American Highway Experts
Favor Uniform Regulations.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. August "a
fP).-A committee of the Pan-American
Highway Congress today recommended
that when the Pan-American Highway
is completed it is to be made possible
for motorists to drive the length Of
the two continents with only one
license. The committee considered
recommendations to be transmitted to
municipalities through the governments
concerned for obtaining uniform traffic
regulations everywhere with right-hand
driving. plain indications Of parking
space, strict regulation of pack trains
and loose animals on the highways
and the lighting Of animal-drawn We
hicles at night.
It also recommended that q traffic
census be taken to enable traffic control
and also point the way for road con-
struction and improvement. The pro-
visions included govern brake, light,
size and load of vehicles and suggest
that drivers be subject to regulations IN
the state where operating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25

Extensive railroad building In Coz
icnb:a is being considered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Costly BLACK Diamond" Fires.

Since coal was first taken from the
earth there has been the menace Of fires
in the mines. Many have burned for
years, the intricate tunneling making it
almost impossible to reach them. Some
have been quenched by diverting rivers
into the workings. The money loss oc-
casioned by mine fires is estimated in
billions of dollars. One of the most
costly is the New Straitsville, Ohio, coal
land, which has been burning for IS
years The coal is an excellent grade
of bituminous and 1t is estimated that
about 700.00o000 tons have been de-
stroyed through the years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
Back to Their Home Land.

The 900 inhabitants of the town OF
Gemmelsvensky, In Cherson, South RUS
sia, are about to make back to Sweden,
whence they emigrated $50 years ago.
During the century and half that has
interviewed the community has main
tanned its Swedish character in every
respect. No departure has been made
in the garb and custom Of these people,
and they have kept in close touch with
the mother country. At regular inter-
walls supplies of one kind or another
have been sent to them from Sweden,
SO that they have always been consid-
cred Swedish rather than Russian. The
movement to return these people to
Sweden originated In the latter country
and the government secured the permits
sion for the evacuation. There are
many very old persons in the party, and
the long journey will be taken by easy
stages. A. special expedition of the Red
Cross has been organized to conduct the
members of the community back TO
their native land. 8. %
IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25

and william Schley Howard, an. attor-
ney.. Rev. Mr.. Burns plead for mercy
for.his brother on the grounds that he
had led an exemplary life and that the
robbery. committed when he was broke
and hungry. was his only misstep.
Burns after his arrest resisted extradi-
ton for a time, then volunteered to
return here and begin service on his
unexpired sentence. At that time he
was at liberty under a $4,000 bond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
FUTURE.

Lincoln Corps will meet in the g. A.
r. Hall tomorrow night at 8 O'Clock.
Loyal knights of the Round Table
will meet at the University Club for
luncheon Tuesday, August ~, at 1880
pm.
Mel shorey, golf professional Of the
East Potomac Park course will be the
speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
WASHINGTON winner
IN PRINTERS LEAGUE
Base Ball Series Gets Under Way
in Indianapolis With
Five Games.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. August "a
Twin Cities. Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Washington and Boston were winners
in the first games of the twenty-first
annual tournament Of the Union Print
ers' National Base Ball League, which
opened at Riverside Park here today.
Ten of the IL teams entered saw action
today, the New York big Six" team
drawing bye.
Five more games have been sched-
uled for tomorrow afternoon. Elimina-
lions will continue throughout the
week, two defeats dropping q team.
Scores of today's games
Indianapolis ........0 07011010 do
Pittsburgh .........1 025001x-11
Ehrgott, Seele and Pringle; Brittin,
MADDEN and Gall.
st. Louis. ........... 3000O0O00-3
Washington 80. 1o021220x-8
Thinner and Albreicht; Simons and
Goldsmith.
Detroit ;............GoooosSoo doooo-a
Anderson, Numbers and ST. John;
Schultz, Mertes and Richards.
Cincinnati ......... 000101002-4 4
Twin Cities. ...... 10431340x-16
Hanson and Schlick; Kenkel and
Lang.
Chicago ........... $50 Q -
Boston ........ UUo VUA-1l
De Caluwe, Jacobs and Aberts;
Coughlin and Harvey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
The American Federation OF Labor Leadership the eU Somh

their press do not hesitate one mo-
ment in making a choice between
the A. F. of L. and militant unions
such sthe NTWU, it has seen that
the A. F. of L. leadership is not
always successful in it's attempts to
suppress the will to struggle which
is so evident among the Southern
masses. There is Elizabethton, for
instance, where the workers only
sullenly accepted this leadership for
time but are by no means under
its political and organizational con-
troll
Then there is Marion, N. c., where
the "docile nature" of the mill work.
ers unde rthe leadership of the UTW
in this little community did not pre-
vent them from picketing the mill
in mass formation and forcibly STOP
ping the entrance of scabs. In the
course of the struggle the owned
of the mill was injured. seventeen
strikers are charged with Soon
spiracy to commit assault" In
Ware Shoals, where the UTW also
had small local union, the workers
carried on mass picketing until the
soldiers sent by Governor Richards
stopped it. The UTW capitulated
and called off the strike.
(To be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

