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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SINCL AIR ASKS
TO Be RELEASED
Rich Friends Say Oil
SWindler "Il"

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-Harry
F. Sinclair, millionaire oil swind
Ter, who is toying with pills in the
district Jail dispensary for jury
shadowing in connection with the
teapot dome scandal, has filed ap-
plication for communication of SEN
tence on the grounds of "ill health"
With influential friends pulling the
strings, he stands good chances of
getting his request granted.
Although Sinclair has been
fawned upon by specially retained
servants ever since his sentence"
last May, his friends claim he is
underweight because of prison re-
strictions. The joke was bitterly
denounced by the real prisoners at
the district Jail who suffer the only
hardships inflicted.
Sinclair is now serving six
months term on the specific charge
of employing jury-shadowers. The
earlier sentence was for contempt
of senate arising out of his refusal
to answer questions to the court.
Actually, of course, both sentences
were merely formal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19

With only one week remaining be-
fore the most tremendous trial in
the history of the American labor
movement at Charlotte, N. c., in
tensive activities are being carried
on by American workers, rallied by
the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re-
lief Committee, to make an over
whelming success of the defense and
relief campaign Aug. "a to Sept. 2.
Tag days, house-to-house eoNec-
tions, united front campaigns and
mass meetings are taking place
everywhere to save the % members
of the National Textile Workers
Union from death or long prison
terms.
Sends Days Wages.
Indicating the vast stir on behalf
of the Gastonia prisoners is the let
ter received from Stanley Szablak,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Scandinavia TOilers
Demand Freedom for
GastOnia Prisoner S

GENEVA, Ohio, Aug. 18.-Scand-
inavian workers assembled here in a
convention to raise their voices for
the release of the Gastonia class
war prisoners. They adopted reso-
luton, which reads in part:
eve, Scandinavian workers from
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Akron,
Youngstown, Erie and Jamestown
assembled at Geneva, Ohio on a
educational convention, emphatically
voice our protest against the sbru-
tality of the Gastonia police and
state militia against the textile
strikers.
ave demand the immediate release
Of the framed up strikers now on
trial. We further demand the i'm
mediate withdrawal of the state mil
tia and hired thugs of the textile
owners.
"Be Il resolved that this resolution
be sent to the governor of North
Carolina and the press"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
5000 WORKERS AT
DAHL Y" PICNIC
FLAY WAR PLANS
Denounce Imperialist
Plot Against U.S.S.R.

Five thousand workers who at
tended the Daily Worker Press Car
nival and first election campaign
rally at Pleasant Bay Park, the
Bronx, yesterday cheered the Com
munist speakers when they de-
nounced the imperialist plans for an
attack on the Soviet Union. They
voiced their support with the Soviet
workers and pledged to acquaint the
workers of New York with the pro-
vocative acts of the Chinese bandit
war lords, backed by the imperialist
powers.
Leading Communist candidates
took up the issues of the campaign
and characterized the three capital
ist candidates, Walker, La Guar
dia and Thomas as candidates of the
capitalists. They discussed the po-
lice terror against striking workers
and the issuing of -injunctions by
Tammany Hall judges. They also
called for support for the Trade
Union Unity Conference to be held
in Clveland beginning Aug. 81, and
for the Joint Defense and Relief
Campaign leading the fight for the
lives of the 16 textile workers facing
death in the electric chair at Gas
tonia, N. C.
An elaborate program of sports
entertained the assembled workers.
1t included soccer games between
the Scandinavian Workers Athletic
Club and the Spartacus Club. The
Finnish athletic clubs presented a
program of games and pyramid
building. Dance music was fur
nished by John C. Smiths Negro
orchestra.
H. M. Wicks, editor of the Daily
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SUGAR HEADS TO
CONTINUE FIGHT
But House Anxious to
Talk enforcement"

