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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
W.I.R. Meet Tomorrow
Will Hear Pershing,
Five Textile Strikers

George Pershing, Gastonia, N. c.,
strike leader, and five Gastonia
strikers will speak tomorrow at 8
p. m. at 1900 Seventh Ave-, at a
mass meeting arranged by the Har-
lem Section of the Workers Inter
national Relief, at which the latest
developments Of the southern textile
strike will be related.
Other speakers will include Har-
riet Silverman, secretary, Local New
York w. I. r., and A. Fishman, or
ganizer, Harlem Section, w. I. R.
The strikers who will address the
meeting are Viola Hampton, Ray
mond Clark, w. M. Bledsoe, Kermit
Hardin and c. f. Hathaway. The
five strikers came north to assist
the w. I. r. raise funds for the
striking workers.
A Harlem Section Of the W. I. r.
will be organized at the meeting,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
80 YEARS FOR FARRUGIO
Father of II Tainted by Rich Youth

TRENTON, N. j., May 6.-Jo-
seph Farrugio knows now that such
fanciful defenses in an American
murder trial as "the unwritten law"
are for rich men only. Farrugio,
a poor laborer, with large family,
now knows that when rich young
man deigns to seduce daughter of
the lower classes, the father of this
girl must not take any such revenge
as rich father would be lauded
for taking, by all businessmen and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
|. 0CAL 43 ASKS
u, S. WORKERS TO
AID ITS STRUGGLE
Millinery Local Backs
Cleveland Unity Meet

In an appeal just issued to the
entire American working class, Mil
linery Hand Workers Local 43, asks
the aid of all class-conscious work
.ers in its fight against the corrupt
Zaritsky machine of the Cloth Hat,
Cap and Millinery Workers Interna-
tional Union. The appeal describes
the struggles of Local 43 and it's
growth from an organization of 300
workers to one uniting 1000. It
urges help in its struggle to unite
all the cap and millinery workers
with the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union and endorses the
Trade Union Unity Convention to
be held in Cleveland June /.
Fellow Workers:
In behalf of the thousands of or
ganized women workers of the Mil
linery Hand Workers Union Local
43, and in the interest of the thou
sands of unorganized women work
ers employed in the millinery trade,
we appeal to you for support and
assistance against the unheard of
criminal and bloody attack made
against us by the few paid dicta-
tors of our International.
We Build the Local-They Are Out
to Smash 1t.
The Millinery Hand Workers
Union. Local 43, consisting exclu-
sively of women, was composed of
only three hundred members when
the left wing undertook the task of
organizing the milliners. Our Of
ficials were neither interested nor
able to organize the thousands of
unorganized women workers em-
ployed in the millinery trade. After
the general strike of 1919, this local
was on the verge of ruin. The
strike of 1919, called for the purpose
of establishing the week work sys-
tenn and for the organization of the
unorganized, was betrayed by Ia
risky. Our officials were uncon-
cerned about the depIorable ecor onic
conditions of the thousands of un-
organized trimmers who slaved long
hours for starvation wages. This sad
state of affairs existed from 1915
until 1926 when our executive boart
assumed the responsibility of reviv.
ing the demoralized and half ruined
local. Our international officials
Continued on Page Ttoo)
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Office Workers Union
i'm Mass Meet Thursday

George Powers, of the Architec-
tural, Iron and Bronze Workers
Union; Rebecca Grecht, of Millinery
Local 43, and Robert Dunn, of the
Labor Research Association, and
others will speak at the mass meet
ing to be held by the Office Workers
Union at the Labor Temple, 14th
st. and Second Ave-, at $50 p. m.
Thursday.
The meeting is part of the inten-
sive organizational campaign which
the union is now conducting.
Office workers are urged to at
tend an open air meeting today at
26th st. and Madison Ave-, at 1890
p. m. Prominent speakers will ad-
dress the meeting. .@s -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
us. War Hero,
Now Useless to
Boss, Starring

Dan Edwards, who emerged from
the world war as one of the "heroes in
the American eXpeditionary forces" !"
is in the hospital, Brooklyn, Jobless
and suffering from a nervous break
down.
Several weeks ago Dan pounded
the sidewalks of New York for any
kind of a job to provide himself with
the simplest necessities of life.
For several weeks he searched un-
successfully. Finally, the combined
strain on his search and mis- need of
food overcame him and he collapsed
in the street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