Invites in Elizabethton and the sit
uation there:
''The strike developed in Eliza
bethton over the imposition of
onerous conditions. e.. 1t is a
peaceful community. They gather
their employees who work in the
mills from the mountains of east
ern Tennessee. :. They are pure
American stock, and of course the
opportunity to work in those ray
on mills was broadening and it
was an enlarged opportunity for
this class of people. -. But be-
cause of the workers docile ma
ture, the owners and managers of
those mills pursued certain
policy until it reached the ploint
where the last straw, figuratively
speaking, broke the cancels back;
and without order, without leader
ship even, without help from us,
they Shut down those mills, and
then appealed to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor" EN-
phesis mine.)
President Green admits here that
the A. F. of L. leaders had taken
no steps to give leadership to these
exploited workers in a basic in
dustry. The A. F of l.. leadership
waited until it could no longer avoid
making a gesture of struggle in
order to save its face. But true
to it's social reformist character it
went not to aid the new squadrons
of the proletariat in Elizabethton,
but to betray them.
Listen to President Green enter
tanning the solid senatorial repre-
sentatives of the Southern capital
lists with his detailed recital of how
the Elizabethton workers were
handed the doublecross:
81 directed one of my trusted
representatives to go there, and
Mr.. Mcmahon, representing the
United Textile Workers, directed
his representatives to go there
and exercise every effort at their
command to establish COOPERA-
TIVE RELATIONS AND IN
DUSTRIAL PEACE.
"They had splendid meetings
WITH SOME MEMBERS OF
THE CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE, BUSINESS ORGANI-
ZATIONS, AND REPRESENTA-
TIVES OF THE ILLS, AND
BELIEVED THAT THEY HAD
A SATISFACTORY SETTLE
MENT. -. Emphasis mine
1t should be said here that the
Elizabethton workers, who had
not been consulted about the sat
isfactory settlement" went on
strike again-a tribute to the mil
itancy of the Southern workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

tempt to unionize the Southern tex
tile workers"
The Observer then continues
Meantime, the Southern mill men
might as wcll prepare for the union
izing movement, for the Federation
is embarked on a determined cam
paign."
Our premise above, that the mill
barons do not want ANY unions, is
confirmed, in spite of it's compli-
mentary references to the A. F. of
L., by it's concluding remarks:
"This organization movement
can be best met by the mill men,
themselves, in adjusting working
conditions nj a way that would
fOrestall any cause for the union
izing forces. In large number of
cases, the mill conditions are es-
tablished on a basis that could not
be improved by any sort of union
izing but there are cases that in
vite readjustment. D.. AS the
situation stands, the better class
of cotton mills are likely to suffer
for the delinquency of some mills
against which complaint can be
properly lodged. If delinquent
mills could be moved up into the
class of the standard Southern
cotton mill, the labor problem in
the South would have been solved
to complete elimination of the
agitator."
1t will be seen from the above
extracts that the mill owners press
at least the most conscious Sec
ton of it's emphasizing three
points: C) That some measure of
organization in the Southern mills
is more or less inevitable. (2) That
by some form of company unionism
combined with welfare work and
perhaps some slight concessions to
the workers, any form of trade
unionism may be avoided and "agi-
tators kept out. (3) That if "out-
side" organization cannot be pre-
vented it is better by far to make
a deal with the American Fedora
ton of Labor and its affiliated
unions as an alternative to the or
ganization of militant unions with
Communists taking a leading part.
The A. F. of L. leadership, fully
conscious of its role as the defender
of capitalism in the ranks of the
masses, is taking as complete an
advantage of this situation as its
fear of the militancy the Southern
workers will allow it to. At the
sessions of the U. S. Senate COM
mittee on manufactures, which were
attended by Senators from low wage
Southern states, President Green
thus described the A. F. of L. ac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

highly skilled, or workers specially
privileged for other reasons, the
A. F. of L. unions in the South
were represented by scattered or
CARNATIONS of printers, building
trades workers, etc. The A. F. of
L. leadership has carefully avoided
conflict with the big capitalists in
the steel, automobile and finished
metal industries the foundation
industries of American capitalism
In the coal mining industry the
United Mine Workers ceased to be
a weapon of the miners shortly after
the signing of the Jacksonville
agreement in 1924. In 1922 the rail
way shop craft unions were defeat
ed and practically destroyed.
Both of these historic events in
the annals of American labor were
the outcome of the official policy
of getting rid of the mass of I'M
skilled and semi-skilled workers who
had come into the unions during the
world war and the tremendous in
dustrial expansion which took place
then, particularly in basic indus
tries. The A. F. of L. was recon
stituted on its classic basis of the
labor aristocracy. 1t became more
openly than ever before the outpost
of imperialism in the ranks of the
working class. Its leadership func-
tons hrazenly as the agents of
Wall Street and seeks, while at
tempting to preserve its influence so
that it can continue its role of be-
trayal with maximum effect, to pre-
vent and thwart mass struggles, to
keep the snain body of the Amer
lean proletariat unorganized and at
the mercy of capitalists and the gov
eminent.
What then explains the undeniable
activity of the A. F. of L. - espe-
cially the United Textile Workers
- in the South. 1t is in the textile
industry, with its highly mechanical
character, its elimination of skill,
its low wages and long hours - "a
tionalization at its peak - that the
most bitter struggles are taking
place. This is not the environment
in which one usually finds A. F. of
L. leadership.
What has happened? Has the
A. F. of L. leadership turned its
back on its black past? Has it
turned over a new leaf, as some
comrades think,-or did think? Has
the A. F. of L. leadership been
clicked to the left" to use the
phrase of the Brandlerites Is the
A. F. of L. officialdom, including its
loyal opposition, who are best en-
trenched in the U. T. W., actually
stimulating and leading mass strug-
giles