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. - The
fight over the tariff will be con-
tinued by Representatives of Cuban
sugar interests and the American
beet concerns when the House re-
convenes tomorrow after a summer
recess.
The senate was to have begun its
consideration of the Hawley tar
iff bill, but because the senate fl
nance committee has not yet COM
pleted its revision of the bill, the
revised draft is not expected to be
ready till labor day.
Beet and sugar cane spokesman
at the last session denounced the
committee figures on the sugar tar
iff as inadequate to keep outside
competition from injuring them.
Cuban interests and the democrats
and progressives aligned with them
claimed, on the other hand, that the
increases were far in excess of what
was necessary to protect the beet
and sugar industry.
When the Housa reconvenes to-
morrow, however, the tariff will not
be the only issue. Whatever their
price quarrels, republicans, demo-
Gratis and progressives are anxious
to talk the Hoover naval ornaments
policy and the speedy application
of the national law enforcement bill
to be used against the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
CONTINUE PLANS
TO GREET FL|ERS
USSR Fliers Reception
Meets This Week

AS the crew of the Land of the
Soviets, forced down near Chita, ST.
IBERIA, is to resume it's Moscow to
New York flight Immediately, the
Friends of the Soviet Union under
whose auspices a great working
class reception is being prepared
for the four intrepid airmen who
are bringing greetings and express
sions of solidarity from the work
'ers and peasants of the U. S. S. R.
to the workers and farmers of the
United States is pushing it's plans
for the welcoming ceremony.
The executive of the ways and
means committee announces a spe-
cial meeting of the Workmen's Cir
Gle and the Independent Workmen's
Circle branch representatives who
attended the Irving Plaza confer
ence last Tuesday for tonight, $50
p. m, at IT'S Fifth Ave-, room 3O4,
the F. s. U. headquarters. Dele
gates from w. C. and 1. w. C.
branches which did not take part in
that conference are also invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Recover Bodies of %
u. S. Soldiers Killed in
Wall St. War on USSR

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 10. - The
bodies of % of the 1928 American
soldiers killed in the Archangel sec
ton and in the Dvina River valley
in the Wall Street campaign against
the Red Army following the October
revolution have been recovered, ac-
cording to advices received by the
national headquarters of the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars from its COM
mission in Archangel, U. S. S. R.
The dead workers, mostly from
Michigan, were part of the imperi-
alist forces hurled against the So
Wet Republic in a desperate attempt
to overthrow the workers and peas
ants government. Many of the
American soldiers, ordered to fire
on their fellow workers, deserted to
the side of the Red Army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
BRITAIN REFUSES
TO BACK DOWN ON
u. S. YOUNG PLAN
Labor Minister Issues
Imperialist Blast

THE HAGUE, Aug. 18. - The
reply of Phillip Snowden, British
labor" chancellor of the exchequer,
to the efforts Of France, Italy, ia
pan and Belgium to get him to ac-
cept American imperialism's Young
reparations plan, is categorical re-
fusal.
Early yesterday morning Snow
den handed his formal note of refu-
sal to Premier Jaspar, of Belgium,
who has been acting as go-between,
ard shortly afterwards it was conf
municated to the four other credi-
tor nations who had been trying to
maneuver Snowden into some sort
of compromise on the question of
England's share of the German war
loot.
But Snowden, staunch defender of
British imperialism, refused to back
down on his demand for about $780,
100000 more yearly than Britain
would get under the present ar
rangements. A proposal was made
by the four other creditor nations
which they claim meets 80 per cent
of the British demands, but Snow
den, whose devotion to British i'm
perialism has evoked paeans of
praise from all capitalist quarters
in England, declared that the propo-
sal meets only 20 per cent of what
England wants.
After Snowden had given his
formal refusal to accept the pro-
posal Of the four other creditor ma
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Why, I was born in Eastville, North
Hampton county, Virginia, on the
25th of December, 1865. That makes
me Ga years DID,"
A delegate from Chester, Pa,
Upshaw was until two years ago,
president of Lc:-l 1899 of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associ-
alton. "The takers in the Interna-
tional suspended our local couple
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
TO "ARbITRATE"'
N. ]. CAR DISPUTE
Union Takers Scheme
Sell-Out