Grand Central Station to 96th St.
lives the most vicious clique of ex-
ploiters the world has ever seen. Two
hundred feet from the last palatial
residence of the rich on Park Ave.
rise the dilapidated tenements of
Latin-American and Negro workers.
The Status.
What is this status that the Park
Avenue Review boasts? One third
Of one per cent of the population of
New York City live in these three
miles, in unfurnished apartments
Continued On Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
NATIONAL MILL.
/. u MON IN NEW
OFFICE IN south
Charlotte to Be Center
of Continuous Fight
for Better Wages
Boss Starts Evictions
Expose Gazette Relief
as Aid to Scabs Only
Boss Starts Evictions

GASTONIA, N. c., May 6.-An-
swering the attempt at terrorizing
the strikers here by evictions from
their homes, which begin today, AL
bert Weisbord, national secretary
of the National Textile Workers
Union, announced in a speech to a
great mass meeting here that the
National Textile Union had come to
the South to stay, and would open
southern headquarters in Charlotte
from which the entire movement in
the South to organize the workers
and to win livable working condi-
tions and real wages would be con-
Quoted. The program of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, as
explained by Weisbord, is for con-
tinuous struggle.
r.
The Workers International Relief,
National Office at 1 Union Square,
New York, answered the evictions
yesterday of the Gastonia strikers
with a call for funds to buy tents
to house them. The Workers Inter
national Relief Gastonia office was
closed by the evicters, but will be i'm
mediately re-established. The state
ment says:
"The North Carolina textile strike
is entering new period of struggle.
Unable to drive the striking workers
back to the mills by the use of the
National Guard, armed deputies and
thugs, by the bayoneting of pickets
Continued on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
Seamen's Club Meet
Today Will Protest
Berlin Police Terror

A demonstration protesting po-
lice brutality following the Ber-
lin May Day demonstration will
be held under the auspices of the
New York District of the Com
munist Party at the Seamen's
Club, % South St., near South
Ferry, at noon today.
aided by its socialist chief of
police" a call urging mass at
tendance at the meeting declares,
"the German social democracy is
intensifying its campaign of mass
terrorism against the militant
working class, whose rise to pow
er it fears"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
Will. UNIONIzE
10000 DYE NE N
Paterson Textile Union
Defies District Atty

PATERSON, N. j., May Ga
campaign to organize the 10000 silk
dying workers in this city is under
way by the Paterson Local of the
National Textile Workers Union
which is actively preparing for a
strike of these workers. AS 4 re-
suit of the drive a mill local will
be established in one of the biggest
dye houses very soon, and before
the drive is over, most of these
workers will probably be organized
into shop committees and mill. To-
Gals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
By SOL AUERBACH.
XXI.

EVEN as George Washington
II blazed trail, even as Abraham
Lincoln vindicated a cause and as
Moses set a standard, so has Park
Avenue achieved a status" is writ
ten in blazing letters in "The Park
Avenue Social Review" published
monthly free of charge for the mil
Iionaires on Park Avenue.
Park Avenue is street of two
classes. In the three miles from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