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 18.-The
officials of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Street Car and Electric
Railway Employees yesterday indi-
Gated that they would recommend to
the members of the union in New
JerseN that they "arbitrate" their
demands for increase wages with
the Public Service Corporation,
which controls virtually all the trac-
ton lines in the state.
The reply of the joint conference
board of the union to the Public
Service Corporations proposal for
an arbitration of the wage dispute
will be submitted to the 7,400 car
men at a series of local union meet
ings thruout the state on Tuesday.
The joint board adjourned its
meeting to consider the request for
arbitration without further an
nouncement as to the action it had
taken.
On Tuesday meetings will be held
in each city where there is local
of the union. Then the ten presi-
dents of the local unions who at
tended the joint conference board
meeting will recommend to the men,
bers not to meet the Public Services
threat to slash wages with militant,
strike action, but to "arbitrate" and
permit another betrayal by the union
officials.
The present agreement of the
union with the Public Service Cor
poration expires September 30. De-
handing a % per cent wage in
crease, the men were given warn
ing by the company that wages
would probably be reduced instead.
Besides the trolley workers, work
ers on buses operated by the Pub
lie Service Corporation are also af-
fected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
End TRADE UNION
UNITY meet HERE
TOMORROW NIGHT
,Unorganized Workers
Will Send Many
Delegates
To Elect to Cleveland
Foster, Others Among
Speakers

The Second Metropolitan Area
Trade Union Unity Conference will
be held tomorrow night at Irving
Plaza, Irving PI. and 18th st. with
delegates present representing thou
sands of organized and unorganized
workers of New York and New Jer-
sey. The conference will elect dele
gates to the National Trade Union
Unity Conference to be held in Cleve-
land, Ohio, beginning Aug. 81.
The conference will start prompt
ly at 7.30 p. m. and delegates from
New Jersey and other outlaying sec
lions were urged, in statement is
sued yesterday by the Executive
Council to be on time. All organ
izations who have already elected
delegates should Immediately send in
their credentials to the office of the
Trade Union Educational League,
Room POS, 1928 Union Square.
Many Unorganized Represented.
The number of delegates repre-
senting unorganized workers that
will be seated as delegates will
greatly exceed the original estimates
of the arrangement committee. These
delegates will represent workers in
the most basic industries of the met
ropolitan district.
The Executive Council yesterday
issued the names of several more or
CARNATIONS that will be represented
by delegates at tomorrow's confer
ence. They include The Public
Power Plants and Building Service
Workers Union, which selected three
delegates at the last meeting of the
union. The workers of the Otis Ele-
(COutinued on PG0e FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
TEXTILE OWNERS
PLOT A TRUCE"
Seek More Wage Cuts;
Arbitrate Wednesday

MANCHESTER, August 1S. -
Pressing home it's victory in which
it was aided by the labor govern
ment against the SIS, 900 textile
workers, mill owners are expected
to take action to organize "perma-
nent truce against strikes and look
outs" at arbitration proceedings
which began Wednesday.
The action, with another which
will seek "to improve conditions in
the British cotton industry in view
of foreign competition" will be con-
sidered toward the end of the con-
ference. By stressing foreign COM
petition, of course, the manufacture
ers' organizations will be given fur
Their excuses to lay the basis for
even greater wage slashes than the
1212 per cent cut they will enforce.
The boasted impartial" chairman
of the board will be the tory justice,
Rigby Swift, former member of the
house OF commons.
Ramsay Macdonald will continue
his good services to the employers
by arguing for subsidy to insure
larger profits, he limited last night
in a speech welcoming the end of
the strike"
"The strike is by no means end
ed" argue rank and file committees
of the Minority Movement and the
Communist Party, which call on the
workers to resist the surrender by
the reformist leaders of the trade
union congress and the labor gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Speed Up IN G0st0mla
Drive with Trial OF %
Workers Only WeekOf
Arrange Tag Days, Collections, Mass Meets in
Joint Defense, Relief Campaign
Sacco Memorials to be Great Gastonia Rallies
Workers Hail Bush, Schechtef

of 102 Franklin ST., Clinton, Mass!
who writes to the Gastonia Joint
Defense and Relief Committee, 80
f. 18th ST., N. Y. c., the following
l have heard from newspapers
that your organization is taking
the leading part in the defense of
the Gastonia workers and labor
leaders. | think that every
worker, who can only hear and
see what is going on, should help
with money, or with other means
to help all defendants to be freed.
AS worker l am sending to your
committee my one days earnings,
amounting to 81.
Workers of New York will make
a mass house-to-house collection
campaign next Saturday and Sun
day. Unions and working class or
Continued on Page TWo)
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MORE RALLY TO
.SACC0 MEETINGS
M any Organizations
Support Plans

A large number of working class
organizations have already endorsed
and pledged their support to the big
Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstra-
ton that will be held in Union
Square Thursday, Aug. %, at p.
m. The demonstration is being ar
ranged by the New York district
of the international Labor Defense
and the New York Local of the
Workers International Relief. In
addition to concentrating the sec
ond anniversary of the legal murder
of the two working class martyrs,
the workers of New York will at
this great mass meeting protest
against the mill owners conspiracy
in Gastonia and rally behind the
joint Gastonia Defense and Relief
campaign that has been launched by
the /. l.. D. and the w. /. r.
Among the organizations that are
supporting the Union Square DEM
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
NEW HOSPITAL TRUST.

The New York City t-ospital and
Cornell Medical College filed plans
here for a new east side medical
center comprising 10 buildings to be
erected at a cost of more than $780,
100000. Work on the project,
which is expected to take three
years to complete, will begin at
once.
The buildings will cover three city
blocks, extending from 6Sth to list
Street, between York Avenue and
Exterior Streets, on the East River,
iust north of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute for medical research. No poor
patients will be admitted; only the
extremely wealthy will be able to
pay the high rates. - -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
Negro Seaman, Ga, Delegate
to Stirring Conference Here
"New Union Will Be Hard to Stop; Is Moved
By Story of Gastonia Struggle

Wilbur Upshaw, 64-year-old Ne
gro seaman, was me of the dele
gates at the Atlantic Coast confer
ence held here Saturday and Sun
day at the International Seamen's
Club.
Vigorous and enthusiastic, Up
shaw took an active part in the
conference and served on several
committees.
How long I've been in the game :?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
BRAND SOVIET INVASION
OF MANCHURIA AS lie:
NANKINC ATTACKS GO ON
Government Reports White Guardist and Nam
king Inroads at Several Points in U.S.S.R.
Mobilization of Thousands of Marking Govt
Troops Reported
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON Aug 19.The Marking Government has ordered
the Manchuan Siberian border Chinese Minister
C WI announced here tonight
MOSCOW Aug 18Mlary preparedness of the youth of the
mperialist will
here children all the
memb of the
The convention meeting the of with
China will the necessity for defense capitalist
The firm demands China
Railroad
settlement of officially
reports that Soviet armies have invaded Manchura
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 18-The Soviet government
today denied cagorcay the lies spread by the Marking gov
nment while it coaks its outrages with appeal to
the Kellogg pact that Soviet troops had in any invaded
China.
On the contrary both white guardist and Marking troops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
SEAMEN'S MEET
LAY BASIS FOR
FIGHTING union
72 Delegates Attend
From Ports on
East Coast
Build Ship Committees
Foster and Schechter
Speak at Meet

When the two-day Atlantic Coast
Conference of the Marine Workers
League ended at the International
Seamen's Club, % South St., last
night, the basis had been laid for a
new militant industrial union of ma
rine workers.
Seventy-two delegates, including
nine Negro workers from Houston,
Tex, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Chester, Baltimore and Norfolk, at
tended the conference and gave
first-hand reports from the ships
and took an active part in the dis
cussion. Five of the delegates came
directly from ship committees.
With the election of new ma
tional committee of 81, the first
task decided upon was preparations
for a series of conferences, espe-
cially on the Pacific Coast, Great
Lakes and the Gulf region, in prep
aration for a national convention to
organize a new industrial marine
workers union.
The keynote of the conference
was struck by William z. Foster,
national secretary of the Trade I'm
ion Educational League, who urged
that the new marine workers I'M
ion be "built from the bottom up
through ship committees" Foster,
who greeted the conference when it
opened Saturday evening, empha-
sized the Importance of building up
a powerful marine transport work
ers' union, not only as weapon for
Continued on Page Two)
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have repeatedly invaded Soviet
territory, fired upon and killed
and wounded Soviet citizens,
and are at present concentrating on
the frontier as powerful force as
can be modified. A concentration
of twenty thousand troops under
General Chang Hsueh-liang is the
latest figure given by Marking mob
iliZation on the eastern front alone.
"Recent days have witnessed an
augmentation of attacks by white
guardist and Marking forces upon
our frontier posts" the official
statement says. Raids and firing
on our posts and peaceful popula-
ton, of an exceptionally reckless
character, occurred in the region of
Manchuria Station, Lake Hanka and
the village of Poltavsk, twenty-five
miles from Pogranitchnaya Station.
"Our frontier posts offered the
most determined resistance to raids.
''The Chinese disseminate lying
reports that the initiative in the
skirmishes was taken by US. Thus
they try to screen their own at
tacks."
The official report states that "our
posts have limited themselves on all
occasions to a firm and determined
resistance to the raids and shoot
ings proceeding from the Chinese
and white guard bands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
TAMMANY CLOAK
MEETING TODAY
F a k e Com mis- sio n
Holds First Session.