ooooeo, yesterday opened d
widespread campaign of vio-
lence against the strikers which
proved to be the most vicious since
the walk-out was declared a month
ago. Revolver butts, clubs and
blackjacks of the police swung saw
agely into a crowd of strikers and
onlookers who defended them out
side the Paramount Cafeteria, De-
lancey and Essex SITS. When the
sympathetic crowd was forced to re-
treat before the menacing guns of
the police, 20 strikers were arrested.
A strike committee of SO had at
tempted to call out the workers at
the Paramount.
Police Slug Freely.
Nearly every striker on the picket
line yesterday was attacked. Few
were allowed to picket longer than
five minutes before they were ar
rested or driven from the strike zone
by squads of police, who slugged
freely even at bystanders. With
mass arrests failing to keep strikers
off the picket line, employers
agents are apparently relying more
on renewed violence than on arrests
only, as the lower number of ar
rests yesterday, 35, indicates.
Respond to Strike Call.
Strikes were declared against the
Sycamore, 9th st. and Ave. B, the
Sunrise, Is Ave. B. and the Walgol
cafeterias yesterday. The strike
committee in each case was attack
ed by private detectives who awaited
their arrival. Yet most of the work
ers in the three shops responded to
the strike call.
When the entire crew of the Wal
gol went to the cellar to change be-
fore they Joined the strikers, they
were locked in and kept prisoners
for several hours. Chairs, dishes
and sugar-bowls were hurled at
members of the strike committee as
they entered the Sycamore. The
owner then locked the doors and
summoned the police.
Workers Jailed.
Of the 35 strikers arrested, 27
were arraigned in Essex Market
Court before Magistrate Alexander
Brough, who adjourned all cases to
Friday in bail from $100 to $500.
Higher bail was placed on those who
had been arrested several times
previously. In Jefferson Market
Court eight were held in $25 bail
by Magistrate Adolf Stern.
Of those previously arrested five
were held in Essex Market Court for
special sessions charged with viola
tion of the injunction. Two were
found guilty of disorderly conduct
in Jefferson Market Court. Sentence
was postponed to May II. Three
were sentenced to two days in the
Tombs, which they chose rather than
pay fine of $40. They are Espiro
Periotis, Andrew Papachut, and
Sam Picolo. Jack Asian went to
Jail for one day rather than pay
fine of 81. Two were discharged and
three cases adjourned to next week.
Twenty-Five strikers were arrest
ed Sunday at the East Side cafe
terias. Their cases were adjourned
at nipht court
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

judges, if the young man concerned
were a ditch digger, as is Farrugio.
Given 80 Years.
Farrugio was sentenced today to
the maximum term for second de-
gree murder-thirty years in the
Trenton prison. He leaves a wife
and eleven children, the youngest a
month old baby to exist as best they
can while he lies in prison.
Justice Bodine heard the attorney
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
1000 Millionaires Live In Three
Miles of Palaces In New York
How Fortunes Have Been Squeezed Out of
Workers In the Tenements

h as the 22nd IN series of articles exposing the conditions
ander achlch Dorkrs forced e
Worker revealed the conditions Hare Negro orers are
exploited the bone then conditions in ocer
Hare the discrimination against a Neoyoes
greater
The concluding articles this week U deal housing
legislation NeW York
of the Communist Party housing approaching municipal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
RASKOB HAS NEW TRICK.

John j. Raskob, chairman of the
democratic party national commit
tee and the man who as head of
General Motors made the workers
pay dues in company union, yes
terday announced his latest trick to
get the workers. wages. He invites
them to join an investment company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
LI77VINOv SCORES
FAKE ARMS MEET
AT FINAL SESSION
Says Conference Took
Step Backward

GENEVA, May 6.-The Disarma-
ment Preparatory Commission to-
day adjourned without adopting a
single proposal which actually lin
its ornaments. Maxim Litvinov,
for the U. S. S. R. delegation, in a
closing speech just before adjourn
ing, denounced the conference, stat
ing that the entire work of the pres
ent session constituted step back
wards. He showed that the actions
of the conference fully justified the
predictions of the Soviet delegation
when their project for general dis
armament was rejected.
This session concerned itself
chiefly with the speeches of the rep
.resentatives of the various delega-
tions, the burden of which were that
nothing should be done on the ques-
tion of naval armaments before it,
but that the sessions should adjourn
so that the various powers might
"study" the project submitted by
Gibson which contains the formula
of equivalent values"
Count Sato, of Japan, indicated
with polite but firm words that the
American proposal will not be the
only one considered when the next
session meets. Lord Cushendun,
speaking for the British delegation,
said that he does not consider that
the American scheme Contained
any definite proposals" He believes
that it is only method" for arriv-
ing at some agreement.
In adjourning the commission,
Nicolas Politis, of Greece, who acted
as chairman, announced that it will
be reconvened as soon as the prog
ress of direct negotiations between
the powers justifies a new meeting.
This is indefinite enough to mean
exactly nothing. The next session,
Politis said, will be the last before
the final convocation of a general
disarmament conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
District Attorney Defied.

The. Paterson district attorney is
on the job trying to check the drive
by threatening to prosecute those
distributing the campaign leaflets,
but it is going on with full activity.
Workers are coming to the union
daily and in large numbers, and
Continued ON Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
REPORT SINCLAIR TO JAIL.

WASHINGTON, May 6.--Ib was
stated here by friends of Harry F..
Sinclair that he would enter the Jail
at midnight, and that photographers
would be barred. Whatever few
minutes Sinclair serves tonight
counts as one day on his sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
KENOSHA STRIKER FRAMED.

KENOSHA, Wis, May 6.-Elmer
Hackbart, "a, was convicted in a
frame up here on charges brought
by scab, and sentenced to years
in the state reformatory. He had
been active in the Allen-A knitting
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
WORKERS or CITY
TO DEMONSTRATE
AT TMASSFUNERAL!
"Socialist" Officials
Declare Red Front
Illegal; Raid It /:
New Fighting Likely
N. Y. Workers to Meet
Today in Solidarity
(WreIess Bn "InprecorreS

(WWeIesS By "Inprecor@b
BERLIN, May 6.-All the
Berlin building trades work.
ers are out on strike as a
protest against the police
brutality during the May
Day demonstrations, and all
tobacco workers have joined
them, with the workers of
the three largest factories:
Man0Ii, Massary, and JOsetti
at their head. Many metal
workers are striking at the
Siemens, Kali, ChrysIer,
Stock, LOewe factories, and
others. The strikes are
spreading rapidly, and have
already involved factories in
Hamburg and Halle.
BERLIN, May 6.-Intense indig-
nation sweeps the proletarian dis
tricts of Germany over the murder
of workers holding May Day DEM
onstrations in Berlin and the raids
ordered today on the Red Front
Fighters and Communist Party of
fices by the two socialist" officials
who are acting as the main props of
the oppressive capitalist government
here.
Mass Funeral and Strike.
A great funeral, with a one-day
strike starting in the afternoon to-
morrow, will honor 21 workers, VIC
TINS of the police terror. They were
shot down while demonstrating May
Day, or during the fighting that fol-
lowed the workers resistance on the
barricades of the attack upon them.
They will be buried, under the aus
pices of the Communist Party, in
one great, red draped grave, and if
the Berlin police carry out their
threat to break up the funeral pro-
cessions or shoot into the masses
gathered at the grave, there is no
doubt but that the barricades will
go up, the Red Front Fighters will
be out with rifles and revolvers
again, and another desperate bat
tie in the streets will follow.
Declare Red Front Illegal.
The social democrat, Albert GREE
sinski, minister of the interior Of
Prussia, issued an order late yes
terday declaring the Red Front
Fighters dissolved, as also the Red
Youth Front and the Red Marines.
A police communique this morn
ing, issued by the socialist" chief
of police of Berlin, Zoergiebel, with
drawing the state of siege, declared:
''In consequence of orders of the
Prussian minister of the interior
suppressing the Red Front organi-
cations, the police today seized the
inventories, offices, equipment and
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
TENNESSEE FAKERs MEET

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail)
On May Is the misleaders of the
Tennessee State Federation of La
Dor, who have been prominent in be-
traying the rayon strikers at Eliza
bethton and Johnson City, will hold
their annual convention here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
DRIVERS STRIKE.

PITTSBURGH, (By MaiD Over
$50 drivers of the Allis-C Chalmers
Co. have gone on strike against a
wage cut from 66 cents to 60 cents
an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
POLICE MAKE MURDEROUS
ATTACK ON FOOD STRIKERS
Crowd Attempts to Defend Strike Committee;
Driven Off by Guns, Blackjacks
Strikes Declared Against Three East Side
Cafeterias; Workers Answer Call

Exasperated by continual failure to break the strike of
the HOTEL Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers Union police
and private detectives working the interests cafeteria
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
MAY | BATTLES
IN MANY CITIES
Only in Moscow Are
Parades Encouraged
Wireless Bu "Inprecorr")

IW UtIbSS DU INPFtCUTT
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May g.
Besides the impressive May Day
demonstration with a parade of
100000 in this city, the other cities
Of the Soviet Union held imposing
ceremonies. In Vladivostok the fer
eign seamen from ships in the har-
Dor participated.
Many new factories and cultural
institutions were opened.
The Semipalatinsk railway bridge
over the River Irytsh, on the Tur-
kestan-Siberian line, was opened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07
Thousands in Warsaw Parade.