The Cloak and Suit Industry Com
mission created by Tammany Hall
and the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, the company
union in the cloak and dress trade,
will hold its first meeting today at
the office of Raymond V. Ingersoll.
According to information in the cap
italist press, Ingersoll will be chosen
executive director of the commission.
The commission was organized after
the recent fake stoppage of the
company union was ended with the
Continued on Page Fiue)
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trial.
The campaign for funds to
defend the arrested and protest
petitions is gaining momentum,
and the Gastonia Joint Defense and
Relief Committee announces that its
machinery will be running full speed
during the ten-day drive arranged
for Aug. "a to Sept. 8.
In addition, the, European and
South American countries are init
ating big drives and strikes, demon
strating their solidarity. The ami
versary of Sacco and Vanzetti's
legal murder will be the occasion for
scores of Gastonia protest meetings
throughout the world. "We have too
many martyrs already! We don't
want splendid corpses! We need
live, militant leaders," are the slo-
gans echoed all along the Bush
DSchechter tour.
The headquarters of the, legal
counsel for the textile defendants,
provided by the International Labor
Defense, is buzzing with activity,
making final preparations for the
trial.
Although the workers complain
that Solicitor Carpenter prosecuting
attorney has been personally visit
ing prospective witnesses and
threatening them, the lawyers of
flee is constantly visited by textile
workers offering to testify in behalf
of their leaders.
the 13 defenders for wrom
Carpenter declares nothing short of a
death sentence will be acceptable to
the Manville-Jenckes attorneys who
will represent the state in this trial,
follow with keen interest news of The
mass protest demonstrations in their
behalf.
These organizers, most of whom
are under 20 years old snatched
,forcibly out of the front ranks of
the struggle for better wages and
conditions, and the fight to beat the
'stretchout, look forward with the ut;
most enthusiasm to hear the latest
developments in the preparations for
the Charlotte Conference, Oct. IL,
and the strengthening of the Nation
al Textile Workers Union, their
center for the great offensive
against the mill barons.
These boys who have been among
the leaders of the Loray sthike, i'm
patient to return to the fight, declare
that their fate lies, to great degree,
Continued on Page Five)
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IMPERIALISTS DISPORT

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug.
18-Former British Exchequer Chan
cellor Churchill visited both sides of
the Falls yesterday with his family.
He is touring Canada to aid British
empire supporters resist the pres
sure of American investment hold
ers in the Dominion when the next
imperialist war breaks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-19
u. s. FASCISTS MEET

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, Aug. 1S.
The annual state convention of
the Sons Of Italy, an Italian society
which has now become fascist or
ganization, opened here today. The
purpose Of the organization seems
now to carry out propaganda on
behalf of l-----Ae~~ ~-- -
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Vivid Barbusse Tales Start
in Daily Worker Tomorrow
Il Saw 1t Myself" Unforgettable Sketches of
War and White Terror
Etched in fire on my mind"

etched in fire on my mind"
This is what Henri Barbusse him
self said of the intense, stark
sketches he has gathered together
in book form under the title of 81
Saw 1t Myself"
Tomorrow the first instalment of
these vivid stories will be printed in
the Daily Worker. The book is di-
vided into three parts: "The War"
"The White Terror" and "The