WARSAW, May 6.-The Commu-
mist and left wing socialist demon
stration of 10000 participating was
brutally attacked by the police and
many were injured. Communist
professions marched through the
workers part of the city.
The political prisoners in Moko-
tov and Paviak prisons celebrated
May First with demonstrations
Hundreds of workers collected be-
fore the Paviak prison and joined
in singing the International, which
could be heard from the prison cells.
The police broke up the workers
groups.
y
$4,000 Strike in Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, China, May g.
Fifty thousand workers struck and
(Contiuued ON Pn0e Fiyp)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

Prepare for International Red
Day-a Day to Mobilize All Who
Are Really Fighting War!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

GENEVA, May 6.-The disarma-
ment preparatory commission yester-
Continued en- Page TaQo)
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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For Workers-Farmers Government
To Organize tbe Unorganized
For The 4O-H0nr Week
For Labor Party
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
S24 a Week Maximum
in Big Carteret Metal
and Chemical Plants
(Bu a Worker Correspondent)

(By q Worker Cores spondent)
CARTERET, N. j. (By MaiD.-
In the township of Carteret are
three big plants where about 10000
workers are employed. The three
plants pay a uniform wage scale.
The worker seeking employment
meets the same problem at the gates
of each plant.
At the Foster Wheeler Corp. plant
the workers work 5 nights week
of IL hours or go hour a week.
hey receive 40 cents an hour
SEA a week. Day workers get DO
cents an hour for 6 day, 60 hour
week.
The Warner Chemical Co. en-
ploys men 10 hours a day at DO
cents an hour, of 60 hours a week
at S24. The U. S. Metls Refining
Co. pays 491a cents an hour. The
workers work 8 hours a day of 4S
a week at 491a cents an hour-or
$24 a week.
So wherever you go the minimum
wage is tn esame. The U. S. Metals
Refining pays more per hour and
for less time, but, there is the great
danger from gas, dust and smoke.
The hours and wages in these
three plants are regulated by the
Manufacturers Association, to which
all three belong. The bosses are
organized for the purpose of i'm
posing uniform standard of
slavery and starvation wage scale
on the workers of the district.
Every worker should realize that
organization is important. See how
tn ebosses have organized to keep
down the workers conditions in Car
teret.
MAoIM TRAMP.
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
(By a Worker Correspondent

(bY q yorker COTTeSpOHdeHL)
ORIENT, Ill (By MaiD.-At a
meetig onf Local Unio 303, United
Mine Workers, observer Louis Joich
gave to his local union a report on
the Lewis me- ting in W. Frankfort.
But after his report a local union
chairman and also one of the OBJ
servers, Slim Fryman, made the fol-
lowing report, in substance:
81 have nothing to report because
brother Louis Joich covered the
whole proceedings of the meeting.
But, one thing, brothers, l urge you
not to send Brother Louis Joich to
the next Lewis mass meeting, be-
cause a gang is after him. If they
xii him the local union will suffer.
If l hadn't been there last Sunday
and told them that brother Joich
was officially sent by the local union
they were going to get him, because
they said that he is an agent of the
Communist Party. I believe Joich
has a right to his opinion, but it is
dangerous to send him again.
"The sub-district president has re-
ceived and read there a threatening
letter and if anything happens to
him they ill be after brother Joich
l know brother Joich does not be-
The daily worker., 1929-10-19
IN THE SHOP S
Lewls Thugs Threaten to
Kill Militant III. Miner

lieve in such mthods, but they will
blame him rather than the Fishwick
gang. So don't send him there any
more"
Observer Louis Joich then stated
that he did not know of the con-
spiracy, but local union secretary
Kenneth Turner ratified the report
of Fryman, saying that he also had
heard at the Lewis meeting, that a
gang was after L. Joich and M. Ru-
kavina. Turner also said that one
Of the gangmen vas deputized, but
that he didn't l,now the mans name,
but would recogni2 him if he saw
him again.
The Local Union decided to again
send two representatives as speak
ers to the next takers mass meeting.
Eight were nominated and among
them was Joich. Six of them de-
clined.
Joich state to the L. u: 81 do
not compete for anything, but if you
really want to elect and send me
again, l will accept, and in spite Of
tina conspiracy l am going there, if
l ge tthe credential of this L. u"
I am not scared to die for a work
ingclass caus e.
Louis Joich, Orient Miner.